Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs" channel.

  1. When I worked at an equipment rental business, after every rental, sometimes as little as 2 hours of actual use, we used air to blow out the primary air filter, checked and topped fluids, and greased every grease point. Then hosed down the whole machine. At the price of those machines, you don't whine about the time it takes or the grease you use.
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  2. Sweet.
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  3. Dave has been doing a good job keeping Ray from working 10-14-hour days, and often with just a quiet look.
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  4. Also, anyone who brings their machine to CAT for periodic service has too much money and not enough sense. At least hire a trade school kid to do the job on weekends or something. Each vehicle comes with a manual explaining how to do those simple services. (Well, maybe not John Deere crap)
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  5. You know it's a project when every step adds more steps. Project: Change a lightbulb. 1: No lightbulbs in the house, go buy one. 2: Removing the lightbulb, the light fixture in the ceiling cracks. Go buy one. 3: Go turn off the breaker to replace the fixture, find out the breaker is defective. Go buy one. Share jokes at with Joe at Ace about every little project taking multiple trips to the hardware store. 4: Replace breaker, turn off circuit. 5: Replace fixture. 6: FINALLY install new bulb and turn the breaker back on. 7: Wife comes home and says she doesn't like the new fixture.
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  6. A long time ago I had a 1974 VW Beetle with the hydrostatic transmission. My mother borrowed the car one day and when she returned she stomped in, angry at me because she "almost got stranded because my car's transmission was failing." I took the car and drove for about 20 minutes, no problems, even up and down steep roads. So I made my mother drive while I sat in the passenger seat, and figured out the car's problem before she left the driveway. - My mother drove a standard, and drove with hand resting on the shifter. But in a hydrostatic transmission, any force you applied to the shifted made it go out of gear. - So yeah... Use it like the person with the complaint uses it, not "the right way".
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  7.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  I knew a couple of libertarians once. I had no idea until one of them told me she had no interest in men. . . Wait. Wrong L word!
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  8. Almost like it's winter in the southern hemisphere when it's summer in the northern!
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  9. "That ECM repair place" sounds ominously like "A farm upstate" where sick pets go when kids are young.
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  10.  @catslivesmatter1268  As Ray has said before, new doesn't necessarily mean good.
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  11. I hate when I have swollen nuts.
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  12. I give it about 35% odds that "the other guy" stole the cats, and 35% that "the other guy" was doing a post robbery patch-it repair at the customer's request. That leaves 30% chance "the other guy" was the customer, either selling their cats, or trying to fix the system post theft. 15% for each option.
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  13. Good point, as long as it doesn't backfire with people EXPECTING free stuff.
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  14. Some of us have not been programmed by Tik Tok to only tolerate very short content.
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  15. Ray has hit the "You will own nothing, and be happy" economy. That is the future the corporations want us to get used to.
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  16. Plus, the full rendition of "Baa, baa, black sheep" was almost worth you having to endure the hurricane.
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  17. I'm old enough to remember when the only scan tool was a combination of a timing light and the ear of the mechanic.
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  18. Long ago, I owned a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle with an "Autostick" or "manumatic" transmission that was essentially a stick shift three-speed transmission with no clutch and no gear release button/level/action. My mother borrowed my car for a week while hers was in the shop, and she angrily accused me of letting her drive a car with a failing transmission because it kept slipping out of gear at road speeds. I drove it for an hour, and noticed nothing. So I sat in the passenger seat and had HER drive for a bit, and noticed that she had a habit, from driving a normal manual transmission, or resting her hand on the stick shift as she drove. But in the manumatic world, that light pressure plus a bump in the road was enough to tell the transmission you were shifting, and it disengaged the current gear selection. - So I got yelled at for not telling her about THAT before-hand. Ah, good times.
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  19. Oh hey! Another car owner who marks their engine cover with the oil type/amount and the oil filter part number! So glad to finally find out I'm not the only one!!!
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  20. Pepperidge Farms remembers...
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  21. Plus the lift is occupied meaning you can't work on another car (at least on that lift) while waiting for replacement parts.
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  22.  Andrew_koala  Pedantry is the purview of those who wish they were infallible.
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  23.  @tjsogmc  So THAT'S where all the 10mm sockets went!
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  24. I find it interesting that back in the days when Sears/Craftsman still had a bit of quality left on the name, Harbor Freight was synonymous with "garbage tools", and over time the equation tipped the other way.
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  25. You're assuming that someone with a pickup truck would actually want to pick things up with it. In my New England experience, about 40-50% of pickup truck owners use it like a car. And about 10-20% refuse to put anything in the bed for fear of scratches and dings.
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  26. You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your relatives.
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  27.  @bradhaines3142  At least we have solved the mystery of what the PT Cruiser engineers designed next in their careers.
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  28. Too often the cheap junk and the expensive junk are made in the same place with different graphics stamped on then put in a different box.
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  29.  @836dmar  True. Cheaply cloning is another big problem. - I am old enough to remember when 'Made in Japan' had the same stigma as 'Made in China' has today.
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  30.  @GarryFishermusic  My most recent car repair, I had done some diagnostics and had what I felt was a strong guess as to the problem and the fix. But knowing that I don't always know, I explained the symptoms, and gave my guess, telling the mechanic that If I was wrong, I would not be upset. . I was wrong, and my bad guess would have been a more expensive and needless repair.
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  31. Don't be ashamed to need help. People go to mechanics to have their car worked on. People go to psychologists/psychiatrists/therapists/friends/religious persons to have the mental health worked on. - It's not something you want to ignore until it falls apart.
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  32. I keep expecting to see a Binford tool box along the wall.
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  33. The real trick is finding and hiring a shop joker who is not lazy or obstructionist.
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  34. Your pricing scheme is Apple-worthy!
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  35. As someone who has been under a snow and slush-encrusted vehicle, laying on a piece of cardboard, soaking wet and wrenching on rusted bolts, even Ray's current situation seems a luxury.
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  36. I have been in a financial situation where I had to ask a tire shop to install junkyard tires on my car. They were very clear about the shortened life left on the tires, and that they refused to warranty the work for longer than one day and ONLY balance or filler stem issues. Those cheap sketchy tires lasted long enough for me to be able to go back to the tire shop and buy GOOD tires from them, that lasted around 60,000 miles.
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  37. Haha! Good sense of humor there!
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  38.  @4h204x4  The way it always works for me is blindly fishing the drain pug out of hot oil in the drain pain. So fun...
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  39.  @2pugman  Yes PB is our friend, but I think Clare was talking about avoiding radiator fin bending and/or radiator damage.
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  40. Sounds about right.
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  41. I watch videos from Post 10 and he will periodically put his vehicle up on ramps, then pressure wash the underside, let it dry, and crawl under with a rattle-can of black pain and apply touch-ups where the original underbody coating is wearing away.
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  42. That first bolt reminded me of some repairs I did that involved a file to create clean faces that a socket or wrench would actually grab instead of the nearly 1/16-inch layer of crumbling rust. Nothing says fun like turning a 1/2 in bolt head into an 11mm bolt head. - I've also had to use a Dremel to turn blown-out Phillips' screws into flathead screws. - Rust.
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  43. I appreciate FINALLY learning what "spun bearings" means, over thirty years after first hearing the phrase.
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  44. Keep in mind, Ray lives in Florida, and his eloquence and ability to enunciate highlights his erudite nature and irks the bejeezus out of them knuckle-draggers and meth-brewers the state is most known fer.
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  45. I wonder where else that engine has pieces of that paper you found under the valve cover.
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  46. Neil Young was right. Rust Never Sleeps.
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  47. When you have trolls, hire billy goats. - edit: your typical bully attacks those who they see as weak in reaction to things they feel they can't control in their own life, be it someone bullying them who they see as too strong to resist, or a grumpy boss, or an unfulfilling job, or self-loathing of some type.
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  48. Definitely a chain would have been better than the strap to avoid slippage.
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  49. I once fixed a transmission by changing my CD from Queen to Iron Maiden
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  50. I am reminded of Louis Rossmann's tale of his business interruption insurance claim denial because... The multi-day power outage was due to flooding AT THE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION. His shop was completely dry, but the insurance denied the claim because "it was flooding, not business interruption."
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  51. I'm not Ray, but "Hi Silas! Enjoy the flashlight gravity!"
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  52.  @danielbarrett6026  Whatever metal is over the steel on your particular lug nuts, it's a dumb design to put the sizing sleeve over a material that will swell with (inevitable) corrosion.
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  53. And the brake caliper was the only thing keeping it all in the same general zip code. Amazing.
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  54. I am reminded of a very old Aamco commercial where someone pulls into a generic mechanic shop, something something, and the guy standing by the pumps playing with the filler hose says, "I was BORN to fix a trans-miss-e-ohn!"
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  55.  @Dan762X39P  Sure, a slimy mechanic may get some extra money playing that game, but it takes one knowledgeable customer with enough anger and follow-through to tear down customer numbers when the scam is caught. In the end, it's a really dumb way to torpedo your own business
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  56. It LOOKS like it would stink in there.
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  57. It is a lot less disturbing than the last time I saw a grown man "fill their drawers". Of course, that time it was someone too drunk to hold on to their digestion byproducts...
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  58.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  Yeah! How DARE we, his viewers, offer polite suggestions!!!!
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  59. Metal gear = solid.
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  60. If someone doesn't like hearing Ray talk, there is a volume slider on YouTube AND their computational device.
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  61. I agree. I have had tires replaced both when my trunk was bare and when it was packed. When the trunk was packed or even partly full, I would tell the shop to just put the spare in the back seat and I would put it away. I am not going to pay shop rates for someone to deal with my clutter.
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  62. Real smart the way those get mounted!
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  63. At least with the long-term missing windows, and the lack of care about a wet interior, that truck has been someone's beater for a long while. Perhaps even a farm truck?
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  64. Not only to answer the phones, but to chase, er ORDER, parts and deal with customer face-to-face time.
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  65. In New England, when a blizzard is forecast, we buy milk, bread and ice cream. But the power might go out, you say? Then you HAVE to eat the ice cream and drink the milk, leaving the bread for later. Win!
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  66. I'm old enough to remember when the only "speed sensor" was the speedometer cable attached to one of the front wheels. Back in those days, it was also easier to roll back the mechanical odometer, so I am not advocating going back to that tech.
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  67. National anthem, military jets flying in formation, American flag in the wind, test pattern and solid sound tone that later transitions to the static of no signal.
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  68.  @OnTheToolsWithSal  Well, if you're looking for EASY, just replace the vehicle with a new one.
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  69. To share a quote attributed to Thomas Edison, “I have not failed 10,000 times,“ he said, “I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
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  70. Someone at BBK owes mechanics some sort of huge apology. A factory tour just won't cut it this time.
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  71. I learned to use painter's masking tape to tape the fasteners to the thing they fasten. It has saved me from "extra parts syndrome" when the job is done. edit: also you can make "baggies" of the tape and write on them with pen or sharpie. Just take care not to leave the tape on painted surfaces for more than a few days, or leave them in the sun for the adhesive to get aggressive.
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  72. I watch Ray in part for the calming, but also for the little tips and tricks that make working on my own stuff just that little bit easier. Also, it's nice to see tools in use that I had no idea what they were for, or that a tool for that use even existed(!).
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  73. Stuff the haters. If the spark plug wires broken from simple removal off of the spark plugs, those are wires already reaching end-of-life
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  74. We also got to see that this car is leaking oil. Another problem for 'Tomorrow Ray'?
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  75. If you ask me, the correct repair for a leaking sunroof involves a welder. Or not getting a sunroof in the first place.
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  76. I am reminded of the Ron White line, "It's not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing."
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  77. And it's always one that is not easy to reach.
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  78.  @tmd63  I used to have a hand-held spotlight that I would blast into my mirror to aim at the drivers who tailgated. I was a jerk, but I was also never rear-ended. - But the worst are the lifted trucks with those eyeball-burning blue headlights and constant high-beams. I am sure that most people who lift their trucks do not then have their headlights re-aimed properly either.
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  79. It's all about how rusty your under-body bolts are. A sunbelt vehicle ends up a lot different from a snowbelt vehicle.
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  80. From what I can find and what I remember from working on CAT equipment, the fully-dead joystick is usually a loose or corroded electrical connector issue. It is very rare that the joystick itself is the issue without obvious impact damage If it was only one of the multiple functions, if could be a fuse or worn switch contacts.
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  81. Same Ray time, same Ray channel! (/spinning_wipe)
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  82. This is a good suggestion. Insulation is not just about retaining heat in cold weather. It is about slowing the tranfer of heat through the insulated surface.
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  83. I'm old enough to remember when they were Datsuns.
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  84. It really seems the outrageous pricing on new cars is a stealth windfall for many mechanic shops. A lot of people are choosing to spend to keep their current vehicles alive than pay tens of thousands to get a new one (that spies on them so the car maker can sell their driving information to insurance companies).
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  85.  @williamjones4483  In this case, it looked as if the destruction was limited to the clutch and pulley part of the compressor, rather than the internals. I will freely admit I could be wrong.
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  86. That's why a lot of people make a point of NOT killing or evicting non-venomous spiders.
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  87. The immediate freshwater rinse is what saved things.
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  88. Even if this Eric dude was the first to use the phrase, unless he successfully trademarked the phrase, there can be no complaints. And if Erik HAD trademarked it, it would only prevent people from using it as their own trademark, and only in markets / legal jurisdictions where he successfully filed. - Unless, of course, the "offended" party has a lot of money and lawyers and can afford to SLAPP some small local business down over something like "Taco Twosday" to try and own "Taco Tuesday". It can also help if you have enough money to hire a famous sports dude to make commercials trying to portray yourself as the 'little guy' trying to 'free' the phrase. Sorry, I went off in to a rant about Taco Bell being corporate jerks...
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  89. I remember working for UPS and finding out that they have a hard math for when to stop repairing their fleet of vehicles. Something to do with the annual cost of repairs versus the current value of the vehicle.
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  90. Step one: Remove car from starter...
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  91. The rebuilder's liberal use of paint probably obliterated any chance of finding that hole.
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  92. He's an excellent driver, yeah.
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  93.  @michaeltutty1540  I remember a line from a Dudley Moore movie, "Crazy People". - Volvo. They're boxy, but they're good. -
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  94.  @COBRO98  When I was in high school, a friend had a Dodge Ram Charger SUV that he picked up for peanuts and got running. The entire floor behind the front pair of bucket seats was an undersized and unsecured sheet of 5/8" plywood, and the back seat was a milk crate. The milk crate was also not secured to the floor, and he drove like he was a bootlegger. That was... exciting. Riding on a milk crate sliding around a sheet of plywood, holding onto the two front bucket seats as I watched the road between my feet zooming under the truck at 40-50 MPH on winding back roads.
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  95.  @skismosis  There was a product called "Belt Dressing" that was/is sold by various brands to quiet the squeal.
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  96. Given that Ray is borrowing that machine, I doubt he had a lot of choice as to brand and model, but your tip is useful for people looking into buying one for their shop. - edit: I wonder if there would be a market for someone who could "patch" the ultra-cautious software in those machines, kind of like that company who was selling a software "enhancement" to McDonalds franchisees to allow them to actually understand the error codes on their ice cream machines, letting them save thousands of dollars in service calls per month.
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  97. "Drive it like you stole it" is SUPPOSED to be a joke!!!
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  98. Right? Me and my friend, the Nigerian Prince, are shaking our heads at how pervasive this stuff is. At least I helped him get his millions out of his country.
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  99. Living in Massachusetts, I don't know anyone who turns wrenches even once in a long time who doesn't have their favorite penetrating oil. The most sworn by around here is PB Blaster.
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  100. If one of your rockets was used to launch an SUV into orbit, would that involve Ford Escape velocity?
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  101.  @rjgambill  I had a job where a full circle was 6400 mils. That job was lobbing mortar rounds as accurately as possible.
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  102. One thing I've learned from watching Ray for around two years is that my subjective distrust of bolt extractors is rational. I was trying to extricate a bolt from an excavator and went through seven bolt extractors before I gave up and played the game of gradually increasing drill bit sizes. Sure, I dinged the threads a little, but not enough to have to recoil the hole.
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  103. I was thinking the same thing.
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  104. It can be fun if you are using the ceiling paint that goes on pink and dries white.
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  105. I am imagining the service writer saying to themself, "Intermittent problem? Let's give it to Ray!"
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  106.  @dennissmith8199  Don't tell the engineers, but it looks like there might be a few cubic inches of available spaces in that engine compartment.
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  107. After finding one wrongly boxed part, I would be using the caliper to confirm that unmarked bearing.
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  108. Me too! Hyaaa, chicken!
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  109.  @Falconeer55  Look at the price of this combination gasket + windage tray versus a similar metal-core gasket for other vehicles. This one costs roughly double, based on my surface web search. There's your reason.
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  110. As a child of the 70's that much steering play was the norm in big trucks like home heating oil trucks. The noise, however...
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  111. Also? Those tires look to be somewhere in whispering distance of being too worn (using the 2/32" of tread standard). At least the fronts do.
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  112. I felt like I was shopping in a 1970's grocery store. Or waiting for a dental appointment.
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  113. Maypops are best mounted on your Rolls Canardly. (Rolls down one hill, Canardly make it up the next.)
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  114. A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin.
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  115. Oh, the difference a Dave makes!
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  116. He mentions, somewhere in the video, that his torch had a serious issue and tried to harm him, and he hasn't gotten it fixe or replaced yet. Me, I would have maybe downgraded to one of those plumbers' MAPP gas torches you can get at the hardware store.
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  117. Bicycle guy is using the sidewalk, but given the lack of shoulder on that road, he made the best of three very bad choices. 1) Get run over on the road where he is "supposed" to ride. 2) Ride on the sidewalk where he is not supposed to ride and end up in stop line conflicts. 3) Ride on peoples' lawns.
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  118. Based on my zero minutes of welding experience, I have no leg to stand on in this topic. I know just enough to know when welding is great, moderate, or popcorn.
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  119. Mechanics often have the rattiest vehicles. Just like landscapers rarely have the best lawns at home. Body shop techs, however, always seem to have the most show-worthy personal rides.
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  120. Ooh, I saw the bolt you were talking about.
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  121. Hahaha!
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  122. Immediately after might not be the right time to see how the product works, but perhaps a couple of hundred miles of engine time. If the cleaning was instant or very fast, it could send big flakes and chunks into the exhaust part of the engine, and possibly clogging the catalyst mesh in the converter(s). If the product assists in the slower breakdown of the deposits, it likely prevents causing damage. I don't work in the field, so my statements have a lot of conditionals.
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  123. They were running at half rated pressure! That trailer must have felt like towing a pile of mashed potatoes across a plate of gravy. . I'm hungry.
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  124. My question: Does anyone know the true-name of the demon summoned by using that Pentastar design? Was the demon, or the engineer who lost all their sanity points the one responsible for that massive amount of work to just get to the injectors and plugs?
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  125.  @Deere2154D  It can be, IF you have the tools. If it is a bolt-in wheel bearing, that is a much different proposition to a press-in bearing.
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  126. If not a brass vise, at least those drop-in vise face block things.
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  127. Best community service video opening ever!
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  128. A crucially young age to start developing fun habits and rituals. Let her think you're nuts, if it is harmless and helps bond while bringing fun and joy.
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  129. Typically, engine electronics are designed with intermittent water exposure in mind, given puddle splashes, rain, and high humidity encountered in normal operation.
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  130. And a brand of brake pads named after him! (I'm kidding, Raybestos started in 1902)
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  131. They're also good for upgrading from a PT Cruiser.
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  132. I saw a video from some guy who had not serviced his garage air compressor in years, and the tank exploded as he was working, smashing a wall and the ceiling as the tank peeled open to relieve itself of pressure. The break seemed to have started at the drain, where water had accumulated, rusting the wall of the tank. Long story short, drain your tank frequently, watch for excessive rust, and if possible keep your air tank away from your work station(s).
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  133. Also, "Apologies for the squeaking of my creeper" could mean something ENTIRELY different!
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  134. I had an '88 Bronco where the rear differential ate itself. I got a junkyard rear axle from an F250 for a few hundred dollars and replaced with help from my uncle. The rear end has probably outlived the rest of the vehicle. I am guessing, because I sold it when the master cylinder AND steering system were failing and I had the combination of not enough time to fix it, and enough money to replace it. - edit: I forgot my point! My point was, a junkyard rear axle for an older vehicle can be a money-saving idea that works out well.
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  135. I already knew what left-handed drill bits were, but I was splitting my attention when I first read your comment, and thought, "What difference does it make what had I hold the drill in?" Yeah, I need to wake up.
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  136. Those vehicles with the parking brake actuated by a lever in the center console area can be useful as an "emergency" brake for those of us who live in parts of the world where it snows and gets icy. I used mine once coming down a steep hill to make the rear wheels drag while the fronts were free to roll and provide steering. One of the hairiest 1/4 to 1/2 mile drives I've ever done, but I stayed fully on the road and out of the gutters, and stopped at the intersection to avoid being t-boned by the city bus that had the right-of-way.
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  137.  @peted5217  I recall a Mythbusters episode where they compared the driving impairment of being legally drunk versus having your attention on a cell phone in your hand. If I recall correctly, the results were not that drastically different.
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  138. Also, you can install them from one end by pushing them into the spring-loaded end at a distance, and then guiding the close end into the rigid plug.
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  139.  @AricBolf  Did you SEE the door handle and the way the power locks bounced? Fix something themselves? Nah.
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  140.  @defaultname531  You hit the nail on the head there. Design is to ensure more money at the dealerships' service bays.
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  141. Truth! Even with my compact car, parked on level ground with the transmission in park and the parking brake on, I will chock the wheels. - I'm also the person who will, when working on home wiring (such as replacing a plug) turn off the breaker and THEN check the wires with a multi-meter before sticking my hand-sausages in the zap zone.
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  142. That backlog on the "one good shop" is like how I was taught to pick (sit-down) restaurants in an unfamiliar town. The truckdriver I was talking to said, "Always go to the place with the crowded parking lot. The place with an empty lot is empty for a reason."
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  143.  @kingarthur83rd  Please remember that the US is a chaotic, poorly corralled and barely united collection of fifty states. Heck, two of them even refuse to be geographically connected! (that was a joke there) Most states have some sort of minimum safety and emissions standards to be able to legally put and keep a car on the road. Some states are more stringent than others. That unopenable driver's door would be a fail in my state, as would the failed windshield washer pump. Cars also get a "are there loose or broken front suspension parts" check as part of the inspection in my state. Plus things like worn wipers, not enough tire tread, missing or broken seatbelts, broken or missing windows, and holes in body panels. - Florida is kind of a dump as far as car safety and protection goes. They don't even have a lemon law for used cars, which leads to a lot of "fun" in some of Ray's videos.
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  144.  @throughmylens5127  Pepperidge Farms remembers too. I got a battery replacement at a WalMart once. I really needed a battery, and it was early Saturday afternoon. The tech told me he was not allowed to replace it in the bay because they did not have the device that kept voltage going to the ECM with the battery removed (a weird requirement for a few models of car at the time?) so he had to do the replacement in the parking lot on a "coffee break". I tipped him $20.
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  145. I once (Back int he 1980's) knew a couple who were struggling financially after the birth of their first kid, the bills for that, one losing a job, and having to move all in the same summer. Their car had also recently died. I bought a Ford Escort wagon from my boss for around $100 (She said it was twice what the dealer was willing to give her for it as a trade-in). Over a week and a half, I replaced pads and rotors, bled the brakes, did an oil and filter change, put on WalMart tires, washed, waxed and vacuumed it out, and gave it to my friends. The engine died about 2-1/2 years later, but it got them through a tough episode and only cost me around $400 or so to do.
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  146. It looks really helpful to have the dealership's diag steps so clearly written out. A lot better than, "They told me they replaced some intake-side parts."
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  147.  @nickmalone3143  What an ignorant, and factually incorrect comment. Inflation is the result of numerous influences, from weather, to war, to greed, to monetary policy, to laws, to international trade policies, all the way down to road and rail conditions and the wages and motivations of rank-and-file workers in the supply chain. A single US President has more influence than you or I, but nowhere near the influence of a brush fire, irregular rainfall, or a transport strike.
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  148. I once thought the car I was driving had a sudden engine noise. It was the first time I had driven on a concrete highway in upstate New York, and it was just road noise. I say this to wonder how many "My car is making noise all of a sudden!" are from road and/or tire conditions.
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  149. That suspension has more play than Shakespeare!
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  150. Every car I've owned over the last 20 years, one of the first things I do is look up the oil type, amount and the filter number. Then I write those data on the engine cover with a yellow paint marker. This has helped me time and again, and one mechanic even thanked me for having the information so visible.
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  151. Me too.
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  152. When I worked on construction equipment, drift pins were quite often more useful than another person trying to help shove things in place.
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  153. We didn't see it, but I imagine Ray filled up the Blue Water (TM) for the wiper system.
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  154.  @bonza167  You ever try to blow your nose with a glove?
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  155. Not a bad fix for an easily-accessed part on an older car! - If it was a newer vehicle, or one with a lot of expected life left, or a part much harder to get to, replacing with new makes more sense. - But at least your suggestions gives more choices, and that can be good for the budget.
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  156. The pickup tube O-ring was very much a sensuous job. As in 'Sensuous in there, might as well replace it."
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  157. Dave could do a great Owen Wilson impersonation. He's got that smooth voice with flow.
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  158. I saw that story. It's not the state that made him do it, it's the city council who is acting like an HOA with overly tight underwear. I LOVE malicious compliance!
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  159. The transmission looks like Bugs Bunny stuck a cork in the end before Elmer Fudd pulled the trigger.
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  160.  @hightttech  Yeah, crystals can only be marginally diagnosed with a multi-meter. Sure, you'll find an open or short, but most other failure modes are opaque without an oscilloscope.
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  161. Dang it, Ray! Every time I hear someone say "the door locks" I mentally play that clip from Jurassic Park. Add that to "gravity", "Silveryrado", and a few others. You're getting in my brain!!! (Don't worry, there's apparently plenty of room up there.)
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  162. But Carvana only sells great cars, right? And there's NEVER a problem getting the title...
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  163.  @desmondrice1756  Given that one of the AC service ports is hanging out under the heater hoses and near "lose a hand" land, and the book on this job is seven hours... This was designed by a coven of frustrated demon-worshipping sadists.
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  164. This si the first video where I really noticed how well sited the shop is for various types of test drives. Surface roads, stop signs and stop lights, and highway access - all within a very short distance!
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  165. We don't have rust on our cars. We have cars around our rust!
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  166. I miss my local model train shop. The guy was a retiree running it out of his garage and basement and was the best source for Tamiya models of military vehicles. He passed away some years ago.
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  167.  @DatsunBloke7357  Some people can't do their own oil changes. It could be physical limitations, it could be time limitations, and it could be they rent and their lease/rental agreement forbids servicing their car in the parking lot (or they only have on-street parking).
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  168.  @61rampy65  Oh yeah. Rubber bands can "snap on" to things!
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  169.  @nephicus339  Is it blue? If it's blue, you know it's good!
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  170. This is in Florida, where the laws are not built to protect anyone from stupidity or greed.
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  171. @@SimrKhera You know the deepest secrets! Froinlaven!
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  172.  @ryans413  Way back in the day, before evap systems, when gasoline had lead added, "topping off" did no harm besides spilling that lovely toxic mixture on the ground. Some older people still think that topping off is a harmless procedure, and we get what he have here today.
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  173. I had that experience once when my 1974 VW Beetle ate it's transmission, and I bought a 1971 VW Beetle with a good transmission but only half of an engine. We had no engine hoist, so we used two strong teens, a 4x4 and high-strength rope to lift it - and a skateboard to move the engine from one car to the other. Took about a week of afternoons and the two bookending weekends to finish the job, but it ran and drove great!* - *Until the undetected frame rot of the 1971 Beetle made itself known about three weeks later and that car shimmied like a hula dancer at any speed over 20MPH.
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  174.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  What do you know! I got my first vanishing comment! - Anywho, have a nice day Ray and family.
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  175. I have a nice scar on my right thumb from a slipping wrench when I was in a stupid hurry to install brand new blades on a professional grade woodchipper. I learned three things: 1) the new blades are shipped razor sharp. 2) a cut to the bone bleeds a lot. 3) a clean cloth and duct tape makes a decent compression dressing!
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  176. (cue music) "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel...."
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  177. That advice always seemed to come from an old mechanic with 9-1/2 fingers.
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  178. I don't hate the truck's owner, I have pity for them. I hate the truck though! All the way up here in Massachusetts!
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  179. Yep. If the frame, suspension and transmission are fin, and the job needed is even a big resealing job it is worth it. If that was a 400,000 mile car up here in the salt belt, the answer would be in much more doubt.
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  180. They ran off with the paperclips.
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  181.  @robertpage2023  Fair enough. But do yourself a favor and spend the extra couple of dollars to get Gorilla Tape. That stuff will stick nearly permanently, even if you want it to come off later. And it holds up to UV exposure a lot better.
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  182.  @heckelphon  Kind of like a tool-based version of that childhood song, "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly".
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  183. Important lesson: Never re-use o-rings.
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  184. Imagine if Florida voters cared enough to make their politicians extend Lemon Law protection to used cars...
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  185. It is so charitable of your shop to hire so many short-bus kids!
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  186.  @John-vf9py  If you add water fast enough, you can fill a colander.
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  187.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  A whole new world A new fantastic point of view No one to tell us "no" Or where to go Or say we're only dreaming
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  188.  @richb.4374  Even if you do dry it, the salts would remain. Salts plus (most) metals equals corrosion.
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  189. It also means Ray won't be able to use it as another table for parts and tools.
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  190. This engine layout looks like an H.R. Giger (Artist behind the xenomorphs in the Alien series) creation.
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  191.  @OldTooly  If it can reduce the pain of a thrown wrench, it can reduce the pain of leaning on a hood latch! - Dodgeball 2: The Mechanic
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  192. Well, one way to try and stop a leak is to use the bolts to CRUSH THE LEAK!
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  193. I had a 1971 VW Beetle that had an air-pressure operated windshield washer fluid system that tapped off the spare tire. Well, except that the rubber lines on the one I bought had long-ago rotted out, so my windshield washer fluid dispenser was a Windex spray bottle, and I had to roll down the window and reach around the A pillar to spray the windshield. Also, the heat ducts from the rear-mounted engine to the passenger compartment were rusted away to nonexistence. So, no heat, and an ice scraper was often used on the INSIDE of the windows as well. Fun little beater.
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  194.  @markmakris4256  For those of us who appreciate the more complete content, I hope Ray does not follow your suggestion. For you, I would like to point you to the playback speed options. If playing back on a computer, the arrow keys will fast jump you beyond the parts that are boring to you, I believe a few seconds at a time.
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  195. YouTube might have a rule against posting videos of back-alley beatings...
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  196.  @Wheel_Horse  I read this before the jump-scare, I was waiting for it, and it STILL got me
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  197. I saw a clip on Just Rolled In where some FORMER mechanic was running a lift up under a car while he was looking away from the car and at his phone. He had only set the lift arms under one side of the car and not at all under the other. He only noticed when the car started tilting and pushed into his shoulder, but by then the body damage was pretty extensive.
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  198. Ray has defeated the engineering of various PT Cruisers, so I have faith in his abilities with this rover of lands.
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  199.  @tiddybearkush  It's quaint that you seem to think Ford is the only offender.
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  200. One of our 'family sayings' is: "Pain lets you know you're still alive." - Some others: "Don't bleed on the carpet." "Coulda, shoulda, woulda, but didn't." "If horses could fly we'd need better umbrellas." And our favorite - "Don't tell mom."
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  201. But where is the converter thief supposed to make their Sawzall cuts? (I AM JOKING!)
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  202. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
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  203. The way I learned it was that the bigger the bit, the slower the spin. I'm not saying it was right, but it worked.
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  204.  @Rizzob17  This video and this comment thread prompted me to clean out my car this afternoon. It wasn't all that messy, I keep a small trash bag for stuff, and I had the dead wipers on the floor that I changed out recently.
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  205.  @patrickdiehl6813  The only problem with using a label maker is that the blow-molded cases are typically made with a 'pebbled' exterior surface, which is not ideal for adhesive labels. Also, by this point, there may be petroleum contamination of the surfaces, which is a MUCH more minor issue, and can be remediated with cleaning. - edit: But the label maker is great for marking shelves!
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  206.  @wilbilt  But then Ray would have had to open the gate to answer the age-old question for us. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "It was riding with Ray!"
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  207. Please avoid politics, guys. That road only leads to fighting. Even more so here where people can attack with safety and anonymity.
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  208. It is already apparently a "farm truck", which means it is not a daily driver. A farm truck or yard truck is something that works just good enough to get work done even if it doesn't meet road safety requirements.
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  209. This is an easy fix. You carefully chisel the rivets from the VIN plate, and find another car of the same model that works better, glue your VIN in.
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  210.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  I love when people get on their high-horse about their particular brand of mythology.
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  211. Set phasers to bad rebuild! Fire photon torpedoes!
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  212. And on the driver side, the rubber boot just fell off with vibration. So, it was not all that well seated anymore. I also think I saw grit in the exposed joint.
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  213. Right? Because he can't possibly have a deep well of experience to draw on. If only he was as good a mechanic as all of the armchair experts one can find here on YouTube. (If you think I was aiming my comments at you, that's a YOU problem.)
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  214. That is a genius product that should not be so darned obscure! Heck, there ought to be one included with the spare in cars with lug bolts.
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  215. Them and the Tropicana train!
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  216. Pontiac Testarosa?
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  217. At 6'3" myself, every time I get in my car after a mechanic has it, I check seat position, mirrors, and radio presets (in case the battery had to be disconnected). I am not mad if a mechanic has to move the seat and mirrors, particularly if the repair requires a test drive. I'd rather they drove my car safely and inconvenience me by a minute or two.
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  218. Yep, when Ray is done, the OBD2 port and maybe (MAYBE) the windows will remain original.
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  219.  @JM-lk6wo  Or even worse, a PT Cruiser! ...wait...
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  220.  @leefranklin3054  It points to a particular mindset about the tools of one's trade. I worked for a construction company and the owner had me doing weekly (or more frequent, for machines that had hard use) of all machines, vehicles and power equipment. If the tires didn't meet tread depth requirements (IIRC 3/100ths was his threshold, with 2/100ths being regulation?) then the tires got scheduled for a change. I even learned how to measure brake pad thickness, where all the grease points were on everything, how to check for belt wear, and how to confirm the dump truck air brakes were working to spec. - The owner(s) of the truck in the video seem to treat the truck as a tool like their third-favorite screwdriver.
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  221. I am old enough to remember when Harbor Freight EARNED the nickname Harbor Fright for their completely crap quality. And the only place to buy them was some periodically announced flea market style sales event And then they gradually improved. But fear not! WalMart offers the new bottom-of-the-barrel tools!
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  222. I also really liked the ratchet Ray was using on the plugs. I have never seen that kind of swivel head before. edit: I mean the one he used to remove the front bank of plugs.
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  223. A customer insisting on that repair needs to be videoed swearing to understanding that there is risk in the repair, the repair is contravened by all reason and regulation, that they understand they waive all liability of the shop and mechanics and hold them harmless in the event of dangerous and/or catastrophic failure of the repair and repair site on the tire, and then video them signing a document to the same effect. Then charge them for the extra time that videoing took.
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  224. "Two Cars, One Cup"
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  225. Many moons ago I had a Bronco that started dying on my on the highway during a long trip. I would get about half to a quarter mile between stall-outs. I was able to make it to an exit and caught a mechanic who was just about to punch out (it was a Friday evening). He listened to my tale, started the vehicle and heard it die, and replaced the in-line fuel filter. - He only charged me for the filter and five minutes, but I tipped him $40 for saving me a 140-mile tow back home and sticking around that quarter hour past his normal quitting time to help me out. - The old in-line filter would not even pass compressed air when he took it off, so I was running on what wicked through the filter and the dirt it had trapped within.
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  226. And a labelmaker would be a good investment for those cases.
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  227. It's kind of like when Deston of Smarter Every Day got invited to a carb manufacturer after he and his dad made a transparent carb for a mower to show how they worked. Learning is always a good opportunity.
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  228. The best part of this being a "to be continued" repair is having another video to look forward to!
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  229. He mentions that at the end of the video
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  230.  @playdg  You use the second stick shift that engages the front differential. Some (most?) 4WD of that era had manual locking hubs you would need to have set to "locked" before you start driving. Instead, vehicle makers are all about replacing reliable mechanical systems with electronic and vacuum lines that are a lot harder to diagnose, and help promote parts-cannon repair techniques.
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  231.  @Gspizzy  Instructions are included because sometimes we lose track of our coasters or need to shim a piece of furniture back to level..
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  232.  @AC-io8qs  Not driving the car where roads are salted is a big help as well.
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  233. It does make a big difference, when looking at the financial side of the equation, when you can do the work yourself.
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  234.  @karisalonen8984  You'd be surprised (or not?) at how many people don't check tire pressure, particularly on a trailer or sport vehicle they don't use often. I've seen people who don't even make sure the lights work on a trailer before they hit the road and then act surprised when they get ticketed.
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  235. What is it with Volkswagen forcing mechanics to have a massive array of different tools to work on their cars? Are they allergic to hex bolts and nuts over in Germany?
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  236. The dogs were being very catlike in this opener. "Yes, I see the food, and I see the open door. I'll wait until eating is MY idea, thanks."
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  237. In Massachusetts, we hit all the bolts with PB Blaster and THEN ask what work needs to be done.
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  238.  @theundergroundlairofthesqu9261  I have a friend who WON'T figure out how to change a tire or even check their oil. Everything is sent to AAA or a mechanic. Not can't, but won't. It disgusts me.
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  239.  @Bigbacon  Why risk that nest egg when a failed tire (tyre) at highway speeds can ensure your next-of-kin get a nice inheritance!
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  240. March used to be the first month of the year.
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  241. I did that once. Back in the 1990's a family of friends were struggling with two new kids and breaking into the lower tiers of their occupations. I bought a mid-1980's Ford Escort wagon from my manager when she upgraded, and went through it front to back. I and my brother changed all the fluids and filters, new brakes, new belts and hoses, nearly-new tires- even the spare (got hooked up by a tire shop who had some with good tread and lifetime left after someone upgraded), fixed the horn, cleaned it inside and out, repaired a door seal, and used nearly two gallons of Bondo to patch the exterior (it was a Ford in New England, after all). The family got a good four-plus years out of that car and were able to afford something much better by that time.
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  242. I have a gallon of oil, a gallon of windshield fluid, a sealed bottle of brake fluid, and a gallon of pre-mix anti-freeze in a milk crate in the trunk of my car. Have not needed them yet, ten years on, but if I, or someone else I stop to help DOES need them? I got em. I also have a 4-way lug nut wrench, sledgehammer, and some common tools in there too. All wrapped in a decent set of jumper cables.
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  243. Another saying I hear often is, "A happy/satisfied customer might tell one other person. An unhappy/angry/unsatisfied customer will tell everyone they meet."
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  244. [Deep Movie Announcer Voice-Over] "Rainman Ray's Repairs. Severely entertaining. Coming soon to a YouTube video near you."
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  245. We have found "The Other Shop"! - kidding!
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  246. I am stunned at how bad that oil is after being "only" 10k overdue. Either the engine is helping wreck the oil (see someone else's comment about the ongoing engine recall for insufficient deburring), or this is not the only 13k+ interval, or the last shop used the worst motor oil they could find.
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  247. When you have a skid steer at hand, it becomes useful for all sorts of things. Moving that empty pallet, finally extracting the root of that tree you cut down four years ago, turning your Costo shopping into one trip from the car to your front door...
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  248.  @mikes1097  It's all good when the mistake is honest and acknowledged. Oh! Before I forget. Have a righteous day.
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  249. That alternate starter mod is kind of a great anti-theft device!
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  250. That vehicle's owner is extracting every last nickel of the value from it. I approve!
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  251. I paused the video to check some info, and the tire traction rating of AA is the "grippiest". The temperature rating of A is the "coolest" (runs least hot from road action?). The wear rating of 440 means the tire is projected to last 440% as long as the "reference tire" extrapolated from a 7,200 mile test on a reference track in West Texas. - So the excess wear can be attributed to the "grippy" traction rating (meaning softer rubber) and likely under-inflation as evidenced by the wear being on the outside of the tread area, but not the center.
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  252. Tiny side effect, a backward-facing Bobcat offers less wind resistance, since most rental skid steers don't have front doors.
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  253. Never had a bad experience with CO2, but I did work at an electronics manufacturer where they used nitrogen for part of the HALT/HASS (hot, cold, shake) testing. There was an undetected leak in one of the test chambers, which flooded our work area with high concentrations of nitrogen. Nitrogen, lacking sufficient air circulation as we did, will pool low and displace air that had more oxygen in it. The area DID have O2 level sensors, but they were mounted about 6 feet off the floor, and sitting at our workstations, our "breathing holes" were only about 4 feet up. They only realized and caught the problem when a couple of us fell out of our chairs having passed out. - At least it never got as bad as Mykl's example.
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  254.  @NemoConsequentae  Even more fun, the company's first "solution" was to open a window and place a fan blowing out into it. In January in Massachusetts. Of course, it was on-par with most of that company's decisions. The building previously housed a software maker/shipper (back when physical disks were the only way to get software). So the air conditioning and air flow were absolutely not up to par for five lines of electronics board manufacturing (each with a solder wave machine just pouring out heat). In the summer, they just opened the loading bay doors and set up fans, which let us bask in the aroma of the neighboring sewage treatment plant.
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  255. Now imagine the people who buy a HOUSE and don't get an independent inspection before signing...
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  256. I have a yellow paint marker I use for that kind of situation. I picked it up at a job I worked where I would use it to label heavy equipment for things like oil filter numbers and capacities.
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  257.  @cengeb  I have long thought that an initial driver's test should also include being able to at least identify how and where to check fluids, and (barring physical inability) to change a tire.
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  258. Based on the condition and age of the car, and the other lights that Ray was NOT fixing in this video, I'd say the owner is "budget limited" for auto repairs. But they were able to get a potentially car-ending problem fixed, so that is good.
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  259. I sometimes yell at people, "Directionals have been standard equipment since before World War 2? What's your damn excuse?"
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  260. Based on "Just Rolled In" frame welds are supposed to include small plate patches, bits of steel chain, old open-end wrenches, perforated angle iron, chicken wire, and a liberal amount of spray foam.
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  261. Putting them together is easy. You need to hold the adjuster with your third hand, and set the springs in place with your fourth and fifth hands. Yes, buying five-armed shirts is a hassle.
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  262. Even though we were all floppy and stumbling about. We'll try harder next time, Ray!
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  263. I always say, "I woke up breathing, so it was a good start."
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  264. Wow. I had to mentally draw a "710" and flip it in my mind's eye. I am embarrassed!
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  265. Another reason to put money into restoring an older car is that you aren't feeding the carmakers' new drive for monthly subscriptions to stuff already installed on the car.
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  266. I find it astounding how much more space an engine takes up when it is disassembled.
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  267. I don't know if there is a law about it here in Massachusetts, but I always try to keep the tires matching on the "axle" even if they don't match front to back. I even go so far as to try and keep the matching to age, or at least tread depth. Since I've started doing that, my rain and snow experience has had less difficulty and no spin-outs.
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  268. That beeping would quickly have me tossing the thing across the lot.
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  269.  @bearing_aficionado  I think I actually saw that one. It is a shame that vehicle owners and their mechanics have to finish building the vehicles correctly.
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  270.  @shadetreemech290  It's not a "women" thing, it's an uneducated vehicle owner thing. Though the prevalence of male salespeople taking advantage of female buyers lends some power to your comment.
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  271. I've run into a shop, okay, a Meineke, that "inspected" things I did not ask them to work on and they threatened to call the police who would "ticket me and impound my vehicle" if I didn't get those things fixed. I told the guy that I came in for an exhaust pipe and muffler, and there was absolutely NO reason for the mechanic to even touch my wheels to inspect my brakes. I then told him to go ahead and call the cops. Funny, they dropped the issue, installed the parts I had asked for, at the price they advertised, and I drove away. I've never been back to a Meineke since.
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  272. If you ask me, the best fix for a sunroof is to close it, disconnect the motor, and seal the window in with UV resistant silicone caulking. a.k.a. make it a moon roof.
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  273. Boy that one really sent me... back in time.
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  274.  @karlfunnell100  It's a British vehicle, so it must be arsoned with petrol. And that petrol must be bought by the liter.
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  275. The last time I had to work under a dash, I ended up with my back on the floor and my feet on the headrest. Quite a headrush!
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  276. When I was younger, I rode in some vehicles that had the headlight switch on the floor, and an old, restored fire truck that the very same button on the floor was the starter.
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  277. And some spray foam.
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  278. Even better, after draining the oil and changing the filter, put on the Autozone "empty filter" (essentially a can) and fill with 5 quarts of cleaning mixture (1 part Dawn to 7 parts water) and run the engine for ten minutes, then drain the pan, replace the "empty filter" with a new oil filter, add the correct amount of oil, and drive away.
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  279. Even worse, you need TWO tools to remove those buggers. A Philips screwdriver and something flat to pry with.
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  280.  @1marcelfilms  One place I worked, someone helpfully attached a sign to the paper recycling bin that read, "Suggestions and Complaints"
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  281.  @bobbg9041  $37k for a RANGER? Does it come with a second Ranger to drive on weekends?
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  282. It will be fun to figure out where the two grounds that are tied together originally went.
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  283.  @darrengray2309  Good point. This also eliminates differences in tire inflation.
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  284.  @russellstyles5381  Ooh! Like the fasteners they use to assemble public bathroom stalls. To tighten, you use a flat-head screwdriver, but the loosen direction is just a gradual ramp on the fastener head. Ingenious for the application, evil for other uses.
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  285.  @christiang2194  Plus, the penny-conscious manufacturers are not prone to including needless parts in a vehicle.
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  286.  @user-ut9ln4vd5m  Solder sold for plumbing and large electrical soldering is often flux-cored. But solder sold for micro-electronics work is not. Instead, the flux is applied manually, often as a thick liquid either dabbed, poured, or 'syringed' on.
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  287.  @Alucard-gt1zf  I learned a few different torque "specs": finger tight, snug, tight, one grunt, and two grunt.
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  288. Heh, heh... Dongle.
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  289.  @ORRadtech  Fair point. The time to disassemble, clean, reassemble and then hope that is the fix might cost more than swapping the part at shop rates.
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  290.  @bruceb4349  I still think it deserves some TLC. Like something to reduce rusting rate on the cable, maybe a horn?
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  291.  @awesomecronk7183  OMG. the horror. The absolute death traps some people are perfectly okay with driving around after "declining the repairs"... Rotted framed, missing brakes, wobbly steering, rhinestones on the steering wheel airbag cover...
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  292. The calendar thing has to do with the pre-Julian calendar having the year start with March. The calendar we use was adjusted many times, both to correct the number of days in the year, fixing 'slippage', and then eventually adjusted to have the year start on January 1st. - As to the "WHY", there is a lot of mud in that road.
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  293. That one is easy. The customer DIDN'T supply the part. They bought the wrong thing, and they get it back.
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  294. I agree in all aspects. Different people like different things, otherwise there would only be Coke OR Pepsi. (And definitely NOT RC Cola, blech...)
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  295. There's growing up (ugh) and growing old (inevitable). I prefer to try and find my happy thought and FLY!
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  296. I have had a mechanic tell me he "could" repair my car, but also that I should not put more money into it. After he explained, I agreed and took it back to trade in (for $50) on my next car.
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  297. I saw that video. Skid steer playtime!
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  298. That is awesome that he has found a way to learn, and enjoys it!
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  299. And THAT is why no powered garage doors!
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  300. Yeah, red rags are for cleaning tools, floors, and getting the first layer of gunk off in-place mechanical parts.
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  301. I am not bored. I once watched a pot boil to prove the adage wrong. I also like to watch paint dry. Quiet, meditative activities are my jam.
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  302. Oh, missing rubber vibration isolator between the frame bracket and radiator. Just noticed it when you were changing the high side AC valve. Given the new radiator, I would be checking for all the rubber isolators.
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  303.  @garyh7949  And it was Dave's Milwaukee. So... Team effort!
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  304. As for going after the manufacturer, there are the possible issues of age of the vehicle (I forget if the year of the truck is mentioned in the video), and in some states, the vehicle being commercial can relieve a lot of liability off the manufacturer (They have a better budget for buying laws in their favor). It can get more complicated in some states if the vehicle was not sold at a tow truck, but as an empty rear frame to a conversion shop. - Short story, manufacturers will throw piles of lawyers at claims to work to deny compensation whenever it is possible, and not a massive negative media backlash. If the driver had been badly hurt, they might offer a settlement, but that's a roll of the dice.
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  305.  @gregoryv.zimansr4031  The ones I remember were the immersion barrel heaters (put them in a galvanized trash can, fill can with water, create scalding hot water for dishes or bathing) and' the M-1941 multi-fuel tent heater. Had to look them up, found that they are considered "Vietnam Era" gear. I was in in the 1980's. The National Guard really git the crap gear...
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  306.  @mred8002  Old folks unite!* *from our separate rockers and recliners, if you don't mind.
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  307. I am loving that simile.
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  308. My first step would be to unplug, check and clean the connection, re-plug and recheck. But then, I've owned Fords, and corrosion is part of their DNA that gets environmentally expressed up here in Massachusetts.
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  309. Also, an orbit around a gravitational mass is falling. In an elliptical path.
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  310.  @TheFrenchPug  As long as it gets past the warranty mileage, right? Dangit.
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  311. Or she could open her own competing shop across town and take him out!
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  312. Also, the guy who owned that car was not a customer, but a user. And it is not the responsibility of a business to be a user's drug.
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  313. Makes me glad that the one time I had to replace an ECM I pulled it out of a front-end collision car in the junkyard. An older car (1988 Chevy Celebrity, if I remember the year right) that had computer problems was fixed by getting a new EPROM and having a shop reprogram it.
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  314. The real shame is it may have been the decision of a person who sits in an office and accepted Ray's repair request might have burned the people actually doing the work. Or it is such a small shop that it is the same person doing both jobs?
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  315. You have my best wishes for a good recovery, whenever that happens. Until then, let us all enjoy the gift that is Ray's channel!
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  316. I too liked the look into the inner workings of an AC compressor!
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  317. "Thy works are sufficient unto the day" - quote I made up - edit: Anyone who says water is just as good as Windex has the streakiest windows on the planet. If you don't want to use Windex, try white vinegar after (or instead of) a wash with highly dilutes liquid dish soap.
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  318.  @deweydodo6691  The tool truck ought to carry them too. Then their slogan could be, "Snap off? Snap on!"
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  319. With the missing bolts, it seems like either an "F it" shade-tree, or a garage mechanic you never want to work on a car again.
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  320. If it was 45F outside here in Massachusetts, I could feel my fingers. Instead, it's 22 in early evening, and I have to take a break every sentence or so to warm my hands. - I wish my apartment had better insulation so I could afford to keep it warmer than 65F
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  321. I liked the application of the reciprocating wrench. I mean SAW. - edit: Who put that filler hose clam facing upward? Grrr!
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  322.  @Sharky762  I enlisted, in part, because of that movie.
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  323.  @eternalphoenix64  Dang, that's a rough road. All I can offer is my true wishes for you both to have as many better days as you can.
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  324. There comes a time in any oxidation journey when the metal must go to the great rust-yard in the sky. This truck's frame is beyond that stage. It is now an engine donor. Well, okay, MAYBE one could replace the entire frame, but then looking at all of the other components that are rusting away?
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  325. Flex Seal!
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  326.  @timsilva1944  Google auto-completed it to motorboat, got some "interesting" results, boss was unhappy with "that kind" of internet use at the workplace.
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  327.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Nah, it's the Apple business model. Why make it so you can replace a $40 part when they can glue/weld/build it all together and make it a $700 sub-assembly that is so expensive you seriously contemplate just buying a whole new model of [PRODUCT]
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  328. Well, we know where we're goin' But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowin' But we can't say what we've seen
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  329.  @larryjankowski2923  With all of the various materials that can be 3-D printed these days, that could be a decent business model. Even a network of small regional printers able to slip on-demand auto parts into their production schedule might work. - edit: I've seen printers that can print in plastics AND metals. Between the resin pool styles, the powder style and the material-feed style, there are many possibilities.
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  330. That is a question I was not able to articulate, and I appreciate the answer!
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  331. "Down here" in New England, we even 'lube' our (leather) boots. Well, if you let lube extend to things like mink oil...
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  332. What a wonderful feeling it is to fire a customer.
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  333. The worst is when roads are wet and poor lighting at night (lack of streetlights, moon, cloudy, etc.).
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  334. Protecting his fans AND radiators!
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  335. Looks like someone trying to save money by using junkyard (sun exposed) tires. I've been there myself. You can get tires with good tread but sketchy rubber condition for a fraction of new price which can last long enough to get you through a tight spot. I used junkyard tires on a Ford Escort and they lasted long enough for me to save up for new tires. Yeah, they were WalMart tires, but they were new and had a road damage warranty. - edit: I never picked tires with dry rot that bad though.
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  336. Get well soon Justin! And if there is a Justine out there who is also sick, same wishes to them.
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  337. My only engine rebuild experience has been in lawnmowers and snowblowers. One piston is a lot easier than eight!
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  338.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  To fix serpentine belt squeaking, you use the pre-installed radio volume knob. edit: I'M JOKING!
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  339.  @StrongDreamsWaitHere  When my family moved from Massachusetts to Arizona, we had a decommissioned school bus that was converted to about 80% moving van and 20% RV (no beds). The engine was so worn that every fill of the diesel tanks was accompanied by 1-2 quarts of motor oil. Total mosquito killer. It got us to Arizona, and my parents sold the bus to someone who wanted to turn it into a mobile home on their horse ranch.
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  340.  @clbcl5  Frame rusted out, tires bald, brakes nonexistent, airbags covered with jagged rhinestones, cabin full of trash, bugs and/or mold, and... "Customer declined all repairs."
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  341. With all of the options out there, it could be a whole channel!
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  342.  @Seraphim401  I don't know the OP's other four, but the other car-related channel I watch is Just Rolled In.
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  343.  @grahamcockerill2406  That would be a bit more expensive than just putting a door closer on the existing door, and would also mean that the office could not be independently locked.
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  344. What a great design that holds so much water in a bolt channel on those big bolts! It's like they WANT to have the bolts fail eventually.
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  345. I love that scene! Even funnier when you read the Dirk Gently story that explains how the couch got stuck.
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  346. Probably more envy than hate.
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  347. My brother helped a friend put a big-block V8 engine of some type with lots of horsepower into a car he had with a junked engine. They had to get a special bell housing to translate between Ford and MOPAR. They spent nearly a month of summer days on it. The first time they got it running and tuned, the friend decided to see what is sounded like at high RPMs. The engine twisted the frame so much one front wheel was a few inches off the driveway. They sold it all to some guy who wanted the engine.
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  348.  @robertpage2023  I have actually seen sunroofs sealed with silicone bathroom caulking, turning them into a leak-resistant moon roof.
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  349.  @robertpage2023  I yield to your brilliance!
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  350. I too was worried about the lemon-flavored popsicle.
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  351.  @krzysiej--9229  So you're saying just peeing in the receptacle would be sub-optimal?
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  352. My recommended fix for the backup camera would be to empty the back of the vehicle and use eyes and/or the mirrors. But then, I am apparently "old school" in my view on backup cameras.
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  353. That is so poetic!
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  354. Yep, I remember those days. I once had to flag down a ride to get home to get tools, then call a friend to get back to my car. - Back when you could knock on a stranger's door, ask to use the phone to call a tow, and NOT have to worry about getting dog-bit, shot or arrested for seeking help.
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  355. Even if John Doe at the parts store is not knowledgeable enough to ensure that the part in the box is the right serial number they don't have to be extraordinarily smart and experienced to see that a part is either new and clean, or mangled/dirty/MISSING!.
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  356. I once got a car at flood sale price because the person who replaced the master brake cylinder didn't bleed the lines afterward, so the owner thought it was an un-fixable death trap. Twenty minutes with my brother in the driver's seat, half a bottle of brake fluid, and a couple of dirty rags later and I had a great car that I should have paid ten times as much to get.
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  357. Ah yes, the BlueTip line of wrenches.
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  358. Although, it is fun to hear about an RUD outside of rockets.
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  359. Also known as a sensuous project. "Sensuous gonna take that part out to get to what you was doin..."
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  360. In YOU endo! Hehehe...
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  361. It may be a state thing, but here in Massachusetts, when you buy a battery, you pay a "core charge" and get that money back when you return the old battery to the place you bought the new one. This is true whether you get your battery at a parts store, or NTYB, or WalMart or a warehouse club.
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  362. Except for a 3-1/2 year stretch when my male parent was dodging creditors, I have lived all of my 5+ decades in Massachusetts. I will accept the snow. If you're snowed in, it's a great time to eat the ice cream!
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  363. And hooray for Timekeeper Dave (TM) keeping Ray from overworking himself to exhaustion and/or insanity!
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  364.  @desoneill5489  You hit the big point. Temperature. Electronic stuff, even lead-acid batteries, don't do well when they get too hot. Metals soften, and reactions inimical to proper function occur more easily at high temperatures, as well as resistance in conductors increasing leading to even MORE heat.
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  365. Of course, you need to have sufficient clearance beyond the cut for the length of the blade. It looked like, for the lower of each cut, that space was partially occluded by a structural curve of that lower plate.
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  366. Ah, so that's what it's all aboot!
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  367. Two possible reasons I could accept for post-purchase inspection: 1) The price was too good and the purchase window too small. "$450 for this pickup with only 83,000 miles on it? I can sell the wheels to someone for that much!" 2) You bought the car at an auction that did not allow anything other than visual inspection, such as a Sheriff's Department auction. Again, the price would need to be insanely good.
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  368. According to a representative of the UK team at Knipex, in a product announcement video, it's pronounced "nip-ecks". Just keep in mind those are the same people who say "aluminium" and don't put "the" in front of hospital.
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  369. I am imagining the book time for diagnosing strange electrical faults is just the stock photo of the old guy in the red sweater, shrugging.
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  370. Having worked on construction equipment, I am a member of the Church of Drift Pins.
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  371. Some people think tighter will improve a seal, but it more often just crushes the gasket/o-ring to failure.
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  372. If a line is clogged, the motor would usually still run and "try" to push liquid. My reasoning comes from the time I had a clogged line on a 2008 Ford Bronco. - addition: Way back when I had a 1974 VW Beetle, the hose from the spare to the windshield washer tank was rotted away (as were the heat ducts from the rear engine, and one spot in the passenger front floor, and...) so my windshield washer pump was a hand-pumped bottle of off-brand window cleaner. 1) open driver's window if not open already. 2) grab spray bottle. 3) stick arm out of car with spray bottle, spray the windsheild. 4) run the wipers. 5) repeat as necessary. 6) close window if desired.
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  373. When I worked at one electronics manufacturer, they would regularly pack known bad assemblies in boxes and ship them to meet "must ship" numbers by the end of a quarter, KNOWING that they would be getting all of them back and have to replace them with good product. My direct manager refused to sign his name to that crap, and the upper-middle person doing it "suddenly" no longer worked there after three quarters.
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  374. The good old days when you could adjust your car's idle with a screwdriver.
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  375. Also, if the trailer is cheap, you need to make sure the axle mounts are square and tight. I've worked on a trailer that had one side of the axle sliding up and down the frame just enough to cause some very strange drifting and tire wear. Steel clamps on an aluminum frame get that galvanic response issue as well.
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  376. To me it is very odd that the high side and low side ports are on the same pipe. Am I misunderstanding something? - edit: How long until that unsecured battery wears through its casing and leaks?
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  377.  @CakeRSq  Wait! Electrical tape actually has a use besides hasty mechanic bandages?
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  378.  @cigarsgunsanddiesel8032  I've recently watched a few videos about "tofu dreg" construction in China. The variable quality of parts from Chinese factories is really part of the greed-based culture in government and business there.
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  379.  @kevinbarry71  Science may be hard, but fluid dynamics is dark sorcery.
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  380.  @pennybeacham6461  That phrase, "the mutts nuts" gave me unreasonable amounts of joy.
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  381. Right? Around here, rust has a significant three-dimensionality to it. That's how body rust cracks paint, and rebar splits concrete.
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  382.  @ken2tou  How? Florida, probably. I remember an electrician friend telling us about how he learned, during his apprenticeship, that Florida was one of the few states (at the time) that still allowed aluminum wiring in the walls of homes.
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  383.  @alarjak  The cup is always full. Sometimes it is part liquid and part air.
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  384. This is why I started watching more regularly.
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  385.  @florret2003  And now the music is playing in my head.
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  386. I rarely doubt the intelligence of a mechanic. I have questioned the skills, training, experience, and employer's directives (Push them into our flagship service! Tell them they have to replace X or we'll call the cops on them!) of a mechanic before.
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  387. From a car of the future (the DeLorean with the time machine parts) to a car from a dystopia (rural China)... What a journey!
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  388. That thing is easy. Snap off the tabs and epoxy it in place.
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  389. It's a manners thing.
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  390.  @leonb2637  Phillips, Robertson, rounded-off hex-head, rounded out flat-head, epoxy a couple into the wood...
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  391.  @jamesb1221222  Unless they are somehow improving airflow for cooling, they are just vanity. I don't know enough to say either way.
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  392. The real trick? Not ending up with unexplained parts and fasteners left over.
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  393. When I worked for a construction and equipment rental company, my boss was in the "toss the straps in and swear while untangling them later" camp. I am a little OCD and went through every vehicle at least weekly and made the straps into looped bundles, coiled chains into separate piles, and took anything out of service that was worn enough to risk failure or a DOT ticket. I also greased every grease point on everything at least weekly, checking fluids twice a week, learned how to check and set track tensions, checked tires for pressure and tread depth (while cars have a 2/32" lower limit, commercial vehicles are 4/32") - My boss initially thought I was just wasting time, but he started to realize that my "wasted" cheaper time was saving his more expensive time.
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  394. You only need to start worrying when you feel your doctor's bracing hand, probing finger, and the third bracing hand.
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  395. After a few seconds delay, and then stays on when he shifts back to forward. It seems to have some programming issues?
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  396. And now the owner has to go from needing a mechanic to needing a lawyer. Good job dealership...
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  397.  @markB40  "NO WIRE COATHANGERS!!!" - Mommy Dearest
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  398.  @108gk  Agreed. You can be honest and truthful when you say, "It arrived broken." but you cannot say with any measure or assuredness whom and when.
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  399. "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." - Montgomery Scott.
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  400. Before he said "IV bag" my brain filled in "enema kit".
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  401. The auto shop teacher at my high school, back in the early 1980's used to say, "Find the hole with your finger first." Sound advice for teens interested in "finding the hole".
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  402.  @legionofanon  Oh, right. Newer equipment has a switch to go between "CAT-style" and "John Deere style" control schemes.
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  403.  @johnlarkin549  I'm pretty quick at typing, given that I use my left index finger and two fingers and thumb on my right hand. I also have to look at the keys when I'm typing. I so regret not taking a typing class when it was available in high school!
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  404.  @danielholter1861  It's not so much the Carmac report as the seller's implied warranty of serviceability and their statements of fact that were wrong.
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  405. When the headliner on my 99 Saturn started separating, I found out that it was fabric glued to a foam layer than to a rigid layer (cardboard maybe?). The liner was sagging because the foam was disintegrating from age so fixing it would mean fully replacing the whole thing. I chose not to bother. This worked out because a couple of years later the front strut mounting frames rusted out. Hooray for living in a snow state! Ugh.
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  406. I know an electrician who says electrical tape is for bandages, not wiring.
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  407. It's Foamy the Squirrel!
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  408.  @leosmith848  It's because of the similarity to the bail in one variety of canning jars (the kind with a glass top, not the screw-top)
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  409. BLOOD FOR THE CAR GODS!!!!
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  410. He no longer needs the torqueing module, for he truly IS the Kwisatz Haderach!
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  411. It's very important to clean all of the crooks and nannies!
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  412. Don't feed the trolls. And never grant power to the heckler's veto.
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  413. A mix of peppermint and lavender oil, diluted into a spray bottle of water, is also good for repelling minor insect infestations, particularly fleas. edit: When the infestation gets big, it's often time for more vigorous pesticides. But be aware of possible harm to people and pets.
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  414. Did you ever tighten the hose clamp on the air box? edit: Oh, when you were hosing it off, it did look tightened. Sorry, just checking.
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  415. It's running pretty good for burning lacquer and water.
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  416. The throw-away economy is not politics, it's corporate greed.
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  417. OSHA or Oh-SH## violation?
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  418. Here in Saltlandia, that exposed one-to-two split and adjuster is usually a domain of the Rust God. So nobody I know even TRIES to adjust things from there.
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  419. I have a complaint! Today I caught myself saying "abnormular". What have you done to my vocabularium, Ray?
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  420. I can't even imagine the headache this reinstall would be with that much electronics without the color/shape coded connectors! - I helped install a stereo in a friend's 1970's car (a Datsun?) in the early 1980's and we had to do a lot of single-wire guessing and splicing. That was a two-hour job. Putting a stereo in my 1990's vehicle was a dream with an antenna and one multi-connector.
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  421. That's what I do with complicated disassemblies, be it engines, electronics, or anything else. You can also use Styrofoam packaging instead of cardboard, if you have some lying around.
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  422. I watch that channel too, and there are some brain dead vehicle owners out there. Between the loose objects in the storage area or under a seat, the objects pushing buttons, console lights "not working" because of owner objects placed in the way...
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  423. That vehicle looks like someone put out a spec: "A car, but not really, plus make it a pickup truck, but not really. And include some historical notes to the body design, but 'funk it up' some."
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  424.  @nissan300ztt  That's how military jeeps and armored vehicles do it!
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  425. I imagine that little metal clip thing is singing to the brake drum, 'We will never ever, ever, get back together."
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  426. That first tow driver seems like an expensive employee for that tow company. Did he even check the vehicle weight and size versus his own vehicle's capacity before screwing around?
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  427. Good call getting the new guy (Justin?) out of the corner, and Dave away from the wall. If death-heavy stuff could fall, you want a path to retreat.
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  428. I have had my current auto for about 8 years and have yet to see a TPMS light, and this is the first one I've owned which as them. About once a week I do a visual walk-around of my car, and if even one tire looks slightly low it is time for all four to get aired to proper pressure. If I feel a mushiness driving? Same stop for air. And when I pull out of my parking spot, I look for evidence of fresh fluid leaks. - I pay attention to how the car feels and sounds when running, driving and braking, and when something is different, it gets checked. - But then, I am part of that old generation who were taught as Ray talks about when it comes to auto maintenance.
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  429. It looks like a viable engine donor though...
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  430. I know Ray doesn't have one, but I used to work with a cool quick-attach tow plate for skid steers. Essentially a quick-attach plate with a trailer hitch socket welded to it so you could affix a tow ball or pintle for trailer shuffling. (edited for spelling)
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  431. For the longest time, I have been watching with a whisper of a complaint about the parking lot in the back of my brain. I finally figured it out. It's a gravel lot. I live in New England, where plowing and frost heaves would turn that into an obstacle course within 1-3 years, but Ray's shop is in Florida, and it's fine.
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  432. The English language is a jerk. Convoluted means extremely complex and difficult to follow, intricately folded, twisted, or coiled: - Meanwhile convolute, in this context today, simplifies and makes the wiring EASYIER to follow.
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  433. In the US we have a messy patchwork of state-based laws and regulations, often written at the behest of either financially motivated special interests (corporations and the politicians they give money to) or outright idiots. If we're REALLY lucky, we get good laws for some things.
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  434. Also, the store is not paying you to do that work that eliminates jobs, either.
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  435. More lumens? Kidding. With the brightness of modern LED work lights, I would never again get a bulb-type drop-light. I cannot count how many old incandescent bulbs I went through because I bumped and dropped the danged thing. You didn't even need to hit the bulb, just the shock of landing would snap the hot filament. As for what KIND of LED lights? Rechargeable with contained or plug-in tool style battery for the win.
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  436. I learned (reinforced by a spank and being sent to my room without desert for a few days) when I was around 5 or 6 that it is a LOT easier to take something apart than to put it back together correctly. In my case, it was the kitchen wall phone and it had to be replaced. - After that, I was only allowed to take apart things that were already broken or had stopped working, but it channeled my inquisitiveness and led to a career of electronics repair.
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  437. I can see that POV. But given that the clamps merely apply a stop against the raised ridges of the lines the hoses connect to, it's not like they have to be overly tightened, or experience much strain. If there was no raised lip, I could definitely agree even more.
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  438. Or maybe take the fam out for a sit-down dinner somewhere nice.
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  439.  @notsure7874  But, but... That's the belt that came up on the parts store's computer, so it HAS to be the right one! And that, kids, is how you stay a parts changer, and never become a diagnostician.
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  440. So, have a picnic and just hang out and be together. If it's too cold outside, maybe a living room picnic. Either way, music and NO phones, no TV, no internet. Light snacks and a bottle of your favorite fancy or semi-fancy beverage.
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  441. My previous car, a Saturn S, developed a no low-beams situation. I checked the appropriate fuse, then all the fuses, replaced the bulbs, cleaned the contacts and applied dielectric grease... nothing. I ended up, after an hour and change with a Haynes manual and a voltmeter, finding that there was an open in the fuse block. - I lacked certain tools to make the fix, so I had my mechanic turn the daytime running lights into my low-beams circuit. I gave him a wiring diagram for the fir, including what circuit to eliminate and he added a jumper. Et voila! properly functioning headlights!
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  442. Do they call it a "Trailblazer" because you want to roll it into the woods and set it on fire?
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  443. You can also get solder with a flux core.
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  444. I made up a saying decades ago. "A car that won't go is a camper. A car that won't stop is a coffin."
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  445. I see what you did there, and I approve!
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  446. I was not in the car when it happened, but my mother had a drive shaft pogo event on a grocery trip in a station wagon model of Pinto. It happened in the parking lot, so it was not at speed, but the shaft lodged into a pothole in the lot and it lifted the back of the car up a foot or two, and the angle was just enough that the family friend who showed up to get it to "limp home mode" had to push the car bumper-to-bumper to get it the tires down. - I was in college at the time, so I never got a lot of details on the failure, but the car was fixed and was used for many years after.
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  447. I mean, what guy HASN'T passed a stud finder over their chest and made beeping noises?
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  448.  @oldfarthacks  What brand of engines DO black holes form within???
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  449.  @triumphmanful  Coming soon, the Apple iCar. Which you will never own, ONLY lease, and only get fixed at a GeniusGarage.
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  450.  @JimLambier  In the 1980's I had a 1974 VW Beetle that, unbeknownst to me, had developed a micro-crack in the condenser. It would not start if it had been dry that day, but it WOULD start if I poured a gallon of water over the engine. I actually convinced a coworker that my car ran on water with that trick. - Of course, I later replaced the condenser. Only to have, a year later, the hydrostatic transmission decide to be an undifferentiated pan of shattered gear pieces.
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  451. Because fire was available, and fire is fun?
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  452. But hot dogs ARE my crack!
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  453. Yeah, when the switch was mounted to the frame, the wiring for it had no flexing. And most of those switches, if they broke or failed, were easy to extract. No need to do open-door surgery.
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  454. Sounds just like the neighbor who starts their car at 4:30 AM and revs it to get the heat to run faster. Only slightly less "fun" than the neighbor who runs their Harley at 6AM on a Saturday for 45 minutes while they fiddle with tuning. - Ah, pay me no mind. I'm old and I like quiet.
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  455.  @jeffschnee1167  Does that mean if he plays Beatles music he will learn that "Paul is the walrus"?
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  456. I figure every person who is in the "Ray! Throw parts at it!" camp must include a $40 tip to be able to comment that. Put your money where your mouth is, yeah?
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  457.  @davidcraven277  On this specific vehicle, it has transmission AND engine leaks, as well as front end suspension parts to replace. And Ray didn't even do a frame inspection or check on anything related to the rear axle. Based on the interior, that one has had a pretty hard life.
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  458. Goose -> geese. Moose -> meese Shoop -> sheep
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  459. Clean, static-free, and grounded.
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  460. I'm a fan of the "Is Potato" shirt, too.
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  461. I don't miss the "need a third hand" belt tension setting.
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  462. I have no complaints about you secretly turning the car around, because NOBODY puts Ray-Ray in the corner!
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  463. Could have been dirt that lodged the outer pad against the rotor enough to cause accelerated wear. It would only take a bit of sand or corrosion.
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  464. In my non-HVAC life, "duck/duct" tape is for LARP weapons, and ductwork gets the adhesive aluminum tape. edit: As I have learned, the "duck" in duck tape (leaving aside the brand) is from the cloth used between the outer plastic and the inner adhesive. Before the invention of the adhesive metal tape, it WAS used on ductwork. There are different grades of duck/duct tape, varying in the strength and weave of the fabric and the type and 'stickiness' of the adhesive for uses like gaffer's tape for stage work and military-issue #-mile-an-hour tape. And even the metallic tape is being pushed aside in many HVAC installations by brushed-on joint sealants.
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  465.  @howiehowdy  And who is paying for these connectors and the labor? The auto owner who may not see the issue the same way you do.
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  466.  @BobbyFranco  It's naht a tumah!
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  467.  @joshruby  Give your computer a warm hug?
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  468. One time, using one car to bush a dead car, I was the old tire. I sat n the hood of the running car, and braced my feet against the bumper of the dead car. Youth and stupidity for the win!
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  469. That's how you summon Murphy! Like an EMT saying "quiet".
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  470.  @dalejoy193  Interesting bit of information!
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  471. Or whose husband was necessary TO be left. I had one of those fathers.
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  472. Fusion!
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  473.  @JM-lk6wo  I was also joking, given that Ray has worked on a few PT Cruisers at his new shop.
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  474.  @bradhaines3142  True. I am just impressed at how tightly engineers can pack the engine compartments these days. And by impressed, I mean, torches and pitchforks at dusk "impressed"
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  475.  @pennybeacham6461  I once lived in an apartment with shag carpet. After one adventurous evening, it was "double shag" carpet. . . Giggety.
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  476. That Fiat 500 is small enough to be a spare in the bed of a full-sized pickup truck. Never use a spare tire again! Just roll your spare vehicle down the snowmobile ramps and zip over to the Tire store to repair/replace the flat you'll have to strap to the roof.
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  477. The maker of that jack stand spelled aluminium rather strangely.
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  478. From me, the same well-wished as wilcieno.
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  479.  @randybeard6040  Be ready for the trolls who will claim that you are deifying Ray as the second coming of their dear fluffy lord...
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  480. I would agree with your methodology, if I did not have the experience to know the reliability of the replacement pipeline for parts. I would imagine that if you have years of experience and a person whose job is to know where to look for parts, it is less a worry than if you're doing a once-a-decade valve cover job.
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  481. One old saying I keep using: "A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin."
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  482.  @stevewhite3424  Right? Some people assume everyone has the space, the tools, and the physical ability to do their own work on everything. "Why don't you re-point your OWN chimney, great grandpa? Get up out of your wheelchair and get to work!"
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  483.  @technicalprecision8651  You have all of your points backwards. Lack of records of maintenance is not proof that the maintenance was not done, but only that it was not documented. - And Ray clearly showed a very probable causal chain that started with a casting flaw, to a universal coming loose, to a drive shaft flopping about and grabbing wires and fluid lines. - The one thing I think you got right is that the brake lines on the shaft are a function of them melting and dropping onto that shaft.
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  484. I had a case of the 'Rona back in December and though I was better in about 10 days, I have been re-reading a fiction book series and I have no memory of most of the plot and a couple of the later-introduced characters. I am starting to feel I lost some files up in the grey fleshy hard drive.
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  485.  @williamgilroy5217  Heck, even if Ray hires someone named Janet, they're shop-name should be "PETAH!"
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  486.  @leefranklin3054  Right! That's the acronym I was trying to dredge out of my brain! PMCS - Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services.
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  487. It may be a confirmation bias thing, since word is getting around that Ray will actually work on them, causing more to be dropped off.
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  488. The first engine I worked on was a friend's Peugeot. Nearly scared me off of any future wrench turning.
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  489. I love the infantry-level instructions on those parts. Like the classic "THIS SIDE TOPWARD ENEMY" on the claymore mine.
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  490. Gives me 1990's internet nostalgia! I'm not complaining about the editing for two reasons. 1) Pobody's Nerfect. 2) I can't do better with my current skill set.
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  491. At this point, we're ALL Barbie Girls in a Barbie world, since it's all "made of plastic." It's fantastic. . And you're welcome for the earworm.
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  492. "because of Covid" sounds like complete B.S. from the carmaker. Software is not written with the programmers all jammed into a VW microbus. They could each be in a different country and still get the software done.
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  493. When I was in the military, they had gasoline-burning tent heaters that STANK and the poorly combusted gasoline would really soot-up the heater and it's chimney sections. Which meant putting it away was a fast way to end up looking like a coal miner.
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  494.  @forgetfulme1719  Rattlesnake venom is organic too.
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  495.  @cengeb  Shiny lungs!
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  496.  @phatbaby4234  That long and invasive process I sketched out is intended to get the customer to cancel the service and think it is their idea.
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  497. "Load the parts cannons!" - "Loaded!" "FIRE"
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  498. I too am learning from Ray's videos, even though I am not doing a lot of the work on my car myself (low tool count, and I rent, so many jobs I cannot do without risking losing my "indoor-ness". But I use what I learn from Ray to better understand what is going on with my car, and how to keep from being taken advantage of by possible unscrupulous mechanics.
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  499. Sweet custom under-car cardboard floor mat!
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  500. The shop I get work done at has so far been honest about "upsell". They have declined to change air filters when they don't need it, even though they could easily just change it and never tell me it wasn't dirty. They always show the part (or a picture of it) that need replacement and are willing to let customers see it in situ. Last year, they told me my wipers were pretty worn, but I should go to WalMart instead of paying the price they would have to charge.
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  501. Some people will complain about live-streamed nature footage. 'Why isn't the [animal] doing [action] I was here for?"
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  502. Plier use only bothers me when people round off the bolts or scrape the bejeezus out of whatever they are gripping.
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  503. And I have learned something today!
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  504. Good blinds tip!
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  505. Food delivery for Chinese food?
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  506. You spelled "educated" rather strangely.
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  507.  @jakedcrane8019  Good point! Those pebbles surfaces, even when fully clean, stink for adhering labels, but a white, silver or yellow paint marker would work much better.
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  508. I once had to change the tracks on a mini-excavator. Same basic mechanisms, lots of expended grease, very Popeye.
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  509.  @Lugia21  "It was a dark and stormy car ownership..."
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  510.  @Lupine.  Oh, you got one of the good ones.
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  511.  @jilbertb  That would be a fun day in court.
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  512. One of us. One of us. ONE OF US!
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  513. Hahaha! Ammo - triggered... Good pun!
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  514. That damned 710 cap!
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  515. I bought a 1971 beetle back in the mid-1980's from a young woman. I only paid $125. She was getting rid of it now that she could afford something closer to new. When I got it, the brakes barely worked. It turned out that her boyfriend had replaced the master cylinder, but never bled the brakes. It was amazing how much better the car stopped once I got fluid back in the lines!
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  516.  @johncooper4637  Spray foam! Bondo for the new generation!
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  517. I remember from being in the military that the armored vehicles tracked engine hours instead of miles, but the trucks and jeeps (yeah, that long ago) tracked miles. Farming and construction machinery also tracks engine hours, which makes a lot of sense. An excavator may travel 1/2 a mile in 8 hours of high RPM work load, and non-wheeled cranes move not at all during operation.
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  518.  @justonperez9779  When I was a young'un the "it" install was Thrush brand louder exhaust parts. This in the way back, before the 1980's.
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  519. A few more missing bolts and the whole car will be light enough to improve gas milage!
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  520. Giggety.
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  521.  @HazmatFatCat  Mayhaps even a New-England grade pothole of mass destruction!
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  522. Another group of haters that will not learn from the storm damage video are people who hate the homeless. Of the people who had homes and businesses slammed by the hurricane (and who survived) many of those people will be homeless, even if for a short duration. - Homelessness is one calamity away for most people.
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  523.  @tinoyb9294  I don't know of the top of my head, but chatting up a truck lettering shop might get you some good ideas.
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  524. Could also use dedos, shouzhi, sormet, doigts, dita, palce, paltsy, tesaki, iminwe...
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  525. I've heard it as "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
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  526. That's not a Ray question, that's a 'What did the owner want done" question. Remember, they already paid someone else to have the front end lifted first.
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  527.  @ithinkdoyou  Depending on the scrapyard rates, a catalytic converter can yield $50-200. Replacing that same one that was inexpertly ripped out of your vehicle can cost between $100-2000 just for the converter (the more expensive ones are multi-converter assemblies for luxury cars) and then you also get to replace adjoining pipes, and pay the mechanic for their work. - I'd almost rather be robbed for the cash I carry on me (usually $20-50).
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  528. Vacuum locking hubs seem dumb to me. What was wrong with manual interlocks that would not engage until you were going very slow or stopped?
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  529. Aluminum wiring is a sign that the manufacturer is pinching ALL of the pennies.
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  530. Sorry to hear about your dad's health. Do you both watch the channel?
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  531. And humor is a useful tool for communication as well as the relief of stress. click.
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  532. Wait, so this is not a celebration of the day we defeated space aliens?
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  533. That zero-turn ratchet is nice. It even has a ready theme song. "Goldwrencher He's the man, the man with the Midas touch A gliding touch Such a cool fixer Beckons you to enter his shop of sin But don't go in"
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  534. That gas gauge arrow thing is useful to me a few times a year... on the car I've owned for 7 years. I refill so infrequently (I don't drive a lot) that I often forget. - Fun fact: Some electric vehicles are made with the charging port on the driver's side... which puts the charging cord handle at risk when doing curbside charging.
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  535.  @EastTexasRanching  Being overcharged by margins like that? Oh, deere!
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  536. And it will still need a (proper, this time) alignment. Something Ray doesn't yet have the facilities for.
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  537.  @ryans413  I agree completely.
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  538.  @megalamanooblol  "Back in the day" the topping off was, for some people, to get to an amount that would not involve pennies. Also, in that time, the pumps were analog, so some people felt that if they were paying $7.35 for their fuel (for example), they may as well squeeze that extra couple of drops to make the number line up on the display. - At full-service stations, the pump attendants would try to get to the nearest dollar, or at worst, the nearest quarter of a dollar, so they would not have to run back inside the station to get change if the customer didn't want to tip the rest of the dollar. - I am not saying any of this was right, just that it happened.
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  539. I recall working on hydraulics for construction machinery where we had to be sure to match the right kinds of thread. So much so that when we needed a new hose made at our local shop we had to be sure to bring the old one so they could match the fittings. We only encountered two different types of threads but there are six. Six different "standards" and some of them are close enough to each other that you might not know you're using the wrong one until you've boogered the threads.
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  540. Additionally, we drive 'motor vehicles' and 'motorcyles' but not 'engine vehicles' and 'enginecycles' - English is a language of rules by exceptions. “I" before "E" except after "C" and when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and YOU'LL ALWAYS BE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY!!!!” - Brian Regan
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  541.  @gerardkeaveny9746  Depending on your occupation and/or the discussion you are having, the difference may matter.
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  542.  @ningen1980  Clever and free!
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  543. Eh, sometimes you have to at least try to move your learning journey forward. The key is in the humility to know when you've exceeded your skills and/or tools and can ask for help.
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  544.  @Mavendow  I hope they also "made it right" for the shop and injured employees and other customers! Yikes!
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  545.  @forgetfulme1719  Ray is also going to get all of the PT Cruisers still in the state to resurrect them.
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  546. I learned the phrase "Cheater pipe" for that breaker bar extension. When I was in the military, I had to use a pipe on the wrench, then a five-foot prybar in the other end of the pipe, all to unbolt track pads because our motorpool crew that day did not have access to the blue-tip wrench.
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  547. So the people who buy them are scared to try and fix them and bring them to the dealership for everything.
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  548. Truth. Some mechanics would have claimed the part was faulty anyway to get paid for the work and the part(s). And if called on the prove it, would have spent even MORE time damaging the old part to back up the lie.
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  549. Make sure to pre-rinse your pants before running them through the regular laundry to help facilitate cleaning and reduce cross-contamination.
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  550. I read that in South Park's ski instructor voice. Definitely pizza'ed when he should have French fried.
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  551. Audis may not be Ray's forte, but given how quiet that car is, they could be his pianissimo.
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  552. After so many diagnostic segments, it seems finding the source of a fluid leak is like finding a puddle in your closet and working up until you find which window sill or roof shingle has failed.
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  553. Yeah, I didn't see this as a non-repair. I saw this as a non-replace at the end of a GREAT diagnostic journey.
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  554. Not to mention the door was louder than the engine, for a "change".
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  555.  @wesgregg6451  a... fifteen degree per hour rotation... "Thanks, Bob!"
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  556. One place I worked we used to joke, 'Just back from a 4-day weekend, boss. I need retraining."
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  557. With the wheels off, up on the lift, and filmed from the just-right angle at 6:32 the Lotus looks like it is hovering.
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  558. I thought it meant that the spark went to 11. Which is one more than ten.
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  559. I've heard it called sensuous repair. As in, "Sensuous taking that apart anyway..."
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  560. Then shift into reverse three times without moving, honk the horn once, turn on the left directional and the CD player, and the smuggling compartment opens?
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  561. I heard it was only 83 degrees, leaving 7 to connect the engine to Kevin Bacon.
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  562. The exhaust hangar near the torque mount looks blown out too. Not sure how important it is to be fully functioning. - edit: the way the two flows meet at a near head-on might be part of the compression computations.
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  563.  @adamness9557  If you enjoy it, it feels less like work, eh?
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  564. Interesting!
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  565. The valve cover gasket sequence reminded me of the old claymation stop-motions shows like Wallace and Grommit, Davey and Goliath, and the Rankin-Bass holiday movies. edit: Fun nostalgia blast!
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  566.  @coreybabcock2023  Or a blown booster?
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  567. Those lifts have to have the weight distributed to lift the car without flipping it. It just so happens that for many vehicles, that balance point is right at the front doors. The lifts that don't have columns in the way could either be four-corner, like the alignment rack Ray uses, or one of several designs that require a pit of some depth under the bay to contain the lifting mechanism/piston(s). That is a bigger expense when building the place, and if the space is a rental, the landlord may not want to build it that way.
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  568. Troy wouldn't touch THAT Jeep! - edit: It would make a decent chicken coop.
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  569. I seem to recall hearing or reading somewhere that an overfill of refrigerant can result in underperformance as much as an underfill can. Is that true? It seems like an easy thing to do for someone who buys the can of refrigerant at the parts store thinking that is the fix when it could be the pump, the condenser, the evaporator, or a clogged in-line filter thingy (sorry, forgot the word).
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  570.  @campervan7354 Good explanation of the Carnot cycle!
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  571. I have been programmed. When Ray said, "It's BG fluid" at about 6:30, I said out loud, "Not sponsored, it;s just what I use." Then I looked around to see if anybody heard me.
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  572. Schmoo if you want to, roam around the world Schmoo if you want to, without wings without wheels Schmoo if you want to, roam around the world Schmoo if you want to, without anything but the love we feel - Not quite the B-52's
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  573.  @betomendez4304  Same from me. Hope the physical rehab is not too brutal!
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  574. I imagine the remake of that era will be a Michael Bay film.
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  575.  @paceauto5382  That is a pretty good point. If you're not using the generator regularly, like in construction, and it's not a backup for something super-critical like storing donated blood or keeping a patient's ventilator running, then spending as much as the price of a decent used vehicle on something you might use for one week in a year seems... unwise.
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  576. Some engineer lost their job over that, I am sure.
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  577. I think he was limited by the shaft hitting the lip of the other end of the bench.
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  578. Before in-tire pressure sensors, or in cars that don't tell you WHICH tire is low, that is a way to find the 'mushy' tire as well.
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  579. Well, Ray neither wags his finger at us, nor uses heavy power tools while wearing sandals.
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  580.  @carson2000_  Much more fun than standing on the side of the road waiting for AAA to let you back in your car. I don't always roll the window down, but I have (because of standing around waiting for AAA a time or two) developed a ritual where I will not lock and close my car doors until I have the key in my hand and in my line of sight. Only after the door or trunk is closed do I put the key in my pocket.
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  581.  @peterbonivart6818  I understand Torx, sometimes, particularly the strength of the grip with the larger sizes. The smaller sizes just tent to round out in my experience. But triple square? That's just someone inventing a new tool to patent and make money from.
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  582. It's like a firefighter saying, "It's quiet tonight." or anyone saying, "What's the worst that can happen?"
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  583. Ah, back when Craftsman DIDN'T mean "Craps-men"
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  584. Wow! That transmission fluid was DARK!
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  585. I almost went "doo dee doo" crazy with the phone.
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  586.  @lordnox69  Are you better mechanic in the times you aren't tracking other artist's music to video game playthroughs? I ask because a person's YouTube channel does not always define what their occupation is.
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  587. My only "REEEE" for this one was when you crawled under the car without putting it on a jack stand or other locking support. You're putting a lot of trust in the hydraulics of that floor jack.
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  588. Magnusson-Moss Warranty act.
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  589. The last time I brought my car in for a mechanical complaint, I described the sound and under what conditions it happened (front-right, speed-matching, slight pulling to the right when coasting) and stated that I was worried it might be as bad as a bearing. I was ready to spend about $800, turns out it was a warped rotor and a LOT cheaper.
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  590. As we say amongst my friends, "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity... I mean humidity."
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  591. You may be a fan, but are you a TURBO fan? (wink)
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  592. The Palmetto Bug is Florida's official state airplane.
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  593. I really like the philosophy of getting the harder-to-reach fasteners first. it's like the meal philosophy I learned as a kid. "Eat the Brussels sprouts first to get them off the plate, and use the rest of the meal to help erase the taste."
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  594. Not only that, but they were "one size fits many" and very easy to have them be off-center. I shudder.
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  595.  @kkampy4052  I'm a fan of aluminized tape (the actual tape for duct work).
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  596.  @williameldridge9382  The procedure to change the water pump (apparently a commonly failing item) on my 1986 Ford Escort started with "Remove the front right tire and fender..."
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  597. The only "Reeee!" I have is the lack of a valve stem cap on the wheel.
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  598. Another side benefit of combining multiple functions into one inseparable assembly is that one failure requires a more expensive part. That increases profit margins!
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  599. I was going to say a hybrid lawnmower/sewing machine.
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  600.  @charlesjackson1700  Chain stores are often driven, by corporate policy and how they train their service managers, to upsell and take advantage of vehicle owners.
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  601. I wonder if the place Ray ordered the TIG from already ran the charge before ensuring there was product in stock to ship?
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  602. The zip tie game is strong with this truck!
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  603. In video 1, he showed the thermostat. It looked like it had sat in a mud puddle in a junkyard for a couple of decades
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  604. And yet, the hood is most often looked over. (/shrug)
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  605.  @pauldehayes1898  It was Lucent.
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  606. I might have tried reaching down the line with a hook to push the back of the valve half from the backside. - edit: Just saw what came out on the drill bit. My idea would not have worked.
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  607. I don't hate the Ferrari-bird. I like the humor in it, and such a display leads me to believe that I might even like the car owner.
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  608. Have you already tried pulling in a car to the new side via that angle path? I only ask because I'd hate to see you go to the expense and hassle of installing the lift only to have it be at the wrong angle or even completely inaccessible. - Of course, in the long run, a second pay door and a straight-in approach will be the best situation, but overhead doors and major construction aren't cheap.
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  609. I recognize the word phosgene, and it gives me nightmares. I've never been exposed to it, but I have learned enough about its wartime use to have a healthy terror.
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  610. If it works, it's not all that wrong, is it? edit: Important point - not all hot glues are the same. The low-temp craft grade glue might not be the best, but some of the high-temp stronger, stiffer versions are fine for this application.
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  611.  @NedKLee  Oh that made me chortle.
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  612. I have had older cars before cabin air filters. It was never fun dodging the 5 MPH hornet spat out from the vent, or the fly corpse that launches out of the defroster, or the plain old debris. So yeah, I think the cabin air filter is a good idea. It could be easier in some vehicles to change.
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  613. If you mean the diameter of the pipe, It is probably as much open cross section as the main body of the converter has once you subtract where the catalyst fills space. If you mean the way the O2 sensor pokes into the pipe? It has to go somewhere, yeah?
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  614. This is just a "test drive" to check for other diagnoses. As for the tire swap, I might have gone ahead and but the trailer's spare on and saved one round trip for one wheel.
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  615.  @myballsitchsomethingfierce6319  ... so you can see them better in the bottom of the oil bucket!
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  616.  @aterack833  But of course, not a 10mm.
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  617. I got a chuckle at the (unintentional? auto-complete?) phrase, "parts mangler".
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  618.  @martinwilliams1784  That's how a corroded flap killed the ECM in one of my Saturns. Flap was commanded to actuate, the correct position was never reached so the voltage kept being sent and the circuit failed at the weakest (and most expensive) point.
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  619. Had some water issues with the horn wiring on my vehicle, so I figured I'd use some dielectric grease. Accidentally ordered dialectic grease, and now I have to have a reasoned debate with my car before it lets me drive.
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  620. Oil leak? Step one: fully disassemble vehicle. Step two: Regret your life choices.
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  621. I have many hours of M113 (family) PMCS under my belt. Good times.
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  622.  @han5vk  The SPECIAL hell!
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  623. Watching in person is an insurance liability issue. Watching through video might be a neat feature to help your garage stand out in a crowded marketplace.
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  624.  @Paramount531  In high school I had a friend who was gifted his first car, a Peugeot. If they were still around, I would prop one of those up against a Volvo for "the Devil" awards.
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  625. I've never seen that movie, but I've seen that scene around a hundred times.
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  626.  @florret2003  Vocabulary word of the day!
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  627.  @todddunn945  Split rims! Yikes! I still remember watching a news report that had video on some split rim failures on the tire changing machines of the day. That was some scary [bleep].
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  628. I have learned a lot from just watching and listening. And I am not even an auto mechanic. This has let me do a few mid-range jobs on my own car that I would not have even attempted before. I am currently only limited by lack of a lift and some specialized tools. That and being a renter.
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  629. I hope we get to see the car back when the owner wants to address the whining steering.
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  630.  @iamdaerogami  And, they need to learn the saying, "A happy customer might tell one other person, while an UNhappy customer will tell everyone they meet."
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  631.  @NemoConsequentae  And the computer could be sending the right belt... for the original pulley size on the steering pump. If the new steering pump has a smaller pulley, it could have created the situation. But any mechanic who sends a car with the belt tensioner at maximum with a brand new belt is either brand new, doesn't care, or is unteachable.
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  632. That was confirmed on an episode of Mythbusters. If the piece of tread had hit your helmet differently, we'd be hearing your tale like the one Aaron Brit shared, instead of your first-hand account. After seeing that, I would no longer accept retreads on anything of mine but a riding lawnmower or wheelbarrow.
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  633. Man, VW LOVES to make mechanics buy special tools...
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  634.  @ai-d2121  I wonder if a liberal coating of anti-seize compound would protect your cash from civil asset forfeiture when traveling by air?
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  635. Sounds like a blend of accents from every major place it snows, but more relaxed, less... hurried and harried.
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  636.  @REDBIRD-95  Ehem... This night's third-shift at the ER sure is QUIET.
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  637. Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't start fixin' your hot. rod. Lincoln.
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  638.  @marvinhearon4786  And I'm sure Ray's boss will give him a serious talking-to.
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  639. Impressive, terrifying... you pick.
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  640. In my 1970's-80's childhood, it was Robitussin, Bactine, and Vicks Vapo-rub.
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  641. Age of the vehicle is a factor. edit: It's a 2000 GMC Jimmy, which the owner just bought used. The older the vehicle, the less a new major part can be worth it, and the harder it can be to even find the part (except from junkyards) in the first place.
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  642.  @roadie3124  Ah, the Ikea method.
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  643. Another concern with that lift cable is that when it parts while lifting a vehicle, it will drop to a lock. This could result in a poorly balanced vehicle coming off the lift arms, but it will also leave the vehicle 'stranded' on the locks without a good way to get it up enough to let it back down.
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  644.  @nonotthatoneguy  PTSD is a thing.
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  645.  @nonotthatoneguy  Nobody here said kumquats either. But I just did.
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  646.  @llewellynquay9463  Check returned items? That would require people paid enough, and not overworked, to actually care.
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  647.  @russellriggan2088  When he was at the previous shop, there was a functioning parts washer. I think he still has not made his part washer operable?
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  648. Ha! Good joke.
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  649.  @tapper1995  By the time Ray is done, the... OBD2 port might be original equipment.
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  650. And having carefully read the science behind the matter, I always support getting the newest tires (if I am buying in pairs) on the rear, not the front.
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  651. Yay. Send more driving functions to a touchscreen that takes your eyes off your surroundings. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
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  652. Boop the snoot!
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  653.  @charlieb9502  I'm stealing that. 'Man Tupperware".
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  654.  @petermolnar8667  Yeah, one of the rare times I did not adequately proofread my comment.
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  655. The Devil doesn't advertise on behalf of the competition.
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  656. Why did it take 5 and a half decades for me to learn that?
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  657. Heck, even the US Military, where most people have to be clean-shaven daily, have the toolboxes in the shop.
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  658. He is quite careful about not showing us company logos and license plates. Also any personally identifying information in vehicle contents (like in glove boxes during filter changes, etc.) are not in focus, or on screen that long.
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  659. Yeah, that is a massive amount of silicone. Someone knew they screwed up something.
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  660. Ray's hoarding comes in clutch! Saving time, and customer $$$ with rehabilitated part. Nice.
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  661. My 2011 Focus has 245 AC because I can't justify spending the money for maybe 8 days a year when I would really want AC.
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  662. Given the general dearth of high cliffside roads in Florida, I suspect you are right.
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  663.  @JohnTheRevelat0r  Messy is usually cheaper than new drill bits.
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  664.  @johnlarkin549  Who was dancing for their Tik-Tok in the background of part 1 of this repair?
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  665. The obvious fix is to never drive in a salted road area. Super easy, right?
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  666. Nah, that differential cover said SYNTH OIL ONLY. So you have to order it from The Institute.
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  667. Super minor matter: I would not recommend keeping those heavy bearing kits on any shelf above chest height, to avoid potential lifting injury. Like I said, super minor matter.
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  668. OhMyGosh did you see all the ROOM under the hood!?
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  669. You are right. It is all about money.
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  670. Oh, they tighten the nuts in your state? In Michigan, loose lug nuts still count as "service performed". Thanks Michigan courts!
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  671. When I was in 2nd grade we lost a cat who, on a cold fall day, cuddled up in the engine compartment of the family car with a slowly cooling engine. Parents went out to start the car for a grocery trip, and the not-yet-dead cat dropped out, mostly cut in two. My brother and I were hustled to the TV turned up rather loud while a neighbor with a .22 rifle was called over to put the cat out of its misery. - For years later, every time before starting the car, the driving parent would slap the hood.
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  672.  @peterbenson3776  Lucky, somewhat. Could have been a lot worse.
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  673. Might have been a warranty company requirement, putting it on them if it fails.
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  674. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge?
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  675. Kind of like researching your upcoming surgery and watching how it's done, eh?
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  676. That engine compartment is 15 gallons of engine in a 10-gallon hat. I'm so glad I don't have to fit my big hands in that kind of space! - Edit: and so much plastic...
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  677.  @Tundra21dc1  That is the single best use for electrical tape. NEVER use it to insulate wires. It comes unstuck with time and/or temperature.
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  678. Not... from a dealership.
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  679. Meanwhile, here in New England, 60F means Mom's in charge of the thermostat. And put on a sweater if you're cold!
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  680. Not only was the drive shaft being held together by the rubber boot, but it failed just as the sirens come into audio, like the event was "jobtown".
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  681. As soon as you said, "Easier than I thought it would be." I was just waiting for Murphy to swoop in and kick you where it hurts. Nothing personal against you, Ray. Murphy is like that.
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  682.  @rickn8or  Huh. Never knew that.
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  683. The related saying I grew up with is "If you're done learning, you're done living."
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  684.  @jilbertb  Expressing the Earth's rotation in distance over time is part disingenuous, part lazy, and generally wrong. The rotation is (to a high degree of accuracy) 15 degrees per hour. The distance traveled in the tame depends on your exact location, both in latitude and altitude.
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  685.  @bradjames3555  You can let a ten minute run "detect that" if the floor under it starts dry and moderately clean.
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  686. Oh what a mental image.
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  687. I remember back in the time that VW has a special non-SAE, non-metric oil pan plug Allen-style wrench that one had to buy to be able to do a simple oil change.
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  688.  @Rhaspun  And buy one or two extra 10mm. To feed the monster-under-the-hood.
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  689.  @AppalachianPatriot  Giggety?
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  690. Better than my thought of plugging the drain hole while opening the valve.
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  691. Or take an Uber? Get a ride from a friend?
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  692. If I tried to make something like this, I suspect I would have a "poof!" of concept more than anything else.
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  693. [slow_clap]
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  694. Fixing the hat will be EASY! Change Dave's name to Ray.
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  695. All thanks to some leaks and the design choices of an Avatar of Evil.
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  696. If that's happening, then the circuit is running really close to the maximum far too much.
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  697. Give your in-house spyware a hello from me!
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  698.  @tyronesart  I suppose if you are working on a clock, you have a much cleaner and stable work area, and can just lay out the parts on paper, even labeling the pieces. Videos like Ray makes, or step-by-step photos could also help
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  699. When you told us to use the links to back in time, my brain gracefully supplied the Huey Lewis and the News song for me. Thanks for the flashback, Ray!
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  700.  @maddog2010p  No, YOU leave. Period. See how childish that sounds?
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  701. Remember when the JD Power awards were for "serviceability" instead of "innovation"?
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  702. Also an illustration of why it is always good to label what you unplug. I use masking tape and sharpie, either labeling by circuit name or just pairs (#1 male - #1 female, #2 male - etc.). By the time I have something taken apart, I have a notepad of drawings show what stuff looked like before I messed with it, to be used as a reassembly map.
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  703.  @xscorpx  Toyotas are so good, they are the "we wish we had a tank" choice of militias the world over. Need wheels under your missile launching system, recoilless rifle, machine gun...? Toyota!
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  704.  @108gk  Ah yes, the "Oh God, oh God we're going to die?" kind of landing. Thanks Wash, you will always be a leaf on the wind.
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  705. Ray mentioned the person painted their rotors, and I was expecting a "Just Rolled In' type of look. But you can see the pattern of how the owner masked off the braking surface before painting. Well done, driver!
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  706. I used to think the shops provided the tools, but I learned years ago that only applies to major items like shop air, lifts, tire changing and balancing equipment... basically the big machines. The hand-portable tools are usually owned by the mechanic, which means if they break a tool, they broke their own money and not the shop's money. A side effect is that a shop with a tool thief working there can hurt the pockets of a lot of people.
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  707.  @Larry_Harvilla  Thanks! I needed a snorting chortle today!
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  708.  @stevewhite3424  There's lucky and there's "I have never lost a 10mm socket" lucky. I'm not the second kind of lucky either...
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  709.  @rickn8or  Giggety?
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  710. The engine is that quiet with the doghouse open? Nice!
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  711. I thought the same, as that is the most common use of that abbreviation, by a long stretch. Go ahead and ignore the face-palm emoji by tazimafied.
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  712.  @davidryder6017  Damn you Ron Howard! Get out of my brain!
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  713. Perhaps a dual purpose, leading to why they are accessible on the front of the block as mounted in the vehicle?
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  714. Ha! Kind of like "If you're bleeding that means you still have blood and a heartbeat."
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  715. Here in Massachusetts, I have seen the green arrows running before the solid green, after the solid green, and instead of the solid green. It all depends on the design of the intersection and the traffic flow management that is being implemented. - One intersection near me even has a yellow arrow, with a sign, "Yellow arrow yields to oncoming traffic"
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  716. I wonder if, in cases where the parts are not remotely available, if there is a heat-shrink option, or maybe a way to use something like Flex Seal?
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  717. "Jerry, hold down the battery life monitor button while I hold a lump of wax against the left headlight... Yep, the regenerative braking hub on the right rear needs a new inductor subassembly."
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  718. That is cool! An important lesson I was taught is that you are never done learning until you're done living.
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  719. Now, after these repairs, this car can reach Escape velocity!
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  720.  @thewausaudude  That is part of the decision loop. Are you seeking height for "cool" on a pickup you use as a less fuel-efficient car? Or are you looking for some extra height to allow heavier loads to not squat your truck to where the tires (tyres, for our overseas friends) threaten to grind the wheel wells?
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  721. The new lineup of superhero movies is amazing! (movie trailer voice-over) "He may not be the mechanic we deserve, but he is the mechanic we need."
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  722. Regarding not being able to see what you're working on: Our high school auto shop teacher had a favorite phrase. "Find the hole with your finger first." Teen boys really remember that lesson...
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  723. Sell it or park it in a "bad area".
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  724.  @Michael-yi4mc  Giggety?
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  725.  @ajwilson605  I must have been extraordinarily lucky in my choices of mechanic shops, because I have not had that experience. I was charged for the actual time the job took. Well, except when things were done at the dealership.
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  726.  @joskd8491  That's "post-purchase load lightening" to us Ford owners!
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  727.  @lenbigdog2476  The only easy way to take apart a car up here in Massachusetts is to let the rust disassemble things.
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  728.  @rayzor285  I have a friend who refuses to be taught how to change a tire. Or check her oil, or tire pressure, or even look for tread wear. Her mechanic is making bank.
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  729.  @oldbiker9739  THIRD BASE!
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  730. Another black mark against states that don't have annual vehicle inspections.
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  731. I am amused and flinching at the description "maintenance window". My ex-wife made one in the block of a Saturn SL back in around 2002. Apparently, even though I told her otherwise, the oil light coming on meant it was time to schedule an oil change... in a month or two. One of many reasons she has the ex- title.
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  732. I was taught way back in the days before I reach four feet tall to assume that every power line, even with only one end attached to a pole, was live and could kill you. I have not died yet from following that lesson.
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  733. The one and only time I tried to cross deep water at speed, I thermally cracked my distributer cap (1981 Escort) and barely coasted back to solid road. At least I didn't hydro-lock it.
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  734.  @IR-nq4qv  Just like tire tread wear. 2/32" is meaningless to most people, but the penny test makes intuitive test. Penny test you ask? Put a penny in the tread, with the top of Lincoln's head pointing at the tire. If the top of his head is exposed, the tire is worn beyond the 2/32" and in need of replacement. - Side note, for commercial vehicles, the minimum tread depth, IIRC, is 4/32"
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  735. I noticed that on the dash the engine temp gauge had not moved from cold. IF I saw that right, it may be related to why the fans don't come on?
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  736. Checking the battery connections first is the automotive version of computer tech support's "Is it plugged in?"
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  737.  @forgetfulme1719  Brake clean is VOCs that evaporate. Particulate matter can build up in those damp bags we call lungs. Then comes scarring, reduction in lung capacity, and the possibility of other interesting maladies.
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  738. Snake oil is shorthand for the patent medicine scams of the past before there was better (and sometimes even good!) regulation of medications and their ingredients. - For a modern-day equivalent, see the online supplements and homeopathy products.
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  739. In this case, I kind of get it. To calibrate, he needed to be able to have the tailgate move to the full open and closed-latched positions, which need both gas struts installed to handle the weight of the gate. edit: and the weather stripping fully installed as well.
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  740.  @Michael-yi4mc  Definitely prog-rock.
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  741.  @IR-nq4qv  I missed the transmission of that live show! But I guess those are the brakes.
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  742. In addition I'm not casting my vote for Ray for the office of Galactic President! No! Second! Term!
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  743.  @polygon-viewer  With an average banana length of 19 centimeters, a kilometer is about 5,263 bananas long.
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  744. If you use either metallized tape or house wrap tape you should be fine. Both are vapor impermeable and long lasting.
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  745. If that system were plugged up, would that be a... DEF jam?
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  746.  @NomNomNom1989  And what exactly was wrong with buttons, levers and knobs for the radio and climate control? You know, the stuff you could learn to use without taking your eyes off the road?
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  747. I have watched so many videos that when I hear the 2 long, 1 short (edit: is that the right combo?) of a train making a grade crossing, I find myself wondering if I've caught the most recent repair/shop tour/lot cleanup.
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  748.  @Blanchy10  I laughed at your accidental misspelling. Anyhow, have yourself a nice day!
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  749. I would mark the windshield as a higher priority, were I the vehicle's owner.
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  750. I have never welded, I am trepidatious to even try welding. That said, I have cleaned up other peoples' welding with an angle grinder and paint.
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  751. Clean car, too!
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  752.  @92mrsrdb  The last one I got I asked, "Does your mother know what you do for work? Are you being held against your will?" then I hung up.
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  753. Hydrate before you die-drate!
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  754. It doesn't help that so many mechanics either have "game the Yellow Pages" names like AAAA Absolute Best Repairs, or something disingenuous like "Honest Al's Garage. Every good mechanic I have had has been word-of-mouth "advertising". "Hey [neighbor], where do you get your car repaired, and are you satisfied with them?" edit: Another good advertising method is to post some business cards at local diners and coffee shops that have a bulletin board for that purpose. Costs pennies, so even if you only get one referral, it's a steal.
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  755. My worry when I find a great and honest mechanic is if they are older than I am. That means I absolutely will have to find another great and honest mechanic again...
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  756. I keep reading so many comments about AC service shops not replacing the valves, but when you get a tire replaced, the tire shops almost always replace the valves if they look even a little worn/corroded. AC shops need to catch up. They could even hype the valve change and get an extra $10-20 for the service while spending the pennies on the parts and a couple dollars of tech time.
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  757. IN the first few moments, I thought I was watching a Chicanic video. She fixes small engines, particularly two-stroke yard tools.
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  758.  @ChaseLogeman  8-tracks were great! No flipping the tape!
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  759.  @desotosky1372  Regular maintenance and checking for problems before they out-decibel your radio are also keys to keeping a vehicle long-term.
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  760. So it seems you passed the ASE. How about the "Use paragraphs" course?
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  761. I remember the first time I saw a car being sold without a spare tire. I was flabbergasted, and told the friend buying the car that their next stop should be to buy a spare rim and tire and jack. No matter how much of their trunk space they lost doing so.
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  762. I have never worked on an AC system, but I have seen tire valves fail from corrosion when people didn't replace the weather caps.
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  763. Good detective work! Finding that break in what amounts to a ship-in-a-bottle engine compartment, bravo. edit: Now I am wondering if that car even needed a new radiator, yeah?
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  764. @tradde11 It's all about streamlining the robotic assembly line process.
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  765.  @HawksDiesel  Huh. At first I thought you were going to go political with your comment.
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  766.  @alvinhyman6838  It was real fun cleaning a skid steer a person rented to mix soil and manure, after they tipped a full bucket of wet cow manure the wrong way and filled the operator's cab to just over the level of the seat.
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  767.  @jerrynewberry433  Or read the manual, or learn from someone who knows how already. Applies to pretty much anything you don't yet know how to do.
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  768. ​ @Dave_Stennett  That alien store is well stocked with 10mm sockets and left socks "eaten" by dryers.
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  769. Seems like you are doing at least that part of parenting right! Congrats!
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  770. Making the gasket and the windage tray one piece is a particularly greedy decision. More than double the price versus just a rubber coated metal pan gasket. edit: Oh! And it was trapped in place by the pickup tube. Evil Genius.
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  771.  @chriswells2730  Amateurs. You drop the whole drivetrain and the plugs are EASY to reach.
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  772. I miss the PT Cruisers... Not that I would EVER want to work on one myself!
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  773.  @Cocora22  I saw a short video of a mechanic replacing a single-use oil pan (WTF!?) on an F150 (IIRC) and showed the rubber belt that lived in the oil bath and ran the oil pump off the main crank shaft.
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  774.  @SubVet1984  Cracked me. Up?
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  775. Wow. Mercedes did a great job overcomplicating windshield wipers.
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  776. Also have a "chat" with the person/people responsible for trying to maximize the number of sockets and other tools needed to access anything in newer cars.
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  777. Yeah, I never witnessed one of those, but my friend at the time did. Now that (most) struts come pre-assembled and pre-compressed, mechanics are much safer.
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  778. One thing they WILL do is either cut into mechanics' profit margins, or more realistically, add to the customers' bills.
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  779. That gasket looks toasted. Surprised you reused it.
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  780. Kudos for at least trying, knowing when you were out of your depth, and particularly for not driving the car to engine destruction!
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  781. I use the specialty tool. A big flathead screwdriver hammered through the filter.
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  782. I also put a couple of handfuls of those desiccant pouches in my gun case. Combined with proper periodic cleaning and oiling - no rust.
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  783. You know his day is a little off by the failing accuracy of his eyecrometer.
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  784.  @Sam-f1k8e  When I was around 4 years old, I took apart the house phone to the point that my parents could not figure out how to put it back together. I was forbidden access to tools for a long time after that.
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  785. Murphy's law of maintenance problems: It always comes in threes!
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  786. Wow. The hostage-taking upsell! I had that happen at a Meineke the only time I went to one. I came in to have them replace a rusted tailpipe and muffler. They "took the initiative" to inspect my brakes and told me they would call the cops if I tried to drive away without getting them replaced. I asked if they wanted me to call them too. The put my wheels back on, installed the exhaust parts, I paid the pre-upsell written quote price, and made sure I shared the tale. This was in the 1990's and I have told lots of people since.
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  787. Have you prices a headlight cluster assembly? A stupendous amount of money for an injection molded block of plastic that probably cost a few dollars to make.
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  788. A car that doesn't go is a camper. A car that doesn't stop is a coffin.
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  789. because the lug nut capping is cheaper than hub caps?
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  790.  @Dilberts_Dogbert  I understood that reference.
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  791.  @rustbeltrobclassic2512  Kudos to him, being healthy enough at his age to do so. I guess, therefore, that every 75-year-old is equally capable. Good to know.
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  792.  @technicalprecision8651  Under Magnussen-Moss, the manufacturer would have to PROVE that the failure was the fault of maintenance and not their design or build. But many vehicle owners don't know their full rights under that law.
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  793. Coefficient of friction? Metallurgy? Ray's a nerd! (Nerds are the best!)
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  794. If the car has enough years in the salt belt, the proper procedure is to drive the car until either it disintegrates, or you can scrape together a down payment for another car. Whichever comes first.
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  795. Mechanics are funny people. "Let's go on vacation and work on cars somewhere else!"
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  796.  @michaelpressman7203  The most important part of the "pull pin and throw" instructions is left out. You are supposed to throw the grenade, not the pin.
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  797.  @samjones1954  Hi Sam! I used to have a miniature you as a pencil topper back when I was in grade school. I traded it for a 4 oz milk in the cafeteria. Best trade ever.
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  798.  @samjones1954  You can suggest a plethora of things I will suitably ignore.
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  799. Isn't this the car with the disconnected or burnt-out check engine light?
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  800.  @BlueT521  Also, the use of plastic instead of metals can cut weight, which is more likely the reason for more and more of it being in cars. Less weight, better gas mileage, thus meeting the standards set by the government with the least expense and the best profit margins.
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  801. I laughed WAY too much at the "foot-pounds" at 22:53.
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  802.  @Rekuzan  Pharmaceuticals and street drugs have long been sold (and sentenced in court) by the metric system. Anyone who works in a science or science-adjacent job needs to be able to think in metric. Wrench and socket sets have been twice as big because of metric fasteners.
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  803. I too saw the wear, and the excess wear on the inside of the tire fits a worn-out bearing. An alignment? Maybe. But that car owner has a few other issues they might need to deal with earlier. Like the tire pressures, the rattle (to make sure it's not worn-out suspension bushing or such), the TPMS, and perhaps replacing a pair of worn tires to get out of that one from the bad bearing.
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  804. Myself, I would have hammered or ground down that flange to be able to mount the horn with self-tappers.
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  805. As a kid the temp in the winter was 60F... inside. "Mom, I'm cold." - "Put on a sweater." "Mom, I'm still cold." - "Take off your sweater, go stand outside for ten minutes and come back inside, it'll feel warm." - In protest of that childhood, I have MY thermostat cranked all the way up to 65F!!! (Too danged expensive to go for something in the 70's)
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  806.  @soupermancampbell8668  Winter is a hard time to remain motivated. We all need to try our best, and for those of us closer to the poles, ten-fifteen minutes a day in sunlight or sunlight substitute can really help.
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  807. I had a chill of excitement.
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  808. And the self-lubricating.
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  809. Only once did I tell my mechanic what specifically to do and how to do it. I had a circuit open in the body of the fuse box that disabled my low-beams. I knew this because I had spent two hours reading the circuit diagram and using a multimeter to chase the issue down. So, lacking the tools to finish the job, I told my mechanic to cut the DRLs (Daytime Running Lights) circuit and jumper that to make the low beam headlights work again. I provided the circuit diagrams and a short, written explanation of what I had done and found. Every other time before and after I simply describe the felt or heard symptoms and let them use their superior knowledge and skills to fix things.
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  810.  @peteranderton6521  If you arc the water hose up to make the water fall as droplets near the ingress structure, it can be enteraining.
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  811.  @QuantumStellar  When my 88 Bronco had the pinion seal fail (edit: the gears in the gearcase ate themselves as a result) and eventually leave the transfer gearcase dry (I parked on a dirt and gravel driveway and didn't notice the leak) I just replaced the entire rear axle.
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  812. That rubber hangar tool is fantastic!
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  813.  @hotpuppy1  In many cases, Japanese law and culture reinforce each other. The defamation law there is weird, to an American. In Japan, you can tell the absolute truth, and be successfully sued for doing so.
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  814. Careful, Ray. You'll get a reputation as "The guy to fix PT Cruisers" and you'll never be free of the knuckle-scrapes!
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  815.  @supergeekjay  Are you also the same kind of person who would denigrate someone for expressing technical information WITHOUT also noting how/where they got that information?
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  816. Any time I have an urge to supply my own parts, I always ask the mechanic(s) about it BEFORE I have them accept the job. If they "No" and their reasoning is sound, I agree with them. If they "Yes, but no warranty at all" I think about it and make an informed decision. Pretty much the only times I have brought my own parts were when the ONLY source was junkyard or eBay parts, and I didn't want to pay for the shop's time to search out and order or pick up the parts. - Then there was the time I worked at an equipment rental shop next to a tire shop, and took off my own wheels at work, then rolled them over to the tire place for new tires and wheel balancing, then put them back on the car myself.
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  817. If you use "storage bags" they have a micro-textured part on them that holds pen or sharpie writing well. - Long ago, when I was disassembling a VW Beetle engine, we used an old sheet and laid out all the parts we took off just like they were in the exploded diagram in the Chilton manual. Saved a lot of trouble, but took a lot of garage space.
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  818. Customer may not have wanted to spend the money for a vehicle that "broken in".
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  819. Hey, thanks for the technical information! That was really cool to learn.
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  820.  @ryans413  I have not seen a concrete paint that did not increase slipperiness when oil or water is spilled, even when a grit or other grip aid is added. I will admit that I don't know everything on the topic.
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  821.  @andrewadams488  That can be remedied with the proper cleaners and primer/paint/epoxy.
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  822.  @PhilG999  Because of that, whenever I change any light on my car, I hold the bulb in a clean paper towel. I have not seen a car lamp pop from finger oils, but I did see it happen to the bulb of an overhead projector.
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  823.  @dotar9586 Give it a Goldstar 'That ain't right."
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  824. Great design for a fuse block to sacrifice itself to save a fuse. Top-notch quality!
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  825. Too bad Ray couldn't get the mower deck attachment for that car.
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  826. Even just still pictures can educate the customer and cover everyone's butt legally.
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  827. Toyota is also one of the many car makers who tried to prevent the passing of a voter initiative for automotive right-to-repair in Massachusetts and one of the auto makers who sued to stop it being enacted. (They failed in both) All based on trying to keep non-dealership mechanics from having access to on-board performance data in the newer more computerized car builds. The car makers even want so far as to air TV ads that all but explicitly stated that letting your mechanic of choice have access to that data would result in you being assaulted (or worse) in a parking garage or late at night while you slept in your home.
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  828. Bacon!
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  829. Corndogs, in my humble opinion, really need mustard. yellow or brown is personal preference (I usually go with yellow). Also the ones that start from frozen are the worst. Again, my opinion.
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  830. Another point in my favor for never accepting power seats, power steering position, or power windows an any car I buy.
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  831.  @walterwhite2270  No air conditioning happens eventually to every car. Then you have to find your own Ray to do a leak check and replace (at a minimum!) the Schrader valves and refrigerant. Power windows and power locks are just higher-priced points of potential failure. - But I do appreciate your reductio ad absurdum by then jumping to "pedal car". It is fun to add to my checklist of bad debate tactics being used against me.
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  832. You know the rules, and so do I . . . . Yep, that's a Rick roll.
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  833.  @nicobogaard2315  ICE may be able to be fully replaced for passenger vehicles, but it is a much chancier proposition to replace heavy-haul vehicles like semis, dump trucks, construction equipment, railroad engines, etc.
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  834. More evidence that I have been watching at least enough Ray: I was driving home today and said, out loud, "Ooh, a Silvery-rado!"
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  835. The "idle" at the start reminds me of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher".
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  836. California emissions are great! You can run the car all day and night and the stuff that comes out of the tailpipe is teleported to another state!
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  837.  @NemoConsequentae  I noticed that too.
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  838.  @DonaldWells-wk8dc  There are other options for sammiches. Hot dogs, tacos, burritos, taquitos, egg rolls...
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  839. So many people immediately attribute SCAT to mean poop, but it is also a style of music that worked well for the careers of many people including Elle Fitzgerald.
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  840. Well, he was the THIRD little pig, so his house is resistant to hurricanes. And big-bad wolves. As long as he is not overcrowded by his foolish younger siblings...
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  841. Bring it to Demolition Ranch! What, wrong "exploded"?
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  842. After the tour, this thing looks like a car made from leftover parts by bored engineers after a drunken company picnic.
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  843. Because the ContentID system is a money farm for music companies. US copyright law is fundamentally broken.
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  844. The best part about trolls is spinning them vigorously to make their hair stick out in a circular fan.
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  845. I was thinking much the same thing.
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  846. That guy on the bike needed a longer seat post. or a bigger bike. But the seat post is cheaper if money is not flowing freely in his life.
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  847. It looks like there was also residue from an older gasket, and that may be why the previous mechanic (or the owner?) put sealant in, instead of properly cleaning the surface.
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  848.  @jilbertb  He got that list second-hand.
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  849. There is a used car dealer near me that has a Little Tykes car bolted to their sign stand. - Edit: Ooh! Imagine if this was the shop loaner! Nobody would keep it instead of coming back for their own clunker.
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  850. From looking at the intake, the back two channels don't actually carry coolant flow, but are instead dead ends.
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  851. For non-circles, perimeter is the usual term. Win for Troy!
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  852. The liquid de-ice stuff is not propylene glycol. It is usually either a magnesium chloride of calcuim chloride in water and sometimes includes other ingredients to improve melting effects and/or lower the temperature at which the stuff works. Some of these mixes can effectively melt ice and snow down to about -20F (-28.8C) Though it can also be a sodium chloride brine, which works down to about 15F (-9.4C). It is sprayed down shortly BEFORE snow and ice are going to fall, which melts away small amounts, and makes plowing more effective for thicker falls. - Rock salt or salt/sand mix is usually laid down AFTER the snow or ice has fallen, and after plowing. The sand is added if traction is the goal. The salt works best at temperatures down to 15F (9.4C), so in weather colder than that, it doesn't do much melting except where sunlight warms it. - No harm in Ray not knowing these things. I don't know how to prepare my residence for a hurricane, or how to check for alligators before mowing the lawn.
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  853.  @eugeneharrelson3933  At least it's no Michigan (?) where the state supreme court rules that leaving the lug nuts loose enough that the wheels fall of in a few miles still counts as them completing the tire change "service"
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  854. As a tall guy, working under the dash is my bane.
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  855. That's a really good description of a rail switching yard. "A shipyard on land". - Anywho, another good repair video, thanks, Ray!
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  856. Florida, California... whatever. At least you're not New York!
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  857. It's Florida. The state doesn't much care about vehicles being sound and safe to be on the road after the initial purchase inspection.
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  858. Remember when a mechanic could stand between the wheel well and the engine in some cars?
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  859. Seems A lot of fun was had during the editing! I got a kick out of all the inclusions.
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  860. To err is human. To knowingly upsell unneeded repairs is evil.
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  861. Ha! I remember back in the day when remotes were still fairly new and everyone was getting cable. All of the remotes had the same coding. (Kind of like the garage door opener snafu around the same time.) We used to take our Charter remote and change what people in the neighborhood were watching if they had their curtains/shades open. We could sometimes get up to 40 feet away if the window was nearly square-on to our location.
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  862. Huh. Makes sense. My first guess was going to be a warped cover, but your comment reminded me of a pickup one of my old bosses had that had too high an internal pressure something something that cause baskets to blow out every 9-18 months. It was apparently a known defect and was covered under warranty every time? This was about 25 years ago, so I don't remember all the details. It was a Ford, with a king cab, extended bed, and gasoline powered (I think).
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  863. Good one! You made me try to guess what was broken to cause that tapping noise.
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  864. When Ray said, "... we're putting a diff in it." I first had college flashbacks to a class of differential equations, then I realized he was talking about a vehicle's differential. I'm going to over in that corner rocking myself calm.
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  865. Pain and suffering for a missing plastic cover!? What a tool! (No offense meant to actual tools)
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  866. Ah, the Hyundai Sonata. The South Korean classical music car.
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  867. Kung Fu Fighting! I remember when that song was new. - I am old...
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  868. That EGR cooler you showed us has a lot in common with oil-fired boilers used to produce steam, such as on ships.
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  869. That vehicle looks like it's sat for a while. Rust in Florida (!), critter nests on the caliper, dry rot tires. edit: 13:30 Oh, it's a northern car. The rust makes more sense.
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  870. That scrubber you're using looks like a piece of ridge vent material. My brother keeps a small pile of these from when he was a roofer, they make decent mild sanders.
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  871.  @squiggyg.8415  That fan has to be removed every time the belt needs to be changed
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  872. This actuator job is there because the Great Murphy heard Ray not wanting to take apart his Silvery-rado dash.
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  873. Built Ford Tough... to work on.
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  874.  @ryans413  When I was in 5th grade, my family moved from mid-state Massachusetts to Phoenix AZ. It took us months to acclimate and not have daily heat exhaustion. - 3-1/2 years later we moved back, same couple of months to acclimate.
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  875.  @tuberNunya  Because the socks that get lost in the dryer are stealing them.
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  876.  @olstar18  Could even have gotten torn from road debris.
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  877. Sorry I did not watch the convention videos, but those type of things have no real draw for me. Glad you had a great time!
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  878.  @jostouw4366  Ether and phlogiston.
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  879. That's rust? Bwahahahah!!!!
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  880.  @randybeard6040  Some golf courses and movie/TV shoots do it also to get a "natural green" for their production.
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  881. That refrigerant detector gave me big nostalgia for my hand-held Coleco football game.
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  882. I love that phrase. It opens up different interpretations. Is it a miniature van for moving people? Is it a van for moving miniature people? So much fun!
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  883. Wow, what a mess to get to common maintenance items. I remember my 1990 Bronco, a skinny person could almost stand in the engine compartment and work stuff, there was so much room.
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  884. Okay, that is a new and fun way to open heat-sealed clamshell packaging!
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  885. Very minor "REEEE!" 2 pounds, 2 ounces comes to 2.125 pounds because there are 16 ounces to a pound. Imperial measurements into decimal can be a pain.
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  886. At least this was not a belt-in-oil oil pump on an EcoBoost!
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  887.  @SeanONeill13  Because it is a way to add a lot of expensive parts that only the manufacturer can provide for the first few years after you buy it?
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  888. I always find it so silly when someone has a mid-pack car that they subject to their speed shop addiction.
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  889. Oh hey, your brush bar and headache rack are painted with the same stuff my replacement rocker panels are painted with. The shop I had do the work offered it for a much lower price than trying to color-match with the rest of the car, since he had the stuff on hand after a pickup bed job.
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  890. Even the purple stuff beats what a lot of people use for driveway jobs... which is nothing at all.
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  891. And THAT is why you keep your drain pan weighed down with used filters and a funnel. Right?
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  892. I like the Wall of Viscocity. I also noticed that at the end of the video, your dudes got the rest of the shop empty of cars. You hired some solid mechanics.
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  893. Ray called the pre-paint cover "lipstick on a pig" I am relaying an angry message from a Mrs. The Frog who wants to know if Ray wants a karate chop or to give an apology to pigs.
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  894. Hooray to Ray for not knuckling under to the heckler's veto phemonenon!
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  895. Troy is very Norton.
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  896. I actually never thought of that, very good observation.
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  897. Also, the fuel pump is worth investigating, since SOMETHING caused the fuse block failure.
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  898. Thanks for the loan of the safety goggles!
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  899.  @davidkettell1073  Sticky caliper position? Maybe the brake pads KNOW that if they wear the inner one faster, the screech plate will alert the driver before they lose braking power, and that would not fit their evil plan of world domination!!! Or I watch too many Stephen King movies.
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  900. Dumdums is also a brand of small cheap lollipops, often found in candy dishes at receptionists' desks,
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  901. Ooh! Those tires are bald in the inside of the tread. That means... camber issues, so there is the likelihood of worn suspension parts. I think I got that right? If the suspension is worn enough, could that contribute to the breaking vibration as well?
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  902. A-Rod is also a You-Tuber, Dave is apparently not. And both get to set their level of involvement in Ray's videos.
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  903. C'mon Ray. Champion plugs are GREAT! * *For lawnmowers.
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  904. Nice Jeep, and it has that bad hood paint mod installed from the factory!
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  905. A 'REAL' blank-check customer would drop off the title with the pickup and go buy new. That is the mindset that modern manufacturers have been working very hard to inculcate in the modern consumer.
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  906.  @randomschmo5778  Fine. Then let us amend the demand that whomever signed off on such things must serve the time.
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  907.  @johnseavey6622  I watched that video series. What a pain in the... toolbox!
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  908.  @ezrollergbg  As am American driving an American car (probably assembled in Mexico?) I must tell you that there is NO organized rule on that. My car's fill is on the right side. I have had only one vehicle in the last 30+ years with a fill on the left side, and all of those vehicles were Fords, Saturns, or Volkswagen Beetles (the old ones, not the new ones). I think I once rented a Chrysler with a left-side fill. I had a friend whose car had the filler pipe behind the rear license plate. - The location of the fill/charge port is not a "laziness" or convenience factor, but a design decision that really needs to be rethought and standardized. And not put on the traffic side of the vehicle.
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  909. Wait, so this car DOESN'T come with lifetime oil?
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  910.  @vbtbmrt4394  That's a different kind of bulb end. The ones he has there are not the 1/4 turn kind you most often see with the 4' and under lengths.
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  911. Ooh! Nice shiny new brake line!
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  912. Is that a torn hose or wire insulator on the lift at around 0:50? edit: Oh hey! Nice job with the fancy into volume levels!
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  913. I recall a starter for my '88 Bronco being somewhere around the size of a loaf of pumpernickel bread and heavy enough to be part of a redneck gym.
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  914. The last time I saw one was on a one cylinder 3-1/2 HP lawnmower engine. Back in the 1980's
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  915. I agree the fight with those bolts behind the pulley really does tell the tale of the missing brackets.
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  916. Pop-ups are awesome. Light, and low profile while towing, enough space inside for sleeping and cooking, but small enough to make you WANT to go outside.
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  917. Oh sweet nostalgia! That truck has the little triangle windows!
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  918. A rare example in the wild of a double inspection window in the BOTTOM of the block!
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  919.  @jacksprat3287  Your wife is gaslighting you with the pickup truck?
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  920.  @jacksprat3287  Ah! You're such a joker!
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  921. YouTube COULD fix this on their end. This and the people spamming links in replies. But they don't.
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  922.  @rguy2684  That's how I killed a tire at 18 years old...
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  923. Agreed!
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  924. Loving the X Files moments. I too want to believe!
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  925. It's such a flashback to hear someone else using the NATO phonetic alphabet!
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  926.  @JohnDoe-bd5sz  Or they just plugged in one of those consumer-level cans of recharge.
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  927. Junkyard parts may not be the best option, but sometimes they can be the only option. And as I have learned on this channel, "New doesn't always mean good".
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  928. I am stunned that a guy who repairs his own stuff, as well as repairing stuff for other people, would own an Apple anything. Apple is the leader in anti-repair electronics.
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  929.  @ivanolsen7966  That was removed from the diagnostic by the first jumper wire.
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  930. Before I got a C-clamp, I used to use channel locks and pain.
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  931.  @D-B-Cooper  You have to be cautious with the bleeder, so as not to introduce air into the lines. Ask me how I know...
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  932.  @dotar9586  I had to reset the timing belt on an old Ford Escort when I had to replace the water pump. That job was a pain. The Chilton's manual advised taking off the passenger wheel well to get to the water pump, but I went for the bloody knuckles route. Somewhere in the process, the timing belt came off to allow the replacement of the water pump. When I put it back on, the friend helping me had slightly moved the valve cam shaft, so when I put everything back together the car ran like it was burning coffee instead of gasoline. Has to partially disassemble and move the vale cam one tooth position, and "TADA!" the car ran great!
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  933.  @marlenestockton2269  What do you mean, "you people"?
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  934. A cotter pin is a split pin. But not all split pins are cotter pins (though they usually are). One difference? US name versus the name in other places. - Another type of split pin is an R-clip, which I was taught to call a spring pin, and is the one that sort of looks like a hefty bobby pin with fewer (usually 1 or 2) 'wavy' contours. R-clips (hairpin cotter, hitch pin, etc.) are often used where you want to be able to remove, install, and reuse the pin without bringing tools into the equation. They are also hardened to a spring quality, as opposed to the cotter pins Ray is using.
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  935. I read crapola and first thought about the cheap crayons I would get for Christmas as a kid. You know they kind. Hard and waxy like a candle, don't color well at all. Even worse than Rose Art brand...
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  936. Debbie Does Deluge!
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  937. I saw that suspicious cutout in the frame in the first few seconds of the video. PROOF that Honda is a subdivision of the Galactic Empire! - Okay, silliness done.
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  938. The SPECIAL hell...
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  939.  @thewausaudude  I can do most of the stuff that only requires a jack stand and a wheel chock. When it starts getting into needing to lift the whole vehicle, or rebuild major internal engine parts, I tap out. - More recently, where I live now I cannot do auto repair without risking my tenancy, so I can only do work on my car when I can get time in my brother's driveway.
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  940.  @thewausaudude  In my area I have seen tent-like winter enclosures for cars, boats and RV's that are about the size of a small garage, but as temporary structures don't usually require a building permit. Perhaps one of those would make a nice repair blind.
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  941.  @soulwarrior7721  Or use one of the 9mm sockets that are used almost nowhere.
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  942.  @garyr7027  One time, we were desperately looking for a 10mm socket to fix a car and we went through three fully packed and completely disorganized toolboxes before finding one. We found around a dozen 5/32" sockets though! Most of them completely unused.
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  943. The cost of AC repairs is why I have been using the 2 by 40 (two open windows, 40MPH) AC on my Focus for nearly a decade. Here in Massachusetts, working heat is more important for more of the year anyway.
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  944. My biggest takeaway from this work is to know that I NEVER want to do it myself.
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  945. My car has that same annoying fitness tracker. I turn it on and it criticizes my ABS.
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  946. I have only rarely had a mechanic install parts I brought. Every time it has been AFTER talking with the shop who agreed to it, and it was a situation like having them install a scrap yard component (such as a rear axle) . And each time, it was made very clear that the shop would not offer their usual warranty. My mechanic was awesome and gave me a 30-day on the installation, with no warranty to the parts. - The big key? Discuss the issue with your mechanic FIRST. Don't make assumptions.
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  947. Expertise can be learned, and patience can either be learned or faked. If you successfully fake patience in your life, only your dentist and cardiologist will know.
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  948.  @ThatSB  It is a choice one has to make when you live where roads are often covered with snow and ice. Drive the car and know that rust is a harsh eater, don't drive all winter, or move to where the snow and ice aren't.
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  949. And remember, noticing the police is suspicious. NOT noticing the police is suspicious. Acting nervous is suspicious. Acting calm is suspicious. Asking questions is suspicious. Asserting your rights under law is suspicious. Keeping silent is suspicious. Being a chatterbox is suspicious. Breathing is suspicious. Being dead is suspicious.
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  950.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  I didn't think you did. I know that Google does, I was just surprised by it.
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  951. That seems like a great idea. Not a mechanic, just a rust-belt resident.
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  952. I was just happy to see an engine where changing the plugs didn't involve first removing the intake manifold. There's been a couple of those lately.
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  953. On the alignment section, I have seen only one vehicle with the slanted tracking on the road. I have, however, seen many a trailer that has slanted tracking, particularly medium-sized equipment trailers (small excavators, skid steers, etc.) on the highway.
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  954. Great screen slide at 22:54!
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  955. I have used flux-core solder, but that tends to be for sweating plumbing, and in a larger diameter. Not so good for micro-electronics.
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  956.  @nonotthatoneguy  You know, I might be. It was just a partial spool that came with our house, no idea how old it was.
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  957. Conversely, maneuvering the line out in its entirety can help you figure out how to get the new one in. I have seen a number of Ray's videos where maneuvering out the old has given him ideas on how to get the new one in, whether it be a steering rack, or an A-frame or an AC line.
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  958. 14:20 is when I finally saw the problem with the engine. And funny enough, taking the timing cover off would not have revealed that.
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  959. I had a 1988 Bronco that had the hood latch fail at 40MPH, wrapping the hood over the windshield with a BOOM! that bent the hinges and required a windshield replacement. Quite a shock, given that I was in moderate traffic at the time.
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  960. Ray, I hope that boat passed the Coast Guard inspection before it was beached at your lot.
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  961. Great work! Next up for that truck, TPSM's and a full abs workout.
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  962. I have learned, though thankfully not destructively, that tires have a limited lifespan, even if never mounted on rims. And their lifespan can be shortened by UV exposure. So yeah, it's not just how much tread is left, it is how much dry rot your sidewalls get. And having this information, also be sure to check your spare(s)!
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  963. That is an ORGANIZED and detail-oriented customer! So much better than someone who drops off the car and says, "Something's making noise, please fix it." - I don't keep the same level of detail as that vehicle's owner, but I do type up a symptoms list and leave a cop on the dash for the mechanic. - One time, on my Saturn, I went DEEP into the woods chasing a lack of low-beams. I spent about four hours with a Haynes manual, matching real wiring to the wiring diagram, doing continuity checks all over the place... It turned out there was a burnt-out connection in the plastic-coated parts of the fuse block. I determined that the low beam circuit could be replaced by the DRL (Daytime Running Lights) circuit. The only reason I handed the job off to a mechanic was a lack of tools. The mechanic actually thanked me for not making him do all the wire chasing, and that I saved a LOT of money doing that myself.
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  964.  @CJsRC  Minor correction, but otherwise a valid assessment.
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  965.  @infidel66687  I remember that guy!
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  966. 39F? Luxury! (I'm in Taxachusetts)
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  967.  @michaelbolton2741  I think it is convenient they are shipped pre-gapped, but with the low price of a gap tool, it is always wise to check the gap against what the engine calls for. I found this to be particularly true with small engine maintenance, since the car gap was not always what the mower, blower or chainsaw was looking for.
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  968. This video is heavy with the presence of the "good idea fairy"!
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  969. I was trained, in learning how to tow armored vehicles, to cross the trailer chains because of the way that impacts pulling forces in turns. If you cross the chains, and they are the same length, then both chains will always be under tension when pulling, regardless of how you are turning. If you don't cross the chains, then the one on the 'outside' of the turn will have 100% of the tension while the other goes slack. - This is less of an issue for the safety chains in a normal trailer pulling, but if your chains aren't long enough then in a tight turn you may have unwanted tension on a taut chain. If they are crossed, they don't come under tension until and unless the hitch point fails.
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  970. That concrete guy's trailer gives me many layers of anxiety. Where I live, that guy would get a slab of tickets. Even more if he got the rare pullover by a registry or CDL cop. And with that missing wheel (maybe missing on the other side too?) that puts the remaining axle overloaded, as evidenced by how deep into the fender the remaining tire is running.
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  971.  @wirefeed3419  20-year-old white plastic bottle with that damage is not surprising. I'd be tempted, if it was my vehicle, to do a flex tape/flex seal repair, given that is it not a tight bend or structural location. I'd also drain whatever is already in that tank to avoid sending dirt into the sprayer nozzles. The other fluids? Heck yeah it's overdue for a full fluid drain and clean-out.
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  972. I was wondering if the owner was going to authorize the time for this job. If it was me, I might have said that living without four-wheel drive was the better plan.
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  973. That non-HD is not a 4x4. Before HD the ratio was 4x3, whereas no it is 16x9 or wider. - Wait, it's a TRUCK, not a TV? Oh.
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  974. Look, we voters in Massachusetts are doing heavy lifting on the issue, but the carmakers keep throwing mounds of money and lawyers at the issue because your mechanic being able to access the diagnostic information will somehow result in you being raped in a parking garage, or your mechanic will be able to break into your house and harm you.* *According to the highly-played commercials the carmakers had running before the ballot question passed with about 3/4 of the vote.
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  975. Would have been less hassle refilling fluid if you pre-filled the lines before installing them. I am TOTALLY JOKING!
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  976. How sad a world it is that you wrote "when I am being taken advantage of" not "if"
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  977.  @dirtracer8919  And honestly, that would make me nervous every day driving in one of those no-inspection states. To KNOW that the cars around you could have failed brakes, non-functional directionals, frame rot, bald tires, and so much more wrong with them, but your safety depends on that same equipment working correctly? No thanks!
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  978.  @dirtracer8919  Excellent use of the moving goalposts fallacy combined with an ad hominem attack followed by a fallacious dismissal of the efficacy of vehicle safety inspections. - My comment regarding the usefulness of vehicle safety inspections ALSO doesn't mean that am in favor of people shooting each other on the highway, coal being used for power generation, lead paint in children's bedrooms, stabbing puppies with chainsaws, melted cheese on lobster, or any other whack-a-doodle inanity you would try and accuse me of thinking.
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  979. I think your videos are getting longer, in part, because you're breaking the repairs into fewer episodes. I have done no science on this, it's just a feeling. But Sir Alec Guinness said to trust our feelings.
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  980.  @fostergaler8480  (sniff, sniff) Anyone else small racism?
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  981. Well, the power steering fluid is in need of a flush.
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  982. Shop dog don't move 'til shop dog HAS to move!
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  983. I cannot program a new fob for my Focus at all. But that is because by the time I went looking for a new fob, the car was old enough that Ford no longer stocked the item. Yay...
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  984.  @geltecmail  I will try that, thanks.
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  985. I have had times where getting my car serviced took longer than the original estimate. I would call once when they originally said it would be done, ask if it is done, they would tell me "Not yet" and usually why (usually parts that didn't show up), and I would say, "Okay, I'll call tomorrow." Strangely (kidding with that), mechanics you treat decently don't overcharge, do the work well, and leave your car at least as clean as they got it, if not more so.
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  986. "One hand for the nuts, and one hand for the hose here." Oh beHAVE!
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  987. He did take off one of the rear tires to check, and you can see disc brakes. He mentioned it while he was torqueing. And he said he checked the fourth set visually without taking the wheel off. edit: the rears could be disc-drums, a dual type that uses disc brakes for regular stopping and the drum brake for the e-brake/parking brake.
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  988. The one time I had a car with brakes THAT bad, it was a 1971 VW Beetle I bought for $125 (edit: bought it in 1986 or so), and the previous owner's boyfriend had replaced the brake master cylinder and rear brake lines but never bled any of the brake lines. So the price was low due to a lack of about half an hour of work.
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  989. I see you Ray! Checking your truck's inside turn radius on street corners. A little head-on-a-swivel action that can save you thousands of dollars.
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  990.  @williamsquires3070  A turbine (tur-buyne or tur-bin, both are valid) can turn the kinetic energy of a fluid (water, steam, expanding gases of combustion)) into electric energy. It can also be used to compress a gas to increase the density and or speed of that gas to use the output for propulsion (jet engines, deisel intake turbines).
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  991. Other reasons for the gate: the businesses that have some equipment and parts exterior to their building space, and all that countertop material. And a gate makes it very clear what is trespassing versus "Dur, I didn't know it was private property cuz it was just dirt."
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  992. "You are required to..." - Show me where it says that in my purchase agreement.
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  993. Finally! Someone who offers science instead of "I'm worried about blowouts".
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  994.  @davebrown6552  Rental companies have been installing code pads for starting for a couple of decades.
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  995. Did the driver hit the curb from a 15 meter drop?
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  996. (/golf_clap)
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  997. I like those front cup holders!
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  998. I brought my car to my current shop last year sure that I needed a new wheel bearing. It was a warped rotor causing the noise and vibration. Their honesty saved me hundreds of dollars.
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  999. Or in the Dremel cabinet? ;)
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  1000. Easy fix! The brush bar needs a new truck.
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  1001. I live in New England. Weak batteries reveal themselves pretty easily for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the year.
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  1002. Subpar sounds like an off-brand Mopar.
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  1003. Seems like Ray is engaging once again in his fetish of being covered with the contents of AC compressors.
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  1004. Oh, your second half of the comment is for installation! I was confused for a moment.
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  1005. That rippling wall in the office space is a possible indicator of an aggressive water leak. That seems like a landlord issue as does the sketchy electrical. At least that's how it is up in Taxachusetts.
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  1006.  @danielholter1861  Pretty hard for them to do so when Buy Here Pay Here is buying all the salvage titles.
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  1007.  @mauricekeithjohnson2598  Four.
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  1008. I had what I thought was a dead battery or dead alternator problem once, and it turned out that leaving my cell phone charger plugged in was draining my battery over. Since I only drive my car every few days or so, it had plenty of time to do the draining. Unplugged the charger, got a jump start, ran the engine for about twenty minutes, and have not had problems with the battery in the three or four years since... (pardon, had to go knock on some wood)
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  1009. It's all about putting a shiny cover to hide the "ugly" reality that lug nuts are a serious mechanical item.
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  1010. The same switch in the old US military jeep was the starter.
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  1011. I would like to introduce you to the 30-50 minute videos of Drachinifel's "5-Minute Guides to Warships (more or less)" series.
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  1012. I have not seen sealed headlights in a dog's age!
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  1013. Oh no! Ray said the "B" word! You know what that means... Next week he'll be elbows deep in full-block teardowns and body shop referrals with someone shouting for a fast oil change after not having had one done for 30,000 miles.
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  1014. The best place to start with a car like that was Tyvek overalls before sitting in it.
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  1015. REEEEEEEE!
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  1016.  @kenholt8297  Understandable, but some people need the information.
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  1017.  @sumduma55  Humans are also animals. and... CLICK THE WORLD!
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  1018.  @sumduma55  Ah, so you ARE a foil-hat soldier.
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  1019. Teflon tape is magical. Its magic is to disappear until you've bought a new roll.
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  1020.   My Cancer Journey  I don't know you, but I wish you the best possible situation with all of that!
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  1021.  @beezul  Dan. I usually pick those out better. Thanks for the heads-up! - In a related note, stolen valor scumbag Sarah Cavanaugh was just sentenced to 70 months in prison, plus two months post-release supervision, lost her job, lost her license(s?), and has to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organizations she scammed.
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  1022. If you are very specific with the orientation at which you park the car, the rear main seal will become a South Main seal and another mechanic's problem!
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  1023. Wow. Home Depot sells airport runway lights?
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  1024.  @tobykenobe  Oh that one makes sense. The tape IS sticking to the cinder block, but unpainted cinder blocks decompose at a very tiny scale over time, and the tape comes away as the surface it is stuck to is no longer part of the solid block. As a comparison, imagine putting tape on a slice of toast or a Chips Ahoy cookie. Your application would work much better if the block was painted with an exterior-grade enamel.
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  1025. It's winter in the northern hemisphere, and people are more stuck inside. So lacking friends to talk to or hobbies to fill their time, many roll up their sleeves and put on their official Keyboard Warrior hat.
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  1026. Do people have any idea how many snakes you have to render down to get a quart of oil out of them?
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  1027. The engine mount nut count got me quoting The Count without realizing you would too.
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  1028. Don't operate the engine? I kid. Regular periodic application of an appropriate fuel system and/or injector cleaner should prevent a lot of the problems.
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  1029. On coil 1 at the installation I found myself shouting "Plug it in first!" - It all worked out, but I was really invested in this one.
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  1030. So, Ray is here in shorts and short sleeves, and from another channel I watch, Black Magic Craft, Jeremy just shared a picture of the snow troll he built (out of fresh snow in Canada) in his yard today. Crazy time of year.
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  1031.  @jamram9924  I think brinel is like when you try to roll out a flat pie crust with a rolling pin that has protrusions. You end up with a not-flat pie crust. In the bearing race, this would likely result in high and low sports that can wear the bearings, or even, if deep enough, stop them from spinning and doing their job.
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  1032.  @charleshines1553  Yeah. I remember my 1974 VW Beetle had a proprietary hex wrench to do an oil change and the size was exactly NOT metric or SAE.
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  1033.  @xalty1200  That I did not know. Thanks for the info!
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  1034. Javi Air seems to be sending some volume work Ray's way! Good endorsement of his work.
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  1035.  @Digidoc316  I have declined to have a shop change a weak battery. Then I went to the auto parts store, got a decent battery and installed it. I paid less for the battery than the shop would have charged me, and we both shopped at the same parts store, and that didn't count the labor.
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  1036. That is awesome to learn, thanks!
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  1037. Inspection, repair, AND arts & crafts!
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  1038. Still no grease zerks...
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  1039.  @michael931  But as we saw, that bracket has to move to get to the regular service part called a spark plug.
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  1040. It's a show of maturity to be the one to tell the boss that life needs you to move on instead of the boss having to let you go because life is interfering with showing up.
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  1041. Step 27: Remove engine from car, set the whole thing on fire.
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  1042. Shaking at 88MPH? Simple diagnosis: The flux capacitor is out of alignment.
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  1043. Eether, eye-ther. Neether, N-eye-ther. Let's call the whole thing off!
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  1044. There are several reasons a person can get shaky hands, including Parkinson's, arthritis, weakness, fatigue, and so on. For many of the non-fatigue shaky hands, applying pressure helps steady things. Like the pressure on a wrench, or pushing a grocery cart, or, for a crafter I watch, having his two hands braced against each other while he paints table-top gaming miniatures.
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  1045.  @robertdavis6708  As a non-elite, I call it a good day when I can hold onto a few common cents.
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  1046. Deez, dem and doze! Eeether, eyether. Newether Neyether. Let's call the whole thing off!
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  1047. Possible oil burning, seat belt indicator lit and dinging with seat belt applied, tire pressure light... This car is either done for, or only has a few age-related ailments. It will be interesting to find out!
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  1048.  @shaneoneill1338  I'm in Massachusetts and just had my rocker panels replaced on my 2011 Focus. With it up on the lift, it is otherwise in good shape, so I don't regret putting in the expense.
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  1049. I have learned, as I reach middle age, I need to find a good mechanic who is YOUNGER than I am, so I don't have to find a new one every 3-5 years.
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  1050. Is a purple smell a good thing or a bad thing? Randy Feltface is a hilarious comedian, and he's purple, so that's good. But bruises can be purple, and that's bad.
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  1051.  @madmatt2024  As long as you are using the same chemicals, the color shouldn't matter.
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  1052.  @madmatt2024  Ah. I started learning car maintenance back when the change was being made between ethelyne glycol and propelyne glycol-based coolants.
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  1053. Perhaps you have opened them too far? Ray seems to only open the bleeders to the point of dripping, not even a full turn.
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  1054. 2 inches times all of those conductors times tens of thousands of vehicles? The CEO would have to have gotten a smaller vacation home!
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  1055. That's a really good tip!
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  1056. Why is the spout of gearcase oil containers offset like the spouts of engine oil containers? I would think it is even more important for the former than the latter.
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  1057. Like Chihooah-hooahs
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  1058.  @InsideOfMyOwnMind  Heck yeah!
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  1059.  Ye Old Geezer  Words that convey your meaning are good words. Unless you mean Carlin's "bad words"?
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  1060. No Mark Rober required.
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  1061. Always torque your nuts! Urologists need to make boat payments!
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  1062. I have used the old pad and channel locks (my C-clamp had rusted solid from being stored in a damp place) and after the Popeye cramps passed, it was not a bad result.
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  1063. Engine oil is not too difficult. Replacing lines or pistons? Easy. Chasing a hydraulic leak from the manifold? That's a contortionist's job!
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  1064. When you drove the car over the hose at 1:17, my brain WANTED to hear the "ding-ding" of a full-service gas station.
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  1065. The way those spark plug wires broke, I'm stunned the thing actually ran to get in the bay!
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  1066. I was singing the ironic ZZ Top song, "We all love to work on struts".
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  1067. Salt leads to corrosion. Corrosion leads to resistance. Resistance leads to SUFFERING! - Master Mechanic Yoda
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  1068.  @CJRoberts8812  Age and/or damage causes refrigerant leakage. Bad airflow contributes to sub-par environmental system performance.
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  1069. I wonder if the seal misalignment came about from a windshield replacement?
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  1070. This made me nostalgic for my Saturn SL. The strut tower mounts rusted out, one dropping the front corner about five inches when it failed as I pulled into a parking lot. When the mechanic took a look at repairability, they found a lot more subframe rust than the car was worth.
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  1071. Hmm... REEEEEEE! (/shrug) It's just been a while since I've seen or posted a Ree, and I have nothing else to contribute other than watching, and the following: I watch this channel nearly daily, even though I do not work on cars. The knowledge is a prize on its own, and Ray is an easy person to watch and listen to working.
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  1072. The big problem with saving all of those parts for a power generator for after the end of the world, is if you have too many you can't fast-travel across the map.
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  1073. Here's a meditation phrase for Petah: "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
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  1074. So many fasteners in a vehicle, yet so few sloweners.
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  1075.  @ozzierabbit587  And that kind of designing is why We've seen ray do plug changes on vehicles that have replacement (but still old) plugs in the "front" of the engine, and OEM plugs with barely any metal left in the "back".
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  1076. Too true!
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  1077. The first brake job I did back in the 80's, our C-clamp was rusted solid (tools stored in an unheated detached garage) so our only option was channel locks with an old brake pad against the piston. Since then, that's how my brother and I have done almost all brake jobs. The dead pad as an anvil has accidentally had us doing it closer to correct.
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  1078. Right? It's unnecessary in a sane world.
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  1079.  @desoneill5489  Indeed. Oh! I almost forgot. Have a great day (on a day of your choice).
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  1080. If you're removing sensors that have returned error codes, that plan makes sense. In this specific case, Ray 'might' have found sensors in brand-spanking-new condition. Not that those were even close.
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  1081. Hooray for long test leads!
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  1082. Reee! How dare you save the owner hundreds of dollars with modification of plastic components that you probably can't even find in a junkyard!!! - The above is sarcasm.
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  1083. I think that might be the same Buccees I saw Jeff Gray protesting outside. Why protesting? Buccees "no trucks" policy. Specifically, they have their advertising out on the highway, pulling in all sorts of drivers, even trucks, but then those truckers are met with a ban AFTER they have taken the time to get off the highway, and they will have to find an inventive way to turn around and find a place to refuel themselves and their trucks that doesn't hate their mere existence. Oh, and I'll bet that Buccees manager STILL hasn't paid the bet he mae with Jeff about the cops "running him off". It was just a tray of chicken pieces, dude. Pony up! - Okay, tangential rant aside, thanks for bringing us along, Ray and Lauren!
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  1084. I do that. I try to keep it to one side of a sheet of paper, in clear large font so it can be referred to by the mechanic while they are working. - I also make a list if I am going to a doctor or the ER, so that I don't forget anything, and my issues can be clearly communicated (particularly if I am hoarse or having difficulty breathing!)
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  1085.  @colto2312  Without more context, I would hazard that you may deserve a better doctor.
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  1086. No, a brake fluid exchange is not a scummy add-on. Brake fluid darkens when it absorbs water. Water in brake fluid can negatively impact brake response. When the brake fluid heats up, the water can "boil" and turn to vapor. gas compresses MUCH easier than liquid, and you don't want to be looking for an emergency stop to only have your brake pedal suddenly hit the floor and have nothing happen.
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  1087.  @TheWabbit  I'm not sure I would have sworn off the brand, But I'd be sharing my opinion of that one dealership for a decade or more.
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  1088.  @TheWabbit  I've never had a problem that led to me calling a corporation about my vehicle, and I've had a Ford, a VW, a VW, a Ford, a Ford, a Chevy, a Saturn, a Saturn and a Ford. So I guess I have some difficulty making the connection with your experience. I do not mean this as a slight. - I've had two vehicles with problems that led me back to dealerships. Twice with a Bronco and them being the only source for the under-tank support that (until they figured out the problem with the last one I got) very effectively trapped salt, sand and moisture to abrade the gas tank. Once with a Saturn because my mechanic did not have the ability to reprogram an ECM he replaced for me.
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  1089. My uninformed guess about the jeep ducks is they are a system to let the driver know when the water they are trying to drive through it too deep. "If the duck floats, call for boats."
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  1090. "Stop rhyming! I mean it!" - "Anybody want a peanut?"
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  1091. Hey now, they actually let Ford assembly workers have food breaks. It's not Amazon!
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  1092. Yeah, that shed roof is end-of-life. If the walls are strong enough, you could go with a plywood replacement. But in my experience, those sheds are not very structural.
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  1093. Pepperidge Farms remembers! So do I.
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  1094. To be fair, it's a PT Cruiser.
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  1095. Rust through structural parts? Lemon Law time! - Oh, just looked it up. Florida does not have Lemon Law protections for used cars. You folks should see about getting that problem fixed.
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  1096. Automotive electrical problems are the gift that gives you a kick in the kidneys.
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  1097. At 36:11, I know it was a little cruel, but I couldn't help laughing.
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  1098. Oh yeah, like that grade school science 'trick' with the brass ball and ring!
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  1099. Ah, so this is a post-storage service of the car. Explains the rat nesting and tire pressure check. The under-cowling was just bonus. - Second vehicle, the outer-focused tread wear means something. Bad camber, yeah?
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  1100. Now I FINALLY understand why it's called a clock-spring. The ribbon cable is situated much like the mainspring of a clock or watch.
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  1101. The "aliens" press release is a complete nothing-burger, Ray. The whole thing is one guy feeding the Republican repeatedly failing attempts to "gotcha" Biden's administration.
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  1102. Good thing you didn't need to cut those bolts longer! That process takes forever. edit: And bolt stretchers are still very expensive.
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  1103.  @Doughboy1824  If you are PAID for it, it isn't a donation. It's a transaction.
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  1104.  @jsh6952  I can no longer donate blood, not to bank it for myself for planned surgeries because of my medications, primarily a blood thinner. Some of my medical conditions also preclude donating for others even if I were to foolishly stop all of my medications.
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  1105. It is amazing how much longer it takes to find that nothing is wrong than it does to find an actual mechanical or electrical fault. - And if a mechanic a fraction as good as Ray wanted to rip off a customer, they could do so with a lot less diagnostic time.
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  1106. Has to be one of the "easiest" all-day jobs. Just press START and swear at the machine for hours.
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  1107. Doesn't one of his lifts have a partially frayed cable, or has that been taken care of?
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  1108.  @DonaldWells-wk8dc  If you live in an HOA and don't stay involved enough to keep the tiny Mussolinis out of power, you kind of earned the abuse.
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  1109. Haha! Electron gluing! Love your vernacular, Ray.
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  1110. Ooh! An A+ on BBB? Nearly meaningless. The Better Business Bureau is NOT a government agency. (note that the site is a .com, not a .gov) It USED to mean something, but these days it is a suit & tie version of Yelp.
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  1111. How much do brakes cost on her van? More than on a small car, less than the typical deductible and civil suit for smashing into someone when you can't stop?
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  1112. I pity the fool who has to, some day in the distant future, replace the module again, as they try to figure out how to get that self-tapper out.
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  1113. This may have come with a bonus pre-broken bolt!
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  1114. In addition to the lack of witness marks on bolts and no RTV squeeze, the fluid is not new-colored. I hazard that their "diagnostic process" was to note vehicle mileage and driver's age and/or gender, cross reference an imaginary chart, and try to sell a new transmission.
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  1115. If this were my personal vehicle, I'd skip the AC (In New England we have "2x40" cooling - roll down two windows and drive 40 MPH) and fancy headlights, pay for the steering fluid cooler, find a way to pay for the brakes, and start saving for either the front end rebuild or a new vehicle. If this were my BUSINESS vehicle, I'd deadline the thing until the suspension was fixed (edit: AND the brake job). Better that than losing the business when you get sued for killing someone and their lawyer gets ahold of this video of the damage.
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  1116. If you don't fire the parts cannon, how will the parts store CEO's afford their third vacation home?
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  1117. It doesn't matter what I say, as long as I sound sincere. In fact I don't mean any of this. But my confession draws you near. And the hook brings you back. On that you can rely.
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  1118. The only time I exercised a warranty on a tool was a set of VermontAmerican bolt extractors from ACE Hardware. I was taking out snapped bolts on an excavator, and ended up going through every bolt extractor the local ACE had in stock before the four bolts were out. I think I broke seven of them that day.
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  1119. When there is a banging sound in a car, first check the trunk for Dopinder's nemesis Bandhu.
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  1120. The sheer amount of spare bolts gives the hoarder part of my brain chills.
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  1121. Need to get rid of an -inator? Just press the big red self-destruct button! Any platypus with a fedora could tell you the same.
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  1122.  @garystarn1967  Sorry. I mean.... SORRY! IS IT BETTER IF WE SHOUT?
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  1123. It could be running funny "uh-oh". - I got the joke. I would comment further, but it's time for Wapner.
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  1124. I look froward to this car getting the fix for the ABS sensor. Let's hope they find the money/time/will to have it done!
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  1125. I would be a neigh-sayer, but that would leave me a little horse.
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  1126. To be fair, the missing driveshaft and broken U joint on that pickup are in the general zip code of the starter?
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  1127. So this owner did the equivalent of going to the doctor for a fever after taking a double dose of fever-reducer meds. Brilliant.
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  1128. Oh no! Ray's on a Rampage! RUUUUUNNNNN!!!!
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  1129. Happy commemoration of your birth, and many more!
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  1130. I can't believe you removed the Saturn 'leaf pile modification'! Now that car will break down for sure.
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  1131. Or suggested a replacement of the ABS control module and perhaps the transmission.
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  1132. No! Don't dis a Ray!
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  1133. And I thought it was bad when my glasses fell out of my shirt pocket into the toilet.
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  1134. Cardone <-> Car done Fun company name for an auto components supplier!
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  1135. That was my early thought too.
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  1136.  @Paramount531  That PRV sounds like it's one f the components to summon The Deep Ones!
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  1137.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  "Witness corporate greed!!!" (suited CFO huffs silver spraypaint)
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  1138. Ah, with that light bar, Ray has been bitten with the "USB NOT meaning Universal Serial Bus" baloney that I saw covered in a Louis Rossmann video last year.
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  1139. Thanks to How It's Made, I DID know why foil is shiny on one side, dull on the other. And unlike duct tape, it has nothing to do with 'The Force'.
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  1140. I don't do enough yoga to drive a Lotus.
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  1141.  @hdfxrs9121  (polite applause)
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  1142.  @Onemanstrash1  And don't forget to say "click"!
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  1143. I remember a landscaper in the town next to mine had the most overgrown back yard I'd ever seen.
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  1144.  @JasonW.  I learned about that mix when I was building and repairing bicycles for my friends. Best way to find a pinhole leak in a tube and/or tire
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  1145. My guess was that there was already one in the truck that came with the after-market child package.
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  1146. Doesn't Ray know that he is supposed to be so busy that his own vehicle barely runs? Just like the landscaper with a 15" tall lawn and a house painter with peeling siding! - Ah, I kid.
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  1147.  @toshihitsu1989  I've changed heavy equipment tires before. Tractors, skid steers, backhoes. We used starter fluid for the bead-sealing 'boom' and we immediately had to start putting air in before the expanded gasses cooled. We weren't equipped with the fast-fill that actual tire shops have.
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  1148. It seems that the problem was not the gloves, but the idiot(s) you worked with/for who felt smoking in the garage was okay. Those gloves are nitrile, not latex, in case it matters for your points. The gloves will reduce your exposure to petroleum chemicals that can get absorbed through the skin, and also make keeping your hands clean a lot easier. I have seen nitrile gloves used by health care workers, plumbers, mechanics, crafters, painters and other jobs involving exposure risks. - I am sorry about what happened to you, but blaming the gloves is disingenuous.
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  1149. Yeah, either flat around the threads or use an o-ring.
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  1150.  @jthonn  Good information that I had forgotten. Thanks!
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  1151. Its that kind of issue that has me buying a Haynes manual before trying anything complicated, and often using painter's tape to attach bolts and nut to the part they hold down. Way back in the 90's, when I did a near-complete teardown of a 1974 VW beetle engine, I used butcher paper and a sharpie to lay my parts out on the garage floor. Nearly murdered one of my brothers when he kicked some parts by accident.
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  1152. Ray, even YOU aren't old enough to remember The Shadow! As for Paul Harvey? Now for the rest... of the story.
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  1153. Oh my gosh, the battery is almost bigger than the engine!
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  1154.  @chrisardern4594  "I've got 600 cars to inspect for flood claims this week alone, another 800 next week... One in the lot is flood damaged, they all are. That's 12."
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  1155. If this were my vehicle, I might just electrically disable the AC and call it a wash.
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  1156.  @keithsnowden409  Yep, that is kind of what I meant. Disabling the system electrically.
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  1157. I kept shouting at the screen, "Drift pins!" But that's my reflex from working on heavy machinery.
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  1158. And that ain't racist. People of all races, religions, genders and backgrounds get into addiction and need treatment.
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  1159. "You want a coke?" - "Yep!" "Which kind?" - "You got root beer?"
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  1160. The first time I heard of a mass airflow sensor, I thought it was a "Mass airflow sensor" and was some part installed because of my state's (Massachusetts) clean air regulations.
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  1161. Neat idea!
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  1162. Ha! Donut!
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  1163.  @bobberguy1  Hehehe!
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  1164.  @bradkay4794  That is good strength!
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  1165. My only note: He's welding a nylon-insert lock nut. Which he mentioned.
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  1166. "Warranty void if you're uninformed enough to believe taking off this valve negates the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act."
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  1167.  @lactusgalacto1174  On the shelf next to Hamburger Helper?
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  1168.  @GeneralSulla  Learning for you instead of learning for an employer? Respect!
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  1169. Many people don't have the spare time to distribute the troll-chow (TM)
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  1170.  @idiotwithasolderingiron  Are you doing work where 0.1 to 1.5 ohms will matter? Most electronic resistive components have tolerances between 0.5 and 5%
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  1171. I can understand the hesitancy to pull the trigger on such an expensive repair that may end up being an engine swap. Do you fix it? Are you still paying the note? Do you get the scrap value so it becomes a parts source for other cars later on?
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  1172. Ray, if you do this kind of service again, request that the customer also supply the manual. It makes things easier, from finding the oil filter to getting the count and locations of the grease points. edit: and that they keep it dry, I guess.
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  1173. Anyone remember Google Glasses? - Also, a headset can't turn a wrench. Sure, in a perfect setting, with NOTHING out of place, a computer could control a robot to turn a wrench. But add some dirt, the variability of rust, aged plastic connectors that break when touched, missing fastener, broken studs, and customer modifications. Is that engine leaking or did the car just drive through a puddle? Can the computer adjust for every possible level and color of dirt? As Ray's example, will it find a chewed wire or will it keep replacing the same sensor?
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  1174. It looks like they hit one of those (in)famous Chinese road (sinkhole) potholes. At about 88 MPH.
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  1175. I'd go for two-part epoxy, if you want a permanent installation. Helps make the connection "flashlight gravity" resistant.
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  1176.  @powertothesheeple5422  Hahaha!
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  1177.  @JM-lk6wo  SC took the WRONG path to deal with the problem. Massachusetts used to have a lot of corruption with annual vehicle inspections. They sent state cops, out of uniform, in anonymous cars to spot-check inspection stations. Over a short period of time, a large fraction of the inspection locations closed, mysteriously, and slowly new ones opened to fill the gap. MA checks all of the safety stuff (brakes, parking brake, lights, wipers, horn. etc.), loose ball joints, obvious tire wear, front seat belts working, doors actually latch, emissions, and check for obvious holes in the passenger compartment and so on. And they will actually FAIL a car. There are two tiers of failure. 1) Get it fixed in x days and come back for a free recheck, and 2) you can't legally drive the vehicle on the road. - But yes, JM. An inspection regime is not a guarantee that you will get ALL unsafe cars off the road, but with NO inspection, only conscientiousness or complete physical decomposition of the vehicle will get the dangerous junkers off the road.
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  1178.  @King4s  A full-face mask/respirator is a good investment for such work, as well as spray painting, using a lathe, or any other activity where you need to protect your eyes and lungs.
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  1179. Chevy truck parking is akin to what we here in my part of New England used to call "Yuppie Parking" where people would park their BMW or Audi or Mercedes diagonally across two or three parking spaces so their precious car would not have us plebians park near them and maybe, someday, accidentally TOUCH their car.
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  1180. What a... vivid image you paint.
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  1181.  @bm03431  Once the trash truck moved into position?
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  1182. Sure, spray-painting the battery bracket may seem silly cosmetic action, but the paint can help delay/slow future corrosion.
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  1183.  @davidheale6435  Brass is good for drinking water connections. The radiator is aluminum, and that is a more reactive metal in general. A quick online look into the matter and I find a few dubious references to a slight reactance between aluminum, copper and brass in a coolant medium if the coolant does not have a corrosion inhibitor components, AND if the coolant is not kept changed on a reasonable interval.
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  1184. Back when I was younger (early 1980's), my first car was a 1974 VW Bondo. Those are the models of cars you drive until you can make enough to buy something better, not something to sink money into.
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  1185. Not a 12mm, and a loose 13mm? Back in the 70's we called that 1/2 inch.
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  1186. At a job decades ago, my boss told me to take his F250 and get a full bed of loam and take it to a jobsite to top out large planters on a landscape installation job. Before getting (over!) loaded, the tires were inflated to the numbers on the door. After loading, the rear tires were riding on sidewall. I called the boss and he told me to just put more air in the tires and finish the delivery I crawled the truck a half mile to a gas station and inflated the rear tires until the profile "looked right" which was somewhere around 85-90 PSI. WAY over the rating for the tires. Then I drove the load of loam the forty or more miles to the client's property, driving so cautiously and under the speed limit I got a lot of "suggestions" from fellow motorists. After unloading, I immediately let air out of the tires until they looked a little low, then drove the mile to another gas station to inflate them to the numbers on the door. - This whole process: The use of a truck not rated for the load it was carrying, the pickup of loam over forty miles away, and the "just do it" directives were to save around fifty to a hundred dollars by buying where it was cheapest and another fifty to a hundred dollars avoiding paying the right truck to deliver it. I really hope I shortened the life on his tires and suspension.
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  1187.  @SurferJoe46  And the tape we all call duct tape is the wrong tape to use on ducts. For ducts, use either the painted on joint sealant, or the aluminum tape. the "duct tape" will degrade as the adhesive dries and you can end up with air leaks inside your walls.
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  1188. I only learned that those were slide pins when watching one of Ray's videos about a year and a half ago. Which explains why some of my older cars back in the day always seemed to have uneven pad wear...
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  1189.  @craigcraigster4999  Borrow Kyle Hill's KCT. ("Kevin Cloning Technology")
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  1190.  @Small-Kitty-Paws  A very sensuous job. "Sensuous in there, maybe check the Copersen Doohickey."
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  1191. Is that a vernal or autumnal equinox?
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  1192. And yet it was possible for the whole thing to be designed for easier service. An access panel on the air box giving access to a removable temp sensor. I am a dreamer.
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  1193. No frost heaves! I have been trying to figure out, for months, what makes your road footage so weird to me. It is the lack of frost heaves, potholes, and sand (from winter ice and snow treatment) on the sides of the road that I see every day here in Massachusetts that I DON'T see down there that made things seem so... foreign.
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  1194. It was in the title. Collision repair.
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  1195.  @johnlarkin549  Ah. My apologies.
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  1196.  @johnnysouza5601  Exactly. For me it's not the "Oh no the bolts aren't OEM!" it's the "A welded nut on a bolt is quite likely to be weaker than just getting a bolt the right length. It doesn't even have to be a special order. Just drop by a hardware store on lunch break. Another option, if the tools exist in the shop would be to cut the threaded end of the bolt and re-thread the shorter one, assuming you have a die set with the right size and pitch on hand.
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  1197. American car, hecho en Mexico con Chinese parts.
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  1198. The screwdriver? It's ribbed... for David Leisure?
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  1199.  @jimdavis6833  I concede to your first-hand knowledge of aircraft maintenance. I was only thinking of the maintenance of ground vehicles, the limit of my military maintenance experience.
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  1200. Re hubs: A seal can be leaking in one direction and holding vacuum in the other. Could also be a restriction or leak in the air line?
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  1201. I wonder how many mechanics would not have checked for the lube in the gearbox.
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  1202. This is the best saga since Lawrence of Arabia!
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  1203. Ha! My brother and I still use the "Battery, Aziz." line when a battery goes flat.
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  1204. On a Saturn I had around a decade ago, I had no low beams. I traced the problem to an open somewhere in the fuse block, but instead of replacing the fuse block, I sacrificed my daytime running lights with a couple of jumper wires.
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  1205. If you have a battery that has openable cells, you may need a battery newer than this century. But I could be wrong. In which case you also need to watch that you don't over or under dilute, by using a specific gravity tester (hydrometer) so you don't create a dead cell even though it looks full. - But I agree with your second half, a cell being low on fluid means a leak, which is a sign to replace the battery.
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  1206. 12:32 - Bluetooth hose clamp
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  1207.  @Laugh1ngboy  At that point, the only bar is if there are specialized tools required, and whether or not he feels purchasing those tools for one job is worth it. Perhaps he could find a place that would rent specialized tools? - I only had one car (so far) that required a specialized tool that had no use anywhere else, and that was a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle and the tool was the hex wrench for the drain plug. I held on to that sucker for years longer than I had the car, hoping someone else would find it useful, but eventually it went to a metal recycle pile.
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  1208. Murano is an island near Venice known for fine glassware also known as Venetian glass.
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  1209.  @michelleshaw337  You are speaking the language of the car salesperson.
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  1210. Pepperidge Farms remembers!
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  1211. I can see why your final plan worked better (if not according to Hoyle). The inner part of the arm is a longer lever than the outer part, with the spring contact as the load in a classic second-class lever. By applying force against the longer arm you increase your work advantage. - Also, that point is closer to the center line of the car, so you have less lever action against the weight of the car, resulting in less 'tilting' of the car off the jacks.
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  1212.  @chrishayden7016  The Ball site sells the screw-type lids. For the seals for the glass-top jars, there are a number of third-party companies selling compatible seals. I found at least one listing at WalMart.
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  1213. The northernmost Wawa I was ever in was in the Philadelphia area.
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  1214.  @XOChristianaNicole  Fighting pedantry with pedantry. Respect.
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  1215. On the warranty issue, it would be up to the warranting entity (your company, an insurance company, the compressor manufacturer) to contest the warranty in civil court on the grounds that a "known causal fault" was found and declined to be repaired by the vehicle owner. In which case it is a decision comparing the expense of going to court versus the expense of the warranty parts and service.
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  1216. A hydraulic fan? What madness!
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  1217. Oh my gosh! V-belts! What a flashback.
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  1218. Most people say I should replace my tires if they have less than 2/32" of tread depth, but I wait until it's 1/16".
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  1219. I can't believe the owner did not at least have the plugs replaced!
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  1220.  @tiddybearkush  Yet your post to which I was referring said, "Stop buying ford is the only thing that make them stop." Which is like saying, "If you dont like phones with non-removable batteries and no headphone jack, just stop buying from Apple." And yet those are becoming the norm across multiple brands.
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  1221. As to why some people change oil religiously but not other fluids? Anyone with a moderate level of skill, a few tools, and space they can do the work in can do an oil/filter change. That does not apply to fluids like brakes and transmission quite the same. I had one car that did its OWN brake fluid changes, until I replaced the rusted-out lines. But doing it purposefully and correctly? I've never had the tools for that. - So the other fluids comes to money and trust. Can you afford to pay someone else to do those fluids, and are they trustworthy at the price point you can afford?
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  1222. I may have some bad echoes in my brain. When Ray was taking apart the second side of brakes, and some part self-launched with a metallic 'ping', I had a half urge to seek cover from the grenade.
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  1223. @Les Reeves I have reused cotter pins before, but only either when in the middle of a dirty job away from the shop, such as when you break a shear pin on a rototiller, or back when I was a kid. And back when I was a kid, we would re-use nails and screws until the broke. We had a treehouse that could not have had more than 10% of the nails in it that were new. Most of them we straightened against a rock with the rattiest hammer in the garage after pulling them from things like pallets or older building projects.
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  1224. Dang! Did they paint that thing by dipping it in a barrel of half-dried paint?
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  1225. Heck, I "poppen ze hood" on my Mexican assembled Ford Focus.
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  1226. I want it all, and I want it now - Queen
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  1227. I partly blame the parts shops who sell this idea to the ignorant vehicle owners.
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  1228. Excelsior!
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  1229. Wow. The last vehicle I had with an acceleration profile like that was a skateboard. If I was going uphill.
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  1230. 25 newton-meters works out to about 18.4 foot-pounds. Yep, I used the internet.
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  1231. Still not the fastest brake job ever. The fastest brake job is when you pay for new pads and rotors, and get neither.
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  1232.  @gregadams558  Abracapocus! I'm an umpire!
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  1233. "Oh God!" is one phrase you DON'T want your mechanic to say when the scan-tool data comes up.
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  1234. With the sketchy lift point placement, the ratchet strap method for moving the axle up is likely safer than jacking up on the axle anyway.
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  1235. I was eating a salad and not watching the screen when the car didn't start. I actually stopped mid-chew and looked up to see what happened, to see if maybe Peetah had monkeyed with things.
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  1236. That engine has blended a fine French mustard. And you have also made a nice ad for Speedi-Dry!
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  1237. Regarding the problems haste can bring on, my mother used to have a plaque hanging in the kitchen that read, "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."
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  1238. I used to have one that was so loose it wouldn't turn a tight bolt, but it was a great hammer/lever.
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  1239. That lube that poured out looked rather thin, almost like brake fluid.
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  1240. The carpal tunnel is the channel in your wrist through which nerves run. The carpal bones are in your wrist, extending just up to the bottom of your wrist. The bones in the palm of your hand are the metacarpals. - I am not a doctor, I am just a person with internet access, and without the pressure of producing content for a daily YouTube video.
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  1241. I have seen someone use fix-a-flat and a lighter to deal with wasps. They were an idiot who had to run for their garden hose to save a garage...
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  1242. That floor jack cam reminded me of some camera angles in the MIB movies!
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  1243. $28 a QUART? I think we solved the mystery of why many people don't frequently have their CVT fluid changed.
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  1244. Okay, this gave me belly laughs!
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  1245.  @jsh6952  (over-done British accent) "Luxury! We woke up coated in a foot of ice and by noon we were roasting like the Kalahari! Kids these days have it easy!"
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  1246. About a decade ago my Saturn sedan needed a new ECM because the mass airflow damper rusted shut, causing a over-voltage or over-current on the sensor or damper control that fed back into the ECM and killed it. I was able to use a junkyard ECM, but it had to be data-reset at the dealership, as my mechanic did not have the ability to reset it. Only now, watching part one of this series, did I learn that it was about the VIN being programmed in, not anything to do with the performance of the car.
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  1247. That's not hard starting. That's a Jeep flexing its dolphin vocabulary.
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  1248. That is a good question. I suppose that hearing it to localize a wheel is the first step, then lifting the car to manipulate the wheel is the next diag step to nail it to either wheel bearing or CV. Though perhaps, the pull when breaking is another bearing indicator? - I am not making absolute statements here, as my job history has been in the hardware side of electronics, not auto repair.
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  1249.  @johnt.848  This is a valuable tip, thanks!
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  1250.  @annone6462  If you remove all the wafers, you can start your car with a pocket screwdriver?
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  1251. I don't have a dog, but there is a cat that hangs around the apartment building who will lie in the parking lot and make people drive around him/her.
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  1252. In that case, we should do away with keys entirely, and replace the concept with biometric checks. All cars should be the exact same model and color, to prevent your hypothetical! - "Fear is the mind-killer."
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  1253. Self-tapping screws are awesome! My brother and I did a full collision repair on his girlfriend's Geo SomethingOrOther (grill, radiator, radiator support, bent hood, etc.) with a drill, self-tapping screws, blankets and hammers, jumping up and down to straighten the hood, and a junkyard plastic grill and headlight replacement. Time? one weekend. Money? About $100 at the junkyard plus a box of self-tapping screws.
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  1254. It's even harder since the 'tube hid thumbs-down from us. Makes it a lot harder to find grain among the chaff.
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  1255. You might yawn, you may even "Y'all!" but no on the yaw.
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  1256. Just to provide perspective, 0.2 hours is 12 minutes. That's for removal of the spare, taking the old tire off the rim, putting a new one on, balancing it, and installing it. That can be less time than it takes to make mac-n-cheese on the stovetop (starting from an empty pan).
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  1257.  @AudreyBrataily  Bye Felicia?
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  1258. Who do they think they are, Apple?
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  1259. I had two of those. The first one the transmission ate itself. So we transplanted the engine into another one that had a good transmission and a seized engine, but that Beetle ended up with disintegrating unibody parts throughout the entire front end about a year later. My next car was a Ford Escort.
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  1260. Hope we get to see tires with good tread at the end of this job...
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  1261.  @volume311  We've seen Ray use that method before, particularly on jobs where the part was not being replaced, as a method to protect the threads.
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  1262. Truth!
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  1263.  @chrishengeveld6117  Hmm. Did you mean bass ackwards?
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  1264.  @tomblobasjamesc.mccollum1740  I had forgotten that monumentally dumb cartoon show.
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  1265.  @tomblobasjamesc.mccollum1740  Gah! You're making me remember that show even more! Curse you!!! And yes, he was.
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  1266. People suck. They are why I got out of retail, because I came very close to leaping the counter and strangling a customer.
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  1267. "Don't ever hit your head on a trailer hitch." - YOU CAN"T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! (clunk) Ouch.
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  1268. Wait, Ray has a customer who admitted they made a mistake instead of saying "another shop did it"? Ray's got good, sane, reasonable customers!
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  1269. Dood! Just change the spark plugs! (this was a joke)
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  1270. The way I say it (without being a slimy upselling mechanic myself) is, "A car that won't go is a camper. A car that won't stop is a coffin."
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  1271. That jump transition gave me joyful belly laughs.
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  1272.  @michaelpressman7203  Thank you for relaying a comment from Captain Obvious?
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  1273.  @billchessell8213  Also, bolts make the job a lot easier than rivets.
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  1274. Surefire way to make an intransigent part fit in a tight space when you can't quite find the right angle: Bring someone else over to show them how the part doesn't fit. The part will fit, you'll be laughed at, and you can get on with your day.
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  1275. My brother had a Ford Crown Victoria former police cruiser. The brakes were not working well, giving him jittering and uneven pulls to both sides. So he started a front brake job to find that the outside of BOTH rotors was worn to the cooling vanes. Also, the rotors were so warped from heating (metal on metal from worn-away brake pads can do that) and jammed to the hubs with rust that they had to be taken off at a garage with a torch and a wheel puller working in concert. - I would say he far exceeded the minimum thickness, yeah?
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  1276. That is one skilled operator in the Liebherr.
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  1277. Missed opportunity when announcing the delivery of "Deez nuts!"
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  1278. Scammers like this deserve drawing and quartering. I might relent and agree to simple beheadings, as long as they are publicized.
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  1279. 1) Dear car owners: having the parts store clear your ECM codes before taking the car to a mechanic is NOT helpful. 2) A TPMS being out happens, but 41psi in the right front tire? Please spend a couple of dollars for a tire pressure gauge, not all service station pumps are properly calibrated.
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  1280. Regarding the caller saying that they are or may be recording you, that is a legal requirement in 12 (maybe 16?) US states for there to be explicit notification. Florida is one of the states requiring consent from all parties being recorded. Once they TELL you that recording is or may be happening, you continuing with the conversation is treated, legally, as consent. - I also live in an all-party consent state, and I appreciate the clarity the law requires. - Oh, law enforcement can record you without your consent if they have a wiretapping warrant to do so.
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  1281. I honestly had no clue (or experience) with "small shoe - big shoe".
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  1282. That nut under the lift leg? Blast with an air nozzle from the other side/
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  1283. This car makes me happier that I do a (minimum) weekly walk-around of my car looking for tire, alignment, body and leak problems. It's a relic of my military training where getting a license to drive a military vehicle means you had to demonstrate that you knew the PMCS checks and how to update the vehicle logbook BEFORE you drove it each day.
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  1284. The correct answer was, "Yes, you CAN use brake-clean on a carpet. But nobody should."
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  1285. That is a solid effort! Concrete improvements! I'm floored.
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  1286. I used to own a stick-shift vehicle, and drove a "three on the tree" van for work at the same time. I also once had a "slush-o-matic" or hydrostatic transmission car. No clutch, but you still manually shifted.
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  1287. I wonder how many mechanics, with a complaint of "AC blowing hot" would catch a broken knob?
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  1288. What blows my mind is someone was obviously hands-on with that PCB and DIDN'T tell the owner about corrosion?
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  1289.  @dosgos  On this specific module, there is so much corroded, and some components look burst, that repair is not likely to be economically viable. edit: Ooh! delamination of the board! It's DONE.
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  1290. Thanks for the miniature dinosaur footage at the front of the show!
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  1291. And a panic is a waste of time and energy.
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  1292. Lemon Law is really anti-consumer in Florida. And there is zero protection for used car purchases.
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  1293.  @mikebrodeur6802  Not at all kidding.
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  1294. My daily drive used to go past the house of a guy who owned a landscaping company. His grass was regularly near a half a foot tall or taller, and his shrubs looked like they went to bed with wet hair.
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  1295. I would hazard that it is a matter of budget. The owner may not have the budget for that repair at this time.
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  1296.  @forgetfulme1719  As long as it doesn't join the PT Cruisers in the yard...
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  1297. That 1 year 15k miles was not a surprise after seeing how black the oil was on the dipstick. edit: Forgot it was a diesel engine, making black oil more normal, sorry. - If pre-filling the filter was the "right" thing to do, then no engine would have a filter mounted up or sideways from the block.
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  1298. Another appearance of the Air-15!
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  1299. This radiator hose brought to you by the number K and the letters "THE WORMS! THE WORMS THEY CRAWL IN MY BRAIN!!!"
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  1300.  @mikearmitage1577  (smile emoji)
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  1301. It's becoming Ray's... idiom?
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  1302. How the heck does the wrench measure degrees of turn?
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  1303.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Huh. Cool!
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  1304. Distributor cap? "It BELONGS in a museum!" Dr. Henry Jones
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  1305. That thing you call an exciter wire I call "the other red wire". I am not a skilled mechanic, and I've never stayed in a Doubletree Inn.
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  1306. Hey, thanks for the revisit to the broken cam shaft! - And whatever someone paid for the ad agency that came up with the "click it or ticket" tag line really got their money's worth. It is still in my head all the time.
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  1307. 0:39 Ray is talking about starting up an air compressor, and a youngling glides by on a crawler in the background. I had to stop the video to laugh, it was so fun!
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  1308. We'll just have to trick Troy and the Wife Unit into being more adversarial to satisfy the vocal minority. OR... Not.
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  1309. Hi, Dave!
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  1310.  @vicpetrishak7705  Thanks for the snorting laughter!
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  1311. I got a kick out of that turkey cosplaying as a peahen.
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  1312. 1-2 feet of sand deposited, and the high water line is 1-2 feet over that. There's a lot of clearing and stuff to fix. And we see whole stretches of asphalt that have broken up and been washed away.
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  1313. And thus the mantra, "New doesn't always mean good."
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  1314. My ex killed a car in a more spectacular fashion with a similar lack of oil. She drove it who knows how far on low or no oil until a piston arm seized on the crank shaft, breaking the arm free of the pesky piston, then driving that piston arm through the front of the engine block bigger than my fist. Her version of events? "It was running rough then it got noisy and died." And the car was not even paid off yet!
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  1315.  @natersalad889  I have had good dentists send me to an oral surgeon for a root canal the x-ray showed was beyond the dentist's skill. A wise skilled tradesperson will know their limits AND have connections to people who can fill in those gaps.
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  1316. Fair bet there.
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  1317. The engineer who decided to run that wire harness in that tight gap needs to go to a 12-person overnight rave in a small coat closet.
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  1318. When you cut to the floor jack around 2:00, I was looking away from the screen and wondered why there was an angry chicken in the video.
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  1319. Next to the fired car: Was that ANOTHER PT Cruiser, or just a previous one sitting out by the road? - edit: Oh, and the whole back drywall of the new side is gone too!
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  1320.  @frazzledude  That is a smart idea!
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  1321. Who knows what ELSE the steering shaft could have been in the way of?
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  1322.  @jayskrills7375  Hulk Hogan, is that you?
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  1323.  @rjb6327  Or a PT Cruiser if you have big hands. There is NO room under the hoods of those suckers!
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  1324.  @xscorpx  I refute your wrong opinion.
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  1325.  @xscorpx  It's so much fun to argue with someone who has not even stated what their actual position is other than to call me wrong. It's like arguing with a sleepy toddler.
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  1326.  @ZeroFox1970  Sour today?
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  1327.  @johnt.848  Correct but snarky.
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  1328. Hey, that foam peanut packaging is valuable if you're looking to make your own napalm. For recreational purposes...
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  1329. 3:10 Ray says, "It's held on with two band clamps..." and my brain went, 'Oh! One time, at band clamp..."
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  1330.  @dylansmith5820  Ah, pedantry. Even BETTER pedantry over a typo! You have slain me with your well-reasoned and clearly stated rebuttal!
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  1331.  @Gizmetti  You shall be missed. Where do we send the flowers and condolences cards?
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  1332. We all need to stop complaining. Why? Because there was an auto opt-in update pushed to the corporate laws and every dispute can only be dealt with via forced arbitration managed by arbitrators who work for the corporations. Oh, you want to opt-out? There is NO opt-out available. Shame on Roku for revealing the plan ahead of schedule.
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  1333. That Fit looks to be in the market for a new windshield as well.
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  1334. Ray, don't you know you were supposed to fire the parts cannon? You're never going to get a sweet job at a dealership the way you're going.
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  1335.  @presidentpoopypants1448  Ignorance of the law is no excuse!* (*Unless you have qualified immunity)
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  1336. Awesome!
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  1337. Akin to your point: Erasing the error codes just before bringing your car to the mechanic is like refusing to explain your symptoms to the ER doctor.
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  1338. I've only ever had to rehabilitate holes in wood, such as chairs or window frames. The usual tricks involved carpenter's glue and a piece of toothpick. So it was really interesting to watch a thread replacement in metal!
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  1339. ... In the "special" hell.
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  1340. At least this customer admitted they were the ones to ding stuff up, instead of the mysterious "Another Shop".
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  1341. Step 1: Remove the engine.
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  1342. We're here to watch Ray, not the building he happens to be working within.
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  1343. 3:03 - if it wasn't for the speed limit sign, I would have had no idea that was a road. 18:30 - I had to pause to make sure that alarm was not in MY apartment building because ours have the same soul-piercing sound. 19:15 - What is the Tesla version of hydro-locked? 26:19 - "Passengers are gone, the way is shut. Drums. Drums in the deep." Sorry, I'm a nerd.
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  1344. Come on Ray, anyone who is not mute can sing! Now, singing WELL? That's a little less common.
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  1345. Same here, russel. Even when I am fairly sure of the caller, when they ask, "Is this [my name]?" I answer with "speaking."
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  1346. I know it is not always required, but would it at all help to put dielectric grease on the numerous connectors under the hood as you go? I first encountered the usefulness of the stuff when I fixed a non-function horn by cleaning corrosion on the connector and re-attaching. The second time, it saved me a chunk of money when I thought I had to replace an inaccessible engine thermostat, when it was just a slightly corroded connector. - Now I keep a tube of it in the glove box, and other in the tool box in the trunk. To borrow the Frank's Red Hot slogan, "I put that sh** on everything!"
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  1347. The best thing I can think of to convince them to replace the nuts would be to tell them that if they get a flat at night, when it is raining, they will not be able to change the tire with the wrench that came with the vehicle, and any roadside assistance tech may not have that special '.5' socket to hammer on every nut. Which would leave them getting a flatbed tow to a garage, and arranging a cab or Uber to get home.
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  1348.  @amzarnacht6710  Damn that is f-ed up.
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  1349. Makes a lot more sense than the people who will refuse to have bald (or worse!) tires or completely worn brake pads/rotors replaced. Both of those problems can create dead people.
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  1350. That sounds like something that could be made by hand instead of bought. Two clips and some solid wire like from 10 or 12 gauge house wiring.
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  1351.  @bigiron4018  Heat over a width instead of a point. Even if you try using the pointed tip but away from the tip, your contact is a small tangent of the circular cross section.
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  1352. Ha!
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  1353. My 2011 Focus has 2x40 AC right now. I have been saving up to get the rocker panels replaced.
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  1354.  @stephanechabot1175  Not being a mechanic, I can only assume it should be.
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  1355. Ah, the elusive Fordie Mercury! Brian May make some interesting music with that vehicle.
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  1356. For patching over the holes in the walls, I would go with a thick bead of caulking, then a piece of recovered siding, then pop rivets. With screws, you're asking a couple of millimeters of material to hold the threads. Pop rivets hold the two surfaces together with pressure spread over a wider area than the small hole the rivet passes through.
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  1357.  @SirDeanosity  clickage, gravity
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  1358.  @timothyharrison8953  Just like with the subway, "Mind the gap!"
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  1359. How did Ray KNOW I was still watching at 16 minutes?
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  1360. I agree that manual grease guns give you better feedback of pressure. As to the fittings. In my experience, dirt can be cleaned off before greasing, rust means replacement. Broken or smashed ones? Replace. I did maintenance on rental constructions equipment, so we had boxes of grease fittings on hand at all times.
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  1361.  @Thestargazer56  The other place I've used dielectric grease was for the wire to the horn, which was gathering a lot of corrosion causing the horn to fail. Keep the moisture out, prevent the corrosion!
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  1362. Fastener - etymology Old English fæstnian "make fast, make firm, fix, secure," also "ratify, betroth, confirm," from Proto-Germanic *fastinon "to make firm or fast" (source also of Old Frisian festnia "to make firm, bind fast," Old Saxon fastnon, Old High German fastnion, German festnen, Old Norse fastna "to pledge, betroth"), from PIE *fast "solid, firm" (see fast (adj.)).
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  1363. Turkey baster?
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  1364.  @frandanco6289  Yeah, now that I think about it, you're right.
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  1365. A long time ago, a friend had a Peugeot and in addition to all of the under-hood labels and owner's manual being in French (which none of us understood in the least), it seemed like the thing was deliberately designed to drive mechanics insane.
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  1366.  @electropentatonic  That is EXACTLY what I said. I properly relayed subjective evaluations, with language specifically indicating that is was subjective. - What was the point of confirming that for the rest of the class?
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  1367. Kind of like Mentat Peter DeVries' discussion with Baron Harkonnen about his plan... THE plan.
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  1368. When I worked as the desk/maintenance guy for an equipment rental place, I ended up getting a tool that would let me measure bolt diameter (internal and external) and thread pitch that was about 6" x 8". I still have it, since I bought it with my money instead of shop money. It has helped shorten many a hardware store trip.
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  1369. That's a long way to go to make a set screw or two.
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  1370.  @vincentgotter4669  "Never give up, never surrender!" - Captain Peter Quincy Taggart
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  1371. I don't want to be "that guy" but wouldn't it have been easier to pull the trailer out of that spot than to keep extricating the forklift from soft dirt?
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  1372. Florida has no Lemon Law for used cars. They sold out to lobbyists, apparently.
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  1373.  @BReal-10EC  That is what I said. Other states, including the one I live in, have Lemon law protections for used cars. In my state's case, the car must be bought from a dealer (someone who sells more than 3 cars in a 12-month period), cost at least $700, and have less than 125,000 miles on the odometer at time of sale.
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  1374.  @BReal-10EC  The Massachusetts lemon law for used cars puts the financial burden for repair or reimbursement on the dealer, not the manufacturer.
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  1375.  @gurutimes2  Depending on which state you are living in or made the purchase in (or both?) there are different levels of protection for the buyers of used road vehicles.
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  1376. @Self Made Auto And should have taken the extra time and charged the customer the extra money, too. Right?
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  1377. @Self Made Auto Aw. Did I trample on your world-view?
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  1378. Wait, wait. At about 5:25 you make the BOLD claim that you can't do a brake inspection with the wheels on. Are you completely unconcerned with the potential backlash from the Brake Shop Cartel (TM)? I hope nothing untoward happens to you for such rebellious talk.
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  1379. I see that Silverado and my brain supplied, "Lieutenant Truck! You ain't got no wheels!"
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  1380. Does this car also need a battery strap/tie-down?
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  1381. I definitely like the hanging method for the door liner better than those metal clips that seem to love pulling out of the door liner panel on Fords I've owned.
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  1382.  @BixbyConsequence  Nice! A customizable tool.
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  1383. From the comments on video 1, Dexcool is apparently a serious problem child a) if there is the slightest hint of any minerals in the cooling system, or b) always no matter what.
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  1384. I think if Ray had "just taken the manifolds off" the engine would have made SURE some of THOSE studs would break off.
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  1385.  @alanlozano6535  That's a good point.
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  1386. The "fun" of pulling vehicles into the angled lift tells me you might want to look into good relations with neighbor businesses and a good perusal of what your lease entitles you to, all with an eye to keeping access as clear as possible without turning fellow tenants into enemies.
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  1387.  @redmondjp  I have never really been a fan of turning food into automotive go-go juice. It's a shame we can't be smarter like countries using non-food plants to do similar additives.
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  1388.  @RageKage1776  Knipex
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  1389.  @rayzor285  I have tried several times to teach this friend, and it's not that she doesn't "get it" it's that she flat out refuses to learn. I offered to teach, she made up excuses. I changed a tire in front of her, out came her phone. I gave up about four years ago.
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  1390. High (air) temp? Swollen (lug) nuts? Sounds like a bacterial infection.
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  1391. In Massachusetts, tire shops will only put the new pair of tires (assuming you are only replacing two) in the rear, because in a water/ice/snow skid, having better tread in the rear reduces the severity of the skid, and helps reduce the chances of your car going into a spin. I don't know if this is a law or regulation, or something required by the tire shops insurance coverage, but apparently the science behind the idea is solid. And it works whether the vehicle is front, rear, or four-wheel drive. - edit: To all of the commenters talking about worries of blowouts in the front tires? Don't drive on crappy tires. 2/32 inch tread depth is the absolute minimum for passenger vehicles (it is more for commercial vehicles), patches in the sidewalls are ASKING for trouble, and the corded punch-through plugs for holes in the tread are less reliable than interior patches. It doesn't take a lot of time to do a weekly or monthly walk-around of your vehicle to look for uneven tire wear, and you can check tread depth with a penny (remember pennies?) upside down in the tread. If the tread is not deep enough to touch Abe's head, your tire is too worn.
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  1392. I am continually disappointed with the Ford Fusion. There is nowhere to refill the Deuterium!
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  1393.  @michaelolive5070  Ray posts so many videos he'd have to be doing the scam jobs at home on his own time or something.
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  1394. Clip broke? SELF-TAPPERS! Hahaha!
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  1395. Deep in the guts of the engine is an odd place to put breakable plastic parts like those straight guides, to my mind.
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  1396. I have had cars for over three decades and never put gloves in mine. Paperwork, tire plug kit, straws, plastic forks and spoons, tire pressure gauge, tire tread depth gauge, napkins/tissues, pencil and some paper, and in the old days, a highway map or two. But never gloves. Gloves and a hat go in the trunk or the pocket on the back of the passenger seat.
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  1397. Ah, the GMC McKinley. (facepalm)
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  1398. Don't apologize to haters, that only gives them power. Sure, explain your decisions. State your position, but don't give power to the heckler's veto!
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  1399. Regarding parts and Murphy's law, some say Murphy was an optimist.
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  1400.  @Stealth86651  There is another factor with the 'barely wet' roads. In areas that don't get frequent rain, the road surface builds up oils, greases, and tire rubber particles from all the vehicles using the road. When the very light rain happens, all that slick residue floats, forming a slick layer on tip of the water. There can be fewer loss-of-traction events if the rain is heavier (until you dance into hydroplaning) or after the light rain has had time to clear the car residue.
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  1401. As a driver in the snow belt, I get a car wash mid-winter and mid-spring. I make sure the car was I use has underbody cleaning, and if they have a protectant option, I sometimes spring for it.
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  1402. What Ray calls a 'Florida snow shovel' we call a coal shovel up here in Massachusetts where snow, sand and salt are our constant winter companions. Oh, and rust, too.
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  1403. I watch videos from the guy who goes by Post 10. He pressure washes the underside of his vehicles frequently, and several times a year gets under the car with a rattle can of Rustoleum black. He reports no major rotting issues.
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  1404. "Hmm. Spark plugs and air filters are supposed to be changed regularly. Let's make the engineers design things so the dealer garages can charge more hours for those simple regular maintenance items." - "Brilliant idea boss!"
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  1405.  @Itrieditathome889  And don't forget the price of a tow!
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  1406. "Lifetime" fluids are such a lie. Just like "Maintenance-Free" things like roofs. - edit: Also, no dipsticks for transmissions should earn whomever made that call a beating with a sack of rabid badgers.
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  1407. That's either oil in the radiator, or they're cooling the engine with melted chocolate ice cream.
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  1408. 36F? Okay, this Massachusetts dweller concedes that you have experienced cold.
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  1409. I hope the owner uses the last bits of transmission life to either find a better truck or save up for a rebuilt transmission.
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  1410. What? No using the angle grinder to cut open the gas fuel filter? Darned Rule #1...
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  1411. Ray, those bolts at about 8:30 aren't the hardest part. According to another Florida native, the Wai-ai-ait is the hardest part.
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  1412.  @jamram9924  That reminds me of the video Louis Rossmann did where he measured the ACTUAL current it took to pop automotive fuses he bought from the top-recommended sellers on Amazon. I think one of the 10 amp fuses took over 40 amps to pop.
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  1413.  @topherd1011  If the connection is solid, then it is solid with either brand new connectors or the zip-tie mod. Replacing the connectors may be parts-cheap, but it adds labor time. And it can (not will, but can) introduce chances for wire damage.
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  1414. Those darned engineers in their PT Cruiser Country Club in the sky!
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  1415.  @jdtractorman7445  I must be missing a joke. Compression test by measuring amperage at the battery?
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  1416. 24:30 Open the carburetor, spray in some starting fluid? Yeah... I'm old and making an old guy joke here.
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  1417.  @DogAteMyPopcorn  Anagram Pontiac and you get Paction plural-s 1: chiefly Scottish : AGREEMENT, COMPACT, BARGAIN 2: a short-term international convention terminating with the execution of a single act or performance
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  1418.  @robertgestier2013  Levorg backward is grovel. Neat!
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  1419. That filter was a rather "Roundabout" task. Pun? Yes.
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  1420. I had a fender replaced on my 1988 Bronco after a collision and the new inner fender had a DRASTICALLY misaligned hole to provide access to the front directional bulb. The body show ended up using power shears and expanding the hole, then filing down the sharp bits for me. - Bad parts, great body shop.
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  1421. I'm a little surprised he didn't have to drop the rear suspension to get the compressor off.
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  1422. The weld came out looking pretty clean, and it saved the vehicle owner a few hundred dollars in parts and labor (and risk of broken bolts). As for the grounding issues? Electricity is lazy. It will ground to the closest strong ground.
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  1423. And Ray is letting her play with his toy, er- hoist. Just like the ay a kid shows they like another kid.
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  1424. Not being in a state that salts and sands their roads for about 1/4 to 1/3 of the year helps a lot.
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  1425.  @DainSmart-vm7pc  Not taking linguistic advice from someone who doesn't go to THE hospital. (/joke)
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  1426.  @daBEAGLE1017  Sounds like you're driving Denis Leary's car! I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps And all leather cow interior And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah) And I'm gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour Gettin' 1 mile per gallon
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  1427.  @BattlestarCanada  Didn't read your handle at first, but knew you were Canadian when you call utilities "hydro". And you make some very salient points. I too have driven a car on junkyard tires. When you're low on funds, you may have to compromise on a lot, and tires with 4/32" to 8/32" tread, and only a couple of years of decent rubber life left chemically may be one of those compromises. So, too, can be the decision to do a "pad slap" brake job.
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  1428. The sleeve only potentially slows the temperature reading as the sleeve also has to be brought to temperature.
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  1429.  @jacksmith2315  Double nuts has been said so much in this discussion that it has simultaneously lost all meaning AND become an innuendo.
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  1430. It is a shame the Nissan is so broken, the owner keeps the thing clean, and thus seems to care about their car that they so recently bought. Imagine if Florida had a lemon law like the one we have in Massachusetts. The owner would have a decent possibility of redress.
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  1431. Shiny is a fine word to mean well done or good. People who don't grok that have a stick up their nethers, dong ma?
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  1432. People complaining about you using the camera don't need to watch you using the camera. Just like the right-wing snowflakes upset at hearing about slavery at Monticello don't need to GO to Monticello.
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  1433. Seeing the reason for putting the new tensioner on twice, I think the belt might be able to be changed without taking off the tensioner, if there is enough clearance to finagle the belt around the bottom pulley after passing it through the gap in the tensioner arm.
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  1434. I gotta say, that transmission fluid LOOKS delicious!
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  1435. My current car has TPMS but I didn't even know it for the first six years because I just monitored the pressure myself, particularly at the start and end of the New England winters. I only found out the sensors even worked when I had a road debris flat happen. - I guess I am too old for these new-fangled electronic doo-hickies?
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  1436.  @lupavo1738  That's good to hear. I've only ever had vehicles with lug nuts and not lug bolts. Even my VW had lug nuts, but it was a 1974 Beetle.
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  1437. Ray adventures with sunroofs have taught me that I don't want a sunroof.
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  1438. 11:00 is the sensuous syndrome. "Sensuous in there, why not change all those other parts?"
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  1439. For the hookup, I once had to help in a similar situation. Four healthy dudes standing on the rear bumper lowered the ball just enough to get under the hitch.
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  1440. I imagine it depends on a number of factors. Some I can think of: comparative price, parts availability, and condition of the part that could be rebuilt.
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  1441. I once went through eight ez-outs (snap, snap, snap...) on one broken bolt on an excavator and ended up drilling out the bolt to chisel out the threads anyway.
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  1442. Debbie Does Destruction
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  1443. I'd feel safe compressing a strut spring... if the compressing tool was wrapped in a T-34.
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  1444. Sorry to hear about the theft.
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  1445.  @nancy4don  But that's also a feature for when you accidentally lock your keys inside.
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  1446. And sometimes even with all of the service done at all of the recommended intervals, you get an engine that just commits self-un-aliving. It could be a design issue, a manufacturing defect, and assembly screw-up, bad metallurgy (see the Subaru block Ray had to keep replacing threads in), bad quality control on a batch of oil, the computer dies and out of loneliness takes the engine with it, road hazard, aggressive driving...
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  1447.  @mariosaccoccio1688  Even then, it is in your subjective past. Prophets get to have future experiences.
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  1448. That truck has serious "rode hard and put away wet" energy. Good to see the gradual (partial, so far) rehabbing of that abused beast.
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  1449. Sometimes, the blue-tip wrench is the only tool that will work.
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  1450. I recall the old days with mechanical (no power assist) rack and pinion steering, and a friend's car that had nearly 30 degrees of play in the steering wheel. Fun times!
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  1451. Who knew the speed bump in the parking lot was one of the diagnostic tools?
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  1452.  @Freddie118  And phalanges (fingers).
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  1453. Ray's reaction to the wire nut reminded me of the "NO WIRE COATHANGERS!" scene in the movie Mommy Dearest.
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  1454.  @ivanolsen7966  It probably flows there much like an eddy in a river or a grotto in a water-eroded cave. You get low speed, high pressure and turbulent flow which deposits sediments and turns them into a grinding paste. Thus, the corrosion Ray noted on the intake manifold where there was no coolant channel.
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  1455. Warrantied for the life of the bag?
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  1456.  @jbdragon3295  Hmm... I saw Ray air them up to 8psi.
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  1457.  @marshall1157  And left socks that escape the dryer!
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  1458. I saw something like that once on an old engine that needed new rings and re-sleeved cylinders.
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  1459. Watching Ray for over a year has ruined another TV show for me. I was watching an early episode in some CW dreck of a show and a character was under the middle part of an SUV and stood up with "a tie rod" as a form of blackmail to be included in some road trip. 1) Where the guy was under the vehicle there are no suspension parts. 2) He had none of the tool necessary to extract a tie rod. 3) The party he brandished was brand new. 4) the part he brandished was not even the right part for that vehicle, and might not have been a tie rod at all. - I stopped watching because the show started with a promise of supernatural topics but within two episodes turned into the usual CW teen romance drama. But I might have made it to THREE episodes without all of this automotive knowledge!!!
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  1460. Just replace the whole car then, Sound logic, yes?
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  1461. The glitter is a symptom of a transmission rave. Nothing to see here, please move along.
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  1462. That part about figuring out the wiring for the new pigtail! - And yesterday I had someone comment in a discussion on another channel that Ray's content is not "technical enough"...
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  1463. It's not "fleecing" to make sure that the car next to me is not frame-rotted, lacking brakes, running on bald tires and has more play in the steering than the NFL has between first and last whistle. Sorry we disagree, but I think Florida's "safety" plan is like squeezing your eyes shut and assuming that if you can't see the scary monster, it can't see you either.
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  1464. I have gotten parts from a shop under an employer's account, and there is a discount from listed price. So a shop can charge the customer retail and still make enough to pay for the little bit of time it takes to order and unbox those parts. - I don't see the huge issue.
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  1465. Nice Olfa knife!
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  1466. Not completely dishonest, but amazingly lazy re-labeling.
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  1467. All that and you have a known maybe-good-maybe-junk ECM for the next PT Cruiser.
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  1468. Sometimes when I read "By the book" I remember a scene in a movie with a hitchhiking George Carlin and a nun.
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  1469. Sometimes when you are in ketchup mode, you need to mustard your forces so at the end of the day you can relish the feeling of a job well done. Hot dog!
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  1470. I am imagining an auto shop after closing, sign lights off, just a little light leaking from under the bay doors. Listening carefully at a window, I then hear, "Hi, I'm Troy, and I really like Jeeps too much." Then the voices of several mechanics, "Hi Troy."
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  1471.  @TriforceOfCourage97  It's not just the knowledge but also the right tools and the experience that people pay for. ... And too often overpay for or don't even get.
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  1472. Ah, so it is an onomatopoeia for you as well!
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  1473. I didn't know we were going to get a bonus Dashcam Nation video along with our wrench turning!
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  1474. Odd frame of reference questions: Would the time machine still initiate if it was on a trailer being pulled at 88MPH by, say, a Silverado driven by a Florida mechanic? If not, is it that the wheels have to be spinning at the 88MPH rate? If so, perhaps an externally driven roller system like that on a dynamometer would do the job. What if you combinge both ideas, giving you a trailer that could spin the DMC's wheels at the same speed as road speed, and it was all pulled by the Florida mechanic's Silverado?
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  1475.  @myacidninjatheamazing1025  I do recall that. But is still doesn't answer the question of if the car has to hit 88, or the spinning of the wheels, or both.
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  1476.  @myacidninjatheamazing1025  I do appreciate this additional data! This is worth pondering. Maybe an open trailer? Maybe a tow line that has a quick release triggered to 88mph? So many questions, so few test rigs...
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  1477. If someone is seriously that worried about something like brakes, they could surreptitiously mark the old parts some way (even a scratched "X") and then look after the service to see if the parts are actually new. Ya know, or at least look at the old parts beforehand and then the new part afterward.
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  1478. Okay, I'll do it... "REEEE! You should spend a lot of your customer's money by sending the entire engine out to an engine rebuild shop whose work you can't warranty or be sure of!!!" - Ugh. That hurt being so needlessly cynical.
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  1479. My 2011 Ford Focus has enough space for a full size tire in the spare compartment, but they still sold it with the "Why don't you have good roadside assistance, idiot?" donut spare. I have seen some cars being sold without a spare or jack at all, on the basis that the roadside assistance plan they offer is a good replacement.
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  1480. It is hard for me to judge the sound quality from that install on my $25 desktop speakers. But it looks cool!
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  1481. I hope you're not one of those scanner users who "helpfully" erases all the codes for the customers, making mechanic's job harder.
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  1482. Well, at least it was an easy place to access. (sarcasm)
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  1483.  @johnt.848  That last bit is an image!
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  1484. We all leak to some degree when we get really old...
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  1485. For background sound, I mostly hear the fan(s).
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  1486. That heated pressure water arrangement can't be making the interior at all pleasant in a Florida summer!
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  1487. Penetrating lube is not a myth. Back when my life included the occasional nocturnal penetration activity, lube did assist things.
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  1488. Regarding the person who complained about the truck disassembly process, a saying of my grandmother's comes to mind. "Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!"
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  1489.  @philspear73  I kind of like the various "other business" sounds. Kind of widens the soundscape.
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  1490. Unless it is a simple oil and filter change, I drop off the vehicle and find something to do or somewhere to be. Heck, even for a simple oil change, I bring an e-reader and block out an hour and a half in case I need to wait for my car to be pulled in. And I ask if they are busy before I turn over my keys. Too busy? I can come back another day.
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  1491. Whoa! Justin's car is SLICK!
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  1492. Ray has a drawer of door opening/body panel wedges. Would those work in this location>
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  1493. I saw the other box on the end of the truck. I had no idea Kholer was into engines. I thought they were a faucet company. - I looked it up, and they indeed were the same company before spinning Kohler Energy off to a separate division or company or something. I was interested, but not interested enough to dive into corporate forms...
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  1494. 2:50 - lube AND a reach-around?
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  1495.  @stevendouglas6593  I can think of one fix that didn't require the removal of the engine (though the door was in danger of being removed): Getting my 6'3 self out of my friend's Mini MG. There were tears. MANLY tears!
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  1496. It looks like the seal delaminated from the metal of the upper gasket. The seal also broke pretty easy into many parts, lending to the seal being dried out.
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  1497.  @miscbits6399  Fair point. Just there is no ONE steel alloy or ONE aluminum alloy, there is no ONE plastic. Picking the right material for an application is a constant job, and that's BEFORE the bean counters and those struck in the forehead by the "good idea fairy" put their two cents in.
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  1498.  @davidreynolds9189  I like sonatas. Great music.
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  1499. The Subaru outback is not built in Australia? What's next, the Ford Mustang is not built by horses?
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  1500. When you said you broke your tooth on the wrench I was stunned at how calm you were with that kind of pain... then I realized you meant the tooth INSIDE the wrench, not the one inside your face.
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  1501. I had two SL's myself. (An SL and an SL-1) Ex-wife killed the SL-1 by not checking the oil and letting the engine make an observation port in the block. The one I drove only died when the strut mounts rusted through, and by that time the repair would be 2-4 times what the car was worth. I bought it used and still got nearly 18 years out of it.
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  1502. Sounds like a pretty cool product. Never heard of it before.
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  1503. REEEEEE! No honks for safety.
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  1504.  @Mrdugan5269  Great tip! Plus, those tubs are thick and will last a long time being used for mere liquids.
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  1505.  Repent-and-believe-in-Jesus  Get thee hence, proselytizer! The power of Pasta compels you! The power of Pasta compels you! The power of Pasta compels you! - Ramen
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  1506. It is sometimes a valid technique in troubleshooting microcircuitry. Letting the smoke out is a short step beyond pushing over-voltage and using either IR tech or a dampened fingertip to see where the heat is.
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  1507. 0:30 is when I said, "Oh! The lawnmower pickup!"
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  1508. Suburban drove in Chaotic Neutral, drove off Lawful Good.
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  1509. But who has time for fishing?
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  1510. Dave has done the impossible!
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  1511. Make like a tree and buzz off!
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  1512. Tough reach for the o-ring. Maybe you should have asked the lizard for help?
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  1513. Yeah, I would never try something like that at home. I would go to a friend's home and try it. They have better homeowner's insurance.
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  1514. I had to replace a tail light on my 2011 Focus. Looked it up and it required removing the entire light assembly by pulling out the carpet in the trunk, finding the screws/bolts in the blind pocket, and catching the light housing before it falls and yanks wires. Fun.
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  1515. Even an MC can be a Hammer!
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  1516. You have my thumbs-down on the big screen in the truck dash. The whole video gets a thumbs-up though. I'm old-fashioned, and against any kind of screen (particularly touch-screens!) being available to the driver.
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  1517. Nice light bar. Does Troy jack kangaroos on the weekends?
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  1518. To me, it looked like the two blades were a bit 'out-of-center' making them bump against the opposing plug innards instead of sliding into the slots.
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  1519. That LB7 engine looked only slightly more fun than a trip to LV-426.
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  1520. That knob on the steering wheel has been outlawed in 26 states (including Florida). Another 21 allow the use with restrictions. I'm not trying to be a narc, but the owner may want to be aware.
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  1521.  @DannyNeal-g8y  That makes more sense! I was trying to figure out what the problem with showing footwear was.
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  1522. If I didn't live with a lease that has a "no working on your car on the property" clause, so would I.
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  1523. A lot of mulch. A whole lot of mulch. Mulch ado about nothing. More mulch than you can shake a spear at!
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  1524. Nooks and crannies are no big deal. It's the crooks and nannies that are the real concern.
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  1525. Aha! It was Mark Rober who killed the transmission!
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  1526. Amsoil vs Mobil 1 vs Valvoline vs... Red Sox vs Yankees vs Angels vs ... About as sane. Pancakes vs waffles vs French toast... It's all a carrier for syrup (sir-up).
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  1527. One thing I would have added before a test drive is a visual inspection of tire tread wear, and a check of tire pressure with a pocket gauge.
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  1528.  @aderi31415  Me too! Good to see a parts washer in the shop.
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  1529. So it wasn't just me?
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  1530.  @madmatt2024  Specifically, in Florida, lemon law claims, which can only apply to new vehicles unlike some other states, must be initiated within 24 months of taking delivery of the vehicle. - Once the lemon law window closes, you have a steeper path to legal claims.
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  1531.  @toysoldier46552  I think what sucks the most is I don't know what I don't remember until I try to remember it. And then it is stuff I KNOW I used to remember. Meanwhile, I can still remember very clearly things from the early 1970's. But not the major plot points of books I read only 4 to 6 years ago.
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  1532. I decent trick I've seen to clean both sandpaper (such as the expensive stuff on table sanders) and files is a rubber grit cleaner. You can even use the sole of an old sneaker.
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  1533. Dang! Bugs are going full Kamikaze on your windshield.
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  1534. Hey, it's not like you got the peanut from the Cuyler P-Nuts and Hair doos shack...
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  1535.  @frizzlefry1921  "Say it with me now." - "Mister Claymore is not our friend..."
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  1536. Ray apparently had a lot of fun editing up the opening. I know I was amused and entertained!
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  1537. Power windows on a 1978? And they still work!? Amazing.
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  1538. "It ain't got no glass in it."
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  1539. You too?
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  1540. I see all those different length fasteners and all I can think is, "Dang, engineers, who hurt you so badly?"
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  1541.  @chrismckenna5361  Don't forget the blue-tip wrench!
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  1542. Yep. Immediately after: We get the thumbs-down counter back, Apple gives independent repair shops schematics and the ability to buy non-serialized parts, And the FTC can actually levy fines that make the megacorporations nervous about getting fined.
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  1543. But the internet loves videos with thick, heavy shafts. - - No, YOU have a dirty mind!
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  1544. I get the heebie-jeebies when someone works on an engine while it is running. I think it is because the first time I saw someone do that was back in the days when the radiator fan was four steel blades connected directly to the engine and spun fast enough to cut a napping cat apart on start-up (another childhood trauma story). The person working on the engine dropped some tool or other and it came flying out of the engine compartment like someone threw it in anger. - So even in the age of electric radiator fans, I still shudder.
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  1545. Not enough torque, and the lug nuts could self-loosen, opening the garage to legal liability. Too much torque, and the shop may be required to replace the lug nuts and studs when either the studs break, or the tire cannot be removed without extreme measures. - For this specific vehicle, the safest thing would have been to leave the wheels off entirely, though the damage to the floor and parking lot would be harsh.
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  1546.  @bcubed72  Yep. OTC and prescription meds ae all in metric.
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  1547.  @Rekuzan  There are some trades and practices that have multiple methods of measurement still in use. Some that come to my mind: wire gauge, shotgun gauge, compass readings (degrees, degree-minute-second, mils, radians), the engineering measurements you mentioned, a trip through a US grocery store (a liter of soda, a gallon of milk, and 5 pounds of potatoes)... - Some measurement systems were invented because the numbers "felt good" while others are more logical. 360 degree, thanks to the Babylonians' sexagesimal numbering system, the (wrong) number of days in a year, and the geometry or equilateral triangles.
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  1548.  @michaelszczys8316  Other points are that a tire valve is almost never holding over a hundred PSI behind it. All of the tire valves I have seen fail were because people didn't keep the weather caps on them, and there was light corrosion and/or dirt driven into the valve when the tires were topped off.
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  1549. It occurs to me you could check for metal bits in the filter and oil with a blue glove over your magnetic socket extractor. The glove is to keep your magnet clean and make it easy to get any metal off of it.
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  1550. Careful! You may end up being known as "the guy" for PT Cruisers in Florida and end up working on nothing else.
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  1551. I saw one of those "customer states" videos that had both a car with every upholstered surface carpeted by a layer of mold, and another that had spoiled food and drink, and a thriving colony of mixed insects/beetles.
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  1552. Blow-by is an engine problem. By-blow is an unmarried parents problem.
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  1553.  @rongollonik7754  Oh, good point on the structural aspect. Another method to level it out and still use self-tappers would be a couple of washers under each side.
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  1554. That's right! Until you arrive, you are just missing.
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  1555. Thanks to Ray, I can only call those things Silvery-rados when I see them.
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  1556.  @RCRadioShow  There is also a use for blasting pelletized solid CO2 in mold and fire remediation of wood building materials.
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  1557.  @jaclroberts  Some lubrication ports are very tiny. Small enough it would take one or two bits of walnut shell to block or impede the flow.
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  1558. Pass on a "job well done" for the coworker who caught the mouse!
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  1559. The regular wheels on that car look like most cars' donut spares.
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  1560. I know air wrenches can have a setting for maximum torque/impact.
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  1561. Left rear was a GREAT demonstration of the vacuum versus pressure situation with the fluid. Thanks, Ray!
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  1562. You're pointing out Ray's deficiencies wrong, you're supposed to start with "REEE!"
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  1563. My only really hard diagnostic was figuring out why my Saturn had DRLs and high-beams, but no low-beams. After buying a Haynes manual with the wiring diagrams, and about two hours of contortions and metering all over the place, I finally found the open... Inside the plastic of the block of the fuse panel. Armed with all of that, my mechanic was able to do a cut-and-jumper and disable the DRLs to give me back low beams. And he did it with less than an hour of work, I just did not have the right tools.
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  1564. Wait, the filter is built into the pan? What bean counter came up with THAT brand of customer abuse? edit: Saw the "WARNING; LIFETIME OIL sticker. Lifetime oil has the same vibe as "full self-driving". Carmakers are truly embracing the dark side.
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  1565. When you opened the first box, my brain dredged up the song: "One of these things is not like the other..." from Sesame Street. Why am I accessing 45 year old files?
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  1566. He did say he drained it, refilled it and replaced the cap. A disassembly would have been a LOT of time and money invested. A transmission flush (is that a thing?) might have been warranted, I don't know.
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  1567. You still need to do a light wear-in to make sure the surfaces of the pads and rotors meet on as much surface as possible
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  1568. Pants!
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  1569. And the sheer number of tools needed keeps the Snap-On trucks visiting.
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  1570. I'd rather own a canoe. No docking fees, no special trailers, and you only need to share your watercraft with AT MOST two other people.
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  1571. 4:35 - The first known "pull my finger" joke used versus a car.
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  1572. "My Corolla just started making that noise (after I stopped playing my music volume eleven)."
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  1573. Lovely sonata, thank you Ray!
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  1574.  @squiggyg.8415  Mine is "anyways". There is no s on the word when spoken/spelled correctly.
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  1575. The intro plays a little loud.
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  1576. I am struck by how many "repair AC" jobs are as simple as "replace leaky valves". I am willing to wager that is why my AC no longer works well. I did the consumer bottle recharge thing a couple of years ago when my car was about 8 years old, and the AC worked great for about six weeks before tapering off in performance. I will ask a mechanic to check the system for leaks and see if I can get AC back with a low repair bill.
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  1577. And it may be moving, but not to the full range it is supposed to.
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  1578.  @Wishes890  Why? 1) they did not have available bay space for a few days, also being a collision repair shop. 2) I saved paying them to put my car up on a lift and taking the wheels off themselves. 3) I DID have the space and tools available to remove the wheels. But not knowing those things, you question was quite reasonable.
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  1579.  @Wishes890  Most welcome! And have moderately neato day.
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  1580. I thought this one was hurricane Ian?
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  1581. Buy Here Pay Here Regret Later?
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  1582. I have not opened the inners of a car door since the moisture liner was waxed paper instead of clear poly.
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  1583. I had one of those calls where they said if I didn't work with them they would send an officer to my house to arrest me. I told him to send the officer right away, I would be waiting with my (non-existent) lawyer on the phone. - Huh. The man with the thick Indian accent hung up.
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  1584. That "thunk" sounded to me like something shifting in the glove box. But I don't have the benefit of having been sitting in the car when it happened.
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  1585.  @sstreet9436  The issue with all of the quick-lube places is employee turnover. You may have your car serviced by a 5-year experienced tech. Or your car may be the new hire's first. Now add to that the possible variability in training quality/quantity...
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  1586. In this case, it could just as likely have been the corrosion on the non-wearing edge interfering with the caliper jaws.
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  1587. Well, with very rare exceptions, all of the electrons are billions of years old.
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  1588.  @dantesinfernopurgatory7826  As long as you are aware that neither is a long-term solution, particularly if exposed to the elements.
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  1589.  @dantesinfernopurgatory7826  That's what I wrote.
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  1590. It's astounding how many businesses get 1-star reviews from butt-hurt trolls who've never even patronized the business. And the sites make business owners jump through hoop after hoop to only deny them the ability to wipe those fallacious reviews.
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  1591. $2,200 to add another possible point of failure? I wouldn't choose the electric door motor either.
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  1592.  @Brian-pt2nn  The what-the-Pasta now? You're pulling my leg.
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