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Hello everybody! Good day to you! Welcome back! This is part Two of our 2000 Nissan Pathfinder 3.3 liter. This vehicle is here for a timing belt water pump replacement. In the last video, we started the tear down process. We stopped while we were waiting on parts.
The new pump and new Timing System is here and we are going to continue the tear down. replace the water pump, install the belt, and get the front of the engine reassembled so stay tuned. This is going to be a very good Part two: Shameless Self-promotion If you happen to miss part one, just check the link compressor. just check down in this video's description for the link and it'll take you back in time.
Let's get started all right. So I got the crankshaft bolt back out and we're going to put the the big washer back on. We're gonna flip this bolt back in the snow of the crank that way. I Can rotate the crank with the tools a couple clicks here.
Nothing crazy. Okay, so based on the marks that we saw on the cam pulleys I think we're just a little bit too far advanced. So if I go backwards ever so slightly and line up you can't see. We'll line up the dot with the mark on this pulley and I'll check it against the one on the other side and then we'll take a look down below the crank.
So right about here I'm kind of eyeballing it. that looks perfect and then over here on the other side. almost perfect and that puts the mark on the crank. I Don't see that just yet.
Let me look around. let's see what we've got here. The ratchet gravity is what we've got. Where's that? Mark at negative I Don't see it yet.
Let's go ahead and loosen the timing belt tensioner. unclick please. Oh, that was tight. There we go see that.
So now that this is loose, let's just slide the thing off of the tensioner pulley if I can. Okay, now that this is loose, I'm going to pull the spring from the tensioner pulley. So now the pulley is free. It shouldn't spring back, but it is.
Give this a bit of a tug here. come out. Slide the rest of that off and the belt is free from here. I'll go ahead and pull this tensioner out right now because I have a replacement.
that's the nut washer. Gravity got it all come out I Think that thing is also kind of rusted. Let's give it some some penetrating lubricants. Yeah, this little guy should just slide right off, but it's a it's stuck.
Please come off if I can't get this off I can't get this cover off I Don't think yeah because the this little cover sandwiches the water pump to the block. So I have to remove uh, this pulley right here. Um, it's not cool. Please go behind there I'm saying please I have to I'm kind of at this thing's Mercy it's either going to come off or I'm in I'm in trouble.
hmm or even worse I break the screwdriver and then it still doesn't come off. Oh the Horrors Oh man, it's not budging or is it I think it did move a little bit. Hmm. Okay, next I'll use the the miniature pry bar. Why oh man. foreign is it moving? The tone changed. What happened? Yeah, it moved. Look at that.
All right, we're getting some kind of Something Happening Here pry bar gravity Roy Lube didn't hurt what a soak on in there like that tussle. Yeah boy, let that person get in there. boy yeah boy, let that person get on down to the Bowl was that a Chris Rock skit. Is that what that was? that rope tossing the Robitussin just tossing on there.
but it's still getting nice and deep life. I'm an idiot. All right. Well now we have some more space and more.
Tussing Let's uh I can get behind this of the bigger pry bar. I'll just keep doing what I was doing. Is it moving? Oh why? this is crazy. Yeah, it's moving.
Things got to just be loaded full of rust in there. Somehow this has never been off here. Okay, bigger pry bar? Yeah, we'll just keep escalating the pry bars until it comes out because I have no other option. Look at that.
Here we go. I Don't want to speak too soon, but I'm amazed this is coming out of here without like complete destruction. I'm not ruining the surface of the gear or anything. This is the new one.
Oh, you know what? I have an idea. seems to be moving freely now. but look I didn't There's a bunch of rust here I didn't clean that off I'm just going to drive that back in. so I'm here.
We'll use a little green kitchen scrubby. These work for everything including polishing your snow. There we go. That's better.
Now there's another Woodruff key and we need to make sure that we don't lose it. here. it comes foreign. There it is.
Oh I can't do it I don't have the power more. This is like the most intense gear removal ever. Hmm. come on out of there so close by gravity.
There we go. Look at that. There's still a dry spot in there. See it right here.
Corrosion: We've got a little shim back here. I need to get you I'm out. Oh, hang on Woodruff key in the crank that needs to come out. Don't tell me that's stuck too.
See you right there. A little key and it's stuck. Oh, that's stuck too. That's cute.
Remember that part when I said you can't lose this, it's very stuck. foreign I Can't believe I ended up performing surgery on a crankshaft. Yeah, there's a little bit of damage to this key for my tappy Taps but I can file it here. It is okay now.
I can get this little uh shim thing out. Come here. Oh look at that. I was wrong.
It had a slot in it for the key. See that? Oops Okie doke. So we've got a bunch of 10 mil bolts and it looks like a few couple 13s to pull out. and then we get this cover out of here.
All right since we're working farther down. I Moved you guys farther down. Let's start with this 12 mil bolt that's on this power steering pump bracket. or not, there we go.
I'll leave that and I'll just leave that right in there. So I don't forget it unless it's a problem later. it's going to stay right there for now. and I think what's left is 10 mil fasteners. Hang on. here's another one. See what we've got? There's a bunch of them in here you can still see I hope so. Uh, what else is here? There's one.
I'm sure there's more that I can't see. Yeah, looks like there's two coming vertically. A couple couple more up top. Let's get this one here and uh, what else am I missing? and I'm sure there's another one somewhere maybe not that's a vertical.
Bolt Let's get in there and get that one and it's counterpart over here. On this side or not, foreign 's hard to reach. There's stuff in the way on this side. Uh, got it.
Come out there. it is cut. Oh, there goes. That's what I didn't want to do.
All right Up top here. there's two more Fasteners on this water pump. One down here under there. Sit down here.
under there, down here, under this thermostat housing. There's one of them. Here's the other one. Okay, I think that's all the water pump molds.
Let's see if I can't crack this thing loose. Yeah, that's it. Oh my. drain pan.
Get back in there. Ooh nasty. Yeah, that's one water pump successfully removed. There's a gasket in here.
somewhere. Pieces of it. Wow, that's that's terrible. This is so brittle.
Surprised this wasn't leaking. Okay, let's go back to this timing cover. or this front cover here. I think that's uh, should be ready to come off I think it's moving? Hmm yeah, no no no no.
I'm gonna stop right here. that's not gonna come off. All right. Let's make another attempt to get this thing off.
There was a bolt down there that I missed so let's let's try this again. Kind of coming loose. there's something else but I don't know what it is I think I've got all the bolts out. deal.
There's something holding it up down there. so I go out and I check service data and it turns out that this front crankshaft seal is pressed into the oil pump, not into some kind of a front cover. which is what I thought. Meaning there's still an oil pickup to bolt into this oil pump.
All right? Well I know what the problem is here. the uh oh, the camera's stuck I think I'm going to have to pull the pants off. Moving on up, it looks like I'm gonna have to remove this uh, soil pan as well. Now what I wanted to do, but it is what it is.
All right. Well, let's uh, let's keep going. Let's go ahead and drain the uh, the oil out of this thing and then pull the pan down. Here we go.
I've already got a couple of the 10 mils out for the pan. Let's get this bracket thing off here and we'll get to the bolts. uh, back behind the pan from the back. stuck and now I'm all disheveled and disorganized.
This isn't what I wanted to do. You see the problem is I've got to proceed. As soon as I took those bolts loose, it broke the bond of that gasket and since that gasket was so uh, frail and paper finish soon as that bottle was broken, that was that and it would have cracked the gasket. Oh and if the gasket was cracked, then that means that if it's going to leak and since that's the oil pump, it would have had an internal oil pressure leak which would have uh, ruined this engine and I'm stuck there. Foreign: There is a 10. here's the 10.. a couple in the back and then the other side and we're good to go. Gotta Pull the starter out next.
Also, okay, we're back on the passenger side. There's a two bolts in there for the starter. That's one of them. the other one.
Uh, I can't get in there. Hang on. I Can't really move that line either. Get in there.
that's not gonna work, but a wobbly socket will fit right in there. All right. That's one. starter.
Bolt number two. Foreign starters. Kind of free. Let me pull this thing out and then, uh, we'll get the bolts behind it.
Come here. Starter: There we go. We'll let that just hang out right there. All right.
Starter is right here. It has a bracket and there's three or four more bolts in that bracket. Foreign. Looks like another one.
Maybe right here. I Can't see it. You guys can probably see it. but I can't think I can feel it.
Not really. Oh, come on. bolt. Seriously, this is what we're gonna do.
Oh wow. All right, that's a Thai squeeze. Foreign. all right.
brackets out. A couple more bolts have been exposed for the for the oil pan right up there. Let's get those guys out. next.
Foreign: We're back over on the driver's side again. Let's get underneath this pan and crack it loose. It's just got a silicone seal for a gasket so we need to get under that. That should be fun.
Maybe right here. Negative: smaller fry driver. It's amazing how much you can get done with a mini. Bridal All right got it.
I broke my screwdriver. it show up the the driver part into the handle. see that it's what I get for using mini screwdrivers as pry hammers. all right, pins loose.
Is it gonna come out? No. I'm sure there's a something else in the way. That's how this job seems to be going. uh-huh oh man, this is.
uh, this is getting better by the second. um, fans loose. but we can see here. this uh, cross member thing is uh in the way and I can't get the pan to come down enough to get it to come out.
You can't change the angle here. so uh I think next I need to unbolt the motor mounts and Jack the engine up some uh, maybe I can get some clearance that way to get this pen to come out. So yeah, we're uh, we're suffering through the domino effect of um, well, getting screwed. That's what's happening Yeah I did uh, did not see this coming.
Not at all. Didn't think this is how this job was gonna go I thought I was gonna throw a timing chain in it, timing belt, toss the water pump in and uh, hammer in a crankshaft seal and that was going to be that I was wrong a lot. Okay, jack stands coming in all right. Jack stand coming in. I'm gonna get this thing set up under this motor mount. It should work. What I'm going to do is crank this up and attempt to, uh, lift the motor mount off of the subframe and create some space between the well between the subframe and the engine. And then maybe I can drop this pan out.
After that, see the pan moving right to the right right over there. watch this. See that Gap starting to uh to open up. Moving on up.
Nope. More space. Yeah, we're getting somewhere now. It came down a little bit.
Yeah, I'm bolted, both sides, lifted the engine up with Jack stand. It's down farther than it's ever been. but uh, it's still not wanting to come out of there now. What do we hung up on? The pickup tube is definitely in the way.
Maybe if I spin it this way, there's so much space, yet there's no room. Why? All right, hang on. So about 45 minutes later, in haven't got very far. I'm still kind of just moving the engine around, maneuvering a little bit.
We're super duper close getting this pan to move, but it's kind of caught up just ever so slightly up front on the pickup tube. I Don't want to go up any higher because I'm afraid I'm going to break something. These uh, these little jack stands are about as high as they're going to go any higher and I'm gonna start to pick the car up off the rack and well, that would be bad, but we're so close. I'm talking like nanometers away.
a little bit more on the screw. Jack I'm turning and you can't see it. There's a jack over here to the right, just going a little higher. With that, this is gonna be close or it's not gonna happen and I'm in major trouble.
Wow, well uh, as much of a pain as that was for me. I'm I'm glad we ended up going this route because taking a closer look at these, uh, these seals. the crankshaft seals this is super brittle had already broke away just from disconnecting it. and that's what that front seal.
dude. When I unbolted the uh, the oil pump from the block, it just it just broke away I saw all the plastic just fall out. So uh, we're getting somewhere. Let's go ahead and get that oil pump off next.
it is time. Yeah, this one. uh, this escalated remarkably quickly. You can't see there's a hose in your way.
Put you guys over there. Yeah, this got out of control real fast didn't it? No worries. Why? Why am I dumb? Here's what I forgot. Look, it wasn't It was never going to come out The oil pickup tubes are right here.
What was I thinking man. I'm embarrassed I cannot believe that that did not occur to me. So I had to get the pickup tube off. What was I thinking I wasn't thinking.
that's what happened I failed to use my my cranium. Foreign. Okay, let's get number two. We're not I'll break it Loose Manually should have pulled the motor out all right. I think there's two more fasteners for this pickup tube. They're out towards the back. there's one. there's the other.
Well, that was easy. How about now is this pump gonna come out? Do it. A lot of work for a crankshaft seal. Thank you.
Okay, there it is. Got it. The oil pump is uh, is now free. All right pump.
come out of there, don't leak all over my leg there There she is. That's the. that's the oil pump right here. This is the gasket that I mentioned I didn't realize I didn't have to take that loose.
but once this. uh, once these bolts were loosened, just separated from the gasket and that would have allowed that cracking gasket to come apart. So uh, unit had to come off and we need to figure out. actually no.
I'm gonna order another pump since this is off and I'm not going to change this seal because the new one should have a new ceiling so we're in limbo mode again. I'll just put that pile of parts. um filthy yeah this. uh, this escalated way out of control much much faster than I thought it was going to.
I Did not expect that to go this far. um at first I didn't even realize that was the oil pump. I just thought it was a like some kind of a cover. just another cover.
and it turns out after I had taken that loose that was the actual pump which has seals and gaskets so it had to come off. Um, that being said, I'm gonna get a new one. they're fairly cheap, it's on the way. I guess I'm I'm dead in the water on this one until I get my new unit.
so I'm gonna go ahead and just close this video out. Didn't realize this is going to be a three-part series. didn't realize it was going to be a two-part series. I thought I was just going to hammer that belt out and uh in one video but um, looks like I'm wrong.
so uh, looks like you guys are gonna have to stay tuned for part three eventually. I'm gonna get around to reassembling this. uh but until then as always like thank you guys for watching and I also need to remind you to not forget to have yourselves a better day than what I've just had. See you guys later have a great day! End of me saying Datsun.
This one definitely deserves a sacrifice to the algorithm gods, what a headache man. Stay strong Ray
This is why nobody wants to change the timing belt. This service costs more than the truck is worth.
Our 2010 Murano has 111k miles and will need a belt change soon. I’m thinking about just getting rid of it instead…., or pulling the motor and working outside the vehicle.
Situation where you get the test first then the lesson!
Dude, DUDE…. HOW in the forking Hell are you know how to reassemble all this. I guess if it was me, I WOULD end up with 1 bold and a washer……..
please show us how you start from here?
Ray you do a great job, but this is why I will not own a Nissan I'll stick with my Toyota Thanks 🙂
Just curious as to why you didn't just hook the seal out in place and put new seal in. That's the way I've always done it and I did my apprenticeship in the 70's just retired
I'm sure the engineers that designed Satan's vehicle at Nissan don't work there anymore
G'day Ray, have you ever thought of getting an ultra sonic cleaner for the shop, I use mine every chance I can for cleaning most engine components and parts, great for most things.
How it's made vehicle made in a factory. How its disassembled with ray
This is the worse vehicle I have ever seen. I would've given up. You have lots of patience. The vehicle is like a gigantic rabbit hole
I wonder if you should look at a couple rod bearing’s wile your down there? LOL,just kidding.😅
Engineers will go past 3 virgins to screw a mechanic as shown in this job 🫡💯
I admire your patience and your willingness to post even when things don't go as expected. I wouldn't think that oil pump would normally need to come out for this job, but maybe I misunderstood something. You talked about breaking a seal but I'm not sure If u meant the shaft seal or the seal around the oil pump itself. If you inadvertently broke the seal around the pump, I understand why everything had to come apart.
That has to be the biggest P.I.T.A. water pump R&R I've ever seen! I'm jus' glad it's you doin' it and not me.
Edit: HOLY $#!t, what a total P.I.T.A. I would not be handling the frustration nearly as well as you seem to be.
Another great video . In my imaginary mind I always picture everything comes out super easy for professional mechanics not realizing you guys run into problems with rust and other issues too that can be a headache. Great video !!
I felt for you since part 1 because I saw you didn't drop the oil pan. My first time doing that job, I ran into the same problem. Sometimes its best to bite the bullet and read the guide first. I know that costs time, but sometimes you just have to.
That was intense, glad I didn't buy one of them kind of SUV's. Boy is that motor a little on the ugly dirty side, guess that is what happens when you have an oil leak that gets away from you. Okay I have had one get away from me on my 95 Toy 4runner valve cover gasket.
Damn, Ray. I hope this isn’t a book hours job. Eeesh! 😂
Wow I’m surprised you didn’t need to remove the rear light globes for this seal.. Super design! 😳🤬
Wow escalation madness but good on ya for sticking with it dude.. gives me faith in mechanics seeing how far some will go..
that was murphys law,if anything can wrong,it will.
So you want to be a mechanic do ya? LMAO
would it have been easier to replace the water pump by pulling the engine
I wouldn't put it as much as getting screwed on a timing belt job but more of to many undid screws, screwing you into a oil pump seal job, message me next time I'm fluent in VG, VE, VQ and SR as a Nissan nerd
Don't ya just love finding out the part that the rest of the car was built around? Way back when I found out that an "01 Nissan Sentra was a pain to maintain, starting with having to get a thin wall 12 point socket for the spark plugs. A few of your vids have born this out.
Best wishes in the new venture, love seeing wife unit and kids around. Kinda brings in the personal side.
I bet this will be a $800 timing belt replacement 🤔
Ouch! That really turned into a complicated, integrated mess.
I would've given up a long time ago 🤣
Nissan sucks.
Honest I was only kidding when I said to replaces timing belt remove engine first.
shiiit should have seen the VG I had to weld the key hole with the engine in place due to rolled key on the crank, not a shim a guide tapered on one side, hope that oil pump doesn't leak since you took out way more bolts than you needed for the water pump
NISSAN = Nutty Idiotic Stupid Silly Annoying Nonsense
marks reading from top left to the right 11-1- 5 o-clock decent belts will have marks, crank pulley doesn't come off drill and tap and puller so you don't damage the rear belt guide, also that's a gray course 3m not even a red medium let alone a fine green
The worst oil pan setup of any engine, but they were built while Nissan was on Strike and they hired temp workers.
I hate those 3.3 Nissan engines, I refuse to work on them anymore, you can't pay me enough.
Ever heard of a thing called a three legged gear puller ?
Almost be easier to take the engine out. Crazy amount of work to change the timing belt and water pump
Loving the detail of work performed
Note to self: NEVER buy a Nissan Pathfinder 3.3
This again shows the difference between a pro and an amateur wrencher. I would have walked away and left the car up in the air till I could figure out the rest, which could be a long time.
This things never going back together correctly. Ray just ain't an engine guy!
Nice crappy job, that BG in-force is great stuff and a life saver and time saver too. You will find in time running your own business not to waste as much as you do. I take it is for the camera effect, along with the brake clean, using both sparingly will save you some coin and may be kinder to your lungs, they are not a maintenance item yet that I know of. Good luck stay healthy keep making this videos I enjoy your struggle knowing I do not have to anymore. I do enjoy your videos so back off on that BClean. Your wife and children may thank me for telling you.
Should’ve used a gear puller 😂
Nissan can be surprisingly bitchy to wrench on fo sho
I certainly hope this is time and materials and not a firm quote.
I was just thinking about that oil pan that at least you got plenty of lube for the bend over you got😃
Your better off taken your car to dealer then trust this 🤡🤡🤡
Ya…better stick to diagnostics and brake jobs!
Wow, what a horrid design for an engine front end.
This is becoming too painfull to watch.
Yep…just like the oilpan on a jeep CJ….pull motor mounts and jack up engine to get oil pan off! BRILLIANT!!
Way to turn a simple job into a pile of unneeded work. First the crank pulley is simple to remove with a steering wheel puller and 2 bolts. Second your ego or something had you pulling unneeded bolts loose to remove the water pump and now causing the need to pull the oil pump. The seal is a simple change without pulling the oil pump, very common leak and repair. Seems you jumped into this without a few seconds of looking at the new water pump or even a couple mins to look at service info to find what bolts were needed to be removed for replacing the water pump and not disturbing the oil pump to block sealing. Backyard hack type repairs. Yep you can tell yourself “ it needed it anyways “ when you know it really didn’t need an oil pump and pan removal. Hope your customers are willing to pay for your mistakes and unneeded repairs caused by your hackery. Since you opened your own shop I see your attention to detail getting less and less and your ego getting your tail in trouble. Slow down and research the job and do it right. Plain and simple your mistakes cost this customer hundreds more in repairs than it should have.
All that to change that seal? I would have given up .
Yea, don’t take 30 seconds to disconnect the battery.
Is there a reason that you couldn't have applied a couple hundred degrees or persuasion without hurting anything? Or is there plastic/rubber somewhere I don't see?
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Does it make you long for the fine engineering of a P T Cruser?
Good lord….clean the crap off the crank and use the proper puller!
In for a penny, in for a pound.
That's why I hate DOHC engines…
Might have been easier to just pull the engine 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅
What was the flat rate on this job? (I admire your tenacity!)
Repairs like this are why mechanics hate engineers.
Nissan techs usually drop the K member to do this type of service, for obvious reasons. Everything is tied to everything in these engines. I makes them lighter and more compact, but a real SOB to maintain.
Step 1, Remove engine……
Everytime I see you struggle with jobs like that it reminds me why I left being a mechani. I was a truck mechanic everything you touched was hard to do. I became a Plumber a different Jindal of hard work.
Hello Ray, yes one of those days, just a couple of suggestions don’t know whether you have a bay for engine cleaning, but maybe a clean down first? Maybe an air hammer might be a good investment. Woodruff keys, either a small drift tapped on the top at one end or side cutters. Hope it goes back together a bit easier. Kindest regards
This is a riveting series. I can’t wait for the next chapter and see this bad boy all back together.
I love that even professional mechanics have mini panic moments. As an amateur mechanic, I have quite a few of those moments with each job. 😂
It appears it would be easier to just pull the engine, you are getting close to that point already.
In Webster’s dictionary, you will find Rainman Ray between Patience and Wife Unit.
You are good
I have found out with my personally that any time you want to work on a newer car especially Japanese vehicles they purposely make it where you have to take more parts off just so you can replace simple things like timing chains/ belts just to piss you off.
Lady foot
What a beast of a job…feelin' bad for ya Ray
That’s what I hate about mechanics. I had a torx bit stuck inside a calliper pin because the seal was broken and now I have to replace the pin. Despite brake fluid it still got stuck because of winter road sand. This is just like computers: you always know when you start but you never know when you finish. But your job is a long suite of removing parts to get to bolts. There’s always a snag!
Now ya know why shops burn down, kill it with fire.
This is hilarious, Rainman, I think it's rain'n on you, this is nuts… so much work over a tiny little thing.. lol…
WOW!!! All this for a chain and waterpump??!! O M G!!! I hope you got paid the $$$$ for your valuable time. If that was my vehicle and saw this extent of work, I'd happily and gladly pay you whatever you wanted for this job. This one is definitely in depth to the abyss. 👍👍
I've been a mechanic for 26 years and life is always a gamble when working on cars. Some days are great and some days you wished you were never a mechanic.
Clearly this engine was designed by a former VAG engineer.
Kind of makes you wish they had a two -piece oil pan 😹
What happened to the silicon wedding ring replacement?
As grand pappy would say…"I wouldn't have one of those cars up my ass, even if I had room for the factory!! That thing is a pile!! Lol
I remove woodriff keys with knipex diagonal cutter pliars. Grab it by the end and pry up.
I didnt think that this car was going to made by german engineers
Looks like Murphy`s Law.
What did that poor little screwdriver do to you!!🤣
You're the only one I know that seems to enjoy frustration! That owner must really love that high mileage truck to put some $$$$ in it! Check the mains and rod bearings now… Good job!
That thing looks like it's been leaking since it rolled off the production line.
Ray, use a gear puller . You know you need a gear puller.
I can't wait to see how you get the oil pan back on with the silicone! 😢
Truck from Hell!
All this video does is make it abundantly clear that I don't want a Nissan pathfinder ever lol
Ray you must stay on the path…….finder.
I always removed stubborn woodruff keys by striking them on one end towards the center of the shaft. This forces the other end up and loosens the key and provides more key to get a grip on with pliers.
I would have used a rubber mallet on the oil pan to break it free.
This would definitely be my LAST nissan!!
How many bolts can you remove before the engine falls apart? Just curious.