It’s the way of life up here. My next car’s probably coming from Florida though. We went down there last year and I was blown away equally by the clean cars. My next car will probably be bought down there and driven back home.
"Tushoski's Collision" was painted on that orange racecar. A cursory websearch on Google found a "Tushoski's Premier Collision" in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.
Ray, up here in the north those fords actually rot really bad across the front box support, so in theory the frame is okay but the bed drops down from the lack of bed under supporting it. So strange to see you react to these vehicles that's the norm for me to see every day lol
Ray you guys were a hoot in this one. Wife Unit must truly love your enthusiasm with looking at old rust buckets after doing numerous u-turns. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Always enjoy you guys videos too👍🏻😃
As a southerner in deep south Texas I'm also fascinated by rust. I went to a pull a part yard in Indiana during a visit. Never had seen so much rust including several trucks literally folded from a lack of a frame. I just had Eric O's voice in my head saying "its going to the crusher".
Every September, I get under my 1994 F-150 with a gallon of bar-and-chain oil and a brush. 28 PA winters and the frame is still solid. (The wheel arches have rusted out, but they all do that.)
Cannot believe the greatest mechanic of all time is forty five minutes from my home, my silverado could use some of the Rainman’s expertee’s that I enjoy viewing every day
Nice video Ray. My buddy and I did that climate switch thing a few years ago. We went to Miami in December during a "cold" snap. It was 50 degrees, but we had left 30 degrees up North. Our Miami friends were wearing coats and we were the only ones in the pool.
Lauren did say in one of her videos a few months a go about her liking the truck life. The great thing about rust is you can wash the outside and inside at the same time....
at 3.10 that use to be a truck and that thing beside the 3rd member is a 2 speed rear end that changes its gear ratio. and the log nuts at 7.13 are not on backwards they are double beveled so if your in a hurry to change them and alot of time the pits are dark and you dont have to worry about witch way they go on.
that z71 is in pretty good shape for his age in the north ! That kind of rust just takes a few years to happen when you live in the city and dont do an "anti rust bath" to the undercarriage of the vehicule. (anti rust bath is mainly thickened used oil sprayed all around to make a thick layer)
That happens on the front bed supports of the older Fords and probably other makes. My 2008 F250 had the front support on the passenger side pretty close to collapsing. I bought new supports, and took the bed off. My buddy welded them on and they'll probably last longer than the rest of the truck at this point lol
Father-in-law in PA used to paint the undersides of his cars with grease every year and spray inside the doors and rocker panels with ATF. When I finally inherited the '51 Pontiac I spent days scraping off the layer of dust ond old grease. No rust underneath.
How do you take things apart? It takes itself apart! Greetings from Ontario, Canada. Everything eventually turns to rust. We don't like it when people take broken vehicles on the road though
I used to dread when ever a GM A Body FWD platform came in for new fuel filter-the fittings were always corroded to the point where you had to butcher things to remove and replace them. And this was in FLORIDA.....
Great to see you guys enjoying down time 👍👍 You know Ray if you start collecting old rusty cars if you have two of them together they’re like coat hangers they start to multiply 😂😂😂
my suburban was a northern beater. it's got a lot of the body rust to prove it but is amazingly good condition on the axle and frame. it's just everything else connected to those that suffered LOL I hope you did/are having a relaxing vacation! It's a well deserved break from reality and much needed family time. Enjoy the northern experience! You don't see much like it in florida, I miss that about up north haha!
All our vehicles end up like those trucks here in the UK,only difference is our inspection test stops them being used on the road before they reach that point. You are lucky to work on mostly corrosion free vehicles in your area!
The rust belt may not be good for vehicles but it a great place to vacation! Salt kills nearly every metal object. There are still decent older vehicles. But you have to hunt for them. Hope you had a great visit!
Welcome to our fair state. Recognize some of the places you stopped. They got 10 feet of snow last winter. It's a hour and a half from here. Very nice area of Wi.
Dude, I've lived there most of my life. I live in Florida the last 8 years. Acetylene torches are the first tool of choice up there. Drove semi, we would soak a rag in diesel and throw it on the 5th wheel to dethaw the grease . Lol.
I have never heard Lauren swear before! The rusted out Ford must have scared her. Great holiday video though. I look at things applicable to my trade when on holidays also. It's a tradesmen thing, it's what we do LOL.
Yeah welcome to Wisconsin ray..is why I moved south towards you I'm in Alabama now but yea 40 years of that crap I'm soo glad I'm not freezing anymore enjoy the great yellow north..have some cheese!!!!😂
Welcome to my world, albeit as a DIYer only. This looks close to home too, hwy 8 and N, that’s just west of rhinelander, not even an hour away. The long winters and road salt destroy things up here. My 20 year old daily makes the rusty truck for sale look mint. 😂😢😂
Welcome to Wisconsin! Actually I live here. You seemed to be in the northern part of the state. You should have visited in the middle of the winter with a few feet of snow on the ground and temps well below zero.
Hey Ray! I remember that Route! Your not far from my old neck of the woods for vacations near Iron Mountain, Mi. That's Dickinson County Mi or close to it. Yup rust belt city! You can always tell a Michigan vehicle by all the red clay caked on the bottom.
here in the nordic countries we use pava , suwo , tectyl or dinitrol to protect against rust. its a 2 stage process with a thin and a thick compound . its applied BEFORE it start to rust. the thin part gets pumped inside frame and doors etc to protect from inside and thick part coats the frame and underside of body and lower components. each treatment last about 3 years. i havent seen any american vehicle with corrosion protection in videos.
I recommend SMA videos. He is actually a dealer for rustproofing for his local clients. He also enjoys rust as he curses Ray while trying to remove an exhaust without just melting everything. They are obviously brothers of the YT car fixers . :)
Ray need to do a collab with Eric O during a January. Ray has childsplay in florida working. He needs to learn what it is working on this stuff while it's -20F and covered in rust, salt, snow, and ice
It's soo funny to see Ray amazed by the normal Wisconsin sights ..the salt and slush and minus -55 ,below zero really takes a toll on those vehicles up there almost need to be washed once a week to prevent that from happening!!!
Your wife unit loves you sooooo much. LOL I did enjoy seeing the rusted out vehicles. I'm in So. California, we don't see that here. I have heard the horror stories of those who have to work on them though. No thanks. The work is hard enough without adding that factor in. LOL on you saying you're six years old. My wife always asked me "exactly when did you stop maturing" - she said I always acted like a 12-year-old. She loved me too. Treasure the wife unit, Ray. She's a good one.
3:25 that thing on the differential appears to be either a locking differential or a 2 speed rear end. Farmers tend to re-use stuff other peoplethrow out. Making a corn hauling trailer like that one. (corn still on the cob, but probably not sweet corn) would have been common. The torque tube around the drive shaft for the system to unload does stiffen the trailer a lot. The drive is from the PTO of the tractor towing it at up to about 12 mph. The tractor would easily stop it without trailer brakes while empty. Extreme care is needed when it's full.
They make the metal so thin in the bed the channels that hold the thing up just collapse. So we just pop a hunk of 2x4 or whatever to get her down the road a bit longer..for a wood hauler it's a fine rig. Minty bud
Working on rusty vehicles generally requires a gas axe, recip saw, BFH, WD 40, and a bit of swearing. I don't use a gas axe, so multiply the swearing in my case! 😆
A lot of Chevy/GMC trucks rust out over the rear wheels. I first saw it on almost every Chevy truck back in the early 70s. It was almost guaranteed thats where the rust would show up first
In Nsw Australia after 5 years you have to take your vehicle for an inspection every year before it can be registered. There is no way those vehicles with rust would ever get past the inspector.
WoW... Thanks for the laugh. Out here on the left coast, even though I'm right on Hwy 80 going up to the Donner Pass, they don't use salt on the roads here; they just use sand, so we don't ever have to worry about rust like that.
"How do you take stuff apart up here." Well let me tell you sir, a torch, hammer, breaker bar, and drill. Torch to make you think you might have a chance, breaker bar to break it, drill to drill it out, and then the hammer to hit it a couple times from anger.
Wife unit is incredibly PATIENT with her 6 year old husband!
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@@wifeunit does Ray resemble that remark?! 😂😅
"Great truck, runs good and drives straight... Immaculately cared for. No lowballs, I know what I got!"
Daily driver, with a small tree growing under the hood.
LOL that's what everyone says with a POS.
It's cool seeing Ray fascinated by rust!
Ray should pay Eric O a visit if he goes to Upstate NY!
Wisconsin license plate on that first truck...Ray has ventured into the land of rust
It’s the way of life up here. My next car’s probably coming from Florida though. We went down there last year and I was blown away equally by the clean cars. My next car will probably be bought down there and driven back home.
"Tushoski's Collision" was painted on that orange racecar. A cursory websearch on Google found a "Tushoski's Premier Collision" in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.
@@janetyer7147 They still have 7-digit numbers in rural WI? Or is the area code assumed?
@@bcubed72 Area codes are pretty big up here. 715 covers almost half the state.
Used to drive that route many times.
Ray, up here in the north those fords actually rot really bad across the front box support, so in theory the frame is okay but the bed drops down from the lack of bed under supporting it. So strange to see you react to these vehicles that's the norm for me to see every day lol
Extremely common in the rust belt, lol
Wife unit has much more patience with you than my wife would have with me. I would have come back from this trip with bandages on my head. 🙂
Welcome to Wisconsin Ray and Wife Unit. You are about 45 minutes west of us.
You just can't get away, Ray...🤣 Enjoy your vacation in the upper midwest (that U.S. 8 sign was a dead giveaway).
Once a quality control mechanic, always a quality control mechanic. *Until death do they part* 🤔😇🙏
Ray you guys were a hoot in this one. Wife Unit must truly love your enthusiasm with looking at old rust buckets after doing numerous u-turns.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Always enjoy you guys videos too👍🏻😃
As a southerner in deep south Texas I'm also fascinated by rust. I went to a pull a part yard in Indiana during a visit. Never had seen so much rust including several trucks literally folded from a lack of a frame. I just had Eric O's voice in my head saying "its going to the crusher".
Every September, I get under my 1994 F-150 with a gallon of bar-and-chain oil and a brush. 28 PA winters and the frame is still solid. (The wheel arches have rusted out, but they all do that.)
I dowsed my 02 tacoma frame with some fluid film and it still got a small hole in it after 3 upstate ny winters. This is with the replaced frame too!
A little trick is to fill the inside edge of the fender with body filler, so that dust/salt/etc can’t accumulate and the metal stays protected
Cannot believe the greatest mechanic of all time is forty five minutes from my home, my silverado could use some of the Rainman’s expertee’s that I enjoy viewing every day
Nice video Ray. My buddy and I did that climate switch thing a few years ago. We went to Miami in December during a "cold" snap. It was 50 degrees, but we had left 30 degrees up North. Our Miami friends were wearing coats and we were the only ones in the pool.
I'm from CT, this video gave me the giggles!
Thanks for taking us along. I needed a vacation.😊
Poor Lauren. Silly Ray can’t stop analyzing stray vehicles. He is NOT in his natural habitat.
Lauren did say in one of her videos a few months a go about her liking the truck life. The great thing about rust is you can wash the outside and inside at the same time....
So cool to see them out having fun. And not working sometimes.
welcome to the great frozen north, I'm glad you picked the vacation in the few weeks between last snow melt and the first snow fall....
I love it when Wife Unit curses lol.
I think that was the first time on camera 😱
Wasn't me
what time stamp did she cuss lol?
@@wifeunit LoL
at 3.10 that use to be a truck and that thing beside the 3rd member is a 2 speed rear end that changes its gear ratio. and the log nuts at 7.13 are not on backwards they are double beveled so if your in a hurry to change them and alot of time the pits are dark and you dont have to worry about witch way they go on.
“Can we go now?” How many times have I heard that!
Love the way the brake and fuel lines are the only thing keeping the back half connected to the front half on the first truck!
Maaan, I miss your videos!!!!!!!!! 2 mornings without Ray's
I’ll be back soon
Pickup at opening.... It's been well loved, like a tight squeeze hug from Grandma ☺️
that z71 is in pretty good shape for his age in the north !
That kind of rust just takes a few years to happen when you live in the city and dont do an "anti rust bath" to the undercarriage of the vehicule. (anti rust bath is mainly thickened used oil sprayed all around to make a thick layer)
That happens on the front bed supports of the older Fords and probably other makes.
My 2008 F250 had the front support on the passenger side pretty close to collapsing. I bought new supports, and took the bed off. My buddy welded them on and they'll probably last longer than the rest of the truck at this point lol
Welcome to Wisconsin
Great Video showing trucks in RUST BELT
Looks like your in my neck of the woods. Making me homesick.
Father-in-law in PA used to paint the undersides of his cars with grease every year and spray inside the doors and rocker panels with ATF. When I finally inherited the '51 Pontiac I spent days scraping off the layer of dust ond old grease. No rust underneath.
How do you take things apart? It takes itself apart! Greetings from Ontario, Canada. Everything eventually turns to rust. We don't like it when people take broken vehicles on the road though
I bet Ray thought it was strange seeing no alligators in the ditches up north!
Yay! That "29" was a BANGER!
Thanks for including us in y’all’s getaway Enjoy the vacation you’ve earned it
North of Rhineland WI. Your in the land of Friday night fish boils.
Driving with Ray must be like listening to 🎼 Baby Shark 🎵 on a continuous loop. 😅😅 I feel bad for the Passenger Unit. 🤯😵💫
She has the patience of a saint!
He keeps me entertained
@wifeunit I hope 'passenger unit' wasn't offensive. I thought it sounded like someone more captive than a wife who is probably more understanding. 🙄🤣
Welcome to the rust belt where they have a car wash on every corner
Hey Ray Welcome to my world. Not only do we deal with road salt but here in Nova Scotia we have salt water on 3.5 sides.
I used to dread when ever a GM A Body FWD platform came in for new fuel filter-the fittings were always corroded to the point where you had to butcher things to remove and replace them. And this was in FLORIDA.....
"Ready to race," Cracked me up dude! My wife would have given me the stink eye followed by the deadly eye roll.
Great video I have loads of days like this with the misses 👍👍
You are so sarcastically funny, I love it!😂😂👍
Welcome to my part of the world Ray and wife unit. Recognized all the places you stopped. I don’t recommend working on vehicles up here 😂
Ray love your vids but miss having breakfast watching you vids Im drinking beer this time of evening
Great to see you guys enjoying down time 👍👍
You know Ray if you start collecting old rusty cars if you have two of them together they’re like coat hangers they start to multiply 😂😂😂
The joy of living in the rust belt !!
You heard what she said! Time to send it Ray!
my suburban was a northern beater. it's got a lot of the body rust to prove it but is amazingly good condition on the axle and frame. it's just everything else connected to those that suffered LOL
I hope you did/are having a relaxing vacation! It's a well deserved break from reality and much needed family time. Enjoy the northern experience! You don't see much like it in florida, I miss that about up north haha!
All our vehicles end up like those trucks here in the UK,only difference is our inspection test stops them being used on the road before they reach that point. You are lucky to work on mostly corrosion free vehicles in your area!
Welcome back to Wisconsin buddy!
The Skeeters missed ya!
They’re extra thick this year
You are so funny. Not just the northern trucks. Sweet.
Rays getting a Corvette!
At least it's driveable nice getting him somewhere
The rust belt may not be good for vehicles but it a great place to vacation! Salt kills nearly every metal object. There are still decent older vehicles. But you have to hunt for them. Hope you had a great visit!
Welcome to our fair state. Recognize some of the places you stopped. They got 10 feet of snow last winter. It's a hour and a half from here. Very nice area of Wi.
Dude, I've lived there most of my life. I live in Florida the last 8 years. Acetylene torches are the first tool of choice up there. Drove semi, we would soak a rag in diesel and throw it on the 5th wheel to dethaw the grease . Lol.
A little history of rust !
And never mess with a hungry wife unit !
You are in my neighborhood, rust is a normal thing I use a lot of kano kroil to do work on my vehicles hope you had fun!
Ray in the rustbelt!
Yep. Up here in Wisconsin...Land of cheese, BS and beer farts, LOL.
@@NJP76 😆
I have never heard Lauren swear before! The rusted out Ford must have scared her.
Great holiday video though. I look at things applicable to my trade when on holidays also. It's a tradesmen thing, it's what we do LOL.
You were in my state! Yes, every bolt you touch can turn a 30 minute job into a 6 hour one.
One hour book time can easily turn into a 1 day job/broken bolts/seized bolts/nothing left to grab etc/keep posting your stuff/pretty awesome content
Keep this up Ray. And wife unit is going to leave you by the side of the road with theses fine rusted trucks.😅😅 enjoy your vacation guys.
That is what most of the vehicles where I live look like as they age.
Those trucks are minty for up north... Watch out the rust is contagious.
Yeah welcome to Wisconsin ray..is why I moved south towards you I'm in Alabama now but yea 40 years of that crap I'm soo glad I'm not freezing anymore enjoy the great yellow north..have some cheese!!!!😂
Looks like you are vacationing in WI. Enjoy yourselves.
I totally get it. My wife lets me stop and look at tractors...
Welcome to my world, albeit as a DIYer only. This looks close to home too, hwy 8 and N, that’s just west of rhinelander, not even an hour away. The long winters and road salt destroy things up here. My 20 year old daily makes the rusty truck for sale look mint. 😂😢😂
Welcome to Wisconsin! Actually I live here. You seemed to be in the northern part of the state. You should have visited in the middle of the winter with a few feet of snow on the ground and temps well below zero.
...and bring a snowmobile along. We love our sleds here in cheeseland. :)
Hey Ray! I remember that Route! Your not far from my old neck of the woods for vacations near Iron Mountain, Mi. That's Dickinson County Mi or close to it. Yup rust belt city! You can always tell a Michigan vehicle by all the red clay caked on the bottom.
here in the nordic countries we use pava , suwo , tectyl or dinitrol to protect against rust.
its a 2 stage process with a thin and a thick compound .
its applied BEFORE it start to rust.
the thin part gets pumped inside frame and doors etc to protect from inside and thick part coats the frame and underside of body and lower components. each treatment last about 3 years.
i havent seen any american vehicle with corrosion protection in videos.
I recommend SMA videos. He is actually a dealer for rustproofing for his local clients. He also enjoys rust as he curses Ray while trying to remove an exhaust without just melting everything. They are obviously brothers of the YT car fixers . :)
Ray need to do a collab with Eric O during a January. Ray has childsplay in florida working. He needs to learn what it is working on this stuff while it's -20F and covered in rust, salt, snow, and ice
Years ago we had JC Whitney for cut off repair panels
I remember those days. Man I miss JC Whitney catalogs.
@@NJP76 ditto
They are gone 😢 -- move away from the mountains and fuck I've lost my way
It's soo funny to see Ray amazed by the normal Wisconsin sights ..the salt and slush and minus -55 ,below zero really takes a toll on those vehicles up there almost need to be washed once a week to prevent that from happening!!!
0:04 Wife Unit, "Oh Shit" 😂😂😂
Rust never sleeps!!!😂😂😂
"Can you drop me off somewhere?" 😂😂😂
Up here in 'Consin we'd say that truck is like new. 😂
Holy cow! Rhinelander Wis?
Your wife unit loves you sooooo much. LOL I did enjoy seeing the rusted out vehicles. I'm in So. California, we don't see that here. I have heard the horror stories of those who have to work on them though. No thanks. The work is hard enough without adding that factor in.
LOL on you saying you're six years old. My wife always asked me "exactly when did you stop maturing" - she said I always acted like a 12-year-old. She loved me too. Treasure the wife unit, Ray. She's a good one.
3:25 that thing on the differential appears to be either a locking differential or a 2 speed rear end.
Farmers tend to re-use stuff other peoplethrow out. Making a corn hauling trailer like that one. (corn still on the cob, but probably not sweet corn) would have been common. The torque tube around the drive shaft for the system to unload does stiffen the trailer a lot. The drive is from the PTO of the tractor towing it at up to about 12 mph. The tractor would easily stop it without trailer brakes while empty. Extreme care is needed when it's full.
Ray I think you need to swap locations with @WatchWessWork for a week to fully appreciate the joys of our Midwest corrosion!!
They make the metal so thin in the bed the channels that hold the thing up just collapse. So we just pop a hunk of 2x4 or whatever to get her down the road a bit longer..for a wood hauler it's a fine rig. Minty bud
Working on rusty vehicles generally requires a gas axe, recip saw, BFH, WD 40, and a bit of swearing. I don't use a gas axe, so multiply the swearing in my case! 😆
Don't forget the cutoff wheel and air chisel.
BFH or as Derek of VGG calls it, a "Tanya Harding". 😅
@@stevewhite3424 I forget about Tanya Harding! 😆
or a torch
Rainman visits Eric O
On the trailer, on the 3rdmember, that lever is for the 2 speed rear 3rdmember. Common in old old heavy duty trucks
A lot of Chevy/GMC trucks rust out over the rear wheels. I first saw it on almost every Chevy truck back in the early 70s. It was almost guaranteed thats where the rust would show up first
With the Silverados from 20 years ago it's the rocker panels first.
that was a hoot Ray, love the change of pace, and yeah, gotta get one of those Fibrelass vettes.... rave on....
It's mainly from the liquid salt, the state put on the roads before snow storms and not washing the under belly
Traveling with you would be like traveling with Calvin and Hobbes.
You should visit Eric O. They look to be running some kind of special sauce for the roads in NY. 2018's are ready for the crusher.
You kids have a great time on your vacation. See ya when you returm.
Im up north and that truck is mint!
In Nsw Australia after 5 years you have to take your vehicle for an inspection every year before it can be registered. There is no way those vehicles with rust would ever get past the inspector.
Luckily for the most part we don't live in a police state
@@blades. and lucky for me these death traps are kept off our roads. Just my opinion.
I-95 North bound out of Florida is a continuous uphill climb for hundreds of miles.
I'm glad that the wife unit is levelheaded 😊
WoW... Thanks for the laugh. Out here on the left coast, even though I'm right on Hwy 80 going up to the Donner Pass, they don't use salt on the roads here; they just use sand, so we don't ever have to worry about rust like that.
That silverado aint even bad for new england XD the frame looks fine
"How do you take stuff apart up here." Well let me tell you sir, a torch, hammer, breaker bar, and drill. Torch to make you think you might have a chance, breaker bar to break it, drill to drill it out, and then the hammer to hit it a couple times from anger.