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Can you make some videos on what your doing on your house? I Know you mostly do car stuff but maybe you can show us what and how you're fixing different parts of your house.
Great video. I like the measuring your wrist torque. It has reminded me what a professional mechanic told me, as an amateur: start learning tightening bolts for a car not for a ship :)
I'm almost 70 years old and I like to do most of my simple mechanic work, and if I had a dollar for every bolt I dropped in an engine, I'd be rich. That paper towel trick will sure come in handy for me.
Dark,on the roadside with dead battery, only a ratchet wrench that was too big, cut strip off soda can, put it into socket, got the bolt loose. Indian friend showed me use a flat screwdriver to make open end wrench small enough to fit on nut. Use flat screwdriver to turn socket. Dont take apart the carburetor at night on the side of road. If you loose the needle valve you learn to pray. 👍Thanks for sharing.
I calibrate all the tools at the place I work. Even the cheaper click type torque wrenches are very accurate. Just release the spring pressure on them by setting the torque spec at 0ftlbs when storing the wrenches. Sometimes auto parts stores can check the accuracy of your tourque wrenches. If you have a trust worthy torque wrench, tighten a bolt down to specific torque setting and mark the bolt or nut so you can see if it turns, then get the torque wrench that is questionable and set it to the same ftlbs and tighten the bolt, then check to see if it turned. Torque wrenches are the most accurate in the middle of their torque range. Use the same technique and hold each time you use a torque wrench. A lot of variability can be induced by holding the wrench differant or when using a different technique when turning the bolt.
Great job ... keep up the great work .... loved your top 5’s and top 10’s .... and if there are any haters, that’s their problem, you have done nothing to cause legitimate hatred... many thumbs up to gentle, patient, entertaining person ...👍👍👍👍👍
I honestly don't get why people would be directing hateful comments toward you. You're a professional mechanic, offering assistance in the form of videos and answering follow-up questions on them and related topics. You're doing these, like others that post on RU-vid, for the viewer's benefit and at no cost. I wouldn't pay much attention to them; we all know you can't please everyone, no matter how nice you are or what you do to try to help them. For every one of them there's a hundred of us who appreciate your efforts and your common-sense answers to questions, so don't be discouraged. For all of us who do enjoy your videos, please accept our thanks for taking time to help and inform us.
Quick tip: if you're adding oil to your toyota using toyota oil bottles, you can cut the bottom off the bottle and the cap end threads perfectly into the oil cap hole, making a no-spill funnel. I use this daily adding 0w-16 to the modern camrys.
Great video. Our senior shop foreman showed me the paper towel and bolt trick years ago. What a fantastic technique to install those hard to reach bolts.
Thanks for taking the time to make this. We've all missed you, some of us were concerned for your well being. SO glad you're OK. My rules; it takes longer than expected. It costs more than planned. You make LE$$ than hoped for. Exceptions are celebrated.
Yes, pleased you're back and also knowing sometimes you have to do other things too around the house yourself. I'll definitely come up with questions in the near future, but until then... welcome back !!
Congrats on the house brother. Great content as always. Don't hesitate to tell us the stuff like the hub trick, that is one of the things I like about you, you don't try to "nanny" your viewers by removing content deemed "too risky" or could cause damage. There are a thousand videos on YT with car tips, that type of content differentiates you from the masses, as well as prove your experience as you must have battled quite a few hubs before learning that trick. Don't sweat the absence man. Life happens and the people who matter understand that. Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing some tips and tricks. For anyone reading this...next time you're at harbor freight get you one of those telescoping magnets shown in this video. It's saved me so many times. They are dirt cheap and worth every penny. Trust me.
I'm glad to see you back! Your channel is one of my favorite car channels on RU-vid. Here's my question: I have a 2003 Toyota Avalon with dual climate control. The drivers's side is stuck on cool and the passenger's side is stuck on heat. What do you think the problem could be? Do you think this is something I could fix on my own with limited tools and car repair experience? If not, do you have a ballpark for how much this would cost to fix at a shop?
Excellent tips. As a big guy I used to have trouble with over torque. The method that I came up with is limiting the number of fingers I put on the tool when I go for final torque. I lock my fingers, wrist and elbow and pull with body weight. Each finger can only hold so much force. Examples valve cover= 2 fingers brakes=3fingers.
Regarding your rubber hose to spark plug tip, you only need to use 3/8" gasoline hose to slide over the spark plug insulator. It grips it tightly enough to thread the plug into the hole and also helps to prevent cross threading of the plug. Your method is overkill and would not fit into a lot of recessed spark plug areas that I have encountered over the years. Keep up the good work. Nice seeing you here again. : )
The paper towel trick is so simple, but amazing. Thank you for the video. A man's home is his castle. Once you make your personal paradise, is will show in your videos. Also, maybe so what you are doing on the house, with little tips and tricks for each operation. I know one, where you can take an old shirt, rip it up, and unscrew some of the bigger pipe nuts, by wrapping the torn shirt. It adds more force, and I have personally done it, for some of the larger nuts
Regarding spark plugs, vacuum hose is much cheaper and more pliable than the heater hose used in the video, and the bore of most vacuum hoses fits nicely over the tip of the spark plug and holds it well as you turn the plug into the hole. I've tried both and the vacuum hose has consistently been superior for me.
I would like to know your process for drivability diagnostic , determining if a problem is electrical or mechanical and how you narrow it down. Thanks!
Get a Actron CP9690 code tester. It checks live, record, graphing, emissions readiness test, transmission codes, oxygen sensor test, ABS, SRS, and MORE! It has code-connect to diagnose codes. It retains the memory of test results. Get 4 aaa batteries, not included, for under the rear cover. It comes in a black pouch. The screen is well-lit. It works from 1983-2013 and is updatable using a USB cable from EBAY. It has cables for OBDI Ford, G.M., Chrysler, and Toyota. It has a OBDII cable.
So glad you're not dead guy. Yeah, you get busy with your "real" life & this doesn't seem so vital. Enjoy all your vids and once a week is fine with me.
I love this guy. When I first started driving as a broke college kid, I tried to watch the mechanic fix my exhaust manifold and he yelled at me to leave him alone!
Good point, and also any bolts going into an aluminum head, even if they are just bolts for a bracket, because if you over-torque them, the aluminum is so easy to strip compared to steel or cast iron.
Another way to loosen the bearing is to loosen the 3 bolts about 3 or 4 turns. If your doing the left front, like in the video, drive in a tight circle to the right. You might have to push it hard in a circle, but it should break it loose. I’ve did the same thing to loosen wheels that are frozen on. Here in Michigan...parts get fused together with rust ! Do what ya gotta do !
Another good thing to know is if the rim of your tire is rusted to the hub and you can't get the tire/rim off. Replace the nuts but leave them just a little loose at most a 1/4 turn. Lower the vehicle and drive VERY SLOWLY a foot or so. Jack it back up and try removing it. If it doesn't come off, repeat with the nuts a little looser, never loosen to where the angle edge of the nut is not holding the tire from contacting it. If you loosen it to much, the rim could damage the studs on the hub. I've had to do this a couple of times and it worked like a charm! If you have bad lugnuts on a wheel (stripped or rounded off), you can get away with one less on a tire and get to a parts store ASAP. If you need more than one, "borrow" more from another wheel, just don't drive with more than one lug nut missing from a wheel, drive slowly and straight to a parts store or a Walmart. Someone loosened all the lugnuts on my son's right front wheel and replaced the wheel cover, it's possible that some were removed completely. While driving it the tire came off and all the lug nuts were gone. We took one from each of the other tires leaving 3 nuts per tire and went to get new ones immediately, luckily the studs weren't damaged too bad. If you have 5 lug wheels, you can get by with 4 per front wheel and 3 on one rear wheel, drive extra slow and get to the parts store immediately! We never did find out who was trying to kill my son!
Dam I totally forgot about you. Glad to see your not dead, but not so glad you didn't do a house tour yet. Maybe when you get the house put together we can get one. Thanks! TU
9:30 For the past couple of months you should’ve done videos on how to do that kind of work. I wouldn’t mind learning and watching you put in plumbing and fixing up a home. Probably make more money repairing homes than repairing cars.. most people who have homes have cars so you can fix their homes and then ask if they ever need a mechanic and then double your income and maybe even record those home renovations so you can upload to RU-vid and make even more money on those videos 👌
Great quality quick tips and tricks that might help people from cussusing up a storm on the side of the road on an unexpected detour and even everyday diy tricks. No one likes looking for that one bolt that got away in the dark....
Welcome back! Was wondering just this week where you went, glad it wasn't anything serious. By the way, it's "easy peasy lemon squeezy"...you squeeze lemons to make lemonade :)
I feel smart. A couple of years ago I was replacing the front bearings on my 2000 Jeep Cherokee and I could not get the hub off, so I used the power steering to pop it off. I am not a mechanic and figured that out all by my lonesome!
Love the paper towel trick. As far and spark plugs autozone sells a magnetic socket that works awesome they have with swivels as well that makes it so much easier.
