 let me show you what this bad boy can do. Hey guys welcome back to titanium man garage and if you've seen my previous video on player's ranger 6x6 was this an easy fix? well stay tuned to find out because there'll be a couple lessons along the way mistake I made and hopefully you guys will learn from it. If you like the video, hit thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and I'll answer any questions if I can. This thing is a tight fit in my little shop. Now that I got her in so we're gonna start ripping this thing apart and see what it takes. It's a disappointment to me the bentx gear wasn't shot like I hoped but the piston is fried so I'll be ripping that motor apart and it looks like I'm gonna have to take that top console off to get to everything. I got the side panels but I still got to take the carb off. I'll be doing that next. All right so it looks like I got to take this panel off so I took the four bolts off perimeter pull this out and then I have to take that panel off to get to the carburetor and everything. So the carb is all down here behind this panel and all goes down. I think I'm gonna try to remove the panels to get that out of the way. I'll make things a lot easier and see what we got to be a lot easier to probably remove the motor too. It's the first for me I'm just gonna dive it into it and see how it goes. All right it is a cold November day so I got my coat on right now. It looks like there's a main wiring harness so I pull that off it should just pull back. There's the carb. It looks pretty grimy. So the backstory on this was a diet on the person and they couldn't afford to get it fixed or couldn't get it fixed I don't know why and they let it sit for two years. The carb's probably all grimy. I'm curious what that air box looks like. It's kind of interesting how they have the the snorkel for the the clutch up here and I'm not sure what this is yet. I'll have to find out but yeah I'm gonna take that carb off see what that looks like and I tell you this is a lot easier to work on than a sportsman. Everything's all open. I'm liking it. Take them screws off and remove the carb and then I'll probably pull the motor because it's locked up. All right so you can tell a lot about what's going on but the spark plug looks like. I'm gonna pull spark plug. See what that's doing. Spark plugs a little on the black side but not too terrible. I'm kind of contemplating do I pull the motor or do I just pull a jug off right here. All right I want to see what the markers look like. I'm liking how easy this is to take apart. The interesting part is the motor turns backwards. It won't go forward. It's not compression that's weird. Okay for some reason when I turn the motor clockwise it won't turn all the way over. It'll stop. I can spin it counterclockwise and it spins. It's telling me there's either the bent valve or there's something stuck in the piston that's not allowing the valves to open so I'm going to try taking the rockers off and then spinning it over to see what happens. All right so I got half the engine ripped apart and probably a matter of 20 minutes and this is really bizarre to me. I've never seen this. This thing looks good. The cylinder walls look good. Nothing's moving but yet when I turn the flywheel it stops halfway. It stops right there so it's got to be something broken in the engine somewhere down at the bottom of the case. So it looks like I'm tearing this thing out. All right guys I'm going to be really disappointed if I pull a clutch cover off and I found a mouse nest that's blocking the engine from turning because I already took the head off. I'm seeing pieces of belt right here and when I pull the snarkle off a big rat nest or mouse nest popped out. So we're going to take a look at this clutch. We can get a light right spot here. So far everything's been easy to take off of this thing except for this cover. Okay guys so far this has been pretty easy to disassemble. Got the top off, got the breather or the snarkle off. I was easily able to access everything from the top here. Took the side panels off. You're not going to believe what I found. So this was the belt or what's left of it. A mouse or some kind of animal got into the clutch cover, chewed up the belt and when the owner went to start it it got tangled in the clutch and the motor wouldn't turn which is a real bummer for me because look how far I got with this engine and now I can turn it over. It turns over freely but I got to pull the motor out anyway and put a better motor mount in so I'd have to remove the motor anyway and this will just make it easier. I could put a fresh head gasket on it but yeah wow. Kind of a little bit of wasted time for me but you know sometimes that happens. Sometimes you think it's one thing it's something completely different. I got the motor back together after I figured out the belt was wrapped around the clutch. Yeah a big hoops on me. It was acting like the piston skirt was fried and fell into the crank and the crank was locking up. Yep even the best mechanics screw up once in a while as a minor oversight or major oversight on my part I wasted two hours pulling the head off but the good part is after I pulled the head off I cleaned the valves and the top of the piston because there was a bunch of carbon on there and I still have to fix this motor mount. This thing still moves. So yeah one thing to keep an eye on which like I said I overlooked. Check your clutches. If you think your engine's locked up might be the belt and check that out. Squirrel or mouse or chipmunk who knows what got in there but chewed up the belt and when the owner wants to start it it's just wrapped around the clutch and acted like the engine locked up. So I'm still going to have to move that engine forward and replace the motor mount and clean that carb. The carb actually doesn't look in bad shape I think you can get away with just cleaning the bowl and the jet because it was sitting for two years. Let's see what this does now. Let's see if I can't pull it over. She's got compression. I do have the spark plug in. Yeah she pulls pretty tight. I got some good compression. The cylinder walls looked excellent. They looked almost brand new. You still see the cross scratching in the cylinder walls. Oh yeah I'm going to get this bad boy back together. Fire it up. I'll show you guys how it works. All right guys so we got her back together. I said I pulled the head off and put a new gasket on. I cleaned the carbon off the valves and the piston right away and I cleaned up the carb. Got her back together. Just put one bolt in. I'm actually draining the gas. There's old gas in the gas tanks. I got my trusty reserve fuel tank up here so it's going straight into the carb. Now this thing's been sitting for two years so let me show you how this bad boy fires up. And she's running out of gas. Crazy fix. Just tweak the carb. Get a new belt and this bad boy will be ready to go. Like I said even the best mechanics make mistakes. You know I overlooked the belt. I started taking it apart. I had an engine once that the piston skirt fried off landed down into the case and the crank hit it. So that's what it was acting like so that's what I thought it was. I guess I should have checked the belt first. Yep check your belts. Check the flywheel. Check your Bendex gear first. Yeah this thing should be pretty nice once I get it going. All right hope you enjoyed this video. 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