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@johnthompson1453 Год назад

I thought that the final tightening of new steering components was to be performed while the vehicle was on the ground.

@angusbuchan. Год назад

It is

@whobeeme1 Год назад

You are right. It will not take long before the customer have to get the control arm bushing replaced....again.

@puttitat2851 Год назад

Came here to say this.

@CubbyTech Год назад

It's a little easier to do on the ground, but the control arm points are seated and bolted level. Alignment will get it all sorted.

@michaelpressman7203 Год назад

Had to do mine under load.Used a jack to put a full load on control arms while car was on jack stands.Not the best way,but I worked with what I had Have a great day

@ianj6857 Год назад

In the UK we call the pins - split pins. A cotter pin is used on the crank of a bicycle to hold the pedal assembly in place.

@Jordy-927 Год назад

They're pretty interchangeable here in Canada in my experience. I've always called them cotter pins personally. But I've even heard them called by both names in the same small towns. What Americans call split pins we call roll pins. The round pins, made of rolled up spring steel.

@jcnikoley Год назад

The term “split pin” can refer to a cotter pin or a roll pin. This causes confusion, so it’s better to use the terms cotter pin or roll pin imo.

@frankgibson3749 Год назад

I’ve been wanting to say this for months! OK, I served my apprenticeship in the 1970’s but, as far as I am aware, a split pin is still a split pin. You know, a pin that splits!

@scottwilliams1976 Год назад

@jcnikoley roll pins are completely different, you have no idea what you're talking about

@michaelgiblin1410 Год назад

We call them split pins in Australia also.

@pauljarvis1937 Год назад

Here in the UK it's called a split pin.

@alisonleatherbarrow Год назад

I’m English and my dad called it a cotter pin

@ChrisWijtmans Год назад

@@alisonleatherbarrow counter pin?

@patrickscott3378 Год назад

Replacement lower control arms were wrong.Ball joints were taller then Honda oem part.Cotter pins must go thru castle nuts to kept them from backing off.

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

don't drive behind that Honda.

@Smacke1963 Год назад

I was taught to jack the suspension up to approximate ride height before torquing to spec.. anybody else?

@johnt.848 Год назад

That should always be done when replacing the control arms.

@ricebike Год назад

@@johnt.848yup, because now those bushings are under constant stress and rubber will crack sooner than later

@ejoldman Год назад

Those ball joint castle nuts need a couple of washers under them to ensure the split pins are engaged in the castellations when they pass through the hole in the bolt.

@joeprocopio2095 Год назад

was going to say the same thing, but would adding washers do anything to the function of the ball joints?

@robertcarter4649 Год назад

Adding grade 5 or 8 washers would be a more professional and safety completed job

@michaelpressman7203 Год назад

I agree

@angusbuchan. Год назад

@@joeprocopio2095 not about the ball joint, the pins through the castelations are to stop the nut from vibrating loose, nylocks woud also be an ecceptable alternative.

@aaronbritt2025 Год назад

@@angusbuchan. I like using C-Lock nuts. No nylon to wear out or melt away.

@colinrawlins3286 Год назад

In the UK we call them split pins for obvious reasons.

@longbowfta Год назад

Originally called split pins in 1912 later called cotter pins

@stulop Год назад

I'm in th UK and since my dad calling them cotter pins in the 70s, that's what I've called them.

@BE-ART Год назад

Here in the Netherlands also "splitpennen".

@peterneal7160 Год назад

Yes we do! Cotter pins are like a little rod with a flat flanged end other end has a hole in it! My mistake! :-( what I described was a Clevis pin!! Dahhh 🤣🤣

@Maroco918 Год назад

We had a British tech start at my shop recently. The names you guys have for tools and car parts it's crazy 🤣

@davidbotterill7549 Год назад

Good morning Ray. It’s a good day to be alive! You have yourself many more great days sir. Dave Birmingham England

@aaronbritt2025 Год назад

I use a pickle fork on my air hammer to bust those ball joints loose. Not worried about jacking up the boot since it's being replaced. @23:30... Don't fully tighten the rear bushing until the car is on the ground. By tightening with the suspension fully sagged, when the car is put back on the ground, the bushing will be twisted and preloaded. This causes premature wear.

@Helicopter3108 Год назад

Hi Ray, if you use a “podger bar” the pointy end makes it easier to line up the bolt holes.

@brianhume4743 Год назад

Ball joint castle nuts need changed for the split pin to go through, might as well just used a standard nut😮😮 just saying from North of Newcastle 🇬🇧

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

True, the serrations will just cut the pins' ends.

@leonhart2452 Год назад

On the new castle nut being too short, adding a washer to align the nut with the pin hole would be ok. If the old nuts had the right threads for the new joints and were in good shape you could reuse them. I've done it both ways.

@ericpaul4575 Год назад

The old nuts were destroyed in the process of popping the ball joints loose.

@leonhart2452 Год назад

@@ericpaul4575 as I said, if the nuts are in good shape. Apparently this time the nuts were in bad shape.

@ralfie8801 Год назад

@@ericpaul4575 He was hitting the knuckle with the hammer, not the castle nuts. He pried on them a bit, but that shouldn’t have damaged them much.

@paulpierce4818 Год назад

Should have added needed washers. That pin job won't hold it.

@joanstehlik235 Год назад

I've done washers and drilled new holes.👍

@Blaxjax21 Год назад

Worked with a guy back in the 80's who replaced all his lug nuts with locking. We know this because he came back to the ship complaining that he had to buy 5 sets because they only came in packs of 4.

@denkn Год назад

Now, that is funny...

@MrBean5268 Год назад

@denkn really funny when it happens to you. I happened to get a car at an auction with hubcaps. All the lug nuts were locking and the keys weren't there. All five of them were gone. Expensive, but I still made a profit.

@veritasaequitas9875 Год назад

FYI I would have drilled a new hole for the cotter pin. It wouldn't present any risk because everything north of the castle nut is doing nothing. It bears no load.

@daviddobson4006 Год назад

I’ve always called them cotter pins but have heard both terms cotter keys and split pins. I think at one time I was told the inventors name was Cotter. Was in the hardware business 40 years ago.

@EyeMWing Год назад

for removing removing ball joints you don't intend to reuse, I like the 'pickle fork' ball joint separators. They absolutely tear the crap out of the boot, but if you're throwing it in the trash anyway, they do the job right away every time. Just gotta make sure you buy a good quality tool, because the cheap ones are soft and deform.

@ralfie8801 Год назад

Putting a flat ended bit in his air hammer and rattling the side of the knuckle where he was hitting it with the hammer will loosen them right up without damaging anything. I’ve broken pickle forks trying to get tie rod ends loose before.

@LesReeves Год назад

Yeah I agree dhould have used a ball joint fork & if you know how to use them you don't tear the boot.However ehen I do bushings in the front I always use new ball joints.

@alejandromorazan3420 Год назад

I will always use a ball joint separator

@level1804 Год назад

Ball joint separator is a time saver and has saved by bacon a few times. It’s a weapon every mechanic should have in their arsenal.

@alejandromorazan3420 Год назад

@@level1804 you make bacon while working on cars? Dude hit me up

@DarrenIsted Год назад

ray those control arm bolts, need to be tightened at ride height buddy.

@russbeck2 Год назад

In the UK they are known as split pins. 🙂

@johnhhinton5473 Год назад

Same in Australia and New Zealand

@timjohnun4297 Год назад

@@johnhhinton5473 True, but if you buy a Repco grab kit they will be labelled as "Split steel cotter pins" ;)

@keirkotrd2047 Год назад

aren't you supposed to torque nuts on control arm bushings when suspension is fully loaded per repair manual?

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

never reads manual, in and out shortest time, guaranteed.

@pashadobrowolski496 Год назад

Pretty sure you are supposed to tighten the rear inner control arm bushes when they are at or near their normal ride height.

@shaun2072 Год назад

Definitely

@stevewhite3424 Год назад

@@supermotossounds like an expert

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

he is doing it Ray's factory way, max $ in shortest time to show his ingenuity.

@Ratdweller Год назад

That’s exactly what I was thinking lol those bushings won’t last 200 miles

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

@@Ratdweller Damn, too many mechanics watching channel now, cannot fool them no more.

@duncancremin1708 Год назад

Final comment on this one, you really should leave the rear bushing bolts loose until the weight is back on the wheels, to avoid over stressing the new bushings. Aftermarket ones are particularly intolerant of being under permanent torsion and fail rapidly.

@vteclude4ws Год назад

A fact that every single gearhead who lowered their cars knows

@inspectorjavert5563 Год назад

Where do you guys come up with this nonsense?

@Laugh1ngboy Год назад

@@inspectorjavert5563 Cold weather climates.

@Ottonic6 Год назад

Totally agree!

@ralfie8801 Год назад

@@inspectorjavert5563 Not nonsense, why would you want a rubber bushing to be permanently twisted out of shape while the control arm is at its normal resting height? It’s a whole lot better on the bushing to have it in a neutral position when the control arm is in it’s at rest position.

@mr.e8992 Год назад

I can't tell if i'm more impressed at the skill of taking it all apart and back together with such ease or the fact that he's not dropping F bombs like a I would be when shit dont' line up ... either way, fun watch.

@queensapphire7717 Год назад

I was changing the EGR valve on my Jeep JK 3.8 (in my driveway) for a 2nd time in 1 month, first one (Crown) was a POS and threw a P0401 code again, so I decided to change the EGR tube also, and screws that came with it snapped in the valve, had to run to Advance to grab another valve (that was far superior to the Crown brand one) and you don’t realize the F bomb dropping, and my neighbor who happened to be outside say’s to me “OMG, hey, are you OK, sounds like you’re really having a hard time there ?” You do not realize amounts of “f.ck”, “c.nt”, “cocksucker”, “bitch”, “POS” you say every second.

@KingJames1981 11 месяцев назад

Hahah! That's exactly what I was thinking! I was dropping F bombs just replacing my PCV valves. A 10 minute job took me over an hour. I learned my lesson.

@normanstansfield5554 Год назад

Hi Ray sorry to mention you failed to notice the actual size of castle nuts size in height it's allso washered you should have reused original ones then cotter pins would have fitted correctly and more safely avid fan keep up the good content.

@module79l28 Год назад

Exactly.

@randallmunson9909 Год назад

Actually ... Inconsequential

@rjm7168 Год назад

When the new castle nuts are short, I just reuse the old ones but this I only work on my own vehicles.

@stans5270 Год назад

That castle nut that was installed is useless therefore dangerous. The cotterpin won't stop a loose nut from eventually sheering it off. The cotterpin stops the nut from turning, NOT the balljoint from falling out.

@mikepickett3277 Год назад

I think I would have used a flat washer under the nut to take up the distance, perhaps a couple of washers

@mikepickett3277 Год назад

In the UK we call cotter pins, split pins Ray. Each to his own!

@stans5270 Год назад

@@mikepickett3277 Yeah, you guys are funny that way... Old women wear bonnets.

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@daviddelgado6090 Год назад

Must be difficult to refrain from cussing when things get more complicated than they should. Mad respect.

@Grumpy-sy7wr Год назад

My Neon came out $10 cheaper buying arm assemblies, than just ball joints and the larger bushes. I wasn't going to bother with the smaller bushes. Add the saving in labor time. As for the ball joints, I would have applied leverage to the nut, as shown, and smacked the knuckle with the hammer at the same time.

@johnglasgow83 Год назад

Just to be picky. I would have added washers to the ball joint to make the castle nut align with the hole. If the ball joint nut works loose i may destroy the threads.

@rottmanthan Год назад

when my car needed ball joints i got the control arms so i would have the new joints and bushings. and i also upgraded the plastic sway bar end links with greaseable metal ones. my bushings were not torn but they were starting to come unglued around the edge in one part.

@Loulito Год назад

RAY!! If you decided to put in a Wheel Alignment rack for your THIRD bay, I think that'll benefit you greatly and pay for itself in the long run. You're awesome dude!

@Elliott947 Год назад

Yes but unfortunately they are extremely expensive but will definitely make some profit

@Loulito Год назад

@@Elliott947 hence why I said “it’ll pay for itself in the long run.” Lol it’s not a short term investment.

@wigglepig115 Год назад

You can do great work with string and a steel ruler...

@garyhead8104 Год назад

All of these "Near-Misses" with alignment and everything reminds me of my father's favorite sayings, "Almost nearly, just not quite hardly" when he had a "near-miss". Of course he was also famous for saying, "I thought I was wrong once, but I was only mistaken".

@joshhobbs1442 Год назад

Good to see you are not dead today ray!! 😅

@buddrud Год назад

Good Morning Ray! Glad you're not dead. Rumors suck.

@legionofanon Год назад

I call them split pound because you split the sides open to secure it. Idk it's technical name. Because i had the joy of installing some 3/8 thick pins once, it bugs me that people wrap the legs around a fastener when just spreading them does the same thing

@benmurdoch2550 Год назад

You didn't let it down on the safety locks . Tisk Tisk Ray !!

@roysmith590 Год назад

Hard to find a truthful mechanic -So good on you! I build a 4

@dodgydruid Год назад

Split pins were an evolution of the older english linchpin's used to hold wagon wheels and other devices on shafts, as wheels and devices were designed to turn faster a more lasting fastening was needed hence the design as the shaft still provides the bearing strength but unlike the linchpin, can't be thrown out of its hole by centrifugal force being locked in. Airframe wirelocking is itself an evolution of the split pin providing an even higher strength secure locking method and I have heard racing owners have used wirelocking in place of split pins in their racing cars to prevent overstress on a softish metal pin.

@dgecse Год назад

Surprised they didn't want to do the outer tie rod ends - the boots are split (almost looked like there could be play when you were working to get the ball joint out)

@keithrimmer3 Год назад

just stick a tranny jack under the knuckle and lift it up level before you tighten the bolts up ore you will rip the new bushings

@johngross1952 Год назад

You should always loosen and tighten locking lug nuts by hand, not with an impact gun.

@AntonioClaudioMichael Год назад

Noodle arm will get you everytime @Rainman Ray's Repairs

@michaelfogarty3239 Год назад

nice to see you are alive and able to work on the Honda. Crazy how 15 dollars means the difference replace ball joint or lower arm with ball joint. Love it.

@scottelder3141 Год назад

Just did a control arem on my daughters accord. I used my new long flex head ratcheting box end wrenches that i bought after watching you with yours.

@kymw7833 Год назад

Hey Ray here in Australia they can be known as (split pins)

@Technosmurph Год назад

Ray! It's a Honda, stop saying this will be easy within its hearing range. They have delicate feelings and a wicked sense of humor!

@Pilotltd Год назад

Over in UK Split pins and cotter pins are the round part with a taper flat and a thread that hold the crank arms to the crankshaft on a bicycle.

@edfrawley4356 Год назад

Yup several years back I needed to replace my subframe and found out that it ws cheaper to replace the control arms with new ones with ball joints and bushings installed than it was to re and re the old ones on the new subframe.

@tsquare9168 Год назад

. You need to shim the castle nut to allow the cotter pin to lock the castle nut so the ball joint won't come loose. The castle nut has the chance of backing off to the bottom of the cotter pin, which will allow the ball joint to pop loose.

@how8y Год назад

In Norway We call them scissors pins, by the way the Honda has a oil leak from the engine, I think. Good day to you Ray. 😊

@kimkeam2094 Год назад

Hi Ray, if the replacement ball joint bolts are longer, is it worthwhile adding some washers to raise the castle nuts in alignment with the cotter pin? That way the nut cannot loosen and the tapered seat damaged from movement?

@bigkenny66 Год назад

Gonna be exciting when he yeets that honda over a railroad crossing with loose ball joint nuts!!!!

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

@@bigkenny66 no worry, he has the Special Ray's Hack Pins on top, he will leave town when train sounds the horn.

@mph5896 Год назад

I just did a ball joint on a newer ford escape. Drilled/chiseled out the rivet and bolted a new one on. Added about 1 hour labor over just bolting a new arm on. Not worth the extra hassle of just doing the ball joint on arms with 8 year old rubber bushings on it.

@stevewhite3424 Год назад

Sorry but the combined 100 years of mouthwrench expertise.has already determined that by doing that you have ripped off the customer! You are hearby sentenced to watching all their.chanmels to learn how to do it right! Oh, that's right, they don't put up anything regarding the quality of their own work. 😊

@JUST_ONE_ID10T Год назад

That car is fairly clean for that many miles. In my state those bolts and nuts would be half rusted away with holes in the control arms and you would be torching out the bolts to get things apart. The joys of living in the salt belt.

@mcombsemail Год назад

One method I use to use when i was in college and too poor to have a balljoint press was to loosen the ball joint and drive down a bumpy road. Works on swaybar end links too.

@johnglasgow83 Год назад

This repair is what Eric O dreams at night. Welcome to Florida BABY!

@richardsmith6769 Год назад

Ray when I was trained 60+ years ago they were critter pins. When I purchased some a couple of months ago the container indicated they are still critter pins. So, I still call them critter pins here in the USA.

@leehill9922 Год назад

For keeping them critters in their place😂

@alanmerritt860 Год назад

Now thats a name for cotter pins ive never heard anyone call them. But im not understanding why everyone is getting to bent out of shape what the hell theyre called.

@fredmartin126 Год назад

Cotter pins go in holes. Cotter keys go in grooved slots or half circle cutouts. Pretty simple hay!!

@RuthlessMindset68 Год назад

Morning Ray. Other than returning the mis-drilled control arm unit. Would you advise adding a washer to raise the castle nut to engage cotter pin hole?

@derekhobbs1102 Год назад

Taller nuts, but that was easy for me at previous job because I had a huge stash.

@challenger2ultralightadventure Год назад

We use washers to raise castle nuts to proper height on our airplanes. It's an approved method of doing so for aviation, so I see no reason it should not work on cars.

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

He always re-engineers safety procedures, would u fly in a plane he works on?

@thk7513 Год назад

@@forgetfulme1719 If your referring to Ray, hell no.

@forgetfulme1719 Год назад

@@thk7513 maybe Rays Florida Submarine Explorer?

@peterstuart1617 Год назад

If your replacing the ball joints A tuning fork wedge makes life easyer dosent mater if you split the boots then.

@bbarmourer2972 Год назад

Hi Ray. Here in the UK we call those pins - split-pins. What you refer to as a Cotter Pin or Cotter Key is a pin that holds something more substantial. The large pin going through a pedal cycle crank arm is what we would call a 'Cotter Pin'. It is generally smooth with a tapered side and only has thread at the start for a predetermined length and tightness. It is sort of an external 'Woodruff' Key. A Woodruff Key system of order is - component, Woodruff Key, component and fixing nut. A Cotter Pin system of order is - component, component, Cotter Pin, and fixing nut.

@brucedale4465 Год назад

Been wrenching since the 60’s and never heard of them called anything but cotter pins. Must be a euro thing?

@Drew-Dastardly Год назад

Ray has shown Woodruff keys when taking apart drive shafts.

@renzoubaldi3879 Год назад

Hey Ray, I think you should go old school in an episode, nothing but hand tools, not an electron in sight!! How do you think Troy would cope!!? Actually how do you think you would cope???

@michaelbruton3537 Год назад

Did you notice the dampness around the front passenger side inner hub bearing ( in video as you were pry baring the ball joint down )

@kevincurry4735 Год назад

Happy Friday Ray. Good call on the upswell.

@calvinevans8305 Год назад

18:05 a little bit of lubricant on the bushings would probably help make life easier.

@raysmith5661 Год назад

Surprised you don't have a split wedge ballpoint remover or the screw down to put pressure on type.Excellent video,more pry bar to your elbow.

@johnt.848 Год назад

I agree, I have the wedge style, forked type you hammer in and they are so simple and quick.

@markfudger5267 Год назад

Used to call them "pickle fork" tools.

@MarzNet256 Год назад

A ladies slipper or heel bar are super handy for lining up holes. I got a cheap set at HF for ten bucks.

@therandomchannel2022 Год назад

That's exactly what I use

@AntonioClaudioMichael Год назад

I would have put the oem Castle nuts back on instead of using the new ones To make sure the cotter keys did there job correctly @Rainman Ray's Repairs

@scottmarshall3963 Год назад

@31:15 - I've always known the castle nut locking pins as "split pins"; "cotter pins" were the smooth shafts with a bevel and thread that would lock bicycle pedal arms to the crank shaft; the shaft was slightly tapered so that the pin would snug up into the hole with each turn of the nut, whilst the bevel on the pin would key into the flat slot in the crank shaft, locking the pedal arm and the crank shaft together.

@kylebennett5327 Год назад

We call " cotter spins " split pins here in Australia Ray

@jacquewarnars8623 Год назад

Why don't you build up washers high enough to make the cotter pin fit the castle nut.

@joshaden6533 Год назад

That would change the suspension geometry. No way I would use crap aftermarket control arms.

@user-vf7gp1hr9c Год назад

Extra washers wouldn't change a thing except lining up the castles with the hole. The washers would be on the top of the knuckle 🙄

@transtech-fk4zn Год назад

Great work, Ray! Love the videos. Keep em coming.

@MrBradleykeith Год назад

To locate bushings you need a Marlin spike.

@charlesbartholomew2910 Год назад

Now there's a nautical term.

@MonkeyJedi99 Год назад

But who has time for fishing?

@Wakeupandsniffthecoffee Год назад

Working on a complete replacement of steering, suspension and brakes for the front of my PT Cruiser. The ball joints on the new control arm, had no zerk grease fittings. Of course the old ones were the wrong thread. Just got back with a kit of 6mm-1.0 fittings. Almost everything on my three cars is cheaper or just a little more for a complete assembly, rather than repairing the part like in the old days. Might as well. I would rather have complete , factory assembled parts.

@ChrisFaulkner Год назад

Nice, just got thru doing my mom's 2006 Jetta TDI. Got the control arms, sway bars, both ball joints for $150 and 2 Monroe struts for $98 each and spent the day doing the complete job without a lift.. lol just used a jack.. Got er done. Driver's side was a pain because the bolt holding the control arm buts into the transmission. lol so you have to drop the load bearing belly loose and take the bone mount off the trans to spin the trans a bit to get the bolt off. after I did that, it was a walk in the park. I don't have an air compressor so I had to do all of it by hand with a 4 foot breaker bar. Suspension work is always a lot of fun without air tools.

@lieutenantdan8170 Год назад

Major oversight not torqueing the inner bushing at ride height

@Inar038 Год назад

negative, that would change nothing.

@johndesaavedra1040 Год назад

When Rainman does something bassakwards, he announces that he did it bassakwards, as in the swaybar assembly. Some viewers are so eager to know something that they comment without watching the whole process. Of course I know some things that Rainman doesn't, but again I have been repairing cars since many years before he was born. I hope I leaned something in 53 years of DIY. Also I have seen several cases lately where lower control arm bushing was under strain from the factory, as they often snap downward when released. I am wondering if this is a myth as well.

@stevo4649 Год назад

thankyou Ray,another excellent repair,,have yourself a good weekend,yep in the UK..AFAIK,,they have always been known as a split pin,,👍👍

@mikepickett3277 Год назад

I see the bottom ball joints are held in with nylon nuts. Instead of the cotter pin, which should really go through the castle nut why not use a self locking nut? Belt and braces.

@leonhart2452 Год назад

A self locking nut has a high resistance to threading onto a bolt. This is ok when using a bolt where you can use a wrench to hold the bolt in place. In the case of a ball joint the bolt is a tapered fit in the spindle. This tapered fit doesn't have enough resistance to turning to stay in place while tightening a lock nut.

@bradleyjones5932 7 месяцев назад

here in Australia its called a split pin, a cotter pin is one solid pin with a hole on the end for a split pin .

@markraday8071 Год назад

Good morning Ray, glad to be here this morning and glad to hear you're not dead LOL. I saw your post yesterday but didn't get to comment. The front suspension parts went on smooth as butter! This Honda is gonna ride like new by the time you are done 👍 . Have a great day and same to Troy and the wife unit and the kids ✌️🤛👍

@johnt.848 Год назад

The best part was when Ray set the vehicle to it's correct ride height prior to tightening all those control arm bolts, and then test drove it. Oh wait, he didn't. 🤦‍♀

@npsit1 Год назад

16:33 What I normally do in this case is pop the ball joint loose but keep the nut on it so I can use the knuckle to pull the control arm out of its sockets. Easier for me, anyhow.

@squiggyg.8415 Год назад

The shop looks nice neat and Troyganized 😎

@mitchfleming274 Год назад

Is that above or below Troytgazmatized?

@artillerest43rdva7 Год назад

always knew you were a nut dropper! cotter pins have the loop on one end with 2 straight legs, then there are hitch pins with a pin with a circle to lock it in place, hair pins single straight with a wavy opposite side that locks on the pin. then circle clips inner lock or outer lock, e-rings go into slots on a shaft, the honda has locking clips straight leg with a bent end to catch on the nut to secure it in place. that is what I know and how they are referred, but that is like “coke” in a can, where I live it is “pop” , east of me it is “soda” then down south, all are referred to as “coke” -sprit, -ginger ale, so often these names are regional, the same item can have multiple names in different locations.

@bulldogshouse9970 Год назад

You forgot to call a wrench gravity when it fell to the ground other than that there was a great video keep up the great work

@clairehaigh7683 Год назад

25:40 Either pack with washers to raise height of bolt or use nyloc nut, which seems to be getting more common with aftermarket lower arms anyway.

@robertnicholson8054 Год назад

I was told only tighten sub bolts once weight suspended on wheels. If tightened up produces twist in rubber. Not in neutral position. Anyone else say same.

@grahammurphy4842 Год назад

Yes back bush will over twist when let down

@JPRD2379 Год назад

Kinda scary without proper cotter pin engagement with castle ,there for reason .For safety sake take the little extra time to find a nylon locking nut for both sides (maybe an m12x1.75?).

@ilbercgross4736 Год назад

Right from the Fastener Corporation of America: A cotter pin (also known as a cotter key) is a metal fastener with two tines that are bent during installation, similar to a staple or rivet. Typically made of wire with a half-circular cross section, cotter pins come in multiple sizes and types. From Albany County Fasteners: Cotter pins, also called split pins or cotter keys, are bent pins with a rounded head that is slid into a hole. Both American companies.

@TheKrondizl Год назад

Split pin in Australia. Cotter pin/key to me is a tapered "key" that locks something in with its taper like on the front casing of a pump

@Imasundaj Год назад

I wish I had a mechanic like you. You are honest, but more importantly you tell when something should be changed. Where I live, the mechanics don't care about any of the bushings, until they are so worn out, they are knocking. And even then they rarely suggest to change them.

@tombeilman5579 Год назад

Cotter pins and try a pickle fork for removing ball joints or tie rod ends

@kevinblakley7622 Год назад

To simplify this type of situation in the future I have used my caliper compression tool to slightly spread open the bushing/bearing pockets open.👍🏻

@terryjones2012 Год назад

Put Vasaline on the bushings when installing the control arm, more lubrication the better, and its water soluble so won't rot the bushings

@charleslaing3426 Год назад

To break the tapered joint in the ball joint, I back up the control arm with a heavy hammer and hit the tapered jont with a lighter hammer. The inertia of the larger hammer helps shock things loose.

@ronaldgutman5980 Год назад

Ray love your channel, my Son has the 2010 Honda Insight so watching the 8 Plug removal was priceless. You are the Man! Ron from Cape Cod, MA..

@CharlieGosh Год назад

I can't believe at 32:00 you completely misused the cotter pin. It was your supplier's job to get a part that fits properly. I did something similar when returning the rear brake drums on a VW Beetle and paid a hefty price for it.