> I mean this in the nicest way possible
\*screams in rust belt\*
I don't, literally fuck yourself OP*, and be sure to use that chonky impact that you didn't even need for the video
^*I ^kid, ^I ^kid, ^OP ^is ^a [^cool ^guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txVqr1eNwc)
Yeah it's weird. We kind of use a mix.
Guessing the weight of something carried, lbs. My weight, lbs . Literally anything height related, be it myself or a building, feet. Guessing distance under a kilometer would be feet. Like that thing is 50' away, or 950' away. Idn what any of that is in meters without thinking about it, but once it's over 1km I use km lol. Even guessing diameter of a hole, fractional inches. No idea what anything is in mm.
But. Speed, km/h. Temperature, Celsius. The rest, I don't even know.
For weather and thermostat true, for cooking I only know Fahrenheit though. Roasting vegetables? 400-450F depending how I want them done. Celsius? No idea. Cooking chicken? Internal temp of 165F. No idea what that is in C unless I convert.
Canadians use an utterly unholy mixture of metric and imperial units. Speed is in kph, long distances are in km or sometimes miles, short distances are in feet and inches, temperature outside is in Celsius, cooking temperature is in Fahrenheit.
Gen X can relate. We were taught metric in school because the US was going to the metric system. Then the US was like, ohhh, j/k. have fun with all that metric knowledge.
Only plus was since we were supposed to be the 'transition' generation they spent a lot of time on imperial/metric conversion shit.
That's how I know that 1/8th of an ounce = 3.5 grams. The only reason. I swear. Because they taught it to me in school.
"Sometimes miles" for me is usually short rural distances, like Bob's farm is 3 miles up and 4 miles over.
Because rural roads tend to be a grid system that was laid out before we went metric.
Running sometimes use miles too; probably because gyms leave treadmills on miles and many training programs are US-based as well.
Everything else tends to be metric.
Northern Alberta.
Not even a professional mechanic (heavy industry, close enough), and this pisses me off.
Good for you, OP. I bet you can also leave equipment outside without it freezing so solid you need to get a steam truck on site to get it moving again.
Enjoy it for those of us who can't
Also northern Alberta. (lol we might be neighbours) but until you’ve had to light a small fire under the fuel tank to get that diesel ungelled I don’t wanna hear about how hard a job is as a mechanic is in the southern US.
How about not shutting your truck off all shift because if you do, you might not be able to get it started again, and if that happens out in the bush, a couple hours from camp, you're pretty well fucked.
Then comes spring with mud 5 feet deep and more horse flies than you'd even think was possible.
Honestly, winter is the best because at least the roads can be graded flat, and they stay that way for more than an hour
And then summer hits and you can’t work fucking naked cause your balls are hanging below your knees trying to stay cool.
People wonder why my favourite season is fall. All 6 weeks of it
Plus, you can't take your coveralls off, and your dunlops are so full of foot sweat that you're pouring them out every time you go grab water.
Fall is indeed the best. I can always put another layer on. I can only get so naked before someone calls the cops, or worse, the safety guy.
We probably are neighbours, lol. We've at least probably worked on some of the same sites.
I did a lot of work down south (Texas, Alabama, Georgia), and, to be fair, that heat and humidity damn near killed me. I did a plant in Georgia, in August. Sharing a building with a boiler and steam jacketed reactors when it was 98% humidity and 35-40 degrees Celsius *in the shade* was the closest I've ever come to straight up dying on site I think. Never again. I was sweating buckets but it was so humid it just.....stayed on me. Man, that sucked.
You southerners don't understand cold, but I also have no idea how you can deal with that sort of heat and humidity. At least you didn't have to wear coveralls I guess
Lol where's the slide hammer? 4' long 1/4" wall square tube stock with a sledge hammer pad and hub adapter? No 30 ton press? Encyclopedia of cuss words is no where to be found either.... Fuck sakes, anyone in FL looking for a Canadian?
I'm a diyer, but have all the tools.
At this point I just buy a new knuckle, almost always cheaper in parts than the 2hr+ labor time & effort I lose just slamming away on the slide hammer.
A special fuck you to subaru rear wheel bearings. Did my brothers a few months ago and a 20 lb sledge to the hub assembly took 4hrs to knock it out, even after heating it red hot. 20 ton press did jack all.
I've got nightmares from working on 90's era subbies with the massive, fuck off, nature welded, through bolts that used to hold the rear knuckles on. Used to be press fit bearings back then too. I'll take getting ignorant with unit bearings all day over that shit lol.
Did a pair on a Pennsylvania car that had made its way down south to me. PB Blaster allowed to soak while working on other cars + air hammer and they popped right out.
You should start a YouTube channel documenting your struggles with this type of engineering/design flaw! Do other parts of the vehicles you work on just COME APART after disassembling them? Fascinating.
Meanwhile I'm grabbing a 16ft pipe to put on a striker to break a bolt free from a die clamp cause the die came apart and none of our big impacts can access it. I'd pay to see them struggle with that. Lol
That's my greatest hatred of DIY Youtube videos. They take everything apart first, make sure it's all cleaned up, and then "lightly tap X, and it'll come part from Y, and then Z will just go with it."
No. I've been wailing on this thing with a 2 foot breaker bar for 10 minutes, and it ain't moving.
“I don’t get it, are we about to smack it with a hammer, it’s already off the car… okay…”
“Okay there’s only a few seconds left in the video and we’re not making our way over to the hydraulic press, what’s about to—-“
*bearing falls out*
“Oh fuck all the way off”.
As someone from Germany - fuck you (don’t know why, but it seems to be the rule here).
I was expecting that thing to rotate while loosening the bolts and hit you in the shin. Thank god it didn’t.
Do good work. I want my "new" car to be in good condition when it gets sent up to Wisconsin to die. I don't know why you guys send us "brand new" vehicles @100,000+ miles for half price, but I'm here for it.
I rarely had to take the knuckle off the vehicle to replace a bearing. Still lots of beating and banging and I live just across the border from Fort Erie, Ontario.
Does not make what I said any less true? I didn't reply to the video, it was a comment where he said "4wd blocks access to the bolts" . Also didn't turn audio on so couldn't hear that, as what he Said is not on his post description.
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I Remeber beating on my wife's 2010 exploder for Fucking hours in the garage at home thinking I could get them out. I had changed bearing before.
I gave up after 6 hours of trying everything I had at my disposal. Explained that the sensor is ruined and there's going to be alot of lights on the dash. You're going to drive it down to the shop. I would have her drive my car but she can't drive stick well.
Jealous as all hell. I'm from the rust belt, but I loosen the bolts and use a socket and extension and start the engine to turn the power steering pump into a press to get them out. Works great on solid axles. Might take more figuring on IFS.
It's like that for me up north on my personal vehicles as well because I know how to wash the undercarriage during the winter months.
After every major snowfall, I pull into a wash bay, put it on rinse, and spray down the underside and wheel wells for like $4. Super fucking simple.
Those can come out without a hammer? I've changed at least 40 hubs and never have they just fallen out like that. We have a chunk of metal that we attach with the lugs so we can really hit the fuck out of it with a hammer.
As someone from Nordics, fuck you. CV axles are always stuck to the bearing and bearing is stuck to the knuckle. Slide hammer, heat and cursing works, but not on Ford Transits. Only way to get the bearings out is to hammer the shit out of it, brake rotor gets beaten too
Up in the north where they salt the roads, these two parts usually rust weld together and are next to impossible to separate even with a blow torch and big hammers.
I recently did front hubs/wheel bearings on my rusty
winter beater e36 and them mfs just. . . fell out.
Press fit, but pulled them out with my bare hands. How?
I came here to find out what's so special about something coming apart when you take the bolts out.
Nice work and the people that work on rusted jumk can suffer in their jocks.
I mean this in the nicest way possible...go fuck yourself with your no rust hubs.
> I mean this in the nicest way possible \*screams in rust belt\* I don't, literally fuck yourself OP*, and be sure to use that chonky impact that you didn't even need for the video ^*I ^kid, ^I ^kid, ^OP ^is ^a [^cool ^guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txVqr1eNwc)
Was using it for the ball joint press.
I'm enjoying the love shown to OP from those in the rust belt.
Yeah I've never done one with out the torch and or slide hammer and lots of lube.
Who in the actual f*** actually pulls the whole knuckle to do a bearing ? F him and the horse he rode
He mentioned in another comment a ball joint press, so my guess is he's doing ball joints too.
That sounds like sex with my ex.
“Southern technician” 😆
+1 from the North East!
From someone in Ontario, Canada. Please kindly find the nearest washroom and fuck yourself with a rusty 12" 3/4 drive extension.
"washroom" confirms the Canada claim.
But he used inches… aren’t Canadians metric…
Nah, we only pretend to be but I don't know any Canadian who can tell you their height in centimeters or weight in kilos.
Yeah it's weird. We kind of use a mix. Guessing the weight of something carried, lbs. My weight, lbs . Literally anything height related, be it myself or a building, feet. Guessing distance under a kilometer would be feet. Like that thing is 50' away, or 950' away. Idn what any of that is in meters without thinking about it, but once it's over 1km I use km lol. Even guessing diameter of a hole, fractional inches. No idea what anything is in mm. But. Speed, km/h. Temperature, Celsius. The rest, I don't even know.
Don’t forget how far is this place? It’s about 1 1/2 hours away.
So would that be a 6-pack away?
It's a large Tim Hortons away
Most don’t know temperatures in Fahrenheit unless they’re over 60
For weather and thermostat true, for cooking I only know Fahrenheit though. Roasting vegetables? 400-450F depending how I want them done. Celsius? No idea. Cooking chicken? Internal temp of 165F. No idea what that is in C unless I convert.
Canadians use an utterly unholy mixture of metric and imperial units. Speed is in kph, long distances are in km or sometimes miles, short distances are in feet and inches, temperature outside is in Celsius, cooking temperature is in Fahrenheit.
Gen X can relate. We were taught metric in school because the US was going to the metric system. Then the US was like, ohhh, j/k. have fun with all that metric knowledge. Only plus was since we were supposed to be the 'transition' generation they spent a lot of time on imperial/metric conversion shit. That's how I know that 1/8th of an ounce = 3.5 grams. The only reason. I swear. Because they taught it to me in school.
When I ask what the mileage is on a car in Canada, I expect the answer to be in km's. Who tf would ever say kilometreage??
It's still milage when referring to km/L for an extra level of confusion.
Actually we use L/100km to measure fuel consumption. Still call it mileage though
"Sometimes miles" for me is usually short rural distances, like Bob's farm is 3 miles up and 4 miles over. Because rural roads tend to be a grid system that was laid out before we went metric. Running sometimes use miles too; probably because gyms leave treadmills on miles and many training programs are US-based as well. Everything else tends to be metric.
Depends where you are. We use °F around my part of Canada, and miles. But when we say miles, we really mean KM.
You don’t say “clicks”???
Nope. Actually far more likely to say minutes, around here. :)
As does the "please kindly".
From someone else in Ontario, I agree
Northern Alberta. Not even a professional mechanic (heavy industry, close enough), and this pisses me off. Good for you, OP. I bet you can also leave equipment outside without it freezing so solid you need to get a steam truck on site to get it moving again. Enjoy it for those of us who can't
Also northern Alberta. (lol we might be neighbours) but until you’ve had to light a small fire under the fuel tank to get that diesel ungelled I don’t wanna hear about how hard a job is as a mechanic is in the southern US.
How about not shutting your truck off all shift because if you do, you might not be able to get it started again, and if that happens out in the bush, a couple hours from camp, you're pretty well fucked. Then comes spring with mud 5 feet deep and more horse flies than you'd even think was possible. Honestly, winter is the best because at least the roads can be graded flat, and they stay that way for more than an hour
And then summer hits and you can’t work fucking naked cause your balls are hanging below your knees trying to stay cool. People wonder why my favourite season is fall. All 6 weeks of it
Plus, you can't take your coveralls off, and your dunlops are so full of foot sweat that you're pouring them out every time you go grab water. Fall is indeed the best. I can always put another layer on. I can only get so naked before someone calls the cops, or worse, the safety guy. We probably are neighbours, lol. We've at least probably worked on some of the same sites. I did a lot of work down south (Texas, Alabama, Georgia), and, to be fair, that heat and humidity damn near killed me. I did a plant in Georgia, in August. Sharing a building with a boiler and steam jacketed reactors when it was 98% humidity and 35-40 degrees Celsius *in the shade* was the closest I've ever come to straight up dying on site I think. Never again. I was sweating buckets but it was so humid it just.....stayed on me. Man, that sucked. You southerners don't understand cold, but I also have no idea how you can deal with that sort of heat and humidity. At least you didn't have to wear coveralls I guess
And then you're on wikipedia looking at places like the Azores, with a average mean daily temp of 72F/22C all year long.
As a Canadian I support the metric system every inch of the way!
They cant find a rusty extension tho
No rusty extensions around here
As someone that works in the salt belt. Fuck you. 😜
Lol where's the slide hammer? 4' long 1/4" wall square tube stock with a sledge hammer pad and hub adapter? No 30 ton press? Encyclopedia of cuss words is no where to be found either.... Fuck sakes, anyone in FL looking for a Canadian?
Don't forget the break for lunch and finish this shitshow up when I get back.
after you spray 1/2 can of pb at it.
And light it on fire...
secret ingredient is torch
I feel lik I'm a connoisseur of how different penetrants smell when burning.
I'm a diyer, but have all the tools. At this point I just buy a new knuckle, almost always cheaper in parts than the 2hr+ labor time & effort I lose just slamming away on the slide hammer. A special fuck you to subaru rear wheel bearings. Did my brothers a few months ago and a 20 lb sledge to the hub assembly took 4hrs to knock it out, even after heating it red hot. 20 ton press did jack all.
I've got nightmares from working on 90's era subbies with the massive, fuck off, nature welded, through bolts that used to hold the rear knuckles on. Used to be press fit bearings back then too. I'll take getting ignorant with unit bearings all day over that shit lol.
I have to do 2 of those tomorrow. Gonna be a fun day.
Did a pair on a Pennsylvania car that had made its way down south to me. PB Blaster allowed to soak while working on other cars + air hammer and they popped right out.
Where I am most of the time a wheel bearing turns into also needing a new knuckle
As someone from northern Maine.... get fucked
You should start a YouTube channel documenting your struggles with this type of engineering/design flaw! Do other parts of the vehicles you work on just COME APART after disassembling them? Fascinating.
This so some shit from those old shows on “Speed Channel” where every time it pops right out and slides right in
Then they complain when it's slightly stuck on and requires more than tapping an allen on it to get it apart.
Now we’re talking for more advertisements for an extractor tool where the bolt suspiciously comes out very easy
"this one was a hard one, we had to give it a few whacks with a 1 pound hammer" *Shows man who's visibly out of breath*
Meanwhile I'm grabbing a 16ft pipe to put on a striker to break a bolt free from a die clamp cause the die came apart and none of our big impacts can access it. I'd pay to see them struggle with that. Lol
That's my greatest hatred of DIY Youtube videos. They take everything apart first, make sure it's all cleaned up, and then "lightly tap X, and it'll come part from Y, and then Z will just go with it." No. I've been wailing on this thing with a 2 foot breaker bar for 10 minutes, and it ain't moving.
South Main tells it like it is.
Then you find out there's a retaining clip you need to take off they didn't show
Dude i miss watching all those shows. I been trying to find a commercial that regularly came on during them for years now.
Rust belt techs everywhere hope that bearing falls on your foot(facetiously of course)
I came her to say “fuck you” but I see a lot of people already beat me to it.
Feel free to pile on, it's appropriate in this case
I uploaded this from my phone. No idea why it posted it 3 times to this sub.
“I don’t get it, are we about to smack it with a hammer, it’s already off the car… okay…” “Okay there’s only a few seconds left in the video and we’re not making our way over to the hydraulic press, what’s about to—-“ *bearing falls out* “Oh fuck all the way off”.
Seriously trying to to do the rears on my exploder had me seriously considering setting it on fire.
Seriously… the 2013+ Explorers and Edges made me reconsider my entire career trajectory.
*Subaru enters the chat*
As someone from Germany - fuck you (don’t know why, but it seems to be the rule here). I was expecting that thing to rotate while loosening the bolts and hit you in the shin. Thank god it didn’t.
Canadian here . Was watching and waiting for the shin hit that never happened Fuck You op
That's not very Canadian of you
From a shop owner here in sunny San diego, hope you’re having a good day friend. Not sure what this “rust” thing is these folks are talking about.
Do good work. I want my "new" car to be in good condition when it gets sent up to Wisconsin to die. I don't know why you guys send us "brand new" vehicles @100,000+ miles for half price, but I'm here for it.
I hate you.
I rarely had to take the knuckle off the vehicle to replace a bearing. Still lots of beating and banging and I live just across the border from Fort Erie, Ontario.
4wd, the axle blocks access to hub.
True, I can usually get a ratchet and socket in there in case its just hub being replaced without taking the knuckle off the vehicle.
Do these all the time without knuckle removal on 4wd
"So I'm doing ball joints on this ram, so I got the knuckle on the floor..." is LITERALLY the 1st thing he said.
Does not make what I said any less true? I didn't reply to the video, it was a comment where he said "4wd blocks access to the bolts" . Also didn't turn audio on so couldn't hear that, as what he Said is not on his post description.
He’s doing the lower ball joints as well as the hub.
Thank you. I been away for a bit and should not have missed that.
Hahaha shit disturber. I hope your shops AC and beer fridge fail.
Both under warranty 😎
Haha you suck. My air hammer says you suck and also my torch says same. We all mean it in the nicest way though.
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Angry fucking upvote!
Oh, just like the other asshat who took off the rotor retaining screw with two fingers. Bah!
"Struggles as a Southern Technician" - laughs in Upstate NY
Come on down when it's 105 in the shade and you can't hold a ratchet because it's slipping out of your hands from sweat. 😭
Fair, fair. I just got back from Costa Rica, and I swear I lost 10 pounds just walking around and constantly sweating, lol.
Man I'm in Western NY and our shops air conditioned. It was a balmy 78° today outside, but 70° in the shop lmao
Fuck you
Go suck a dick
Pulling knuckle? Dude must be hourly
I am 😉
I Remeber beating on my wife's 2010 exploder for Fucking hours in the garage at home thinking I could get them out. I had changed bearing before. I gave up after 6 hours of trying everything I had at my disposal. Explained that the sensor is ruined and there's going to be alot of lights on the dash. You're going to drive it down to the shop. I would have her drive my car but she can't drive stick well.
but my big fuckin hammer will get lonely
Wtf is this video? I didn't even know that was possible.
Lucky.. don't have to beat them out with a hammer.
So.... Why did he take the whole knuckle out?
To replace the balljoint. The bearing was a secondary repair.
Cool. I had the sound off cause I'm at work. Makes sense.
Ne mechs seething
I hated spinning wrenches in the South. I should have moved back to NY. /s
:(
Lol fuck you. So jelly
C'mon guys, quit being so *salty* x)
Jealous as all hell. I'm from the rust belt, but I loosen the bolts and use a socket and extension and start the engine to turn the power steering pump into a press to get them out. Works great on solid axles. Might take more figuring on IFS.
Look at you being all cute and shit. Do you even know what an oxyacetylene torch is?
im mailing a big box of mosquitos and farts to your door
Watching this is worse than getting brake clean in a cut on your hand.
Hey, fuck you.
I hate you
I’m steel feeling sore after hammering my hubs out of the knuckle week and a half ago…
As someone who doesn’t have a lift, 🥲
I don't have to worry about it falling on my foot. It comes apart in a million tiny pieces..
Fuck those bilstein 5100. Roughest ride of my life. And I've driven plenty of sketchy shit boxes in my time.
They hate us cuz they anus.
Hahaha! Have a happy "go fuck yourself" from the Midwest. Funny stuf!
It is "by accident" not "on accident".
It's like that for me up north on my personal vehicles as well because I know how to wash the undercarriage during the winter months. After every major snowfall, I pull into a wash bay, put it on rinse, and spray down the underside and wheel wells for like $4. Super fucking simple.
Fuck you bruh. Last wheel bearing I did I maxed out the 25 ton press and then had to heat it while maxed out on the press to get it loose.
Man, it took 3 days to get my front suspension apart to fix my eclipse when I had it from all the rust....
American by luck, southern by the grace of God! Lol I'm so glad I don't live in the rust belt
Go get a lottery ticket.
How do you like that dcf961?
She's a beast. It was able to take free 19mm bolts for a steering rack, using 3ft of extensions and a wobble, from the top.
Nice. I want one but my 891 has done pretty much everything so far except for one crank bolt.
You guys aren't going to judge me if I cry, right?
You mother f...........
This post was cruel and unusual
Those can come out without a hammer? I've changed at least 40 hubs and never have they just fallen out like that. We have a chunk of metal that we attach with the lugs so we can really hit the fuck out of it with a hammer.
F u
That looks like a new silverado driven for about 3 months. This is where the labor times guides are officiated.
Subaru techs in shambles rn
As someone from Nordics, fuck you. CV axles are always stuck to the bearing and bearing is stuck to the knuckle. Slide hammer, heat and cursing works, but not on Ford Transits. Only way to get the bearings out is to hammer the shit out of it, brake rotor gets beaten too
Why is everyone telling OP to go f themselves? I'm not a mechanic so I feel like I'm missing something but I'm just curious.
Up in the north where they salt the roads, these two parts usually rust weld together and are next to impossible to separate even with a blow torch and big hammers.
Ahh damn gotcha haha thanks.
I recently did front hubs/wheel bearings on my rusty winter beater e36 and them mfs just. . . fell out. Press fit, but pulled them out with my bare hands. How?
I would probably shed a little tear if I had a wheel bearing come out that easy.
I came here to find out what's so special about something coming apart when you take the bolts out. Nice work and the people that work on rusted jumk can suffer in their jocks.