Aww exactly!!!😅

Awww thanks so much for your sub, I really appreciate it! And head gasket on an '06?? Wow, what happened?? 4.0??

Just the little engine, a 2.7L. And I finally FINALLY got 'er finished just last night!! I did not know what a challenge I was going to be getting into taking the entire project on by myself until. It was too late, but I can honestly say that your videos full of knowledge from both you and Danny were a motivating guiding light that made it possible. Thank you again for your awesome smile, your perky spirit and all of the dedication that so clearly goes into your channel to make your daily grind become shared information/entertainment for the world to find. I am now and will always be FOREVER a FAYE FANATIC!

Ooh, and I had to embark on the repair issue due to the engine overheating due to my slow response in treating the coolant leak that first developed from my corroded coolant bypass pipe (OEM it comes from the factory as a doomed part as it it a plastic pipe in a very hot area of the engine, but has been updated in later year models to be a more suitable metal pipe.) The 05-06 as far as I know we're manufactured with this coolant bypass pipe made of ceramic/plastic that is bound to fail after reaching the "high mileage" (150k+ miles) stage of life. I hadn't discovered all of this until mine had reached the failure stage and then after repairing it, I believe it was just a downhill struggle as I had probably done the repair too late and the damage had been more extensive throughout the cooling system, combined also with my attempts before repairing the bypass pipe to quick fix my leaking coolant issues with stupid products such as Radiator Stop-Leak that potentially compounded the issues at hand rather than fix anything. That said, it was at the 200,000 miles and beyond point that I began having major issues with overheat almost everytime I drove the truck, that ultimately led to my decision to tackle the head gasket repair job myself after being quoted by a mechanic $4000 to do the job. I learned ALOT doing it myself, and it only ended up costing around $1400 total (new headgasket, radiator, water pump, thermo, etc.) by doing all the labor myself. I can honestly saw that I have gained a new found appreciation for the difficult, and more often than not frustrating, work that you and other mechanics do on the daily!!

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

I am with you on that, just a little more work and it would be perfect.

Thank you!!

Awww thank you so much!! Yes! I feel such gratitude for their presence in my life. Hanging out with Danny and Shop Mom is like being with family 💜

Thank you!!!!

Thank you!!!!!

Thank you!!!!!

Dingle ball hones are the quick way to refresh cylinder walls if you're just doing a ring job..

@@stevenbauer7744 I never seen that thing before; i'd seen a drill head like a... sharpening stone?, it left the cylider entirely flat, shiny and everything, and the walls kept being apparently 90º/flat.

Oh I definitely will!!! Thank you!

I'll address the oil problem in later videos for sure!!!! Thank you for your interest!!!!! 😃 I don't have EGR anymore but I'm not sold on catch can yet....

BAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA

5k miles on the rings!

@@FayeHadley right on

You dont know the ring gap you could have blow by.

Nailed it!!!

Yes 👍🏻

No relation, and thank you!!

No problem I'm happy to answer!! I performed a leak down test before pulling the engine and so I'm very confident that the rings are in great shape and I also assembled the bottom end so I I'm not worried about someone else's work and double-checking it I feel very confident that I did it right the first time and I also have a trick for cleaning out the piston rings while the Pistons are still installed which I'm going to show you in a future video!!!!! but a lot of this series is showing what can be done by the regular person at home. Not everyone would have the confidence to tear apart their bottom end and remove their crank or yank their Pistons. Honing here was good cheap and easy insurance but not even super necessary!!!

The leak down test. I never even considered that you did that, which clears this up. Now the small area at the very bottom that you aren't able to hone or whatever (the part between the top of the piston and the rings themselves) is a trivial amount of cylinder wall and nothing that you all are worried about. This is all cleared up now. Thanks for the education.

Went back in with solvent and 3m very worn abrasive pad

I assembled the bottom end, actually- not them, so I'm not worried about my work. I know it looks like I should have addressed this more because of all the negative comments on here......

It won't do much when the carbon is hardened like it was. It's pretty much like a rock at that point lol. But seafoam does work when it's fresh carbon.

Will address this in a later video when that time comes for this build!!!!

Awesome. thanks there are so many different ideas on this subject. thanks for all the great video's and time you guys take to bring them to us.

The whole engine's junk after this dodgy hone job anyway

Thats why she used the dingle berries. The rough finish helps the rings seal and helps with keeping the cylinder from glazing.

They're live with the book club on wednesday and happy hour on friday.

??? What do you mean? I thought I explained all the stuff in the vid! Correct me!

@@FayeHadley why hone it with the Pistons still installed? Why not re ring it? Your oil scraper rings are most likely packed with carbon, it's possible your rings did not seat properly cousing the glaze. I'm not trying to hate but since your going all out I don't get why you did it that way. Hopefully it'll be fine.

@@richardt1293 Also the rings are new, I think less than 5k, is what she said.

I assembled the bottom end, so k feel confident about it and the engine had great leakdown when pulled, so I don't suspect any issues 👍🏻

@@FayeHadleyas long a your confident, just seems kinda silly to dingle berry it without removing the Pistons.

Haha is that a good thing?!!!🤣

@@FayeHadley u gave me motivation to NOT cut corners, so yes. lol

Lee Huntley Danny uses white or silver on the back of blocks he builds.

It's okay, you don't have to! I'm pretty good at it but I've been doing this stuff for a while. They came out perfectly 👌😊

I explain this in the video!

Keep running your fingers over that keyboard. Your projected insecurities are showing.

That's funny!!!🤣 I built engines for a living at the last job I had before starting my business. I have already cleaned the surface of the block like the last video that I made. You should check it out! I bet it will be helpful to you!☝🏻