Not just mechanics . . That's a metaphor for life . .

Not done watching the vid yet. I think he just needs a bigger hammer. Or a snatch block? Kidding, of course. Been there, does suck.

as a tech, let me tell you, this is true with tech in general... be it gas engines, electric or computers... mechanical of electrical... anybody who spends long working with technology of any kind will have this kind of experience.. if you fight and fight, get frustrated and somebody who dosnt even know what they are doing walks up, and first try it comes lose.... that shit... can break your brain at times... also the "i have no idea why that worked but, now its working flawlessly, despite the fact that what i did, shouldnt have had that effect.. how the fuck...never mind, never look a gift horse in the mouth"

I remember once trying to get the bolts undone on a fuel filter (i think), it was in a deep (high) channel under the car and the opening between the various tubes/wires was that small that, iirc, to move one of the 6 faces of the nut around once needed 4 spanner on&offs as I rotated the angled open-ended spanner a smidgen each time! Took me fxxxen ages (about 15-20 mins for this bolt) but I had no choice but to persevere.

Years ago while trying to swap out an engine mount. It came out almost easy but no matter how much I tried it would not go back in. I was in the process of taking it back out thinking that I was sold the wrong part when it slipped out of my hands and fell right into place. Sometimes you find yourself fighting and fighting on something and when you give up it finally starts to behave.

😂

That could cost ya.....lol

I take it your child is a engineer!

29:43 TWHS

haha yes ithought the same

Having worked in the automotive business and now aviation as a designer, I can confirm everything said above. I can't even start building parts until I know how they will be removed quickly. Also, from what I have seen, design engineers these days do not have the hands on experience necessary to realistically build manufacturable parts.

they truly are. instead of a huge touch screen on a dash id love to see a new car that is designed to be easily repaired. i went to change the shocks on my ford econline and the only way that makes sense to remove the shocks in the rear is to cut the tops of them off with a sawzall, how insane is that??

Everything except thrust reverse sync shafts of all things, I don't know if they never expected them to fail or built the entire engines around them, but the number of times I've had to cut the outer line in half, then cut the new part in half at the same point to get it in and swage both halves in place to get them in is ridiculous

thats why we have birds still flying LONG after their figured service life...

I went from an automotive engineering and R and D, then on too aircraft....yes..automotive industry is driven solely on the buck...not but 2% given to consumer safety

Engine hoist is key but you lift block engine up then remove. With pos cortina we had to lift engine to change plugs. Yup these industries are evil.

More than one way to skin a cat! Metaphorically speaking of course.......please don't skin cats. Unless your in a anatomy lab and the cat is already dead. My female lab partner had two cats and refused to touch the dead cat, so I did it, and she became the team scribe.....LOL

I have learned the hard way to NEVER say anything like that before I start a mechanical repair. "Sure, you will be able to take the car to your appointment, this job will only take me two hours so you will have plenty of time." Four broken bolts and three days later...

The totally felt that when he said it 😂 The minute you say gravy job on a Mopar…it ain’t 😂

@@wldncrzy1971 not just Mopar. Been working on over the road and heavy equipment for years now. NEVER say it should be a quick or easy job. Have had my ass kicked too many times by "simple" jobs.

@@OverlandOne Happened with me with the top passenger motor mount for a Dodge Neon... An hour job, tops, turned into a few hours at an AutoZone learning how to tap a thread because it stripped coming out. Hell, it happened multiple times BECAUSE IT WAS A DODGE NEON. Lol. Alternator was behind the passenger splash guard and had to be pulled out from the top past AC lines & reaching past the engine. What a PITA.

@@brianargo4595 I always say this job will be a bitch. Then I am never disappointed 😂

*of

The extra labor was to allow time to try many different ways to avoid the long path :)

My god! I've heard that yarn too and I'm in New Zealand 🤣👍

No. They dim down the air conditioning thermostat until the weakest dismay...

Mechanical engineer here... I MIGHT have found his frustration at dodge's engineers amusing, but I can neither confirm nor deny it.

🤣 Just spotted your comment after posting mine. 🤣

You posted exactly what I was going to comment ….LOL!

It sure can be a big problem nine months in the future ouch!

😂😂😂

9 months later a Plymouth Breeze rolled off the assembly line

A good engineer would engineer their education. When I was young I was interested in engineering satellites, so I became a USN Aviation structural mechanic, composite specialist, and NDI technician. In the end, satellite engineering became much less interesting and now I transport a hundred tons of food and household goods nightly instead. :P

Automotive engineers have to factor in maintenance at the dealership ... that's why it takes 5.5 hours to remove. He did his job.

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle indeed, the customer is just a cow to be milked in service of industry. Cash for clunkers was an unmitigated success.

I've also said that before… about 36500 times in my 47 year career of being an autotech.I just know from talking to both technicians and engineers that it's the bean counters that make it difficult for us technicians the engineers are just following orders.... ( usually)

@@seanwarren9357 Schools hard

What you desire is right but you are a rarity.

As an old school mechanic, reading your post is sooo refreshing. Hate uppity engineers.

the hero we need

I'm a millwright.. I wish all engineers shared your opinion.. I've worked with some extremely arrogant and pretentious engineers before who thought they were too good to even talk to the guys who actually have to turn the wrenches..

Wait! Are you trying to claim engineers "plan" anything? BWAHAHAHA. Anybody encounter GM j-body cars from the factory with a bit of scrap box cardboard in the rack-to-firewall mounting strap to keep the rack from shifting about an inch to left or right at full lock positions? Assemblers had to overcome engineer no-think. Until the cardboard disintegrated. The Eiffel tower is a nail designed by an engineer. Upon its launch, GM engineers touted the unlined aluminum Vega/Astre engine as having built-in lubrication good for 50,000 miles then a new block only cost $45. But the labor cost was more than the cost of a new Vega. OOPS. "Did I do that?" to quote Steve Urkel.

Doesn't matter what you do, the AC is always in the way.

One better do “not” buy a dodge product!!😂😂😂😂

Coming from the engineering side and having previously worked for GM and Chrysler, most if not all engineers developing vehicles know how much of a pain repairing things can be and a good portion of them were mechanics before becoming an engineer. Engineers will build multiple preproduction cars mostly by hand before it goes to an assembly line. Engineers top priority is production and cost. That bolt for the rack and pinion for example, Chrysler could have moved it lower to make it easier on mechanics, however Chrysler is going to install 100% of them at a factory, it's much easily and faster to have it that high up so when the subframe was installed it was easier to access during the assembly process. The reality is probably less than 5% of vehicles are going to need their steering rack replaced and only like 0.1% of that will be under warranty, spending any amount of time engineering it to be easier for mechanics would just be wasting time and money.

@@davidbuck9977, sound, unimpeachable, and inescapable.

@Henna K really henna k

I did a job for an electrical engineer who told me that after 25 years designing systems he decided to get into the maintenance and repair field of those same systems figuring who better to know how to maintain and repair them than the person who designed it. It was at that point and I quote exactly his words that "I learned about everything I'd been designing wrong for the last 25 years." Architects aren't much better. They design things that can be built but often exceedingly difficult to safely maintain. Especially after all the landscaping is done.

@@davidbuck9977 yep. Designed from the “inside out for ease of assembly.” Works awesome when the manufacturer KNOWS they’re building a turd.

Good 'ol Kroil

I concur. Even do truck joints this way. Sledge hammer as an anvil on one side and a good whack with an appropriate knockometer on the other and job's done.

Yea I bet they put that 6 hour mark on the 4 wheel drive version

I spent more hours than I care to admit getting a driveshaft out of my Mazda. It took me hours just to get the shaft nut loose - ended up with a 6 foot pipe over the socket bar and I was all but swinging off it before it came loose. Obviously wasn't holding my mouth the right way.....

Your comment made me laugh super hard 🤣 and it's true be standing dumbfounded how easy it is going in then out

@@DonutVIP I had a 94 Cougar with the 4.6 V8, and getting the OIL FILTER out was a nightmare EVERY time. And I build MX race bikes, certified auto, been to every brand of off-road vehicle seminar shit, built custom cars, have my contractor's license......but had trouble with an oil filter..... over 40 times. Ugh.

It reminds me of my dad's story. He was trying to remove a car radio from under the dash and it wasn't coming out no matter how hard he tried, so he relaxed his arms to take a brief rest when, all of a sudden, the radio fell out and cut him on the forehead. Sometimes things just go that way... LOL

Same applies the other way around, easy to come out, PITA putting it back in.

Dam great idea.

good for masking holes before painting too

Never thought of that! I'm gonna have to try that at some point

Good tip man. I'll use that, thanks

You're genius

Yes, those angry pliers are BITCHIN!!

This could've all been saved had he just taken out that big steering shaft bolt

He went out back to look for a torch.

I just thought he googled it LOL :D

Hell yeah dude 100%

Hi Stan 808! Oil filters 404: Those who are replaced unscrewing, as a can, in a whole complete unit; problem: they leak. Solution: install them tight. New problem: they wont unscrew. Solution: destroy engine block with TNT, to release the oil filter or use this trick while installing the oil filter: Always lube the seal. Fill it with new oil. Install it light tight. Unscrew. Install it a little bit tighter, unscrew. Now it is evident that it will be stuck if tightened a little bit more. Tighten it and just start unscrewing a little bit. Ready! That's it. Will not leak because it is really tight but WILL unscrew because the unscrewing process has been started.

@@victorborges9523 Thanks for responding! I think you know that I meant it as a pun, as Rainman Ray often uses his verbal “click, click” on random fasteners, other than real torque wrenches he actually uses on critical components.

Bought an old car when I was about 19 y/o and could not remove the oil filter no mater what wrench or tool I used. Had to escalate. Ended up hammering a screw driver through it perpendicular. then hitting the far end of the driver handle with a hammer to break it free.......Ugly, but like Ray often says...."I win!".....LOL

@@jaykellett2327 have done that too. By the time it was off the oil filter looked like it was hit with a shotgun 🤣

@Timo Salesto You traitor!!!!!!

Is cellophane not getting bad with brake fluid?

@@danibess6284 Doesn't matter - it only needs to seal the vent in the cap to stop the air getting in, so the fluid doesn't run out when you disconnect the line...

I've heard it said that engineers will walk straight past a dozen naked, willing participants to screw a mechanic

Yeah youd think the engineers would be required to have seen an automobile before being tasked with reinventing the wheel for the 1millionth time!🤦‍♂️

oh wow, im die-yeeng ova heeya...that is gawdamn funny

They don't hold the engineers and mechanics office party on the same day? Good one.

Us engineers hold the office party. The mechanics just never show up :(

So now everyone is a mechanic? This isn't your video nobody asked for your correction assistance

He didn’t lock the steering wheel before he disconnected the shaft

These particular types of fittings are sealed with o-rings, and are generally nowhere near as tight as a flare fitting, rust and corrosion not withstanding. And in my 35+ years of being a Mechanic, I have found that if I do need to use a line wrench, I just go straight for the Vice Grips and a torch instead! Much faster, and less damage! Especially when it comes to brake lines.

Yes that is a correct statement about the line wrench, the design prevents damage to the fittings. And yes a I am a master mechanic with 47 years experience. And have done this exact job so many times I lost count .

@@thomaslemay8817 is funny because I have made lots of damage to line fittings with those line wrenches haha 😂 specially rusted ones. And yes, I use the exact measurements and high quality ones. But hey I ain’t replacing sheit. If it becomes non grippy the vice grip is my best friend.

Ford Mercedes Benz Audi Jaguar Nissan Subaru Fiat among the ones set to dissapear.

How many of the jobs start with "remove the engine"?

@@confuse9 anything with a boxer engine

How's it hurt it

@@AgentOffice Back in the day vehicles had a spring loaded cam system with grooves or bumps that glide over other bumps or "cams". The turn signals and horn passively glide over each other. You could rotate the wheel with very little risk of damage, to an extent of course. The horn pin can be broken off but can be replaced/repaired cheaply. Most of or probably all vehicles to today have a clockspring that is a captured system where there is stops and tabs. This system does not pass through each other and are held in a limited range of motion. Turning the wheel beyond those points can and most likely will strip either the tabs or break the spring or horn contacts or all of them. Very expensive to replace and pretty much impossible to repair, not to mention they are very fragile.

If it wasn't for this guy and Scotty I'd be lost on most things.

Too right, I wish I had that level of patience

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@Darkfarfetch English be your second language there, homie? Learn to type. That's my point.

@Darkfarfetch Too!

They got a whole team of rookies to design the new GM 1500 trucks

@Darkfarfetch what exactly does your little mind think it fixed? Because it doesn't appear to be my spelling, syntax, or the general gist of my message to you, sweetie muffin.

@@earnestp.worrell5389 KnowwhatImean Vern? ;)

Yeah I think some where done with a bolt on a white board as inspiration. From there they built the machine LOL

But the Base time was set for the four wheel drive truck's. How many guy just take it all apart without looking for a better way good work work ray!

@@pyro7234 what is this crap?

I heard a story a number of years ago about how Lucas discovered that a company in Asia was making counterfeit Lucas electrical car and motorcycle parts. The company was considering suing the Asian company until they tested the counterfeit parts and discovered that they were superior to the factory parts. Instead of suing, they made the Asian company a subcontractor. (No, they weren't being made in China.)

I see you have come across the "Price of Darkness" AKA Lucas electrics. Re other Jags, try changing diff oil on an XJS. No drain plug and filler plug is tucked right up where my large hands won't fit. Book says to drain diff take off rear diff cover. To do so means dropping the diff, which means dropping the suspension etc, etc. Plan B was get a brake fluid vacuum suction unit and suck out the old 140 mono grade diff oil via the filler hole, but do it quickly after the car has been driven for 1/2 hr or more - oil is warmer then and less viscous. With owner, who has skinnier hands, we did the job sucking out then refilling oil in about 1.5 hrs - that was after much pondering how to do it. We did the job again about a month later. First lot of oil looked like it had been there for many a year so we didn't want to take any chances despite the lack of any noises coming from the rear end. Having a 2 post hoist at home makes the job bearable. Without a hoist I would not have even attempted it. Owner has since sold the car and I don't want to see another Jag. Retired mechanic in Land Down Under. PS. Car also had 16 coolant hoses under the bonnet/hood. That was a 40 min job for the two of us just to find where all the hoses were in the engine bay - we had all the new hoses in a kit all laid out but still had trouble identifying locations. Then another 10 hours to replace them a few days later. Like Ray were loved our job, doing it twice a few times after we got the sequence of fitting the various hoses in the wrong order.

My brother acquired an XKE in a dubious trade. He told me the heater core was leaking, the book called it a 16 hour job. I asked if he had to start at the taillights, he said that was probably right. He offed it somehow before he stuck himself with that job.

If only there was a northern manual

@@HoLeeFuk317 Their is & it only has 1 page with a picture of ( A TORCH & A WELDER ). Below that is says " GOOD LUCK, MOVE SOUTH OUT OF THE RUST BELT YOU DUMB ASS, LMAO. "

Or, in this case, into one!

That's what she said.......

The new assembly comes with just the inner tie rods. When he he took the outer tie rod ends off he just automatically took to inner ones off but he didn’t have too.

Pissed pliers

@@oobaka1967: I don't recall hearing Ray use that kind of language.

"Junior" angry

What are the angry pliers where can I buy them

Karen pliers

It's like entering a combination on a lock it looked like haha. Pull right, twist 3 times, pull down, twist reverse once, unlocked!

This was a money job back in 2014, 1.5 hours tops

@@Stg4100 even better job now that they're all CP.

My question> why is a 7 year old rack already leaking with busted seals? No leaks yet on my 20 year old Tacoma and my 8 year old Subaru

@@jkarov it's a late model dodge, that's all there is to it

Oh, i thought you park the thing in a pool full of penetrating oil for a week first.

Nothing beats a good acetylene to heat steel stuff up till it's cherry red like exhaust manifold and header bolts from blind holes without snapping them off. No one never ever wants to snap bolts off in an engine block. As for working on rusty stuff in salty Wisconsin, I got tired of rusty crusty in my eyes. Yes I wore safety goggles and glasses, but it didn't keep all the stuff out of my eyes. I don't even do my own oil changes anymore. I can relate to Ray's discovery or what the hell moment when reassembling. Been there, done that, rinse and repeat.

Bro, those tools are EXPENSIVE. I have nearly 10k in tools, abs lemme tell ya, I have just about everything he has but the scanner. I have a cheaper scanner that I paid $1,200 for. Lol. Enjoy the bliss of not having an entire vehicles worth of tools. Lol.

With A 19mm,17 mm,14mm,12mm,10mm,8mm,vice grips, a few ratchets and a few miscellaneous tools,you can rebuild almost anything ,,90+ of tools are never used as its aĺl the same nuts and bolts for atvs,motorcycles,cars,etc

@@unfairfight3625 then you have long ratchets, short ratchets, offset wrenches, s wrenches, screw drivers, channel locks, pry bars, 1/2 sockets, 3/8 sockets, 1/4 sockets, flex head wrenches, flex head ratchets, stubby impacts, full size impacts, stubby 3/8 drive impacts, lug nut sockets, half size lug sockets, air ratchets, torque bits, hex bits, triple squares, inverted torque sockets, line wrenches in both standard and metric, multimeter, scanner, dead blow hammers in multiple weights, ball peen hammers in multiple weights, calipers, c-clamps in varying sizes, line locks, punches, air hammer, air hammer bits (to include pointed bit, chisel bit, hammer bit, angled chisel bit, ball joint separator bit, and scraper), dykes, needle nose pliers, picks, drill with wire wheel, extensions in multiple lengths and sizes, flaring tool, line separator tool, axle sockets, swivel adapters, and I'm probably forgetting a few. I use all of these things on a regular basis.

@@unfairfight3625 Kinda half true, though not quite. You can pretend to enjoy spending half an hour all twisted and cramped working on hard-to-reach seized bolts with your tools or use a nice impact wrench with a sexy attachment to get it in that tight spot just right while you car is lifted properly so you can actually work without pretending to be a 220lb human pretzel. Or you can try to be Aesop's fox with the grapes.

@@gedkealmen i drive a toyota Corolla and camry, so you service brakes,oil,struts and replace the battery,tires and exaust, the alternator is easy to access.every bolt and nut i touch has antiseize on it for easy service next times around

Honestly, I always assumed most mechanics got pissed at cars all the time and started swearing and throwing shit, I must've gotten pretty lucky with the shop I joined or been wrong about my assumption lol. We're all pretty calm about everything, been there almost a year and only once have I seen even close to such a display, and it wasn't even over a car lol, something else totally unrelated went wrong

Ray is unusual. He's obviously highly intelligent. I don't think Ray understands how lazy and dishonest many mechanics are.

@@mikeb.7068 THIS. Also grew up in a family of mechanics (auto, heavy/diesel and aircraft) and I've heard the horror stories of how shitty some mechanics can be. Sadly, there's a lot of them. Guys like this are a real rare breed.

I think engineers should have to work on repairing their designs.

@@EvilTurkeySlices most don’t realize that engineers have to design within the constraints of a budget. engineers doing the actual designing aren’t too pleased with what they have to submit but there’s not much you can do when the attitude from upper management is “who cares about whose repairing it as long as we meet this budget and get our bonus”

Engineers have explained multiple times that they submit or argue for designs that make life easier for the consumer and mechanic. The penny pincher higher up shoots it down because it costs five cents more. Might seem insignificant, but five cents is a lot of money if you make a million units of something. Many companies now just roll it out. "Let the aftermarket fix it". We are making jobs this way. Says the original manufacturer.

Engineers are told to make the things as cheap and easy to assemble at the factory as possible. The company doesn't care how long or difficult it is to repair once they sell it

@@darrenporsch This only works when shit breaks outside of warantee.. as i go to the dealership and watch entire engine replacements where the chassis of a pickup is on the ground and the body in the air, i have to wonder how they feel about that particular cash leech..

@@ronaldwanders: So, too, is a "dirty" wife!

If you wiggle the shaft too much all the fluid leaks out.

I had the dirty hands thing for many years. When the economy crashed back in aught 8 I was left without employment. I took a job in a steel mill where gloves were mandatory at all times. They gave us cotton/ leather gloves to use. Not easy fumbling with nuts and bolts. My hands were never cleaner and I lost all my calluses.

So many "giggity" opportunities missed! xD

You learn to charge double on crap dog products so called.

It took me 8 hours to pull my transmission for a clutch replacement and then it only took me 3 hours to put it all back together.

yes and he also needs a torque wrench,, not seen him use one on anything.....

He's not shop owner

@@djps2753 ok thanks. Do you know what part of Fla they are at?

@@NGrtrdblue8562 yes

Do they really have the same time figured for both? It would seem like apples and oranges.

Factory spec is totally important on many things. But would you factory spec tighten your wheels? Or your caliper bolts and slide pins? Tight but not overtight works most of the time to get the job done right. At least in my experience. The only things I've ever torqued to spec would be engine internals, heads/head bolts, intake parts and plenums, and manifolds. Or where tolerances can be screwed up from being too tight. Oh and spark plugs.

He actually never adjusts the torque wrench the clicks are just for show

Master tech for 24 years (Ford, Land Rover, Jaguar, Rolls Royce), literally only use a torque wrench on heads, main and rod bearing caps, and differential internals, they are really the only things that matter, never had an issue with anything else.

i agree number on of premature fallers on ball joints tierods and hub assembly's

@@conn9823 yes there are circumstances where you do need to torque wheel nuts properly or drama will ensue but not many

It's true. The BOM on the vehicles would double

Just a DIYer who likes fixing and wrenching on his own 💩 whenever I can with the help of common sense and KZfaq Channels like this one; as far as engineering is concerned, I own mostly old school cars from 1964 to 1978, and newer vehicles from 2003 to 2008. Vehicles were simpler then, but the industry will always have you buying new tools 🔧and try to keep the regular consumer from working under the hood(remember when the industry switched to metric and you needed a whole set of tools to work on your own stuff? Shout out to "South Main Auto" channel too🖐. These are my favorite 2 channels: very informative while walking you through diagnosis and common sense hands on auto repair.

That is why I love old military stuff. Designed for easy field repair.

@@titolombre7004 The industry moved to metric because cars are made everywhere in the world...and guess what, everybody else uses metric.

@@trueppp No, it semi switched to metric for the inferior made in china parts, but kept SAE for made in the US/Mexico/Canada parts. Mexico parts are crap as well, so is South Africa, but no one competes with China for inferiority.

That's called the learning curve.

You mean don't start with the BFG first?

Thank you son like I say I do appreciate your work and I appreciate your reply you are a damn good mechanic one of the few honest and straight up I would love to have you work on my automobiles, and I'm one of those people who don't like nobody to touch their car because I don't trust them, but you I'd let you work on anything I got I know I would have a good one at it God bless you and thank you for the good videos