On the first start, I'm supprised that Dave wasn't tapping on something metal to mess with you. That would have been a great CZcams moment. Great work, great series.
Ray has done that in a previous video so it would not bother him. In the old days when smoking was allowed in the plant a technician was checking out a 9 track computer tape drive and another tech kept blowing smoke into the cabinet.
Without Dave's precious dedication, how much more time would this project take? Maybe a month or more, I'd say. Dave really is a prime employee. He is like a family heirloom, he is priceless. Kudos for his hard work. 👏
Being fwd def longer than a truck. In my truck with a seized engine we had the engine out in 4 hrs and the other in 2 hours, thats with a new torque converter and front transmission seal. With 3 people
The test drive after all that labor is as critical as any other part. As you described it, the loads for the engine break-in and what they do. Thanks for the close of this and all the details it provides to everyone about what is entailed in such an operation. Thanks for the cameo of Lauren/WifeUnit and also Dave.
Usually just work on family cars but I hate it when situations cause it to go out without even being able to test drive. That's usually when I forgot something and I get to know after it causes problems or when it's 30 miles away.
That was a fantastic adventure. We smiles at the highs and cried at the lows. Some might say this series was better than most modern day television productions...
So I'm sure you know this but on the driver's side of that engine is the fill plug for priming the oil into the pump which will not prime by itself I use that port with a power pre-oiler to completely pre-oil the engine making sure that I have oil coming up from all of the rockers everything's nice and wet before the valve covers go back on then I drop the motor in the car and it starts like super quiet and beautiful every time. That goes for all the LS motors
He was too lazy to do it, or too lazy to find out about it. I hate to say that, but the wear that engine went through on that dry start up was terrible. The longevity suffered. 🙄
Well done everyone. I worked in a shop much like yours when I was a student in the UK in the 1970s, at weekends and during holidays, to pay the bills, and it was always a massive relief when, after a rebuild like this one, in those days mostly 3.4 and 3.8 straight six jaguar engines, when you first started it and a) the oil pressure was in the normal range and b) no nasty knocks!
In the 35 years before I retired I rebuilt 100's of Cummins and CAT engines. LUCKILY they all went well, but those first startups were so scary. Great job you guys. Always enjoy your videos.
Very neat Ray. You and Dave did a nice job on that car. I have never seen a engine build, and i learned what is involved and can fully understand what it takes for techs do their work.
The next time he rebuilds an LS, I hope he takes the 15 minutes that it takes to pressurize the oiling system BEFORE he installs it in the car. That would eliminate the horrible clattering and wear when the engine is first started. And NO, spinning a dry engine over is not the “professional” way of doing it. That’s the “17 year old teenager that doesn’t know better” way.
I've heard of people using an old garden sprayer - or a new one - to pressurize the engine. The LS 's have a plug that can be used for that purpose. You can also buy a tool for that purpose.
@@michaelpressman7203 Ray soaked them, but the wrong way. He soaked them laying down (sideways) when they should be standing upright to allow the air to escape through the push rod oil feed hole.
Nice, for loading up the piston rings is good to use a low gear for the first decelerations at low speed and increase the gears with the speed and repeat. If you use the transmission in drive it'll go to coasting as soon as you let off the throttle and the engine will not have the proper rotational speed for good expansion of the rings. What you want is to think that you're driving a big rig downhill and using the Jake brake, that will get you the best results.
the shot of you driving the corvettbra into the shop really puts the comment you made about it being too small for you into perspective, that thing sounds wicked too
Thanks ray for sharing the first startup it was awesome had to be exciting for you great that code disappeared lifters had to pump up to get the knocking gone but it sounded great
Good job on the break-in. I’ve broken-in over 50 engines and the ticket is varied RPMs and decelerating at multiple speeds to create vacuum(using a lower gear in Sport Mode on an automatic can speed up the process). Vacuum pulls the rings against the cylinder walls, creating a good ring-to-cylinder seal. I can break-in a manual transmission car in less than 30 minutes, just by constantly changing RPMs and taking my foot off the accelerator, so the engine will provide natural braking action. I usually do 5-10 cycles at 2000rpm, 2500rpm, 3000rpm, 3500rpm and 4000rpm(not necessarily in that order). I never put a full load on the engine, until the process is completed. Not one of the engines that underwent this procedure burned or used oil.
When I broke in my new Subaru engine (5 speed), I drove well over 5,000 miles varying the engine load, speed, engine braking, running every start long enough to reach full operating temperature, no steady state highway driving, etc. I even changed the engine oil at 500 miles, 1000 miles, 2000 miles, and 5000 miles (total driving distance, not intervals). After I got to about to 20k mile mark, I started changing it every 5,000 miles intervals, and everything is running perfectly. No engine ticks, no knocks, no oil consumption, starts perfectly in every weather situation I've tried it in (lowest temp start so far as -10 F). The shop that put the new engine in it said I didn't need to worry about any of that, but I wanted to make absolutely sure it was broken in properly as best I could.
One thing I'll note with all the video's I've watched over the years / months of yours and that is your detail you go into with your repair work. Discussions on possible problems if you do things wrong and so forth. I'll be honest and say that I came across these vids when you worked at "That Other Place" and was concerned when you lost your job there. But glad now your on your own and able to do decent repairs (Customers allowing of course) and you explaining everything. I'm glad that all is going so well for you and hopefully you have many MANY years of content to come. Keep up the great work mate !! (Yeah ok so I'm an Ozzie (Australian))
Sweet!!! Always good watching a car get a new lease on life! 😊 Have a great day and an even better tomorrow for all your tomorrow's to come Mr Ray, Wife Unit as well as Coworker Units and fellow subscriber units . 😊
Monte Carlo SS ( Side Steering ) 😀 Nice Job, i loved the series about this car ! And all the other videos also of course. Greetings from Belgium, have a fantastic day 😉
On the LS engines there is a priming port that you can use to manually pump oil to fill all the galleys. You keep going until you see oil at the rockers.
Great video, little bit of everything. I was worried when it was clicking on first start 😱. Glad to see it was good, then wondered why I would doubt a Rainman rebuild?
On the first start, I'm supprised that Dave wasn't tapping on something metal to mess with you. That would have been a great CZcams moment. Great work, great series.
Ray has done that in a previous video so it would not bother him. In the old days when smoking was allowed in the plant a technician was checking out a 9 track computer tape drive and another tech kept blowing smoke into the cabinet.
@@johncooper4637🤣
Without Dave's precious dedication, how much more time would this project take? Maybe a month or more, I'd say. Dave really is a prime employee. He is like a family heirloom, he is priceless. Kudos for his hard work. 👏
Being fwd def longer than a truck. In my truck with a seized engine we had the engine out in 4 hrs and the other in 2 hours, thats with a new torque converter and front transmission seal. With 3 people
It’s alive. Way to go Ray and Dave. Woohoo!
And with no Abby Normal parts.
The best REEEEE of all time. I will walk this way and go get some Ritz.
I still remember my first engine rebuild at age 17. When the engine started and ran fine, I was in heaven.
The test drive after all that labor is as critical as any other part. As you described it, the loads for the engine break-in and what they do. Thanks for the close of this and all the details it provides to everyone about what is entailed in such an operation.
Thanks for the cameo of Lauren/WifeUnit and also Dave.
Usually just work on family cars but I hate it when situations cause it to go out without even being able to test drive. That's usually when I forgot something and I get to know after it causes problems or when it's 30 miles away.
That was a fantastic adventure. We smiles at the highs and cried at the lows. Some might say this series was better than most modern day television productions...
So I'm sure you know this but on the driver's side of that engine is the fill plug for priming the oil into the pump which will not prime by itself I use that port with a power pre-oiler to completely pre-oil the engine making sure that I have oil coming up from all of the rockers everything's nice and wet before the valve covers go back on then I drop the motor in the car and it starts like super quiet and beautiful every time. That goes for all the LS motors
He was too lazy to do it, or too lazy to find out about it. I hate to say that, but the wear that engine went through on that dry start up was terrible. The longevity suffered. 🙄
Great tip. Thank you.
Duude! The shop looks SOO much better with the painted floors. It’s unbelievable
I love first start in a newly rebuilt engine, it reminds me of earlier in my own life. SWEET!
Well done everyone. I worked in a shop much like yours when I was a student in the UK in the 1970s, at weekends and during holidays, to pay the bills, and it was always a massive relief when, after a rebuild like this one, in those days mostly 3.4 and 3.8 straight six jaguar engines, when you first started it and a) the oil pressure was in the normal range and b) no nasty knocks!
Yaaaaaaaay Ray! You and Dave got her back together.
In the 35 years before I retired I rebuilt 100's of Cummins and CAT engines. LUCKILY they all went well, but those first startups were so scary. Great job you guys. Always enjoy your videos.
Very neat Ray. You and Dave did a nice job on that car. I have never seen a engine build, and i learned what is involved and can fully understand what it takes for techs do their work.
My first time watching an engine rebuild. Awesome job, Ray and Dave!
Now go watch someone who knows what they're doing and see the difference.
Yea!!
The next time he rebuilds an LS, I hope he takes the 15 minutes that it takes to pressurize the oiling system BEFORE he installs it in the car. That would eliminate the horrible clattering and wear when the engine is first started.
And NO, spinning a dry engine over is not the “professional” way of doing it. That’s the “17 year old teenager that doesn’t know better” way.
I've heard of people using an old garden sprayer - or a new one - to pressurize the engine. The LS 's have a plug that can be used for that purpose. You can also buy a tool for that purpose.
@14:29 I was shouting: You got the key off!!!!!!!! Good Job on Monte Carlo!!!
Heard those ticking sounds like the lifters. My mind went back to my father leaving lifter upright in a can filled with engine oil overnight.
Ray did.I used to pump the lifters while they were under the oil, but that was years ago
@@michaelpressman7203 Ray soaked them, but the wrong way. He soaked them laying down (sideways) when they should be standing upright to allow the air to escape through the push rod oil feed hole.
Nice, for loading up the piston rings is good to use a low gear for the first decelerations at low speed and increase the gears with the speed and repeat. If you use the transmission in drive it'll go to coasting as soon as you let off the throttle and the engine will not have the proper rotational speed for good expansion of the rings. What you want is to think that you're driving a big rig downhill and using the Jake brake, that will get you the best results.
Great job everyone involved in this project! The owner should be very happy! 😀✌
Nice to see the first start and test drive. Well done Ray and Dave, you guys rock!
the shot of you driving the corvettbra into the shop really puts the comment you made about it being too small for you into perspective, that thing sounds wicked too
You and your team put in a lot of hard work on this.
Thanks ray for sharing the first startup it was awesome had to be exciting for you great that code disappeared lifters had to pump up to get the knocking gone but it sounded great
Good job on the break-in. I’ve broken-in over 50 engines and the ticket is varied RPMs and decelerating at multiple speeds to create vacuum(using a lower gear in Sport Mode on an automatic can speed up the process). Vacuum pulls the rings against the cylinder walls, creating a good ring-to-cylinder seal. I can break-in a manual transmission car in less than 30 minutes, just by constantly changing RPMs and taking my foot off the accelerator, so the engine will provide natural braking action. I usually do 5-10 cycles at 2000rpm, 2500rpm, 3000rpm, 3500rpm and 4000rpm(not necessarily in that order). I never put a full load on the engine, until the process is completed. Not one of the engines that underwent this procedure burned or used oil.
When I broke in my new Subaru engine (5 speed), I drove well over 5,000 miles varying the engine load, speed, engine braking, running every start long enough to reach full operating temperature, no steady state highway driving, etc. I even changed the engine oil at 500 miles, 1000 miles, 2000 miles, and 5000 miles (total driving distance, not intervals). After I got to about to 20k mile mark, I started changing it every 5,000 miles intervals, and everything is running perfectly. No engine ticks, no knocks, no oil consumption, starts perfectly in every weather situation I've tried it in (lowest temp start so far as -10 F). The shop that put the new engine in it said I didn't need to worry about any of that, but I wanted to make absolutely sure it was broken in properly as best I could.
@@WarrenGarabrandt Youndid it right!
Man I miss mine, had one exactly like it, brings back good memories
Great job on the rebuild, Ray. That Cobra is a hot mess though!
Can hear the pride in your voice. Well Done!
One thing I'll note with all the video's I've watched over the years / months of yours and that is your detail you go into with your repair work. Discussions on possible problems if you do things wrong and so forth. I'll be honest and say that I came across these vids when you worked at "That Other Place" and was concerned when you lost your job there. But glad now your on your own and able to do decent repairs (Customers allowing of course) and you explaining everything. I'm glad that all is going so well for you and hopefully you have many MANY years of content to come.
Keep up the great work mate !! (Yeah ok so I'm an Ozzie (Australian))
That thing sounds amazing good work Ray
Ya gotta get Dave to show us around his new tool box and how he set it up.
Sweet!!! Always good watching a car get a new lease on life! 😊 Have a great day and an even better tomorrow for all your tomorrow's to come Mr Ray, Wife Unit as well as Coworker Units and fellow subscriber units . 😊
Nothing worse than starting a rebuilt engine and hearing noise even if its just lifters ticking.
Woulda sucked if it was rod bearings
good job Dave
Nice to see it live again! Awesome work guys!!
Great to see the full process on this one. Great vid Ray.
It's alive, AND nice 'n' Shiney too!
very professional work ray and dave engine sounds great!
Glad to see it runs again. Thanks Ray
Good morning Ray and Dave have a great day guys.
thanks Ray and Dave. Great work
And don't forget....Thanks Dave!
Great series and outcome
Engine rebuild - Good video, nice job Ray.
thankyou Ray,, the picture and sound quality is incredible 👌👍👏
Engine sounds excellent!! Great job ray & dave!! 👊
Top work as always from Ray and Dave
It’s really Dave and Ray, rather than Ray and Dave. Dave comes first!
Rainman Ray, my favourite mechanic. Love your videos! Good day to you guys :)
Hell yeah Ray, your the King!
Excellent job Ray!
Shop looks great!
Another great video
good job ray and dave. sounds good
Awesome work.
"It's alive" well done Ray.
No distributor
It's awesome when it all comes together in a positive outcome.
Very nice job guys!
Been looking forward to this one
That Man , Dave deserves a RAISE!!!!
Great job Ray on the monty
Great Job Ray and Dave!! You guys make a great team.
Nice job!
nice job guys she's running sweet
Monte Carlo SS ( Side Steering ) 😀 Nice Job, i loved the series about this car ! And all the other videos also of course. Greetings from Belgium, have a fantastic day 😉
It lives at last well done Ray
Hi Ray, you are so thorough with your work and extremely diligent, my mechanic doesn't even check my coolant level when I get the car serviced 😵💫
there is still nothing better than the sound and feel of a big block.
As the great Bill Murray once said.......IT...IS..ALIVE.
Godd vid as always, tnx Ray,, Greatings from Sweden..
So satisfying. I bet the owner will be happy.
Great job ray! She sounds like a new car!!!
Way to go, boys. Enjoyed being part of it.
Great job Ray!!
A huge well done to Dave and Ray for a quick engine pull rebuild and then reinstall! Well done.
Great series, Ray.
Ray enjoyed watching the start up and the running in it was educational for me
I like the old school SBC. I use a priming rod to pump oil through the engine before starting. Great job Ray and Dave.
On the LS engines there is a priming port that you can use to manually pump oil to fill all the galleys. You keep going until you see oil at the rockers.
Yea, and the “professional” didn’t bother to do it.🙄
@@shakerman55 You can't do it on this LS engine.
@@DocZoidberg549
It should have an oil galley plug on the lower left side. Screw that out and place an adapter there with a pressurized oil system.
@@shakerman55 Doesn't the crank shaft turn the oil pump on this LS engine?
Great job, great series 👍
its alive its alive. great job!!
Great work!
Subscribed to this unit last week after learning about your channel on Eric’s channel. Valuable content and entertaining presentation
Good work guys. Just be proud of your own efforts.
Very impressive!!
Vary cool the Monte is bad ass
Also the floor is first class.😊
Good job Ray!
Victory is sweet good job to all involved
What a great job you did on this one
Great video Ray Man
Dave is an absolute asset to the shop,even more so when it comes to jobs like the rebuild.
Sounds good!
GM should have built those rear wheel drive, that would have been mint 👌
Good job 😊
great job ray and dave
Very nice job.
well done ray
Great video, little bit of everything. I was worried when it was clicking on first start 😱. Glad to see it was good, then wondered why I would doubt a Rainman rebuild?
Well done 👍
Ready for an alignment, detail, breakin, and oil change
Like the look of the floor!
Awesome job Ray Dave Lauren wife unit love sounds of engine excellent sound beautiful I started watching from beginning of rebuild 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What a scene with your head sticking out driving that Shelby!🤣
That was a blast to watch
Muscle machines yeah man that was cool. ❤