Youtube comments of John Cooper (@johncooper4637).

  1. Ronny Jackson is practicing medicine with out a license. Throw him in Jail.
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  2. I would wish a favor from you veterans, as an Army brat who lost a grandfather to the after affects of mustard gas in WWI and an uncle killed on a hell ship WWII, that you go to VFWs, the American Legion, etc., and denounce Trump for the coward he is. Trump put down John McCain for his war injuries, refused to have wounded vets in his parade and called the KIA losers and suckers. This traitor should never see the inside of the White House again.
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  3. I am normally an independent but I voted all blue this time as I am fed up with the MAGA bunch.
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  4. Someone in Home Depot asked me if I wanted a Tesla Powerwall battery for my home. I told him to tell Musk to FO. i was very unlikely to buy a Tesla but I can now say that I will NEVER buy a Tesla. We need to kick him back to South Africa.
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  5. WHO CARES? She is just another grifter.
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  6. I really wish the media would not call him President" as he is not, he is President Elect.
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  7. He was never a Commander and Chief when he was President.
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  8. I don't trust the Supreme Court.
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  9. Lt. Col. Wellman, all of my dad's brothers went to West Point after he did (Class of '33). His father joined the Army during the Spanish American war and retired as a Col. My grandfather died from after effects of being gassed in WWI, my uncle was killed while on a Hell Ship after being captured at Corregidor, making me a member of a gold star family. Trump has disparaged wounded veterans and those lost in wars. How can any veteran support him? I certainly can't.
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  10. As a retired Sports Car Club of America tech inspector I can tell you that the car would not pass tech for racing. The car may have been driven in events that allow mostly stock cars to be on the track but they are not racing against each other. Sometimes they are called time trials and other times DE events. For such events you need a helmet but can wear street clothes and shoes. It looks to me like the car needs to be stripped and rebuilt from scratch. Saltwater likely got in the roll cage and will be rusting it from the inside out. I feel sorry for the owner. Ray, walk away from it unless you want to spend your life working on it.
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  11. Judge Cannon's ONLY purpose is to delay, delay, delay. And she is doing a fine job of it.
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  12. This is right out of Hitler's playbook. I am afraid, but of fRump getting back in office.
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  13. It should be mandatory that BEFORE they can buy a car like that that they have to go to Bob Bondurant or some other HP car school.
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  14. Having been a mechanic myself, along time ago, I used to say that the design engineers needed to apprentice as mechanics for 5 years before they could be allowed to design a car (back in those days put pencil to paper). Pity the poor manual writers who had to figure out that kind of "stuff". They should have put a h ole in the frame so that you could get that long bolt out.
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  15. The staff member was worried about retaliation and that is why she did not press charges.
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  16. I worked on the Tyrrell 023 historic F1 powered by a Judd V-10 producing about 750 HP at 11,000 RPM (detuned so they could last 1500 race miles instead of 500 to 600 race miles for the Yamaha Judd F1 engine). Some of the differences not noted: the engines needed to be at least 160° before starting because of the tolerances, the engines ran on very high octane racing fuel, not pump gas, there was no onboard starter and the cars only weighed 1312 lbs. with the driver. The wheels were magnesium and I could pick up a rear tire and wheel with one hand.
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  17. Ahh, the orphan tsunami found by Brian Atwater, a geologist in Washington state as discussed in several of CWU geology professor Nick Zentner YouTube videos. It was estimated that the quake was a 9.0. These quakes occur every 500 to 600 hundred years. Tsunamis are not the only threat to the Puget Sound area, volcanic mudflows, called lahars are a threat from Mt. Rainier and others.
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  18. The walnut blaster works well. One thing though, eventually you will have to replace the media as it will get worn. This is a very good teaching video for people who don't understand about DI's bad side. I know you watch I Do Cars, did you see his tear down of a modern diesel? Some of the intake ports were almost completely blocked. The downside to cleaning them out is the complexity of getting to the ports to clean them. You started your shop with four bare walls and you have invested heavily in equipment upgrades. Bravo! You may find that your shop is not big enough.
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  19. It is like an EV towing a diesel generator to keep the batteries charged. Ships bringing the biomass are powered by some sort of fuel oil - duh!
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  20. Make America Great Again - get rid of Trump! And kick Musk back to South Africa.
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  21. This is Texas, nothing will happen. Look at Ken Paxton.
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  22. I love this. The Democrats have MAGA between a rock and a hard place.
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  23. Guy takes his truck with this problem to a dealer. Dealer says one of two things: It can't be fixed, or we have to replace the wiring harness and that will cost X thousands of dollars. Ray goes into digger mode, finds the problem and fixes it AND saves the guy a bunch of money. This was like untangling a rat's nest on a deep sea fishing reel.
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  24. Ray, I KNOW you are not a welder but you will have better welds if you clean off the paint and rust first. Also, once you had completed you first weld you could have run your ground clamp directly to the the steel coupon instead of to the vise grips. I guess you found out that step bits don't work very well with impact guns.
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  25. I agree there is an awful lot wrong with the van. That being said, the prices of good used vehicles are still very high. The owner will need to see if it is cheaper to repair, using good parts, or to get a replacement. Years ago replacing a worn out vehicle with a newer one was a no-brainer but not now. I wish the owner luck with what he decides.
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  26. The liability insurance would be awful!
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  27.  @henryyiu618  Lets see if the Cybertruck is still working 30 years later. I have had excellent reliability out of my '96.
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  28. Tesla semi trucks battery is around 900kWh.
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  29. I am an Army brat who lost his grandfather (my dad's father) to the after effects of being gassed in WWI and my uncle who was captured at Corregidor and was killed on a "hell ship". Donald Trump thinks they are losers and suckers. I cannot understand how any veteran could vote for the orange wannabe dictator.
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  30. I am sure she stole other kids lunches when she was at school.
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  31. When you have a leaky valve on a leak down test it is recommended that you tap the valves to make sure they are seated. Also, I have always loosened the cam bolts in order from outside to inside as recommended in the shop manual. I notice that I Do Cars does it too on his tear downs.
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  32. I just talked with an Army veteran who said Trump is a joke.
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  33. I am an Army brat, my grandfather enlisted in the Spanish American War and died of being gassed in WWI just after I was born, my uncle was captured in WWII and died on a "hell ship". I will NEVER vote for that orange faced excuse for a human being.
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  34. I worked for a computer forensics company. We got brought in on a lawsuit that involved emails between the two parties. We found out the the cost of retrieving the information was going to cost more than the lawsuit was asking and the case was dropped. One of the issues was the backup of the data from one of the email systems was overwritten after six months. We, too, were looking at terabytes of information. We did have forensic software that would allow very complex searches.
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  35. It appears in the Houston, TX area of 4 million people that approximately 50% live in apartments.
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  36. And yet Project 2025 wants to get rid of it.
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  37. Ah, yes, inspections. People miss things in general and I doubt any inspection would have caught the loose connection - can you imagine going wire by wire through that entire power system?. I was a tech inspector for the Sports Car Club of America for 15 years. One incident stands out: a car with its welded in roll cage had been built and raced and inspected yearly in Florida for 5 years and then moved to my region. Here it had been inspected yearly, too, for several years. I looked at the car and found 8 incomplete welds in the roll cage. The car was not allowed to race until they were fixed. The car should have never been allowed on the track with the incomplete welds but everyone missed them or thought they did not matter.
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  38.  @Pipsqwak  What about the homes built on landslides, like Rancho Palos Verdes? Florida has hurricanes, California has earthquakes, land slides, mud slides, and wildfires.
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  39.  @meeder78  The US is completely unlike the EU in terms of distances traveled. I drove about 600 miles east to west and never came close to leaving the state of Texas. I visited a ranch that was over 130,000 acres and never came near a town. Some of the ranches are so remote that they drive 60 miles before they get to the pavement. That is why I cannot understand this push for EVs. They may work back east but in the west you may run out of electrons before you can find a charging station.
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  40. Be sure and wash the underside of the truck after going through that salt water, you don't want your truck to look like one that Eric O deals with. Apparently most homes survived due to concrete construction. Storm surge of almost any amount is a problem on barrier islands. I wonder if artificial sand dunes would help.
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  41. Be thankful for living in the south where there is no road salt. Up north the car would have been toast long before that switch gave you problems. BTW, I lived in Florida for years including the St. Pete area but I had to come to Houston to get a decent paying job. Hurricanes are our only worry.
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  42. The document is available for download and is 920 pages long. All you have to do is skim it. They want to turn Generals into "Yes" men.
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  43. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
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  44. I am always disturbed by the "green zero emissions" label. How much CO2 was expended to mine the ores of lithium, cobalt, etc? How much was produced when the ores were smelted, refined and finished? And, as you stated, there is the matter of the coal fired power plants that produce the electricity to charge the batteries.
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  45.  @wjsj69  I knew an after market BMW repair shop. It cost him $25,000 a year to have access to their schematics and ECM downloads. BMW owners who raced their cars could not get access to the information they needed to comply with SCCA rules for classes that required a shop manual. This Mini owner probably had to take out a loan to pay for the repair.
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  46. The problem is that we ALL will have to deal with it. And put up with it for the next 8 years if he lives that long as he does not believe the Constitution applies to him.
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  47. I am sorry you had such a bad lawyer.
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  48. Hey, its Florida, he could live in a tent. If it blows away during a hurricane he could just get another. I'll even give him a sleeping bag (used).
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  49. Actually, based on what I've read, car makers are losing money even at retail price, now they are just losing more money.
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  50. Not only does the floor look better but it also makes the shop look brighter and the light reflected off of it will assist in seeing under vehicles. Says an old timer who needs all the light he can get.
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  51. Ray, you are right, by clamping your ground where you did current will flow from the weld to the ground.
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  52. Vote for the other party is a vote for Project 2025.
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  53. I recently read that EV are going to be good for 150,000 to 200,000 miles because that is how long they expect the batteries to last. Watched a guy blow up his Tesla because it was going to cost $20K to replace his battery and the car was not worth it. I cannot figure out how EVs are going to be good for the environment.
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  54. I see I am not the only one that watches him. Ron's work ethic is awesome.
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  55. I had a cousin who was an F-86 pilot in Korea during the war (he also flew B-17s, P-51s and P-47s in WWII, 168 missions in all). We were stationed in Japan and when he came to Japan on R and R he let me sit in the seat of an F-86 during an airshow. I think I was 5 at the time.
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  56. I've got a better one for you. My step-daughter bought me some ratcheting pruning shears made with "High cartoon SK-5 steel"! That is a direct quote from the package.
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  57. I will stick with my 1996 Dodge Turbo Diesel that gets 12 MPG while towing a 9,000 pound travel trailer.
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  58. The flat wires are called ribbon cable which is highly flexible. It is used in low voltage, low current and low frequency applications. They did make a twisted wire flat ribbon cable for higher frequency needs (I'm old school - core memory and punch cards). I think my next step would have been to pull up the wiring diagram to find out what goes where on the flasher circuit.
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  59. Read "Project 2025" and find out how bad it would really be. Military officers would be loyal to Trump not the Constitution, among many other alarming things.
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  60. It is funny that back in September of last year I was visiting the Kansas Aviation Museum that is next door to Spirit and I saw a whole bunch of green tubes and white tubes on the tarmac and wondered what they were (they were far enough away I could not see them well). Research showed they were completed fuselages that were waiting on Boeing. Shortly after I got back I heard about the bulkhead and rudder problems and then I found out that Spirit was once a part of Boeing. Further reading showed that there were a lot of problems at Spirit since it took over.
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  61. Actually, it is worse than that. A driver pulled up next to me at night with one of those huge touch screens and it lit up the entire interior. Had to completely destroy his night vision.
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  62.  @necroslair  My Dodge Turbo Diesel is a 12 valve and can't roll coal but I can sure smoke them with the CAT 3208 in my 1991 motor home.
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  63. We have that problem where I live but it is with people stealing A/C units for the copper. They have managed to cut that way down by requiring an ID card. The only problem is that the thieves now go outside the county.
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  64. I could not find a way to let NBC know how I felt about this idiocy.
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  65.  @rgrifferon  No, I think they got it right. Musk is the non-VP VP.
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  66. If you check a drill bit feeds and speeds chart you will be amazed at how fast you are supposed to run them. Faster than most hand drills will go. A 3/16 drill bit recommended speed is 2800 RPM. And the smaller drill bits run even faster.
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  67. Ray, a recommendation for cut off wheels for a 4 1/2" angle grinder: Walter Zipone ZA-60-Zip 1/32" wheels p/n 11-t-642. Because they are so thin they cut very quickly and I found they last a long time. I also use the Metabo Original Slicer in 6" but they make a 4 1/2" also. They are slightly thicker at 0.040". I would certainly recommend that you do not drive that van on the highway with that tire - it is a may-pop(it may pop at any time)!
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  68. It wasn't a Tesla, a Polestar, I think, that when hooked up to a wall outlet indicated the car would have a full charge in 151 HOURS. If for some reason I run out of gas at home I have a 5 gallon gas can and can walk a few blocks to get me back on the road.
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  69. My father was involved in creating the invasion plans and the estimated death toll was enormous. Based on that alone, dropping the third A bomb would have been the only answer if Japan had refused to surrender.
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  70. It is as much a sports car as a 1970s Thunderbird. Some times used parts are all that is available, Eric O uses them quite frequently. I can't believe people thought that "end of transmission" meant the trans was bad but then I am a techno geek - electronics, computers, IT systems management and computer forensics and I go back to the days of vacuum tubes.
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  71. I really hope that all military veterans vote against him. As a nephew of a US Army officer killed on a Japanese "hell ship" his treatment of POWs is terrible. What a S pile.
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  72. The ratchet strap is much better as it only affects the suspension, a jack would affect the whole van and, if not careful, could cause the van to come off the rack.
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  73.  @imeakdo7 Then explain why there are lines at EV charging stations.
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  74.  @OomBako  Well, an oil change is much cheaper than a set of tires.
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  75. Watching your video reinforced my intention to NEVER get rid of my '96 Dodge with the 5.9 Cummins mechanical injection system. I've heard horror stories of the new high pressure diesel engines in RVs that won't start because some sensor failed. I've got a Cat 3208 with none of that nonsense on it, thank you.
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  76. It is 2024 now and his rocketships still blow up.
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  77. I hope the owner can keep this car in a garage because it rains a lot in Florida and his back seat would get very wet. Carports are not nearly as good if the rain is sideways. I hope he comes back.
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  78. There are so many issues with EVs: range, fires, lack of charging stations, increased insurance cost, lack of enough electricity and lack of people trained to repair them. I'll stick with my ICE engines, People have occasionally stolen gasoline but it is rare and takes a lot more equipment. In my area 50% percent of the people live in apartments with no access to chargers.
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  79. Not so much now that they are mandating EVs. EVs are a joke in places with wide open spaces.
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  80. Amen to the cost of a new truck. I could not afford to spend over $80k on one, but I will make do with my 96 12 valve Cummins.
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  81.  @MamaMOB  What, you mean you can't bring five gallons of electrons?
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  82. If you had some aluminum foil tape (A/C duct tape) you could have taped it down. That stuff is awesome. I've used it to tape down the sound deadening in my motorhome engine compartment. The insulation failed before the tape.
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  83. Having worked in a garage that started me off at an hourly rate and then decided to go to a shop rate, I think that the hourly rate was better because I didn't feel rushed. In addition there were times when there was not enough work to do and sometimes I would not do anything most of the day.
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  84. Remember the Tuskegee Air Force.
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  85.  @jamiepatterson1214  Those won't work because there is no top to the door.
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  86.  @loremipsum5759  In a sense, yes. The wires suffer from fatigue and oxidation as does the rest of the grid.
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  87. I am not sure that Trump can read.
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  88. If they do that there won't be any food on the table. Many farms in the US are thousands of acres in size.
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  89. I thought I saw a hole in the knob for a set screw.
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  90. One, I am concerned that the races slid out, it probably means they will spin under load. If the new races don't fit tight you can use Loctite retaining compound. Two, your bearing splitter can be used as such, just put the flat side up and crank down on the nuts of the splitter and it should start the separation of the bearing from the axle.
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  91. I have a "real" Jeep, just not as tricked out as the one on the video (I like my air conditioning). Recently had to use four wheel drive for the first time to climb eroded volcanic hills in west Texas. four wheel high was good enough as I was able to use speed to get over the steeper part. Previously I used it on a obsidian butte in Oregon but the second time I went up it I found that I did not need it. BTW, if you have an RV, a four wheel drive Jeep makes a great tow vehicle - no driveshaft disconnect needed.
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  92.  @justine8398  Brake cleaner has to be safe on rubber as it is designed to be used on brakes that have rubber seals. If you look at old videos of brake work they show spraying down the brakes before you work on them to get rid of the dust which may have asbestos in it.
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  93. Not just a dial up but a 300 Baud one.
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  94. This is Florida - they don't even have a safety inspection.
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  95. I am surprised you did not completely empty the trans pan before you installed a new gasket. What a ridiculous way to have to fill a transmission!
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  96. Actually, after Musk gave him a bunch of money ($45 million) Trump said he had to support Musk now.
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  97. My motor home has air brakes as it is based on a bus chassis. I had a valve failure in the dryer and had a hard time building up enough pressure to leave a RV site in the mountains in the thin air. When I got to a lower altitude the air was dense enough to overcome the leak.
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  98. All cars of that age are missing the plastic panels between the bumpers and the body work. Plastic was never meant to last that long.
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  99. The battery engineer couldn't be too bad as he specified BRONZE battery clamps not the cheap things like the Japanese cars (and others) use. Properly cared for those clamps will probably outlast the car.
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  100. I have the same code in my Corolla and I replaced the gas cap with one from the dealer, cleared the code and it returned several weeks later. I haven't had time to diagnose it so I just clear it a few days before inspection and It stays cleared long enough to pass. If I was near Ray I would have him find the issue and fix it properly but I live 1200 miles from him.
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  101. I speak from experience, this car would only have liability insurance on it.
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  102. Speed is one of the issues with hand held drills, I think it is impossible to gauge. You also cannot put as much force on the bit as you can with a drill press or mill. I thought those threads were aluminum but they certainly drilled harder than that.
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  103.  @jimr5703  60s VWs were that way. Use a screw driver to pop the clips off.
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  104. As a VW mechanic in an independent shop I was asked to check the battery in an old car. Imagine my disgust when I had to move a pile of DIRTY clothes including bras and panties.
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  105. There is a marine version of the engine that puts out 300 HP stock.
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  106. You have misstated how long it would take to charge. Someone from Australia rented an EV in California, had problems finding a charger and when was finally able to charge the charge rate was down so much(all the chargers were in use) that 45 minutes only gave them a 50% charge.
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  107. Actually there is a way to check calipers. It is not an expensive machine, it is a pair of pressure gauges. You remove the calipers and shoes, put the gauge pads in between the shoes and check to see if pressures are the same on both sides. It is called Innovative Products of America 7884 brake pad pressure tester.
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  108. Yes.
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  109. It is big, is that to hide her largeness?
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  110. Let us hope you do not end up in my situation where we had a very heavy rain storm that flooded the off ramp to the inner loop and I had to jump onto the local roads where it turned out I found my self driving through two feet of water in my stock 1996 Dodge Turbo Diesel 4 x 4. Having the air intake at about chest level meant that I did not worry about sucking in water. Water never came in the cab either as the floor board is about two feet off the pavement. I guess in your case you could just wait until the water went down. Dirt roads could be another issue if there is much traffic on them. I would think the dust would be thicker closer to the ground. That is not a hazard, just an annoyance of having to clean the filter more often. It does look like you need to get new front tires and an alignment.
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  111. I think it depends on the hybrid. My daughter has had two Priuses that both went close to 400,000 miles before giving up the ghost. She had one battery replaced under warranty.
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  112. You are in error about the wall plug charging at least for a Rivian. The Aussie guy who went to LA to see how EV charging was over here plugged in his rental Rivian into a wall outlet and the screen said it would take 150 hours to charge it, the Rivian gained a whole 3 km overnight.
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  113. I suspect if the owners decide to replace the engine it will be a junk yard one. Unless Ray does it on his own time it won't happen.
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  114. All he wants to be is king.
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  115. From personal experience on 1994 Tyrrells and 1998 Benettons - their engines are Judd 3.5 liter V10s for sports cars and detuned somewhat. If memory serves me, 11,000 RPM vs 19,000 so they can run about 1600 race miles between a $45,000 rebuild by Judd. That still was good for about 750 HP in a 1400 lb. car. The cars I worked on used steel suspension parts instead of carbon fiber and used, not new, brake pads and rotors. On these cars the clutch was actuated by a pedal and the gearbox was shifted electrically. I think they had to replace all the wiring in the car to fit the new engine computer and data system. Racing historic F1 cars is not a cheap hobby, by any means.
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  116. That is one way to look at it but the other way to look at it is - two failed, is the third far behind? Saves money for now but more labor to replace it later.
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  117. Think of Keystone Kops.
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  118. There have been a lot of changes to the engine, I believe, look for older videos about this car.
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  119. I think you are wrong. It needs to go on a trailer - picking one end up in the air is likely to break it in two. The tow truck driver would have a hard time finding a point to attach to.
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  120. Not really. Your batteries in the forklift are lead acid not LiON and give off hydrogen when charging. If there was a spark while charging the batteries could explode showering you with sulfuric acid.
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  121.  @loyalopposition-us  Yup, 45 min. to change a clutch. I had an extra long phillips to get the the back screws for the sheet metal pan.
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  122.  @repaid1  Accountants are why a lot of things end up the way they do on cars.
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  123.  @carultch  My 2013 Jeep has three of them labeled power outlets and I don't think any of them will handle the current a cigarette lighter needs.
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  124. What is the best thing about Ray is he listens to people comments and often improves his work when the comments are a better way of doing things. Keep it up, Ray. Oh, and he is a true tool junkie.
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  125.  @rccola5167  People are already saying not in my backyard for new transmission lines. And the mega battery situation is going to be another problem as the batteries don't last forever. Maybe in 50 or 100 years they will get fusion to work but in the meantime the grid is going to go dark when all these EV plug in every night.
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  126. Several things a machine shop will need to do. 1. Before anything else, measure the bores and the main journals to see if machining will fix the issues., 2. If number 1 is o.k. then clean and check the block for cracks., 3. Price the repairs for the customer to see if they just want to get a crate engine instead of spending money on this. This is what happens when you leave an engine out in the weather. What a shame.
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  127. NO politician is required to speak the truth.
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  128. My father was involved with the invasion plans for Japan. Estimated casualties were 3,000,000.
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  129.  @AndyFromBeaverton  I worked the first Austin race and they had historic open wheel cars that included V-10s.
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  130. Not having a dipstick on a transmission should be a mortal sin. Kudos for putting up with that.
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  131. I have run into the "needs new pads" issue before when I had to take my Toyota in to the dealer for the air bag recall. Claimed my pads were at 3 mm, I knew better but I came home and measured them anyway and found they were at 6 mm. Dealer just trying to make a buck on a recall.
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  132. 1. Like your shirt. My father and his three brothers all graduated from there. Three of them retired after over 20 years of service, the fourth was killed after being captured and put on a hell ship that was bombed. Go Army! 2. I worked for a company that had government contracts and subsidiaries in foreign countries. We were required to sign a document stating that bribes were a no-no. 3. I hope that the people who did the bribing got jail time and fired from Raytheon. 4. Cost overruns happen for a number of reasons, chief among them are changes made by the military after the design is completed. Second, I would say, are problems discovered after production started that required modifying the design. One problem that most people don't understand is that fasteners and other items in an aircraft or spacecraft go through rigorous testing that takes the cost of a bolt from $1.00 to over $25.00 or more as there has to be a complete paper trail for every item.
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  133. Don't forget the brush guard.
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  134. True, but, vehicles, EV or otherwise, don't leave "presents" for people to step in. Of course, the street sweeper may come back as good time behavior for inmates.
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  135.  @jamessimms415  Well, at one time Arizona WAS ocean front property - 200 million years ago!
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  136. No charcoal canister on my 1996 Dodge Turbo Diesel so I always fill it to the brim so I can keep accurate fuel economy measurements. The only time I don't is when the fuel is too foamy.
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  137. There is a book, "Wood Handbook", which explains how to properly drill holes for lag screws put out by the USDA. Wood will ALWAYS split near the ends if the holes are not drilled. Your wrecker looks much better.
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  138. The Supreme Court made him a king.
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  139.  @luckyguy600  I cook my supper on gas. In an area where there are hurricanes it is nice to be able to cook and have a hot bath when the power is out.
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  140. I have to swap my headset around as I lost my hearing in one ear about 40 years ago.
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  141. A note, Ray, wheel nut engagement needs to be a minimum of the diameter of the stud and those might have made it, BUT, it doesn't look like the wheel spacers were needed. Ran into this issue all the time at the race track when I was tech'ing for the SCCA. I always leave parts where I can find them but never remember where that is!
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  142. I have run into some vehicles that would not allow you to pour oil that fast, it would just run all over the engine.
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  143.  @pamelakinnane1863  Of course they are going to charge up on a diesel generator!
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  144. An English teacher would die if they heard you say, "much more betterer". I enjoy it, never enjoyed English class. You have found the problem with screw clamps - as the rubber ages the clamp becomes loose. That is why almost every car maker uses spring clamps.
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  145. I am surprised at not checking the air filter if the plugs were in that kind of shape unless you did it off camera.
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  146. I watched a video that showed the charging screen of a Rivian plugged into a 120V wall outlet. The Rivian estimated 150 HOURS to fill up its battery. Overnight it gained 3 KMs of charge. By the way, in the US three phase is generally only available to industrial sites.
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  147.  @HelenByrd-yf9cf  Well, we were Mexico before we were Texas. At least that is what I remember from the fifth or sixth grade cartoon book about Texas history back in the 1950s,
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  148. ​ @TheStevester2  Might be a little high. My Dodge 2500 turbo diesel manual recommends 50 psi front 40 psi rear unloaded, 60 psi front 80 psi rear fully loaded or towing a trailer with load range E tires. My truck weighs 7000 lbs. empty. What I suggest you do is go to a weigh station and find out what the actual weight is on the front and rear and check with the tire manufacturer.
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  149. Can't you just replace the clutch rather than the whole compressor? I did one a while back - don't remember what vehicle though. Of course I don't have a fancy refrigeration system like you do.
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  150. The scorpion is an Abarth emblem. Abarth is known for making high flow exhaust systems. In high school I had a 1958 Fiat 500 which meant that it had a 500 cc two cylinder, air cooled engine. It was the US model and had 22 RWHP instead of 18. I had the car up to 80 MPH on Hwy 50 headed to Homosassa Springs on a fishing trip. I got to ride in a new Fiat 500 Abarth with an extra power upgrade. It was one fast car. The Fiat is a definite art car - I like everything about it except the light strips in the cabin, those would destroy your night vision.
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  151. Just remember the downside - hurricanes!
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  152. Your trailer plug should have 12 volts and ground in it. Get a diode block and hook the trailer battery to the trailer plug. As someone else suggested you could put a solar panel on the trailer to constantly trickle charge the battery.
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  153. Ratchet strap for the win! (Written before seeing previous comment.) Common solution for lifted suspensions.
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  154. Ray has done that in a previous video so it would not bother him. In the old days when smoking was allowed in the plant a technician was checking out a 9 track computer tape drive and another tech kept blowing smoke into the cabinet.
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  155.  @cyrilhudak4568  Yes, and 240 and 120 are split inside the panel by the arrangement of the breakers, at least in the panels I've worked on.
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  156. Well, we have Formula E, where they change cars mid race.
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  157. You should use a right angle grinder instead of that Millwaukee thing for cutting those studs. Also it looked like the lock nuts were nylon which will quickly melt in the heat. That U bolt on the passenger side looks too close to the drive shaft to me.
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  158. And how you are going to cross oceans? Or, in the US where it is 3,000 miles coast to coast ,and if a bullet train averaged 150 MPH, it would take 20 hours, whereas on a plane it would only take 6 hours. Australia is even worse because the interior is almost completely empty.
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  159. I agree, but then I have a machine shop in my garage for my metal working hobby.
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  160. Look at WWII to see what happens when you ignore what is going on in Europe.
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  161. Most open wheel (and some closed wheel) race cars have them, too. The reason: to save weight there is no charging system so the battery gets recharged after every race. The old Formula One cars had a very small battery to keep the electrics going. Starting was done by an external starter. I think it was the same on Indy cars. Race shops carry them if there are no local forklift shops.
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  162. Did not see your message before I said almost exactly the same thing. Great minds think alike.
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  163. I will certainly be interested in what is wrong with the skid steer. I am sure glad your shop and your home did not experience any flooding. It is going to be a slow process to get everything back to normal. Lots of flooded cars, lots of trashed boats. I did not know that the van had the battery in the floor.
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  164.  @quentintin1  I disagree. A bolt does not have to have a nut. Many bolts thread into blind holes like those that clamp the head to an engine block. Never heard them called screws. It is a confusing mess. Stove bolts have threads up to the head and are often slotted like a screw. McMaster-Carr calls shoulder bolts screws but Fastenal calls them bolts. I give up!
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  165.  @johnkingery403  Agreed!
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  166. Beware of over the air software updates. Just saw a video where an update broke an ICE powered truck. The software kept trying to reinstall itself and ran the battery down to 3 volts. This is a security risk for all new vehicles with over the air updates. As a systems manager I never installed an update when it came out.
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  167. The orange frump is already having a worker shortage.
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  168. I think you found it. Great use of your smoke machine!
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  169. I think all brake pad wear specs are in metric, I know that in my factory Toyota manual they are but other specs like torque are given in ft. lbs. as well as nm and kpascals.
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  170. I have an uncle who only has a gravestone at Arlington as his remains may be in a mass grave on Hawaii. Trump is a slap in the face to all veterans.
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  171. Never Seeze has another disadvantage in that it insulates the plug from the head and therefore gets too hot. My understanding is that all plugs are now plated with something that prevents them from seizing in the engine.
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  172. As an ex Florida resident I can tell Steve that his pronunciation is correct.
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  173.  @groosbro1  I had an issue that hose clamp pliers like those would not work. I had to buy the one with the long cable to work on my first gen Toyota MR2 which has coolant and heater lines that run from the frunk (yes, the front trunk is shortened to frunk) to the engine.
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  174. Some of my relatives were here before the United States existed and they weren't American Indians.
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  175. Ray, thanks so much for this video. I had no idea my '13 Jeep Wrangler had roller rockers. It is a well known fact among racers that roller rockers can completely destroy an engine. I will have someone who has better hearing than I do listen to it. I think I damaged my hearing using impact wrenches when I was a VW mechanic. I wear shooting hearing protectors now if I'm going to do anything noisy so that I can keep what little hearing I have left.
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  176. non ethanol fuel is hard to find in the states.
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  177. The truck is in Florida, unless they drive it into the ocean there is no salt to corrode things.
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  178. Public transportation is not available in many areas outside of the city.
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  179.  @utidjian  Never gave me a problem because I had a Champion magnetic spark plug socket on a 4 inch extension and, like Ray, was taught to start the plugs by hand. Worked on Bugs, 1500s, buses and 356s. The boss did the 911s with their SIX carbs and cussed a German blue streak when trying to sync them. One thing about the VWs is that it only took 45 minutes, start to finish to change a clutch.
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  180.  @Robbo-fu5fm  While not that tonnage, the Texas City ammonium nitrate explosion in 1947 was far more deadly.
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  181. I have to say that I voted for Nikki Haley today as a vote against Frump and his Project 2025 agenda. I am an Independent, not red or blue.
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  182. I don't know what the tides are in that area but I have been to the Bay of Fundy where my wife put her hand up on the bottom of a trawler when the tide was out. It looked like the bow of the ship was out of the water and I don't see how they could remove it without dredging out from under the ship. That was some rescue! Canadians: keep up the boycott, don't give into Trump. Boycott Tesla, too (that should not be too difficult as it is way to cold for EVs.).
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  183.  @JDBodine  For a trailer that big I would get a cut down semi if I could afford it. Bigger is better in the towing world.
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  184. I don't understand why so long between trial and sentencing.
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  185. I have mention this in many comments as I have been in parts of the west where there are towns that don't even have a gas station. When I was in Alpine, TX, I looked for a charging station and the closest was 65 miles away in Fort Stockton. I was in a Jeep which does not get very good fuel economy and I was wondering where an EV could charge after I had been on 140,000 acre ranch that only had 120 V power for most of it.
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  186. If it had been a cow the driver would not have likely survived as the body of the cow would have gone through the windshield.
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  187.  @sk1dr0w  You never need to retighten them.
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  188. You miss the fact that many people in the US live in apartments and don't even have the option to run a cable out to their car. Fully 50 percent of the people, two million, in Houston live in apartments.
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  189. Being from the US I had to convert to MPH and yes, we like to do 75 or 80 or 85 or 90 or better on our freeways here. I could swear that I had the same Rivian truck pass me several times going 90 only having to stop to recharge.
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  190. I was concerned about the lack of piston engine controls but I can now see it allows the student to concentrate on flying. My much larger concern is thermal runaway in the batteries.
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  191. Unless his parents are in their 90s they no longer exist. 77 (his age) plus 18 (at a minimum for the parents, probably) equals 95. I am 79 my mother died when I was twelve and my father died in 1997. Kind of hard for them to file the paperwork, I suspect.
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  192. There is still snow on the ground here in Houston.
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  193. I doubt he will as I am sure he will need to return the bad one for the core charge.
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  194. They looked like the gap was 3x the correct gap.
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  195. After looking at the price for a set of new injectors at $2,500 and a set of remans for $1,100 and 14 hours labor I will be surprised if the customer gets the work done.
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  196. See my reply above. The land dropped 6 feet.
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  197. If that new AC machine is yours, congrats! It sure looked like the radiator was still flopping around. I assume that will be fixed after the flushing is done.
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  198. I was involved in a case as a witness and we had to be there for the whole trial which just lasted 6 hours. The judge knitted the whole time but she was right on top of everything. When testimony was over we expected some length of time for the verdict but it came immediately and we almost missed the guilty verdict.
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  199. One reason why I change my own oil - except on my motorhome, which takes a special drain pan to hold the 4 gallons (yes, 16 quarts) of oil as the oil pan on the Cat 3208 is only a foot off the ground and I have no way to jack up a 16,000 lb. vehicle. I tried it once and after being covered with used diesel oil I decided it was worth the expense to have a specialist do it.
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  200. For supposedly new rotors they were sure rusted on but there is nothing but salt air in the Keys so I would think the only way to confirm age would be to measure the thickness.
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  201. The only problem is we also get that country. Replace all the generals with yes men, check, plan a third term, check, etc.,etc.
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  202. My motor home has two 8D batteries, one for the engine and the other for the "house" and it uses a diode isolator which works quite well. It can be a pain to trouble shoot when one goes bad though.
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  203. I would say that based on the condition of the truck the owner can not afford a new one. Have you priced trucks lately?
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  204. I bet you did not drive it through a bunch of sand or you may have wished you left it dry.
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  205. When that north air comes out of Canada it can get pretty cold in Florida. I was living in Homestead, south of Miami, and we had plants freeze. That time it froze in Key West and there was snow in North Miami Beach. It was an unusual event.
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  206. it should be very feasible. I had that sort of setup on my truck to power the hitch mounted winch.
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  207.  @ProjectFarm  If you do, you might include Foredom.
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  208. Don't be surprised if Trump tries to use the Army or nationalize the Guard to do his bidding.
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  209. The smell from the gun is ozone created from the sparks given off by the brushes. My current drills are brushed. I had a 1950s (1957?) Fiat 1200 Spider. When I was fishing Mc Arthur Causeway in Miami, I left the parking brake on when I left and smoke started pouring out of the transmission tunnel. It turns out the Fiat's parking brake clamped the drive shaft rather than the rear brakes.
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  210. What a mess and you are right, there would be no way to repair that switch. Glad you took it apart.
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  211. Don't forget the Bondo!
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  212. This is a repeat "end of transmission" from your Lexus video.
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  213. My question is what HP are these massive trains running? And forget electric. Maybe a nuclear power plant in the future ala "Back to the Future".
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  214. Ray, just be glad those weren't fire ants!
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  215. These days it is not recommended. There is a coating on the threads. Anti-seeze affects the thermal transfer from the plug to the block. You should use 20% less torque if you apply it.
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  216. Actually the innards of a three jaw chuck have a scroll plate, at least the ones I have for my lathe.
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  217. This is Florida and I have NEVER seen a big rig stopped by DOT.
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  218. Ray, your camera work is excellent! Some of the best I've seen. Remind me not to get a Toyota with a V-6 in it. My Jeep has one but it is oriented in the "correct" direction. Have a Merry Christmas.
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  219. My first experience with one of those was to check a roll cage installation. The frame is a aluminum and in order to install a welded steel roll cage a steel plate had to be glued with some sort of special epoxy (It is not RTV). The Sports Car Club of America had to issue special rules to allow this to be done. My problem with the Elise is you can not see behind you to either side very well. I was in a shop in St. Pete that worked on foreign cars and there was a Jag XKE covered in dust. I asked the owner why it was there and he said there was a transmission part he had ordered 6 months ago that had still not showed up. My comment was that I could have swum the Atlantic, made the part and swum back in less time than that.
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  220. There went his insurance rate. Must have been a wet spell to be that much water in the bayou.
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  221. Headache racks serve several purposes. Their main purpose was to be able to carry ladders, lumber or other long items in the truck without having them stick out the back. They also protect the back glass from damage. And, in Ray's case provide a mounting point for his off road light bar. Another purpose they could serve is to prevent entry though the rear sliding glass if the truck was equipped with one.
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  222. Having worked on several working historic F1 cars, the spare parts are essential. For instance, the owner got several additional transmission cases with the cars. Racing historic F1 cars is not cheap of course, but spending $500 for a still usable rotor is much better than $5k for a new one. It is lucky that the brakes did not change for years, unlike everything else. The drivers of these cars are amateurs but still race. The top speed I saw on one of the data downloads from Monza was 197 MPH.
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  223.  @tkfreak1  except he shorted it out.
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  224.  @stevennunamaker3355  I don't know if it is still true but Florida use to use aircraft to catch speeders on places like the Tamiami Trail. A roof license plate would help them.
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  225. There are huge piles of wind turbine blades in landfills in the Western US.
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  226.  @glennschemitsch8341  Having a home machine shop I well know how that stuff gets EVERYWHERE.
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  227. One of the ground straps appeared to be very green and crusty. Eric O had one that fell apart when he touched it.
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  228. I am still subscribed and had no problem with what you said.
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  229. When I checked there are NO state inspections in Florida ( I don't know what MOT is but I assume it is similar to emissions testing). I checked because of all the cars that Ray worked on that the customer did not want the check engine light problem fixed. In Texas the check engine light does not even have to be on to fail. If there is more than one not ready status items it will fail. I found out the hard way - $$.
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  230. Not only that but it is a 12 valve, too. 1996 here with a full Banks kit on it - bumps the HP to 300.
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  231. I think that ANYONE driving a high performance car needs to go to a real driving school like Bob Bondurant. In my area there is a road race track that has track days for street cars where all you need is a helmet and you can go as fast as you dare. People show up in all kinds of vehicles.
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  232. There is one problem with the ballot box: some time the other choice (an orange clown wannabe king) is even worse.
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  233. Yes, EDM can be a life saver. I had to clean out the oil galleys in a crank and camshafts but could not because they were plugged with hardened ball bearings. EDM was the only answer - but not cheap.
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  234. I have a suggestion: make up business cards with a link to this video to hand out to potential Hertz customers when at an airport. I haven't rented a vehicle in many years but use to in the 70s when I worked in field service. I never had an issue but I can't remember if any of the rentals were from Hertz.
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  235. My uncle who died at the hands of the Japs was not a loser or sucker, neither was his father who died from the after effects of being gassed in WWI. May donald trump, the orange faced dictator wannabe, rot in jail.
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  236. The simple answer is that a mechanic does not care what the thread size is most of the time, just what size wrench or socket it takes to get it off. Also, Toyota had bolts that had 12mm heads when everyone else was using 13s. I often bought bolts from Toyota to use on my MR2 race car so I would not have to change to a different wrench to take off the exhaust manifold for instance.
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  237. The bumper is made in the great state of Texas!
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  238. They sure do go together. I was working at an unheated garage in St. Pete when the temperature was 19°. In the mid 1970s it froze in Key West and North Miami Beach had snow.
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  239. A guy who has built a lot of engines told me to run a tap into or through all the threaded holes. While it takes time to do that it avoids your pain.
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  240. On the airplane stuff: hot air is less dense and provides less lift for the plane at landing and takeoff speeds. I still don't understand what all those different numbers meant but I enjoyed your diagnostic progress.
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  241. I looked at a 2024 Corolla, found out about the nanny state stuff by looking at the 460 page owners manual where there are FOUR pages of situations where the nanny stuff won't work. In my case that would be almost everywhere. I told the salesman I won't buy a car that has a bunch of stuff that doesn't work.
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  242. My dad was born at Ft. Barrancas waaay before the Navy was there (1912). It was a coast artillery fort. I visited the museum but didn't know the story of the plane.
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  243. I am NOT a fan of EVs, but I am curious as to how much electricity it takes to make an equivalent amount of hydrogen to allow a car to travel 300 miles as it does to charge an EV battery that can go the same distance. Neither option is practical at this point as there isn't enough power infrastructure to support either one. Hydrogen at least can be delivered in liquid form to outlying areas by truck but for electricity you are going to need wires that go through property where they are not wanted.
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  244. The bed rails are covered with plastic.
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  245. There is a report from the University of Michigan that says the mines cannot produce enough copper for the EVs, ever. Apparently it takes over twenty years to get a new copper mine up and running. Copper is also needed for the electrical grid.
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  246. California already has a problem with providing enough electricity, I can't imagine what it will be like when everyone had an EV. I also want to see how California handles recycling the batteries. They will probably send them to Nevada.
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  247. It is normally the connectors in the engine bay that break. The ones in the cabin don't get nearly as hot. Almost all my connectors on the engine were broken but when I pulled all the wiring from the cabin there was not a single broken connector and this was a 1985 MR2 being converted to a race car.
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  248. Both sides used fakes. My Great great grandfather, Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson used two stove pipes to capture Newberg, Indiana.
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  249. Typical of Jag. I saw an XKE in a shop in the 70's covered in dust and asked the shop owner and he said he had ordered a part for the transmission 6 MONTHS before and still did not have it. I told him I could have swum the Atlantic, made the part and returned in less time than that. Please try Sloggeth's solution it might save a bunch of time and money.
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  250. I am a WWII baby and my grandfather died from affects of gassing in WWI and my uncle, his son, was killed while being held in a "Hell ship". Trump's disparagement of wounded and dead service members is more than enough reason not to vote for him.
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  251. Trump is a racist and so is Project 2025.
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  252. Toyota sells one for sealing their oil pans that is better than Ultra Black. You have to drive a razor blade in around the edge to get that stuff loose.
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  253. My father and his three brothers all graduated from West Point and one of them died at the hands of the Japanese. Trump is a disgusting traitor and should be in jail for the rest of his life.
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  254. The ought to give him enough money to rent in Homestead.
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  255. That reminds me somewhat of the time I was in Louisiana and we had 7 days of rain. All the rice fields flooded and the road out had a low spot with about 2 and a half feet of water in it. I drove through it in my Datsun 510 sedan to get to work with no problem.
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  256. Having lived in Orlando, Gainesville, Ocala and other areas of the state and being a spelunker (Florida Speleological Society), I know all about sinkholes without watching your video. Florida is underlain with limestone which gets dissolved and forms caves, if the cave gets larger it can eventually collapse forming a sinkhole. I do not know if ground penetrating RADAR can warn of impending collapse but even if it could the cost would be enormous.
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  257. I'm upset that Australia only requires a written test for the license, I was hoping they would require something like a Bob Bondurant school of high performance driving. So many stories of supercar drivers crashing as they left the dealer. Also, I would have thought they would have given the guy a warning instead of a ticket. I wonder how well the law was advertised.
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  258. There is a sucker born every minute and Trump has found them all!
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  259. Don't shorten your drill bits - get screw length bits at a machining supply company.
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  260. Don't forget that there will probably be metal particles from cutting open the filter. Hopefully the customer will agree to replacing the tensioner.
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  261. Apparently he did when he got his scalp reduction and he tore his wife's hair out in response.
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  262. Much newer than my 1962 KG or my 1966 1300.
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  263. I Googled the Tank Museum and found there are dozens. Which one did you showcase?
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  264. I am funny about high power electrical connections, I always disconnect them then clean and lubricate them with a conductive grease before putting them back together. Good find.
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  265. An excellent review. I watch I Do Cars and he is also against oil on belts.
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  266. That job would have gone faster if you used Scotch Brite in combination with the brake cleaner. What happened to using Scotch Brite pads on your right angle air die grinder to remove silicone? I would think it would go faster than the wire brush.
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  267. Big RVs are a funny thing when it comes to licensing, in Texas a Class A license is needed if the RV is over 26,000 pounds but my 36' Foretravel only weighs 19,000 pounds and therefore is exempt. In addition to being lighter it is also a few inches narrower. California solved the problem by outlawing 2025 diesel motor homes, period.
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  268. I looked closely at the belt and I believe the letters have worn off.
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  269. If you watch "I Do Cars" you will find out that extended oil change intervals are not good.
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  270. I lost an uncle who was on Corregidor when it was captured and also died on a hell ship bombed by the USS Hornet. Trump believes that all who were injured or died serving our country in the time of war were "losers" or suckers. I cannot believe that any veteran would vote for him.
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  271. I'd give them a dollar for one, that is about what they are worth. I did bid $5 on one at an auction but it went for $14,000 (this was a $90,000 car when new).
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  272. I suggest that everyone goes to a Tesla dealer and tell them off.
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  273. I worked for Texas Instruments and my first job was as an epitaxial technician - adding dopant in a silane gas to the bare silicon 3" slice in 1972. I measured the resistance of the slice to see if it had the proper amount of dopant in it.
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  274. Trump, thank God, is his own worst enemy. He has pi$$ed off anyone that has a relative in Arlington National Cemetery, if they weren't already.
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  275. I can outdo that, the machine mechanic who worked on some machines in the production area complained that the operators had an IQ one point below that of a rock.
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  276. I don't know if it was photoshopped or not but I saw a car with a generator attached to the bumper hitch.
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  277. He can do better than that - he has a suction machine.
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  278. Right now Iceland's problem is too much heat - molten rock coming out of the ground.
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  279.  @TGYK2019  I suspect that he does not have the terminals that are designed for lugs ( I had fun hunting some down for my motorhome) but the ones he had are not really designed for two wires, either.
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  280. Lots of wind noise.
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  281. Hardy gloves (HF) are color coded - light blue(5mil), darker blue(7mil) and black(9mil), at least the last time I bought any.
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  282. He did it previously when he left the dealership. He may have a winch in his trailer.
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  283. I will be so happy when Trump loses and has to face trials for his sh*t. I am an independent but for this election I will be voting all blue.
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  284. Do you really expect it will only be four more years?
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  285. I, too, have discovered that those heavy duty impact guns are great bolt twister-off-ers. Project creep and then some!
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  286. I am envious. I would love to have one.
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  287. As a network technician I found that you were spot on about the CAN bus. I sort of know why they created it but it sure does complicate things.
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  288. There is one serious problem with that - there are no motel rooms anywhere near some of the spots I have taken my motorhome when traveling out west.
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  289. I rather doubt that the Activa has much in the way of emissions equipment.
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  290. Ray, I sure hope you are getting paid something for all the time you are putting in. Very educational for us home shop mechanics.
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  291. Oh, so why did Ford tell people that they needed to park their Explorer or Expedition (which ever it was) in the open? I saw a Ford catch fire in a Walmart parking lot.
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  292. Or you could be deaf. I did a brake job on a 1960s Karmann Ghia in the late 60s that had NO linings left, it was total metal on metal on all four wheels. It was a wonder the old guy could stop. As I remember the car was a trash heap inside.
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  293. His "cat lady" statement will tank him.
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  294. With these tannerite explosions it appears that the shooters are very poor shots and could not hit the targets at the appropriate range.
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  295. None of my vehicles are "connected" and two of them could bulldoze the BYDs off the road.
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  296. I use a large c-clamp to compress the pistons before I remove the calipers. Then I do not have to worry about the pistons popping out.
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  297. Your rear tires definitely need replacing and appear to be over pressure since the center is wearing out more than the edges.
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  298. A friend started his RV8 in his garage but had to move it to a hanger to finish it.
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  299. Forget the starter issue on the Suburban, I would bet the engine is toast from lack of coolant. Put in a short block and continue driving, or sell it up north for $$$.
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  300. Put MTG in jail.
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  301. Have you all ignored the information coming out of California that after the state raised the minimum wage a number of restaurants are cutting hours or in some cases closing?
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  302. Yes, my CAT 3208 in my motorhome has one.
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  303. Paul, you would have to fence it off so the cows and horses won't be killed when they catch fire.
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  304. Actually, we had air tools in the early 60s when I worked on VWs. It did mean you had to drag an air hose around though. One of my favorite tools was the 3/8" butterfly air wrench.
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  305. I know a retired astronaut who is working on a plasma rocket engine, part of the design requires maintaining the plasma in a magnetic shell, if he can get that to work maybe the next step will be to make a fusion reactor.
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  306. Are jurors allowed to take notes during testimony?
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  307. This is somewhat different than the gearbox on the Tyrrell 022 that I worked on. The cases were made of magnesium and there was only one selector barrel.
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  308. Nope, it is a Panhard bar or rod.
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  309. The batteries in my motor home are 8Ds and weigh about 160 pounds, definitely a two man operation.
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  310. On some of them he manages by using that magnetic drain plug gizmo. I don't know why he doesn't use it all the time.
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  311. After what you showed me I cannot understand how that ram air unit could work as it appears that the air will becoming from the fender.
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  312. In his earlier videos he explained that he doesn't think it is necessary.
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  313. I would be concerned that it may have been a planted explosive that detonated early if the container was headed to the Mid-East. That was a big blast.
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  314. I know I'm late to the show but I use Tru Fuel because it does not have ethanol in it. I live in a large city and ethanol free gas is not readily available. I used to have to get my mower, etc. carb overhauled every year. Tru Fuel has stopped that.
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  315. fRump has done away with the CFPB. Consumers, you are on your own.
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  316. Great additions from the shop that closed. FYI, while the metal cabinets are better than open shelves for storing flammables, a flammables cabinet would be better if you can come across one. I am still on the look out for a second one for my home shop. I have been using kitty litter (not for cats) for oil spills which is messy (It was free from an Indy car race held in downtown Houston). Which Oil Dri mats did you get, gray or white?
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  317. I am just obstinate to use a Dremel tool to take the manifold apart to see if I could fix it. I really don't like unfixable parts. Hope you tear it apart to see what the problem is.
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  318. I just read up on the M.O.T. - that is ridiculous. Big Brother for sure. Hey, while you are at it, remove all the tires from a lorry, run a dye penetrant test on the wheel studs and then properly torque the lug nuts as it is a known issue that impact wrenches over torque the nuts causing wheels to come off, and replace the blinker fluid.
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  319. I have been to Greybull, WY and seen the plane at 12:39. I suspect it is still sitting there. I did not recognize it as a US plane.
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  320.  @pipedreamtv9697  Actually, in the northern US states ICE vehicles don't last any longer due to salt corrosion, at least replacing an ICE vehicle is much cheaper.
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  321. Here is the problem, though, if you want a NEW car you cannot buy one directly unless you are stupid enough to buy a Tesla.
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  322. He has one, I don't know why he doesn't use it.
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  323. It is obvious from other comments that people really did not understand the situation. The owner took it into a dealer for this problem, nothing was said about it being bought there. The problem was not fixed but the guy is out $1300.00 for the work/parts. When he can't get out of the driveway without it messing up they should have put the car at the front of the cue. The owner is now out however much it cost to fix it properly and I doubt that the dealer will refund the owner's money. Sounds like small claims court to me.
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  324. He needs to be de-loused.
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  325. I would ask all veterans to not vote for the idiot that said dead soldiers and POWs were suckers and losers. I lost an uncle to the Japanese and a grandfather to the after effects of being gassed in WWI. I have scanned Project 2025 and some of the things in it are hideous.
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  326. My fear is that he tries to repeat 2020 and there is a "riot" even worse than last time. He cannot win legitimately so he will try to win by violence.
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  327. I had an original Fiat 500 - 498 or so CCs, two cylinder air cooled engine, got great gas milage.
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  328. I think it belongs to the body shop next door.
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  329. From what I understand used car prices have gone through the roof because the dealers cannot get new cars because of the chip shortage. I don't think I'll get a new vehicle again - they are nightmares (that is, unless I win the lottery and can afford to hire Ray to work on just my cars and he could stay in Florida, I would ship the cars to him).
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  330. Where is Elon Musk from? Why South Africa, land of apartheid of course. Need I say anymore????? Send Musk back, we don't want him.
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  331. I wish I had seen your reply before I found it myself.
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  332. My problem is I have no helper so my solution would be to make a flywheel holder with my plasma torch, the down side to having a machine shop in my garage. Just yesterday I made a new, thicker, strike plate from 3/16" steel plate which I had to mill down and finish on my surface grinder.
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  333. I have understood that to check for ring problems put a squirt of oil in the cylinder first. You have convinced me that this stuff works after the last vehicle you poured that stuff into. I hope that off camera you cleaned up all that oil splatter.
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  334. I have a number of metal detectors including an underwater one. One year I collected over $900 in coins that filled a 5 gallon bucket, three gold rings and a number of silver items from the over 200 parks that are in my city. I cleaned (most were corroded) and wrapped all those coins and took them to the bank by the tray load. The most unusual find was a silver grill that covered someone's upper front teeth (found in the bad part of the city). My best find was a pin fire cartridge case from 1865. I mainly hunt parks as the gumbo soil takes a jack hammer to break up. It is a fun hobby where you get some good exercise. If you go to organized hunts you might win a detector or other valuable prizes. Speaking of large cents I bought a 1787 Fugio cent it was the oldest coin I owned.
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  335. It is in Florida where there is NO salt on the roads. We southerners don't have that problem. My 1996 truck's underside is like new.
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  336. I have seen people use a piece of tubing to start plugs. I understand that you can't test the "snake oil" properly but to me what you would need to do is have a dirty engine that you could pull the head(s) off of to look at the valves and pistons before and after running it for a month or so. I know that one method of cleaning valves involves blasting them with walnut shells which I suspect is a fairly expensive job.
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  337. You can have that. It reached 75° here today.
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  338. A used taxi would make a great demolition derby car.
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  339. You glossed over the electrolyte which is lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6). I understand it is about as bad as hexavalent chromium. Bad things in a fire.
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  340.  @RC-Flight  Don't you just love those jugs of electrons!
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  341. Let's just think what you would do if you were going to take a 2 month trip to the west where there are REAL mountains and steep grades. Would you change the pads now or wait until the sqeeker made noise in the middle of your trip? Without talking to the owner we don't know why he or she is doing this.
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  342. Roy, every manufacturer screws that up because the EPA mandated water based paint which doesn't last as long as the solvent based paint.
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  343.  @scottminer7702  In Canada you have moose which don't exist in the EU unless they escaped from a zoo. My "brush guard" on my Dodge 3/4 ton pickup is made out of schedule 60 pipe with 1/4" chain plate and, according to the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, WILL stop a bull moose. I don't know how much it weighs but it takes an engine hoist to remove it.
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  344. Carjackings occur every day. Do we know that this was politically motivated?
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  345. I was coming home from a Christmas party and was feeling ill. I pulled over and puked my guts out. Luck was on my side as there were no cops around. The Christmas party did not serve alcohol as it was against the host's religion. I was NOT drunk, I had a viral ear infection that destroyed the nerve in my right ear. I had vertigo so bad I could not stand for three days. I have trouble balancing to this day. I doubt I could pass a field sobriety test and I hope I am never given one.
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  346. Apparently all is fair in politics. Politicians have been slinging mud at each other since the first election. As a matter of fact, Trump's gag order did not cover "political speech".
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  347. Not really in California. See my reply above.
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  348. I had a house nearly as old as yours that still had knob and tube wiring in it try upgrading that!
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  349. If you had tried the magnet first there would have been no question.
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  350. Most diesel trucks require low silicate antifreeze, that looked like ordinary AF. My friend's Ford Aerostar van had the same problem with the switch in the tank and he ended up having to replace the tank, too.
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  351. Don't forget the car that stopped in the tunnel and caused an 8 vehicle pile-up. No thank you!
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  352. Alabama is another state that it is easy to get a license plate. My daughter, who lives there, says it doesn't need a windshield or doors. There is a picture of a Porsche 917 race car (not legal to drive on the street ANYWHERE without serious mods.) in Europe that had an Alabama tag on it. Belonged to a Count Rossi.
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  353. EVs are a nightmare. We will never have enough copper for these vehicles as they take three times as much copper (or more) as a ICE vehicle. The idiots that are pushing EVs don't realize that we are having power outages now without EVs. EVs have approximately 1/2 the range when running the heater or A/C. There are many small towns that don't even have gas stations much less chargers. This Buttigieg guy does not realize that fully 50 percent of the population of my city live in apartments and have NO access to chargers. Hell, most of the people who live in the apartments probably cannot afford a $60,000 vehicle that the battery goes bad in ten years. My newest vehicle is a 2013 and my oldest is a 1996.
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  354. I have a simple answer to "spy" cars - none of my vehicles are connected to anything. My Dodge pickup as as simple as it gets as there is a mechanical fuel injection system on it.
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  355. A local grocery store in Houston, TX had to pull out their charging station because of the fights.
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  356. Actually, I got my '62 Karmann Ghia stuck in sugar sand but was eventually able to get it out and I got my '66 stuck in wet dredge material (fill for a new subdivision). The last one was kind of funny as I asked for a 4 wheel drive wrecker but they sent a regular one which got stuck and I was able to get out while he was still stuck.
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  357. Not all of California is flat, mountains almost completely surround Los Angeles and I remember climbing a fairly steep grade going from LA to Willow Springs Raceway. San Bernardino is at 1,000 feet while LA is at 300.
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  358. It is just money. For the price of fixing this you could buy a nice used truck.
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  359. They are in Alabama and Florida now according to their website.
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  360. Too many different bolts for the calipers and brackets. My Toyota MR2 had the same E brake setup. I first used needle nose pliers and then made a tool as it was a race car and the pads got changed often. The slide pin pockets were really a mess so I cleaned them out with Q tips. The rubber plugs will keep out the dirt from the Torx heads, too. It is no fun to clean those out.
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  361. A little spray of WD40 would have fixed it.
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  362. Laura Trump should be in jail. (I had another thought but I won't say it out loud)
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  363. Ray, I just saw the hurricane forecast. You might get to use your truck for a generator sooner than you would have wanted to. I know you are watching the weather. Florida sure doesn't need another hurricane.
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  364. Another example of Russian problems caused by their war with Ukraine.
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  365. I believe off road diesel is red.
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  366. I think they are just as bad as EV cars - no range, the batteries can catch on fire. I watched a video from Mentour Pilot in one of those planes and the airport had to clear other traffic so the e-plane could land before it ran out of juice. We don't have anything that provides as much energy per pound as fossil fuel. In areas where fossil fuels are burned to give you expensive electricity e-planes don't make sense.
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  367. What happened to a "speedy trial"?????
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  368. This is all spelled out in Project 2025.
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  369. Please read the Republican manifesto, Project 2025. It is 920 pages long and lays out how the government will be come a theocracy.
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  370. The parking lot is not his.
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  371. Not in Houston! 90 on the freeways is not unusual nor is 55 in 35.
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  372. What he needs is a small gantry crane that won't be in the way like an engine lift.
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  373. There is an adapter you can put on the nozzle of the heat gun that will get the whole area hot from just one side. My question is whether or not the glue will hold up to the acid fumes.
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  374. The downside with gas is that you have to have a shield and in many cases there is no room.
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  375. I added one to mine as I towed a 9,000 lb. travel trailer and the shop manual recommended transmission fluid changes ever X miles (I don't remember how many).
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  376. It is called shop supplies on a lot of invoices.
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  377. Actually you should check it before hand in case someone had added brake fluid. Brake fluid is not good for paint.
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  378. What a poor design! Another reason not to buy Ford.
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  379. Actually I think he needs a FIAT engineer. I am sure glad I went with a real Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.
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  380. When they replaced the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay after it was hit by a ship in 1980 they put in dolphins to prevent ships from hitting the bridge piers. That was 44 years ago. If Maryland had done the same for the Key Bridge this would not have happened.
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  381. My experience with HF's hydraulic table was not good. I bought one but did not use it for probably a year and discovered that the jack leaked. If you buy one test it immediately.
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  382. It would totally be a waste of the snake oil. As the saying goes, remove the radiator cap and put another vehicle under it.
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  383. What a clean engine bay. Good catch on the tube.
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  384. What a nightmare. I remember the 1950s cars that you could stand in the engine bay.
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  385. I know you like to help your customers out but this is too much!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eric O would have had those bolts torched off in no time at all.
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  386. What a shame.
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  387. What a bad break.
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  388. If you think houses without off street parking are bad, where I live, Houston, TX, has 2 million apartment dwellers who may have to park blocks from their apartments.
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  389. I saw it happen before you noticed because you were busy driving. A seam ripper is ideal for removing friction tape. It was obvious to me that the heat shield rubbed through the wire and was intermittently shorting out the signal. Glad you tucked the wire loom under the heat shield.
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  390. I would like to know if just putting your cursor on the video would trigger this. YouTube has a preview function that causes the video to play if the cursor is left on the video link.
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  391. Surely you can't use all those bench grinders. What do you do with them?
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  392. No mention of Roe V Wade. Now, in 2024, we have the Capitol Hill riots, the attempt to deny the election and Trump's conviction of 34 counts of fraud. Vote blue.
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  393. I have NO IDEA who my first grade teacher was at Yoyogi Elementary School in Washington Heights, Tokyo, Japan in 1950! The only teacher's name I remember is from high school and that is only because he had the same last name as a famous WWII general. In the past I have always voted independent but this time I am voting Blue although they have removed that option from the ballot.
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  394. Seeing how you used spray paint on the drive shaft I am surprised that you did not clean and paint the brake pedal lever. It is really rusty.
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  395. Con man for President! Jeez. He is worse than a used car salesman. The rest of the world has to be laughing.
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  396. Parts of the Gulf Coast got a lot of snow, Houston got 4 to 5 inches.
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  397. Background noise is much worse than normal.
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  398. Actually with the tank being mostly empty there would have been an explosion because of the fuel vapor in the nearly empty tank. As any person with an inboard boat about fuel vapor. I notice a lot of bigger boats are running outboards these days.
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  399. I was at a machinery auction where there was a Tesla Model S 85D in it. The owner bought the car, used, to deliver parts in the town which is flat and pretty small. He said the car had a 6,000 lb carrying capacity. That is the first time I have seen where an EV could be useful. Based on this video the car would not even get from Houston to San Antonio without a recharge.
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  400. From what I can see from Google Maps this is a bedroom community with NO businesses in it.
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  401. I lost an uncle in WWII to the Japs. I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THE ORANGE FACED S.O.B. DRAFT DODGER!
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  402. Series would give you 4 ohms, parallel will give you one ohm.
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  403. I would think a lot of it as they have tools that are set to the correct torque and calibrated regularly.
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  404. That Toyota tool was probably made by OTC. I have several tools that I needed for my MR2 that I got from OTC and cheaper than ordering the same tool from Toyota. In the factory shop manual they would list the OTC number along with the Toyota number. I have a lot of Armstrong tools, a less expensive version of Snap-On. It is a shame they went out of business.
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  405. It does not matter if he confessed as the Stupid Court said he is immune.
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  406. My experience with the 1" Irwin Speedbor is much different than yours. I needed it to drill into 8 foot long pressure treated 2x4s and before I used it on them I wanted to test it first. After drilling three holes in a scrap 2x8 that was not pressure treated the augur would no longer bite into the wood and all the holes wandered (I was using a hand drill as there was no room in the garage to get the 2x4s to the drill press). From seeing other reviews it appears that getting these bits is a crap-shoot. Sometimes they are good but other times, like mine, not so good.
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  407. Truckers do cause road problems (so do all kinds of other heavy vehicles like buses) but definitely not anywhere near a 100 percent. I hope the appeal goes the trucker's way. I honestly don't see how truckers stay in business with current diesel prices.
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  408. Last I checked the hurricane was up to 180 MPH, unreal! Estimated storm surge for your area is 12 to 15 feet above ground level. It might be enough to flood your shop. I hope not. You are prepared as well as you can be. Good luck. I am sorely glad I don't live in St. Pete anymore. I am a whopping 56 feet above high tide but we have had the bayou overflow and water came to with in a foot of getting into the house.
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  409. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for Ray and he deserves it. Still much cheaper than a new truck.
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  410. I let the phone go to voice mail and generally they hang up.
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  411. For those of you with access to a lathe it would be easy to make your own. Just get the correct size metric threading die. Ray, you are really having a bad week, hope it is better next week.
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  412. Many places in the western US are the same way. I took a trip where it was over 200 miles to the nearest gas station.
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  413. Must have spent some time in England.
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  414. Not everyone ages the same. Some are done in by the time they are 70 and others last into their 90s.
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  415. Something not mentioned - mountains, of which there are a lot of in the western United States. My wife and I went up Pike's Peak in our 2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited automatic with shift on the fly and when we came down I used downshifting to keep from overheating the brakes. When I got to the brake check station my brake temperatures were low enough that I did not have to wait until they cooled down before I could continue my downward trip. I hardly used them but I was able to travel faster than the people who had their foot on the brakes the whole way. If I had had someone tailgating me I would have tapped the brakes as a warning. Diesel trucks don't activate their brake lights when they engage their "Jake" (compressed air engine braking) brakes either. Beware of trucks on grades steep enough that there are emergency runoff areas. If you see smoke coming out of the trailer brakes get out of the way if you can.
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  416. Trump is a Putin puppet.
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  417. Enzo is rolling in his grave.
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  418. That has to be the cleanest engine compartment I've seen on a car with that kind of mileage. Two of the coils were a different color were they newer?
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  419.  @dbird1356  Nova Scotia is neat but too far north for me, I let the land (east of Baddeck)my stepmother bought go back to the Crown.
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  420. Let's see, the price of a new van is about $70,000 or so and with the modern emissions controls creating more problems not a good solution. A used one might have the same problems that this one has.
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  421. Old tires get hard and won't stop, especially on wet pavement. They are a real hazard. Transmission should be replaced.
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  422. I took my Toyota MR 2 down to the metal when I turned it into a race car. I removed the interior of my Dodge when I put in Dynamat. Seeing a car completely apart does not bother me. I know it was a lot more expensive to put in the new core but after the mess created by the compressor it should eliminate a come back. I don't know how you kept all those bolts in the right holes.
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  423. I used shoulder bolts with the heads ground down for my tranny pan. I was still able to use the allen socket.
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  424. Musk is the biggest blow hard there is.
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  425. Normally you are wearing gloves and I didn't see your wedding ring before. Wearing that while you are working on machinery is not a good idea. Question: do those felt pads work to keep corrosion at bay? I have used HD corrosion block on mine.
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  426. Eric O and his handy-dandy cutting torch would have had that cat off in much less time. Never ending problems, I know the feeling.
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  427. If you paid more than $5.00 for that you got gypped.
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  428. I would suggest that a radiator flush be run on the engine if it passes a compression and leakdown test.
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  429. Yes, it is a door, not a jar of jelly! I remember your previous repair.the wonderful world of modern vehicles. KISS works for me. When I saw those four broken wires I hoped that you could find a new harness. I'll bet that is a common repair item.
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  430. I hope I never need this information.
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  431. I hope he is not parked near some tar when the truck catches fire.
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  432. Just ask any illegal immigrant where they got their SSN.
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  433. I did not vote for MAGA but unless we can impeach the incoming administration we are lost.
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  434. Trump may no longer be a convicted felon after the SCOTUS decision.
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  435. On every automatic transmission I have ever checked the level of they all required going through the gears before measuring. If you did that I missed it. I wondered about the engine mounts and you revealed that the customer did not want them replaced, RIGHT AT THE VERY END OF THE VIDEO! You trickster.
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  436. Tolerances on Formula One engines are so tight that they must be warmed up to at least 160° before starting giving them much less blow-by. If you don't warm them up the engine is ruined. I've worked on historic F1 cars. Oh, another thing F1 teams do is cool the fuel before the race but it must be at 72° at race time per the F1 rules (at the time I was working Tech).
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  437. Ray, I'm pretty sure the mine is phosphate not sulfur. At lest the one north of your home is listed as the Mosaic Wingate Creek mine and is labeled as a phosphate mine by the company.
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  438. Nope!
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  439. I would never rent from them.
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  440. You misspelled tRump, it should be frump, he does not deserve a capital letter anywhere in his name.
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  441. Remember this folks, if we elect the other party (all of them) then fRump will end up in jail.
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  442. Do her a favor and clean off the love bugs from the windshield. The only proper way to measure rotor thickness is with a brake micrometer but that requires removing the rotor and you are putting enough time in as it is. Since there is no vibration or pedal pulsation I would say the error was in your measurement (it looked like the caliper did not zero). The pistons in my Jeep were phenolic, not ceramic - you corrected yourself later. My wife's Toyota was in for service and the service writer said the brake pads needed to be replaced but I was sure they were o.k. so when I got the car home I jacked it up, removed the wheels and checked the pads, they were twice as thick as the dealership claimed.
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  443. Having lived in Orlando I know that it is in Orange County, not Seminole which is the next county to the north so I'm not surprised. I hope the cop loses his job. BTW, when I was in St. Pete there was a small town to the north were the cops would turn on their sirens on their way to meet at the donut shop every day you could almost set your watch by it.
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  444. I live in Houston but I was unaware of the jury situation. I have no problem with these people feeding the homeless but why don't they move their operation to any of several nearby parks? I try to avoid downtown because I don't like being accosted by the homeless.
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  445. AESWave has an automotive test lead set that includes fuse amp loops allowing you to hook up a current clamp. I know you have a kit like that but don't know if it has those test loops. It looks like AESWave sells them separately. Would not only save your test leads but you meter too.
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  446. Yes and no. If you get enough people to complain they will change their pattern. Train horns were a big problem in one suburb and after enough complaints there are no more horns.
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  447. Ron would have found out more info on the truck and brought the right equipment to do the job right the first time. He is the ace of tow truck drivers that I have seen on YouTube. Even the second truck was puny by Ron's standards.
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  448. Musk has already influenced him to the tune of $45M. Trump is pro Musk now.
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  449.  @vbtbmrt4394  These commercial bulbs do not require a twist.
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  450. fRump's grift is so bad it isn't even funny - gold tennis shoes?
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  451. S.O.P. for the orange frump.
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  452. I will take a Jaguar E type, thank you.
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  453. It looked like a plated bolt. Not good for the lungs.
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  454. Watching "I Do Cars" convinced me that direct injection engines need this service. I made sure my Jeep did not have direct injection. I also clean out the carbon by driving, legally, on Texas highways at 85 MPH.
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  455. Don't you have a slide hammer with a screw end? Getting that hose on would have been easier if it was heated.
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  456. As others have said ethanol is very bad for outboard motors and older lawn equipment.
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  457. Ex SCCA racer/tech here - I'll bet dollars to donuts that you have a race seat (a requirement in real racing) in there and it is bolted in, not on slides.
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  458. I think you mean scatter shield but it does not cover the clutch area.
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  459. I had no idea they made that many.
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  460. My uncle, Capt. Robert Gibson Cooper, class of 1940, was captured on Corregidor, bombed out of one "hell ship" and killed on a second. There is a building named for him on Ft. Bliss.
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  461. I have a concern: grease and sand do not mix well so the next repair will probably come sooner. No dust cover over those splines is a mistake.
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  462. Dumb people voting. The part that really upsets me is they want to denaturalize citizens.
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  463. This was stupid for the apartment management to do. It will sure be negative publicity. Would you want your elderly relative to rent there?
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  464. Geothermal energy does nothing to solve the transportation problem. Diesel engines are more efficient than battery powered trucks because the energy density is much greater. I could not get firm figures but it appears that a 10,000 pound battery in a truck is good for about 250 miles conversely, at 5 miles per gallon of diesel fuel the truck will need to carry about 50 gallons of fuel which only weighs 350 pounds to cover the same distance and can add the 50 gallons of fuel in about 5 minutes without needing all the infrastructure it would take to dump electrons into the battery. I have been many places where there are not even gas stations much less charging stations.
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  465. Someone paid $14,000 for a used model S 85d at auction.
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  466. I like Datsun better than Nissan as I had a DATSUN 510 sedan and lusted after a 240Z. I used to play rally driver on the backroads of the Florida Everglades when I lived in Homestead with that 510. Ford engineers strike again - a poor design if you have to pull the timing cover to install a new water pump.
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  467. If you had cleaned off the frame rail first you would not have had to pull out the gunk from the power steering line.
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  468. You got me!
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  469. I had to do a brake job on my 2013 Jeep Wrangler as the left front outer pad was down to the metal but the pad with the squealer still had lining left. Replaced the phenolic piston calipers with steel as my old Ford truck had the same kind of pistons that swelled up from Houston humidity and locked up the brakes with only 20K miles on the truck. It is probably not necessary but I clean out the slide holes in the caliper brackets before greasing them. I was glad to see that you had to "adjust" the pads to make them fit as I have had to do that on the last several brake jobs. Thank you for directions to your shop (Ray's Auto Clinic), the store did the trick. I hope to meet you in person one day.
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  470. PMitchell106 "don't need public infrastructure, at all" I suppose you never went out of town on a vacation or took a business trip? Here in Houston we have approximately 2 MILLION "renters", as you call them, and I can assure you that the majority have their own car. The parking lots empty out in the morning and fill up at night.
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  471. Not much to go wrong. Same with my 12 valve Turbo Diesel.
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  472. Lock her up (Judge Cannon).
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  473. I realize that my mother's brother had the same initial as his father. Herman Peter (father) and Herman Parks. I don't know how they handled that.
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  474. While the car may have been repairable I doubt that the customer would have been willing to pay for it. I would suspect that the smog police would pull the car over because of the smoke but maybe not in Florida.
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  475. I can't believe how many layers there are in this thing. My Cummins twelve valve is MUCH easier to work on.
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  476. At 14:23 you hit the camera and all of a sudden there was a lot of background noise.
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  477. Having performed the PM on my CAT 3208 in my motor home I would be very interested to see one done on the skid steer.
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  478. Trump is Putin's puppet and has been for years. I am for Ukraine. Putin found that Ukraine would not roll over and play dead.
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  479. I guess you are going to replace the oil pan as I saw several spots where it bent in the process of coming off. Granted I am not on the clock but when I remove something glued on like that I start with a razor blade to try to cut the glue loose first.
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  480. With pedal to the metal.
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  481. I hope to get to the west coast next year and it is on my list.
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  482. That is an accident waiting to happen.
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  483. I have gotten a lot of money from Texas Unclaimed Money Fund as I inherited money from my great grandmother. It was passed to my mother who died before my great grandmother. The money then came to me but no one could find either my mother's address or mine.
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  484. I looked at Unibor at Fab Tech and it seemed like a good annular cutter but too expensive for me. I ended up getting Vevor and they seem to work well with the materials I use. I hope I never need to machine AR500!
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  485. That car would never be legal on US roads. Imagine what would happen in a crash test. What a joke!
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  486. I would have used a speed wrench rather than an electric ratchet.
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  487. Trump's tariffs hurt Americans.
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  488. Ray you should check out welding classes at your local jr. colleges. I'm not a great welder but I know a lot more than I did after taking classes. The best welds are made with clean metal although good welds can be made with stick welding on rusty metal. Oil and grease are a no-no for clean welds. There is nothing worse than getting weld splatter down your shirt. They make leather garments for overhead welding.
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  489. At least you can use the tunnel. I came up through there on my way to Nova Scotia pulling a 28' travel trailer. When I got to the entrance to the tunnel they made me go over the bridge. On the way to the bridge there was a large pot hole I didn't see while trying to find my way. My trailer hit it a broke a spring.
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  490. The question is: does the replacement engine have the same issue???????????
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  491. Some alternators don't seem to start charging right away. The one on my motorhome requires me to get the engine up to 1,000 RPM before it will start charging.
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  492. I have always bedded in the brakes not burnished them but apparently both terms are correct.
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  493. My first wife had a miscarriage that occurred naturally and she could have been prosecuted for this????
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  494. The news about not enough mines is old. Copper is needed not only for the vehicles but the supply network too. The amount of energy produced by those solar cells won't power the car, the solar array is not big enough. If the car is extremely light I bet it won't pass crash tests.
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  495. I know where there is a 19 ton 99 percent pure copper slab that came out of Lake Superior. Some day copper maybe so expensive that the museum will sell it.
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  496. If it costs more than 10 cents the accountants won't go for it. You just know the accountants pitched a fit when the engineers told them that they had to add all this fancy stuff to satisfy the EPA.
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  497. YES! Never heard welder called that before but it is very accurate.
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  498. I bought the grease version of Deoxit because I was not aware it was available in a spray.
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  499. What makes anyone think that Trump will ever leave office?
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  500. Hydraulic hardlines on brakes, clutches, etc. are ALWAYS a pain to install. It is too easy to cross thread them. Starting sure seemed hard. Low battery or high compression?
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  501. Florida is a big state in length but not so wide, he is located on the west coast near St. Petersburg.
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  502. Somewhere I came across some various length scraper blades which are perfect for splitting oil pans, etc. They are thin but stiff enough I can drive them into the seam. And, because they are sharp, they cut the silicone.
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  503. Today it is hard to get an economy car without one.
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  504. Disney World is not too far away! I'm sure Mickey was happy to give him a license - no schooling necessary.
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  505. No enough, should be $300,000,000.
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  506. While what you say is true, the cost of the generator and electrical work will run $10K to $20K, this is much cheaper. I have natural gas and a generator for my home would be over $13K.
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  507. I installed the complete Banks kit on my 96. I was able to tow 9,000 lbs. up a 7 % grade at 50 MPH. I could not go over that speed because the temperature would go into the red zone. I would recommend that you get a larger radiator. Remember that HP equals heat.
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  508. Europe has the same problem only more of them drown when trying to cross from Africa. We need to fix our immigration system because those people are the ones trimming the hedges on Trump's golf courses and cleaning his hotel rooms as well as doing roofing work in 100° heat. Our immigration problem has been going on for a long time and no one has managed to fix it. Border fences will not stop them. Hell, even as brutal as East Germany was with their mine fields and killing zones they did not complete stop people from getting out of a hell hole.
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  509. Joshua, it depends on whether or not you can do the work yourself. The system should be evacuated before adding a Freon charge. If you have the equipment I would replace the clutch first and if that did not work then replace the compressor. I'm guessing that most shops like Ray's will want to replace the compressor for warranty reasons.
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  510. Hey, Ray, are they ever going to finish that intersection before the bridge? Those orange cones seem like they have been there forever.
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  511. Racers use brake bottles that hang by a lanyard to the bleeder valve and make it a one person job. I use flare nut wrenches on brake fittings to avoid rounding them.
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  512. I have a number of relatives buried at Arlington and one who has a head stone but has not been identified in a mass grave in Hawaii. They are all rolling in their graves.
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  513. Not an issue for me as I do not have an Internet enabled vehicle. My 1996 Dodge truck, 2004 Toyota and 2013 Jeep only have regular radios in them.
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  514. I would have used a cut off wheel on a right angle grinder and made short work of that bolt.
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  515. First question: The title company should have done a search and found that the property had been bought by PennDOT.
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  516. I am an Army brat, my dad was an Army brat, his father enlisted in the Spanish American war and died shortly before I was born from the after effects of being gassed in WWI. One of his sons was captured at Corregidor and died on a hell ship (the POW/MIA Accounting Agency has my DNA in case they recover his bones from a mass grave). Trump has called those people "losers and suckers". I cannot understand how anyone who has served can vote for the SOB who is a traitor to the US.
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  517. I have yet to watch the video but I worked for Texas Instruments as a bipolar epi tech on early 3 inch slices in the early 1970s. It was a very nasty process in those days and I used a vacuum pickup tool to get the slices off the reactor plate after the silane gas deposition and put them into a "boat". My process was the first one in making the chip from the raw silicon. I was hoping you would include how the silicon boule is grown, sliced and polished(not just a quick over view). The semiconductor process has come a long way from when I worked in it and it is a much cleaner process. In the first six months of my employment my badge clip spring got eaten up twice by the HCl vapor used to etch the slices.
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  518. I would not trust that abrasive brush to leave the surface level. I would have taken some 600 grit wet or dry sandpaper on a piece of glass and lapped it but then I work on my own stuff and it does not cost me anything. I only have known one person who put that high temp silicone on every thing rather than the Toyota factory sealant - no gaskets involved.
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  519. My dual intake Banks kit had no problems but would not have produced codes since it is installed on my 12 valve Cummins.
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  520. The shop sure looks much better with a painted floor. The fault is both the person that returned the bad part as good and the parts store that did not check it.
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  521. Hey, engineering guy, lets talk infrastructure. How much power will be required for these charging stations? Where will it come from? How long will it take to build the additional electrical capacity? Solar does not run 24/7, neither does wind. California already has summer blackouts WITHOUT EV trucks. Another issue not mentioned is the lack of sources for lithium. I have been in many places recently where there are NO gas stations in small towns and certainly no charging stations.
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  522. All of Finland has the population of Harris County, TX.
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  523. The business is only two blocks from the city limit according to Google Maps and approximately a mile and a half from downtown, also the Street View only showed one U-Haul in the front of the business and the aerial view appears to show the rest of the trucks in the back, not visible from the street. I am sure money changed hands under the table to the city council members.
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  524. He had to do that with an injector on a earlier video (a 6.6 duramax, I think).
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  525. I think that, because the parts are aluminum, you could use soap and water instead of brake clean. The water would float off the shells. The bones in your hand are the phalanges, metacarpals (the long bones), and carpals (your wrist). I would have put the studs in first and then slid the intake over them. No chance of slippage. Your truck is coming along nicely. You have to do a burn out on pavement for us once it is broken in. 700 HP should be enough.
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  526. This is a highly earthquake prone area and the houses appear to be made of mud. I am not surprised at the number of fatalities and injuries. The Taliban wanted us out of their country and now they are begging for aid.
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  527. I think there is a gas station nearby.
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  528. How do you solve the problem of spent fuel rods? I guess in your place you put a bunch of dumps in the Outback. Every time the US has tried to find permanent storage for the fuel rods someone screams murder, even the desert seems off limits.
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  529. I am sorry to do this to you as I enjoy your videos but if I can't skip the ads I will no longer watch your channel. I am unsubscribing.
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  530. I would highly recommend you move your EV OUTSIDE. When I visited Alpine, TX, the closest charging station was 65 miles away.
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  531. I had at least 4 belts to replace on the CAT 3208 on my motor home one of which drove the air compressor for the brakes and air bag suspension. They required enough tension that I bought a tension gauge. The fan is side mounted and hydraulically driven so that was not an issue. At some point the owner needs to reseal the engine.
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  532. Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Ted Cruise need to be charged with murder. We can't charge trump because SCOTUS said he is immune from prosecution.
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  533. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_textile
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  534. You better believe that El Paso knows about Fort Bliss since it is partially in the city. Can the people who lost their vehicles still sue for damages? I have been to Fort Bliss twice, the first time when my father was on TDY to train on the Nike Ajax and the second time when I went to see the building named after my uncle that was killed in WWII.
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  535. I saw the inspection hole in the roll cage. Saltwater got in it. It will rust out from the inside, not good for a race car. DO NOT REPAIR.
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  536. I have read that using anti-seize on spark plugs is a no-no as the plug cannot transfer heat as well and modern spark plugs have a coating that prevents seizing.
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  537. Your tests confirmed why Red N Tacky was recommended to me as the grease to use. Thank you. I really appreciate your attention to following the testing standards as well as you can.
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  538. One of the first things Ron Pratt does before he starts a tow is to find out from the driver what weight he has. A tape measure should have told him the wheelbase was too long if nothing else. I'm guessing the truck with the CO2 rig in the back was pushing 12,000 lbs.
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  539. It's now illegal to drive a great many semi-tractor trailers that can roll down highways in America's 49 other states. Effective January 2023, diesel-fueled vehicles model years 2010 and older, with a gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000-pounds or greater, are banned from the Golden State's highways.
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  540. The mess left by the rats looked like palm tree nuts. I'll have to put rat/squirrel repellent under the hood when I go out west.
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  541. That Ford has now where near the capacity of my motor home with its CAT 3208 and side mounted radiator. When I flushed the system I took 58 gallons of flush, etc. to the Environmental Center. The engine holds 4 gallons of oil and the diesel fuel tank 150 gallons.
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  542. One question: I am sure there is no flat rate for this and you got paid for all the time you put into it. Did the customer know how much it was going to cost in advance?
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  543. Customer lacked $$$$. He spent them all on those monster tires and wheels.
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  544. He made it. Check back to a much earlier video where he showed how it was made.
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  545. I suspect that what happened to rod was hydraulic lock - the anti-seize got in the combustion chamber and caused the rod to break. I'm sure you knew in advance that anti-seize wouldn't work as its viscosity is way too high.
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  546. I am amazed at the variety but the store is tiny compared to my HEB in Houston, TX, USA, which is 78,000 sq. ft. Your store would compare to stores in towns of 5,000 or less. The baked in the store bread looks wonderful. Texas is one of the states that does not allow liquor to be sold in grocery stores. To give you an idea, the chips aisle in the HEB is floor to head high on both sides for 30 feet, there is an on site butcher shop where they grind hamburger, cut steaks and chops. There is also a deli which will slice cheese and processed meats like salami. It is understandable that there are very few brands I recognize.
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  547. Trump will just ignore it or he would not have tried it in the first place.
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  548. Just a note: when you had the system under pressure it would have made the coolant come out faster than open to the air.
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  549. Those brakes would not be used in an endurance race! Awful.
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  550. The entire White House is a clown show. There is no attempt to have people who know what they are doing be on staff. I cry for our country.
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  551. My friend says "follow the money". Who is getting rich off this Net Zero nonsense? One thing that is not helping is the idiots promoting this in the US live in the east and have NO idea what it is like in the sparsely populated areas of the west. There are towns that do not have gas stations much less a charger.
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  552. I just checked out the link to the off road event. It has two strikes against it, as I see it. First, it is in March, can anyone say snow? Second, it is too far away - 1,400 miles and 21 hour driving time and too much money (gas, lodging and $125 event fee).
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  553. My ex wife bought a Mercedes to impress people while she was working. She is retired now and can no longer afford to fix it.
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  554. I am confused, why would someone need to put their hand on their heart or salute? It is not the Pledge of Allegiance or the National Anthem. Trump at any rate should not salute as he is not the Commander and Chief and he has never been in the military - bone spurs???
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  555. Ray, what is hiding under the car cover? It looks like it has a roll bar.
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  556.  @robertoruiz7069  I was given a race car that had sat for years. When I took apart the engine there was orange silicone EVERYWHERE. The guy had tried to weld in a bolt in cage and there were many holes where the welding burned through. The car had to be scrapped as it was not worth fixing. No wonder he gave it to me.
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  557. It is never a good idea to buy a used rental car as they have all been mistreated. Remember what happened when Hertz rented high performance Mustangs and people raced them on the weekend?
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  558. It is about time that veterans turn away from the orange fRump. I have a number of relatives, including my grandfather, buried in Arlington and a headstone for my uncle who may be in a mass grave in Hawaii after being killed on a Jap hell ship.
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  559. Trump expects his generals to do his bidding no matter what the Constitution says. Thankfully, the Army stood up to him last time. Let's hope they do it again. I do not expect the orange faced fascist to get a really qualified person for that position.
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  560. Good luck with getting this act passed.
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  561. I bought some powdered mica to use in window tracks. It used to be available in a squeeze bottle, you would just puff it out in the window tracks.
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  562. Wow, Bliss - Artillery (or missiles) and Hood (now renamed Cavazos) - tanks. Well, Dad went from Coast Artillery to Field Artillery to Logistics to missiles (TDY training at Bliss on the Nike Ajax in 1953). The temperature on my patio here in Houston was 107 in the shade yesterday. We have been so long without rain that my weeds are dying! Coastal Florida is like Houston, hot and humid.
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  563. Very tension producing until the O2 sensor came out! What a nightmare. I hate working on exhaust systems because they are all so rusted. I am generally not under your time constraints so I can let the Kroil or PB Blaster work longer, it seems to help.
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  564. All vehicles are different. He has shown a Lexus, I think, where he hooked up a special funnel and watched the air bleed from the radiator. This is a much simpler, older vehicle and he probably just ran it for a while and refilled the radiator. It did not appear to have an overflow tank. With all the rusty water coming out I wish he had flushed it.
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  565. APRIL FOOL!
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  566. They tried that in the US and went back to copper as there were too many house fires. You still need copper windings in the transformers and that is a lot of copper.
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  567. It appears that at least Matt Gaetz is no longer in the Trump cabinet.
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  568. An oil pressure gauge controlled by a computer - what could go wrong? I find it stupid that Ray replaced the faulty component but the gauge would not read UNTIL he cleared the code. "Real" racers would replace the electrical gauge with one that had a piece of tubing to the block.
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  569. If you think your turning radius is bad try a 36 foot (432 inch) motor home. The wheel base is probably only 30 feet.
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  570. What grit are you using when cleaning off the covers? Instead of the screw driver you might get yourself some cheap dental picks at HF. I will bet the flat rate for this job does not include all the time to clean up the sealing surfaces. I am sure that those special gaskets instead of crush washers made that job much easier. Note: when I have to line up mating surfaces that have a silicone gasket sealant I make a set of studs to screw into some of the holes to keep the parts in alignment. It is a great help when trying to put a transmission pan on when lying on a creeper.
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  571. I have a number of relatives buried in Arlington Cemetery including my grandfather and uncles, although one of them only has a grave stone as his body has not been identified from a mass grave in Hawaii. He was killed on a hell ship after being captured at Corregidor. Trump is a traitor and coward. I hope he rots in jail.
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  572. I have the same relays in my motorhome that are mounted on the firewall behind the front grill (This is a rear engine diesel with a side mounted radiator. The coil for the A/C is the only thing behind the grill) and are exposed to rain, etc. every time I drive. I had a relay go out recently that was installed when the motorhome was built in 1991 so I don't think weather will hurt these relays. I took the relay apart and found that the points were gone from the arcing that occurs during contact.
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  573. With Trump going into the office nothing will get done.
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  574. Frump is a Putin puppet.
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  575. I have done worse at a much younger age.
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  576. I hope that NO service veteran votes for Frump after the way he talks about POWs, etc.
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  577. I do think the SEC should investigate the stock manipulation that is going on by the big investors as the stock should be going DOWN not up.
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  578. PLEASE, PLEASE do yourself a favor and do something about your lighting so people can see your eyes and not light reflections in your glasses. Wild horses are killed because they are over populating the land and have to be culled because there are not enough people to take them. I doubt there is a rancher who wants to see his valuable livestock killed by predators. Even dairy farmers have to dispose of cows that can no longer provide milk. I had a steak from one when I stayed at a dairy farm in Florida. It was rather chewy but the cow did not go to waste.
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  579. They occurred after I stopped working on VWs.
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  580. Ray, I expect the cost will be too high to advertise on that billboard. I am not sure you need it with your YouTube videos. I wish you were not over a 1,000 miles away as I have some work that, while I can do it, I would rather not have to.
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  581. I am glad you cleaned the tube from the water pump. It would have looked so bad with all those new parts. I don't know about the round mirrors but you can get replacement mirrors for the rectangular ones. My CAT has a filter for the coolant, does your Duramax?
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  582. I just looked up the VW sealant and it is three times as expensive as Ultra Black.
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  583. Donald Trump is a rapist. Why is he not in jail????????
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  584.  @ferrumignis  Actually Bridgeports come in different sizes and weights. Mine is about 2200 lbs but it has the smaller table.
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  585. A standard problem for lawn mowers and string trimmers that are not used regularly - ethanol in the gas absorbs water and turns the carb into junk. I use mine infrequently enough that I by the expensive Tru Fuel as it is cheaper than having to get the carb serviced.
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  586. More EV fires. I hope my packages don't burn up in one.
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  587. Mercedes parts are expensive and so are the labor costs at what ever shop rate as they take longer to repair. Good job.
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  588. I'll bet in the end the employees that did the deed will be demoted or fired. No money will be involved.
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  589. Not when you check new vehicle prices.
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  590. One great advantage to the old Jeep: it doesn't have all the new stuff that will fail after the warranty runs out!
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  591. You could spend 50K on engine build and still come out cheaper.
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  592. i am not a fan of Project 2025 but, while Trump's name does occur over 300 times (PDF word search), the word following his name is administration. Trumps Administration did X or Y or Z. So while much of Project 2025 seems to be based on his past administration, I could not find his name listed in a future capacity.
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  593. There is a common saying among people in the know - "yeah, they do that." That is a monster repair. I own a '96 Dodge Ram 2500 Turbo Diesel 4 X 4 with mechanical fuel injection. I plan on keeping it a long time. No DEF for me!
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  594. You are a lucky guy!
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  595. Is anyone surprised? After all, Trump called the veterans "losers" and "suckers". I lost a grandfather and an uncle due to their service in wars. I would never vote for the SOB.
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  596. Doesn't the vacuum remove the oil?
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  597. It least it was duct tape, not clear scotch tape! My wiring repairs these days involve using uninsulated butt splice crimp connectors and waterproof heat shrink. I have been covering it with wire loom held together with Scotch 33 but after seeing another Rainman video I'm going to get some cloth tape. 40 year old electrical tape is nasty!
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  598. Much of it, I am sure is too heavy. He lives in the middle of the state, more or less, so the hurricane winds are not as strong.
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  599. I had my first gun, a .22, at 8, a family tradition. Come to think of it, I did not own it but dad brought home a North Korean burp gun (no ammo) when we were stationed in Japan during the Korean War. I was 5 at the time. We had to leave it behind when we returned to the States.
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  600. Glad you did not get a carbon fiber shaft, they don't break they shatter! One wealthy racer installed one on his racing BMW, he downshifted on the front straight to go into turn 1 and his drive shaft exploded. Neat but expensive.
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  601. I would think that once you found a spark jumping from the connector and a bad spark plug you would have just replaced what you did. I would have marked the plug wires and the distributor with silver marker and be able to replace the wires without all that hassle.
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  602. What a joke! We will see if the orange frump shows up.
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  603. Amazing! A parts washer at last. Is it a HF unit and what cleaning solution are you using?
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  604. No one elected Elon Musk to any position.
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  605. If you want to get your hands on a working Enigma go to the NSA museum at Annapolis Junction, MD. They also have a decoder.
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  606. Evans waterless coolant is $55.00 a gallon! There are some jobs that just require a lift. This is one of those.
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  607. Pillow man is as bad as frump for not allowing the other person to finish. I see no reason to watch anymore of this.
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  608. You short shifted. It would have been nice to hear what it sounded like when taken near the red line. I rode with a guy who would wind it out in first and second and then shift to fifth.
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  609. That guy in front of the door is in contempt of Congress, haul him off to jail.
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  610. All the Jaguars I have wanted were made before 1970. I could never afford an XKE.
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  611. I am not happy that you showed Gen. Milley as a traitor, I think he prevented China from starting something.
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  612. I may not be an engineer but I am a techno geek and I can understand a fair amount as long as you leave out Calculus (never passed third semester, and I doubt I could pass algebra).
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  613. I have the complete Banks kit for my Cummins 12 valve. It worked wonders towing my 9,000 pound travel trailer.
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  614. Ray, you well know the reason you use fastener instead of nut and bolt - it because you would confuse them. This way you can't.
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  615. In the 1970s I was in field service and had terminals located in Key West, Marathon and several others. The 7 mile bridge was a narrow 2 lane bridge where you could get stuck behind an RV who did not know where the side of his motorhome was. I found plates from the railroad at the end of the 7 mile bridge when SCUBA diving.
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  616. As far as I am concerned Bit Coin is a scam.
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  617. You should rethink getting an EV for the following reasons: Insurance is likely to be higher, there is not enough infrastructure in place, even in California, and EVs require more expensive tires and need to be replaced more often. I really dislike the government trying to force these down our throats. Depending where you are in the country your town may not even have a gas station much less a charging station. And I know of a 140,000 acre ranch that only has 120 volt power (only one wire). There are other technologies being developed that could eliminate the need for BEVs (battery EV, as opposed to fuel cells). We can certainly get away from petroleum based engines but this rush without thought is wrong. How do the two million apartment dwellers in Houston get power? Where is all this energy going to come from? For the time being it will be coming from gas fired and coal fired power plants.
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  618.  @normvanduker9999  Then how come I saw a Jeep hybrid blow its top 40 or 50 feet in the air, and another one blow off the garage door.
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  619. Not in Houston, TX. There are lots of 356 KV power lines running through the city.
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  620. I don't buy Tesla things. I have more sense than that. Nor do I buy other EV things.
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  621. As a retired computer forensic tech (past member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association) I would recommend that the memory card be forensically copied (read only) BEFORE being viewed as the operating system WILL make changes to the card when it is installed in another system. A technically smart lawyer could bring up the spoliation of the evidence if it was not looked at from a copy. I just love the cop shows where the guy opens a phone and starts searching it. I would also suggest that you could put stickers on all the door windows above the door handle with a warning of being recorded while in the vehicle. I would hope that this would take care of the notification issue.
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  622. Not true, there are copper transformers as well.
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  623. What lousy neighbors. When they saw that the man was no longer able to keep up his yard they should have helped him. Shame on the neighbors. In Texas judges can be censured and removed from the bench if they behave badly enough but apparently not in Michigan.
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  624. Thanks for the reminder. I was talking to a mechanic at a gas station in the 60's who said a woman came in with a brand new Mercedes 180D and demanded they put gas in it. He gave up and put gas in it as she requested.
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  625. I'll bet the truck was from one of the salted roads states. That car without brakes was totally scary. It may not be cheap but I bet a machinist could make a replacement for that two into one brake block. Just got to find the right tap or make it on a CNC machine.
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  626. It is a shame that it will cost so much to fix this truck because of all the stuff that has to be removed before repair can begin. There is much to be said for older trucks.
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  627. No basements where I live, they would be underwater.
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  628. It really depends on the motorhome. Class C is the worst. I have a class A diesel pusher with access under the bed and from the rear.
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  629. That actually might work as it takes heat to remove red Loctite (500 degrees F, according to Henkel). But do the spark plugs get hot enough? More than that is the question of will the Loctite allow the proper heat transfer to the water jacket. Hmm, too many questions, I think I'll pass.
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  630. Looking at the photos on Yahoo News, I don't see the problem. One shot shows a house in the background that appears to be just as big. It appears that he just extended his original two-story house. His garage is attached to the neighbor's house. England is a problem though, you can't sneeze without a permit nor can you walk anywhere without a camera tracking you not to mention the taxes.
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  631.  @Oh-Jay52  The Minis of 59 had an engine so small a strong person could remove it with one hand. I picked up the back of a Mini Moke by myself and I am no strongman.
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  632. Sarah Huckabee learned how to do this while working for frump.
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  633. Trump has said that he wants Republicans to block any attempt for Biden to appoint anyone to a Federal Court. Just as he did with Obama.
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  634.  @axeman2638  Those gears are not made out of cheap steel.
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  635. They work fine if the pneumatic shifter doesn't screw up. I have crunched gears from a 1994 Tyrrell.
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  636. Ray is right, EXCEPT: You are auto crossing or doing a drivers event on a track but you should always lower the pressure back to normal after the event. My Dodge 2500 pickup's manual has different tire pressures depending on the load or if you are pulling a trailer. Another exception is motorhome tires. Mine has two separate placards with different pressures, both much lower than max (softer ride) but a truck tire guy told me if I wanted to not have blow-outs or lose a tread to go with the max pressure, 120 psi.
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  637. Steve, I've been to Houghton and the rest of the UP including the Mineral Museum, also went rockhounding while I was there. I, too, am a car nut but my focus was more on foreign sports cars like the XKE, Alfas, etc. When I was a teenager I came across a Cord which I thought was wonderful. I spent many years in the SCCA working in various positions where I got to see Vipers, Corvettes, Panoz (not sure how to make that plural). I also worked at the Big Bend Open Road Race in west Texas where they close down a US highway for a day. The fastest car of the day was a tube frame SAAB (the old 3 cylinder) running a 500 CI Ford with twin turbos who clocked 194 MPH. Libraries are not close to me so I tend to buy my books at thrift stores and the Harris County Public Library book sales. I have over 900 paperbacks alone. I've gotten back into geology and most of the books are new. I just Googled your books and I see that Jay Leno worked with you on several. That must have been a real treat.
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  638. Question: are there alignment pins for the sub frame so that it doesn't get cocked? My spring compressors are designed for struts and are put on the outside of springs and should work for your needs. I cannot understand why you don't use the jack part of the pole jack instead of going back and forth to the lift controls.
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  639. I have one of those. The main reason I bought it was the ability to probe through the insulation on the wire. In the old days I would use test leads that had very sharp points to do that job and about half the time I would stab myself. Since the Power Probe came out others now have that feature but I think Power Probe was first.
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  640. Can the automated landing systems handle crosswind? We have already seen how sensors can mess up and create problems. An RV 8 owner I know has a "glass cockpit" and a full set of manual gauges as backup. There are so many things you have shown like the partial compressor failure that was hard to detect by pilots. Would an automated system handle it any better?
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  641. This is Florida where it seldom, if ever, gets cold enough. According to a look alike bottle I found on Amazon you need to add methanol to keep it from freezing.
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  642. When I replaced the third set of pads since new at 200K I cleaned out the caliper slide pin holes with a brush in a parts washer and then swabbed them out with industrial Q-Tips.
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  643. No, not Buc-ee's! I will never go in one again after the way I was treated when I had a lighting problem with my motor home. Buc-ee's is the largest purveyor of junk food in the world. They have more sugar in there than a candy shop. It was so unusual to see that orange CRT monitor on that old test bench. Seeing all that stuff reinforces my belief that I will stick with mechanical fuel injection on my truck.
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  644. Ray, at 5:10 that is quite a knothole. I would recommend that you reinforce that too. Knots like that can make for a weak spot. It is great to see your source of income survive. I hope that flooding upriver does not affect you later. It is a good thing that you live inland where you were spared the storm surge.
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  645. Not a rubber mallet, a plastic dead blow hammer (shades of not a bolt). You just proved that American parts can be as hard to get correct as foreign parts. Personal experience: the CV axle I ordered for my race car was wrong because the previous owner had replaced the subframe from a heavier vehicle (Dodge Neon/PT Cruiser) which was illegal in the class I was running. The car was a pre production unit that was used in the Neon Challenge series. BTW, beware of gift horses (the race car was free) otherwise I would have never had it.
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  646. Or you could get an EGT and shut it down when it gets down to 300 degrees F.
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  647. Nope, he needs a gantry crane. Cherry picker legs would just run into one another.
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  648. I kept waiting for you to drain the oil but I missed seeing the drain plug out the first time around.
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  649. I now have AGM batteries in all my vehicles except the motorhome (too expensive) as they hold their charge much longer as the vehicles get used less often these days. My first pair of batteries in my Dodge Turbo Diesel lasted ten years.
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  650.  @Calango741 Old VWs from the 50s and 60s had that problem, too.
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  651.  @jamiepatterson1214  Mega $$$$$. Electricians are not cheap if they are any good.
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  652.  @ken2tou  You are assuming he needs one. After all he is just renting.
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  653. I know I am late to the game but this is an excellent explanation of a sequential gearbox and the transmission looks a lot like the one in the 1994 Tyrrell.
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  654. None of my vehicles can do that. One is new enough but I did not buy the infotainment system.
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  655. In high school the first car my parents bought for me was a Fiat 500 Sport, US spec, with 22 HP instead of 18.
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  656. As long as you can find a job at a decent wage, or you are retired. Maybe the economy has improved since I lived there. That is why I am in Texas - wages were about double that of Florida in the 70s.
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  657. Not only is it not good for the environment but most people cannot afford to replace an expensive vehicle every two years.
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  658. As someone else mentioned, people with hearing issues should have a knowledgeable person drive the car once in a while.
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  659. To be honest, I think I have heard MORE than enough about his whining. I know he disparages people but surely you can find something else to talk about.
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  660. Watching you install that back bolt reminded me of watching a Red Bull F1 mechanic in 2012 at COTA reinstalling the rear crush member on the transmission. The crush member was S shaped and he had TWO universal joints and he was totally unable to see what he was doing because the very expensive bore scope was not working. He managed to blindly find the holes and get the bolts installed. There were only about 10 people working on various parts of the car at the time, so the little delay in getting the bolts in did not keep the car from being finished on time.
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  661. You are slow today, Ray, I saw that the one solenoid had to go into the bracket almost immediately. Ray you should really fix or replace your parts washer. The outside of the transmission pan was not clean. With some customers they would have thought you did not work on it. I know you have a video supporting your work but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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  662. Steve, there are states that don't require commercial trucks to have signage on them so there might have not been any info to get. I watch Rainman Ray's Repairs in Florida and his wrecker has no sign on it. I know that most of the sub contractors here in Houston, TX do not have signage on their vehicles.
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  663. I guess I rarely go back later to check for any responses to my comments. Will do that now.
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  664. Probably nothing as I doubt that a scrap yard would take it.
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  665. The shaft went back on the stud before you left the first time.
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  666. I would have used a nylon brush to clean out the rust. I am sure Eric O would have found a way to torch off the axle.
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  667. As I am sure you noticed in your editing the head cam was seldom pointing at the work.
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  668. There are great disadvantages to modern computer controlled cars and trucks. And this is one of those times. I love the pipe strap and sheet metal screws holding the dash together on your tow truck. One worry I had was you working in the rain when I could hear thunder. We would shut down the race track if lighting was within 10 mi. I await your video on repairing the truck.
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  669. I'm pretty sure the E stands for external. Project Farm has done some interesting tests on various oils and in one segment Amazon turned out to be better.
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  670. I am fairly certain that the Secret Service is the one that decided to close the park to prevent protests in it. Brain worm vs. old cat lady???? Either one will help sink fRump.
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  671. I guess I am supposed to unsubscribe and then subscribe????????????????????????????????
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  672.  @ianbelletti6241  Have you ever seen videos of vehicles navigating the low water crossing in England? Engine air intakes on cars are often low and the bow wave that a car puts up can be ingested and destroy the engine. Going fast is NOT the answer.
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  673. I think the new rules will ruin F1.
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  674. A fun way to start the day.
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  675. My 1985 Porsche 944 reached 130 but I won't say where.
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  676. All the spark plug threads appear to have anti-seeze on them. It would have been nice if you had pulled the number 8 plug and showed us the improvement in the deposits.
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  677. The lighting was such that I thought I saw high and low spots in the race. I was expecting carnage when you took the diff apart.
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  678. Trump will have them all fired and the case will go away.
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  679. I cannot believe you are putting a water scoop in there! I've watched many trucks blow their engines when running through a British ford.
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  680. Probably never drove it out of the county. I had a cousin who drove her 1962 Karmann Ghia 3 miles round trip each day to work. If she and her husband went anywhere they used their Caddy. I think the car was 3 years old when I bought it from her and it only had 4,500 miles on it.
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  681. And the republicans (they do not deserve upper case) said it was dead before it got started. Let's hope that Nov. will change the balance in Congress (I almost used lower case here, too).
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  682. I never heard of a battery terminal shim before! Also, I am sure you know they make special pliers for spreading terminals (at least that was what it looked like you were doing with your snap ring pliers), how come you don't have a set?
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  683. Yep, I saw that, too. There have been a few times when I could not spot it.
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  684. Ray, that is not another breaker bar but a cheater bar or pipe, your choice. Worst case was a rear axle nut on a VW van that took a 1" sliding T bar, a six foot piece of heavy wall pipe and an oxy-acetylene torch to get it off. I was actually hanging on the pipe while the shop owner applied the torch. The seal was leaking anyway so all that heat did not matter.
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  685.  @kjisnot  The only problem is they may have hit another car.
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  686. You need no forget that Trump is beholden to Musk now. Also, under Trump the US will no longer be a democracy.
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  687. Steve, I own a Foretravel, made in Texas. The body was made by Foretravel, the chassis by Oshkosh, now Freightliner, and engine by Caterpillar. Foretravel also makes their own chassis for their more expensive models (current MSRP on some models is $1.5 million!). It has a Bendix air brake system on it as well as an air bag suspension. It towed my 7,000 pound truck over the mountains but just barely as it only has a four speed Allison transmission. It also has a generator made by Onan. California will continue to lose businesses and people with their ridiculous rules. Can you imagine the weight of the batteries needed to power a 40,000 pound RV and to power all the A/C units, etc.? Even Musk left. California has been getting a lot of their power and water from other states. Those states need to cut them off.
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  688.  @Nighterlev  It may not be that much as my 1991 Diesel pusher only had 89,000 miles when I bought it in 2000. I don't think the previous owner had ever left Texas or if he had he stayed on flat land. It sure needed an exhaust brake in the mountains.
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  689. Many people commented on that last bolt (nut) which I missed as I am always waiting until the very end because you always seem to catch your mistakes or misses.
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  690. I have been wanting to get some annular cutters but did not know what brand to get, thanks for the video!
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  691. Days later it appears that the sniper was not the ones seen in the video but someone about 400 yards from the shooter.
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  692. They make step drills that have a greater distance between the steps for thicker metal but you won't find them at the big box stores. Amazon carries them. Search for step drills for thick metal.
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  693. According to the Internet the spark plugs are only good for about 18,000 miles. From the looks of them I could see why.
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  694. I will bet he has a bunch of money off shore.
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  695. If he did that then he would still have to add those little bottles of additive needed for the limited slip, which is what I have to do as I use the factory additive for my Jeep and Dodge truck. I think the premixed stuff must be fairly new.
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  696. Welcome to Trump's world where any negative comments are quashed.
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  697. When I first read about these years ago the article said that the problem was the inconsistency of the ammo causing jams. It would be expensive but maybe CCI Stingers would keep that from happening. I would love to have one BUT not have to hassle the licensing.
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  698. Trump supporters will not listen to anything you saw, as I have discovered first hand.
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  699. Not smart, I know dead people who had prostate cancer.
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  700. Hopefully there is another video of what is causing the pressures to be so low. I have never seen air temp coming out of the vent to be below freezing. Who gets to eat the warranty on this job? The shop or the compressor manufacturer?
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  701.  @AnnaDombrowski-s9d  You idiots are sooo wrong. Approximately one half of the population of cities live in apartments and do not have access to charging. And, by the way, gas stations bring in large portable generators to run the gas pumps.
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  702. As long as you are using flux core wire you can remove the nozzle but if you are using wire that requires gas not having the nozzle will mean a bad weld unless you turn the gas way up.
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  703. It is amazing that the rotors were not frozen to the hubs based on the amount of rust. I sure wish you had checked the rear brakes, too. Is there going to be another video about the drive line noises?
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  704. If you lived in the western US it is unlikely that you would buy an EV as there are towns without gas stations much less EV chargers. At the time I was in Alpine, Texas the nearest charger was 65 miles away. EVs need to pay HIGHER road taxes as their heavier vehicles tear up the road more. Also, as a gear head I would expect you would miss the roar of your V-8 engines (or V-10 in the Viper). Battery EVs don't make sense because: fire risk, poor mileage, lack of infrastructure, and high cost. As I have always said, you cannot carry a 5 gallon can of electrons around with you. I will stick with my vehicles that don't have infotainment systems and are powered by diesel or gasoline.
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  705. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN by impeaching fRump and deporting Musk.
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  706. First of all, a Moped does not protect you from the weather, second, you can fall off a Moped but not this. This car offered some crash protection.
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  707. I can't believe that using a CC or DC alone would not be enough. There are gas stations here in the US that do not have an attendant so are open 24/7.
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  708. I think it might have saved you some aggravation by removing the front tires. Diesels are DIRTY, I have coveralls that will never come clean after changing 16 quarts of oil plus two oil filters on my CAT 3208 Turbo in my motor home. Somewhat better fuel economy and less pollution is not enough an offset to the ease,reliability and simplicity of mechanical fuel injectors on my 12 valve 1996 Turbo Diesel.
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  709. You would save money if you used a parts washer instead of so much brake cleaner for the transmission pan. The auto manufacturers really are trying to keep owners from performing their own maintenance. I added a drain bung to my Dodge transmission pan. It helps cut down on the mess.
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  710. Shades of 1984. Scary. Sounds like a job for the EFF.
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  711. What are you going to do when the cars become all plastic??? Answer: 3M Command! I really got a laugh from the flash light on the spring.
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  712. Run away from that one!
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  713. Harris may win by a lot but the MAGA electors won't certify it.
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  714. Joe, I was taught in welding class to use a whip technique when running the root pass. I did not notice you doing that in the video. Did I not see it?
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  715. It appears that this battery tester uses a 4-wire or Kelvin test lead setup (notice that the two wires on one clip connect to opposite sides of the clamp) and it probably won't give him accurate readings. Normally a 4-wire setup has two sets of leads for + and - but it would be hard to do with battery terminals so they came up with the isolated battery clamps. That battery tester is not cheap, about $400 today. The company has a service department and might be able to get him a replacement set of leads.
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  716. Lets say you are driving down the road and your modern drive by wire car loses power, what happens then? You are in a world of hurt. I like my mechanical injection diesel pick up and my other vehicles that still have the steering wheel connected to the front tires and hydraulic brakes activated by my foot. My Jeep hood latches are rubber and my truck and car have mechanical hood latches with safety catches.
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  717. My concerns with the lithium batteries is that their higher voltage may not work on older equipment like metal detectors.
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  718. The problem is that Trump supporters don't believe he will really do that.
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  719. That will be impossible in the Western US where there are towns of 200 to 300 people that don't even have a gas station.
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  720. The factory manuals on my 2004 Corolla do not mention fluid exchange or filter change. At 166,000 I will probably change the filter. After several drains and fills it should have changed out the fluid in the torque converter.
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  721. If you want heavy duty try a Cat 3208 (which powers my motorhome) with 16 quarts of oil and I don't know how much coolant. Oh, and it needs an 8D (weighs 160 pounds) battery to start it.
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  722. The turbo on my CAT 3208 is behind the valley, not in it.
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  723. You broke the zip-tie because it wasn't the best quality. I am sure you know they make plastic weld kits with rods for a number of different plastics, there is also a staple welder for plastic.
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  724. I'm sorry, poles don't mean anything, VOTING means everything.
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  725. I would dearly love to have some of the steel you are throwing out but I am too far away (approx 1,000 miles).
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  726. Most tanks I've seen are plastic these days. Neither gas or diesel will hurt them. I don't know whether is was cheapness or the fact that they don't rust from the water that gets absorbed by the alcohol in the fuel.
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  727. The earlier reporting stated that Trump has a $175,000,000 Schwab account that is the basis for the deal.
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  728. Ray, try Boraxo powdered hand soap. Gets the grime out without the pumice.
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  729. I do not like your new editing. I own a 2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with only 67,000 miles (add about 5K for towing) and I would prefer if you did not skip steps in your video in case I need to perform the same job.
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  730. You wouldn't get a prime minister you would get a king! He would stack the courts the way he has done in the US.
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  731. Leg pull.
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  732. After reading a number of comments I think they missed the point that this was a training session for viewers. Thank you for taking the extra time, Ray.
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  733. The reason that Frump got such a big verdict against him as that he kept up with the lies and defamations. It was hoped that it would shut him up. I am not sure it will.
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  734. Diesel cars a rarity in the US.
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  735. Wow!
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  736. What else is new? What do expect from someone who watches the news on Fox and maybe has a reading disability since he doesn't read newspapers?
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  737. The damage is done. Even if you get the impeachments the ruling stands.
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  738. I solved the issue with the batteries dying on my motor home by hooking up a solar panel charger to them. It works like a champ and if I have not run the motor home in months it still starts right up. Mine is not permanently mounted so I have to climb on the roof to remove it. In your case you could just put it in the bed.
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  739. As far as I know, you cannot pay cash to charge your EV. As pointed out here in a previous video, not all cell phones work in all locations. I DO NOT use my cell phone for my banking or paying bills. Cash or card at the pump.
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  740. I owned a stock 1996 NA MIata which I drove on the track it was a blast except the top leaked BADLY.
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  741. A lot of the vehicles were up north before they came south with the retirees.
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  742. He does not need to, they are in Project 2025, which is the MAGA bible.
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  743. The Sahara is a lot closer, but I suspect English is not spoken there.
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  744. With the parts situation today a hose from the dealer might not have been available.
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  745. I lived in St. Pete in the 1960s and early 1970s. Everything there is not far above sea level. A storm surge of two to three feet could flood much of the area. Water really got pushed up into Tampa Bay from the reports I've seen. I am glad everyone is safe.
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  746. Watch Ron Pratt's videos to see the other side of towing. He might have loaded it on a low boy trailer. His big wrecker would have been overkill.
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  747. Surely you don't need to keep all these burrs, what do you do with the products that survive the tests?
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  748. Just looked the place up in Google Maps. There is a group of condos and apartments on the west side of the tower approximately the same distance as the new subdivision is on the east side and it looks like they have been there a while. I wonder if the people in those units are having the same issue.
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  749. It would be a lot cheaper to just get an adapter socket that held 6 point bits and use a cordless impact gun.
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  750. That was one nasty mess inside that actuator! Good job.
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  751. Replace that chisel with a brass, bronze, or aluminum piece of scrap. No sparks. Or get a lead or brass hammer. Your viewers do not want a fried Ray. When we removed fuel for testing at a race we were required to have a manned fire extinguisher nearby.
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  752. I wish I had been in your area. You could have thrown the balancer my way as there is a lot of good scrap steel there that I could use in my home metal shop to make things.
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  753. Don't forget that F1 drivers are in that car at full tilt for 90 minutes. I drove a MR2 race car for 20 minutes and I was worn out. F1 drivers have trained for this ever since they drove karts. If you trained for a full year you might hold your head up for three laps. I understand that it took about 750 pounds of force to fully apply the brakes prior to the hybrid era.
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  754. I need some help understanding the financials of Trump's company. I've seen the 8K that reported his company lost 58 million dollars last year and had an income of only 4 million dollars. What happened to the 200 million that Trump said he raised with the stock offering and could not that money have been used to get rid of the debt?
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  755. You will not be able to weld that rotor back together with the shop welder. The rotor is cast iron (or it would not have broken) and it takes using a nickel rod with a stick welder or with a TIG welder. I have the same year Jeep but being in Houston I have no rust. What I am going crazy with right now is the E brake.
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  756.  @davidwebb2318  I don't think so in the mid west of the US. Farms here are thousands of acres and they bring the fuel to the tractor which is left in the field until the job is done. In addition there are certain farm processes provided by a co-op such as harvesting where the tractor moves from one farm to the next.
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  757. Lack of lubrication in the speedometer cable can cause the jerky motion of the needle. Replace the cable if you can. I, as others have said, would recommend not just walking away but running away from that mess. It is a black hole.
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  758. If you had watched Ray from the beginning you would have seen much worse. There are no safety inspections in Florida.
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  759. Pete ignores the fact that it takes YEARS to increase the electric grid, if it can be done. Our power company wanted a new tie line but nobody wanted the poles in their areas. He ignores the fact that there is not enough copper, etc. to pull this off. Transformers use copper wire and a number of transformers needed for the upgrades are on back order, some for over two years. Many western and southern states have rolling black outs every summer WITHOUT a bunch of EVs.
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  760. Ray, there are a lot of reviews on Amazon to the effect that the Permatex will cause the rubber in the slide pin boots to swell with time. What is not mentioned is what part of the country this was occurring. I wonder if road salt might have some effect on it. One reviewer copied a reply from Permatex indicating that their silicone product needed to be used on slide pins. I was going to buy some until I saw the reviews.
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  761. Try finding a charging station in the mid west or west where there are towns that don't have gas stations. The nearest charging station to Alpine, TX was in Fort Stockton, some 60 miles away. You have 140,000 acre ranches out there that only have 120 volt power. Hell, I have had to worry about running out of gas much less getting an EV charged. I can carry a gas can but not a can of electrons.
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  762. This just adds to my plan of NEVER GETTING A BEV. I can fill the tank to 100% at every fill up regardless of the temperature.
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  763. Just checked online and found Grainger has them for less than $2K, much cheaper than a scan tool.
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  764.  @EricVonHunter  I don't know where the one is on my 04 Corolla as I have not had to change it yet (fingers crossed).
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  765. I was told to never put anti-seize on plugs because it acts as a thermal insulator causing the plug to get too hot. My real spark plug sockets have either a rubber or magnetic holder in them to prevent having to fish them out of the hole. Only one of my vehicles (2013 Jeep Wrangler) is new enough to have individual coil packs and I have not had a need to change them. My truck is a 12 valve turbo diesel and my Toyota is a 2004 which pre-dates coil packs. After see what it takes I think I'll keep them and not get something newer.
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  766. How in the heck are the officials going to be able to tell the state of charge?
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  767. Proper procedure: measure control arm bushing length, measure sub frame thickness add the two and the add enough to allow a double nut. The downside to me is that the bolt does not fit the control arm bushing so you will have movement in the control arm. Try to find a piece of conduit or something that will fill the bushing hole. You can split it if it is too small. Here is the idea for a home made lathe: use a corded hand drill, run a bolt through your item and then file the part or sand it to size. Later on you can get yourself a bench top lathe if you think you can use it enough to make it worthwhile.
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  768. I generally DO NOT do Facebook so, until I saw this video, I would have just looked for another video tomorrow. I feel sorry for the people with scrambled brains that pull that s***t.
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  769. The problem with big box stores is they never have what you need. I can guarantee that the original bolts were much stronger than the ones you put in. I do have real hardware stores that have a much better selection but they are pricey and FAR away (one hour round trip). Your shop could really use a bolt assortment, both metric and U.S., as commented by others. I would let the owner know about your welded up stud in case he wants to find the right hardware for it. I am afraid that that stud might break in the future.
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  770.  @goinhot9133  I saw the same thing until near the end. Apparently they did a lot more welding off camera. I think welding inspectors would not have been happy.
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  771. I know you work on a lot of different vehicles but I found that getting the right size bolts, cutting the heads off and hand screwing them in as guide pins makes things a lot easier. I did that with my Dodge aftermarket transmission cover. That cover reinstall would have been easier if you had bolts you could hang it on while putting it in place.
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  772. General, if you happen to read this, an excellent presentation. From a son of a West Pointer, class of '33.
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  773. i cannot believe a thing the Republicans say. Is this any way to run the Country?
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  774. I will bet Hertz finds many more ways for you to report on. Was that a unannounced union walk out?
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  775. Try removing the engine from the bottom without a lift. Lots of fun.
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  776. For smaller items I find that a dilute acid soak works best on mill scale and rust. If you need to clean a 4 x 8 sheet though sand blasting might be the cheapest if not the fastest.
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  777. A car without obvious manual interior door handles is a death trap. I LOVE the Alfa ad!
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  778.  @DwaynePipes  You bet if you can't fold the front seat down to get out through the front door.
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  779. Yes you can turn the engine over with the starter directly hooked up to a battery. Also, with the engine harness and computer, you can run it although it would be best to have a frame for it to sit in. Did it with my MR2. Hooked up the dash too so I could check the oil pressure.
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  780. How can anything roll away in very flat Florida? I have lived in Orlando, St. Pete, and Homestead and except for overpasses it is FLAT.
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  781. If you had looked closely you would have noticed that the battery clamps are bronze, not lead.
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  782. I don't think most scrap yards would take one. No mention of one in my area that will accept EVs.
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  783. From what I have seen in recent videos it will not matter if we vote as MAGA Republicans will stuff the ballot boxes or the electoral vote. very scary.
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  784. When we came back by air from Japan we were forced to spend the night in Hawaii while an engine was changed on the DC7 we were traveling on. The next morning my dad took me to see one docked. Dad took me inside and showed me the wing access for the flight engineer. The other thing I remember was the size of the line holding the plane to the dock. This would have been 1950 or 1951.
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  785. Ray, I would have done it somewhat differently since it would be my own vehicle and time is not an object. I would have used a Dremel tool with a saw blade on it to cut it out. You saved your customer a lot of money and should not need to apologize to your viewers.
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  786. If its cold for frump, it is cold for everyone. If he has poor circulation it would feel colder to him. I have no idea what the weather is up there. I'm in Houston where it gets into the 80s in the afternoon. Someone should give him a pacifier so that he will stop crying.
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  787. Add me to the lawsuit.
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  788. As I stated above, I've been places where there are no motels for many, many miles, mainly out west. My issue is with food, I cannot eat at most restaurants.
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  789. I wish I was in your area. Those old springs make good rock hounding tools for splitting shale when looking for fossils. Eric O would have had those springs off in half the time with his torch.
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  790. I am sure that the land of the flakes, fruits and nuts will not allow pig producers to create farms in their state because of emission laws. (methane) BTW, I passed a lot of dairy farms when I was out there.
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  791. Also in German. Ask my old boss when one of the old fashioned drop lights came off and the hot metal shield landed on his forehead. I learned a lot of German cuss words on that day.
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  792. Joe Biden needs to see this as hurricane season is coming. In one of the previous hurricanes we were without power for three weeks and some were out of power much longer. My motor home was full of diesel and we moved 200 miles to a campground that was not affected by the hurricane.
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  793. How does voting this fall fix the Supreme Court? They are there for life.
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  794. I hope that you cleaned up the blobs of grease off the tie rod ends and wheels off camera. You must go through a case of brake cleaner or more a week.
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  795. I do believe that you can push those nuts on with a hollow nut driver. A hole would have been much easier. Logo construction. I find fake wood grain gaudy. I am not into fancy in a work truck. The reason for electric door locks and windows is that I cannot reach that far across the cab with the center divider down. The automatic is so that my wife could pull the bass boat out of the water with out having the whole rig end up in the lake. I replaced the carpet with rubber so I could hose out the truck. The roof is rattle can painted after the paint died.
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  796. Well the frame seems to be o.k., the rest is junk. Even if the customer did all the work himself it wouldn't be worth it.
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  797. Our voices will fall on deaf ears, I am afraid.
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  798. It certainly helps that you are so familiar with GMC trucks. It saved you a lot of time. That is one hell of a task. i can't wait to see how you are going to get your new transmission in.
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  799. Trump only wants people loyal to him so that he can do what he wants.
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  800. Pressure by the greenie weenies.
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  801. If you are in the US we do not speak in kilometers per hour but miles per hour. I hate to have to go to my calculator to convert.
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  802. I have worked on core memory, punch card readers and paper tape readers. I have repaired tube based test equipment and the television repair course I took was on vacuum tube TVs. Texas Instruments TI 960A computer was TI's first computer to use solid state memory but it was so unreliable that the chips were mounted in sockets, not soldered in. We had a DIT-MCO cable tester we also used for motherboards, it used telephone central office rotary switches. In other words, I am an old timer who just post dated the vacuum tube computers.
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  803. I have a great Dodge Ram Turbo Diesel powered by a Cummins 5.9 12 valve. The engine will last 500 k miles.Probably the last good Dodge made. The Durangos must have the 3.6 liter engine with the faulty oil cooler. There are rumors that Stellantis (what a name!) is going under.
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  804. Based on another post, they will have to put in fire proof stalls for each charging station, too.
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  805. Ray, please follow @larryspetoskey's directions on carb adjustment so it will really go varoom.
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  806. Thank the government/EPA for that. Both of my diesels are mechanical injection. My Cat 3208 starts in less than one revolution. Motorhome people that have modern diesels are complaining of starter failure way too soon.
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  807. Consider this: most electricity is created by gas turbine generators here in Texas. I am using the gas directly. I do use an electric coffee maker, however, to fix my fresh ground coffee that is ground by electricity. I boil water to cook frozen vegetables, boil eggs, etc., none of which an electric kettle would be suitable for. I do not drink tea, either hot or iced. I am enjoying the math. living in an area that gets hurricanes that cause serious power outages, if I had an electric stove I could not cook my food nor could I take a hot shower if I had an electric water heater.
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  808. I know I am days late - was on a road trip, just got back last night. Someone on the Internet or in a magazine article mentioned that if you turn a screw going into plastic backwards until it drops down a little you will reuse the old threads and be less likely to strip out the hole. It works great and takes a lot less effort to turn the screw.
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  809. Snap together plastic. What can go wrong? Twenty years from now that will all be a bunch of plastic dust. Solder does not like vibration. That is why NASA required loops in wires in addition to a mechanical connection before soldering for flight hardware. My first wife was a NASA certified solder technician. Since I do all my own work I would have properly repaired the fuse box but a wonderful solution to get the person his lights back.
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  810. I lived in St. Pete in the 60s and so went over the old bridge many times (and also fished off of it at night) but have only been over the new bridge once.
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  811. I understand why you tried to cut an Allen wrench with these cutters but no one in their right mind would try that. That is a job for a cut-off wheel. I am totally disappointed that Blue Point is made in China now, what a rip-off.
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  812.  @mjra5121  On mine (2013 Wrangler Unlimited) it is in the "proper" place.
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  813. I knew someone who worked for an insurance company troubleshooting wheels coming off semis. Most were caused by over torquing the lug nuts with a 1500 ft. lb. impact wrench.
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  814. As I have said previously, engineers should be required to apprentice for 5 years before designing a car - the sheet metal on VW bugs was awful. In this case however, I think the way the car was put together had a lot to do with that longer shaft. I suspect that the steering shaft was in place when the drive train was brought up from below (or the body brought down from above) and that the assembler got to it from above. As others said accountants have too much effect on the finished product and the mechanics suffer because of it.
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  815. FWIW, it is unlikely that a forensic investigator will find anything IF the electronic devices were searched properly. The proper way to search for forensic evidence involves making a forensically sound copy of the device and then searching that. For computers that means hooking up a read only device to make the copy of the drive once it has been removed from the computer. Just powering on a computer changes the files on it. I have made dozens of forensic copies of drives and done lots of searches. As someone else said it is the cop's computers that need to be searched.
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  816. You have a month's worth of work to do on that Jeep. How many videos can we expect from this one Jeep? 3? 4? 5?
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  817. I don't think it would matter who the battery supplier was as it was the wrong kind of battery and the charge pattern for an AGM battery is different - according to my battery charger.
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  818. They need to teach car control too.
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  819. Market forces are killing EVs. I would not want one even if it was given to me. I like filling up my tank with gas in about 5 minutes and that I can go 400 miles before needing to fill up again AND can find a gas station.
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  820. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, hoses, connectors, or what? It took days to separate, it will take days to put it back. I completely stripped a first gen MR2 to turn it into a race car but not nearly as complicated as what you are doing, except for making the built from scratch roll cage.
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  821. I doubt an RPG would penetrate it.
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  822. I have NEVER used brake cleaner in my diffs. My concern is that it destroys the lube film and so you have metal to metal contact before the lube gets splashed everywhere.
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  823. Suzuki is not in the US to my knowledge. I am an ICE die hard. As a matter of fact, I looked at the new Toyota Corolla ICE with all its stupid lane assist and other nanny state stuff on it and decided it is not for me.
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  824. Many retirees who move from state to state set up "residence" in, say, Texas and use mail in ballots to vote. I really feel for those people.
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  825.  @pacopet1234  A lot of precision race engines must be warmed up before starting or they get ruined. The Judd engine in the car I worked on produced 750 HP in 3.5 liters without a turbo and that engine was detuned from the F1 engine so that it could last 1600 race miles before rebuild.
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  826. Chains crossed - check, trailer ball - greased - check. I assume Troy checked the lights?
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  827. I will stick with my paid for 1996 Dodge 3/4 ton Turbo Diesel 4x4. I got 12 MPG towing a 9,000 lb. travel trailer. I cannot afford $100,000 for a truck.
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  828. Better stay away from Alabama cars, too. Windshield, nah, door, nah, etc. True story - a guy with a Porsche 917 race car wanted to drive it in Europe but he could not get tags for it. He had someone in Alabama get him a tag. The car apparently has a Texas tag on it now.
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  829. I know you brought business into that shop with your work ethic and I think that shop will regret not keeping you on. The chains need to be crossed according to the Feds. Please, please lube your trailer jacks!
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  830. There is a company, Micro Mesh, that makes plastic restoration kits, originally just for aircraft but have since branched out. The advantage to their kits is that you sand one direction for a given grit and then sand 90° for the next grit, that way you can tell when you have removed all the deeper scratches from the previous grit. I am sure you will stick with the power brush method as it is quicker.
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  831. I would rethink being an EV manufacturer. This will add thousands to the cost of EVs.
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  832. I suspect that the rest of the engine was not beefed up to handle the stage 4 cam.
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  833. When I bought my 2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport I opted not to get the infotainment system as I had heard about them being hacked. I am so glad I did. No newer Jeeps for me.
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  834. Nikki is just as mealy mouthed as any of them. Just for once I would like to hear a politician speak the truth.
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  835. You didn't get penetration because you are using a muffler welder on thick metal. As others have said if you had put a v-groove in the crack you would have had much better penetration but I would recommend using a carbide burr not a grinder.
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  836. In surveying we used half a frog's hair.
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  837. He reminds me of someone standing on a street corner selling fake watches.
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  838.  @5893MrWilson  Just get solar? Home owner associations will not let you put solar panels up if they can be seen from the street, houses don't face the right way to make use of solar, some houses, like mine are not capable of being rewired for solar without tearing out the walls as I have no attic or basement. AND THERE IS NO PLACE FOR A BATTERY. I don't think I want one anyway as it would likely double the cost of my insurance.
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  839.  @littlet-rex8839  Not likely under the current climate of no nuclear in my backyard. The same applies to additional power lines.
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  840. I thought I'd add another comment: Several times I went on rock hunting trips on a very large ranch with a convoy of vehicles. The roads were dry and everyone stirred up a lot of dust so when I got home I changed the air filter and cabin filter on my Jeep. Both were dirty.
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  841. Just look at the stuff he would have to get to have his own shop: alignment machine, lifts, industrial sized air compressor, etc., etc., all costing $$$$$$$$$.
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  842. I chose to watch you over F1. Neat old truck, I sure hope the guy fixes it up as the belt squealing would drive me batty. I am surprised that the gas station let you put gas in a diesel can. Maybe they didn't see you. I sure you will completely empty the can before filling it with diesel.
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  843. Just got power back last night and turned off noisy gen set. Center Pointless strikes again!
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  844. The battery in my 2013 Jeep lasted only a year (there was no warning - it was just dead one morning), replaced under warranty including towing to the dealer. Now I have an AGM batttery.
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  845.  @YouveBeenMiddled  How do you maintain a maintenance free battery?
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  846. What it means is Trump is getting away as usual.
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  847. I guess I won't be coming back to Michigan. I dislike automated enforcement.
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  848. BEVs (battery electric vehicles) are a bad idea. We are already being warned of brown outs this summer. More BVEs will only make the problem worse, not to mention that things that take out the power grid will sideline BEVs. What we do need to do is stop the methane emissions from pipelines and oil wells. We are not going to make much headway as long as China and India build more coal fired power plants.
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  849. I have found that the Toyota silicone works great on machined aluminum surfaces. I have yet to have an engine leak using it. I had to take a razor blade to get the pan off that had been sealed with the Toyota sealant.
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  850. I hope Ray has to adjust the ring and pinion on the replacement. The driver must have been deaf not to hear the noise long before it got this bad. The axles looked real heavy duty like this may be a 3/4 ton.
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  851. You have left out the first gen MR2 which made a great race car if you did not have to pull the engine. Many of the things you showed on the second gen was on the first gen, too, including the underbody panels. The first Formula Atlantic cars used the 4AGE engine but they put in a dry sump system instead of the oil pump that was driven by the crank shaft on the stock engine.
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  852. I don't know when I first learned about it but when I was an SCCA tech I had to look up a NACA airfoil shape that was required for one class of cars.
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  853. What happened to your digital torque wrenches?
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  854. Unless we get rid of plastic, and oil, and grease, and wax we will continue to have refining. BTW, much of the medical stuff is plastic these days.
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  855. I have been to Bug Tussle, OK, and there is no court there, only a few houses.
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  856. What Biden needs to do is declare Frump a traitor to the US and LOCK HIM UP!
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  857. The wheelbase is 130" with a rise of 3", I doubt that would change anything much. You can do the trig if you want to.
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  858. Ray is going to have more money in upgrades than the truck is worth. I need to to the same thing (upgrade springs) to my truck, a 96 Ram 2500 Turbo Diesel, but in the front as the custom Ranch Hand style bumper (built by a pipe welder and made of schedule 40 pipe) weighs considerably more than the original and I bottom out at times. I have the part number for snow plow springs which should do the trick if they are still available.
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  859. Somehow I missed this one when it came out. I have never seen an engine with zero compression - wow!
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  860. I think that California should starve!
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  861. I am glad that Bidgegate is going.
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  862. Sorry you are sick, get well soon. I also hope business picks up, a bad time to be on commission.
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  863. Neither does Florida. Saw a SUV on Rainman Ray's channel that came from a Buy Here Pay Here lot that had frame rot that was painted over with a spray can. Even painted over the rotors when they painted the calipers. After seeing that video I checked and found that Florida does not have annual inspections so many of the cars he works on have the check engine light on and the customers don't want the problems fixed so the cars are creating more pollution then they would if the problems were fixed. In Texas only big cities check emissions and the safety inspection is a joke but your wipers better not be bad!
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  864. Shades of DJT.
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  865. My wife and I have had 3 Toyotas, two of which were high mileage and the third was turned into an SCCA race car. The only real issue with the 2004 Corolla is the paint job which is mandated by the Feds.
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  866. My ex-wife's family had three Dauphines, two were parts cars and the driveable one had a hole in floor you could put your foot through.
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  867. Johnson Space Center's backup for the computer building, back when it was main frame, was three generators powered by diesel electric locomotive engines. They also had a rather large room full of truck lead acid batteries.
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  868. I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TOOLS TO WORK ON CHRYSLERS. And it would be s***ville working on them in the driveway.
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  869. I would suspect that on higher end vehicles that they would have used brass if it made sense. The rubber provides some isolation. I had a race car and used brass bushings in the shift cable but there wasn't anything like that for the brakes.
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  870. I was concerned that your shop had flooded after seeing the news about the flooding in your area, unless, of course, this video was filmed earlier.
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  871. I don't think I would have settled for having someone else's house on my land. The solution would be for a house moving company to move it to another piece of land.
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  872. Yes, air brakes over heat. I can testify to that. My diesel pusher motor home did not have an exhaust brake and a jake brake could not be installed on my CAT3208 and so I smoked the rear brakes coming down out of Yosemite NP. It was a scary trip the rest of the way down to town to get the brakes checked for wear and oil contamination. The brakes were o.k. and when I got home I purchased and installed (I could not find a shop that would do it) an exhaust brake. Our next trip out west towing my 7,000 lb pickup was a breeze. On some grades I hardly touched the brakes.
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  873. Put another engine in it. Cost of new cars is absurd.
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  874. I wish you had gone a little slower to get a better view of some of your tools. My top and bottom Snap-on boxes are overflowing but I don't have room for another box. I have several tools you don't seem to have - a bar over tool to adjust the valves on the 12 valve Cummins Turbo Diesel and a tap for a 1200 CC VW gland nut (my abortive attempt at Formula V racing). Your tool box is certainly organized better than mine. I hope to find some of those organizing trays.
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  875. The point being made here is that the brown shirts don't even have to ask for papers before arresting a person. Nothing anyone in the government is doing towards solving the problem.
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  876. Hey, Steve, what do you expect from Texas, anyway? Right now the Governor is holding good bills hostage to get the ledge to pass school vouchers. Remember that Texas is 43rd in the nation in teacher pay and vouchers would take away from that.
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  877.  @Ron-d2s  Those snobs! They can afford an EV and don't need to save money at Wally World.
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  878. I built my own race car, a Toyota MR2, from the ground up. Because of the class it was in the engine was pretty much stock. I had a quick disconnect steering wheel adapter properly welded to the steering shaft. Ray would have had problems aligning my car as he did with the Subaru because of the 2 degree negative camber that seem to mess with every alignment machine I took it to (it was finally aligned using strings by a race mechanic). Every bolt on the car that required a torque value from the factory shop manual was torqued with a torque wrench and painted with Torque Sea (not in the engine, of course). I know that Ray cannot afford the time to do that. I hope that this shows that not everyone that modifies a car is stupid.
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  879. What happened to your fancy funnel with the stopper? Someone beat me to the comment but I'm leaving mine in.
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  880. I am going to stop watching these as I am very tired of hearing frump's voice. What a baby!
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  881. Your frame looks like the bottom of my race car after I got rid of the sound deadener and used a two part epoxy primer and two part acrylic enamel that was used on offshore oil platforms. Nice and shiny. The rule in road racing is to keep the shiny side up but my car was shiny top and bottom. You are going to lose 234 pounds of carrying capacity when your new tank is full.
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  882. This truck is in Florida, where a safety inspection is no longer needed. Dollars to donuts the truck owner has no insurance either.
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  883. I drove a Miata that had a salvage title.
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  884. I am surprised that anyone would modify their car to run E85. BTW, there is an old saying, "when all else fails, read the directions."
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  885. There is only one answer - vote out the Republicans.
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  886. I had an uncle who was killed in a "hell ship" during WWII and I lost a grandfather before I got to know him as he died shortly after I was born from the affects of being gassed in WWI. Trump called POWs as losers. He is a orange faced SOB.
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  887. I learned today that I don't want electric steering assist. I hope I never need to buy a new car.
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  888. Thank you for your honesty. It is a crying shame that those are disposable cars. I'll stick with my 12 valve turbo diesel and 2004 Corolla.
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  889. I have s small solar panel mounted on the roof of my motor home and it provides enough power to keep two 8D batteries topped up (the motor home sits for months at a time). One of those batteries provides the starting current for a CAT3208. There is no current being drawn from the batteries when everything is shut down.
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  890. i want the brake cleaner franchise for his shop. I would be rich!
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  891. Oh, but Trump did outline his policies and they are scary as hell: FED UP Prosecutor SMOKES OUT Trump's Plans (on YouTube). But he back peddled later, which I don't believe for a minute.
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  892. I really think this guy needs to be examined.
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  893. Those pesky grounds! I fixed a engine problem (ran like s--t) with a historic F1 car when I noticed that a ground had been missed after they installed a refreshed engine (done by Judd in England every 1600 race miles). It could be seen, unlike yours. Thank goodness for those wiring diagrams.
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  894. I assume that if you are media blasting you have a way to make sure the valves are closed, right?
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  895. As an electronic technician I am in agreement that the wires MUST have a mechanical connection as solder is brittle and can come apart. To solve your holding issue get a cheap pair of curved hemostats. Lots of fishermen use them so they should be available in your area.
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  896. I think I have been to ONE hockey game. However I have been to the Galleria shopping center many times and it has an ice skating rink so I have seen the Zamboni cleaning the ice. The machine does not travel very fast so the guy must have had way too much to drink.
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  897. It got down to 19° in St. Pete. and I was working in an unheated VW garage. No gloves. Hard to hold the tools. The bosses were from Germany and the cold didn't bother them.
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  898. Fact: DJT hit $19.50 at close Friday. It is the people who bought it at $60 who are really crying if they are still holding on.
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  899. I don't understand why a Jeep owner would have neither doors (those pieces of pipe are not doors) or a top in Florida where it rains OFTEN. In Orlando it would rain every day about an hour later than the day before. I've read comments from private pilots that say that afternoon thunderstorms are why they don't like flying there.
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  900. A magnet works well in those situations.
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  901. There is a huge difference between working on an airplane and a car, a car cannot fall out of the sky, generally. Bolts and nuts on cars and trucks are meant to be reused unless they have been damaged and I am sure they are designed heavier than they need be because amateurs can work on them. While I cleaned up all the hardware on my race car when I converted it, I certainly did not feel the need to replace it. Modern car and truck engines are a different deal as much of the hardware such as rod bolts are not reusable.
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  902. Must have been a later one as my '85 had no power steering, thank goodness.
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  903. Steve, its funny, not only have my wife I been to the UP but we drove up to the top of the "mountain", too. I found one Lake Superior agate while I was there. I'd love to go back sometime. I also drove over one of the Press On Regardless roads but at a much slower speed.
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  904. I have never worked on drum brakes with that many springs (I was a VW mechanic in the 60s). I have the correct tool for putting the retainers over the pins, it helps avoid flying springs. I have one of those cleaners that uses Scotch Brite pads, too - they were not available in the 60s. It is much more efficient than sand paper. I would have used a wire wheel on the backing plate, not a quick as what you did but then I don't get paid for my work. We always used Never Seeze on the adjusters as they were not automatic and only got adjusted during service. Since there were no automatic adjusters we had to adjust the brakes much closer than you do. We tightened the brakes until lock up and backed off three turns. I think you have turned the truck from junk to something usable.
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  905. I had my first mechanic job in the mid 60s and have never seen that trick with the jack. I need to try it with my smaller jacks. I have a 4 foot long (HF long frame) that I could not do that with.
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  906. Yes, that super long extension doesn't have much torque at all. If that nut went under the lift it will come out just use one of your small right angle picks. This work has to exceed the value of the truck.
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  907. You have to remember that it rains in Florida, A LOT. Those tires are a hazard to anyone else on the road as they are way too hard with age.
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  908. I just want to know when he will finally end up in jail.
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  909. Europe is way more regulated than the US. And the regulations are not evenly or well enforced, well, except for a few places like Pasadena, TX that has its own truck enforcement patrol and pulls over a truck every few minutes when they are patrolling.
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  910. I have some large cable cutters that shear not smash the wire and work easier than your cutters, too. The solder is electrical so it should have rosin core flux in it. Flux was obvious from the flames! In the future you should try to find some terminals that are designed for ring lugs - they are much better for that kind of wiring job. The ones I got for my motorhome and diesel truck have one bolt on either side. One for the ring terminals and one for the clamping function. Truck shops should have them or, in your neck of the woods, a golf cart shop.
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  911. Well there was that drunk doctor who died in an Tesla fire when he wrecked the car but he may have died from the accident and not the fire.
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  912. Trump never pays his bills, will this be different?
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  913. I have been involved in a few car fires while testing them on a dyno for emissions in the early 70s for the EPA. The drive cycle was horrendous and the cars got overheated or there was a backfire through the carb. Other than that I saw a Ford Exploder that caught fire in a Walmart parking lot - apparently an electrical short in the wiring. Then there was the Ford Pinto that got hit in the rear and caught fire. The people in the back seat were able to get out, thank goodness.
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  914. At first I did not understand why it would make a difference which side the sensors were on until I realized that the O2 sensors are the feedback for how much fuel the injectors add. Great diagnostics!
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  915. As an RV owner I have seen information that if you buy an RV in Oregon there is no sales tax. If this is true there are probably a lot of people from out of state that bought their RV in Oregon.
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  916. I heard no mention of redundancy or what happens if they are blinded by rain or snow. Also, how are the communications protected? For those very high speeds I would bet on them being fiber. Let's hope that no contractor cuts the cables.
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  917. Holes to the outside environment can be clogged by insects laying eggs. I had one clog up the pilot light on my motor home's water heater. Dirt daubers can also create problems. There a LOTS of insects in Florida. Any time I had to deal with custom stuff it was by the hour.
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  918. As I understand it the orange frump showed no compassion for the injured or the dead at the rally and now, 2 weeks later, he wants to return? He is almost as sorry as JD Vance.
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  919. I have purchased bungee cord from a marine supply (bulk, cut to length) and it lasted at least 10 times longer than the HF brand. It was also stronger for a given diameter.
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  920. With the thinness of modern oils you should change your oil more often, not less. Just watch a few episodes of "I Do Cars" to see why. For the most part I find your tests accurate but I think you missed the boat this time as modern engines have very little hard metal to hard metal and all the major rotating systems have clearances built into them and are running under a fair amount of oil pressure.
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  921. I love your choice of music.
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  922.  @repatch43  I try but it is impossible, especially for judges.
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  923. I would have expected the lift installer to at least vacuum up the concrete dust from the holes he drilled. If you can, replace the insulation in the ceiling or paint over it as that will make a big difference in the light.
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  924. It is funny that you say that as I recently saw one with just that set up (they were Lista cabinets) on an auction site.
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  925. Do not confuse the PT Cruiser with the Neon. The Cruiser had heavier brakes and stronger half shafts. How do I know? Well I was given a preproduction Neon from the Neon Challenge that was "cheated up" by the factory by swapping the Neon drive train parts for the Cruiser parts. In addition it had an ECU that had the part number in felt tip pen marked on the potting compound and a billet AFM that was even bigger than the Neon automatic. I did not know about the half shafts until I tried to put a Neon half shaft in the car and the number of splines were different than what came out.
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  926. Chemical resistance is a big issue for me. The only gloves I've found that hold up are Platex but they are too expensive to be considered disposable. I am going to get several pairs to use when using the parts washer (paint thinner) or cleaning stuff with denatured alcohol or acetone. The nitrile gloves do seem to hold up well with oils and greases. I also use Platex for pool chemicals like acid and chlorine liquid or tablets.
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  927. You could solve your whole problem with a lathe. Make exactly the adapters you need. I find mine very useful for such tasks. What I did was use a Sawzall and cut through the rubber and ring in several places and got it out that way. Just after I wrote that you got out your Sawzall! Your truck maybe somewhat easier to work on than new ones but my '96 Dodge Cummins 12 valve is easier by far.
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  928. Not is this case, no Zoom, Zoom in a van. Putt, putt, more likely.
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  929.  @grinner68  What is the safety problem of not having a hood?
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  930. Lets see, the first car I drove was a 1952 Chevy with an automatic at age 8. When I reached the age to get a license my parents bought an original US model Fiat 500 Sport with 22 HP instead of 18. Drivers license tester gave me a tip that with that little engine I needed to give it more gas on start up to avoid stalling. Passed the test and have driven a stick shift much of the time. Had to buy an automatic in the Dodge truck as my wife was afraid of ending up in the water when we were launching our boat. Some of the unusual cars I have owned: Fiat 1200 Spider, Hillman Minx, Alfa Romeo 1200 Spider Veloce, Corvair.
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  931. Trump really believes in using OPM, other peoples money, and MAGA folks like that!
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  932. I have worked on core memory and some of the first semiconductor memory, the Intel 1103. The 1103 was initially so unreliable that TI put the chips in sockets to make it easier to change them out. TI also tried bubble memory but that did not work very well.
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  933. There were only two to consider as I have a Cummins in my truck which has TWO batteries to start it. I am not sure I want to spend the money though.
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  934. With trump comes Project 2025 and the end to democracy. It is the most scary manifesto I have ever looked at.
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  935. I have an answer to cybertruck, it is a 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 Turbo Diesel that will carry 3,000 lbs, has an 8 foot bed and unloaded gets 19 MPG and will outlive me. BTW, I towed a 9,000 travel trailer from Texas to Nova Scotia and averaged 12 MPG. If I filled up at the truck pumps it would only take about 3 minutes.
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  936. Reee. Drill bit chips in the exhaust ahead of the cat.
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  937. In a production car you can select any gear, these are sequential boxes so if you want 6th gear you have to go through the other five. I've watched a friend who would go from 1st to 2nd and then to 5th in a production car.
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  938. It appears that induction heating only works on ferrous metals.
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  939.  @k.chriscaldwell4141  Or in many places in the west.
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  940. I took a trip last fall from Houston, TX, to Rapid City, SD, to go to a model engineering show. Not wanting to go all that way without seeing some things along the way, I planned out a trip that covered going to a number of airplane museums, military museums and fossil sites driving my ICE Jeep, a number of miles which were on state or county roads. It was still a challenge as the fuel range on the Jeep is not all that good (it turned out it was much better than I hoped) and, on one leg of the journey, it was over two hundred miles before the next gas station with no chargers within 70 miles of my route! I discovered that there were towns that had NO gas stations much less a charging station. Oh, and if I had to stop because my battery ran out, I could not even get off the road in many places. Very rarely did I even have to wait to fill up with gas except the times I stopped at Sam's Club and I was only there about 10 minutes. The people in the eastern US have NO IDEA how sparse things can get in the mid-west and west.
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  941. NO veteran should be voting for Trump after he has said that the war dead and wounded are losers and and suckers. I am an Army brat and gold star family member who lost an uncle in WWII and a grandfather from the after effects of being gassed in WWI.
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  942. There is a downside to the Harvest King oil: it does not appear to be available in my area.
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  943. I know you have a parts washer, why don't you use it instead of so much brake clean? The parts brush would have removed most of the crud. I was skeptical of the BG stuff but for the moment it seems to have worked.
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  944. I have NEVER seen a video like this one!
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  945. Come on, guys, I qualified in the Army at 1,000 yards with a '03 Springfield and a M1, surely you can shoot at something further than 150 yards..
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  946. While I am a never trumper, I think if I was treated the way Vance was by the cop I would be mad, too. There are bad cops out there, just look at the false drug charges against two Houstonians that got them killed. That does not necessarily mean that he would not support Back the Blue.
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  947. That is enough to twist off the lug nuts on a semi. Came across a video of an insurance inspector on lost wheels of semis. Most were caused by over torquing the lug nuts with those monster air guns.
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  948. And what happens to the people who bought Fiskers?
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  949.  @VeryOldSaint  Does Bentley have a time limit or mileage limit?
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  950. He actually decided he was not up to working on a Jag.
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  951. I had a 1962 Karmann Ghia and a 1966 1300 Beetle and there were any dash lights like that!
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  952. I understand people are mad, as am I, but destroying stuff is wrong.
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  953. We, who believe in democracy, sure hope the orange wannabe king and convicted felon does NOT get into the White House. This Net Zero stuff is garbage but I prefer a democratic president over a dictator or king.
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  954. Probably done that way for assembly. Automotive engineers do not worry about getting things apart again. More time and money for the dealer.
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  955. There is an Australian company that is converting Kenworth trucks to replaceable battery trucks. Their prototype burned to the ground and their first commercial cement truck did too so replaceable batteries may not be ready yet.
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  956. Actually all that will happen is the west side of the fault will move out into the ocean and become an island as the San Andres is a slip fault.
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  957. A large piece of cardboard would make laying on gravel a lot easier.
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  958. It might not be easy to find one that large.
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  959. Boy, you sure have worked on some OLD cars/jeeps/trucks lately. These certainly haven't been oil change videos! I hope that you can somehow get those impeller pieces out of the engine.
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  960. I had worn tires on the front and nearly went straight through an intersection because they understeered due to road conditions. I replaced all four tires shortly after that. I also get my tires rotated.
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  961. Probably but it would take too long and cost too much.
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  962. If you are going to do much of this you need a 20 ton air actuated bottle jack. I solve getting the last of the gear oil out of the bottle by using a piece of tubing that allows me to hold the bottle upside down. The loading business was not smart. 2 ton jack stands for probably 11,000 lbs (trailer + skid steer)?
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  963. You should know that the purpose of a lift kit in Florida is to navigate the flooded streets after every storm. Holds true through out the Gulf Coast.
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  964. My father, grandfather and I all have the same name but I am the third. Until my father died I always used my full name including the III so there would be no mistake.
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  965. These people have been snorting angel dust or the like.
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  966. That is a tough call. You and I know that the work was not done BUT can you prove it in court? All she is eligible for is the overcharge on the brake job. Instead of suing them she should have them charged with fraud. The video evidence to a non mechanic is probably not good enough.
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  967. You are missing the point. Project 2025 is his playbook.
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  968. Why does Ford spell Fix Or Repair Daily?
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  969. When is there a cold day in Florida?
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  970.  @eleghari  How true. In the late 1960s I was in a garage and saw an XKE sitting under a ton of dust. The shop owner said he had been waiting 6 months for a part to fix the transmission. I told him I could have rowed the Atlantic, made the part and rowed back in that time.
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  971. A good reason not to own a Ford Coyote because I do my own maintenance. Nothing like having to crawl under a truck to check the transmission level. Electric parking brakes - yuck.
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  972. It proves there are a lot of suckers out there. Trump University, anyone?
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  973. The NPS might have included high clearance. My Jeep Wrangler Unlimited does not have lockers in it but it has limited slip.
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  974. Al Green is right. Impeach trump for all his lawless orders and his ignoring the Constitution.
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  975. Well that is certainly a vehicle that should not be driven through high water. Low air intake and, of all stupidity, the electronics in the air box! I guess you are going to have to find another alignment shop for the next vehicle that needs one.
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  976. No EVs for me, I have a diesel powered motor home and truck and ICE powered Toyota and Jeep. I go places where there is no gas station, much less a charging station. I don't know of any EV that could get from Houston to Dallas (239 mi with hilly terrain) in the winter time during a cold front as you would be driving into a 30 mph head wind, have your wipers on high and your heater on too as the outside temperature is in the 30s °F. And, by the way, the rest of the traffic is driving 75 MPH or (mostly) higher. Most ICE cars can make it on one tank but if not it only takes five minutes to fill up.
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  977. I'd lump Fox in with the National Inquirer and other tabloids that proclaim "I had an alien baby".
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  978. If the owner ran the car at a track he would need that.
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  979. You may be sick but so are we. When Trump invokes his tariffs we will be in a world of hurt. RFK Jr. to run the FDA? Many more sick people everywhere not just the US. Trump is beholden to Musk so don't expect much on the EV front either.
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  980. No EVs for me, I have a diesel truck, a gas car and gas Jeep. My home cannot provide the power required for a charging station and if a hurricane takes the power out I can still drive. Gas stations have gotten generators in the past to power the pumps so gas is available.
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  981. There is a attempting to form tropical storm in the Gulf that is causing the rain.
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  982. I would prefer to drive an older F1 car which had a clutch, for first gear at least. I've worked on the historic 1994 Tyrrells and they had the carbon brakes but had the clutch as mentioned above. It was plenty fast even with the detuned Judd engine. I would have to start with FV, then FF, then FE, FA and F2 before I tried the Tyrrell. A 20 minute race in my MR2 left me tired, I'd have to really get in shape even do the FF.
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  983. Trump is a Putin robot.
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  984. Ray, if that is a cast iron rotor then MIG won't work. Get you some structural steel to practice on. It is not recommended to have the nozzle rest on the work as the weld splatter can cause a short. Also the wire should be cut a short distance from the tip and not touch the work when you trigger the welder. If welders are going to help you we need to know what wire you are using and what gas. The splatter reminds me of flux core wire but it seems too small. I have taken welding at the community college and did stick, MIG and TIG enough to know what a good weld looks like. As an SCCA tech inspector I've seen a lot of welds both good and bad. My Millermatic 250X welder has a flow meter on it which is more important that the pressure.
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  985. It appeared to be night time in the shop as have several of your other vids. I know you need to work longer hours but you still need time for your kids.
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  986. All you have to do to see cars leave the ground for more than 81 feet is to watch European rallies. Those cars, however, are often doing close to 100 MPH or more.
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  987.  @mikejacob3536  Absolutely not true! It was 19 degrees in St. Pete one winter and the shop I worked in had no heat and open doors, and it snowed in North Miami Beach in 1977.
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  988. First, Trump was not a full time President in his first term. Remember how much he played golf? Second, he WILL use the Project 2025 playbook. Third, if he lasts four years he will not give up the White House. I will be happy to be proven wrong.
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  989. And, at the current new vehicle prices, add 5 to 7 years of car payments. Not to mention that the emission crap on the new vehicles causes failures long before it should.
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  990. First, my shop manuals show charts for torque based on bolt size when there is no specific torque given. Second, what happened to your fancy Snap-on scan tool? I hope you got paid enough for all that work. I will pass on to friends who wrench their own vehicles what you found about the over tightened knock sensors.
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  991. Elon is an illegal immigrant who needs to be deported back to South Africa AND DO NOT LET HIM BACK IN.
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  992. I have a friend that lives in NC in the mountains near the Smokies and he was telling me about all the things that were happening to the Asheville area. PRESSURE WASH THE UNDERCARRIAGE. Need a backup camera. Add it to the list of things to do to your truck.
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  993. The shop has one, Ray has used it before. It is air powered. I think that the filter gets in the way of inserting the tube into the bottom of the pan.
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  994. I would have never taken the chance to bend the flanges of the axles trying to install multiple studs at once. The flange was obviously strong enough for that. I have a nut driver shaped tool that has a cup on the end that holds the spring and its clip. Works much better than pliers. I'm surprised that you only needed one can of cleaner for the backing plate. Man, that was nasty. Use Lubriplate 105 instead of grease.
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  995. As far as small engines go, once I switched to engineered fuel I no longer had to overhaul the carb each spring. Ethanol ate the fuel hose lining in my bass boat, too. I live in Houston and when I would take long trips through west Texas my gas economy would improve by probably 10% when I got to fill up in a non-ethanol area (car gets about 400 mi per tank).
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  996. Steve, I am unaware of Skittles commercials as I don't watch commercials. The advantage of a DVR. The moment you mentioned the lawsuit I just knew that it was California based. Mars should just stop selling them there. California has all these weird things like Prop 65 and AB 5. Pretty soon there won't be anything left in California to buy because they will have no trucks to transport it. The San Andres fault does not work fast enough. I know that it will only make that part of California an island but think of all the roads, pipelines and electrical lines that will go away. They will have to start getting their water from desalination plants and they will probably be without power from Oregon, too.
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  997. Maybe in other parts of the country but California has done the following: It's now illegal to drive a great many semi-tractor trailers that can roll down highways in America's 49 other states. Effective January 2023, diesel-fueled vehicles model years 2010 and older, with a gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000-pounds or greater, are banned from the Golden State's highways.
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  998. Very good! I have forgotten all my AC circuit theory and most of my DC, too, as I don't ever use it. P=IE and E=IR are all that I need. Load balancing three phase can be fun. We had a computer room with 11 minicomputers in it with some equipment using 208V and others 120V, we had to take into account surge current for the motorized equipment such as removable pack disk drives and tape drives. Total current when all computers were up was about 175 amps per leg. The computers were sequenced up so as to not overload any leg.
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  999. I sent the mayor a link to this video.
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  1000. Here in Houston it floods pretty regularly and the idiots that drive fast can cause water to wash into homes and businesses so a no wake law would be good here, too. The other upside to such a law would be that there would be fewer vehicles that ingest water and destroy engines as water does not compress.
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  1001. Until they solve the following issues I will not need this information: 1. Price, 2., Charge time, 3. BEING ABLE TO CHARGE WITH ONLY A CARD OR CASH, 4. Chargers everywhere there are gas stations (Marathon, TX only has one gas station and no chargers, there are other towns I have been to that don't even have a gas station), 5. Severe restraints on range using A/C or heat. 6. Towing a 9,000 lb. travel trailer for 300 miles without having to charge.
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  1002. Never use an aluminum ladder when doing electrical work. That is why my ladders are fiberglass.
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  1003. His job will be to shut down the department and he does not need any expertise to do that.
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  1004. How about old tires turned into flower pots. They were next to a house that had toilet flower pots.
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  1005. What I don't understand, considering I live in Houston and watch KHOU, is why they were investigating a town that is much closer to the Dallas - Fort Worth area than it is to Houston. Coffee City to Dallas in a straight line is 50 miles while the distance to Houston is over 160 miles. I can't believe that there aren't enough stories for them to investigate around Houston which has a population of about 2.3 million people.
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  1006. I don't think that the science was overwhelming before then. They only found out about the Seattle Fault in the 1960s. Brian Atwater showed the evidence of the 1700 tsunami in the back bays of Puget Sound in the 1990s (based on his publication in 2005).
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  1007. I took a 9,000 lb camping trailer from Texas to Nova Scotia with my '96 Turbo Diesel 4 x 4. The trip was probably about 8,000 miles as we detoured to Florida and on the way back went into Canada and back through Saint Louis. The only trouble was breaking a trailer spring on a large pothole.
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  1008. Hey it is California - land of granola. In some parts of Florida they paint the rocks to look like grass or in they put in Astro Turf, too. Please, please send the block off to the machine shop. It needs to be checked with a bore gauge that reads to .0001 for taper and roundness.
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  1009. Motorhome owners are a different breed as most have MONEY so they drive from all over the U.S. to come to Nacodoches, TX to get their Foretravels worked on - not just warranty stuff but ones that are 10 or 20 years old. The advantage for them is there are RV spaces with power, water, and sewer hook up in the parking lot!
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  1010. Must have been because a Texas one would have lasted days!
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  1011. The elephant in the room is the a lack of power sources and wiring for these. California and Texas have rolling blackouts in the summer from the lack of power infrastructure. Also there is no mention of probably higher insurance costs for EVs for their fire hazards. It is not that they have more fires but the fires are much worse when they happen.
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  1012. It would suggest that maybe she is more than just his lawyer.
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  1013. That battery tester is special and cost over $400.00, is made by Midtronics and uses Kelvin technology to measure the internal resistance of the battery. It looks like he got a new one or got the cables replaced because he butchered the cables in an effort to make them longer (an older video).
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  1014.  @IR-nq4qv  Very true!
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  1015. A European company has come up with a solution but only for ships - a chilled brine solution, it not only put the fire out but the brine discharges the battery.
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  1016. He is NOT President, can't you people get it right? Once you leave office you are no longer entitled to be called President. right now he is felon Trump.
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  1017. Alright, so emissions are better over time with electric cars. All my vehicles are paid for and I do my own maintenance, which does not require much money. I also don't have $30,000 or more to buy a new electric car. Even if I had enough money I still would not buy one to run around town in since a number of places I travel when I leave town have NO charging stations. Have you been to west Texas or other areas where towns don't even have gas stations? I cannot bring a 5 gal. can of electrons to refill the battery.
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  1018. Yes.
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  1019. The dealership needs to be charged with fraud in addition to getting her money back for the non repair.
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  1020. There can be problems with shop supplied parts. The Dodge dealer where I bought my 1996 Turbo Diesel did not carry 15W40 oil (only had 10W30) and did not have Cummins premium oil filters so I brought the correct oil and filters for them to install while the truck was still in warranty. After the warranty expired I did my own oil changes, including the front and rear diffs and transmission. I found it hard to believe that a dealer would not have the correct oil as specified in the owner's manual. I live in Houston where the summertime temperatures are high enough to be considered severe service and 10W30 oil is only to be used when temps stay below freezing. I guess I was a rarity because they never complained.
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  1021. What a waste of a filter and bolt! I got the joke right away. I've only known one person to use the red silicone and he was NO mechanic, or welder for that matter.
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  1022. The cybertruck is a JOKE! I will stick with my 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 Turbo Diesel 4 x 4 that gets 19 MPG and can go approximately 500 miles before a 10 minute fill up(less time to fill up if I am at a truck stop). If I was towing my 9,000 lb. (loaded) 28 foot camping trailer I would get about 12 MPG and could go about 350 miles before needing to fill up. I have a full 8' bed and have carried 3,000 lbs. of lumber and cement in one load, let's see the cybertruck do that.
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  1023. Get rid of the batteries, etc.
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  1024. I agree that the gate post is not strong enough for that gate. What might help is to tie the top of the gate post to the bottom of the next post with wire and a turnbuckle. It also looked like that L lag bolt was pulling out.
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  1025. NO ONE SHOULD BUY A TESLA, Elon Musk, or not. "Oh, your car broke but it is TOP SECRET, so we won't tell you what is wrong." There are many refused warranty claims on Tesla.
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  1026. I hammer in a razor blade.
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  1027. How much is this gal being paid? Must be a lot to stomach djt.
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  1028. Up north they rust out so quickly they don't bother to replace them.
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  1029. COVID was not a scam, I had a friend I talked to on Saturday, said he had COVID and ON Sunday he was DEAD.
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  1030. Save some money and use your parts washer and you could have cleaned off the outside of the pan.
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  1031. Based on some quick Internet research that P code will set the owner back several thousand dollars and needs to be taken care of ASAP. I hope he did not pay to much for the car (truck?).
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  1032. This is a little behind as Trump's filing was rejected with a resounding NO.
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  1033. I can't wait for NY to shut down the Trump organization. I am from a military family - my father and all his brothers went to West Point, one was a Japanese POW and was killed on a "hell ship". I hope that no one in the military votes for him. He is a traitor to our country.
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  1034. You left out Oatey in your list of cutting oils, why? You might try the Oatey Dark Thread Cutting Oil, 30203, if you have another test. I've also been trying SprayOn cutting oil, LU208, since I got six cans for free in the flammables cabinet I got at auction. Also got a free sample of Anchor Lube but it is thick like your fats so I rarely use it. It is impossible with your set up, but I always peck drill if there is any thickness to the metal. It has only messed me up once when I was drilling some stainless and literally melted the tip of the cobalt drill bit.
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  1035. One thing not mentioned is the purity of the water needed.
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  1036. I have an 8,000 pound Warn winch that is made in the USA. I have pulled a semi truck towing a race car hauler trailer out of the mud with it at Texas World Speedway, the only time I have really made use of it for any kind of weight. It hardly noticed.
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  1037. Ray, you have told us many times previously to fix any battery or electrical problems before diagnosing faults, which I agree with completely. Shame on you for not following your own advice.
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  1038. Obviously you have never owned a car where a front license plate would cause the engine to over heat.
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  1039. I would think that the draft of such a monster would keep it out of almost all harbors. And, ever seen pictures of ships breaking in half? What utter stupidity.
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  1040. The only problem I see with the car is that it is a convertible.
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  1041. Like everyone else I think the music is AWFUL.
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  1042. Large cities in Texas are required to check the OBDII for faults. If there is more than one you fail the inspection and cannot get your registration renewed. TPMS are a waste of money as they are often ignored by the driver. I just checked and found out there are NO annual inspections required in Florida. That is why the POS BHPH dealer can get away with spray painting over a rusted out frame.
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  1043. There are places with EDM equipment that can burn out the broken easy-out. They are often used to remove broken taps. There may be some machine shops that can do that service.
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  1044. Hey, the guy has a sweet tooth so he drank them even though they had too much sugar.
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  1045. Anthony, having lived in Ocala, Orlando and St. Pete, I know that Central Florida covers a lot of area so I don't know how close you are to Sarasota where he is located.
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  1046. My understanding is the stainless steel panels have been reduced to 1.8mm.
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  1047. When he was driving at the end he said he was going to refill it and then bleed the brakes again.
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  1048. Spirit AeroSystems is headquartered in KANSAS, not Texas. Paxton, as usual, is sticking his nose where it does not belong.
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  1049. Just came across a video where someone used EPR and MOA to try to stop an engine knock. Thought you might like to test them.
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  1050. Someone made some out of stainless steel tubing and bending two pieces to make them. Very effective for tired vehicles. Doesn't do a thing to tracked.
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  1051. It just keeps getting more insane. Just the other day I drove to a suburb of a large city and traveled over one hundred miles. I used about 4 gallons of fuel and the cost was under 10 dollars, US. I watch a video about a Nissan Leaf that got a whopping 125 miles per charge. It might have not gotten me there and back without having to stop to recharge it if I had needed to use the A/C. NO THANK YOU.
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  1052. I am sure that one of the problems is that lighter skinned people show up more sharply than darker skinned people. Not enough recognition points on the darker ones.
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  1053. As discharged as that battery was it might not be long for this world.
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  1054. WWII aircraft for the most part were piston driven and still produced contrails. What do the conspiracy people think of that? Aah, yes, GREEN hydrogen. I don't see us having green hydrogen anytime soon. Possibly you could dedicate a solar farm or wind farm to produce the hydrogen but a wind farm producing 6 million kWh per year would only produce 109,090 kg of hydrogen sing electrolysis of water. In 2022 jet fuel consumption was about 1.5 million barrels per day, or 63 million gallons.
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  1055. They can deliver the mail, in cities, too. Amazon has EV vans, the downside is that I cannot hear them drive up to deliver a package.
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  1056. Ray is in Florida along the coast where the water table is three feet below ground level. You will not find basements in that part of the state.
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  1057. He worked for a GM dealership for a while. Also, twenty years of wrenching for a living helps.
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  1058. I've seen cars like XKEs with stickers that go on the hood since there is no place to put it on the front where it won't block the air intake.
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  1059. I think the ears on the steering wheel are a bad idea.
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  1060. I cannot remember what the front suspension is on the 96 Benetton F1 car that I worked on some. Notice that at 9:26 the other attachment to the rocker is the anti-roll bar. Under the gold cap are needle bearings.
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  1061. You are wearing an Abarth t shirt. I nearly bought an Abarth 750 double bubble coupe a long time ago. The first car my parents got me was a original US Fiat 500 Sport, 22 HP instead of 18!
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  1062. Since that was a Dorman part I am surprised that you didn't test it before putting all back together - or do they tend to work in the beginning but fail after a time?
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  1063. There is a much more compelling reason to keep Republicans out of the White House. Just scan the 920 pages of their manual for taking over called Project 2025. It is really scary: remove all employees, including military that don't go along with this manifesto, remove all military people who are not "straight", etc.
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  1064. Oh, really? Ukraine is not allowed to join NATO? That is BS.
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  1065. A VERY LARGE POS! Drain the fluids out of it, put it on a barge and turn it into an artificial reef.
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  1066. I am not for Biden, but I am AGAINST frump. Biden has tried to shove this EV shit down our throats but EVs are not the be all and end all of a clean environment, There is so much wrong with EVs it isn't even funny. Lets take natural disasters for one, what happens when a hurricane takes out the power? Try telling a farmer with thousands of acres to plow that he has to drive his tractor back to the barn every night to recharge it. Tell the construction people that they will have to fire up generators to recharge the batteries in their dozers, etc. because there is no access to the power grid. We also need to remember how much energy and water it takes to mine the metals needed to make the batteries.
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  1067. Jimmy, as one Army brat to another, thank you for speaking up. I have an uncle whose gravestone is in Arlington but maybe buried in Hawaii in a mass grave. He was killed on a Jap hell ship. He definitely was NOT a coward, a loser or a sucker. West Point class of 1940. Go Army!
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  1068. I love my 12 valve Cummins with mechanical injection. I added a Banks kit that brought it up to 300HP sure made pulling a 9,000 pound travel trailer easier going up mountain grades. Oh, and it does not have an EGR.
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  1069. You can do that today at La Madeleine.
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  1070. I voted blue.
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  1071. A Cleco tool would have prevented the problem you had with holding the door in place.
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  1072. If you read "Project 2025" you will find out that the Republicans want a dictator and spell it out in detail how they will get it if orange face trump is elected. They plan on firing any military leader that is not loyal to trump., among many other things.
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  1073. Which executive order said that?
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  1074. When I bought my Jeep Wrangler Unlimited in 2013 I found out that while there was a place for a cabin air filter it did not come with one. I bought one and installed it in the slot. After seeing your video I will be cleaning the evap coils on my 96 truck and 2004 Toyota.
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  1075. I discovered that the Toyota dealer I went to was affected by this.
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  1076. This is old news, the German Air Force has been training there for years but I did not know about all the other countries.
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  1077. I don't think there is anything anyone can do if she doesn't resign. Frump will use executive orders to avoid Congress.
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  1078. The problem was it wasn't GM.
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  1079. Ray, please use nitrile gloves with brake cleaner. It gets absorbed by the skin and may cause future health problems. How about cleaning out the radiator?
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  1080. This reminds my of a 1950s Hillman Minx I owned. I don't know how many times I replaced the rear seals on it. I solved the problem by installing sintered metallic brake shoes cam ground (they don't do that anymore) to the drum. It stopped much better after that and I never did solve the leak. It looks like another hurricane is coming directly toward Tampa Bay I am sorry to say. Get your family off the island, please!
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  1081. While that Saturn tank was no fun, my Dodge truck is worse because I had a shop install a 1/4" thick skid plate under it. I did that after attempting to go down a road that had a bolder sticking up high enough that it might have punctured the tank. Oh, and I have no lift nor did I need one as it is 4 wheel drive. My Toyota had an in-tank fuel pump with exposed brushes. How do they get away without them blowing up?
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  1082.  @JohnSmith-qi9qs  One, not all gas stations have diesel, two, he may take long trips out of state, three, I think he lives out in the country pretty far from a gas station. I think it was also very useful during the hurricane when many service stations were without power. I think he ran inverters off the truck for some of his power.
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  1083. Your photo at the beginning proves that it will take more than removing the starter to get the oil pan off. And it does take one hell of a lot more! I feel the issue is that the people who designed this expected you to have to pull the engine and transmission to change the oil pan gasket and laughed while they were designing it.
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  1084. I paid $2.32 per gallon of gas the other day. Gas prices are set based on oil prices plus other factors. I don't think Trump will control OPEC to have them increase production.
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  1085. No police state in Florida, or Alabama, for that matter. Had a 50s KG come into the shop in St. Pete in 1965 with NO linings on any of the brake shoes. There are lots of retirees living on fixed income that were able to afford cars like that when new and kept them but don't have enough money to keep them up.
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  1086. What goes around, comes around, Donald! Trump was never able to be President, more so now.
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  1087. BMW is notorious for not wanting anyone other than factory dealers to work on them. An owner of a BMW repair shop stated that BMW charged him $25,000.00 per year for being able to have access. He had an X5 in the shop that had set for more than a year because the front end was aligned by an ordinary alignment shop and the car had a check engine light because of it. He had to reload the software for the ECU from scratch and was required to have a UPS so that a power outage would not stop the download. I worked as a tech inspector at SCCA races and there were classes of cars that required the driver to have a shop manual for them but BMW would not allow them access. I always thought the owners did not want to spend the money until I talked to that BMW shop owner.
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  1088. I'd love to find out how they assemble engines that have to be heated to a minimum of 160° F before starting.
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  1089. I worked with a guy in St. Pete who said he cleaned all his tools and they were now all rusty! Welcome to Florida.
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  1090. If you want a dictator.
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  1091. I saw my first MOVA globe on Nick Zentner's YouTube channel.
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  1092. As far as automatic transmissions go, they require a high end, i.e. expensive, cleaning facility and many special tools. That guy needs some tool boxes or a bed cover so that he can just have his Cheetos in the seat - what a mess!
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  1093. A fun fact about petroleum jelly - it has many uses, maybe one of the most unusual uses was a sealant between two halves of a quartz dome used in an initial semiconductor process where the temperature reached almost the melting point of the silicon slice, about 2,500 degrees F, so that it would accept dopant to change the resistivity of the slice. This was a manual process back when the slices were only 3 inches in diameter.
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  1094. This came out a month too early. Since then there has been Hurricane Helene and now Hurricane Milton is taking a direct aim for Tampa Bay. I am sure prices will fall further.
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  1095. If, somehow, Dulles really got renamed I would refuse to fly in there. Why isn't Trump in jail for contempt?????????????????????????
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  1096. One F1 car costs about $10,000,000.
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  1097. Andrew, you are absolutely wrong. Trump and his cronies care nothing about the rule of law. Project 2025 indicates that they will fire all the civil servants and replace them with MAGA yes men.
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  1098. I will NOT comment about your welding. I just don't know how you manage to use a carbide (or steel) burr without getting a lot of metal splinters in your hands. I have to wear heavy duty nitrile gloves to keep the splinters out. You can certainly weld stainless, even with a MIG but it takes special wire and gas.
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  1099. Tulsi Gabbard needs the same scrutiny.
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  1100. You may not like taped weights but if you were racing you would be required to use them. That was a decent tire as it did not take much weight.
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  1101. When I got my first can of Never Seez back in the 1960s it came with a booklet that explained that you needed to decrease torque by 20 percent when using it. There are tables you can find on the net that show correct torque for dry, oiled, etc. My Alcoa wheels require lubrication only in certain places (no, I don't remember where) and a torque of 500 foot pounds. Yeah, they are truck wheels (22.5") on my 36' motor home. Question: you haven't replaced the rotors so they should already have material from the old pads, wouldn't that mean you don't need to bed in the brakes based on what you said about putting lining on the rotors?
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  1102. You probably don't have the time but I would tear apart the distributor to find out what caused the noise. Great fix!
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  1103. Very timely for me. My problem is that 5W20 is hard to find in my area right now.
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  1104. Ha Ha.
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  1105. 1. If you are going to check run out the correct way to do it is to put all lug nuts on and torque to spec. In this case the other issues with the rotors meant that they needed replacing anyway. 2. I use a large C-clamp to push the pistons back in before I remove the calipers. Almost as quick and my C-clamp is much cheaper than your fancy tool. 3. You need a Noga indicator holder with a 175 lb holding force magnet. I do not remember who did a comparison of the various holder styles and your style was rated towards the bottom.
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  1106. An EV will never be in my life. I go to too many places that there are towns that don't have gas stations and certainly not charging stations. There are quite a few older homes that don't have the electrical capacity for a charger. And don't forget about apartment dwellers or homes that don't have off street parking. Another major issue to me is that at a gas station I pay with a card or CASH, no phone app needed. There are stories of people stranded because they had no cell coverage where the charging station was located.
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  1107. My '96 Dodge Turbo Diesel 2500 had cadmium plated open lug nuts (under a hub cap) - no issue other than the torque spec was 150 lbs.
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  1108. This is definitely time for an engine flush at the NEXT oil change.
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  1109. Exactly!
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  1110. I was unaware of these coatings, thanks! While Adams is the best it is too much money.
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  1111. Once again I will suggest that you invest in a cheap right angle grinder ( if you don't have one) and some 4 1/2" cut off disks. I use Walter 11-T 642 1/32" thick disks that work very quickly. Obviously your sawsall blades are not getting the job done very well on hardened bolts.
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  1112. Are you deaf from the rattle, rattle, clack, clack or was already ESS? Had to work on a Texas Instruments Silent 700 in a rotary exchange and I thought I would go deaf.
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  1113. See my answer elsewhere.
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  1114. All these lawyers for the DOJ should be disbarred for lying to court and the Representatives and Senators who are not standing up to Trump and have a law license should be disbarred also.
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  1115. I wish you had a link to your wrench extender. I have an attached garage and so I get most of what I need from there. I bought my wife a light weight hammer for hanging her paintings. I very seldom use a manual screw driver as I have several battery operated drills and a 1/4" hex impact gun. I do love the detail you go through to thoroughly test things. Another kit that would be handy is electrical testing tools for checking outlets, etc.
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  1116. I assume that you had the pole jack under the crankshaft pulley to raise the engine up some to get the alternator out. Sure looks like the engine needs a new front crankshaft seal, too. Automotive engineers all need to spend 5 years fixing cars before being allowed to design them. I said this back in the day when I worked on 50s and 60s VWs. Price of alternator $100, labor to install it $250. I saw a Lambo once that they had to remove the body to work on the transmission - it was going to cost $20,000 in labor.
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  1117. The major issue is that geography is not taught any more. I love $2 bills. Fun fact: The United States Military Academy used to pay the students in $2 bills. I doubt they still use them.
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  1118. One downside to battery powered tools if you are away from electricity, is the need to carry additional fully charged batteries and they are not cheap. You can buy a gallon of gas for around $5.00 (depending on where you live and what happens with the Canadian and Mexican tariffs). I would think battery operated chainsaws would be great around the house as they are much quieter. If you have other battery operated yard equipment then it would be to your advantage to stick with the same brand. I have a friend that turns bowls - he would love to have had that osage orange log.
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  1119. I have a 1996 Dodge Turbo Diesel, a 2004 Toyota Corolla, and a 2013 Jeep Wrangler, nothing newer.
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  1120. Headwinds can make a large difference even in ICE vehicles. I was driving to Corpus Christi pulling a travel trailer into a 30 MPH headwind and I could not get my truck over 60 MPH. I drove my 36 foot motor home in a similar set of conditions and it cut the fuel economy from 10 MPG to 8 MPG but it has a 150 gallon diesel tank. It has so much power that I did not notice the headwind until I got out to fuel up.
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  1121. I live in Houston, where 10% ethanol is a requirement. When I go to west Texas an get fuel without ethanol my fuel economy increases by about 10%.
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  1122. I am more prone to replace wires with wires of like color, so I bought a package of little spools of stranded automotive wire. I cannot duplicate secondary stripes though. I don't have red colored heat shrink. You might get you a nozzle adapter that wraps around the heat shrink to heat it up evenly. Reeeee shame on you for not cutting the ty wrap square so that someone sticks their hand under there and gets stabbed. I watched to the end and I did not see you fix that. I have some nipper dikes for situations like that.
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