My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard And they're like "that engine's faaarked" Damn right, that engine's farked I can fix it, but I'd have to charge.
I work at a hardware store and this is how it looks when paint spills, all thick and growing the more you try to clean it. We use cardboard to pick it up, scraping it, then and only then we use rags ! I feel your pain!!
We had a tile flooring in a store I used to work. I would usually wait a bit for a paint to dry and then just scrape it off the floor, same for the tinting colorant. For small spills, like few drops here and there, I would use wet wipes. They did wonders :)
I was thinking use a dustpan to scoop up as much as possible then rags. Also, I was like you need to bail excess oil out of the overfilled collector before you move it...and then he moved it.
When I worked at a 4x4 truck lift center we used NAPA oil soaking clay that looks like cat litter. Does a amazing job on getting these types of messes cleaned up fast.
Ray my little hack for cleaning up fluids like that when they spill is to use a big dust pan and a window squeegee generally a smaller one like on from the dollar store, gets most of the fluid up and you can drop it into a bucket for storage/transport.
You handled this one with style. This video reminds me when a delivery of oil in a 55 gallon drum was delivered. The parts department put it in the shop (not quite where it belonged). One of the mechanics forgot it was there and backed into it. 55 gallons of oil on the floor makes for a very very long and bad day. His mistake, involved the whole shop to clean up. Needless to say no customer work was done that day. We had one very clean and tremendously shiny floor for a few days. Thanks for your humble attitude.
Yeah, except this guy just thoughts it would be funny to drain and make for a good youtube video. It backfired on him. No one asked him to drain the sludge.
i used to use 55gal drums to water sod (until it rooted) but holy crap OIL would be the worst thing to ever spill, haha!.. Today on YT i saw a vid where a guy lost control of his vehicle because of an oil spill on the road. Oil sucks.
A good way to cleanup, that we use at our shop is we use wood shavings that generally is sent off as waste material and just cover any spills with it then use a broom to move it around and let it absorb then we just scoop it all up with a shovel
If I ever come across a situation like this, I know what to do now. I will use a empty oil drum in stead of a oil catcher to be a on the safe side. Thanks for the learning experience.
I’m amazed that your shop doesn’t keep bags of kitty litter on hand for just this kind of crazy occasion. At the very least it would have helped clean up after the customer loses their lunch when they hear about a total engine loss.
I think they would've kept that or sawdust but since the stuff is so thick to the point it clogged his oil drain pan a bit, that stuff probably wouldn't have helped much lol
If ma baby went KaBAM on me, i'd prob cry I love my Blackbird (motorcycle) :( Good thing I learnt enough in the little time I spent in college for car mechanics (didn't finish the course) to actually repair and maintain some things with my bike, and if their is anything idk their is alway's UA-cam hahaha
Dear Ray, (my first comment to you after watching dozens of your videos)… You’re obviously a well educated man. With some college and probably lots of reading, you’ve amassed a wide vocabulary, making your dialogue fresh and interesting though your numerous videos. This helps make your narration entertaining. Your apparent knowledge of most common American cars is impressive. Your description and explanation of your work and the nature of your job is insightful. (I’ve learned a lot!) Any negative comments made by your naysayers and critics are probably out of jealousy and envy. Most anyone with half a brain would appreciate the way you conscientiously approach car repair, balancing safety with reasonable cost. Your no nonsense work ethic is commendable and makes you an honorable man. I would insist that you work on my truck, even waiting in a cue for days just to have your expertise in my favor. Your personality is very funny and entertaining. Your videos are a joy to watch. Please don’t change a thing! My wife likes your videos too, but wants to see your face more….but I don’t want to hear her calling out your name in the bedroom…so, please limit your appearances. Thanks!
You said a mouth full, I agree with everything you said. I've learned a lot from Ray as well. I also love the way he talks and takes care not to screw people over.
Cat litter works even better. Pig mats are made for this. Otherwise there are quite a number of products to first bind the oil and some even work to clean up the floor afterwards
@@alexanderkupke920 That's true. However, there are several types of cat litter. One type contains silica gel which is same stuff that's inside the small bags shipped with products sensitive to moisture and it's used to pull moisture out of the air. Biodegradable cat litter is made or contains sawdust and several other types of plant fibres. Silica gel is very effective especially when it comes to absorb moisture in the air, when it comes to oil I'm not so sure what's most effective. One thing to keep in mind when using silica gel is that it can react with several types of chemicals. The reason I suggested to use sawdust is because it can be used with almost all sorts of chemicals, it's very cheap, and its absorption rate is very high. I am a trained toolmaker and every shop I've worked in had container with sawdust. When I watched the video I felt an urge to toss a couple of shovels of sawdust on the spillage.
For the amount that came out of there, I think it might be worth having a word with the owner to see if they filled up with coolant recently. I'm thinking coolant must have been added to the oil filler and not the overflow tank, there is just too much for it to be a cracked head or gasket failure.
Coolant and oil mixed into the hot egg beater engine internals will emulsify the oil and coolant much like beating egg whites in a bowl. It just keeps growing in volume. The mustard color is interesting. It must have been a yellow or orange coolant.
Radiator Coolant Hose Flange SKU: 1502717-VW-07K121133E | 07K121133E This part gave me similar results when it failed last summer, and I have a 2012 VW. I think the grand total for all the flushes we had to do was $400-700, but I cannot recall where in the range. This car probably also has a vacuum pump gasket leak as well, and the replacements can be picked up for like $30 from RKX, and is an absolute pain to get to.
This is why I watch. I know this time it was on you. Literally! Funny, improvisation always something different. Dude I was drinking my coffee and laughed and shot coffee out my nose.
Thanks for your bravery in posting this video! I watched it last night and again today, read a boatload of the comments, but ran out of time. I've had to clean up more than a few messes, some that I made myself. Wow! That was epic!
Pissed myself laughing at that one! The running commentary was brilliant! Thanks for all the videos you have posted. For approximately thirty five years my cars have been serviced by the same family run business here in Ayr in Scotland and I literally put my life in their hands. I’ll never get my hands dirty, but have total respect for those who do, so to all at McCrone Auto Specialist (Especially the long suffering John) a big thanks for your years of flawless service!
I personally like to do stuff like that myself, it saves alot of money to do your own re-pairs and servicing... I've learnt everything Ik from YT pretty much (For the little mechanics ik but enough to keep things healthy, I did goto college for mechanics for a little while but never finished the course sadly) :(
I over pressurized the same oil caddy when I was draining it once. (The pressure release valve was broken) The drain hose flew out of the tank and sprayed high-pressure used oil on me, 2 workmates, and it covered 3 bays.Bad day it was!
I forgot to tighten the funnel riser on one... Funnel and tube blew out like 4ft into the air and misted oil all over me. Luckily the waste oil tank was outside.
Seen one that got stuck in the roof supports still doesn't beat a acetylene or O2 gas canister (can't remember witch one it was) that landed mile away inside someone house when the bottom blew off, just a very small hole in our work roof and the bottom cap of the canister and a loud bang (we suspect it was user error leaving it lit unattended and it fell over and heated up the canister and boom)
I work in the oil industry, and we have these white oil absorbing mats that we use for spills. They are amazing, and will only absorb oil, and leave any water behind
So what you're saying is there's been a solution to the long forgotten oil spill problem occuing in our oceans (that's ignoring the radioactive power plant still leaking and all the car batteries and other goodies)
@@michaelhayes8519 I'm not sure about putting them in a large body of water, I dont think they would float, they are pretty dense. But I'm sure they could make it work somehow, problem is price, they definitely are not cheap.
The fact that the coolant reservoir wasn’t that empty makes me think someone added coolant to the engine oil accidentally or just kept filling up the reservoir as it emptied.
@@stevevarholy2011 When the oil-water concoction mixes it froths into a much larger volume thanks to all the air bubbles that get trapped, sort of like a nightmare egg white meringue.
You Sir have my absolute sympathies It took me entirely too long to remediate my mess in the aftermath of a similar disaster The impromptu barrier was a nice move And you Sir have a great day tomorrow You earned it
@@lennylipe6434 I play with big machines. I get 10 cases at a time. I've gone through a case in a day. It's not 'brake cleaner', but a kerosene like industrial solvent. Lots of my stuff has plastic and rubber parts that are damaged by brake cleaner.
I feel your pain Ray. Here's a good one for you. Early 2010s vw beetle. Lady asked me to take a look at it for her daughter because her daughter said it wouldn't start. They had it towed to my apartments so I could look at it and hopefully fix it. Tried to start it and it acted like the battery was dead even though it was a new battery. Jumped it and finally got it to crank and start. It had a little tapping noise so I shut it off and checked the oil. Oil on the very tip of the dip stick only so I grabbed some I happened to have. Added 2 quarts and started it up. Still taping so I shut it off and checked again. Still the exact same thing so I added another quart and checked again. No change. Thats when I decided to look under the car at the oil pan. No hole to be seen from the front or sides. Looked from the back side of the engine and the hole back of the oil pan was gone. From corner to corner top to bottom. I was parked in the grass so no spill to be seen or I would have added the one quart and realized I had something bad going on. Had to dig up and have the oil contaminated dirt disposed of legally then have some dirt brought back in. Told them what I had discovered and drove the car to the street so they could have it hauled away. Come to find out the oil light had been flickering for days and had stayed on while she was driving and stayed on just before the engine died. There's a reason they call it the idiot light. Lol
@@emmanuellopez236 TL;DR Lady drove a car for a few days with a massive hole in the oil pan, after a few attempts at starting OP decides to check under the car and notices aforementioned oil pan hole
A few years back had a customer come in for an oil service and had a coolant leak. Topped off coolant and pressure checked, had a slow leak somewhere. When I pulled my pressure checker off I noticed oil mixed in with the coolant. Popped open the oil cap saw the milkshake, decided to diag further for possible blown head. Customer stated never overheated, didn't get white smoke and no rough idle or misfires. Checked all 6 cylinders for coolant and did a compression test, no coolant in the cylinders and compression was within normal values. Started to suspect oil cooler with a bad seal. Customer stated oil cooler gasket done at another shop a year prior and this just started to happen. Customer admitted topping off coolant by pouring it into the oil fill. The reason there was oil in the coolant, there was a crack in the oil cooler. Oil flush, coolant flush, replaced expansion tank and replaced oil cooler.
Had this happen to my cat c12 years ago except I got oil in the coolant instead of vice versa. I was on a rural Mississippi highway. Had to use water from a farmers stock pond and what air I had in the truck to flush out the coolant system just to get back to the shop in Texas. Was a bad head gasket from improperly torqued head bolts. I won't say who did that 👀
I feel for you Ray, my little treasure thought he would help Dad by moving a large tin of paint he could hardly carry with a loose top .... paint from chin to toe all over his front and my shed floor !! Not like you can dump him in a bath of thinners. Thanks for the vid Ray commiserations again from across the pond
Kinda reminds me of the time I was doing a transmission line pressure test on a car and it didn't end well. The hose that went to the gauge decided it was done with life and about 5 seconds after I started the car it burst. It sprayed trans fluid all over me, the car, 2 walls (it was in a corner bay), the ceiling, and the car and tech using alignment rack in the next bay over. I swear trans fluid was dripping from the ceiling in that bay for a week lol. Good times, good times lol
@@Hoaxer51 # 6 oil is sometimes used as heating oil in older buildings and on ships. Nasty, just a slight step from asphalt. Has to be heated to flow in cold weather.
Wow. That was a lot of the forbidden milkshake. I am pretty sure someone poured antifreeze straight into the oil fill. The sheer volume of sludge was impressive
I had a 99 Plymouth Breeze and everytime I changed the oil there was more and more frothy gunk that came out at the end of draining it. Thankfully it eventually caught fire and was junked. I knew it was living on borrowed time.
Sorry for that big mess. I would start setting the drain bolt on the jack so I could quickly put it back in to stop the overflow. You live and you learn. You do good work anyway. I'd trust my car to you anyday.
Seeing the milk brought back bad memories of my old bronco II. I carried around a 5 gallon gas can with water in it. I can say that poor thing was a champ. Survived a year like that before it just quit while pulling into the school parking lot.
I had a friend with one of those. It overheated if you drove it for more than 10 minutes. He just drove it for ten minutes and then he'd crack the windows open with the heat on full blast. Then he'd drive it another 10 minutes and then if he wasn't at his destination by then, he'd park and wait 20 minutes. One day it just gave up the ghost. What a pile of crap, put probably because it wasn't maintained very well.
My old 88 Bronco II cracked the head between the number 1 valves around 49000 miles and cracked the other head between the valves on the number 6 cylinder around 95000 miles
I wish I could tell you that some dumb stuff like that has never happened to me, but I'd be lying. I feel your pain brother. I hope the rest of that day straightened out after that. 👍👍
These are times you create an extension for the drain hose/tube. Don't move the bin, and drain it where it sits with the extension... have had this happen once or twice. 😆 🤣 good show
Don't feel too bad Ray. Happens to the best of us. Lesson: Retrieve oil plug before pan fills with oil (or malt 😁) so you can put it back in the oil pan if you need to. Suggestion : I wold have used floor dry to absorb the mess instead of rags but each to their own.
Dust pan or shovel and a bucket for the bulk of it followed by solvent and a rag. Get your gloved hands into it, wipe and wring. No gloves in my day but likely the amount of solvent (often gasoline) my hands soaked up is showing in my mental processes.
Have had worse mess then that before. Mechanic I worked with decided to try to use air pressure in gear oil to push it into differential. Way to much air pressure and boom. Gear oil everywhere. Boy does that stuff stink. Plus make a loud noise as well. :) Good video.
I’ve had this happen to me more times than I care to imagine I have found the floor dry works pretty good or cat litter as they call it in some places I’ve never seen you use any is it outlawed in your shop And yes I have used shop rags for the same purpose before ShopRag guy gets a little bit bent he gets over it
Wood dust/chips! Sawmills have tons of it, and it's the best stuff for big spils. Every time i get oil or coolant on the floor, i put a pile of dry sawdust on it to absorve it. Peat is also great. Rags are bad solution..
@@fillmainlol5973 Actually the first time I saw the milkshake on a dip stick, I let the junk yard deal with the mess. I intuitively knew no good could come of pulling the drain plug.
I don't think I've ever seen one that bad. I wonder if you had pulled the end of the discharge nozzle out of the smoo to allow the air to escape if it might have drained into the tank better.
it would have drained slightly better but remember it wasn't draining fast enough that's why it filled up to the level of the drain nozzle it would have spilled either way but probably not as much.
I had a co-worker back in the '80s who had seen an ad for a car he wanted that was located in NJ. We were in Queens. He took public transportation to get to NJ because he figured he was going to buy the car and drive it back to Queens. When he got there the car's engine knocked really badly but he was stuck with no ride home and he figured if he could only get it back to Queens, he could deal with swapping out the motor. So he walked to a store where he bought several cans of oil (quarts still came in cans back then) and filled the engine up to the valve covers. Started it up and beat a path back to Queens with oil squirting out of every orifice it could find. When I saw him after the weekend he told me how he got it back. I laughed my ass off. He was a Haitian guy with a thick French/Haitian accent and it was like hearing a story told by Inspector Clouseau. I couldn't stop laughing. The mess my friend Pierre made was undoubtedly far worse of a clean up than yours is, Ray.
I had a similar malfunction and the oil was mixing with the coolant and the malfunction was fixed and materials were added to clean the engine and remove the mixed oil residue and the engine is still working fine
Entertaining Video. Surprised it killed a 6 Cylinder VW, usually the TFSI surrender very early. I am guessing there is a get a second hand Engine and save it or push it straight to the scrap. By the way having Sawdust for those Spillages in the shop helps wonders. I usually use the Petrol Diesel Mixtures from wrong fuelling as cleaning solution saves Money and solves tough grime. Have a good Weekend
Which is a pretty good engine, too, at least from a driving point of view. Drove a base 2nd gen "New Beetle" with one and expected it to be a turd - and it wasn't.
Perhaps you should have the company you work for invest in some oil dry. I use it all the time, it works a lot better than rags.😀 By the way, I love your channel. Can't start my day, without my dose of Ray!
Exactly. I've never known a shop to not have oil dry. I keep a couple of bags of cheap cat litter around (same stuff as oil dry.) for when I change my oil at home.
This is the first automotive repair video that has ever made me sick to my stomach..because of the potential catastrophic issue.. I'd be devastated if I discovered coolant intrusion into my oil..I own 1 vehicle...
i've saved a ton of money on my cheap vehicles. but i always check under that oil cap if theres any milkyness, lol. when i was a kid 2 of my cars died because i was lazy about oil, etc, now i check everything
I never had this happen on my vehicles. Most of them I've kept to at least 250k miles. So I guess it comes down to maintenance and maybe how you drive. The quality of the vehicle helps too. I drive Japanese cars/trucks.
🥺 I feel your pain. I work in a lab testing oil like that. We use to once a month dump small samples into a tray that then drained into a 20L bottle. One day got carried away dumping lil bottles forgot to check the 20L one ...finally checked it only to find it had overflowed, the bund it was sitting in had overflowed an now the floor was enjoying an oil bath about 8 foot long 3 foot wide 🥺
“Man’s got to know his limitations” Get the sand and shovel Ray you can’t win them all ! Having said that when you go home sit back crack a couple of cold ones and enjoy the video like the rest of us with a good laugh !
I did a Transmission Service ...went to parts dept to have the overhead oil fill turned on and charged for ....... When I got back to my bay there was 10 quarts of atf on the floor ....someone had left the trigger stuck on in the dispenser ....
A moment of silence for the VW 2.5l engine. As that thing was draining full bore I was thinking "What's the capacity of the catch drain?" Now we know....OUCH! Only the customer's wallet was harmed during this video.
So the information that the owner might be better off buying a new vehicle the good or bad news? Paying a vehicle off over years might be easier on the pocketbook that paying mid four figures for a new engine and possible other components.
That mess is way beyond brake cleaner. It's time to get out the sand and shovel. As far as the equipment...I'd dump sand on it and then get out the hose.
I had to laugh when you opened that drain. I was a marine service tech for 25 years mainly on stern drives and we would get engines sunk on the trailer filled with milkshake oil. It is a nasty mess to clean up. The sludge so thick it won’t drain at all. I have had this issue many times so good luck on that clean up.
One of your funniest videos, but I gotta feel for the car owner. My Toyota dealer noticed a small leak in the gasket on my Sienna, said it may be fine for awhile but one day what you saw would happen. It was an arm and a leg to replace the gasket on a Sienna as it requires a whole engine removal so I sold traded the car in to the dealer a few months later.
I’m a med student, but I also have a love for cars. It’s beautiful to see how car mechanics and medicine share fundamental and physical similarities. I like to joke with everyone and say I’m going to the car surgeon whenever I need to take it in to the shop 😂
Someone once told me the automobile engine is very similar to the human body. It has a fuel pump, the heart, that feeds it its food, fuel, it requires water, to keep it at normal temperature, if it runs hot, it has a fever. It requires oxygen, or it won't run. It has to expel waste like the body, thats its exhaust. And as it ages, it gets weaker, tired out, oil passages can narrow and becomes blocked without proper care, sludge, ie, atherosclerosis. But if it is well loved and cared for,, it outlasts many of its siblings.. Interesting!
Is oil absorbent not a thing anymore? I keep a couple of bags in my garage all the time. Not sure it would have worked as well with all the coolant, but it would have been better than a giant pile of oil soaked rags.
Fun fact: Volkwagen coolant contains lye (sodium hydroxide), which breaks down oil. Dexacool was way worse, as it is an organic acid, and turns the oil (organic) into very thick sludge. For a time we were performing "Dexorcisms" (coolant flush), and replaced it with regular coolant. The 3.1 and 3.4L lower intake manifold gaskets leaked coolant into the crankcase, so we saved some people from hell.
Never heard it called that, but it was beat into me long ago that "Thou shall not Dexcool". I've got a mixed-coolant project car which avoided "Dexcool death" only because the owner had enough sense to stop driving and let it cool down when it overheated and I got it before anything blew. Oxalic acid to the rescue!
wouldn't want any aluminium parts if there is sodium hydroxide around that's what is used to dissolve it out of bauxite eats through aluminium real fast does good job on copper as well
A bag of oil dry and shovel would have cleaned up floor. For overflowing drain, use a smaller container to scoop out excess oil to stop leak. A few rags soaked in parts cleaner would have cleaned up oil caddy. The rags were excessive and not used to best of their ability. Most of rags were on top, barely touching oil sludge.
As much fluid as there was in the engine, I think it may be more likely that someone added coolant, washer fluid, or some other fluid to the oil. Especially since the engine seemed to be running fine and the coolant didn't appear to be contaminated or significantly low. Seems unlikely that a mechanical failure alone would result in that much coolant in the oil with no other symptoms.
You absolutely have my sympathy, horrid mess. One thing I learned a long time ago is to keep the drain plug handy rather than drop it in the tray, then you can always stem the flow. Just to pick up on one of the possible causes you mentioned- oil cooler- not in my experience. Because the oil runs higher pressure than coolant, it mixes the other way- the oil goes into the cooling system and makes the mess in there.
True we had a vw 1.9 tdi that trew oil in the cooling system New head gasket and it was fixed We also had to replace all coolant hozes because they where weakened by the oil
@@Robert-S- To check the headgasket between cilinder and cooling system on a turbo car Open up the cooling reservoir Start it and load the engine so the turbo spools up Then release the trotle The turbo will keep pushing air into the engine and create extra high pressure in the cilinder head Especially noticeable on bigger turbos
Just something I learned when youre drain starts to overflow like that majority of the time if you raise the pan part itll help it get flowing again not all the time but it has definitly saved me a few times🤣
When you find coolant in your oil, simply add oil to your coolant. It will work itself out.
To anyone reading this comment and doesn’t realize it’s sarcasm please don’t do this ok? Ok! Thanks!
@@geniuswithacapitalk I was boutta say I windier how many people took this to heart
I no some people are stupid but I think I would have been funny if someone was dumb enough to try it
I like your thinkin'! 🤣🤣🤣
Keep adding oil till the yellow goes away. Take the hood off for cooling
"I get that there was going to be a diag charge to discover the engine was blown, but why am I being charged for 26 cans of brake clean?"
The mechanics holy water
@@jstowe56 It's the appropriate libations for the job... for sure.
And 102 shop rags 😆
More like a whole pallet load of brake cleaner
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My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like "that engine's faaarked"
Damn right, that engine's farked
I can fix it, but I'd have to charge.
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Ok, you win...
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Excellent rewording👍🏻; terrible rap song!!!! Worst ever.
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Im always amazed that Ray can keep his cool even though things like this happen. Lol.
I work at a hardware store and this is how it looks when paint spills, all thick and growing the more you try to clean it.
We use cardboard to pick it up, scraping it, then and only then we use rags !
I feel your pain!!
I have had good experience using potato flour for tinting machine colorant spills. I service them.
We had a tile flooring in a store I used to work. I would usually wait a bit for a paint to dry and then just scrape it off the floor, same for the tinting colorant. For small spills, like few drops here and there, I would use wet wipes. They did wonders :)
@@Euro.Paleta Wet wipes come short if you dump 3 quarts of green tinting colorant at once. DAMHIK
I was thinking use a dustpan to scoop up as much as possible then rags. Also, I was like you need to bail excess oil out of the overfilled collector before you move it...and then he moved it.
Why not absorber granules? Is it too thick for that?
Pro Tip: when you're having a problem with any kind of oil draining too fast, a good idea is to put the drain plug back in real quick. 🤦♂️😂
The auto mustard will not be stopped!
I was thinking the same thing when it started to overfill lol
WAIT WHAT I AM TOO NERVOUS AND VERY SCARED SO I PANICKED AND JUST DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO SO I THREW THE PAN ON THE GROUND AND RAN OUT
I believe the plug was lost in the honey mustard sauce.
9/10 times it's lost in the tar put until further inspection
I'm hoping there's going to be a part 2 to this. I'd like to see what the outcome was.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Part 2 should be an exciting video of towing it to the junkyard...
that is the end of the vw. No part 2. Un-economically viable to repair.
@@roberthackenberg2874 stuff the car, I want to see Ray cleaning up the mess as a part 2
@@victorsong8416 With huge luck it just needs new head gasket and fresh oil. But its a gamble I assume customer would not want.
When I worked at a 4x4 truck lift center we used NAPA oil soaking clay that looks like cat litter. Does a amazing job on getting these types of messes cleaned up fast.
my cat liked this!
Never unscrew the drain plug when the dipping stick comes out like that.
Just close the hood and say: Das Auto ist kaputt, ein neues kaufen?
Ja, Das ist die richtige Antwort!
@@mikaelhg why....WHY did I follow the damn rabbit into the hole???
I agree. Had that been me, after pulling the dipstick, it would have been time to inform the customer.
He finally understood it is Das.
Bingo. Ray, so sorry.
Ray my little hack for cleaning up fluids like that when they spill is to use a big dust pan and a window squeegee generally a smaller one like on from the dollar store, gets most of the fluid up and you can drop it into a bucket for storage/transport.
Oil dri. Cover the spill, let it sit for 20 minutes, scoop it up. Makes thing much easier.
You handled this one with style.
This video reminds me when a delivery of oil in a 55 gallon drum was delivered. The parts department put it in the shop (not quite where it belonged). One of the mechanics forgot it was there and backed into it. 55 gallons of oil on the floor makes for a very very long and bad day. His mistake, involved the whole shop to clean up. Needless to say no customer work was done that day. We had one very clean and tremendously shiny floor for a few days.
Thanks for your humble attitude.
Somehow You gotta put an incentive on cleaning thoroughly, don't You ...?
@@manfredschmalbach9023 so true.
Yeah, except this guy just thoughts it would be funny to drain and make for a good youtube video. It backfired on him. No one asked him to drain the sludge.
i used to use 55gal drums to water sod (until it rooted) but holy crap OIL would be the worst thing to ever spill, haha!.. Today on YT i saw a vid where a guy lost control of his vehicle because of an oil spill on the road. Oil sucks.
@@Spec1al-D I crashed my car a few months ago because of an oil slick
A good way to cleanup, that we use at our shop is we use wood shavings that generally is sent off as waste material and just cover any spills with it then use a broom to move it around and let it absorb then we just scoop it all up with a shovel
I use kitty litter
If I ever come across a situation like this, I know what to do now. I will use a empty oil drum in stead of a oil catcher to be a on the safe side. Thanks for the learning experience.
The catch can would have had more than enough capacity, if it wasn't already mostly full.
I’m amazed that your shop doesn’t keep bags of kitty litter on hand for just this kind of crazy occasion. At the very least it would have helped clean up after the customer loses their lunch when they hear about a total engine loss.
I think they would've kept that or sawdust but since the stuff is so thick to the point it clogged his oil drain pan a bit, that stuff probably wouldn't have helped much lol
If ma baby went KaBAM on me, i'd prob cry I love my Blackbird (motorcycle) :( Good thing I learnt enough in the little time I spent in college for car mechanics (didn't finish the course) to actually repair and maintain some things with my bike, and if their is anything idk their is alway's UA-cam hahaha
It's call, " The spill Kit ".
even as a retail worker I know the Kitty litter trick, and it's super handy when customers drop cooking or motor oils alike
I was just going to ask about the kitty litter
See, the problem is you applied too many reverse clicks to the oil plug.
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That's a nice clean up job to keep the apprentice busy for the day
Dear Ray, (my first comment to you after watching dozens of your videos)…
You’re obviously a well educated man. With some college and probably lots of reading, you’ve amassed a wide vocabulary, making your dialogue fresh and interesting though your numerous videos. This helps make your narration entertaining.
Your apparent knowledge of most common American cars is impressive. Your description and explanation of your work and the nature of your job is insightful. (I’ve learned a lot!)
Any negative comments made by your naysayers and critics are probably out of jealousy and envy. Most anyone with half a brain would appreciate the way you conscientiously approach car repair, balancing safety with reasonable cost. Your no nonsense work ethic is commendable and makes you an honorable man. I would insist that you work on my truck, even waiting in a cue for days just to have your expertise in my favor.
Your personality is very funny and entertaining. Your videos are a joy to watch. Please don’t change a thing!
My wife likes your videos too, but wants to see your face more….but I don’t want to hear her calling out your name in the bedroom…so, please limit your appearances.
Thanks!
You said a mouth full, I agree with everything you said. I've learned a lot from Ray as well. I also love the way he talks and takes care not to screw people over.
@@kevindowning4714 You agree that you don't want his wife yelling out "RAY!" in the bedroom also?
That's why I insist she yell "SARGE!"
Change your name to Ray, then it won't matter - it'll be your name she screams!
@@BobTheBorracho genius! 🤓
“I should have been an astronaut” …….we all have been there before. Thanks for sharing this video with us to start off Friday morning with a laugh!
I never thought I would see Ray give up and throw in the towel(s) on a repair
He did reject a repair cause of a severely rusted out frame...
Well.... The only "repair" here is a complete engine rebuild or engine swap.
Ya'll missed the joke lol.
Tee Hee hee!
Lol
Would love to see your weekly brake clean budget. I thought I was crazy with the stuff.
Sawdust is very nice to have when this happens. It absorbs the moisture and makes it much easier to handle.
Cat litter works even better. Pig mats are made for this. Otherwise there are quite a number of products to first bind the oil and some even work to clean up the floor afterwards
@@alexanderkupke920 That's true. However, there are several types of cat litter. One type contains silica gel which is same stuff that's inside the small bags shipped with products sensitive to moisture and it's used to pull moisture out of the air.
Biodegradable cat litter is made or contains sawdust and several other types of plant fibres. Silica gel is very effective especially when it comes to absorb moisture in the air, when it comes to oil I'm not so sure what's most effective. One thing to keep in mind when using silica gel is that it can react with several types of chemicals.
The reason I suggested to use sawdust is because it can be used with almost all sorts of chemicals, it's very cheap, and its absorption rate is very high. I am a trained toolmaker and every shop I've worked in had container with sawdust. When I watched the video I felt an urge to toss a couple of shovels of sawdust on the spillage.
Rice hull ash is another good absorbent.
I guess they never heard of oil-dri.
For the amount that came out of there, I think it might be worth having a word with the owner to see if they filled up with coolant recently. I'm thinking coolant must have been added to the oil filler and not the overflow tank, there is just too much for it to be a cracked head or gasket failure.
i think you nailed it some one fucked up put coolent in the oil fill
Indeed. Or washer fluid
I'd be inclined to agree with you/85% ish.
Coolant and oil mixed into the hot egg beater engine internals will emulsify the oil and coolant much like beating egg whites in a bowl. It just keeps growing in volume. The mustard color is interesting. It must have been a yellow or orange coolant.
Radiator Coolant Hose Flange
SKU: 1502717-VW-07K121133E | 07K121133E
This part gave me similar results when it failed last summer, and I have a 2012 VW.
I think the grand total for all the flushes we had to do was $400-700, but I cannot recall where in the range.
This car probably also has a vacuum pump gasket leak as well, and the replacements can be picked up for like $30 from RKX, and is an absolute pain to get to.
This is why I watch. I know this time it was on you. Literally! Funny, improvisation always something different. Dude I was drinking my coffee and laughed and shot coffee out my nose.
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Thanks for your bravery in posting this video! I watched it last night and again today, read a boatload of the comments, but ran out of time. I've had to clean up more than a few messes, some that I made myself. Wow! That was epic!
Pissed myself laughing at that one! The running commentary was brilliant! Thanks for all the videos you have posted.
For approximately thirty five years my cars have been serviced by the same family run business here in Ayr in Scotland and I literally put my life in their hands. I’ll never get my hands dirty, but have total respect for those who do, so to all at McCrone Auto Specialist (Especially the long suffering John) a big thanks for your years of flawless service!
I personally like to do stuff like that myself, it saves alot of money to do your own re-pairs and servicing... I've learnt everything Ik from YT pretty much (For the little mechanics ik but enough to keep things healthy, I did goto college for mechanics for a little while but never finished the course sadly) :(
Not related but I wish you the independence!
I laughed hard when you sprayed Ray in the yellow slime with your brake cleaner 😂
I over pressurized the same oil caddy when I was draining it once. (The pressure release valve was broken) The drain hose flew out of the tank and sprayed high-pressure used oil on me, 2 workmates, and it covered 3 bays.Bad day it was!
I forgot to tighten the funnel riser on one... Funnel and tube blew out like 4ft into the air and misted oil all over me. Luckily the waste oil tank was outside.
Seen one that got stuck in the roof supports
still doesn't beat a acetylene or O2 gas canister (can't remember witch one it was) that landed mile away inside someone house when the bottom blew off, just a very small hole in our work roof and the bottom cap of the canister and a loud bang (we suspect it was user error leaving it lit unattended and it fell over and heated up the canister and boom)
I work in the oil industry, and we have these white oil absorbing mats that we use for spills. They are amazing, and will only absorb oil, and leave any water behind
So what you're saying is there's been a solution to the long forgotten oil spill problem occuing in our oceans (that's ignoring the radioactive power plant still leaking and all the car batteries and other goodies)
@@michaelhayes8519 I'm not sure about putting them in a large body of water, I dont think they would float, they are pretty dense. But I'm sure they could make it work somehow, problem is price, they definitely are not cheap.
@@michaelhayes8519 I found them, they are called uline oil only absorbing pads. They are over 100 bucks per pack lol
The fact that the coolant reservoir wasn’t that empty makes me think someone added coolant to the engine oil accidentally or just kept filling up the reservoir as it emptied.
That was my thought or they put a gallon of window wash fluid in the wrong hole !
There's a heck of a lot of volume of stuff there - way more than the normal oil/coolant capacity. It's like they just kept filling the car....
Great point. Time for a combustion gas test.
@@stevevarholy2011 When the oil-water concoction mixes it froths into a much larger volume thanks to all the air bubbles that get trapped, sort of like a nightmare egg white meringue.
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You Sir have my absolute sympathies
It took me entirely too long to remediate my mess in the aftermath of a similar disaster
The impromptu barrier was a nice move
And you Sir have a great day tomorrow
You earned it
Ray, I would like to thank you for proving to me that this happens to other people too. Thank You Very Much.
This is 1 of many reasons I kept my old semi working shop vac . I have ran into this 2 times and it was like 3 gallons of the forbidden milkshake.
The amount of brake clean you go through truely makes me jealous. With the high flow cans. Love it.
Ray walking into Car Quest: "Mr Ray, we have your 6 cases of brake clean right here!"
@@lennylipe6434 yeah and _"our next shipment comes in today, so as always we'll have your daily order ready in the morning"_
@@lennylipe6434 I play with big machines. I get 10 cases at a time. I've gone through a case in a day. It's not 'brake cleaner', but a kerosene like industrial solvent. Lots of my stuff has plastic and rubber parts that are damaged by brake cleaner.
I feel your pain Ray. Here's a good one for you. Early 2010s vw beetle. Lady asked me to take a look at it for her daughter because her daughter said it wouldn't start. They had it towed to my apartments so I could look at it and hopefully fix it. Tried to start it and it acted like the battery was dead even though it was a new battery. Jumped it and finally got it to crank and start. It had a little tapping noise so I shut it off and checked the oil. Oil on the very tip of the dip stick only so I grabbed some I happened to have. Added 2 quarts and started it up. Still taping so I shut it off and checked again. Still the exact same thing so I added another quart and checked again. No change. Thats when I decided to look under the car at the oil pan. No hole to be seen from the front or sides. Looked from the back side of the engine and the hole back of the oil pan was gone. From corner to corner top to bottom. I was parked in the grass so no spill to be seen or I would have added the one quart and realized I had something bad going on. Had to dig up and have the oil contaminated dirt disposed of legally then have some dirt brought back in. Told them what I had discovered and drove the car to the street so they could have it hauled away. Come to find out the oil light had been flickering for days and had stayed on while she was driving and stayed on just before the engine died. There's a reason they call it the idiot light. Lol
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@@emmanuellopez236 TL;DR Lady drove a car for a few days with a massive hole in the oil pan, after a few attempts at starting OP decides to check under the car and notices aforementioned oil pan hole
A few years back had a customer come in for an oil service and had a coolant leak. Topped off coolant and pressure checked, had a slow leak somewhere. When I pulled my pressure checker off I noticed oil mixed in with the coolant. Popped open the oil cap saw the milkshake, decided to diag further for possible blown head. Customer stated never overheated, didn't get white smoke and no rough idle or misfires. Checked all 6 cylinders for coolant and did a compression test, no coolant in the cylinders and compression was within normal values. Started to suspect oil cooler with a bad seal. Customer stated oil cooler gasket done at another shop a year prior and this just started to happen. Customer admitted topping off coolant by pouring it into the oil fill. The reason there was oil in the coolant, there was a crack in the oil cooler. Oil flush, coolant flush, replaced expansion tank and replaced oil cooler.
@@drwboy07 Did you just say she topped of the oil, with coolant ?
@@Bikertrons yes "he" did. He also wanted a discount.
Had this happen to my cat c12 years ago except I got oil in the coolant instead of vice versa. I was on a rural Mississippi highway. Had to use water from a farmers stock pond and what air I had in the truck to flush out the coolant system just to get back to the shop in Texas. Was a bad head gasket from improperly torqued head bolts. I won't say who did that 👀
It was you, wasn't it?
@@herbiehusker1889 did you have pond water stolen?
lol
@@mrcornut no, he was the one who improperly torqued the head bolts
I feel for you Ray, my little treasure thought he would help Dad by moving a large tin of paint he could hardly carry with a loose top .... paint from chin to toe all over his front and my shed floor !!
Not like you can dump him in a bath of thinners. Thanks for the vid Ray commiserations again from across the pond
try pulling the pin near the air connection. that may release the air trapped in the can by the thick fluid, allowing it to flow
Kinda reminds me of the time I was doing a transmission line pressure test on a car and it didn't end well. The hose that went to the gauge decided it was done with life and about 5 seconds after I started the car it burst. It sprayed trans fluid all over me, the car, 2 walls (it was in a corner bay), the ceiling, and the car and tech using alignment rack in the next bay over. I swear trans fluid was dripping from the ceiling in that bay for a week lol. Good times, good times lol
Try that with a 140psi of 240ºF #6 oil supply and have the strainer cover gasket fail. There isn't much anything harder to clean up than #6 oil.
@@moushunter I’ve never heard of #6 oil, isn’t that considered grease? Does it even drip?
@@Hoaxer51 # 6 oil is sometimes used as heating oil in older buildings and on ships. Nasty, just a slight step from asphalt. Has to be heated to flow in cold weather.
@@leonb2637 , I think I have heard of that now that you brought up heating oil, thanks for the reply!
I got a good laugh out of that one... That must have sucked hardcore at the time.
Wow. That was a lot of the forbidden milkshake. I am pretty sure someone poured antifreeze straight into the oil fill. The sheer volume of sludge was impressive
Once the catch started overflowing, it definitely became the forbidden fondue fountain
That's real possible! Some coolant is left and the oil is total flooded.
Thats exactly what I was thinking, there was more in the engine than in the cooling system, nice colour tho'.
When an oil filler cap says in writing something like "Use 5W-30 oil", it takes a dummy to pour anything else in there. But they do, don't they!
I had a 99 Plymouth Breeze and everytime I changed the oil there was more and more frothy gunk that came out at the end of draining it. Thankfully it eventually caught fire and was junked. I knew it was living on borrowed time.
Sorry for that big mess. I would start setting the drain bolt on the jack so I could quickly put it back in to stop the overflow. You live and you learn. You do good work anyway. I'd trust my car to you anyday.
"Coil" 🤣 my new word of the day.
Looked like it was full of mustard.
Seeing the milk brought back bad memories of my old bronco II. I carried around a 5 gallon gas can with water in it. I can say that poor thing was a champ. Survived a year like that before it just quit while pulling into the school parking lot.
I had a friend with one of those. It overheated if you drove it for more than 10 minutes. He just drove it for ten minutes and then he'd crack the windows open with the heat on full blast. Then he'd drive it another 10 minutes and then if he wasn't at his destination by then, he'd park and wait 20 minutes. One day it just gave up the ghost. What a pile of crap, put probably because it wasn't maintained very well.
My old 88 Bronco II cracked the head between the number 1 valves around 49000 miles and cracked the other head between the valves on the number 6 cylinder around 95000 miles
Those Cologne engines were some of the best ever made!
I wish I could tell you that some dumb stuff like that has never happened to me, but I'd be lying. I feel your pain brother. I hope the rest of that day straightened out after that. 👍👍
When that dipstick first cam out my initial thought was "oh no, too much mustard in the sump"🤣🤣
Lol. Even the head were overfilled with that amount.
It's nice to know a man of your legendary status has bad days as well I feel a little better I do admire you Ray top bloke 👍
More entertaining than the usual how not to. Well done Ray!
These are times you create an extension for the drain hose/tube. Don't move the bin, and drain it where it sits with the extension... have had this happen once or twice. 😆 🤣 good show
At least the oil fill cap was oriented properly. That's what kept this engine running.
Holy hot mustard sauce Batman!
Don't feel too bad Ray. Happens to the best of us. Lesson: Retrieve oil plug before pan fills with oil (or malt 😁) so you can put it back in the oil pan if you need to. Suggestion : I wold have used floor dry to absorb the mess instead of rags but each to their own.
Dust pan or shovel and a bucket for the bulk of it followed by solvent and a rag. Get your gloved hands into it, wipe and wring. No gloves in my day but likely the amount of solvent (often gasoline) my hands soaked up is showing in my mental processes.
Have had worse mess then that before. Mechanic I worked with decided to try to use air pressure in gear oil to push it into differential. Way to much air pressure and boom. Gear oil everywhere. Boy does that stuff stink. Plus make a loud noise as well. :) Good video.
I’ve had this happen to me more times than I care to imagine I have found the floor dry works pretty good or cat litter as they call it in some places I’ve never seen you use any is it outlawed in your shop And yes I have used shop rags for the same purpose before ShopRag guy gets a little bit bent he gets over it
that was some impressive emulsification going on there, interested in a strip down to see what the cause actually was.
I suspect if the owners decide to replace the engine it will be a junk yard one. Unless Ray does it on his own time it won't happen.
Floor dry is an amazing product for this scenario.
Or just cat litter….
@@DustyEmma Cat litter does alright, but it isn't even close to oil dry.
Kitty litter never fails
Wood dust/chips! Sawmills have tons of it, and it's the best stuff for big spils. Every time i get oil or coolant on the floor, i put a pile of dry sawdust on it to absorve it. Peat is also great. Rags are bad solution..
Ray, I am so sorry that you have to clean up that impossible mess.
At what point did pulling the drain plug seem like a good idea once you checked the dip stick?
It was curiosity more n anything
@@sonofkami We are naturally curious creatures. Sure, we know what'll happen, but it'll still be interesting to do.
You should have made sure your oil drain sump was empty or at least sufficient area to hold that amount of oil.
everybody is an expert after seeing the outcome
@@fillmainlol5973 Actually the first time I saw the milkshake on a dip stick, I let the junk yard deal with the mess. I intuitively knew no good could come of pulling the drain plug.
I don't think I've ever seen one that bad. I wonder if you had pulled the end of the discharge nozzle out of the smoo to allow the air to escape if it might have drained into the tank better.
it would have drained slightly better but remember it wasn't draining fast enough that's why it filled up to the level of the drain nozzle it would have spilled either way but probably not as much.
@@HimmelWeint That is true and makes sense, It was just an thought I had.
Thanks!
I had a co-worker back in the '80s who had seen an ad for a car he wanted that was located in NJ. We were in Queens. He took public transportation to get to NJ because he figured he was going to buy the car and drive it back to Queens. When he got there the car's engine knocked really badly but he was stuck with no ride home and he figured if he could only get it back to Queens, he could deal with swapping out the motor. So he walked to a store where he bought several cans of oil (quarts still came in cans back then) and filled the engine up to the valve covers. Started it up and beat a path back to Queens with oil squirting out of every orifice it could find. When I saw him after the weekend he told me how he got it back. I laughed my ass off. He was a Haitian guy with a thick French/Haitian accent and it was like hearing a story told by Inspector Clouseau. I couldn't stop laughing. The mess my friend Pierre made was undoubtedly far worse of a clean up than yours is, Ray.
This is what people in 3rd world countries gotta do to get by if they have no option
Just leaking oil all over the environment is so hilarious
I had a similar malfunction and the oil was mixing with the coolant and the malfunction was fixed and materials were added to clean the engine and remove the mixed oil residue and the engine is still working fine
Ray needs to invest in break cleaning companies with how much break cleaner he uses in these videos
That's why I keep clay cat litter on hand, contains and cleans up really good, and cheap too.
Entertaining Video. Surprised it killed a 6 Cylinder VW, usually the TFSI surrender very early. I am guessing there is a get a second hand Engine and save it or push it straight to the scrap. By the way having Sawdust for those Spillages in the shop helps wonders. I usually use the Petrol Diesel Mixtures from wrong fuelling as cleaning solution saves Money and solves tough grime.
Have a good Weekend
that's a 2.5L 5 cylinder
Which is a pretty good engine, too, at least from a driving point of view. Drove a base 2nd gen "New Beetle" with one and expected it to be a turd - and it wasn't.
Perhaps you should have the company you work for invest in some oil dry. I use it all the time, it works a lot better than rags.😀 By the way, I love your channel. Can't start my day, without my dose of Ray!
I’ve been addicted to VGG, Matt’s Off-road, Fab Rats, now Ray. I think Ray is going to be the one to go long term. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Exactly. I've never known a shop to not have oil dry. I keep a couple of bags of cheap cat litter around (same stuff as oil dry.) for when I change my oil at home.
@@danwhitaker9168 I've done the same thing at my place. No matter how careful I am, I always seem to spill some.
Just a ray of family sunshine!
There wasn't much oil in that.
This is the first automotive repair video that has ever made me sick to my stomach..because of the potential catastrophic issue.. I'd be devastated if I discovered coolant intrusion into my oil..I own 1 vehicle...
i've saved a ton of money on my cheap vehicles. but i always check under that oil cap if theres any milkyness, lol. when i was a kid 2 of my cars died because i was lazy about oil, etc, now i check everything
I never had this happen on my vehicles. Most of them I've kept to at least 250k miles. So I guess it comes down to maintenance and maybe how you drive. The quality of the vehicle helps too. I drive Japanese cars/trucks.
🥺 I feel your pain. I work in a lab testing oil like that. We use to once a month dump small samples into a tray that then drained into a 20L bottle. One day got carried away dumping lil bottles forgot to check the 20L one ...finally checked it only to find it had overflowed, the bund it was sitting in had overflowed an now the floor was enjoying an oil bath about 8 foot long 3 foot wide 🥺
In this episode of "I do cars" we tear down a 2.5 liter volkswagen engine after the oiling system was contaminated...🤣
"Is it drained.....?"
Haha, you're throwing in the towel Ray! You always get some interesting repairs! Love your videos!
Hey its ok... just empty the "coil" and then fill up both the coolant and oil with oil... cant mix in coolant if you dont have any! /s
I've seen crude oil with lower viscosity. It's a testament to Volkswagen engines that it could still run with that level of oil contamination.
Hey, Ray, thanks for the nightmare fluid, this gonna haunt me everytime I do an oil change or refill any non oil fluids.
“Man’s got to know his limitations” Get the sand and shovel Ray you can’t win them all ! Having said that when you go home sit back crack a couple of cold ones and enjoy the video like the rest of us with a good laugh !
Always keep a bag of cat litter or sawdust handy for such incidents.
“Crack a couple of cold ones.”
Best advice so far.
@Ben Avery A waste oil collection company picks up periodically. What they do with it IDK.
@@whirledpeaz5758 burn it in many places
@@richtee3470 Clay based cat litter soaks it up very well. I keep a 40 lbs box of cat litter in my garage for spills like this one.
I did a Transmission Service ...went to parts dept to have the overhead oil fill turned on and charged for ....... When I got back to my bay there was 10 quarts of atf on the floor ....someone had left the trigger stuck on in the dispenser ....
Mostly it's SMH at customers cars, but this is the first time I've laughed out loud at one of your videos.
Yep. Coffee out the nose time....
A moment of silence for the VW 2.5l engine. As that thing was draining full bore I was thinking "What's the capacity of the catch drain?" Now we know....OUCH!
Only the customer's wallet was harmed during this video.
Actually I think by the end of the video Ray’s day and attitude were completely shot. Sure wish he had his own garage so we could see the autopsy.
So the information that the owner might be better off buying a new vehicle the good or bad news?
Paying a vehicle off over years might be easier on the pocketbook that paying mid four figures for a new engine and possible other components.
The 2.5 5cylinder is really a great engine. I have one in my Jetta
@@carsonac4163 I bet you didn't mix your coolant with the engine oil yet. Haha. I agree, they are great engines.
Another poluting VW bites Ray and the scrap yard. Yaaa, sorry Ray.
You're always so careful not to cause an Exxon Valdez spill, as you call it, but then Karma hits you with a Heinz Valdez. 🤣🤣🤣
best comment I've seen yet
@@vanchie21 best condiment I’ve seen yet!
I got a good laugh out of this.. Thank goodness we never had this happen decades ago at family's shop. This one is legend.
Question of the day: How many cans of brake cleaner did it take to clean up this mess?
I'm thinking, 8.
The liberal use of brake clean reinforces my guess that the shop pays for that.
probably enough to raise the stock price of the company that makes it lol
@@damanhitt Exactly what he told us in yesterday's vid.
That mess is way beyond brake cleaner. It's time to get out the sand and shovel. As far as the equipment...I'd dump sand on it and then get out the hose.
Kids over there eatin' tide pods, and they don't even know about the mac n cheese fountains in their cars!
I had to laugh when you opened that drain. I was a marine service tech for 25 years mainly on stern drives and we would get engines sunk on the trailer filled with milkshake oil. It is a nasty mess to clean up. The sludge so thick it won’t drain at all. I have had this issue many times so good luck on that clean up.
One of your funniest videos, but I gotta feel for the car owner. My Toyota dealer noticed a small leak in the gasket on my Sienna, said it may be fine for awhile but one day what you saw would happen. It was an arm and a leg to replace the gasket on a Sienna as it requires a whole engine removal so I sold traded the car in to the dealer a few months later.
I’m a med student, but I also have a love for cars. It’s beautiful to see how car mechanics and medicine share fundamental and physical similarities. I like to joke with everyone and say I’m going to the car surgeon whenever I need to take it in to the shop 😂
Someone once told me the automobile engine is very similar to the human body. It has a fuel pump, the heart, that feeds it its food, fuel, it requires water, to keep it at normal temperature, if it runs hot, it has a fever. It requires oxygen, or it won't run. It has to expel waste like the body, thats its exhaust. And as it ages, it gets weaker, tired out, oil passages can narrow and becomes blocked without proper care, sludge, ie, atherosclerosis. But if it is well loved and cared for,, it outlasts many of its siblings.. Interesting!
i have the same love of mechanics & medicine so i became a firefighter/EMT & got certified to work on the trucks. 10/10
You had to see what was in the oil pan 😂
And he saw it, 👍
That engine is toast, boat anchor at best, 😁👍
To clean a mess like that it’s best to start with a dust pan and a stiff straight edged piece of cardboard or one of those epoxy mixing spatulas.
Is oil absorbent not a thing anymore? I keep a couple of bags in my garage all the time. Not sure it would have worked as well with all the coolant, but it would have been better than a giant pile of oil soaked rags.
I use cat litter..cheap and does the job
Fun fact: Volkwagen coolant contains lye (sodium hydroxide), which breaks down oil. Dexacool was way worse, as it is an organic acid, and turns the oil (organic) into very thick sludge. For a time we were performing "Dexorcisms" (coolant flush), and replaced it with regular coolant. The 3.1 and 3.4L lower intake manifold gaskets leaked coolant into the crankcase, so we saved some people from hell.
Never heard it called that, but it was beat into me long ago that "Thou shall not Dexcool". I've got a mixed-coolant project car which avoided "Dexcool death" only because the owner had enough sense to stop driving and let it cool down when it overheated and I got it before anything blew. Oxalic acid to the rescue!
wouldn't want any aluminium parts if there is sodium hydroxide around that's what is used to dissolve it out of bauxite eats through aluminium real fast does good job on copper as well
The stubborn oil plug was sending you warning signals that must have been bouncing off your tin foil hat 🤣
A bag of oil dry and shovel would have cleaned up floor. For overflowing drain, use a smaller container to scoop out excess oil to stop leak. A few rags soaked in parts cleaner would have cleaned up oil caddy. The rags were excessive and not used to best of their ability. Most of rags were on top, barely touching oil sludge.
As much fluid as there was in the engine, I think it may be more likely that someone added coolant, washer fluid, or some other fluid to the oil. Especially since the engine seemed to be running fine and the coolant didn't appear to be contaminated or significantly low. Seems unlikely that a mechanical failure alone would result in that much coolant in the oil with no other symptoms.
Yea this is definitely an oopsie.
Who would do something that dumb though?
You absolutely have my sympathy, horrid mess. One thing I learned a long time ago is to keep the drain plug handy rather than drop it in the tray, then you can always stem the flow.
Just to pick up on one of the possible causes you mentioned- oil cooler- not in my experience. Because the oil runs higher pressure than coolant, it mixes the other way- the oil goes into the cooling system and makes the mess in there.
Until you turn the engine off, then the oil pressure goes to 0, while the heated coolant stays pressurized to whatever the relief pressure is.
True we had a vw 1.9 tdi that trew oil in the cooling system
New head gasket and it was fixed
We also had to replace all coolant hozes because they where weakened by the oil
@@Robert-S-
To check the headgasket between cilinder and cooling system on a turbo car
Open up the cooling reservoir
Start it and load the engine so the turbo spools up
Then release the trotle
The turbo will keep pushing air into the engine and create extra high pressure in the cilinder head
Especially noticeable on bigger turbos
MUSTARD-COLORED SPLOOGE! FRIGGIN' HILARIOUS. MADE ME CHOKE ON MY BREAKFAST BAGEL
Another reason why I don’t eat mustard. 😂
Just something I learned when youre drain starts to overflow like that majority of the time if you raise the pan part itll help it get flowing again not all the time but it has definitly saved me a few times🤣
Perfect example for having an apprentice.
No you take it like a man and clean up your own problems.
@@gr7485 Think of it like a rite of passage if you will.
Normally the timing chains blow up the vw's. Nice change of pace!
don't forget: excessive oiluse, failed turbo, cracked heads, blown DSG's and what more
@@joskd8491 Seat breaking while driving. Car wet inside in the morning because of failing electric windows.
2.5's rarely have timing chain issues.
I feel bad for the owner of this fine piece of German engineering. But, at the same time, that was hilarious.
there is no fine engineering from germany, only overcomplicated for no reason
@@anywaystohighway that isn't true, older bmws had good simple engineering, it was precise and dialed in, but simple.
@@anywaystohighway I remember hearing that if Germans had invented the paperclip it would have 11 parts.
@@tompinky5109 Makes sense :D
I had an old jetta come in same problem, I remembered this video and said do not drain it big mess!!