Hey guys and how's it going yeah. I wish this video was about working on the amante gt. This car has been sitting for since 1977.. Last video we made one good engine out of the two got it running on the stand and we're going to move forward with putting it in.

Unfortunately, my daily driver has decided to uh take a dump on me. We went to go. Take a drive up north. This is our beater that we run.

You know if we're going in the woods or something not worried about scratching it uh it we're going to go, get gas and we pull up to the pump. The idle got real bad, real, broken up check engine lights that are flashing like crazy, so we parked this and we ended up taking a different vehicle. So that being said, we're going to get into this one see what happened to it, see if we can fix it without further ado. Let's give her, i guess, we'll start it hopefully see what it does.

I don't know if you could feel it. I think the idol is so high that it is not. If that goes to kick down. It runs very rough idles very wrong.

I can feel it right now. If i'm hitting it he's breaking up, give it a second there. It goes. Let me pop it in here.

Let me hear it. There goes the engine flashing, all right, let's go throw a scanner on it, see what it says: random, multiple cylinder, misfire an o2 sensor. I know the o2 sensor has been an issue. That's been on for a little while, so we got two pro two sensor and two for random misfire.

Nothing really did so random, misfire and multiple cylinder. I would think if it was like say two cylinders that the coil packs had gone bad on it. Would it would say what cylinders there were not just multiple uh cylinder, misfires, so uh low fuel pressure? I would think a low fuel pressure would come up also and then, when your rev, it seems fine, doesn't seem like it. It is falling on its face anywhere on the higher end side, although it's down on power, it's not like it.

If you were low on fuel pressure, you'd hit it, it would die altogether. It just wouldn't be able to keep up. It doesn't do that. Let's go pop, the hood, you just see anything visually.

First, it's really common that the coil packs do screw up. They'll get a crack down. The center of them is that a drip right there see wet around the thermostat yeah, i'm not seeing anything. Are we low on coolant? That's up there? I did do a little service on a while ago.

Again it was idling a little rough. I want to say, fellow, i don't know the last six months, nothing terrible! You come to a stop. It just had a little bit of shake to it. I did plugs in it about a year ago and at that time i believe you know i would have inspected all the coil packs and saw if there was any cracks and not that it could have gotten worse from there.

It had the belt done at 114. Thou, i think it has 190, maybe two getting close to two. Unfortunately, i think we're going to end up putting it on the lift. I don't think we're going to.

Actually i do see any freeze leak right down there. It's dripping, i'm wondering i have suspicion. It's not a good one. Neither all right, i'm gon na go move some vehicles around get this on the lift and uh.

I guess we're gon na have to operate there's so many balancer on it, 203. she's, probably even seated in the camera, shaking the whole truck shaking at least we have a lift to work off of could be worse right, how's that for lighting decent, i see we Get that off we'll get this duct work out of our way and we'll see about. I have my suspicions. I don't know if you guys want to answer a guess right now too, but my thought is the timing belt jump, sometimes nothing.

I'm calling anybody out. Sometimes people take the cheap way out they put the sticker on. They don't actually change the belt. I'm not saying that.

That's what's happened on this one, but it's a possibility. You're gon na dig our way down that one's not gon na go. Let me get some plastics out of our way there. You go, yeah, definitely got a drip happening right there, and i see everyone.

I literally can see it dripping actively here. Let me put it to point right there. It's going down and, unfortunately, what it there is. There is the timing belt is behind there, i'm wondering if it corroded the belt and caused it to do what i did.

I see a crack in there see a crack on that plastic mounting for that cover. Let's see if we can get one of the two side covers off either this one or this one, i'm not sure which one's gon na be easier for us. Let's get one of them off and we'll eyeball it and see if we can see the condition of it before we dig in got you kind of zoomed in let's get the bolts out of this cover. Let's see if we can get there's a wire going through the center of it, at least you can see it.

I don't know what the factory felt would be says. Continent says constant tech, c-o-n-t-i-t e-c-h, i'm willing to bet that that is a been replaced. So that's a good sign, at least it wasn't something funky as far as that's going on, let's see if we can get a bar on the lower crank, i'm going to rotate it. So it's at top dead center and we'll see if we get any marks up here and see if they correspond with top dead center and that and we'll know right away whether it jumped or not.

Well, we still have the other side to do yet, but if this one's already off that we know you know that this definitely the direction to go. Look have you clamped to the body of the truck. Hopefully it doesn't shake. I'm gon na try turning it by the cam.

Let's see if that'll even work for us and then we'll see if a mark comes up, could be a dot or a line on the pulley see if i can even turn it from there it too much. That goes that's too much i got ta get on. The crank tried the cheat yeah, i'm gon na get that fan out of her way, just no elbow room down in there. Hopefully i can smack it with a hammer breaker loose and not have the other pulley.

Come out it's not breaking, and then we can put a couple of nuts back on. We can leave that um. We got a mark coming around we're gon na. I don't know if we got to go for that line or that line i would think that would be top dead center.

Let's go put it there now, the crank can either be on the money or it could be 180 out, because crankshaft turns once for every time. The camshare turns no other way around, so it can be 180 out. Still, let's go see what we got down below yeah, i'm looking. I do not see the timing works anywhere to be seen, i'm going to go spin it around until that mark is up and then we'll see where the cams are, because we know if we got this one, we have to have the cams.

So let's go. Do a rotate on that? Let's go mark the outside of this, so that we'll know where this one is. We don't have to kind of guess. We know that that's where that is you'll be able to see it from the front.

So if it's at say five o'clock we'll be able to tell how easy it is to see, but that is our top dead center right there past it just a hair. Now i'm looking at that pulley, it could be that's what i say about it could be 180 out. So that's on the bottom. I got to go spin.

The crank around one more time get that to top dead center, we'll see how close that is to zero, and that is to zero all right. So i spun that around one i got it on zero down below. We are lining up to that straight line. I have a feeling, that's probably zero and i want to think maybe that's timing or cam timing, or i just haven't looked it up yet, but it doesn't line up to that.

If we came over - and we were out here - i would say yeah - we got that being an issue, but that is only one side. It doesn't mean that the other side did not jump, so i'm going to unfortunately have to pull this one back. Even if we just pull it back a little bit, we can see what's going on, but let me go get a bunch of screws out of that one and see how that works. For us last bolt, you guys are hovering on the air cleaner box.

Aha, i was afraid of i got ta get you repositioned, remove the light first. So what we have is that mark is off by about three teeth. Now, there's your problem, let me go get oh. I see, i see something happening down in there too.

We get that cover the rest of the way out i'll bring you back all right. Here's some a little bit of evidence up top and i thought it was going to be antifreeze. What do you think it was? Who do you think caused it? It's nasty i'll! Tell you that you ready, oh boy, get you down inside there. That is what is left of either a mouse, i'm going to say a mouse.

I think a mouse got in there on the belt got a nest in here somewhere it fired up. It went around the belt caused the belt to jump a tooth, or it's like about three teeth. Actually do we have to be on the t or the straight up straight up right, yeah straight up, so how nasty is that you know? There's your problem. A little critter got in there.

He made her jump not just for lawn mowers, huh i was thinking, maybe the antifreeze got to leaking and when i i know the red antifreeze in toyota, when it evaporates it leaves like a crust behind. I was thinking. Maybe that's what it was and then a stalactite of sorts went around the pulley. I was not expecting a critter.

You want to clean that out. For me, girls, all right, so i'm gon na. We really should change the belt and do all that kind of stuff. It literally, you have to tear the whole front of the engine apart to go, do it.

Let me go think about this. A little bit see what i want to do. I'm gon na go inspect the look of that belt. Maybe i'll give it a spin around and inspect it.

I do not see any cracking or anything like that, but i'm going to look for damage on that and then we'll maybe make a decision from there. I'm wondering if we can just get it slip it off. Rotate it to where the cam is supposed to be, and just put it all back together without draining the cooling. Actually, we got to fix the leak too.

Let's go, take a mirror real, quick and go see what's leaking. Maybe it's just right at the end of this hose right here. If you can see in the mirror, i'm gon na get you closer there you go. It looks like it's right at the base of that, and i see it's probably the thermostat housing right there.

Whatever this is looks like it's dripping right out of there. I was wondering if it was going to be this hose right here, but i don't think so. That's got to come off. This whole assembly has to come off of here.

I don't think cranking down on the bolts gon na fix it for us. It looks like it has some kind of gooey sealer whatever that stuff is, you can't see? Can you wherever that stuff is? It looks like this also kind of goes in and and rotates and comes out, looks like a weird i've done one of these once before, but a long time ago, yeah that kind of looks like it locks in a weird kind of position all right. Well, i'm going to go spin that belt around. Actually i'm going to go in there with a little set of jaws and grab.

We want to name them, it's a fun name in them. Yes, this is going to be very gross. I'm just going to go in and grab them. Uh he's uh people call him ferris for the ferris wheel.

We had ferris bueller's day off, uh, yeah, yeah, hope you're, not eating lunch; no, no, definitely not having a party of it. I actually saw it too. I don't know if you could see it down in here on the intake manifold. It's your reposition, see your nest.

Are you back? In there there it is probably came home on a nice cold day. The engine was hot, went up there and nested himself inside there. Not quite sure where he wiggled himself in now, mike's getting a little tiny area, it's very easy anyway, but definitely um couldn't keep up with the ferris wheel. I guess all right as i was, we got, ta get the cooling out of it, no matter what we got.

Ta fix that leak. So so you can get her to start peeing for us. I wonder if, because the antifreeze was leaking a wonderful, you know like they say: pets are attracted to any freeze and they careful where you leave it. They'll want to go, eat it or lick it and they get sick and die.

I wonder if the same was true about mice and rats and that kind of thing if the leak was there and that maybe attracted them, that's just a guess, though. So while that's draining, this is the truck that i bought. I think i paid 2800 bucks for it and it had a bad frame that was rotted out and common. You know, i mean toyota tacomas and the thunders the frames right out and this one was all blown out all through here.

I think on the sides. I did it too, i think it was here and i think that the side over there it looks like it's holding up pretty good needs another spray oil. What they did was they sprayed undercoating, here's the other one. They spray undercoating under it.

After waiting for an inspection in toyota, it's a scam, it's is what it is, so they when they spray they, they knew. The frames were going so they when they sprayed them, they would inspect them and then we'd spray. This crap over the top of them. This like flaky undergoing, let me see if i could find you some i went around after we got the frame fixed and put a bunch of uh barn chain oil soaked, the thing down with barn chain oil.

Afterwards, i'm sure i could find you some that's still on there right there yeah, so they they come back and they put the spray crap, which was like a and it got hard. It wasn't like it, you know there it is, and what that did. Is it actually trapped the rust here's more of it up here it made the condition even worse. I think that's.

What caused this frame to blow out was actually them doing that, instead of doing like what i did with the oil here, here's some here's a big piece - a screwdriver - will probably help there. I so they did that and actually made it worse. So i went around scraped. The whole thing down shot it with oil.

You can see here's some of it in there, and so we that there's a piece that we can go, look at. They sprayed that on there and then it just come holds water behind it. He made the condition even worse, so it needs another spray job, but for what i have in this truck, it's been holding up pretty good and the rear was gone too. I had to go, do a rear diff, and so i got 3 200 in this whole truck and it's been doing well again.

I put, i think, about 40 000 miles and hard miles on it not like they were easy. All right batteries flashing, here's a good spot to go show so they sprayed all this crap on here. This is what it does see how it holds all that rust and crap right behind it yeah now. You know why this is considered the beater truck.

I know it's life expectancy is uh, limited yeah at some point. The frame's gon na get so bad where this one is just done too. So this is why we take this one. We run in the woods and branches rub up against it, scratch it we're not that concerned about it, but no more blowouts in it.

Again. It's it's crusty, but it's got delamination. It's just different. Those are two frames overlapping each other right there.

That's not they're, not delaminated from each other, just a bunch of that rubber crap they put on so again. You could use another scraping down and another respray there's some that's what it does right there. It was definitely a you know. My opinion, a move by toyota to go: do that inspect them and spray that crap on they were better off just leave them alone.

They would have been better off. They even didn't do that at all. It was just a way to get out of the they uh warranted it for 10 years and then that would make it past the 10 years ready them. You know doing that crappy spray, stuff and saying: okay, y'all you're all good and that's what did its damage to the it literally had holes up in the frame up inside here.

So it's all been repatched and again i sprayed a bunch of bar channel in the rails and in the frames. So all right, i think we're done peeing. Let's go continue on with our little project up there. Well, hopefully, you can see - and it's not a great spot - to get you tucked in there, but i got the fan shroud out fans out of there.

Hoses are off and i want to go spin that engine around we're going to look at the belt. And hopefully, you can kind of see right down in here we're going to run around and make a little smiley face on top. So we know that the belt has made a full path and we're just going to do an inspection and see if we see anything. That's going to be detrimental, i'm trying to so we either got to go all the way and you do the water pump.

You do the timing belt, you do the upper and lower radiator hose you do the radiator. You change the coolant you're about 500 worth of stuff to go and do like. I said this truck is kind of towards the end of its it's, my backup truck. Now i replaced the truck, and this is more.

If i have to go into woods, you really crappy weather or you know, launch a boat in the water. This is what this truck has been delegated for. So i don't know if i really want to put that into it. I do not see any cracking.

I don't see any teeth, yet we got a ways to go but, and this truck was driven, i lost you got bumped in here. The other thing, too, is you also got kind of where you go through all that and you find out that the valve's hit, because this is a interference engine, so there's always a chance not that it jumped that far, but it could have taken out yeah valves Bent the valves and got no compression in a bunch of cylinders, and that would suck too pretty much an easy. You need an engine, and at that point i think i would kick this truck to the curb. It's done me well enough.

Also kind of looking for, like a squished smiley face of the the mouse okay, we got steamrolled my uh there. It goes my timing belt. Remember talking about my serpentine belt jumped off the plate. I didn't have the bolts tight enough on the uh when i took the fan off and it walked a little on me.

That's a little bit of rusty spots, there huh sorry and there's a smiley face again. I think right there is where he went too. That looks to be like where the stain is from, where he went whipped up and around and went for his ride yeah all right, so we have to be able to get to the tensioner at least anyway. So i got to figure out where that is on the belt assembly, so i think we have to get some crap off of here anyway to dig in.

Let me go figure that out. We have to get this off to fix the leak. So, let's start getting that off, i would think i think it's right about right about here. There's a there's, an idler pulley, a tensioner pulley.

Rather that is right. In there it's got like a plunger. I don't even get the access to plunger from the axe outside or i should look it up when you get the belts out of the way get some stuff out of the way dig a little further for us as you get that thermostat housing to pop off Of there i think it's just two bolts. Let me move that pan over all right.

That hose looks like yeah the base of that gasket failed right in there you've even had a gasket. I don't know if it had one or not, or it was just sealant, looks like it's just all sealant that's got an o-ring on it that one don't know. If there's a seal that went around there. I do see a lot of this rubber crap make sure we don't have any any cracks or anything.

Let's get this cover off down below, and that should give us access to the uh. I think the adjuster is back in there, the tensioner, i should say the tensioner for the serpentine belt, because we need to back that off so that we have some play to work with move it around anymore. There you go yeah, i think that's our! That might be it's either just an idler, or is that the water pump itself? I might have to dig a little more. I might have to actually go.

Look it up. Huh god forbid it's in there somewhere. Okay, so i decided to try to fix what we have here and move things back into the correct position from the bottom there's a tensioner that comes with a little hydraulic zone or spring a little hydraulics on it. It takes a slack out.

It's got two bolts in it. I'm going to go drop that down. I think you have to collapse that again, i did one a long time ago. You collapse it.

I think you put a pin in it and it holds it in the collapsed position and then you can put it back bolt it back up where it is and you pull the pin out and it'll expand to take it out of there. We need to get rid of that to get some free play so that we can step this guy up over where it is, i'm gon na get that pin out of her way. I think we'll probably be better off getting access from the bottom to get that out of there, i'm not going to be able to get up there and film when it's from getting removed, and then we remove these two and it's this cylinder right here. Let me get that popped out of there and see if we can get some free play yep my memory seriously correct, so that has to get collapsed.

It's hydraulic because it's got a lot of pressure on it and you put a pin in there that holds it in place, but let's go drop it back down and see if we can get that belt put back on where it goes before. We even bother dealing with that all right see if that gave us any play, should be able to pull up there. It goes. Did it literally just pop right in to where it needs to be, it did i'm afraid to let go.

I don't know it's going to go any further. It literally popped the cam right into the mark, where it needed to go awesome where i think we're her hair off um. We want yeah, we want the tension, we want the free play on this side. We want no nothing on here, so let me see if i get that tensioner back in and take that up and we could rotate it around.

That was easy. I thought it was going to fight me a little bit, so i am on zero on the bottom. I am lined up to that straight line. I think this is, after top dead sound.

I think this is actually zero and this is, after top dead center, it's kind of confusing, but it is what it is right. I think uh when you're doing it new belts. Come with a timing mark on them, they'll have like a an l and an r and a line on them, and then a line you have to the crank pulley off down below there's dots that are underneath there that you line everything up with, but yeah. I'm going with this all right as you get that tensioner collapsed and put that back up in there.

This is the way it gets installed in the car, so this would be facing us, so you can get that to try to get a straight squeeze on it. That's got a ton of pressure on it. Yeah you got to step back a little there. You go your belly's hanging out, i don't know, maybe get like a little.

Maybe an allen wrench, it's a little fit in there, something we can grab on to pull after. It's in there right gon na come a little too far there. It is we're across the other side that should be good. Then we can give her a pull the grenade once it's up in there see if we could all fit in there.

This is going gon na be cute huh, it's got ta go like that, and then i can't see anything. Neither can you get started. There's antifreeze dripping in your hair right now see if i run that one up at least amy freeze getting in the camera is probably not a great idea. I got ta move you over you're, the camera.

Your handy freeze is dripping off your ear. You're literally underneath the uh lower radiator hose out out spout all right. Let's go pull that grenade, hopefully get that out of there. Do your thing slowly as it slides up here back up top looks like we got a bunch of play in the bottom.

The bottom is taut. Well, that's where the tensioner is. Let's give that a little rock back and forth and it should allow it to come here. We go i'm going to go spinner all the way around and we'll see how our marks line up and how we maintain yeah we're pretty good now, but we might be one tooth off, possibly that's right on zero right there.

I see we're good on that. One. We're good on the crank there and we maintain over here, yeah that one's good too nice, i'm going to probably just spin it one more time around, just to make myself overly sure, i'm going to inspect the belt one more time. If i see anything, it's a little funky right here with an air gun blow out some crap try to blow out.

Maybe some of the passages i might find is uh his cousin or something might be down in there. I'm actually gon na, maybe even take a boar scope i'll take a peek down in the lower section. The thing is, you got to get the the crank pulley off to get to the marks that are down there. The radiator probably have to come out because they have to get an impact gun.

They have a special tool to hold it, but i just don't have enough room to hammer all that stuff in there and the more i start taking apart. This is a very rusty truck, so the more i fight with stuff. You know you try to eliminate it as much as possible, even just a little plastic cover on one of them that one right there. That's that right there you can see how rusty that was.

Just trying to get that apart from that little plastic cover and they ended up snapping off so other hardware, the more i dig into it's going to cause more so i'm trying to you know just be the easiest trying to tackle this, the easiest as possible without Digging too much of a hole, you start breaking stuff off. You make a a two-hour job, a 10-hour job by digging into it. So and you look at the floor - and you see this and what's that uh, oh, i know what that is apparently was on top of that little hydraulic cylinder for the tensioner and the allen wrench would have went through that. I'm gon na go pop that back down, put it through again and rotate it around again make sure we don't jump time.

We do it right because we do it twice. I bet there was one or two. You already writing comments, saying you forgot to put that on there. Now you got to go erase your comment clean up some surfaces there you get the idea to work on that surface, get all all that crap off of it, and i wonder what i should use.

I got something called the right stuff. I've used that before i've had pretty good luck with the problem is. I think this has a decent amount of pressure to it. You know 10 psi or so i stopped looking up that surface too.

Probably, should have done that. First huh, i say we hit her a little bit of cheese, whiz, i'm actually going to go, and before i put the o-ring on, let's go shoot some under it. That's enough to spread it around a little bit of corrosion in there. Let's get that on there and then we'll give her a little dosing on top kind of bury it.

Probably it's not supposed to have any seal on there at all, but that's what we're going with and then here there was nothing there, but we're going to go. Make ourselves a nice little ring going around? Probably let that sit up a little bit too. You can see where, because it was leaking down here, just judging by where the bolt holes are, you would think that um, it would have a little bit more center, because this this whole corner is kind of under supported the best way. To put it.

Let's get some pack down in there, so i'm gon na let this sit up for about, i don't know 10 minutes or so and then we'll put it on and um a little too thick. On this side i got overzealous. I don't think it's gon na hurt anything, but it might squeeze into the gap a little and i'm gon na put a light coat over on the engine right now, much thinner than that, but just so that it's wet so when they touch each other. It's there's already a bond, i don't think going to the jacket or not i'm gon na throw a little bit of this exterior crud on the threads already got this one.

Let's go give them a little bit of just a little bit of something yeah. I don't think those jackets go all the way through just in case there's something on the threads in case. It's a uh, a water port on the other side doesn't come and leak around the bolt. We had a water spot in your eye that cleaned you all right.

Let's let the smooshing begin. So we need to grab that hose, probably first that started o-ring. Hmm. Where are you? I think what we'll do is just we'll run, those until they're kind of snug.

Just a little and they'll let it set up some more and we'll tighten it down the last little bit, so it doesn't squeeze everything out. Let's, let's just get it close, it's starting to ooze out i'm going to let that set up for i know another 10-15 minutes i'm going to screw around i'll, put some hose clamps on. So i put some other stuff together and then the last thing we'll do is we'll suck them down with a little bit of preload uh. We could probably fire it up uh.

I want to let that sit for to all that stuff, hardens up, which is maybe overnight, but if we don't put any cooling in it, maybe we could fire it up either that or i'll kind of get buttoned up and we'll fire it up in the morning And see how it does i just don't want to push my luck with any kind of leaks and having to go. Do that over again buttoned everything else up everything, except for the uh, the duct that goes through here and fluid i'm gon na snuck that down and i'm going to go. Let this sit overnight and it's getting kind of late in the evening now i want to go eat hopefully come back we'll put some fluid in it. Put that duct on the top we'll fire it up and hopefully it runs on all eight cylinders and we didn't bend the valve.

I don't think so. I don't think i moved that far, but you never know hey guys. So it's the next day and we're gon na go for some coolant in it very shortly. I forgot to take a quick peek underneath for the oxygen sensor and it is bank one sensor two.

So the two are the ones behind the cats, which is that one which is new front one's new over there that front one's new and the only one that hasn't been replaced. Is that one and that's the one that's acting up so as long as our engine is good and we bring it back then we'll order that i also when i got some bar and chain oil to give it a respray. You can still see how the old stuff is doing its thing, how it makes that waxy coating on there, but it does wash off in certain places. So i'm probably not going to show it on video, but i'm going to run around with a scraper get off whatever loose stuff.

I can and give it another shot again. It's been four years since it's been coated, so certain areas that are exposed wooden, others, it kind of washes off a little bit, see a little bit more of a undisturbed area. That's what it does. You write your name in it.

Let's see how that stuff is. I say pretty good: let's open it, have it stiffen up a little bit more than that, but work with what we got yeah. I know, there's a joke there. I think i need a taller funnel.

What do you think everything skinny enough to go down the throat of it? I got ta go mix with water in there too, about 70 30 mix. All right, i reset the codes. You got coolant in it. Let's go fire, it up make sure nothing goes boom.

Hopefully the check engine light would come on right away. Oh, it sounds much better. I always say we have no miss well keep getting spewing out of it looks good. I'm gon na go move cars around i'm gon na put it outside.

Let it run for a while, let it come up to temp and then we're gon na have, to probably add a little bit of antifreeze to it. It's been about 15-20 minutes, that's much better! That's how she's supposed to run nice and quiet don't see any leaks. Busted one bolt rotted out, i'm just gon na drill it out and tie wrap right around it and then put the cover back on over the throttle body. I'm happy with that.

It kind of worked out pretty good again, i'm going to do some more maintenance on it, but i'll do it all film. I got to clean the battery terminals up. I want to undercoat it again change the oil that kind of thing and do that oxygen sensor. Now that i know the engine's okay moving day, eviction notice served friends uh.

So, let's see if the new one matches actually the wire is long enough. It looks to be, i don't think, there's any big left of the nuts that we're holding that on there. Maybe a couple of love taps: that's, it might have to uh run a tap over those threats. Huh, there's literally nothing left when you have to you, can take them out without removing any bolts.

You feel like crud. That's on that too huh. You just can't get 200 000 miles out of them anymore. We go clean all that up get our new one on there.

I got ta see what i can do about these threads. What there is of threads, if there's any threads halo, they look fun. So nice nap do it oh wow, i tried. Unfortunately, this exhaust system has been gutted before so you can't remove that pipe.

That pipe is welded to that pipe. It's all one piece kind of patchwork together would be part of the cat. You have to order the whole catalytic converter, so we can't like drop it down, drill them out and get it, but what i'm thinking is. Maybe what we'll do is we'll just put it in we'll index, it 90 degrees and maybe we'll weld a nut here and then a nut here and then suck it down like that.

I don't think it's going to matter the fact that it's not like that as long as we can get it to attach down, and it seals down kind of seals on that that inner ring anyway right there, it would still be able to unbolt if it is A problem i'm gon na go clean that up the bottom. One should be a problem. Well, the top one's gon na be a little tricky side just because you don't have much room to get up around there to go see it. You got ta, do what you got ta do right.

I'm gon na go disconnect the battery on the truck again, so we don't kill any electrical components because well sometimes you weld through the exhaust it grounds through and screw stuff up all right. Let's see what you come up with well after screwing around with i decided to change my mind a little. I think i'm going to go with studs that way. I can weld them on then remove the nuts.

If i welded a nut down here, i would have to really kind of get in there good, especially on the top side, the bottom side, i can get it for the top side. You just can't see so i'll weld that up saw plus we're pulling even with a welded nut on it. The nuts gon na want to try to fold up as you draw up on it. Well, this will give us a bit more strength, so hopefully i don't burn through on the top side, i'm going to go start with the bottom one, and then i can leave it kind of attached like it is to help center it and then do the top.

Just say again something to support it and get rid of that top pair of vice grips. Maybe give me a little bit more room. You want to well flash the camera, so i didn't do a demolish where we go. That's the easy one, and now we got to get the hard one on the other side.

Wish me luck as long as the nuts will come off and the bracket can come off and then you know the new one will fit on that's an old one that i had that was gon na weld on an old one. I was only able to get to one side of the top one, but it's a it's a beefy. Well, that's on there, it's a good at least a half inch long. These might be a little splayed out.

I might have to bend them in a hair you're going to find out right now, though, as long as it comes off and a little sprayed out we'll grab it with some flyers, actually yeah, it's right off of here there we go good gasket on there. Yeah now that's out that's out of the way i'm gon na go grab that with a pair of pliers, just squeeze it just my hair together a little bit and i think, we're fine. I was more concerned with it. You know how they are down here.

Worst case, you could always clip them back a little bit. We don't need all that stud, but sometimes you just need to be a bigger stud. I think that was enough. Let's put yep new one on there all right a couple of nuts down on that.

I think that'll work just just fine for us. Oh sorry, i bumped you got sticking out. I think that might be a winner for us. So what was your thought? What you have put together, yeah, i think that'll be just fine crank down on them.

Go run our wire up plug it in and we are oxygen scented all over again winner. Well, i was all set to go pop. The tires off and start scraping a little bit and get it ready for doing the oil undercoat, and while i was doing that, i could rotate the tires because it's been since they've been on there, since they haven't been done and they have this funky. Looking lug setup little adapter that you go to it and my gas in the truck, and i remember hearing in the console rattling around - i go to it and it's a regular lug nut.

I tore the truck apart. I do not have it it's a good thing in a way that i kind of found out now, instead of being someplace in the middle of nowhere and not being able to get them off. So that's where i'm stuck even looked in my other truck all the work bags that i have with like tools and stuff in them. It's not in any of them.

I thought it would have been in the glove box which this was rattling around. I thought it was it. I have a feeling i got rid of the other wheels and i thought this was one of them. I that i took out from it.

I don't know what the deal is with that, but that is not gon na work. For me, if anybody can id what that is, it's like a six point reversed. I don't know if you can see it or not head on it. I got ta get one of those.

Apparently i even check like where the jack bag is in the truck underneath the seat - it's just not in it. So oh well, so close. Well, i'm definitely to the messy part of the job and this tarp was used once before on the blue truck and again i'm doing undercutting with a barn chain. Oil uh.

The oil was already there, but not all that black cruddy crap, that's all the stuff. I scraped off and blew out with an air gun and got off the frame and got it ready for prepping it for the next round. It's getting you know the frames getting thin in spots to back where they they overlap, each other. It's getting real flaky in between no rot holes or anything in it, but you know it's definitely get to that point where it's gon na need to be.

You got ta call it at some point. You know uh, it's been four years, probably another. Two years out of it as a guess on my part, but let's get uh, i don't know what i can show. I don't want to get the camera all contaminated, but i'll give you kind of a quick idea.

What i go about doing got a big like three foot air gun that i use for blowing all the the crap out. You get up it all, and the crevices and everywhere get all the most of the dirt off i this is already hit once before. I did this again four years ago, i sprayed it and you see all the lower areas get all dried out where you see all the rust it's where it's all gotten washed off, but the you know the main parts up in here have stayed pretty good. So we get prepped up see if we can turn the camera on for a couple of seconds while i'm doing it and then i'll continue on so i'm taking just barn chain oil, it's like seven bucks, a gallon, it's fairly cheap and the problem is it uh.

Is a little too thick to spray with, what's called the schultz gun, this is a schultz gun. This one says fluid film on it. I think i like 30 bucks on ebay, but it's meant for shooting the wet tacky kind of undercoating like fluid filament, so it needs to be thinned just a little bit, so it's able to be sprayed and each time i kind of play around with a different Thing thinning agent: you can see how like gloppy this is. This is my mix jug i'll, dump the whole gallon in there and then what i'm gon na do.

I'm gon na come back with that, kerosene that you see there and i'll thin it with the kerosene. Just it i'll kind of sneak up on it, i'll probably put maybe a quart to a gallon, a kerosene, maybe not even that much i'll, try and spray it if it's a little too thick i'll, just dump the gun back into the bucket thinning it out. A little bit more, so i get the right mixture again just enough so it'll spray and then the kerosene kind of evaporates away over time, and it leaves that thick heavy oily coating on all the frame which you want to do when the car is dry. Like this has been in a garage for i don't know about a week or so so, there's no water underneath i'm not trapping any water between the oil and the frame it's this is going to be able to get in there.

I always call it like. You know putting hot butter and toast and it goes into all the pores, it's kind of the same idea. It kind of seeps in all the areas and then the kerosene evaporates away and then that oil sticks there. The best bet is to take it down a dusty road drive down the dusty road after you're done, and then it gets like a little bit of like cakiness to it like cake batter.

But if you ever have to do a repair or anything you can clean it uh, you know the brake, clean and uh. If you have to, you can get a little bit more aggressive, but you can take the stuff off if you have to do a repair or work on something just wan na make sure all your repairs are done. If you're gon na do exhaust or something you wan na make sure you do them first before you do this, because it's nasty to work under the truck, but that's what we deal with in new england. This is a 16 year old truck with 200 000 miles on it, and it was, you know, pretty much dead.

When i got it for uh having a bad frame, then we did the repairs, i'm gon na dump, some of that in there and then dump some of that in the gun. I just poured that on top you can see how much i've gone. It was probably about an inch, maybe a little under an inch to. Let me call that six inches six to one.

Let's shake that up and give it a spray. So i'm gon na start from the middle of the truck i'm going to go. Do all the sides on the inside here and kind of work my way to the middle flip around and do the same and then i'll go around the outside. So i want to be underneath all the crap dripping, but it's a little thick, i'm gon na work with it a little bit.

I'm gon na have to thin that out a little bit more now, you know what i need to tarp. I'm going to use up this bottle with this thickness, i'm going to thin it a little bit more though for the future you get to not splutter as much. You know, i'm gon na try my best just to stay away from the rubber components. That's about all! I'm gon na do with you guys, because i don't want the camera getting contaminated and the crap just goes everywhere.

So i'll see you in a little bit, so it's about hour hour and a half later after spraying it. Of course it does make a mess. You definitely don't want to wear good clothes. You guys that don't live in a rust belt, probably think we're nuts.

Don't you having to deal with all this yeah? It is what it is. I soaked down pretty good the exhaust. You know you best not to hit the exhaust, but you hit the body above it and it it drips down. So i have to wipe that down and uh.

Usually, what i do is, i start it up and i run it kind of let it burn some of the stuff off the exhaust. Let it cool off you don't want to. You know spontaneously explode on you and uh. You know give it a couple of heat cycles and it'll burn off really quickly and uh just stay away from all the bushings and the suspension and brake components as best as possible, but it's got a decent soak on it, i'm sure as areas i missed, but Once you get about two or three coats once you do it about two or three times you pretty much got all the places covered like all this stuff is already protected, even if i i missed it, when it's dry here, there's still material on there from the Last time and the most important part really isn't the externals it's it's making sure that you spray inside all the rails and all the tubes and everything, because that's really where it rusts the water gets stuck inside there and usually a lot of the the ports get Blocked and water can't come out of it and causes them to corrode.

Well, like i said with you know, butter on toast. You can see the rust that's up inside here, but that oil soaks into those rusty pores and now that it's dry, you know water, has a hard time trying to make make it through that barrier, and we just have it tough between you know, living close to The ocean and the salt that they use on there - it's not even salt. I think it's brine that they use there's a i try to get the name of it. Sodium phosphate.

No, that's an acid! I think there's a different materials that they use, that uh they have for melt in the snow, but it's even worse than salt. You eat them even faster, and you see the exhaust doesn't hit on this side so much, but that that muffler going back and wipe that down with a rag before i take it down. But this should get us another couple years out of this truck and you know that'll make it six years that this was a pretty much a junk truck when i got it with its issues and extended its life at least another six years, and even at that Point if it gets really rusty, it could still be a yard truck. Maybe hang a flower or something on it right, the tarps.

You know i got two more vehicles to do and then i'll be done and let's roll these up and uh. I fold them over. Each other all the way you just kind of leave the you book it so that you're not having a clean tarp. That's underneath get dirty from the old stuff.

I just put it back in the corner and then unfold it again to go spray. The next vehicle down and just wanted to go show that and we just knock off all the heavy stuff. That's on it. Everything else can stay there.

We go especially the cats, the cats get really hot they're. Further back on the exhaust system, you go the less important. It is now for a little beat run just waiting for the cars to go by. We got a nice high-speed road to go on, we'll give her a little uh full throttle which make sure we got some room to go, which looks pretty good.

I don't want to catch up to that car too fast. All right, i would say about now, get her out over the rumble strips and, i always say that's pretty good nice. I would say everything has been corrected. I'm happy about that and we'll cruise it back road going back home about 10-15 miles away from my my shop and i'm glad i'm glad i was able to keep this one alive it i it doesn't owe me anything.

I said i paid 2800 bucks for it. First time around, we put 400 into fixing what was wrong with it welding up the frame and fixing the rear end. We put a mirror and a taillight on it at that time, and that was about four years ago and pretty much other than changing oil and i've got a set of used tires instead of used tires for threw them on. That's really about it, and it's been doing me quite well.

I try to keep one vehicle as a backup, and i have right now four drivers between my wife and i and it's going down to three. This koi is leaving uh. I made a trade on that. My wife wait this uh the fj cruiser, which is like a toyota's version of a jeep so to speak.

I got that for her as a toy, there's a video on that about a year ago and ever since she got that she loves it. She has not used the sequoia at all, there's a 2008 sequoia which she's been driving about three or four years now uh. She just found out a little too big for her and she's not used that at all. So i've made a trade to get rid of that, but that has to be gone through and make sure that it's in good shape.

I ordered a water pump, radiator hoses timing belt. You know all the you know. Fluid changes need to be done on that one and that one's getting traded out, that'll probably be a video for another time anyway. So i like to keep one vehicle, so we have two drivers to be heard.

Her truck the fj and then my blue tundra are the two normal trucks that we use and then one for backup, which is this truck case. One of two of them have an issue. While it's down, i can have something else to be driven around and also even like in really bad weather and stuff. You have a beater so to speak.

It's very common up here to have a what's called a winter beater and that's what this truck is. So you take it out into salty crappy weather and you try to save the other vehicles as much as you can and uh that's what this is uh been for a while and uh we'll continue to do. I probably get another i'm hoping for another two years out of it. Long, as you know, keep an eye on the frame see what condition it goes into.

If it really says getting, crunchy or you know, has any other issues at that point. Maybe uh rotate another one into the mix, but for now uh it's good. It's doing fine, it's good for uh! You know hauling boats in and out of the water yard sale truck putting crap in the back. I got there's a winch mounted in the bed of this truck so, for you know, grabbing tractors and atvs and stuff putting them in the back of the bed of the truck.

This is the one i use for that. The other truck has a cap on it. So anything that's tall, you can't get it in it and yeah. Just again, my our all-around beater truck.

Take it in the woods. We go on some excursions that are say: non-page roads. That kind of thing. That's where uh this comes in handy.

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