Who knew? The trick to getting GM exhaust manifold bolts out without breaking any is to submerge the entire car in seawater.

@Wtrxprs007able

10 ай бұрын

Nature's WD40 😂

@tonycrabtree3416

10 ай бұрын

never knew that was a problem on the LT1 or LS1 engine.

@snoproblem

10 ай бұрын

Counter-intuitive, for sure.

@wglnaeclipse8715

10 ай бұрын

Exhaust manifold bolts AND the dipstick!

@jlambe19

10 ай бұрын

Multi, dissimilar metals with an electrolyte connecting them all...many batteries and voltages.

Watching these tear downs have been my favorite Saturday night pastime for almost 2 years now, thanks for the awesome content!

@KevinMiller-lh9ur

10 ай бұрын

I look forward to these teardown videos on Sat evening. Bravo !!!!

@trith72

10 ай бұрын

omg same here!

@anthonybertone2336

10 ай бұрын

Me too, It’s the best date night,

@ThePickleSlicer

10 ай бұрын

Same!

@MsDaisy228

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!! Saturday night ritual here!

who would have thought that watching a guy strip an engine down was way more interesting than anything professional program makers would put on tv

Had my boat sink overnight at the dock (bellows failed on the Mercruiser stern drive). Raised the boat, pulled the plugs, drained the oil, cranked it, to blow all the water out of the cylinders, cleaned out the Q-Jet, new oil & filter, reinstalled the plugs. Fired right up. Ran it for an hour, changed the oil again and fixed the bellows. 4 years later, still running strong!

I recently bought a 5.3 LMG block from you guys. And let me say I was so glad to see the Cam plate hardware come with it. Like you said they can nickel and dime you to death.

@mitchellpatterson1829

10 ай бұрын

I'm restoring a Jeep now, and I am replacing a lot of bolts that I actually have because of general poor condition from being 30 years old. Bolts get expensive fast, especially when you need 3, and the smallest pack of pack of 10 is $12-15. I have spent almost as much on miscellaneous hardware as I did that 6 pack of pistons.

"Yarrrrr, I be full of barnacles!" -Pirate LS1

As others here have pointed out, the white flecks/crust inside the motor is dried sea salt. This motor has seen Davy Jones' Locker.

My 16 year old daughter calls this channel “Dad ASMR”. I find that I struggle to argue the point.

Hurricane Ian made landfall right where I live. As a grown man that has seen it all Ian legitimately scared me to tears. I though I was prepared. I learned a LOT from Irma a few years previous. No... There is nothing that can prepare you for the howl of 150MPH winds in your back yard. Then, gusts... When will it end? Will my trees land on the house? Who knows but insurance is useless and just a formality. what about the storm surge? I am 7 streets from flood zone A. No water but the wind and flying debris was beyond words. Image your home - so sacred and secure. Now strap it to a trailer and drag it to the Autobahn. One year later it is still on my mind,

@steve390gold

10 ай бұрын

Venice resident here. And yeah Ian SUCKED!! I spent most of the time outside cleaning the culverts so that all the houses on our street didn't flood.... Several times the wind damn near took me off of my feet. 6' tall and 230lbs.

@charlesjames1442

10 ай бұрын

A 50 mph gust can knock you off your feet if you are not prepared. 150 mph has NINE TIMES as much force as 50.

@lizkrinsky5209

10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you are okay. I was 10 years old, vacationing in Washington DC when Hurricane Agnes hit and it was traumatizing. We flew, and I remember the drive to the airport which was opening and closing but I remember most is seeing a father with water over his waist, holding his daughter above his head and trying to get to the opposite side of the street and into a building. I was 10 and I will never forget the look of fear in his face. I live in St. Louis where we have tornados. I really feel for you. It's one thing seeing it on TV, being in it is beyond description. Really glad you are okay.

@steve390gold

10 ай бұрын

@charlesjames1442 I was more worried about the huge oaks coming down and landing on me. I watched one about 18" in diameter snap in half about 20' off of the ground. It went right into my neighbors roof. These are same oaks that were dumping crap into the culverts that were supposed to be draining our street. On the flip side they DO provide a pretty significant wind break. But there were billowing columns of gusts you could SEE coming through the trees. You could also clearly hear them over the howling constant wind.

@FerralVideo

10 ай бұрын

Different name (Michael instead of Ian, Panama City), same story. They clocked gusts up to 165. Every tree above a certain height was just snapped. EVERY. tree. That day we learned what they meant when they talk about "it sounds like a freight train". We had "nothing" for at least a week, except relief efforts. Many of our neighbors made it out far worse than us. All of you, you have my sympathies, and I'm glad all of you have made it out of that okay, even if a little shaken.

I was not ready for you demonstration on how locked up the engine is😂

Vehcor has 'The Scream'. I Do Cars has 'The Waterpump Toss'. Look forward to hearing/seeing both!

@darnoldie

10 ай бұрын

Scott's scream and Eric's toss. Both worthy of a thumbs up!!

When he mentions a part being good I always think he’s about to throw it across the shop

@lizkrinsky5209

10 ай бұрын

Yep... you know what's coming lol.

As someone that lives in Florida and went through many hurricanes including Ian I can smell this video.

@boba1024

10 ай бұрын

As a sailor working on ships, I can smell it too.

@gregcee5468

10 ай бұрын

That bilge water smell

@GeekBoyMN

10 ай бұрын

Navy in the 80s on a diesel powered ship. I can smell it, too.

@boba1024

10 ай бұрын

@@GeekBoyMN Gas turbine in the 80's for me. But those bilges.

@GeekBoyMN

10 ай бұрын

@@boba1024 I started taking the GS book course but ended up discharged before finishing it. I did get to go aboard a Pegasus PHM in Little Creek in 84 and got to peek at the LM-2500.

I think what appeals the most about your channel is how you show the real life struggles of being a salvage technician.

Eric, Thank you for doing what you do and much respect for you as a person and an honest, hardworking business man. Paul (in MA)

@Paul1958R

10 ай бұрын

BTW RA lists replacement pistons for that engine at .010 (.25mm), .020 (.50mm), and .030 (.75mm) over

I’m from Louisiana, and I’m also part Boudreaux. I recognize that stuff on the pistons. It’s French seafood dressing. Goes perfectly with crustaceans in your engine. 🦀 🦞

@th3R0b0t

10 ай бұрын

I was just thinking, this was engine pull from Spongebob, cause of all the barnacles everywhere.

@dagutterboy73

10 ай бұрын

@@th3R0b0t Mr Crabs approves. 😂

I have an LS1 from a 2004 GTO in my 1953 Chevy 3100. I love these engines! They're so easy to work on and they make great power. It's a shame it got destroyed.

@ 18:00 you said "I'm sure there's a better tool for this" Your right, wait to pull the lifters, take the timing cover off, cut or remove the chain and make a lever to turn the cam back and forth. The lifters will be easier to remove after being pushed up.

@Highstranger951

10 ай бұрын

Came here to say the same

@bartsarton2212

10 ай бұрын

Good advice!

If that block gets another lease on life, it needs to do it with a Salt Life sticker.

As Eric said, if the car has been in floods, immediately dump the oil, pop the plugs, dry out the cylinders and fill them with penetrating oil, start and run couple rounds of fresh oil thru engine, let the engine warm up to evaporate any moisture out of the block, finally dump the oil and fill with fresh oil and coolant. The main thing is not to let water sit in the engine longer than few days.

@26betsam

10 ай бұрын

One of the issues being, if the car's been submerged the chances of it starting in the first place are close to zero.

@damanifesto

10 ай бұрын

When my father's boat sank, he did this exact thing. Engines ran fine afterward.

@hdfxrs9121

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it's not just the engine. The electronics need to be cleaned thoroughly as well.

Great teardown. thought there would be more problems getting the steel bolts out of the aluminum block after the saltwater emersion. Saturday night just ain't right without IDC!

@johnhpalmer6098

10 ай бұрын

That was my thought too upon watching, thankfully most did not put up much of a fight, thankfully.

@module79l28

10 ай бұрын

Maybe sea salt or the amount of it in salt water has less corrosive elements than the rock salt they put on the roads. After all, the salt that we consume is sea salt, not rock salt.

Working at a Chevy dealership in southwest Florida. We saw a lot of this. Especially since the eye of Ian passed right over us. Was a wild experience to go through

@CTSHOEBOX

9 ай бұрын

8😂9

The voice pitch changes are the best about these tear downs. Literally can’t expect the timing

"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

That's a perfect block for making a table. Thanks for another great teardown!

That didn't look nearly as bad as I thought it would. I've seen engines that have been sitting and filled up with water, those cylinders looked like brake discs after sitting for a month. I kinda expected this engine to be one solid block of rust!

@joshuagibson2520

10 ай бұрын

It's aluminum.

Another great teardown. Thanks for my Saturday night entertainment Eric.

I just built my very first Lc9 engine. I am a old school Chevy engine person and I must say, after doing my due diligence on them, it really wasn't that bad! I can see why everyone is migrating to LS engines for race cars. Cheap and actually really easy to build! I wish I seen this episode before I built this one but it explains so much! Thanks for the awesome and In depth content!

The dipstick tube coming out easy was the tickle. The last lifter was the slap! 😬

Curious question...... if you put your ear up to the intake plenum ... do you hear the Ocean ? Just wondering 😂

I had Hurricane Wilma move over my home; the sound of the wind was like a million demons circling the house, shrieking non-stop for hours. It could drive a sane person mad, it was terrifying.

The amount of corrosion here is amazing. Granted it was salt water but it probably wasn't underwater for more than a few days. In contrast, go watch Merlin's Old School Garage, episode Yellow Submarine Engine Starts Up. That engine spent 30 years, 150 ft down on the bottom of Lake Mead and they got it running. Shows the contrast of saltwater vs fresh.

I watch your videos every Saturday. Except today because I worked last night. I'm a caregiver and doing hospice shifts with a very nice lady and it's so sad. But here I am, at home, cooking Italian beef and making jewelry doing "girly" things and watching an engine teardown lol. I got traumatized decades ago when my mom purposefully didn't take care of her car (it was washed and immaculate but she never checked the fluids) because her friend had a bigger town car. My dad's car was in the shop so he needed to drive her car and tap tap tap. I thought his head was going to explode. When he went in the kitchen to ask her if she ever checked the oil (in the days of full-service filling stations) and she smirked at him and said it wasn't her job OMG. Not going into the rest but I tried to run away from home with my brother that day. They were crazy. And I vowed I would NEVER let anything like that happen to my car. Even though the idea of it was a bit scary to me. Don't know why but it was. But I made myself learn everything I could so even if I can't fix it, I understand what's going on and I can do a better job of describing the issue and so I don't get taken to the cleaner by a bad mechanic (luckily I haven't had a bad mechanic in many many years). But your tear downs have such great information and helpful. Thank you for taking the trauma out of all this. First time in decades I haven't had nightmares. Plus I love your humor. So you have some women who's probably old enough to be your mom, watching your engine teardowns every Saturday (or in this case Sunday). Keep chuckin' those water pumps lol

I haven't watched the video yet but I'm dropping this comment anyways. I absolutely love this channel.

You can take a bolt that fits snugly into the end of the dipstick. Clamp a rounded-jaw vise-grip on the dipstick just under the head of the bolt Now, use a hammer to tap - okay, in some cases pound - the dipstick up and out. Jimmy.

I watched a KZread video about a retrieval of a speedboat from the, at that time, dried up part of Lake Mead. It had been submerged for about 30 years and discovered when the water level dropped. Luckily made of fiberglass the boat was in surprisingly good condition, although full of dried up mud. After a somewhat difficult retrieval it was taken back to to a garage to be cleaned and the plans were to replace the V8 engine as the motor was thought to be a write off being full of water. However when they dismantled the engine and cleaned it out they found it still in good condition inside. Apparently the oil had protected all the parts and being so far down in the water the cold and lack of oxygen had stopped it rusting. When it was all cleaned and put back together amazingly it fired right up and ran perfectly so it just goes to show not every engine full of water is a write off, just most of them.

Another great teardown video, thanks for sharing 👍.

I love seeing parts after the parts washer

Really enjoyed this teardown version. Interesting to see the effects of time and a corrosive environment.

I sold a Subaru XT6 to Copart in central GA last month. If you want to tear down Subaru's first 6 cylinder (nothing wrong with it, just unable to get some parts to keep it running and the body wasn't good enough to be worth the expense) you may be able to get it from them.

TY! Very cool. It’s great to see a wider variety!

Thanks - this was a great video. I love when we see definitive answers to what we normally would make guesses about. 😊

at 35:05 you really bring good meaning to the phrase "everything has a hammer end" cheers!

This was a good one!!! An interesting thing to note here is, The condition of the castings after a flood took place... Years ago an experienced hot-rodder told me how some people who raced vehicles, used to bury castings and forgings under the dirt for several weeks to purposely cause surface corrosion....Then they would freshen them up with bead blasting and machining them as necessary, to bring them back to factory specs. Why???? Because that corrosion did something to those castings/forgings that uncorroded/clean & new castings/forgings never had done to them, up until that point... The corrosion on the external surfaces actually RELIEVED much of the internal stress's that were created during the intense rapid heating & cooling during the casting/forging process... The parts that did not have the surface corrosion, caused the castings & forgings to become hard & brittle, & more prone to cracking/breaking... However the stress relieved parts became more flexible and less prone to developing cracks... Stronger, because of the increased flexibility... AKA 'Seasoning' of casted and forged shapes of several designs that are made of various types of metals... Eric, you just might have a veritable treasure chest of 'Seasoned' Chevy parts in Your midst... Just saying Amigo.

Another great fun video, and although it was definitely destroyed I am actually surprised it wasn't worse. Thanks again Eric, your videos are one of my favourite parts of the weekend. :)

Thanks Eric. Have a good weekend...

If I had been able to score that engine for free, I wouldn't hesitate to rebuild that engine. I would take the time to scrub every part down, soak what needed to be soaked in 'evap-o-rust' , and simply recondition everything until it was usable again. A dirt cheap , elbow grease , no-budget rebuild. Steel wool , emery cloth , brass wire brushes , PB B'laster and paper towels , lots of it. It would be a thing of pride and joy to get it running again.

Very interesting to see, thank you as always for my Sunday afternoon (in Australia) chill session

Thanks for another great video Eric!!!

I Start every Sunday with a cup of Coffee and watching you take apart a engine Thank you.

Working on a tear down, regardless of the source of the damage, I like it. Keep 'em coming.

Somehow ive managed to never see an LS teardown before, I can see why people like the design its very straghtforward looks easy to work on.

I actually learned quite a bit from this video, great job!

@mattcat231

10 ай бұрын

Including piston gravity, lol

"It's either going to come out or it's not" there has never been a more profound statement udder by humans in the entire existence of the universe. Bravo my good man... bravo

As a fellow that has salvaged marine engines that have gone down with the boat. The trick is if it is under water keep it under water until disassembly this keeps the oxygen from causing corrosion. Once the engine is exposed to the air for any length of time that is where the damage occurs. The bad part of keeping the engine submerged for any length of time is electrolysis that occurs between dissimilar metals the galvanic reaction between Nobel and less noble metals. So bottom line it is a time thing. It can wait for a while submerged a few weeks at most then the galvanic damage starts

Thanks for the content Eric.

Paul from Fab Rats and his cousin Merlin, from Merlin's Old School garage did a series on an engine they took out of a boat that had been submerged for I forget how long; a decade, maybe. Anyway, submerged in 30 feet of water. The drought that lowered the lakes in Arizona and the rest of the Southwest seems to be over, but it expossed that boat on the lake bed (Powell, maybe). The amazing thing is that they got it running, with very little effort.

@thomasfletcher760

10 ай бұрын

For the better part of 30 years at the bottom of Lake Powell

Great work Eric! Love your videos! Still hoping you can tear down a 1.8 out of a 2016 Chevy Sonic, and a 2.4 SRT4 engine out of a 2003 PT Cruiser GT that has the aluminum intake setup on it. As usual another great video!

That blocks toast. Great commentary Eric.

I had an 89 Cadi Deville that I drove through standing water with. It sucked water through the intake and hydrolocked the engine. I had it towed home, immediately took all the plugs out and engaged the starter to pump the water out. I put new plugs in it, drained the oil and replaced the oil and filter, and drove it from then on with no issues. I think it had the 4.9 liter v8. The car still ran when I eventually junked it.

Thank you Eric, for showing us some of what happens when cars get flooded. I think it's great to show tear downs of all levels of destruction, goods, bads, and uglies. Knolage and learning is power.

To be honest, I have been in several Hurricanes, and I was always curious as to what the engine would look like if you tore it apart. Now I know. Thank You.

Good change of pace video!

Eric man, we don't care what kind of destruction there is. You make em all interesting! Ps love the scrapyard rescue

Thanks for this video. I have always wondered what kind of a mess could be found in a flooded engine. Probably best to pass and chase a better core.

After a long day, I'm sitting down at 10 PM to eat supper and enjoy another great Saturday evening teardown video, thanks!!

@TheBandit7613

10 ай бұрын

It's 7:00pm on the west coast. The old lady went to get some fast food. We had a freak hurricane come thru and flood the desert. Lot's of submerged cars.

I’m a chemist. While not specialized in merallurgy, I’d postulate that the fact that there was salt in the water may, after months of sitting in the cylinders, have altered the physical and mechanical properties of the metal making up the bores. In other words : even if you went over bore in the cylinders and the surface appeared clean and shiny, there may be micro-fractures or the surface may be more porous and more prone to further oxidation and degradation over time. Keep in mind that while water evaporates over time, the salt that’s in the water stays there, so its concentration goes up until there’s not enough water to keep it dissolved, so it cristallizes, which is what you see in the intake ports. Since saltwater is very corrosive to begin with, any metal that gets exposed to seawater starts breaking down. As time goes on and the water slowly evaporates away, that solution becomes more and more corrosive it gets more concentrated. You then get a mixture of superconcentrated saltwater, iron oxide, and aluminum oxide and aluminum hydroxide. That’s the brown gunk on top of the pistons. I wouldn’t buy an engine part that was salvaged from a saltwater event lasting more than a couple days. This LS1 was left with standing seawater residue inside for over a year. Besides the intake manifold, which is plastic, I don’t think that there’s a single usable part on this engine.

Those weighted IR sockets are very helpful during a lot of different scenarios and work well if you are careful not to round off old bolt heads.

Really interesting video Eric. 👏👏👏

We all meet again! Thanks for the great content

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing it with us!

Drain all floods and replace with WD-40 or similar water displacement fluid. It could give you a little more time for the tear down. My notional suggestion.

Thanks again, Eric.

I like this video in that it showed how flooding damages engines internally. Great vid.

Love watching you guys

I can imagine the hell if the engine...or any flooded engine..had an automatic trans and locked up tighter then Ft Knox. This video is great...I don't know if the adjusters from insurance companies have ever seen the bolt by bolt damage a flood does to a car. I would send a copy of this to some...it's educational for sure. It would be interesting to see what the insides of the wires look like in that harness. If water got in there that, to me anyways, would say it was under water for a good while. Yet another departure from the norm...one of the best given what it took to get that crank to move at all even after the caps were off. When you do get flood cars thats scrap...a video of what actually lurks behind the dash etc would be a sight to see. Keep up the great videos Eric...this one is one of the best simply because of the educational aspect for those who have never seen the carnage from floods.

Thank you Eric.

At 5:01 The white stuff under the intake manifold, on the valley cover, and possibly on the valves.... That's what sea salt looks like after the water it is in dries....that it's pretty much proof that it was submersed in seawater.

@davidmiller9485

10 ай бұрын

Yeah a mix of salt and minerals that are in sea water (it's actually a lot. I used to keep salt water fish and man keeping up with the mineral additives is a pain) and it's horrible for any metal.

@montecorbit8280

10 ай бұрын

@@davidmiller9485 I knew that there was other stuff in it, but wasn't totally sure what everything was....and most people reading the comments wouldn't understand, so I chose to leave it out.

@davidmiller9485

10 ай бұрын

@@montecorbit8280 :) I wasn't trying to correct, just add.

One of the GM dealerships, I did work for a few years back. Guy had his truck towed in said is 6.0L blew up while he was driving on the freeway. The mechanic who was doing the work was a friend of mine. He pulled up the freeze frame data showing the guy was in second gear and at redline when the engine said goodbye. Guy had to pay out of pocket for another used 6.0L No warranty. For some reason this video reminded me of that. My friend passed away a year and a half ago from kidney failure. Miss him.

Eric,I watch your videos,not just for the content but for your comments. Some of the things you say are hilarious.

Thank you Eric! 👍

Perfect video timing for the end of LS fest in Bowling Green.

It looks like you got yourself a brand new 4 legged fan. My new kitten is an absolute Duracell bunny, but whenever I'm watching your videos, his eyes are glued to the screen.

Sometimes the bad ideas are what get stuff done.all us mechanics know this!!

Very interesting! I learned a lot.

Your video reminded me I need to go to the beach this week. All that saltwater made me miss it.

Thank you much for the informative video

I have to thank you for making me say "Penetrator" in a super low voice every time I spray some on something now lol

Very enjoyable, and informative.

When you pulled the oil pan off, I held my breath. LOL.

Very interesting tear down..

Thanks for the video.

Thank you, I really enjoyed this video.

I lived on the water while I was growing up in Wildwood NJ. It's not tropical by any stretch but that constant exposure to salt water would corrode things you don't see corroded anywhere but in coastal areas. Back in the day we had these things called pay phones, which were on just about every street, the boardwalk etc... and even though they were never under water the chrome bits of those phones, like the door to thing that held all the quarters would have corrosion pits where the chrome would be pulled up. The ones on the boardwalk were always FUBAR even the aluminum on the phone booths (glass paneled green house torture devices that were your only option for privacy with a pay phone) would have aluminum fuzz growing on it and pits. So yeah seawater is no joke

Thanks Eric

Absolutely love the videos

Hi Eric, another great teardown, just good to see much less rusted than expected. I can say that a few rust pits in the bore will not effect the running, the pits will hold oil and eventually fill with carbon. Of course there is a limit to how deep or wide the pit. But as you say is rebuilding the engine worth it, with labour costs, parts, a new cam and lifters. Just the cleaning up of the crank would take a day or so. Thank you and keep up the good work. Look after your family. Ted from down under.

I died at 6:33 I knew it what was gonna happen but you never cease to deliver creative humor 😂 😂 😂 😂

I live in Florida and this video means a lot to me. THANK YOU!! I was tempted to buy a salt flood duramax but the salt in the cylinders was a concern for me.

@bartsarton2212

10 ай бұрын

You're probably glad you didn't after seeing this video.

@ericreimer6627

8 ай бұрын

HorsepowerDepot bought a 73 Trans Am, drained about 3 gallons of sea water out of the engine, put a new carb and distributor on it, and it ran great. The thing is you have to get it out soon. Clearly this engine sat for quite some time with water in it.

Love this stuff!