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92 thoughts on “Half van half machine! broke down all the way!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adam R says:

    I love a clean engine bay. I like tire foam and then the hose to make surface parts shiny real quick.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel Ventura says:

    Surprised you didn't pit a new belt on when you had all that out of the way.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dale Eather says:

    🤩🤩🤩

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Simon Hams says:

    And sometimes you have to fix the second problem to find the first problem. Haha.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scrapsteen Life In The Forks says:

    I like pumping up the coolant system with lots of pressure and blowing out worn hoses and thermostat seals.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars mrstevepace says:

    Ray that hose protection sleeve looks very similar to what we used to protect cable looms in aircraft. A tip to remove or move it is to push it together and shuffle it. This relaxes the weave and allows the tube of material to open up in inner diameter, when you pull on it the opposite occurs the weave closes up and it contracts around whatever it is over. Its a bit of a faff to do but we didn't have the option of digging into a cable loom with a knife. Great video as always

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars xuser48 says:

    Is that engine bay build for a V12 since there's so much space between the fan and the radiator?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Duncan says:

    I have scissors in my toolbox

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel Heartsill says:

    Wednesday the seventh of Sept. my son purchased a 71 Ford f100. It has 68 thousand miles on it, It is a 302 ci, automatic, after market air and an am/fm/tape player. A great looking old truck except the paint is Texas sun burned. Looking at the van you are working on and looking under the hood of that truck it is sad how much stuff they have added.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars LifeOnWheels says:

    It didn’t need a radiator……

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Walker Ashcraft says:

    Tom Macdonald in the background.. Man. He is asking to make somebody mad.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Syrnian says:

    A van is a machine, so 100% machine.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SpEd says:

    Ok, I'm only a little over 3½ minutes in, and I see a potential long term problem here. When Ray was over at the radiator hose work area, he panned over the radiator cap opening that clearly had green anit-freeze, but it had either Dex-Cool in the overflow tank, or the water in it was some sort of rusty brown, possibly both. Ok… back to the show…

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ChiefR Games says:

    Nice and Shiney

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mark Wolfe says:

    I would love to see a video of tracing down an emissions problem in a 2002 Toyota Tacoma. Probably not in Florida. I wouldn't think Deathsantis would have any emission requirements in that state.

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris Rasmussen says:

    Wouldn’t 3 lines at once be doodleydoo cubed?

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Richard Prince says:

    Tom Macdonald in the background.

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars MISC BITS says:

    That truck is a carpet steam cleaning wagon. The pump in the back is usually powered by a small car engine (which also heats the water)

    Adding to the confusion there's usually a separate one way water circuit for the cleaning system to the vacuum head

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars livingdeadbtu says:

    I don't know what that was, loud noises… followed by congratulatory clapping… musta been good!

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jaden Sanchez says:

    Dude went ree

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dirtyharry70585 says:

    hope you watched for leaks before wash engine.:)…3phones meant you got CUBED

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars robert hawkins says:

    OMG, Your washing the engine without makeing sure water does not get into an electrical wiring connections. your encourageing rust and corrosion to form in the electric system wireing.

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brett Scott says:

    Dude yall do motorcycle alignment… thats righteous.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Natorianpulse says:

    spawns in as a lv 10 mechanic but toxic trait has beef with the phone

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Len M. says:

    UV Dye is much faster, just sayin.

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Borrego says:

    I must have missed you putting the PCV back on during repair, after you pointed out the error code that might bring the vehicle back in if forgotten….

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dave and Liz Wadsworth says:

    Is there a reason for not replacing the belts while you had it opened up?

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Dumont says:

    Truck mount carpet extractor…

  29. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Joe snider says:

    Damnit bro. While I really do enjoy your videos. Truly, they bring a smile to my face and I can listen to you effing monolog while I do my job. The only thing that is killing me, is the Phone in the shop. Every time and I mean every time I hear it ring I start saying "do0dled0odleydoo0" and for that I hold you solely responsible.

    But Thank you for the content man. I do appreciate it. I also bought stock in Break cleaner.

  30. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Will Mann says:

    Run the machine in the back and make sure the heat exchanger is not leaking into the radiator system. It can overpressurise pressurize the coolant system.

  31. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars o0O-JD-O0o says:

    You should tell the guy his hose is hosed 😁😁

  32. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jean Meslier says:

    Screw clamps used to be very good. First they were made of chrome plated spring tempered heat treated steel. Cheaper ones weren't chrome plated. These last forever. Then the best were made of stainless steel. These also just lasted. The laat box of screw clamps I bought were soft mild steel. I was able to buy some good ones at the parts store, but soon those gave way to the soft steel. The way Ray bent that back over the screw showed that these clamps are soft mild steel.
    I rarely say the old stuff was better, but this is one time I will.
    I had a lot of the Good Ol'Days. I like now just fine, thank you. I will be 83 in 4 months.
    Cars earlier than 1980 should only be driven in parades.

  33. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rafael David Rey says:

    Could have slided the protective net to the other side of the hose, seems it had plenty of room there

  34. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rob Achmann says:

    I know the engine bay is basically open to the outside environment, but what about all the electrical stuff & sensors when flooding everything with a hose? It doesn’t matter, I guess?

  35. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John Stauffer says:

    Same applies in the electronics industry, the first problem is almost always created by the second problem.

  36. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Richard Alexander says:

    14 comments.

  37. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gamer in disguise says:

    i like starting on the hardest mode it gets easyer when you lower the game mode

  38. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Hall says:

    What about water spots??

  39. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars John LaCroix says:

    1st class very kool great info.,, AAAAAAAAAAA++++++++++++ again great video I liked it a lot ,keep up the great work.

  40. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Scypheroth says:

    funny about the water hose used for the coolant…..ive worked at every dealership in my city and that is all what they use to mix there coolant 50/50 with straight out of the garden hose

  41. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ronald Mills says:

    I hate working on vans. Almost rather see a mini roll into the shop.

  42. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jaysun Kreuze says:

    I know you are in Florida but your accent says you are from Michigan. 😀

  43. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Aaron Gurtler says:

    Why no brake cleaner Ray? Your arms got all oily…

  44. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jaysun Kreuze says:

    Dear God, I wish people would delete the fan clutch in these vans and go electronic fans. It's ridiculous having to remove a bazillion parts just to remove a fan shroud.

  45. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kelly Stoffers says:

    What has been your most difficult diagnosis?? Most difficult repair?? Most stubborn part to replace, hubs are a pain, but what else?

  46. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andy Saunders says:

    So how much was a genuine GM radiator?

  47. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kash says:

    Customer states, “engine is wetter now than when they brought it in.” 😜

  48. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kash says:

    I see van, my brain says, umm nope. Kudos to your bravery on that battlefield. 🫡 I hope you remembered that pcv connection so you don’t throw the dreaded P0170 code.

  49. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Russ Walker says:

    Didn't see the reconnect of the PCV valve, did I just not see it??

  50. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DrMGomezJr says:

    Good job…intensive…

  51. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andy Saunders says:

    Seriously?
    A water-cooled washer pump?
    Well, I do declare.

  52. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Matthew Brown says:

    Ah. Carpet cleaning machine made by Hydramaster. PTO clutch driven to be more specific. I’ve got a lot of experience with these types of machines. They take a real toll on the vehicle they’re mounted in. Van can have 5-8K engine hours after just a coup years. Decent idea, but most operators don’t maintain the vehicles like they’re supposed to. GM has suggested maintenance intervals? Good. Cut those in half right off the bat. 7500 miles on oil? Nope. 3000.

  53. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fred Oropesa says:

    Best auto Channel ever I learn a lot from it thank you .

  54. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jw '46 says:

    Big points to the young guys. They've got shit to work on that I never even had nightmares about.

  55. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Austin Jolley says:

    listening to tom macdonald, good man.

  56. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars VenomousBiteYT says:

    Ray really had some confidential information lol

  57. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ford Boss Me says:

    One of our senior techs at the shop had the company work truck which was the same one you're working on in this video same setup he put a radiator in it and an upper radiator hose and lower radiator hose and it took like five attempts to get the air out of the system so hard to get out of this fan and kept showing that it was overheating even though it was just pockets of air that were trapped in the system it was taking forever to travel out even using the vacuum fill system

  58. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars alan friedrich says:

    the best

  59. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jack Nasty says:

    My first wife used to run hot
    When she stopped- I traded her in

  60. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Glen Whatley says:

    Anyone else find themselves doing the 'Doo-dah-doo-dah-doo' thing everytime the phone goes off in these videos?😂

  61. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Thomas M Leahy says:

    Psychoanalysis? Like a Freudian hose clamp?

  62. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars JayBird G says:

    How about this t shirt.
    My nutz got damaged by gravity.cuz gravity is said alot by yas

  63. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sammy Adair says:

    Water pump leak

  64. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars kirlu50 says:

    I'm waiting for the day when they change the ringtone just to mess with you.

  65. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars waylon balonski says:

    Mr Waylon emmett is the best recommending him to all beginners who wants to recover losses like i did.

  66. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Underground Lair of the Squankum says:

    REEEE if you had an AirLift it would have stopped filling when it got full.

    Also, for God's sake, buy a set of nutdrivers! To me, the #1 attraction of nutdrivers is "socket will never fly off and bounce around into some crevice."

  67. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Oneof Over81million says:

    Funny how the Rainman Ray's editor voice is deeper than the on video Rainman Ray's voice is. It's like he purposely does it. It reminds me of Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore.

  68. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Classic Gamer says:

    Do da do far away one hilarious 😂

  69. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Vukasin Petrovic says:

    One question guys! Is it okay to wash the battery like that? I mean, it wont go bad?

  70. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Lee LaBonte says:

    One of the transcooler line clips was sitting on the battery after everything was installed. Did I miss something. It was right before the spray down of the vehicle.

  71. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars roger hirsch says:

    Interesting to see your method of putting bolts everywhere after removals. Edited out replacements necessary I suppose, when you hosed down engine compartment I wondered about your retrieved oil and trans clips I saw one on the battery.

  72. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gary Balliet says:

    I enjoy your enlightening videos. The clarity and quality are some of the best I've seen. I and other viewers could protect our purchase buying power if you would include the cost of the repair you are making or recommending. If not possible, how about a price range that would be fair to the customer for the repair being covered? GB

  73. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Allan Beck says:

    Reee reee reee! Is that old coolant environmentally friendly? I only asked because tree huggers have taught me to be conscious of all fluid spilled or dumped rather than collected and recycled, and we didn't see you collect any of it. Presumably to be washed out to the parking lot or mopped up and poured down a drain (either sewage or storm).🤫😏

  74. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jon, Armed PI and security officer says:

    Just use dye

  75. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DeLoreans garage says:

    "I almost got slapped in the face with a giant hose" – That's what she said!

  76. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hat says:

    You sir, are a riot! Love your YouTube channel. I do a lot of talking when working on my vehicles, but mostly XXX rated.🥴

  77. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars xXCigarXx says:

    What kind of loser ass radio station do you guys listen to where you are from that they play Creed? That band was a laughing stock when I was back in highschool,I thought everyone kinda hated them like nickleback.

  78. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars yanni6556 says:

    Is that thermostat directly on top of the AC. What a bad design if there is a leak

  79. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars welly706 says:

    You got a van?
    If I get a van we can be men with ven?

  80. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars randy beard says:

    Ray, you really makes things Look Easy, I would have already Damaged my Salvation with many expletives used on this Job…

  81. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars randy beard says:

    Delco Part Made in Mexico or China…

  82. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bobby Braddock says:

    I am 95% sure you have had this van in before?

  83. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stevo says:

    a very interesting video thankyou Ray,👌👍

  84. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Terry Smith says:

    WHAT? A video with no brake cleaner?

  85. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Murphy says:

    What no Brake Clean in this episode–Major failure😎

  86. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars James K. says:

    WOW What a mechanics nightmare! If I saw that coming it would be a Great week to put in for vacation, 🙂 Thanks for the Vids!

  87. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars la blackzed says:

    What a pile of junk give me old school motors .

  88. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars robert medina says:

    Man brother Ray I thought I had all the tools! That is a really cool hook the way it shaped! LOL now I want one 🙂

  89. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars robert medina says:

    Ray you need a garden watering apparatus!! Doo to do lol

  90. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars robert medina says:

    Ray you are an energetic guy! Keep up the great videos!

  91. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars chris thorney says:

    swapping the engine on my motorbike and got motorbike gravity, not good 🙁

  92. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gotj says:

    The small diameter tubes that go into the expansion bottle are (usually) bleeders, if they're blocked air trapped into the radiator (and elsewhere) can't escape. Me thinks you should check these too.

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