Infiniti V8 timing / fueling / basket case nightmare! Partially disassembled QX56 in the shop!

Any mechanic will tell you, if they are fixing a thing, they would like to be the person taking that thing apart. Even more so if it's something they have never personally worked on before. Well in THIS video Rich unfortunately doesn't get either of those two things as he's working on an Infiniti QX56 (now QX80) that he's never laid eyes on before, and that had been largely disassembled by... someone previously. So here we go!

These Nissan V8s are pretty complicated units, as a duel overhead cam V8 their timing setup is more complicated by far than most classic V8s. Cam phasers on both the intake and exhaust side, as well as a cam driven high pressure fuel pump. Fortunately Rich is no stranger to large complicated challenging jobs so he dove right in to this "Basket Case" of an Infiniti V8.

Oh, to make things a bit more complicated, not only does he not know the exact failure, or how the engine was disassembled... but he's also planning on using this truck to haul his boat 7 hours south with his entire family on board in a matter of days! No big deal right?