Buying and fixing a mono boom skidsteer part 2 : Pulling the engine

we pull the engine to figure out the damage and give the engine bay a much needed cleaning

[@DeirdreHickey-nx8nt]

Oh my god Jesse, I think I would have set fire to it. Your patience and perseverance is astounding.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@josephdean2142]

Loving this rebuild - warts and all! Speaking of which - THANK YOU for preserving Pat's dignity and my retinas at 46:00 - great editing skills.

[@myronbro]

Definitely hone and replace rings on all cylinders if you are that deep into it. They might have been using ether because it was hard to start due to compression issues.

[@tsleepr8898]

Couldn't agree more! Your that deep in do all 4 cyl. With a ball hone to produce a good cross hatch

[@gregolson1824]

Jesse the final drives you mention are not final drives at all. There is no oil to change in them or any way to disengage them so the machine can be towed. They are just hydraulic motors, they are not planetaries like you are thinking. As for the thought on the ether causing the precup to fall out. It is extremely unlikely that this is the case, especially seeing that there is no damage in any of other cylinders. The most likely thing is the injector having a bad pattern over heating the chamber.

[@ProtonOne11]

So to freewheel these hydraulic motors, he would just have to remove the endcaps on the hoses so the oil can move and does not lock up the motors? And if you are in the field and the machine breaks down, i would hope that you can set the drive pump or valves into a freewheel position to drag the machine on a trailer and into the shop without having to dig deep into the machine to disconnect the motors.

[@FixitRestoreit]

When i lived in England, i had never even put flip flops on my feet lol. But, now i live in Texas , so its an everyday thing during the summer 😊

[@Zack_Raefski]

Just finished working on my own machine and now I can sit back and relax watching Jesse work his magic, love these videos man

[@garymcintyre6507]

Jesse, I worked in the hydraulic industry for many years in my younger years much has changed in the past 20 years, since I have been retired but one thing that hasn`t changed is having hose identification location markings the best method I found was a set of letter and number stamps, saving the colored ties for places you can`t get in to stamp a number.

[@peglegtoo]

I really appreciate jesse's videos and that he shows everything, the whole struggle. not just breeze over it and its done. great work. thank you.

[@i--dont--know]

Sir, respect! You are the first yoububer that collected the oily watter. Ive seen so many videos like yours, pressure washing on the ground. @Ants Pants pressure washed his tractor near a stream of water.

There's possibly some debris in the oil drain tube causing the slow oil drain. Excellent videos. You've got great intuition.

[@sivart173]

Jesse, it’s the small things… the pat crack blur.. perfection 😂

[@daveredlinger7194]

You guys are amazing , a concrete house, a wonder kitchen and pulling a engine in the most unfriendly difficult engines and never giving up. You are right Jesse they should fire the people who made such a mess.Best of luck to you all.

[@brianramsey4097]

Nothing nowadays are built to last. They want you to just go out and buy a newdoing they design it to make it difficult to work on, so to discourage you from doing such a thing. Love your content Jesse keep up the great work. Happy New Year.

[@dennisbailey4296]

I am a journeyman mechanic and I've had four apprentices. And you really show excellent working skills and can actually feel something before it breaks very uncommon nowadays. Great work looking really really good. Good to see you got a Helper, and it's all coming together!!! All the best from Surrey BC Canada

[@WikkedDonkE]

Slurrey, Woot Woot!

[@jeroen1836]

Now the engine is out you can do some redesign things to the bottom for service purposes 👍👏👊💪. B2W, nice video 👍. Happy & healthy 2024 🥂🍾

[@Redneckmfg]

You Sir are a BEAST !!!! WOW I am so glad I found your channel... your edits are awesome and the amount of info you put in your videos makes me want to tear down my skid steer engine just to see whats on the inside...

[@soylentgreenispeople5809]

Blurring out plumber's butt...hilarious.

[@thedelcodave]

Excellent progress. If you put an old bed sheet on the ground it will catch and filter out chunks of grease when powerwashing outside. Bronze braze the hole in the turbo by the time the repair fails it will need a new turbo anyway.

[@TheHomePros6221]

I love watching your videos and I feel like you and me have a lot in common,esp on the way we fix things. Keep up the great work brother!!

[@MartesWigglesworth]

@JesseMuller The chunk was able to fit through to the oil pan because someone has had that engine disassembled previously and it fell through. Glad you have the inclination and funding to complete this repair because someone was obviously trying to scam someone with a dead engine that would require a complete rebuild.

[@myronengberg655]

Jesse, I love your videos. I have used a very small amount of controlled muriatic acid to disolve the aluminum piston on steel cylinder walls. Keep up the great videos.

[@edwardcampeau8357]

Wow it doesn’t get any easier for you .I have learned a lot from your videos.Thank you for sharing everything with us.I love how you always have time for your kids. They love you so much you’re a good father.Ed from Mich

[@JimPeachley]

Another great equipment save. Congrats Jesse. Now's your chance to create that access panel under the engine you talked about. And oh, by the way, my wife kept 'telling' you to get a few bottles of Dawn dish washing liquid to pour all over the engine compartment and let it soak before pressure washing. Keep up the good work.

[@douglasthompson2740]

With that much water in what looked like very old oil you could be circulating water droplets throughout the engine. The small steam explosions can cause erosion of the bearing surfaces and friction on the pistons and rings. That heavy sludge would also be sending particles past the filter and the cumulative effect is wear and a lot of it if it plugs the filter and the oil is bypassing the filtering element completely. Most oil filters are not designed to deal with water that well as it is not supposed to be there. A check of the oil passages in the block is a good idea. Cooling passages as well. If some of them are restricted the head temperatures may be high which would also contribute to the problem. All that together may have got the head hot enough to loosen the pre combustion chamber. A cascade effect for sure. Good video.

[@Sleekfalcon]

This machine definitely needed more than the eye could tell. Thanks for another great video. Just a note, Cold water works just as well as hot. A little degreaser goes a long way once you get the bulk of it taken care of. I worked for a guy that did pressure washing for a living and he did everything others do with hot water with cold water. No expensive chemicals except the one time we did a driveway that a motor was rebuilt on and decided to put degreaser down to help penetrate and break it up to save time. He did restaurants with cold water. I do it myself now. But doesn't matter, you got it cleaned up regardless of the method. That's what matters. Have a happy new year! Can't wait to see more this coming year.

[@davidreinhart373]

The E in JCB stands for "Easy to work on"

[@fritzie1968]

Really appreciate your text overlays explaining some of what we are seeing. It is also helpful for those of us who can't spend a full hour watching but come back 2-3 times in order to finish your videos. Great work and content as usual Jesse. Been a long time subscriber and it has been great to see how far along you have come with your channel. Here's to a great 24 for you and your family.

[@jazko]

JCBs in Europe have the reputation of buy new, use until broken and replace. They are not built to last...

[@frederickmoller]

I think that's true, just like their 'home' manufacturing automobile industry, it's gone because of the literal garbage they manufactered, I had friends that had British cars, who had nothing good to say about them and would never buy their vehicles again.

[@jazko]

@@frederickmoller Land/Range Rovers are the epiphany of unreliability in Europe.

[@scatpackdriver2535]

Jesse ,I think I would pull the other pistons out and have a look at the rings . I would also change the bearing inserts and verify the crank oil gullies aren't full of crud . If the starter is hard to get to when it's back together you may want to have a look at the brushes and replace them if needed . Man, that was a lot of work to get the engine out. Happy New Year to you and yours!

[@josephsfields]

Jesse, You embody the sentiment in a Frank O'Hara poem. The gist of the poem goes, "There is nothing to it except to do it." Your willingness to dive all the way into the deep end is very impressive and inspirational. I worry more about not getting it all back together as I'm taking it apart.

[@user-ff4gz2sg5w]

Hello, in my opinion this is a material defect or quality defect. Such damage should not happen to such an engine or such an expensive machine. respect the repair. greetings from Germany

[@eriklarsen7358]

Generally, those are not final drives but drive motors. They are lubricated by hydraulic fluid. There is also a smaller hydraulic line to each drive unit that supplies fluid pressure to release the "brakes". You could potentially pressurize those lines with a port o power pump and it should roll. Alternatively you could remove the track and roll on the idler and bogeys. Pull it out and push it back in.

[@kalen01]

I know bobcats have an additional oil that has to be changed on their drive motors. Its just one tapered roller bearing inside that the hydraulic oil doesn't get to. It's an oil that gets overlooked a lot!

[@howie4150]

Thanks for sharing Jesse. It's always a pleasure watching your content

[@clintonmississippi2108]

Quite a project. Many things to disconnect and then repair and reconnect. Can't wait for the next video. Sam

[@michaellynskey7124]

Like you mentioned Jesse there’s a varst majority of people think that ether the only way to start a stubborn engine that will not run, Using that in the engine gets addicted to like a drug and causing untold damage to the components , Then it will not start at all without using starter fluid, Also using cheap parts like the fuel pump you mentioned, To many second rate equipment all seem to made in china and make its way everywhere around the world. 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Great show which I never miss.

[@horstszibulski19]

Reminds me of working on european transversal engines, better to yank them out instead of fumbling around in quite tight spaces... Thx for showing, Happy New Year! 👍👍👍

[@karencary3312]

What a total mess. You guys have grit and brains. The BEST!!! Happy New Year!!!🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MySynthDungeon]

Been waiting!!! Coffees on!! Here we go!! lov it!! Cheers!;-)!

[@jackpinesavagerepair1918]

Acid to clean aluminum out of cylinder. Bearing failure from extreme pressure/shock load. Check con rod journal for roundness along with crank. Trying running cleaners threw oil gallies before assembly n try cleaning everything inside good.. Excellent job

[@typgamer]

Working on JCB telehandlers makes you question your own life sometimes. The injection pump sits at the back of the engine, you have to take out the engine just to replace the pump. And these pumps are notorious for scoring and breaking. You should also at least check/replace all the rings of the other pistons while you are at it, if they used a lot of ether then the walls will be very smooth and the chances of sticking rings will be higher in the future. Give them a quick hone and replace the rings, also clean the ring grooves with a brass brush. Normally, I'd go oversize on the bore with new pistons, but I can understand that you dont want to spend the money.

[@jeffharvey6768]

Great job Jesse..... rebuilding an engine is so detailed oriented...... Whew!

[@rhondasweeney7271]

Lots of work and more to come. I have faith in you to rebuild it. 😊 Thank you for sharing! 👍

[@CSWmanofsteel]

OH YEAH!! THANKS for blurring out the Mariana Trench 🤣🤣🤣🤙🏼❤️

[@LAKESIDEBOB1]

get the man a belt!

[@tiredoldmechanic1791]

Electric fuel pumps are often added to diesel engines because the mechanical pump only works when cranking. If an injector leaks the engine might have to crank for a long time to fill the fuel system. It also makes bleeding the system easier when changing filters or when the machine is run out of fuel.

[@incubatork]

I had a year 2000 Opel/Vauxhall Frontera which was sold in America as a Honda passport, It had a 2.0 Isuzu diesel engine in it, due to an airlocked cooling system(a frequent problem) it overheated and cracked the combustion chamber in the head and it came loose, here they fitted a new one and reskimmed the head no problem at all and a damn sight cheaper than a new cast iron head, It happened at about 100k miles, It had almost 300k miles when I sold it and was still running fine.

[@dmmaddex]

I have confidence in any of your repairs and judgment. Keep up the good work, JM...

[@morgansword]

At my old age, and being so forgetful, I don't feel like any advice from me would help. I have heard that you can put hydraulic pressure to the right line and it will free up the tracks as its hydraulic pressure on startup that frees those tracks like say the John Deere dozers or Cat dozers now days. All electric over hydraulic pressure solenoids, I spelled it wrong, but someone maybe like Clint at C&C equipment may know or at least let you know. Area Diesel service sometimes is a great help also as they seem to go out of their way to help in situations like this. Sounds strange yet there are good folks out there that do care. Looking forwards to this being a working machine. Sounds as though your not going to make a access hole through the bottom or maybe just to the oil drain.

[@tux1968]

Amazing work! Can't wait to see you finish it off. Happy new year.

[@thebeastinsdeu]

I would recommend changing all the rings and bearings in all the cylinders, as it would bring peace of mind, and since you already have them out, it's a good opportunity to do so.

[@jacquesdeschenes6449]

I would change all the pistons rings while you are there, for sure. Remove carbon on top of cylinders wall to prevent scratching pistons when you remove them and planning to reuse it. By the way, always protect the crankshaft from honing grit while honing cylinders. You will contaminate the New Rod bearings not doing it. Clean every thing well.

[@tomjohntig]

Great job Jess, looking forward to the next installment. All the very best for 2024. Tom Uk northeast England

[@windzer]

might as well pull the other pistons out hone those bores and put new rings in them too u might as well your in it this deep just fix anything that could be an issue later like replacing front and rear main seals too

[@Jayceevan33]

Valid point

[@glennfryer1539]

Yes that's a sensible thing to do, I do always...the engine has obviously been neglected, poor maintenance....

[@jamestsmith4500]

I don't recommend doing what I call a one cylinder overhaul. Even with replacing the cylinder head. The degree of difficulty determines whether you short cut things. With you having to remove the engine to tear it down, go ahead and replace the rings in all the cylinders and rod bearings in all the cylinders. If one of the main bearing in the cap looks good, you might can get by. If either front or rear seal looks iffy, replace those too. That's my rule of thumb on short cuts. Wish you well..

[@Maximusprimeatyahoo]

Thank you Jesse for sharing, You're a good family man that God has Blessed you with the talent to do these thing as He has blessed myself.

[@carloskawasaki656]

Awesome, thank you for sharing, always a pleasure watch your project, happy new years 👍👍👍👍

[@jeffwrightsman7797]

Keep there coming. You are inspiring me to fix my head gasket on my cat248b skidsteer

[@gregglogan9553]

love the videos. had a 1991 Saab 2.2 motor dohc motor had 4 cams. motor drop a value guide . put a hole in piston head was junk . later found out that the block was cracked at the top of cylinder. it beat the aluminium piston so hard swell the piston in the cylinder bore.

[@chrisdawson6380]

Looking forward to seeing the final installment. As always, great entertainment in the real world.

[@gillyb333]

Very satisfying video seeing it get cleaned.

[@allanvilleneuve6709]

I love all the video's. I've learned a lot. Have a great holiday and keep up the good work.

[@young11984]

Jesse, next time you see a phone company doing a big underground repair get a 2 foot piece of their 100 pair phone cable. I still have five 6” sections just for pulling multiple hydraulic lines and mostly used it on swivel blocks on boom trucks/lifts, its 50 common colored pairs of wires in those cables which lets you put a color to the fitting and hose plus you can leave them or take them off to reuse. I always left them on because they are about the size of a twist tie on a bag of bread. 30-55 gallon drum split in half with a cheap RV water pump hooked to the 3/4 bung in the barrel can be slid under the machine then one can man the pump switch to pump it into another barrel, the bung is high enough to let bulky items stay inn the pan and you can just pump water/oil. We welded another bung half way up the lid above the original one for heavy cleaning jobs with a lot of debris.

[@stew6338]

You can take my advice or please yourself. If that was my machine I would pull all pistons and check them to ensure the rings are not stuck like the damaged one. Replace all rings and hone all cylinders. Also check the main bearings as they could also be bad. Replace mains and big end bearing. Good job on what you have done to date. Cheers Stew.

[@kellysprayberry8163]

Enjoyed the video. Working on my 1988 1920 Ford tractor with basically that same Shibaura/Perkins style N844 engine in it. Putting a clutch in it and contemplating changing the rod bearings while I got it this far down. Best wishes on the rebuild. I’ll be watching for the install video.

[@TheHomePros6221]

I’ve been looking so foreward to this video Jesse!!

[@brentkingnwagent1347]

Great video Jesse. Thanks for sharing and have a Happy New Year.

[@denniskelly4172]

thanks for the update video,cant wait to see the final assemble and install

[@colin8532]

As always, very nice work Jesse!

[@mlombardo126]

Thank you I needed Something to watch 🎉🎉🎉

[@tylerbarrett6652]

It was nice to see you really clean one of these machines for a change... I mean, you gotta spend your time where you get the best return on it, so I understand when you don't spend so much time cleaning, but it's still nice to see. I wonder if you'll repaint that block? I really enjoy these uploads. You are going to have a nice little machine when you are done with this project. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@ianmurray9201]

Great video Jesse thank you. Happy new year to you all.

[@sylviaprudhomme5417]

That was very interesting. So glad it got cleaned❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@donnal.oglesby4806]

Dang that was a lot of unplugging and recapping. This macine in general was a mess. Whom ever you bought this from looks, from the condition of this machine, that he never took good care of it at all, and just all the dirt and crap that was in the body shows that. Your explanation and care of takeing this all apart, cleaning everything up and then moving forward to repair/ replace things to put it all back to together is so much more than the last owner ever did. Look forward to Part 3 od this, and Hope you and your family had a great Christmas, and have a great 24 as well. See ya on the next one..

[@michaelvollmer9491]

@jesse muller👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍. The major point to watch your videos is that I love people who are great mechanics and bring projects to an end. So I wish you all the best and to you and your family a great start in the next year 2024. with best wishes 👍😎🇩🇪

[@bigsid1984]

Another great and educational video.

[@g.cooney6599]

I have seen on VW Diesel engines that when the timing belt breaks or somehow there is piston to vale contact that not only will the valve be bent but the same can be true for the connecting rod from the impact. Measure the piston protrusion at TDC to see if they are all the same. You'll have to check the new piston and rings with the old rod and new rod bearings to get the answer. A bit of work to do this but with uneven compression in a cylinder you'll have an unstable engine speed at idle. I have been a fan of your for years and you never disappoint! All the Best in 2024! G.

[@SotTreeService]

I would. Uy something off of you all day. You have tought me so much to look forward to thing in what I’m buying. And I know that if you had something to sell it would be well gone through and fixed.

[@dougmarkham1919]

Always informative and well done. Thanks Jesse for another great videos.

[@kylejones2075]

Nuts and bolts makes a fun time good job thanks for sharing

[@user-yp5pe1xy5t]

We live we learn.keep up the good work

[@Mach34i]

Nice job! Thanks for sharing

[@izzycard1934]

brother your a beast really looking forward for the next video

[@thomasmarcelli4511]

Jessy doesn't seem to be afraid to take on any job. That's what separates the men from the boys. For most guys that's what stops us, fear??

[@SamRFixes]

Coolant probably got down the oil passages when you pulled the head. Probably got down through the hole in the piston, too. Pretty normal. Overheating can cause the head to drop inserts, similar situation with valve seats.

[@davidnaudi2601]

I don’t have any diagnostic skills, but I will not through parts at a machine either. I have a forklift here I’m trying to get going but working on slowly. Your videos are definitely worth watching Cheers

[@brucherrin8947]

Blurring the plumbers crack was appreciated😁

[@Z-Bart]

Camera don't fail me now. In case you need to revert back. I know I would need to. Happy New Year Jesse.

[@the2060ish]

Boy a lot of work Jess 👍

[@ncut5547]

I think u should replace rings on all four pistons and hone all the bores replace all bearings including mains that would be a good balance on the hole engine....as for the pre combustion cups in the head well it's a common problem on those engines your theory could be right but they are pressed into the head and I think the tolerance was not watt it should've been in manufacturing those engines are in alot of things watt u don't hear much about anyways good luck look forward to your next video...

[@IT_Dinosaur]

That is some high octane engine carnage.

[@nikond90]

Awesome video Jesse!

[@GrahamFreer]

Interesting video under trying conditions, well done so far, however not worth cutting corners now, I would take the time and inspect all the piston and conrods, theres been a lot of water thinning out you engine oil. You have invested a lot of time and money so far dont waste the opportunity. Thanks again for your time and effect you put into these videos.👌✌👍

[@billlyttle8224]

Great idea with the color zip ties Jesse. Will surely take out the quess work down the line putting things back together. Can't wait to see what caused the Failure.

[@buddyreed2623]

Hello Jesse. As you know, "You can't fix stupid." I look forward to the rebuild as I like watching that and would like to do it myself. Have good days!

[@annechristiansen941]

Thank you very much for the video. 👍🤗👍🇸🇯

[@upstate-.-alien]

Your brother forgot how many people watch this... ❤😂 prechamber souvenirs

[@philcollins7701]

Considering the amount of time and effort thats gone into removing the engine ,the consensus of comments in favour of a bottom end overhaul and your editing out of your brothers bottom end I do believe a bottom end overhaul is prudent.

[@mikehors7351]

I will say this you 2 guys did a bang up job cleaning. Keep up the cool vid's. Ps Happy new year.

[@trader4239]

Good job both of you

[@markbrown6236]

So far so good, enjoying this project. Now back to the house until the parts get here.

[@Boomhauer333]

Dang Jesse! That's a lot of work man! Hopefully you'll get it back running without any more surprises.

[@1944chevytruck]

Good job! thanks 4 video!

[@garyclemons1129]

Looking good buddy 👌