Honda K24 Timing Failure?! Engine Tear Down & Diagnosis (Live) Griffzilla Garage is live

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:16]See, Casey, have a good night. Thank you. Appreciate all you do.

[00:00:47]Come on.

[00:00:59]All right.

[00:01:17]that go.

[00:01:25]All right.

[00:01:27]All right, guys. Got a good one here.

[00:01:31]Is that what the customer decided to work on? Man, they decided to work on it. Probably wasn't the best decision they made.

[00:01:41]That's a bummer.

[00:01:47]All right.

[00:02:07]See if we can get a good bite on this.

[00:02:09]Oh, there we go. Oh, yeah.

[00:02:13]This thing coming off here in just a little bit.

[00:02:17]Got a g bit off. That's what I call popping it off. Set. Somebody comment.

[00:02:27]What's up, Debbie? How are you doing?

[00:02:30]Uh, we had all right holiday. How was yours?

[00:02:35]Got a little bit of a break. I definitely needed it. Definitely definitely needed it. Um, all right.

[00:02:46]Oh, come on. That's a tight bit.

[00:02:55]Come on.

[00:03:00]man.

[00:03:02]Yeah. Tried to try a little bit of another another approach there.

[00:03:09]This uh this customer decided to I first I told him not to buy this car. That's the that's that's the first thing I told him don't buy it. He didn't listen. He bought it.

[00:03:22]Now he's got some problems.

[00:03:32]guy tried to save save a few dollars here and uh well he uh almost ended up buying an engine. So he uh uh I had to use my little girly hands. Get get manly with it. Get a little physical. Little Olivia Newton John.

[00:03:58]My humor. I don't come up with new stuff to say. I say the same stuff over and over again. So, anyways, we're popping the rest of this exhaust manifold off.

[00:04:09]And I went to go ahead and put this thing. Oh, I dropped it. I went to put this thing in time. Well, needless to say, I found the u I found a big part of what he did wrong. the crankshaft was spinning, but the sprockets weren't. And so, for those that don't know what I mean, I'll show you here in just a sec.

[00:04:32]So, he's definitely got a uh he's definitely got a problem.

[00:04:38]If I said it like Rain Man, I'd say, yeah, def definitely has a problem.

[00:04:41]Definitely a problem. Definitely in the problem zone.

[00:04:46]So, check this out, guys.

[00:04:50]You come down here.

[00:04:53]Oops, wrong button. So, all right. So, you guys see this key?

[00:05:02]It's called a keyway. Well, now when I spin this, I go spin this.

[00:05:14]Let me go back. Oh, you guys notice the chain. None of this is spinning with it.

[00:05:22]That's That's not good. Yeah, that's not good. So, we're gonna get it ready to pop it off.

[00:05:31]Now, pop it off and then we'll uh uh see what we'll we'll see what else is happening with it. So, uh All right. So, I want to make sure I got the exhaust ready to pull away from this.

[00:05:50]And thought I only had these four bolts holding this on, huh?

[00:05:59]Oh. Oh, dang it. Took off. So, let me pop off a couple more here because I want to get ready to pop this right off.

[00:06:07]Let me lube it up first, guys. I say all the time, little lube never hurts. Let's go ahead and make it a little lubbitiousness. Lubbitiousness.

[00:06:17]Let me pop off the rest of this cover.

[00:06:20]Um, we got to pop this O2 sensor off first. So, let me see if maybe I'll put this on the uh the tripod so you guys can have a little better view.

[00:06:33]So, I can find it.

[00:06:36]You guys want to actually see in see into the the area where the magic happens.

[00:06:42]I could uh I could I could accommodate that here in just a sec. Uh I kind of want to use that. Probably go quick because I got a u Tuesday nights we usually do crab magab, but since we had a day, you know, we're a day behind now or however you want to put it because of the holiday, we're going to we didn't do cram mag tonight, but me and the boys are going to do something else together. We got some new parts for the RV, guys. RV, guys, I'm getting so excited about it.

[00:07:14]It's going to be so cool. I'm going to start a new uh I'm going to start a new membership.

[00:07:20]I only got like one member anyways, but I'm going to start a new membership for the uh the specifically for getting the RV back on the road. So, you guys can assist with that if you'd like. And if you don't like, that's okay, too.

[00:07:37]Uh, whatever you want to do.

[00:07:40]All right. I'm really excited about popping this off because I want to see how bad this guy screwed this up. I I know that he needs a I know that he he needs a valve job at a minimum because we didn't have any compression, which is not good.

[00:07:57]But he may have more than one damaged piston or more than one damaged valve.

[00:08:02]Hope there's a hope there's no damage to the piston.

[00:08:07]Oh, and I got a new tool I want to show you guys. It's pretty sweet. So, come on. What else is holding this on?

[00:08:18]Where is the Come on.

[00:08:27]Oh, got one more. There we go. Pop this off. You guys got to check out this new tool I got. It's pretty sweet.

[00:08:37]It's a 12 mm. They changed it up, man.

[00:08:40]They're like, "Hey, you know what? Let's go a little bit bigger. Let's go a little bit bigger. I can go bigger. I got bigger tools."

[00:08:45]Let me uh let me move this up so you guys can see a little bit better. Let me uh Where did I put my Oh, there we go.

[00:08:53]Look at this. Got my nice new tripod.

[00:08:57]Let's get you guys set up so you can see.

[00:09:01]So, I know you guys want to play, too.

[00:09:06]Oh, I hate putting this thing on.

[00:09:10]Double tap the screen. Yeah, I like that, Jay. I like that. Convince him to double tap it. There we go.

[00:09:19]Oh, Jay, man. I ain't forgot about you, dude. I still I'm still gonna I'm still gonna wrap up that Suburban. It's You're You're really going to dig it, dude.

[00:09:27]It's looking It's gonna look pretty sweet.

[00:09:30]All right.

[00:09:33]Okay, now you guys can see And there we go. Now you guys have a good look at it.

[00:10:10]All right. So, this is a little better for you. All right. So, we're popping this bad boy off right back here. Oh, a little physical, huh? That's going to break. Oh.

[00:10:23]Oh, come on.

[00:10:26]Oh, yeah.

[00:10:30]All right, let's get this out of here.

[00:10:34]Get out of here.

[00:10:42]Let's give a little lubiciousness back to these guys here.

[00:10:52]There we go.

[00:10:54]Get a nice big snap-on guy out here. All right. So, did you guys have a good holiday? What' you guys do? Did you guys miss me? I didn't think so.

[00:11:04]Let's try this side.

[00:11:07]Oh, it is a 12. I don't know why it doesn't want to go on there. What's going on? Is it a little rusty? Oh, there we go.

[00:11:14]Oh, yeah. Bang. Here we go.

[00:11:20]Just loosen them up a little.

[00:11:24]You take this guy, blast him the rest of your way off.

[00:11:34]There's one.

[00:11:41]Two. Buckle my shoe.

[00:11:46]All right. Cool. All right. Good. We got that set back. So now let's go ahead and now unfortunately when I go turn the engine over, nothing happens really because just the crankshaft is spinning because it's missing the woodruff key, which is that's not good. That's not good at all.

[00:12:09]What's up, Mark?

[00:12:17]Oh, there's the uh grab tool for that.

[00:12:28]All right, let's go ahead pop this off.

[00:12:38]Mark's right behind me.

[00:12:44]I don't know, guys.

[00:12:47]I'll let you believe that if it makes you feel better.

[00:12:53]Update.

[00:12:59]Mark's looking to possibly uh relocate if you guys want to come come, you know, work for you.

[00:13:10]All right. All right. So, like I said, guys, typically you would line up your your marks here and everything before taking this off. But, as I said a little bit ago, the key in the crankshaft is missing. Customer put it together without that. So, we're uh we're not going to do that. But here's what we are going to do.

[00:13:39]See if we can.

[00:13:46]Oh.

[00:13:49]Uh, you know what? Maybe we'll just raise this up some. So, yeah, let's we're going to raise it up.

[00:13:57]So, sit tight just for a sec here.

[00:14:03]And we're going to raise We're going to raise the car up.

[00:14:21]There's Mark. They're wondering where you were, so I'll put you on camera.

[00:14:41]with a cap off.

[00:14:43]>> Yeah, that's that comb piece. Yeah.

[00:14:45]>> Yeah.

[00:14:46]>> I'm going to get zero.

[00:14:49]>> If you go across it, if you go across, you will because >> the OBD2 port. Well, so I think that means from one side of it to the OBD port, >> right? Right.

[00:14:59]>> Yes. So from one side >> I'm confused because if one shorted out, it's going to short them all out >> with that com.

[00:15:10]>> Yeah. So So I I was thinking I don't know what it looks like on the Does that purple wire at the OBD connector pin two, >> right? Does that is it supposed to be is there should be there be continu between that and all of one side of that comb?

[00:15:30]>> So this is showing one wire. Okay.

[00:15:34]Does it? Yeah, but it didn't show the the OBD port, did it?

[00:15:40]>> Uh pin A came.

[00:15:47]>> Yeah, there's Yeah. So that's B, right?

[00:15:50]>> Correct.

[00:15:50]>> Yeah.

[00:15:51]>> So that's why I wanted you to jump right to B.

[00:15:54]>> Okay. I did. I've got this one.

[00:15:56]>> Yeah.

[00:15:57]>> Then it says the purple wire, which is >> pin A, >> but that's pin A. And my I do have that double right there. And my my scanner came on.

[00:16:09]>> Um, it didn't say Yeah, it doesn't say pin A is purple. So, >> right. So when you when you use that the scanner came on.

[00:16:21]>> Yeah.

[00:16:25]>> Okay. So So that means now but it did give you Did it Did it communicate then?

[00:16:32]>> No. No. I'm not communicating because I got all those other ones.

[00:16:36]>> It's saying But it's saying if you jump that it say you should have communication then or or see if you do.

[00:16:44]>> I know. and you tried to communicate with it like you said connect >> with when it lit up like okay >> so I would I would pull chat GPT up on there and and uh that's that's what I would do like and start from scratch with it just asking the question say hey I can't communicate with anything >> okay >> that That's what I would do.

[00:17:16]>> No, I would just start from scratch and I I just tell it that and see what it says.

[00:17:22]So say, "Hey, I got a 2004, you know, Chevy and I can't communicate with it."

[00:17:27]And then it'll give you because that that was Gemini. It'll give you something real similar, but that way you'll have the whole the whole procedure right in front of you.

[00:17:36]All right, check this out, guys. Look at this.

[00:17:43]Um, I guess we need to go a little bit higher.

[00:17:48]All right. So, that's good to know, Johnny. It shouldn't really be moving now because I'm not I'm not uh I'm It's not following anything.

[00:18:13]So, Johnny, it shouldn't be moving right now because I don't have following anything. Um, it's moving right now because I'm moving it. But, but guys, here's where we're at. So, so here's our tensioner. Now, usually guys, you would you would have this on top dead center before you undo anything. I keep repeating that because I know we got some new viewers here.

[00:18:38]Now, here's the tricky part, guys. This is what sucks. The customer left, didn't have this thing in time. So, when I go to spin this, get you a better shot.

[00:18:53]Now, watch this, guys.

[00:19:03]Let make sure I got that He-Man tight in there. But yeah, it's not wanting to spin the I guess I I don't know if I just bumped that or what. That's I gota figure out how to make this thing like lock in place.

[00:19:23]Let's make sure we got this on there He-Man tight.

[00:19:29]So with that tight. Oh, try it one more time. Make sure I got really tight.

[00:19:40]Now watch this guys.

[00:19:45]I go to spin this.

[00:19:48]You guys can clearly see this moving.

[00:19:51]Well, Mark Oh. Come. Oh, you know what? You know, get it for you really good here.

[00:20:02]We'll go ahead and we'll put the uh let me go ahead and put the woodruff can just so it sticks out. Oh, that may be tight enough.

[00:20:20]All right. So guys, you can see the shaft it the crankshaft itself.

[00:20:34]I'm going to mark it for you so you can see it.

[00:20:43]I want you guys to be able to see that.

[00:20:50]So, I'm going to go ahead and mark the uh where did I put my brake clean at? I want to mark the shaft itself so you can see that it's not spinning. Well, I it's spinning, but the rest of it's not spinning.

[00:21:10]Yeah, this this shouldn't be moving if I'm if it's not following me. I I gota I got to master that thing, guys.

[00:21:17]And hopefully I can do that sometime soon.

[00:21:21]So, I'm going to go and mark this so you guys can see that.

[00:21:29]There we go.

[00:21:46]All right. Hope you guys can see this yellow mark here.

[00:21:50]You guys see the yellow marks moving, but the the sprocket's not moving. Oh, I just hit a piston right there. Hit a valve right there. Can't go any further.

[00:22:00]So, we got to find out. Hey, what's going on here? It's like, hey, what's going on?

[00:22:06]If this was all moving, we could put it at top dead center. We could see what the problem is. Well, then we could, you know, take it off, do a timing job. But it's not moving.

[00:22:15]So, let's go ahead.

[00:22:19]We'll pop out our tensioner.

[00:22:28]Uh, you know, here's a quick trick, guys.

[00:22:35]I put that back in just for a sec so I could show you that a lot of times you can Oh, so you know if if our sprockets and stuff were spinning, we could push this back and go ahead and put a little pin in there so it doesn't, you know, want to want to go You want to try keep your hands on it.

[00:23:05]There we go.

[00:23:09]Oh, we're going to get to the good.

[00:23:10]Here's the good part, guys. It's the excitement.

[00:23:15]It's the excitement now.

[00:23:19]Let's pop those off real quick.

[00:23:22]You guys, we're all gonna we're all gonna get to see what uh what this customer did so incorrectly.

[00:23:36]And then uh maybe we can it may not be tonight. I may come back live on a little bit later, but I gotta I gotta see what my boys want to do.

[00:23:53]Well, we got new tires in for the RV.

[00:24:01]And we got some other new stuff for it, too.

[00:24:10]Hop in here just for a sec.

[00:24:23]Gonna pop out this top guy here.

[00:24:30]Oh, come on.

[00:24:42]Get a good bite on that.

[00:24:54]Man, let me get a good little biteage on that.

[00:25:03]Let me grab a uh Sorry, guys. Thing got a little carried away.

[00:25:15]Yeah, I knew I had that out. Hey, man.

[00:25:18]I'm always missing tools, guys.

[00:25:21]Let me see.

[00:25:27]I'm really excited to see what the uh what this looks like behind here cuz Oh, you know. Oh, man. Please don't tell me that.

[00:25:39]Uh this got there's so much silicone on this. Unbelievable.

[00:26:04]Wow.

[00:26:14]Man, I wish there was enough wiggle room here to pop that off. There we go.

[00:26:24]All right. So, let me show you guys problem here.

[00:26:29]Pop this off so it stops dingling in my way. Little dingle. Dingleberry bear. My kids think that's a funny word.

[00:26:49]All right.

[00:26:52]So, So, here's why I haven't I haven't done one of these in a long time.

[00:27:12]So, I don't remember, but you can see that I don't see any um I don't see any notch out here for that to slide onto. And I'm not sure if it has a notch on the back side.

[00:27:35]um that it that causes this to slide on. So, if any of you guys want to look up for me real quick the uh crankshaft sprocket for K24, see if this sprocket here, one, this is one piece.

[00:27:50]Oh, wait. Is it? Yeah, it is. So, see if this rocket here has a little kind of tooth part that would line up with this here.

[00:28:10]So, I I don't So, one of you guys could look it up. See if there's a little like notch that comes out that slides into this. That should be on this assembly.

[00:28:30]So, we might work on the Griffago a little bit later. Uh, I got to go home and get the kids because we usually do crop and gone on Tuesday nights and having the extra day off kind of throw us for a loop. Um, so is that working?

[00:28:48]Uh, bear with me.

[00:28:52]So, uh, I got to go home and see what the kids want to do.

[00:29:02]I really I really want to know if if this has a if that has a notch that's supposed to be on part of that that timing gear because it it's something's missing. It needs a notch in there to keep it to keep it in time. So, is there a little you is there supposed to be a little notch on the back side of that gear that slides into that or not?

[00:29:30]Because something needs to keep it lined up.

[00:29:35]Oh. Oh crap. I can't Jeez, man.

[00:29:39]I really wanted to pop this off before I left. Uh I got three minutes, man. Doesn't take long to pop that off.

[00:29:48]What really sucks is I think this guy, it looks like this guy uh he's a cool he's a cool dude. He's a um he's a c you know c customer obviously, but uh you know he had went to replace the DVT actuator uh on the intake side. He did something wrong. So I want to see if I got to go. Uh, if the kids want to work on the Griffago, we'll be back later tonight. I got brand new set of tires for it. Um, I got the walnut shell to s like sand blast the wheels. We're going to paint them a satin black. It's going to look so sweet, dudes. Um, 201 13 Honda CRV crankshaft gear.

[00:30:39]Let's see.

[00:30:42]Oh. Oh.

[00:30:46]Okay.

[00:30:48]It looks like there's a pin here on the back side.

[00:30:58]Now, now that pin must go to something, huh?

[00:31:18]I'm trying to see how that u how that crankshaft gear how it slides onto the how when it slides onto the crankshaft what keeps it in place.

[00:31:36]And I don't that sucks. That means I have to pull the oil pan to do this. Uh, let's uh let me see something real quick.

[00:31:57]Oh, wow. Yeah, some something's messed up. That's >> Yeah, that's that's not good at all.

[00:32:04]Here, check this out, guys. I'm going to uh let me raise this up. I can show you this one other thing before I get going.

[00:32:43]This be a good short. Check this out, guys. This is not good. It's like you're in Top Gun. Yo, it's like this is not good, Mad. This is not good. Check this out.

[00:32:58]Hold on. Let me get this set up.

[00:33:01]Hope I can figure out how to use this thing one day. All right. So guys, this is this crankshaft goes under your oil pump here. Now look, that's that's not right.

[00:33:13]You're not supposed to go return that by yourself, dude. This I'm almost certain there should be a keyway. That's part of this crankshaft gear that slides into this slot here so we can keep it all together. That That's not right. Not right at all, dude. Uh, oh, Jay, that's an excellent question.

[00:33:34]Um, fact, you know what? I'm gonna drive that home. Um, let me spin this around real quick so I can talk to you about that. Um, all right. So, Jay, yes, I did. Um, I did. Let me grab a uh let me grab a let me grab the old one real quick. Hold on.

[00:34:06]So, I accidentally lost um what's going on here?

[00:34:13]Um hold on.

[00:34:18]So, guys, u Friday night I was doing this.

[00:34:22]Yeah, I'm really irritated about that whole thing. Um, yeah, Marcus said it was real difficult to go ahead and take the old one back out so we could plug into it, copy it, and write the file to the new one. Not hard at all. It took a couple minutes. And what I found out was the I called So, you have your This is your fuse block part right here. It should have a bunch of fuses in it. This one here, they don't sell this part anymore. You have to get this. We got this one off eBay, but they do sell what's also known as a gem or this is like your body control module. This here comes right off. We got ours from Worldpack. So, I took out the old unit, plugged it in, copied it, put in the new unit, and it said that the new BCM was or GEM GM was incompatible. So, it was a This here happens to be the new part. It's no good. U looks like the short was just in here. So, we reused the gem BCM and replaced this has hasn't had a parasity draw over the weekend or today or anything. So, looks like that's it and we will return this. What sucks is there's no reason this shouldn't have copied, you know, been able to be written except for it was wrong. So, uh look, I got to grab the kids and uh and then uh we may be back later tonight doing some uh hey Dave. Uh, we may be back there tonight doing some more with the RV or the Griffabago as I call it.

[00:35:51]And I'm starting a membership thing to help us go ahead and uh, you know, get that thing going. Uh, I'll talk to you guys later. Have a good night.

[00:36:01]Uh, Davotenko, I'm signing off right now. Uh, I may be back later tonight.

[00:36:08]Try to hit me up then.