Comments by "The Underground Lair of the Squankum" (@theundergroundlairofthesqu9261) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs" channel.

  1. It's nice to see a customer get their differential oil changed. I suspect most people don't get this done anymore.
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  2.  @brunotulliani  That old timer is basically everybody in these comments in a few decades.
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  3. "Customer declined, will drive home backwards."
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  4. The wheel stud tool is also in the tool kit of Mercedes going back to the 80's, at least, so keep an eye peeled at the junkyard.
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  5. For all too many people, nothing is a DIY job. Air filter, oil top up, anything dipstick, tire pressures, battery terminal cleaning, they don't know how, and have no ambition to learn, and think it's somebody else's job.
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  6.  @tep1003  If only there was some kind of grease or paste one could apply to that mating surface that would make that problem never happen again.
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  7. Ray, I was mesmerized by the spinning U joint, too, but kinda disappointed you didn't shoot brake cleaner at it. Is it wise to use the words "end of transmission" in your notes for that Cadillac?
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  8. Also, if that odometer readout was based upon the spinning of a wheel and tire, well, try measuring the circumference of a tire when it's new vs. when it's worn out.
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  9.  @KentuckyRanger  Good for the life of the vehicle! (Buy new vehicle now, please.)
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  10. So many tools I bought, with nagging doubts about whether they were really necessary or if it was a wise use of money... that have just been solid performers that I'm so glad I had on hand!
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  11. Not having a drain hole/bolt is just uncivilized! My 80's Mercedes has one on its ATF pan. I have converted our fleet's Durango (46RE) and Econoline (4R70W or something) to pans with drain holes. (Dorman for the Dodge (it's fine !) and and an actual Ford part for the van.
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  12.  @frugalprepper  Been living in the south for decades, still put a thin schmear of antiseize where drum or rotor touch hub. Why struggle in the future? (I'm a DIY'er, the future mechanic is always me, so I take care of him.)
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  13. I belive the attitude is that mechanics are troglodytes who should be kept away from the delicate customers. But this adds another layer of communication problems, and the first layer is "customer doesn't have the vocabulary to express what the car was doing."
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  14. "But everybody does it!", says everybody who's doing it, which is almost everybody. But yes, when it's a problem, it's a problem.
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  15. That's not an error! That's just a rip off!
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  16. A long time ago, American comedy writer Jack Douglas moved to a remote part of Canada. He said part of his survival kit was a deck of cards, so in case he ever got lost, he could start playing solitaire and that would make somebody appear over his shoulder and tell him he was doing it wrong.
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  17.  @flinch622  Yeah, I spent the afternoon pondering, "Copper from where now?" Hadn't thought of washers.
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  18. Especially heater cores, which they consider to be a "life of the vehicle" thing.
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  19.  @ManCaveMachining  I DON'T HAVE LONG FOR THIS WORLD
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  20. Oh, now surely it's capable of much higher speeds than that. (Joke.)😄
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  21. And some mechanics who talk like you don't change out crush washers.
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  22.  @frankthespank  Out on the road today, I saw a Harbor Freight sticker on a Cadillac.
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  23. Zip tie craftsmanship.
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  24. Yeah, I thought it was unfair how everybody concluded that the Explorer would be safe and not fall over if it had some other tire brand on it. I'm sure there were other crappy tires for sale in the replacement market, but you never heard about those! Ford and Firestone were a huge deep pocket to sue. (Not saying they didn't deserve it...)
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  25.  @thomas7770  Ray played with that concept, too, I think.
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  26. Upvoted. ALL hoses! You're only as strong as your weakest link.
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  27. Just the fact that it's buried under the intake manifold, and, if things get worse, a valley pan, are reason enough to go with the best possible parts available!
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  28. I don't think the manufacturers even thought it would work out in the long, long run -- but it sure slaps together faster on the assembly line!
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  29.  @axl151  Which they have to, to compete on sale price/cost/profits vs other manufacturers, but egads, in addition to "make things that don't break", I think if a manufacturer could also put some effort into "make things take less time/effort to repair", could boost their long-term reputations and sales figures, too. Juggling all those balls would be very hard, though.
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  30. And an alignment rack! (That's a lot harder to justify the cost of vs. use of. But still a time saver compared to him having to drop things off at another shop.)
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  31. Yeah, I was confused he was using hand ratchet force for those. Doesn't the sharp impact of an impact tool shock the bonds of rustiness and stiction apart? Better than the long slow steady force of human muscles.
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  32. OTOH, if Chrysler/Dodge/RAM's suppliers can make a fuel pump that fails well short of a 100K miles, how good is the potentiometer? It's one of those "cost of labor to to it/while we're in there" decisions.
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  33.  @redrider7730  I have a Fumoto valve on my cheap Dorman stamped steel pan and it's a nice 'n tidy way to drain 1 gallon of ATF so I can add four fresh quarts. I used to wonder how goofy it might be to do a fluid change in between normal filter change services, then I noticed that the severe duty maintenance schedule for my old Mercedes recommended exactly that. I have two Mag Hytec diff covers in the fleet and like them a lot. Never felt the urge for more fluid capacity, but still might do their pan for the Dodge at some point in the future.
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  34. I would prefer some honesty in titles and thumbnails. Dullness and literalness, even. I suspect that's bad for business for a youtuber.
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  35. God only gave Job 0.2 hr for all of his suffering.
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  36. I think the service adviser is often guilty of filtering out too much between customer and mechanic. Or not asking enough questions.Of course, a lot of customers aren't very good with the details because they don't ... know anything. They'd mention the flooding if they knew that affected electrical things, but they don't necessarily even make that connection!
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  37.  @MonkeyJedi99  Yeah, uh, that's not a handrest on a normal transmission, either! Operator error!
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  38. Or use a beaker. Amazon sells beakers now. Yay, science!
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  39.  @nigelbarton8350  Kotter pins keep sweathogs in line.
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  40. And also know that the bubbles in your fancy funnel later on aren't from air pockets!
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  41. I recommend they get a bicycle and have someone lubricate the chain with parafin wax.
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  42.  @scottcampbell4678  From what i read, Goodyear looked at the contract and said they weren't going to make a tire that cheaply and opted out of the deal. But what you say about these tires not blowing on other vehicles, yes, definitely that's on Ford with their low psi spec, and supports the Firestone tire not being that bad.
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  43. In the year 2000, jacks like that could have attachments with vertical plates with holes to match common diff cover bolt patterns. Then again, somebody too hurried to use a ratchet strap on that would feel that they didn't have time for a dozen little bolts.
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  44. Double whammy? Or the same thing? Unmetered air is unmetered.
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  45.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  If we're not noticing mistakes and then fixing them, we're not learning!
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  46.  @Zepplin76  Yes, we're just dreaming of a world where they can serve as a line of defense against small valve leaks.
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  47.  @serge.l.1897  Scotty is loud, but he keeps it brief.
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  48. What do you expect them to do? Their house is full!
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  49. Turning the cleats out increases the inside diameter! The flat side of the belt is a larger circumference.
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  50. I've been wondering when that day was coming! EIther that or wide plywood platforms to lay on your belly and reach down into the engine bay. Either for low exotic cars, or these monsters.
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  51. But that thief's car started the next morning!
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  52.  @MonkeyJedi99  A sheet of flexible magnetic sign material can be spray painted to match and cover up the whole thing. Or so I've heard.
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  53. I fear people are trusting The Big Parts Computer's answers a little too much these days -- in part because it has gotten pretty danged good.
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  54. That, or make sure to only date other women with similar hair.
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  55. Aftermarket parts for German cars are usually just as good as OEM parts -- you can get them from the very same providers that VW bought their parts from. For 145K miles, the interior of that motor is nice 'n shiny! Have that owner talk to the owner of that Chevy work truck about synthetic oil, what kind and how often!
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  56. With German cars, aftermarket parts are generally fine -- you can buy most things from the very same company that made them for the German automaker. Usually going Dorman or URO is a choice, not a necessity. Almost always, really.
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  57. Sounds like the work of the Hamburglar to me.
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  58.  @slscamg  All of the rest will break next week.
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  59. I would like to know how you can put an oil pressure gauge on this engine and make sure it has good oil pressure? Is there some other port? Because this engine's not running with the intake removed... I suppose you could remove intake, remove sensor, install hose for test gauge, reinstall intake, run engine... Everything's inaccessible nowadays.
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  60.  @JustSomeHuman-j8o  Yeah, he's got me shopping for a used long Snap On trim removal tool because it's such a handy reacher-and-poker/pusher/pryer.
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  61. The easiest way to clean up a mess is to not make it!
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  62. Yeah, took me a few attempts to get my supposedly smart TV to behave, but I got there!
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  63. Check out the Torque Test Channel on YouTube, he has tested various brands and it's surprising how much force they can relay.
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  64.  @bigrogg100  Everybody can make mistakes. The cost of doing a 720 is low, the disaster potentially averted is big.
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  65. Or in the case of electrical connectors, "How many bloody different kinds of electrical connectors can there BE?"
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  66. A modest proposal: remove the intercom telephone noise in the shop and hook it up to shock collars on the service advisers.
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  67. Dude wants to own a fleet of unfixed cars? He needs to learn how to fix things himself, at this end of the food chain without much money. Tools are sold at Sears. Er, Lowe's. Just another Saab story.
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  68. Yes. It changed in that it was never true. Now, if you're trying to undo a stuck fastener with an impact, yes, it will reduce the force of your impact gun on the fastener. Nowadays we have The Torque Test Channel on youtube to show us that kind of experiment.
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  69.  @wh4t3v3rrr  I know other people will say it's just a half-step below leprosy, but a little bit of anti-seize on the threads, and a torque wrench, make roadside difficulties go away.
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  70.  @BruceCoggins  And he's the type if that some of us say we don't like it, he'll do it until the end of time.
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  71. Meanwhile, the Americans were designing planes so they could be assembled quickly and efficiently! Somebody in Germany started building replica Me-109s (exact replicas) and discovered just how fussy the fuselage was to put together. Some things never change...
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  72.  @garethwilliams3150  He stores them right next to his negative displacement wheel spacers.
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  73. Also, get his cell phone number and give it to those people who text you.
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  74.  @johntetreault  I think the OEMs see it this way: weeding out the amateurs and preventing premature failure.
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  75. Here's to the apartment complex parking lot heroes! I was one until my mid-40's, now I live a life of luxury and air tools.
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  76. To me the only silly part was "must show me old washer before pouring in new oil." What are you going to do, drive away to another shop with no oil now? I don't consider "middle of range" to be full, but I know there are different schools of thought, some engines like that better, and, of course, I'm fighting drips more than other folks. (But less than this guy?)
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  77. Maybe I'm just a simple kinda man, but I use compressed air to blow it out outside the garage -- those cylinder head bolt pockets in the head castings gathered all sorts of sand and the like on this car -- then a shop vac with narrow tube adapter to go after any other nook that might need it.
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  78. It's not like Ford has an oil filter factory. They're Purolator filters and they're fairly decent.
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  79. Tell the local community college you're looking for a videography intern then on their first day park them in front of the parts washer! 😁
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  80. 8mm Helicoil with clear silicone on the outside to keep rain out.
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  81. I got that way with a car I worked on for decades. "Oh, that landed on top of the A-arm."
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  82.  @jaykellett2327  So many people think the time to replace a battery is when it dies on you for good. Divide the cost of a battery by 5 years, or 6, and you're trying to save how much money? vs. messing up your day? Is your time worth nothing?
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  83. And at the bottom edge of VVT units. I got one, and use it for so many neat little things that aren't inside holes.
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  84. Depends on your filter location, but I punch a hole in the bottom of the filter with a large nail and let it drip for a while. No sploosh. My latest big nail is an aluminum gutter spike. In this situation, that would have dripped on the crossmember, unless you rig up some kind of aluminum foil ramp or something. Yes, the filter grabbing funnel is great for this application!
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  85. Somebody on Twitter about a year ago was going through his elderly mother's stuff and found that she had owned her Honda Accord for 25 years and had always taken it to the dealer and they had charged her $35,000 over those 25 years and his conclusion was SEE HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO OWN A CAR? And I thought, "See how much extra you pay when you're so afraid of going to an independent shop because they might ... rip you off? Just like this situation, I wasn't there, so I don't know if they were creating work to pad their numbers/profits/commissions, but it sure smelled funny to me.
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  86. Used car dealers say "yes!"
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  87. Light is good. It helps us see things!
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  88.  @AiMR  Yeah, I would suggest cranberry juice.
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  89.  @emanuelparedes9187  Ziploc bags with PostIt notes inside (folded in half to be unsticky), Sharpie or pen or pencil, and when the job's over, and nothing but empty bags remain, remove PostIts, baggies back to the baggie box. (Not the box they came in.) Recently did a more involved job than usual, had to unplug a whole spur of wiring harness, and had a clipboard full of notes (fuel system, intake manifold, wiring harness) and a week or two later found out my notes for the wiring harness were NOT good enough. Slowed me down. Oh, and nowadays, take a lot of pictures before disassembly! Failed to do that on a very funky throttle linkage, same job. Luckily, the internet saved me.
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  90.  @doncox2146  Yeah, it helps when you've done the job before, many times. When I was a teen shop flunky boy I used to see dealer mechanics tear apart a VW transmission and leave it all in a pile on a shop cart for a week or two, then put it back together later. It just amazed me. Or struck me as overconfident.
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  91. Truck of Theseus!
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  92.  @toonmag50  Oh, that happens in the States, too! One factor we have is salt. Some regions just don't have it in winter, and Florida is one such place. So that always helps an old car live a long, productive life.
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  93.  @vbprogrammer2007  Which might include "hang it from a cherrypicker a little rather than perch it on a collection of floor jacks and jack stands."
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  94. Ray, that copper-brown stuff you were cleaning off the rear hubs may have been an anti-corrosion coating. Did you not notice how SHINY the brake drums were inside? I believe you may have had in your hands there Honda cast aluminum brake drums. They have ferrous metal liners for the friction surface.  Honda first did aluminum drums in the mid-80s on some Honda CRX's, and brought it back when the hybrid era started. Buick briefly did aluminum drums a few decades before that, as front disc brakes were about to take over.
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  95. This was at 10:52 ? I'm guessing those are Snap On Talon Grip 7" 90 degree needle nose pliers, model no. 497ACF MSRP $65. An interesting option for that kind of job are pliers with a curve in the tips for grabbing hoses. Harbor freight has a cheap set of three long ones, three size hose holes, or, Harbor Freight has what I'm guessing is very decent Taiwanese made "ICON" house brand, one for $20. ICON hose grip pliers.
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  96.  @CorvetteBill364  I'm not Ray, but you're welcome! I have the straight version of those pliers, and almost bought the bent, so I recognized them.
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  97. One for the human's foot, one for the cruise control vacuum servo?
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  98.  @gridlore  There are brake fluid testers on Amazon for $12. They look like a penlight.
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  99.  @InsanePacoTaco  It will increase acceleration but raise rpm at any given crusiing speed. Once had a friend with an 80's BMW sedan which has a crazy rear end gear ratio in the other direction -- too "tall", lazy rpm -- and when he got that regeared with a shorter ratio, it totally woke the car up, like "free power."
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  100. WITH sound effects!
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  101. The price of a funnel will someday be recouped by the cost of the fluids you aren't wasting.
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  102. Yeah, my eyes deceived me during some of that video, I thought it was spinning, but it wasn't. Then he put it back on with the detent ball hole showing and I could see then that the socket wasn't moving.
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  103. When all of this torch work began I started wondering, "Where are the fuel lines?"
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  104.  @W3BZSL1NG3R  Steam cleaned?! Looked like a fracture on the edge of that piston, and the chunk that came off -- to me. And I can't say for sure (video quality) but it looked like that side of the cylinder wall (gravity side) was peppered with spots where the chunk had banged into it. Not sure about that last bit.
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  105. Effective range? Length of hose + 25 feet.
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  106. Next week he'll bring that old tow truck into the shop and you can watch him ream his kingpin.
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  107. Yes, he puts them on that one cart.😀 Actually, since moving to this shop he did clean up the drawers in his tool chests.
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  108. DIY'ers can afford to do the job again. American customers get upset if they have to come back -- so they wind up having new parts pushed at them more often. Then you've got the legal liabilities of brakes. It's just safer to give customers new calipers. But yeah, I had the same reaction you did! It also might depend on how broke your customer base is.
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  109. Also, you have moisture in the UK, for sure -- but do you have road salt? I suspect this Toyota got driven up to New York City frequently or the owner moved from up north, and salt really does a number on things (as you can see!) ... to include calipers
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  110.  @specialestness  EVERYTHING MADE AFTER 2002 IS TOO COMPLICATED AND HARD TO FIX! (wave arms)
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  111.  @andrebots4224  I can' t think of a 16mm fastener on the car, but the rear calipers require a 15mm... stamped bicycle cone wrench.😁
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  112.  @lorditsprobingtime6668  Well, lighter than steel. (I was being silly. The customer keeps adding bigger, heavier things.)
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  113.  @lorditsprobingtime6668  When watching those flat earth videos, keep another tab open playing Weird Al Yankovic's "Dare to Be Stupid"!
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  114. REEEEE no new video you can't do that we don't have lives REEEEE
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  115. There's somebody on YouTube who was getting oil analysis done on his modern BMW, and every test kept showing odd levels of lead. He eventually removed the oil pan and a .22 bullet or two were found, presumably dropped in through the oil dipstick tube. Not sure if somebody was trying to "help" with top end lubrication, sabotage, or merely sabotage his oil testing.
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  116.  @cup_and_cone  That's a great engine, but the car is too heavy. A 2.0 8V in 1987 was crazy hot rod stuff. (For hot hatch land.)
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  117. Please send letters of complaint to General Motors, Toyota Motor Company, Honda Motor Company, Ford Motor Company, Nissan Motor Corporation, Bayerische Motoren Werke, and of course, ask Daimler-Benz to rename the 1886 Benz Patent Motorcar.
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  118. Pool noodles can be a cheap substitute, too? And, er, colorful, sometimes.
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  119. Phillips were designed to cam out, to prevent overtightening on the assembly line long ago. A century or so later, thank goodness we now are doing things like Torx that can take some torque.
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  120. As modern heater cores go, this doesn't seem too bad. (shrug) I do wish that blower box was held in by bolts screwed in from up front, though. Weirdos.
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  121. Torque Test Channel recently did a video about extensions and impact guns. Confirmed! Hoo boy, was it confirmed!
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  122. Sounds like you read the directions!
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  123. But now you've been accepted at a gynecology school!
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  124.  @irvnegrin2211  I'm suspecting this customer wasn't using synthetic oil.
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  125.  @engiopd  Fair question! It could be the Europen customers accepted synthetic oil a long time ago? We had a problem or two in the 70's and then everybody made conclusions about how synthetics were bad -- and tightwads are still convinced that motor oil is motor oil. I know conventional oils have gotten much better over the years, too, so... I just don't know with this car. Being a Camry, and Florida, I start to suspect an older and cheap person who wouldn't use synthetics. And might have gone a long time between changes. But without knowing the facts, I really don't know!
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  126.  @buckdashe2571  It was also a tool by Lisle? I'm guessing No. 35500. Never used them, but I'd see it in the store.
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  127. Oh yes, change that fluid!
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  128. Ahhh, so it's not hammered intake valves? That's what I was guessing when I saw the compression results.
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  129. If you need to be certain you're not cross-threading plugs on install (Ford 4.6 V-8 2V, in my case) a piece of vacuum hose is food for that, too! I keep it next to my spark plug sockets.
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  130. It puts in what it takes out, which makes it easy. He had to add some this time, perhaps because of dribbling fluid as he messed with the tubing connector on the radiator. Or the level the car had before this started? He covered this issue in a previous video, I think the first time he used it, on an F-150 with contaminated fluid.
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  131. You can find some videos by Gates about how well different clamps work as temperatures drop, and rise. These springy "Roto-Clip" type clamps are basically second best. Gates thinks their heat-shrink, one-shot hose clamps are best, providing uniform pressure at all points around the hose/spigot, and handle temp changes best. The downsides to the Gates shrink bands is a) cost 2) one-shot. I mostly use the spring clamp hoses and have built quite a collection of tools to help fuss with them.
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  132.  @NaturalBornGriller  He'd better hope so, the rest of that system is 4" in diameter!
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  133.  @jamram9924  Ray at the doctor in 2042: "So, do you have any side effects from your automotive career?" "No, really, just a few cut fingers and (phone rings) DOO DE DOO DE DOO!!!"
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  134. I agree! My wife's been saying "limp mode" for years and I'm sick of it!
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  135.  @spelunkerd  I haven't looked in stores lately, but there are some aerosol can cold sprays that also spray penetrating oil. Shrinking with cold is a nice option sometimes.
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  136. I just checked, and outside the USA, 1200 and 1300cc motors were available in the firs-generation Fit.
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  137. I don't remember the last time we've seen Peetah!
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  138. You sound like my machinist. I'm going to believe both of you!
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  139. i was wondering about the longevity of that wiring loom at engine oil temps. Is this part of the wiring harness at least sold separately and plugs into the main harness outside the engine somewhere? And not a zillion billion dollars?
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  140.  @fiero880  How to Fix Rolls Royce! by Chris Fix
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  141. I'd say there's not enough metal in today's rotors, and it would be better to machine the caliper contact spots (or, you know, file them by hand or hit 'em with the angle grinder) than to touch the rotor.
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  142.  @61rampy65  Look for "Dyno Test: Best Tite-Reach Wrench Extender? ", about 8 months ago.
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  143.  @chipdayton1625  You should see his house!
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  144. There's nothing wrong with "belt and suspenders" when it comes to pressurized fuel! Also, I don't see much evidence of it lately, but back in the 70's people seemed very concerned about backfires with early fuel injection. I imagine that might push an injector out, too. Sure don't seen to be any backfires nowadays, but....
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  145. I recently used some dielectric grease on a very annoying airflow bootie, and then when it was over I asked myself... say, is that 02 sensor safe? Internet search yielded... muddied results, and also, maybe.
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  146. Part of me feels old, seeing that even pickup trucks have electric steering racks and aluminum upright and those are old enough to need work.... wait a goldarned minute! This thing's a 2014 and it's failing?!
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  147. I know no manufacturer will ever listen, but could we please have some cast aluminum valve covers and simple worm hose clamps for air plumbing please?
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  148. Yes, considering the cost of his time. Or, I think in some cases, the ball joint is epoxied in.
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  149.  @domenicmanicone2612  Keep it! I totally snoozed through that car being made and now that I've looked into it, it's pretty danged neat!
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  150.  @caymanchristopher7014  I'm like that, except I finish the job. Not being a jerk, just worked for years to get good. Or there's a fine line between tenacity and mule-headed stubbornness, not sure.
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  151. @Justinian Yi I was about to say, "A Mercedes straight 6 (SOHC) from that era, spark plugs could not be any easier",. but then I realized, no, VW Golf/Jetta 8V from that era are the most laughably easy spark plugs to do.
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  152. Hell, he needs a shop cart in the shop! I wince when he puts intake manifolds on the floor.
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  153. I like it! Back in my day (shake fist) the knock sensor was bolted right there on the side of the block, couldn't miss it!
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  154. He turned a few back at his old job, and did videos of it. Very occasional thing, of course.
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  155. A Goodyear tire shop? Got to start somewhere!
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  156. 8:52 That cloud!
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  157. Throttle plates are really quite closed when in closed position. I'd still drape a red rag over it or put a latex glove over it, condom-style. Any mess you prevent is mess you don't have to clean up later.
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  158. If you can find one that screws into the hole like Lisle 34194, it's a wunnerful, wunnerful thing. (There are more expensive versions of this funnel concept. Much more expensive. But for the Dodge, I use this Lisle, and I love it. Less than $10 on Amazon.)
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  159. What he's fumbling towards is moisture and acid buildup etc etc, but I'd have zero qualms about going a year on oil changes on rarely-driven things. 20W-50 is just silly. It's about modern bearing clearances but you'll never convince him that thinner oils aren't going to KILL his engine.
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  160. X-files girl makes me laugh every time!
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  161. Also, when you know what's wrong with the car and what it all means, you can do triage.
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  162. Milton S117.
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  163. Some of those problems may have been the wobbly adapter causing floppiness, and the angle of his extension?
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  164. Entropy, it happens to the best of us eventually.
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  165. And a guy to call us thieves and liars when we stray from the path of righteousness! 😄
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  166.  @ronsimmaculatedetailing6335  In some ways, we have high prices because mechanics can't take chances because customers get so upset if it doesn't' work out and don't understand what's going on. Higher prices up front more often -- but fewer second visits.
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  167. Those are still around! Some are fairly priced (Lisle, under $10, fits ... some) and some (Assenmacher) are frighteningly nice and pricey.
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  168. Go look up some straight 40 weight oils and you won't find the manufacturers labelling them as "40W."
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  169. Tater Salad!
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  170. I just peeked at Rock Auto. Looks like gasket suppliers are all over the map on paper/felt vs. rubbery-O's for PT Cruiser turbos. I'm a big fan of the rubbery-O's, since they're reusable.
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  171. Sometimes they protect the car from the mechanic. Sometimes they protect the mechanic from the car!
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  172.  @zoidberg444  To do that, you'd have to floor the gas pedal, and not upshift at 3,100 rpm. These two things are frightening to many Americans.
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  173.  @karlh4313  Or the value of his time!
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  174. Ray, please consider the Lisle 50210 gasket separator. A thin, stiff blade with a hammering surface so you can pound it between block rail and pan rail, then lever it.
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  175.  @smittysbuilds  I hestitate on a lot of the new battery-powered ones because I'm not a pro, and I'm cheap, and a battery dying in a couple of years and needing an expensive replacement but I never used it all that much, really irks me. Air through a hose will not go obsolete! That being said, having no hose, sure! And for a pro who will truly wear out the battery and tool, too and get every penny's worth, I know why they do it.
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  176.  @smittysbuilds  Oh, and I just got into air tools about 10 years ago! I'll be danged if... you know.😁
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  177. ​ @Wakeupandsniffthecoffee  The Durango I work on for a family member has over 430K miles on it now. 5.9L engine. Valve cover gaskets are easy! Do you have a small torque wrench for light duty? One of the reasons you don't see Ray use a torque wrench is that he has torque wrenches -- which teach you that most things don't need to be super duper tight! Valve cover gaskets are the classic example of "no, not that tight, you're could mess things up if you crank down on it." I don't know how the heater hoses are routed on your 4.7, but I use some string ot hold it up andout of the way on the passenger side valve cover. And yeah, air intake tube and even air filter box,. I remove for a job like this. One more tip -- clean the intake manifold area above/next to those valve covers before you remove the covers. Lots of leaves, sand, bugs can pile up in that area that you don't want falling into the engine. Compressed air, vacuum cleaner, gentle garden hosing ? whatever's best for you. (I vote compressed air.)
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  178.  @captinbeyond  Nowadays, the issue is the correct torque, hence, a torque wrench. Gorilla-type mechanics are stripping out threads on cast aluminum oil pans left and right!
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  179.  @winksongs  That's right! Proper spelling is my jam.
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  180. Or just give them a pickup truck nose. Not good for city deliveries/parking... great for everywhere else in the country and at service time!
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  181. Now you know where to search for things like that next time! I worked on one car for so many years that I eventually could listen and have a good guess where to start looking.
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  182.  @MonkeyJedi99  Or three PT Cruisers!
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  183. XZN 12-point triple-squares are what we used before Torx! (shake cane) Also, before they made soft-headed XZN bolt holes that would distort, they made six-sided Allen hex holes that were soft and really easily distorted and rounded out! So XZN has a better chance of cracking the bolt loose.
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  184. They even sell "cold" spray now at the auto parts store. Really.
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  185.  @stealthg35infiniti94  I'm guessing what happened with that was the difference between no-load 2,000 rpm and actual driving load 2,000 rpm.
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  186. And brake cleaner fumes!
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  187.  @JJ_ExMachina  I used to use coat hanger wire. That's... doable. But your bungees or my current S hooks are better!
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  188.  @johndickerson9328  Clarification: er, I meant,blow out the valve cover/cylinder head/intake manifold/fuel injector debris zone of the motor, outside the shop! Then drive it in, vaccum if need be. Then begins the dismantling!
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  189. He was also changing rotors?
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  190. I used to use a tire crayon, but now I use a little square of masking take for fast clean up.
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  191. Milton does make some really good Shrader caps for tire valve stems, metal with a little gasket inside. I hear they're required in trucking. Somebody should make them for service valves!
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  192. I can see that... but in this case, knock sensors are piezoelectric crystals generating some subtle little outputs, no?
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  193. I can see that, but with this customer...
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  194. In the words of Calvin "Cheese" Wagstaff in The WIre, 'This some shameless shit.'
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  195. Triggered by the brake cleaner sound!
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  196. Veeedy intedestink! I saw those rockers and was just confused. But I'm guessing that behind all of that is traditional VW inline 4 valvetrain: one cam, eight valves, vertical, in a row, bucket lifter (hydraulic) directly pushed up and down by the cam lobes, brutally simple and light weight (other than the width of that lifter.)
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  197. Didn't know you had jack stands in the new shop! When you took the smaller lift to the limit for the diff cover job on your big pickup truck, I was wondering if you had any jack stands that could have reached the axle tubes.
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  198. Imagine if he had just slammed the hood and gone and parked it!
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  199. Yes. Automobiles, yes. Heavy industry, I think it kinda depends.
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  200. The cobbler's children wear Dorman.
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  201. I hear if they're ceramic-coated they're not bad at all.
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  202. I try to take care of the next mechanic -- me!
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  203. He's been nagged about it before, and I think he's aware of SureShots and the like. I suspect someday he'll get around to that.
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  204. This time the BG fluid exchanger rocked so hard I could barely hear Ray! Awesome!
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  205. It's Florida.
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  206. The phone noise drove you out, didn't it?
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  207. Ray, since you have an oil filter cutter, why not open a filter for us someday?
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  208. The lube at 3:10 is probably Permatex ceramic extreme brake parts lubricant.
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  209. The internet got good, the software got good, the video web hosting got good, the GoPro camers are great -- but having so many good LED work lights around really made these videos great!
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  210. Huzzah!😀
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  211. Spending more than it's worth is an emotional decision ,_and that's okay_, as long as you realize that's what you're doing. Also, if you keep driving it and don't sell it, no big woop. If you were to spend a bunch of money to fix something and sell it three months later, yeah, then you don't' get your money back.
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  212. Search for "3M Roloc bristle disc."
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  213.  @gregoryking9348 In which case I'm wondering how old the vaccum line/hose to that regulator is at this point, too.
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  214. There are special paints for such things, here in the US SEM Products is the company specializing in quality paints for that kind of thing. I suspect a lot of folks just give it a stab with regular spray paint.
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  215. I think that was steel, just didn't have holes in it like the old one did. Different design, I guess. Protection during shipping was handled by the plastic cap that covered both sensor and threads.
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  216. I tried to buy Plastigage at Advance Auto a few years ago and got a great big "HUNH?" response.
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  217. Dangit, Ray, you use that Snap On trim-rivet prybar for so many things I had go out and get one!
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  218. If I were a one-handed videographer mechanic, I'd sure be using a nutdriver on hose clamps.
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  219. Yes, that was nice. Wiring harness? Hose? leaning up against the filter, kind of a bummer.
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  220.  @gratefuldale117  You remember all that, but do you know where your car keys are now? 😃
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  221. REEEEE You didn't do this job while wearing a white lab coat!
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  222. That pole is mounted in commercial/light industrial areas to monitor the populace and see if anybody's saying DOO DE DOO DE DOOOOO!
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  223. Eric should fly to FL for a paid vacation, working on rust-free cars!
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  224. Sprayway glass cleaner is good stuff, and when that case runs out, it's cheap at Wal-Mart in the house-cleaning chemicals aisle.
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  225. Whenever you fear he might be wavering from the path, just say DO DE DOO DE DOOO at him and he'll know...
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  226. When race car engine builders build their motors, I hear they do it in a "clean room." I think this means people come in with dirty old shop rags and shake them about, and use air guns to blow dust off of things, and clean things in there, since it's a nice quite place to clean things.
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  227. Or green masking tape? I wouldn't worry, I'd guess at least one of those eight cylinders has its valves closed.
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  228. Oh, next you'll be telling him not to put the intake manifold on the floor.
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  229. Wot, no cabin air filter change?
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  230. Restore shitty old Volvo, 0.2 hr.
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  231.  @MrWoodyBalto  You are correct, sir! Step one is, "Don't own a car with a sunroof."
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  232. The owner might want to look into OE-quailty replacement upholstery for those seats, from The Seat Shop in Plano, TX. You can get normal work truck vinyl, or, for money, the same but in leather. Good stuff! They also make a good, firm bottom cushion for some vehicles.
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  233. So did you fix his mother-in-law's driveway?😄
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  234. More precisely, they drive you nuts with their continual neglect of maintenance!
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  235. Install power steering pump brackets, 0.2 hr.
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  236. REEEEE that wasn't a full turn I don't see the UPC barcode! (Meh. If it seeps, you can tighten it some more with a tool. A fancy tool.)
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  237. I've been watching your channel about a year, and all of these transverse-engined V-6 (and V-8!) cars make me very grateful for my cars -- transverse 4, longitudinally-mounted straight 5, and straight 6. These transverse V-6's and -8's just suck!
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  238. The Cabinet of Dr. Raymond's Future Minor Spills.
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  239. It's an option! Me, I got a whacking great gutter nail, sharpened it up on the grinder, and with a hammer, punch a hole into the bottom of the filter and let it drain for a while, or overnight. Sometimes a second hole needs to be punched to eliminate glug glug or let it flow better. Either way, it reduces sploosh a lot when I finally do remove the filter.
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  240.  @chrisbentleywalkingandrambling  What? The perverts have established offices now? This has gone too far!
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  241. A country diff actuator can't survive.
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  242. Hey, wait a minute! Some jerk put a coolant tube in the V of the motor! I sure hope it's metal, and not some kind of plastic that will "last for the life of the engine" or rubber hose. Weirdos!
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  243. I bet the short and snappy answer is, "That's how the new seal arrived!" but that raises the question, why does it arrive that way? I'm guessing having the seal pressed in already and having the other gaskets pressed in makes it faster for the mechanic, and higher quality (no damage to seal from sub-Ray mechanics tapping with hammers badly.)
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  244.  @utidjian  What impresses me about Ray is that he's a generalist doing all sorts of brands, and is doing it well. Give an old Ford mechanic a Taurus to diagnose and replace X and they'd of course find it easy, but Ray's finding it pretty easy on many things.
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  245.  @emanuelparedes9187  I used to use scraps of paper in the baggie, too. And some Ziplocs have a white surface to write on. Since I like to reuse my parts baggies, I like the paper slips/PostIts now. Context of all of this discussion is bigger jobs. The smaller the job or the more you're familiar with this vehicle, the less you need it. Also, I'm convinced some pros do like Ray but don't quite get the right bolts and screws back into the right holes! Maybe I'm paranoid from working on German cars, but I'm paying attention to length of screw or bolt as they come out, you never know when they're gonna do something weird on ya!
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  246. Neat! I just use a little sandpaper or Scotchbrite -- but I'm not in the Rust Belt.
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  247. Huzzah! The return of the Milwaukee demo saw!
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  248. With those miles, maybe, with those plugs, for sure!
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  249. I noticed very few Hondas back when you worked at the previous shop. Maybe Hondas are having fewer problems? Maybe Honda owners are more likely to go to the dealer and pay too much?
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  250.  @dotar9586  That was my first thought!
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  251. I'm no rigger, but they're the people to google for knowledge about lifting straps. I think that having a shallow "angle" on that ratchet strap makes for a lot more load on each side of the one strap as you're lifting, compared to a taller/longer strap set up. It's not an intuitive thing to me, so it really stood out when I first learned about it.
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  252. In America, we're just happy if you don't pour it down the drain.
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  253.  @Akadectra  I actually went to my auto parts store here (USA) and asked if brake fluid could go into the oil recycle container they have in the back, and they said yes! I later read the clipboard on the wall next to it, from the oil recycling service, and that fine print said so, too! Maybe they can sort it out by what layers each settles at. Maybe it all burns just fine in the furnace at the concrete factory. (Last I heard, that was a common use for used motor oil.) Of course, I picked up the brake fluid flushing habit from Volkswagen, who told me to do it every two years. This is an alien concept in the USA.
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  254.  @StevenDaugherty-uo5cs  That would be high mileage for a Ferrari. A lot of people who buy cars like this have other cars, several, and the Lotus is not easy to get in and out of. Younger people who could ignore that inconvenience tend to not have the money for such a car.
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  255. Whoever changed those heater hoses without removing the transmission may be my hero. (I have no idea what access looks like from above.)
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  256. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey WHEEL SPACERS GOIN' ON! (Maybe someday coming off, wheel, too. A vehicle intended to be tougher than normal passenger cars is now, thanks to the urge for fanceh wheels, less tough than the average car.)
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  257. Performance Distributors/Davis Unified Ignition — good folks, good stuff! Also, David Vizard has shown that the 4.6L 2V combustion chamber does benefit from a strong spark.
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  258. Michelin tires? Preventive maintenance? I like this customer! You need more like this one.
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  259. Why don't people DIY in Europe? Less garage space?
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  260.  @Skelturoth  OK. I'm guessing there is more garage/garage space to work with in the US, but we also have many places to take used motor oil. To prevent people from pouring it down the drain or sewer drain, most every auto parts store now has a tank you can bring your used oil container to. But like there, most people don't know how to fix anything and can't be bothered to learn, even air filter changes. Sad, innit?
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  261. And they can learn new curse words, too!
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  262. Thought about it some more... this even includes going and getting the car, put it on a lift, remove tire, go do the tire mounting, then put the wheel back on, and put the car back in the parking lot. 12 minute sounds like the rate for "somebody has handed you a new tire and a dismounted wheel/bad tire." Have you checked the big book to make sure there aren't other versions? I've spent some years in an office job where the "book rate" for various tasks could really bone us when working cases, but we were told that "it all average out." Our book rate listing had about five variations on it, which was terribly crude. I was always under impression that the big book of mechanic book rates was very detailed. (Maybe it isn't for mundane tasks like this.)
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  263. And tell everybody they don't need a torque wrench, they can do it by feel.
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  264. I got into one once, with, with my legs, was a puzzler. To get out, I mostly just crawled. If I had one, I'd hang a gymnastics ring from the ceiling of the garage over the driver's side door area.
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  265. Is there no way that grease can't creep out from the bottom of that ball joint, where things were pressed together?
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  266.  @SportFury1966  And that's why WWII naval shipwrecks are mysteriously vanishing from the ocean floor. (Scrappers.)
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  267. Self-appointed pedants who want to claim that motors must be electric (spurred on by the rise of electric cars, is my guess, as this is a newly popular thing to wag finger about) need to take it up with: General Motors Ford Motor Co. Toyota Motor Corporation Bavarian Motor Werkes Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Honda Motor Co. Heck, let's go back to 1885 with the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
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  268. Say, Ray, that door panel trim tool you use as a handy prybar for odds and ends -- who makes it?
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  269. 0:33 - Huzzah! My closest look yet at the copper/metallic brown Toyota! Could it be... a Cressida? I had forgotten all about the Cressida. (I don't know why I do this, I don't even like Toyotas. But I respect them. Had a gal long ago who had a similar-vintage Corolla and it just plain worked.)
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  270. Hey, it's Florida. Heat shrink on your heat shrink isn't crazy, with your humidity.
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  271. Being a torque wrench fan, and a curious type, I did buy one of those valve core torque "wrenches." (It's more like a pen and would fit in your shirt pocket.) I was surprised at how much effort it does ask for.
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  272.  @RMJTOOLS  Of course, half the internet will REEEEE!! that antiseize will make your lug nuts fall off and you'll crash and die. I'm with you on all of these, and have a few hundred thousand miles of experience of lug nuts staying on just fine.
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  273. REEEEEE he could have diagnosed that through the oil filler cap! (OK, not sure if the oil filler cap gives a view of the cam, of if there's a windage tray in the way.)
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  274.  @alanreynolds2287  If one were to crank the engine at the crank pulley with a ratchet, maybe one could see the cam not turning through the oil filler cap. No biggie. Unlike all too many modern cars, removing a valve cover on this Toyota was no big woop. I'm just theorizing here.
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  275. For this wiring harness, just simple string would work, from the harness to the tabs-with-holes up in the cowl area.
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  276. The Torque Test Channel covered these devices a few months ago and they did impressive work transmitting power!
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  277. Yeah, mostly cosmetic. The one modern car in my household that has one, it also has direct injection, and those injectors are a little clattery, so it helps with that. There's a thin layer of foam on the underside of the cover, and it fell off.
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  278. Ray: My NOT DROP THIS tip, which I'm ashamed to say I didn't invent until I'd been wrenching more than 35 years, and that's: Put your magnet tool near the fastener as you're unscrewing it.
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  279.  @chrisfreemesser  I've seen large sedans at the BMW dealer with the rear axle, drive shaft, transmission, and engine on a very large lift table beneath them.
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  280. Yes.
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  281. No retime needed. Anywhere in that crankshaft's rotation (and therefore, the rod bearing journal surface on that crankshaft throw) is where the connecting rod "big end" is supposed to be, and the piston connected to the other end of the rod will be where it is supposed to be up in the cylinder bore. Nothing to do with the crankshaft and timing chain(s) connected to the camshaft(s) got disconnected so the timing of all valve events remained unmolested.
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  282. The SPLOOSH: how did it happen? My guess, anti-drainback valve doing its thing. There was a li'l slightly pressurized pocket of oil waiting to ambush you. I went and looked up the part and yes, there's a continuous gasket perimeter around that oil passage above the cam bearing, and it appears to cover up an oil passage.
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  283. Tip: try not to remove the coating Honda put on there because you think it's rust!
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  284. Given that some Japanese car companies give shallow threaded holes in rotors hats and brake drums to assist with removal later (insert bolt, turn) I would suspect this crank pulley had threaded holes in it already.
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  285. Back when water pumps were new, water was what people used, I think. You could also call a valve cover a "cam cover" but nobody would know what you're talking about.
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  286. Yes. Many debate and quibble, but yes. I believe teh YouTube channel Torque Test Channel went into this early on.
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  287. Sad. Can't save 'em all.
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  288. (scratch head) Has news of the serpentine belt not reached Korea? Also, that aluminum motor mount bracket has something on top of it that looks like an impact socket... what is that thang?
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  289. Now hoooold on there son, ah say ah say do you not OWN a cutoff wheel?
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  290.  @BryanBurns-f7x  With a Dolby surround sound telephone DOO DE DO DE DOO noise?
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  291. REEEE did you slide a dry seal onto a dry crank nose? (OK, you did say a lot had just happened off camera, so I'm probably wrong.)
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  292. That works nicely with gaskets, too, and Fel Pro does make gaskets for this kind of thing.
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  293. Ray, you need one of those spinning Jiffy Pop roof vent fans, to extract fumes from that shop, to protect your health and BRANEZ. (I have no idea how those things survive in hurricane country.) EDIT: official name is "vent turbine." Of course, an electrical fan would work through a hole in the wall, too, and you could command it to be on on a still day.
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  294. Is silicone lubricant safe for 02 sensors? (I'm quite confused anymore.)
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  295. One of the first South Main Auto videos I saw, he diagnosed a valvetrain problem on an... Isuzu SUV? A piece of foil from an oil bottle seal got poured into the engine and that little bit was plugging a lifter? Oil galley outlet? in the head.
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  296. I see the nameplate and think "Silvera-Do." Reminds me of some movies I used to watch.
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  297. Jumpin' Jehosaphat! It's wire nut week here at RRR!
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  298. After he finished that job, he did a timing belt on a Toyota.
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  299. I'm guessing Toyota think hard about making things go together easily, for low production costs, and it results in easy repairs much of the time.
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  300. I detect a branding opportunity! Rainman Tools.
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  301.  @wadet73  On the one hand, my household's Durango with 5.9 keeps going, with 440K+ miles, and more than the last 100K with two bad exhaust valve seats. OTOH, 15.5 mpg hwy!
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  302. Yes. I have a big nail just for that. Roofing gutte-holder-upper nail, with a little bit of file or grinder, does the trick. A few light hammer taps and it punches a nice drain hole. A second hole lets air in and it drains even better. Reduces "sploosh!" when the filter is unscrewed. Mind you, I'm a home DIY'er and I'm patient. And when preferable, oil change draining is LHO (long, hot, overnight.)
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  303.  @williampope3531  It's not the clutter that scares me about his top-of-toolchest "workbench" -- it's the dirt! And he'll mess around with things for AC and hydraulic systems on there.
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  304. That's how I felt about it? Why oil pump? And then the whole other issue of "why high volume, really?" But I know know nothing of LS world and what problems this customer may be seeing starting or is trying to stave off.
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  305. The Honda, why does it beep in the back parking lot?
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  306.  @TonyGingrich  And 14 randy traveling salesmen didn't know what to do with themselves...
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  307. As a home DIY'er using jack stands and a floor jack, I use coffee can/peanut cans to dump lug nuts into as I go with the impact gun. Keeps them from getting lost and and keeps sand and grit out of the threads, too
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  308. Twin-plug cars you may have heard of: Mercedes ML SUV (for both power and efficiency, but also by firing one off a little earlier than the other, reduced noise) Datsun/Nissan NAPZ motor of the 80's. Porsche racing cars of the late 60s/70's/80's (very wedgey piston tops were obscuring the flame kernel made by just one spark plug) Other Honda trivia: Bet they're doing two plugs so they can get away with lean burn during light load situations. And to just get closer to 100% combustion in all situations, for efficiency and power and emissions. Remember the VX lean burn motor in the early 80's? Remember the CVCC motors of the early 70's? Carb dispensing a lean mixture for the main intake manifold runners, richer mixture for the precombustion chambers where the spark plugs lived OK, I'm slightly older than Ray...
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  309. It's the end of the stud as we know it!
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  310. 39:30 Makes me feel sixteen again1
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  311. They can wear out... I just have trouble imagining an oil pump wearing out, what with it pumping oil all the time.
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  312. Some thieves just want the aluminum.
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  313.  @kenj.8897  What do you use, if anything? I could see not cleaning it out at all, if there's no metal bits about. We do the same with our motors.... (but they have filters.)
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  314. Is it just me? It seems the radiator had the milkshake but the water pump leaked water. Maybe that was right after the long garden hose flush.
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  315. Did he just go 110 mph on the streets to get to the drag strip and go 94 mph in the quarter?
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  316. Yeah, I heard "rolled up newspaper" a long time ago. Back when there were a lot of newspapers around.
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  317.  @thesledgehammerblog  Oh yes, that "same product, but VW/Audio logos ground off" thing has been going on for as many decades as I've been doing WC VW. I also now see it with Mopar parts for an older Durango I work on -- order a Standard brand turn signal switch, find Mopar logos on it.
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  318. Honing stones of some kind, which I was not aware of until this video!
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  319. Have a friend who was stumped years back on a GM big block of some kind. Rebuilt but had oil pressure problems they couldn't figure out. Eventually they had the oil pan off it, but supplied oil to the pump somehow, and ran it (this may have been messy) and my friend (under there getting messy?) discovered a crack in the block accounting for the oil pressure loss.
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  320. I don't like the yelling, but I can spot the decades of experience behind his opinions.
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  321. I have always been fascinated by people saying, "Oh,. everybody knows this brand only uses these sized wrenches..." I never noticed! My VW from the 80's just taught me that it has 6,7,8, 9, 10,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,21,22mm... so I never thought about it. Any nut could be anything!
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  322.  @andrebots4224  Have you seen the Knipex bicycle pliers? I buy a lot of Knipex, but I can resist those.
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  323. Gateman Ray. Yay story time!
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  324. Maybe some air hammer action, too!
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  325. :01 OMG an organized drawer!!!😄
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  326. Don't say what? Nuts?
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  327. REEEE you can't put a 51 amp fuse in there! It'll burn to the ground!
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  328. Also known as a screw knocker.
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  329. I used Vaseline petroleum jelly for years and had no problem. No corrosion, and no mess to tussle with years later like some of that red spray on stuff.
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  330. Today's new vocabulary word? MOSFET. From Wikipedia: "The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon. It has an insulated gate, the voltage of which determines the conductivity of the device. This ability to change conductivity with the amount of applied voltage can be used for amplifying or switching electronic signals. A metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MISFET) is a term almost synonymous with MOSFET. Another synonym is IGFET for insulated-gate field-effect transistor."
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  331. I like those aluminum wheel spacers. Those will reduce unsprung weight.
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  332.  @lorditsprobingtime6668  No problem! There's some dumb shit out there anymore.
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  333. RAM? Isn't that the pickup truck you go buy at the Dodge dealer?
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  334. That helicopter was the Snap On warranty police. The construction equipment operator and the bird were undercover agents. Or maybe the bird heard you were tapping bread into pilot bearings.
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  335. Maybe military vehicles get tended to more often than street cars? Also, easy field servicability is paramount. Also, they might be really good worm gear clamps? Some have inner sleeves, some have springs to assist in proper tension over age/heat changes.
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  336. Headers for the Jeep? Make sure to whisper in the owner's ear that the next logical step, for a mere several thousand dollars, is an Edelbrock cylinder head!
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  337. Todays' episode is brought to you by wires, tubes, and hoses.
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  338. Also, the goal isn't just expansion but breaking old bonds of corrosion all around the threaded fastener?
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  339. Five? That's an odd number of cylinders.
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  340. @Big John Heh heh. I own an old 5 cylinder car. I've driven a 3 cylinder car (Geo Metro. Sad.) I've driven a turbocharged 3 cylinder car (Geo Metro turbo) Actually pretty fun!
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  341.  @donsisco852  I have a large and long nail just to start that drip. Sharpened the tip a little with a file. A few gentle hammer taps and the hole is made.
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  342. REEEE he even uses his Snap On pliers for welding!😀
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  343. I like my family doctor, but she's not a dentist.
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  344. This is just one man's opinion, but having those aluminum heater core tubes exposed in the driver's footwell just strikes me as an annoyance. Of course, my opinion could change if I lived in northern climes, or it it made heater core replacement an easy job. But yeesh, some kind of insulation would be nice, especially if there's no heater valve blocking flow in the summer.
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  345. Hey Ray! It's 2022! Do you not have magnetic spark plug sockets yet? They're vera nice! And they save the pliers step.
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  346. Check out his "Shorts" video section; he seems to bre going after a sway bar link with an air hammer lately.
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  347. 1:08 A paper towel! I don't remember the last time I saw a paper towel on this channel!
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  348. As van engine work goes, that looks like the least "van" experience possible! Looks very accessible. Much nicer than old-fashioned Detroit vans.
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  349. The manufacturers put a lot less metal into the designs, to save weight and increase fuel economy and performance. This makes them a lot more prone to warp when things go wrong, and also have very little room to machine when they get older. Add the low price of new parts for many cars and the decision becomes easy, just replace.
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  350. Okay, but what's the belt sander for?
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  351. Ray, glad to see you enlist the help of another mechanic. Wish you'd done it when moving the old one out and the new one in! Reduce the odds of things gone wrong. Heck, some seat covers and moving blankets also might have protected the interior from possible screw up.
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  352. I've got a rubber hose in my spark plug tool drawer just for the Ford 4.6L 2V in my fleet! I trust my feel/fingers/experience on all of the other cars, but reaching into the dark crevices of a Ford van? Better safe than sorry!
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  353. My theory: gas shocks leaked gas, ride height changed, toe changed, inner edge wear. Outer edge wear caused by hard driving young person who borrows the car.
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  354. Ray's "little pry bar" is a Snap On O-ring "pick", right?
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  355. I was wondering about the order of bolt installation on that seal carrier plate, too. Ray got REEE'd at on a front main seal on an LS a few weeks ago, for similar issues of seal/crank concentricity, no? I believe the long vertical bolts through oil pan up to seal carrier plate got installed in Ep. 1. Of course, the video is not the complete story, we don't always know what got torqued when.
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  356. Your alignment rack has specs for a DeSoto? I'll drive right down! (It may take me a week.)
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  357. Uh, I am not an electrician or code inspector but... what the heck is that plug and electrical cord and hole in the wall behind the hydraulic press?!😀
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  358. Ray: Yes, that "wood screw" goes there. That's the kind of screw Ford uses for things that screw into plastic intake manifolds. See also, coil packs.
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  359. Do axle shafts get hotter than the axle tubes when everything's warmed up? The oil is in the bottom of the axle tubes (which is also a big part of where the oil sheds heat) then there shouldn't be any length difference between tube and shaft.... Hmmm.... however, I bet that rotor gets "thicker" with heat expansion while the caliper bracket doesn't get as hot. Doesn't account for the noise happening in turns, though.
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  360.  @stevewolf2620  How about filters? Did they even give you a filter?!
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  361. At the levels of torque required for that wheel bearing nut, there are no rules.
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  362. In a world... without doodly-dos... one man... fixes things in relative peace and quiet...
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  363. OK, but why was it so hard to start on a summer day in Florida the other day?
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  364. Now you need to modify it to shoot taters!
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  365. We're counting plugs. Definitely.
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  366.  @brisiobrien1  Yeah, you never know. I never got any deals from my local VW dealer back in the day, but am now getting the "cool guy price" at a different dealer and its so close to aftermarket that it's hard to resist sometimes.
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  367. In this case, those plastic fuel lines live inside the intake manifold, where a fresh supply of outside air flows constantly, so that helps.
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  368. A magnetic socket and locking extension (or long socket) is very nice for both removal and installation! (I do use fuel hose on one very tricky motor in my fleet, though. Ford 4.6L 2V inside a van nose.)
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  369. My theory is that slow, careful, but mildly off-axis force doesn't hold a candle to on-axis, sharp impulses of force.
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  370. A man retired from my workplace, where he was the safety officer. A week or so later he began work on the restoration of that old car he always wanted to do. Removed driveshaft, car rolled, crushed him dead.
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  371. If there are contaminants inside the new oil filter and you don't prefill, aren't they going into the motor anyway? I prefill. Also, I've taken to blowing my funnels clean of dust before putting oil in. And, of course, alway be paranoid about those plastic film bottle seals! I think it was Eric O/South Main Auto who discovered a tiny piece of that film screwing up a lifter on an Isuzu SUV a few years ago.
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  372. I used dry cleaner coat hanger wire for a long time, but when I tried the newfangled S hooks, well, they're really good! Hard to put my finger on it. They seem to stay put? Quick and easy to use? $10.99 I don't regret spending at all.
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  373. $7.99 + tax at O'Reilly's gets you a pair of S-shaped caliper-hanging hooks. I don't have that exact brand but they really are a nice option to use.
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  374. It's an option but it also involves undoing two ball joints per side and a camber bolt, I think. But the camber bolt location can be marked with a punch. (?) Hazy memory.
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  375. "Now if the truck was in Italy, it would come out the front..."
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  376. I come here to learn about auto diagnosis and repair! But I love most of the other stuff, too.
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  377. I'm a big fan of preventive maintenance, but on these modern cartridge bearings? Yeah, it's a random crapshoot, wait until noise begins.
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  378. Car with world's largest temp gauge still overheated.
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  379. Oh, I'm sure all of the other oil change "technicians" in his past changed the crush washer when they changed his oil. And then used a torque wrench to tighten it to factory spec.
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  380. Now you need a loaner car for your customers. And by "loaner car", of course, I mean, "PT Cruiser."
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  381.  @jasonkool535  Ah. This is the price Ray pays for being a generalist. I wonder if he ever googles when stuck in a pickle like this?
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  382. You were going to check that fitting but then the phone rang. DOO DE DOO DE DOO.
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  383. Probably not. Just a solution for power/torque/mpg/goodness.
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  384. Well, this job definitely took you to Funkytown.
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  385.  @davidscott7005  At that point it's just cheaper to go on ebay and buy the American-made vintage Craftsman socket you need!
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  386.  @eldridge201  Or maybe he needs a "Texas Twister" kit for his air hammer, which turns it into an air puller.
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  387. I don't mind some hour-long videos but I don't want it to be the norm! Makes it hard to watch all of your videos.
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  388. If you won't say "headers", are you going to call a water pump a "coolant pump" next?
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  389.  @mishahendriks3020  After the battery clamps are tightened, clean and dry, added afterwards. Keeps moisture/dirt/acid out of where the metal is touching, prevents corrosion.
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  390. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrheaaaaaa....yeah, ATF exchange time.
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  391. Need bigger hammers.
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  392. I remember when New Jersey's biggest Chevy dealership burned to the ground because of a dropped incandescent drop light, when somebody was doing fuel system work on a schoolbus.
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  393. ​ @tylerjoseph7378  Yes! Ack!
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  394. You are a man of principle. You wouldn't lie to a parts clerk and just say it's a '63 up front? 😁
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  395. I hear the scientists have said that steam can be 212 degrees Fahrenheit... or much hotter!
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  396. The long skinny electric ratchets are Snap On ($$$!) -- check out Torque Test Channel here on YouTube for other affordable competitors. His red right angle cordless impact gun is Milwaukee. Also not cheap but it sure works for him! You can also see various brands compared on the Torque Test Channel. His basic 1/2" cordless impact gun is Ridgid.
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  397. Well, based on this video, I'm worried he's been in another car accident.
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  398. Ray, please consider the advice of the Car Wizard, who spent a few years at Cessna and did a lot of riveting -- and undoing of rivets. The Car Wizard on YouTube, 12 Best Mechanic Tips & Trucks, 1/2/22, , 22:58 mark.
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  399. Innovation: buy another GoPro, set it up on the floor under the car to monitor if any nuts or sockets fall through the engine bay to the floor! Then you can review the footage when you're wondering where to start the search, Or maybe just buy some locking extensions and magnetic sockets.
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  400. I got a giant nail used for roofing gutters and sharpened it up a little and I use that. Makes for a more civilized filter removal!
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  401.  @sladeg9471  Isn't he dying of cancer? Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's the impression one of his titles gave me lately. I hate clickbait titles, but everybody's doing it. (ahem) At least when you click on Ray's stuff there's quality content, not Scotty yelling. Best thing you can say about Scotty, besides his years of experience, is that he keeps it brief.
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  402.  @filpaul  I made it through the whole "flames on everything" era without buying one danged thing like that... except that HF hose pick!
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  403.  @peterjohnson9438  They have duller tips.
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  404. Or, move south and never go back.
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  405. P.S. Also, I must mentioned The Seat Shop in Plano, TX -- in addition to leather kits for your seats, if they make a Durofoam seat bottom foam for your driver's seat, by all means, get one! Very nice.
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  406. Duralast fuel filter on a German diesel? HARUMPH!
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  407. What does a brake booster pressure sensor do for something else? ABS system? (I am a caveman.)
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  408. Ray has trouble finding his tools in his toolbox.
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  409. It's nice to see a sturdy protector around the spark plug's business end, but still, if it's dropped, the ceramic could have cracked, you don't sell it or install it, right?
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  410. I'm a Sprayway fan! It works well. There are other brands that are good, too, but cost so much more, so "works well" and "cheapest" sure is hard to ignore.
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  411.  @txp-tuff4358  Wow. Unacceptable.
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  412. Stealing from the company... that's happy you sold a brake job? (scratch head)
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  413. Always nice to see some Knipex on this channel! Yes, those are the pliers for that clamp.
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  414. Which is all good until the air tool starts up!
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  415. Benny Hill style!
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  416. Ray, 'tis plain, you need a brass chisel attachment for your air hammer.
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  417. I'm guessing he lives in an unsalted land. You'd be surprised how easily some things come apart outside the salt zone.
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  418. Thanks. I didn't get that. Didn't seem dirty. I had just watched his nasty dirty gross roach-motel Camry videos earlier, so maybe that was it.
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  419. REEEEE chrome socket on an impact!😁
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  420.  @badazz2969  Also available from Bahco, who make good stuff.
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  421. Yeah Mr. Ray! Yeah science!
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  422. You say "parts cannon", I say "thorough restoration of a classic." If we don't keep these things alive, how will future generations know what it was like to wander down the road with a Ford twin-I-beam front suspension?
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  423.  @Boga217  Dexcool has so many talents!
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  424. I heard you talk and just thought you were Eric O's brother!
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  425. Lubriplate is still for sale!😀
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  426. Torque Test Channel has its moments, for sure!
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  427.  @chrisleggett685  Well, they'll never rust now!
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  428.  @SIGINT007  I was a shop flunky boy in the mid-80's and had to explain to an older VW customer that no, the new car's front ends can't be greased. He didn't get wound up about it. I would later learn, on my own 80's VW, that a new ball joint was $15 and 3 simple bolts, quite a breeze to replace. On the old Durango I now toil over to keep rolling, I put MOOG ball joints with grease fittings in the front end and some days when I'm greasing them I wonder if the time I will spend greasing them will add up to more time than it would take me to change them and then I say... naaaaaw. This is still easier work than that, so no biggie. And 140K miles later, no play in them, so that's nice.
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  429. I think on a live-axle pickup truck you're more likely to see one brake line to the rear, one rubber hose to the axle, and a steel line running to each rear brake. I've got a mid 80's VW that had "diagonal" circuits like you describe. It also had two steel brake lines running back to the rear of the car.
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  430. Well, not an Interstate Battery dealer, but you will clean the terminals of one and charge it, if a customer shows up with one in their car, so that's nice.
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  431. Fun tip: An exhaust U joint clamp (of the right size) can be gently tightened onto a wheel bearing dust cap, then you can pry on the clamp all you want and avoid deformation of the dust cap.
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  432. Sounds to me like you need a Prevost coupler! Costs more but you'll be glad you did.😀
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  433. My "While I'm There" would have had me changing the upper and lower hoses on that 17 year-old PT Cruiser!
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  434. Knipex Cobras are the Knipex gateway drug.
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  435. I believe that up to that point, the oil companies were getting a tax break out of having service stations, and as that tax break ended, things started changing.
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  436. You need to lock that gate at night. Somebody keeps dropping off PT Cruisers!
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  437. That would require patience.
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  438. Or some other 800 VW's...
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  439. 15:27 Triangular muffler?!
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  440. When he gets paid next Friday he's going to come back and buy a new tire and Peter will install it for POINT TWO HOURS!
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  441. I actually noticed some of his tool chest drawers were tidier in a recent video. What a relief! I can be messy, but no way with the tool box drawers and tools.
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  442. Diesels before turbos were just... diesels.
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  443. You need either a wall-mounted exhaust fan or a roof stack with the "jiffy pop" spinning fan to pull fumes out of your shop whenever you spray a lot of brake cleaner. Voice activated, of course, when you shout "AIR!"
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  444.  @StrongDreamsWaitHere  Riiiiight. Look into the Wix XP series of filters.
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  445.  @PJBonoVox  He may have been in a pickle where he needed to get somewhere and the part wasn't in town yet.
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  446. I have a question for the LS tribe: Why does that valley cover plate have all of those funny shapes on it?
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  447. But if he spends money on solar panels it will just reduce his electrical bill all year long! It doesn't even make any noise!
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  448. Bilstein makes them in pressurized form, and somehow, they don't.
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  449. I've enjoyed Fumotos more than I ever expected, even upgraded some ATF pans so I could have valves on them, too. They come with a paper/felt gasket that seems to last a long time, but you might want to cinch up on the valve every 30,000 miles in case it has loosened a tiny bit.
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  450. Huh?
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  451. Sit down? They've taken away the stools. For customers and employees.
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  452. That, or it's leaking! All the more reason to clean it today, and go check it periodically.
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  453.  @terryharvey4811  Thank you for your service station.
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  454. Nah. I have an '85 VW and work on a 2000 Durango... it's just a sunshine/years thing. Most people just don't keep their cars long enough to run into it. Plenty of sunshine where that Mustang lives!
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  455. REEEEE Those aren't Michelins! But they're new tires, and that's not a no-name brand at all. Yay tires!
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  456. There's a few like him in every city. Finding them is the hard part.
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  457. I don't mind the 4 Non Blondes but I do look forward to not hearing that sander or whatever it is they're using in that body shop next door!
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  458. Those rotors might have been all funky and the pads not engaging correctly if no goops and greases were used, too. Kind of a tie. But I feel compelled to point out that the rotors came off and the wheel bearings came out of the hubs with no drama. Hooray for anti-seize!
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  459.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  I don't mind the length, but that, and a new video every day, and my strange compulsion to watch all of the vidoes, well, 'tis plain, I'm a month behind!
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  460. To paraphrase John Denver, "Thank God I'm a W124 M103 man!"
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  461. Wait a minute! Is this AC drain just a hose? Is there no valve at the end of the hose to prevent bugs and creepy crawlies from climbing up inside there? Maybe that's how the hose got clogged?
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  462. Phew! This project was exhausting!
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  463. Ray, yes that is a Futurama-looking machine. Be it resolved, from now on, when you use it, you should say AROOOO!!!
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  464. I do miss glass lenses but those sealed beams for awful for actually making light. A European version (shaped just like it, glass lens) would have an easily replaced bulb on the back side. (In fact, some people converted their cars to euro headlights but that's a whole 'nother story.)
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  465. It's Florida, how much water could be in there?😃
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  466. And I thought Ray didn't pre-lube oil filters!😀
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  467.  @steveearwig  Or, "If this power seat adjust breaks when I use it, then we're paying for it/I'm doing it for free."
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  468.  @jimmeade2976  Worst version I saw of this was not a mechanic, but my dad. He took my sister's car into town to go to the tire shop, and in those 5 miles, he changed all of the radio presets.
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  469.  @stevenbaker9327  I hear people in SoCal just use... water. Weirdos!
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  470. New rule: after five warning codes have accumulated, the screen should read, "Are you trying to hurt me?"
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  471.  @MrRunner  Que?
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  472.  @timjohnun4297  I think Ray demonstrated that trick in the past year.
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  473. I was wondering about UV dye in this case. A little bit in the motor oil should have shown up quickly in the cooling system, the way this thing was going, no?
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  474. I suspect this vehicle is low miles, but hey, 22+ years! Change it.
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  475.  @williampope3531  I'd hate to move from my current vet office, they're a mile away. I'd also hate to make a dying pet go through such a long final ride. Then again, having strangers do the needle feels wrong, too.
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  476.  @williampope3531  Oh, sure. I've had a lot of cats dying on me in recent years. Some of them really don't like the car that much. One, named "Talky", meowed for 1 hr 15 mins all the way to the cardiologist and then on the ride back. He got dehydrated. Yes, to the needle. Normally by the time the "last ride" has come, they're feeling awful. But if your pet is okay with car rides, then I'm not worried about distance to the vet. And yes, I feel you on not wanting some stranger doing it. Most recent cat death, our normal vet was out and we had a new hire. It felt strange. And I really wouldn't want to go to the local 24 hour animal hospital, that place is a mill that churns employees and costs twice as much for anything, and luckily we haven't had go to there because of an overnight arrival at death's door.
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  477.  @Jay.Kellett  People think they want more than that but if you give it to them, most of them are too timid to actually use it.
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  478.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  This is Merica! We'll mangle any foreign word we want to! It's tradition! (And I generally say "Knee-pex." I suspect they don't mind because I keep sending them so much of my money.)
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  479.  @kenc2257  This is who buys used Land Rovers.
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  480. Slick50's chance for a comeback has arrived!
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  481. "Who's this Gayle you went to see? What does she have what I don't?" "Mandrel-bent tubing!"
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  482.  @h7pubg  XJ220 with hail damage?
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  483. Sadly, they were thinking, "How are we going to get all of this stuff in this engine bay? No, Jimmy, we're not putting it under the back seat. We've been over that before, that five feet of copper cable that costs too much money."
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  484. "I'm sorry BRRRRP I'm at the dentist BRRRRRRRP."
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  485. I'd look into that wiring harness -- when you push on it it honks like a train horn!
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  486. Rubbermaid? Their products are always good.
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  487. (scratch head) Compared to my home DIY'er/no laundry service red rags, paper towel consumption, I always wondered why you aren't using paper towels for some things! Especially in your previous place of employment, which seemed like a paper towel free zone.
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  488. Knipex Cobras are the gateway drug! Now you need a 10" and a 7". After that, look into the "pliers wrench" -- handier than you would expect.
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  489. Not a welder, eh? Google for: Norm MacDonald's Welding Joke.
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  490. Bought a chain cutter years ago and love it!
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  491. Is the O-ring on that wheel bearing assembly because of the vacuum locking?
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  492. Have you consider sewing new leather onto your steering wheel? Wheelskins sells them and they take an hour or two to install, and if you're patient with the sewing they come out looking fairly decent. Not OEM, but better than any other solution.
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  493. I think the ease of getting a serpentine belt back on might just vary from design to design. The two cars I deal with it the most on, it's easy a pie, once you figure out what tool to use on the tensioner, how far you can move the tensioner, and which pulley would be easiest to slip the last bit of belt over while you have one hand on that tool.
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  494. REEEEEEEEE Ray drives over extension cords!
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  495. @Simr Khera What is the PO Box? I can never find it.
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  496.  @maxwedge5683  Is the chemical test a litmus paper to check for acidity, or a sample drawn and mailed off to a lab?
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  497.  @ltdees2362  Please, it's not an Audi. (You don't want to know...)
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  498. Are you taking Peter with you? Somebody has to take care of the boy! Can he at least make guest appearances?
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  499. This is one thing I do enjoy about my steep driveway. But Ray is in Florida, where elevation changes are not.
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  500.  @valiantgold442  Is this assuming a heater valve?
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  501. Ray, could you have held that wiring harness up out of the way with some string? There are tabs up above in the cowl area with holes in them you could have tied to, to pull the harness back and up.
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  502.  @richb.4374  And other people's music!
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  503. Yes! Finding "the object" does not mean you've found all of the objects that tire might have today! I take mine out in the sunlight, draw a crayon mark on the tire tread so I know where I started, and start rolling it slowly, checking for possible metal bits.
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  504. It's always good to inspect a new used car with eyes wide open.
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  505. Diagnose and repair gate, 0.2 hr.
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  506. REEEEE that fluid doesn't meet Mercedes-Benz fluid approval number 345.0! Okay, maybe it does. I have no idea what you used there.
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  507. 2:55 Irate customer? No! Gilbert Gottfried.
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  508. They even know which blades to buy!
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  509. Quench with water? Buzz with smaller air hammer before even removing nut, to shake up the bonds of rust? Cold spray after torch heat? (CRC Freeze-Off Super Penetrant) Candle wax into threads from up above side of the flange, right after torching? Mayhew Select 29895 Stud Extractor, for use with impact gun? I've had good luck with this tool and so have many others. It's like a drill chuck but for studs and broken bolts, using impact forces. (3/8" drive ugga duggas.)
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  510. Sprayway glass cleaner! Woo hoo! It works great and is so fairly priced!
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  511. Yeah, when he was at the last shop, I started to notice an absence of Hondas. Also, it seems like the modern Japanese cars aren't leaking when they get older. I'm impressed!
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  512. GET TO DA COMPRESSAH!!
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  513. Parts of the USA are rusty from road salt usage. Florida is a very low-rust place. Many American viewrs living in the "Rust Belt" are amazed at what they see/don't see under the cars in these videos!
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  514.  @davidmurany6683  Thank you! Guess I was wrong. I'm a boring by-the-book guy a lot of the time.
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  515.  @davidmurany6683  I never gained the experience! My VW has 265K mi on it and has never leaked , either! But with changing the copper washer 98% of the time. Now, the most high mileage vehicles in our fleet that really rack up the miles, I just put Fumoto valves in. Seems silly when you have every tool ever, but it really is convenient.
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  516. I say you make the attempt. Not a cheap tool!
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  517. A few minutes into the video, I thought, do they buy their gas from the place that Ford owner did? Also, for a Hyundai owner and nearly 100K mi, I am impressed how clean that solenoid looked.
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  518. Install new ground cable, 0.2 hr.
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  519. REEEEEE get an Air Lift, for chrissakes.
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  520. The main bearings don't know if the passenger seat has clutter on it.
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  521.  @leooboyle4375  "Look at me, I'm just cruising down the world without a car in the world! What's that vibration? What's the clunk? It's nothing for me to worry about OH MY GOD THE DIFFERENTIAL JUST EXPLODED AND I'M GOING TO DIE!"
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  522.  @domenicmanicone2612  Domenic, according to the internet, this car had Bilstein shocks at first. Looks like you replaced yours at some point -- did the Bilsteins wear out, or just get on your nerves?
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  523. I've had good luck with McGards, too.
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  524. Ray, perhaps what you wanted when installing that 02 sensor was a ratcheting flare nut wrench? Look for Williams RFW-28. Also made by SK and FACOM ($$$.)
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  525. He has the technology. He will destroy it. Oh, and then rebuild it.
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  526.  dan conrad  I'm am amateur. My jobs can get halted for days, weeks, months... meaning I had better label parts in detail! Ray is a pro in a hurry and he'll be bolting it all back together very soon, so his memory is fresher?
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  527. On YouTube, you can watch mechanics in Pakistan doing this kind of work on the dusty ground, or this guy doing it on a concrete floor in Florida. (I shouldn't laugh, I lived without a workbench for a long time.)
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  528.  @zoidberg444  Are you in salt country? Do the parking brake cables actuate the piston, too?
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  529.  @zoidberg444  Yeah, my Mk 2 Golf had rear discs and the first five years were salt country. The parking brake is cable operated via the rear calipers, and that little input shaft appears to be a source of salt ingress. Plus those darned twisty-screw piston posts. I eventually got things dialed in , but I sure do understand the shift towards parking brakes that are small shoes inside the brake rotor's "hat", while the normal hydraulic braking is done by a normal hydraulic calioper.
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  530. Those clocks shouldn't sync, that stupid little analog clock is an elegant Cadillac tradition that will eventually break.
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  531. Ray, to avoid dropping nuts and screws in risky situations, put a telescoping magnet retrieval tool down next to your socket or screwdriver tip so that when the fastener comes loose, the magnet grabs it.
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  532. The old saying, "You get what you pay for", is mostly true. Of course, if something is very expensive, that doesn't mean it has to be great. But if something is really cheap? Then something's missing. You don't get what you don't pay for.
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  533. In the US, rotor or disc. In theory, you want brand new machined metal and brand new pad to get to know each other, but I'm not the only one here to have done a "pad slap" here and there, I'm sure. I'm not sure, however, what's so 'orrible about used pads on new rotors. Bedding pads, as I understand it, is about breaking in the rotor surface/depositing the nice layer of brake pad on them. Of course, a used pad may not be square/level/evenly worn, too.
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  534. Go to Garage Journal. They can help you with your plight.
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  535.  @GARDENER42  Which means I'd have to remember 160 things...
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  536.  @lewisanth4986  Just keep in mind, even back then, there were good mechanics and average ones.
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  537. Even worse, Ray used Florida air!
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  538. Ray, time for a comment from the peanut gallery. Possible tools for installing that bolt on that Adel clamp on the power steering hose: 1) SK/Craftsman thumbwheel ratchet? 2) Astro/Titan/many other brands "gearless" micro rachets. Short little handles with a roller sprag clutch in them. Perceived as having infinite teeth, but no, in practice their backlash puts them in about the same ballpark as your Dual 80 ratchet. But these, in 1/4" or slightly longer 3/8" version, are my preferred weapon of choice when things get stupid cramped. 3) Have you seen the FACOM twist ratchets? They operate like a normal ratchet, or, you twist their handle and the drive square turns, no matter which way you twist, it turns the direction it's been set to. Maybe worth a try. I got one and found that it's not a one-handed deal, I had to put my other hand up in there to push the ratchet head/socket onto the bolt head/nut, and if I had enough room for both of these meathooks, I'd be using a more mundane tool! _______ IV: In my demented imagination: a cordless ratchet like the ones you use, but slim head, flex head, chain drive,, and a radio. (How to make a chain drive work in a flex head, I don't know, I told you I'm demented.)
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  539. Tater Salad!
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  540. "Daddy, what do you do at work all day?" "I hit things with a mallet and say "DOO DE DOO DE DOO!"
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  541. Or the steering rack was installed second.
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  542. Dangit! Why didn't I think of that?😃
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  543. Lost and found: I'd want to ask the customer what the fan problem was and what was done about it, if anything. Also, if they knew which shop/mechanic would have left it there. If a reasonable effort can figure out which shop/mechanic left it there, I'd return it. You'd want them to do the same with your stuff.
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  544. In this case, he wouldn't even need the melting wax to wick uphill, the other side of the hole is on the top side of the flange!
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  545. Archaeologists have found a funnel in China that dates back 5,000 years. Has this technology reached Florida yet?
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  546. Heck, add some solar panels! Except in winter, the stronger the sun, the more fan you need.
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  547. REEEE if you had an AirLift it would have stopped filling when it got full. Also, for God's sake, buy a set of nutdrivers! To me, the #1 attraction of nutdrivers is "socket will never fly off and bounce around into some crevice."
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  548.  @garybrugone433  Yep. My Moog ball joints' boots have the same feature -- and note how the slit is on the far side from the brake rotor!
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  549. I file this under "Plastic parts lottery." Customer pays. Errr.... I take that back. Looking forward to Part 2! I didn't hear electric fans but I'm sure R.R. thought of it.
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  550. About 8 years ago, had a friend with a Jeep Cherokee with Magnum V-8. He needed a radiator, I suggested he get an all-aluminum unit. He found a Chinese one and the female threads for ATF cooler fittings were not SAE or metric, it seemed, and they just kept leaking. Really frustrating. I still think one should try for all-aluminum if you can find one (and don't buy the cheapest one you can find!)
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  551. Petey M&B 4 tires, 0.2 hrs.
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  552. That's not so bad. It beats having Scotty Kilmer pop out of the back seat and yelling, "REV UP YOUR ENGINE!" at you.
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  553. New to the internet? There are many opinions about that one... A few years ago I think I figured out one of the main reasons for manufacturers saying "OMG no antiseize!" -- most every antiseize we see available to us is either copper or nickel based paste, and I've used both with no problem. (And I don't slather it on like a dope, either.) But some have glass beads in them and that kind can really affect the flow of electricity from spark plug to head to ground, and you know what that leads to. Otherwise, people can flame all day about it and I must say, I've doe it both ways, no problems. I do remember in olden days when people would leave Champion plugs in these newfangled aluminum heads for a long time and then couldn't get them out. In theory, today's modern plugs have a good nickel plating on the threads that stopped all of that.
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  554. REEEEE you're losing torque with that adapter between the impact and the 10mm socket!
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  555. Back bank of a transverse V-6, I'd be checking those spark plugs, too, i case somebody skipped those three in the past. Also, if intake manifold removal is required to change those three, my "While yer in there" gland says today is the day to change them.
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  556. Would a chemical test for combustion gases in the coolant be a good idea on a difficult case like this? The first and second radiators failed.
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  557. Now he needs to paint those girders white!
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  558. Side effects include verbosity, long videos, and silly sound effects.
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  559.  @daftDAFdriver  Honestly, who throws a shoe?!
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  560. Remember the"Wink" rearview mirror that was a row of rearview mirrors all across the top of the windshield? Used by aggressive street drivers and road racers? Gale Banks needs to make a display that goes from one A-pillar to the other, showing ALL THE NUMBERS.
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  561. Nah. They're compatible.
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  562. The weak points of this otherwise good engine are wiiiiidely known among domestic car mechanics in the US. I'm a complete German car fiend and even I know about this GM engine problem.
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  563.  @tonyhughes1751  I'm becoming a bit of a caveman myself!
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  564. Greetings, fellow Rainmanites! What's the P.O. Box to send Ray and Wife Unit loot and swag? I've seen it in the past but I can never find it when I go looking for it. Thanks.
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  565. What does it say? They suck?
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  566. Footage of the elusive Broomsquatch!
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  567.  @wysetech2000  The easiest way to clean up a mess is to not make one in the first place!
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  568. @tradde11 I'm generally a patient driver and I'm definitely aware of the travails of truck drivers, but I have thought of one justification to do that to non-heavy-trucks: what if the car ahead of you is driven by a tree sloth who is going to coast the entire off ramp and take forever? One less person ahead of you when you take the off-ramp is one less car that might do it to you. I don't know that the people who do that have thought of it that way. Mostly they just drive like pissants and sugar-crazed impatient monkeys every mile of theri trip.
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  569.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  So do we! I've got cars to fix, dagnabbit! 😄
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  570.  @mheetu3909  I have found both machine shops and auto repair shops in Pakistan putting up no-dialog videos of their work. One example is on youtube as: Chaudhary Motor Workshop Dunyapur. "Pakistani Truck" on YouTube has all sorts of repairs.
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  571. I think I saw him use a vacuum filler just a few videos back!
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  572. That fuel filter appears to involve a strap held on by a normal bolt and a normal hose with a normal hose clamp. Is something this simple even allowed nowadays? I love it! Also, I predict the owner of this Jeep is going to love it when they get it back.
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  573. Hey, kids! Don't buy that torque wrench from the Snap On man! It's made by Precision Instruments and is $190ish on amazon right now. That being said, it's a very nice torque wrench. No need to unwind it when you're done with it.
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  574.  @whatdoyouthinktodd  Let's just say he we would never stoop to work for Ford Motor Co., General Motors, Toyota Motor Corporation, Bavarian Motor Werkes, or Honda Motor Corporation because their terminology is bad and wrong.
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  575. Was this the little kitchen inside a larger, newer building, that you just knocked down?
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  576.  @aurgasmic6739  Maybe because yours are all hand brakes? Foot pedal parking brakes were a common tradition stateside.
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  577. He has shown 02 sensor plots on previous videos. Which didn't help you with this video, I will admit.
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  578. Sweating = alcohol? Or heat?
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  579. Shake 'n Break, or "screw knocker."
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  580. Did he say three serpentine belts?!
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  581. Now look into the size of our campers/caravans, race car trailers, horse trailers, etc etc.
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  582. I say that coating was put there by Honda because most of that brake drum is cast aluminum. Did you notice all the shiny shiny inside it? (A rust belt survivor, I, too, am a fan of anti-seize or Fluid Film for hubs, drums, rotors,wheels..)
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  583. Now do freeze plugs!😃
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  584. Yes, that's for driving school cars. I can't think of another application, other than English mothers-in-law.
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  585. I'd be curious about the tensioning adjustment capacity of where that belt is going, and buying a slightly longer belt. (Step one, get past the parts clerk grasping the idea of not using the computer.)
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  586. You should be expecting a call from the Kennedy Space Center any day now.
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  587. Just a week ago I made a boo boo, because I was stupid tired. Changing tie rod boots, had to get it to an alignment shop the next morning. Forgot to tighten a tie rod jam nut and found it later when I checked. We all make mistakes but I try not to work tired or in a hurry, and of course, check things.
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  588. CAUTION: Do not use lift in creative ways if you are a simple kind of man.
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  589. Or just, you know, a razor scraper handle of any variety. And put the thing in a vise!
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  590.  @teardowndan5364  And the good old days of SQUEAAAALLLing noises!
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  591. I was wondering that, too. I've always been under the impression that you should do an oil change afterwards. Same with pouring a big bunch of injector cleaner into your gas tank -- best done a few hundred miles before the oil change.
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  592. That drain pan may be available from Ford with a drain plug option for fleet (police, UHaul) vehicles. I sure like a normal drain hole on an ATF pan if I can have one. Got mine on Ebay.
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  593.  @hdfxrs9121  Lots of cars in olden days had both intake and exhaust on the same side -- they wanted some exhaust heat to keep the carb from icing in winter.
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  594. It's not a cure for "chunks o' impeller blade", but otherwise I Rx a treatment with ThermoCure, a product by the nice folks who brought us EvapoRust. Run it with water in your system for a week, drain and flush thoroughly, all the rust throughout your cooling system has been cleaned out.
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  595. Hey, you forgot the coil spring! Dur hur hur.
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  596.  @randybeard6040  Faulk codes mean a rumpled detective will soon be arriving in a ratty old Peugeot.
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  597. Years of therapy would be required? Not loved as a child? Emotional damage, mother didn't care? You talking about that Toyota or your difficult family member? Sigmund Framebolt: "Tell me more about the last transaxle you diagnosed."
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  598. He has one, but I don't know what the title is. About 6 months ago, a video where he mounted and balanced tires and explained how hard it is for a new young mechanic to survive on 0.2 hr per tire for that, before moving up the food chain to bigger jobs (with a more realistic chance of meeting or beating book time.)
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  599. I'm no translator but I think that anime voice is saying, "Next time, buy a Honda."
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  600. All of my cars have cold start injectors. Then again, they're all German, decades old, and have Bosch CIS fuel injection. What are you all looking at?😀
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  601. Let us commence the casting about for scapegoats! 1) is there a teenaged boy in the household who has been driving it? 2) How long has Toyota been making rifle-drilled camshafts? iii) Mechanic who re-installed that pulley used an impact gun and no torque wrench?
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  602.  @MattExzy  They should relabel them at 5WW-20 and then everybody will be right! "Winter weight!"
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  603. Ze goggles... zey do nothink! Not if you don't weauh dem.
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  604. Magnum 5.2/5.9 had some detail changes/upgrades to the 318/360 family, though.
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  605. Clear plastic tubing is easy to find at the hardware store. I've always been a bubble-watcher! Color-change-watcher, too.
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  606. 11:00 Ah yes, the Snap On dead blow ball peen hammer. You can see it not bouncing after the impact! Very nice, very nice.
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  607. Thanks! I came here to say this, you find a stubby hose or PCV elbow on a Dodge of this vintage, it's there for a reason!
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  608. 26:05 SUCK-O-MAAATIC! Once you have good oil removal sucker tool, you find all sorts of uses for it.
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  609. What region, Ray? The Caucasus?
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  610. I'm sorry, this is America, and that is beyond our capabilities.
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  611. I'll admit I'm saying this from my comfy chair, but Ray needs: a) a real workbench 2) a vise iii) to clean the top of his toolbox Four - a designated quite clean workbench for brake, hydraulic, AC parts fiddling (the dirt on top of his toolbox just freaks me out when he's doing brake/AC/hydraulic parts fiddling on them.)
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  612. I've always suspected the half-moons were so the factory could fit a machine tool in there and machine cam bearing surfaces.
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  613. Yep, @25:26, and an easy job, with an air hammer with chisel bit. MOOG makes a good replacement for this type.
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  614. Then the bartender says to the pirate, "Okay, Mac, what's that lump in your trousers?" And the pirate mutters, "Hyar" and thumps towards the bar on his pegleg. The pirate pulls his waistband forward and the bartender peers over the bar and down into the pirate's trousers. "What the hell? You've got a steering wheel in there!" "Hyar, and it's drivin' me nuts." Nice Wera flexible nutdriver you got there, Ray! I sent you a set of Wiha nutdrivers a few months ago, having seen you spend so much time slopping around with slothead screwdrivers. Well, now it looks like you really have found quality nutdriver religion! EDIT: Huzzah! Now I see one of the Wiha nutdriver set at 37:13 mark. Glad they could be of some use.
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  615. It's nice of them to put a hole in the splash guard so you can get a socket on the crank pulley bolt, but I wish there was a plug for that hole, too! You know, for splashed water.
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  616. Now do black rubber wheel chocks!
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  617. L.L. Cool Ray?
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  618. In this case, because it's on its side. But he won't even do it if it's vertical; that was the first RMR video I ever clicked on.
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  619.  @jerrymalone8370  I agree, I'd do what I could. As would you. Ray won't!
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  620. Be it resolved! Transverse front-wheel drive V-8's were a mistake.
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  621. Time efficient for both sides! Car goes in, comes back out fixed!
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  622.  @kevinelsdon273  Dang, that sounds frustrating, My mom was having very good luck with other Ford products in that era -- and much better than her previous GM Pillowbarges.
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  623. It's about consent!
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  624. Will this be the workbench that you keep clean, for working on fuel injection, AC, and hydraulic parts on?
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  625. Yeah, I'd like to see their work order, before photo, etc, when being asked to do this alignment.
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  626. Rusty flakes in your eye? A country boy can not wear safety goggles but survive somehow.
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  627. Risk factors: Harbor Freight x China x cast aluminum No thanks! If you want quality American-made jack stands, look for U.S. Jack. Prices are... well, they're why we all shop at Harbor Freight. But because I'm a jackstand addict, I bought a pair, and they are lovely.
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  628. 16:20 Sling Blade Karl says, "It ain't go no gas innit." (I realize other things are wrong with this PT Cruiser, but it's always important to remember the basics, as taught by Karl at the mower shop.)
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  629. 2:30 Zach may rage against machines, but Ray is quite calm.
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  630. How do you check for timing chain slop without removing the timing cover?
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  631. Well, hooray for the hack leaving that part of the connector behind; hack spoor is always helpful in tracking down past touching-of-things.
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  632. Oh geez! You give one kid an ice cream cone, now all of the other kids want an ice cream cone!
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  633.  @Wakeupandsniffthecoffee  What year is your Dakota, and what motor?
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  634. That belly pan wouldn't shake if it had been put on by a certified zip tie weaver.
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  635. My truck will never get in the army with that stuff on its record!
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  636. Yes.
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  637. Swab it out like a smoothbore cannon! A broomstick, some paper towels, a rubber band... when I did this I didn't make a giant plug of paper towel, just a bit, but I slid it in high then pulled it back out low, pulling the flakes and chips of the Bad Thing That Happened out towards the end of the tube, on the paper towel. Replace paper towel, repeat.
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  638. WHAT'S UNDER THE BLANKET? WHAT'S UNDER THE BLANKET? An engine? Is that what the cam on the shelf is for, hunh hunh hunh?
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  639. The goal is to move the piston in the master cylinder forward a bit so the fluid can't flow down out of the reservoir?
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  640.  @rrowe3774  Thanks! Oh, and I've been a caliper tapper for years! I thought I was the only one. 🙂
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  641. You could have trolled your viewers and future Jiffy Lube employees by using security-Torx-head bolts on that air cleaner. But you didn't. But do people complain about your bolts? Of course they do.
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  642. That Miata has led a dishonorable life with the wrong transmission. Kill it! (Just kidding, convert to track car with right transmission, better engine.)
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  643. Ford submitted specs for tire companies to bid on, and the price point Ford set scared off Goodyear, IIRC. Firestone met the price point by going with a cheap tire design and about to be submitted to a challenging situation. (Fun fact: the Bronco II before it had its own rollover problems and the Explorer was supposed to be progress because it had a few inches more of wheelbase, which does help with that. It was the dawn of American consumers screaming, “I don’t know what center of gravity means but I wanna be up in the air in a trucky thing for fashion’s sake!” People weren’t rolling their Caprice Classics or Dodge Darts in the 70’s when their tires blew, and I’m sure there were some low rent and neglected tires in those days, too. Center of gravity, people. American’s refusal to check their tire pressure with a gauge, because it’s so hard to kneel or some damned reason I could never figure out. More carpet, roof, and glass, that era of SUV carried more weight on the rear tires than a similar pickup truck. Add full passenger load and cargo on a long trip on an interstate on a hot day and, well, in theory, the customers are supposed to (after reading the glovebox manual that they didn’t throw out, right?) add air pressure to the tires for such situations. Ford and Firestone did screw up, but it always irked me how much the consumers’ role in all this was just ignored. Big mean corporations! Now everybody drives around in slightly less tippy SUV’s but with stability control and tire pressure sensors, so that’s nice. But CG is still CG, you silly geese.
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  644. What do you expect him to do? Take it outside? This is Florida! The weather's rarely pleasant.
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  645. I look forward to the return of Troy... and Pete-ah!
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  646. A workbench and a vise! Woo hoo!
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  647. The first half of this video seemed a whole lot like a video we've seen here before... maybe that was other kids' Lexuses? I think that was a motor mount job.
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  648.  @PatrickTimmins  It rubbers me the wrong way!
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  649. I've greased mine still installed, needle fitting on grease gun. Very nice results. Mostly a thin coating on the tracks that the ball bearings will pick up.
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  650. I prefer full synthetic in most cases, but blends are good, and heck, today's conventional oils have gotten better, too! As long as they show up for regular oil changes, I'm happy. Let the customer decide (or bring their own oil if they are competent to do that.)
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  651. Other than radiator heat, engine heat, exhaust heat, dirt, engine vibration and mist and spray, that is a very good place to put an ECU. But kudos to Mercedes for still having an old timey dipstick!
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  652. Naw. Probably not.
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  653. Hmph. Chrysler has used an orange RTV on front diffs that has been immortal in my limited, but 450K mile experience.
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  654. Ray, this is my tip for getting Teflon tape on the right way: when you first put it on the threads, put the end of the tape pointing in the "wrong" direction -- against the oncoming female threads as it screws in. Then when you're done wrapping tape, the end you cut off is in the right direction, trailing.
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  655. I know it seems hacky... is hacky... but now I know why some people just Sawzall the exhaust pipes , drop exhaust, drop trans, and weld it all back together later. I haven't done it but some amateurs did it to a car I work on, and that car recently went to the best transmission shop in town... they did it, too.
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  656. Definitely a job to do with eyes wide open.
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  657. Yes! I have many different things I call "Suck-O-Matic"! My favorite is the Capri Tools vacuum brake bleeder. Good for brake bleeding, of course, but with the right scrap of copper tubing, you can use it for brake reservoirs, oil filter housings, power steering fluid reservoirs, etc.
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  658. I don't know who designed all of this, but they weren't a simple kind of man.
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  659. Yeah, be careful pushing that thing in there. Don't damage the bag.
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  660. That's a real thing. Look for the video by Raybestos, "Brake Job Tools: Dish Soap and Water."
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  661. Yes. I say, do your own diagnosis, but don't be too proud to look at common problelms in this ballpark. You might want to investigate them, too, to see if they have a problem.
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  662. It's Florida. They're not even greasing brake pad/bracket interface! EDIT: I typed that before he didn't grease it on this car. And then griped about how much work that would be. I must admit, they know their environment and maybe it will be fine. Those in salt country (or refugees who still have post-salt traumatic syndrome) can't imagining not greasing and anti-seizing things for the next mechanic (esp. if it's them.)
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  663. It seemed like the thing to do at the time.
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  664. 3 bolts, 2 nuts. Motor mount, diagnose and replace: 0.2 hr
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  665. Let's just hope the man doesn't discover YouTube and see you putting that drain plug back in while it's still dripping hard.
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  666. If you're off-axis, perhaps. As for flex, naw.
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  667. This is your most Linda Perry video ever.
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  668. Maybe because he's chasing air bubbles instead of just trying to swap new for old?
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  669. What I do with a beam torque wrench is put a piece of masking tape on it, using its edge at the goal for today's torque setting.
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  670. I wonder how many quarts of oil this engine takes?
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  671. Does Ray know that's a unibody there?😃
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  672. In the world it comes from, it is better than a moped, and moped use is common.
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  673.  @ajaywhite9103 Some people like it raw and gritty on the streets, yo!   But if you're an internal combustion engine, yeah, try to avoid that.
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  674. Why should the sales guy not pull it from inventory? HE LOOKED IN THE COMPUTER, DIDN'T HE?😁
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  675. So what goes flying at 7:33?!
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  676. With your noggin?
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  677. Assuming stock diameter tires?
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  678. The Ernst pliers organizers are 3" tall -- does that drawer have room for that?
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  679. The bottles and the box and the old washer, well, it beats having him lurking outside the bay door watching you, doesn't it?
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  680. Socket organizers? A tidy cart? Who are you and what have you done with Ray?!
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  681. $10 gets you a set of metal S hooks that are also very good at hanging them up and away.
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  682. Glad to see you discovering the many, many uses of Knipex Cobras, Ray!
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  683. The irony: in America, we're so rich and busy that if you get a new tire mounted, you're getting a new valve, don't want you having problems later. You'll come back and be unhappy! But replacing valve cores for AC service? Meh.
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  684. What's that copper Toyota on the other side of the fence? Been bugging me since Ray moved to this shop! Early Camry?
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  685.  @KazeHorse  For a fun, extreme example, go search for "Making Jay Leno's Duesenberg Classic Car Road Ready", in which he commissions the casting of a new cylinder head for a straight 8 from the 1930's.
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  686. Ray, why chase falling COP bolts? Why not just get a set of magnetic sockets? I only recently invented this tip and feel foolish for being decades late with it: when unscrewing a screw or small bolt/nut I fear might make a break for it, I put my "pencil" magnetic pickup tool right next to it as I'm undoing it, that way, when it has come loose, it goes to the magnet. Lang Tools make simple plastic/magnet inserts for normal sockets to make them magnetic, push 'em in, push' em out. Cheaper and take up very little tool chest space, but need more fiddly time than a pro might want to mess with.
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  687. Ray, check out this drain pan: PIG Home Solutions Oil Drain Drip Pan for Garage - 40.25" x 28.25" x 5" . Pro quality. Big! It won't miss a drop for a job like this. New Pig part # PM50096.
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  688. 23:02 Bearing cup makes a mad dash for freedom.
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  689. 24:27 New U joint... "Fly, be free!"
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  690. Did you take push brooms in with you?
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  691. Yeah! Check out the Banks Power YouTube channel in the past year to see all of the R&D he put into these new valve covers, vs. stock vs. the usual aftermarket aluminum covers.
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  692. Ignorance and fear of getting RIPPED OFF! (shake fist) But when you're ignorant, you have no idea who's ripping you off so you just flail in all directions at all mechanics in view.
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  693. Mulitple cars at a time to me is a great way to forget things and make mistakes!
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  694. REEEE Ray runs over extension cords with the biggest vehicle possible!
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  695. Since Honda? I believe they stopped doing filters for a little while, too. (Guess how that worked out!)
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  696.  @willsrestorations  I've done that for my two traditional American vehicles with ATF pans. Take a look at the 3:40 mark of this video, and the drain plug is a factory plug that goes into an aluminum transmission housing.
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  697. Always fun to see the range of fans here, from you, to fanatical DIYer's, to pros who somehow didn't get enough of this at work today! And retired pros who still want to watch.
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  698. He does both -- some things, like lug nuts, he torques. A whole lot of things, he just trusts his feel. He's had a video about this in the past, but good luck finding it!
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  699. "Only overheated once then driven 50 miles home with no coolant."
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  700. Well, sure, after ruling out the turbo encabulator.
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  701.  @MagnumOpusSRT  Those oils are only for cars made by Toyota Motor Corp, General Motors, Bayerische Moteren Werkes, Ford Motor Corporation...
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  702. I believe the Frenchies at FACOM have been making them all along.
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  703. The other reasons customers hear things is that they don't have hearing loss from their job!
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  704. Heck, I wish mechanics wouldn't tighten wheel lugs like whatever they think they're tightening them like1
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  705. Au contraire! Forums can be very good. When you eventually find what you need.
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  706. You have a dry cell of humor.
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  707. Super Doody.
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  708. I never know what music I'm going to hear in that shop, but a radio station playing Dead Kennedys sure surprised me.
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  709. Or, grind the OD on the old race just a little and then it doesn't get stuck?
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  710. What's cheaper, renting an apartment or making payments on a Snap On box you can sleep inside of?
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  711. Au contraire! You DO want to remove those seats! At least remove the front seats and put new leather on them with a kit from The Seat Shop in TX. Color matching to OEM and top quality stuff! No need to be an upholstery wiz to install them.
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  712. A Ms. Wilkins in Oklahoma City was quoted as saying, "Fuel lines and injectors inside an intake manifold? Ain't nobody got time for that!"
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  713. I was thinking, "slip a hose over it, with the right ID it will hang on", then I realized, he could have just held one end of a garden hose over it with one hand and in a minute it would all be drained.
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  714.  @IrrationalDiversions  Enals? Quickly?
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  715. Nice Wiha nutdrivers there! Just the thing for hose clamps.
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  716. My sister had a German-made Jetta GLI that would stall when she -- and nobody else -- stepped on the clutch pedal. It turned out to be a loose ground. Maybe it was the same guy?
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  717. Oh, I hate it when my rubber belt rusts!
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  718. I do recommend a FilterMAG magnet for the outside of your oil filter. Not cheap, but it works. Yes, the paper filter element does trap bigger chunks of metal. The point of a magnet is to capture the little ones, too! Metal particles in suspension are not good for wear.
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  719. 0:53 Little plastic tab goes flying. Danged plastic connectors!
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  720. A goofed up seat belt is still miles ahead of no belt at all.
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  721. Yep, when I first round Ray he had Peter working in the next bay.
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  722. Dakota/Durango of that era, too.
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  723.  @tomb816  Maybe a job for a compressed air powered mini vaccum?
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