Trying to Rebuild an Engine with No Instructions

The Art of Assembling an Engine: A Journey of Trial and Error

As we began our project, I couldn't help but think that we were in for a wild ride. With no instructions, no torque specs, and only our big old mushy brains to guide us, we set out to put together an engine from scratch. And boy, did we ever learn some valuable lessons along the way.

First things first, we needed to get started with the basics. We began by marking up the engine block with various marks and squaring it off like a pro. It was at this point that I realized just how much of a difference having proper instructions would make. But hey, we're resourceful folks, so we powered through.

Next up, we tackled the spark plugs. Now, I know what you're thinking - who puts spark plugs in their noodles? Well, let me tell you, it's not exactly the most conventional approach, but hey, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? We decided to give it a shot and see if we could get some tension on that thing. And boy, did it ever work.

As we continued on our journey, we realized just how crucial timing is when it comes to assembling an engine. With the distributor in place, we had to carefully time everything to ensure that the spark plugs were firing at the right moment. It was a delicate process, but with some trial and error, we managed to get it working.

But just as we thought we were making progress, disaster struck. We encountered our first major setback - the oil pan gasket didn't quite fit. And let me tell you, it was a close call. We had to try again, and again, until finally, we got it right. It was a humbling experience, to say the least.

As we neared the end of our journey, we realized just how much we'd learned. We'd discovered that even with no instructions, we could still assemble an engine from scratch. And let me tell you, it's a feeling unlike any other. So, if you're thinking of taking on this challenge yourself, I say go for it. Just remember to take your time, be patient, and don't be afraid to make mistakes.

And speaking of making mistakes, we didn't just stop at assembling an engine. Oh no, we took it a step further. We put the entire thing back together in record time, with only one major leak (okay, maybe two). But hey, it's all part of the process, right?

As we stood back to admire our handiwork, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. We'd done it - we'd put an engine back together from scratch, no instructions required. And let me tell you, it was a wild ride.

The Real Question: Did We Time It Right?

But the real question on everyone's mind was - did we time it right? With the distributor in place and the spark plugs firing at the correct moment, we were ready to put everything together and see if it would work. And boy, did it ever.

As Heber flipped the switch and the engine roared to life, we couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. We'd done it - we'd built an engine from scratch. But just as we thought we were on top of the world, disaster struck once again. It turned out that we had a small leak in the oil pan (yes, it's happened to the best of us).

Despite the setbacks, we couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. We'd taken on this challenge head-on and come out on top. And let me tell you, it was an experience unlike any other.

A Special Message from Stocky

But wait, there's more! As we were celebrating our victory, a special message came through from the one and only Stocky. It seems that he's got his hands on a brand new Honda S2000, and it's officially licensed by Honda. That's right, folks - this baby is a real deal.

Not only that, but Stocky's also throwing in some exclusive pre-order deals for our loyal followers. And let me tell you, we can't wait to get our hands on one of these bad boys. So, be sure to check out Donut Media and get ready to pre-order your very own S2000.

A Final Word from the Team

And finally, a big thank you to everyone who's been following along on this wild ride. We couldn't have done it without all of you, and we're honored to have such an amazing community behind us. So, be sure to like, comment, and subscribe for more content, and don't forget to hit that notification bell.

Until next time, folks - stay tuned, stay excited, and always remember to keep on keeping on.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is our 500 Civic we've already done a bunch of crap to this thing including pulling out its old engine yeah we replaced this old Tire sucker with a k28 but since this has been lying around the shop we thought why don't we take it apart and then put it back together without any instructions ah how hard could it be how hard could it be why is it not getting to it you stop go back over there I don't like this 30. see this yeah you're giving me a lot of concern right now we didn't label none of this I think these two bullets go up here okay so here's what's going on you know we took this engine apart thinking that it was you know a 400 000 mile engine and that we'd come across some interesting stuff as we took it apart this is the 400 000 mile engine from our Honda Civic that didn't turn out to be the case it looked like the engine had been rebuilt everything was pretty fresh look at that that's a fresh gasket which leads me to believe this thing's been apart a time or two so we were kind of feeling like you know the disassembly was a little bit boring so how do we spice things up well Eddie came up with a brilliant idea that we need to put this engine back together now with no instructions and then get it fired up we'll see if we get that far today's job is just to get the thing back together I'm sure we didn't lose any hardware yeah yeah you're probably right oh okay so these are our main caps all connected together not all engines will be like that a lot of the times the main caps will all be individual but in this one they're all one big piece which is pretty nice makes things a little bit easier so I'm not complaining oh would you look at whom ah shut up nobody cares look we got to put this engine together we don't have any torque specs and now we're getting to the point that that's about to matter we're putting all the main disgusting sorry to interrupt all right you got are you nah I know you didn't want to put the Pistons on first make it easier for yourself get the go back over there it's crazy for you to come over here and sort of advice after being M.I.A you want to pitch ideas maybe be here I'll do the hardware you jam them up okay hey here we go this is piston one this is not the right way to do it but what is you know there we go took two seconds oh but that's number one no that's four and I know it's number four okay okay well here's number one foreign okay we are allowed to use a torque wrench we just aren't allowed to know what the torque specs are I think like 35 to 40 for these oh really yeah what do you mean okay is that higher or lower than you're gonna guess I think we should go 50. what if it's what happens if it's too tight what happens you can get a little more Crush I think if anything we're already overshooting a little bit really yeah 40. that's my guess way under you want to do this one feel it yeah feel what you feel yeah I think it's tighter than that whatever it's a Honda yeah so we went with 45 foot-pounds on the mains and 35 foot pounds on the rods I think that's the right ballpark I wanted 30 and 40. let the record show I wanted 30 and 40. dude I can't wait for us to start this thing up on the stand it just goes it just keeps going I feel like I'm stretching Bolt why is it not getting to it okay all right all right I don't like this I wanted less if it's doing that at 35 it means it probably wasn't supposed to be at 35. it probably should be at like 25. bro all right so we got pretty much everything buttoned up ready to get the head back on we have a single overhead cam two valves per cylinder very simple setup ready to get thrown back on there slap that head gasket on what are we thinking 65 at least I was thinking like 50 to 60 or 55 to 65 I say 60. all right we'll start at 40 and then we'll Crank It Up okay okay for the cam caps we're gonna do 25 foot pounds why 25 well because why the hell not okay you know oh that's a good shot watch this I didn't get there we're torqued down baby let's do some timing shall we uh we didn't pay any attention we were taking this thing apart and we're not using any sort of manual so we're just gonna hope that the timing marks are pretty obvious how hard could it be yeah there's some on there I bet right here just got to go vertical end of this where does that go somewhere where do we line these marks yeah I'm gonna put these marks right there I'm gonna put these marks squared like that and then this you think this goes top so this says up so yeah is it bad to eat over an engine stop get out of here is it bad to put spark plugs in your noodles should we try let's try to get some tension on it yeah there we go that's a little on the tight side TBH you know what's tight someone's got to be the mature one around here and it ain't me we did it we did it this thing's gonna run baby yeah just for safety all right so here we've got the distributor uh this is responsible for sending spark to the spark plugs at the right time so this little gear here interacts with the end of the camshaft spins this shoots a spark out of these things to the spark plug wires should be pretty easy thank you oh Nick painted the valve cover oh that's gorgeous nice Nick nice dude oh yeah baby okay time for the oil pan we've got an oil pan gasket how nice how many tries do you think it would take to just toss it on 100 first oh that was so close oh it broke did it really because from from Deep Jimmy I expected nothing less this thing is back together and I think it went pretty smoothly considering we had no instructions no information no torque specs all we had was our big old mushy brains but to see how good of a job we did uh Adam's gonna throw this on an engine stand with all the fixings to get it fired up in here and I guess we'll see if it can fire up I think we're gonna be good she's gonna fire up first try hey guys the car collectible for car nerds stocky is back with a brand new model Honda S2000 just like the Integra stock D the S2000 is officially licensed by Honda it's perfectly smooshed and also comes in three OEM paint codes and a pre-order only Edition that's painted in our special cars are pain livery pre-orders are open now so go to donutmedia.com for a 15 pre-order discount the window is only open for two weeks so don't sleep on it set an alarm on it and as always thank you so much for your support on stocking and everything else we do we can't wait to show you all the other cars we have lined up for the stocky family big things to come for this little car stocky get yours now all right Jerry yeah well we got this engine put back together we did and I've got some Intel on how we did oh let's see how close we were to those torque specs shall we first the rods we went with 35 foot pounds okay okay it was actually 22 foot pounds oh okay so we're halfway over yeah that's not great the main bearings are the main caps we went with 45 foot-pounds okay there were 33. okay getting better yeah we're still about the same number off 10 12 13. for the head bolts we went with 55 foot pounds okay and it's worth 47 actual foot pounds all right pretty close yeah that's pretty good so I think all that's good the real question is did we time it right yeah we put the distributor back on right right yeah who knows who knows yeah I think it's time to find out so Adam and Heber have gotten this thing all rigged up and now it's time to flip the switch of Destiny all right Heber ignition on yeah plug that thing in all right here we go she sounds great we do have a leak though is that oil uh we have an oil well she starts up she sounds great so what we've learned here today is we don't need a manual to put together an engine and we're really good at doing this yeah well Jerry we did it we did it yeah put an engine back together with no instructions now I think we need help figuring out where we put this engine should we put it in the Chang Lee should we put it in another project car should we put in a boat yeah he really wants to paint leave some comments down below thank you guys so much for watching follow Zach as Zach Joe follow me at Jeremiah burn follow chair donut at donut media bye see you next timethis is our 500 Civic we've already done a bunch of crap to this thing including pulling out its old engine yeah we replaced this old Tire sucker with a k28 but since this has been lying around the shop we thought why don't we take it apart and then put it back together without any instructions ah how hard could it be how hard could it be why is it not getting to it you stop go back over there I don't like this 30. see this yeah you're giving me a lot of concern right now we didn't label none of this I think these two bullets go up here okay so here's what's going on you know we took this engine apart thinking that it was you know a 400 000 mile engine and that we'd come across some interesting stuff as we took it apart this is the 400 000 mile engine from our Honda Civic that didn't turn out to be the case it looked like the engine had been rebuilt everything was pretty fresh look at that that's a fresh gasket which leads me to believe this thing's been apart a time or two so we were kind of feeling like you know the disassembly was a little bit boring so how do we spice things up well Eddie came up with a brilliant idea that we need to put this engine back together now with no instructions and then get it fired up we'll see if we get that far today's job is just to get the thing back together I'm sure we didn't lose any hardware yeah yeah you're probably right oh okay so these are our main caps all connected together not all engines will be like that a lot of the times the main caps will all be individual but in this one they're all one big piece which is pretty nice makes things a little bit easier so I'm not complaining oh would you look at whom ah shut up nobody cares look we got to put this engine together we don't have any torque specs and now we're getting to the point that that's about to matter we're putting all the main disgusting sorry to interrupt all right you got are you nah I know you didn't want to put the Pistons on first make it easier for yourself get the go back over there it's crazy for you to come over here and sort of advice after being M.I.A you want to pitch ideas maybe be here I'll do the hardware you jam them up okay hey here we go this is piston one this is not the right way to do it but what is you know there we go took two seconds oh but that's number one no that's four and I know it's number four okay okay well here's number one foreign okay we are allowed to use a torque wrench we just aren't allowed to know what the torque specs are I think like 35 to 40 for these oh really yeah what do you mean okay is that higher or lower than you're gonna guess I think we should go 50. what if it's what happens if it's too tight what happens you can get a little more Crush I think if anything we're already overshooting a little bit really yeah 40. that's my guess way under you want to do this one feel it yeah feel what you feel yeah I think it's tighter than that whatever it's a Honda yeah so we went with 45 foot-pounds on the mains and 35 foot pounds on the rods I think that's the right ballpark I wanted 30 and 40. let the record show I wanted 30 and 40. dude I can't wait for us to start this thing up on the stand it just goes it just keeps going I feel like I'm stretching Bolt why is it not getting to it okay all right all right I don't like this I wanted less if it's doing that at 35 it means it probably wasn't supposed to be at 35. it probably should be at like 25. bro all right so we got pretty much everything buttoned up ready to get the head back on we have a single overhead cam two valves per cylinder very simple setup ready to get thrown back on there slap that head gasket on what are we thinking 65 at least I was thinking like 50 to 60 or 55 to 65 I say 60. all right we'll start at 40 and then we'll Crank It Up okay okay for the cam caps we're gonna do 25 foot pounds why 25 well because why the hell not okay you know oh that's a good shot watch this I didn't get there we're torqued down baby let's do some timing shall we uh we didn't pay any attention we were taking this thing apart and we're not using any sort of manual so we're just gonna hope that the timing marks are pretty obvious how hard could it be yeah there's some on there I bet right here just got to go vertical end of this where does that go somewhere where do we line these marks yeah I'm gonna put these marks right there I'm gonna put these marks squared like that and then this you think this goes top so this says up so yeah is it bad to eat over an engine stop get out of here is it bad to put spark plugs in your noodles should we try let's try to get some tension on it yeah there we go that's a little on the tight side TBH you know what's tight someone's got to be the mature one around here and it ain't me we did it we did it this thing's gonna run baby yeah just for safety all right so here we've got the distributor uh this is responsible for sending spark to the spark plugs at the right time so this little gear here interacts with the end of the camshaft spins this shoots a spark out of these things to the spark plug wires should be pretty easy thank you oh Nick painted the valve cover oh that's gorgeous nice Nick nice dude oh yeah baby okay time for the oil pan we've got an oil pan gasket how nice how many tries do you think it would take to just toss it on 100 first oh that was so close oh it broke did it really because from from Deep Jimmy I expected nothing less this thing is back together and I think it went pretty smoothly considering we had no instructions no information no torque specs all we had was our big old mushy brains but to see how good of a job we did uh Adam's gonna throw this on an engine stand with all the fixings to get it fired up in here and I guess we'll see if it can fire up I think we're gonna be good she's gonna fire up first try hey guys the car collectible for car nerds stocky is back with a brand new model Honda S2000 just like the Integra stock D the S2000 is officially licensed by Honda it's perfectly smooshed and also comes in three OEM paint codes and a pre-order only Edition that's painted in our special cars are pain livery pre-orders are open now so go to donutmedia.com for a 15 pre-order discount the window is only open for two weeks so don't sleep on it set an alarm on it and as always thank you so much for your support on stocking and everything else we do we can't wait to show you all the other cars we have lined up for the stocky family big things to come for this little car stocky get yours now all right Jerry yeah well we got this engine put back together we did and I've got some Intel on how we did oh let's see how close we were to those torque specs shall we first the rods we went with 35 foot pounds okay okay it was actually 22 foot pounds oh okay so we're halfway over yeah that's not great the main bearings are the main caps we went with 45 foot-pounds okay there were 33. okay getting better yeah we're still about the same number off 10 12 13. for the head bolts we went with 55 foot pounds okay and it's worth 47 actual foot pounds all right pretty close yeah that's pretty good so I think all that's good the real question is did we time it right yeah we put the distributor back on right right yeah who knows who knows yeah I think it's time to find out so Adam and Heber have gotten this thing all rigged up and now it's time to flip the switch of Destiny all right Heber ignition on yeah plug that thing in all right here we go she sounds great we do have a leak though is that oil uh we have an oil well she starts up she sounds great so what we've learned here today is we don't need a manual to put together an engine and we're really good at doing this yeah well Jerry we did it we did it yeah put an engine back together with no instructions now I think we need help figuring out where we put this engine should we put it in the Chang Lee should we put it in another project car should we put in a boat yeah he really wants to paint leave some comments down below thank you guys so much for watching follow Zach as Zach Joe follow me at Jeremiah burn follow chair donut at donut media bye see you next time