6.7 Cummins Massive Oil Leak - Replace Oil Pan, Front Axle U-Joint, Fuel Lines, Shift Cable, Battery
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- This 2007 Dodge Ram 3500 has a rotted out oil pan. It also needs a u-joint in the front axle, new fuel lines, a shift cable, two batteries, and a partridge in a pear tree!
0:00 Intro
6:16 Oil Pan
16:43 Fuel Lines
26:08 Front Axle U-joints
39:01 Trans Shift Cable
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Like most vehicles in the Midwest, that truck is mostly held together by the power of the strongest fastener known to man - the rust weld.
A-10 Warthogs have a titanium bathtub? That's nothin'. This beast has an iron oxide bathtub. One solid (mostly solid) tub of fused together rust.
@@Guysm1l3y Onlything keepin my frame together, well that and a shit ton oil.
"What is the point Walter?".
@@caseywamack6566 We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude. The rust is over the line...
@Walter Sobchak Ok. That's interesting, mark it zero. He's a conscientious objector. Would you just calm down man. Shomer shabas
"I gave him a pretty good size estimate, and he asked when I could start" I felt your pain right there.
Sounds a bit dirty... but then, so does "leaky cummins".
Good problems to have
@@luxstar4lifehe knows who he is dealing with. I have a mechanic like that. I have older, very well maintained vehicles that are easier to work on than the modern crap. I prep things to make things easier on him when I can.
Sometimes I get $50 labor bills. I just pay him cash. Win win for everyone. The only estimates I get are so I can give him cash when I drop it off. Smart to keep your mechanic happy when they have a personality/worth ethic like Wes.
Wes your comedic take on the automotive repair world is exemplary “held together by the taillight wiring “ 🤣🤣🤣
Squatch 253 was commenting essentially the same thing when he was swapping out the interior from his Old Blue to his "new" Big Red.
The math teacher draws from her mom skills. Sometimes you just have to let them free form it and when the light comes on they will see for themselves what the problem is. Good job, I say.
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Either that or, "It's my day off!"
I love your sense of humor. That vehicle is a tribute to entropy
Enthalpy as well
Entropy: maybe decline into disorder, but:
PHYSICS
a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.
"the second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases with time"
2.
lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
You got a big metal worm problem with that pick-up suprised it would get through inspection
@@marksd5650 I've heard the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics put this way: 1) You can't win, 2) You can't break even and 3) You can't get out of the game! 😁
No doubt
There was I thinking "No check engine light, the bulb has blown through over use". And the your sarcasm gland cut in 😃
"LET'S SWITCH FROM STUN TO KILL" SHOULD BE A TSHIRT
My 2005 Silverado 2500 resembles every one of those remarks. And, I'm about ready to go hook up a local high school's band trailer and pull it 100 miles one way for a football playoff game. Prayers that I make it there and back. There especially!
I made it!
My favorite comment: "Lets switch from stun to KILL" Also as a Michigander I can relate, rust is not only a terrible color choice for body panels, but an organic form of lock tight. Wes you inject just the right amount of snarky in every video. Thanks
What kind of salt do they use over there. We have salt here in Sweden but mostly VW products rust out like that if they are 20 years or less old.
@@rimmersbryggeri The road salt has caustic soda, sodium hydroxide, lye, that generates heat with water contact. Some places now experiment with beet juice as an anti icer.
Patina is the new inthing.
@@12345NoNamesLeft Ok explains it. That will destory the paint in notime. Here it's just less purifies table salt.
@@12345NoNamesLeft Here in Columbia, Mo they used excess coal fired power-plant clinker but everyone got tired of the black mess in their garage, so that's went away...But I'd put up with it again if only to quit the salt MESS. And I would guess It gave superior traction...A thin soft bicycle tire of mine had a flat due to that stuff tho.
"Something tells me I won't be able to stop myself" - coming from Wes says it all
This is one of those really good sayings loved this one also LMAO.
Amazing work. Being from the south where rust isn't an issue, watching. You guys up north gives me a whole new respect for mechanics up there. You do accurate and thorough work and its cool to watch.
You're right about Wes, but after looking at some of the prior repairs he's corrected there's quite a few around there that don't🤣
Up here in the north rust gets so bad a vehicle could be one pothole away from splitting in half.
As a texan, I bought a cheap northern car once. never again lol. Ill spend extra to not have to deal with natures locktite.
My father (an old WW2 motorpool mechanic) showed me a good trick when instaling oil pans. Place the casket on the pan and tie ieach corner, or so, with a little piece of string. This way it stays where you want it while moving it around. Just cut and pull out the sting after a couple of bolts are holding it in place.
I use little zip ties to do that and it works great.
I like the hoyke plastic snap over bolts felpro gives u with the gasket they actually work
Ive had good luck using transgel
Fishing line works good too
Super glue.
Finally, a CZcams channel with trucks like I'm lucky enough to work on all day
"All it takes is one incident to end things for you," in that statement alone, you are ahead of your class. Best Wes.
As a repairer taking money you have higher duty of care. Same in any industry. You are meant to know better since you are the "expert".
There is another YT mobile mech complaining he is being sued for just doing timing chains on an engine no tensioners, (which failed), even though the owner was informed. Trouble is most people think if the expert will do it it must be OK - kind of why they take it to a mechanic. Don't know the outcome of that.
Lesson there is don't do any repair you are unhappy with as a mechanic. Turn the job away.
I can’t believe Wes could loose the shop over a fuel line repair and the owner is allowed to drive around in a total rust bucket.
In Australia our cars are inspected every year and they are brutal on any rust or oil leaks.
They also do an inertia brake test every year. No pass, no rego.
I agree completely with Wes, the total lack of inspection is bizarre.
@@DavoShed In WA we had _emissions_ inspections, but no fitness inspections. every 2 years we had to go have the emissions tested to get a new tag.
That should tell you all you need to know about this state.
No longer "need" it because... reasons?
@@DavoShed Only in NSW; and the NT for cars over 10 years old. Elsewhere roadworthies are only required when a car is sold (unless you let the rego lapse).
For larger vehicles it gets more complicated.
@@ddanielmiester
That’s interesting, I’m in New South Wales. I know states have different rules but I didn’t know WA was that different.
We have never had emissions tests. Cops can defect a Smokey car but that is very subjective.
I had a thumb sized rust bubble in one of my doors and my mechanic said you better get that fixed before I can pass it.
I’m sure he was worried about his liability if he passed it.
I had the rust replaced with a blob of fibreglass and nice paint. It then passed but the car is not any more safe than it was before.
Looks nice but :)
Our Canadian and Euro viewers will love this.
42:18 is the reason I watch Wes work. lol
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🤣🤣🤣 Same with Mustie1 !
31:10 guess the owner didn't see the grease fitting on that U joint. Hahahaha grease is an amazing product if you use it.😂🤣😂🤣
Looked like there was never any grease in that old U-joint!
Welp it couldnt have been the grease. There was none. A joke you get used to when repairing stuff driven buy lazy people.
There are a couple of CZcams channels that I can hit the like button before I even watch the video. Yours is one of them.
Some may find this odd, but I find listening to Wes working on some rust-bucket, making his commentary as he goes, to be quite soothing. It's like "mental comfort food" to me. I suppose it helps that he is both competent, but not egotistical. Somewhat rare these days. Thanks for all you do, Wes.
I like Wes's commentary and his video is direct to the speakers and he shows a lot of technical savvy. Some of our You Tubers are slow in commenting and you cannot understand them because they do not speak into the camera so to speak. Like watching paint dry and also having to hear it as well.
On the next episode of Rust Bucket Garage, we're gonna search for some buried treasure, we have a metal detection expert!
I had a problem with stress when I worked in the automotive field,. Always wished I could approach everything in a relaxed manner like this. It's definitely soothing, I get that 100%. It probably helps that he's self employed and doesn't have service writers or managers crawling up his ass all day.
Wes is the best -- humble, clever, great sense of humor and self-deprecating almost to a fault. A go-to channel when I need well-rounded entertainment; thanks to Wes and the whole WWW gang.
I loved the Sherlock Holmes/ Scooby-Doo intro! Be yourself and let the snark and sarcasm flow. You gotta release that stuff or your head will explode. Your videos are very helpful since I grew up around Youngstown, Ohio and now live in Pittsburgh, PA. The high-salt diet is "no-bueno". I once locked my keys in my '77 Nova sedan while it was running. A buddy put on a glove and just reached straight up through the floorboard to shut off the car and remove them from the ignition.
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That "What? Nooo" from lil dude at 43:00 was so perfect. That voice of concern will echo throughout that building for decades to come haha.
Ms.wes' slow smirk really made the moment
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Garage floor/patio and chalk. Greatest play area for kids to learn their numbers and letters. No harm done, but their imagination can run riot.
He got the one and the two, c’mon dad!
@@jeremytoms5163 czcams.com/video/LNqSH7C8Q6A/video.html
That laugh when nothing but dust, dirt and rust came out of the u-joint cap was great.
Two things that are hard to find in Texas, salt on the road, (other than the beach) and a good mechanic with a sense of humor.
Love the sense of humor, main reason I watch your videos and the only way a person can get through these jobs.
Really appreciate the time it takes to make these videos.
As Ole Peg would say it’s a shipping crate for a Cummins. That’s all folks.
The laugh when the u joint cap came apart with rusty stuff pouring out was gold.
I appreciate the care that you take when working on something. I have met so many "mechanics" over the years that would take the customers' money and do as little work as physically possible. I love the fact that you take the time to do the job correctly, as well as the fact that you genuinely care about your customers' safety and well-being. Very few people do that anymore.
Yes sir the culprit here is the pay system (flat rate). It would stand to reason knowing human nature to have a limit on what can be the charged time on a job based on what the average time that it takes to repair a specific component. In transportation the system is similar in that the mileage on a run used to be based on the household movers guide in that it specified the mileage from one point to another in the shortest distance. Of course that system is now the PC Miler setup which bases the mileage on interstate miles. Again a flat rate system. Both systems are used to prevent people from padding the bill in excessive time and excessive miles. But what both systems do (the mechanical system is worse than the mileage system) is of course motivates people to cheat (ever since the beginning of time). In the mechanical world mechanics would do as little as possible to do a repair as they do not get paid any more to overdo the job (like painting everything for instance) and of course there is shoddy work performed as mechanics are always trying to beat the flat rate (some do very well at this and still produce quality work). And there is the situations that this young man (and others) face on a daily basis due to the part of the country where there is a lot of rusted up components which exaggerates the time on the job and of course exceeds the book time to be paid. It would be nice where the shop could bill the actual hours put into the job but due to human nature there would be all kinds of cheating (more than normal) and customers getting ripped off. We had a fellow back in the seventies that was very fast and basically a good mechanic, and he always beat the book time. Yeah after he was gone the come backs came back to the shop, he was fast all right so fast that he left half the fasteners out and the other half were not tightened up properly. He was gone but the shop could not go anywhere and I'll give you one guess where the customer came to to resolve his problem.
That scream killed me! 😂
No need to repeat your comment in my own. I laughed pretty hard myself!
I see you're a master tracker - an oil slick almost always leads to a farm truck truck with a flatbed. Good morning Wes!
Most hunters use the oil trail tp track down cummins engines or 7.3l powerstrokes
@@ryancollins3227 I'm an owner of a 7.3 truck with a flatbed and can confirm this is true
@@DMHRC I Too Have A 7.3 Leaking on My Driveway & Wouldn’t Want it Any Other Way
My Cummins didn't leave an oil stain once. It'd all Leaked out
@@tombeauchamp806 well then it left an oil stain that one time it leaked all its oil once
I spent all too much time with a needle gun in the Navy. The motto was, "If it moves, shoot it. If not then paint it.". Love the content! Thanks!!
Just remember the line BETTER YOU THAN ME. There's a reason some people have high risk insurance. BETTER YOU THAN ME.
Wes - "It'll cost you a couple of grand to get that truck back on the road, it might last a year"
Owner - "Do it, I can have a lot more than ten years of your fixes for what I'd have to pay for a new truck, and I ain't got the money for a new truck"
That's the way!
given how much Diesel trucks go for...
I Work on rusty junk all the time. Dont have to worry about scratchin it. Better than workin on a showcar. Love the humor.
Wes is the master of sarcasm!
But the math professor's comment! " Sometimes you just got to let 'em' free form it."
Priceless LoL
By far my favourite YT mechanic. 30 years in the trade, I feel your pain.
You have the patience of Job when it comes to some of these vehicles brought to your shop. Just the greatest channel 😊❤️
"she's a little rough". Epic!
Your sense of humor cracks me up “if there only was a math teacher to help him out”
I watched this video about the right way and the wrong to do a brake line. It's a sick feeling when the light comes on telling you that you have problems with the brakes. I had a ford pick up truck with a five speed. Half way home my brakes failed. Turns out that the man I purchased the little Ford Pick up from used the hard ware store fittings. to fix the brakes. The people a Midas told me I was lucky I wasn't killed because of the hardware store fittings. Keep doing it right Wes, you are one of those men who care about the work you do. Krrp the videos coming.
After spending a solid half an hour working in tight quarters installing four bolts with a ratchet 1/8 turn at at time, I invested in a cordless ratchet like that one (different brand though). Worth every penny...what an amazing time saver they are.
Even the cheap ones do a fine job at backing out the bolts after your get them loose.
I like mine too .. although I'm always careful not to overtorque when going in, they have some power.
I've been happy with my Milwaukee M12 ratchets. Definitely saves time no matter what brand you go with.
Couldn't agree more. Burned through Hobo Freight unit; bought the M12 and M18 units and have never looked back. They have not let me down.
I third this, arguably the best purchase I’ve made. Use it all the time.
Can't believe someone is trying to keep that pile on the road the junkyard is where it should be resting, You have the patience of a Saint 👍
That fuel line repair was impressive, that will outlast the truck.
Damn Wes, You’ve Got All The Cool Speciality Tools. It’s Unfortunate That You Have Got to Explain Your Actions To John Q Public, They Surely Should Comprehend The Fact You Run A Business And Not Working Under The Shade Tree In Their Trailer Park. A Pleasure As Always, Keep It Safe Out There Sir
It's called integrity.Doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
@@gepettoe Absolutely Correct, Crying Shame You Rarely Get That Anymore. Seems Most People Don’t Give A Crap And Will Cut Corners To Save A Buck, Regardless Of Any Repercussions. Some Cases It’s Simply Incompetence. Keep It Safe Out There Sir
Elm tree man-canics, make do with what they have, making use of that crusty wrench found under the trailer
Well I hate to say this but I learned how to fix stuff the right way cause of my dad. The bad part of that is he was one to save more than a buck that's how bad it was. He once cut a hole in the fire wall of a car we had just to get to the back of the head ( 4 banger ) and yes he did it from under the dash yes inside that's just one of many of his lessens .
Hardest part about being a tech and especially running a shop, dealing with the public.
Wes, the only safety shortcut I ever saw my dad do in auto repair was to braze exhaust pipe. He made duals for an AMC hornet, cut off the crossover pipe off, and brazed a freeze out plug in the hole. He eventually fixed the Bible the right way, but this was a test to see how it sounded and performed. My dad was one of a dieing breed that made things from other things. He built a tractor from Toyota and Nissan parts. He left that to me before he passed away. I'll redo some things on it, but it will be mostly the same as he made it.
Yes, indeed. Mine built one from 4" channel iron, a 9hp Briggs, snap clutch on intermediate shaft, 3spd GM top-loader, '57 Plymouth diff. (He bought implement lug tires for those rims, filled tubes with calcium and water, and attached bull gears for weight to wheels). Inside the back frame, he welded foot long chunks of 3" square steel from an old one-way disc plow. Saginaw PS pump for his hydraulics, hardlines dropped to frame, leading front and back to hyd. quick couplers. Only thing I can recall breaking on the thing was my fault, as I was bouncing on the seat to get traction pushing WAY too much heavy snow. His spring steel seat mount that....
If It ever needed repowered? Engine mounts to a large flat channel iron surface w/v-belt drives. JUST plain simple!!!
A top speed of 14mph....LOL
@@charlesangell_bulmtl i may end up building something like that, small tractors are ridiculous anymore
Excellent work!
Great Job, Wes !!!
Wow, the life and times of a mechanic in the rust belt....you do wonders....God Bless
i am so glad I have never lived up in the land of snow and salt. Rust is a rare site here in the more southern regions.
Great job Wes.
My favorite videos are the collections of smaller jobs. Really enjoyed this one!
All plow/lawn maintenance owners, known for their extreme care and attention to detail, know to only buy the Superleggera Ram if they want to be comandante of the driveways.
I am in Louisiana and I am thankful for all the contractors that came down after the hurricanes last year to help rebuild. But, I can spot them a mile away because every one had rotted out fender wells. OMG the rust! I have to stop and look. We just don't see that much here.
Yea, that's literally every truck up here in the north. You can prevent it, but it's almost impossible to stop
Lmfao at the beginning 🤣 I discovered a clue following the oil path to a Dodge and Then the scream just hilarious @Watch Wes Work
Love your work
"Sometimes you just got to let them free from it"
Best advice I've got all month!
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Wes, love your sense of humor. It is so hard to happily work on someone else’s mess. I always learn something watching you. Keep up the good work.
Well done Wes.
Great video Wes.
The plastic hose fitting insertion tool! Mind blown 🤯. Wish I knew about these 2004 ish. Fun video / Great editing! 👍😁
For the plastic lines and quick connects Halfass kustoms has a great simple way of doing them. Drill a hole in a block of wood the same size as the line, cut the block in half through the hole, clamp your line in the block of wood in a vice with around 5mm proud, remove the clip from the connector and just tap it into the line. Job done! And the block is obviously reusable over & over
Like always Wes nice job
beautiful work WES.
Wes! How do you stay so calm !
I'D be in tears along with busted knuckles! Good stuff!!
Can’t start my Saturday when I have Watch Wes Work episode to watch :)
Never fails. When you price something high because you really don't want to do it, they always say, "When can you start?"
A job well done Wes!
The Wes humour is very strong in this repair/last rites. 🙏.
Great work, thanks for sharing.
Wes the magician, luv the way you are so modest with your expertise. As so many on here have said, wish you had the ability to duplicate yourself. BTW, that is the reason why the "book hours" are high, not everyone has your skills. Keep them coming Wes.
Really enjoyed this one, cheers
I just about died when the camera was pointed at the clock when you were hammering on that rotor. Soooo true.
You completed the oil pan & refill job quicker than "book" because you omitted the one quart of oil additive Rich recommends. He adds one imperial quart of paint stripper. Hope this helps .
Hmm. Knew something was wrong.
Thanks for another great video, Wes!
another great video, keep them coming
Another great video. Thanks Wes. Thoroughly enjoy watching.
Always a pleasure to watch you work Wes.
Clearly a 3 wheel drive. That’s new!
Enjoy series very well.
Absolutely fantastic Wes 😂🏴
Really nice work on the fuel lines hadn't seen before as well as everything else. As always thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love when you tuck into a MOPAR. So enjoyable. Great job.
Thank you and have good day.
As always Wes love your work Cheers Steve 🍺🍺🍺
Lol! I love your sense of humor. I've played the intro over at least six times lol.
I spent a lot of time laughing on this one. Great content and editing.
Good one Wes!
Keep up the great videos!..love your remarks
Haha I love your sense of humor. Great way to start my morning
Love the intro Wes, and like always great video
Nice job Wes!
Nice job Wes! Keep up the good work!!!
Yes, the humor is priceless. You might think that the "aftermarket" would have stepped up and designed a 2 piece oil pan for these trucks that have the rusted oil pan issues. I would think that there would be enough old PowerStrokes's and Cummins to support the design work. I drive a '99 F250 that I have been spraying down with rust "preventative" products for years, the outside is OK, but I understand some may rust from the inside out.
While I'm dreaming, BendPack needs to design a 2 post rotisserie lift that lets us work without rust falling in our faces.
That'd pretty much require a catch pan for all the rust and that would just get removed anyway
going back and watching again. Snarky perfection.
A sweat shirt or t shirt with the Watch Wes Work logo with the word "Yeah" might be a seller. Your yeah has so many different meanings. Love it.
Good morning Wes, always great videos, and thank you.
Great vid Wes. Lots of nuts and bolts stuff and new tools with the plastic fuel line. Thanks for sharing !!
I loved the visegrip closing of the hood!
As always, You come through with another great video. Thank you for the great content!
First time I've heard FUBAR in a while--love it!