TOYOTA OWNERS! Please NEVER Do THIS to Your Toyota!

dear toyota and lexus owners this is a 2015 toyota camry with 180 000 miles barely broken in right well this is a one owner car very well maintained by the previous owner regular service dealership service everything was done to this car so you might be wondering why is this car in my shop and why are you about to watch me pull this engine out of this car and almost replace the whole thing well let's pull this thing in the bay let's start pulling this engine out otherwise this will be a very long video as i tell you what's going on so have a seat grab some popcorn and let's have a chat about this the owner of this car changed the oil every 10 000 miles never really reached a year as recommended by the owner's manual between two dealerships this car was maintained fully anything a dealership wanted even unnecessary maintenance and all that he did it he wanted to keep this car to 300 000 miles 10 years not have issues with it for his long 80 mile a day commute he's a doctor he has a clinic that is far away this owner questioned the 10 000 mile oil change when he bought this car new the dealership assured him showed him the owner's manual so he was like okay this is a recommendation from the manufacturer the engineer said this could be happen and they must be right they designed the car right well here is the news flash for everybody the recommendation or the entire maintenance guide for every car this is not just toyota this is not some secret that is the minimum required maintenance to maintain your warranty the manufacturer's warranty this is a minimum required maintenance so the warranty for toyota is 60 000 miles in five years in the united states for this model for powertrain we are at 180 000 miles and seven years on this car and here we are here's how this started with the 10 000 mile oil changes at around 120 130 000 miles the car started burning one quart of oil every thousand miles brought it to the dealership they did a consumption test which is something not really applicable unless you're in warranty but they did it nonetheless they told him it's within specifications which is okay we can live with that thousand miles one quart of oil it's the end of the world but it is not the end of the world but then right around 150 that escalated to two and three courts and now he's running low and he's constantly having to carry oil with him it's just becoming a giant hassle takes it again to the dealership they tell them we're gonna run a cleaner service and we're gonna do this and that and nothing really worked and the owner just gave up and let's just keep going in this situation and some people will say well the manufacturer could have done this for emissions because all this extra oil changes will cause all these extra emissions that all this extra oil is going to pollute the environment and all that that could work if we're wearing white lab coats but ever joe like me and you let's do the simple math and let's talk about this from a practical standpoint oil waste does not go in the drain does not go into some giant wasteland carb burning oil will eventually kill the catalytic converter and it will start polluting at a rate much higher than that oil that is getting dumped in this magical wasteland which by the way i own an automotive shop the one you see in the video right now and oil does not go into used oil engine oil does not go in a magical wasteland it actually gets recycled at a very high cost which many shops actually charge you for that disposal or recycling of that oil because the company comes in we store it in the tank that you see right here that's where the oil gets stored and then it gets collected by a company through a very complicated process the epa is involved it is a not something that gets just dumped down the drain so let's take that conversation out of this the bottom line is this is my opinion there is a secondary reason they went with this 10 000 mile madness marketing this car will require less maintenance over its life cycle and this is how this whole thing started here's the engine coming out let's look at it standing right there a few shots in case you haven't seen an engine out of a car let's talk about a little bit and we'll continue our conversation so here it is folks this is the 2ar fe outside of this car and it's going to sound ironic that i am going to say this statement standing next to an engine that's getting torn apart for repair this is one of the best engines toyota makes if you take care of it and the owner of this car took care of it but unfortunately they were not fully informed i've been saying this since my channel started change your oil every five thousand miles six months problem is this engine have had its entire life between two dealerships every 10 000 miles oil change at a dealership never over a year always under a year this owner drove a lot he commutes a long commute but folks you don't know what kind of oil the dealership is using yeah full synthetic 020 good but what kind of oil is it they usually use the cheapest oils people assume toyota dealerships use toyota oil that never happens folks they just get the cheapest one they can lay their hands on brown and slippery is the word they use so if you change your oil every five thousand miles six months even if you use low quality oil we're not going to get to this point many people out there viewers you're watching this right now and your blood is boiling please comment down below how your three hundred thousand mile two ar fe has been doing at five thousand mile oil change intervals because there's a lot of these out there that are like that so folks what we did with this engine before the owner actually authorized all this job we borrow scoped cylinder i saw heavy wear on the cylinder walls so that's done you can't really do much to it it's not cost effective to do that so we're going to put a short block and i'll show you that as we go but right now i'm going to put you on a on a time lapse we're going to take this entire engine apart i'm going to show you the cylinder wall once we get to that point i'll show you the seized piston rings and this is really what caused this whole thing to happen so please as we go through this change your oil every five thousand miles six months regardless of what anyone says because this is actually what happens when you don't and then we get to some slightly higher i mean this this has this is called barely broken in toyota land you could easily drive this car three four hundred thousand miles but here we are 180 000 engines out of the car and we're tearing into it so let's put you on the time lapse that get this thing torn apart so while we tear the engine apart let's talk about another important thing what do you do if this actually happens to you if you are the owner of this car and now you are finding out that it's too late damage is already done well here is the conversation i had with this customer first never decide in the moment when i gave this customer this bill i told him here's your car go home take care of your family forget about this for a day or two then think about it rationally and here are some tips that you can actually use to determine is this repair worth it or is it not worth it the first thing you want to do is get an accurate coat how much money is this going to cost and then the second thing you want to do how much is your car worth as it sits today make sure you disclose everything you don't want to sell this car to somebody that sighed unseen buys it and you didn't disclose that no do the right thing how much is this car worth you're gonna take these two amounts how much is it gonna cost to repair this plus what else does this car need is this car in good condition is it rusty does it need a lot more work and then do the math and plus the appraisal of the car that amount you come up with divided by 60 months what is it cost to buy this car similar car like in 2022 camry for example go get a quote how much is the monthly payment on a camry with your down payment which is the cost of your car now the cost of the car and the cost of this repair divided by 60 months that number that comes up should be half of your payment half of your new car payment because after you repair this car the engine will be good but the rest of the car is still old you're still going to have some ongoing repairs and maintenance so you got to keep that in mind but if it's more than half this might not be worth it because now you are close to really your new car payment and i understand people don't like payments they'd rather just fix their old beater this is not a beater but some people will do that but at some point it becomes cost ineffective because you have to factor in your time people never factor in their time in in money calculations this is very important so this is how your thought process needs to be whether this is worth repairing or not but the biggest thing is you gotta do your homework you can't just decide this in the moment i don't care how much pressure the shop the dealership whoever is putting on you you say no you walk away and then you think about it with calm and after that initial freak out happens having said that let's go talk a little bit more about the engine tear down and then we'll continue our conversation so there we have it folks this is all torn apart as i wrote in the video do not do what i did we did that because this is like a better word a very big boat anchor but let me show you what happened to the cylinder walls if we bring the camera really close it's going to be really hard to see inside the cylinder but there is a very big wear mark right there you can actually feel it with my fingernails that's one part two cylinders are okay cylinder number four is probably the worst impossible to see and try later to get you better shots but this is like literally you pass your finger over it it feels like a divot that's dug into the cylinder wall folks this is not gonna hold this is not gonna seal this is not going to do anything this is just wide open this is going to cause actually vibrations because the compression is uneven and this is this is why we're replacing the short plot some people will now right now pause the video go to the comments why don't i send this to a machine shop they can re-sleeve it and all that good stuff well number one good machine shops are really hard to come by these days second thing is i warranty my work and by the time you send this to the machine shop you get new pistons and new rings and possibly new rod bearings and you're going to send the crank to get checked and all this you are really close to the cost of a brand new short block for those who are not familiar short block is an entire block with everything inside of it pistons new crank new rods new rod bearings everything pre-assembled ready to go and here it is but before we get to it i want to show you why we're doing all this and why the cylinder wall got damaged and all this and that's because of this this oil control ring is just you can't compress it i'm trying to push on it it does not compress look how gummed up it is i want you to see you see this bottom ring see how gummed up it is this is why this whole mess started because this got seized and it doesn't want to compress anymore and there we go let's look at another piston same deal here i can compress this one i can compress this one i can't compress that one it's just flat seized and that's that's what happens with these folks this is all so the next time you send your oil to the lab unless they magically come in and look at this take take this engine apart to this point and see what's sitting in this tiny little groove don't go with 10 000 mile oil change folks i have said this multiple times and now i am showing you this is actually the third time we talk about this on the channel with a full dedicated video but this is what happens this is deep inside the engine no oil analysis is going to take this and show you and the cool thing is and this is i'll show you one of the rod bearings this rod bearing it's perfectly fine there is absolutely nothing wrong with it this tells me this owner never ran this car low on oil i mean look at this thing looks brand new and this is also a testimony toyota this owner always checked the oil topped it off until he got tired of adding three cores every thousand miles and now we're fixing it after a long conversation with them about should they fix this or should they just get rid of the car and get another car they thought about it long and hard and this was their decision i respect it times are hard buying cars right now he wanted to buy a lexus but that did not happen let's open the new engine and take my gloves here we're going to want to contaminate it with the old stuff this is a brand new short block from toyota for those who are from not familiar toyota does not sell a long block new a long block is the short block with a cylinder head on top of it they do not sell that it's just not available now some people say why don't you just get a used engine well used engine will have the same problem did this was this engine taken care of then another thing is why don't you just go get an aftermarket remanufacturer folks i have had such horrible experiences with aftermarket remanufactured engines that you take the engine like look at it all the bolts are wrong everything is just put together with zip ties and glue it's just not a good idea do this right there's nothing wrong with vessel on their head or clean the valve clean it up a little bit and that's good so without further ado let's christmas is here for those who have never seen a brand new engine in a box ish it's a short block and here it is folks this is a brand new short block from the factory you notice it has the crank it has the pistons already pre-assembled pre-torqued you do nothing with this you install it as it is and the most important thing which i did not show you i'll show you in the other engine there are jets here that cool the back of the piston these are very important when these pistons were heat up they're going to cook the oil that's on them overheat these jets cool the back of the piston but equally these jets always get clogged at least one of them is clogged because of oil varnish and all the stuff that's floating in the oil so they are also there there's new jets here this is such a beautiful site i nothing is more interesting to me than looking at this there are a few things that are interesting and something if you're doing toyota engine work i want to show you a few things if you come really close here look at these numberings not these this is just one two three four five but these numberings and these letters these are actually the numbers for the bearings some of these numberings will be for the main bearings there's one two three i think there's a four as well and then the a b is the piston specifically the piston wrist pin thickness there's a there's b there's c if you go buy toyota bearings or pistons or rod even the pistons will be numbered and i'll show you when we take this out and show you the numbering on them abc is three different types of piston they're exactly the same but where the wrist pin goes through them is different so that's the abc and then the bearings is the thickness of the bearing and how much depends how much clearance you have you're going to change accordingly this is pre-assembled from the factory it's ready to go so what we're going to do right now take that all block we actually have one more thing to do on this block if we come over here in the back of the block you got an oil separator folks i always tell you these engines have an oil separator you saw some when i pulled the intake there was a lot of oil in the intake because this engine is burning oil i mean it is burning at such a rapid rate you're going to have oil and intake but normally you won't and the pcb valve is right here very easy to replace when the engine is all apart isn't it that's the beauty of tearing engines apart i call this a glorified oil change sometimes it's a joke because you literally drain every last drop and for those one last thing before we get to work when i tell you drain the coolant out of the radiator because you'll never get every last drop out of the engine of coolant this is literally the only way you're going to get every last drop of coolant out of this engine there's going to be still a couple drops left in the cylinder head mainly because we're replacing this but this engine does not have a drain block train it's just the way they designed it there's no block drain really anywhere so that's why you saw a little bit of a mess in the oil you could never get all of it out i drained the oil out of this engine did you see when i flipped it how much oil came out of it look at the floor here look at this mess this is how much oil is left behind when you do an oil change no matter what you do if you take the oil pan down and literally dry it completely there's this much oil left inside this engine and this is what the lab will not get to and this is what's going to end up destroying this if you don't change it frequently because it's going to build up and build up and build up and then start contaminating everything having said that let's get to work we're going to take this block we're first going to take this oil separator off get the new block on here and then we'll start assembling so let's talk about the cost of this particular job on this 2015 toyota camry so the labor is about 20 hours of labor to do this job that you're seeing right now you're going to see it to completion the short block is around 2 900 the gasket kit which comes with all the gaskets these are all original parts it's around four hundred dollars the sealer that we use to seal the engine is around forty dollars there's two oil filters involved in this the initial one for the initial start and then the one for the second oil change that i do immediately after we're talking around eleven dollars here there's ten quarts of oil five for each oil change we're gonna do two oil changes here that's around seventy eight dollars for toyota original oil cleaner that you see me use all over the video to clean various parts around twenty five dollars pcb valves around eleven dollars spark plugs are forty five dollars now these prices are relevant to this time if you're watching this video in the future these prices might have gone up might have gone down hopefully gone down now let's do some rudimentary math for average joe like me and you that is not in a lab coat this job is right around six thousand dollars if we take it let's make it an even number six thousand dollars this car have had 18 oil changes since it was new give or take so if we divide that six thousand dollars by 18 oil changes you come up with a number right around 333 dollars so really the oil changes for this car have cost the owner 333 dollars plus the actual cost paid for the oil change let's say magical number right around seventy dollars premium oil right for ten thousand miles so this oil change cost four hundred dollars to really come up with this cost of this repair but if this owner would have instead done an additional oil change in between every five thousand miles never got really the six month mark they would have added 1 260 to their seven year 180 000 mile ownership this is a lot this is a big difference from 1260 dollars to 6 000 do you see how this is not exactly cost effective here this just makes absolute no sense and i i want you to see that and understand it this just doesn't make sense i don't get it i don't get it at all so we are at a stopping point it is lunchtime here so let me show you the block the new block so i want you to look inside you see that letter b on the piston right there see that letter b it's a little bit upside down but that is the number of the piston that we talked about now this is actually ready for the cylinder head to go back on but before we do that let's cover it up just to prevent any debris or dirt from getting in here and i'll show you what we have to do the cylinder head before we actually go ahead and install it here so here's the cylinder head now some people will take this send it to a machine shop do the whole nine yards and do all this mess if i would call it i don't have really a good machine shop around me that i know probably one but i don't know of them we're gonna actually do this ourselves this is not an engine that overheated this is not an engine that is out of a chevy this is a toyota it's all on their head there's really not much that is serviceable on these if it's warped 99 of the time you end up throwing it out if you machine it this is a vvti engine you cannot machine these very much beyond the limit which the limit is like very small one thing we're gonna do maybe two to the cylinder head if you look at the valves they have a little bit of carbon build up we're gonna clear we're gonna take these valves out clean them up put them back see this valve is good this valve is pretty clean exhaust valves look pretty clean but we're still going to give them a good clean most of the intakes they have carbon build up except these two ironically this is cylinder number one solder number four it expects these to be the worst but that's how engines work we'll give it a general cleanup but most importantly than anything we're going to replace the valve guide seals seals that sit right here underneath the spring this is a common cause for blue smoke when you first cold start the car this is very common for that to happen because of these seals whenever you have high vacuum they will leak oil into the cylinder and you'll have a puff of smoke and they will leak actually a lot of oil when they dry up so they come with the kit we're going to replace them we include it in the job we'll give this thing a good clean put it back it's actually not much going on here it's just a bunch of valves and the valve train most people will go why don't you replace this replace that this build racks up pretty quick before you know it you might as well just go buy a new car so you have to go by experience i've never seen a valve go bad in a 2ar never really seen a chain unless you have a bad vbti this is way ahead of that time where we had vbti problems this is a 15. so things with toyotas are different you don't just go replacing everything send everything to machine shop not exactly and believe it or not i have done this countless times and i've never seen these engines come back they just keep going and going racking up miles and now the owners have learned about the oil change they don't have oil burning issues in the future let's take you on a tour of the mess so this is basically everything we had to remove to do this job you have your injectors there intake manifold valve cover throttle body catalytic converter slash exhaust manifold the coolant housing we're not replacing the water pump on this one so i just removed it as one unit you got the front timing cover you got all the components that we removed to do this job this job looks very complicated and maybe i say this because i've done a lot of these but this really is not this engine is not bad you want to hear a toyota engine that is bad to work on let's talk about the a25a which i've been inside four of them they're very a lot more complicated than this this makes this kind of look like a child's play or the training wheels although the real training wheels on toyota engines is a 2az fe the 2.4 liter engine so much easier to work on very little components very little has to come off the car to really take it out of the car very simple engines folks let's say it one more time before i go to lunch in real life and you guys just skip to the next part which is a time lapse 5 000 mile oil changes please i really this breaks my heart every time i do one of these and i've done one too many let's put it this way we're gonna time lapse you guys through the cylinder head prep we'll put it on here we'll probably time-lapse you through the whole thing when the engine is all assembled here ready to go back to the car and we'll talk about a few things so as a shop owner and i've been only open for a few months here i used to work at a dealership and now i open my own shop some people have accused me when in the past i have said folks please do the 5 000 mile oil changes out of the 10. people have accused me of wanting more business being a dealership puppet they have called me all kinds of names that's okay we can agree to disagree on things but hear me out here so as a shop owner i will be flat and honest with you the labor cost of an oil change from for you if you come to my shop for example is 22 dollars that's two tenths of labor plus the parts profit is on the oil and the filter and all that collectively is right around two dollars for an average five six quart oil change so that's a grand total of 24 dollars that my shop actually makes when you bring your car for an oil change now if we take that number and at 36 oil changes that this car would have had since it was new that would be a grand total of 864 dollars now at the additional oil changes that i'm recommending at 5 000 mile intervals instead of having 18 oil changes you would have 36 so 18 additional oil changes that would be 432 dollars over seven years of ownership for the owner to come to my shop as additional business let me say one thing that is not even my electric bill for the shop for a month so when i do a six thousand dollar job the shop makes much more profit than an oil change at 24 but yet i am making this video because i want you to be in the clear i don't want to do these engines i don't want to have to explain to the owners and see their sad face and see their heart drop when i give them the six thousand dollar estimate because they were not informed they thought they were doing the right thing and i see this over and over and over the same time that i am doing this engine i was interrupted two times to go look at another car talk to customers and different models for the same thing the same oil consumption problem for the same reasons 10 000 mile oil change uninformed 10 000 mile oil change and it's all because but the engineers said in the books folks the engineers did not write that maintenance schedule that you see in all the cars the engineers in my opinion were asked would this car last past the warranty at this maintenance interval yes will the car burn oil at 60 000 miles or whatever the warranty is no probably not yet okay then we're good but it's the same story with that recommendations with a sealed transmission fluid the lifetime transmission fluid oh yes you will have zero issues any even the worst transmission will last probably a hundred thousand miles in 2022 and not have issues in the original fluid past the hundred thousand that's when things go south and the same story with the coolant that now work we have coolants lasting 15 years 150 000 miles yet we have leaky water pumps we have leaky radiators all this stuff because that coolant is there too long and the same story with toyota and lexus hybrids with the high voltage fan filter the service the maintenance on that they don't list it as a maintenance item which it should be because this could kill your battery but again it's never listed as a maintenance item and then there is the better oil conversation that we're going to have here because this one is equally important now companies like amsoil i'm going to use them because everybody looks at amsoil like the pinnacle of oil they make excellent oil but the problem is their excellent oil costs twice as much as really very good oil that'll make your car last a very long time i've had dealings with amsoil they are their customer their retail side the wholesale side very rude their dealers are very pushy and i don't really like to deal with them because of that simply but they make good products people like their products because they're good but when you're paying double for an oil change to go double the distance it absolutely makes no sense and in the end you're gonna arrive at this point because all the promises of companies of we warranty this engine for this much we guarantee up to 25 000 15 000 all that when you have a problem with that engine two things will one of two things will happen they will either disappear faster than the wind or they will come up with a hundred and one excuses of how you didn't do something right and then all that guarantees and all those promises fly out the wind so folks this is where i need you to be aware you do not need to be a car person look majority of folks i work with people who drive their cars i service their cars i've been doing this for a long time 90 of people who drive cars it is just a tool for them to get from a to b they don't care about the details and how it works and what's going on and all that the majority of my my viewers are going to be the car guy that cares but 90 are not so let's keep it simple you need to be involved actively involved in the maintenance of your car for one day every six months that's all it takes not the whole day maybe one hour check when was the last oil change you always need to be aware when was the last oil change and how long ago was it that's why there's maintenance stickers and and reminders the cars most cars have maintenance binders in toyota lexus land every 5 000 miles that maintenance light comes on and the best part is this is the number one ask question in the dealership why does the light come on at 5 000 miles when the oil change is 10 000. that is like a to me in my opinion there's like a hidden message from the creators of this car please uh do something at 5 000 miles otherwise they could have easily changed it to 10 000 that would the la maintenance light would come on but then you go to the dealership and the beautiful bedtime stories of oh but that's the maintenance is required at 5000 but it doesn't include an oil change like you got to rotate the tires and check this and check that dealerships don't do that they don't check nothing you bring the car 5000 miles they rotate the tires and push it out the door as fast as they can that's just the god honest truth folks so that maintenance light 5000 miles is a very simple interval six months you're gonna service your car twice a year 70 each oil change all the other additional stuff that comes when it when it's due but 70 every six months 140 if that is a lot to keep your engine alive i implore you to reconsider there is no question some people want to go eight months but wait wait what if i drive three thousand miles a year what am i going to do do it every six months no gray areas black and white simple clear six months change the oil if you did not reach 5000 you reach 5 000 miles change the oil it's very simple don't use the cheapest oil use decent oil but don't go overkill on the price of the oil because then it becomes ineffective cost ineffective if you're buying premium oil most expensive oil there is and changing it every five thousand miles it might be overkill but if you just buy decent oil a good known brand that is reputable change it every five thousand every six months you're not going to have issues with your car and if you're worried about the environment folks there is no shop in the united states that does not recycle the oil that is the la the worst nightmare for any owner of any automotive shop is when the epa comes down doesn't audit and they don't have all their paperwork in order for the oil recycling and the anti-freeze recycling for the coolant that is nobody dumps oil down the drain i mean i went through the process of creating this shop this shop that you see was not an automotive shop this was just a warehouse it was just a giant building i turned it into automotive shop and and the costs involved and things we had to modify in the building you're welcome to watch the series in the past if you want to see exactly what happened but it was monumental and all that was to save the environment was to protect the environment was to keep this shop from harm harming the environment in a way that is irreversible so you look at automotive shops they're all greasy and grimy that is not the case there's always regulations at least in the united states there is very high standards of conduct that we all follow and all that is to protect the environment so bottom line is change your oil every 5000 miles it literally breaks my heart every time i have to give these news to an owner because they did the 10 000 mile oil change okay so the moment of truth we're gonna prime this engine and let's see what happens i'm gonna give it a minute for the radio to come on you're gonna see this one live the radio is halfway just gotta wait for it to finish we're gonna prime this engine first you see the connectors for the coils are off and the connectors for the injectors are off we're gonna prime it make sure it gets oil everywhere looking at the oil light and now here one two three let's do this all the lights still on oil light is off ladies and gentlemen now the engine has oil pressure i usually never film these primes or the first start so in case you haven't seen an engine that has been worked on start here is what you can expect you're gonna hear a lot of rockets that's the first thing second thing is you're gonna see a lot of smoke that's also normal and the racket might not go away because you got hydraulic lifters on this engine or it might be completely quiet but there's only one way to find out got everything plugged in let's find out [Music] [Applause] well didn't make any racket it's pretty quiet that wine you heard that is something notorious with toyotas they will make that wine from the alternator for a few seconds sometimes a few minutes see this one it's clattering away you see the smoke already that clatter that you hear is the lifters we're gonna have to wait for them to pump up it's gonna get a lot louder before it gets quieter but runs good i don't see smoke it's pretty smooth i don't see any leaks i don't see any problems czech engine light is probably on because we unplugged [Applause] actually it is on because we had the injectors plugged off unplugged and the coils unplugged so i'm liking everything we're gonna have to let this guy run warm up fully and go from there so there you have it folks car is running we still need to put a few of the covers back and everything but it's running this is like a newborn baby this is a new engine even though you reused a lot of the stuff around it it is still a new engine the bearings need to wear in the pistons need to wear in the rings need to everything needs to kind of break in so this goes back when you do something like that we go back to the beginning like when the car is new break in period we're going to ask this customer to bring this car back after a thousand miles for the first oil change and we're going to double oil change because any debris that got left behind i don't want it staying there for a thousand miles we're gonna do another oil change and you know there's a cost associated with it but it is what it is because you do not want to cheap out an oil change on this brand new engine that this bill is in excess of six thousand dollars here so the car is running running pretty smooth actually we've had it running for a while now purrs like a kitten very quiet i hope you can hear it over the microphone the lifters has quieted down after i put everything back together we give it a very hefty cleaning and the shop as well we're gonna take it for a drive take it from multiple drives uh something we're waiting for is spark plugs believe it or not we couldn't get them in time so i'm going to go back change the spark plugs so we have new plugs the shop needs a massive cleaning folks jobs like this they make a huge mess so once this car is done we get it out it is seven o'clock right now we'll be working on this since nine a.m and yesterday we actually pulled just to give you a kind of an idea of timing because you're looking at a time lapse we started on this car probably four o'clock we finished the six that's when we you saw that we got the engine out then we've been working on this from nine in the morning it is now seven o'clock at night it's running probably another hour we'll let it run while we put all the covers back and everything and then we're done there's a here's our parts pile that now has boiled down to the cowl some covers and really that's all that is no bolts left behind on jobs like this so no bolts were left behind there's only one bolt that is left behind only because he's been uh didn't behave well this bolt broke this is a bell housing bolt very common to break this is one all the way in the back we actually replaced it so this is the only bolt left behind at this point having said that and before we wrap up the video here is the old block which is now going to the scrap there's nothing you can do with this 3d unless somebody wants it it's theirs but as far as i'm concerned it is a very large boat anchor next for my viewers who are interesting interested in what projects we got going on in the shop the ls460 is actually that ls460 the one with the coolant leak is still here it's been now we are in the second week we're waiting for parts an injector broke let me show you as i was pulling the as i was pulling the connectors off this injector decided to break apparently this is very common i mean i told you this is a high heat area so i'm waiting on the seals seals went on a little back order but we finally got them today and i'm gonna have to reassemble it and if you've ever done direct injector seals they are a nightmare and and takes a very patient man i can like to consider myself a patient man but even i run out of patience with these so it is whoever does direct injector seals you have a lot of patience now we have this other ls460 in the shop and this one is getting the entire suspension redone now you notice that it's leaning if you come behind it if you come behind it and look at it it is leaning because this rear air shock is destroyed this has been sitting here all day and you see this side is all the way to the ground we are actually retrofitting this you'll see this in a video coming up here we're taking off the air suspension putting out regular stuff coil springs so that's the next project the alabama ls430 for lack of better word i don't know how to describe it to the one we did the video on the timing belt the power steering pump decided to call it quits on a test on the final test drive of that car so actually we just got the power steering pump today we should be working on that so we have these two ls's three allies that we have to work for and i'm noticing a theme here we're becoming slowly in ella's shop no problem i love these cars they're they have their quarks but be careful buying one because the bill for this one is very large because the entire suspension is gone and you'll see it in the upcoming video folks the moral of the story of this whole video sorry we got sidetracked a little bit change your engine oil every five thousand miles or six months otherwise this is where we're gonna arrive to one day we're gonna arrive at this point now some folks will say in the comments that has never happened to me i've been doing it i want you to remember what kind of oil you're using if you're using very high premium oil and you're really on top of it not letting it go over a year you're always driving highway you could get by but if you're just taking your car to the dealership guess what dealerships will use the cheapest oil they can get their hands on they will not use the toyota 5w0w30 that you saw their w20 that you saw us put in this car they will not the end of that story i worked at a dealership i see how it is it's the cheapest goes just how it is so be careful folks and with that i hope this video is helpful informative i hope you learned something new and i hope you liking content that is coming out of this shop and a lot more coming up if you like this video consider giving it a thumbs up if you're not a subscriber consider subscribing to the channel check out some of my other videos and until the next video folks may the lord bless you and keep you and you have yourself a wonderful day

Channel: The Car Care Nut

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Keywords: never do this to your toyota, never do this to your toyota hybrid, never do this to your new toyota, never do this to your car, toyota problems, toyota exposed, oil burning, oil consumption, 10k mile oil change, engine damage, engine rebuild, 2ar-fe engine, toyota mechanic, mechanic rebuild engine, new toyota engine, the car care nut, scotty kilmer, car care nut, tccn automotive, car wizard, rainman rays, should you buy a toyota, toyota common problems

Id: TJhFAwFv-O0

Length: 48min 12sec (2892 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/RioGrandeAdventures]

Quality oil every 3-5k for me. I plan on keeping it forever and that's small price to pay.

[u/bublight_]

twice a week

[u/autox17]

I just watched this video today and it got me wondering the same thing. I've always stuck to 5k changes. Read the post on TW and it was all over the place...

[u/hotrod8719]

Nope, I do every 5k

[u/yammywr450f]

Full synthetic every 5K miles. Toyota filters only. It’s worked for 250K miles. I think I’ll stick to it.

[u/barkbutton]

"otherwise this will be a very long video"

It's 48 minutes long, lol!

[u/RobertUlyssesBlynde]

I’ve owned a Scion xD since 2011, when I bought it new.

I’ve only ever done 10k mile oil changes on it. It now has over 220k miles, runs flawlessly, and uses no oil.

That being said, with the exception of the Scion, I do 5k mile oil changes on all my vehicles now.

[u/bostondev9159]

Never ever 5k on the dot. When I first bought my truck I worked round trip5.5 miles a day it took almost 2 yrs to hit 7500k I was like change the oil it's been 2 yrs now.

[u/codywater]

Every 5k with tire rotation. Keeps it easy to remember what to do when.