Kyle doesn't even know what to say. So humble. He's like damn thats.. how did I..... uh what the... such a good guy. Learning from this will definitely avoid future problems lol. They will never forget to double check the Bolts again.
Crankshaft is probably done for. Block can be saved. Cam, lifters pushrods probably saved. Valves might be done for. I done this exact thing except on a 350 small block Chevy. Learned real quick to triple check.
@@skm9420 idk about most of the time 😂 a lot of these dudes are just actors posing as “CZcamsrs”. Your real CZcamsrs are like Casey Neistat or PewDiePie. Argue as you please but these dudes are committed to their subscribers, no doubt about it in my mind.
Very few would be willing to admit to themselves a grave mistake like this... let alone record it and put it out for us to see that in fact big mistakes can happen to the best of em. Thank you for being transparent with your builds, I know ya'll are gonna do it justice 🤘💀🔧
We love Kyle and the boys because they are the way they are. They used to be the polar opposite of people like Taylor Ray or Stanceworks, and that's fine. There are different approaches to a certain task. That being said it's a smart thing to show your failures because you usually get a lot of views and user interaction with these kinds of videos
You know what I love about this video. Real men who step back and accept accountability for their actions. No drama or fake blown engine stories. You guys are the real deal, we all make mistakes and life goes on. Thank you for posting this up.. I can guarantee most of us have FUBAR’ed more than a ls motor. Respect goes to the B-Boys for this. All love ❤️
Paint marker is your best friend!! I’ve gotten used to marking every bolt I torque. If that bolt gets loosened again I clean the paint off with alcohol. It’s a step that has saved me from leaving things loose.
As he was saying he was thinking about putting an H pattern in the MR2, I was like yea so you can miss 3rd and blow it up, and he says "that's if I can hit 3rd" lol
As a 30 year mechanic that is one of the biggest lessons I have learned. Don’t walk away until the step you are on is completely done. I’ve had to go back so many times when I realize I skipped a step.
As a flat rate tech I often wouldn't leave work for hours after close because I refused to walk away from certain stuff. Same reason I wouldn't take lunch most days. oh wait, let's be honest, the lunch thing is a lack of self care. 😆
Unfortunate, but this is why I/we usually recommend people just get it in and running instead of taking it apart to gap rings and stuff (especially for new people). Find a good runner, swap cam and springs, and get it in... It will handle more than most people will ever need. 👍👍👍 looking forward to the rest of the build.
LS is a solid 2nd. The oil filter missing is a hell of a lot easier to notice, than loose rod bolts in an assembled engine. Oil filter Incident #1 *edit, and I dont think the oil filter thing killed the engine, just puked its fluids out
@@DKTAz00 was still running with 0 psi of oil pressure the whole time it ran without the filter not ideal that for sure But the engine survived have no idea if it still run today
@@DKTAz00 it ran for a few seconds they seen oil and shut it down. Kyle grenaded an engine he takes the cake. Lol I have never assembled an engine after putting rod bolts in and not tried to shake the rod to check for new bearing play. Honest mistake in his part. Still funny tho and atleast he's man enough to post it.
Kyle you’re a class act it takes a real man to admit his mistakes and move forward I have no doubt you will take a couple of days to process everything and then you will be all over that 240 figuring out what you need to make it run again and I will look forward to the final product. Peace brother you got this remember mistakes are always made the first time you do anything that’s how we get better
I love your honesty. No clickbait, no exaggeration, just the real deal. You are amazing mechanics, just the human factor gets you when you rush through things. Keep your heads up!
Yes I always marked my nuts and bolts when building anything that needs to be torqued of importance. Especially when multiple torques are required. However even Steve Morris has made this mistake. Only once he said. Steve did say you would know instantly. Lessened learned and time to build it back better. All good boys. Your only human!
“Cam out, cam in, done.” is the best way to build a 5.3 grass roots car. Good on yall for not trying to hide mistakes! Go find another $500 block and re use the cam and springs and pop it back together!
Good Job trying, I just did my first LS swap and after about a month of testing it and driving I ended up burning my entire 1967 c10 down. I am glad your going to still try, the fire I had definitely discouraged me but this video gives me a little more ambition to get another truck and start over.
I swear it never ceases to amaze me how no matter how good of a mechanic you are, silly mistakes still happen… no matter what you do shits gna happen, but it really makes you appreciate how important it is to be diligent no matter how many times you something. Definitely myself included in this.. if it makes you feel any better Kyle, I hooked up a battery backwards the other day and blew up a customers brand new battery
New stuff... it's always a learning experience. Building engines is (or should be) a careful slow process with many checks. You will get the next one right! I'll be watching and liking!
Really tough break, big props for actually showing and owning it. Anyone who works on enough cars will eventually overlook something, especially when you got as many projects going at once
Well, now we know what happens with loose rod bolts. I get the feeling that with backwards pistons if they tightened the rod bolts they'd eventually have piston-related excessive wear issues, maybe loads of blow-by from high skirt friction and worsening power loss besides, badly scored cylinder walls, compression loss, its because the piston pins are offset inside an older V engine to reduce piston slap when the engine is cold, but newer LS engines use closer to a centered pin, nowadays the offset is much less and sometimes gone altogether since the offset mainly helps with reducing piston slap when the engine is cold and they instead use lighter pistons with shorter skirts to reduce weight and low-to-no pin offset to reduce the sidewall thrust and thus skirt friction. Another note, with old big blocks you could reverse the pistons and get horrible slapping when its cold, but you'd pick up maybe 10 horsepower. In an LS engine the age of the one the boys put in, I'd imagine the pin offset isn't that much, not so old its a big offset but not so new the skirts are small, so it would mean some pistons were losing power from friction and putting an uneven stress on the crankshaft.
MANY years ago I went to mechanics school at Lincoln Tech in Grand Prairie. One group in our Diesel engine class forgot to torque the rod bolts. It was fine at idle, but when the instructor receded the Series 50 Detroit engine, a rod said nope, I’m outta here! The rod was sent through the block!! Needless to say, that group failed that class!!
@@91CavGT5 yea about 20 years ago I was pushing a stock bottom end m52 to its limits on the dyno before we went fully built. After a 715whp pull we thought it sounded a little funny on decel but sounded fine at idle. Come to find out we bent 3 rods, one bent enough to break away from piston at the wrist pin. Crazy cause it sounded fine at idle even though a piston wasn't even attached anymore.
I think a 4 speed H pattern with a KDN Shifter all setup proper and you will be rippin 3rd gear every time! Plus MR2 Could start competing in some rad events!
Is Kyle forgetting that I crowned him "KING OF THE h-PATTERN" 2 years ago??? One question for him: How much will it cost to rebuild the entire MR2 engine after that first 1-2-1 shift?
Get a paint marker and mark the bolts as you torque them. make it a habit and you will always know. I love that you own up to the mistakes and learn from them. That's life thanks for showing it.
when two rods share a journal the beveled end needs to face the crank fillet. Whether you torqued them or not, the backwards pistons and rods were going to catch the rod cap next to it eventually
A few days ago I decided to degrease some engine parts including pistons and aluminum cam caps. I put it all in a bucket with purple power and hot water and let it soak overnight. It ruined everything aluminum and my parts are useless. Felt real dumb, but thought the same thing, “I’ll never do that again now”.
Another video showing how resilient a ls is. Impressive it ran as long as it did. All the pre starts and coolant bleeding and pre tuning. A lot of people still don’t believe the story of my trucks water pump going out a hour from home without me realizing it and drove the entire time with zero coolant. No damage replaced the pump it was perfectly fine.
Kyle you are literally the best person to call themselves out on a mistake everyone needs that once in a while to show everyone that it dont always go as smoothly as everyone is shown because mistakes do happen
I can just hear Cletus saying: “IDIOTS! GEEEZ!” Usually it’s about him and James, but I think y’all earned this one. Kyle, right as it died, you should have spliced in the piece from the last video where you were talking crap to the comments mechanics when it ran for the first time. That would have been hilarious.
@@geoffmcmillan3304 what a silly comment. How can cleetus be hands on like his team when hes that big?? Hes running a business basically. Thats why you have a team so you can focus on other things. How many events does cleetus host a year?? Theres no time for him to get down and dirty working on the cars like he did before. The way people think is just so insane now a days.
@@geoffmcmillan3304 musta missed his last few videos of him dropping a few trans with George. And the owner of the Jolly Roger(race boat) video. Where he said cleetus is full hands on in the grease and doesn't just sit off to the sides and is fully in it all...
I noted that Steve Morris's son Kyle put diagonal/slanted lines on the heads of the rod and main bolts after they were torqued. We sometimes get distracted and forget where we left off. *Paint markers help avoid unnecessary repairs and broken parts and ensure you can steer, and brake your car, truck, or MC at 100 - 200 mph.
Only way to learn is to have mistakes happen witch put u in line to become a better build I built motorcycles and one time just rebuild 4wheeler got it running and did have air cleaner or lid on yet and left seat of and had a shop rag ony lap and mad a lap around the yard and got on it and somehow the rag fell down into the air box sure into the motor and boom now it was a old 2 stroke but broke the piston and such a little over sit but never made mistake leaving room for mistakes keep up great work and have great day
Woof! I feel the pain man! I had a fresh k24 and ran super rich due to me not adjusting fuel pressure right which flooded the oil with gasoline and roasted it in under 400 boosted miles. Live and learn!
Yep this is why you learn on junkyard engines. You'll never forget to torque your bolts again. A good habit for the future is to use a paint pen on the nuts/threads once you do final torque specs on every nut and bolt in an engine. It helps you identify at a quick glance that you did all the nuts/bolts and it also helps when you do maintenance to see if any nuts or bolts are getting lose from vibrations and whatnot.
That’s why you mark bottom end bolts with a paint pen as you assemble. It’s saved me from making this mistake several times when people would come in the shop and distract me.
If u put the pistons back in backwards that means the rods went back in backwards, unless u took them off the rods. They have two different faces on the bottom of the rods
I was one of the guys that mentioned the backwards pistons and I made a huge mistake on my ls swapped s10. Dropped a bolt down the intake and fired it up. #7 said goodbye. So you’re not alone.
I've got a lot of respect for your for showing this, it would have been real easy to get another junk yard 5.3 to drop in and act like nothing ever happened
After you torque a bolt you mark it with a paint marker so you don't forget and others working know. I love the Milwaukee INKZALL Paint Markers. I use them to write the date and miles on the oil filter too. you can also see from the mark at a glance if the bolt has moved or come lose.
Honestly. Kind of a cool case study of what will happen if you don't the tighten rod bolts. It snapped a rod before completely seizing, I woulda guessed it would have locked up
That's rough boys but you will learn how these engines go together, it's all a learning process haha. But as everyone has had said probably get James to come by and help ya out. There's no shame in getting a hand plus you can pull the "you blew wago so help me card" 😂 all in all l. Very excited to see it when she's done keep er up boys!
It’s not like he didn’t know how to put the engine together… he literally just forgot to torque the rod bolts lol. Could have happened on any K series motor that he’s built many many times
Marking tensioned nuts and bolts with a white paint marker straight after they have been tensioned is a good practice to get into and an easy visual of anything that’s been missed.
I remember back in the day watching your videos and you could tell in your face that you were devastated.. Probably due to cost. Long story short love the positiveness even when it really stings when . Keep making awesome videos guys
Alot of people ditched the quaife sequentials here due to them not being man enough and killing gears, went back to dog box and H pattern shifter and found shift times actually quicker, and not having to baby it.
quick tip, get a paint marker and mark the bolts that are torqued...usually what i do, if in steps, is i mark a line for each stage i torque them in. If you get accustomed to doing this, all you have to do is look at the fastners for anything and know they were torqued or not...oh well shit happens dont beat yourself up about it. we keep movin
Make sure you clean the intake real good. Metal likes to hide in there and especially the map sensor port. Trust me I’ve learned the hard way twice with ls1 intake manifolds
Kyle I Have watched you grow from a young man to a fine example of a young adult with a good head on your shoulder you are humble and honest and I know you well never do that again it is all ok it's just life your going to do well in life that's for sure keep up the excellent job.
Regarding the MR2, go stick shift and put a small spring loaded lockout tab on first gear, As soon as you shift it will drop down and lock out 1st gear which will prevent you from hitting first and missing 3rd.
You'll have that on these big jobs.,.. that's what made me stop working on multiple projects at the same time I started having silly mistakes like that that I never used to make on single projects it's hard to remember what you did and what you didn't do when you got two or three things going on at once especially with multiple people working on the same things.. at least you don't lie and your transparent.. I knew the backwards Pistons didn't kill it that fast I've had it backwards pistons in for entire seasons and didn't notice until rebuilds
All of us make mistakes. My dad did something that this reminded me of fortunately it wasnt something this severe. He rebuilt a 2002 ford focus engine that had dropped a valve seat. He replaced the fuel pump as it had failed and when he went out to drive it the car stopped running a mile or so down the road. Called tripple A and got it towed back. Turns out he forgot to pop the intake back on so it threw the air fuel through a loop.
I had a D16Z6 machined for oversized pistons put it all together myself super proud and stuff, not realizing I over torqued the rod bolts. Same result drove it 10km and it ate a rod bearing lol at least I’m not alone now
Kyle and Wyatt y'all rock! Kyle is ok we all have been where you are right now. We have all fucked up a few times one way or another, but we haven't done it on you tube with a million subbs! Lol. Love the channel and content! I'm here for the algorithm! Peace
Dude do You realize how many times I’ve forgotten to torque stuff down? I do motorcycles and atvs dirtbikes and stuff, I’ve screwed up so many damn times it’s not even funny. However the first time I had a seriously catastrophic failure like this it never happened again. It hits different when it comes out of the pocket. Kyle man big respect for being humble
You might want a restrictor on that heater core bypass loop. I found in my build that it was bypass too much and was affecting my cooling. Also the steam port to top of water pump decision doesn't always work. Definitely was trapping air in my build and moving it to the radiator helped immediately. Every drive it was slowly pushing more and more coolant.
Hey man don't trip. It is what it is. It would be cool to see you guys pick up some aftermarket rods and Pistons for V2 and go straight to slapping some turbos on this thing. Maybe swap the bearings for good measure so you don't have to take this thing apart for a little bit. At that point you might as well grab some ls9 head gaskets and some head studs. I don't know, this could get very expensive very fast. Good luck boys!
This made me appreciate the LS platform so much im considering one now that im looking for a car to replace mine. This thing ran and did a burnout half built and if I look at my car weird a wheel would fall off
Looking forward to watching some competing! I love the daily car building and work on other projects but I truly enjoy you guys racing and putting your awesome builds to work as well.
Right after Kyle says that you can see metal coming out of the exhaust, right at 14:38 as Wyatt is driving by in the 240 you can see a huge chunk fly out of the exhaust.
Sucks guys. Appreciate ya'll being real about it. Lesson learned on double checking. Also, why in the world wouldn't you check it the second it started to get noisy!?!? Probably could have saved this motor.
Anytime I torque bolts when assembling a motor I mark the bolts with a paint pen to show 1 I actually torqued them. 2 to see if they end up backing out at all. I do it on suspension parts as well. But learned the hard way as you just did 🤣
How Not To Build an LS series is looking dope 😆
Haven't even watched video yet and already liked
Wow😮
Facts 😂
Hell yea
Facts 😢 poor ls
Kyle doesn't even know what to say. So humble. He's like damn thats.. how did I..... uh what the... such a good guy. Learning from this will definitely avoid future problems lol. They will never forget to double check the Bolts again.
we're only human at the end of the day! mistakes happen, just glad no one got hurt.
Crankshaft is probably done for. Block can be saved. Cam, lifters pushrods probably saved. Valves might be done for.
I done this exact thing except on a 350 small block Chevy. Learned real quick to triple check.
That's why we watch CZcams, it's real
Most of the time
@@skm9420 idk about most of the time 😂 a lot of these dudes are just actors posing as “CZcamsrs”. Your real CZcamsrs are like Casey Neistat or PewDiePie. Argue as you please but these dudes are committed to their subscribers, no doubt about it in my mind.
Very few would be willing to admit to themselves a grave mistake like this... let alone record it and put it out for us to see that in fact big mistakes can happen to the best of em. Thank you for being transparent with your builds, I know ya'll are gonna do it justice 🤘💀🔧
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We love Kyle and the boys because they are the way they are.
They used to be the polar opposite of people like Taylor Ray or Stanceworks, and that's fine. There are different approaches to a certain task.
That being said it's a smart thing to show your failures because you usually get a lot of views and user interaction with these kinds of videos
You know what I love about this video. Real men who step back and accept accountability for their actions. No drama or fake blown engine stories. You guys are the real deal, we all make mistakes and life goes on. Thank you for posting this up.. I can guarantee most of us have FUBAR’ed more than a ls motor. Respect goes to the B-Boys for this. All love ❤️
you're here for the sausage
@@dr.mantistoboggan4746 I’m here for car/mechanical content. Way to make a ass outta you and and a ass outta me with those assumptions👍🏻
Paint marker is your best friend!! I’ve gotten used to marking every bolt I torque. If that bolt gets loosened again I clean the paint off with alcohol. It’s a step that has saved me from leaving things loose.
Kyle busting his own ba!!$ about 3rd gear cracks me up every time 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He aint bustin his own balls hes ownin it..its part of him
@@fishyz1500 same thing, man.
If he doesn't the entire comment section will lol
As he was saying he was thinking about putting an H pattern in the MR2, I was like yea so you can miss 3rd and blow it up, and he says "that's if I can hit 3rd" lol
As a 30 year mechanic that is one of the biggest lessons I have learned. Don’t walk away until the step you are on is completely done. I’ve had to go back so many times when I realize I skipped a step.
So true!
As a flat rate tech I often wouldn't leave work for hours after close because I refused to walk away from certain stuff. Same reason I wouldn't take lunch most days. oh wait, let's be honest, the lunch thing is a lack of self care. 😆
finish the chapter or leave a bookmark!
As a mechanic for a long long time I always make sure not to make a mistake and do everything perfectly
Solid advice
Like Joshua Leger said, don't fight James. Make him build your LS
this needs to be top comment
But won't that mean there won't be any lifters?
@@Avetho that's what I was gonna say. Not to mention, he'll convince you to spray the house down on it 🤣
You wana see him build my guy here a potential 1000+ ls or fight 🤔 🤷♂️js
James should have set him up off rip never mind James always broke Kyle s cars least he could do lol 😂 I'm just kidding @Jackstand Jimmy
A lot of CZcamsrs wouldn’t even post this content so good on you for being completely transparent Kyle! This is why we watch, keep it coming!
Unfortunate, but this is why I/we usually recommend people just get it in and running instead of taking it apart to gap rings and stuff (especially for new people). Find a good runner, swap cam and springs, and get it in... It will handle more than most people will ever need. 👍👍👍 looking forward to the rest of the build.
Much respect for sharing the root cause. Is what it is. Sharing the ups and downs as they come.
You have officially topped Roman leaving the oil filter off lol
LS is a solid 2nd. The oil filter missing is a hell of a lot easier to notice, than loose rod bolts in an assembled engine. Oil filter Incident #1
*edit, and I dont think the oil filter thing killed the engine, just puked its fluids out
@@DKTAz00 was still running with 0 psi of oil pressure the whole time it ran without the filter not ideal that for sure
But the engine survived have no idea if it still run today
@@DKTAz00 it ran for a few seconds they seen oil and shut it down. Kyle grenaded an engine he takes the cake. Lol I have never assembled an engine after putting rod bolts in and not tried to shake the rod to check for new bearing play. Honest mistake in his part. Still funny tho and atleast he's man enough to post it.
F fighting him, get James to build you an LS for blowing up Wago. 😎👍
James has a motor debt, so the motor out of White Trash sounds perfect
Not the issue I was expecting 😂 always love seeing people own up to their mistakes
Dude. This is exactly why I am a big fan of your channel. You are humble enough to own up to your mistakes! Keep up the awesome content.
Kyle you’re a class act it takes a real man to admit his mistakes and move forward I have no doubt you will take a couple of days to process everything and then you will be all over that 240 figuring out what you need to make it run again and I will look forward to the final product. Peace brother you got this remember mistakes are always made the first time you do anything that’s how we get better
You ever notice Kyle takes two steps forward in the beginning of every clip?
technically there is fk all nothing to figure out .
he only needs to talk with James about his 240's
I love your honesty. No clickbait, no exaggeration, just the real deal. You are amazing mechanics, just the human factor gets you when you rush through things. Keep your heads up!
You should mark the bolts when building an engine so you know you torqued them incase you forget 😅
Yes I always marked my nuts and bolts when building anything that needs to be torqued of importance. Especially when multiple torques are required. However even Steve Morris has made this mistake. Only once he said. Steve did say you would know instantly. Lessened learned and time to build it back better. All good boys. Your only human!
@@jjansen987 what marker or paint pen do you use?
@@pyrocl0 I use Markal paint pens.
@@pyrocl0 Bic whiteout pens work amazingly well too and hold up to oil.
@@coryunferferth1767 awesome! Thanks
“Cam out, cam in, done.” is the best way to build a 5.3 grass roots car. Good on yall for not trying to hide mistakes! Go find another $500 block and re use the cam and springs and pop it back together!
Good Job trying, I just did my first LS swap and after about a month of testing it and driving I ended up burning my entire 1967 c10 down. I am glad your going to still try, the fire I had definitely discouraged me but this video gives me a little more ambition to get another truck and start over.
Get a paint pen and every time u torque a bolt put a dot of paint on. Makes it easy to tell if u have or have not torqued bolts
Doesn't matter how good of a mechanic you are. Working on cars is always a learning process. 🤘
Well said
I swear it never ceases to amaze me how no matter how good of a mechanic you are, silly mistakes still happen… no matter what you do shits gna happen, but it really makes you appreciate how important it is to be diligent no matter how many times you something. Definitely myself included in this.. if it makes you feel any better Kyle, I hooked up a battery backwards the other day and blew up a customers brand new battery
A professional mechanic triple checks their work and this scenario doesn’t happen..
@@JOMaMa.. good thing they aren’t professionals
@@JOMaMa.. low quality bait
Good mechanics don't leave all the rod bolts loose lol
New stuff... it's always a learning experience. Building engines is (or should be) a careful slow process with many checks. You will get the next one right! I'll be watching and liking!
damn it man i love how honest you are. those of us that cant afford to wrench on our own stuff constantly, can still learn a ton from you guys!
Really tough break, big props for actually showing and owning it. Anyone who works on enough cars will eventually overlook something, especially when you got as many projects going at once
Dang never seen anyone forget to tighten to rod bolts. That's wild. At least you found out in the driveway and not at a cleetus event.
Well, now we know what happens with loose rod bolts. I get the feeling that with backwards pistons if they tightened the rod bolts they'd eventually have piston-related excessive wear issues, maybe loads of blow-by from high skirt friction and worsening power loss besides, badly scored cylinder walls, compression loss, its because the piston pins are offset inside an older V engine to reduce piston slap when the engine is cold, but newer LS engines use closer to a centered pin, nowadays the offset is much less and sometimes gone altogether since the offset mainly helps with reducing piston slap when the engine is cold and they instead use lighter pistons with shorter skirts to reduce weight and low-to-no pin offset to reduce the sidewall thrust and thus skirt friction. Another note, with old big blocks you could reverse the pistons and get horrible slapping when its cold, but you'd pick up maybe 10 horsepower. In an LS engine the age of the one the boys put in, I'd imagine the pin offset isn't that much, not so old its a big offset but not so new the skirts are small, so it would mean some pistons were losing power from friction and putting an uneven stress on the crankshaft.
MANY years ago I went to mechanics school at Lincoln Tech in Grand Prairie. One group in our Diesel engine class forgot to torque the rod bolts. It was fine at idle, but when the instructor receded the Series 50 Detroit engine, a rod said nope, I’m outta here! The rod was sent through the block!! Needless to say, that group failed that class!!
I forgot to torque one rod cap on a gmc 2.8l v6. Through it through the block in 60 seconds.
@@91CavGT5 yea about 20 years ago I was pushing a stock bottom end m52 to its limits on the dyno before we went fully built. After a 715whp pull we thought it sounded a little funny on decel but sounded fine at idle. Come to find out we bent 3 rods, one bent enough to break away from piston at the wrist pin. Crazy cause it sounded fine at idle even though a piston wasn't even attached anymore.
I think a 4 speed H pattern with a KDN Shifter all setup proper and you will be rippin 3rd gear every time! Plus MR2 Could start competing in some rad events!
Is Kyle forgetting that I crowned him "KING OF THE h-PATTERN" 2 years ago??? One question for him: How much will it cost to rebuild the entire MR2 engine after that first 1-2-1 shift?
@@ronjones-6977 1st gear lock out problem solved 😎
Get a paint marker and mark the bolts as you torque them. make it a habit and you will always know. I love that you own up to the mistakes and learn from them. That's life thanks for showing it.
Hey man, good thing I put you on to the autozone crank kit🤣🤣🤣
Would be a lot more painful if it was an expensive rotating assembly!!😂
when two rods share a journal the beveled end needs to face the crank fillet. Whether you torqued them or not, the backwards pistons and rods were going to catch the rod cap next to it eventually
this car deserves so much more love. bodywork and paint and shit done right.
A few days ago I decided to degrease some engine parts including pistons and aluminum cam caps. I put it all in a bucket with purple power and hot water and let it soak overnight. It ruined everything aluminum and my parts are useless. Felt real dumb, but thought the same thing, “I’ll never do that again now”.
Another video showing how resilient a ls is. Impressive it ran as long as it did. All the pre starts and coolant bleeding and pre tuning. A lot of people still don’t believe the story of my trucks water pump going out a hour from home without me realizing it and drove the entire time with zero coolant. No damage replaced the pump it was perfectly fine.
Kyle you are literally the best person to call themselves out on a mistake everyone needs that once in a while to show everyone that it dont always go as smoothly as everyone is shown because mistakes do happen
I can just hear Cletus saying: “IDIOTS! GEEEZ!” Usually it’s about him and James, but I think y’all earned this one. Kyle, right as it died, you should have spliced in the piece from the last video where you were talking crap to the comments mechanics when it ran for the first time. That would have been hilarious.
McFarland Fab would have done the smart thing and laid down some of his $60 an hour welds to lock them rods in place
Cleetus does nothing anymore, he's just a poster boy for his business. These guys are the real deal
@@geoffmcmillan3304 what a silly comment. How can cleetus be hands on like his team when hes that big?? Hes running a business basically. Thats why you have a team so you can focus on other things. How many events does cleetus host a year?? Theres no time for him to get down and dirty working on the cars like he did before. The way people think is just so insane now a days.
@@geoffmcmillan3304 dare to say that in his face, that guy keeps the whole shit show rolling.
@@geoffmcmillan3304 musta missed his last few videos of him dropping a few trans with George. And the owner of the Jolly Roger(race boat) video. Where he said cleetus is full hands on in the grease and doesn't just sit off to the sides and is fully in it all...
Personally would love to see an H pattern in the MR2! Would make the world record that much cooler.
Man seeing your comment here reminds me of the old days
@@or-what I'm always here! Just hard to get noticed in the comments now they're mega famous. 😂
only thing is i think kyle would blow up the transmission quicker if he goes back to an H pattern
You'll get that on them big jobs
I noted that Steve Morris's son Kyle put diagonal/slanted lines on the heads of the rod and main bolts after they were torqued. We sometimes get distracted and forget where we left off. *Paint markers help avoid unnecessary repairs and broken parts and ensure you can steer, and brake your car, truck, or MC at 100 - 200 mph.
Only way to learn is to have mistakes happen witch put u in line to become a better build I built motorcycles and one time just rebuild 4wheeler got it running and did have air cleaner or lid on yet and left seat of and had a shop rag ony lap and mad a lap around the yard and got on it and somehow the rag fell down into the air box sure into the motor and boom now it was a old 2 stroke but broke the piston and such a little over sit but never made mistake leaving room for mistakes keep up great work and have great day
Woof! I feel the pain man! I had a fresh k24 and ran super rich due to me not adjusting fuel pressure right which flooded the oil with gasoline and roasted it in under 400 boosted miles. Live and learn!
We love you bud, don’t ever stop being you brother!
Huge props for owning it bro!
I greatly respect that.....
Yep this is why you learn on junkyard engines. You'll never forget to torque your bolts again. A good habit for the future is to use a paint pen on the nuts/threads once you do final torque specs on every nut and bolt in an engine. It helps you identify at a quick glance that you did all the nuts/bolts and it also helps when you do maintenance to see if any nuts or bolts are getting lose from vibrations and whatnot.
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That’s why you mark bottom end bolts with a paint pen as you assemble. It’s saved me from making this mistake several times when people would come in the shop and distract me.
I think a H in the mr2 would be a good idea so that it just gets more passes with more events.
That's how we learn brother. Mistakes! You guys will get it done 🍻🍻🍻
Good thing LS motors grow on trees
At least you got those new rain catchers welded onto the exhaust! 🤣
Thanks for showing the real cause. Helps everyone learn.
If u put the pistons back in backwards that means the rods went back in backwards, unless u took them off the rods. They have two different faces on the bottom of the rods
Lmao bro I remember reading comments about how it wouldn’t last! It’s all good man we all make mistakes!
THIS IS THE CONTENT IM HERE FOR! YOURE REAL AND RAW PLEASE KEEP IT THAT WAY KYLE WADE!!!
I was one of the guys that mentioned the backwards pistons and I made a huge mistake on my ls swapped s10. Dropped a bolt down the intake and fired it up. #7 said goodbye. So you’re not alone.
I've got a lot of respect for your for showing this, it would have been real easy to get another junk yard 5.3 to drop in and act like nothing ever happened
Get an H-pattern with a first gear lockout
100% throw a h pattern in it just for at least the event.
just for the event but keep the hatch as the stick shift car. 4wd it has more potential to win the class outright
Without mistakes you can never be the best, lesson learned the hard way my guy!
Well, now we know for a fact that it's important to torque the connecting rod bolts. Thanks for testing and confirming for us guys!!
After you torque a bolt you mark it with a paint marker so you don't forget and others working know. I love the Milwaukee INKZALL Paint Markers. I use them to write the date and miles on the oil filter too. you can also see from the mark at a glance if the bolt has moved or come lose.
“Did you torque the rod bolts” is the new “did you install the oil filter.” 😂
The carnage is great content regardless of why. LS v2 let's go!
Honestly. Kind of a cool case study of what will happen if you don't the tighten rod bolts. It snapped a rod before completely seizing, I woulda guessed it would have locked up
Emotional damage
Unlucky
Ha
Really cool you guys show the ups and downs not just all skittles and rainbows like many channels.
Look at the bright side. That exhaust is mint!!
That's rough boys but you will learn how these engines go together, it's all a learning process haha. But as everyone has had said probably get James to come by and help ya out. There's no shame in getting a hand plus you can pull the "you blew wago so help me card" 😂 all in all l. Very excited to see it when she's done keep er up boys!
It’s not like he didn’t know how to put the engine together… he literally just forgot to torque the rod bolts lol. Could have happened on any K series motor that he’s built many many times
Kyle you guy rock! Keep doing you, it clearly works
Marking tensioned nuts and bolts with a white paint marker straight after they have been tensioned is a good practice to get into and an easy visual of anything that’s been missed.
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Amazing Channel Respect to Host and Crew 👍✌️🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦
I remember back in the day watching your videos and you could tell in your face that you were devastated..
Probably due to cost.
Long story short love the positiveness even when it really stings when . Keep making awesome videos guys
Alot of people ditched the quaife sequentials here due to them not being man enough and killing gears, went back to dog box and H pattern shifter and found shift times actually quicker, and not having to baby it.
quick tip, get a paint marker and mark the bolts that are torqued...usually what i do, if in steps, is i mark a line for each stage i torque them in. If you get accustomed to doing this, all you have to do is look at the fastners for anything and know they were torqued or not...oh well shit happens dont beat yourself up about it. we keep movin
Make sure you clean the intake real good. Metal likes to hide in there and especially the map sensor port. Trust me I’ve learned the hard way twice with ls1 intake manifolds
Kyle I Have watched you grow from a young man to a fine example of a young adult with a good head on your shoulder you are humble and honest and I know you well never do that again it is all ok it's just life your going to do well in life that's for sure keep up the excellent job.
I've always appreciated the honesty of this channel. Much rather be real than fake. Keep on keeping on guys.
Mad respect on owning up to the mistake.
You guys are awesome and I wish I could afford to make the same mistakes.
Regarding the MR2, go stick shift and put a small spring loaded lockout tab on first gear, As soon as you shift it will drop down and lock out 1st gear which will prevent you from hitting first and missing 3rd.
You'll have that on these big jobs.,.. that's what made me stop working on multiple projects at the same time I started having silly mistakes like that that I never used to make on single projects it's hard to remember what you did and what you didn't do when you got two or three things going on at once especially with multiple people working on the same things.. at least you don't lie and your transparent.. I knew the backwards Pistons didn't kill it that fast I've had it backwards pistons in for entire seasons and didn't notice until rebuilds
That is why a lot of engine builders i have seen use permanent marker, nail paint or something to make marks on bolts they have torqued to spec.
All of us make mistakes. My dad did something that this reminded me of fortunately it wasnt something this severe. He rebuilt a 2002 ford focus engine that had dropped a valve seat. He replaced the fuel pump as it had failed and when he went out to drive it the car stopped running a mile or so down the road. Called tripple A and got it towed back. Turns out he forgot to pop the intake back on so it threw the air fuel through a loop.
That was the most words to say "I'm speechless" I have ever heard.
Maybe basides of politicians, but that is a different beast.
I had a D16Z6 machined for oversized pistons put it all together myself super proud and stuff, not realizing I over torqued the rod bolts. Same result drove it 10km and it ate a rod bearing lol at least I’m not alone now
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Kyle and Wyatt y'all rock! Kyle is ok we all have been where you are right now. We have all fucked up a few times one way or another, but we haven't done it on you tube with a million subbs! Lol. Love the channel and content! I'm here for the algorithm! Peace
Dude do
You realize how many times I’ve forgotten to torque stuff down? I do motorcycles and atvs dirtbikes and stuff, I’ve screwed up so many damn times it’s not even funny. However the first time I had a seriously catastrophic failure like this it never happened again. It hits different when it comes out of the pocket. Kyle man big respect for being humble
You might want a restrictor on that heater core bypass loop. I found in my build that it was bypass too much and was affecting my cooling. Also the steam port to top of water pump decision doesn't always work. Definitely was trapping air in my build and moving it to the radiator helped immediately. Every drive it was slowly pushing more and more coolant.
That's a rough one. I've definitely had to go back and re-check because I thought it missed some.
You live and learn. Now I see a hopeful future on more LS content. In which I am willing to see more.
Hey man don't trip. It is what it is. It would be cool to see you guys pick up some aftermarket rods and Pistons for V2 and go straight to slapping some turbos on this thing. Maybe swap the bearings for good measure so you don't have to take this thing apart for a little bit. At that point you might as well grab some ls9 head gaskets and some head studs. I don't know, this could get very expensive very fast. Good luck boys!
Definitely makes sense changing the box in the Mr2 bud 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love that you show your mistakes. You'll be an LS pro before long.
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Love the hand up approach here instead of trying to hide it or sum bs..
Even if the shop is on fire, tighten that bolt. Words of wisdom from Eric O’s father.
This made me appreciate the LS platform so much im considering one now that im looking for a car to replace mine. This thing ran and did a burnout half built and if I look at my car weird a wheel would fall off
Got a nice Fully Built 5.3 here in CA ready for ya, TSP internals & Heads, Cam Motion custom grind cam, All kinds of goodies & Nice S400 Whirly boy
Ouch! It happens. Dad always said, best way to learn is from your mistakes.
Looking forward to watching some competing! I love the daily car building and work on other projects but I truly enjoy you guys racing and putting your awesome builds to work as well.
Right after Kyle says that you can see metal coming out of the exhaust, right at 14:38 as Wyatt is driving by in the 240 you can see a huge chunk fly out of the exhaust.
Sucks guys. Appreciate ya'll being real about it. Lesson learned on double checking. Also, why in the world wouldn't you check it the second it started to get noisy!?!? Probably could have saved this motor.
Gotta have a checklist! That sucks, but I would bet you will *never* forget to tighten rod bolts!
Anytime I torque bolts when assembling a motor I mark the bolts with a paint pen to show 1 I actually torqued them. 2 to see if they end up backing out at all. I do it on suspension parts as well. But learned the hard way as you just did 🤣
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