In the course of the repairs in this video ray probably worked on 3-5 other cars we have watched in the past 2 ish weeks with this nissan in the background. It is also a hellish editing problem of keeping track of all the clips if their interlaced on 1 or 2 cameras.
Yep I love the hour long videos, I’ve taken to waking up an hour or two before I get ready for work and I love when the videos run long to almost an hour lol.
Pro tip ...when you have the tensioners lose on these threaded tensioners ,take them apart ,run a thread chaser through the tension block ,wire wheel the tensioner bolt then reassemble with a thin coating of anti-seize .Ford's and Nissan's utilize this design tensioner and many people end up snapping the bolt as it has rusted and seized after so many years .
@9:01... Funny story... My '87 Nissan Hardbody V6 was in this exact state when someone stole it. They drove it 40 miles with no radiator in it. They abandoned it in a parking lot and I got it back. I finished putting it back together and it fired right up. No engine damage. I still have it and it now has 465k miles on that engine. @27:45... Love that you're doing a timing belt to "Macarena". LOL. @30:00... Go to a Nissan dealer and buy a Kent-Moore oil pan separator. Works great on any car, but it's a Nissan special tool because all Nissan's have glues on oil pans.
Ray, the level of patience that you show with this work is amazing. There would be flying tools in my garage over half the jobs you do, along with some choice language.
I’ve learned to walk away for a few minutes before I lose my shit. Getting angry isn’t going to make it suddenly easier. But smashing the shit out of something would totally make me feel better sometimes lol.
When Ray said “it is hard job” I was like “Yea”, this is crazy, a million parts need to be taken off, it is scary job, how can you remember to put everything back, hat off to you such good technician, take crazy skill and encouragement to do this, there is no way I can become a mechanic like you.
Believe me, I don't think you could ever be boring. My wife thinks I'm nuts talking to myself when working on my truck. Showed her your video and now she says must be a male thing.
who here would love to watch a 8 hour video of Ray basically taking a complete engine apart piece by piece and reassembling it for instructional value.
My friend, I am soo thankful to watch you tackle obstacle after obstacle. You give me hope that I might be able to accomplish just 2% of what you do. You are the definition of determination and courage. Thank you.
First Attempt In Learning. like I tell my kids all the time.. "we all make mistakes, you only truly fail when you don't learn from the mistake." If they are helping me build something or work on a car, sometimes I encourage them to "fail" when they are not confident in whatever project, they say "I can't what if I mess up?" I say "then mess up, see what happens. if it goes up in flames, figure out why and try to avoid it next time"
Like Lightning McQueen once famously said, turn right to go left. Sometimes the long way gets you there. We all learn as we go. I'm 69 and still learning.
Nissan, the old Frontier.. where Ray dares to make bold new discoveries, breaking crankshaft pulleys, bending oil pans.... Just humor, no Reeeeeeee. The adhesion is strong with this one 🤪
If you have tapped holes in the crank pulley for attaching a puller, count yourself lucky. But for goodness sakes, douse them with PB or something before running your tap in there. It's also good to make a second pass with a bottoming tap.
Given that some Japanese car companies give shallow threaded holes in rotors hats and brake drums to assist with removal later (insert bolt, turn) I would suspect this crank pulley had threaded holes in it already.
Alright, after watching you use a hardened chisel on the woodruff key (which you've done before), please consider using a brass rod for work like that.
You could make videos as long as you want in nearly all instances...I would watch it all :-) You do a good job, entertain as well as educate and we learn pros and cons about a given vehicle/drivetrain:-) With you behind the camera figuratively it's always a great day Ray🙂
I've made this mistake many times myself. You discounted the correct, or most obvious way to do something in lieu of a what you thought was a necessary way, and the correct way worked fine. In my worst case of this, I removed the engine for a loose rocker bolt. I win 🤪
Ray, Great to see you break the pulley, not that I am glad you did. Now I know and can avoid doing so myself. We all learn by mistakes, sometimes ours, usually in my case, sometimes others. Off topic: this annoys me with traffic accident reporting when they mostly don't mention the cause, which I could learn from.
Ray the easiest way to deal with the woodruff key is use a punch on one end of the top and it will walk right out without any effort or damage. (Ancient Datsun/Nissan tech here)
Hey Ray, this customer must really love his truck for you to be doing all this work to it. The truck seems to be fighting you every step of the way but your patient persistence always wins. Great work Ray! Too bad about the pulley but oh well. Cheers!
@@cengeb With today's prices of new cars, whatever is done to this truck is worth it, it's not a junker. I'd rather pay for the repairs than finance a $60,000 vehicle for 8 years at $500 a month. I've got a 2001 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner with a 2.7 liter 4 cylinder and it has 243,000 miles and runs and drives great and I paid cash for it 5 years ago. I maintain it myself and do whatever repairs it needs, which are few.
@@lzxray6781 I have a 2019 Tacoma 2.7 and I do all the maintenance myself as well. Assuming somebody doesn’t hit me on the road or the weather doesn’t damage it. And since I’m down south, it won’t rust out. I should have this thing forever.
Also cpo 3 year old vehicles are probably the best deals..low miles,usually off lease,the loss of value was depreciated by thev1st owner 3 years...cpo gets full factory warranty,and dealers only sell the cream no junk allowed on cpo stuff. The worn out stuff is replaced..factory warranty..no just dealer. We have had great luck with vw and audi cpo. An educated consumer doesn't finance a car for 8 years...
Ray it’s great that you show your viewers what not to do on removing crankshaft pulleys. “Mechanics Law if you don’t think it can go wrong, it will”lol. Ray we know that “you always love challenges” while always having yourself a great day as we have ourselves a great day while watching you. Don’t you just love how vehicle engineers come up with ideas to make the mechanic/technician’s job challenging. They’re probably in partnership with tool manufacturers for them to make specialty tools so the repair people will have to buy expensive “specially tools”. See you on the next Nissan adventure.
I use to have 2000 Frontier 3.3 V6 and now have 2005 Tundra 4.7 V8. I'm a mechanic and I'm amazed how much more complicated was to work on front of that V6 compared to Tundra V8.
Guys throwing some money into a older truck. But considering what a rip off dealer new truck costs you are saving him thousands. I enjoy watching your videos thanks.
The problem with using a prybar on a steel pan is that in an extreme case like this you can see the rail area being distorted which will lead to leakage. Better to use something thin like narrow and wide slightly sharpened putty knives, which are thin enough to attack the glued gasket but not thick enough to cause distortion. Depending upon the amount of working room, even a windshield glue cutting tool might be better than a prybar.
Don’t kick yourself too hard over breaking that crank pulley, I would say it was due for replacement anyway by virtue of the fact that it broke. Better for it to come apart in the shop than on the road. And as for video length, I don’t mind longer videos, I could watch you work all day now that I know you’re actually enjoying your work.
Ray, please consider the Lisle 50210 gasket separator. A thin, stiff blade with a hammering surface so you can pound it between block rail and pan rail, then lever it.
Well, glad my daughter no longer has her 1998 Pathfinder 4WD with same engine; on that, I even did the dreaded #6 spark plug replacement, a front drive axle, and replaced its faulty distributor. And I'm glad my 1998 Frontier (270K) and my 2004 Frontier (108K) are both 2WD 4-cylinder engines with timing chains and have 5-speeds. The 4-cylinder engines are generally considered more reliable than the VG33 engines, and are easier to work on. The AC on these works great in the Arizona summers, but I replaced the fan clutches on each.
I have the same engine in my 03 Frontier. I've put three timing belts/water pumps in it in all of its 300,000 miles. I have a brass chisel I knock the keys out with.
It is if the body is rusting away, too. My old 2004 is still going strong at 200k miles with no rust (AZ). Just put a bit over $10k in it because there was no way $10k and my 2004 would by me anything better and have it paid for. Did I say how much I despise a car payment? 😳
Beautimous! LOVE IT when customers have a clue! If you gotta dis-assemble 5 things to GET to the problem, you may as well look at and fix the 5 things you had to dis-assemble.... otherwise, in 25-50k miles you're gonna be fixing the other things anyhow!
Diagonal cutters are the preferred tool to remove half-moon shaft keys. Also always use a fine file to touch up edges and sides prior to replacement. Never hammer a key as it widens the top edge. Always use a plate-type puller, and never a claw puller, on a harmonic balancer... or the actual designed puller. Never a claw type unless specifically designed for a claw-type puller.
Was that "The Macarena" I heard playing in the background? Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "You can tell a lot about people by how eager they are to do the Macarena." ;-)
When it comes to those woodruff keys I always used diagonal cutters to clamp onto on end hard enough so the cutting edges get a good grip and then tilt the handle up. Acts like a little pry bar to lift one end of the key up. Then repeat the process until the key is removed.
I've seen that truck in the background for so long, my thought was it must now be a planter. Good to see the weeds are being pulled, and new weed free growth is in it's future.
time to get some tap sockets from lisle off of scamazon or where ever. when i did my oil pan gasket on my '04 ram 2500 4x4, solid front axle with 5.7hemi, i swore they used epoxy instead of what looked like 2 tubes of rtv. after many razor blades and using very thin putty knives graduating to thicker ones and an hour later it was off. NONE of the rtv let go. i had to cut it all the way around and when it came off, it was rtv'ed on both sides of the gasket. good times.
I had flashbacks of trying to remove the pitman arm replacing the steering box in my 1989 Jeep Wrangler. All I had was a fork style ball joint separator which instead of removing the pitman arm, it pulled the shaft out of the steering box. That's the day I invested in a pulley remover.
Ray the chain videos of a project such as this is very interesting and informative. Riding along with you through the process is enjoyable. Length of videos is of no concern the way you interact keeps us watching and time seems to fly by. Looking forward to more.
Ray, we have a pause button if the content gets too long. From a lifetime of working on cars and trucks, I know that not every repair fits neatly into a fixed segment. Great video so far!
What a nightmare! I assume this is a superior engine, but man, now that I see what is involved, I would run away from one of these. I own a 2008 Ranger and had to have the front cover gasket replaced recently. Nothing like this, thank God.
❤ as I said previously Ray let's hear for working on Subaru engines a lot more efficient than a lot easier. Keep up the great work mile marker Mikey Trenton Michigan.😂
Dude, you got me rolling with the funnies on this one!. I'm going back and watch ep1 then ep3. I still might bust your ""R's"" still if you get me laughing 2 hard! Your cooling system servant 🥶 🐲
May as well say that you rebuilt the entire engine. By the time you get done putting all the new parts into it, it will be rebuilt (save for the pistons, lifters, etc). I really do enjoy learning from you. Even if I am not paying strict attention to the visual (I do have to work), I absorb what you are saying and have started visualizing everything in my mind. Plus you don’t speak condescendingly to your audience. You are a true teacher of your craft. I wish my dad had taught me all of this. I only learned oil & spark plugs on engines of the 70’s. So much changed.
While there were gradual improvements such as electronic ignition and fuel injection with engines through the 1980s, the major changes occurred in the 1990s with OBD2 and computer modules. Nissans are good engines, but they could be overengineered; I mean three accessory belts plus a timing belt; makes you really appreciate a single serpentine belt.
🤣 I was kinda picturing the Wife Unit and Kid Units dancing in formation in the background. (and was it my imagination or did we get some brief audio of Lauren singing along in the background there?)
Hi ray I am very sad today, I removed the Transmission Thermostat from my car and placed a beautiful custom bypass hose in its place disconnected it from the heat exchanger but the oil pipes going to the transmission are plastic hard line, my idea was to work around them as one of the connectors is impossible for me to reach with out lowering the gearbox and keep in mind i don't have a lift so yeah, i kept them on but trying to find a quick connect male end with a screw on the other like the ones on the gearbox side wow it was hell. Plus scared that well right now the oil is just running into the heat exchanger so driving everywhere very easy. "gearbox did not get hot" The other sad thing is well everything is ready to go the dedicated Oil Radiator is installed and its made in Australia so i can be proud, the pipes from the Oil Radiator are installed all the way to where the heat exchanger is just no termination..... Now if they where rubber pipes that come from the gearbox easy but they where plastic like some PVC so leaving the connector on that might be the best idea, I have a flare tool but it does not make the flare that will grab onto such a flare as the quick connect is pipe with flange on it same as the fuel line. I thought i could cut the heat exchanger's fitting off it but destroying it, but there is not enough room to flare it and have a hose clamp plus the quick connect on it. I even taken the day off work to fix this as the weekend was not long enough. solution..... Buying a mini Lathe so this will never happen again.............. CAR : its a 2006 Ford Falcon BF Petrol inline 6 twincam variable 4 valve 4.0L 4 Speed Auto.
Ray don't be afraid of making 70 to 100 minute video's, you can hold an audience that long.
Release a uncut version as hidden for the diehards out there who want follow along while working on other things
I agree I can and have watched his longer videos all the way through.
yup agree..i can watch mr ray all day and doesn't get bored
In the course of the repairs in this video ray probably worked on 3-5 other cars we have watched in the past 2 ish weeks with this nissan in the background. It is also a hellish editing problem of keeping track of all the clips if their interlaced on 1 or 2 cameras.
I truly enjoy all of his videos, especially the longer ones!
Agreed. We can easily handle full hour videos, Ray. You are entretaining and have a wealth of knowledge. We thank you for sharing that with us.
Yep I love the hour long videos, I’ve taken to waking up an hour or two before I get ready for work and I love when the videos run long to almost an hour lol.
He's playing the algorithm to his advantage by not making them that long though.
The quality and complexity of the jobs have really gone up the scale since you’ve started your own business. Makes for more compelling viewing. 👍👍👍
Great video. What a PITA those three belts are! Three beers to whatever engineer came up with the self-tensioning single serpentine belt!
Pro tip ...when you have the tensioners lose on these threaded tensioners ,take them apart ,run a thread chaser through the tension block ,wire wheel the tensioner bolt then reassemble with a thin coating of anti-seize .Ford's and Nissan's utilize this design tensioner and many people end up snapping the bolt as it has rusted and seized after so many years .
Never fought me on my 98 Ford e250
@9:01... Funny story... My '87 Nissan Hardbody V6 was in this exact state when someone stole it. They drove it 40 miles with no radiator in it. They abandoned it in a parking lot and I got it back. I finished putting it back together and it fired right up. No engine damage. I still have it and it now has 465k miles on that engine. @27:45... Love that you're doing a timing belt to "Macarena". LOL. @30:00... Go to a Nissan dealer and buy a Kent-Moore oil pan separator. Works great on any car, but it's a Nissan special tool because all Nissan's have glues on oil pans.
Ray, the level of patience that you show with this work is amazing. There would be flying tools in my garage over half the jobs you do, along with some choice language.
I’ve learned to walk away for a few minutes before I lose my shit. Getting angry isn’t going to make it suddenly easier. But smashing the shit out of something would totally make me feel better sometimes lol.
Well, maybe we need to plant some hidden cameras because he might be on his best behavior when he’s filming lol
@@puppygadget3189 could be but I’m pretty sure he’s alluded to taking a break because he was close to being pissed off before lol
My wife bought me a "Caution flying tools" sign and hung it over my desk. I've become more patient in the last few years, but not perfect...😇🤫
When Ray said “it is hard job” I was like “Yea”, this is crazy, a million parts need to be taken off, it is scary job, how can you remember to put everything back, hat off to you such good technician, take crazy skill and encouragement to do this, there is no way I can become a mechanic like you.
He always says, "This is either going to work, or it is not." - And he's always right about that.
Believe me, I don't think you could ever be boring. My wife thinks I'm nuts talking to myself when working on my truck. Showed her your video and now she says must be a male thing.
who here would love to watch a 8 hour video of Ray basically taking a complete engine apart piece by piece and reassembling it for instructional value.
i like how many Bears you are together with "bear with me" SRY hehe🤣 like your videos 😁
26:30 Macarena playing in the Background 🔥🙌🙌
Adam Savage said it best "Failure is always an option ."
My friend, I am soo thankful to watch you tackle obstacle after obstacle. You give me hope that I might be able to accomplish just 2% of what you do. You are the definition of determination and courage. Thank you.
First Attempt In Learning. like I tell my kids all the time.. "we all make mistakes, you only truly fail when you don't learn from the mistake." If they are helping me build something or work on a car, sometimes I encourage them to "fail" when they are not confident in whatever project, they say "I can't what if I mess up?" I say "then mess up, see what happens. if it goes up in flames, figure out why and try to avoid it next time"
Like Lightning McQueen once famously said, turn right to go left. Sometimes the long way gets you there. We all learn as we go. I'm 69 and still learning.
I was getting serious deja vu on this job from the last one of these you did. These older Nissans might be cheap but they are surprisingly reliable.
Remind me to Never get a car like that!!!!! Love your work and how you keep positive....
Nissan, the old Frontier.. where Ray dares to make bold new discoveries, breaking crankshaft pulleys, bending oil pans.... Just humor, no Reeeeeeee. The adhesion is strong with this one 🤪
If you have tapped holes in the crank pulley for attaching a puller, count yourself lucky. But for goodness sakes, douse them with PB or something before running your tap in there. It's also good to make a second pass with a bottoming tap.
Given that some Japanese car companies give shallow threaded holes in rotors hats and brake drums to assist with removal later (insert bolt, turn) I would suspect this crank pulley had threaded holes in it already.
Ray has the needed patience to handle rust and the problems that go along with it. Great work!👍🏻
Yeah we are so down for hour or so Videos! Love watching, its not like its just a boring silent film :)
I enjoy your videos and learn something too. I watch with my morning coffee. Coffee + video = brain awake. Thank you. Hi to Wife Unit and kiddos.
A little taste of what Eric O has to go through on a daily basis on this one!
This is better than a blockbuster movie. Keep um coming
Alright, after watching you use a hardened chisel on the woodruff key (which you've done before), please consider using a brass rod for work like that.
You're not wrong, Ray. One time I thought I was wrong but I was only mistaken!
Hello Ray. Looks like you are going to have a great series of videos on this truck again. Once you are done, the customer going to have a new truck.
Perhaps a compression test before sinking this much into a high mileage engine?
You could make videos as long as you want in nearly all instances...I would watch it all :-) You do a good job, entertain as well as educate and we learn pros and cons about a given vehicle/drivetrain:-) With you behind the camera figuratively it's always a great day Ray🙂
I've made this mistake many times myself. You discounted the correct, or most obvious way to do something in lieu of a what you thought was a necessary way, and the correct way worked fine. In my worst case of this, I removed the engine for a loose rocker bolt. I win 🤪
Ray, Great to see you break the pulley, not that I am glad you did. Now I know and can avoid doing so myself. We all learn by mistakes, sometimes ours, usually in my case, sometimes others. Off topic: this annoys me with traffic accident reporting when they mostly don't mention the cause, which I could learn from.
Ray the easiest way to deal with the woodruff key is use a punch on one end of the top and it will walk right out without any effort or damage. (Ancient Datsun/Nissan tech here)
Irt is good to see a true mechanic that can tear in to vehicle and truely repair it, and even give a awsome naration as you do it.
Amazing how you can remember every washer/nut piece to go back in right sequence to reinstall. Amazing
Pulling out all the tools for this one.!! Outstanding!!
Hey Ray, this customer must really love his truck for you to be doing all this work to it. The truck seems to be fighting you every step of the way but your patient persistence always wins. Great work Ray! Too bad about the pulley but oh well. Cheers!
Way past it useful life, not worth the money, time energy...After all the work, it's still an obsolete junker
@@cengeb With today's prices of new cars, whatever is done to this truck is worth it, it's not a junker. I'd rather pay for the repairs than finance a $60,000 vehicle for 8 years at $500 a month. I've got a 2001 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner with a 2.7 liter 4 cylinder and it has 243,000 miles and runs and drives great and I paid cash for it 5 years ago. I maintain it myself and do whatever repairs it needs, which are few.
@@lzxray6781 I have a 2019 Tacoma 2.7 and I do all the maintenance myself as well. Assuming somebody doesn’t hit me on the road or the weather doesn’t damage it. And since I’m down south, it won’t rust out. I should have this thing forever.
@Lzxray 67 no sane person finances a car for 8 years that's insane,you know that is financial suicide...3 years is way too much. A
Also cpo 3 year old vehicles are probably the best deals..low miles,usually off lease,the loss of value was depreciated by thev1st owner 3 years...cpo gets full factory warranty,and dealers only sell the cream no junk allowed on cpo stuff. The worn out stuff is replaced..factory warranty..no just dealer. We have had great luck with vw and audi cpo. An educated consumer doesn't finance a car for 8 years...
🤣🤣 "This job is Hard" 🤣🤣 That's what makes it fun 🤣🤣
Ray it’s great that you show your viewers what not to do on removing crankshaft pulleys. “Mechanics Law if you don’t think it can go wrong, it will”lol. Ray we know that “you always love challenges” while always having yourself a great day as we have ourselves a great day while watching you. Don’t you just love how vehicle engineers come up with ideas to make the mechanic/technician’s job challenging. They’re probably in partnership with tool manufacturers for them to make specialty tools so the repair people will have to buy expensive “specially tools”. See you on the next Nissan adventure.
I use to have 2000 Frontier 3.3 V6 and now have 2005 Tundra 4.7 V8.
I'm a mechanic and I'm amazed how much more complicated was to work on front of that
V6 compared to Tundra V8.
Ray, Old school info. I was always taught to apply a little oil to my puller stud screw. This will help keep the threads from stretching.
Guys throwing some money into a older truck. But considering what a rip off dealer new truck costs you are saving him thousands. I enjoy watching your videos thanks.
Morning Ray Ray…. Morning coffee at 5 am Alberta time and another great fix.
The problem with using a prybar on a steel pan is that in an extreme case like this you can see the rail area being distorted which will lead to leakage. Better to use something thin like narrow and wide slightly sharpened putty knives, which are thin enough to attack the glued gasket but not thick enough to cause distortion. Depending upon the amount of working room, even a windshield glue cutting tool might be better than a prybar.
Also I’ve done this exact repair and believe me when I say, bless his little heart 😅 this is a job, he makes it look easy.
So much work! Damn. I am no mechanic but I admire their hard and grueling work.
Don’t kick yourself too hard over breaking that crank pulley, I would say it was due for replacement anyway by virtue of the fact that it broke. Better for it to come apart in the shop than on the road.
And as for video length, I don’t mind longer videos, I could watch you work all day now that I know you’re actually enjoying your work.
Owner must be quite fond of his Nissan - a lot of professional work to do on that '01!
Interesting to hear Macarnea playing in the background while Ray is working.
This did not feel like a 40 min video, I just really enjoy watching them that time is of no importance! It just flies by an 40 min feels like 5min.
The gravity seems unusually strong today. Including the silicone gasket gravity.
Ya betta love that darn profession you have!! that is a masterful display of true patience....
OH god.
The Macarena.
Thats a blast from the 90s
Ray, please consider the Lisle 50210 gasket separator. A thin, stiff blade with a hammering surface so you can pound it between block rail and pan rail, then lever it.
Quick torch along the pan gasket heats the silicone up just break the seal .Works awesome
Ray, everyone knew that you would excel even more now that you are on your own with wife unit by you side
Well, glad my daughter no longer has her 1998 Pathfinder 4WD with same engine; on that, I even did the dreaded #6 spark plug replacement, a front drive axle, and replaced its faulty distributor. And I'm glad my 1998 Frontier (270K) and my 2004 Frontier (108K) are both 2WD 4-cylinder engines with timing chains and have 5-speeds. The 4-cylinder engines are generally considered more reliable than the VG33 engines, and are easier to work on. The AC on these works great in the Arizona summers, but I replaced the fan clutches on each.
The rise of the final Sun of Winter happening now!
A lot of work and a sore back but you're the man for the job
i have not seen anything like that Ray the sump not coming off in the 70 yrs of my life mate lucky car owner you have saved his car
I would love to have this truck after all the work you have put into it. I know it is done right.
I have the same engine in my 03 Frontier. I've put three timing belts/water pumps in it in all of its 300,000 miles. I have a brass chisel I knock the keys out with.
"let's fish this guy out" *drops in coolant pan 😂 jinxed
Just found this and joined. Hope all is well with you and your familia. Paz y salud
What a pig of a job. It's fighting you every step of the way and everything is in the way of everything else. You are a patient man.
There needs to be a new sticker. "As soon as we get through the hard parts we should be done"
It's at this point, Don goes to the dealer and buys a new truck. Cheaper that way 😂
not at current truck prices
It is if the body is rusting away, too.
My old 2004 is still going strong at 200k miles with no rust (AZ). Just put a bit over $10k in it because there was no way $10k and my 2004 would by me anything better and have it paid for.
Did I say how much I despise a car payment? 😳
Beautimous! LOVE IT when customers have a clue! If you gotta dis-assemble 5 things to GET to the problem, you may as well look at and fix the 5 things you had to dis-assemble.... otherwise, in 25-50k miles you're gonna be fixing the other things anyhow!
The ever popular " While I'm in just as well fix this too" rabbit hole.
Diagonal cutters are the preferred tool to remove half-moon shaft keys. Also always use a fine file to touch up edges and sides prior to replacement. Never hammer a key as it widens the top edge. Always use a plate-type puller, and never a claw puller, on a harmonic balancer... or the actual designed puller. Never a claw type unless specifically designed for a claw-type puller.
And I'm glad to be here as well!
Wow, this guy luvvvvs this truck. For the amount of work he could have almost bought a new truck.
Wow Ray that job looked very hard to work on. It looks easy when you do it. Thank you Raynor showing this
Was that "The Macarena" I heard playing in the background? Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "You can tell a lot about people by how eager they are to do the Macarena." ;-)
I could watch it all day , Ray you are entertaining and your videos are educational, if I had all the tools I could pretty take a car apart and fix it
WOW, whoever did that oil pan previously used some significant ugga dugga adhesive!!!!!
When it comes to those woodruff keys I always used diagonal cutters to clamp onto on end hard enough so the cutting edges get a good grip and then tilt the handle up. Acts like a little pry bar to lift one end of the key up. Then repeat the process until the key is removed.
I've seen that truck in the background for so long, my thought was it must now be a planter. Good to see the weeds are being pulled, and new weed free growth is in it's future.
Hey Macarena! As the @WifeUnit and kid Units are dancing with the oil drain 🤣😂
Shocking how many different tools you need own in order to do this kind of work.
Had to do this on my nissan maxima years ago but without the experience and tool and in a cold dark garage. Very nostalgic... i think
As my dad would say, You're not failing. You're just snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
I had a 97 Nissan Pathfinder for many years, it was always a pain in the ass to work on.
time to get some tap sockets from lisle off of scamazon or where ever.
when i did my oil pan gasket on my '04 ram 2500 4x4, solid front axle with 5.7hemi, i swore they used epoxy instead of what looked like 2 tubes of rtv. after many razor blades and using very thin putty knives graduating to thicker ones and an hour later it was off. NONE of the rtv let go. i had to cut it all the way around and when it came off, it was rtv'ed on both sides of the gasket.
good times.
Thank you Ray. Always a good way to start a Monday morning!
For breaking the seal on glued on oil pans, nothing beats a good old-fashioned putty knife.
I had flashbacks of trying to remove the pitman arm replacing the steering box in my 1989 Jeep Wrangler. All I had was a fork style ball joint separator which instead of removing the pitman arm, it pulled the shaft out of the steering box. That's the day I invested in a pulley remover.
Ray the chain videos of a project such as this is very interesting and informative. Riding along with you through the process is enjoyable. Length of videos is of no concern the way you interact keeps us watching and time seems to fly by. Looking forward to more.
Ray, we have a pause button if the content gets too long. From a lifetime of working on cars and trucks, I know that not every repair fits neatly into a fixed segment. Great video so far!
You can also increase the playback speed.
What a nightmare! I assume this is a superior engine, but man, now that I see what is involved, I would run away from one of these. I own a 2008 Ranger and had to have the front cover gasket replaced recently. Nothing like this, thank God.
First thing I notices were those crusty salty battery posts and said NOOOOOoooooo. They need to be SHINY!
❤ as I said previously Ray let's hear for working on Subaru engines a lot more efficient than a lot easier. Keep up the great work mile marker Mikey Trenton Michigan.😂
Dude, you got me rolling with the funnies on this one!. I'm going back and watch ep1 then ep3. I still might bust your ""R's"" still if you get me laughing 2 hard! Your cooling system servant 🥶 🐲
May as well say that you rebuilt the entire engine. By the time you get done putting all the new parts into it, it will be rebuilt (save for the pistons, lifters, etc). I really do enjoy learning from you. Even if I am not paying strict attention to the visual (I do have to work), I absorb what you are saying and have started visualizing everything in my mind. Plus you don’t speak condescendingly to your audience. You are a true teacher of your craft. I wish my dad had taught me all of this. I only learned oil & spark plugs on engines of the 70’s. So much changed.
While there were gradual improvements such as electronic ignition and fuel injection with engines through the 1980s, the major changes occurred in the 1990s with OBD2 and computer modules. Nissans are good engines, but they could be overengineered; I mean three accessory belts plus a timing belt; makes you really appreciate a single serpentine belt.
New Ray Rule, Ray MUST dance to the Macarena whenever it cones on his channel!!😂
🤣 I was kinda picturing the Wife Unit and Kid Units dancing in formation in the background. (and was it my imagination or did we get some brief audio of Lauren singing along in the background there?)
Hi ray I am very sad today, I removed the Transmission Thermostat from my car and placed a beautiful custom bypass hose in its place disconnected it from the heat exchanger but the oil pipes going to the transmission are plastic hard line, my idea was to work around them as one of the connectors is impossible for me to reach with out lowering the gearbox and keep in mind i don't have a lift so yeah, i kept them on but trying to find a quick connect male end with a screw on the other like the ones on the gearbox side wow it was hell.
Plus scared that well right now the oil is just running into the heat exchanger so driving everywhere very easy. "gearbox did not get hot" The other sad thing is well everything is ready to go the dedicated Oil Radiator is installed and its made in Australia so i can be proud, the pipes from the Oil Radiator are installed all the way to where the heat exchanger is just no termination.....
Now if they where rubber pipes that come from the gearbox easy but they where plastic like some PVC so leaving the connector on that might be the best idea, I have a flare tool but it does not make the flare that will grab onto such a flare as the quick connect is pipe with flange on it same as the fuel line.
I thought i could cut the heat exchanger's fitting off it but destroying it, but there is not enough room to flare it and have a hose clamp plus the quick connect on it.
I even taken the day off work to fix this as the weekend was not long enough.
solution.....
Buying a mini Lathe so this will never happen again..............
CAR : its a 2006 Ford Falcon BF Petrol inline 6 twincam variable 4 valve 4.0L 4 Speed Auto.
Hi Ray.when you win you win.when you lose you learn.😮
You really should look into a topside creeper. I suspect that such a thing would come in very handy on jobs like this
I'm amazed is how you manage to find all the oddball parts ya need in a moment call...goods parts suppliers around there, for all brands
Blue coolant, so you know it's good.
I second that! Long videos from you are a joy.