Intro

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so last week we started the series on
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this 70 year old GMC 302 inline 6 50
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years ago it was pulled out of a fire
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truck and we still don't know why all we
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know is it didn't run so today we're
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gonna continue the teardown and we're
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gonna find out exactly why they pulled
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this thing out so stay tuned well did
Crank Pulley
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discover one problem I was taking off
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the crank pulley and this is the hub
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that the crank pulley attaches to it's
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obvious that there was a previous repair
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at some point done I haven't inspected
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the crank yet we're gonna be pulling it
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out shortly and we'll have a better idea
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of what we're faced with then but I
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still don't see this as a reason to take
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this engine completely out of service
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but it appears what had happened that at
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some point this hub the keyway that's in
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the hub had had stretch to open so there
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was quite a bit of play in this and in
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this hub and and of course in the in the
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lower belt pulley but what it appears
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that someone had done at some point they
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drilled a hole through this hub through
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the end of the crank and put a pin in it
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to try to stabilize it and keep it from
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rocking around I'm not real sure why
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they did that the damage on the inside
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of this is pretty bad but the solution
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would have been just to put another hub
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on it so as we get further let's hope
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the crank the nose of the crank is not
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damaged so let's keep going okay we're
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gonna go ahead and pull out the the
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tappets of course these are solid lifts
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and non roller flat tappets it's
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important one thing about these old tap
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it's like this as long as the the
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surface is good and the lifter two or
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tap it tube or clearance is great then
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there's no need to put in new tap it's
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but it is very important when you're
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doing a teardown you want to make sure
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that when you remove it you mark exactly
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which hole that it came out of we're
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gonna keep these for the build because
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if they look great I see no reason at
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all to replace these at least the first
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one so let's keep going
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yes every one of the tappets look
Bores
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fantastic so we're definitely going to
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keep those the bores look great so we
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know that's not well that's one issue
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we're not gonna have to deal with so
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let's pop the cam cover off and dive a
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little deeper
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we're gonna stop for a minute and clean
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up a bath
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so we've got the camshaft pulled the
Cam lobes
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lobes look great don't see any irregular
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wear on them the top of the lobes they
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look good
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don't say anything crazy the cam
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bearings look pretty good too so let's
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keep going
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Why didnt it run
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so we've toured the entire engine down
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and so far I cannot find a reason why it
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didn't run remember that's the big
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question why didn't it run the main
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bearings look great rod bearings look
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great in the clues along the way we look
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at the tappets we look at the tap it
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bores we look at main bearing rod
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bearing journals on the crank obviously
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the oiling system was working fantastic
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there's virtually nowhere inside this
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engine it's exactly what I would expect
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to see something built like this back in
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the day with about 25,000 miles on it so
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the only thing we haven't checked yet is
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this head and if you remember from the
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first video my theory was that we had
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one or two burnt valves in this head my
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prediction is that the only thing wrong
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with this engine is a burnt exhaust
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valve and we haven't torn the head down
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yet but we're gonna find out here in
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just a second if you notice guys it's
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it's amazing to me still how well these
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things were built back in the day even
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the oil pump having safety wire on all
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of the fasteners to ensure they didn't
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come out that's it's an incredible thing
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you don't see that type of stuff anymore
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that type of care and thoroughness
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during the manufacturing process with
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high volume stuff like car engines so
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anyway let's see what we find in the
Cylinder Head Inspection
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cylinder head
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we have to remember that these were very
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low compression engines and even you
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have if you have a slight leak on about
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this engine particular being only seven
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to one compression ratio so with that
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low of a compression if you have the
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slightest loss in cylinder pressure the
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engine won't run let's say what we have
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look at that
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oh we have one here and we have one here
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amazing cylinder two cylinder three but
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primarily that exhaust valve that pesky
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exhaust valve on cylinder number six so
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with three valves not seating properly
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that's enough of compression loss to
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keep an engine from running so my theory
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looks like it came true anyway guys I
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want to thank you very much for watching
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and following along with this rebuild
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what we're gonna do in the next rebuild
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is tear down the cylinder head see what
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we would have to do to repair that more
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than likely I will go ahead and install
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new valve seats Hardin seats all
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throughout the head so we don't have to
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put lead additive in the fuel and check
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the springs and then we're also going to
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go through the main journals and the rod
Next Steps
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journals we're going to measure all of
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those they were in such great condition
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that we may just keep them the way that
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they are now the only other problem we
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still have to address is this hub now
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and you saw on the video there where
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they had someone had made this
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modification as an attempt to repair
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this which I'm not sure why they did it
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that way it would have been relatively
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simple just to either have another hub
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machined or and with a slightly smaller
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OD for the card excuse me ID for the
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crank so more than likely we'll be able
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to make a sleeve for the nose of the
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crank and then I will make another hub
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and I believe that'll take care of that
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problem and I think we'll be able to use
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that crank just the way it is so we've
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solved the big question guys now we get
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to go ahead and move forward with
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rebuilding this engine thanks again for
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watching take care of yourselves in each
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other y'all have a great day
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you
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