You should do this for a living. Very entertaining to watch actually. Good job!

Thank you! I just changed the cylinder heads on my wife’s 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo with the 5.7 Hemi. In this forty minute video you showed everything that needs to be done. Not only was this video easy to follow, but there were times I would wonder if I could complete this. I’d watch this video and my confidence would go up again. Until now, I’ve done almost everything else under the hood, but this was the deepest I’ve gone. All the garages quoted us $10k-$12k to get a new engine. For the warranty on a new or a remanufactured engine you need to also replace the cooling system as well as buy a new intake manifold. Thank you again.

Excellent video, I have a 2007 Durango with the 5.7 and over 170k miles. Nothing major yet. Thanks for taking us along on the repair, you made it look easy and simple.

I couldn’t begin to thank you enough. I was contemplating how to double check my stroker build from my local performance shop and a camera through the spark plug hole is a great start. Thank thank you.

Good job on the video. Can’t believe your block survived that piston breakage! It’s nice to see a diy’er solving problems in their driveway.

Excellent job guys. I'm retired now but spent 45 years in dealer service depts and found your video spot on! I'm dreading doing my 5.7 Grand Cherokee Limited with 137 K, but better to change heads before the seats drop. I've already used a Diablo tuner to have the fan come on 10 degrees early, shut of the MDS, and put an 87 octane tune on. I get 16.5 - 17.0 mixed, which is 1.5 better than stock, plus more balls. Highly recommend turning off MDS since some research says it might be involved, although it seems yours was on non MDS cylinders. Great job, once again!

Very good breakdown on 5.7, did my cam and lifters 2011 Grand Cherokee, minor differences but the same concept, wish more videos were like this

Outstanding video from start to finish! Thanks for taking the time to film and post it

Great instructional video. Detailed and easy to understand. I am surprised that there was no visible damage to the cylinder wall with all those valve seat pieces bouncing around in there. You're lucky you didn't need to do a cylinder bore out.

Did this on my 05 Magnum almost 2 years ago. I used a head rebuilder out in Simi Valley and they included new head bolts, gaskets and a great warranty. The heads looked like brand new. Few pointers I’d add to your already excellent tutorial: 1)Replace those little O rings on the water pump hard lines. It’s EZ to do while everything is apart. 2) Check your pushrods to make sure they haven’t been bent by the force of the valves impacted the pistons. Again very easy while it’s torn down. 3) Getting the air pockets out of the cooling system is a pain. I’ve found the best way is to use one of special funnels that allows the air bubble to rise out of the reservoir. Don’t forget to use the bleeder port on the water pump when you add the coolant too. 4) Check your heater hoses! With these cars getting up there in age it’s probably time to replace them to avoid another overheating issue down the road...,don’t ask how I know this.... 5) Consider replacing the motor mounts for the same reason. 6) My new water pump was purchased on eBay from a dealership and had a metal impeller. Mopar! 7) I used a engine support bar from Harbor Freight instead of a cherry picker so that’s another alternative. Great job, thanks for taking the time to document all your hard work 👍

Great video, I will be doing this to my 300c it is missfiring on number 6, Very much appreciated this will save me a lot of headaches.

Very thankful for this video. I'll be taking on this job soon due to the Dodge dealership wanting charge around $4500 🙄

Best engine rebuild video I’ve ever seen

Great job with this video. Good explanation and great video footage to show the issues and how you fixed them.

Nice video. Those cracked rods are WAY better than machined. Caterpillar started using them when I worked in one of their truck shops in 2006. Landed on this vid because I'm considering edelbrock heads on my 300

Great video! Thanks! I am in the process of doing this job on my 05 Magnum.

Awesome video, very informative. Thanks for sharing this, going to use your time saving tips when I do my aftermarket head install

Great video. This is to all you who ask way too many questions that are in the video, you shouldn't be watching this because if your attention span is so short that you missed parts of this great video, you certainly don't need to be working on an engine, especially this generation Hemi.

You did outstanding job, I noticed on your cap you are a veteran!, same here USMC also born and raised here in Houston, TX! I just now purchased a Dodge 1500 Longhorn with 5.7 hemi. One owner, also from a Marine! He had one head overhauled due to valve seat issue also. I know I will have to do the same to other head, engine has 133k miles, 2014 year. I was looking to see how much work removing heads, not to bad. But your right all due to cutting nickels to make more money. Its greed, and knowing most will take vehicle to dealership for repairs, or buy another from same dealership! Honestly you guys did a fantastic job with video and explanation, thank you very much!

Awesome video....great job on getting your hemi magnum back on the road again....

Great job Radiator fan assembly does come out from the top also👍🏻

Awesome video!! Explained everything in detail and some good time saving tips. Definitely giving me the confidence to try and do this myself, thank you:)

Nice job and camera work - I wish I could give it two thumbs up. Well done.

Wow! Since you mentioned getting two left head gaskets in your gasket set, I decided to go look at the one I just got in the mail from rockauto today. It has two left head gaskets. And the cylinder size on the gasket is larger.

Awesome video man! This really helped me convince my dad to let me rebuild the top end on his 2011 ram 1500 sport 5.7l w 150k miles! Lifter went bad and messed up the crank

Great video. I know I bought an 06 charge police editio. The valve seats fell out and destroyed the engine. So now I'm looking for a used engine and redoing the heads

As already mentioned, excellent step by step build!

AWESOME video Sir! Excellent narration and some very good tips. Count me in as a subscriber!

Excellent video. Thinking of doing this proactively in my 2005 300C

Wow by far the best Hemi how to video on youtube... i just bought a 2018 charger 5.7 hemi ..I hope i get 200k out of her like you did without major issues ..Extreme Heat can kill any motor Hemi or not

Great video! I would’ve liked to have seen you go further into the engine with the cam and lifters, timing chain and guides

That's the best how to video i ever seen. THANK YOU.

Great share thanks on a ram 1/2 the motor is under the firewall Your basically laying on the engine lots of fun

That was a lot of work. Great info, and thanks for sharing.

Please note...I've had a set of ramps, in the style that you are using, in your video, actually collapse! Luckily, I was NOT underneath the car (A 1968 Dart), yet!....Stay Safe, young fella!

FAQ: Cost: The heads were $550 plus shipping and there was about another $500 in other parts and gaskets. Time cost was about 4 days with 2 people cleaning every part and bolt. Heads: It was a machine shop in Grand Prairie, Texas via eBay, seller name: headsonly, that the heads were purchased from. Listing Title on ebay: "DODGE CHRYSLER JEEP HEMI 5.7L V-8 REBUILT CYLINDER HEAD 2003-2008 ONLY" They have a core return program where you give them a casting number and some info, they send you the correct set of rebuilt heads with improved valve seats, and you send your heads back in the same boxes with the return label provided. There are plenty of people doing a service like this so do some research and find a seller that you like. Cause: This car was a classic case of cost cutting being the main factor in the valve seat failure. Making radiator end tanks out of plastic is a bad idea because they get brittle and crack with heat (this problem is accelerated with the desert heat where we live). So the radiator cracks an end tank on a hot day and the engine starts over heating very quickly causing the valve seats to drop. Don't think this would have happened if not for the radiator since the car had 207K on it at the time.

extremely informative, very good

Pistons install MUCH easier when you use a little lube. At my shop, we use Schaeffers Moly EP in an oil can and use that as assembly lube for everything but the cam.

Great video lots of good information well done sir. By chance do you remember what size the piston bore was for over 200k miles? oversize piston or stock?

One of the most informative videos I have seen thank you! DO you have a video of what is sounded like or how it was running before you performed the repair?

You Sir.... Are An ABSOLUTE! Certified BADASS😎💪🏾💯, I Replaced my Wall Poster of Chuck Norris and Replaced it with your Channel Photo 😂. Thank you fr this EXACT Video of what I needed 🎉.

I.m in the middle of doing my jeep Commander , It's very important you'll have pieces of the broken valve seat in your intake manifold that will get sucked into the engine and damage the cylinders . Trust me they'er in there . I washed mine out with a degreaser and pressure washed it ,all kinds of pieces came out , small pieces will stick to the inside of the intake .

Excelente, actualmente me ha estado llegando trabajo de Hemy's y es algo nuevo, sistema MDS ruidos en lifters cadena árbol de levas etc, el boroscopio increíble, aquí en México caros y difíciles de conseguir, los conocí cuando trabajé en Ford dealer, un saludo, gracias por tus conocimientos.

Good morning & friendly nice greetings from Bavaria ( Allgäu, Germany ) & me👋🍀🙂 Nice Video about the issue of lose valve seat rings & a great repair Guide, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this 👍🙂 Oh mate, what a bad issue and damage of your HEMI in your nice Dodge Magnum, i'm very sorry about that, a sad thing....😓 And i'm so AFRAID about that my HEMI could also become this damage, especially it's the same 5.7 Eagle 3rd Gen. HEMI in the 2006 Charger R/T Daytona what i've bought 2 months ago with 132.000 or even 222.000km ob the clock. I've found it via Internet at North Carolina and imported it and it arrived me ~3 weeks ago. And the Car looks great, especially for its age of 14 years and the mileage. I see the car was not used a long time, and the seller gave it away to the shippers without filling up the motoroil. And so the HEMI had Not enough oil and runned that time when it was in the way, in the vessel. Motoroil It was under the "Safe marking" at the oil Stick. I gave ~1.5 liters of Motoroil in it and then it artived the middle of the Safe marking. What a big shame for the seller i think! That's really really Bad i think. BUT, the HEMI runns quiet and very nice, so i really hope the low Motoroil didn't made any damage. It's a beautiful Motor, i love it! But now i've found some Videos of the issue of the loosing valve seat rings. And also about the HEMI Roller lifters issue what is also called the "HEMI tick" & now im very very afraid about that.... Especially because it's a 2006, it's a 3rd Gen. Eagle HEMI, with the mileage when these engine failures could be possible. What do you think i should do now? And could you Tell me about, what is the most often worn part at the belt drive for the wather Pump, AC and steering pump? Because i listen a little "queeking" when the Engine is running what comes from this belt drive. For your knowledge i'll be very thankful. I Hope my english is good enough that you'll understand me right, but i think so😅...i'm a real Motor Enthusiast, and i Spend more than 17 years with Alfa Romeo Cars in Motorsport, upgradeing, repairing, working on it and so i know every Bolt & screw of these very nice Cars and engines. But American Cars, especially Classics, but even also these modern MOPARS with HEMI's are a big love of me /since i was Young, US classic cars are my big Love. And this 2006 Dodge Charger RT Daytona, a Top Banana is a big Dream of me and to own one now Made a big Dream true. And at this time i'm fixing different things on it before i could Drive it. And now, with the knowledge of these possible Bad issues im really afraid about that my new old HEMI Dream could get that.... I wish you a great day and i hope for a answer of you, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Bye👋🍀🍀🍀🙂

Exactly what I did to my charger. This is what I have to do hopefully my pistons can be salvaged it only ran with the dropped seat for maybe 20 seconds

Awesome video guys! VERY informative & gives me some tips for when i have to do my charger lol.....hopefully not. 👍👍👍

Very informative video. A couple of thoughts. The rear cooling passages are really caked. Same thing with the block water passages before you scrape the carbon off the pistons? Why are they this way when all the others look clean?

I hope you replaced the lifters while you had it apart. Excellent video!

Great job i watched it completely and i enjoy to see it

Excellent detailed video. Learned a lot. Thank you.

Hey this video is real helpful,I live out Philly it’s so hard to find the parts I need to do this, because the dealer straight up told me I need an engine which they want $8000 for. I’m only 22 & I refuse to let my 06 charger 5.7 go to waste

Great video. If I'm not mistaken that's a 3rd gen hemi so almost everything should be pretty similar amongst all 5.7. PS they send me to right gaskets for my Subaru. Had to reorder too. Lol.

Great video very helpful! 👍 Just curious, given the mileage, did you have good compression in the other cylinders? Also what brand of lifters did you use? Seems like OEMs have a history of failing on these engines. Thanks!

Great job, would have been good if you show the torque specs for the bolts,

Great video! 👌👌👌 Question after 3 years those heads are still in good shape???

The cooling fans don’t exactly have to go up through the bottom you just gotta remove the upper radiator hose and turn the fans on. It’s on its side it’ll come right up.

Just throwing it out there it's a tight squeeze but the fans will come out the top, I did it when my radiator cracked on my charger.

Great job, do you recall what size cylinder hone is needed? I bought the scope too to see why my daytona wouldn't start and this happened to me also.

Sir !! You are a Hemi hero! I am driving a 2005 Dodge Magnum with almost 300,000 km on it. I have to say your video was very informative and I could tell the level of professionalism was at the top. Thank you for making this video. I only have one question my Magnum has slight vacuum leak. I can’t find where it is. So I want to go ahead and take that air intake off. Do you attach the intake gaskets to the intake or to the Block? Thank you so much

hey man good ass job explain this. i wish you made this video 5 years ago my valves dropped on my RT 05 magnum. i have a 07 now and IF that happens again....im coming back to this video for reference.

Thanks a lot for the detailed video! Much appreciated.

Very informative video. Great job.

Having to pull the heads to get to the lifters makes a cam/lifter swap a pain. Not like the old V8s. But this would have been a great time, if you are wanting more cam, to do it. Looks lucky that piston didn't damage the cylinder wall beyond honing.

One of the best videos ever seen, when it comes to how too... 👍🏽

Great video....very informative....did excellent job!

Informative video, I am wondering why not pull the engine

I'm halfway through the exact process. I'm doing all the pistons and rings since I'm in there. They're che as a set.

Awesome job, nice and clean!

Basically doing this on my supercharged magnum srt8.. but doing forged pistons and rods

Excellent demo 👌

Nice video, just wondering why didnt you change the coolant tank because it looks very rusty

What a great and informative video!

Insanely thorough video for this job! One of the best I've seen on the net. Love how you showed the fix with the engine in the car, which is what most shade tree mechanics would do. Since you had that picker though, did you ever contemplate just pulling the motor out to make life easier?

At the same job I need done what you just did on that Magnum

What was the original symptoms on the engine before you start looking into the cylinder heads?

My 2011 Ram HEMI 5.7 at 93k miles broke a valve spring and my #3 intake valve hit the piston. Dealer wanted $13k to replace the engine. Will do what you did to save money. Thanks for the video. My only feedback is why didn't you replace the lifters and cam while you were there? They cause the same failure modes.

Having that many seats dropping at the same time it sounds like it over heated. Change exhaust studs and replace the valve springs. There are updated one's.

Outstanding video. Thank you!

Watch that upper radiator hose, folks. It's too short! The torque of revving the engine will rip the hose from the radiator. Happens more readily when engine mounts are torn.

How is the engine holding ? Im looking into having my mechanic do the same thing valve seat dropped doing minor damage to pistons

Thank you for such a thorough video! I have oil on my number 7 spark plug and it misfired. I am wondering if this is part of the issue that caused it, or at least now I know how to take it apart to get a better look and find the problem.

You make this look so easy though I know it takes time and broken knuckles. I have a 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 5.7 Hemi with 177,300 miles. It overheated beginning of December and now I have white smoke coming out of the exhaust. It runs very rough and I'm afraid to use it for fear I would damage more. I want to get it repaired. How much did it cost you to repair the Magnum including parts & labor? Also, how long did it take to repair? I would love to make the repairs myself but don't have all the necessary tools. Wish I could find a mechanic that would be willing to help me repair.

I had to have my rear main seal replaced under warranty. Apparently they never fail, according to forums. Still don’t know why mine did, and it was sudden and poured oil out with anything more than about 1500 RPMs (oil pressure). One very important thing- The people in the know ALL stress the importance of using the Mopar sealant on the oil pan gasket. Crucial.

Need to obtain heads...... It's a 2006 charger 5.7. so what I want to do is find 5.7 heads 2009 or newer? Less chance of a valve seat dropping?

Same thing happened to my 300c but my cylinder walls got scratched up did you have to get yours fixed or were they not too bad? Also where did you buy your heads ? And would it be worth it to fix the stock heads if they are in good condition( removing valve seat and getting new valves?

Great job great vid guys 👍🏼

Question. My hemi in first cold start of the day takes a min and it used to just start at the tap of the key. After the first cold start of the day it starts fine. And somedays has a very small miss. Could this be a valve seat issue?

I noticed you weren't running a catch can. So what did the backside of the intake valves look like? Thanks!

Nice job, well explained.

I have a question when valve seat drop does it make clack clack noise

Does anyone know where to find those rubber flaps that go on the radiator? The ones that help seal the fans? Thanks

What caused the damage to the head? The valves looked fine. I have same issue but I found little pieces of metal in exhaust before the cat. The debree cannot be identified and the valves on mine look fine as well. My engine isn't even a year old on a swap I think someone left something in the intake or something. But what caused you're damage.?

What was they symptoms? I have the 07 6.1L with 83k miles. The car has a small evap leak and misfire in cylinder 2. I changed the plugs swapped the coil/injector from 2 to 4 and vacuum pressure test nothing. It idles rough only at low rpms are at a stop. It’s not making no crazy sounds are smoke, so I’m lost.

Have you ever had problems with your PCM and had to replace it with an aftermarket one?

How much time is required to remove the passenger side Head for inspection ONLY? I was charged 4 hours labor and believe it was book time for a removal and installation as a gasket replacement might require. Any thoughts??

Quick question do you have to put the engine in top dead center to take the head bolts off?

Good video but was wondering how much harder it would have been to pull the engine. seems like you were pretty close to pulling it anyway.

Excelente, felicitaciones. Buen trabajo

Thanks for the video! Do you have a link for the place where you got the cylinder heads?

Is it easier to pull an engine when you working on a 5 7 and a Truck a 2004 Dodge Ram 1500