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I have to ask are the GM 3500 and 3900 engines based off of the 3800 engine?

Used many 3800 na and sc in fieros. Great motors.

Once torn down, what do you do with the parts?

Had one without the turbo in my 1986 Buick LeSabre. Red with velour interior. Beautiful car.

Just earned a new subscriber with this video, I’m getting ready to do this on my 5.3 ls been looking for a video to do just this, thank you man!

My 03 ultra has a supercharged 3800 in it that has 320k on it and it runs perfectly still, these truly are a bullet proof engine if they are maintained properly

thank you so much info .. god blees you guys

My Pontiac just reached 350k mikes yesterday, family bought it new and it runs as if it only had 3k miles. Definitely the BEST and MOST reliable engine we’ve ever owned

guess they ment it ran when the truck was new...till the motor blew up

Ford 300 holds the crown.

In Australia these engines are very familiar because they used these engines were used in the V6 Holden Comadore and this happens to be one of the most reliable engine ever made anf there are 10 20 and 30 year old Comadores driving around and the Comadore was rear wheel drive and l have driven a couple of Comadores myself after looking at one particular you tube channel l never realised what very good engines these are along woth a couple of very reliable engines and the Holden Comadore will be around for many many years

May this legend rest in peace. 🙏

You are going to rebuild it?

It looks pretty decent thanks for sharing

Wow they look almost new!!! What cleaner did you use? Not sure if I missed it. Dog wanting to go out. My 6.2L block barely looked better when it came back from the machine shop lol. I am doing a Ls3/6L90e swap in a 03' Crown Vic Police Interceptor. Doing this project with my grand kids.

Pretty badass

Seeing these things fire up on a stand never gets old. Keep the vids coming!

Yo hit me up I want to know how u did that or can u program mine for me I'll pay u

Best part was waking up the girlfriend. "Whoops" LOL 😂

ICM (ignition control module) could have died. It would cause a crank no start scenario. Easy to replace and only $100 part. Could have also been the crankshaft position sensor. Also a straightforward job and party costs around $30. What a shame to disassemble a close to perfect 3800. Somebody would have bought it in its entirety. Great video to see the insides of the greatest V6 engine. I love to see the offset cylinders in these motors. So cool and purposeful. Most people don't even know they're offset like that. What a s

They said it ran. You should have been a little more specific on the timeline lol. Sry. Good luck

My daughter had a 1998 Buick Lesabre with the Gen 2 3800 and we junked the car because the front arm rusted off the frame and couldn't be repaired. Other than the rocker panels (which had been repaired once before) the rest of the car looked good but man oh man was it a rust bucket underneath. I had to repair the brake lines several times and finally ended up just replacing all brake lines with new. A couple weeks after that was done was when the arm rusted off and it was no longer driveable or repairable so we junked the car with a perfect running 3800

Up until 2013 I had a 1996 Buick Park Ave Ultra with a Gen 2 Supercharged 3800. Had well over 100,000 miles on it and still purred like a kitten and used no oil. For a stock car it was quick and would really squall the front tires. It was fun to drive and super comfortable. The car itself kept developing more and more electrical issues so I decided it was time to send it down the road

I think your buddy asking for blown engine😂. Putting blower and heads on an na bottom end?. These are awesome engines, even better when converted to turbo. I had an 00 buick ultra and a grand prix with the L67 both had around 200k hard miles when I sold them. Still ran and shifted fine

100% wouldve ran better with the fpr vacuum line on and intake air temp it doesnt know air density then

thanks for the video. i just bought a junk yard motor was wondering if i could start it outside of the truck and i came across this video so thanks

Looking at this and i see the exact same motor in our General Motors Holden (GMH) Holden commodores in the 1995 VS to 2004 VY down under here in Australia.

I didn’t realize these were balance shaft motors !

I just picked up a L33 core. Not sure what exactly is wrong with it. Pulled a valve cover and it looks pretty clean. Cleaner than my LM7. As long asbots not to bad I figure it would be a good base for a future build.

I know you don't make much content since this was the last one in a while. just asking if you could do a 3800 teardown of a Lesabre or park ave? I would find that interesting as i'm sure others would!

You must be a good God fearing man to try to start a motor on a Pittsburgh engine stand!! I wouldn't even work on one on those!

In Canada, the Bel Air, was also called a Pontiac Laurentian, which wasn't a wide tracking Catalina.

Good Breakdown," I have a 02 pontiac firebird V6, 3800 series 3, i'am working on it runs fairly well but needs repairs as i'am doing now. Thanks for your video. SCR

If the plug was on the backside, they probably couldn’t reach it. Maybe home hobby guy

In Canada, the Bel Air, was also called a Pontiac Laurentian, not a wide tracking Catalina.

Great video! I have a 60 Biscayne that originally had a 235/3 speed. Mine smoked like a blue hair at a casino, so I pulled it and dropped in a 350/350 combo thats still in progress. If I couldve kept it original I wouldve in hindsight. (cost me over $700 for just the Driveshaft work) I subd as well.

I tried to holler at you about the gasket, you just didn’t wanna listen so I said ight den

i love the 3800 and if you look after it. the motor will always out last the body.

Woow just woow, a regular person won’t be able to put that back together,never ever…..

Dope video, keep up the good work !

How can you look at that and say the bearings aren't smoke

I would bet that the reason it would not start was the spark plugs, they looked terrible, and just from the video, they were nowhere close to being correctly gapped, I was working at a shop onece when a dodge caravan V-6 came in on a tow truck and it suddenly would not start, after troubleshooting, I pulled 1 plug and it looked almost as bad as those, 3 of the 6 plugs looked that bad, I installed properly gapped new plugs and it fired right up, customer was happy for the quick and inexpensive repair.

i need help with my ls swap

Where is wires for pcm?

Great video very helpful 👍💯

10.17.23. Tip: before you loosen the rocker arm bolts, turn the crankshaft so each cylinder is at TDC on its compression stroke. That way there’s no tension on the rocker arm bolts & the threaded holes in the head. It’s especially important to do that when working on the aluminum head V6 3100/3400⚠️motors, a lot of those engines had stripped out aluminum threads in the head do to, not placing them at top dead center on the compression stroke. Or buy & use the Lisle 4800 rocker arm tool. (Good video)

Crank sensor most likely. I changed my 2006 Lucerne at 102k.

I have a 2000 Regal GS. 3.8 supercharged. My daily driver with 180+k. I HATE having to swivel entire engine up to access rear plugs, but that's Buick design and not the engine's fault. At about 170k I swapped the plugs but also did compression tests on every cylinder. All almost identical and like a newish car. This engine is as bulletproof as the i-6 Ford 300 in my F-150. Yes, this might piss off GM people, but the 3800 and 300 straight 6 by Ford are tied as the best effin 6 cylinders around (proof is that there are zillions still around). True, true, true, S.A.E. and metric. Only knock on a legendary motor.

Please don't drop and swap!

Bad ass