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

  1. I'm not Ray, but "Hi Silas! Enjoy the flashlight gravity!"
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  2.  @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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  3. And the brake caliper was the only thing keeping it all in the same general zip code. Amazing.
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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. It LOOKS like it would stink in there.
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  7. 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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  8.  @XENONEOMORPH1979  Yeah! How DARE we, his viewers, offer polite suggestions!!!!
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  9. Metal gear = solid.
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  10. If someone doesn't like hearing Ray talk, there is a volume slider on YouTube AND their computational device.
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  11. 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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  12. Real smart the way those get mounted!
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  13. 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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  14. Not only to answer the phones, but to chase, er ORDER, parts and deal with customer face-to-face time.
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @OnTheToolsWithSal  Well, if you're looking for EASY, just replace the vehicle with a new one.
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  19. 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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  20. Someone at BBK owes mechanics some sort of huge apology. A factory tour just won't cut it this time.
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. We also got to see that this car is leaking oil. Another problem for 'Tomorrow Ray'?
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. And it's always one that is not easy to reach.
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  28.  @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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. Same Ray time, same Ray channel! (/spinning_wipe)
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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @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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  35. That's why a lot of people make a point of NOT killing or evicting non-venomous spiders.
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  36. The immediate freshwater rinse is what saved things.
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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. Step one: Remove car from starter...
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  40. The rebuilder's liberal use of paint probably obliterated any chance of finding that hole.
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  41. He's an excellent driver, yeah.
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  42.  @michaeltutty1540  I remember a line from a Dudley Moore movie, "Crazy People". - Volvo. They're boxy, but they're good. -
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  43.  @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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  44.  @skismosis  There was a product called "Belt Dressing" that was/is sold by various brands to quiet the squeal.
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  45. 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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  46. "Drive it like you stole it" is SUPPOSED to be a joke!!!
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. If one of your rockets was used to launch an SUV into orbit, would that involve Ford Escape velocity?
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  50.  @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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