Shrouded in Deception! Hidden Behind Timing Belt! Toyota iForce 4.7 V8

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1. You left the place that had the stupid telephone ringing all day…….hope you didn't leave THEM in a lurch.

2. Dave will never leave. If he does many many viewers will fly in from around the world and track him down and drag him back kicking and screaming cause this shop is about success!

3. Running a business is tough, a misconception is being around awhile an unrealistic belief happens, i should have a raise…. But an removable and replace mechanic has little value. A good diagnostic mechanic is worth a lot… be patient you’ll find someone with your ethics and work attitude

4. I don’t blame the guy at all … one way to for sure be poor the rest of your life is to be an employee mechanic . If you don’t own your own company as a mechanic you can’t even make a living ,you do $1500 worth of labor billing hours every day and then get $200 .
   And imagine you had a bad week after making the company $1,000+ dollars a day for a year or more and they cut your paycheck to where your week just got even worse. If the guy was valuable you should of set him down and explained to him he didn’t make the money but you don’t want his wife and kids to suffer over his problem would of cost you less than $200-400 probably and you’d of had a dedicated employee for years a lot of times. Again I don’t know the size of this guys operation but having skilled labor at all that shows up that isn’t on drugs is worth losing a few hundred bucks once every year or two when they fall on hard times.
   You would make back ten fold on the employee after those type of gestures they get to where they are watching your disposables like they pay for them.
   Got to make them think they are part of the team and the only thing that does that is making sure they can pay there bills haha within reason of course I mean he didn’t skip out a week due to drugs are unplanned vacation… the guy got in a wreck and lost money to a certain degree. You’d be surprised how many small businesses would of made sure he didn’t lose money on his paycheck that week if he would of been with a oil rig company his supervisor would of most likely just turned in his regular hours are gave him a way to work weekends are something to catch up. Most people working today are on a budget where even a few hours off there paychecks can hurt them. Again if the guy wasn’t any good then let them go but if he was even decent and you made money on him you can’t let him leave over a couple hundred bucks you got to be collecting quality labor like Pokémon cards only way to make more money as a mechanic shop is skilled man power.

5. I have a Chrysler 300 3.5 litre which has a timing belt setup similar to the one you are working on. A bit complicated to disassemble but not impossible. I got the water pump out, changed the belt and tensioner and was all set to torque the fasteners when one of the bolts holding the tensioner stripped out, leaving me with a stupid look on my face and wondering how I was going to fix this. Luckily I remembered that a Healy coil could fix this mess. I took my other vehicle to the city about a half hour away and went to a local parts store which had Healy coils but not my size, but the next city over had the right one. Off I go to pick up the kit which was 200$,back home I went another 40 minute trip and proceeded to install the Healy coil. Had to buy the correct drill bit to bore the hole to size. Found out the bit was a little too long to clear the radiator in the drill so had to cut the bit. What a pain. Anyway I got it done all in one excruciating long day. My only saving grace was thinking how much I saved not taking it to a shop. Love your channel Ray, you and
   Lauren are a fine couple. Happy Thanksgiving from Canada.

6. Always replace the water pump with the timing belt. Always.

7. Good luck to Troy. Keep going Ray. You will find another good employee. Love the bash the dealership idea! Man they make me mad. I went to the Subaru dealership to get my 2015 Forester cvt transmission fixed they quoted me $10,000. I took it to a local shop and they replaced it for $4000 with a warranty. It is still working great 20,000 miles later.

8. Okay, I made an uneducated comment about the members only content and I want to apologize for it. Since I'm an old man out of touch with internet reality, my son informed me as to why so many creators are utilizing the members only option. Ray, do whatever works best for you, bro! Fighting the lords of control and chaos is a rough business and I understand now.

9. I've added many tools since I began watching you.
   The right angle electric socket and wobbly bits are my favorite.

10. When I work on my cars, I generally have YouTube feeding me some sort of content.

    Often it's you, but since I'm only listening, I miss a lot of the visuals.
    It works nicely that you talk the whole way through and are very descriptive to boot.

    I'm curious though. Do you narrate jobs you do, even without the camera going?

    My mind is going all the time. But if I try to turn that into a narration on a video, it doesn't come out as well as yours do.

11. A second location? How many people would you be employing and how would you manage your time?
    Be careful, too big of a bite could choke you my friend.

    You need to be able to pay your help very well and two locations of underpaid workers could be a nightmare.

12. Is this the same Troy you started with at that new shop?
    I thought that Troy left quite a while ago.

    I've sort of lost track on how many workers you have had since you built that new shop.

    I began viewing when you were employed by your previous employer and before you went independent.

    If I lived closer, I would be that old man hanging out each day and working for fun.

    I do that here in Virginia at home.

13. You marked a belt that's going in the trash lol

14. Didn't Troy quit once before about a year ago or was that another Troy?

15. I think.
    Troy will be back.

16. 2:32…My sentiments too !!…Good luck Troy ! ….

17. I know how to do it BUT I want you to do it.I will be your videographer if you want.I will be over there in about 3 months.
    How is that?.

18. Kind of wondering if Troy wasn’t really appreciative of how much knowledge he was gaining working with you and Dave. Had this before with youngsters doing apprenticeships. Yes, the wages are lower than they’d like, but they are gaining valuable lifetime skills.

19. “2007”

    “Old School, Classic”

    Lemme go get my walker and dentures I was born way back in 94 I guess I’m antique now 😂

20. is the word you are looking for…..idler pulley….

21. The Asian car and trucks are the worst to work on. Way to complicated for my taste. Their even worse than Benz. My God I could have done a wa,wa pump on a small block Chevy or a Ford in 2 hrs. and that's a couple of 15 min. breaks included.
    GEEEEEE WHIZZZZZ.

22. Hey Troy, best of luck on the new adventure. Working on the oil rig can open a lot of doors in the industry. I have 3 nephews who went that route and ended up moving up into other jobs in the industry and have done very well.

23. I know being a mechanic can be hard when just starting out. It takes YEARS to get the level of expertise Ray has, in the mean time there are tools to pay for, which are not cheap, tools break, or you don't have the right tool for the job which interferes with getting the job done under the time slot required in order to make money and money can only be had when there are actual jobs in the shop. Been there, done that back in the 90's. If you are getting certifications, there is that to pay for and take the time to acquire. Been there, done that too. In the end I found out IT was the way to go and nearly tripled my income. Now I do my own auto work and in the process myself of repairing my 194K mile Ford Flex Ecoboost. New water pump, oil pump timing chain and injectors. In the meantime I had replaced the transmission mount, not realizing that the transmission end was not the same height and damaged the axle boot in the process. It looked correct, and until I removed the trans side from the body side and put them side by side, then I saw the difference and was PO because it was supposed to be the correct mount as it matched the Ford part number. You never know what you are getting these days. One of the VCT sprockets arrived with the wrong VCT, actually I have no idea what it was as it was small with one gear on it. No Napa around by me, just the overly priced Orielys and Advance auto, and autozone. None of them actually carry parts either.

24. I think I will do a hard pass on replacing that kind of timing belt. Obviously, the engineers who designed it never had to replace one themselves. if they had, they would have come up with a better design.

25. Not going to get a Toyota for my next car.

26. Ray, prior to retirement I owned several auto repair shops. While being as generous regarding employee compensation as possible I always knew (in the back of my mind) I was training my competition. Many times an employee left and either went to work in a different shop or opened up shop down the road from me. Good people are difficult to find and retain. I echo your sentiments in wishing Troy all the best and trust God has good things in store for you both. Thanks for the mechanical and moral wisdom you impart to your audience!

27. Hey Ray, this is the second time he quit on you if he comes back. Are you gonna rehire him again?

28. Life is life and these younger generations need to learn that.

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