Morning death rattle video

Hey all!

I threw this video together to address the morning death rattle in gen 2. It’s an overview.

hopefully it helps! I have an older one for gen3 obviously very different. Reach out if you want to see it or search the channel. It’s got like 28,000 views. So shouldn’t be hard to find

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Drew

 

In case you want to see it, here is the gen 3 video

 

Common enough! 20-30 of these pass through my hands per year. It will help someone

 

Absolutely not water shudder. Did you watch the video?

 

MANY prius specific and generic engine info. Watch.

 

I walk through the entire process of diagnosing the problem vehicle and it was the fuel injector in cylinder 1

dozens if not hundred(s) of prius have passed through my hands so I was trying to share what I have been through and learned

the “spring loaded plate” IS what makes the noise when the engine misfires, regardless of why it misfires



I get the impression this video isn’t well received here and that’s fine, I’d gladly delete this thread but I cannot, perhaps an admin is able?

 

No, no I don’t mean anybody said something bad about it, it’s just that it seems everyone here thinks it is moisture in the intake. I am aware of that issue from Way, way back, but I have never come across one with that problem. This video is about diagnosing something deeper, and it covers the possible causes related to mechanical/electrical issues, not the moisture in the intake, I don’t want to mislead people or anything, nor do I want to defend the purpose of the video, all I meant is that if its not helpful, deleting it is fine with me

 

If you go into the part of the video where I talk about the damper plate making the sound, I do thoroughly explain that the problem with the car is a misfire, but it manifests itself as a knocking sound because of the damper plate, I believe I also say somewhere in there that the same engine in a Yaris or Scion XA wouldn’t make that sound when it misfired because it doesn’t have the damper plate, I may have edited part of that out, but I’m sure if you watch the video from beginning to end, you will see that it is explained pretty well

 

Points taken, but again, the post was about the new video. I found it to be a bit of a breakthrough for myself. It was not an easy diagnosis, and the video does explain where that sound comes from. People in this group are obviously pretty educated about these cars, but even so, many don’t realize it’s not the engine itself making that noise.

The second video, the one with 27/28,000 views has those views for a reason, it contains a “trick” to isolate EGR versus head gasket. In a matter of minutes.

A third time I will say, I am totally fine with it if this entire post gets deleted. I kindly ask if it doesn’t get deleted, watch the video before commenting, as this is really no other reason to comment other than about whether or not I should’ve posted it in the first place - which kindly can be left unsaid (similar to if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all?) Just trying to be helpful

 

Ps: wasting views and clicks is a bit harsh and a bit inappropriate for this situation. This isn’t a video of a puppy waving at the camera, or some Scotty Kilmer video on why Toyota is going out of business in six months or whatever, both videos provide tangible information, and the one with 27/28,000 views has over 100 comments, most “thank you”s for the help. I’m not trying to float my own boat by any means, but the entire purpose of my YouTube videos is to help people. I came here to share experience that I thought was helpful for the community.

a fourth time: I’m fine with the entire thread being deleted

 

Yes it is much, much less common on generation two.

This wasn’t extreme enough to trip an engine light at the point it was at, but it did show up in the misfire counter.

Yes, most generation three morning death knocks are in fact the head gasket, the purpose of my generation three video is for people that aren’t visually losing coolant to quickly see if it is the EGR, not sure if you watch the video, but it does a good job at that.

I love the generation three, it was my choice, out of six or seven I had at the time, to bang out a 2000 mile Georgia and back trip and only 38 hours. I was very comfortable and I love that car. Maybe even more than a generation for . If I owned a generation three, once it threw its head gasket, I would put in a 2016 engine. A dear friend of mine who bought a Prius for his landscaping/plow business (for his floating worker that doesn’t need a truck) finally just got to the point where the head gasket is shot. he is likely going to do a 2016 motor or JDM.

I would still rather have a prius and put a motor in it than own any other car and not have the expense