 Hey, what's up everybody? I don't know who can see me on here because I'm still trying to get my kind of set up stuff here with stuff here at work, you know. I'll try something new, you know, something a little different here live on the YouTubes. So I was doing a little bit of video, some filmography for you guys, I know I've been kind of slacking off here lately. It's been a busy week, kind of getting ready for my son's eighth numero-ocho birthday tomorrow. So been busy with that one, trying to get this stuff. So Justin, how's it going man? Hey guys, how's it going? I don't know, we're doing this, this sweet live thing. So, what have you guys been up to lately? I know this is kind of not a planned thing, it's kind of an impromptu thing. Doing the giveaway next weekend. I'm doing fantastic, other than, you know, kind of wasting my brain away today. Did a little bit of work in, what's up Chris Sam, how's it going buddy? And I had to go furniture shopping today. Yeah, that was fun. I mean, it's okay. Yeah, I'm not working, but I had to come in. I had to pick you guys up and I was working on the Duramax again. Did a, right here, video on some new LED headlights, some new style ones. So some company sent me one. There are some fancy whatever brand. So we're going to be doing those. What's up Don? Hey, that's awesome. Going to tech school next year. That is actually one of the coolest things you can do. And I plan on doing a video about that sometime in the near future. Telling how awesome it is to go to a two-year tech school rather than waste your time with a four-year degree. I'm not going to bash the four-year degree programs and stuff like that. But at the same time, you got a, the two-year degree programs are freaking awesome. They are so much cheaper, so much better for you. What's up guys? Thanks for stopping in. And especially when you get into a program with a certain dealer or a certain manufacturer, they put on programs for you. Brandon, that guy is one of them. He is one of my little trainees, my little buddies here. He goes through the Chrysler Cat program and they actually put you through a lot of the courses. And it's a whole hell of a lot cheaper than any other education you guys can get. And it's a lot faster too. So if somebody normally just comes into the shop, signs up and starts working here as a new tech, it's going to take them like three or four years at least to become some, I don't know, some semblance of a decent level three mechanic, at least here in the Chrysler world. So it's a little bit more of a rough journey. So if you guys can do it at a younger age, go to school, go to do your technical school stuff and get into it that way. It's, it really pays off. It's what I did. It saves you a lot of time, a lot of money. So yeah, Ramlin's about that. Oh yeah. Oh, I remember that one. That was a really cool truck. It was a really awesome show too. Yes, it is any program. Actually, so truth be told, when I first started in the gig, I was going to be a GM tech. I signed up for the GM ASAP program. They were supposed to place me into a dealership locally here. And they kind of spit me out before I even started said, yeah, you're too green. We don't need you, whatever. And then they tried to place me in another GM program and then another dealership and literally two days before I started at that job, they said, we've kind of slowed down on ours. So I can't do much for you. So we're not going to hire you. So screwed again. And then lo and behold, my local Chrysler cat program said they, they put me on in a local dealership. So that was awesome. A lot of five, seven wiped cams, a horrendous amount. So I used to work at another dealership for like seven months. And all I did was heavy line work. And we had a couple of accounts with some local police departments. And that's where we see the largest amount is in vehicles that do a lot of idle time. The Hemi cams and those, they build up so much heat and the roller lifters on those will actually lock up and it wipes cams out. So it's not really the cams that fail. It's the heat in the center of the motor will lock up the lobe and it will wipe out the cam then causing a misfire. And then you need a cam, but it really was the lifter's fault. But yeah, we see a lot of those. And if the Chrysler techs know a lot of the three sixes are the same way, but instead of on the lifter, they're on the rocker, the roller rocker will actually lock up and wipe out one of the overhead cams. Oh, you did that. See, I give big props to you guys that, you know, don't go to tech school. You start off a little bit later in your life. And it's, it's a hard way up. You guys started at the bottom of the totem pole and you guys got to work hard to claw your way up and it's, it's something neat. It's hard to do. Oh, I see the gear wrench wrenches. I know you guys are jumping around subjects, but I like this live stuff. I like you guys interacting. I think it's something cool. The gear wrench wrenches are something really cool. And I actually have a set at home. The only reason that I have my set of blue point ratcheting wrenches here is because they are reversible and then the early ones. Thanks, man. I love my new toolbox too. But so they're reversible, swivel head and the earlier ones, before I swap these out, they actually had 12 point on one side machined into this face and they had six point on the other. So it was a really, really bad ass wrench. They changed them. So they're all only 12 point now, but they are, they are some really good wrenches too. What is the best tip for flat rate? Don't make mistakes. You guys can be the fastest tech in the world, but if you have comebacks, that means you're doing shit for free. I don't like doing shit for free. No, that's not what we're here for in this business. I know I don't do a whole lot of videos when it comes to the actual Chrysler tech side of the things that I do. And it's because I like to leave that side of my life just separate. I don't get in trouble for doing stuff that should work or shit here. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about, but year wrench, they're known for the ratcheting ones. But anyways, I don't like to mix stuff up in that aspect. I like to keep my work stuff here and my YouTube stuff a little bit separate. But I do a lot of, you know, my hard work during that and I like to carry over what I learn into the YouTube channel too. Just I need to find ways after work to get it in there also rambling. I'm going to go get a drink of water. I'll be right back. Yeah, yeah, it definitely is hard to make videos that work and make money. So yeah, going back onto the flat rate kind of thing, you can make as many hours as you want. But if you're doing it for free, you're wasting time, you're wasting money, keeping an organized toolbox is another big one. If you don't know where your shit is, you're always losing it. You got people borrowing it. That's absolutely horrendous. So here at the shop, I am the shop foreman here at the shop that I work at. So we keep a lot of attention on the hours that everybody works. The comebacks, we're starting to log everything that everyone does. And the comebacks are a big thing that we want to get away from. Break from our water sponsor. But we do a lot of work with that out in Cali, sweet. So I've been a tech since 2008 I started. So I've been eight years from RVs. I am at the Chrysler side of things in Pequah, Ohio. But working hard at a flat rate thing is something that takes a long time to get into. And you kind of know the niches of I need to work faster, but I need to work better. So we try to keep track of all the hours that all of our techs do. And then on top of that, keeping a track of any comebacks that happens. Because if all the techs have comebacks, then we are losing out on money. And it's no good for the shop. It's no good for morale. Everybody gets pissed because you're not making hours. You're not making time. That sucks. So we try to keep that down as much as possible. So maybe in the near future here we're talking about doing a little bit something on the pay scale when it comes to comebacks and such. But you guys in the Chrysler and the tech world and stuff, you guys all flat rate or do you guys enjoy it or not flat rate? What do you guys think on that one? Never been flat rate. There's here in Ohio at least in the Rust Belt, dude, it's all flat rate. And it gets harsh at times. Especially when you're in a bigger dealership. If you have the choice, a smaller like mom, not mom and pop, but smaller dealership works a lot. I tried working a GM Chevy dealership, but just didn't do it. I'm very close to the old door. I'm like 35, 40 minutes away. We go to the Kings Cup there. That is a badass race to see. Really awesome. My favorite ticket job. I am a big fan, just because I'm really good at it, electrical issues. I am a big guy on finding those little electrical issues. And on top of that, not a lot of other guys do a great job at finding electrical faults quickly. I'm really good at wiring diagrams. I love, you know, that's one of my early things that I caught on to in tech school. Tech school I was really good at got A's in that. So I enjoy that stuff. And also AC work, AC work pays out the wazoo. Just because nobody likes to do it, it sucks. Everybody has to have it. So it'll usually pays really well too. Like the new toolbox. So I love my new toolbox. This is like the grandest toolbox. I've been working for this toolbox for, you know, going on eight years now. So of course I love my toolbox. It's the best toolbox. So it's the first place you've worked for, I don't know, a flat rate kind of scale. That's, it's hard. I started in flat rate work right before my second or right before my second year ended of tech school. So right before I graduated, they flopped me onto flat rate. But that was also because I had a really good mentor. I had a really good mentor. And so I was able to learn and move ahead a lot sooner. So that was nice. AC work, yes, it is moving from 134 to 1234 YF. That is the new standard that everybody has to go to. I think it's after 2015 and newer were required to go over there. Unless they were heavy duty jobs, trucks, those kind of things they weren't required to yet. And actually our pro master line hasn't even gone out to that yet. The 1234 stuff, who has the freaking air compressor on here still? I can't believe that stuff doesn't time out. So I'm sorry you're going to have to deal with that. I'm not about ready to go over and find the switch. But anyways, we, I guess, journeys, yeah. Yeah, the 1234 YF and it's, it's good stuff. It's not as big of a jump from when manufacturers went from R12 to 134. When they went from that, it was a really big change. Like you had to put a whole huge different amount of the fittings, how much poundage of the refrigerant you put in the system is really different. So now that we're going from 134 to 1234, it's not a huge difference in that. It's just the fittings are a lot different and it's supposed to be a lot better for mother earth. So the rednecks when they blow off all their free on it doesn't hurt the ozone layer. So I guess that's cool. But other than that, it is super, super expensive because it is not in high as high of demand yet. Right now I'm getting 134. If I get in the off season, I usually get a 30 pound uh jug for like 68 bucks and then the 1234, they, the 1234, it's running like a thousand dollars for 10 pounds. Police officer and our Chrysler cars get a bad lifter tick out of a while after a while. So you need to get it to your dealership and the lifter tick is probably a roller locking up and it will cause a cam to wipe out real fast. Ozone holes, whatever. Yeah, we, everything here at the dealership is charged out free on wise by the ounce. It's just a, you know, another way to charge more for less. But our, I think our customer rate on 134 is like a buck 25 an ounce somewhere around there. And then the 1234 YF is like 10 dollars an ounce. It's something ridiculous, especially when a car is using, you know, 1.2, 1.3 pounds. You're looking at a, you know, two, three, four hundred dollar AC issue. No, the flammable nature is it to it. It says that it's more flammable, but that's like saying this airbud case is a little bit more, or this piece of paper is more flammable than the air buds case. They're not really that flammable, but you know, that is something that they do have to put on there. I'm going to have to hook this up to my computer next time. I've got my computer in my hutch drop you guys. And I've got everything hooked up in there, but I do not have a webcam turned on there yet. I'm going to have to do that for some, you know, streams like this with you guys. But this is kind of an impromptu thing. Like I said earlier, I was doing a video on the old Duramax there in the background from doing some LED lights, some new outfits from the UK. So over in the UK, are you guys watching for, I know my channel is a little bit different. I do, you know, like three different things. I do stuff at the dealership, lift kits and stuff here on the trucks and jeeps. I do my work on the Duramax and do some diesel truck stuff. And then I also do a lot of snap on and tool reviews. So it's like three spider web things. So what have you guys tuned in for? That's what the question I have for you guys. You know, just trying to see, you know, it's hard to tell where my viewers are coming from. And it's hard to tell what you guys all want and would like to see more than the other things. I try to even it out as much as I can. It's hard to in some circumstances, but yeah, yes, it is cold here. It's getting cold. It went from 80 degrees to 50 degrees. It's Ohio. You don't like the weather though, just wait, like 10 minutes. But I want to know what you guys tuned into my channel for. Did you guys tune in from like my diesel truck stuff? I started doing stuff with truck master early on. So I picked up a lot of viewers there. My tool stuff, you know, early on, I actually didn't put a whole lot of effort into it, but it just blows up. People love the tool stuff. I enjoy doing the Duramax stuff just because it's something totally different. I ended up getting that truck because it was a hell of a deal and it was something that wasn't different, you know, wasn't the regular dodge that I work on over and over again. Mods on the Duramax. Also, you like both. Sweet. So my Duramax so far, I started off when I got it. I haven't done anything to the engine yet, but that's coming. That's definitely coming. I did the Raptor bedliner paint job. I did two different sets of headlights. I did LEDs and I did some new set of smoked lights. I did new tail lights. I did new third brake light. I got the tint done. I did a seven inch lift. Moral support for you, Justin. Oh, don't forget, he's here for for giving away cool things to guys named Rust Belt Mechanic. Thanks, Justin. But I did a seven inch lift. It's BDS suspension. I did upper control arms as well. That didn't come with the kit. I did what else? I'm doing tie rod ends. We tried to do that during the lift kit, but found out they didn't really work. I'll come back to that, Nathan, just a minute. But did the seven inch lift and then my wheels and tires. When it came to that, they are the new fuel rampage 22 by 14 22 by 12. So the negative 44 offset 37 inch Nitto Ridge Rappler tires. As far as my torque wrench preference, it depends on which one you're going for. So good thing I am sitting here at my toolbox. So for my three eights preference, I have the three eights tech wrench. Love this thing. The only reason I've not got this in half inches due to cost and I I like putting my money into things that I use more often. So that's kind of how I prioritize the tools that I buy. My tool list one is like astronomical. My two tool budget is not as high. So I have to prioritize in such. So I love the tech wrench for the three eights. It does turning angle, torque the yield. That's a really great one. So I use that one for a lot of the smaller things. Plus it does inch pounds as well. But then for my half inch, I have the good old snap on manual torque wrench. Use that for heads. Just like using the good old click style torque wrench for that one. I use that one all the time when it comes to heads and everything I do on the three sixes and five sevens. So yeah, that for a torque wrench. Oh, I do have another one. My little old school snap on torqueometer. I use that one for doing turning torque on rear ends. Once you set up a rear end, you have to do it to a certain torque to crush the clear rush sleeve, but then you have to do it for a certain turning torque for new bearings. So that one works best with a manual inch pounds gauge on it. So a little bit of new school, little bit of old school. You like that torqueometer? Yeah, it is a cool torqueometer. I've been a mechanic since 2008 is when I actually started. So for you guys that don't know me, I wasn't always a mechanic. I actually went to school for quite a few other things. I started out for photography of all things. So now I'm actually getting into using cameras and stuff on videos. Started out photography and that wasn't my thing. I started then doing computer programming. That was boring as shit. I couldn't sit at a desk all day that that sucked. It wasn't fun. And then I wanted to do something a little bit more with myself. So I started in on criminal justice. I went to school for just under two years. I was literally one quarter away from graduating with a criminal justice degree. And I kind of had an epiphany. I started in on the criminal justice kind of like the finals right before you go into the police academy. And everybody was assholes. Just that predetermined you're going to be an asshole. Everybody wants to be an asshole who has the bigger one in the room. So that sucked. I didn't like the people that I was around. I didn't like the instructors. I didn't like the other people. So I actually then dropped out of that portion of school told my wife I am going to be being a mechanic. That's what I like doing. So that's what I'm going to do. No, they aren't an open rear end. Yes, they're not full posse. Yeah, arsehole alert. So yeah, I dropped out from being a police officer to become a mechanic. So then actually three, three and a half years into going to school, I just started decided to start school all over again as a mechanic went and tried to start off GMA set program. They said, sure, we'll get you in. Never could never could. And then finally when came time to starting school, I ended up signing up with the Chrysler cat program and a local dealership here. As I was saying earlier, I started with a cat program. I don't work at a large dealership. The dealership that I work at, we have four like mainline technicians or sorry, three mainline technicians and two cap students hourly techs, Ron and Brandon, if you've seen them on the channel, they are cap students as well kind of working underneath me and learning at the same time they go to school for eight weeks. And then they come back and work at the dealership for eight weeks. Thanks for tuning in and Terry, thanks for stopping in. But they come in and go to school for their technical portion of things. And then they will come back for the hands on portion here at the shop as long as they have a good mentor, which is this awesome bearded face. So they learn a lot. They get their trade skills and their technical abilities from there. But then here, they get a lot of the hands on actually seeing the problems in person. So they get to see that one. What was your first mess up as a tech? That is a really good question. I like that one. So my first mess up as a tech, I think a week into working here. And I will I was working on a a PT cruiser. And I got to change out a starter. So did that one and went into change that out, changed it out just fine. My mentor says, yeah, it's easy enough, you can do that one. So I did that. They also want a new battery. So when I did that, I hooked everything back up, hooked the battery up. And when started making funny noises, so then I get back out under the hood. And I see smoke starting to roll out like, oh, gee, what happened? And he flung the hood open, grabbed the cable, ripped it off as fast as they could because I hooked up the battery backwards. I don't know who else have done that. But I did it. That was like my first big mess up. Thankfully, I didn't mess up any like big computers, PCM or anything like that. It ended up frying a fusible link to the battery and ground cables. So three and a half dollars into it, I was able to fix my first fuck up. So that was my first mess up. No, I do not dip. I do not do tobacco products. Not anymore at least I used to smoke. So that's why now I do vape. Not like the crazy smoke ring vape, but I do vape so I don't have to smoke. Well, Chris, I'd have to say that it's up working to relax. So yeah, I used to smoke a bunch. So now I vape so I don't have to smoke. Sorry, it's weird seeing all you guys's comments and stuff rolling, rolling up to everything I like to kind of try to get to everybody's comments. So you feel a little bit involved with the channel and such. 64 people on here. You guys are awesome. I didn't think you guys were going to tune in late on a Saturday here. Have you ever made over 100k in a year? No, I have not yet made over 100k in a year. Hope to. That'd be pretty sweet, but I have not. No, not here in the Ohio. I am from Ohio. I live about a half an hour north of Dayton. So it's kind of a BFE kind of place. I am out in the shop doing videos. The more you vape, the more you smoke. It helped me quit. Yeah, we do not work on, yes, I am in Piqua. We do not work on Saturdays technically. We are a very old school dealership, so we don't have Saturday hours. So this morning, since I'm the shop foreman, me and another guy, we came in to finish up a little bit of extra work here in the shop just because we have a whole lot of big accounts and everything. So we did a little bit of work today, but I'm technically not here to work on a Saturday. I came in because all my tools are in here and I just got done shooting another video on the Duramax. I will probably do some editing on that tomorrow. Maybe my son's eighth birthday is tomorrow, so I don't know how fast I'll get to editing that video because I've been so lax on the videos this week. That's why I wanted to tune you guys all into a livestream as well. I actually, Alex, have done a couple of things with a couple other YouTubers. Truck Master with some of my diesel stuff. I've done two things with him so far. I've done a couple of videos. We like to shout out everything. He's one of the first reasons I tuned into actually doing YouTube things. When I first bought my Duramax, I am a Cummins guy. I've worked on those all day. Every day I know those inside and out. So when it came to the Silverados and the Duramax, I know Jack Squat. So what do I do? I want to learn about everything I can. Tune on to YouTube. Yep, turn on to YouTube and who do I find but Truck Master. He's got the most videos out there. When it came to that, it showed me, he's not a mechanic or anything like that. Not real technical, but he dives in and he doesn't give a shit what he does. He gets in and he tries to show you as he's learning as well, which is a really cool aspect to what he does. Jerry, I went to Chrysler Cat program, two-year program. So yeah, show more Chrysler problems. I'm sorry, I've never dipped anywhere, so I couldn't tell you what to do to quit that one. But as far as the Chrysler tips, I'd like to show more, but I do so many other things here on my channel. It's hard to fill in a lot of the Chrysler things because that's my daily job. I like to keep that kind of separate YouTube stuff, work stuff. I don't like the things that intertwine a whole lot just because, you know, conflict of interest and such. Buy a new Epic or a cheaper box. It's all about your price range. It really is, but the biggest thing that I think I made a mistake on when I did my toolbox was I knew I wanted an Epic series early on, but at the same time, I didn't have the money for it, but I was really picky and really antsy. I just, you know, I wanted more. I wanted a better toolbox, a little bigger one. So I had two smaller classic series, and then I upgraded to the master and then a larger master. So I had four trade-ins and stuff over that time. And so that was kind of a mistake. Yes, truck master is awesome. If you guys have not turned tuned into truck master for especially Duramax and diesel stuff, you need to do that. So I got in on the master series boxes and I started adding on to that one, the master series. And if I would have a recommendation for anybody for toolboxes, for future reference, buy what you can in the series that you want in the end and then add on to that over time. So if you really like the Epic over the master series, the styling and everything, then buy your Epic series base first, build off of that one over time, rather than doing the cheaper stuff that you can, you know, just, I want to hurry up and build a big master series, rather have the main one being my Epic series. That's what I would have done different, I would say. I work on Cummins all day long, but I'd have to say because of the last six months of working on this Duramax, it's a lot of fun. It's a learning experience and I'm a big picky person on learning and doing new, fresh things. I don't like doing the same things over and over and over again. That's why I got into the mechanics gig because you don't do the same job over and over and over again every day. If you do, yeah, you make a lot of money, you know, repetitive nature, but it gets boring. Sucks. It's not really fun. So it's something new to Duramax, something very cool. So I really enjoyed doing that. Exactly. And I didn't, it wasn't even planning on getting this here. This thing fell into my lap. Some guy from California comes strolling in one day and he says, hey, I changed my job. I got transferred here from California. I don't mean to do my truck anymore. I used to have a boat. I used to haul kinds of stuff with and I don't need it anymore. So here it is. I'm buying a new Wrangler. So we traded that thing in on a new Wrangler. And I had at the time an O4 Dodge 2500 gas engine. That thing was a hog, gas hog. Yeah. It sucked. And it was, it was a fun little truck. It was a white truck, but starting to get the Ohio Cancer to it. And when I saw this one, I never seen a truck prior to, you know, like 2008 around here. Everything rusts. You get holes in the cab corners, the fenders and all that kind of stuff all the time. So seeing this thing in immaculate, perfect condition for an O6 and it's diesel and it's low mileage under 100,000 miles. I had to. Yeah. It was a deal that I could not pass up. So I got it at a pretty good price. So that's why I ended up jumping in on that one. Do you have any tools that you regret buying? There are tools that are stupid tools. And I'll be the first one to point them out. I know I could probably open each one of my drawers here and I could pick out a stupid tool in each one of the boxes. So that's my socket door. Every socket is a good socket. So in the first one I come to would be this little tool right here for taking off windshield wipers. Got it at AutoZone. Thought it'd be a cool nifty little thing for getting wiper arms off. It doesn't work. It sucks. It works maybe one out of 10 times. So I keep it for that one out of 10 time. So stupid tool. I don't know if I have, you know, spent, you see useless stupid tool. Maybe I should start doing a stupid tool, you know, kind of a little skit thing here and there. This is a stupid tool today. We have harbor freaks and sears around here. Sears is dying. So I had craftsmen. I still have craftsmen at home. I don't have a whole lot here. But yeah, how do I get them off? I use a two-jaw puller for like pitman arms and stuff. It's got jaws that come in farther. Two-jaw puller. Hey, look, there's JRC. What's up, man? So if everyone hasn't tuned into JRC's channel, JRC 54, he is the reason that I ended up getting this box in the first place. I knew I wanted an epic. So I scoured the land looking for, you know, examples of epic toolboxes and I rolled into his on YouTube. And his was the first one that I saw and probably one of the only ones that I saw that had the flat black paint and hook line and sinker. I said, yep, that's what I want. That's what I'm doing. So I tuned into him and that's what got me hooked on this thing. So you guys need to check his channel out if you haven't already. His box makes mine look like the puny little dwarf. A little hobbit box. His is like a giant wall of awesomeness. I know you guys say my box is awesome, but his is the beast. And he does some really cool giveaways. One of the biggest things that he involves himself in is helping out the little guy, the guys who are getting in on tech stuff. He owns his own shop, so he has a shitload of tools and he cycles in new ones to his old ones all the time. So when he takes his older tools, he gives them away to guys who need them. So for the new techs coming in on the business, so hats off to him. He does an awesome job on his channel. If you haven't tuned in, make sure you tune in to him for those awesome giveaways. Myle Pergallan and what's next on the Duramax. Myle Pergallan sucks. Since I did the lift kit before the lift kit, I was probably getting 17-ish after the lift kit. 14. But I also only drive like four to five miles a day. I literally live two and a half miles from work, so I guess it would be five miles a day for that. If I go out to lunch, that's another mile and a half. That's all I drive a day. It's like little, not city, but stop and go and then a little bit out in the country. So shitty gas mileage, but I also have lifted seven inches on 37s with a stock motor just a four inch exhaust. That's the only thing I've done. What's up, Roadrunner? So that's all I've done on the Duramax, but I've got a lot of cool stuff planned for that one. Next week, I've got something super planned. I'll let you guys in because you are the cool ones who are tuning into the livestream. I had a guy custom make me an exhaust tip. He reached out and he said, hey, I think I can do something awesome for you. And he knocked it out of the park. So I'm getting that in next week. Cool little exhaust tip, something else, you know, fun for it. But as far as motor work, I plan on doing that kind of stuff this winter as kind of a little extra project with it. So I'll be doing some charge pipes, up pipes, manifolds, some cool stuff like that. Get a little HP going in it, get a little bit more torque, maybe do some tuning. I really want to do a video on differences in tuning and tuners. You're gasser. I'm gonna say you're probably gonna get your ES mileage in a gasser. But yeah, I really want to do another video on the the tuning aspect, a couple of local guys. I know everybody likes to go with the big ones, the PP eyes and the Duramax, the D max tuners, that kind of stuff. But I really want to see what the little guys can do and why they do what they do with their EFI live stuff. So yes, I am going to go to EFI live. However, I am going to do a whole lot of production and, you know, looking into the actual ins and out aspect of doing the Duramax tuning. Thanks, I like my Duramax too. Beginner text. Do I have an advice for them? Get a good mentor. I've, you started out in a kind of two year program, then get a good mentor. Make sure that you attach to one of the guys in the shop that has been doing it for the longest and be his friend. Have him teach you the ways, the old ways, the new ways. Make sure you learn every single day because literally when I'm like eight, nine years into the business, I go through at least 50 hours of training per year just for Chrysler material. That's not including any of the off-brand stuff that you can go and learn about, which I do because I do keep up on my ASC certifications as well. I'm one of the only guys here in the tech here in this dealership who does keep up on their ASC certifications. I know you guys and a whole lot of other techs say bad things about ASCs, but it's something to keep us at least dealership techs on our toes when it comes to a broad spectrum of realization in the car world. Yeah, you can specialize in something or better yet specialize in everything. The more training you can do, the more you specialize yourself in everything, the more, you know, you can go anywhere and do anything you want. My new Jeep Wrangler. New Jeep Wrangler, are you talking about the JL body? The JL bodies are badass and I really, as much as the technical side of me, hates to look at new technology and how much they always mess up, that new four cylinder direct injected turbocharged with e-torque is a badass little Jeep. So look at those if you haven't yet. They're awesome. They have a lot of ass to them. How long does it take to be an ASC tech? An ASC certification is, an ASC is just a certification that you can add on to being a tech here in the US at least. I know it's different in some states and it's different in other countries. Here in the US, at least in Ohio, you do not have to have a license to be a technician. You just, you're kind of selling yourself off of how much certification and how much training you have. If you have more training and more certification, people are going to pay more for you. You need to learn to sell yourself. If you have more training, more certification, more years of experience in, it's going to be equaling more money. And when I first started in the gig, a lot of the older guys in the shop, it was big on how long you've been doing this kind of thing, kid. And I hated it. I hated, hated the fact that there was seniority based off of how long you were here, not based off of how much training you had, not based out of how much certification that you put yourself and how much you put yourself into learning each year. It was based off of how long you've been here. You're just a freaking greenie. No, that's, that's not the way I roll. So I went and I got certified in everything I possibly could. Trans, auto trans, diffs, four wheel drive transfer cases, fuel injection, electrical, out the wazoo. I got my L one certification within two and a half years of going to school. So yeah, I did that and I made myself indispensable very early on. That's what I would recommend. Colton, I'm not sure what world class certified is. It's not a big thing around here, I guess, and it's not something I would really need. So I don't really know what that is. But I am ASC certified across all all the areas, including diesel, and I have my L one master certification as well. I am level three certified through everything in Chrysler also. And I've been in the business for going on almost 10 years now, nine years, almost 10, and I am 30, 32. Yeah, getting up there. Not a young greenie anymore. Coming back to that one, you know, when I got started in the business, the guys, they were big on seniority. So you were the the shit stick when you came in. You had to do your two years of trash detail, two years of scrubbing and polishing them floors and, you know, cleaning the freaking floor cleaner out, you know, doing all that kind of junk. And that sucked. It did. But you know what, I bided my time and I got back in and I did as much as I possibly could as early as I could. Master tech in Illinois. So in Illinois, do you have just the certifications or do you have or do you have to become, I guess, licensed to be able to have your own shop? I know in Michigan or some other places or Canada or something along those lines up north, you have to have a license to become a mechanic. And I get the point of that one. I really do. We don't require it here. You know, some guys are some dumb techs. I've seen a whole bunch of them. Those guys that shortcut their way through being flat rate, and that's the worst thing. I should know about big Cummins. I do not know anything about diesel pusher Cummins or anything along those lines. I know up as far as 6.7 liter Cummins inside and out on up through the, you know, 45s, 5500s. That's as much as I know. I don't know anything about anything bigger than that. Damn 937 here on the Eastern Standard Time. And I still got 60 people tuned in. You guys are awesome. You guys are killing it. I love you guys. You guys are way cool. I really like this interaction thing too. Seeing you guys and telling me, you know, some of your stories and your certification stuff, your tools that you have. I think it's really cool. All techs must be certified in Michigan. That is something that I wish we did here. So here in the, the tiny town. Yes, I am flat rate here in the tiny town that I work in there. I'll have to look up and see what the, what the, how many people here in this town, but we have, I would estimate 20 to 30,000 people here in this town. And in this town, it's not very big at all. It's, you know, like four miles in diameter right around there, three to four miles in diameter. And there are 37 actual auto mechanic places that have an account with the parts people. So they actually have a tax ID for getting parts and stuff at a parts store. So there are 37 different auto mechanic shops within a five mile radius here. That is a lot. And 80% of them are shit sandwiches. Well, that's cool. You have to have your associates. That's, that's something very cool. I wish they had more along the lines of requirements and certifications to be a master tech through here. DEF. DEF is junk. I hate it. I hate dealing with it. The newer diesel engines in not just dodge the Cummins, but in the Duramax world and the Ford power stroke world as well. They're badass motors. They are amazing when it comes to horsepower torque, but the regulations when it comes to DEF chokes them off so much. And on top of that, the regulations for fuel is not there with DEF. That's the biggest issue I have with DEF. The regulations are not there to keep them up to par and up to standard across the board. So you might get some shit DEF in one place and it'd be awesome in the next. It's really bad on the regulations and that's why DEF systems go bad is because of bad DEF. It goes bad. It does not have a real great shelf life, especially down south in the warmer states. DEF does not stay good for more than five, six months at most. Max. So that's bad news for DEF guys. If you guys are using it how you are supposed to and going on long trips up the interstate, then that's what they're made for. They work. They work great. They work better. But for the guys who buy your big new fancy diesel trucks to go big time pushing up through the middle of town showing off, yeah, you're going to have a whole lot of DEF and engine issues. I do a whole lot of manual regens lately on guys who don't drive their diesels up the interstate and do regens. It sucks. It will actually won't kill the engine, but the engine management software will cause the engine to shut off because of the bad DEF, because you are not meeting the EPA regulated standards of having the DEF run through your system. So they have to keep your motor from running. That's how that's working. Yes, the hygroscopic form of it, like brake fluid, it sucks and it coagulates horribly also. Thanks, Chris. I'm glad you liked the channel and love tuning in. But yeah, you take off a DEF injector, especially one that has run a lot around here at least on just in town driving. You'll take the DEF injector and often that thing will be plugged solid. It's horrible. Yeah, DEF on tractors, that's stupid too. It really is. They have to run through so many regions and you imagine how hot the exhaust has to get on a diesel truck, let alone on a combine to do a full regen on an exhaust system. Dude, that has to be like some crazy amount of crap to go through, especially when you're out in the field with all this dry everything and you're running your exhaust regen up to 1600 to 1800 degrees to do a full regen. That's ridiculous. Purposefully ramping up my EGTs to burn off so it's asinine. But in the big sense of things, it's supposed to be better for the environment. It changes the nitrides of oxide down to oxygen particles and that's how all that's supposed to work with a catalytic converter anyways. But diesels are bad on the NOx portion of things. So it has to ramp everything up, run urea in it to help keep that O2 going. Yeah, DEF is horrible. So if you guys want to have your diesels last a long time as soon as they get out of warranty, screw the warranty, whatever you want to do, get rid of the DEF stuff. Tune it, get rid of it. That's the weakest portion I see about that. Regions. See we can do, with scandals, you can do a manual regen. All you have to do is, well, we have to put them into a park mode manual regen, turn it on. You have to drop the spare tire down because like I said, the exhaust gas temperatures do reach like 1800 degrees. So if you even look all the way back to the tailpipe, that freaking exhaust system is going to be glowing hot. So you got to drop the spare tire down otherwise it's going to melt. You need to make sure you don't park it someplace that's tar filled or anything because it'll melt the freaking asphalt underneath. And so you can do a manual regen. It's just sitting there with a scan tool. What tools are you videos are going to do next? So because you asked, I will fill you in on a couple of cool new tool things that I'm going to be doing. I'm working with a couple of other companies who have been sending me some really neat stuff or going to be sending me some really neat stuff over the next week in the way of scan tools and code readers. That is going to be a really good video. I'm kind of putting all of my eggs in a basket and getting all the information good and correct over for you. So I can do a really awesome video when it comes to this one. It's not going to be like the pricey scan tools, you know, the big ones. I mean, here in the shop, we have a freaking snap on Zeus. That thing is like 13 grand. It was badass. And it does everything under the sun. But that's not what you guys are going to be using. You guys are going to be using the smaller tools that you can get on Amazon or smaller for the dealers and such. So I'm going to be doing a retrospective video comparing a lot of smaller scan tools. Yes, I still do have the Mopar fridge. It's sitting on a bench over there off to the side because it doesn't match this whole amount of glory. I'm still in the shop because I was shooting YouTube videos and I hadn't done a live or I hadn't done a video for you guys this week. And I don't know that I'm going to be able to edit the one that I did tonight on the Duramax tomorrow because it's my son's birthday and family comes first. So I needed to give you guys something tonight, you know? You bought one of the 7-2 drills? I have one of the old 7-2 drills and it's doesn't have the balls. Yeah, I have one of the 7-2 ones, the 14-4. As long as it's not the early 7.2, a battery that has like the triangle style battery, those are way junk. But I have the later 7-2 which you can adapt to having the 14-4 batteries on it. So you can see it doesn't have the two-speed drill but it works just as good. Thanks! He is turning eight years old and he is thrilled about dinosaurs. So we've got, my wife is working tonight with a couple of our friends on dinosauring up our house for all of his cool little guests and family that's going to be coming over tomorrow. He's an awesome little buddy. Yeah, you can use the 14-4 and the 7-2 as long as it's not the early 7-2s that have the triangle batteries, yes. As far as new techs, check out my video about the new toolbox or the toolbox that I did for Ron's toolbox, his snap-on toolbox for the beginner mechanic. He was a first-year tech when he came into that toolbox. I know people say like, dude you don't need snap-on tools your first year out. I said yeah you don't need them but if you have them and they are a quality tool and you're building things off right off the bat that way then go ahead and go for it. If you can afford it then do it. If you can't afford it then don't freaking don't. Don't put yourself in massive massive debt just to be able to you know get the the cool tools in the in the gang. But a lot of these guys like Ron and Brandon they're going to cap school and when you go to these two-year colleges and schools the tool programs through snap-on mat and matco they throw you huge discounts when it comes to tools and what I mean huge like as a student you can buy tools cheaper than the standard route guys can buy them for. So the toolboxes and everything that they purchase are cheaper than what your tool truck guy can buy those boxes for and then resell them. So the tool truck guys hate hate having to deal with the guys who are in cat programs, GM ASEP, Honda Pact whatever you're in because they get such good deals on tools yeah see 65% off tools you can't pass that up when it comes to badass snap-on tools that are you know most of the time I'm not going to say every time the best in the business then why pass on that one that's exactly what I said when I graduated I took all of the tools that they would let me buy and I made one giant freaking tool order and bought everything that I thought I would need that I tried to use within my two years first initial two years of training and everything so I bought like I want to say it was like seven or eight grand worth of tools at that time and it filled out my toolbox and I probably got 16 grand or more worth of tools in that buy good first ratchet from snap-on I will show you my very first ratchet that I bought from snap-on was this one right here a FLF80 was my very first snap-on ratchet is a flex head 82 so it's very fine and doesn't have the padded handle it is I think it's the 12 or 13 inch and I have ragged on this thing hard as you can see the head not exactly the straightest thing in the world still I I torque on this thing pretty hard but I haven't even had to rebuild this once yet nine and a half years in using this I do have a comfort grip one I I'm not going to say that it's not better or best I have a good comfort grip one as well the FLHF80A it's just a hair longer the 82th as well but I have that one as well it's pretty awesome the cap you guys at eight grand well you shouldn't do that because it's all through snap-on credit and if you have good enough credit then you should be able to get whatever you want our snap-on guy in school was pretty awesome he even let us get some of the stuff that probably they weren't allowed to through the student program but it was pretty awesome so that is another good ratchet you can get or or or or or you guys can watch one of my early videos and do one of these put one of these grips on an FHX80A this is the flex head with the locking how much are the ratchets again depends on where you get them if you're able to get to use one of those you probably get them for about 50 bucks ish online you buy on brand new 100 120 right in that range you get them on sale maybe 90 bucks 80 bucks it's it's hard to tell people how much these cost how much these cost depends on who you know how you know them where you get the stuff how new you like your tools you know did I make that ratchet or build it like that I built the well me and my snap-on guy we made this one the handle is a comfort or the off the screwdrivers grip it's the tri grip off of those it was off an SGD155B little handle there so we took that reamed it out in my video on this one there go grip yes I had to ream it out I had to drill it out maybe I forget watch my video on this one go look that one up and I show exactly how we did this one it looks hard you know because you're sitting there drilling out a fancy fresh handle and beating on this thing but it turned out awesome especially if you guys have you know bigger hands and you like to have like to have a bigger grip for your ratchet I wish I did this on a non-locking flex head because I thought I'd like it not as much this locking mechanism it's it takes very little effort to unlock or relock itself and I like having the flex head just all the time it's just what I'm used to one of those kind of things yeah that's true I have a flex head half inch ratchet it is not a locking flex head half inch ratchet but I really love my half inch one and it is right down here yeah big breaker that one is the slf-80a flex head 82th half inch ratchet that's what I used for turning all my head bolts you know they tell you 90 degrees over I use that big boy to do that stuff yep yep yep I like my toolbox I tell you how much I really love this thing I do doing a shop tour I have thought about doing a big shop tour but again that's one of those things like I said earlier trying to keep shop stuff here youtube stuff here and not air mangling it so much just so I don't have conflict of interest and so my bosses here don't get angry about me doing a whole lot here in the shop and I did do most of a full shop tour when I did my video on shop charges so if you want to see 90% of the shop that I work on then go check out my video on shop charges what they are why we charge them and those things so that does most of a shop tour estimate on how much I have in everything box and tools so that is another one of the videos that I'm going to be doing probably here within the next couple of weeks is based off of what you need to do to keep track of your tools cataloging them getting insurance on them realize that when you work in a dealership they have insurance and they actually had to use them here we had fire here a couple of years ago and then we had to use that insurance some of our tools were damaged not everybody's were we lost them pneumatic tools electronic tools so it does horrendous things the tools I can't say that enough so it sucks so shops they have insurance but they only have so much insurance they have insurance for the shop portion back here so if we were to have a 90 hundred thousand dollar conversion van that might eat up a third of the shop's insurance value so when there's four or five six texts back here all with you know I'm going to say just throwing out a number 80 grand in tools and toolbox here I'm I'm not a hundred percent sure I cataloged everything that I did but I can go back through and look at up-to-date values and everything on all my tools but you need to keep track of exactly what tools you have because in the case that tools disappear somebody breaks in and steals all your tools something like that you have to have a cataloged you know a catalog showing exactly what tools you have so you can have for insurance purposes what you know their their value is on replacement because other than that they're just going to be like yeah he's guessing we're and if there's not an exact set value insurance companies will not give you full value on what you ask for they will give you a depreciated value it's something like 60 or 70% based on your full value of tools because you don't have exact receipts or a cataloged you know book of exactly what tools you have and when you purchase them so big thing if you guys have a lot of tools big toolboxes keep track of what you have cataloged them for insurance purposes definitely and cue the air compressor again I wish my boss would get us a a scroll or a screwdriver compressor that was quieter or put that thing out in a shed or something like that truck master man what are you doing here you're supposed to be you know gallivant with all your little munchkins and stuff this late at night or do you get them all to bed hey it's good to see you in here buddy what about your tool truck line look up there yes if if i ever if i bought everything on the tool truck i don't i'd have you know 80 90 percent of snap-on tools but i don't buy everything on the snap-on truck so i would say just estimating i probably have a couple of grand at least in tools that i didn't buy on the snap-on truck i know there's a couple of specialty things and electric tools that i didn't buy on the truck so it's hard to to see that exactly yeah brandon knows that air compressor sucks so all the people who are tuned into truck masters channel what you think about his uh tool review i know he told me ahead of time hey i'm going to be doing some tool reviews you know i'm going to be trying to dip my toe in the tool world it's awesome dude i love my tools especially when you get you know not bored but you know some stuff gets stagnant in the truck world you got the tool stuff to fall back on i love it and for for people who are working on these trucks all day every day they like to see what you guys use and even if it's not you know the big badass snap-on stuff they like to see what you use how you use it and how you organize it is another one of the big things that i think a lot of you tool guys tune into this stuff for i at first i never really got the the whole spiel on why everybody likes toolbox tours so much like that once i talked to a couple of tool guys in the youtube community first off they said dude everybody loves toolbox tours everybody's all about toolbox tours i'm like man why i said it's literally me standing here with a camera for like 45 50 minutes just going here's this drawer put it back here's this drawer put it back and then i started watching some of them finding the different ways that people organize their tools organize their toolboxes is actually really cool to see so i've actually organized quite a few of my drawers based off of other youtube people personalities whatever and how they did their organization in their toolboxes i know i did at least one or two drawers based off of you jrc one or two drawers um from uh the snap-on tool review his youtube channel and justin i'm probably going to be doing a couple of things based off of how you did your screwdriver stuff might try that one like the toolbox the toolbox widget is really cool so i got to talk to the owner of toolbox widget uh this last week they did really good stuff on uh seema this last week too what do i think about harbour freight so toss up very big toss up when it comes to tools that i use at home i actually own quite a few thing from things from harbour freight some chicago pneumatic some pittsburgh other things that you can buy at harbour freight things that i don't use all the time now here in the shop the things that i buy at harbour freight they do not last yes they might have some kind of good warranty with them yes they might have a lifetime warranty but they don't last i i can't the closest harbour freight to me is like 25 minutes away right around there and it they're not the nicest people to work with but you know if you're working at the walmart of the tool stores how nice are you really gonna be half the time so it kind of sucks it sucks in that game but also it depends on what kind of tool you buy so if you buy a set of pliers at harbour freight okay when are you gonna break a set of pliers you're not if you do then you're a freaking ape and you know you're probably using them wrong in the first place whatever but as far as like air tools pneumatics electric tools i'm just they don't do that great and i started off early on in my career using quite a few air tools and stuff from from harbour freight the chicago pneumatic and stuff like that and i i swear a 3 eighths impact that i bought i used it for 32 minutes worth of being at work and the thing literally blew up in my hand i have a scar on the inside of my hand see if you can see it right there where my chicago pneumatic 3 eighths impact blew the head off scarred up my hand it sucks so kind of put off that brand yes my my light that i have up here in the hutch it has a magnetic connection so when i pull the hutch down it loses contact and the light shuts off i really really wished that i would have had that for my cabinets too if kevin my snap on guy watches this video know that i'm still waiting on those they they have magnetic pickups that are normally open or normally closed ones and the normally closed version for the cabinets are on backwater so i have the lights for my for my cabinets but i have no pickups that were for the normally open or normally closed switches so i'm still waiting on that for that wish i would have had that for my toolbox were to show you guys because i plan on right routing that lighting really really well the wiring for it and then i've got another cool thing planned with my i don't know where i put it but my echo locks i've got i've got some cool little things planned for echo remote so they have some extra little buttons at the bottom i've got one of the extra little modules to run off that so i'm gonna i'm gonna do some videos maybe do some extra cool lighting and stuff you know how my old toolbox had led lights underneath of it we're gonna do that again and i'm gonna hook it up really cool i think it's gonna be awesome so that'll be here soon ish maybe in the next couple weeks i have been a mechanic since 2008 and i got started because i didn't want to be a police officer jrc i would actually you know he asked about programming and doing scan tool videos i would like to see some of the pcm and flashing videos when it comes to other makes and models how and the amount of those that you are doing because i know you can get a whole lot of these programming software and hardware for programming multiple makes and models across but i would like to see the cost effective nature of the the tools and the software that you have to see if that's going to be something that would work in my day-to-day aspect tool i think that would be a really cool video to see so give jrc the thumbs up say let's see some programming videos that'd be cool i'm not going to do any programming videos because we use chrysler specific software i'm pretty sure they probably would frown upon showing those yes working to realize you can ask chrysler question how much did i buy my truck for i bought my truck for 20 000 dollars favorite thing about being a mechanic the fact that i do something different literally every single day and the fact that i don't have to deal with customers cars don't complain back to me i don't do customer service because i'm brutally honest i tell people that they're dumb quite often because they don't take care of their cars they don't do what they're supposed to do people don't do uh owner's manuals they don't read them anymore they don't know how their ship functions and if you purchase something for tens of thousands of dollars why would you not learn and get yourself up to date as as much as you can on whatever you own that is worth that amount of money same thing with your house i mean if you're gonna own a hundred thousand dollar plus house or hire why would you not be you know at least semi-versed on what to do in case of an emergency and how to fix something along those whatever lines of something breaks that just it boggles my mind to see people that don't know how to uh do anything but put gas in their vehicle it hurts yeah they don't let me talk to customers very often i am uh i am the shop foreman so i am forced to in some circumstances so i try my hardest but in the words of uh the uh great forest gump and uh such stupid is stupid does videos in the new box thinks i love my toolbox too dodges with bus issues um not a whole lot of them a couple of them i had can be bus failure issues when it came to some of the radios radios these days are junk i hate dealing with newer radio issues they have so many bus failure problems uh blacking out not having bluetooth signal that jing i'm so much stuff to these newer radios that i think that is probably one of chrysler's biggest warranty concerns at this point is radios they suck and there's not really a whole lot of any internal diagnostics you can do to them kodi i got started in automotive after i didn't want to be a police officer what is the hardest thing i have worked on the hardest things that i do not enjoy working on which i have to because i'm one of the only certified technicians in a very long way is to work on a pro master diesel engines it's a vm four cylinder engine and it sucks balls in every single way to work on the white tech is a very awesome thing for chrysler questions the white tech scan tools that we use it is a web based software and the new service info that we use eggy the the service net is awesome i got into using it over the last couple of weeks this new service library is really cool it puts a lot of our so us as technicians we have a standardized online thing through chrysler that we can have service info for individual vehicles and so we can put a vn number in we can see what history they had i can see what codes they had when they were potted when they came into ours or other dealerships recently any warranty history they have wiring diagrams all off of the standardized sheet it's really cool what chrysler has done in that world for us it makes our job at least a little bit better throughout the day to try to diagnose some of the multi millions of issues that they have across all of their different vehicles so i like what chrysler has done with their new white tech and stay tuned for the new software coming out here in the next couple of months they're going to have why advisor 3.0 it's going to be badass the i like how they have the star cases tied into them as well especially me as a higher up tech i can see all of them service cart yes i do have a service cart and thanks for coming in appreciate it my cart that i have grabbing you guys going for a trip that's the cart that i have and all i do is the top section there i'll flip it up and that's what i put all of my tools in that i'm working with the current vehicles on and i will kind of tote that one around the shop as i need to so that way also at the end of the day if i'm like working on something late and i need to scoot in a minute i can just close the box down lock it up without having to put all of my tools back in my big box and there's a couple of little things in there zip ties you know little parts and such that i need all the time for working on conversion bands is stuffed into some of those drawers as well that is my service cart one bottle of water done yes phil chrysler does use direct injection they just started now in 2018 vehicles in the jl wranglers and the newer fiat style bodies and it's actually a really badass motor it looks like it's going to be a pain in the dick to work on but it's going to be really cool too um so it's a two liter direct injected turbocharged with e-torque system motor little four cylinder that puts out over 300 horse it's badass it makes the wrangler super peppy it makes the three sixes very slow jl death wobbles i've seen death wobbles in every single wrangler 98 percent of the time it has to do with front suspension work with the steering dampener you ever worked on a viper yes i have um i actually had a customer when i worked at a larger dealership for a little bit who daily drove a viper he and his significant other had marriage issues she took everything out from under him left him with a viper so he daily drove that thing had 160 000 miles on it old man driving a viper in the middle of winter in ohio that was a fun experience yes i did go to tech school i went to a two-year community college um that tied in with chrysler older pacificas pacificas are junk they're not bad to work on i make good money off of them because nobody else wants to deal with them but they rust horribly bad in the wrong places i ever deal with commanders yes i have all the time didn't catch that last one if i don't get to your questions you know you guys can throw them in anytime i'm hopefully i'll see them and get through them while i'm not in the middle of talking again i have been talking for 83 minutes and 28 seconds i guess i can do that i don't like talking to customers but i like talking to you guys you guys are pretty cool guys keep me on my toes i like doing this kind of stuff for you guys calls for a re-flash or something to be on the ran eight speed trans yeah they also have valve body issues the new eight speeds i literally just put a valve body in a truck this last week that had a a shifting concern falling out of gears and everything is internal that valve body and stuff they is big onto those yeah those jails they got some balls to them with those two liters uh-huh yeah the the eight speeds they do have working directs they do have a couple of flashes up for them they have a recall probably on yours that has to do with auto park functionality but it also has to do with some shifting functionality in the tcm so 90 percent says that you probably have a software update just go to your local dealership if it's within 336 they should take care of it no problem no justin you are awesome at live streams don't give me that crap dude and your your kids coming in on it that was that was actually a fun time that's actually what got me into wanting to do this more because that was actually fun hanging out with you don't have to have the personality or whatever you go chit chat chit chat for like 80 some minutes like i can do somewhat here and there but just having everybody in on the live stream able to talk back and forth bringing in your collective knowledge of tools trucks lift kits you know from across the world you know you guys are here from freaking uk canada you know wherever it's cool seeing everybody come together what's the oldest thing to roll through your bay so cool thing is literally rolled through my bay this week sitting there in the back right there 64 quart of air that thing was pretty sweet got that traded in this last week the oldest thing that i've worked on i showed it in just a preview of it in one of my recent videos i worked on a 47 dodge a couple weeks ago had to rerun some oil lines for the oil pressure gauge in it that's the oldest thing that i've had to work on they trust me with a whole lot of weird stuff around here because i like working on weird stuff four seven four sevens and commanders are kind of rough motors they're very unforgiving they they do not do well with people who don't do not maintain them so if you bought it from some kid who ragged the thing out four sevens are not as fun yeah um i forget which which video it was but i did it in the beginning uh the beginning scroll of one of my recent videos probably within the last five or six videos because we have them up in our showroom now here at the dealership we've got a 47 dodge truck that it has had a um a frame off restoration it's an awesome truck to work on and then we also have um a 78 dodge little red express that's a badass truck too yeah it was a saturday it was a couple weeks ago at least but i kind of showed little stuff that i was working on that week that little red express truck is a pretty badass truck too i may be getting able to work on that soon because i think it might have i don't know if it's got head gaskets or it's got ring issues but uh it it smokes a bit when it gets started up owner didn't really like it a whole lot when that happened so might be doing something along those lines that'd be kind of a cool video i'm sure he'd let me do that on a weekend i'd like to see it when i did my lights um lights it might have been or it might have been pinion seal video something along those lines but yeah uh prowlers you don't want to know my opinion on prowlers those are junk these pieces of junk dude they were over engineered underthought out junk that were parts bins from everything else they use window switches from pp cruisers center consoles and switches from other vipers and not pacificas but yeah gma set program is good kody it's a lot like the christler cat program it's very smart to get into especially if you get into a good dealer that is willing to pay for part of your schooling is really cool yeah whatever whatever they're those plus i'm very bad against those cars the prowlers because i don't fit in them anything that looks cool and everything like that yeah whatever but if i can't fit in it to drive it it's automatically a not a cool car it sucks i am six foot four 260 pounds and if i don't fit in the car it's not fun to drive i immediately think it sucks um there are quite a few other cars like that the christler crossfire another car that looks cool they're actually really fast too but if i don't fit in them they're not fun not fun at all they that is sucks a lot and there's some really fun cars that aren't you know big cars some some of the outies the icts they are pretty sweet to see and you know from what i've heard drive but yeah two three four infusions bad for belt tension i don't know i don't work on that lot crossfire is a Mercedes it is they're they're stupid Mercedes baby back from when dimeware had a choke hold on them yeah but they're not bad to work on not uh not bad to work on it all i don't like driving them because i don't fit in it but they they suck i the current dealership that i that i work at uh we don't do a whole lot of sprinters just because nobody around here do what i want to own a hellcat yes i would like to own one but sprinters i used to be big into working on sprinters because the last dealership that i worked at they were a big sprinter um handler they did a lot of sprinter stuff so i worked a lot on those especially when it came to the two seven inline six diesels and the uh nagged transmissions i worked on those quite a bit they're not very fun though they're not that fun a lot of the Mercedes stuff it lasted and it worked well but the whole sales aspect of Chrysler when they were under dimelars thumb they it was not a good time for Chrysler they dimeler they wanted to just shuffle the money through and spit them back out the so not fun swirl valves yeah i remember those the four liter was a roast reliable Chrysler engine made uh i don't know about that one the Chrysler three six it is not that much of a pain to work on it is very time consuming there's a whole lot of little parts to it but it is generally an easy motor to work on because it is in literally every car almost that Chrysler makes so when they put it in 95 of the vehicles you get good at doing them so it's not that bad you're pretty well versed in it if you're Chrysler tech you made pistons for crossfires that's neat i've never seen one of those yeah four liters everybody says that's the best one they made just because it was the jeep crowd that had them those four liters inline sixes they were they were good good motors as far as the baseline of them but they had a whole bunch of little issues to them especially when it came to like crank sensors five volt reference issues bringing down the pcms you don't know how many grand charities that i've worked on where the customer brings it in with a no bus issue and it says that across their their cluster there and it ends up being a a bad crank sensor because it's grounding out a five volt reference wire that is grounding out the five volt reference that goes into the pcm which shorts out whatever in the pcm and causes a no bus issue and keeps the modules from talking to each other and doesn't start stupid stupid things yeah i don't think crossfires were the best no they were okay cars but i didn't fit them so they're not the best automatically no i just started unplugging sensors when i have to deal with five volt reference issues on those older vehicles uh every every sensor that has a five volt reference going through it i just started unplugging them because normally that's grounded out internal to the sensor cam sensor crank sensor mass air flow map those kind of things they're just quick easy things just unclick click click click click click so i start doing that but for um for everybody who's just tuning in i got into the business back in 2008 as a Chrysler technician been doing it since then i have fun i like my job i like tools i like trucks like diesels i have uh my vape is got some local blend mighty menthol new thoughts on the new style pacific vans they are good except for the radios the radios suck yes i've heard big things on the power probe working for those but it was one of the things where when i was a young technician i was not shown the graces of guide when it came to the power probe so it's one of the things where i just don't find them what's up warren i i don't i don't use it because i wasn't trained with it so i've kind of have those other training aspects that i have to find these other issues that i'm just good at finding especially when it comes to the Chrysler stuff i i know it i know it very well so when it comes to finding those hard little issues i i'm able to find them pretty quick but i do love the power probe is it really cool freaking tool i used to smoke a menthol cigarette so that's why i have like just a scope mint style vape for the person who is asking travis mirroring uh good question on that one you need to tune into the channel um probably next week i will be doing a whole bad ass video when it comes to diy scan tools code readers etc on something that is in the price range of the diy guy i'll be doing a video on that um showing the differences and the cost effectiveness between a lot of scan tools and code readers that are from like the 20 dollar range all the way up through like two to three hundred dollar range so something that everybody who is in that range who likes to work on stuff on their own on the side can use and show you the differences in those so stay tuned for that one it's going to be a really sweet video i'm excited about that one i've got a couple of companies uh actually three or four companies who are contacting me and i'm working with in trying to get some of their scan tools in and getting them tested and it's going to be a good video tell you one of the things that i love doing for some of the tools and the scan tools parts and stuff that i do here on the channel i tell all of the customers i'll tell i think is one of them chris i tell all of the companies that i will do an open and honest review i will not bash said company because they were cool enough to send me their tools for review and i will go through and i will do an open honest review i will tell you what i think about your tool i i'll tell you how good it is compared to other ones i don't like doing reviews on just single tools i like to have something to compare to so that's that's what i'm going to be doing i changed glow plugs yet on my d max nope i have not and that is one of the soon videos also because i have a set ready to go i'm going to be doing a another video on a winter maintenance for ye old duramax here show a lot i'm going to be doing to get this thing ready for winter because it's not going into a barn or anything i drive that fucker everywhere i'm going to be using it every day so i'm going to get it ready for winter i got some other really cool stuff coming on the duramax to hit you guys in on that one i'll be doing some stuff with the toolbox for that one too it's going to be a cool build i'm hoping to be pretty lucky when it comes to um those glow plugs because it's a very rust free california truck so that's what i'm hoping at least oil um i work at um chrysler dealership in pickwell hio um as far as oil on my truck i am not that big sucker of you know oh i only run this i only run that this is all around i just swear by it i am a big preacher of maintenance and keeping the maintenance on the low end of the mileage so i will never ever go above 5000 miles i'll come back to you on that one work to relax but i never like to go over 5000 miles on an oil change so any of those oils the am's oils the high prosynthetic uh rural purples and stuff so that say that they can go 10 000 miles on oil changes all well and good cool you guys have awesome oil but i'm never going to go that much it's beat into my head it's peace of mind kind of thing i i will never take my um my trucks to that much it's not i just can't do it dale launch keep that one in mind i got one of those and it's going to be on that video too no there isn't a special tool for tpms on chrysler we have one why wouldn't you use a special tool for tpms and you you you don't have to have them all the time but sometimes you have issues with the tpms's on them where they won't read or they won't go out of learn mode and then we need to use them to put them back into that or relearn the vehicle to that specific tpms code so we do have a special tool for chrysler tpms but it's not always required like other manufacturers to program them 35 that was in the pacifca the old the older three fives they were pretty decent motors they suck to work on in the pacifca just because of space requirements and such i hated working on them around here just because of rusty piles of junk but that's pacifca and that's ohio you can't help that one stupid will stupid anybody that says 10 000 miles on an oil change and they recommend that for whatever reason or cause or anything along those lines is stupid the manufacturers are saying that because the oil specifications are supposed to be going better and going longer distances so therefore the manufacturers think oh your oil is better so it will help protect my engine for a longer amount of time how many times do customers use oem or whatever recommended oil types i would say less than 50 percent over that a lot of those people never ever ever check their oil in between the oil changes it is a sad sad truth but people do it so that not only do they not check their oil they also never use the correct oil either yeah it's their car they can do what they want i won't recommend it even if they say 10 000 on it here at our dealership we put 5000 mile stickers in our oil changes because even on our standard oil changes we don't use standard oil we use a synthetic blend on literally every single oil change that we do so we put a 5000 mile sticker in every single oil change that we do whether it's you know zero 40 zero 20 you know synthetics or the synthetic blend in our 525 30 etc we will put 5000 on it that is up to the customer to follow whatever specifications and when it comes to warranty issues we can only document what the customer has on their end we don't make the decisions when it comes to warranty issues at that time two four concerns on low oil all the time and that is an issue of checking your oil those engines go through oil quite a bit more it's just inherent to that engine their their rings are a little bit looser than a lot of other engines um so the new intuitive multimeter stay tuned for that one too but um exactly jersey they want their shit to blow up is what happens those two fours they go through a lot of oil because of their their rings are just inherently a little bit looser so they go through oil a little bit more so Chrysler what they say on their oil usage percentage through oil changes so a vehicle that has under 50 000 miles 45 or 50 it's one of the two they say it is okay standard if um if you go through one quart of oil every thousand or 1100 miles that is standard fine if the vehicle has over 50 000 miles it is standard and okay if the vehicle goes through one quart every 750 miles in most standards that is unheard of and you're like holy crap if my car is going through that much oil then that's a real problem not on these motors they are it is okay and is okay for Chrysler standard and many other manufacturers are going to that as well to go through one quart of oil up to every 750 miles so if somebody doesn't check their oil especially on a 2.4 liter vehicle they they are going to burn through five of the six quarts within their oil change time and if anybody knows about the 2.4 liter they have multi air setups they actually run it's a setup like a dual overhead cam motor but it only runs an exhaust cam not an intake cam they run new hydraulic pneumatic actuators that actuate the intake valves they're able to open them multiple times per second they can adjust the amount that each valve opens how often it opens etc and those things go absolutely crazy wacky when they are low on oil and people will say oh my car is running like crap it's you know misfiring and sputtering when I go around corners it's because it's low on oil check your oil every time you get your freaking gas pump open your hood check your oil that's why I would be a horrible horrible service rider because I'd be brutally honest with everybody all the customers would not like me they would not like me at all so that's my little rant on oil changes and oils and such yes the three two crossfires take in a half quarts of oil the the three liter vm diesels in the pro masters take like 10 10 and a half quarts of oil depending on you know how long you sit there and let them drain they take a crazy amount yeah I literally had to show somebody how to how her hood opened the other day she's like I can pull the little handle but I can't ever get it to come up it was funny they should put a maintenance reminder just to check your oil although stop start cars I'm on the fence about stop start technology stop start cars people say yeah it saved me whatever two miles bryan something like that whatever around here it's not big cities I live in the middle of sticks corn fields bean fields whatever there's not a whole lot of stop and go driving unless you're driving all the way down to downtown Dayton stick and uh sitting on ice 75 for you know rush hour every day then I can see where stop start technology is going to help you out but without it it just pisses people off they actually working to relax they use a um um totally different starter is a very very robust starter and it's actually a pretty neat system they're very very intuitive on the driver aspect of it a lot of people say oh I couldn't handle my vehicle you know stop running all the sudden on me I can't get up and drive I guarantee you that you have your foot on the brake and you let it off the brake and you go to hit the gas doesn't matter how fast you can let your foot off the brake and put it over onto that gas pedal I guarantee you can't do it faster then that motor can start and still have it in gear ready to go for you so there's not any delay there's a lot of older customers who who don't trust it because of that but they work very well yes the e-torque does work for the start stop technology right now Justin thank you for tuning in I appreciate it again everybody here hasn't tuned in to Justin ATV go check out his channel he is a genuine awesome guy and he does some really good um really good videos when it comes to uh tools and such so check him out I actually am probably going to cut it off here in a couple of minutes just because I probably should get home and help with some of the household stuff for my son's birthday tomorrow but I was just had the itch and the urge to do a live stream and an hour and eight minutes later 108 minutes later whoo yeah oh that sucks auto tech thank you Justin you have an awesome night I appreciate you stopping in and we'll check you out later that's for sure oh the screwdriver video that was a good one yeah I got the urge to do live stream just because I did a video on the Duramax tonight I came into work because I had to drop a bunch of stuff that I had in my truck uh before I have to go to storage unit tomorrow morning and I figured I had a couple parts sitting here and I had the time I had my camera and I should probably do a video because I haven't done one this week how I was lazy this week guys I'm sorry I know you guys like to tune in into my videos you know for a midweek one but I just got so busy this week and just wasn't feeling it one of those one of those kind of things so I was feeling it tonight I did a video on leds how leds are and uh new ones uh it is 10 41 p.m here morning on eastern standard time so yeah I was doing a video on leds so and I'm not sure if I'll get to edit it and post it tomorrow and so I did that hoping that I'll be able to and I'm not sure if I'll get to so I felt the need I needed to do something for you guys do this thing my dealer is very cool but I'm also the shop foreman so I have a key to the place and I'm able to do everything you know pretty much I want here because I got my mass loaded tools here thank you Chris for coming in I appreciate it and actually guys I think I am going to cut off the live stream here in just a minute or two I also wanted to point out that next Saturday I will do another live stream I don't know if it'll be 110 minutes long live stream but I'm going to do a live stream where I'm going to do a whole lot of cool giveaways like really cool ones I've gotten a couple of my snap on reps and other reps and stuff to give me some really cool stuff for the giveaways I know I've showed you guys the really cool shirts that I'm going to be giving away in my last video I left a link to the giveaway where you can put in your name make sure you subscribe to me on Instagram put your email in and you are signed up for that drawing even if you can't make the live stream next Saturday you will still be in for for that live stream it's going to be it's going to be a really good one but I'm also needing you guys to tune in for that one because I'm going to have a lot of other cool things that I will be giving out in that one that are almost and just as cool as that and it'll be it'll be a really good time so yeah so everybody else who has questions I'm sorry I'm going to be cutting it off oh magnets for the box working to relax so the magnets that you see up here and the snap on pickups that's what I'm missing for my cabinets I need two of those magnets and two of those pickups for it so I know the magnets you know this isn't a really big thing but unless I have the pickups too it's not really going to do a whole lot of a whole lot of help but anyway guys if you guys have any other questions increase anything like that feel free to email me at the rust belt mechanic at gmail.com or cruise over to my instagram my instagram page I do dms there and I have my phone on me all the time and I will respond to that as fast as my schedule allows which sometimes you know isn't always the fast but usually within a day or so so yeah so make sure you tune in to the live stream next week even if you are aren't able to make it sign up for the giveaway so you can at least have a chance to win the bad ass prize and then I'll be giving away at least three or four other really cool things in the giveaway also of next week's live stream it starts at 8 30 p.m eastern standard time so depending on your time zone dial back or dial forward accordingly and that's when it's going to be next saturday right now it's 10 44 here but it's going to be 8 30 eastern standard time next saturday make sure you keep an eye on my videos pop and up this next week they're going to be some really cool ones hey ron that's bright look at that beard but anyways guys it's been an awesome time I really appreciate you guys tuning in and all the input that you guys have questions and everything this is why I do it this is what I really enjoy and thank you again I can't say thank you guys enough for making this channel what it is and I'm going to keep on coming up with cool stuff for you guys to enjoy so without further ado I'm going to say peace out you guys stay awesome