During those long cranking sessions my wife shouts across the room "for goodness sake give up!" I replied, "this guy never gives up".

Just my kind of Sunday relaxation program!

I'm so glad I watched to the end-I was yelling right along with you-thanks so much for the temporary break from all of the terrible things going on our world today-we love ya Mustie!

This is much more fun to watch a work through on the fly than just watching everything getting replaced & moded with new components. Way more educational too.

That starter deserves a purple-heart medal or something. what a brilliant piece of kit.😁

These videos are truly labors of love. I cannot imagine too many people would have dug down further, after seeing the damage to the engine. Amazing that you keep going….and keep laughing through all of this, as well. There are lessons here, well beyond mechanical ones.

I'm so proud of you Mustie. You made breaking my leg this week not so bad. A lifetime of skill at work. Thanks for all your effort

Really appreciate your channel. I’m 37, married, 2 young kids and suffering from some pretty bad depression and your videos all make me happy and feel better. Love the content and happy I found your channel. I’ve seen every single one of your videos as I laid in bed late at night and early, early morning frozen in fear to get up. Thank you.

Now that was an awesome win! Been there when an engine was right on the edge of firing up and just would not catch, so this one actually had me on the edge of my seat swearing at the screen...lmao. Thought it was actually going to get shelved, but I think you have to run with this one now...for our sake I think you are committed!...lmao Thanks Mustie, great vid!

Yes!! An hour and a half of Mustie , it's like having a long lunch with an old friend. Thank you , Darren -it never gets boring ,you are the most informative and entertaining man on KZfaq. Wish you were my neighbour ,it would make my day , just hanging out with you

I think we all agree that we wanna see more of this little truck. With or without the goldwing engine. Btw. The goldwing engine would probably be a nice power upgrade

I love watching your Sunday videos with a couple beers. What a great end to the week.

Unbelievable!! The suspense was killing me, and I've never seen an engine that was that trashed actually start. Most entertaining video you've ever made!

I think this engine is a good candidate to try a diy block and head resurfacing and the world cheapest engine rebuild. That could be fun!

Great video. Reminds me of my late 80s Pontiac Firefly, a Pontiac Canada version of a Suzuki Swift. It had 1L 3-cylinder 55HP engine. Got it used and they must have had some amazing sludge in it, after I did my first oil change the compression was so low I had to start it like the Daihatsu - spin it up with the starter and hold my foot on the boards until it caught on its own. Sounded pretty much the same too. Once it was running, it would still do 70 mph. I swapped the motor and drove it for another 3 years. Now I regret not tearing down the original motor to see what was wrong with it. I can’t wait to see what is next for the Daihatsu, I often wonder about one of these mini trucks instead of a UTV/ATV for my hobby farm.

DUDE!! Totally loved this episode; loved the length!! Great content! AND that booger started 💯💯💯👍🏾👍🏾

"Valiant Half-Assed Effort" is the Mustie1 quote of the year so far.

I think you're still off a tooth on the timing belt. If it starts/runs only when the distributor is adjusted all the way in one direction, that's a pretty good sign you're off a tooth on the timing.

Woohoo!! I can’t believe she fired up! I was cheering right along with ya, Darren!

Loved watching this assessment and work on the little engine. Having owned the Mitsubishi 1994 version of this and tinkering with it just a little they are great fun. And a real workhorse in slow speed.

Not even going to lie. I had my arms in the air cheering when it finally fired off. I freaking love it

The block sleeves ARE replaceable. They are slightly tapered and can be knocked out from the top of the block. Replacing the sleeves will probably solve 90 percent of the engine's problems as the aluminum block does not look cracked. The design is pretty common. you can find parts in most countries in SE Asia including Australia. The parts may interchangable with the Suzuki Carry engine as, I believe, many of the Kei vehicle manufacturerd shared engines in South Korea - which is, I think , where Dihatsu is manufactured. All that said, it looks like it should be sent to the salvage yard...

This video was worth an academy award for best suspense thriller 2022! Excellent stuff !

Lots of fun to watch. Lol. I was hoping you'd get it running and you did! Now I have to wait til next Sunday to see what is up next

These were available with PTO powered tipper beds, where you'd use forward/reverse gear to raise/lower. Most likely that's what the lever is/was.

This first thing that you thought about after the engine started was sharing it with us, "I hope the camera is on". Thanks Mustie1, You made my day :)

If anything, there was a military engine that I think would work: 4A084. It's air cooled and smaller than a VW engine. It can put out 40 HP.

Well hot damn! This is the most on edge I've been about one of your engine starting videos. Helluva job!

That ending! That emotional rollercoaster! Can't wait for the next episode!

Excellent - I've just been in the workshop myself trying to sort out the 4x4 system on a MitsubishI L200 - now I can watch you!!

I knew this episode wasn't gonna end until he got it started. Great job.

Another great vid! My hat is off to you! You a have more patience and stick to it than I have. Working thru something I probably pushed into the scrap pile.

Sunday is my favorite day.. I'm always so excited to see what Mustie has for us.. Man that engine.. I rebuild old crappy inboard boat motors.. and I've had SO many of them that were SO far past their prime but people just want to get one last 'rest' of the season out of them.. So many of them after a top end take hours and hours of cranking and they'll just suddenly get going and last another year or 2.. SO much fun!!!!

The abandoned Econoline. What a beauty! The mini truck runs! It has to be impossible for Mustie1 to fail. Did you hear the “I Win” laugh? Always a good sign. Sunday morning dark roast and a Mustie1 video! Yea! Was up early……time change! Love from NW Colorado. Thanxz

This was great I loved the end. love your stuff keep it up. I think I was more excited than your were when it fired up.

Mustie so, so impressed with your stubborness! Loved the video, need part 3!

Way to go Mustie!! I was sitting there at the end saying "Come on Baby, Come on, You can do it!!" 😆 Can't wait till next one! You give me inspiration to tackle my Dad's Simplicity Broadmoor tractor 8 hp motor.

I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking a Kubota 3 cylinder seems like a perfect swap for it if it would fit. Seems to be it would be a fitting swap for it. Plus make it a bit more powerful.

Oh man that ending was perfect. Your persistence is amazing! When you can hear the dear little thing wanting to start, you feel like you need to give it all the chances you can haha!

Mr. Mustie is a trip. Shear determination, patience of Job, and great videos. This man is enjoying life, God bless.

Argh I can't believe you left us on such a cliff hanger! I hope that head gasket holds together to make a part 3 worth while asap. Keep up the good work Darren 👍 Please re-do a compression test after some more running... your valve job should of helped some what.

Mustie1 Any plans on bring the orange Ford pickup back to life. Your body work was awesome, just needed so more pieces change out if I remember

Catches on fire. Laughs and says see it fired right up. The most laid back guy on the planet

Fantastic, I think we all felt, exactly what you felt, when that thing was right there, just needed to hear it run!! Loved it!!

Mornin Mustie! Always look forward for your Sunday Uploads.

I used to own one of these back in the day with a 1.2L Diesel engine. Fantastic little Van.

That was a great episode! It felt so good when it ran that I almost thought I had something to do with it..

Yessssss, for the WIN!!!! OMG! That was like the orgasm of engines, she kept fight;n you and fight'n you until finally at the end she released her love!!! What an epic video, I think we were ALL a bit down seeing her beat you, it just didnt feel right after all that hard work!!! Just goes to show you NEVER GIVE UP trying as you never know what you will get out of even the most tired of engines! Great Video Darren, what a release to see her the next morning give it all she has and then some, she sure did pure there for a few moments, enough to bring TEARS to our eyes!

If a new liner isn't available, I suppose you could try Scott's (of Coldwarmotors) fix for the damaged cylinder in the '37 Chevy - mud in the pitted areas with JB weld, sand the high spots and hone as needed. According to Scott, this worked for the '53 Buick straight 8 some years back. No verdict on the Chevy, as the motor isn't beck together yet.

Aww man, you had to leave us on a cliffhanger of sorts... Fantastic moment hearing it finally catch and run for a moment, i really like the sound of these little 3-pot kei motors. Be interesting to see if the head gasket holds, I did a similar resurrection of a well-done Peugeot 1.4i engine and it ran nicely for 10 minutes and then pushed the gasket out again and started taking another drink.

fun watching u work on engine and pray u get it back together

Watching you make me anxious to get out of rehab... new hip in October

Absolutely amazing at what you did on this. I too thought you were done for with this and then bam it she fires up... lmao! The funny thing is I thought the exact same thing about putting a VW engine into it and going from there. The other thing I thought that seemed odd was that that valve that was pitted looked different than the rest as it seemed to be a good bit more concaved than the rest of them. Great show of determination on this. Thanks Darren!

had these in trucks in the military. it was somewhat of an issued "shop" vehicle, used for running around to support back shop logistics and such. Anyway, they were governed to 25ish, but you could get more out of it by keeping the skinny pedal floored, and turn ignition off and back on while driving and it'd get to 30 easy then slowly come back down to 25ish.

Nice Hail Mary at the end of your video ! Now I can’t wait to see what you do next. Thanks for a great Sunday morning video.

Was rooting for it to start! Fantastic as always sir! 🤙

I have a Dyhatsu 4x4 truck and a 2x4 van and a spare 660 engine if you're interested.

Morning all from the UK time to settle down to a lesson from Mustie.

you got a lot of AFC betterthans looking a safe space today… I love it!

Great effort.. I like your patience.. great teaching.. Jose

I am really not sure why you don't just drive it around on the starter motor? That thing is a BEAST!!! Awesome video as always, thanks!

I think you went as far as anyone could ask, and you finally got it to fire. Makes my Sunday so much better, starting with your videos. Thanks !

I was grinning from ear to ear when that thing fired at the end! We've all been there, broke down somewhere or trying to get something started and it's so so close and just won't fire. Made my day when it took off.

Well, the weather is getting warmer, may be you can find some new things to work on. And be able to show us new and more videos. You have great videos and I enjoy every one of them.

Hard fought and well earned.... I need a starter like that in all my vehicles.

A local steel mill has 5 of these things. I work on their large forklifts (15ton to 60ton). I've never worked on the Daihatsus. I will ask them where they get their parts

AMAZING 👏 loving the really long videos. I had a feeling it would go sometime

I literally jumped up and fist pumped the air when that engine came alive. great work man. love your videos.

Just bypass the engine entirely and connect the starter to the tail shaft. 😋

What a great video! It’s like watching small engine repair but on a truck. This was a heroic effort. I think, though, even if you can lap the head a little more and considering the valves are about as good as they are going to get, it’s going to need rings to get near acceptable compression. Big work to remove engine, open her up and take a look at a bottom end that’s been lubricated with antifreeze for god knows how long. Enter rod bearings and seals that are hard to get - the condition of the crank. Could be opening a pandora’s box where the economics of $ and time spiral out of control. But it would be a freaking hoot to watch!,

Long time fan. I really enjoyed this one. Thanks.

That was great! 🤣 I was holding my breath while you were cranking. I'm sure it was in empathy for the fumes as well as the suspense. Great finish with the rev out at the end. Looking more like a 2 stroke than a 4. Thanks again.... 👍

I think that engine would make a cracking boat mooring. 😂😂😂 Absolutely brilliant content. Loved every second. Your enthusiasm and enjoyment on these projects is a joy to watch. Many thanks. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤🇺🇸

Sundays are reserved for mustie videos!

Absolutely brilliant, classic Mustie, I knew you wouldn't let it lie!

I get frustrated when the lawn mower won't start. Great video and a great lesson on patience.

The extra lever in the cab is for a hi-lo, its a 2wd version of a 4wd transfer box and really weird thing to have on one of these sugar lump trucks. Apparently the transfer case has front output locked off giving you only the rear output.

You manually dribbling gas into the intake ports just made me think that's probably how Bosch came up with K-Jetronic, haha!

She fired! God I'd love my own little shop to play in. Great work man

I know you are probably really disappointed when you get junk deals like this, but they also make for my favorite videos when I get too see you take stuff apart and try fixes lol. Love what you do Mustie, if I was your neighbor I'de be in your garage everyday learning mechanic!

that was one of the most exciting endings, i was truly on the edge just waiting for that to fire up, it was fun but it needs a lot of work to be a reliable engine again. if you can find rings for it it will run much better but with how bad the cilinders are i don't think rings will last that long anyway, maybe if you put sleeves too but that will turn into a huge project.

Hey Mustie. I love all you're videos, especially the CB 350 and TL250 ones. So put a BEETLE engine in the Daihatsu, and pleeeeeassssse do the Goldwing. I'm grateful for all you do though!

Mustie, that's a pile of cuteness. You need to continue.

dude you are like mr wizard with these old beasts and i love it

That's the one time I would bring on the bottle of ether! We don't know it might unstick a ring or two. Acetone is also very good at unsticking rings used as a fuel or additive.

14:20 you can see your crank timing mark.. you can see the dot on the pulley near the bolt hole. it will line up with the casting arrow on the block below it. you'll find similar markings on the head for the cam

"Jettison" is the first word that comes to mind. Thanks Mustie1 very dramatic video we have been on the edges of our seats willing that little motor to run. Central California Watching

Love your persistence, always a great video. Cheers

I'm surprised about the lack of parts availability. They have been importing them here for a while now. I saw an engine on eBay for $1500 and a head for $999 and other than overpriced gasket sets that was pretty much it. You can't even find a diesel engine or very many parts for them. Maybe in a few more years we'll see more because those trucks have become quite popular here. I wouldn't mind having one myself. Hope to see it again with whatever solution that you come up with for it.

Hey mustie i wrote about the HNL lever in the last video, it works via air driven solenoids and vacuum lines, pita with air leaks, will need motor running to check it... Also daihatsu used to write the operating instructions on the inside of the sunvisor for the h n l settings

I like it that you didnt give up even when you saw that damage in the cylinders. I'd might throw a towel or two in the ring at that point lol. Very nice video as always !

THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE VIDEO. Found myself cheering at the last 2 minutes as if my horse just won the Kentucky Derby

I love how the oil filler acts as an exhaust pipe! Yeah, she's beyond tired. Success in getting it to run under its own power, though!

Look around for a 796cc engine from either a Daewoo Tico, Matiz or Damas or a first generation Suzuki Alto, it's very similar to that one and should be easy enough to swap. Considering that now it's sold pretty much at scrap value you could swap the transmission as well, just to decrease your workload. It was a pretty reliable little engine and you can still find some aftermarket parts for it.

I really like how you never give up on old engine's ..... well done to you

I thought at one point you had a little Kubota engine that might fit. It would be a torque monster in that little truck and make for a great video getting it to fit. Your Sunday videos fill my day. Thanks for all the quality work you do.

Also that pitting on the middle valve. Most likely got so hot melted tip off spark plug and it clattered about cylinder, had it happen before

You should swap an 18-20hp briggs flathead twin in it. They're pretty low profile and not very long. Would be the cheapest option unless you can find a good used oem engine in my opinion.

Great video one of your best ever congratulations from Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Absolutely AWESOME video once again. Huge win!!!