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

  1. 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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  2. In America, we're just happy if you don't pour it down the drain.
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  3.  @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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  4.  @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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Michelin tires? Preventive maintenance? I like this customer! You need more like this one.
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  9. Why don't people DIY in Europe? Less garage space?
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  10.  @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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  11. And they can learn new curse words, too!
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  12. 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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  13. And tell everybody they don't need a torque wrench, they can do it by feel.
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16.  @SportFury1966  And that's why WWII naval shipwrecks are mysteriously vanishing from the ocean floor. (Scrappers.)
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  17. 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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  18. Say, Ray, that door panel trim tool you use as a handy prybar for odds and ends -- who makes it?
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  19. 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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  20. Hey, it's Florida. Heat shrink on your heat shrink isn't crazy, with your humidity.
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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. 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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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. The Torque Test Channel covered these devices a few months ago and they did impressive work transmitting power!
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. Yes.
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. Tip: try not to remove the coating Honda put on there because you think it's rust!
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. Yes. Many debate and quibble, but yes. I believe teh YouTube channel Torque Test Channel went into this early on.
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  37. Sad. Can't save 'em all.
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  38. (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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  39. Now hoooold on there son, ah say ah say do you not OWN a cutoff wheel?
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  40.  @BryanBurns-f7x  With a Dolby surround sound telephone DOO DE DO DE DOO noise?
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  41. 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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  42. That works nicely with gaskets, too, and Fel Pro does make gaskets for this kind of thing.
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  43. 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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  44. Is silicone lubricant safe for 02 sensors? (I'm quite confused anymore.)
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  45. 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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  46. I see the nameplate and think "Silvera-Do." Reminds me of some movies I used to watch.
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  47. Jumpin' Jehosaphat! It's wire nut week here at RRR!
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  48. After he finished that job, he did a timing belt on a Toyota.
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  49. 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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  50. I detect a branding opportunity! Rainman Tools.
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