Toyota's BEST Engine Ever Made FAILED! This Will Shock You!

hello and welcome to the car kernel Channel and welcome to a very interesting video so what is Toyota's best engine an engine that is so good nobody's been inside of it very few people have actually been inside of it that engine would be the four cylinder 2tr Fe the one that came in the Tacomas and the previous generation and even in the current generation but today we have a sick one this is a 2012 Toyota Tacoma with a 2trfe and you're about to watch us postcard on the lift pull the engine out and investigate a very concerning problem oil burning folks full disclaimer this is the first time I ever take one of these engines apart because they are that good I have been inside every single Toyota engine from the late 90s all the way to today never this one it is that good but we have problems we're going to investigate them in this video and more right after this thank you foreign let's grab some popcorn and maybe even dinner because this is the longest video I've ever made to date now this 2012 Toyota Tacoma with the 2tr Fe has 175 000 miles the customer brought us the car and his main concern was this car Burns two quarts of oil every thousand miles and it also loses coolant noticeably when the customer brought me the car I was puzzled this engine is not known to burn oil and as soon as I saw the tow the snow plow Connection in the front I was concerned but then again I don't think you could do a lot of plowing with this truck so did the standard tests you know pull the spark plugs look at cylinder I saw a lot of debris and then I saw some mysterious things with cylinder number one we're gonna look at it later when we take the engine apart and look at it but I initially quoted them a short block because I see cylinder wear on the cylinder especially cylinder number one other ones had a little bit of wear but so number one was really bad now this engine ran fine made a lot of noise you know a drive belt noise some idlers making noise and whatnot that was hardly an issue but then quoting the time for this job when you open the service manual and you'll notice we're working underneath it we're pretty soon we're going to start removing the drive shafts and whatnot now their service manual the first thing the first page tells you remove transmission and this was one of those moments where okay what do I do here should I try to get this engine out without removing the transmission you know I can suspend the transmission up and try to just remove the engine alone and then I remembered something that I learned a very very very long time ago when I first started working on car hours the first time you do a job for the very first time follow the book to the T because you don't know what's what and there's a point you where you might actually be stuck so since this is the first time I'm doing this engine or moving this engine out of this car and tearing it apart we followed the book to the T First Step remove the transmission now as we start removing the transmission I notice and you notice here I'm fighting the drive shaft nuts that's because somebody severely over tightened them I mean these things were extremely over tightened I am fighting them here and that was the first sign of somebody doing work to this that was perhaps not very informative torque specs and all that that's fine but then we had to date this is probably the most difficult job we've done probably the biggest undertaking is especially filming it was a lot difficult folks you know you watch YouTube videos you watch Mechanics Work filming and working at the same time and then giving a car back to a customer that's going to potentially drive it for hundreds of thousands of miles are one of the most difficult things and my hat goes out to everybody that films car repair real car repair not restoring my own car or whatnot we take your time and everything takes a week or two but working on customer cars and filming is very difficult so this was possibly one of the most stressful videos I've made I have to admit because everything was new not like other engines we've done on the channel where I've done hundreds of them and I know exactly what could go south and were more comfortable but this was an undertaking now I have to say one thing this job is absolutely not a DIY job this engine when you look at it under the hood it looks pretty simple it's like oh wow this is small tiny little four-cylinder not a big deal I've removed a V6 on of this Tacoma and I will say it was easier than this the V6 even though it's bigger it just the way it is mounted to the truck and the way everything is it was easier and this truck when you look at the frame I mean through the shot throughout the shots in the frame frame is not Rusty it's actually a decent shape but as you start tearing into it I mean this thing was so Rusty every single bolt gave us a fight every little thing gave us a fight and then everything is so corroded and just this was not fun I have to admit but we don't pick the jobs the jobs that need to be done get done and that's how the automotive repair World works here we are pulling the transmission transmission was not too hard to remove but we had a lot I mean and I mean a lot of complications removing this transmission most of it I did not film because I needed to focus on making sure this car was good but this video makes it seem like it's easy it was not and pretty soon in a little bit we're gonna start talking about some of these things that happened this was a massive undertaking and it has to be said moving transmission is not hard normally but the complications we had made it very difficult there was a point where we were getting a little desperate here where okay a lot of decisions had to be made in the moment we did it we got the transmission is about to come out let's talk about the complications that we had with this job so far and we're not even close to removing the engine yet so we got the transmission out and as we talked about this was actually a necessary thing and it was a call that I had to make I'm glad I made the long easy route because we ran in so many problems you didn't notice them in the time lapse but let me share them with you so when we went to get the transmission out you had to remove all the bell housing bolts and two of them decided they were not ready to come out this one and this one now this looks like not a big deal you know well clean them up drill them out but how do you exactly drill this out in the car when you have really no space especially this one so I had to make a call these are the kind of calls you make when you work on cars that you get into these situations you have to get the transmission out there's no other way around it even if you're not getting transmission out you have to pull the engine away from it and what happened is this was seized to the engine and this was seized to the engine so there was no getting it out so I went to look for price prices we had to sacrifice something basically to cut these bolts and get the transmission out we had to sacrifice something the bell housing or the engine upper oil pan bell housing is a lot more expensive than the upper engine oil pan so we had to sacrifice the upper engine oil pan let's go take a look so when you look at it from here yeah this is banged up a little bit but when you actually go look on the other side I had to literally cut it completely off see it right there it's completely cut to pieces and that's that's the sacrifice I had to make so we ran into a few more things here one of them is the TR the exhaust so normally you'd want to remove this exhaust it's out of your way when you pull the trans but somebody decided to weld the connection point so now you basically have to remove the entire exhaust out of the car now we got around it we pushed it a little bit as we pull the trans we're okay so this is the back of the 2tr Fe nothing really about it but you do notice one thing and I wanted to show it to you notice how Rusty that block is because this is cast iron folks this engine is going to be extremely heavy for a four-cylinder otherwise it is pretty wide open we don't have a lot going on and it looks like we haven't done much this is basically the end of day one on this job we didn't work on it the whole day but it is the end of day one we start at midday we did get a lot of complications I was cutting on this carefully not to damage anything once it went okay but it was already going south tomorrow we're going to pick up the action again and we'll pull the engine which is now super simple to pull out because you have nothing to line up to just basically unhook everything and just pull it straight out should be simple hopefully if nothing else breaks we did have one more casualty and this is just the name of the game the transmission dipstick as soon as I touched it it just broke so that was something that was already going you notice how it broke right here and it's connected here now Toyota loves to do this design where the bottom part of the dipstick is part of the oil pan you see that it's a part of it right here so hopefully hopefully we can get this piece out you see how Rusty it is we'll spend some time with it and we also have to drill this bolt this one I feel like we might be able to get it you can't really get this with the car but this is the transmission of a Tacoma four-cylinder in case you haven't seen it there is the transmission vent which is clear and open we removed it with the transfer case we did not drain the fluid this was also a call I don't want to get the fluid out of a high mileage transmission all out we potentially could have issues because the service on this was a question mark folks it is the end of the day for us here we're gonna wrap up the day for you it's going to be a few seconds for us it's going to be a night's sleep and we'll come back first thing in the morning we'll put you back on the time lapse we'll get the engine out we'll get everything going and when the engine is out of the car we'll talk about it well this was not the proudest moment of this video I mean it took us a really long time to push this truck and get it orientated in the right way simply because the plan was we were booking two full days for this job I mean in two days I figured we'd be able to get it done maybe the third day we just drive the car check it out bleed it what not make sure to fix any after stuff that needs to be taken care of and we're done well the shop took a week and that was not the plan because we have other appointments and were fully booked for a month out so this really created a little bit of a havoc in the shop but initially I started the drive on lift and ironically the car we just pulled up in the drive-in lift that was supposed to be the car that pulls in the lift where the Tacoma is right now but we started the drive on lift I've removed Transmissions there on like rear wheel drive configuration trucks and cars it's much easier there because you have a lot of space and the car is stable you don't have to worry about it we only have two lifts and the third drive on actually a fourth one is on the works but this was the mid of day two and that was the point where I'm realizing this project is really going to push us back but it has to be done there is no way around it we have to get this done and the problem is the parcelists continue to grow rapidly and here's where I had to deviate from the book I tried to remove the exhaust here the exhaust manifold I mean none of the nuts were even moving everything was rounding off I don't even have space to put a turbo socket or something to get them out and these are the calls you have to make in the moment then I realized you know what I think the exhaust manifold can stay and then I move to the compressor the compressor gave us really a hard time some of the bolts broke and move we'll show you that as we go things were very interesting with this because the truck didn't seem Rusty but once we start taking things apart I mean everything there was things going left and right basically this customer forgive me if you watch this Aztec engine comes out let me tell you this real quick and literally every five minutes I run to the computer to order a part look up a part order it because this bolt broke that bracket broke this it just the list kept growing and growing and growing and later when we talk about the cost of this job I'll share it with you this was a very happy moment for me when the engine was coming out right up to this very moment where we had to stop because the engine didn't want to come out didn't clear and the Jack was maxed out this was very fun and I say it was difficult but actually this is this was a good challenge I love me a good challenge and this keeps you as a mechanic kind of focused challenged and on your toes and that's every mechanic knows this moment and it's a very happy moment at least for me keeps you motivated and going all right so we have the engine out and folks I have to say this was not fun I mean things were Rusty and we had a lot of issues you already seen the issues with the transmission this was a lot we had a lot of issues here first thing the motor mount bolts we really had a problem with these they were really hard to come off they were Rusty spinning and all kinds of problems but there's something I want you to see about this engine if you look right in this area look how crusty that is and that is because this is a cast iron block I mean look at this all the flakes falling off this is a cast iron block it's not aluminum and then the AC compressor so I decided while we were kind of trying to get this out I've decided to leave the compressor in the car and instead take the AC down you know the charge out and put everything together the reason for that is one of the lines blocked one of the bolts so we were basically going to have to hand wrench this bolt I'm like you know what I'll just take the AC out let's pull the whole compressor to make our life so much easier actually the lines moved out of our way and life is good now if we look at the front here there's a few things that we are replacing this one customer already replaced we are replacing the water pump we are replacing this tensioner because it has a lot of play and makes noise but I just noticed that this idler let's hear it that makes a lot of noise there so we're gonna end up replacing this AC compressor nice and quiet I don't hear anything there this engine is very interesting to remove it's extremely heavy and I can tell folks I have a room with so many engines in my life in my opinion this is actually heavier than a V6 because of the iron block and going around this way I left the exhaust manifold on I'm saying this in case you're removing one of these I left the exhaust manifold on because it was really not in the way I just removed the shield actually started removing the secondary air injection out but then I noticed that there is enough room to blow it out but we had one last problem with this which was removing the actual engine from the car so we got the Jack the Hoist all the way as high as it goes it was not clearing you notice in the time lapse I had to lift the car up a little bit with the engine suspended take the wheels off and drop the front so we can actually clear we got it it's out hopefully and I don't want to jinx myself here this is the easy part now I'm tearing Center apart and seeing what's going on now that we're not working with the confines of the car let's do this let's put you on a time lapse let's tear this engine completely apart and we're gonna find out why this engine is burning oil and what are we going to do to fix it so this right here this very moment was the happiest moment for me this was a new experience tearing into this engine and apart from the very very rusty exhaust manifold bolts everything else was just a joyous moment look I love engine work obviously waifu Vice my channel you know that I love engine work and I'm very fascinated by engines and everything so this was a joyous moment because there has been absolutely no information if you're a Toyota technician if I don't know if you want to watch work at home but if you are a Toyota technician you've taken one of these sensors apart do share your experience because I've I've worked at Toyota for a very long time I've never taken one of these apart but I've never seen anybody else take one of these apart every single other engines we've done not this one my joyous moment was figuring out how the wiring harness is and in the best way for me to describe this engine and I'm going to start from a very broad description and as we go with the video I'll kinda narrow it down and give you my opinion so this engine the best way to describe it is it is a very large combination of old school and new stuff actually this will surprise you so the cylinder head is a one piece cylinder head but the very interesting thing is it doesn't have buckets I was expecting going into this to have buckets of course I looked at the manual and everything and we I knew what we were doing but I expected to see buckets because this is an old school engine this is a very very old school engine but no we actually had hydraulic lifters and kind of a modern engine valve train with an old-school cylinder head and in the injectors were very interesting the way they sit in the cylinder head they had like this big sleeve it was very very strange the valve cover I have never taken a valve cover on a Toyota that has this many bolts and was this difficult as carry the remover so there's a little bit on the flimsy side it's a plastic one the gasket is weird like it had multi multi-piece gasket not something common with Toyota and then that little I just removed it that little oil jet on top that is something unique I've never seen in any other Toyota engine and then just the little details the front timing cover was possibly the most interesting and this took me a minute to figure out because it has so many bolts and it has Bolts from the back and it's just interest now of course we're removing the oil pan right here all the ball Scott replaced they're all stripped every single one of them and then here's where things are a little interesting every bolt that normally is a 10 millimeter bolt head is a 12 and that's the weird part now this subpan it broke so we're we had to cut it as I showed you that we had to replace it but the front cover has a lot of bolts and it was super confusing because there are bolts hidden in the back there are bolts everywhere there's so many bolts holding this little cover that all it does is just has the oil pump in it I don't know why chain design is super simple actually extremely simple and another new school touch is the chain tensioner is internal that was another thing and then well I'll show you this in a little bit the balance shaft actually is super complicated it looks like of a German car I mean it's what I call it is a Contraption it has chain and guides and all these gears and all kinds of complications for the balance shafts and you'll see that in a little bit when we talk about it but this is here we're taking your nose I'm putting the Rockers and the hydraulic lifters and the little that looks like exactly out of a 2grfe for example but then the cylinder has one piece so if you look at a 1gr of that same generation Tacoma that has buckets this has hydraulic lifters that just tells you how good this engine is hydraulic lifters are always better there's no adjustment everything is very simple the head bolts were 14 millimeter 12 point socket that was a pretty interesting design let's look at the engine we'll continue our conversation so we have the engine all apart and we kind of started our investigation there's something I'm seeing that I don't like but before we get to that would you look at this cast iron block and just look at the state that it is in if we look here look at this rust it's coming off and my favorite part is this one and this thing is just disintegrating basically I think if you leave this here for a few more years you'll start having holes but there's something interesting about an iron block there's too many freeze plugs I mean there's four here there's four over there there's three in the back there's just too much freeze plug going on this engine is very interesting if we look at the front here where I call it the contraption of the balance shaft so this engine has two balance shafts run by a chain and then this whole thing actually I was I was about ready to start disassembling it but then we looked at the new engine it actually comes with it even with the new tensioner new guide new everything all this comes with the new engine which is pretty interesting but then we look here at some of these uh things I thought there was no way we can get the block drain out but actually I was able to turn this same thing with this is actually loose now the oil pressure switch that's not going to happen look how Rusty this thing is it's insane how Rusty this thing is so uh we're just gonna replace that oil pressure switch because I don't even trust it but here's what we have here's what I don't like about this engine right now if you look at the cylinders right here one of them is clean and the rest of them are carboned up middle ones are the same it's just one cylinder that is clean usually when you see a cylinder like this it's been coolant washed basically like Vapor blasted if you would and then we look at the cylinder head which is sitting right here we did some cleaning to it you notice these three cylinders have carbon this one is almost new I mean this is this has like been Vapor washed so here's what I'm worried about do we have a head gasket problem first thing is I don't care about the block because we're replacing that and that's what we're going to end up here doing here and I'll show you the wear marks on the one cylinder pretty soon but I'm worried about this here because this we are going to reuse we will service check the valves lap them do all the good stuff place the seals check everything but I cleaned this a little bit because you don't want to leave remnants of the old gasket this is a straight edge this is how you check warpage on cylinder heads so per the book the first position is here this is a 2000s feeler gauge that is the maximum allowed warpage and this is not going in this is not going in the cylinder has not warped this way now we're gonna go this way and check it again this is good this is good this is good now we're going to go across this way this is good this is good good and good just to take it to the next level I'm going to put it offset or also check it this is good good this is also good it was going here because we have the colon passage I'm going to check it right here this one is good good and good I think the cylinder has not warped I mean this car ran perfectly fine it just burned a lot of oil so here is what we have I think what happened here is the cylinder head gasket blew right in this area it was leaking coolant into the cylinder not a large amount where it would cause issues but if you look at the appearance of the water jacket covers they all look fine except here it just looks off and I just don't like the shape of this looks like something was leaking through here so potentially that's what it is because I was worried when I saw that cylinder the way it is that we have potentially a head gasket issue that caused this whole problem but here's what actually caused the oil consumption let's spin this engine and this is going to be really hard to show on camera but we'll try our best if you look in the cylinder this looking this way you can actually see cylinder wall wear right here it's really hard to show I'm gonna try to show you guys you have cylinder wire right there I hope you can see it and then when we turn around and look at the other side there you can see it very clearly we have a very large area that the cylinder is really worn down in the middle right there so this is this is what we have now this other cylinder doesn't look too bad and the other two also do not look too bad they we do have these typical marks at the very top but they're not too bad and that's that's where we're at so what we're going to do here is put a short block I think it's more cost effective and it is better because I'm really worried about the condition in this block how Rusty it is so here is the new short plot it is super pretty has to be said very heavy extremely heavy and this was the struggle of us dealing with it but would you look at this Beauty right here this is a brand new 2tr short block and if you look at this section right here you notice it has all the balance shaft and everything attached to it even a new chain new tensioner new everything pretty interesting but it doesn't have anything else it doesn't have the block drain doesn't have the pressure sensor of course so we had to order that this project is really for lack of a better word it has to be said the truth it's going south because not only did this stuff we have to order them and they're not really available I mean I've in my entire career with Toyota I've never taken one of these sensors apart they're that good this one however did have some cylinder wear and I'll tell you why in a second why I think that is but we do also have to get a new dipstick because the dipstick just flat broke out that's not going to happen so we're getting a new dipstick tube and the reason this truck Burns oil in my opinion I'm gonna say one thing and if the owner of this truck is watching don't take offense to this but the truth have to be said and you secretly know it this is a four-cylinder four-wheel drive Tacoma really a trim that in my opinion shouldn't exist because you can't really do any off-roading with this it's just too underpowered this is a Workhorse this would be two-wheel drive and you see commercial accounts using these all day long but would you look what we have underneath it for our friends in the southern states or in areas where you don't have snow that looks like just a very fancy tow hitch in the front it doesn't make sense for our friends in the salt belt this is a snow plow connection usually if you snowplow with a tundra that has a lot more Powers a lot bigger it's not sufficient you need a heavy duty truck you need something heavy and heavy duty to really plow with let alone a four-cylinder Tacoma I mean this thing did not have an easy life I don't think they really snowplowed big feel big like parking lots or whatever maybe a small thing maybe driveways or whatever but still this is simply too much you are pushing this engine you're pushing this transmission to the Limit especially the transmission but the engine took the brunt of the beating and that's why we're burning oil it's just it's overloaded let's put it this way because I don't think you will find another 2tr that burns oil unless it was pushed to the Limit or just severely poorly maintained this is one of the best Toyota engines hence the reason why a Toyota engine specialist has never opened one I have been inside every single Toyota engine in the modern times let's say starting from late 90s all the way to today even the modern stuff I've never opened one of these engines this is the very first one and possibly why things are going south because there's no experience there's no reference we're not oh I know this bolt is common to break because it's broke 10 times we were going to the unknown but we got it done we're now going to start assembly which we're gonna put you guys back on the time lapse maybe we'll talk about some cost of this job and we'll assemble the engine fully which we're still waiting for a lot of parts this is really pushing us back but what are you going to do we'll put it all together and then we'll we'll give to you guys to the grand finale when the car is actually ready to start before we start talking about the costs of this job I just want to clarify one thing look this was a long project and I was really focused on it maybe in the video I was not clear let's just clarify the actual cause of this failure in case you own one of these engines and you kind of feel disappointed that we had this issue look I think this is my final assessment and this is what I actually conveyed to the customer why this happened because there was look looking from the outside there's no way for me to know exactly why this engine burn oil and why and you know if you've watched my channel the why is very important folks most people just oh yeah let's just throw an engine and hope for the best the Y is very important I really need to see it so here's the why in this car I think this engine was pushed to its limit by the plowing now what happened from that is we had a small cylinder head gasket leak so coolant was making its way in the cylinder cylinder one specifically As Time passed that cylinder is consistently getting washed down washed down and look every engine will have its characteristic of how it it copes with harsh conditions like that for example 2011 2010 Prius you know third generation Prius engine I mean very little coolant leak will cause it to run horrible this engine apparently and just from driving it before we did this job when you have a small head gasket leak nothing will happen it'll run perfectly fine that's just how good this engine is and how well balanced it is so this is basically the final assessment I think this engine failed and started burning oil and basically it warranted this entire job which was not simple not cheap you'll find that out it's a head gasket leak that turned into this entire thing basically the coolant was washing the cylinders all the time and that's what causes cylinder wear and that's what started the oil consumption and everything is history so if you own one of these engines do please investigate very closely when you have mysterious coolant loss because after this engine was done actually they addressed the that kind of asked the customer how much coolant was this losing he's like I have to top off the coolant every month otherwise we run really low and we lose heat and all that stuff this is important folks when you see coolant loss every month you're having to top off a lot you need to investigate it this is super important because if you don't have external leaks there's only one other places going out the tailpipe it's it's a head gasket leaking it should have this should this have been addressed a long time ago when it first started I don't think we would have gotten this point remember the cylinder head out of this car in the car is not a massive undertaking it's actually not difficult at all but moving the whole engine is difficult and speaking of the engine let's talk about some of the costs associated with this job just for you to get reference now everybody has their own choice I don't think this truck was really in bad shape transmission I have my question marks about it but it's been serviced this truck is really taken care of by the owner he isn't somewhat of a DIY mechanic he does some of the things himself but he takes care of it and that's it's his work truck he knows he beats it but he takes care of it at the same time you can see oil changes three is really good they're just actually pretty clean on the inside and here are the costs labor is 24 hours this was actually part of the book I've never done this job so I can't really modify the labor up or down because I've never done one so we go with the book and see what happens now that equates to 2880 the short block itself was 2655 and some change expansive but again not common this block actually took a while to arrive because it was it's not readily available because I don't think this is a very common job let's put it this way gasket kit was surprisingly on the low side of things usually they're 500 plus this one was 372 and some change now we have sealer for twenty dollars we have coolant for 54 bucks two oil changes I normally charge two oil changes for an engine we run an engine for a couple hours then we drain the oil drain the filter so there is 10 bottles of zero w20 which actually it's less than what this engine needs for two oil changes but we took care of that two oil filters some cleaner and then this is where things kind of went downhill so here are the additional parts that we added after this job was was all started basically exception of the water pump the water pump was 123 customer wanted to replace this already coming out I think it's a good idea because two of the common problems with this engine is a valve cover gasket leak and the water pump leak so we addressed both I suppose then we put Force new spark plugs I usually always put new spark plugs under the engine that burns oil they usually have carbon all kinds of stuff then the drive belt tensioner that was not really in good shape then the drive belt itself was kind of worn out basically from the tension or not being well and then we put the idler the one drive belt idler that was making noise we replaced that and then the oil pressure switch then the upper oil pan then AC compressor bolts and the exhaust manifold bolts and sorry nuts and then the odds and ends in between there's a giant list of things that got replaced little stuff nothing big brackets whatnot but that brought the grand total and this is why you'd want to be seated for this brought the grand total to 7317 now some people will jump out of their seat and say this is absolutely not worth it you know what this was this one was a hard call this was borderline and this customer initially able to write the car game I advise them you might want to think this one out because this truck has miles I'm worried about the transmission yes the frame is very clean actually it doesn't have rust usually if you have a Tacoma that's usually a kill as a Togo mom otherwise it'll just keep going forever especially this generation Tacoma I mean 2005 to 2015 Tacoma in my book was the best one it was comfortable it was spacious and it had the best engines this is one of them but this was a tough call and I I kind of let the customer decide this one out I told him you know this is a lot of money and this truck hasn't had an easy life yes you took care of it but it hasn't had an easy life so I am worried about the transmission although shifts perfectly fine but still knowing what kind of use they they used it for it is a concern of mine so the customer actually initially said you know what I'm going to keep topping the oil I'll keep keep an eye on everything I I always worry about the coolant level loss but he said he will keep an eye on everything he'll think about it and kind of price a new truck and see but then lo and behold out of the blue he just calls and says I'm ready to do this I want to do this and the way we do this with customers at the shop prices will fluctuate significantly for these parts so what I usually do at least for the big part like short block gasket kit we take a deposit we schedule the appointment we usually schedule is very far we usually book out a month or two out sometimes so we'll schedule it customer will put a deposit deposit you know we can refund it minus a restocking fee for to ship the parts back we get them straight from Toyota we order the block actually this block sat in our shop for a while the new one because you never know when they go in back order you never know if the price all of a sudden jumps up so I usually take deposit order the parts have them sit nice and safe in the corner waiting for the appointment life is good now folks I want to mention one thing and this might have been the reason why this customer decided you know what let's fix this truck and keep it the current situation of the car market buying wise buying cars you know the small story I'll share with you and I hope this helps you my neighbor my dear neighbor somebody that they're just not just neighbors we consider them as family they have a Chevy Equinox possibly the worst car on the planet that's just my personal opinion professional opinion anyways they got done with that carve to 2013 it has more problems than any Toyota will have at any given time unless it's just pushed off a cliff so I told them you know what it is time for you to move on from this because this is just never ending basically I am working on this car helping them out every three months and now it needs a water pump which equals you gotta pull the front cover because the water pump is the remain chain anyways long story short this car is done it's worth nothing it needs a ton of work there will they want to buy a car I mean I went with with them to help them out check some cars out I don't I was shocked by the state of the current used car market and it really breaks my heart to know that folks are having to deal with this these days and that's what's driving people to put all kinds of money in their older cars is to keep them so they wouldn't have to overpay for another car folks be careful with that look some people will say oh you own an automotive shop of course you love it you want people to keep their old cars and keep spending money on them I actually don't because you do the right thing the right thing will come back to you that's what I believe in and that's what I base my life on I want to put food on table of my kids that I feel like I earned it working very hard and doing the right thing so here's here's the thing with cars if a car is worth fixing it's worth fixing if a car is not worth fixing don't fix it this is a very important thing don't make your should I fix your car should I fix my old car decision based on I can't get another one because the market no make it based on is this car worth fixing or not if you have Toyota or Lexus look there are other models Honda whatnot there are good cars to keep but I am a Toyota specialist I'm going to keep this conversation Toyota Lexus just because it's a Toyota or Lexus and they're good cars and you can keep them forever or whatnot doesn't mean you should always because at least in my area cars Thrust out things pile up and usually cars that are taken care of they'll not have major issues unless you really push them to the Limit like this to cool up obviously the owner knew that he was using it for perhaps not instant intended purpose perhaps pushed past the limit that's why he did his math did his whatever whatever thought he process he had that made him decide to do this but I see customers all the time and this is something that the shop kind of opened my eyes too and I'm really I loved my shop I love doing what I do every day it made me see people from all walks of life talk to them help them move their cars and whatnot and this is my important message to you don't decide big repairs in the moment and I see people do this they come in carburns oil they'll immediately say yeah yeah let's fix it six thousand dollars you can't do that you got to think about it you got to do your math well how much is this car worth did you even consider that what is out there did you ask if you can get a new car did you run your numbers this is very important folks and we've talked about this in another video but I want to slightly go over it again because this is very important You Gotta Do the Right math you gotta first go don't just watch three YouTube videos that say Hey the market is really bad for used cars right now you don't want to buy a used car right now that video might be old that video might be outdated things are changing all the time you go facts in the ground you go walking dealerships you go ask you go look you go investigate yourself before you make any big decisions as potentially will strand you financially hurt your family do the right thing I see people all the time they bring me an old car there's Rusty there's way too far gone and they want to fix it and keep it on the road I flat out said you know what I don't recommend you do this and if it's not good for me it's not good for you you can take it somewhere else have somebody mend it I don't mend cars I fix them for them to last a reasonable amount of time and if any of you have been to my shop have talked to me the first thing I ask you with old cars is what is the plan you gotta have a plan with older cars the when the plan sounds like this I want to keep my car forever usually I have a problem with that nothing lasts forever humans don't last forever that's just how life is you gotta have a plan with your old car okay I'm fixing this car it needs this laundry list of things of course it's an older car with rust I want to keep her for three more years when you tell me that I can from my experience and then that's not just me any mechanic from their experience from seeing your car they'll be able to tell you is this a realistic thing can you really get three more years out of this car reasonably or is this going to be kind of a money pit and that's the important thing now we can give you an an educated estimate is this a realistic expectation or not because for you to keep putting money into cars it just becomes counterproductive at some point at some point you're better off going buying another car overpaying for another car then keep putting money in your old car that's not worth it this is very very important folks I see people fall into this mistake over and over and over that was the the time where I was at the dealership I didn't have a say you just hand me keys to a car and the job hey get it done I don't know who the customer is and this is what I love about my shop I can look at customers in the eye and tell them this is not worth it here's your keys have a nice save if you want to venture off in this adventure I don't want to be with you because I don't think this is worth it if I don't think a car is worth the repair period I won't do the job even if you want to do it because I hope that that kind of incentivizes the customers to really think about it twice and decide you know what this is not worth it one story I'll tell you we had a beautiful is 300 and I I don't know if the customer is watching maybe I know he's a viewer if you're watching this it was a blue IS300 it was one of the cleanest is-300s I've ever seen but it was so Rusty things were falling there was holes in the in the unibody and everything I told him this is not worth fixing I'm not even going to charge you for an inspection move on from this car and I'm so glad that he actually responded and said you know what I see your point this is a very clean car but it's not worth it I'm moving on for this I'm taking your advice because keeping and Rusty car going is not a good idea just because the market is bad doesn't mean you should put all your money in your current car because sometimes that becomes counterproductive folks this is a very happy moment for me as well car is about to start let's check out the first start of this new engine all right we have finally arrived at the moment where we start this engine I have to be honest this is multiple days later we had to wait for a lot of parts the engine dipstick the transmission dipstick a few other odds and ends that took a long time to get this these parts are not really available because this engine parts for it are not readily available because it's not a common engine to be taken out replaced or serviced or whatever the case may be so I have the crank position sensor disconnected we're going to crank this engine prime it then we're going to give it the first start let's go do that [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and the oil light is off that was a kind of a quick Prime battery is an Optima battery so should be good I'm going to plug in my crank sensor now it should start and I have to admit I'm a little nervous about this one [Music] she's alive [Music] that's it sounding pretty healthy that wine is a secondary air injection it's alive ladies and gentlemen [Music] there we go there goes secondary air injection it's nice and quiet and it leaks I think we are good very happy this sounds pretty healthy let's listen to it there you have it folks that's one more engine done this is the first two trfe that I do it was not easy we had a lot of complications but you know what this is how this job is you go through the motions you kind of work on these cars deal with problems as they come but in the end it's got to get done it's got to get done right and we arrived at this point now we are not even close to being done here because you know as the hood is off we haven't charged AC yet we still got to drive it do another oil change in case any of the debris that we didn't catch cleaning it get caught by the filter or sits in the oil pan we're gonna drain the oil again change the filter again and then we'll drive it some more and she should be ready hopefully for more than 175 000 miles is what this truck has if they remove this uh snow plow hit or the connection point I think a struck would last even a lot more because this engine is not known to have any issues but this one I think it was pushed past the limit that's why we had this issues and that's why we were doing this rebuild folks I hope this video is helpful informative I hope you learned something new if you like it consider giving a thumbs up if you're not a subscriber consider subscribing to the channel check out some 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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Length: 52min 41sec (3161 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 22 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/ParkieDude]

I love his channel.

2.7L 2TR-FE tear down, lots of great tips. He paid about $8000 for a new short block. He is honest and points "is it worth it" but 2012, otherwise clean. 4cyl shouldn't be used for snow plow duty, so it was a coolant leak that led to cylinder wash down (think steam cleaning oil off the cylinders, leading to ring cylinder wall loss of lubrication, hence high oil consumption.

"Don't decide big repairs at the moment" - sage advice. I kept a beater corolla, truck, and yadda running in my earlier days. Three cars for two drivers, so when I started seeing white smoke, it got pulled off the road, and I had a backup car.

[u/rainier0380]

Wait so you’re saying that the video with tons of Graphics was click bait?