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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.
I feel you on the PTSD front and the new task issues, same for me. Well done you, I know it was hard, but you got it done. Don’t forget to keep patting yourself on the back for it mate. Glad you were able to recentre yourself, I know how hard that is to do. All the best .
Ditto
Click = well done!
Well done mate! I understand that it's not as easy as it seems to many.
The best comment I've read in a long time!
You Can!
That shop phone ringtone alone would be enough to cause me to pack up and move on.
I love the Halloween theme Jeep! Very creative!
bracket is called a watts linkage
It's amazing how determined brake fluid is to get on every single object within a 20 ft radius.
I seem to attract the hydraulic line failure while under pressure. Log splitters, tractor manifolds, all want to give me a shower. Yuck
Anti-seize compound does the very same thing...it gets everywhere!
@@spaceflight1019 That was my thought too. Anti-seize is one of the few things more attracted to everything else than brake fluid.
There was a girl back in my old neighborhood that seemed to get on everything and everywhere too...
Aside from never-seize it is the second worst for never failing to get everywhere that is for sure!
This Halloween themed jeep is neet @Rainman Ray's Repairs
@rainman rays repairs Dude how do you post a video nearly every single day and work and look after your family? Hats off to you. 👍🏼.
He married well
No one cradles the shaft like Ray!🤣
Hmm
Who would have known what would happen the next day bud. Chin up stick by your principals. Hope your new job or self employed venture goes great. Best wishes to you and your family.😁
Nice to see that old Mercury getting some love.
Any mechanic that can make me laugh that much is a winner!!
That fan clutch test is 100% S.O.P. You just have to be smart enough to do it correctly and safely just like you did. I use my Matco tool catalog. And if it's really bad, I just use my gloved hand. Knowing when to do that test just comes with experience. Good Job.
Yeah, I heard "rolled up newspaper" a long time ago. Back when there were a lot of newspapers around.
Welcome to Ray's ADD Theatre. Squirrel!
As Eric O. says, "Good parts, bad parts and new parts." I agree with others who commented that they had never seen anything like the half gone rim, me neither.
Something that was always yelled out at the dealership "PUSH CAR "and most guys came to help.
That trucks brake line is a scotty kilmer classic
My late dad was a mechanic with the same talent and ethics you have. Im glad hes not alive to see what happened to you. Hugs from truckie Karen in Australia.
The best auto repair education and entertainment channel on UA-cam.
Hey Ray, I've been watching your vids for about a month now. Gotta say your my kind of people. I see how you go about a repair, with logical facts, not much guessing, and ALWAYS with the customers best interest first. The shop lost a very good mechanic, and a better person. Chin up, consider the last shop as another stepping stone to where you should be. Good luck on your future endeavors.
Loved seeing the 'twin I beam' front end on that truck. It's been years.....
Can't even believe i see this pop up in my notis when im gonna be doing some work on a 2005 chevy hatchback that needs a whole new transmission fluid line later on
Love your video's Ray. There's something about watching a pro at work that's really satisfying.
OMG my ADD/ADHD just went for a spin!!!! Vids like how my brain works, you go from one thing to another to another to another back to the first hahahaha
That jeep was cool!!! Now I have to deal with the wifey and figuring out where to find a skeleton!!! ROFL
Hey Ray, don't forget to have YOURSELF a great day bud, and a great weekend!!!!!
Thanks for the vid!!!!
I have a skeleton that wears a tuxedo and a top hat called T-Bone and he dances in my driveway but bottom line was I was driving him home from work when it where I bought him and I pulled up along the side of guy and he screamed like a little girl and drove away quickly have a good day
@@michaelpressman7203 Skullduggery Pleasant, the skeleton detective. Series of books!
Rainman always strikes the entertainment/information balance perfectly!
That rear axle is from a P71 (Police) crown vic. Likely has a 3.27 rear gears vs the stock 2.73 gears on the GM.
You Sir, are a genius! My husband was amazed at the idea you came up with to move the Merc. WE have a 2005, and it is a tank! We love it.
I have COVID and this makes sense to me through the brain fog😱😉
I like the short snappy diagnostic cases. Diagnosis will always be the greatest challenge for the amateur, and it takes the longest to improve.
Learning something not to do is still learning.
That’s the most important learning sometimes! Lol
So if you throw the flashlight instead of dropping it, does that make it "Flashlight Velocity"?
It's flashlight gravity at extreme velocity. Or so said my brother when his router went flying into the wall after losing in a game "because of lag".
Flashlight dropsy.
Back to refinancing with the Snap on guy...
Not to be "that guy" but in Relativity gravity is just considered velocity!
What is the velocity of an unladen flashlight?
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.
Good to see that Marquis got a rear end in her. If there's one thing Florida roads need, it's white Mercury Grand Marquises with window tint.
Pretty cool video I'm a diesel and trailer mechanic so I like seeing other people's messes they can get in when dealing with parts and customers and repairs.
Wow. Same thing, same side happened to my Grand Marquis. Instead of a whole new axle I installed a new race and where it was gapped at the top installed yours and my favorite... JB Weld. Drove the car another 60,000 miles without any lube leakage. Got in a fender bender and bent the frame a bit in the front enough where I could no longer get a good alignment so my beautiful 360,000 mile buddy went by by. Edit: my bad axle was on the passenger side. I didn't realize until a while in both sides are bad on the one Ray has.
Knowing Ray's backstory I would love to see him team up with some partners and start his own shop.
All the best to you Ray!
At least you're thorough and methodical. Back when I spun wrenches in the oil patch, I lived by one rule. If you don't know what you're doing, you might as well do it quickly. Granted, any unplanned downtime cost my company 30k per hour or more dependent on the client.
Well the good come and they go. I could tell something wasn't going good where you worked.
When I found your channel I looked beyond your stations and they were always someone busy next door. For the last weeks there hasn't been a line of cars needing repairs.
Good luck! When you find a new location post a link! Tom Silver
Thanks Ray, you have cheered up a rainy, grey morning here on the south coast on England
I'm sitting in windy Essex watching this
How’s the process of getting a new Prime Minister going! Good luck, I hope it works out.
@@Hoaxer51 I am embarrassed on behalf of the nation, however you look at it, from any political standpoint, it is an omnishambles of epic proportions.
@@tda2806, Yea, we’ve had our troubles over here also.
Great video, looking forward to seeing your new adventures ❤
The air conditioner mechanic stopped the clutch fan on one of my vehicles with a wadded up rag in his hand. He said he shouldn't be able to do that. He would only warrant the air conditioner work he did on my vehicle if the clutch fan worked properly. He repaired it by flushing out what ever was left of the old viscous fluid (if any) and filling it with new fluid. The go to brand is Toyota fluid. After that was repaired the fan actually roared when the fluid heated up & engaged the fan. I have since repaired a few myself. It is a much better and cheaper option than replacing it with a after market brand let alone the OEM fan clutch.
“NEW” is the acronym for Never Ever Worked.
I know you have seen some crazy stuff on vehicles, but that missing rim takes the cake. I sure would like to know the story on that one.
Once again...
..."you can't make this stuff up"... XD
They made a sharp right turn in the rime just went away I sometimes with people I haven't in a clue what was going on in their head at the time but maybe I shouldn't judge cuz there's nothing going on in mine have a great day
Looks like wheel bearing went south and they drove until the axle broke resulting in loss of drive.
@@BigLisaFan I had a buddy that did that, the nub of his axle took a chunk out of the road when it fell off.
Roger that ! WTF is with that Wheel!?!?!?
I'm liking some of your old videos you've been saving up for us. Hope things are going well for you Ray. I am baffled how that tire was still on the rim. That's some serious kind of carnage. It must have been one hell of a burnout!
Kinda shocked the right angle ratchet struggled with that nut.
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!
That thing on the bottom of the replacement rear differential pan for the Grand Marquis is to keep the differential pan from rupturing the gas tank in the event of a rear end collision. My 2006 Crown Victoria police Interceptor has one on it. I'm not sure if that was a cop car thing only or if they put them on all Panther platform cars. It's possible that rear end is out of an old cop car.
I'm working on a 2006 Grand Marquis right now and the lady that owns it wouldn't even know if it had an interceptor motor or not if it does maybe I'll take it for a drive have a great day
@@michaelpressman7203 The engines in the police interceptors are no different internally from the civilian version. The only difference is the tune in the PCM and a Marauder style air box.
@@j.t.cooper2963 this is the correct answer!
That rear axle they got for the mercury is a Crown Vic P71/P7B rear axle, hence the addition of a sway bar and a rubber pad on the diff cover
Love the sketch Ray! Nothing wrong with being a little pragmatic when necessary!
With all the surface rust the blue truck looked like it was decked out for Halloween just like the Jeep 🤣🤣
"I think it's gonna be a good bad idea" lmao!
Pool noodle on the roof truss is a good idea. Was daydreaming and screwed up a guys hood one time hitting the roof on a newer ram. Insurance and free tires saves the day
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.
that marquis appears to be an ultimate edition, and should have come with the sway bar from the factory as far as I can recall. That said, as someone who's added a swaybar to a marquis that didn't have one from the factory, it makes a WORLD of difference and that car will handle like a dream.
Can't think of an instance where adding a sway bar (normal application, not wierd stuff) would be detrimental?
@@iamwhatiam4075 mainly off road applications where maximum axle flex is desired, and in some vehicles it can stiffen the ride a bit over bumps and things like that
Again, though, that is not "normal" application. Everyday driving stuff, but yes.
@@iamwhatiam4075 even in every day driving, a car like one of these panther platforms will have a tendency to 'side step' when hitting a bump going around a corner, especially at higher speeds due to the transfer of the bump into the frame instead of letting the suspension compress at different rates. I'd agree, typically the performance benefit outweighs the negatives, but that's not to say it can't throw the balance in the other direction. Having too much anti-sway in the front end can also lead to excessive understeer in a suspension that isn't designed for it.
The part on the Diff. Cover was part of a recall Ford did for the police cars to help with rear end accident issues or something hell thats been almost 20 years ago though
I think those axle pivoting arms are called a Watt's linkage which is like a Panhard rod but, with extra connection points for a solid rear end to allow the suspension to travel vertically but not allow axle tramp/wrap or changing suspension geometry.
my favorite part of this video was when you said the rear end still had the seatbelt on it, then proceeded to pull it by that seatbelt 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍🏿👍🏿
I was looking forward too the axel replacement, just too have the video jump too a Merc that was shown several months ago. I even had to check the video hadn't jumped too that video.
To test a "fan clutch" like you did, I always used a rolled up newspaper or an old rolled up magazine.
What a collection of different videos thrown together but still interesting.
I had a old police cv and I slid it in the snow into a curb. I shifted the rear end over about a foot and those outer mounts that hold the rear-end on were almost impossible to find used since they cut them at the junk yards
I believe the rubber on the differential and the rubber sleeves on the axle were the result of a design flaw starting in 1992. Some Crown Victoria Police Interceptors caught fire after being rearended, pushing the gas tank into the axle and and sharp parts on the axle would rupture the tank. Must be a Ford (Pinto) thing.
Mercury Grand Marquis was my fathers favorite car to buy. I think mostly because he could order one and walk through the factory in St. Louis and watch it being built where he worked for over 40 years. He made sure it was built on Wednesday!
Yes. I have heard that too.
Like David, I had heard that Wednesday cars were the best. Don't know when my 85 Bonneville was built, but save for a leaking intake manifold and at 225,000 miles needing new exhaust manifold studs, it was a great car (except for the TurboHydramatic 200 coffee can transmixer). 340,000 miles, the second bambi totaled it.
My dad loved Mercury Grand Marquis too. Since he was a yacht captain (After retiring 24 years in the Navy), he said they drove smooth like a boat on the ocean.
I drove it a few times and it did feel like you were floating down a river not driving a car.
He said
Monday was hangover day.
Tuesday was getting better from hangover day
Wednesday was a let’s get it done and right day
Thursday was I need to think about how much alcohol to buy and where I’m going to drink it.
Friday was tomorrow and Sunday are starting the weekend of drinking day.
They loved them in the Middle East
I think we all have opinions and thoughts on how things should be or go so keep your head up and we will continue to support you ❤️
You need to start putting a sticker with “RR” on it in an obscure location to “Trademark” your work. It might even make the cars collectible.
"RRR"
@@RuralTowner 3R
@@silicon212 3R is a performance shop in Denver, CO
@@jeffhurckes190 that I did not know
How about he starts his own shop and then he puts the sticker right in the windshield
I was doing brake work being pads, rotors and line on my personal vehicle and needed a union fitting. Sent my wife to the parts store and the salesman sent her home with a compression fitting. That was 3 years ago and now I get to show my wife why the compression fitting is sitting in plumbing parts in my shed.
I feel ya on buying tools man. I impulse buy stuff all the time. I bought a new impact gun a couple of months ago, even though I didn't need one at the time. I haven't even it yet, lol. Sometimes it just feels good to have things that make your life easier. At least you had those sockets when you needed them.
That was some crazy stuff going on there. Good call on the fan clutch.
Funny for the day.....
I was at LSTC getting tires checked and the phone rang lol ray you are with us all ...doo doo do popped in my head
We didn't get to see you repair anything today 😢
thankyou Ray,,👍👍
Good morning Ray hope your day is starting out well @Rainman Ray's Repairs
Ray I use a folded piece of thick cardboard to check fan clutches. The cardboard works good because if it’s a good fan clutch it will just bent the cardboard and not damage the plastic fan. Just figured I’d throw that out there.
I enjoyed the video and that rim missing was wow.Hope you have another video on changing out the rear end of that Mercury. That Mercury actually looked is great shape on the underside.
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.😮
Love the bit of everything theme, great set ups for future videos following the item’s you’ve introduced
It ever hurts to have the right tool for the job. Even if you don’t use it daily when you need it you have it and not the other way around. Besides you fully know a man can never have too many tools. 😊
Ah the pleasure when you finally get to use a rarely used tool on something that would otherwise be a pig of a problem.
How many tools does a man need?
Another one.
We need more information on the missing)?) wheel! Do not leave us hanging Ray!
12 point wobbly bits. Good to see the wobbly bits in action.
I cannot thumbs up this enough. Thank you for the quality entertainment!
I am communicating that I enjoyed the video. Do-de-do-de-do. Nice work! 👍🏻👍🏻
I'm going to need a part 2 of part 2s for these vehicles
Ray have a good weekend. Stay safe and be well
I liked the variety of different issues in your video, but was hoping to see more on the jeep!
I'm most certainly not a Jeep person but if I were I would definitely be halloweening that sucker up! I like it!
The proportioning valve for the 90s Fuuurd trucks was for the "rear ABS ONLY" system that Furrd thought was adequate. Good enough 'eh!
Was trying to figure out why the video was so weird and then poof the incredible half missing wheel/rim. Great spooky month video.
My previous jeep's break lines were alllll patches with compression fittings lol.
Never had an issue, they held up just fine.
My thought with the F150 with the line patch... dude got frustrated trying to flare the ends, or couldnt get a good rolled flare w the rented tool from Autozone lol.
Been there.
all I heard in my head when you lowered the stump onto the wheel dolly was "that's a lot of stored energy" 😀
Love the vids, I believe the sway bar link that didn't want to come loose is known as a watts link.
I have often lowered my own broken chassis onto a bent rim.
Works for me. Every time on the money.
They say some Jeep owners can be thin skin but Jolly Rogers in the back seat took the cake. Arrrrrh! ☠️👻😂. A day in the life of Ray at the shop.
What happened to just having trolley jack under diff centre to move cars?
Most cars are front wheel drive now?
...Ray said that the "rolley truck" was the only thing available
That's a rear wheel drive car.
@@timd1833 He lifted car with trolley jack, so it was available.
Wow!!!! Lots of sketchy procedures............very entertaining
Waking up...
...to a "Rainman Ray collage"... it's gonna be a great day...
Good day to you sir from Australia I enjoy your videos very educational and funny keep up the good work
Came here for the sketchy shenanigans.
Did not disappoint.😅
Every profession has some sketchy ideas. A Pyro technician that I worked with a few times told me, "When I go home at the end of a day, I strip right down and IF I can count to 21, I know I've had a good day." All I could think as I was laughing and watched the rim rolling idea was "Oh damn, there's going to be some REEEEE comments down there."
Ahhhhh there it is. On point and on time 6 am gang.
Around 2:30, the phone rang and you whistled your toodle-ee-doo-dee-doo. So, I sang it for you.! You're welcome!!! 😁😁😁
Nice ! Surprised to not be seeing more water damage issues . That Dodge was a cool vid.
The fan clutch failure is funny because I installed a brand new one on my pickup a few months ago that was defective as well. Only it would NOT disengage. Killed my power and mileage.
Flip the rim over and set the rotor on the rim center. With the dish up, the side of the rim hits the sway bar or control arm and wants to flip the rim.
We done this with a 4x4 for future reference... As a back yard(parking lot mechanic) I always keep a few 4x4s of verying length.