FRESHENING UP JUNKYARD 5.3 FOR LS SWAP - Can we get another 100K miles for $300? - UTX

welcome back to ugly truck today we've got a 5 3 ls engine that we're going to get ready to replace the 48 that is in our 70 c10 shop truck so stay tuned [Music] all right like emily said uh we've got a 5.3 liter here that we're going to put in the shop truck that we have it's uh got a 4.8 in it right now it's developed some problems so we went we bought this our favorite a 2005 chevy suburban is what we bought and it's got a this has 175 000 miles on it i wish it had less miles on it than that but it ran good it doesn't make any noise or anything so there's no reason why we we wouldn't use it but we are going to put new front uh crankshaft seal on it new rear main seal a high volume oil pump and a new oil pan gasket so that's what we'll do to freshen this thing up we're going to do a portion of it on the with it still on the cherry picker it's a lot easier to do the rear main like that we'll take the oil pan off with it hanging upright still so any any junk that would possibly be in the pan it'll still be there when we pull the pan off so we can see that this has also got the the famous uh studs or yeah the bolts broke off into the cylinder heads for the exhaust manifold so uh we're gonna fix those and just have the thing ready to go in the truck and hopefully it'll go another 100 000 miles or so so we'll start by taking the flywheel off i already loosened these up so it makes it a little easier i think all right so it's a lot easier to take the rear main seal off um with it not being on the engine stand so okay so all right so that's the rear main seal we'll definitely want to replace that now versus taking the out later on and doing it take a look at the crankshaft make sure it doesn't have a giant groove worn in it looks pretty good so all right so at this point let's we can get it uh bolted on the engine stand so we can rock it over and turn it upside down hurry very close [Music] close the mess that's how you get all the water okay so we took the oil pan off this everything that was in the bottom of the oil pan it seemed pretty normal no glittery pieces of aluminum or metal or anything a little bit of sludge like this kind of sludge that's built up on from um maybe not having having it serviced enough they change their oil a little more often it might not be like that so other than that nothing to give us any like warning signs that uh something's going bad in it like the pickup tube it's completely clean there's nothing in it uh if there was anything at all in there um i would take and pull the main caps off and check them out and see if they have anywhere but there's no reason to i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna uh go with uh it's probably okay and we'll we'll put a high volume oil pump on it and uh go from there so in order to do that first thing do take the pickup tube off of it one thing that happens on these is this o-ring seal that goes to the oil pump from the pickup tube it can get brittle and kind of shrink and lose its seal so just that alone if i wasn't replacing the oil pump with a high volume oil pump i would still at least take this pickup tube off and make sure it has a new seal here and i'll show you that seal here in just a second okay okay so this oil pickup tube it seals to the oil pump from an o-ring and okay okay so you see just like any other gasket it's it's a got a couple of flat spots on it now when i pulled it out of that it does not fit very tight it's pretty loose okay so there's a there's a real good chance that uh it was it could have been losing a little bit of oil pressure off of that so no matter what like i said if i wasn't doing the oil pump i would have pulled this pickup tube off cleaned the tube really good and it at least replaced that seal with a ls that's got over 150 000 miles on it that thing would cause big problems so all right so in order to get to the oil pump which is mounted on the front of the crankshaft we have to remove the harmonic balancer and the front timing cover and then the oil pumps underneath that so we'll start by undoing the harmonic bouncer crankshaft bolt all right that's 24 millimeter bolt on the crankshaft on an ls motor there you go they come out hard sometimes i used to be able to just twist them out with my fingers yeah okay so in order to remove a crankshaft uh or a harmonic balancer on an ls you gotta have a special puller for it [Applause] uses a rod to push against the inside of the crank it's got a couple little flat spots back here that this reaches in and grabs hold of so so you put it in there like that [Applause] all oh and so with that tool these come off pretty easy never really had to fight one off they're press fit on they don't have a keyway i'm gonna put the longer pin in now might [Music] all right so that that's the extent of getting the balancer off of one of them [Applause] all right so you gotta get the timing cover off need a engine stand that's about a foot taller [Music] whoops [Applause] okay so there's a front timing cover and this is the oil pump okay all right the oil pump on this uh it's held on by these four bolts [Applause] all right so it's all it takes to get the oil pump off of it that's where that o-ring ran okay so we won't be using this any longer okay so timing chain it's got a pretty good amount of play in it so we'll replace that it's got a mark right here and we have to roll it around and line them up so [Applause] [Music] all right just roll it over put the flex plate back on it uh now i can turn it over [Applause] okay so there's a mark on the crankshaft pulley right there and there's mark on this one okay you see him [Applause] okay this camshaft sprocket and never to be used again so next we've got to take the crankshaft sprocket off of it and i'll do it with this thing all right these come off pretty easy usually [Applause] okay got it and these do have a keyway okay so that's what holds them on the crankshaft on their spot [Applause] all right okay so we got a quote a clois uh timing chain set here um the chain i'm going to take and [Music] set it just let it sit in some oil a little oil on the sprocket all right so let's uh we'll start putting things back together here i got the thrust surface i got a little bit of oil on the thrust surface of the camshaft gear so let's just set that there for now this okay so i keep the old one around this will have to be tapped on a little bit [Music] [Applause] [Music] you'll hear it when it hits the end there definite sound all right okay so you line those two back up or make sure they're not lined up jane [Music] [Applause] okay so got my camshaft sprocket my crankshaft spark sprocket lined up with each other all right so the camshaft gear bolts they get tightened down to 26 foot pounds go around a couple times just to check all right so cam gears are installed now uh now we can uh put the oil pump on i'll show you what i do all right so on these uh oil pumps there's a lot of different o-ring seals that go um on the ls engine and there's some instructions in in the packet for milling that tell which one you need so make sure you read that don't throw it away this is um to change the pressure on the pump i want the stock pressure but this is a high volume oil pump so i don't use that but we can put this on now so oil pump torque it 18 foot pounds double check each one of them [Applause] okay all right so like i said this is a high volume oil pump it's not high pressure uh it's gonna maintain the same engine oil pressure but uh i think it advertises like it puts out 30 percent more volume so as your bearings get some clearance in them things like that you want to make sure you get oil that's getting all the way to the top of the engine so that oil pump that's putting out a higher volume is going to be a better chance of that happening so we've done that in about pretty much everyone we've done family i think so i haven't had any problems with them going going another 100 000 miles even if i'm just changing the timing chain on something for somebody i always just go ahead and do that if it's even if it's got over 150 000 i'd replace it so then to prime the pump this is what i do fill it full oil so by doing that it's gonna have it'll have oil pressure instantly when it cranks up okay so our o-ring so ours had a red o-ring in it okay so melanie wants you to use the green o-ring that's where reading the instructions comes in handy because if a person had put that black one in there you wouldn't have any oil pressure a little bit of lubricant just a little if this thing was gummed up with anything i wouldn't reuse it it looks like brand new inside nothing in it all right so there's a little lip that that o-ring seal sits down over and uh putting it in there you can feel that thing it went in there like twice as tight as when it came out so that other that o-ring that was on there most likely was probably losing a little bit of oil pressure hey what are you eating what is it plastic can i have it can't have it bring it here hey bring it over to me come on bring it here i feel like it's a trap i feel like if i come over some kind of trap okay so the brackets that hold the pickup tube i torque those down to 18 foot-pounds the bolt that goes to the oil pump it gets torqued down to 106 inch pounds so oil pumps installed pickup tubes installed doesn't hurt to give it a little bit more oil i get accused of over lubricating things all the time but i don't that doesn't make sense to me i mean you're the wd-40 kid so i don't know what people expect yeah that's right so by filling that pickup tube up it's just gonna run more oil through the oil pump and make sure everything's lubed up good so now now we have to clean up our gasket we surfaces put the timing cover back on the front and basically do the reverse of what we just did you want to work on cleaning the stuff that's got to be cleaned in the park washer big time help over here right now you helped [Music] [Music] okay like i mentioned before on almost every ls engine i've seen it will break off a exhaust manifold bolt this one you can see the high temperature silicone on it that somebody tried to get it to seal instead of instead of fixing it that won't work on these the reason um these things break is because you got a cast iron exhaust manifold on an aluminum head and they both expand and contract at a different rate and it just ends up breaking those bolts just by the amount of movement that they that they have so we'll put all new bolts in it again and the new bolts seem to hold up a little bit better than the original equipment ones so sometimes they're broke off or they have a little piece stuck out on them you can put a vice grip on them and pull them out but this one's not it's in there pretty good so you end up drilling it out big center punch [Applause] try and find the center of that bolt uh the best you can so get yourself a good place to start drilling it so i think this is an eighth inch bit plug your plug your hole if you have this so try and drill it in there straight uh take a look at it once you've started and see see how you're doing [Music] every once in a while stop and check make sure make sure you're going straight then once you get in there you don't want to go through the head so check how far in you are so i got about that much further to go to get to the end of the bolt yep all right so i hit the end of the bolt and it actually i could feel it drop through once it passed to the bottom of the hole so so it's all the way through give it a little bit of wd-40 i've been spraying it once in a while a stud extractor okay [Applause] and i like to use my small vice grip and i lightly start tapping on it and put a little pressure on it okay [Music] okay so that the stud extractor it's got like some threads that that thread into it in reverse and as you basically take make a left hand turn to remove it it's actually kind of it tightens up inside that hole that you drilled and grabs a hold and pulls it out um if it wouldn't have come out with this one i would have drilled the hole just a little bit bigger uh being real careful not to get into the threads at all and like this one you can see i didn't drill the hole quite set through the center but it was good enough that i didn't hit the threads any that's why i start off doing it with an eighth eighth inch you want to do that now before you put the engine in if a person wasn't paying attention you might not even seen that too and went ahead and put the motor in and then found out that that is busted off and then it is much more difficult with it in the truck so do them now you'll be happy that you did if you uh end up sending a head in and they're busted off a machine shop charges like what like eight bucks a stone or something like that i highly recommend letting them do it for eight dollars a stud but it's not hard to fix it yourself so okay uh we're at the point we're going to put this thing back on the cherry picker so we can do the rear main seal then we'll do the front cover and then we'll put the oil pan back up on it does it look like it's going really fast oh yeah yeah right here uh 706. 706 horsepower you know what those numbers mean all right so that's how i get the rear man out and now we gotta put a rear main in it that's how that works so these seals they go in one way okay they have a direction which way do you think they would go i think i think that's the front huh this one no that's the front yeah you're wrong oh the white dot goes to the outside that's what i said no that's not what you said pretty much just press fit in there you can push them in with your fingers could you lay the old one on top of that and then tap it in with a hammer sure good i guess if you don't if you're not super strong okay so this little thing in here that's keeping the the shape of the seal okay okay because without it that seal would retract basically it would be it'd be pretty difficult to put it over the rear main so i'm going to put a little bit of assembly basically on that crank just for something to lubricate the seal going on it got up there okay that's why that little thing is called the seal installer and i do not have the special tool to put the seal housing on there straight but the the seal is going to hold it in its place if i put that seal on backwards what do you think it happened nothing the engine runs in the river oh that's not what you want oh okay so if you read the procedure for putting one of these seals in there's a tool to center this thing because nothing it moves that much okay but the seal centers it so i take a straight edge along the block here and uh i just make sure that it's straight there that that's what you're trying to center so straight right there all right that all right and these have torx spec or a dark sequence i think it starts with this one it just works it works its way around snug some of them down and check it again okay if you don't do that it'll it'll make your oil pan leak all right so these get torqued down to 18 foot pounds flex put lines up with that little um hole right there it only goes on one way remember three passes 15 37 and 74. so i'm going to take each one of these just get them started there each one of them i'm going to give just a dab of blue loctite if emily was doing this it would look like um the bolts were completely blue i'm almost out of blue loft type most likely because of me right [Music] what's the next one um 37 okay what's the next one uh 74. [Music] all right also while we're talking about it this flex plate the original equipment ones that hole right there uh if you tighten that one up first on the torque converter uh you can just tighten it and then turn it and then do that one and that one uh one of our subscribers reminded me of that uh that totally works i've done a few of these so even when i do the next one i'm so untrusting i'll probably still just leave them loose and make two passes around but but that does work uh to just tighten that one first and then the other two holes are so they're big enough that they uh they hit so that guy reminded me of that and uh i appreciate it we love your comments uh because a lot of times i just do things the way that i started doing them years ago when i started doing this stuff and so sometimes people will tell us stuff that either we didn't know or it reminds us but we still love it so aside from that they a lot of times we learn a lot from comments that's what's great really about people that are mechanically inclined mechanics and that they're they're all like real open-minded and when uh when somebody else comes up with a new idea to do something or whatever and they just jump right in they go yeah yeah i'm more than willing to try something different or whatever yeah yeah thinking about all the arguments i've ever seen about electric cars fuel injection nobody really is opinionated about anything and i mean i haven't really met anybody that like to forward more than a chevy or oh no anything like that foreign cars versus you know domestic cars or whatever they just greet you with open arms whatever whatever whatever you're into yeah you know uh-huh uh i said on tick-tock one time that we were gonna put fuel injection on a trans am oh and everyone yelled at me well i don't know that's weird because like most most people that with cars is like they're just like super super open-minded oh um yeah yeah no no that's gonna go over yeah all joking aside most mechanical people uh no no well i've worked by myself forever it's my way or no way yeah okay so [Music] so like i said use the old one pound it in evenly fill it real good make sure it's perfectly flat it's not in there at an angle emily cleaned this if i had cleaned it it would be much nicer well nobody sees that part oh all right so shout out to velcro again my favorite no not felt pro don't even say it yeah you love my jokes oh and i got it going backwards why don't you tell me i was doing better you're doing it backwards okay so four of the bolt holes have the little rubber things to help hold them in there okay okay you like that i like that i like that more more jokes that no one will ever understand yeah yeah all right i cleaned all the surfaces off already so this one goes on just like that what's nice about ls too the pan bolts and the timing cover bolts exactly the same a lot of the bolts are exactly the same on the ls motors too and the front covers they are doweled now so it goes it only goes on in one spot but it's silicone too there's no gasket or anything or no the lt motor on the lts yeah yeah so i've got to tear one of them apart that far yet but i'm kind of excited about it all right so this one same thing it can move around quite a bit on the bolts so you have to have something center it they make a tool to center this i don't use the tool i use the harmonic balancer i'll put it on and then i'll do the exact same thing i did on the rear mains with a straight edge making sure that it it's sitting uh straight on the engine block for the oil pan gasket uh i do it right now but i cannot find my tool that i pulled the harmonic balancer in with so in the morning i'm going to run to o'reilly's and rat one or i could have you render erratics they like you better think so yeah i don't know why every time i walk in there they go where's emily i don't know sorry but that's how i do that you got to learn ways to get around buying the 100 and some dollar tool that you gotta have to do that kind of stuff it's just a lot of it's not it's not realistic you don't have it but you gotta be a kind of a macgyver and figure it out yourself and make things happen as long as you do it right i've put i've done it uh i've done it this way what 100 times at least for sure and i've never had one leak yeah that's why i love ls motors too because i put these things together and they do not leak all right so i found my bolt this morning or my harmonic balancer installer i made this thing long time ago so i'm gonna put the balancer on there and uh so the harmonic balancer is gonna center the seal and then once it's centered on the seal then i'll i'll uh make sure that it's sitting flat on each each end of the engine block all right so in order to do that i got the new seal in there of course and put a little bit of assembly lube on the balancer okay [Applause] all right these are a press fit in so you have to have an installer for them like i said i made this one but you can you can buy them they're less than less than 15 bucks all right i'm not going to draw it all the way in i'm going to leave it there all right so it's the balancer has got it uh centered on the seal okay so the seal is centered so down here make sure it's tight there okay the other side check it looks good right yep okay check it again after tighten one there check this one again all right and it's nice and straight so [Applause] these get torqued down to 18 foot pounds okay so that's how i do it without having the special alignment tool for the front cover so it has always worked perfectly fine for me this isn't drawn in all the way yet but it is it will be once i put the bolt back in it so now we are ready to put the oil pan out okay so i took this and i cleaned it up real nice in the parts washer did you uh got all the sludge out of the bottom of it i don't want that much [Applause] the original seal that comes on these they're riveted on so i had to just drill the rivets out to get the old gasket off this gasket has got uh four of the holes that are um have a little bit of rubber right there to hold the bolt in if you're doing it upside down okay and you want to do the ends where they where they meet the covers it's got little spots where they want a little dab of ultra black or ultra gray so i'm going to put it right there right there and it's got little spot for it right there and also one right there we can put the oil pan up and torque it and we're all done yay [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] all right so get all your bolts started before you tighten them up [Music] uh all the oil pan bolts get tightened to 18 foot pounds all right and the air the two smaller end ones they get tightened to 106 inch pounds that sounds like a lot no it's not it's not very much 106 is more than 18. inch how many corns is that that's four quarts four corns okay all right so are you ready to go in yeah okay okay all right we've got this thing uh back together a little recap on on what we did we pulled the pan made sure there wasn't any uh bearing material any anything in the sitting in the pan if there had been we wouldn't have done anything to it we only spent about 300 bucks on what we did so if emily can keep her foot out of the gas on this thing we'll probably make it you know another 100 000 miles out of it so i just like the noise it makes when i put my foot to the floor i know yeah i know you do it goes fast right and there is an automotive related movie reference in this video if you can find it let me know in the comments first person with the right answer i will send you a 25 o'reilly gift card we really appreciate you guys watching please subscribe and ring the little bell so you get a notification and we will catch you next time [Music] you

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Length: 47min 55sec (2875 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 06 2022