When this engine's warm, the oil pressure, is very low, it doesn't go to zero, but it's really low and there's a little bit of bottom end noise that i'm not liking. So i'm very questionable about the bottom end of this motor, the health of this engine. Oh okey-dokey welcome to movies garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and i am at the car wizards lair. He has summoned me up here because apparently, both of my general motors products, my 1994 gmc, suburban and my 1966 chevrolet corvette 427 - are fixed, but he told me he has some good news and some bad news.

The wizard tends to be a little dramatic with this kind of stuff. So hopefully it's not a big deal, but i am very excited to drive this 427 corvette for the first time really because last time, well it overheated within 10 minutes - and i limped it back here. The suburban has been a solid citizen, but the fuel pump went bad. I had to tow it up here, so i imagine it's not a big deal there.

Hopefully, hopefully not wizard where's the drama queen condom man wizard. What's going on as long as the bad news? Isn't lamborghini bad news, then we'll be okay? No, it's not bad news! That's good, because lamborghini bad news is usually like five or ten thousand dollars, so good yeah. It's not bad news like that. Okay, where is the rack? Is it coming? It is coming.

It is in customs right now good, so it's in the united states, it is in unite it's in cincinnati, in fact, wonderful, so suburban, any bad news there. It had wasn't running before it wasn't. We got a new fuel pump in it and it starts every time now. Wonderful, so the air conditioning also didn't work.

So did you look at that yeah? Let's take a look under the hood. Is it good news? It's good news, so good news would be like a cap a little leak. Well, no, we have a new compressor. Oh so the good news is you get to charge me for a whole new compressor? Yes, that's good news, so good, there's, good news for you.

I suppose all right these are known to fail with this uh aluminum ship here it just leaks freon out of these. These are very known to do that so yeah. That looks like a brand new ac compressor, and while this thing was up here, i thought well. Let's do the shocks because they were original, no big deal there right, yep, all four new shocks, no big deal at all: okay! Well, uh! So that's that's the good news, that's good news and this one's ready to rock.

What's the good news on the corvettes, it runs, it drives, it's got more power and it revs higher than it has ever since you had it. So just the review i bought. This thing had been sitting for about five years. It hadn't started, but it started right up.

The transmission needed to be put together, it'd been swapped with a tremec five-speed. Originally this thing had a four-speed in it uh, but uh after that. Well, there were a lot of issues to go through the transmission. Getting put together was a pretty easy ordeal and it does feel very, very nice, but under the hood.

Well, there were some issues with sitting right yeah we got the cooling system flushed. It was completely just clogged with rust all new antifreeze and overheating issue has been solved right and there was a valve adjustment. There was a bent, push rod yeah. We found out that this has hydraulic lifters, so we set it accordingly to that with zero lash and amazingly with the new carburetor and everything set up right, it's got pretty good power, it's just not the power.

I think that it should have i'm sensing. This is where the bad news is. There is some bad news here: okay, we did a compression test on this engine and i would like to see 200 or more psi on this engine yeah - and this is just like the engine - you see it here. There's the front: ah so this is each cylinder and you're thinking.

200 is healthy range yeah! That's where it should be on this engine. Oh 140, yeah. 150.. There's a couple of 160s there's a 140.

uh, it's kind of uneven! Something is not happy with the compression. It should be a little bit higher than that and you can't fix it. I could fix it, but it's a tear down tear down yeah. I thought you were a wizard.

What do you want me to do wave my wand at it? So, on the bottom end, i'm very strong suspect that something's not right when this engine was assembled when this engine's warm the oil pressure, is very low. It doesn't go to zero, but it's really low and there's a little bit of bottom end: noise that i'm not liking. So i'm very questionable about the bottom end of this motor, the health of this engine based on this, and also the oil pressure and some of the other things, and it just doesn't have the power it should be able to just melt these tires, and it doesn't So you think that the engine is going to be needing to get teared down soon torn down, tear it down. What am i i'm speaking right now: here's that or replaced with another one - that's good already done yeah, because this isn't the numbers matching engine.

But honestly, though, i think i'm going to get a second opinion. Okay, i think there is a wizard that i used to work with back in my dealer days that uh could probably fix this thing for 20 bucks, 20 bucks, yep 20 bucks i'll be right, back i'll, go get them. Okay and i'd like to meet this with. Yes i'll show you weezer, i'm back where's this other wizard at oh.

I met him at autozone. He came back with me, he's a doctor, actually not a wizard, a doctor engine restorer and lubricant. He restores compression, restores horsepower, restores engine life and reduces oil consumption. What? Yes, that's not a wizard, that's a mechanic in a bottle.

Well, these are very popular among used car dealers, but i never ever used one. I never used it in my entire dealership existence. I promise you, but it does work. It'll fix this engine.

Licking split i'll drive this thing around the block and the compression will be way up just just pour it in pour it in just just do it. Oh, you got your listening device there. You know what this is a pretty crooked fix. I'm going to let you fill it in fact, i'm going to give you the crooked funnel, because this is a crooked, really yeah.

This is beneath you huh. This is not something i think is going to help this engine, but you're welcome to try. Are you mad? Oh no, but i think that this is not a step to fix for this engine. Well, we at least hold the camera.

For me, i suppose thank you. It's the child cap is already defeating me here, don't spill it all over your paint. That's pull the pen. It's blue: it's the same color as your paint.

Yeah. Look at that. You want to taste it no putting some blue goo in an engine. Yes, it fixes everything.

It really does work wizard. It really does you'll, see, you'll, see, okay, i'll, take her out and be back shortly, and you won't believe the transformation wizard is lining the cylinder of your funnel even doing its job there. It looks like they put a bunch of smurfs in a blender and ground them up. Maybe it is smurf juice uh.

I don't want to know the gargamels are onto something wizard. They must be all right, wizard i'll, be back sorry about your funnel. What is that stuff? It's it's blue you're, really not going to taste it. No, it looks like something i don't know something from a smurf.

I don't know, okay, all right well time for some science here i can hear the wizard inside working away at the cylinders. Yes, all right! Well, the wizard has definitely quieted it down as far as all the clatter that push rod, but i do hear what he's hearing something something deeper. Yes, something not so good. Well, let's drive a little bit, give the little wizard a chance to do his job and then we'll head back.

The steering does feel a lot better. The wizard put on a new knuckle. The thing was kind of clunky before and now that's a lot better. It's not overheating, which is good.

It's actually going down the road pretty smooth. It is sad, though, not sure what the state of the engine was before it went into its five year long slumber, but this is just kind of what happens. You see all these videos of people starting their engines for the first time in 20, 30 years and uh. I imagine a lot of those engines come out in a similar state.

As this you don't really find out the afterwards after they get it running. But i imagine that's the case with a lot of them and also a lot of the people who do those videos before they even try and start it. They take out the spark, plugs and squirt stuff in the cylinders lube everything up before they start cranking. But this is the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, so i just got in and just cranked it and that may have been what did the damage? Obviously, it bent a push rod.

We saw that in a previous video with a stuck valve, but who knows what else was stuck that may have been less sticky if i had gone through and done the proper way of restoring an engine after a long-term slumber. We'll see this thing's actually smoothing out pretty good fingers crossed all right. Let's try a little bit harder pull now. It's there.

It's just still pretty doggy this transmission, though this transmission is just wonderful. Well, that's probably been long enough for the wizard in the bottle or the smurf excrement to do its job so head back to the wizards, see if it's any better compression wise, it doesn't feel too wonderful. Don't tell the wizard about that. Just keep this between you and me: well, wizard.

It felt it felt great. It felt a thousand percent better. Really! Yes, it did find that better. I guess we're going to do.

Scientific measuring, though we can go off of your your compression here, which the lowest one was the back passenger side at 140. Yes back here, so if it's back up to 180 190 200, then we know the engine is perfect. It'll ask for another 250 000 miles. No problem right, i don't know about all that.

I really have my doubts about this engine. Okay. Well, i have faith. Okay, i have faith in the little blue, smurf excrement, wizard thing, i'll, pull the plug and we'll do a compression test on that cylinder.

Then. Thank you, okay, what does it say? 130 130. It went down. It went down 10 psi.

How does it go down? It's just hot everything's, expanded, okay. Well, then, maybe i just need to drive it more. Oh, you need to drive it. Yeah i'll drive it in and it'll just clear out.

I have a bad prognosis for this engine. I think it's not going to last very long. That's what i think. Okay, i guess we're going to have to agree to disagree, he's probably right but i'll be on my way wizard.

So thank you not without paying the bill. Oh of course, yes, all right, all right, wizard, all right, my favorite part! I tell you what, if you bring any more mechanics in a bottle, i'm gon na have to end up hitting the bottle pretty heavy here, pretty soon wizard the comedian, okay. Well, it may still work, maybe drive it. Some more! I've never seen that stuff work.

Let's, let's see okay bills, okay on the suburban. Yes, we have 1257.48. How much was the compressor ah 300, for the compressor okay and then we got yeah the shocks i mean. Okay, that's probably reasonable.

Yeah. The fuel pump is a little bit of a pain to do right. The tank had to come down right. Okay, all right reasonable corvette corvette with the carburetor 2547.66, so i spent 2 500 to figure out that my corvette needs an engine hey my work here is ninety nine point, nine percent of that it is very effective.

The problem is you brought me a car? That's ineffective. Yes, yes, so the engine is bad. Yes, but you had to put the transmission together. Yes, you had to fix all the issues with like the bent, push, rod and all that stuff to figure out if the engine's good or not right, i had to flush the cooling system because it was overheating and the carburetor i would have needed anyway.

If i'm going to get a different engine or rebuild this one, unless i went a totally different route like ls swapped it, but that would be yeah, maybe well, i guess i'll pay you and then drive this thing a little bit more and figure out what i'm Going to do well, thank you, wizard here's, the card. I don't. I won't faint this time. Oh okay, someday i'm going to get a car and it's just going to work out.

That doesn't happen very often, there's very few of those days most times the wizard winning here like. He is right now all right, we'll just cruise corbin nice and easy, no hot dogging. I promise you just got ta hold together for a little bit, while i figure out what the heck i'm gon na do about 30 miles back into town. Oh crap, oh crap! It's down on power, oh crap! Getting off! No oil pressure way overheated! This motor's dead! It's it's dead dead, yeah, oh okey-dokey, so this old corvette made it about 10 miles down the road before it started, losing oil pressure.

Then it started losing power. As i pulled off the side of the road, it started overheating quite badly, so this engine is dead. My options are to rebuild this engine, which isn't numbers matching, isn't correct to the car at all. That could take some time.

I don't know any local engine rebuilders. I really don't know i could source a used engine which would probably be pretty hard to find or source a rebuilt engine uh, something like a period correct 427 v8, which would be the right engine for this car or go crazy and do something like a seven Liter ls swap do like the bigger block of the c6 z06 engine. I saw a couple of those at the barrett-jackson auction. That was very, very neat, but that would be very expensive.

The single is quite cheap, so i do have room to do something fun with it: uh, but uh, not the best timing with the lambo purchases and taxes and other things. So i really don't know. The only thing i do know is well. Thank you.

So much for watching! Yes, thank you is that your smug look, i'm not impressed how'd your mechanic in a bottle work, not not! Well, i didn't think it would. It was locked up before wizard, but now it runs. Should i drive it some more. It sounds really really bad sounds fine.

Let me know i'll be ready all right. Thanks dennis it smells like bearings.