Comments by "Ken Ore" (@kenore4003) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs" channel.

  1. Important thing to remember! All repairs begin with removal of the rear bumper and disassemble your way forward and sideways at the same time.
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  2. You're watching it because it's not you doing it. Always more interesting when it's not your fingers getting smashed.
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  3. Stil8l need to remove the rear bumper.
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  4. That is why I only answer calls that are in my directory. Don't even have the ringer on unless I am expecting a call. They can leave a message and maybe I'll get back. After all it's my phone.
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  5. Exploding grindstone are no joke. They are a bomb going off right in front of you at close range. I try to stand out of line when using.
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  6. Good tools will stay with you for a lifetime. I still have tools from the first Craftsman tool set that I bought when I was 16. Just turned 72. Those have been joined by many more over the years.
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  7. Just a little fussy but cast iron will only make crystals.
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  8. A grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't. Doesn't matter what they look like, get good penetration and continuous weld that's all that matters.
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  9.  @TEDodd  Setting up a differential is all about tedious. Every time one setting changes another moves out of adjustment. You just have to keep fiddling with it.
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  10. Nothing is ever lost until the Wife Unit can't find it.
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  11. There is probably a 400 dollar specialty tool from BMW to address the rearmost screw removal. However you must be at an authorized dealership to order one and after you have jumped through all the hoops, paid the money you find out that although you have bought the tool it can never leave the dealership. You will still own it but can never use ti.
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  12. Unfortunately not driving a vehicle causes more damage than running it in a normal way. Keeping up with maintenance and getting it up to temp will make it last longer than ignoring it.
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  13. That tank fit well for a rotomolded aftermarket anything. Rotomolded tanks tend to move around as they cool and over time. The material is a cross linked polyethelene and that stuff isreally puncture resistant. If its good enough for a fuel tank on a M1A tank its good enough.
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  14.  @BlondieHappyGuy  Never resist a reference to Airport!
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  15. Brother had a TR6 that did the slowest rollover in history ( Slid down an ice covered road sideways propelled by wind, no forward speed.) Hydro locked one cylinder and the piston failed at the oil ring. Being a glorified tractor engine it just pushed the piston top up and kept on running on 5 cylinders.
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  16. You have to remove the dash to get to the one in the trunk.
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  17. That was my first thought also. Master cylinder leaks into booster, vacuum sucks fluid into engine.
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  18. Probably a 24 incher.
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  19. The first time I heard the "click" reference was on a story about a crew who were salvaging a B29 off a beach in Greenland. They were tightening the nut that holds the propeller on. They had a bar through it that was about 10 feet long and there were several people hanging on it when someone yelled "click". Unfortunately when they were taxiing down the beach to turn around to take off, a APU fell over, started a fire and it burned up.
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  20. If your using an AC welder you need to go to 6011 or 6013. The flux provides a conductive atmosphere because the arc stops and restarts the other polarity 60 times a second.
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  21. The problem with most extractors is they expand the stub almost guaranteeing failure.
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  22. Worked in a soybean plant and we had an oil pump that would stop moving oil. The boss man ( A chemical engineer fresh out of college) said the problem was the pump shaft seal. We changed that out 3 times, the seals were 1500 dollars each. The mechanics said it was polarizing oil. Oil turns into a rubbery material that clogs up the pipe. Much discussion ensued about that with the boss saying it must be the seal because I'm a chemical engineer and I'm smarter than all the mechanics who had cleaned this stuff out before. They finally went ahead and pulled out a couple of pieces of pipe and cleaned out the oil goo. Problem solved. Cost of a couple of 10 dollar gaskets. Not the first nor the last thing this idiot pulled. Do I sound a little bitter?
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  23. Dremel makes a 1/8th inch carbide burr. Works well as long as you don't put a lot of sideload as they are brittle.
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  24. With baling wire you will have all the material that is needed to repair Jeeps and PT Cruisers.
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  25. Time to build upa stock of redneck creepers ( cardboard). But I have gone to Harbor Freight and gotten cheap moving blankets.
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  26. I have worked around large fast rotating machinery and once you see a wedding ring get smashed around a finger you will lose yours too. A person can always put it back on after work.
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  27. Brother had a 454 with the HEI setup in it. It would go through spells of killing the coil. He finally found the capacitor was loose and apparently losing its ground. Snugged that down and end of problem.
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  28. If an employer treats the help with respect and pays fairly they won't be wondering why no one wants to work.
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  29. Also the other things about tying the footer into the existing floor really needs to be done to anchor things in. If more is better then too much is about right.
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  30. Only happens when the dilithium crystal's need realigned.
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  31. Hard to tell what kind of alloys are being used anymore. I think that the use of purely cast iron is a thing of the past and at least trying a welder is worth a shot. If you get a good melt and bonding on the edges then you've saved your customer at least several hundred dollars.
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  32. Bumper sticker " Yes this is my truck, no I won't help you move."
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  33. Call the exterminator!!!
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  34.  @xuser48  Old days? Seems to also be the current scene.
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  35. Welding is an artform. The technical side can be taught in a classroom but the reality of building consistent properly penetrating welds is an art. It's about seeing and hearing the weld process. Can't get that anywhere else but spending hours under the helmet.
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  36. I inherited a 93 from my brother that he dropped a 97 engine into. It must have some ratio of highway gears in it and when he put 15 inch wheels off an 83 Bronco on it it will wind to 60 in third gear with no strain. It's the 2.3 four so it has no power but as long as you have the time it'll get you there.
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  37. Allen wrenches come in two sizes, too big and too small nothing in between.
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  38. Maybe we really, really need to concentrate on natural stupidity and wait on AI until we can understand it.
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  39. Those front axels will not take the loads imposed by those massively oversized tires and all the additional loads from the large offset other wheels. Just another "Florida Man".
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  40. That's the way my dad taught me also. He was a Navy assigned to a light cruiser working on the Seaknight floatplanes. They would catapult them off and recover them with a crane. His ship was the Nashville and they participated in the Foolittle
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  41. Probably even leaving some money to help replace it.
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  42.  @Bryan-Hensley  Take those numbers with a large block of salt. They might be right and they might be a wild assed guess.
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  43.  @craigfin3222  There is a ton of work and commitment that these people put into building these sites and they do deserve to be compensated. GOOD FOR THEM.
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  44. The flanks are the same as a Phillips but the tip is flattened by about 3 mils.
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  45. And still have the same problem.
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  46. You are only short if your feet don't reach the floor. Otherwise your fine.
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  47. I did the rear hubs on my 2007 Toyota and while I was in there I did the parking brakes. All new shoes and small parts. Brought back my dislike for drum brakes all over again.
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  48. If you refill that hole with cement nothing will hold. What is needed is concrete. If there is no aggregate, there is little strength. Just a comment from a fussy old fart. 😂😂😂
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  49.  @GusFromDaysPast  Engineering is a styling afterthought.
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  50. Only has to hold until the first bolt is in. That truck won't be taken apart until heck freezes over.
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