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

@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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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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That Fumoto valve is also good used, well worth selling off.
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I was looking for the rear seat belts for that.......
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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@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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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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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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@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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@weedmanwestvancouverbc9266 The one the pilots care more about is that fire warning light.
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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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@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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@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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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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Probably floor mat on the go pedal.......
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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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@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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