Comments by "SeanBZA" (@SeanBZA) on "I Do Cars" channel.

  1. Thing is that there is an oil level sensor there at the bottom of the pan. Measures oil level before the starter is engaged to start it on the first cycle of starting, then displays on the display oil level. With stop start the sensor only operates during initial start, disabled if the start is too fast. However it does not work well in operating engine, due to the oil splashing and foaming, or if there is glitter in there, though it also has oil contamination sensing (check oil for conductivity, conductive oil either is water condensed there, or very carboned up oil) built in. Likely is the owner ignored the oil level warnings, just got in and thrashed the cold engine, and also likely did not bother doing any servicing, leading to the oil being contaminated, and also being used up in blowby into the inlet. So drove it till the oil pressure warning came on, and the vehicle ECM refused to allow engine starting. Then turned off and saw the low oil warning, so dumped in a full 5 quarts of oil, which was still low, so added another 5 quarts of oil, as again no dipstick, but now oil level warning is off. Then proceeded to drive it, and as the knocking grew worse, figured that they are well under water with the likely cost of replacing the engine ( JLR not going to rebuild a engine doing the macarena at idle for sure), plus likely still owing around half the original purchase price, but now it is valued at scrap metal rate of 2c a kilo as mixed. So decided to instead slam on the anchors on the highway, and be given a love tap from the rear, in the hopes insurance will scrap the vehicle, settle the loan, and they come out owing nothing, and with still good credit score, or at least not any worse credit score. Hope they did not get that payout, and the driver that hit them was in possession of a dashcam, or that a witness got this on dashcam.
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  2. Probably was a lease, and they ignored the calls and emails to bring it in for service. Going to bet they will be charged for the full cost of replacing the engine, and for the towing as well. Though as the lease holder likely is a company the actual driver will not see much of the cost, unless the company decides that this is also coming out of their bonus as well.
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  3. Well, Bentley and Rolls Royce were the major manufacturer of aircraft engines till the turbine division was split off. Thus the engine designers in this era brought through the aircraft design philosophy, that fasteners should really stay fastened till service was due. Plus, as the price of the vehicle is rather high, the thought was that owners would be able to afford the service cost, even if half the cost in the service was labour hours. Rolls and Bentleywere not shy with pricing, but they also would make sure in those days that the stuff would not break, even if you abused it. Big engine, old technology, wet liners, that cursed hydraulic system (just wait to see the trans, it drives the rear brakes off the output shaft, so they come off when you stop) and the electrical system that could have "interesting" faults in it.
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  4. Done because accounting saw it saved them a few dollars this quarter, along with top management. that it will result in a recall 5 years down the line that is a massive cost is not their problem, because by that time they have gotten the bonuses, and have taken off to destroy another company.
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  5. When you are running stretch bolts you have them, and also the same for any fastener designated as use once as well. you are getting it out of the elastic region and slightly into plastic deformation, so that the tension in the bolt is higher than any force between the surfaces. Now to get that you need to start at a known tightness, and then stretch it so much, thus the degrees from a known torque that has them firm against the gasket. The second round is so that you allow the tension to be relieved, and then stretch it even further, getting closer to the yield point of the material, but leaving enough margin so that you do not have any failing in use. Use once so that you will not use deformed bolts, though you can measure them in most cases, and if they are less than a specified amount they have not stressed too far, though if there is a region that is waisted narrower than the standard diameter that bolt is close to failure, and needs to be replaced instead.
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  6. Because a bean counter did the comparasion, and the belt worked out to a few cents cheaper, plus it added 0.001MPG improvement in the standard test cell run.
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  7.  @michaelfrench3396  Manufacturer knows the longer intervals get 99% of vehicles out of warranty before failure. Then you scrap it, and buy a new one.
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  8. Probably replaced engine because that piston wrist pin wear was causing knock, and the ECU, thinking this was detonation, due to the timing on that cylinder, had pulled power way back. Then the lowered fuel input meant the cylinder was running ultra lean, and this, combined with probably a small carbon particle that got stuck on the valve, caused it to wear, and then the ECU carried on running that cylinder ultra lean, leading to the valve seat eroding as the combusting fuel mix kept on bleeding by. You can see the run marks of the metal being eroded away. Engine replaced because ECU told of misfire on one cylinder, bad knocking and lack of power, along with very lumpy idle. Compression test said cylinder really bad on leak test, so scrap engine instead of stripping head, because the used engine is cheaper than a strip, repair and assemble labour wise. Pump likely removed because it was faulty on the junkyard engine, probably leaking water, so to cut cost they swapped with the old one.
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  9. Lots of hours idling, and oil changes done if there was $20 left over from buying booze and weed, generally every 50k miles. Oil changed because they looked at the dipstick, and it was a few quarts low.
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  10.  @I_Do_Cars  Toyota 4 cylinder engine, though might be hard to find in NA market, as the Toyota 4 cylinder engines are reliable, and will tolerate incredible abuse. Have seen them rebuilt on the roadside, which included putting the old oil back into it when finished, complete with sand.
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  11. Very soft magnets there, which are unfortunately known to fail, though there are replacement magnet assemblies for them, but you need an alignment tool to get them in the right position and orientation.
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  12. Customer just carried on with foot flat till the last cylinder gave out.
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  13.  @commonsenseisdeadandgone  That is why, long distance every time, does not degrade oil as much as frequent short trips, where the oil never gets hot enough to boil off the water in it.
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  14.  @alvinhyman6838  2 missing valves are in the exhaust system by the cat for sure.
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  15.  @randymagnum143  Because the K jetronic was cutting edge in the 1970's when it was applied to motor vehicles.
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  16. Bentley must have gotten a liking from the Citroen engineers about the need for "tool, special" to do things, because that engine screams that there are at least 20 special tools that you need to both maintain it, and overhaul it.
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  17. Makes sure the buyer gets a clamp with the part, and then reuses the old hose.
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  18. Looks like it got stolen and recovered after a chase.
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  19.  @Chris-hw4mq  fuel going past the low tension rings contaminates the oil very fast, so regular cold starts, short trips (city driving, which is why you got the Ecoboom in the first place) and long oil change intervals make the belt suffer.
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  20.  @FreiherrvonDinkelacker  Which is why pretty much every farmer by me has as personal car a 300D or similar Mercedes, or any other diesel truck or car. they only fill up with diesel when it is going in to the agents, under warranty, as those do test the fuel for contaminants, so they will have a 44 gallon drum of taxed diesel on the farm, and drain the tank empty, then fill it with enough to get there and back with taxed fuel. Out of warranty it will be red fuel, because out of warranty the dealership does not check to invalidate the warranty.
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  21.  @JohnSmith-pl2bk  Clamps are more important than the hose, unless it is one that is no longer made, or special order. But there are companies who will make you a hose special order, if you are willing to pay the money.
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  22.  @budlanctot3060  Or just machine the bearing off, and undercut by 1mm, then spray on a new wearing surface, and machine to size again exactly like the others. Hard facing for the bearing, well bonded to the crank, and just as long lasting as the rest. either bore out the housing to take a single overthick bearing, or make them all oversize and spray weld up all the rest to match a standard thickness shell instead.
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  23. Time to lowbed it to Florida for a service, and to save Ray from his midlife crisis.
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  24.  @619Bob  Only the turbine side, now the car side is owned by BMW......
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  25.  @davidmarshall5700  The UK, once a bastion of vehicle manufacturing, has had every single British name sold to non UK companies. Mini is BMW, Jaguar is Tata and Land Rover is a blend of Tata and Chery. Even Delorean is now owned by a US owner, let alone all those British motorbike manufacturers, and the smaller car brands.
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  26. ISTR that there is an option to add the dipstick, just the manufacturer blanks off the hole in the block, but the rest is there to do it. Saving 100g of metal to meet an EPA mass limit.
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  27. The damage is because of the 10hP motor keeping on driving it till it made pressure. Not like a vehicle where losing compression and pistons makes it stop. A really good reason to check your compressor weekly, both for moisture, general condition and oil level, because they do tend to use a little oil as they age. At least you still have all 4 pistons, I had a couple where the pistons came out as chunks.
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  28. IRS also care, because you are doing tax evasion.
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  29.  @williampope3531  Yes which is why the threads are larger diameter, and also much longer, to allow the tension on the thread root to be low enough. However Helicoil also makes a special set of threaded inserts that are full depth, to repair those threads. Very popular with Subaru repairs, as they do love to strip those threads out.
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  30. Hope you also sent a big bag of bolts to increase Ray's collection.
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  31.  @andrewallen9993  True, they at least made sure that all the bolts got locking wires, and were tight. Just had some hidden flaws that caused a few issues, and the old 747 thing of taking off with 4 engines turning, and landing with 3, with the missing one having had an Atlantic burial.
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  32.  @misterdeedeedee  some markets they have to warranty it for 7 years or 100 000 miles, so making a single engine that will just make it out of the warranty is better.
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  33. Likely the most valuable part of that engine, intact injector plugs are worth money as replacement parts when they break. This engine likely lots of idle, and really long oil change intervals, and the final straw likely wearing bearings from poor oil pressure, then the crank breaking from a sharp edge left in manufacture, or a flaw in the steel casting.
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  34. JLR official oil change method is a vacuum pump to pull it out, then fill without taking that skid pan off.
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  35.  @davidpowell3347  2 stroke engines will put those wrist pins all the way down the exhaust, in one piece, while you just have shreds of the rest around. Seen them come out the end intact as well.
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  36.  @Zorbino88  Probably ran on a test bed at full power for 4 months, with oil changes at calculated intervals, and wear checks for metal only. then was called good for production and sent, no thermal cycling, no cold starts, no strip down and running with different fluids and fuels, except for the one ford made that did not degrade the belt.
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  37. Probably because Daewoo had the moulds for the blocks, and the rest of the parts, already in Korea, so making them was easier, and they likely already had a big stack of them already cast and machined spare.
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  38. Block coming back as cans of Red Bull.....
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  39.  @nicholasvinen  Saved $1.29, and also got a $5k replacement engine sale, just outside of warranty period, as a bonus as well. So made an extra $5001.29 per vehicle in profits.
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  40.  @CaptainSpadaro  Enables them to meet EPA "simulated driving condition" testing for fuel economy, by simply not having the cylinders fire when power demand is very low, which is a good part of the test regime. No fuel injected, no spark firing, no fuel used.
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  41. Bet he still did not learn anything though, blaming everybody but himself.
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  42.  @peterpeter5666  The original ones are not too bad, just suffer the usual Leyland leaks and slop all over.
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  43. At least the exhaust will never rust......
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  44.  @I_Do_Cars  I have the non USA 1.6 5 speed manual one. Nice car, just service is not buying GM parts, but Daewoo, because it is really a Daewoo with GM badges. But a nice car, now 12 years old, and with a nice clean engine as well. Some time soon I will have to replace the clutch, but that is readily available by ordering for a Daewoo Lacetti. Nice comfortable car, no speed demon, but loves the open road, and keeping around the speed limit is around the most economical fuel use point. Just needs regular oil changes to have a long life, and yes I had to replace cam belt recently, because of a bolt that went down and damaged the outside of the belt. No idea where that came from, must have been left when the engine was overhauled at 130 000km because the exhaust place tried to do an EGR and cat delete, and failed. I got that right after a little work, finding what they broke, and fooling the EGR valve into thinking it was passing exhaust gas.
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  45.  @cll1639  Knew one guy who drained the transmission and filled the engine oil.... Toyota gearbox so all it did was whine a little more with new oil in it, and the engine oil replaced.
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  46. That is why you have the 1in drive sockets, and the 9 foot cheater rod as well.
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  47. My mother had one, at least till it got written off in an accident, where it was hit head on by another who was cutting a corner. Car written off, and a few injuries to my mother and her sister as well, but they were saved by the Fiat crumpling up in the impact. Mom did not drive for around 2 years afterwards, till she got a Renault 5 as replacement. That car ran a year on a tank of fuel, as it was driven 12km a week, and shopping we would walk to the supermarket 3 minutes away. Tool longer to drive and park instead of walk.
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  48. So killed by not changing the plugs in the regular interval, otherwise a well maintained engine.
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  49. Wrist pins almost always survive, they are both the toughest part of the engine, and the part with the closest tolerances.
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  50. Eric, you need to look in the mirror to tell him that........
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  51.  @CaptainSpadaro  They simply do not inject fuel into those deactivated cylinders, and also no spark. Thus when it is the time for that cylinder to fire it simply acts like a lossy spring for that stroke, compressing then expanding the air in the cylinder, so that it does not add power to the crank. Then the mass of the moving parts evens out that lack of power, and overall it acts like a smaller 4 cylinder engine. Some variants also use oil pressure to operate valves that keep the inlet and exhaust valves closed for that entire time, but that proved to be unreliable, instead the VVT simply makes the opening and closing angles for the valves very small, so low power overall, during that low power demand time.
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  52. by me that Escalade would have a new VIN plate riveted in, the stamped ones cut out and replaced, with the donor being one that arrived at a scrap yard on the back of 2 lowbed tow trucks.
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  53. That Fumoto valve is also good used, well worth selling off.
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  54. I was looking for the rear seat belts for that.......
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  55. Would open the filter and see just how much is stuck in it. Ran with low oil, and no oil changes at all.
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  56. Run without oil changes till the oil turned to black goo. Then when the knock started owner went to Jiffy lube and changed the oil, and probably right after complained the engine was now knocking, and it was the fault of Jiffy lube, and got the engine changed by them, if the booking in did not note down severe knock on arrival, and the oil was soup, and no record of any oil changed for the last 5 years.
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  57. Software update is just like putting a bandaid over a sliced artery. Does nothing much, because they are only masking the symptoms, and not fixing the underlying problem, hoping the vehicle will be out of warranty before it grenades. See just how well that worked out for Hyundai and Kia with the Theta II engines, seems vehicle manufacturers never look and learn from others, and even internally they never learn from their own mistakes as well, repeating them time and again.
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  58. Note how the timing gears are not exactly round, but somewhat oblate, so the belt, in addition to swimming in lovely oil, also goes up and down as the cam rotates.....
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  59. Sometimes a used pump is better than the one you have, and there is no stock of the pump available. Good used will sell, just sell with the bold print there is no warranty of any kind on it, and you are lot liable for any damage incurred as a result of using it. There are a lot of pumps that are either no longer made, or the replacement is so poor that it is better to use it instead.
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  60. Wonder if you can send the odd oil sample for analysis, to at least tell what you got in the oil.
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  61. 1.6l is the one I have. Rebuilt and working well, just have to remember that the higher power versions are less reliable, simply because of the higher power output, and the junky plastic parts. The lack of maintenance is also an issue. they do need regular oil changes, and the later versions are prone to crack pistons.
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  62.  @Birb_of_Judge  BMW? All bolts come with a coating from the factory, to make assembly torque more precise, but it also protects the threads as well.
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  63. Starts and drives, just not telling you needed a 24V jump start, and drive was that it kind of moved with the engine running. Hopefully you took all the body modules, and the window motors and door handles, as those are a very common failure item. Rear quarter panel glass is also a fast seller.
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  64. Fuel pump relay........ Bet the reason it was parked was because the owner died, and it was sitting in an estate for a few years till it went up on auction. But still thousands of them running by me, and often not in as good a condition as this one, but still running and driving every day. Very much in demand as street racing cars.
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  65.  @catinthehat5140  Lower noise, lower cost to install, and with it being cheap to replace why not. Also lower loss, as you do not have to waste power moving a half kilo of metal around every engine revolution, moving a lighter belt instead.
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  66.  @weedmanwestvancouverbc9266  The one the pilots care more about is that fire warning light.
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  67. Those get used a lot in forklifts, where they have a really hard life, lots of idle, and then full power, running 12 hours a day.
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  68.  @calm4477  No, but you would replace them anyway, as part of the head gasket kit you got from Bentley, which would have all the gaskets, seals, along with all nuts and bolts, plus the 200 odd tab washers you would have to install again. At least they did not use locking wire on this engine.
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  69.  @calm4477  Yup, fifth owner could not afford to maintain it, did it on the cheap, used the cheapest oil, and ran it long past oil change intervals as well. The lawn mower plug I can understand, they needed a plug for another engine, this car was in the shop with a guaranteed never run again engine, so took the plug, probably to diagnose a misfire to either plug or lead. Then took faulty plug, and returned it to the supplier as faulty, and needed a plug to put there, so grabbed that old knackered out lawnmower plug they had in the tool box in the car, and shoved it into the hole. Then took new plug as credit, and used it when they needed to service their own vehicle, with the oil coming from the work in a few "empty" containers.
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  70. Usable parts are the inlet manifold, the crank pulley, the coil packs and timing covers, the rest is good to be sorted into 2 piles, steel, aluminium, and melted down. Wiring harness can be used for spare parts as well, like if your friend Bubba removes a coil pack using Blue the crowbar, and does not undo the bolts or connections.
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  71. Probably floor mat on the go pedal.......
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  72. Will say those engines are no slouch, and are a worldwide platform engine, though by me they were only later equipped with SCR, and a delete is still easy to do on them.
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  73.  @brokenujoints3811  By me the standard is to dilute it with kerosene, as that does not have the road tax on it. You can smell those running it, and it is so common a lot of trucking companies issue their drivers with test kits to check for the yellow tracer when filling up. Most dealerships also will check as well for warranty work, any trace and you will lose the engine warranty.
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