Hearted Youtube comments on Rainman Ray's Repairs (@RainmanRaysRepairs) channel.

  1. Warning, warning, warning..... You have overfilled the final drives. The center plug is the oil level indicator and should be left undone when refilling. The fill plug hole is best rotated slightly off TDC when refilling. Otherwise the refilling oil flows straight down and comes out of the level plug before the final drive is at the correct fill level. It's a good idea to replace that final drive oil at every engine oil change.
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  2. This is the first time I heard the term "Lizard Lotion." It will now be my go-to phrase in place of snake oil. Thanks for the chuckle!
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  3. "Tool" recommendation: Hemostats. I liberated some from my wife who's in the medical field. You can get them at various sizes. Hooked or straight noses. They serve the dual purpose of getting into tight spaces where a needle nose can't and also lock onto an object without having to keep pinching the handles. An absolute must for "rocket surgery".
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  4. Can you Ray stop using AI generator for a thumbnail. I miss your creativity what you do with those thumbnails.
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  5. It's truly amazing that you work a full time job (Im assuming anyway) and still put out 20 min - 1 hour videos DAILY. You absolutely deserve the influx of subs you have been getting and then some- Keep it up, Love your videos!
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  6. Hey Ray, not a criticism, just good-hearted trivia: us "metric thinkers" calculate how many liters of fuel a vehicle consumes for every 100 km of distance driven. Not how many kilometres it does per a liter of fuel. Great content! Edit: personal example - my car consumes about 15l/100 km, and at a 60l fuel tank capacity, I know I can manage an average of 400km before I have to fill up each time 😊
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  7. The real question....Did you remember to take your thermometer out of the AC vent?
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  8. Eric O is just sitting back chuckling, "Ray went and put up a welding video . . . he's gonna catch it in the comments!"
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  9. Hopefully it was just a case of wrong place wrong time, and potentially you get people who know how to help you out the next time, good mechanics go way under appreciated nowadays
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  10. Customer: "Hello, Ray...my car was in a lot of water and rain recently." Ray: "Hmm...yes....I know of this water. My yard was turned into a lake front property during the recent hurricane."
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  11.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Convictions much!😁👍🏾I understand you and agree. I see your point of view and again, I agree. You and I are for the most part aligned (haha used a car word). More and more people like you and I teach the younger generation and maybe we can move the chip forward to a positive place. We have WAAAAAY to many peoples/cultures/nationalities in this GREAT country to NOT find common ground and get along. I love the warm fuzzies I get when I'm helping someone I don't know just because mom said I should always help others and dad said be strong and always support those that need it. BTW keep them coming! Videos I mean, customer states.....😁🤣👍🏾💪🏾💪🏾
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  12. Nice repair! Also I feel like Peter is slowly becoming a second character on the channel. Your breif interactions are great.
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  13. Yay for Ray! You deserve to work to your own level of excellence.. not someone else’s ! Congrats
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  14. During that 5 minutes Ray took to collect his thoughts, sounds of a skull impacting drywall and screaming, followed by sobbing could be heard from the shop bathroom.
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  15. Ray you’re influencing me…I dropped something the other day and found myself saying “gravity.” Thanks for your positive influence in a world that is so negative.
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  16. As a former victim of a scammer, I applaud your technique for wasting their time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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  17. Hey I totally understand where you coming from and I commend you for being an awesome person and admitting it. I've run into some mechanics that literally screwed me in past. Your a great human being and very entertaining
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  18. Drunk? early in the morning? or I was wrong about the time? Be carefully, we need you in good health. Yes, got the police involved, Drunk customer could be dangerous to your health.
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  19. My uncle once brought his car to my brother, a master mechanic, with air conditioning issues. After looking at it, my brother told him the job would be a complete system replacement because the compressor had shed many metal fragments from the inside when it gave up. My uncle was unhappy with the estimate and took his car to another shop for a second opinion. The other shop said compressor replacement and recharge system only. Of course, that price was much more appealing, so he had the other shop do the job. Not even a week later, the brand-new compressor seized up and quit too, because it was full of the metal shavings from the previous compressor. Oopsy! And for some reason, my uncle was angry with my brother. Moral of the story? When a family member and a master mechanic tells you what the job is, believe them.
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  20. I’m hearing the same comment from Ray “stay tuned this is going to be a very good video”. Well, he’s right, it is! The general knowledge and understanding of the vehicles he fixes is tremendous. They don’t come much better than Ray here!
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  21. "This might be the heaviest load I've ever taken in my dump". ... Don't be saying that in certain areas of public! 🤣🤣🤣
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  22. I always like to see the test drive afterwards. It is satisfying to watch you verify that the repair is good. Don't shortchange us ray! 😂
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  23. WOW ! A guy that actually 'fixes things' ! I'm really OLD 'geezer gear head'. From the late 50s/into the 60s. I've done the emery cloth thing myself. But, I used to save my old worn out emery, and use it to put a mirror finish on the journals, after using the new stuff. It was a pleasure seeing you work on this engine. She is a rough one though. Been there and done that! thank you for your videos. From a guy who remembers before 'plasti gauge' and Andy Granatelli's STP.
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  24. Once you see more than 6 notches on on the timing chain tensioner it's done - once it hits 8 notches it's really done
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  25. Thats your choice ray. I will keep mine high above that .
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  26. I have no idea why I like watching all these videos by this dude lol. He’s a good mechanic that takes pride in his work. Hard to find these days.
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  27. This is the Ray I subscribed to when he had 70k subscribers. These are great videos
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  28. If you ever have an issue with a stuck wheel and cant move the car: push a shovel under it. Metal on asphalt/pavement slides relative easily and you can use the shovel handle to stir a bit.
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  29. From the Frozen Tundra, Land of the salt shaker, Rust heaven: Get Bolt Red hot, spray with Water. The shock breaks the rust bond. That is all, over and out!
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  30. When he grabs a jack stand for “ safety “ , I automatically thought “ it’s Florida , so must for self defense of some sort “
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  31. I helped my son put a motor in his canamx3 and was saying CLICK after each bolt he asked me dad why are you doing that I just laughed THANK YOU RAY💯🇺🇸🔥✌✌
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  32. The long format videos are making my day! Thank you Ray! 🍻
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  33. Ray, as an Engineer who collaborates with Production and other departments, I can give at least some answer to the question you posed at the beginning of the video about the plastic fasteners. Production, at least where I work, hates the one piece plastic fasteners. This is because (in our assembly line setup) the greater force needed to install them all shift long has led to worker soreness and occasionally repetitive motion injuries. Our Service department also doesn’t like them because the ribs can get mangled during removal and then they need to be replaced. I don’t care for the two piece fasteners with the screw-type center piece for exactly the reasons you stated. The styles with the center part that pushes straight in to lock the fastener and pulls most of the way straight out to unlock are easier to remove and (as you know) just as easy to install as the ones with the screw center. Thank you for pointing out the “bean counter problem” that we have to so often deal with. I’ve experienced frustration numerous times because I was told that I “had to take cost out” of a design that I thought was going to be great, and things like reliability and serviceability suffered as a result.
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  34. And when you first showed your dash, you were driving 66 MPH. You had 2/3 of a tank of fuel, which is 66.66% full.
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  35. 4 o'clock in the morning and I'm watching you play with someone's rear end. Life is good
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  36. People need to stop trolling a great kind unbelievable mechanic I am sure Ray don’t have time for people that have nothing better to do in their lives Glad you are all safe
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  37. In Michigan we would call that a snow plow!
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  38. That's the way they come now. That cut is supposed to be there.
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  39. Ray , you're a good man with a big heart .
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  40. WELD IT UP AND SEND IT
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  41. So, they're trying to convince him that their injectors aren't bad, so he should wait for them after ordering the others, then install them in someone else's truck, which he'll likely never see for injectors again? On top of not knowing how they'll perform? I think the best best would be to test them in his own vehicle, one that he can monitor everyday, and one that if they fail, it's not leaving some customer stranded and having to pay for the repairs to replace them. Or worse, someone else having to pay (Ray via warranty) to replace them again. I think it's the most appropriate thing to test on yourself first.
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  42. Welcome back Ray. Hope your feeling way better. You were sorely missed. Just take it slow and easy. 👍👍
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  43. Exceptional job in diagnosing the problem and resolving it, even if it take quite a bit of time. Seems the supply chains problems seem to be getting worse everywhere. But glad to see that, after a month, you could get that entire interior back together. Fantastic work, as always!
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  44. Always tricky when another shop gets involved, taking what the customer says with a "grain of salt" as too what they were told. I agree with another comment below, looks like that Yoda has been in some water or they like to go off roading, regardless a simple brake service is all that is needed. My main issue is with the other shop saying it needs front calipers. CLASSIC FLAT RATE issue again. If they would have sold that job they would have knowingly done it without a conscious which is total bullshit and continues to give our industry a bad wrap. Good job Ray.
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  45. Is there some unwritten rule/law that states all car dealerships and repair shops have to have the same odd sounding phone systems? I don't think I have ever heard that ring tone any where else.
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  46. old shop loses a good mechanic, and good mechanic brings his YouTube customers with him... bonus!! Well done Ray!
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  47. "you fixed it, now it's broken" are always the best ones
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  48. You can measure the pulsing with your meter (Fluke 88V) by pressing the "Hz %" key to put it in to Frequency Measuring mode, and then pressing the "AutoHOLD" key to start/stop the measurements.
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  49. Seriously didn't think you were gonna get that rear snapped off bolt out without removing the head... killer job!
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  50. Good to hear you are voting, regardless of how you vote. Everyone should use their right to vote. As for the hurricane, I'm over here in Delray about 8 miles from the coast and I'm not too worried about it.
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