Comments by "" (@mph5896) on "Rainman Ray's Repairs" channel.

  1.  @RainmanRaysRepairs  Ha. Problem now is you are going to show up to work, and the entire parking lot will be filled with 3v Fords.
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  2. Yikes. Pretty much all exhaust fasteners need to be heated before attempting to remove them. I live in the rust belt, and actually get most off without breaking anything. But even the southern cars I occasionally work on you need to heat the stuff. Otherwise you get breakage as indicated and a huge headache.
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  3. I have never gotten a fake part from rock auto.
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  4.  @Gromitdog1  He might not answer. But, thats a $3500-4000 repair.
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  5. Goofiest overheat I ever had. 2004 Dodge Interpid 3.5, car would overheat but would cool off if you turned the heater on high. Radiator was flowing. Checked everything, I even pulled the water pump and it was brand new. I then pulled the heads and found a large chunk of plastic from the old water pump impeller blocking the coolant passage going into the left side of the head. Car was a previous police car the city gave up on. Car ran great after the fix.
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  6. 32:14, looks like the oil pressure gauge is up!
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  7. When your coolant system keeps blowing out the weakest link, thats classic compression gas in cooling system. Do a chem/block test on it to confirm. No fault of the previous shop. 😉
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  8. Eric o is the master of rust. I have learned a great deal of technique from him on rust
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  9. Na, as a tech you decline doing the work. Even if there are ramifications from your employer. I would assume Fl has a licensing system for mechanics. That jeopardizes the mechanics license if they are performing unsafe practices. Plus the mechanic could even see legal prosecution in the event of an accident or death as a result of performing that work.
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  10. "i dont watch you daily as a fully cert ASE L1 tech who took ALL tests in one night, yes all, and lowest score was a 92 i cant." So you passed multiple guess tests and use that to show you have credibility. 🤣
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  11. Prob don't have any money, or have to watch carefully where their money goes. Plus, Put a wheel bearing and an air filter in a 200k + car for lets say $500. If the engine went out tomorrow, you aren't getting that $500 back. I work on my own stuff, so its only parts cost. But I feel for people who can't.
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  12. Good idea, just don't work for people like that again. Much less headache.
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  13. I am guessing the shop he was at got tired of dealing with the youtube thing. Some people on youtube can be very intrusive and have no boundaries. People of youtube Prob hounding his employer, calling up there and causing a hassle to his employer. Ray has a big enough channel now and is prob making more $ off youtube over being an actual mechanic. He needs to "Eric the Car Guy" and set up a shop like Eric did if he wants to continue with youtube. He will just have to find a way to continue getting content.
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  14. If you got out of a shop for $495 for a compressor replacement, I would be shocked. More like $1k
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  15. Wonder if the rental car company found out their car got wrecked.
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  16. I have replaced quite a few of those oil pumps over the years. I have had a couple in which the pressure regulator valve stuck and caused the engine to have 0 oil pressure. I use the Melling 10296, High volume/high pressure since the engines are usually old and worn. Its a bandaid, but will add more life to the engine. They can be done without dropping the pan. Not the easiest since you need to get the bolt out for the pickup with minimal clearance.
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  17. The 4.7l and 5.7l Dodge of that vintage, you don't ever want to overheat those. The valve seats will drop out at a later date and bounce around in the cylinder. I have caught a few 4.7l where they partially drop and cause a dead cylinder. I used to buy those in the Jeep Cherokee, Durango, and Charger format for pennies on the dollar. Bought a few 6-8 year old Jeeps for under $1000.
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  18. I just replace the entire assembly now adays. The vehicle is usually 5-10 years old when they fail, plastic degrades and cracks over time in the rust belt. That leads to Evap code potentials.
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  19. Idk, I have saved a ton of money replacing parts with Dorman, then selling the car😂
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  20. I guess for being a 15 year old used car, It could have been worse. Replace the burned out bulbs, cabin air filter, see if you can get the cel off for the key codes and run it. maybe leave the cat converter if in non emissions area.
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  21. Sometimes its hard to see safety issues through the safety squints.
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  22. Bob Renner prob upset they take currency for payment instead of trading for a farm animal such as a goat or some chickens 🐓
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  23.  @epstein_isnt_dead7726  Easy there. Those 8.6" rear ends are REALLY easy and affordable to rebuild. He had to tear it down to see what is needed in order to rebuild it. Once he pulled the carrier out, 14:16 and 16:00 the damage on the case was evident it was not rebuildable. Up till that point, the axle assembly was still rebuildable in house. Customer should have stopped driving it before it came in completely pooched. It would have been rebuildable with some, bearings, seals and maybe a ring and pinion.
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  24.  @Nickkkk838  Diagnostic fee is $xxx, if its something I did wrong previously I will refund that.
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  25. #8 is the tough one on those.
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  26.  @alb12345672  Its more than $1000, if you use OEM parts. $1200-1400 if you shop around.
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  27. Ah, I bet the fuel pump is bad. Let the truck sit and cool down and the fuel pump will be sticking. The added wire was a work around keeping the fuel pump running all the time to keep it from stopping. The wire just added more problems to the situation. The original mechanic has no business doing work like that though. And $400 spent there, that sounded like a battery, oil change and whatever else the idiot did.
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  28. Maybe trade it in.
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  29. Hank Hasemeier that waiver isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Any lawyer with a $2 suit will be all over your shop when a repair goes wrong and kills a defenseless family and they want to get paid $. Also will be out the window when a prosecutor with a personal agenda decides you will be their next lesson.
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  30. Just recently I had a car do this. Pushed oil into the cooling system from a perforated oil cooler. What a pain. Took a day to flush the cooling system multiple times including draining the block multiple times.
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  31.  @Cheepchipsable  Exactly. You can have a customer sign all the waivers in the world. "IF" that tire was the cause of an injury accident, EVERYBODY involved with that incident is getting sued and even possibly criminally charged. Na, I'll pass. 😆
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  32. Kind of like a day in the shop video. I love that style. Jimmy, making it work does that style of videos on youtube. Also a Fl mechanic.
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  33. I see plenty of vehicles treated like that. Then the owner wonders why it needs 6 boxes full of parts to get it back into shape.
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  34.  @Paul070  yup. Gm outsourced just about everything to China
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  35. Entire manifold is HOT. Its running lean. I would chase the coolant temp code since fuel pressure is decent. Its been 20+ years since I worked on OBD 1 Chrysler. I think they had data pids for o2 and coolant temp? Or will have to get ohm reading @ pcm connector for coolant temp.
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  36.  @Bryan-Hensley  You have to be REALLY careful with shotgunning parts though. Sensors can be junk right out of the box, causing you to chase your tail. I would prefer a 20 year old used sensor in some cases over a brand new part.
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  37. I got a bad Denso compressor last year. Installed it and it was SUPER noisy. Had to pull it all back apart and swap it out.
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  38. Police ones, there is no fill plug. They have a temp sensor in the fill plug hole. You can pull the temp sensor and fill through that, but there is no room with the cat in the way. As his tech support mentioned, I fill them through the vent tube and estimate the fluid level. Its about 1/2 a quart of 75w140. Civilian Explorers/Taurus, there is no drain. I drill a hole in the bottom of them and retap with NPT pipe tap. Put a plug in it, and fill them up through the fill plug and use one of those new capri sun style lube bottles they sell now adays.
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  39. On that Chrysler van, tap/blow the dirt out of the filter. Replace the ESIM and send it. You can test the ESIM, and also test the system with smoke for leaks.
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  40. I bought a friend of mine a set of 4 jack stands earlier this year. Guy was working under stuff without stands.
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  41. If that was my personal car, I would have pad slapped it (greased up the slides of course). Those OEM rotors are much more desirable over those "new" ones.
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  42.  @Jester-Riddle  ​ @Jester-Riddle  The driver continued to drive it even after the red oil light was on, the coolant light was on and there was a smell. A reasonable person would have stopped the car and investigated the matter. Instead the owner continued to drive it. No backstory on who replaced the hoses, why or when they were done. You can see @ 5:53 the witness mark on the hose in where it was previously tightened. My hypothesis is the car had a head gasket issue and previously blew the hose due to combustion gasses/high pressure in the cooling system. Somebody replaced the hoses and put the car back in service. Once the exhaust gasses pressurized the cooling system again, and blew apart the weakest link. As far as litigation, litigation is a waste of time. Hiring a lawyer over a 20 year old POS car would be like throwing money out the window. Small claims would be an option, but thats up to the owner, who was already negligent.
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  43.  @nickg9021  In my state the customer has the right to ask for the old parts back. If they don't ask, they don't get them. Most people really don't want the old parts back anyways.
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  44. What a frustrating position to be in. Not replacing the coils was absolutely ridiculous. And how the F does a shop claim to do diagnostic repairs not have the capability to reprogram new modules in 2021? I am basically computer illiterate and am able to do it at my house with a $350 used eBay cardaq J2534 and a POS laptop. Pay the $50 for a 2 day subscription to Ford and install the new software. You can even wing a used $50 PCM in and program that.
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  45. I unfortunately as of late have started a couple cars without oil in them. It's the big jobs in which multiple things get done on the car at the same time. Do everything underneath and then drop the car to get the top stuff. Catch it within a few seconds and immediately shut them down, but still🙄
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  46. That cold start sounds like an exhaust manifold leak. The other sound, sounds like a roller follower with a bad bearing on it.
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  47. I just did a trans rebuild last week on my Tahoe. I did it on a mid rise lift though, since that's all I have.🤕Miserable job. Coming apart went fairly straightforward, back together it fought me the entire way. Worst part was manhandling the transfer case up by hand on the mid rise lift.
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  48. Looks pretty straightforward. If it were a GM, they would give you 1.5hrs. Their warranty book time for a 6l80 4wd trans r&r and rebuild is like 6 hrs.
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  49. In theory, yes. Practicality, a nut splitter fits basically nowhere since everything is crammed in.
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  50. Customer in a hurry, that’s not your problem. That’s the service writers problem. Do a decent job in a timely manner.
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