Hi Tension Explosion! CAT 3126 Diesel 

Such assuming the internet thugs have a family. Or any healthy relationships. Bless.

you don't know anything about Ray either he's been doing this for quite a while now

@Jim Mason some do tho I’ve work for a couple owners that’ll be gone for months on a “vacation” and that’s wen it’s time to find a new place to work. Can’t operate a business if ur asking ur employees to do shit they would never do themselves

@Jim Mason I ran a small construction business and showed up almost every single day save for occasional short vacations and a couple of surgeries. Most wage slaves have no concept at all of what it takes to keep a business alive.

Seriously? This is RU-vid, and people are full of opinions. Channel creators are fully aware of this. THUGS? So you just made a thug comment. Ray knows how to handle criticism. And BTW, how in the hell do you know his off camera life... unless you are a relative that is with him 24/7. You sound like an individual that would have called his former employer when things went South.

Yeah he going to be mad at himself after reading this but he knows next time

I came to the comments to say the exact same thing.

Otherwise flip the belt so the strings are inside, that way the rubber can flex and allow it to slip into place.

No it’s got 4 bolts,look again when he nudged it round

@@stephenanderson439 yeh i seen that when i put the video in slow motion, weird angles make things look differant

Yep, that's all he needed. Good catch!

Thank you for that tidbit! Makes sense!

Was so wanting to say that while watching him struggle…..

I think you're talking a bunch of nonsense.

@@davidgreening173 same here common sense

Lol 🤤

Eric O is the only other Mechanic I watch

@Rich Cran He did in the last tundra video...LOL

I thought EricO was drunk last time I heard him.

@@davebigdog eric o seems like a cool dude!...this guy appears to know his shit but he seems a bit nerdy!! ... Either way, I'd let both of these dudes wrench on my vehicles! 😎

Yes he missed the obvious. I wouldn’t want that belt now

I have a 3116 on my generator set and did this same job. For me it was easier just to remove the damper. It is a separate piece from the crankshaft pulley. So, the damper comes off by removing the eight bolts, and the pulley stays in place on the crankshaft. The whole job took me about half an hour from start to finish. Also, it's a good idea the check the bearing in the idler. If it feels "gritty" the idler should be replaced while the belt is being changed. The water pumps on these engines seem to last a long time, so probably just changing the idler and the belt will give many more miles/hours of service.

I thought of that idea, mainly so a cog or two did not suffer damage. Great advice!

I never knew that trick. i will have to remember it

Ray literally needs a live chat so he can come to us with all of his problems daily and we can help him.

I cannot believe he didn't just do it right and take it off after he clearly seen it needed to come off.

I’m betting that swear jar in that afternoon is half full

Please , you are killing me with that rust . I get rust nightmares when I go sleep.

I've never had a belt that rusted.🤭

gotta love when bolts go from righty tighty to righty loosy

Repaired a mates Subaru XV TX-580 box with code P2763 and workshop manual said 2 hours but took me 5 hours, lots of frustrating other issues on the valve body.

He loves his job so much, he'll do it twice.

I love your sence of humor ans your patience ans Compair to Auther vidéo yours Ste always Nice " lumen " ans verry well explain 👍🔧

And the alternative of paying someone else to work on his stuff would cost more than the 'lost' revenue they complain about from his time doing his own!

We've also seen multiple vehicles that haven't had videos done on them. It's fairly obvious that he does more work at the shop than what he shows on here. He does more repairs than what we see, making more money than what we know. Not reeee-ing. Just saying that he doesn't show all that goes on at the shop.

@@keithwilson9869 You mean when he is not showing us another oil change? ;) But you are right. Sometimes he also started a car without filming, run into something that came up and decided to film now as it developed into something more.

I am surprised he hadn't ordered another pallet load of Brakekleen to clean up this big rig 🙃

Yes, i found many hours of power washing made for many hours less struggling

The local do it your self car wash is a great place if you don't have a pressure washer.

Not a good idea in todays car/trunk electronics and sensors

i live in rural Victoria Australia, my neighbor has semi trucks dropped off, and a few months later they come and drive them away. he's one armed due to an accident way back when he was an apprentice (he's in his late 60's now i think) but rebuilds bloody huge deisel engines, i recall a generator that was dropped off once that was the size of a 20ft shipping container.

Car dealerships are volume-driven so therefore they don't let their mechanics diagnose or do anything that takes up time. They're a mechanics' hell to work for and the turnover is very high. So they end up with dummies who know very little about what they're working on.

I'm strictly a DIY mechanic but I think I could happily work on that truck. I've grown to really hate working on "modern" cars with spaces a three year old couldn't get a hand into and plastic components that shatter if you touch them once they reach five years old. I could not believe it the other day when I had to take the door skin off my VW Golf, as well as all the inside trim, just to change the window regulator!

@@oldbloke135 as a body tech , I agree 100%

Center bolts though right? I've never removed the outer bolts to remove the dampener.

@@brianm5186 the outer bolts hold just the dampener itself to the pulley hub. The inner bolts remove the entire hub and pulley assembly. He removed the correct bolts for what he was doing. Just need to pry on the dampener to get it off.

@@deez_pucks4709, Stick around Deez, Ray’s probably going to need more advice for this Cat engine. He can more than likely figure it out but having a Cat Tech in the audience could prove valuable.

@@Hoaxer51 I plan to. Lol Don't know how my weekday would go if I don't have my breakfast while watching a Ray repair.

I tried to tell ray the same thing and he left a rude message back to me he said am I blind?

he already recoup enough viewership $ from buying this monster truck.

Yep, time for some big boy tools! Lol

no, just bigger pry bars and sledgehammer.

Every tool is a hammer if you hold it right and swing it

@@kingofbrutaltheocracy9201 true, he even used his hand sometimes.

@george9417 minority pros watch for amusement, simple novices watch for hacks, go fix ur car following the methods.

You forgot the silicone spray lubricant. 🤭

wait till he works on hydraulics of the tilt bed.

Tape over check engine light is so 90s .....everyone knows the proper fix for check engine light is to place a picture of wife, child or other loved one over that part of gauge cluster😂🤣

Step 1, remove cluster Step 2, remove bulb Step 3, reinstall cluster Step 4, have beer and admire your work.

@@Bryan-fn3yq Or pull fuse

Especially, the clickings and popping zee's. 😎

Especially when they've gone through a window. 😎

Ya! After 1+ million miles, throw it away with the vehicle it’s in,,, for it is not “road worthy “ ! LOL

The cylinder liners are not replaceable in the block, like most larger diesels. The block has to be machined and a sleeve pressed in. So, engine has to be removed, disassembled and sent to a machine shop. Long and expensive process.

And brakleen for more scrubins?

Be the change that you want to see!

Not to mention hilarious in a lot of things

@@RainmanRaysRepairs Ray, she's gonna need that 10mm back one day. 😂

when there is Ray, there is a way.

Nahhhhh

doing it Ray's way.

Dealing with just my car is frustrating to no end, now I have infinite respect for the guys who do it for a living

Great things to have when you work on something for days or even weeks and still can't figure it out...

You boys make sure and get to bed on time so you don't miss the school bus in the morning.

@@OldBastardOnaHarley a good mechanic knows a lot about cars. The best mechanics know what they don't know. That's why a good shop will have shop manuals.

If the crankshaft was broken that would have happened lol

I accept. Email me at RainmanAppointments @gmail

Greetings from Camperdown Vic mate. 😀🙃

G'day from central QLD

You must have very good roads to allow that load.

@@wayneessar7489 That and a lot of axles.

@@leonb2637 Thank you!

Yes - In fact, every time I got something in my eye, that required I go to an eye dr. for it's removal, I wasn't wearing safety glasses, because I didn't expect it. For example, I was removing an ordinary paper staple w/ needle nose pliers, and the staple shattered - broke in half, and went into my eye!

Your videos keep me from snapping out.

Because lazy, lol. Soak everything in a mixture of degreaser & cosmoline remover and kerosene before you get any water on it, let it work in for a little while, then spray it off with a pressure washer strong enough to remove the crappy factory paint job from a '90s Dodge pickup. Then throw some kind of good, slightly alkaline biodegradable cleaner on everything to deal with the stuff that isn't of the oil/grease/fuel/sludge type variety, and rinse that off. Probably won't even need any elbow grease. If you want to pretend it's a show truck, you could finish up with an old wash mitt and some Dawn in hot water, but there's no real need. If you want to be "OCD thorough," blast off all the oil-based garbage you can see/reach (rinse from bottom up; water is not an oil-based cleaner's friend)... then stick it back in the parking lot until it's completely dry, bring it back to your water supply, lift at least slightly in the front (unless you're truly a masochist and/or have a creeper fetish), slide underneath, and soak soak soak everything that you can. Blast it off with the pressure washer again, then do a second thorough high-pressure rinse from above (front/sides/fenderwells) before you worry about the plain old dirt (non oil based) crap. Things like this are yet another reason why it's good to hire an employee for the not quite grand master mechanic level tasks. Get one who can detail (properly), and he - or she - can still be bringing in $500 to $1,000 on the days when you don't need a serious second set of hands "on the mechanic side." Assuming, that is, that Florida drivers actually give two shiny sh!ts about how their vehicles look outside/inside/underhood. Considering the way they drive, I have my doubts. But if you're in the same facility as a body shop, they might be able to throw you an occasional bone (or vice versa, depending on how you look at it) and have the employee wet sand / compound / glaze / wax / wax a vehicle. Especially if it's the kind of gravel lot cut rate body shop that is owned by someone who thinks(???) a full filtered air paint booth setup is not required and, therefore, tends to have dirt in its paint jobs (along with orange peel finishes). Either way, there's always something for a detail person to do in an area with more than a thousand people in it, and you don't need all that much mechanical ability to provide real time-saving help (/do the piddling jobs - which is most of them, come to think of it, but...).

too expensive, he uses Brakekleen only.

@@forgetfulme1719 THAT'S expensive, when he routinely uses multiple cans per vehicle of the stuff, instead of multiple vehicles per can. Plus it removes more brain cells than grease, lol.

@@wesgregg6451 BK getting views, some of his actions already confirms the the last part.

@@wesgregg6451 he has said viewers have sent him cases of BK, so his cost is low as long as viewers like it enough.

time is relative, when having fun, times fly.

My son's Nissan X trail did the same thing

Worst case, truck breaks down somewhere in the sticks with engine failure. Cannot be repaired on the spot. There's a non-running customer vehicle on the bed to make it spicy. What do you do?