@Rick I did not see a commercial at all, maybe my app blocked it, it's not in the video.

@Rick That's KZfaq's doing, not the channel's. I have KZfaq Red and saw no ads whatsoever.

I don't mind commercials as long as Tony gets a cut, but I think what the op meant was no long winded intros, please like and subscribe click the bell, a series of apologies etc etc.

Yeah I've seen so many crappy premade intros with annoying music on yt for so long and I'm glad he doesn't have one.

Yep, no staged thumbnails of Uncle Tony making goofy faces, no clickbait titles, no stupid music intro, no taking the first five minutes of the video to tell us what he is going to tell us, like some other guys with ewwtube car channels. Cut to the chase with the goods, very workmanlike. Thats why this is my favorite car channel.

BINGO........that's a great idea.

I know quite a few really good mechanics and every one of them does that. They told me to do the same thing when I got a bad alternator.

With anything I return as defective I slip a note detailing the fault under the item or in the instructions, and back in the days of vinyl I'd write 'Pressing fault' plus an arrow on the label.

I do the same but I write NFG.

Big black crosses with a sharpie

That's the shadetree stuff we're really after, thank you.

Good test didn't think of that but it will double the movement if you stack two good lifters this way easier to tell they are good.

Base of test lifter against straight side of another lifter, so base to side. And you should see the convex shape of the lifter base, not an air gap from an incorrect concave shape or perfectly flat. Also while engine is running, lifters should be spinning (the push rods will spin also), else it's getting chewed up. Tight or lose lifter bores can cause a lifter not to spin, or even heavy lube can as well. While assembling engine, slide cam into place and drop the lifters into their bores, then with no pushrods, spin cam by hand and watch to see if all lifters spin while cam is rotating in normal direction. If not, there may be a problem.

That’ll tell you if one of them has a convex.

@@johnwilburn Pretty sure you meant a bad lifter will be flat or concave. A good lifter must be convex but of course that's no guarantee it'll stay that way. Super stiff valve springs or spring binding (incorrect lift for springs/perches), wrong type of lube, rust, method, poor quality (heat treatment incorrect, alloy incorrect) bla-bla can wipe out a cam.

Easy to check but u have to no what to look for there for a lot of training just saying

You sir, are a good man. Need more like you at the stores!!!

And what do you do with the ones that fail inspection? If you don't throw them in the trash they'll probably just get passed around until sold again.

@@greeceuranusputin Tag as new defective and send em back for credit or replacements. I've had that happen at work a few times with Briggs and Stratton parts and they pay right up.

Good! Do that! Tell people your doing it and nobody in your areas gonna buy them anywhere else 👍

SAME

Yeah, I saw that too... Gone are the days of small independent parts stores that had men behind the counter who knew how to look up parts. Whenever I go to a parts store now I look up the parts on line before I even walk in their door.

I'm in my mid twenties and yet I find myself making the dude behind the counter pull out the paper catalogue so I can search for the item myself since their computerized inventory system doesn't account for interchangeable parts across different models half the time. 🙄

I thoughtt it was AutoZone lol 😂🤣 😂👍🏽

good eye

I actually like Advance, but any of the chain stores require you to do your own parts searching before you go. If you expect the guy at the counter to know anything you're a fool.

I just made the same comment.......I deleted it 😞

Too bad it's not true.

I literally was just about to type the same exact thing, lol

Clever

YES! Absolutely. NOW, you have to be the parts counterman also to get anything done. This has gutted the industry, and it all started with Check Auto Parts.

Retired at 49 if it’s any consolation it’s not a problem unique to the US, I left the industry in the early nineties when Australia went through exactly the same nonsense.

ABSOLUTLY! Don't bother complaining nor interjection morals into this uprising of the corporation, it don't matter.

@@peterbuckley3877 CHINA?

Robert L. Fallin most of our stuff was actually made in Australia leading up to that period but we didn’t go to Chinese made I think most of it started coming in from Indonesia . I moved on to work for a major German company and everything was made in Germany up to about 3 years ago when they started manufacturing the smaller stuff in China, after 23 years with them I retired earlier this year for medical reasons.

Good on you! I often forget to do this, ugh!

Same here. I hate getting a used part delivered

I've returned stuff with "IT'S FUCKIN JUNK, SAMMY!" Sharpied on the box.

Good idea. Will be doing the same moving forward.

What color is it? 😂

Is that 2 or 4 wheel drive

I quit going to parts stores that ask stupid questions. Tends to get you to a store with a staff that's more knowledgeable.

Me: I need a carburetor for a '71 Mercury Montego, 351 Cleveland, 2 barrel. Auto parts thing: Is that a SUV?

I was trying to order a window regulator. I live in Sydney, Australia. I was contacting a parts store in the U. S. Me: I need a window regulator for a Dodge Avenger. It's a right hand drive vehicle, my drivers side is your passenger side. I need a regulator for a right hand drive vehicle, the drivers window. Clerk: Sorry sir, we don't have parts for that vehicle. Me: What?! They're listed on your website! Some of these parts places are lost.

Hey it’s only 2am here in the pnw

10am here in Ireland.. hello

@@CathalCoolkirky u have chryslers in Ireland?

​@@mikemoscato2995 No we don't have muscle cars unless imported directly as classics from US. We do have stuff like Chrysler Jeeps / 330C's or Grand Voyagers etc but hey are very rare. We also now have FIAT-Chrysler economy cars but nothing like the cars on UT's channel; hence why we lurk on this channel to get our fix of straight 6's and V8's. :)

It's not just chrysler he literally said that.

Amazon supports pedophilia.

With Amazon , there are no defects, it’s a feature.

I doubt its an Amazon issue. they don't make the parts. The issue would come directly from the parts maker.

You’re customer was a crackhead

returned parts are always a problem. especially electrical parts. i told the customers you open it you bought it no returns no warranty except starters and alternators unless our tech looked at it. parts cannon people were terrible. then scammers that would clean the old part and try to pass it off as a defective new part.

MAGA daddy cheats and lies. It's okay. Dodge draft. Don't pay taxes. MAGA proud.

@@dukeallen432 YAY! You made something that has nothing to do with Trump about him!

Those 'return scams' work far better if they let their 'hot' girlfriend return the part!

I’d say it’s more a case of your own employees selling parts out the back door and putting cores back in the box. When I was 16 I worked at a Nationwise auto parts. It was a common scheme then and probably is today.

@@12yearssober In our own store's case, we know that it's a few non-regular customers rather than our few employees who are committing fraud. In a large, big box operation though, I'd agree with you.

MisterJive Non-regular as in joggers? 😂😂

Bought a brand fuckin new idle air control valve at Oreilly's one time for way more than I should've paid because of necessity, and waited for it to ship to the store for about 4 days. When it arrived it was a core that had at least seen 100k miles on a beater.

@@12yearssober No, but rather to the contrary.

Detroit Jones and the missing crown...

Or was it CAMID-19?

LOL

zombies! are always the reason They are definitely in league with the gremlins.

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Nah that’s negligence. Malice is “the desire to harm someone; ill will.” So if they don’t *want* or *intend* to affect another person by their actions then it isn’t malicious. If they simply don’t care if it does, if they don’t take due care because it won’t affect them directly, that’s negligence. Negligence is “failure to take proper care over something.” I see what you’re saying, but there is a difference.

@@emilchandran546 apathetic criminal negligence

The incompetence is not just at places like these parts stores. You will find this even at car dealers. Friend of mine replaced the steering rack on a mid-2000's Chevy truck. But of course he doesn't have an alignment rack so he takes it to the Chevy dealer which is close by to have the alignment done. Couple months later he was working on that truck again something unrelated. Happens to look down through the engine bay and notices something weird. The accordion-shaped bellows that goes from the steering rack out to the end of the inner tie rod. It's all twisted up like a pretzel. so he gets under there to look and tries to figure out why it's like this it wasn't that way when he put the rack on there. He looks at the other side it's exactly the same way the rubber bellows is all twisted up like a pretzel. for some reason when they did the alignment at the dealer the technician didn't bother to loosen the strap that holds that flexible bellows tight against the steering rack and so while he was twisting the tie rod ends to get the alignment done it was twisting up that rubber bellows. And he did this on both sides? He had to have been fighting the rubber bellows trying to twist back the entire time he was doing the alignment adjustment. All he needed to do was loosen the clamp on one side of that bellows and it would have slipped around as he rotated the tie rod. They took it back to the Chevy dealer pointed out to the service manager and he had absolutely no explanation. The tech who did this was not a new tech he had a good reputation for knowing what he was doing. So we don't know whether it was just pure laziness or whether he did it on purpose because they didn't get the job to change the rack also? Eventually that bellows would have failed then probably caused early failure of that rack. The story that happened personally to my mother, she had a Toyota that she had serviced regularly at the local Toyota dealer. Never had any bad service or so she thought. Although as dealers are it's always a bit more expensive. She called me to tell me that her car was stuttering and not running right, asked me if she should take it to the dealer I told her yes because I couldn't get there to look at it for a few days. They call her and tell her that it's a failed ignition coil, and it's going to be $600 parts and labor. This is a coil on plug setup on this car. she calls me and asked me if that price is fair and I told her absolutely NOT!!. I went on RockAuto took a look at the denso ignition coil the same one the dealer will use and it was $60. I told her to wait I'll take a look at it and do it myself because that's a total rip off When I get home to look at the car, the first thing I did was verify that the ignition coil was the culprit. It was saying misfire on cylinder one. Well it's just a simple engine cover, 10 mm bolt to remove the coil and the electrical connection. I swapped coils from cylinder one and cylinder two, but the misfire stayed on cylinder one. Which tells you it's not the stupid ignition coil. It ended up being the fuel injector had failed. That took me all of 35 minutes to replace. The injector was about $150 . But the fact is it was a super simple diagnosis to prove that the ignition coil was or was not The fault. The technician at the dealer had simply hooked up the computer saw misfire on cylinder one and made a diagnosis without bothering to actually double check. They would have tried charged my mother $600 and it wouldn't have fixed the problem. Absolute total incompetence. At that point they no longer repaired my mother's car for anything. I took over all the maintenance on her vehicle because of a lack of trust at that point.

@@kens97sto171 That doesn't surprise me. A dealership is THE LAST place I would pay to work on anything I drive. ( Unless it was warranty work ) .......They charge far more than most other reputable shops, and yes, I've heard all kinds of shady shit done at dealer's shops.

oh man, dealerships and shade tree local garages...I've known dealership mechanics who quit when told, during repairs, to "play with" another part so the customer would return. But at least you're getting OEM parts and someone who is, theoretically, trained to deal with your specific car, and any outstanding recalls. My local mechanic? always uses the cheapest parts, and marks them up 100%. I swapped the serp belt on my father's truck with the "money back guarantee" belt, and later it flunked emissions so the local mechanic tuned it up. Well, according to his records, the serp belt was never swapped, so he took it on himself to toss out the belt he saw, and put on a new one. a few thousand miles later, its squeaking--because he put on the "selling this car tomorrow" cheapest serp belt sold. So i had to buy another top of the line belt to slap on.

Next time, find a parts place with an old Spicer catalog where you can look up ujoints by dimensions.

@@juliogonzo2718 "SIGH".........Due to my comment being so lengthy to begin with, I didn't bother taking the time to say how we eventually wound up doing that, and NONE of these damned places had the correct size u-joint. But all of their computer's inventories claimed to. Come to find out, my particular 2000 Tacoma 4x4 regular cab ( NOT an "SR5" ) 3RZ-FE motor/auto trans w/factory tow package has 3 u-joints on the split drive shaft ( different than a "2 pc shaft" ) that are unlike any other u-joint sizes used on ANY of the other Tacoma's, even from the same year. But that doesn't get those shops off the hook, because my truck is now 20 yrs old & tens of thousands of them exactly like mine are still on the road, so I CAN'T be the first victim to this bullshit. This is why I had to go to the dealership & pay a king's ransom, to buy 3 freakin' u-joints.......of all things. Good u-joints though, mine lasted 19 yrs & 350,000 miles, and I work the shit out of this little truck. But you can bet the farm that thousands of other owners of trucks just like mine were given the same runaround.

That would require going through a lot of new lifters looking for one w/o a crown.Since Tony recognized the lifter, and it only had a few minutes run time, it was essentially as made.

That's the right thing to do

Yep... In order to have a proper crown, they must have a non-directional finish.

Napa sucks , twice as expensive as the competition for same brands

Not too bad with Napa Canada, yeah some parts are a little more but for the most part, filters, wipers, aftermarket lights/mirrors aren't bad, we use another company for front end components/ brakes, for some reason they break the bank at Napa, 157$ for a rear rotor on 2004 f550 plus 60$ for a seal, vs our other guy 80$ for rotor, 40$ for seal

@@kylederry5031 I would just be sure that the less costly parts aren't Chinese junk. Especially being brake components. I've found that sometimes saving money isn't worth it when it relates to safety. But I'm sure you know that.

This all seems too reasonable to be true. I want to blame china for this and all problems I experience including my obesity 😉

Do they ever ask what reared it when ordering brakes 🤪🤣🤣🤣

I bought plugs once at a chain store, told the guy exactly which ones I needed and how many. He literally shamed me for asking for 5 plugs. First of all, what the fug is it to you guy, maybe I wanted a spare? Anyway he said "let me know when you find that 5th cylinder" and I said "its right next to the other 4... its a 5 cylinder engine" to which he replied "there is no such thing" and I just stared at him for a good few seconds, turned around, walked out of the store and got in my Volvo S60.

A more experienced person knows when to follow the script and when to deviate from it. I think half of the problems I've had getting support comes CSRs blindly and rigidly adhering to a script. I recently had to book transports for 13 consecutive day. When I called the CSR told me "Our policy is that we can only book 2 transports per call. " Me: Uh, but I need to book 13 transports." "CSR; Well you are free to call back , but our policy is... "Me; You're serious? You're telling me that to book 13 transports I must call you a total of 7 times today. Does that sound reasonable to you? "CSR: Our policy is..." "Me: Simply repeating your policy does nothing to help move us towards more

...reasonable accommodation." "CSR: I understand. Is there anything else I can help you with? "Me: (mike drop) You should know that a

each time I call, I am forced to endure a long

They still exist. I've run a couple sets in the last 8 years or so without trouble. Dang do they clatter, though.

You know they make clacking right. On the paper they tell you they slap like solids ! or are you saying they sheared . .020 depressed

@@jimmywilkinson9190 I had forgotten about. I had a friend who them in a 70 Camaro with a gear drive talk about a engine that made racket.

I received brake pads in the wrong box recently,and cross threaded slider pins in reman'd calipers from my local store.It's getting WAY worse too,it seems like every store is selling mislabeled junk

Cheat who you can. MAGA daddy's proud that he cheats people. Lies daily. So screw your neighbor. Rip off stores. All bout getting ahead. MAGA proud.

Duke Allen Are you capable of doing or thinking about anything without flying into a tangential rage about Donald Trump? Sad!

Better quality control would mean even if it's the same dam part there would be less bad ones sold

Good catch Nathan. I don't think I would buy a Comp cam and then buy lifters from a local auto store like Auto Zone, Advance etc. Maybe better to get them from the manufacturer. ?

@@robertclymer6948 Gotta wonder if there are 4 lifter manufacturers then are two of those pushing out junk? I'm not sure how you know a lifter will pump up without actually filling it with oil, I don't see a problem with doing that as long as you're not filling it with grease or gear oil.

@@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 Master Po, Were those hydraulic or solid lifters? Sounds like hydraulic, so why the long break in?

@@robertclymer6948 Hydraulic lifters with the oil chamber, there are several parts inside such as plunger, return spring, check ball with spring/valve. A column of oil occupies valve train slack, for essentially zero lash. If adjusted too tight, plunger bottoms in lifter and valves in cylinder head never close or may cause valve to collide with piston face. So pay attention to lifter plunger pre-load, I shoot for about 0.020 thou or so, you can get a bit more but I find 0.020 works well. All other lengths must be correct as well, of course. As far as break-in, 2,000 RPM at startup for 20 minutes, this keeps cam drenched in oil to avoid scuffing the lifter/cam interface while the parts settle (Patrick Fitzjohn). Personally, I set my idle as high as possible but usually under 1,000RPM so to keep as much oil as possible slinging up onto the cam and oil pressure high enough to hopefully avoid starvation.

@@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 Thank you very much. Well explained sir.

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@arnulford66 but isnt hydraulic roller better?

Ole-marius Bergesen they make a little more horsepower but they have more moving parts

Just use some sense and quality lifters.

Imo roller for ensuring longevity and no matenance. Cost vs reward jmo

@@deanstevenson6527 And I was thinking 1955-57 Chevy 265.

@Caden Becker: You are talking about rocker arms not lifters. Used lots of YT products over the years, including many sets of their rockers, never had an issue with anything.

@@paulmathieson8081 yeah my bad, and good to hear

Ronald Reagan said it best, "Trust, but verify",

@@patriot9455 I agree.but who thinks to look at the bottom of a" new" lifter? I think this may have happened to me a few years ago on a bbc 468. I lost 2 cams in a row and I know I did everything right.

I gather that he had returned the part due to it being defective. getting it back is an issue with carelessness at the parts store. at least that is how I saw it.

@@blair79bear38 I am told that flat tappet lifters are no longer a good quality part. Yes, sometimes ok, but most of us builders are just not going to chance it.

Foking squirrels . In oz its the dam kangaroos foking with my sh1t!

Mark McGauchie squirrels are basically Mini kangaroos both are definitely furry jerks :(