Jonny relates how doing a job without and with the proper tools can make your life easier. BAUM TOOLS: www.baumtools.... CAR NINJA STORE: car-ninja-merc...
I tell my wife this all the time. Who cares if buying the right tool makes it cost as much as taking it to the shop? The point is I will have it for the next time that will never happen. Except for multiple sizes of triple-squares.
You know you're in trouble when your tool(diagnostic app on phone) keeps running advertisements for new car dealers along with an error message "This pile of junk is already a year old! What's wrong with you? Buy a new one!" Just kidding. Thanks for another great video Jonny!x
I was hearing you on the leaky pump and thinking they got a scrap unit or someone didnt run coolant for a while. If the old girl springs a heater core leak then my moneys on cheap coolant or water for a while :-) I found that it you take that shortcut it will bite you hard on many ways.
Ever since doing steering and suspension work on an old Blazer that was passed on to me many years ago I now rust-proof every car I own so the same type of jobs will be easier when the time comes.
Hey @carninja. That looked very smooth. But seeing the kit for that tool, I'm thinking need quite a healthy pro budget to support. Any hints on a non-ghetto way to do without big tool spend?
When I worked at a BMW dealership about 15 years ago (not a tech) I had a 1988 BMW 735i. Had a lot of clunking in the back and our Master Tech looked at it and he said it need the rear "beer can" bushings. I guess they didn't do a lot of them because he didn't have the special tool required to change them. He sent me to NAPA to get a section of threaded bar, some heavy duty nuts, and appropriately sized washers, and made basically the same tool to get those bushings removed. Worked great.
A vote for kindness Johnny shows for his friend. Sometimes you bend the rules for a good friend.Johnny you are a class guy and one fine mechanic as well...
Everyone and their dogs fix domestic, not many specialists of GMW calibre about, so he is keeping good business with euro cars, plus his hourly rate can be higher with limited competition. Smart business man.
I started my own mobile oil change business (synthetic) a month ago. I had a day in the first week with 5 oil changes. No impact either or oil filter wrenches that fit on the back of the filters. After that day struggling to remove drain pan bolts with a ratchet and a band type oil filter wrench I went and got some decent ish off of Amazon next day. Now my life is so much easier.
Ninja needs to wear eye protection when he is working under those cars. I just had detached retina surgery and you don't realize how valuable eyesight is until you don't have it.
you guys messed up. oh well, learn from the mistake and move on. We'll said Jonny live and learn. thanks for the great videos and keep up the great work. 👍
I thought video quality looked like garbage and then i clicked and saw *'1080p premium '* RU-vid being youtube 720p is the new 1080p if youre unwilling to pay for premium.
While I fully agree with the special tools being essential - many of them are both eye-wateringly expensive & easy to make in an average shed/hobby level machinists shop for pennies on the dollar
If you don’t have the tool burn them out with map gas I’ve dine like 30 full subframes now lol 😂 he’s not wrong though pressing them back in is a b!tch I always remove the who,e rear end and do the subframe bushes and the spherical on the hub too
Live and learn not to go forward with the decision/thinking of a messed up person like Tyler Hoovie if you feel this is not right. Just go on with your gut Johny (Car Ninja)and don’t do anityng you don’t wana do.
I can see how the c-clamp style bushing tool would be a complete pain on those jobs. looking at the basics of how those tools are constructed, those of us on ramen noodle budgets could probably construct something similar out of some pipe, flat stock, bolts, washers, and a welder.
Ninja did you know you were in the sun on line, working on a Mini that the owner had been told was in need of a new Super charger. They said Car Expert The Car Ninja, Johnny says it is the Alternator Tension bracket loose.
I don't see how that water pump could possibly be old. The part of the shaft that protrudes through the pulley should surface rust at a year or two old. The part supplier could have just let a dud slip by. As far as using the right tool, I couldn't agree more. I recently finished up walnut blasting my 328 diesel N47. I sent away for a Shop Vac attachment from England that's 3D printed and has one wand hole shared between both intake ports. This made manipulating the wand a bitch, particularly close to the firewall. It was wasteful of shells and didn't clean all surfaces to the desired matte finish. The BMW special tools take the two different shapes of swirl ports for each intake valve and make a separate tool for each. The wand hole is centered on each attachment so you have full freedom of wand movement when doing each port. Each attachment is like $75 though, so you have to just gulp and pay the money. Since I'll have to blow the carbon off again in a few years, I'll get the attachments for future servicing -- maybe rent them out to other diesel owners around me.
Those rear bushings remind me painfully of the rear trailing arm bushings on my Volvo 850. Those are a nightmare even with the special tool. And the tool broke on the first side. Lots of love taps with the hammer and fire needed haha
