Cheap Engine Rebuild - Prepping the Block

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Cheap Engine Rebuild - Prepping the Block | Scrapstang

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@Jordy-927 6 ай бұрын

Love the videos and watching you learn. I've "built" lots of scrapyard Chevy and Ford blocks with a dingle ball hones to play in dirt track racing. Polish the cranks by hand, get a clean enough cam and pick through the parts to get the best of the junk. A set of new rings and bearings, slap on a TH400 or a C4 and run it at WOT in 2nd gear for hours. Yeah, the cylinders weren't round, and they often burned oil. The crank was probably out too...the cam and valve trains were worn, and shouldn't have been mismatched...but it was cheap and we had fun. Sometimes we even won a race. You're building the Scrapstang. It can't have a $40k drivetrain, it needs a $4k one.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Love this comment! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

@Jordy-927 6 ай бұрын

@@rookie__pilot as long as you are having fun, that's all that counts. The fact that you are providing entertainment to others and even showing some people that they can do this stuff too is just icing on the cake.

@spazmcgillacutty 6 ай бұрын

BRO! Big ups on doing it all yourself. There's very little wrong with block.. Nowhere near enough to necessitate taking it to a machine shop. You're absolutely killin it! I LOVE THIS BUILD!!!

@user-tw7cq5vz1b 6 ай бұрын

I appreciate you doing this on a light budget. Most of us don't have the money for a high budget build.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, you are right!

@stevematscherz1023 6 ай бұрын

Looks good. Enjoyed the build. Continue these as you are. It's what people want to see.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Steve, will do!

@steveh9869 5 ай бұрын

The process and procedures you’re following is exactly how me and my friends built all our engines in high school. We didn’t have much money so we used what tools we had or could borrow along with used but still good parts. For the most part, things worked out fine and we drove those engines for years. Sure we didn’t get 100K miles out of them but they lasted a very long time with no issues. I think you’re doing a great job and providing an education and reference for most of the youth today building cars on a budget. The important thing is to learn something, build your experience and have a good time.

@jaqass07 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Anthony

@jasoncarpenter4116 6 ай бұрын

I enjoy the budget minded build, not everyone can afford to spend a bunch of money on an engine and transmission. This tells the common person what you can do to get by on with basic tools and hard work!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Well said my friend !

@kirktruman6707 6 ай бұрын

Angel way to go. You are helping other people with all of the information you are providing. Keep up the good work Brother.

@dalestofer4301 6 ай бұрын

It's not how well you do the first one, it's each one after. Keep showing us how Angel.

@bobuncle8704 6 ай бұрын

Looking good. We never had the budget either, and that’s how we built our street stock racing engines for years. We’d make all the big dollar guys mad because we used to run upper mid pack against drivers that had $10,000 in their motors. It was so funny.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

That is so sick! I love that for your team🤘🏼

@jeffreyandreas7514 6 ай бұрын

What you’re doing is fine, all that engine needed was a refresh and that’s exactly what you’re doing. Good job on the attention to detail. Before you start reassembling, clean, clean clean!! Keep up the good work and the videos, I’m really enjoying following along with your project. If we weren’t on opposite ends of the country I’d be there helping!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Hell yeah we’d have this thing running by lunch 😂

@kylebernard7755 5 ай бұрын

High fives to all the folks who help this channel. You guys rock for supporting Angel.

@s.gossett5966 6 ай бұрын

I am low budget most of the time. To be honest, I probably would have run that engine as it was, but the work you're doing is both good from a reliability standpoint and is good content to show folks what they can accomplish at home.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

I honestly wasnt looking forward to it but to be honest im having lots of fun doing it! Thank you!

@robertlugo3388 6 ай бұрын

Good job. Cleaning all the passages, checking the ring gap, the deglazing of the deck, all things that you can do with the circumstances you have right now. Like I said, I built an engine with the same techniques, and it ran well for many miles. Two thumbs up!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your tips! Definitely helped me!

@darrencatenacci2737 6 ай бұрын

Nice job that old bank book makes budget builds harder to do. Looks like everything cleaned up pretty good. Stay cool

@ZackaryMac 6 ай бұрын

That's the nice thing about scraping cast iron by hand, you'd have to be the Hulk to gouge it with a hand scraper. I've cleaned lots of gaskets from aluminium and magnesium, and that is easy to gouge, especially magnesium.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

It came off super easy thankfully😂

@Andrew-jh5uv 6 ай бұрын

Anthony legend effort👏👏👏👏

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Right!

@roymurray6374 6 ай бұрын

My favorite magazine, now out of print is Car Craft. You're doing all this pretty much in the budget builder mindset of that magazine, to that I say," hell yeah brother!!" 😁

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

@GafferTapeIsSticky 6 ай бұрын

Great work Angel. The sandpaper on the deck face will just remove burs. I think its worth doing. Make sure you dont leave grit in the oil passages though. :)

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Definitely going to clean again!

@dennyo3992 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Anthony! Solid dude!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Right!

@CherryBombRx 5 ай бұрын

For someone who is a total girl and for the most part, just thinks it looks like a random bunch of metal pieces, you do an exceptional job explaining and showing everything.

@rookie__pilot 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@billyhouse1943 6 ай бұрын

Thank you..

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🫡

@LyleCochran 6 ай бұрын

Don't sweat the machine shop comments. I've rebuilt hundreds of Ford and mostly Chevy V8s and you are doing great. Make sure your Lifters are good. The 289 and 302 need good oil in the top end. You go Bro!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!!!!

@Bristol1 6 ай бұрын

Nice work! Looking forward to seeing this go back together. I also vote cam it!

@justinjonbaugh 6 ай бұрын

This is excellent, Mr. Foodcake! Such great explanations of what you are doing AND why. Having struggled through this with books that only talk about the professional process and expensive tools, this is great material for real world, at-home, low budget people like me. Keep up the good work!

@mikewatson4967 5 ай бұрын

Al from Skidfactory regularly uses a whetstone for sharpening knives to clean up his decks.

@VanHoutenBuilds 6 ай бұрын

Great video, Angel! I should probably get a first aid kit for my shop too hahah.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Definitely recommend, theyre serious when they say blood, sweat & tears 😂

@VanHoutenBuilds 6 ай бұрын

@@rookie__pilot 😅 For real! haha

@kylebernard7755 5 ай бұрын

I'd use a ball hone only to break the glaze. The three stone will let you address the out of round while the ball just polishes it as is.

@Boostin1503 6 ай бұрын

Cam it!

@DemonViewLLC 6 ай бұрын

I donated the first aid kit hoping you wouldn't have to use it ever....... I should have known better! 😁

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Its like the piston ring new it was coming 😂

@rickyfulks889 6 ай бұрын

Good job

@MS-hd8yq 6 ай бұрын

Although this is something I'll never do, learning the process is pretty cool and you're always entertaining.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

This is a huge compliment 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@ivycycles 6 ай бұрын

Awesome to see this coming together so nicely. My only constructive criticism would be to make sure you clean out the oil galleys really well. If you could find someone with a proper size rifle cleaning kit that would be great. Take the galley plugs out and have it. Then wash them out with some hot sudsy soap and water. Soap and water helps to remove small metal particles. Blow it all out dry, then spray some lubricant as needed. Would hate to see you do all this work to have some stray crap in the oil galley ruin it all.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Really good tip, thanks!!

@dirtyfingersgarage 6 ай бұрын

I like to use solvent when honing a cylinder rather then oil. It will cut better. Nice work tho...

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@LyleCochran 6 ай бұрын

Oh yea. I vote cam it. Make dat ferd breath!

@tonyrusso9088 6 ай бұрын

Good job with the budget block cleanup! The stubborn marks at the top of the bore would've been much easier with a light pass from a ridge reamer, but the hone did a great job as well. Once you got the honing pattern down, the cylinders look great! And most impressive of all, is the time you took to do the end gap computations and did a great job of gapping the rings! Nice work!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!! 👍🏻

@graemelliott3942 6 ай бұрын

Great Job Angel! You have a lot of experience! That engine will run fine!

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Graem!

@DMTiffanyTimepieces 6 ай бұрын

Been binging your videos lately, and it has me wanting to build a roller 302 for my '64 Falcon! Keep up the great work, sending love from Phoenix.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Ouuu a 302 in the Falcon sounds fun!

@user-bh8hz8bv2n 6 ай бұрын

cool stuff

@thekatmann9730 6 ай бұрын

OutSTANDING!! Absolutely love to see the community pitching in! You guys ROCK! And the 'budget' rebuild is awesome! Yeah, yeah... a machine shop would be great. But this is 'grass-roots'. This hits me RIGHT in my youth... when I didn't have hardly 2 dimes. And the only way to get it done...was to do it.. I seriously want to go find a FB engine, and start tearing it down now!! hahaha

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, thank you again for your support! 🤘🏼✌🏼

@gerrywinzor1103 6 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly, you aren't planning on pushing the power too hard on this build and I bet you aren't going to be doing too many long drives on it either. The engine probably wont be the first thing to break 🤞and if you *have* to put a new engine in a few years down the road then hopefully you'll have the budget to do what you really want Maybe use a really good oil filter and do a couple of early oil changes during the break-in

@waltermartin6176 6 ай бұрын

Great video

@smavtmb2196 6 ай бұрын

Keep up the fantastic work. Are you planning to paint the block and heads while the engines apart?

@rockstarfan886 6 ай бұрын

If you want it to be a "budget" build I would steer away from a cam because once you get a cam then you say oh I'll get lifters and then oh I should get new rockers and so on and it snowballs into a 10k engine build

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Lol youre so right 😂😂

@barackmycat9448 6 ай бұрын

If you do the engine you know what was done. If someone else does it you`re never sure. I bet it will be fine.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Well said!

@Gassit 6 ай бұрын

Just look at Sarah's recent experience with the Toyota V8

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

@@Gassit YUP

@garyworokevich2524 6 ай бұрын

Great information.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Gary!

@billyoc225 6 ай бұрын

You've done a 10/10 crank, treat yourself to a camshaft. :)

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

I like the way you think

@randywl8925 6 ай бұрын

My only concerns are the sanding and honing grit and how much is still stuck on or in the block, especially the lifter valley and lifter bores. Probably not so good in the water jacket either because of the water pump bearings and seals. You ought to check machine shop prices for boiling the block and installing new cam bearings. Yeah, i know. My budget is same as yours. 🤫

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thanks you do have a point 👍🏻

@randywl8925 6 ай бұрын

@@rookie__pilot I'm not familiar with Ford engines, but I've built two 350 Chevy's.... but that was over 25 years ago. I did have my block machined and line bored, so it came back clean. I just had to keep it clean during the bench top assembly.... Yeah, I put it together on a bench.... in a back room at my house that I made into my shop area. When I cleaned the crank journals, I did that outside. I had the crank upright, partially submerged in slightly soapy and pretty warm water. (Makes it dry faster) I ran my cleaning brushes through all the oil passages from the top down, flipped the crank in the soapy water and did it again. Then I blasted water from a hose nozzle through all the ports to rinse them. I followed that by blowing it dry with compressed air, then a butt load of WD 40 so that no surface rust could start. To store it, I layed it on some clear plastic and wrapped it very loosely. I didn't want to have to clean it again when I was ready to install. It might be messy, but if you could seal off the lifter bores fairly well, maybe you could rinse the lifter valley with the engine upside down...... Meaning that you're gonna get very wet laying on the ground doing it. 😂 You would want to clean the lifter bores first and very carefully and slowly with a lint free paper towel. If there actually was a tiny amount of sandpaper grit showing up on the paper towel, you'd probably be able to see it. Try carefully cleaning the lifter bores and see if there is anything to worry about. If you find a few specs of anything suspicious, that will tell you the best way to move forward. If you find absolutely nothing in the bores, consider plugging them well and rinsing the lifter valley with the engine upside down...... and you getting soaked. 😂 Then blow it dry with compressed air and WD 40 anything that isn't painted. While the engine is upside down, you could hose out the coolant passages via the water pump locations on the front of the block. ......you might want to do this on the crank side of the black also, but you wouldn't want to blast anything up into the blocks crank passages. Maybe there are some small rubber plugs at the hardware store.... It gets creative. I go overboard on stuff, so don't take my advice as criticism. I overthink everything 🤔 I'd love to do what you're doing right now on my S10's 4.3 V6, but it's my only transportation. 🙄 I wish I could write a short version of this instead of a novel. 😂

@p.d.nickthielen6600 6 ай бұрын

Cool to see your own channel angel food joke input here.... Rookie pilot ... Hours so far and type you are flying? Are you flying at Ryan Field ?

@rookie__pilot 5 ай бұрын

Im about 30hrs! Flying out of Marana now a days

@vinceradical8910 6 ай бұрын

Vince Here, I'm a crank specialist. HAVE YOU CHECKED IF THE CRANK IS BENT?

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Hello crank specialist, we have not! But probably still not

@vinceradical8910 5 ай бұрын

probably.......🤨@@rookie__pilot

@rookie__pilot 5 ай бұрын

@@vinceradical8910 its back together already 😂

@quick65filly 6 ай бұрын

Good project. What do you have for heads?

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

GT40P heads

@KrisGreenhill 6 ай бұрын

Oh no, now you've gone and done it. You'll probably get comments about how you have to pay a machine shop for every single engine rebuild. A lot of people have never done a garage rebuild and don't seem to know it's possible.

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Right!!

@StraightLineCycles 6 ай бұрын

😁😁😁

@tommcl8548 6 ай бұрын

👊👍

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

🤘🏼👍🏻

@matthewbarnhart5874 6 ай бұрын

Was ther not a dial on the drill's trigger?

@matthewbarnhart5874 6 ай бұрын

Will Sarah ever come help you?

@randywl8925 6 ай бұрын

Instead of editing my other comment, i thought id just add this uncle tonys garage video. Looks like you wouldn't have to remove cam bearings, but the oil gally plugs that feed the lifters would have to be removed. Might be a DIY job. I like the car wash idea, but you would need a good compressor and lint free paper towels to dry the block as fast as possible to avoid rust, especially in the oil passages, lifter bores and cylinders. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9qgotuFx7jTkX0.htmlsi=Pqy8SeKRKZaHLg_0

@rookie__pilot 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!