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Engine Teardown - Bottom End and Crankshaft Inspection

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This NASCAR Engine Was Built 20 Years Ago and NEVER Used! How Much Power Has It Lost? (Ford C3)

What happens here

The oil pan is removed, revealing the crankshaft and connecting rods. During this process, a critical issue is discovered: the cam gear bolt head was hitting the timing chain retainer plate, causing significant wear and preventing proper cam timing. This is identified as a potential cause for performance issues. Further inspection of the crankshaft reveals it to be a robust piece, with clear markings indicating it's an SVO (Special Vehicle Operations) block, likely dating from before dedicated SVO casting marks were common. They carefully remove the crankshaft, noting its general good condition despite signs of rust in the main bearing area.

Goal: Inspect the crankshaft and other bottom-end components for wear and issues.

Tools and materials

  • Piston Removal Tool — Assisting with piston removal (not explicitly shown but implied)
  • Wrenches and Sockets — Removing oil pan, main caps, and other fasteners

What they say

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in the new engine visually it looks like it yeah it looks very similar what should I put this up your butt that would hurt she couldn't resist that it felt like Stanley these oil holes are can chamfer why can't there be any dang team names or something initials on these to figure out where they came from well the thing is there's all kinds of markings on this engine that don't identify anything to us but there's like tons of different little number series BWI 875 number 411 6-03 this is another one says Jr cb440. who knows Jack Roush Junior Johnson Jackie Robinson [Music] so now we get to find out the all-important cylinder finish numbers and for those of you who aren't familiar with these terms we'll explain them firstly you have a frame of reference if you haven't seen the other video yet which you should go watch those if you haven't already a lot of this will make a lot more sense oh yeah you can kind of see if it's still sort of in there yeah you can see the ones where that was really really rusted but obviously between the the foggit the motor oil and running it it just knocked it all away and well it came out red so that's a good sign yeah one tool we have knew this time we didn't have last time is a microscope so as opposed to having the profilometer we had before where you had to do everything on the screen now we can do it from the laptop so let's go to the one we know where there was a bunch of rust in it right in there whoa oh yeah you can see all the pits from where all the rust was absolutely yeah it fitted it up from all the rust this is why this is the most incredible amazing tool so the thought is just is this is this is equally I'm at a loss for words here this is as equally mind-blowing as the other engine wondering why it lost so much power how did this one stay the same with walls that look like that well I will say this those pits will hold oil maybe better to have a few pits in there for it to be then completely worn out but yeah that's so we have the rust pet hone yeah so that's that's one cylinder let's go see another one we think we can see so maybe the remnants of that in there let's look over here look down at the very bottom of this one this one looks pretty good oh yeah that one looks fine yeah you wouldn't know that's 20 years old and been sitting there maybe this one was parked uh up when the other one was parked down yeah yeah the one that was really bad with the Pistons was down that those are the ones that were the worst…

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