Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs" channel.

  1. When I worked at an equipment rental business, after every rental, sometimes as little as 2 hours of actual use, we used air to blow out the primary air filter, checked and topped fluids, and greased every grease point. Then hosed down the whole machine. At the price of those machines, you don't whine about the time it takes or the grease you use.
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  2. Sweet.
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  3. Dave has been doing a good job keeping Ray from working 10-14-hour days, and often with just a quiet look.
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  4. Also, anyone who brings their machine to CAT for periodic service has too much money and not enough sense. At least hire a trade school kid to do the job on weekends or something. Each vehicle comes with a manual explaining how to do those simple services. (Well, maybe not John Deere crap)
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  5. You know it's a project when every step adds more steps. Project: Change a lightbulb. 1: No lightbulbs in the house, go buy one. 2: Removing the lightbulb, the light fixture in the ceiling cracks. Go buy one. 3: Go turn off the breaker to replace the fixture, find out the breaker is defective. Go buy one. Share jokes at with Joe at Ace about every little project taking multiple trips to the hardware store. 4: Replace breaker, turn off circuit. 5: Replace fixture. 6: FINALLY install new bulb and turn the breaker back on. 7: Wife comes home and says she doesn't like the new fixture.
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  6. A long time ago I had a 1974 VW Beetle with the hydrostatic transmission. My mother borrowed the car one day and when she returned she stomped in, angry at me because she "almost got stranded because my car's transmission was failing." I took the car and drove for about 20 minutes, no problems, even up and down steep roads. So I made my mother drive while I sat in the passenger seat, and figured out the car's problem before she left the driveway. - My mother drove a standard, and drove with hand resting on the shifter. But in a hydrostatic transmission, any force you applied to the shifted made it go out of gear. - So yeah... Use it like the person with the complaint uses it, not "the right way".
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  7.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  I knew a couple of libertarians once. I had no idea until one of them told me she had no interest in men. . . Wait. Wrong L word!
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  8. Almost like it's winter in the southern hemisphere when it's summer in the northern!
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  9. "That ECM repair place" sounds ominously like "A farm upstate" where sick pets go when kids are young.
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  10.  @catslivesmatter1268  As Ray has said before, new doesn't necessarily mean good.
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  11. I hate when I have swollen nuts.
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  12. I give it about 35% odds that "the other guy" stole the cats, and 35% that "the other guy" was doing a post robbery patch-it repair at the customer's request. That leaves 30% chance "the other guy" was the customer, either selling their cats, or trying to fix the system post theft. 15% for each option.
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  13. Good point, as long as it doesn't backfire with people EXPECTING free stuff.
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  14. Some of us have not been programmed by Tik Tok to only tolerate very short content.
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  15. Ray has hit the "You will own nothing, and be happy" economy. That is the future the corporations want us to get used to.
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  16. Plus, the full rendition of "Baa, baa, black sheep" was almost worth you having to endure the hurricane.
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  17. I'm old enough to remember when the only scan tool was a combination of a timing light and the ear of the mechanic.
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  18. Long ago, I owned a 1974 Volkswagen Beetle with an "Autostick" or "manumatic" transmission that was essentially a stick shift three-speed transmission with no clutch and no gear release button/level/action. My mother borrowed my car for a week while hers was in the shop, and she angrily accused me of letting her drive a car with a failing transmission because it kept slipping out of gear at road speeds. I drove it for an hour, and noticed nothing. So I sat in the passenger seat and had HER drive for a bit, and noticed that she had a habit, from driving a normal manual transmission, or resting her hand on the stick shift as she drove. But in the manumatic world, that light pressure plus a bump in the road was enough to tell the transmission you were shifting, and it disengaged the current gear selection. - So I got yelled at for not telling her about THAT before-hand. Ah, good times.
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  19. Oh hey! Another car owner who marks their engine cover with the oil type/amount and the oil filter part number! So glad to finally find out I'm not the only one!!!
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  20. Pepperidge Farms remembers...
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  21. Plus the lift is occupied meaning you can't work on another car (at least on that lift) while waiting for replacement parts.
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  22.  Andrew_koala  Pedantry is the purview of those who wish they were infallible.
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  23.  @tjsogmc  So THAT'S where all the 10mm sockets went!
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  24. I find it interesting that back in the days when Sears/Craftsman still had a bit of quality left on the name, Harbor Freight was synonymous with "garbage tools", and over time the equation tipped the other way.
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  25. You're assuming that someone with a pickup truck would actually want to pick things up with it. In my New England experience, about 40-50% of pickup truck owners use it like a car. And about 10-20% refuse to put anything in the bed for fear of scratches and dings.
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  26. You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your relatives.
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  27.  @bradhaines3142  At least we have solved the mystery of what the PT Cruiser engineers designed next in their careers.
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  28. Too often the cheap junk and the expensive junk are made in the same place with different graphics stamped on then put in a different box.
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  29.  @836dmar  True. Cheaply cloning is another big problem. - I am old enough to remember when 'Made in Japan' had the same stigma as 'Made in China' has today.
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  30.  @GarryFishermusic  My most recent car repair, I had done some diagnostics and had what I felt was a strong guess as to the problem and the fix. But knowing that I don't always know, I explained the symptoms, and gave my guess, telling the mechanic that If I was wrong, I would not be upset. . I was wrong, and my bad guess would have been a more expensive and needless repair.
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  31. Don't be ashamed to need help. People go to mechanics to have their car worked on. People go to psychologists/psychiatrists/therapists/friends/religious persons to have the mental health worked on. - It's not something you want to ignore until it falls apart.
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  32. I keep expecting to see a Binford tool box along the wall.
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  33. The real trick is finding and hiring a shop joker who is not lazy or obstructionist.
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  34. Your pricing scheme is Apple-worthy!
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  35. As someone who has been under a snow and slush-encrusted vehicle, laying on a piece of cardboard, soaking wet and wrenching on rusted bolts, even Ray's current situation seems a luxury.
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  36. I have been in a financial situation where I had to ask a tire shop to install junkyard tires on my car. They were very clear about the shortened life left on the tires, and that they refused to warranty the work for longer than one day and ONLY balance or filler stem issues. Those cheap sketchy tires lasted long enough for me to be able to go back to the tire shop and buy GOOD tires from them, that lasted around 60,000 miles.
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  37. Haha! Good sense of humor there!
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  38.  @4h204x4  The way it always works for me is blindly fishing the drain pug out of hot oil in the drain pain. So fun...
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  39.  @2pugman  Yes PB is our friend, but I think Clare was talking about avoiding radiator fin bending and/or radiator damage.
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  40. Sounds about right.
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  41. I watch videos from Post 10 and he will periodically put his vehicle up on ramps, then pressure wash the underside, let it dry, and crawl under with a rattle-can of black pain and apply touch-ups where the original underbody coating is wearing away.
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  42. That first bolt reminded me of some repairs I did that involved a file to create clean faces that a socket or wrench would actually grab instead of the nearly 1/16-inch layer of crumbling rust. Nothing says fun like turning a 1/2 in bolt head into an 11mm bolt head. - I've also had to use a Dremel to turn blown-out Phillips' screws into flathead screws. - Rust.
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  43. I appreciate FINALLY learning what "spun bearings" means, over thirty years after first hearing the phrase.
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  44. Keep in mind, Ray lives in Florida, and his eloquence and ability to enunciate highlights his erudite nature and irks the bejeezus out of them knuckle-draggers and meth-brewers the state is most known fer.
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  45. I wonder where else that engine has pieces of that paper you found under the valve cover.
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  46. Neil Young was right. Rust Never Sleeps.
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  47. When you have trolls, hire billy goats. - edit: your typical bully attacks those who they see as weak in reaction to things they feel they can't control in their own life, be it someone bullying them who they see as too strong to resist, or a grumpy boss, or an unfulfilling job, or self-loathing of some type.
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  48. Definitely a chain would have been better than the strap to avoid slippage.
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  49. I once fixed a transmission by changing my CD from Queen to Iron Maiden
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  50. I am reminded of Louis Rossmann's tale of his business interruption insurance claim denial because... The multi-day power outage was due to flooding AT THE ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION. His shop was completely dry, but the insurance denied the claim because "it was flooding, not business interruption."
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