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Wrecked ram pickup installing rear axle assembly 2019 ram dodge 1500 pickup
You gotta be careful of what you had at lunch time if you strain on lifting heavy parts…might sound like cwis phalanx gun.
Up here in the northeast we use a natural thread locker. It's called road salt!
has the chassis been twisted has the geometry been altered
I believe that the lateral rod you are referring to is called a panhard rod.
I wonder how the body shop verified that the axle housing was bent. Would it have been as simple as rotating a wheel, and noticing that one wheel was wobbling with rotation? Perhaps if the axle is bent, you get to a point it is simpler to replace the whole housing, axles and differential as a unit?
Which is better for a pick up truck, leaf springs or coil springs?
I would prefer leaf springs.
Ray, to make the parking cable removal easy,, take a 1/4" flat large washer and cut a 3/16" slot in it to the center hole. Now pull the spring back and slip the washer with the slot over the cable. That way you do not have to fight the spring anymore while trying to bend the tabs and pulling the cable guide out of the slot/opening.
Jake
Good video, Ray. I would have changed the fluid before I put on the sway bar. 😉
So when you remove the rear brake cable you have to use all 6 hands?
Had a dealer tech forget to refill the rear diff on a lease-return pickup I was buying. Made it 30 miles before the axle bearings welded up and the input shaft twisted off. When it skidded to a stop, I got under it and there was a sad little flame coming out of where the input shaft used to be… nose cone glowing red hot. Couldn't find one with the right options (ABS, gear ratio, factory locker) in a salvage yard, had to buy a new one- $4k in 1997 dollars.
maybe living on truck territory of Alberta have make me an opinionate prick, but you do seem to work kinda backwards and make your life harder in the process, but what do i know i know i still fixing the truck from the last trip to mcclean creek, lol (i lack money at the moment)
Yes I watch everyone I have to get my rainman fix every day
when it comes to those mickey mouse parking brake crap needle nose vice grips can work wonders
How many times a day you feel like ripping the phone intercom speaker off the wall and smashing it into pieces?
On the shops experience ladder, where does Ray stand? How many above/below you.
99 Luftballons!
Them gloves don’t hold up around sharp metal objects. You do a fine job with what you have to work with.
CRAZY…..OK….WE'LL GO WTIH THAT, Hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Mehanics prosper with the sun out en they are working under a shade..😊
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May have been mentioned already, but zip ties help a lot for the handbreak cable. One to hold the spring compressed, and one to hold all the clips in, similar to a piston insert tool holds the piston rings in when assembling an engine.
I find it odd that body shops would send out vehicles for the type of work you are doing to this truck and the other jobs you have show from body shops. Where I grew up in N.E. Alabama body shops would do everything (except for internal engine or transmission work) in house.
Surprised the frame wasn't bent!!
i get nervous when I see writing that says "core'
Zip tie in the parking brake spring to hold it compressed it makes it a lot easier
Torque spec: 1 white knuckle = nipped up; 2 white knuckles = tight; 3 white knuckles = very tight, 4 white knuckles = starting to shear, back off a flat.
You can use a Zip strap to compress the brake spring and save the headache.
Every dooodeeedooo gets a like! Workshop ringtone rocks. Its famous! Tell the front counter service advisors its being heard all over the planet.
It needs it own channel! You could use it at the start of every video in the background.
Thanks for your brilliant analysis of me being crazy, watching everything you post. Your diagnostic skills are top notch, sir.
So if your working with Insurance companies, why are you putting in parts from used vehicles instead of OEM remanufactured or aftermarket remanufactured or new parts? I would not be ok with getting someone’s lack of maintenance headaches from used vehicles.
Gear ratio the same on the replacement axle as the the original? I worked hope so.
For the parking brake, try using a hose clamp to depress the tabs holding it in. Maybe use some zipties to hold the spring back and out of the way while you do it
Whenever this guy uses sill words like 'fingies' or 'boing' as well as 'giggity' people say its cute and endearing, but whenever I say shit like that I'm just called immature and childish. Pfft.
I use a zip tie on those brake springs..then when it's in place cut and remove..it really helps release the tension
I'd like to see you work on a 92 Mitsubishi
I'm wondering about that rear end, with "Core" written all over it I'd be concerned that someone had turned it in as a core.
Can't believe that with all the sales that Dodge makes since le last 20 years they still uses these junk models of emergency brakes
Is Ray a master mechanic????
the song you hummed…jeopordy….and yes we are crazy!! 😆
I don’t know what it is but being a technician myself it’s soothing watching someone else go through the same asspains I do lol.
Nice work triple R !
Pushing the spring back and clamping the cable lightly with vice grips, works nicely for keeping that brake spring retracted while you sling curses at the clip.
They make special tools too remove the parking brake cable
To get those ebrake cables off in the future just use a flare nut wrench ,pull the spring back slip the flare nut wrench on and push on the wrench ,will squeeze the tabs and pull right out easy peasy.
"Click" Love it! You tighten enough bolts you really can feel the right amount of torque, for those ney sayers… You haven't tightened enough bolts then.
Did you guys match the gear ratio to the front diff…or if it's even 4wd lol
What can I say? . . It's fun to watch, somewhat learn, judge, as a only human but competent professional repairs just about everything on vehicles. Before YouTube we could only watch from the "fish tank" mostly out of curiosity like people do rolling passed a accident on the road hoping to see something to talk with their friends about later, you know . . like a tech taking a oil shower. 😊
Lateral bar is called a panhard bar.