Just picked up my car! Drove Perfect! Engine is spotless and thanks Ray for even replacing some of those plastic clips! It’s those little things. You and the WU are awesome! To all you TROLLS, please add video’s of your work….yea, that’s what I thought! 😂
@deanowens5539 Good on you for letting us know how it went. It looked like a complicated nightmare to me having grown up driving and working on cars from the 1960s when they were SOOOOO much less complicated and you mostly had room to work. There is the odd occasion I would do a particular thing slightly differently but, that's with my own car only and only because I'm retired and have all the time in the world to fart around doing the things NO mechanic would normally bother with, and probably nor should I but like I said, I've got plenty of time since I work for myself really cheap and it's things that aren't really necessary anyway. I wouldn't trust many mechanics to work on my car but, if Ray was anywhere not too far from me I'd trust him, just a pity he's in a completely different country. He, and all of you've got faulty vehicles anyway, Somehow they stuffed up at the factories and put all your steering wheels on the wrong sides of your cars 🤔.
Watched one of Ray's videos before going out for 2 1/2 hrs. in the cold to work on my car. Copying Ray's outlook and approach to it. Was helpful, as the job SHOULD have taken 1/2 hr. but everything went wrong, new parts didn't work as expected, etc. etc. Was so satisfied when it was done! Adopting Ray's attitude was the winning card.
the headache of a bad new part is so shitty, i was so confused when that happened. why wont it go back together?!.. goddam axle was an inch too long, thats why
That's the fun of working on cars. Take the time it shoulda taken, multiply that by 4 and add it to your estimate and that's how long it takes. Because there's ALWAYS something that doesn't go as it should... lol
@@kennyshepherd8311 I have a new "tude" for swearing. I say "thank you" loudly ! Since my hobby requires me to sit down, I'm always dropping things. I made a special stick and named it "gravity control" in honor of Ray.
This should be a must for anything that's built. Sadly I work on printers and other things electronic that are getting more and more complex as time goes on. You actually have to take photos at times to know what went where now. Alas this is also why not everybody does service work for a living as it can be a little harrowing at times. Anyways he did a good job on this one and as always don't know how he keeps so calm at times!
They knew what they were doing when they designed the engine. It’s intentional….. same thing with Apple products. They make it nearly impossible for you to work on it so you have to buy new ones or pay a professional to fix it.
It's also good to hear someone else say PLEASE as much as I do. It's amazing how many people think saying PLEASE is wrong in some way. Like it's bad or something. Being kind and agreeable doesn't cost anything, keeps your mind in a mellow state of being, and is just down right pleasant in general. And may even sometimes put a smile on someone face for no reason at all.
🤔🤣🤣🤣 Don't even think about travelling to the UK without your "pleases" and "thank you's"! Heinous crime to commit in the UK, not to say these umpteen times a day! 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Please, Thank You, Yes Sir/Mam No Sir/Mam, Along with Respecting Your Elders Where all where stripped from the vocabulary & way of Life back in the late 1970''s-90's ! But there is Hope that younger viewers may be watching RAY& learning a thing or too !! A always THANK YOU, Have a Great Day, & LIVE FREE OR DIE !!! From the great state of PEW HAMPSHIRE !!!
@@johny3barr I believe it was the culture of new law enforcement that was trained to look at most all American citizens as the enemy in the drug war that was beginning to be waged around 1969 - 1970 and beyond. The treatment of citizens only got worse, and everyone started getting treated as guilty. And young people started giving up and believing they would never be looked at as anything more. So why try. There were hundreds of wrong things happening all at once. And it would take me forever to explain it all. But I've watch and evaluated everything happening the entire time over decades. It can be fixed but not at all like society is trying to do it.
I'm glad this one is finally done, no doubt Ray is too. I can only imagine how Ray was feeling by day 3 or 4 of this job. Here's hoping that the wife unit has booked several quick easy, straightforward jobs for Ray next week. After the past couple of weeks I thinks he's earned a few easy wins.
It’s the new generation of people who didn’t listen or learn about supply chain mechanics. You use to be able to get just about anything because they had enough brains to realize that if you don’t have it you can’t sell it. Can’t wait to see what the next generation will come up with
After that double diff job and those bloody nightmare PT cruisers, then this uber nightmare, I think he needs a week off fishing or something! I don't think he's had a simple, straightforward job in weeks. All these have been extremely tight working areas, complicated and VERY stressful jobs, I know I'd be feeling a bit burnt out.
Swear to God this was involuntary, I was showering, my body wash bottle was empty, I threw it on the floor and yelled "ANOTHA"! LMAO, Thought I'd share.
I replaced my timing belt and water pump on my Toyota a few years ago. I replaced all the hoses, iridium plugs, thermostat and almost everything else that came off, I replaced with new. It took me 10 hours and it all went ok, but I don't think I want to do it again. Disassembling half the truck and having to put it all back together was the hardest part.
I like the binder clip idea to keep the belt from moving (remember to take them back off). When I do timing components, I like to manually turn the engine over a couple times to make sure everything has stayed lined up before putting the cover back on. When I did the timing belt on my wife's Hyundai, I cheapened out and didn't change the idler to save a few bucks. It was quiet before with the old belt, but squealed like hell once put back together with the new one. Had to take it all back apart again and replace it. Fortunately the Hyundai only takes about 90 minutes to do from start to finish.
I also watch Salvage Rebuilds UK on YT and they frequently do cam belt jobs. They always turn them over by the crank bolt at least twice with the covers off to double-check the timing. Interesting aside that might apply to modern cars in the US too: the interference engines that suffer a broken or jumped belt have hollow cams with pressed-on lobes (then they're machined final). That way, when the timing goes completely wrong, the cams lobes are pushed out of rotation instead of a solid cam pushing the valves into the pistons and destroying both (and the engine for all economical purposes). They sell aftermarket kits with a belt, tensioner, water pump, and both geared cams. Some of the lifters and arms are damaged (having acted as circuit breakers), and are replaced too. But the valves and heads are usually undamaged and remain in place. Also I think there would be a market for 3D printed curved jaws for binder clips that would engage more of an arc of the belt to engage more than one or two teeth.
Who pulls a grenade pin and doesn't get some sort of explosion? Marvin the martian is extremely displeased, he was expecting an earth shattering kaboom 💥
People don’t realize how hard it is to change a timing belt, let alone film timing belt change,run a business and work with wife unit and kids. Very educational and professional. Even with some mistakes. Great job!!! Keep up the good work.
Ray, loved the towel troll… so perfect and then the bad first start was just gold!! People spend a lot of time and effort to troll that hard… absolutely genius!! Keep it coming sir, the direction your taking is keeping things fresh!!
A belt contaminated with coolant will often squeak. Sometimes, washing it off with degreaser will stop the noise until more coolant leaks onto it - but a timing belt is kinda hard to wash like that. The squeak is one of the things I've used as a dead giveaway that the water pump is leaking on a vehicle with a pump that's driven by the back side of the timing belt. (If it's driven by the toothed side, it almost never squeaks.) So yeah, Ray, you had it right from the get-go.
Its a cogged belt they don't squeal this was a bearing noise I runned my car with water pump leak many time and for extended periods and the timing belt never made a sound
@@legros731 So you assume that means it never happens the way @helenault7452 described it just because your particular one didn't do exactly the same. You're not very bright, are you. @helenault7452s post suggests he/she's encountered and repaired engines with this same problem numerous times, that usually means they're a mechanic who works on carS! Not a car but many cars and has clearly encountered exactly THIS very problem before, and more than once so try being just a bit sensible and get your foolish self a nice big cup of STFU.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 look moron it a timming belt it have teeth it can't slip so it can't make a squeaking sound If it skip teeth you got way bigger problems that a squeaking sounds
Good to see Ray turning the motor over by hand after the assembly to make sure all is well. Was a few comments on this last time, as it's easy to get things out of line. Especially as the nail polish marks were on the tooth...and the upper belt pre made marks were over the gaps. Could be one tooth out on both upper and not see it. Safer to check.
This has to be your Magnus Opus for the new shop. I bet you’re an absolute champion at jigsaws! Fabulous series of videos, Ray. Even for someone like me with almost zero interest in cars, I learned a lot. Well done on the ‘blue towels’ gag. You had me shouting at the TV! Even I, with almost zero knowledge, knew the blue towels needed to be removed. You got me! Great gag. 👍👍 Thanks for sharing what was probably a pretty high-stress job in such detail.
I remember changing out a water pump on my 1971 Gremlin X 4.0 litre in January -20 C in Toronto much like the -19 C today. Learned when you change the pump it's a really good idea to change the old hoses as well since the new pump has more pressure and can blow up an old hose. Cost me for more antifreeze and more time freezing my butt off outside to replace the hoses.
I love the Tiktok where the mechanic walks by a bucket of lose bolts, picks one up and drops it onto a parts tray saying, "I like to punk my colleagues by dropping a few extra bolts for the look on their face when they think they're done ... but where does this one go?"
When I work on vehicles there aren't just extra nuts and bolts but also the assemblies they were used to mount. I remove all of the unnecessary junk that is added onto modern vehicles. I prefer old school mechanical systems that are under my control and not that of a computer. (OK, so the EPA hates me and my vehicles would never pass emissions tests in California).
When I was 16 my first car was a 65 Mustang, my dad and I worked on it. When we were done, we had a coffee can of nuts and bolts we had no idea where they went.
Not supposed to pry on timing components, I learned that the hard way when over tightening the tensioner only to have the belt break as I was crossing a bridge. Talk about inconvenience! It was an interference engine where the valves bent but the pistons were still fine. Wound up replacing the entire cylinder head which wasn't too costly. Lesson learned on tensioning timing belts!
Nicely done Ray. So, I take it from looking at the videos the entire job took about two to two and a half hours, right? So the labour charge should be around 250.00. LOL I'm KIDDING...don't come looking for me to try and kill me, you couldn't handle the cold in Toronto right now. LOL But in all seriousness, this was one HELL of a good series and a hell of a lot of work. Congratulations on a dynamite diagnosis and a job superbly done.
Boy the start of this video my heart fell. All that work just to have something missed take out the engine. Today I had to replace a $1,000 drum on a production printer. Although I am just an employee and it's not my personal money, you can bet you handle it with kid gloves and don't miss any of the install instructions/settings so all goes well. It gets to be nerve wracking. The management tends to frown if you damage a $1,000 drum. I can only imagine the tension on trying not to wreck a Lexus engine. People tend to frown on me because "I'm just a copier repair man" Right now I have 4 six figure (price) printers that I manage and maintain. One mistake on those and it's easy to throw $1,000's in the trash can. I start a lot of repairs with a quick prayer to the Lord that all goes well.
This is "THE BEST VIDEO" I've seen from your archive!!! You sir are the professional that I do thoroughly enjoy watching!!! With a shop of your own and money in YOUR pocket, not anyone else's!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!! No such thing as long strung out videos!!!! Keep doing what you're doing!!!!!!
Thanks for doing this one Ray - someone I work with has one of these and I just know he will ask me to do the timing belt on it sooner or later. I feel a lot better about doing something when I've seen someone else do it. Its good the customer decided to get that noise checked out. You wonder how long that old belt would have lasted.
It may be just me, but I will never own a car with timing belts. During my second year in the Air Force (1979), I helped a coworker change his timing belt on his Pontiac Sun(chicken), since I grew up helping my neighbor repair and paint cars. From that day, I swore I would never deal with timing belts again. I own several vehicles and do my own repairs (mostly). My first car, a 75 Malibu with I-6 engine has timing gears only. I also have a 65 M-151 military jeep with timing gears. My 65 Mustang, 94 F-150, 2003 Grand Marquis (was my dad's), and 2005 XK-8 all have timing chains. Even my two Honda motorcycles have timing chains.
Nope! NO WAY! I'm glad that I didn't go into the career of being a mechanic. Way too much work. LOL As for the blue towel things, you said that you did forget, but remembered and removed. I was convinced that you were playing a tick on us by saying nothing when you closed the cover with them in there, in order to tease us. But what would made this even funnier, is when you tried to start the car and ti appeared to not start (where you said stay until the end), it would have been cool if you had taken the old blue rages, ripped them up into strips and placed them at the back, on the floor, under the tail pipe, then pretend that they were blown out the tailpipe! That would have been an awesome bit of comedy right there. As I typed that, I thought to my self.... SELF.... watch this guy come April fools day! HE'LL BE UP TO SUMFIN! LOL
Thinking back 40+ years ago my first timing belt change on a 70 Grand Prix 400 V8. 10 minutes, fan and radiator out, I was standing on the ground inside the engine compartment. I went aviation tech and thought how much tighter everything was on airliners. The auto industry has about eclipsed it in complications. Seeing Ray work on different manufacturers going on instinct and experience is awe inspiring.
Ray I got really entertained with the ones commenting the TOWELS lol, You are great entertainment value with how you lead people down the rabbit hole. They should know you by now lol. Hi from Australia mate
Hope in USA Gates timing kits better quality Here in UK have stopped using gates for about two years after two kits with water pumps failed one after six weeks and the other after five weeks both kits was for Ford vehicles with PSA engines
Like everyone else we loved the "rag gag" it was great! Being retired and forgetful sometimes I can relate to it. I instantly thought I should put a foot of masking tape on each rag and leave it sticking out in plane view. There I go with the belt & suspenders again. Thanks for all you do.
I was literally watching a video from another channel yesterday where they'd left a shop rag in the oil pan and then drove 500 miles to and from a car show. Engine ran fine, they disassembled it for elective work and found towel wrapped around every moving part :|
Love watching your videos while enjoying a coffee at work in the mornings. Sadly, it's so freaking cold in Quebec at around -40c with windchill (keep in mind -40 is where Fahrenheit and Celsius meet up so I think you can tell how cold it is xD) that my car wouldn't start whatsoever even after boosting it for about 10 minutes xD So today, I am enjoying this video in the comfort of my warm house :D
Man idk how y’all survive. I live in the south US and when it’s +20 F we are pretty much shut down and absolutely miserable. I do wish I could see some more snow than once every five years
Ray, I don't have a problem watching a multi-episode series on a single vehicle. Having LIMITED mechanical abilities, I find this type of content quite fascinating. Don't fully follow all of it, yet interesting all the same. I'm realizing that it"s all about the diag., the replacement of worn/failed parts is the "Rest of the story"🤗. How on earth you keep all the parts and "farsteners" in the right order is where this old brain explodes🤯. Great multi-episode series Ray. Thanks👍👍P.S. GREAT touch at the end (da towels)!!!🤣🤣
Could have used your help today Ray..you would have loved it! Replaced trans cooler lines on my wifes Ram laying in the snow with the temp -3°. Nothing ever breaks when it's nice out!
My wife's Odyssey would make a horribly loud clacking at start up that would go away after the engine warmed up. Well, eventually it would make the clacking even when warm. It was so loud I thought the engine was going to detonate. Since it had 120k, I assumed that the noise must be a timing component which it was due for. It was a lengthy repair and scary, but immensely satisfying having not only triumphed but hearing the engine purr again on start up.
I LOVE the paper clipping the belt!😲 Couple summers ago agreed to work on a Suzuki Kai Truck with a 12 valve 3 cylinder. I wish Id seen a video of this content back then.
I loved it ray when you were talking about the timing tensioner, you said" you love your job you put the tensioner on a few times let's do it a bunch of times" that statement is in so true I have a 2001 explorer sport trac with the 4.0 it is great condition for its age runs great I bought it from my neighbor who is a mechanic, the power steering pump went out I put one in from the local junk it was bad I bought one online it was bad I bought another one and it still makes a squeaky noise so it's bad now I have to take one off my old 98 explorer when it was running the power steering pump seemed to work fine so I'm using it so now will be the 4th time I'm dealing with this I love how things sometimes dont work out well I guess the more you do something the better you get ,anyway great video god bless stay safe
So glad you installed the new valve cleaning devices in place & left them in. Good thing too. Just be sure to apply the mileage sticker to the tailpipe to instruct the mechanics on the next service interval of 2 miles. That way we get maximum dependent-abiltation-ism achieved. 😁🤓
It’s really cool that you have a youtube channel and making videos and in these videos you can troll a lot of people and these people run to the comment section saying shit about how you doing your job and you read these comments and laughing so hard about how they can judge you from simple video, and they don’t know what is actually happening behind the camera, i’m reading these comments and wondering how about bring your wonderful skills and work on your car and also film it and see your results, cause i actually tried it’s really very difficult to work and film because simply the camera always in your way, So please be gentle and positive about your comment. Sorry for the long reply
Actually, the belt can be fed through that bracket- that way, the timing belt can be changed without removing the water pump. It's always a good idea to turn the motor a couple revolutions and double check the belt timing before putting the covers back on. You missed the Christmas tree clip for the ABS harness.
I’ve done plenty of timing belts as I am a certified master Acura technician. The best approach for timing belts is to start at the crankshaft gear and pull all slack on the non tensioner side up to the cam gear keeping the belt tight as you go. Then lace the belt on the first cam gear then lace the belt around the idler between the two cam gears keeping the belt tight and then lace it around the second cam gear. That should leave you enough slack to get the belt around the loose tensioner.
Great job Ray. For me, the best part of this repair is the video documentation. If a customer ever complains about the price, you have a great reference.
You can't even tell anyone worked on that engine you put everything back, all the bolts, screws etc. not all mechanics do this, they always leave something undone. Thanks for all your videos, it's nice to see you are on your own shop and don't have to answer to anyone else...except the Wife Unit😁😁
Indeed squeks can be a pain to trace due to conduction thru the metals.. Had a copier that no one had fixed of one where I had to take the copier apart over 3 days to find the reason in a dry bearing in a pully that no one (me as well) had considered due to it's location way way from where the noise was heard/felt. So don't feel so bad over 3 days on this job!
Great Job on this whole series..... I thought it was fun & entertaining... this is what I like to see... How it is done.... Very nice. And, your commentary is priceless....
hey Rey I have no clue when it comes to doing mechanical work in a car but I do sincerely enjoy your series and all the thing you do I live in texas to be precise in Dallas and if I could find a mechanic like you 100 % reliable and knowledgeable like you I would not be afraid to take my car to it because they are so many that add parts for adding parts, thank you for educating us on what to look for when it comes to cars. and if I ever move to Florida; l try to get close to where you are so you can work in my vehicle.
I'd have to back to the first video to confirm, but i believe it came in because of a belt noise on cold start. Being a hybrid the only belt this engine has is the timing belt. It also appears that the water pump was leaking, which it's gasket is inside the timing covers and the belt had to be removed to repair that
After great deliberations and much pontificating I've come to the conclusion the this engine is one I never want to try and fix !😃I might have just squirted some ant belt squeel on it and leave it at that....
I wouldn't trust my short term memory to change the battery in a car but you, my friend, are amazing at remembering where every nut, bolt and fastener goes after the job is done. Have you ever considered a career change to neurosurgery? Another job well done.
LOL that was the first time laughing so hard I had coffee spurting out my nose. After reading all the comments about the blue towels left in. You showing the blue towels at the end. Your the MAN Ray 😀🤣😂😆🙃😊
Sounds great just as good as my 2002 Camry 4 cyl after water pump and associated gaskets. I did change the pulleys because the naughty person who replaced the timing belt did not. Replaced thermostat and the gaskets at the other end as well and the EGR seals etc. Used to use coolant now does not at all. The EGR was the major contributor and I sanded the surface on the valve housing where it meets the head. The valve cover was also sealed as well. I have really learn't a lot here and watch every day. Like the rag episode chuckle. My favorite emoji for the last few years cheers. 😎
Congrats Ray! We share your exhale [relief] of success. Much hard, tedious work and a plethora of procedures demanded your attention to detail on this device. You travel where no service manuals could guide you, yet you find the tedious requirements of irrefutable success. Never underestimate your capacity to achieve success, situations like these are learning experiences that future customers will appreciate via your experience acquired. A continuous portal of new learning experiences like this will give you true confidence. Bravo! Ray.
@@josh6715 yeh holden astra’s are a heapa shit mate, ya shoulda gotta Toyota Corolla✅ now nuth’n goes wrong with them yeh. Can’t beat Japanese Quality Engineering ✅..
I cracked up when I saw the towels in the intake. Had a home version of that happen when a plumbers apprentice working on my bathroom remodel forgot to remove the plastic grocery bags from the drain opening for the toilet before installing the new one and we ended up with a major clog to the main drain pipe that took hours to fish out.
Rainman ray's showing it's not only regular people that get the wrong parts from distributors. Maybe it hasn't always been a plot to stop back yard mechanics as we've always none was true. LOL So now who or what can we blame for all our difficulties? LOL Don't be looking at meeee
Watch the last 30 seconds of this video! You’ll see what I did 😂
good job ray from Australia
Ummmm shop towel intake runner filters engaged? I saw that last episode figured you got them out. 😂😂😂
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38:23 Our daddy Ray got jokes. WE LOVE YOU A LOT. Keep us entertain
TL;DW: Ray replaced a few kajiggers and trolled us all!
Just picked up my car! Drove Perfect! Engine is spotless and thanks Ray for even replacing some of those plastic clips! It’s those little things. You and the WU are awesome! To all you TROLLS, please add video’s of your work….yea, that’s what I thought! 😂
Is this your car? Or a different one?
I do secret stuff, no one can see me work....no video for you
RUclipss the devil. My jobs to focus on the car and customer. Not a side hustle for extra bread at the cost of the customer.
@deanowens5539 Good on you for letting us know how it went. It looked like a complicated nightmare to me having grown up driving and working on cars from the 1960s when they were SOOOOO much less complicated and you mostly had room to work.
There is the odd occasion I would do a particular thing slightly differently but, that's with my own car only and only because I'm retired and have all the time in the world to fart around doing the things NO mechanic would normally bother with, and probably nor should I but like I said, I've got plenty of time since I work for myself really cheap and it's things that aren't really necessary anyway.
I wouldn't trust many mechanics to work on my car but, if Ray was anywhere not too far from me I'd trust him, just a pity he's in a completely different country. He, and all of you've got faulty vehicles anyway, Somehow they stuffed up at the factories and put all your steering wheels on the wrong sides of your cars 🤔.
@@geerhead if RUclips is the devil then why are you here supporting the side hustle ?
Watched one of Ray's videos before going out for 2 1/2 hrs. in the cold to work on my car. Copying Ray's outlook and approach to it. Was helpful, as the job SHOULD have taken 1/2 hr. but everything went wrong, new parts didn't work as expected, etc. etc. Was so satisfied when it was done! Adopting Ray's attitude was the winning card.
the headache of a bad new part is so shitty, i was so confused when that happened. why wont it go back together?!.. goddam axle was an inch too long, thats why
Ray setting a good example for people around the world
That's the fun of working on cars. Take the time it shoulda taken, multiply that by 4 and add it to your estimate and that's how long it takes. Because there's ALWAYS something that doesn't go as it should... lol
No need to take the Lord’s name in vain, in the comment section! (from a repentant offender)!
@@kennyshepherd8311 I have a new "tude" for swearing. I say "thank you" loudly ! Since my hobby requires me to sit down, I'm always dropping things. I made a special stick and named it "gravity control" in honor of Ray.
I think engineers should have to spend time in a shop working on the vehicles they design to see how complicated it can be to repair. Good Job Ray
Car manufacturers make money selling new cars. They couldn't give a shit if they can be economically repaired.
This should be a must for anything that's built. Sadly I work on printers and other things electronic that are getting more and more complex as time goes on. You actually have to take photos at times to know what went where now. Alas this is also why not everybody does service work for a living as it can be a little harrowing at times. Anyways he did a good job on this one and as always don't know how he keeps so calm at times!
that car wasn't made for that engine and vice versa, they squished everything they found together to fast build a hybrid car.
VW / Audi / Porsche especially! Half of the repairs to fix their screw ups is engine out!
They knew what they were doing when they designed the engine. It’s intentional….. same thing with Apple products. They make it nearly impossible for you to work on it so you have to buy new ones or pay a professional to fix it.
It's also good to hear someone else say PLEASE as much as I do.
It's amazing how many people think saying PLEASE is wrong in some way. Like it's bad or something.
Being kind and agreeable doesn't cost anything, keeps your mind in a mellow state of being, and is just down right pleasant in general.
And may even sometimes put a smile on someone face for no reason at all.
🤔🤣🤣🤣 Don't even think about travelling to the UK without your "pleases" and "thank you's"! Heinous crime to commit in the UK, not to say these umpteen times a day! 🤔🤣🤣🤣
@@JRattheranch COOL,
For me it's been a reflex since childhood.
It just sounds right
Please, Thank You, Yes Sir/Mam No Sir/Mam, Along with Respecting Your Elders Where all where stripped from the vocabulary & way of Life back in the late 1970''s-90's !
But there is Hope that younger viewers may be watching RAY& learning a thing or too !!
A always THANK YOU, Have a Great Day, & LIVE FREE OR DIE !!! From the great state of PEW HAMPSHIRE !!!
@@johny3barr I believe it was the culture of new law enforcement that was trained to look at most all American citizens as the enemy in the drug war that was beginning to be waged around 1969 - 1970 and beyond.
The treatment of citizens only got worse, and everyone started getting treated as guilty. And young people started giving up and believing they would never be looked at as anything more. So why try.
There were hundreds of wrong things happening all at once. And it would take me forever to explain it all.
But I've watch and evaluated everything happening the entire time over decades.
It can be fixed but not at all like society is trying to do it.
Come up to Canada. We know how to say please, thank-you and I’m sorry! 🤣
I'm glad this one is finally done, no doubt Ray is too. I can only imagine how Ray was feeling by day 3 or 4 of this job. Here's hoping that the wife unit has booked several quick easy, straightforward jobs for Ray next week. After the past couple of weeks I thinks he's earned a few easy wins.
Nah give Ray a few PT Cruisers after this :)
@@carney26 No! Holy crap No! Ha ha, that might push Ray over the edge.
It’s the new generation of people who didn’t listen or learn about supply chain mechanics. You use to be able to get just about anything because they had enough brains to realize that if you don’t have it you can’t sell it. Can’t wait to see what the next generation will come up with
@@carney26 🤣🤣🤣 I believe he's still got a couple in the carpark.
After that double diff job and those bloody nightmare PT cruisers, then this uber nightmare, I think he needs a week off fishing or something! I don't think he's had a simple, straightforward job in weeks. All these have been extremely tight working areas, complicated and VERY stressful jobs, I know I'd be feeling a bit burnt out.
Swear to God this was involuntary, I was showering, my body wash bottle was empty, I threw it on the floor and yelled "ANOTHA"! LMAO, Thought I'd share.
I replaced my timing belt and water pump on my Toyota a few years ago. I replaced all the hoses, iridium plugs, thermostat and almost everything else that came off, I replaced with new. It took me 10 hours and it all went ok, but I don't think I want to do it again. Disassembling half the truck and having to put it all back together was the hardest part.
I like the binder clip idea to keep the belt from moving (remember to take them back off). When I do timing components, I like to manually turn the engine over a couple times to make sure everything has stayed lined up before putting the cover back on. When I did the timing belt on my wife's Hyundai, I cheapened out and didn't change the idler to save a few bucks. It was quiet before with the old belt, but squealed like hell once put back together with the new one. Had to take it all back apart again and replace it. Fortunately the Hyundai only takes about 90 minutes to do from start to finish.
I also watch Salvage Rebuilds UK on YT and they frequently do cam belt jobs. They always turn them over by the crank bolt at least twice with the covers off to double-check the timing.
Interesting aside that might apply to modern cars in the US too: the interference engines that suffer a broken or jumped belt have hollow cams with pressed-on lobes (then they're machined final). That way, when the timing goes completely wrong, the cams lobes are pushed out of rotation instead of a solid cam pushing the valves into the pistons and destroying both (and the engine for all economical purposes). They sell aftermarket kits with a belt, tensioner, water pump, and both geared cams. Some of the lifters and arms are damaged (having acted as circuit breakers), and are replaced too. But the valves and heads are usually undamaged and remain in place.
Also I think there would be a market for 3D printed curved jaws for binder clips that would engage more of an arc of the belt to engage more than one or two teeth.
Who pulls a grenade pin and doesn't get some sort of explosion? Marvin the martian is extremely displeased, he was expecting an earth shattering kaboom 💥
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Only get explosions while using the XP32 Space Modulator!
that for sure flew right over a whole bunch of younger folk’s heads
More to the point, who pulls out the tensioner release pin without shouting "Fire in the hole" first?
Lolz must use the dis integrating RAY lol
People don’t realize how hard it is to change a timing belt, let alone film timing belt change,run a business and work with wife unit and kids. Very educational and professional. Even with some mistakes. Great job!!! Keep up the good work.
tremendous work. you need to have an assistant that counts how many towels were used, then how many towels were left after you "closed the patient."
Loved the towel bit. Amazing what you have to do these days for what should be a straightforward repair
I am inpressed you still remeber how all part come together ,,sins it take a while to get raigt stuff !! You are wery skilled mechanick Gay 😊👍👍👍
Ray, loved the towel troll… so perfect and then the bad first start was just gold!! People spend a lot of time and effort to troll that hard… absolutely genius!! Keep it coming sir, the direction your taking is keeping things fresh!!
Only Ray is the best celebrity to pull of everything and anything to keep us entertain
Thanks Ray for the last 30 seconds. Now that made my day. That's like a good movie with a great ending.
A belt contaminated with coolant will often squeak. Sometimes, washing it off with degreaser will stop the noise until more coolant leaks onto it - but a timing belt is kinda hard to wash like that. The squeak is one of the things I've used as a dead giveaway that the water pump is leaking on a vehicle with a pump that's driven by the back side of the timing belt. (If it's driven by the toothed side, it almost never squeaks.) So yeah, Ray, you had it right from the get-go.
Its a cogged belt they don't squeal this was a bearing noise
I runned my car with water pump leak many time and for extended periods and the timing belt never made a sound
@@legros731 So you assume that means it never happens the way @helenault7452 described it just because your particular one didn't do exactly the same. You're not very bright, are you.
@helenault7452s post suggests he/she's encountered and repaired engines with this same problem numerous times, that usually means they're a mechanic who works on carS! Not a car but many cars and has clearly encountered exactly THIS very problem before, and more than once so try being just a bit sensible and get your foolish self a nice big cup of STFU.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 look moron it a timming belt it have teeth it can't slip so it can't make a squeaking sound
If it skip teeth you got way bigger problems that a squeaking sounds
Good to see Ray turning the motor over by hand after the assembly to make sure all is well. Was a few comments on this last time, as it's easy to get things out of line. Especially as the nail polish marks were on the tooth...and the upper belt pre made marks were over the gaps. Could be one tooth out on both upper and not see it. Safer to check.
At what point of the video does he do this? Lol
This has to be your Magnus Opus for the new shop. I bet you’re an absolute champion at jigsaws!
Fabulous series of videos, Ray. Even for someone like me with almost zero interest in cars, I learned a lot.
Well done on the ‘blue towels’ gag. You had me shouting at the TV! Even I, with almost zero knowledge, knew the blue towels needed to be removed. You got me! Great gag. 👍👍
Thanks for sharing what was probably a pretty high-stress job in such detail.
After this car is done it will be Rainman Ray's Tire Shop. LOL😂🤣😉 You are the master of troll trollers Ray!
A great example of using patience to achieve success. Something I had to learn the hard way.
Excellent work my man!
I remember changing out a water pump on my 1971 Gremlin X 4.0 litre in January -20 C in Toronto much like the -19 C today. Learned when you change the pump it's a really good idea to change the old hoses as well since the new pump has more pressure and can blow up an old hose. Cost me for more antifreeze and more time freezing my butt off outside to replace the hoses.
I had a Gremlin and liked it. It was a piece of shakey parts but when you opened the hood you could actually see the engine.
It always amazes me that you never have an extra bolt or nut. Good job!
I love the Tiktok where the mechanic walks by a bucket of lose bolts, picks one up and drops it onto a parts tray saying, "I like to punk my colleagues by dropping a few extra bolts for the look on their face when they think they're done ... but where does this one go?"
When I work on vehicles there aren't just extra nuts and bolts but also the assemblies they were used to mount. I remove all of the unnecessary junk that is added onto modern vehicles. I prefer old school mechanical systems that are under my control and not that of a computer. (OK, so the EPA hates me and my vehicles would never pass emissions tests in California).
When I was 16 my first car was a 65 Mustang, my dad and I worked on it. When we were done, we had a coffee can of nuts and bolts we had no idea where they went.
Yea it's a bummer. Nio free spares!
@@coreyfairbanks7374 Free nuts and bolts :-D
Not supposed to pry on timing components, I learned that the hard way when over tightening the tensioner only to have the belt break as I was crossing a bridge. Talk about inconvenience! It was an interference engine where the valves bent but the pistons were still fine. Wound up replacing the entire cylinder head which wasn't too costly. Lesson learned on tensioning timing belts!
Nicely done Ray. So, I take it from looking at the videos the entire job took about two to two and a half hours, right? So the labour charge should be around 250.00. LOL I'm KIDDING...don't come looking for me to try and kill me, you couldn't handle the cold in Toronto right now. LOL But in all seriousness, this was one HELL of a good series and a hell of a lot of work. Congratulations on a dynamite diagnosis and a job superbly done.
Boy the start of this video my heart fell. All that work just to have something missed take out the engine. Today I had to replace a $1,000 drum on a production printer. Although I am just an employee and it's not my personal money, you can bet you handle it with kid gloves and don't miss any of the install instructions/settings so all goes well. It gets to be nerve wracking. The management tends to frown if you damage a $1,000 drum. I can only imagine the tension on trying not to wreck a Lexus engine. People tend to frown on me because "I'm just a copier repair man" Right now I have 4 six figure (price) printers that I manage and maintain. One mistake on those and it's easy to throw $1,000's in the trash can. I start a lot of repairs with a quick prayer to the Lord that all goes well.
Nice play with the towel bit, would have been great if you just piled them behind the exhaust like "Oh look" 😆
LMAO! You're giving Ray more ideas on how to troll us...
This is "THE BEST VIDEO" I've seen from your archive!!! You sir are the professional that I do thoroughly enjoy watching!!! With a shop of your own and money in YOUR pocket, not anyone else's!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!! No such thing as long strung out videos!!!! Keep doing what you're doing!!!!!!
You’re one talented and persistent technician. Way to go Ray! Love your videos. And you are a fantastic family man.
Thanks for doing this one Ray - someone I work with has one of these and I just know he will ask me to do the timing belt on it sooner or later. I feel a lot better about doing something when I've seen someone else do it.
Its good the customer decided to get that noise checked out. You wonder how long that old belt would have lasted.
Having seen so many videos of yours, I kinda figured the towels were a troll. But man thats one way to get trigger ocd. 🤣🤣
It may be just me, but I will never own a car with timing belts. During my second year in the Air Force (1979), I helped a coworker change his timing belt on his Pontiac Sun(chicken), since I grew up helping my neighbor repair and paint cars. From that day, I swore I would never deal with timing belts again. I own several vehicles and do my own repairs (mostly). My first car, a 75 Malibu with I-6 engine has timing gears only. I also have a 65 M-151 military jeep with timing gears. My 65 Mustang, 94 F-150, 2003 Grand Marquis (was my dad's), and 2005 XK-8 all have timing chains. Even my two Honda motorcycles have timing chains.
Nope! NO WAY! I'm glad that I didn't go into the career of being a mechanic. Way too much work. LOL
As for the blue towel things, you said that you did forget, but remembered and removed.
I was convinced that you were playing a tick on us by saying nothing when you closed the cover with them in there, in order to tease us.
But what would made this even funnier, is when you tried to start the car and ti appeared to not start (where you said stay until the end), it would have been cool if you had taken the old blue rages, ripped them up into strips and placed them at the back, on the floor, under the tail pipe, then pretend that they were blown out the tailpipe!
That would have been an awesome bit of comedy right there.
As I typed that, I thought to my self.... SELF.... watch this guy come April fools day! HE'LL BE UP TO SUMFIN!
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Ray, you TROLL!!!! You scared the crap out of us! 😆
You bugger! That awful noise and the towels left in the intake. You got me.
Thinking back 40+ years ago my first timing belt change on a 70 Grand Prix 400 V8. 10 minutes, fan and radiator out, I was standing on the ground inside the engine compartment. I went aviation tech and thought how much tighter everything was on airliners. The auto industry has about eclipsed it in complications.
Seeing Ray work on different manufacturers going on instinct and experience is awe inspiring.
Ray I got really entertained with the ones commenting the TOWELS lol, You are great entertainment value with how you lead people down the rabbit hole. They should know you by now lol. Hi from Australia mate
Hope in USA Gates timing kits better quality
Here in UK have stopped using gates for about two years after two kits with water pumps failed one after six weeks and the other after five weeks both kits was for Ford vehicles with PSA engines
Like everyone else we loved the "rag gag" it was great! Being retired and forgetful sometimes I can relate to it. I instantly thought I should put a foot of masking tape on each rag and leave it sticking out in plane view. There I go with the belt & suspenders again. Thanks for all you do.
I was literally watching a video from another channel yesterday where they'd left a shop rag in the oil pan and then drove 500 miles to and from a car show. Engine ran fine, they disassembled it for elective work and found towel wrapped around every moving part
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Great job, Ray. Now, back to my own problems. -20c with a 45kph wind and drifting snow.
What a honeypot you put out there 🤣🤣🤣 That was great fun. Again excellent repair and ANOTHER….happy customer. Best wishes Ray!
Omg ray! You had me worried for a bit and it wasn't even my car. Love your sense of humour. You know it's good when it gets people like that.
Love watching your videos while enjoying a coffee at work in the mornings. Sadly, it's so freaking cold in Quebec at around -40c with windchill (keep in mind -40 is where Fahrenheit and Celsius meet up so I think you can tell how cold it is xD) that my car wouldn't start whatsoever even after boosting it for about 10 minutes xD So today, I am enjoying this video in the comfort of my warm house :D
Man idk how y’all survive. I live in the south US and when it’s +20 F we are pretty much shut down and absolutely miserable. I do wish I could see some more snow than once every five years
-32 here this morning in Ont....burr il fait froid...about all I remember from French class lol
@@SWATT101 Banned from Quebec are we? It's all about Holy Mother France! You must speak ze francois.
great job ray we all make mistakes but because your skilled you remembered the towels hats off to you
Very nicely done Ray. You and Lauren have a great weekend. Cheers.
Should have done a shot of the blue towel coming out of the exhaust on revving for a laugh :)
Ray, I don't have a problem watching a multi-episode series on a single vehicle. Having LIMITED mechanical abilities, I find this type of content quite fascinating. Don't fully follow all of it, yet interesting all the same. I'm realizing that it"s all about the diag., the replacement of worn/failed parts is the "Rest of the story"🤗. How on earth you keep all the parts and "farsteners" in the right order is where this old brain explodes🤯. Great multi-episode series Ray. Thanks👍👍P.S. GREAT touch at the end (da towels)!!!🤣🤣
The electrons are doing good. Excellent progress.
Wow! More parts than an Erector set! Glad you got them all back in the right places. Great videos.
Great series Ray. I love any videos with deep maintenance and repairs. 4 day series even more exciting. It would take me a month.
Good to see this job come a end that was hard work Ray glad u did it
Thanks for taking me back to my youth. Shake hands with danger was one of the first safety videos I ever watched.
Can’t get enough of this stuff. Loved this timing system series.
Loved the reverse troll Ray. Anyone who knows a great mechanic knows you didn't leave them in.
Could have used your help today Ray..you would have loved it! Replaced trans cooler lines on my wifes Ram laying in the snow with the temp -3°. Nothing ever breaks when it's nice out!
You the man!!!! Truly appreciate you taking us on every repair journey!
My wife's Odyssey would make a horribly loud clacking at start up that would go away after the engine warmed up. Well, eventually it would make the clacking even when warm. It was so loud I thought the engine was going to detonate. Since it had 120k, I assumed that the noise must be a timing component which it was due for. It was a lengthy repair and scary, but immensely satisfying having not only triumphed but hearing the engine purr again on start up.
Did you ever tighten that 10mm bolt on the far rear of the cam gear cover that you were goin to have to use a small ratchet to tighten?
I LOVE the paper clipping the belt!😲
Couple summers ago agreed to work on a Suzuki Kai Truck with a 12 valve 3 cylinder.
I wish Id seen a video of this content back then.
I loved it ray when you were talking about the timing tensioner, you said" you love your job you put the tensioner on a few times let's do it a bunch of times" that statement is in so true I have a 2001 explorer sport trac with the 4.0 it is great condition for its age runs great I bought it from my neighbor who is a mechanic, the power steering pump went out I put one in from the local junk it was bad I bought one online it was bad I bought another one and it still makes a squeaky noise so it's bad now I have to take one off my old 98 explorer when it was running the power steering pump seemed to work fine so I'm using it so now will be the 4th time I'm dealing with this I love how things sometimes dont work out well I guess the more you do something the better you get ,anyway great video god bless stay safe
Great series. Loved every minute of it. 😊😊😊😊😊
So glad you installed the new valve cleaning devices in place & left them in. Good thing too. Just be sure to apply the mileage sticker to the tailpipe to instruct the mechanics on the next service interval of 2 miles. That way we get maximum dependent-abiltation-ism achieved. 😁🤓
It’s really cool that you have a youtube channel and making videos and in these videos you can troll a lot of people and these people run to the comment section saying shit about how you doing your job and you read these comments and laughing so hard about how they can judge you from simple video, and they don’t know what is actually happening behind the camera, i’m reading these comments and wondering how about bring your wonderful skills and work on your car and also film it and see your results, cause i actually tried it’s really very difficult to work and film because simply the camera always in your way, So please be gentle and positive about your comment.
Sorry for the long reply
Actually, the belt can be fed through that bracket- that way, the timing belt can be changed without removing the water pump. It's always a good idea to turn the motor a couple revolutions and double check the belt timing before putting the covers back on. You missed the Christmas tree clip for the ABS harness.
I’ve done plenty of timing belts as I am a certified master Acura technician. The best approach for timing belts is to start at the crankshaft gear and pull all slack on the non tensioner side up to the cam gear keeping the belt tight as you go. Then lace the belt on the first cam gear then lace the belt around the idler between the two cam gears keeping the belt tight and then lace it around the second cam gear. That should leave you enough slack to get the belt around the loose tensioner.
what a fantastic series this has been,thank you Ray,,👍👍👌
Okay you got me. I was so worried you miss the towels. You work so hard and I want to see you succeed. Great video.
Wow, that was a long-long job Ray, at least it was better than watching english tv! Ray uk.....
Love the paperclip trick. I used straws in the spark plug wells to align a mini cooper S engine once.
Thanks, great Content. Gates marking the belts adds reassurance to the job
Great job Ray. For me, the best part of this repair is the video documentation. If a customer ever complains about the price, you have a great reference.
You can't even tell anyone worked on that engine you put everything back, all the bolts, screws etc. not all mechanics do this, they always leave something undone. Thanks for all your videos, it's nice to see you are on your own shop and don't have to answer to anyone else...except the Wife Unit😁😁
Indeed squeks can be a pain to trace due to conduction thru the metals.. Had a copier that no one had fixed of one where I had to take the copier apart over 3 days to find the reason in a dry bearing in a pully that no one (me as well) had considered due to it's location way way from where the noise was heard/felt. So don't feel so bad over 3 days on this job!
This has been an great series, Ray!
Tip o' the hat, and a hearty well done! Another great Rainman Ray repair complete!
I knew you were trolling us on the towels! Lmao, love it!
Great Job on this whole series..... I thought it was fun & entertaining... this is what I like to see... How it is done.... Very nice.
And, your commentary is priceless....
Great job ! I also have learned that I will not buy this type of vehicule. Have a great day! Thanks for showing!
Dang nice job you got it all back together and no noise that's excellent 👍
Is anyone else wondering if he is using the 10mm drivers he stole from Wife Unit??
How could he have stolen what never existed?!!!
So much of that timing belt looks so familiar. My 2002, ES300 Lexus was the same way. When Toyota finds something that works they stick with it.
So Ray does read our comments and tru a tease out about those who said he left the towels in.
hey Rey I have no clue when it comes to doing mechanical work in a car but I do sincerely enjoy your series and all the thing you do I live in texas to be precise in Dallas and if I could find a mechanic like you 100 % reliable and knowledgeable like you I would not be afraid to take my car to it because they are so many that add parts for adding parts, thank you for educating us on what to look for when it comes to cars. and if I ever move to Florida; l try to get close to where you are so you can work in my vehicle.
Why was it running rough on the first start?
I'd have to back to the first video to confirm, but i believe it came in because of a belt noise on cold start. Being a hybrid the only belt this engine has is the timing belt. It also appears that the water pump was leaking, which it's gasket is inside the timing covers and the belt had to be removed to repair that
I may just be dumb, i did forget he replaced the coils on the back. Was your question about the start after all the work was done?
Whole system will go into relearn
@@legionofanon Yes, around 35:25 in the video. After everything is done and the engine is started for the first time.
When I do timing belts I useualy change all the seals on the cams and crank shaft, thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones
he wants another seal change job later for $400.
impressed that you got thru that Ray. . i would have felt overwhelmed. . Kudos to you Ray !
the pulley noise was in the idler pulley between the two cam gears ray! refer to your last video, you spun that pulley and it was smoked!
After great deliberations and much pontificating I've come to the conclusion the this engine is one I never want to try and fix !😃I might have just squirted some ant belt squeel on it and leave it at that....
I wouldn't trust my short term memory to change the battery in a car but you, my friend, are amazing at remembering where every nut, bolt and fastener goes after the job is done. Have you ever considered a career change to neurosurgery? Another job well done.
LOL that was the first time laughing so hard I had coffee spurting out my nose. After reading all the comments about the blue towels left in. You showing the blue towels at the end. Your the
MAN Ray
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@21:08 Not a pulley. Just a harmonic balancer.
It was the idler pully you could hear it during tear down .
Sounds great just as good as my 2002 Camry 4 cyl after water pump and associated gaskets. I did change the pulleys because the naughty person who replaced the timing belt did not. Replaced thermostat and the gaskets at the other end as well and the EGR seals etc. Used to use coolant now does not at all. The EGR was the major contributor and I sanded the surface on the valve housing where it meets the head. The valve cover was also sealed as well. I have really learn't a lot here and watch every day. Like the rag episode chuckle. My favorite emoji for the last few years cheers. 😎
I always learn a lot from your videos and others as well thank you for what you do Ray
Congrats Ray! We share your exhale [relief] of success. Much hard, tedious work and a plethora of procedures demanded your attention to detail on this device. You travel where no service manuals could guide you, yet you find the tedious requirements of irrefutable success. Never underestimate your capacity to achieve success, situations like these are learning experiences that future customers will appreciate via your experience acquired. A continuous portal of new learning experiences like this will give you true confidence. Bravo! Ray.
You know a cars never truly fixed, there's always something that needs to be done.
That is so true I have a holden astra with a right hand tail light that keeps playing up and that's where I spend most of my time
@@josh6715 yeh holden astra’s are a heapa shit mate, ya shoulda gotta Toyota Corolla✅ now nuth’n goes wrong with them yeh.
Can’t beat Japanese Quality Engineering ✅..
God almighty...aint that the truth...? You might get one or two days of bliss,them you feel a knock or hear a rattle....bah.
I cracked up when I saw the towels in the intake. Had a home version of that happen when a plumbers apprentice working on my bathroom remodel forgot to remove the plastic grocery bags from the drain opening for the toilet before installing the new one and we ended up with a major clog to the main drain pipe that took hours to fish out.
Hell of a job brother! Have a great weekend.
Ray...I love it when you trigger the keyboard mechanics...so much fun! REEEEEEE! lol
Rainman ray's showing it's not only regular people that get the wrong parts from distributors.
Maybe it hasn't always been a plot to stop back yard mechanics as we've always none was true.
LOL
So now who or what can we blame for all our difficulties?
LOL
Don't be looking at meeee
22:00 yeah, do that with the covers off. do full rotation then check the cam pulleys to verify they are in the proper spot.