Hit a raccoon with a '76 Chevy Van. The little feller got wound up in the driveshaft at the carrier bearing mount. Lotsa clunking and thumping. Brought it to my buddy's shop, put the van on the lift, and it looked like something out of a horror film! Poor little guy, and poor me for having to cut most of him out from the under body! Some things you can't unsee!

Ray, no pressure washer needed for the critter removal. Just ask to borrow Dave's Snap-On long reach needle nose pliers.

That possum isn't playing possum anymore.

@IR-nq4qv

3 ай бұрын

Couple of other observations: The little hand above the muffler is an indicator that its very hot.. Proof a Dodge Charger can at least outrun a possum. Official winner of the longest playing possum contest A possum can keep up with a Hemi Charger ..Snoopes: That's partially true..but only partly in parts only Now that the possum is part of the car.., does that make it a Pomi Hessum? The possum only gave up because he got exhausted... That was one tough possum to bend a sub chassis like that.

@ZSAZSS09

3 ай бұрын

​@@IR-nq4qvsuperpossum, maybe?

@IntegerOfDoom

3 ай бұрын

What a terrible time to be having breakfast.

"At least it wasn't a cow". Thanks Ray, for the coffee all over my keyboard. :)

@RainmanRayOffDuty

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@johncooper4637

3 ай бұрын

If it had been a cow the driver would not have likely survived as the body of the cow would have gone through the windshield.

@SeanBZA

3 ай бұрын

Having come close to clocking one, yes that is a good thing. though that was the least worry of that night, further on came across a hippo, and definitely did not want to be involved with that. Emergency stop, and a very rapid reverse, because a hippo is quite capable of biting thorugh sheet metal of a car, or even biting through the radiator as well. Hitting not good either, 2 tons plus of by now very unhappy critter sitting on your lap, and they are, despite the massive bulk, both very fast and very agile. Elephants give them a wide berth, along with rhinos, and crocodiles, and all of those are very capable of defending themselves.

If you can't dodge it ram it 😅

@therealanthony4978

3 ай бұрын

Never heard that 😂

@nonyabiz2777

3 ай бұрын

Nice.

@kristopherhalbmaier2790

3 ай бұрын

Old George Carlin joke about the Dodge Ram Charger. Funny they didn't dodge, because they saw it was charging!😅

@brandonstclair6530

3 ай бұрын

Too much Ram not enough Dodge

@AB-jk7tw

3 ай бұрын

Why does anyone buy a Ram or Dodge vehicle? Do they just love spending more time with their dealer?

As has been said a few times, in Australia, Kangaroos are the major road hazard at night (when you're not dodging wombats, rabbits, foxes, camels, et al). Clouted one at 140kph one night. Had a 'roo bar on the front thankfully. Bent the 'roo bar, bonnet (hood), mudguard (fender), broken headlight, popped the driving lights out of their housings, but they were still illuminated, but hanging on the wires. Hit a hare once too. He was about 3' tall! Broken bumper.

Used subframes are probably easy to source. I can imagine there are a lot of these in the boneyards. Looks like a possum. This one looks like it ran over a substantial obstacle. The possum parts is icing on the cake.

@justpray365

3 ай бұрын

Or Raccoon

@StrangerInAStrange

3 ай бұрын

Are you sure that isn't possum icing on the Dodge . . .

Get you a pot and wash that down in there. We are going to have some vittles tonight, Jethro!

@frazzledude

3 ай бұрын

In a couple episode of the Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro opened a restaurant. He called it "The Happy Gizzard".

Not many raccoons, possums or armadillos in the UK, but I did cross paths with one very unlucky pheasant once. Driving along a tree-lined country lane, this errant pheasant decided that it would be a really splendiferous idea to fly across the lane at approximately 1ft above road level, and timed his launch for the precise moment when my 2008 Skoda Octavia's trajectory intercepted with his. The ensuing 'THOMP' was a relatively minor affair for the car, what with pheasants being somewhat diminutive of stature. This impact alone would have been more than sufficient to see his continued existence in this universe brought to a premature end, but oh no, this pheasant wanted to go out in style. After experiencing approximately 400,000 ft/lbs of energy delivered in a fraction of a second, he promptly arced away and slightly upwards toward the opposite side of the road, and before his mortal remains could be reintroduced to the nurturing embrace of terra firma, he was hit again by another car travelling in the opposite direction. A literal double-whammy. I mourned his passing, but celebrated his flair for the dramatic 😄.

@NemoConsequentae

3 ай бұрын

If you're going to end it all, do it with _style!_

@kenore4003

3 ай бұрын

Armadillos are known as Texas speed bumps.

@imagseer

3 ай бұрын

Pheasants come in low and take out headlights. Have you checked the price of those units recently?

@level1804

3 ай бұрын

I hit a pheasant once. I payed for a new bumper. I didn’t write a dissertation on it.

It was the worst one I ever had. One of my customers hit something on the freeway at night. The next day, they came into the shop to have their car checked out, and the parts we found were human. Apparently, a semi truck hit somebody on the freeway and broke the body in half. My customer ran over what was left of the head & shoulders. It was kind of gruesome having the crime lab there, pulling the parts out from the undercarriage.

@poppydogz

3 ай бұрын

Jesus.. You could make a movie about that 😲

@timd1833

3 ай бұрын

@@poppydogz "BONES" episode. at least!

@hdfxrs9121

3 ай бұрын

How do you even un-see anything like that?

@satguy

3 ай бұрын

@@hdfxrs9121 You don't.

Cripsy Critter.. New fast food chain... Coming soon to a Dodge dealership near you! Love the video's Ray, Have a great day man.

A friend in college hit a deer or elk with her THREE HOUR OLD car. Brand new, she had just picked it up from the dealer and was doing about 60 mph on the highway heading home to Steamboat, Colorado. Totalled the car. She wasn't injured. The critter certainly was. I was a bit disappointed to see paint fade on that 8 year old Dodge! They don't make em like they used to!

@alanfarenden8244

3 ай бұрын

My father worked on the Ford production line 1960. Shuttle driver last in convoy to parking lot was very slow starting. Construction worker with dump truck full of concrete met him head on some 300 yards from his starting position at a sharp corner. Rear wheels, tail lights salvaged, otherwise total loss.

@CatRPlrC16

3 ай бұрын

Well if she lived in steamboat she could probably afford to have it fixed or get another one

@johnt.848

3 ай бұрын

I hope she arranged Insurance BEFORE driving it off the lot.

@alanm.4298

3 ай бұрын

I don't recall if she lived in Steamboat Springs proper... or just in the area. Way back when I was in college, Steamboat was a pretty small town.... maybe 4000 or 5000 people. And it was her parent's home, anyway. I don't know that she was one of the "rich kids'... We had plenty of those, though.

@kenore4003

3 ай бұрын

At least it wasn't a moose. Those things stand so tall that cars take the legs out and catch the body right in the windshield. Been known to cause both the moose and front seat people to become unalived.

Thanks for the video Ray

That's got have stunk until the critter baked. Good luck cleaning and repairing this one Ray

That car took a hella of a hit.

Hit a dreer in the mountains of Colorado 73 Dodge. Miss that truck. Best of luck with your repair.

My youngest son hit a dog on the interstate on the 4th of July, It left a path of destruction under the car, Transmission lines ,brake lines and fluid everywhere. that sub frame was the result of hitting something solid, Great Video.

High side AC service port leaking pretty good, as well!

Tell Dave we appreciate his help. He gives you.

@ryans413

3 ай бұрын

Do you know what happened to Troy

@RobertDavis-ck6qu

3 ай бұрын

@@ryans413 I’m think he started his own business not sure but I think Ray mentioned something like that

Had a 2005 Dodge Magnum Hemi for 17 years and I loved that car, especially that hemi torque. It was fun to drive while being roomy and comfortable. And it was more reliable than the 95 Mark VIII Lincoln that it replaced.

@randybeard6040

3 ай бұрын

I have Owned 2 Dodge Vehicles and Both were Triple Lemons...

@tankmaximus

3 ай бұрын

Your time-line of vehicles is eerie similar. We still have our 05 Magnum SXT w/ the 3.5HO. 260k on it. Then I drive daily my 06 AWD Magnum R/T at 150k. On rails with the AWD. And a project car I kept, still drivable, is my 95 T-Bird LX with the 4.6 at only 93k on it. Randy sorry you had lemons. Keeping up with every little service item on mine has kept them running strong for me.

@williamwhite9767

3 ай бұрын

@@randybeard6040 The Magnum, Charger, Chrysler 300, and the later Challenger are built on a Mercedes platform and the drive train is Mercedes except for the engines. Daimler Benz owned Chrysler when these were introduced.

@larryad4018

3 ай бұрын

​@tankmaximus the 3.5 was a good engine, timing belt was a pain in the rear but every 100k, you survived. Had one in a 94 intrepid, went through 2 transmissions, but the engine was rock solid. Was actually looking for a 3.5 magnum myself as a play car. I've always liked wagons.

@mikeybhoutex

3 ай бұрын

I tell you hwat, that Mark VIII is a *real* nice car, inside and out... ...when it's not broken and you gotta foot that bill for just the parts. Yeesh. I was never so glad to get rid of a car, and that by being robbed at knife point. Idiots, they took a problem away from me, thanks! /But man, when they are *right*, they are *right*.

love watching your channel Ray

I got an 06 300C for a song because it had a bent subframe. New they are 400 bucks and take about 4 hours to swap laying on a garage floor with some jackstands and an engine hoist. Easy job and the suspension will be right there during it. These cars are one of the better things Chrysler ever did. They are tanks

Ran over a freshly run over skunk in the summer..vents for the cabin were open. Full blast of Eau D' Skunk. Lasted for days

I hit a wombat here in Australia, was like hitting a lump of concrete and yes whole new front end.

Very nice looking Challenger, and it appears it needs minimal work. The subframe is an easy job from underneath while fixing the front suspension and having it all apart.

I believe that is the Florida Chupacabra. Only comes out at night. Likes chicken,

Good morning Ray, hope you are back up to optimal operating efficiency😁 Have a great weekend my friend👍

@RainmanRayOffDuty

3 ай бұрын

Getting there! My insides went through a lot, and I’m normalizing now. It’s taking some time to regulate

At least you know it wasn’t a person. I was concerned at first till you found the leg. 😂😂

thanks Ray

Yes, 05 Magnum SXT at 60mph smoked a fox dead center. Bumper, fascia, radiator support bracket, cracked lower radiator, plastic service cover, rear subframe, and something else I'm sure. Full coverage fortunately. Cost insurance $2800 and my $100 deductible.

yes I always figured that is why some car washes have under carriage spray systems. Especially when you hit a skunk.

Nice inspection

Good morning Mr Ray hope y'all have a wonderful day 😊

Yes, had an old 78 olds delta 88 and I ran over a skunk and it got stuck on top of my muffler heat shield. Couldn't get back into the car for 3 days it stunk so bad. Sure do miss that car.

"Have I ever ran into a crispy critter?" Yeah I did, poor little guy. I was driving my 2011 Cruze and I (through a fault of my own) busted my old front bumper when I almost ran into a ditch. Didn't see it as it was on a hill. Replaced it with a pre-painted bumper from eBay and the next morning as I was heading to work, a racoon was in the middle of my lane and around a sharp curve. The little guy caught me off-guard, lol. Couldn't swerve to avoid it because of an oncoming vehicle and the little guy slammed into the new bumper, cracking the lower middle portion of it and breaking the skid plate in pieces. Needless to say, I couldn't care about the bumper and plates since they're replaceable, but the little guy I thought about for a while after.

Was with a buddy of mine in a lowered Toyota p/u one time, headed out to his parents house in the country, when we hit an already-dead dog that was layin in the middle of the road. Got back to town and went to my parents' garage and looked underneath, and there was lots of biohazard still hanging on underneath, especially on the u-bolts for the rear suspension. It was pretty nasty.

Armadillo for sure, they're solid enough to cause that damage. You should get a Lazer pointer, make it easier to point to things you're trying to describe. (Just a suggestion) Keep it up Man, you're my coffee drinking channel

@MickayG

3 ай бұрын

Looking at that hairy paw... not an Armadillo.

@jdub5107

3 ай бұрын

Yeah he needs to grow another appendage.

@davidkacs6933

3 ай бұрын

You're right, didn't take that into consideration, thanks! ​@@MickayG

Looks like a skunk black bristle hair and paws they can get pretty big and.awesome job 👍

I would recommend getting replacement bolts for that subframe. They might be bent and require cutting off..

I don’t know that the small animal bent the subframe (that you will was away). You ll straighten it out with some new parts. Might as only need an alignment when you are done. I see you had a helping hand from Dave always thank your help Have a good day

I love the USF Bulls logo on the back window.

In the early 80s, I ran over a fat groundhog with my 65 Corvair. I could feel every roll it took until it exited. After a new CherryBomb muffler, my brother ran over something with his Pinto. Fur was hanging from the exhaust clamps.

@8:58 Now you have a shop lizard!! Working with the Wizard!!! You are getting complete: Shop Lizard and Shop Dog Wow!!! Had a cherry Nissan Hardbody Pickup. Hit a Deer that suddenly jumped in front of me. Totaled that one.

Oh, next Saturday the Tampa Machinery auction has a lot of Chargers (decommissioned cop cars)for sale.

One of the roadkill hazards on our roads are Kangaroos . These are often hit when they are bounding across a road . They usually are hit mid bound , and take out the windscreen and bend the roof . Wombats are also a hazard , growing up to a metre in length and massing around 30 kG they can make a mess of a vehicle

Brake clean will take care of IT‼️

Ray surely with your skills that critter with new spark plugs an oil change and your magic hands and Dave on the welder the little feller will be as good as new ,parts required I think so.

Welcoming back!

Ray, i think this Particular Dodge is a Come-back .... Its the same one from your Previous Videos, the same one that had the Fuel intermittent stalling issue

In western PA a skunk at 65 my cousin and I got out puking the thing went through grill into radiator onto fan blown all over a 360 it smelled til the next winter no matter how much I washed it the guy I sold it to a family freind changed the rusty bed yrs later found parts between bed a frame rails even small creatures at highway speed can do a lot of damage

great video . poor car for undercarriage hit so hard. I would replace subframe and oil leak taken care of.

Hit a bunch of birds at night in NV at 100 mph in new 1969 Chevy. They were the same color as the road. One hit a headlight and broke it. They didn't have time to get up to windshield height. Years later I found another one in the suspension.

For newer (00s-now) Dodges: Challengers 2-door; Chargers 4-door. Challengers came out a few years after the Chargers. I remember when these Daytona R/Ts came out, they were the coolest non-SRT model you could buy!

When my son bought his 1st car the undercarriage was full of porcupine chunks as well as a ton of quills stuck in the transmission lines

Unfortunately we have a lot of deer in our area and yes also unfortunately I have hit one with my truck. They tend to do a substantial amount of damage.

Do the sub frame. I just replaced one in a Corolla.

Sold my first jeep to a buddy. It had a HD aftermarket front winch bumper. He hit a deer square broadside with the winch & split the deer in half. He spent a lot of quarters at the carwash. Amazingly no damage to the Jeep thanks to that bumper.

This reminds me of the time I was sent to fix a photocopier where the customer complained about a rough brown smudge on each page. Turned out the brown smudge was a mouse that had become jammed between two rollers!

Thats a pretty clean & straight old new charger. Paint looks good. Even comes with free dog toy! 😂

Zip tie repair modification. Classic line and you should copyright it and make a line of merchandise using it. Love it.

I hope you get the job Ray I would like to see it.👍

I hit a ground hog in my 85 Fiero GT going down the NY Throughway at excessive speed. No damage, but there was a fur/fluid streak on the undercarriage from bumper to bumper.

I just got back from a road trip. While driving in southern Missouri, I saw my first possum ever. He was laying on his back with his arms and legs stick out, a death grimace on his face

I can attest to the lack of heartiness these LX and LC platforms have (Charger and Challenger) in their front suspension. 105k miles and I have to gut the wheel wells and replace everything. Struts, isolators, mounts, upper and both lowers, end links, inner and outer tie rods, and lower ball joints.

Never had a crispy critter but I did have a cardinal get wedged in my rockers on my Jeep somehow. A friend at work saw it and asked when I picked up a traveler and had no clue what he was talking about and then sent the pic of it.

I was doing 60 at night, hit an armadillo, or a speed bump. Sounded like a gravel road after that with all the scales flinging around

Now you have a shop dog and a shop lizard. Hey, Steve! 😁 (Had a frog stuck to my radiator once.)

WOW! That must of been one hell of a bang to bend the front cradle bracket and it almost looks like the arm of a Racoon -

I had turned 18 in late 1978. On a dark rainy night in November I decided to go down to the bar. This is middle of nowhere northern Wisconsin, America’s dairy land but in reality just a bunch of broke farmers trying to keep food on the table. I had a Charger, but it was broke with a bad starter so I grabbed my step dad’s 73 F one hundred and fifty farm truck. It was beat up. He never had the money or inclination to fix anything. I know the passenger side of box was caved in and the right front had hit a deer so no headlight. Anyway, about a mile down the road I’m tooling along when all of a sudden the truck just stopped and then slid into the ditch. As luck would have it, I had hit one of the neighbor’s angus steer. He raised them on the side, as he had a mechanic shop in town, and was pretty good. Thing is, he never maintained his fences, so his cattle wandered all over. It was known. So I’m standing there looking at a pile of dead steak and burgers on one side, and a heap of Ford that I knew would never drive again on the other, when here comes the step dad in the family wagon coming home from the bar. Thing is the local deputy was following him to make sure he made it home ok. So now we had a situation. The deputy went to get the steer’s owner out of bed while step dad and I hauled the dead dinner off the road with the family wagon. So the owner shows up mad as a hornet and lays into me for hitting his beef, but I showed him the non-existent fence and the fact it was dark, raining, and the damned beef was black. Things calmed down a bit. He asked if was gonna pay for his beef. I asked if he was gonna pay for the truck. An agreement was reached where he took half the beef and we took the other half. We all knew that Ford shouldn’t have been on the road. Thing is, I was looking for work at the time and was going to talk to him about mechanicing in his garage. That wasn’t going to happen after what happened as he was a hothead and never let things go. So we all butchered that beef in the rain in the ditch at 10 o’clock on a Sunday night. He took half, we took half, the wrecker took the Ford. I eventually became an engineer involved mostly with vehicles, but in a roundabout way and recently retired only to take a job as a mechanic for golf course equipment.

I hit a hare at freeway speed. my entire car front to back was covered in little spatters of "insides of hare", as well as part of it getting stuck on my radiator. Washing it took well over an hour and it smelled bad for a month with the smell coming off the radiator.

How do you decide which vehicle repair to show us

Creature was Collateral Damage in Offrodent Adventure thur Boulder, Colorado or Barney Rubble's hometown of Bed Rock.

I think high speed is a contributing factor in the subframe damage. Given enough speed, a small animal can cause a lot of damage.

Free back scratcher under that Dodge

The bent subframe damage looked as though it might have been older: where the paint had flaked as a result there was old-looking rust beneath, so did that happen and have caused the suspension components to be replaced, and it's a fresh strike which has brought it all back to attention?

@aliasfred

3 ай бұрын

I thought that looked suspicious "the sub frame damage" I am a retired body and frame repair guy with 46 years experience. Unless the guy was off-roading at the time he hit whatever critter.

swerved to avoid a critter, then ran up on a curb and smacked it - quite hard to mangle up the subframe / k-member that much. and in the end, still hit the critter

In my years of driving I have hit 4 different animals. The deer and racoon were the most damaging to a vehicle. Both totaled the vehicle that they hit, where as the fox and bear did minimal damage.

I had a ground squirrel crawl up above the drive shaft on my '97 Cougar. There is a cozy little spot where the drive shaft "goes through" the gas tank on these. I had no idea he was there until the next morning when I discovered blood on the floor of the garage after my wife left for work. When she got home my garage was filled with the horrible odor of death. Took it quickly over to my buddy's shop. The shop was immediately filled a quite unpleasant smell. Quickly to the outside hoist. Poor Glen drew the short straw and had the honor of removing the critter. It wasn't crispy just grossly bloody. There is plate where the driveshaft "goes through" the tank and that had to be removed to get the squirrel out of there. The most unpleasant experience ever.

I hit a Coyote at 75mph going through CO at night in my Corvette, front end end held together due to the front shielding on the bumper to protect the paint held it together but it was cracked, car lifted up in the air sucking the varmint under the car no suspension damage, got to the dealership in NE they spent time pulling out the remains...3 grand later

Genuinely crispy critter

I ran over a possum once, unfortunately the possum was sitting on a rock at the time. Made holes in the fuel tank, after dents in the floor pan, (Honda Civic 1980's can't remember exactly), Due to being in the backwoods, having no petrol (gas) would mean being stranded for days, I grabbed some brush and weeds to plug the holes as best I could then drove like a crazy person to the next town. Arrived just in time, as the fuel ran dry. The local mechanic, removed the tank saying,"Yep it's got a wee dent", it was pretty much crushed. he took out the sender bashed it back in some kind of shape then put the exhaust of his truck into the tank, to remove fumes, before welding the holes up. Possum did not make it.

A honeybadger? Hard as hell!

So Ray. A new generation charger has 4 doors. While the Challenger only has two, just like the original. That makes ID easy. 😅😊🎉

Sure hope owners have comprehensive coverage!!!!

I’m looking forward to seeing more of Steve in future videos 👍🏿🦎😂

I hit what looked like a cow early one morning, i had a 1984 Pontiac Parissenne station wagon, the left side of the car went airborne, i was about to tip over, i was riding on the right two wheels only like you see in the movies, i held the steering wheel tightly and all of a sudden i landed back on all four wheels it was the most terrifying experience i ever had, i got off the highway to gain my composure and was going to get out and access the damage but decided to just continue on home. When i got home i pulled up along side my house where there are two floodlights, the only visible damage was that the left front corner of the bumper was slightly bent, remember this was a 1984 model with steel chrome bumpers, it's when i looked underneath that the severity of the impact was noticable, there was blood guts hair from front to back, again a station wagon which is long, i got the hose out and began spraying, the blood was running down the gutter like someone had just been murdered, it was too much so i decided to wait until daylight and fire up the pressure washer, it took a long time until it was somewhat clean, i figured the rest would eventually wash off driving in the rain and snow, when I drove it the alignment was off it was pulling to the left, I took it to a guy in town where all the mechanics go for alignments and miraculously there was no damage to any of the steering components, he did the alighnnent and that was it, I'm glad i was driving a big old car it might have saved my life.

Didn't you work on that dodge Dayton a while back ago? Fuel evap system in the rear fender area

@RainmanRayOffDuty

3 ай бұрын

This is the one!

didn't the rear diff also have a leak coming out by the drive shaft.

Never thought of cooking roadkill like that. Dinners ready by the time you get home

Crispy critters. I have 2 stories. 1st. A deer hit my ford head on, joined me in the front, landed on the passenger seat. Blood and hair everywhere and a person sized hole in the windscreen. 2nd, ran over a badger (like a small bear, in the UK). No damage, badger and my car not a thing wrong. I stopped to check and the badger kept on running.

@beezul

3 ай бұрын

You spelled forehead wrong...😎😎

@andyclark8354

3 ай бұрын

@@beezul nope the deer hit my Ford head on 😁. It was a Ford Escort.

@mikerist5865

3 ай бұрын

I had to extract a whole sparrow once from under a car, and I took out a pigeon in my old car, looked in the rear veiw mirror and just saw an explosion of feathers flying in the air

That’s some good beef jerky right there 😂😂

Not sure if this is important ray but at 8:33 driver side shock looks like there is a crack there

Differential is leaking by the passenger side axle shaft ?

Hey Ray take advantage of the situation,Get yourself a potatoes Hotdog rill a kittle mustard Start the hemi reheat that claw and whamo lunch😂🤣😂

@beezul

3 ай бұрын

" a potatoes Hotdog rill a kittle mustard " What the bejeezus does THAT mean?

Once upon a time in high school, I thought a buddy of mine put a dead mink in pick pickups tool box. So I returned the favor by laying it on his pickups exhaust manifold. He found it a little crisper the next morning when he pulled into the parking lot. Sorry Matt! It wasn't actually him that put it in my toolbox in the first place 🤣

That mug went duke's of hazzard.

I hit a possum one night years ago in my Triumph TR 6. Went home. The next morning my landlady was screaming outside. When I went to inspect, the critters head was jammed in the front end. Needless to say that little guy didn’t make it.

Whatever got killed was absolutely shredded and cooked, holy shit.

OMG Ray thats narly !!!!! Wow I've never seen that kind of critter remains. Dont touch it Ray. You should show Lauren

Good morning Ray. Possibly an Armadillo. They are extremely hard and will definitely damage the car.