Rear Coil Spring Replacement - Dodge Charger
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this video I swap out the rear spring on a 2016 Charger. Service data tells us to pull the rear cradle/cross member down and install the spring. Well when cars get as rusty as they do here you need to fin another way.
-Enjoy!
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Watching you working with a transmission jack under the car on a hoist I have to admit did bring back some "Backside" Puckering moments when I was working as a mechanic. (Another Rust Belt State) You are right sometimes you have a tendency to get complacent. While I never lost a vehicle off a hoist, I have had them shift quite a bit.
Good job Eric.
now, do it on jack-stands, with floor jack and get the spring stuck with no room to move, then brace the vehicle against one wall and porta power push with 15' pole off the other, cable chains, ratchet straps. not OSHA approved 🤣🤡 late night home garage super sketchy. it would have made a good video for sure.
I go from watching Paul Sellers using hand tools doing woodworking, to Mr O having his way with the rear end of a Charger using janky methods. Gotta love the well rounded entertainment experience!
"Mr O having his way with the rear end of a Charger" is the greatest thing I've read on the internet. Thanks for that.
Love how you preemptively tell the people who think "He's going to charge for the full six hours?", to calm down. Had me LOL. Great job as always. Dr. House.
You certainly got a Christmas gift when those bolts turned freely. Great job as usual.
I put grease on the bolt for the next guy who would be me 😂😂🙄
Eric, always great to see a "fix" where thinking "outside the box" pays off big time. Great job. Thanks for Sharing!
Definitely was creative!
Saving himself the headache as much as the customers money.
I admire the combination of knowledge, experience, skill, patience and perseverance Eric applies to every job.
Admire is an understatement.
I can't think of the proper word.
It is close to awe.
this was one of the most amazing and rewardind jobs that you ever accomplished. great reasoning power and excellent results there Eric
@@lesoram6236 because he's not a Democrat
Another awesome honest repair. if I were your customer and saw this I'd gladly pay even 4 hours labor because your an honest hard working dude that outsmarted the "system". Great work sir
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who takes sketchy short cuts to save time. Good Job Eric.
Nothing sketchy at all!
That’s how we roll in New Zealand - normal day at the shop
Do your cars there have salt/corrosion issues too?
@@brnmcc01 no
But his method to do that job is about how we’d do it...
That's what I love about you buddy, The book time might be 6 hours yet you don't charge your customer that is wonderful. In this day and age if we can help the customer with the cost not only brings the customer back it also shows the trust people have in you. The biggest problem with flat rate in my opinion is the short cuts that in many ways causes very poor repair. For example, I have seen dealer charge full book time on evaporators. The tech would end up cutting a hole in the suit case. The plastic welding it back up. Thats one of many examples. Just so they can make a fast buck. leaving the vehicle no longer OEM. Now with that said I have seen good techs make short cuts and complete the job correctly. We know there are a lot of silly book times out there. Great video, Ron
Watching you pump that rear end up gave me flashbacks to high school auto class and my Suburban doing a nose dive on the lift
Mrs. O. Keeping kids in line in the background is the most real and relatable thing. Love the vids Eric, usually have you on in the background when im wrenching on my vehicles, have to pause sometimes to figure out if it’s Mrs O or my Mrs M yelling at kids😂.
If you're ever having difficulty with spring compressors slipping around the coil, take a short strip of emery paper folded in half the long direction. It'll give it grip and not slide! Learn from my experience!
Personally I prefer to pop some gobs of weld on the spring to stop the jaws from sliding. 😮
@@michaelslee4336 that sounds good. What does welding do to the material in the spring?
@@dans_Learning_Curve nothing you want to do to a spring
@@dans_Learning_Curve Nothing good most likely ... welding probably changes the temper of the spring. Emory/sandpaper sounds like a great idea.
Definitely gonna be my go to
It’s always a good feeling when you find faster ways to make a repair. Rather than what you would have done. Based off the repair manual. Even if it was sketchy. You had your plan and had it under your control.
I’m a experienced DIY and I install rear springs the same way. Great job Eric!
As Mike Rowe would say " safety third " . Just get the job done is #1. Well played Mr.O
It's like Christmas we have been so spoiled lately so much SMA greatness
I helped my cousin do his springs,two people,two low profile hydraulic jacks , and BOOM done. Living here in northern Indiana we run into some rust or salt moments during the winter months
I thoroughly enjoyed your adjustment of the angle of the dangle.
Thanks for the increase in videos. Never miss any of them. You rock brother!
I was on the edge of my chair sweating bullets every time that transmission jack caused the car to rock on the lift wow that was a little unnerving...nice too those bolts weren't ceased. Kudos!
Excellent work. *"The Book"* is always the safe, money making way, or the "proper way" and not the BEST way. Saving the customer time, money and worry is much better. You Da Man, Eric.👍
When we swapped the rear springs on my nephew's 2018 Charger, we pulled the four bolts holding the rear end assembly in. Took about a little over 1/2 hour to complete. Surprisingly fast.
I'm SO glad we didn't have to see Mr O get totally dismembered from a spring getting away
Where is the force going to be expressed. “You’ve gotta know where to stand if one of these goes off.” If you can keep that in mind, you should be good. But you have to keep that in mind. The power of a spring release can be quite impressive, like a civil war cannonball.
The sketchy part was he was lifting the car off the lift with his transmission jack, the spring was the least of it.
Man hats off to this guy awesome mechanic watch you all the time I use your info to help me do stuff all the time
Brings back fond memories of a tech changing the rf coil spring on a 70's rwd Gm sedan in bay 3, when "TWANG" the spring flies across 2 bays and hits the concrete wall. Luckily no fingers, techs or property was damaged!
Actually, I like the way you did the job, You were aware of safety concerns and approached with caution, so I see nothing wrong with this method.
Another fine job Sir.
Hi Eric, I have a spring compressor you place inside the spring. That's safe and saves tons of time.
When you have a tool to bleed a brake master at the bench you need this spring compressor :)
Thanks for the videos.
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
So glad to see you keeping the judges honest at local car shows! Checking bolt direction and spring placement is essential.😆
On some cars they have markings or holes for spring placement where you put the end of the spring. It would be weird to have a car with one corner jacked up higher than the rest. Also, I'm sure they put those bolts in opposite directions for a reason.
Awesome Job Eric, Thanks for all your videos, and helping us to keep our vehicles on the road. NO car payment for 10 years, THANK YOU SIR.
Geometry, Physics, and Clean Livin'. Can't believe those bolts turned as easy as that.
Gotta love the Chrysler junk, glad they keep you in business
I think we all do things like this , I doubt most of us have service data. great motivation Eric.
Eric as always putting the customer first rather than himself. They don't make them like that anymore 👍
Great job! My old man thought like you rest his sole he was old school born in 27’ he was in the big ww2 and the Manuel would say 8 -10 hours to remove and replace they would do it in 3 hours! Thought out of the box !
Had to in the depression Era !
Awesome !!! But I said if this aired Mr “O” came out of it! But when the car on the lift did the shaky and moaning I got a little worried! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 love this channel Sir,carry on!
Here in the UK we do not use the term sketchy very much though it is creeping in to usage - we more usually use the word "dodgy" to mean the same thing. That job was well dodgy 🙂
I do my best to figure out a better way to do things especially when the book says you have to gut the car in order to do a job. I figured out how to change the blend door motor on Crown Victorias and Grand Marquis without removing the whole dashboard like the Ford manual says. I'll have to make a video if I have another one come in. Thank you for another great video.
Eric is a great example of honest mechanics.....he appraised the job and figured it can be done in a better and quicker way.. and he didn't charge main dealer book time and prices. If this was ford main dealer thats 6 hour labour at dealer price, go home early. In my opinion this guy is a legend 😎 great work.
Are these dealer book times updated often? I'm thinkin a lot of the times pertain to using hand tools to do most of the work and not the equivalent electric impacts and wratchets we got today
@@DeloreanGuy2 Book times are updated half frequent i'm fairly sure. So if the techs find a quick way to do an otherwise lengthy job, EVENTUALLY, somebody catches on, and the times get cut. Does everyone know the trick? No. So if you don't, and you do book time or flat rate, you as a tech are screwed or just on time for a job, and the customer is also screwed. Basically Book times are good for quotes and thats about it. Can be easier or way way worse.
@@DeloreanGuy2 do fish hop in your boat when fishing? Do game stand still and let you get a perfect shot whilst hunting? There's your answer.
@@christophertownley6734 Gotta be the dumbest non answer to a question i've seen so far. Thank for trying to play though
Perfect use of the trans jack. I found using mine for stuff like this very handy. Oh and I also use lube on exhaust hangers. Makes the world go round much better.
certainly can't fault the use of WD on the hangers, but Silicone spray is cheap and works just as well if not better, and won't hurt the rubber
I binge watched sma during the whole week of Thanksgiving, can't think of any better way to spend my week off
I'm here for all the sketchy! Great job.
13:55 there is a certain wizard of a mechanic on youtube that charges customers the book price even if he only worked 1/10 or less the time of the book price on the car. Why? Because he is sooo special!!
So awesome. Used to work flat rate before there were comment sections, and luckily not in the salty north. I still call that alignment tool a lady's foot. Great video!
Good job! Removing the rear cradle was probably not going to be pretty!! You are always thoughtful of people who take their cars to the car show!! lol!
Nice smooth job Eric . Not too sketchy at all .😁👍
Eric, we can learn alot from you from your approach and skill on handling the repair.
Because of Eric O., I use Fluid Film now instead of WD-40
My service manuals anymore are you tube videos. Yours are the best. Thanks for sharing
You are a good mechanic You should open you're own shop lol.
Mr O always uses his brain of knowledge first , and then his muscles next ...👍
Dude I'm a 54year old mechanic ran a 10 minute oil change place in PA as a senior in high school went through ASEP training in the late 80's. That doesn't mean squat today but back then block learn etc was it. Run a shop that does outside repairs and inspection in NC. I work for a company that runs service vehicles and schedule outside repairs. I would say you're number 1 and Ford moko whatever number 2 and you're resent miny me in Florida. I've picked up many tips started pulling the plastic sleeves off th radiators for tighter. Ran into the same cooler fitting issue on a 4l60e from Autozone. And the stupid mud cacoon from the south is made by a dirt cobbler they look like a wasp. You're number 1, been AS
E master 30 years don't renew anymore and you're the mechanic i wish I could have been but to my credit my customers think I'm the best.
and integrator
Great video and great job.
You murdered the flat rate time on that.
Ever since I put a 2 post lift in my home shop, I watch videos like these with different eyes. Scary stuff with that much weight over your head. Good job getting it done.
Speaking of safety & lifts(we call em 'Hoists' over the Pond here) when I was a young whipper snapper back in the late 80's when Magna's were popular( NEW & almost ALWAYS Automatic), one Friday Morning while rushing to get all the cars out(Boss always wanted the Workshop as empty as can be for Saturday & Monday's jobs), I was refitting Mud Flaps to said Magna(which was MANUAL).
As we all would remember, Mitsubishi set the Cold start RPM on those to about 15,000 RPM & I reached in the driver's window, flicked the key in order to turn the steering to Full Lock so I could get said Mud Flaps back on & this thing took off through the workshop ran into a Hiace van(which were almost ALWAYS manual & was left in Neutral) & it rolled into a Brand New Ford Fairlane which was on the Hoist(2 poster), which fell to the ground.
Talk about a bad day! Lesson was, I bought a Mud Flap Stubby Screwdriver & Ratchet kit & no longer trusted other workers to leave cars in Neutral & when I started my own Shop, the Cars went out when they were done!
You're a good man for charging for the time it took you and not the book time.
Hey, Mr. O. I admit that I had my doubts that you could pull this repair off. Hallelujah!! I should have trusted the great detective! I am very happy that you didn't have a disastrous fail on this. Forgive my lack of faith. I do know that I will never have to attempt such a repair. Anyway, thanks for sharing! Stay healthy!
Ur the king of the salt belt mechanics.
Oh yeah SMA upload in the house
Great Video Eric!! The best way is the easy way - and not missing any Quality Checkpoints - proper torque is essential!! Hahaha. BTW, that wasn't as sketchy as I've seen in my lifetime - and you did it perfectly and safely.
Also always have to worry about catapulting the car off the hoist if spring has too much tension doing it this way, good ole hoist jack stands under the front is a good idea lol.
I live in the south, saying that every time I look at a used cars history if I see New York State on the history I run away as fast as possible. I hear Eric’s voice telling me 3 years up there equals scrap. Thanks for the videos
That looked like a very practical way to handle that problem. Not sketchy at all (says the guy who once drove his Jeep home while holding a gear lube bottle full of gas and tubing out the window with his left hand when the fuel pump failed)........
Ho Lee Chit . Congratulations your a genius.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to take a chance. Big fan of your videos watch all the time!
Maybe a strap around the lower arm and the trans jack would help, but one hour instead of six is a lot better! I like your way MUCH MORE!
Good fix Mr. O!
The way the book is saying how to do it is remove radiator cap back old car out of the shop . Drive new car into shop under radiator cap and install cap.
Remember that most of the time there is more than one way to do the task. The book is written for one of the ways a task can be done. Of course they are going to write it the way in which the dealer can make the most money on a job.
I like the act that you analyze how you are going to do a task first. That's how I was trained to do work on vehicles 53 plus years ago and my training has stood the test of time. I just keep up to date on the new stuff all the time.
I have a bar that i heated and bent about 4inches from the pointed end. Can be a great help with alignment in tight areas. Another great SMA production.
You made that look easy! I do my share of sketch too, but I gotta tell you, I felt the nads up in the stomach a couple of times watching this!😅 keep up the great work!
I have cut the old spring in several places and pulled it out in pieces. Quick work with a torch.
Your commentary is the BEST! I really do enjoy watching/listening to your work. Keep it up Eric.
Ur eyes and experience will outdo any service data approach, congrats on 750 k ,ur legend is growing
Great work Eric! ..as ALWAYS!! Good to see you on Rainman Rays live chat!!
Hey there Eric O. When you mentioned the car “not falling off the lift or anything”, it made me think of Junkyard Dave’s video where his Dodge Magnum actually did fall off the lift. He was not hurt but the car was, AND he was in too deep with the project to call it a loss, so he had to repair the damage, which in itself was pretty amazing if you saw what got hurt. The roof rail between the C and D pillar got a pretty significant dent, that rear quarter glass got broken, I think the opposite front fender got bent, some rocker damage, stuff like that. The project was swapping a much later model Scat Pack Charger into a Magnum. Like EVERYTHING. The drivetrain was barely a challenge. He did the entire dash, basically the whole interior, the front and rear suspension, and of course the drivetrain. It would otherwise be a bolt in as they share platforms, but of course because of the generational differences it wasn’t quite that easy, but he did some impressive work. Actually very, very impressive. It was difficult to tell why the car fell off the lift, and I don’t know how to share links, but the picture of the car sitting cockeyed partially on its side, hung up partially fallen from a car lift was dramatic. I wanted to cry. That incident really got his attention. I’ve had some sketchy stuff happen which made me take being under a car very, very, seriously. Like changing the flywheel on my 1968 Country Squire way, way back. Some errant casting flash on a replacement starter mounting face caused the slightest misalignment with the starter teeth and the flywheel teeth, and over the next few months if just chewed up the teeth on the flywheel. So I got the correct starter and a new flywheel to go between the venerable C6 and FE 390 combo. Off course I had given away my ramps, so I made do with cinder blocks and 2x12s as ramps. I’m usually pretty darned careful and look for what could go wrong, but here, one idiotic and in hindsight obvious oversight almost cost me the whole shooting match. Of note, I could not squirm u deer this big wagon with it just sitting normally on the ground. It wasn’t lowered, but they just sit kinda hunkered down. Ok so off comes the driveshaft so that I can disconnect the C6 bell housing, take out the mount bolts at the rear trans crossmember, lift a little, push it back, unbolt the flywheel, Remove and Replace. Parking brake is set, all is going to plan, all the bolts came out no problem. I just needed a little more clearance to get tools in to get the flywheel nuts off. So there I am, laying on the dirt/grass driveway with two concrete runners, old school style, front wheels on cinder blocks, set as if in a building foundation, holes vertical, my head by the starter spot, feet toward the rear, fully on the passenger side. I’ve got the C6 partially back. Just need a little more, use my knee on the pan and both hands on the bellhousing, pushing towards the back of the car HARD. Ummmmm, while I did know that old drum parking brakes don’t work well in reverse direction, hey, it was in Park, right. Ummm, no driveshaft in place means the trans park pall can’t keep the rear axle from moving, The two 2x12 I had shoved out of the way so I could slide under more easily. The one bad detail almost cost me my life, but it being cinder blocks instead of ramps and the 2x’s being moved, plus the perfect height of the blocks saved my life. I pushed the car backwards off of the cinder blocks, and as I watched the floor pan move backwards, I tried to stop it, but it wasn’t to be. I turned my head to the left, crossed my hands in my chest like I was in the casket, and basically knew right then that either my head would be crushed like a watermelon, or my chest would be crushed and I would be dead, all while my wife was working in the yard maybe 75’ away. I gasped a little, and got the living shit knocked out of me in the chest, but I was alive. I just knew that coming off the cinder blocks the rebound would leave me no vertical clearance to survive. I pulled the front two seat mount bolts out of my shirt, right over my heart and left bicep, and held my cool while wiggling out form under my car, thinking for what seemed an eternity that I was my ghost about to look back at my crushed self. That’s how convinced I was done for. Well, I had placed the driveshaft behind the car, but just by chance and not by planning, one of the u-joints was just behind the left rear tire, and became a wheel chock, and the cinder blocks both did break, but that massive bumper had hit the blocks and that prevented any kind of rebound. In fact, the blocks kept it from even sitting at normal height, as they wouldn’t fit where they ended up with the car just sitting normally. In fact, I had to make the 2x12 ramps like four feet long to make the transition without the bumper pushing the blocks over on my first attempt. The bumper hitting the blocks saved my life. I had two gnarly bolt holes in my chest and arm, and a scratched side of my forehead from a trans cooler line, but otherwise physically fine. Also felt like I got hit by a car, which I guess I had. But it really knocked the breath out of me pretty badly and I couldn’t really get a deep breath until I got out from under the Squire. I felt oddly like a cat who just spent a life, an idiot, and a badass for surviving. If I had not felt and seen the car rolling backwards, I would have been on my side when it happened, and that would have crushed my shoulders together. Ugh. Kind of a little nightmare to retell, but it has REALLY stuck with me. And every time I go to get under any car, I use the very same jack stands I bought the very next day. That was 1998. I still have those stands. Lots of people die in their driveways every year. I’ve still got the one mark on my chest from that seat rail bolt. A few days later after shaking off the fear, and having gotten a good floor jack and jack stands, I went back under to finish the job. The tip of that bolt had my dried blood on it. It really poked me. It really sucked. It didn’t hurt after the fact, I think because of the fact that I could have been dead instead, I just buried that chest pain. It did feel like an elephant had kicked me in the chest. It took a full day before I could get a deep breath without the area above where my heart is hurting like hell. Lesson learned. I really bonded with that Squire for more reason than just that. My Magnum does everything better, but it might never match the Squire’s character. It just dripped with cool. But dripped zero engine oil or any fluids for that matter. I let one of my best friends borrow it for a week while he was getting his car fixed. He want used to the “loose” nature of old school steering boxes, even though I had just replaced mine and all the front end wear items. He got off a kinda tall shoulder on a narrow causeway and overcorrected into an oak tree at maybe 25-30mph. He was alright, amazingly, because the Squire was beyond repair. Much later, just to see how string that front fender was, I took an overhead swing at it with a 28 Oz Estwing framing hammer. I hit it HARD. Basically as hard as I could. I’m SURE that same swing would have gone through a modern car’s fender. It left a dimple with the hammer’s waffle pattern in my fender. I let a “friend” keep my pride and joy on his rural property after keeping at my house for two years, and at some point it got “lost”. Can you tell I miss the Squire? Safety third kids.
When we lived in the mountains of NE PA our van rusted out before we could pay it off.. That's why we moved to the south..
Sketchy AF ... but love watching an artist in his element ... you take care Mr O ... we all want videos from you for many more years to come.
I am 3 min in.......Never celebrate until the job is complete my 02.......lol I will continue to watch now. Thanks for the great vids
If I didn't know better, I'd think that Eric has done this job before a time or two! ;)
Outstanding work as always. Couple eyebrow-raising moments, but it went a heck of a lot smoother than I thought it would!
You said book time would 6 hours and you wouldn't charge that which i totally agree with. Why is it that most mechanics are gonna charge you "book time" regardless of the actual time it took?? This is why i refuse to bring my car to a mechanic 99% of the time and just do it myself. Love your videos AND your honesty with your customers!!!!
Fantastic job, I have been a mechanic all my life, I check service data , then do it my way . all ways came out fine and I charged for actual time not book time .
There was nothing wrong with what you did to change the spring. You accomplished the task in a fraction of the allotted time and saved the customer a lot of time. While you didn't waste six hours, you can still keep up volume and make good money and time. You and rainman ray are not afraid to take some calculated risks to save time and money.
This is one of the least "stupid" videos in a long time. I love the "wrench" videos that involve NO codes, no Altel, and no deep thinking diagnostics. It is just so satisfying to see the heavy metal struts, bolts, and springs under a car. Eric says "every tool has a hammer side" and here he demonstrates that this is true, showing us that even a hammer has a "hammer side."
Thanks for sharing the short cut. Alot of jobs have a short cut. Most want to keep guiet . Appreciate it
The jokes and personality make me return more time after time.
Don't you just love it when things go smoothly for a change. Then again, with you're experience, you always make shit look easy.
Some of the cars that come into you're shop look bloody horrifying. Considering that 99.99% of them would never pass their yearly inspection down here in Oz where a rust pinhole in a structural member, or a droplet of fluid leaking from anywhere is an immediate fail item. And I am by no means exaggerating.
Great video like always.
I promise you most of us do it exactly like you do
Ah, once again, we see the Scientist in his element, and in prime form! Great work, as always, Eric. And I'm certain that the owner appreciated not paying for 6 hours of labor.
Most shops that figure out a way to do something faster will still charge the standard labor time for that particular job. As they say you're paying for the decades of experience it takes a tech to learn how to do the job super efficiently, not the actual time.
@@cardo1111 efficiently, CORRECTLY, and professionally...
i had a broken spring on the front of my 2dr jk wrangler, so i changed both fronts for springs out of a 4 dr which makes it sit better, it was the perfect time to do so.
A man after my own heart - whatever gets the job done is good. 1 hour vs 6 hours - it's a no brainer right? Well done. If it is unconventional but works then the convention is probably wrong! I' m a pensioner now - but still learning new skills. A former construction worker and manager I'm repairing my broken appliances, learning about de-soldering components on PCB's and mending amplifiers, tv's etc learning from RUclips. Little things don't require physical effort I am no longer capable of doing, so it's learn to repair or go without! Pension feeds 4 plus dogs so money is always tight. Love your channel - sorry cannot join patreon for above reasons.
Did the same thing on my daughters Mercedes GLK 350. Seems to make sense only to loosen up the control arm and drop the spring. Only difference with my experience was having to use ratchet straps to pull the wheel assembly back straight. It pivoted forward and wouldn't line up without pulling it back. That and having no lift, just a driveway..
I was nervous for you the whole time. Well done!
Well, we know if the video is published, the editor is still alive! 😉
@@dans_Learning_Curve My thoughts exactly!!!
When I saw the wood block and the angle you were pushing at.. I kept thinking.. “oh no.. this is gonna be bad”.. I was thinking that you need a large block of rubber for the top of that trans jack… something that could be bolted down with the available holes so there’s no worry of it slipping and kicking out when under tension.. something using a similar material (recycled tires) to the rubber wheel chucks we use for our camper but square/rectangular. Great job as usual, and glad it worked without injury!
This job looked a lot more complicated to me, the Greenhorn, than it turned out to be, doing it the way an experienced mechanic would do it. I wouldn't touch this one. Too much risk vs. reward for in my world. I know a guy that tried to get his boat off the trailer, on land, to replace the rotted guide rails on his trailer. It didn't end well. Ended up breaking both of his knees and getting pined underneath the boat. Six months later, he was back at work. I'm thinking, you DA, you are lucky to be alive!! Glad he was ok, though. Another repair I've never seen before. Very cool! Later man.
Well done, Eric. You thought through your moves, worked carefully, and got the job done. Kudos, not criticism from me, a former Western NY denizen.
Man you the 🐐. I have 0 wrenching experience but your vids have guided me thru a few repairs. Got people thinking I'm a real mechanic 😂😂😂
Well done Eric O. ah the memories where everything I spannered was sketchy !! Takes me back
Dude, you the man, that was some great work, you didn't burn there wallet to the ground, great job...
As a DIYer, i enjoy what i learn on this channel
Thanks for the content Mr. "O" great content.
Love it “Pop Can”! Job well done!
What do you call beverages that come in a can where you're from? In MN it's PoP.