Come along as I "show" you another way to "look" for a blown head gasket. This time I am using and endoscope. To be specific I used this one - DEPSTECH Dual Lens Inspection Camera - https://amzn.to/3RQ8nwo They are worth every penny in my opinion.
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what a safe of time and of work and safe your Walt
That is one of the giveaways with head gasket failure on multi layer steel head gaskets, cold start misfires. Back in the day when MLS head gaskets didn't exist and compressed fibre gaskets were used, you could pretty much guarantee that a failure would cause a constant misfire. Diagnostics has changed with the changes in materials used.
Pretty nifty EO.
Thanks for sharing
Nice job!
Keeping it real with Eric O,
Very cool 'scope!
fascinating to see this
Whoa! It's kind of like a colonoscopy, but without the prep!
Great work there Eric do the video of the head gasket replacement !THUMBS UP BROTHER from down under australia
lol "If I can do it,,YOU can do it" ,,,answer the fone dude..
I actually bought one of the cheapy ones that brand makes. It came in real handy finding where my water pump was leaking without ripping the whole engine bay apart. Neat little tools!
Hi, Mr. O. The borescope is definitely a valuable tool to have. The internals of the engine, exhaust system, and fuel tank might all be worthwhile targets for such a device. Thanks for sharing! Stay Healthy!
Very cool tech… you kids these days have lots of awesome stuff. Back in the day it was experience , knowledge , a lot of wrench turning with a fair bit of good luck.
Wow that is a fantastic view of a bad head gasket. Sooooo cool that 90 degree view.
Well if the current head gasket is blown then you’re going to need a different head gasket.
Good work
Yeah, these motors are kinda notorious for blowing gaskets. But that is definitely a cool piece of tech to have.
I now have 3 of the Depstech boroscopes. I keep upgrading as they come out with something better. My latest one is the dual camera that I became aware of from watching your earlier video. They are awesome and I've used them to solve several issues. Thanks for another great video and thanks for sharing 😊
Kool ! ! ! Thanks.
Absolutely fascinating to see the leak process actually happening. I wonder what kind of defect would cause that. It does look like Toyota used a quality gasket, not one of those paper jobs.
I like that horoscope, I've used mine heavily.
That #2 cylinder is also showing signs of not enough oil changes. The black on the crosshatch is something I've seen on A Car Care Nut's channel.
If it isn't burning oil yet, it will.
going right for the #2 hole ay? 💩
Too bad these 1.8s are so prone to head gasket issues. The only issues the old 1NZ had (aside from being gutless) is that they would explode in spectacular fashion when people run them low on oil. These ones have Subaru levels of head gasket issue. On some of them, all you have to do is pull the plugs on a semi-warm engine and watch the steam roll out of one of the plug bores.
Off subject….just changed brake lines now brake goes to floor. Did I ruin master cylinder?
The steam cleaned piston is a dead giveaway
Like I said before you can put your finger inside the tailpipe and taste it will taste sweet guaranteed you got a blown head gasket. 👅👈
What a craptastic way the factory just left all the casting marks on the piston tops I mean you could still see the dots from the styrofoam terrible quality control and laziness in manufacturing IMHO
Wow what technology has come along
I had an older Snap On with a small screen and low resolution that was a more than a little difficult to decipher what I was seeing. I bought 4k with the side view and thought it was great except the video cable was really long. I found 3Ft replacement camera cable for it and now it is easier to use. I don't recall the name of it but it was made in China like the rest of them. Does photo, video, rechargeable, long lasting on charge and has some other features that I haven't had the need to use.
That would also show water jacket cracking intruding into the cylinder wall. That is a sweet tool!
I told my friends about this YouTube channel and they said I don't have to pay them this month to be my friend. Thanks Eric for putting out a cool YouTube channel.
Blown head gasket on an Asian engine…just replace the engine.
Nice easy straight forward diagnosis cool to see done with out a shop and a 5 thousand dollar scan tool
This is common problem on this generation prius easy money
Nice scope I got to get me one I got me just a regular one
Slick! Last time I was at AutoZone renting a tool, I think I saw on their rental tool sheet that you can rent a borescope there as well. I'm a hobbyist/DIYer with not a whole lot of space, so being able to rent tools is pretty nice for me.
Yeah, those scopes work pretty good now. You can see down inside the motor and you know exactly what you're dealing with before you had to take it apart and wait till you see what you got. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦
I like it saves you time 👍👍
Very cool video!
Would you guys believe a 5.3 in a 1500 ran with this type of blowout for ohhh 3 years and 120,000km.
Thank you for sharing
My favorite part is when Eric says “if I can do it, you can do it”… call me a loser i dont care lol
had one for years very good tool mine does not have a side camera but it has a mirror so you can look up to see the head and valves
Damn I can do my own colonoscopy 😂💞🇨🇦🤟
From knowledge from other channels, seems like head gasket on these Priuses, Priui, or Priuness seems blown quite often.
Got one of those scopes for my 50 BMG McMillan. You know when that Lilja barrel is clean as a whistle!
Cool camera
Use K seal
Picked up one of these endoscopes. I now have a job at the local hospital in the surgery unit.
Thanks for the info!
I thought that the idea of Toyota's Prius was the electric motor runs the vehicle under 40 mph and the engine when the vehicle goes over 40 mph?
I truly love how every displacement is referred to as "the big". Even with this one. "The Big 1.8" lol
That unit is better than any I have used in aviation
Eric O was the older endo depstech you had garbage??? Ordered the old one a day or two ago based off your tool time video now I'm over here scratching my head because I see you're using this newer one now I hope I didn't make a big mistake, if you could give any update to this comment I would greatly appreciate it. Love your videos keep doin' what yah do!! 👍👍
My second job is a proctologist …
Pretty cool stuff, I just got my depstech not too long ago, I gotta try this. This looks faster than pressurizing the cylinder and checking for radiator bubbles.
Question for you Eric: What's your opinion on block testers? On the Acuras I see every day, block testers often miss headgaskets that fail like your Prius did.(pretty common on the J35 Honda motors).
Holy gap Batman! Is the gap a bit wide on those plugs?
SMA showing us the GI track of an android. 🤣😂🤣
Put another 90 degree torque turn on the head bolts and shes good to go!
Disclaimer, for any mechanics that may have taken my comment seriously, I was just kidding.
Love watching your videos because it's helped a lot
It is such a minor leak and on an older car I would have tried a product like Silvo-Seal or other sealer rich in Sodium/silicate then that pig would likely fix it until it made it to the boneyard. If it didn't then the gasket could be swapped out. No harm no foul.
I just remove radiator cap, put air pressure on each cylinder. Even a small crack in the cyl. head will blow anti freeze out the radiator. Seems nobody else likes to use my method. 😳 Best Wisher!
Man, are you cool. When my son gets out of prison for murder, having sex with a neighbor’s dog and shoplifting, I’m gonna send him to Lincoln Tech so he can learn to fix cars.
As the leak is so small could you just torque down the head bolts?
Great video Eric, thank you very much. Watched it 3.40am UK time on my coffee break during a Nightshift, very much appreciated.
Excellent Detective Work, Eric!
Sad day. 3rd gen Prius is a notorious head gasket popper. No prior overheating or anything, just goes randomly. The other unfortunate one is the 4.0 V6 head gaskets will randomly go south and of course the infamous 2AZ-FE pulling the threads from the block and losing the HG between cylinder 2 and 3 with a coolant leak under the intake manifold.
Great video!
You're right – that is pretty cool!
Good tip
Great demo, Eric.
I bought one of those cameras the last time you used it. It has been inside of my Jeep's Transfer Case to check the chain. I also stuck it in my car's cylinders during a spark plug change just for fun. A well spent $100, thanks Eric!
Ding Dong…lol;
Perfect candidate for a bottle of stop leak in the radiator
Mr O showing us another drip 😂😂😂
The number one auto repair Drip channel,we can count on Mr O .
Thanks to seeing you use this borescope before, I bought one a few months ago, to visually confirm a bent valve. Fantastic detail, great resolution!
That scope has very good clarity.
Those cameras are more than fairly affordable, they are extremely affordable. I guess they would pay for themselves with just a single
different head gasketblown head gasket find. 😏WOW! Awesome! Thank you for sharing and stay safe.
Fascinating video. Great look inside the cylinder.
Neat camera
Remember folks if he can it you can do it,with thirty years experience and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tools.
Find an Eric O and let them do it,that’s their spiel.
This channel needs to be at 1 million subscribers already.
I use a coolant funnel and I fill it up with water and when the engine is kind of warm but not too warm I run it and then I try to see if there's any bubbles coming out of the funnel and usually it lets me know that there is a gas exhaust gas and getting into the coolant system that's one of the checks I do and I've also use the funnel and do like a differential pressure check who are the water funnel installed and if bubbles come out then you have a blown head gasket!!!
That was cool Eric! Watching the coolant leak into the combustion chamber is a definitive confirmation of the diagnosis.
Pretty cool could you put some radiator stop leak? Say if it was an older car and it wasn’t worth fixing?
technology can be sooooo cool great video love to see the teardown!!!
Way cool!
That’s awesome thanks
Great Tip!
I’ve done the exact same technique to diagnose a bad head gasket on a Tacoma.
Those cheap amazon scopes have become just as vital a tool as my DVOM.
Very very cool! And darn it, got nothin to argue with you about…
I have a scope too and it's awesome! I really appreciate your videos and get a lot of really good information out of them thank you glad to see someone who knows what their doing. Most of my career has been in the Asian cars but now in to a little of everything so need the heads up on the domestic stuff too take care.
That's a slick little borescope! And it's VERY affordable! The Olympus borescopes I used in the oil & gas field for inspecting industrial gas turbines and compressors were 20-30K … I have one that is about the same money, but this one seems to have a much clearer view. Time to pass the old one down and pick one of these puppies up!
To be fair blown head gaskets are pretty different
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The last one of these I sold a head gasket on ,when I got the head off I found the block was cracked right between number two and three cylinder. So we had to do an engine.
Catching that drip.. I've never actually seen this angle of view before. To echo another certain channel…. where do ya get to see it, folks.