sooner or later you're gonna come across
a stuck motor the question is what do
you do with the thing so we're about to
start working on a ramp child over here
and it says you know let's see if we can
free this thing up before we actually
pull it out and rip it apart cuz I've
already got my daily over here I pulling
a motor out of this thing because we've
got some rotted freeze plug yeah I got
lazy when we stuck it in I knew I should
have put freeze plugs in it I didn't and
they're leaking so this is you know I've
already got pull one more I don't want
to have to do - let me see if I can save
this thing so we did we freed it up so
let me show you how I go about I've
saved dozens of them like this but first
you got to know if it's if it's a viable
candidate to be saved so I mean
obviously the first thing you know all
this they can check the oil so on this
engine here we've got a crankcase full
of oil there's no trace of water or
anything like they're all a little bit
but you know just kind of see but for
the most part it's nice oil so I knew
right off the bat the motor was the
water wasn't filled with water I don't
have to worry about everything main
rusted together on the bottom and then
of course if you're got to be serious
about this pull the heads because if
you're gonna pull the motor and you got
to take it apart to rebuild it anyway
you're gonna have to pull the heads
anyway so
you pull them off now you'll know
whether or not you've got a viable
candidate here if you pop the heads and
you see scaly rust on the solder walls
or you see a lot of uh you know
oxidation on the pistons you know stop
now because you're not going to be able
to save this thing but in our case what
we found was some white surface rust on
a couple of cylinders and just general
for munch right
so how do you go about saving this then
what do you do what steps do you take to
save it so the first thing I do is soak
it down with penetrating fluid on this
case in this case I used PB Blaster
probably doused it with a cannabis over
the last two or three days I come by
every day and just give each cylinder a
squirt with PB and let it sit so then
the next step is critical okay you want
to you want to shock the motor loose and
I'm for that
I like to use a length of black iron
pipe um you can't really use wood wood
won't transfer the shock from the hammer
the hammer blow to the piston and jar
the rings loose you don't want to use
force
you want to use shocking short sharp
blows and you want to go to each
cylinder and alternate from side to side
so basically you go in something like
this right and they use pipe don't use
it pinch bar or anything because that'll
stress the center of the piston used
pipe put the pipe flush against the
piston like that and give it a couple of
good hard walls like this then come to
the other side did it sit thing
and alternate between your cylinders
well you can't get well you can't get
that up you know the piping just give
the soldier a nice just a nice shot like
that work your way back and forth take
your time
force will only break rings but doing it
this way just shocking it back and forth
will loosen whatever is stuck so here's
the critical part right as you going
back and forth you'll eventually start
to see witness marks change so on this
engine I was looking at this cylinder
right here and I saw after I after I
made probably six or seven runs through
the engine hitting it with pipe I
started to see a space over here which
means that I had worked it free the
motor is no longer stuck how do you take
a breaker bar right here breaker bar now
you take a breaker bar put it on the
crank and all you do now is just work
the motor back and forth just force it
one way and then force it the other way
slowly all right don't push any harder
than necessary just to take up the play
right and well I'm not I've already
freed this engine up so it's going a lot
easier than you know it starts out but
basically all you want to do is keep
going back and forth until you find the
engine wants to stop when the engine
wants to stop give it just a little push
and then come back the other way and go
to where she wants to stop give the
motor a little push and come back and
forth and before you know it this thing
will be rotating nice and free which is
we're at with this engine so looking
things over I'm fairly confident this
thing is going to live you know one
other thing - what are you doing this as
you're rocking the loader back and forth
pay attention to the movement of each
piston because if you've got a bid
bearing in there you know because
sometimes you'll free these things up
they originally seized because they had
they spun a bearing or or you know
something along those lines problem in
the bottom
so when you're rocking the motor back
and forth paying attention to the
movement to the subtle movements of each
piston make sure that as you're going
back and forth there's no play this this
even movement across the engine and you
don't hear any clunking sounds very
important so like I said this thing I'm
fairly confident we're gonna be alright
you're gonna have to clean it up some
I'm gonna pull this the spider off
because we had a mouse get in here and
build a nest so there's gonna be a lot
of little crud you know here and there
but other than that you know it's a good
motor so that's it I hope you got
something out of that I see you tomorrow