Oh man, how embarrasing. (Uncle Tony/Nick's Garage)

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I’d really like to see the old (original) mains that he claims were std! My guess is they were actually .010” anyway. Regardless, why wasn’t the clearance checked during the “marathon build”?
 
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I'm beginning to think this was all a publicity stunt. Nobody can make that many "honest" mistakes, can they?
 
Lets assume bearings didnt look bad and were std. he took it at face value and pressed on. The engine may have survived lots of pulls,but nick was erring on the side of caution.
A machine shop wont go .010/010 on rods and mains if rod journals were fine.
 
Why do all these boobtube monkeys have filty dirty cluttered junk packed work areas that they use for "building engines"?? Kinda shows you right off what kind of "quality" work they do. :realcrazy:
 
69DodgeMan said:
Why do all these boobtube monkeys have filty dirty cluttered junk packed work areas that they use for "building engines"?? Kinda shows you right off what kind of "quality" work they do. :realcrazy:
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One guy i know says you cant buikd an engine in a garage.its too dusty. I almost agree, but he was an aircraft engineer.
Totally sterile,and sanitized (so to speak) engine parts will make for a long lived engine, but i consider the enviroment i drive my vehicles. Dusty gravel roads. Lots of them.
What about opening up an engine to repair it? Think the dealerships have a designated clean area to perform major surgery on a less than one year old diesel engine?
I can tell you no. They may do their best to clean,and assemble with good practices but it is done in the service bay.
 
His comments:
We're exactly at the 200 thousandths.
Then:
The crank should be 2.5. If we Mic it and it measures 2.4 we know it's ten under.

Made me LOL.
 
Tooljunkie said:
One guy i know says you cant buikd an engine in a garage.its too dusty. I almost agree, but he was an aircraft engineer.
Totally sterile,and sanitized (so to speak) engine parts will make for a long lived engine, but i consider the enviroment i drive my vehicles. Dusty gravel roads. Lots of them.
What about opening up an engine to repair it? Think the dealerships have a designated clean area to perform major surgery on a less than one year old diesel engine?
I can tell you no. They may do their best to clean,and assemble with good practices but it is done in the service bay.
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Agree, there are limits to how clean/tidy you can be at home or in dealership service bay. But at least keeping the area clutter free and a benchtop clear and clean for your parts and assembly is a big step in the right direction. These guys have **** laying all over the place with more **** stacked on top of it.
 
I can't believe he doesn't want or see the need to pull that pos completely apart and start over, kleen the hell out of it and go over everything Larry, Moe and Curly did.
 
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Had it not lost oil pressure this would be a whole different story i think. Something to do with lifters if i recall.
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For some reason they put AMC lifters in it they were saying those lifters are made to oil the top end up through the push rods. Mopars have solid push rods and seperate oil gally for the rocker shafts.

Then they were saying it had too short of push rods in it too besides.

Oil Pressure was leaking out the tops of the AMC Lifters, dropping the pressure on the gauge. So they had to shut down multiple times as Nick and Crew were trying to figure out the problem. Even pulling the pan one main, and the oil pump. They both checked out OK so back together and try again . . . they finally had to throw in the towel on the dyno tests.
 
I thought AMC and Mopar lifters were just plain interchangeable until now. Maybe they were at one time, something change?

And maybe the motor owner only checked the size on the rod bearings and called the motor as having standard bearings, without having checked the main bearing codes at the same time. I would like to see the codes on all the bearings they discarded when they did the crazy build on that fateful Sunday.
 
George Jets said:
For some reason they put AMC lifters in it they were saying those lifters are made to oil the top end up through the push rods. Mopars have solid push rods and seperate oil gally for the rocker shafts.

Then they were saying it had too short of push rods in it too besides.

Oil Pressure was leaking out the tops of the AMC Lifters, dropping the pressure on the gauge. So they had to shut down multiple times as Nick and Crew were trying to figure out the problem. Even pulling the pan one main, and the oil pump. They both checked out OK so back together and try again . . . they finally had to throw in the towel on the dyno tests.
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For the love of all things holy---It NEVER had anything to do with the damn lifters! It was all due to people pretending to be something they werent--- machinists/enginebuilders. J.Rob
 
RAMM said:
For the love of all things holy---It NEVER had anything to do with the damn lifters! It was all due to people pretending to be something they werent--- machinists/enginebuilders. J.Rob
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Yeah, to my knowledge, the lifters are TOTALLY interchangeable, right?
 
RAMM said:
For the love of all things holy---It NEVER had anything to do with the damn lifters! It was all due to people pretending to be something they werent--- machinists/enginebuilders. J.Rob
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Haha, yepppppppp!
I don't care about clutter... just 'for the love of god' know what the heck you're doing and keep it clean!

He was pulling out excuses like they were protection from eminent tail spin and impact. Lmao
 
Uncle tony, has ZERO business assembling a engine, he is a hack. But somehow, he makes a living off his bullshit YouTube videos. Its actually almost comical. What a joke!
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
Yes.
More often than not someone forgets or overlooks some simple crap and pisses away an otherwise perfectly good engine.
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OK that makes sense then. The kid got back from Nick's in Canada and he pulled the intake to see what the problem was, then he started talking about thr AMC lifter leaking oil out the end . . .

Guess the young guy dose not know much about what he is doing.

But is learning hard lessons at the
"School of Hard Knox", he won't forget.
 
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