Ezrider

for me part of it is, i enjoy watching stuff on youtube, i would like to contribute to adding content other people will enjoy. video is a nice thing to be able to look back on and be able to share with friends and family that you don't necessarily see often. also part of the reason is to try to help keep me moving forward on some projects. hasn't been very successful at doing that yet though.....lol jaguar in particular, i think its a project that could be fairly popular and if i have people asking for more video on it i have to get more things done to make more video...lol it is also possible to make money doing it, im not to the point of making any money on it yet. but one of the goals is to generate some income from it to at least partially fund some projects. btw mrsmackpaul can you give me a link to that thread you have with the rebuild of your Mack and the video's of it. i found it a while back and was watching someone of them, then the other day i was going to go back to it and i could not remember where i found that thread.

yeah bobcat and the semi are both parked inside now that i don;t need as much room to work now that the rear end is done. till tuesday evening. im going to leave out early weds morning so ill hook up the trailer tuesday evening and nose it up to the shop door and plug it in. pickup has been plugged in every night sense that video. i took the other half to work this morning cause she has a newer nissan altima and apparently Nissan does not think block heaters are necessary in north america so you cant get one. she was worried about her car possibly not starting when she leaves work this afternoon with a HIGH TEMP of -15 foretasted for today. it makes a miserable day even worse when you spend hours out of your day just trying to get engines started.

i have always been a gear head, loved cars and trucks liked fixing them liked working on and modifying my cars ect ect. i thought as a teenage being a auto mechanic would be a dream job. till i got that job and i liked it at first but i burned out quick. doing it as a job every day day in and day out killed all my fun in doing it. after that it was always do a job you can tolerate and do well at and keep your passion a hobby. i have also always done well in life by being willing to do jobs other people didn't want to do. before i got into trucking i worked my way up from a grunt to a foreman in only a few years just by being willing to do whatever needed to be done. i worked in a factory before that and did well there because i was always willing to do whatever needed to be done witch ment that i gained lot of knowledge of multiple area's of the plant witch the bosses loved because anytime someone called in ect, i always was the first call to come in and get over/or double time. also moved up the pay scale much faster than most. i gained lots of skills threw out my working life that kind makes me a jack of all trades. witch really helps now being a o/o business owner. because i have lots of skill sets that many of witch help me in my day to day.

yeah its been brutal here the last few days. tomorrow and Sunday is supposed to be even worse. i think tomorrow is supposed to be -15 for our high temp. i kinda got caught with my pants down a few days ago. had not been paying attention to the weather report and got up and it was -19 according to weather dot com and when i got out the the shop and looked at the weather on my phone it stayed -23 as the air temp. wind chills were around -36 i had no block heaters plugged in on anything. it was not a fun morning. i actually made a video of that as well......lol i wasn't going to post that one here but seems how you brought it up might as well.......lol

thanks, yeah the video can be challenging sometimes. there has been a few that will never see the light of day.....lol. there has been a few where i just get frustrated with trying to film while working on something and just turn it off and keep working, then im missing key parts to make the vidio. another one i had the camera had just been sitting there running for like 30-40 mins on something i was working on and then the thing crashed and lost all that. then trying to put it together afterwards in a way that is still informative but moves along at a fast enough pace to keep someones attention and be somewhat entertaing is a challenge all in itself. not sure if i got that formula down yet.....lol but i think im getting better the more i do it, i watch my more recent ones and go back to my older ones and they seem worse. big thing i need to work on as well is stop smearing grease and oil on the lenses.....lol makes the video look hazy and i don't realize it till i sit down to put it all together after its all done.....lol

its actually a can with some kind of propellant in it. normally for this type of job i would use one called "the right stuff" same type of deal this one i accidentally grabbed one called ultra black by permitex same container looks almost identical. although there used differently according to the directions. the right stuff you put it on you give it a few mins to tack up then you slam the parts together and bolt it down. and it can be put right into service. the ultra black you put it together right away but you wait to torque the bolts down. never used the ultra black before this job hopefully its good, some of this is not stuff i want to take apart again....lol but i didn't realize i grabbed the wrong can till just before i shoved the rear end in so i used it.

if anyone still cares here is the last video of the rear end swap......lol covers wheel bearings races and seals, also covers the issue of the bearing lock nuts backing off and the fix for that https://youtu.be/-L0Hm_RhqKA

what the hell is up with that grass

merry Christmas everyone, hope you have a wonderful day.

was one u joint strap kit short and need to pick up a few little things Monday morning to Finnish up the last few things on this job. glad all the hard stuff is over with though.

fun day today... don't have to be worried about being hot....lol if anything i am very glad i have a heated shop.....lol

this one might be a little more interesting to you guys, i bet you can guess how ill be spending my Christmas weekend from this one.

if that truck did run when parked and the engine still turns free you could probably get it started in a afternoon.

got a new video up. been hard making any progress on these being out in the truck 6 days a week at the moment. this one is pretty simple and basic. repairing a leaking/chafed air line

2500 is a good starting point. if your driving it or have a good driver in it and get 800k-1mill out of a clutch your probably looking at new input shaft cross shafts and bushings possibility linkages as well and a rear main while your in there is a good idea. if you have hired drivers that rip a clutch out every 2-400k you can probably get away without a lot of the extra's

i don't personally have anything i was still young enough back then to not think to save anything. i would imagine my dad probably would have saved some stuff from that. he is gone now but its still possible for some of that kind stuff to surface eventually.

great tip on rotating the cam around i had never even thought of that. i think i will start doing that in the future. the independant film stuff i did was back when i was a teenager living in California. i forget what the name of the movie was supposed to be i know they never ended up filming it witch is a shame they put a lot into the movie and large elaborate sets. i kinda stumbled into that because i was a boom mic guy on a different one of there movies. and we were filming out in the desert near 29 palms and it was 100+ outside and i was pretty buff back in those days. i had taken my shirt off and was sweating and they decided they needed to use me as a milititary guy holding a machine gun shooting up alians. the comercial i did was just a local commercial for a car dealership.

speaking of the jaguar did you see the engine masters episode. where they try to find out how much boost stock cast pistons can take they end up shoving a crazy about of boost in it and it stayed in one piece with over 20 lbs of boost and something like 800 hp (numbers off the top of my head and i watched it a while ago) defiantly makes me feel better about my plan of 6-8lbs of boost on a basically stock bottom end.

i did do a video recently of the jaguar. not my best work so far. but its basically just a walk around video and showing a few things about the car. and rambled on way too much....lol i have not gotten a whole lot done on it mostly just driving it. now that its winter time and i wont be driving it much anymore hopefully ill start making some more progress on it again. iv got a stack of parts on the shelf for the car. the first big thing i need to do is drop the trans and swap the tq converter and get my 4th gear lockup kit installed. and need to re plumb the fuel system and re-do the exhaust.

thanks for the support guys, good thing im not too worried about cranking out a video every day. iv got a fair bit of stuff filmed waiting on edit been doing some long days in the truck this week have not really had time to touch it. it will probably come out in spurts a video a day here and there then nothing for a week or two. it takes quite a bit of extra time between filming something your doing and then reviewing the footage and editing. of course that's part of why im just trying to do video's on things im doing anyway not doing any project just for video yet. i did miss a chance to film what probably would have been a really good vidio here the other day, other than i was freezing my sack off and was on the side of the road. but the unloader valve stuck and truck wouldn't build air. pulled the unloader valve apart cleaned it up and put it back together. worked like a charm. didn't even think about filming it till i was warm later....lol. diesel dave it looks like you have some great stuff on your channel ill certainly be spending a few hours checking out your vidio's....lol

i don't see a problem with it especially if there is no other restroom in the garage itself even more so if sudsy beverages tend to be consumed in there.

there is going to be people who are going to find something to troll about on anything. iv got pretty thick skin and expect some of that. might actually help me out a bit. part of how you tube rates how relevant your video is to a search on the subject has to do with not only watch time % but viewer interaction how many people like or comment on your video's. so if you have two video's that match the same key words and one has a bunch of likes and comments and the other does not the one that does gets ranked higher in the search results. about 8-9 years ago i made a video for a discussion on a gun forum and put it on you tube. and it actually got a lot of views when it was new, hasn't had any in years and its a pretty poor quality video esp by today standards. but i think that one had something like 17-18k views. and it got a lot of harsh comments, some deserving so some i deleted cause they were like "your stupid and dumb and i bet your moms a crackhead" type comments....lol but i left most of them. the truth of the mater is that trailer is its own jack stand. its a empty tri axle side dump the suspension is designed to not let the suspension move side to side only up and down. let alone the other 2 20k lb rated axles that are on the ground if the jack fell the wheel end might fall 2 inches plus wasn't working underneath it. if my video's do get popular ill probably have to start taking some extra unnecessary steps just to keep the trolls at bay. i guess i don't normally use jack stands on the trailer unless im taking tires off both sides of one axle at a time probably doesn't necessarily mean i shouldn't though. on the video about cleaning out the foot pedal area on the bobcat i recorded the sequence of unlocking the lift arm lockout just cause i figured someone would comment about working underneath a raised bucket without realizing i had the safety catch in place if i didn't show it. as far as potential liability i think its pretty slim but its also why i use wording like "how I" rather than "how to" the bucket trailer mover there is some inherent risk in its design so in the description. "disclaimer this is not intended to be a how to, this is just how i did it, if you decide to copy my design do so at your own risk. this cost me nothing to make as its all made from things i had laying around collecting dust. i wanted it to be fast and simple to put on and take off with minimal fuss. to buy all materials new i think you could still build this for under 30 bucks." also in the video i pointed out the potential for danger and also a way to make the design safer. i would think my risk is pretty minimal yeah someone could try to sue me over some thing stupid however i really don't think "i watched how to do this on youtube and got myself hurt" is going to hold up well in court.

iv drove pete 379's and 389's 379's i really liked the 379's 389's other than the headlights are awesome did not impress me much. i liked the petes better than the w9's and the t-800's but if i was looking to buy another truck id probably look pretty strongly at a t-800 all the above were good trucks.

i hate to do this but here is the most recent video i finished editing. i think my editing has come a long ways sense the first few video's i did. id really like to get some feedback on it. good/bad to help me produce better vidio

I Am planning on adding quite a bit more video iv got others already uploaded on my channel and a few more filmed waiting on me to find time to edit them. some are better than others i think (hope) they are getting better the more i do it. i don't want to post links to all of them here on the forum i would feel like i was spamming you guys. but you can check out my other ones on my channel and subscribe to see video's as i add them.