Comments by "deezel_fairy" (@deezelfairy) on "Watch Wes Work" channel.

Feel your pain Wes. Reminds me of a Nissan forklift I had with a constant battery drain no one could find. I get those jobs as I'm the only one at my work pig-headed enough to keep diagnosing rather than just getting the parts cannon out! Only caught it out of desperation - turned the rear spotlight on and the engine shut down like you'd turned the key off. Turns out the negative for the coil of the ECM power-on relay which is a switched negative had shorted to the positive feed of the rear spotlight - keeping the relay energised when the truck was turned off (battery drain) by earthing through the bulb put also putting a positive signal on that coil negative when the rear spotlight was on. Had to open the whole harness to find it - no external chaffing whatsoever.
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 @Derek_00Mustang83 Big Ugly Forklift was prior to that one
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Don't you just love intermittent faults? Being a mobile tech I normally give myself a couple of hours and if I've made no progress or haven't seen the fault it's time to call it a day and yes the customer has to pay. Most are OK with it, they just don't understand the complexity of the situation. My advice to younger/inexperienced techs is learn how to communicate honestly and clearly with your customer - makes these painful situations so much more pleasent. Customer communication skills are nearly as damn important as being able to do the job itself.
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@dfross87 Keep braking with transmission clutch packs bud 😂 👍 Keeps me in work.
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Not everything from the past is better and I feel your pain with carbs Wes. I've been struggling with a little Mikuni carb on a 125cc suzuki van van. No matter what I do with the thing the float chamber will start to overflow. Done all the obvious, new needle, clean seat, new jets, float height adjustments no end ect.. The things mechanically so simple your smashing your head against the wall in frustration. That project went to the back of workshop and has been sitting there for a year. A new genuine carb is £500 - crazy, tried mucking around with a £30 Chinese carb and that went about as well as you'd expect 😂. Probably will just buy a new genuine carb, the time and frustration isn't worth it.
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Milky engine oil really common on lpg forklifts. I'm a forklift mechanic. Had rocker covers full of emulsion and oil literally milk shake white and a a good couple of pints of clean water drain out. Propane produces a huge amount of water vapour when it burns so condensation comes through the blowby, couple that with never getting up to full temp and constant hot/cold cycling of the block - stop/start typical for a forklift. And it's a perfect storm. When I service these lifts I don't change the oil anymore, I run the thing flat out for 40mins and like magic all the emulsion disappears and spotlessly clean oil. The problem with just changing oil regularly is you get the water out the oil but not the condensation inside the engine.
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@WatchWesWork Forklift radiators are always overkill. They are always pretty toasty under there when working hard with so much confined in a small space. Plus the fan airflow direction isn't optimal - from the floor (like a vacuum cleaner when running around) and over the hot engine/transmission/hydraulic tank before it even reaches the radiator 😂. They also make the rads big enough to allow a significant amount of the core to get blocked with dust/debris before overheating issues occur. I normally recommend people to just start em up and let em idle 1/2hr a week until up to temp and you never get the 'sweaty oil' no one ever does though... 😂
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Don't sweat it Wes, all of us on the wrenches for a living have at least one of these "WTF have I done, wtf was I thinking" moments. Humbles us and reminds us we're human. Had my worst screw up a few weeks ago, 6 battery plugs being replaced on an electric forklift, got distracted on the last one and got POS and NEG the wrong way round - blew every controller on the machine out, bout £5k's worth of damage. It happens.
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VW were really prone for this. The ex had a mk4 golf that would intermittently flood all 4 bores with fuel. Always got calls from her and would to drive whether she was to pull all 4 plugs out, crank it over to clear the cylinders, put the plugs back in and away it would go 😂
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Personally I'd tell the owner to drop 'ol Peg 🇨🇦 an email 😉
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I think we can all relate too the 'danger zone' in any project. That specific little point where things are far from finished but its barely functional 😂
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 @Jehty_ I'm guessing it's because in the event of whatever the driver has the steering wheel to grab hold of - the passenger would just kind of have his arms/torso flailing around.
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People are quicker to complain then they are to praise Wes - it's why you probably shouldnt pay too much attention to negative comments. Make a short you may have 50 people complain but for every person who didn't like it and left a negative comment there's probably 500 to a 1000 who liked it who just didnt comment at all.
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@Martin.Wilson It's almost like the Germans have an 'immaturity' with electronics - they just have to stuff it into everything for the hell of it. The Japanese seem to have a lot more 'maturity' with how electronics are applied - they will use it to their advantage if it's appropriate but seem to stick to simpler solutions if it's practical.
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@WatchWesWork It certainly does!
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@nordishkiel5985 I reckon a fair amount now Ive heard it, the pump sounded like the 'diesel clatter' sound isolated all on its own.
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I'm a forklift mechanic mate, and I've got a '88 golf 2 gti 16v - best car I've ever owned and its a beautifully simple and well engineered car.
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Scotchlocks, the work of the devil 👿... and most car entertainment system installers 😂
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@jrt2924 As much as in theory it should be No.1, in my experience it tends to always end up being number 2. If I was going after a customers old machine it'd be the one that all I ever seem to do is service and have little problems with.
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Honestly Wes, when that cam phaser shit itself I think pistons kissed valves - might have just been a little peck on the cheek. Enough so they just aren't sitting fully on the valve seats fully but not bent enough to stop the valves opening/closing.
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That's a duo-servo drum brake set up. In theory they should have equal braking force in both directions, it's why nearly all forklifts with drum brakes use this set up (shoes have equal amounts of material though). However, depending on braking direction one shoe wears more than the other. Guess that's why on truck rear brakes one shoe has less lining - maybe just saves cost or to stop 'grabbing' issues.
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Got the manual for the V2203 in pdf form Wes if I can email it to you somehow
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