DESTROYED Lexus SC430 3UZ-FE 4.3L V8 Engine Teardown. Mistakes Were Made And They RUINED their car!

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Someone blew up a 3UZ! Well, like anything people consider bulletproof there's always someone able to find a way to break it. This 3UZ-FE is from a 2002 SC430 with just under 140K miles and while it did run, it ran badly and had an exit wound on the upper oil pan. Yikes. So what happened? How did this running SC430 with decent miles end up at the salvage auction with a junking certificate and a "bad" engine? Thats what this video will find out. This is a complete teardown of this damaged Lexus/Toyota 3UZ-FE For parts visit www.Importapart.com or email us at [email protected] For other I Do Cars content check out my wife's channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarWifeLife For cool car related shirts, click here! https://www.blipshift.com/?utm_source=i-do-cars&utm_medium=affiliate Every week I post a new teardown video of a blown up or suspected bad engine. Check out a few of my favorites! 415K Mile 2JZ Teardown https://youtu.be/n7MSlbAhiBc Toyota 2UZ-FE Teardownhttps://youtu.be/99hQ8AowTig Toyota 3UR-FE Tundra with strange failure: https://youtu.be/16QSew3rKeo Why am I doing this? My name is Eric and I own and run Importapart, a full service auto dismantling business. Part of our model includes buying blown up and bad engines to dismantle for parts. We salvage the good, sellable parts and recycle rest. No, we don't rebuild engines but we do sell parts to people who do! As always I hope you enjoyed this video. I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one! -Eric 00:00 Intro 03:00 Removing coils and plugs, UH OH 05:22 Unbolting the intake manifold and looking at the intake ports. Not good! 07:32 Clearing the valley, removing the starter and LOOK, Another HOLE! 09:37 Zipping off the exhaust manifolds 10:31 Removing the valve covers, not the best in here but we've seen worse 12:09 Stripping the front of the engine, timing covers, crank pulley, and timing belt 14:13 Crammin the cam cramps loose on the LH head 15:07 installing service bolt in exhaust cam 15:34 inspecting cams, caps and valvetrain 16:50 Cracking the head bolts loose on the left head 17:49 Lifting the head and RUST 19:00 Science bank 1 19:50 Crammin the cam cramps loose on the RH head, install service bolt, remove cams and inspecting valvetrain 21:30 Cracking the head bolts loose on the right bank and lifting the head 22:27 WE HAVE DAMAGE 23:39 Removing the water pump and carefully storing it 24:11 Unbolting the removing the lower oil pan. FRAPPACINO 25:56 Zipping out the upper oil pan bolts and removing the damaged upper pan. OH, I can see what happened here! 27:21 WHO PUT THIS OIL FILTER ON? 28:59 Removing the dismantling the oil pump for inspection 31:55 Cracking the first two rod cap bolts loose and removing rods and pistons 35:19 Pushing out the severed rod and piston 35:41 Zipping out the main cap bolts, removing main caps and lifting the crankshaft out 37:09 Even my daughter knows where used water pumps go 37:43 Complete rotating assembly inspection, rods, bearings, rings, pistons, bores, crank 40:08 Summary