Dual Briggs single cylinder blown engine inspection using a Teslong Articulating Borescope

Hey guys, how you doing? It's Henry at Mowers and Blowers. Welcome to another weekend product review. These are two Briggs & Stratton single cylinder blown engines. I got them from my friend Nick from Bellport. He told me both connecting rods are blown. There's a lot of way to test whether or not it is actually the connecting rod that was blown, or it could also be the synchro balancer that's blown, but the connecting rod is actually attached. And in that case, i could probably make one working engine out of two blown ones there's also another interesting way to look inside without taking the whole thing apart you can use a borescope this is the new Teslong borescope it's articulating this is the TD450s quick look at the specs 4.5 inches screen maximum resolution 1920 1080p video resolution 1280 720 and it comes with a memory TF SD card of 32 gigabytes usually manufacturers do not give you a storage card they actually make you go out and buy one but this one's included power source is 3000 milliamps per hour lithium poly battery and a rotation angle is maximum up to 210 degrees let's open it up comes in this nice vinyl zippered enclosure case oh there it is that is fancy as you can see instead of the dial now the new upgraded one is a lever up and down like a shift lever makes it a lot more easier instead of rotating with your hands this is cool here's the cover that covers the camera which of course has a light at the end the grip over here is textured rubber coated for good grippage plastic encasement here. Press the power button, long press it, so it's shipped with the battery dead. Just insert your USB-C charging cable into the side, and it's charging. Let's see how long it takes to charge. While we're waiting it for charge a little bit, let's look at what's on the other side here. Your USB-C charging cable, a couple of hooks where you can hook up stuff in case you drop something in there, user manual, warranty cards, alcohol wipes to clean the lenses, safety warnings as you can see with this engine this is missing the cylinder head already so you can see the piston right here so we can easily test to see whether or not the connecting rod is blown on this engine because if you just turn the crank and the piston doesn't move it means the connecting rod is not connected so you can see i'm turning the crank and the piston is not moving at all and i also feel a lot of resistance as well which means that the connecting rod is definitely broken we can pretty much do the same thing with this one even though the cylinder head is still connected you'd need a couple of push rods in here to see if they move but i'll just turn it just for the hell of it to see yeah i don't feel any kind of resistance whatsoever it looks like this is also blown we could also stick a screwdriver in this spark plug hole so on this engine because the cylinder head is still on there and we don't have any push rods to see if they move or not simply put a screwdriver there and turn the crank see if the screwdriver moves does not move in or out see so this connecting rod is also broken which is too bad because now we cannot make one engine out of two because i don't have any spare connecting rods yep stays steady doesn't move up or down like that piston stays steady which means there's nothing connected to it so since we have two blown connecting rods all we have left to do is take the whole thing apart and use some of the parts that i may want to keep so first i'm going to try to attempt to drain all the oil from both of these because i don't want to make too much of a mess so i'm going to drain the oil right now this engine had a lot of oil this engine had no oil at all but let's remove this starter because i could see the hole right there it's just a Torx screw and there's the starter and there's the big hole while we're waiting for the battery to charge on the horoscope we'll remove this flywheel so without opening up the engines i just took apart the outside stuff such as the flywheel the stator some of the throttle brackets i took the cylinder head off of this one the accompanying tins the fuel drain plug but the engine is still complete and we have not been able to see what's inside yet waiting for the borescope battery to charge fully before we can stick it in these holes and check it out without taking it apart as you can see i when i removed the cylinder head from this one you can see has a badly damaged head gasket as well here are just the parts that i removed the two stators head bolts accompanying screws and nuts for the pins oil vents this is the cylinder head from one of them here's the starter motor from the other it's a throttle bracket from the other you can all use these for good parts here's a wiring harness for the stator to the wiring harness loom of the tractor you can always use these these are two flywheel bolts to the crankshaft you know this flywheel probably get 30 40 bucks for it has good magnets on it the steel ring here and when you guys order flywheels from eBay remember the orientation of your magnet in relation to the keyway you can see the keyway here is pointed around two o'clock if your magnet is pointed at 12 o'clock your keyway is at two o'clock if you're looking at pictures on eBay and you want a flywheel, make sure your old one is exactly this. Two o'clock, 12 o'clock. If you're going to buy a flywheel that has the magnet at, let's say, 12 o'clock, and this key is pointed at 11 o'clock, it's not going to work on your machine. So make sure that you have the identical orientation between the magnet and the keyway pointed in whichever direction. You have to get that exact one that you have, otherwise the timing will be off, and it won't work. All right, now let's the borescope and check out the innards i charged it for about 15 minutes and it's like a quarter yeah that's good enough as you can see the five foot long wire or cord with the camera at the end you see it articulating just simply stick it in the hole going in there you can see the piston inside the bore you can also take pictures of it too much ready there's a trigger on the back here trigger it you can take video or pictures there you can see the camshaft and the teeth so i triggered it and as you can see it's recording now on video now you can look at it look at the next video too you can also take still pictures too like this trigger just took a picture and it's all recorded on the 32 gigabyte memory card that's included right here this is a reset this is where you charge it you can also control the intensity of the light at the end of the camera or off what you see there that is the crankshaft journal as you can see it's all scraped up and it's bare which means there's no connecting rod connected to it there's the connecting rod end there's the piston that's done and look you can press magnification and go closer take a picture and you can get closer for sure the connecting rod is broken and here's the second engine as you can see there's also a little hole will it fit in that little hole not quite fortunately you could also take out the oil fill reservoir and go in through there see the terrible carnage in this one oh my goodness look at that just chunks and chunks of aluminum there's a destroyed piece right there so you could just tell for sure connecting rod is busted look at that terrible so it's confirmed. Thanks to this borescope you can see both engines have blown connecting rods. It's just disgusting inside. This is a very useful tool for you to check out things in small places. You can take screenshots. You can record what you're looking through so you can look at it again in the comfort of your own home. Fully articulating camera with light intensity. A lot of different settings for resolution and how many megapixels you want to use and it has an included 32 gigabyte SD or TF micro SD card in it, no need to go and buy one. They give it to you. Teslong is a name you can trust, they've been around a long time this is like the eighth Teslong borescope I've ever tried, and with the improvements lightweight and also very thin profile nice 4.5 inch screen as well as a five foot long cord so you can use this for sewage, you can look through your water pipes to see where there's a clog in your sink, you can give yourself a colonoscopy if you want don't do that, not without anesthesia you guys are interested in the Teslong articulating borescope I'll leave a link in the description, now let's take these apart and check out the carnage we already know thanks to the borescope that they're done skiing, now that we know that both of these are done, take off the sump covers and take a better look inside right here we go, the autopsy, so here is the more modern one and the bore is in very good condition, however as we know there's a hole in the block so this block cannot be ever used, here the tappets they're in good condition but they usually are free when it comes with a kit for the camshaft, this camshaft as you can see is broken right there, split cracked and the decompression release is gone, so this cam shaft is garbage, here are the bits to it, there's the decompression release connecting rod connecting rod pieces spring to the compression release dowel pins there's the governor gear it's actually in good shape you could save that more pieces of the connecting rod this is surprising so this is the synchro balancer along with the links and the crank shaft and it's in good shape surprisingly so these these are very useful the links and the single balancer sometimes the single balancer breaks and the connecting rod is still attached so if you have that case you have a very good single balancer here that you could use and this has a lot of aluminum transfer on the journal but nothing you can't smooth out with muriatic acid or fine grit sandpaper and oil this could be salvaged and used i have so many i don't know what i'm going to do with it but nevertheless i will keep it here is the piston and connecting rod that belonged in there has decent rings almost no wear on the piston a little bit maybe but look it's broken so i have so many of these i'm just just going to chuck it so we can't use this this could be saved happens maybe governor gear as for this one this is the older one see has a single balancer also and uh good links as well as good crankshaft of course you're gonna have aluminum transfer on the journal but you can smooth that out, so it's not too bad, so this can also be saved crankshaft and older style single balancer, look here, here's the older style camshaft, see it's a solid round piece, teeth are still good and compression release is functional and not damaged, also has good lobes so this could actually be saved, good camshaft leftover connecting rod pieces with the carnage that we saw with the borescope, this is what I saw in the borescope and we knew that the connecting rod was completely destroyed, see gone, so this piston actually looks really good, good rings too, see the oil ring moves easily and the other two rings are easily movable, pop in and out, not seized on there, this is actually a really good piston but this is for like the older models, you know what I might say that as we both know this engine block cannot be used either because gaping hole right there, this is what we used with the borescope to go look inside so we can't use this even though the bore seems nice and smooth, we can't use this, so this is the older block and it came with the older sump cover, sump cover seems to be in good condition, not damaged so if I needed a sump cover for another engine rebuild of this year, this is like a 15 to 17.5 horsepower one, the older style notice how the sump cover looks and the newer sump cover for this, which is probably a 17 to 21 horsepower engine this is the kind with the camshaft that's not solid round right put your fingers through here this is the more modern one and this sump cover looks different from this one as you can see this has the half moon semicircle part here which holds the synchro balancer in place whereas the older one requires this thing to hold it in place both of these sump covers look to be in good condition and i could reuse these i desperately need these because i remember i i was in the middle of an engine rebuild and all i was missing was this sump cover so i could probably use this and uh rebuild another engine in the future so these two are salvageable these two engine blocks are done i'll save this because it's a good piston good cam serviceable crankshafts on both of these with single balancers and governor gear i'm going to throw these two out uh leave it in the garbage because my garbage men love to recycle dirty aluminum i think they'll get maybe three dollars for these whatever three dollars is three dollars so thanks my friend nick from belport who gave me these two engines for free for free you can't argue with free that's right free i can use these parts for future engine builds and thanks to tesla for sending me their latest articulating borescope once again if you're interested in this i'll leave a link in the description if you do what i do you have to have one of these saves you a lot of time hope you guys enjoyed the video remember to like share and subscribe so i can continue to bring you small engine content and useful products like these to help you with it have a great day we'll see you guys next time on bores and blowers guys next time on bores and blowers