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

  1. The price of a funnel will someday be recouped by the cost of the fluids you aren't wasting.
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  2. 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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  3. When all of this torch work began I started wondering, "Where are the fuel lines?"
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  4.  @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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  5. Effective range? Length of hose + 25 feet.
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  6. Next week he'll bring that old tow truck into the shop and you can watch him ream his kingpin.
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10.  @specialestness  EVERYTHING MADE AFTER 2002 IS TOO COMPLICATED AND HARD TO FIX! (wave arms)
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  11.  @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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  12.  @lorditsprobingtime6668  Well, lighter than steel. (I was being silly. The customer keeps adding bigger, heavier things.)
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  13.  @lorditsprobingtime6668  When watching those flat earth videos, keep another tab open playing Weird Al Yankovic's "Dare to Be Stupid"!
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  14. REEEEE no new video you can't do that we don't have lives REEEEE
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  15. 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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  16.  @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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  17. 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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  18. Pool noodles can be a cheap substitute, too? And, er, colorful, sometimes.
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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. Torque Test Channel recently did a video about extensions and impact guns. Confirmed! Hoo boy, was it confirmed!
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  22. Sounds like you read the directions!
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  23. But now you've been accepted at a gynecology school!
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  24.  @irvnegrin2211  I'm suspecting this customer wasn't using synthetic oil.
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  25.  @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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  26.  @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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  27. Oh yes, change that fluid!
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  28. Ahhh, so it's not hammered intake valves? That's what I was guessing when I saw the compression results.
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32.  @NaturalBornGriller  He'd better hope so, the rest of that system is 4" in diameter!
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  33.  @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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  34. I agree! My wife's been saying "limp mode" for years and I'm sick of it!
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  35.  @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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  36. I just checked, and outside the USA, 1200 and 1300cc motors were available in the firs-generation Fit.
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  37. I don't remember the last time we've seen Peetah!
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  38. You sound like my machinist. I'm going to believe both of you!
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  39. 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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  40.  @fiero880  How to Fix Rolls Royce! by Chris Fix
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  41. 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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  42.  @61rampy65  Look for "Dyno Test: Best Tite-Reach Wrench Extender? ", about 8 months ago.
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  43.  @chipdayton1625  You should see his house!
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. Yes, considering the cost of his time. Or, I think in some cases, the ball joint is epoxied in.
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  49.  @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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  50.  @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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