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Super Sketchy… Oh by the way it has no brakes… If you out your feet under that you die. ….. I'm killing myself laughing! … Never a dull video at Ray's!
Time to do some sketchy shit doo dah doo dah Hope that I get away with it, oooh doo dah day
Somebody figured out where you work and had to do something to get on the video xD
technically its on a wheel 🙂
interestng items, would like to see all the different problems in depth
I wanna know more about that missing rim lol
Where's the rest of the rim? Spread across the highways and roads of the state of Florida.
Several times in this video you forgot to use the green subscribe button. Your videos just would not be complete without the phone doodlie do’s and the green subscribe button.
I love when Ray cradles the shaft
had to pause when i saw a fan and you said about to do something questionable, are you going to test the fan clutch with your hand?
That F-150, has what you call a Scotty Kilmer brake job.
Since we all know, Scotty Kilmer thinks it's fine to use compression fittings on brakes lines.
Got some, Just Rolled In Moments in this video.
Why not put a pressure tester on it?
Cradle the shaft ?
Could you not have just used 12 point wrenches on the driveline bolts?
It's amazing how clean the undercarriage is on that mercury.
That axle came out of a Police Interceptor. That rubber strip along the bottom of the diff cover was a part of the solution Ford applied to keep the fuel tank out of those bolts during a high energy rear collision. The axle assembly is the same but the ratio is probably different.
When you were installing the junk yard axle, I thought that maybe you were going to finish the north or close out the video and say there will be a part two but you just went in a different direction without going back.
Kind of all over the place today.
I had a brain lapse one time on a running engine and stuck my hand down to close the drain cock on the radiator—-right into the metal fan! Skinned my knuckles good and reminded me how dangerous it is to work on vehicles when you are really tired!
Y’all need a fork lift
Lol hold my beer and watch this shit😂😂😂😂😂
Where did you find those drive line sockets
Not that you will lose a foot or a few toes or a foot but that you will die. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀💀
You could've gotten the ring end of a spanner onto that drives haft with the 12 points lol
In the trade in the UK they are known as bi-hexagonal when mentioning them however one of the metalwork/machinework guys I watch called them a tri-square pattern. I was like…. erm … I see that now lol
Scotty Kilmer compression coupler… REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Gee..I wanted to see ALL of the Grand Marquis job….as I own a Crown Vic. …which I definitly now need to check the diff oil level on!
😁😁👍👍
Hey I just want to let you know I was the 12,000 likes great video Brother Ray we love you
Brass compression union – good for water pressure bad for brake pressure. Whoever used that compression fitting on a brake line should be flogged.
Florida man: driving with only two wheels. About on par
So I know you're not originally from Florida but even up here in Indiana we have some Florida Tech. When we have to do this with Derby cars we use a piece of wood across the Dolly then set a rim or a rim and tire on top of that and Then we set the car down on top of that.
🎶gonna do some sketchy shit do da do da, hope I get away with it all the do da day…🎵
Gonna do some sketchy ish doo da doo daaa Hope I get away with it, oh da doo da dayyyy🤣
Ray you could invent the New Brake fluid Bib maybe make disposible !!!; )
Only stupid if it don’t work😂
Ray, how do you do this with one hand on the camera? I can't even pour antifreeze with 2 hands without spilling it… you should be a brain surgeon.
Hey Ray, This is going to seem like a weird comment, but. . .
I changed my engine's air filter. By myself.
That doesn't sound like much, right? But I'm a cancer and stroke survivor with pretty bad PTSD and difficulty in handling new tasks, and I was never a car guy. So opening the hood is freaking hard mentally and emotionally. My brain can spiral off if things get hard or complex, and I seriously can go from good to crying in the corner in seconds. Recovery has not been easy.
But the dealership wanted $70 to do it, and I knew I could get a good filter for a fifth of that, so today I had the day off and went out to change the filter on my 2008 Ford Ranger. Watched some how-to videos, and thought I was ready. But someone had moved two of the coolant hoses so they made it hard to unclip the air box. I was getting frustrated, feeling it slipping away, then I look down and said.
"Ah, that's the mass airflow sensor."
You see, I've been watching your channel for months now, and I've learned from it, even just a little, and suddenly knowing what I was looking at allowed me to calm myself, re-center, and get back to the job. Once the new filter was in, it was a bear wrestling the air box cover back into place, and I couldn't see one of the two latches, but I got it done, and you bet your ass when I closed that second latch I said "click."
So thank you, Ray. You are doing more good with this channel than I think you can imagine.
Just when you thought you saw everything something like this wheel comes along. I spent a couple decades working on cars and saw a good bit of things during that time but it seems like every episode I watch on this channel I'm saying NO WAY at least once or twice.
One time at band camp…..
We had a 2.6 Mitsubishi. Leaking anti freeze between the block and head we hammered a Mercury dime w jb weld never leaked again till the trans. went yr later
Well, they won’t *die*. Maybe just get a new nickname. “Stumpy”
So what are you going to be on Halloween?
The 2nd unit is from a police car and the rubber thing on the bottom of the diff pumpkin is to prevent puncturing of the fuel tank in a severe rear end collision.
Dang no oil change☹️
Nice ! Surprised to not be seeing more water damage issues . That Dodge was a cool vid.
I use a rolled up newspaper, same effect as the hammer but it won't damage the fan blade.
Good videos.
When I watch your channel I see you disassembling suspension parts on vehicles with near 200k miles on them- and the bolts actually come loose! Here in the snow-salt belt, these fasteners would all be so badly corroded that what was once separate pieces of steel ( nuts, bolts, studs, frame sections ) have become fused into single masses of iron oxide, and any attempt to remove the fastener will just break the target suspension elements completely off the frame, or break frame sections into useless chunks.
Ray living dangerous.
Trolley jack strapped to the axle is good enough for rolling a car around when it only has three wheels.
Hi Ray,
I am in Miami for work and was going to look you up. I seen something that said you moved to Palmetto Bay. Just wanted to grab a pic with you. All good though.
Hi ray enjoy your content I thought of a shirt for you every time you imitate the phone ringing you should have dr doado report for metal surgery
🎶Time to do some sketchy shit🎶
Geez Man, Was it a Full Moon?
Moving that Mercury was sketchy AF! Glad you and your unindicted co-conspirators survived that!
Like this video and the other 4 hidden videos inside this video
My 95 f150 brake system is solely saved by those compression fittings lol
Typical compression fitting can hold up to approx 1200psi.
Then there's the black high pressure compression fittings that exceed 5,000 psi.
I've seen some lately try to say they're as low as 300 or 400…lol
They just want to sell more parts or afraid their techs won't get them tight.
I've used them for years with Zero failures.
You must get them tight enough that the feral bites into the tubing or it could blow off due to improper installation.
I've seen my share of loose leaking unions & fitting that also weren't tight enough.
I've used them in 1 ton trucks hauling loads with no failures.
I always hard stop check them a few times before returning them to their owner.
I treat every vehicle as my wife & kids are riding in it
just a guess, but the skid plate probably change the source from the unexperienced eye. 3 minutes in.
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I wanna know what they hit to break that wheel like that , 😂
crash derby car lol
Are we going to see a full video of the rear axel being fitted?
👍💚💥
The rubber on the axle housing is to help prevent the fuel tank from leaking in the event of a rear end collision when the fuel tank impacts the axle.. A common thing on the Police Crown Vics.
That is a nice hodge podge of problems.
Great 👍🏾 video
Ray was a little confused by this video. May retitle with compilation in the title. Good video after I figured that out.
Ray Ray what are you doing man. Will you put a full length video up please disappointed bro
"the tps is missing" 😆
hey ray,love ur videos very educational
I think the rim thingy was a new version of a low rider tire. 😆
If you would have turned the rim over it may have worked ,center would have been closer to top, sorry I laughed when you got soaked
An old buddy started drinking brake fluid to get a buzz. I told him it would kill him eventually. He said "Don't worry. I can STOP any time ".
Can someone explain the deal with the fan clutch? What SHOULD have happened?
Eff one hundred and fifty.
Time to do some sketchy shit
doo dah, doo dah
Hope I get away with it
oh, da doo dah day!
The "proportioning valve" on the Ford truck is actually a rear ABS dump valve ( very primitive rear antilock brakes on trucks in the early 90s all it did was dump brake fluid into I believe a spring loaded reservoir so every time it rear antilock brakes wood actuated the pedal would drift down to the floor like I said very crude). I believe the fan clutch is working as a designed they're supposed to be freewheeling at idle if the front spring on the fan clutch is not up to temperature the only time it locks up and it does it slowly is when the spring change this tension and it closes a valve inside the clutch fan and locks it up. You can also change the tension on that spring by moving it, sometimes there's an adjustment.
Buddy
This video was crap!!!!!!!!! I wanted to see that rear end replaced, and I stayed awake to………
As I watched you talking about the fan, I’m saying to myself “Don’t do it Ray”, then I see the mallet and say to myself “thank God he didn’t use his hand” and then you did.😮
Dang it Ray, you’ve got me trained…you hit the lift button and I hit like button.
I am communicating that I enjoyed the video. Do-de-do-de-do. Nice work! 👍🏻👍🏻
At least it the heater hoses not the core. Enjoy this channel keep it going.
"I think it's gonna be a good bad idea" lmao!
Great mix dude!!🙏❤️
Should you replace your belts and hoses after X years, if there isn't a problem?
What happened with the Benz Wheel?
who's phone number was that on the note on the dash? I sure hope it's not the customers. 😉
Back in 2016 I took my new Hyundai Sonata for first oil change, person who serviced vehicle was doing similar things with open hood on my car, when everything was done besides oil change I get two complementary uniform dings on my bonet from lights fixtures or some another object that is up in air hanging from ceiling. Anyway when Hyundai called and ask how is my first visit, they are little bit embarrassed with my experience, two day's later some service manager contacted me and asked to bring my car back for dents repair and make sure everything is 👍. I was not upset or mad, I just let things fix itself on it's own, sometimes you win when you let your opponents fall because of their own weight. 😉
not sure…. but fan clutches only lock up when they get hot enough to engage the spring..
Thats what I call curbing the tire !!!! Left a quarter of your wheel for the next guy !!
Hoping everything's ok in RR land. 🙂
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If you don't do "Sketchy/Questionable" once in awhile, do you even Mechanic Bro?
Love the sketch Ray! Nothing wrong with being a little pragmatic when necessary!
Will the axle replacement on the Crown Vic be posted soon?
I like this format. Lots of interesting bits and pieces that might not make a good video on their own. As to using the rim to move that Mercury/Ferd three-wheeled car – it's what I call the best bad idea you've got. And it worked. So there, haters.
I don't think you need to try any harderer to make good videos. It looks like you are trying the hardererest that you can. Seriously though, good stuff!