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My singer was constantly getting jammed and having a huge mess on the bottom of my garment I was trying to sew and I began watching different videos and ran across one that was having the same problem-bottom thread would gather up and jam the bobbin and make a huge mess. I didn’t see this correction you show here until after I watched a video that showed how to c heck the needle plate for any groves or holes. My needle plate had a huge groove in it. Two of them and my thread was never going to slide without getting stuck so I took the plate off and used my metal mail file to file the groove down. I was trying to hem my son’s jeans for a wedding he was in that coming weekend and I didn’t have time to order a new plate from Amazon or even get it to the repair shop. The filling worked pretty good but I still had some bobbin tension issues, which I am now sure it was the thing you show in this video, a couple of times I could hear and see that the bobbin holder was jumping in there when the machine would jam. I saw what you did here in another video and that was my problem after I had fixed the grooves in the needle plate. In the video I saw how he should what you show in this video, but he also took the bobbin holder out and showed how to adjust the tension screw after breaking that yellow paint dot in the screw. Took a few tries to get it right but that combined with having that bitch thing like you did here solved all my tension problems until now when some of it’s happening all over again as u try to see lightweight cotton material. I also didn’t realize the size of the needle matters quite a bit, too! Thanks for the easy to understand way you did this video. It’s great & helping a lot of people in here!!
That's very descriptive and likely helpful for many other people with more than one issue going on. Thanks for the feedback 👍
I like you dude.aimt here to hold hands lol.dontgive a fuck
I mean for real. 😂 I'm not getting paid. Just trying to help those like me trying to save money by working on their own stuff. Some people want to complain about my efforts that I try to help for no reason other than good will :)
Timing bolts and cover 30:00
Oh my gosh … you just fix my problem … I just couldn’t figured out why my thread was getting stock in the bottom … thank you!!
How much does a VALVE BODY COST FOR A 46re transmission
No idea
Complicated. I thank you for your input.
Hi there, Have the same car, Been looking for a leak for a few weeks. Seems I had some on the top valve cover gasket so I went in and replaced the gaskets, They pretty hard and shot so I might as well, but looks to me so far, haven't done a full look around since I have to take the tire to check fully, but think I have a leak on the timing chain cover itself. Can't seem to find a gasket for that. Do you know if it's only the sealer lube that they use? I want to make sure before I remove the cover for the chain. I do have the gasket maker lube, but if they have a gasket we can use would want to use that of course. Thanks in advance if you are able to answer that.
Have you finished the work
Yes. I felt successful but in the end I wished I would have had the head completely done. It wasn't getting good compression on the damaged cylinders and I ended up scrapping the car and buying another because I simply didn't have time to do it again. I got a good scrap value because it was still a good engine that just needed a head job
Hi Jamie, thanks for this video! I used it a few months ago with great success. However this issue is now recurring so frequently that I can't even sew a few inches without the bobbin casing slipping and catching in the same spot. Does anyone have any experience with this, or any tips? I don't see any areas that could really be tightened or adjusted. It is maddening!
First thing I am thinking is thread tension. I would look into a walkthrough of how to adjust it properly. I can't think of anything else that might cause it right now
Saved me a 40min trip to the store , legend
Literally couldn't figure out why my thread kept catching the in bobbin case. I watched this video and it worked immediately after! THANK YOU!!
Thank you 🙏 I’m super new to my machine and couldn’t figure out what the heck was wrong until I watched this!!!!
If i stay on the gas pedal it stays in gear , goes through all the gears but when i let of the gas i have to rev up again
That's a very interesting symptom. I can't say I'm professional enough to diagnose and give any good advice. Sorry. :/
Did it work?
I found a broken clip on the end of a spring outside of the housing but working inside of the valve body did not help. I determined later that the TCM ECM needed replaced
THANK YOU!!!! I’m a beginning quilter and all of a sudden my machine started giving me issues with piecing. I was so upset. I couldn’t get my machine to work UNTIL this video!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
God, thank you so much! I couldn't understand what went wrong with my machine but this worked like a charm!
Hardest radistor i ever done before day three tomorrow i still not nowhere near pulling it out took 30 minutes in my altima
THANK YOU!
Lord thank you for all the meticulous detail i needed it also
How long did it take?
I think about 3-4 hours but I usually don't hurry through these deep repairs. Don't want to forget a small detail from being in a hurry
Im about to do mine, just has misfire cylinder 4, will not go away. So they told be that my car has burnt valve 😢
It was quite the chore. I should have replaced all 4 valves in the one damaged cylinder and I regret that. Maybe should have had them ground to seal better also. Good luck
@@jamiemciver2326 thanks!
Just what I needed thank you!!
I cannot thank you enough for this video. I was able to save my machine because of you. Thank you so much! 🙏
Useless. You skipped All the important steps. Wtf is the purpose?
Thanks for your input. Changed my life. Glad I have an expert on the thread now to make a better video for us all
What did you use to remove the cover plate 😅😅
Nevermind I found the key
Ok good to hear 😊
Thanks dude!!
My pleasure 😊
Thanks brother 👍
Happy to help in any small way :)
thank you!
My pleasure 😁
Genius!!! It’s so hard to find a video about this exact problem.
You literally cut out and skipped the most important parts of the video. I didn't learn a single thing from this video
Ok. Great question. Probably better take it to a shop 🤦
Thank you
$300 - $500 for gaskets? DAMN! I found OEM quality full valve cover set on e-bay for $17.
More than valve cover. Head gaskets and valve seals. Intake and exhaust. Much more
You are my HERO!!!! I have spent half the day trying to figure this out. All of a sudden my brand new Singer started messing up. I was about to take it back. I ran across you video, tried it and Viola! Thank you so much!!!🥰
Weird that it's so simple huh
That gouge would have been just fine with a light hone oil will Sit in the groove and cause minor blow by but I’ve seen huge scoring that ran just fine
It’s not a race car engine fairly fogivable
Thank you for that input. I did take my chances and changed the 2 valves that were obviously bent and put it back together. Unfortunately I probably needed to change all 4 on that cylinder and grind them in because it had very low compression and would barely run. Bit the bullet and scrapped the car :( wasn't going to take my chances wasting time doing it all over or wasting money on an engine that might still give me other problems
Was the crank bolt backwards thread or regular
It is regular. Ridiculously tight. I went just less than recommended because I was pretty sure it would bust off when I was tightening it. You'll need a gauge to measure the degrees after a rather light torque setting
You just saved me from buying a new sewing machine. Thank you! Hope you have a great day. Aloha
Thank you for letting me know. One of the most helpful videos I've ever made I'm finding
Thank you 🙏🏼
Welcome 😀
I had to return my 2014 Murano to the shop after a radiator replacement. They left splash guards in wheel wells unbolted (barely holding on). Did you have to remove those yourself? And I spent half a tank of gas in one day with what I thought was a small leak from their radiator job. With that much gas burn, would you agree that it’s a serious leak they left me with?
I don't remember removing wheel well splash guards. Sometimes in a shop on a lift it's just easier to remove more parts so I don't blame them for it but yeah. Gotta resecure everything
Thanks this helps
Thank youu! Glad I came across your video, it helped for me!!🤩
I am so thrilled to hear that this simple fix has helped so many people already. Thanks for letting me know 🙂
Was stressing that my 3 day old singer just died and your video fixed it - stitching it perfect now THANK YOU, you gave me some insight into looking at something I overlooked.
Awesome that I was able to discover something so simple. Glad it helped 🙂
What did you do to get that valve cover off
I think I had to pry on it in a couple spots or maybe a chisel. It marked the surface a bit but I filed it clean and sanded with some fine paper before reinstalling it with a new gasket. Double and triple check that you have all the bolts out including the ones on top in the middle because that sucker won't be cheap to replace. I broke my timing chain cover because I missed a bolt and that cost me another $100 for a used replacement. That valve cover will be much more I'm sure. Also make sure to get a very complete gasket set. There are 12 or 13 gaskets and seals to replace on that sucker. Hope this helps. Feel free to comment back
@@jamiemciver2326 I thank you and I haven’t took out the top bolts so I’m go ahead and do that and what about the coolant pipe on top of it, did you have to remove that ?
@@dblock8645 I had to remove the retainer bolt to turn it to the side to get one of the valve cover bolts but didn't need to remove the pipe. As I recall the pipe comes out with the valve cover
Hi I watched your video and I have a 2013 chevy malibu 2.5 and when I start the car there's a knocking sound over by the timing chain area and white smoke pours out of the tail pipe and after 2 minutes of the car running it dies, could this be a blown head gasket or a connecting rod?
To answer that I'm going to say yes it could be those things. It might also be the timing chain has jumped a tooth which I've heard isn't unheard of on these engines. It's kinda hard to tell without some trouble shooting. I'm sure there are a couple other possibilities as well. I'm sorry I can't be of more help on answering without digging into the car a bit
Ok thank you for at least answering some of my questions
Did this motor sit for a long time unused? What do you think caused the valve to break? Did you end up buying another motor?
It did sit for a while before I bought it. I had to unclog the catalytic converter and then it drove just fine for about a thousand miles. I just drove normal. Wasn't revving it or anything. I just check it off as a very uncommon random failure. They happen. Just not often. I changed 2 valves in the head and had to strip the spark plug to get it out so I put a heely coil in it and reassembled. Lots of little challenges along the way and lack of daylight and poor weather slowed me a lot. It's all reassembled now. Unfortunately the starter only clicked. I know it's not seezed because I turned it all the way with a wrench so I'll dig into that tomorrow
Ps: I may not have mentioned but I learned through the head rebuild portion of this project that the valve spring broke giving the valve slack and the retainer clips fell of and it dropped into the cylinder
Ps: the starter was bad. Probably From trying to start it so many times while it was seized. It's one of those cars that will give continuous power to the starter for a short time even if you let off of the ignition
What kind of connection is the trans lines? Just hose clamps? Im about to remove my rad and replace and I’m not finding anywhere telling me what kind of connection those lines have. Like if I require a special tool or if it’s a hose clamp. Thanks I’m advance
From memory I believe they are a tapered style brass fitting. Sorry I can5 be certain but that's ringing true to me
ABSOLUTE LEGEND, immediately fixed ty
This is why I post videos. Thank you so much for letting me know 😊
Mine makes a very loud noise and the needle barley moves down what could this be ?
I made this video to specifically address the bobbin position. I'm sorry I'm not much help on noises or reduced needle movement :/
Good thing you recorded it man cuz I didn't think you just put a Cadillac ATS motor in my Malibu tonight fit perfect just go to change the timing cover
Need to figure this out
The needle plate holds the bobbin case in place if you take it off to have a closer look at a thread jam, and then turn the hand wheel with the needle threaded and the plate off, the bobbin can pop out.
I'm not 100% familiar with what you are saying but appreciate the input. I'll look more closely at this in a minute. Thank you :)
After examining your question I completely understand what you are saying now. This it is important to have the plate fastened down properly
After changing the bobbin for the first time on a new Singer Heavy Duty 4423, I had a thread jam. I took the needle plate off to get a closer look. I jiggled the wheel to get the thread out and the bobbin case popped out. I left the plate off to see what was going wrong and the case popped out again. Then I found out from another KZreadr: "Man Sewing", that the plate holds the bobbin case in place, (the tab on the left under the bobbin cover.) I put it back but still had to rethread the bobbin and the top thread, and then it worked
@@barbaraferron7994 thank you so much. Good info
Hi Jamie, wanted to say thank you. I check my settings and had the same issue. My machine is working agian
That's great to hear. I was hoping I wasn't the only person who didn't realize something so simple :)