Hey guys, so you got your player's 500 engine making a clunking noise. I'm going to tear one down and show you what it takes to take it apart and show you what's going on. Okay, so this had a clunking noise in the engine. I wasn't sure at first if it was the valves making the noise, which they're kind of known for. Vals might need to get ground because that makes a rattling noise. Check out my video on how to replace a cam or a head gasket, I'll post links for it to show you how I got this far. So I'm going to show you what I got going on here. So if I grab the clutch, watch the piston, it stops. There's nothing there. Pull all the way up, it stops. The piston actually moves, so that tells me the piston skirts are probably burnt off. When I started tearing this engine apart, I noticed the boot coming from the head to the carb was loose. So that told me it was sucking an air, making this engine run-learn, and the problem is that I got going on so far. I got the head removed already. I was able to leave the cam and the rockers all on. I just pulled the four bolts, they're 14 millimeter bolts, pull those out, pull your exhaust clamp off, pull this cover off, and then you've got your timing chain gear, those three bolts that pulls out, pull that off. And then what I did was I used something to hang up the chain so it doesn't fall into the block. And what I'm going to do next is there are four 12 millimeter bolts that go on here, one here, one here, and one down here. And make sure you use the right socket, let me show you what kind of socket I got. Use that one. More points, you want more points on it because the head, those bolts are like this. So these are the head bolts. See how they got points on it. Okay, so the next step is to remove the oil filter. And then we've got our oiler down at the bottom here, the behind oil filter. You got your oilers back here, those two bolts that come out, unhook from the jug. And then pull four bolts and that should slide out. And then once again, we'll be hanging out of the chain. So I'm going to do that now, but before you start any of this, of course, make sure you drain your coolant and your oil. Depending how far down you plan on tearing the engine down, probably won't have to drain the oil, but probably a good idea. Okay, so here we go. This is probably going to be a little bit of a mess because I did not drain the oil. I'll do that later. I think it's kind of funny because I like that oil came out. There's a data on there, 419. Things been sitting for years, so I changed the oil and probably wasn't too long after that that leaned out the engine. Okay, so I'll take these two bolts off for the oilers. Put them out of the way. Okay, and we'll take those four bolts off, 12 millimeter. And then on the other side of the jug, there's two little 8 millimeter bolts on the outside. Alright, it's an awful bolt. This is what I'm talking about there. Let's grab it and magnet and pull it out. They suggest that you put those bolts back in the same position you took them out and on this side. Pull your radiator hose here, and then be on the jug here. So you have to pull that out, and then the jug will be ready to remove. Alright, here we go. Pull this off and out. Yeah, we got to off to that piston. Alright. The jug looks good, I don't know if you can see that in the camera. Minimal scoring, I could probably use a honing stone and pull that out. There is nothing left of that piston. So like I said, the guy ran at lean and it fried the piston skirts. So I'll be replacing that piston. I did a lot of damage. Not quite sure internally what kind of damage is done. I expect that I might have to take the engine out and split the cases. Just make sure there's no metal in there. The next thing I would be to do is I'm going to take this little C clip off and then pop that piston out. I don't know if you can see back there, but way behind this bearing is a bunch of piston skirt stuffed behind at the engine won't rotate. So what I'm going to do is probably tear this engine out, split the case sides, clean everything up, inspect my gears, put this thing back together, order a new piston. And I think that's all it's going to need. It's just a piston. I'm going to go ahead cleaning. So there you have it. So I managed to get the engine out. Now it's an I found obvious pieces of the piston skirt. Actually it wasn't too bad of a job. And once you get your clutch covers off, there's a bolt there. Or not that goes there, I should say, two bolts here. And then disconnect your stator and your positive and negative to the engine. It was pretty simple. Once you got your clutches off and your clutch cover, you also had your holes disconnect. The rest was actually pretty easy. So if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them and I will get back to you. Till next time.