 Who's in here? Anybody in? Get this shit set up right. What's happening guys? What's up, Corey? Thanks for stopping in. Kind of had a long day today. It's freaking cold. I am not ready for this kind of winter weather and crap going on. What's up? What's up? It's all quite a few of you people over in Justin's channel. Tell you what, I gotta give away some pretty cool stuff tonight, so that was pretty neat. Dude, I absolutely love my Epic Toolbox. My Epic Box is, I don't know, it's just something awesome. It's really cool every day going, getting to go into work and hitting that little unlock button and using it. Then extremely anal with it, with cleaning. Everybody asked me why you clean it so much? Well, because I like my toolbox that much. There we go. But yeah, it's been absolutely awesome. I love that toolbox. I've had quite a few people asking about how I'm doing cleaning on it and I'm probably gonna do a video with that one here soon, but we'll get there. I've been using this Snap-on flat black cleaner primarily. Funny enough, it smells an awful lot like Windex. Hmm. But we'll do those comparisons later in the video. But yeah, so what's everybody been up to this weekend? You guys had a cool stuff? Tool time all the time. I do. It's tool time all the time here. 61 degrees. I don't want to hear that crap. It's like 28 degrees right now. Today it maxed out. And it's been pretty cold the last couple days. It maxed out at like 39, 40 degrees. And I tried to mess with my pressure washer today because I've been a slacker and I haven't got done with my fall cleanup yet. So I tried it and it didn't work. Sweet. Mid-50s. So anyways, yeah, I tried messing with this pressure washer today. So I bought it off of this one of these turn-in site places. It's auction bidding. People who turn in all these used tools or not used tools, but rejected tools that they buy from like Amazon or places that, you know, they'll open up the package and like, oh, this is damaged or oh, I don't want to turn it back. And then we buy this stuff that they have on there. Jacket. This one's a hoodie from Wrench Works. It's Greg Alboralla's channel. He's got another channel on YouTube. It does some awesome Cummins work. Anyways, I bought this pressure washer. All right. This standard, it would have been like $700 pressure washer. Shit you not. I bought it for 35 bucks. Like, wow, it's awesome. Didn't come with a hose and didn't come with a sprayer gun. So I bought those two things. I'm out 55, 60 bucks at that. So I get this thing started finally after I bought a spark plug for it too and an oil cap. There were 75 bucks and it starts running, runs, runs, runs. And then like four minutes into this stupid thing running, you guys got to check this out. That's inside the pump. I don't look so good. So needless to say, that pump is junk. So now I got to buy a new pump for it, which is like 200 and some bucks, but I'm not really caring because like I said, I paid 35 bucks for the pressure washer and it's going to cost me 200 bucks to fix. So it's like $700 DeWalt 3500 psi gas pressure washer with a Honda motor and the motor runs great. So I'm happy about that part of it. But yeah, that was kind of kind of crazy on kind of crazy on that one. Oh, that's right. Here's all the pieces that came out of it. You like that stuff? Yeah, all those pieces. Yep, that's what came outside of it. So it blowed up and I'm going to have to go down. There's a local place here that does pumps and electric motor. So I'm going to see what they can do. Yeah, they're not going to rebuild that one, but you know, we'll see if they can get me any kind of cool deal. So something cool that I wanted to do tonight and we'll do this in a little bit. I'm going to do a giveaway. It's the last time that I had everybody sign up and everything for this giveaway for the snap on shirt. And I said you didn't have to be here for it, but you didn't have to be signed up for my channel and you had to follow my Instagram account. You know, two simple little things. So I ended up having everybody sign up. I had a hundred people sign up and what's up Lance had a hundred people sign up for it and I drew the winner. So didn't have to be there. So cool. I went and checked his stuff out ends up he subscribed to my channel. And then like a day or so before or sometime before that he unsubscribed to the channel. So he subscribed long enough to get on the channel and subscribe, but then decided to not stick around. So I'm not giving him a shit. So the next one we're going to have somebody else with the snap on shirt $40 snap on shirt. So if you guys didn't see the full image of that one, you can check it out before, but I've got all the different sizes for that. And I think there's like medium through two or three acts something like that, but we'll do a little giveaway for that one too. And no, I'm not going to sit here and write out tickets for 37 minutes. I don't have that kind of patience. That's for sure. So one other question I had. Everybody asking about was some of the stuff that I use at home and I and sadly enough to say, but I don't use very many snap onto as a home just because dude, I literally live like four minutes away from work. So when I have stuff to do, I just go into work. Yeah, Chris, you have, you've been awesome. Yeah, everybody that's in here right now can get in because you guys are cool enough that you tuned into my channel on a live stream on a Sunday night. So yeah, everybody in here is going to win. You got to be here, but you're in here. But yeah, I don't use many snap on tools here at my house. I actually, I don't know, you guys can check out what I got. I've got a Milwaukee box and mostly Royoby tools is what I rock here at home. So that's the kind of stuff that I have here and I've been trying to collect some new Royoby stuff just because I've had other wants and needs, but I really like having the fact that they've used the same freaking batteries on their stuff for like 10 years. Oh, I love the Royoby stuff. Like I said, I love the fact that they use the same batteries. They don't have two different battery lines like every other, you know, people have. Don't get me wrong, I love the Milwaukee stuff, but the Royoby stuff and they also have the absolutely largest array of battery powered tools on the market. Even over Milwaukee, they have the largest amount and plethora of different tools that you could have or want. So those are the ones that I go with here. I've got like 10 or 15 battery powered tools and I just bought a kind of a pond pool cleaner vacuum that's underwater vacuum cleaner for my pool for the end of the season kind of thing. So we're going to see how that turns out, but I also did just buy some cool Milwaukee stuff too. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting it out, trying to see a snap. I'm just going to come out with a half inch impact, a new one. I know they are and it's probably going to be from what my sources say January, February, like we're going to see the specs in January, late January-ish, but that's about all I've got on that one. But I really want a cordless electric impact, half inch, because I had one, but the battery took shit and I don't see the point put $140 into a battery when they're just going to have a new one come out. So I did just purchase a new Milwaukee half inch with the one he set up. So I'm going to do some testing on that one. And I think that'll make a really cool video. I'm not sure if it'll do exactly what I think it's going to do. So we're going to see how that goes. Yeah, snap on. I think that somebody inside snap on put that one out, but everyone knew that it wasn't going to happen. We were all hoping and they were going to put something out for the snap on tool conferences here, but that didn't happen. Nothing like that. No, I didn't get the stubby one because the full size frame one had the HD version of it. So I wanted the heavy duty impact version of it. So and I found if you guys aren't members of it, there is a Milwaukee tool nation is a group on Facebook. They have a whole lot of really cool guys on there and they have a couple of guys who are dealers on there as well. And they get you guys stuff at really, really good discounts as well. So that's where I ended up getting mine off of was off of the Facebook group there. So it should be here about midweek somewhere around there. But I have a feeling that that thing is going to be a bad ass tool. I think it's going to be really awesome. Give us something something cool to look at here on the channel. Rigid tools, Mac tools. I don't have any opinion on Mac tools because I don't have a Mac dealer that comes to my dealership. What's up, JRC? What's happening, man? Glad to see you stop in. Yeah, I had to get the munchkins off to bed. Now anyways, we don't have a Mac tool dealer at the dealership that I'm at. So I don't have any anything to go by off of. The Mac guy actually tried to show up once about, I want to say four years ago and came in and we wanted to buy, I think it was about a $400 tool set up. I was like a ball joint, something or other. And we asked him, you know, setting up truck payments. He's like, Oh, well, I'll take it in two payments. Just two payments? What's that? So he kind of drew this. Oh, Dave, you have the high torque with one key. That's the exact one that I just bought. JRC, I was letting these guys know I just pulled the trigger on the new half inch Milwaukee impact with the one key. I'm going to see what it can do. I have a feeling, I want to say that the one key is going to have adjustments for torque values, but I think they're one key adjustments on the four different settings is a power output on the battery level. Now, whether that corresponds and translates over to torque percentages on the actual tool, that's what I really want to find out because if I'm able to take my half inch torque wrench, and I'm going to set this one to this percentage of battery output, I want to see if that's going to do the actual torque on the wheel. Like if it's going to be reliable to where I don't have to get a torque stick out, I'm going to know if I push this one, it's going to hit at 110 foot-pounds. I think that would be cat's ass. I don't think, I don't know if that's how it's going to turn out, but I hope it does. Hopefully we're going to see what hell that one turns out. Yeah, if everybody hasn't tuned into JRC's channel, dude does some really, really bad ass giveaways. So if you guys haven't tuned into that one, he does some really cool stuff, especially for newer guys going into the mechanical world and trying to hook you guys up for those, he does a good job at that. That Honda guy, what's up, man? We'll get a couple more people that said that we're going to come in here and then I'm going to do the snap-on shirt giveaway. Donnie, what's up? Keeping it real? You missed the 18-volt? Yeah, that's, I have a feeling the M18, that market's going to blow up. They're going to start putting out more and more and more tools and I think it's going to end up being like the Royal B brand where they're going to start branching out into the remote market where it's going to be everything that's little stuff, little niches of the market, they're going to fill those voids. So we're going to see how that one comes out. I don't think that snap-on is going to go that far. They're just too stuck in and want to keep that automotive market around, but I don't know, we'll see. No problem, JRC. Hopefully that works out for you. The new shop, it is absolutely fantastic and it's clean. If anybody didn't know, the dealership that I worked at, we had a fire a couple of years ago and the dealership pretty much had to get all rebuilt and the dealership that we have, they kept us around for a year and stuff paying on us to stay while we worked out of this little three bay shop for a full dealership, might I say. So they were cool enough to do that, keep us in the loop and then totally rebuild our whole dealership and we have a really badass shop now. We're not a large dealership. We've got four guys three main techs, two other CAP students that I have working under me too that are working there. So it's a really awesome shop for the size of it already now. 3D engines, I love my snap-on toolbox. It's been the you're there, I made it kind of toolbox and still kind of surreal that it's sitting there in my bay, but it's there and I love looking at it every single day. I gotta get something right on. Here we go. We're gonna do a giveaway guys, we gotta find something. All this shopping don't have shit to write on. I got rust belt mechanics stickers still. You guys haven't seen those yet. I do still have those. Those are on my Facebook page for sale. I will also be giving away one of those with the winner tonight as well. Here we go. Don't you like it Corey? Yeah it's fucking cold out here. I got a space heater right at my feet because my fucking legs are numb. Cool JRC. So right now there are 55 people in this chat room. 55 people that want this badass snap-on shop shirt. It's got a really cool back to it. I don't want to open this one. I don't have the the one that is already open but if you go back to my other giveaway on my last few videos I've pointed it out. It's a really awesome shirt. So there, well there was 55. So we're gonna go numbers here and we'll double that. So I'm gonna write down a number between one and 100 and the first person to have this number come out on the screen is gonna win. Now don't start yet. Don't start yet JRC. Getting click happy. Don't start. I'm gonna write this shit down. Okay so ready set go. Come on. Yes guys. I haven't seen it yet. Not yet. One person was very close but I have not yet seen it. Give you a hint. It's two digits. Nope still not yet. How many people? How long does take to guess? Two digit number. Yoshiyaka is the winner. Nick Yoshiyaka because number 76 was the winner. So Nick I need you to get on here and I need you to email me your address. You need to email me at therustbeltmechanic at gmail.com. Also tell me what shirt size you're gonna want to. So I make sure that I have it here to be able to send out. So cool. That was a giveaway and like I said I appreciate you guys you know being here and hanging out with me and actually being really good subscribers. The last guy who was supposed to win that had enough to sign up and become a member that way and then he unsubscribed to my channel so he didn't win. So Nick is the winner. Yeah buddy. So that was the the giveaway that I had left over from this last week. How wide is the middle section drawers on 84? I'm not sure. Yeah there was 78, 77. You were pretty close. Yeah you were very close. It's cold out here. I'm ready for summer again. I am definitely ready for summer again. This is some BS weather and then all right so my wife then comes out here and she knows how much I don't like the cold weather. I really don't like it. So she comes out in here and she had to make that point. Hey did you did you know that the weather is calling for an inch of snow possible tomorrow? That little biatch. I didn't want to hear none of that. No no not the snowy weather. The snowy weather is freaking stupid. I would love to move to Florida if I was able to. I mean I am able to but yeah. You guys fighting over who won and who put 76? I don't care. On my comments how it popped up the Nick dude he's who won. So that's the way it is. I don't know how it popped up on your screen but he was the first one on mine to say 76. I don't have anything else to give away tonight. I am that was kind of just a leftover one from the last one because the guy unsubscribed from my channel after he won so he's not getting the shit so this is what I had to give away. So that's there. I will be doing more after I reach I think I'll do an 8,000 8k sub giveaway maybe a 7k giveaway so yeah tomorrow they're calling for rain and snow 29 degrees. Everybody's hopping for that scanner from JRC. Nope I'm not far from from 7k. My channel has been taken off more than I thought it would lately. To be honest when I started my channel which was back in like I want to say it was like February something like that. It was me just hopping on camera saying you know hey I'll do a couple little cool things here and there just for you know my pleasure you know maybe help a couple of guys out here and there. I was thinking 200 subs something like that put out a video or two every month just try out see what happens and then I did a tour on the rock and roll box tool cab truck and that video took off. I'm like wow that's pretty neat you guys actually like this stuff you like me talking so then I put out a couple of more and then a couple of those took off I did a 19 ram lift kit and that one really took off so I'm like wow you guys actually like listening to me what's up hard knocks getting in here yes Nick the giveaway the giveaway already happened I gave away the shirt that was supposedly given away last week but the guy unsubscribed for my channel so no go for him. Hey I see you guys saying hey look at the screens look at the screens and everybody's comments comes for different times on their their accounts and their screens so somebody might have seen it different and that's how it came through on mine so that's who won it's all done not going back yeah sub and up some they're good for the giveaways but that about that's about it so I really want to go down to the giveaway or to the yeah I'll give them away right now to the truck show down in Augusta with JW um I'm not gonna not for sure if I'm gonna be able to do it yet just because I don't know Christmas time lots of stuff going on here and there I don't really have I tried to get one or two of my sponsors to go down with me um trying to get um the JDMA star guys to come down they just got back from a SEMA so they're not sure if they want to have a crew of a guy or two come out for that one since they're all the way out in Cali um tried to get in the raptor guys to come out they said eh we'll see I must not be a big enough big enough youtuber yet for them to do that yep Augusta Georgia that is where JW Montoya who is also another Duramax diesel youtuber he does some cool stuff him and Bertrand850 are putting on a truck meet done in Augusta Georgia on December 1st if you guys want to check that one out check out Augusta truck meets on Instagram they have that one and it's gonna be a pretty cool turnout from what I've seen and what I saw I tried to get truckmaster to come but his work's being a bunch of slave drivers and they won't let him go so we'll see about going to that one I'm not sure it's like a nine and a half hour drive so I don't know if I want to do that that's what I said I'd go if I had a somebody else going with but I don't nobody I don't know anybody else there really I know my truck would be badass there I think it would be sweet I'm trying to do a couple of other uh upgrades before then a couple of things on order we'll see if they come in before the Christmas season one of the things I've got ordered for it is new leaf springs for the rear so if you know the lift kit that I put on is a bbs seven seven and a half inch lift kit and I did the block spacer in the rear because I opted to get the the fancy torsion the traction bars so instead of getting the the fancy springs well I got those block spacers and I want to be able to turn my front keys up a little bit more and so to do that I'm going to get the full leaf spring pack for the truck and that way I can add another inch and a half block spacer to the rear so I can turn my keys up just to slide them out so I can have full on even no rubbing good to go Cory you live down there down in that area I have no clue what is around Augusta Georgia I can't say that I've ever been there before do I like air or electric I prefer electric tools if they had the ass of air tools in every single uh application I'd just go all electric tools but yeah see you something basic thanks for tuning in you guys are awesome I don't tell you that enough at least you guys don't see my nasty ass garage behind me that is super unorganized pisses me off yes the master's tournament is played every year in Augusta Georgia however I am not the gulfing fanatic Chevy I don't like working on fords I'm not going to bash anybody who has a Ford because everybody has their own gist you know how do I like my led headlights I love them so when I did my led uh headlight video this this last time with the JDMA stars I was not expecting them to turn out how they did I looked into it and I did a whole lot of sorry I'm trying to read comments as I'm talking I can do donuts on the course so I did a whole bunch of kind of prep for that video because I didn't know how the actual lights were going to turn out I at least wanted to give you guys some really good information on leds chipsets and I learned a bunch from it too but I wanted to be able to do that because I didn't know how well they were going to turn out I did the review and finding out how good those leds were right there usually I like to kind of test out the products ahead of time so I know how it's gonna kind of turn out but this one you know I was not prepped for that one I was like yeah I'm gonna send it so I did the video and as I was doing the video I put them in and I tested them out on the doorway just how you guys saw and the difference was huge in the difference of hot spot the level light pattern to it it was pretty cool bell money I don't know if I could get that crazy plus my truck doesn't really do burnouts or donuts quite yet that I went with I spent money on lift kit and stuff and haven't spent any money on uh on motor stuff yet yet it's going to happen it will I promise it's going to get go fast parts yeah the headlights they're pretty awesome one thing somebody's getting into vehicles go all out do it be the best way to do if not there's no point to it it's pretty much the same as any career if you want to go into a career with automotive seriously go in and do it all out be the best that you can be in the the business and you know you'll you'll be a whole lot happier for it because if you don't go all into it you're just going to be that miserable guy who's just attending another job just to get through from paycheck to paycheck if you like doing what you're doing then you know it makes every single day a whole lot better to go into work see you man I thought about that early on and that's why I changed careers multiple times before actually becoming a mechanic I started off going for computer science what is that new snap on multi-meter so sources of mine say in nine days they ship out I've seen pictures of guys with them on instagram but I don't think that they really have them I think they're different pictures from other places because I actually haven't seen or heard of any numbers on the new meter yet mines like going to be one of the first ones on order so hopefully it ships ships to me real fast no hard knocks you don't need a snap on multi-meter but but but it helped I have I have a fluke one I have it's a fancy one that is made for working on hybrid electric vehicles that can read up to 600 volts so I do like the flute meters I'm not a big fan of the screen that's on it so we're going to see how that and how well the metering does on it but we're going to see that snap on is only good for a payment well they got me my good payment so I like them all right chris thanks for tuning in man I appreciate it definitely but yeah that new meter from what I heard it is shipping supposedly on the 20th is what I got from my sources that they their first shipments will go out on the 20th of November so hopefully really soon after that we'll be seeing it within a week but you know how awesome snap on is on their timetables hey gory thanks for tuning in man I know it's kind of late on a sunday but you guys are freaking awesome so yeah hopefully that comes out soon I'm hoping they come out with a whole bunch of new tools because one of the biggest things that I've seen with snap on lately is been that they've been focusing a whole lot on the the color schemes of their stuff and yeah it's all well and cool everybody likes getting their their shit that matches and everything which I am a fanatic of that I like all my shit to match and look good but I think they've been focusing on too much of that lately uh that the freaking wraps on the icon boxes yeah they're cool but dude you guys come out with new wraps for these icon boxes I shit you not like every two weeks there's a new wrap that comes out or you saw the guys saw the color shifting boxes on those wraps for the icon boxes they look cool but so between that and the purple and the blue and the high vis and three different colors I already gave away a shirt yeah the icon box is a classic series box with a master series height it's a little bit taller I believe that they offer it's like a 40 inch roll cab um classic style box but it's a master series height so they've been hard hitting on those and then the different colors and all their other crap I think they just been hammering on colors too much I think they need to put more into their spreading out and getting more stuff into the market all right man thanks for tuning in I think that's what they need to do but that's just me a consumer that's all I am craftsman is great for the price it is other than um I don't know craftsman hasn't come out with anything relevant in a long time hard knocks forge is actually one of the admins on the group it is a Milwaukee tool nation is the Facebook group for that they're a really cool bunch of guys they give a lot of great advice and a lot of good advice on where to find um cool Milwaukee tools on one Stanley tool and it's a tape measure so that's all I got on that yes they do Fernando I think they need to put a whole lot more focus their 14 four line has been a real hit but I think it died off pretty soon from what they thought was gonna happen so I think they need to get back on with the 18 volt line is the biggest thing they need to focus on my very first toolbox was a 40 inch snap on classic roll cab I had two classic roll cabs while I was in school so I had a an orange one to start off with and then a lime green one that was a little bit larger went into a 50 inch roll cab snap one does need to go brushless they definitely do I think that they're they're definitely lacking on their electric tool line that that they're falling behind in that game but they've got such a good hold I think over Milwaukee in the automotive section just because of their their tool trucks and the funny thing is a lot of the snap on tool truck guys they're carrying Milwaukee tools now if you guys watch my other live video from the snap on appreciation day my snap on rep probably had a palette or two of Milwaukee tools sitting right there in the middle of his nap on tool show so yeah so they're even selling some Milwaukee but the biggest thing that snap on has over him is the fact that they're in shops the fact that people are there in person that that's always gonna come out on top I don't know anything about Harbor Freight just because I don't get any tools from there not because I wouldn't or won't but because for me to go to Harbor Freight it's like a 20 minute drive and I don't have time to go to a store to shop for tools and take that much time to do it the only time that I would go to a store and shop for tools is when I'm going to home depot to buy shit from a house and I need to buy something rio be there because I love my rio be tools for at the house so I really don't get a whole lot of experience with Harbor Freight tools other than seeing them in their catalog that comes in my mail oh I know trust me everybody always loves to hate on me for that but I don't care yeah they are pretty sweet zip ties and stuff there I could see that I could see that more you know me working at the dealership I get a lot of that stuff there for free anyways they they supply all that through our tiff code representative so that's where I get a lot of that stuff if your snap-on rep has to say I can order it to people more than twice per stop he's not a really good rep yeah I don't I don't think the snap-on guys are carrying enough on their tool truck they they have I've seen the snap-on tool reps that have a really bad habit of just carrying um better tools oh that's kind of cool to know that fits your price oh you guys bring up a whole lot of cool comments I get something shiny syndrome really easy so I get something cool where you guys are talking about I'm like oh something shiny gotta pay attention to that it's hard to talk and chat and read and everything at the same time um been a long day cold day working on blowing up shit like pumps for everybody who didn't see in the beginning of the stream my uh sweet triple simplex pump off of my pressure washer kind of went boom today that was that was an interesting time thanks everyone I don't heat my garage I have a tiny little space heater right down at my feet to keep me from having numb feet and toes right now yeah I wish I had the time or the money to get a heated garage and actually this garage is not very big it is a two car garage but the depth of this garage is like nada the only thing yes my garage is connected to my house but I'm not going to heat my garage um my garage it will not fit my I have a 2017 charger it will not fit that car in this garage lengthwise because I have a uh three foot tool bench in the very end so if I put my three foot tool bench I can't fit a car in behind that the only thing that fits in my garage is my mini cooper which you know that thing's like nine feet long anyways exactly I don't want my balls to stick to this chair so that's where my little space heater is right now you like the Duramax I love my Duramax too I got asked by somebody this last week uh actually my boss at the dealership and uh he asked me hey if uh if the owner was to come up to me and say hey I will trade you will you trade me your truck from the channel for that used Hellcat that I gave you guys a picture of on the last stream it's a 2015 Hellcat with like 30,000 miles I was googling over it but I'm gonna pass on this round I really want a Hellcat very badly but I told him you know what I don't think I could do it my my truck is my baby I don't think I'm ever gonna get rid of that thing mostly due to the fact that I've put so much work into it as compared to other vehicles in the past and the fact that I've put a whole bunch of unique things to it like the the bed liner paint job and the rust belt mechanic tip that I just put on I don't know how much of a selling point that would be to somebody else but yeah Eric I know I said 10k subs we're gonna get a Hellcat and I think if it was Hellcat charger I think it would have been an easier self for me just because of the fact that we would have to trade in our 17 charger which is a v6 all-wheel drive uh nothing real fancy but it is kind of a daily driver for my wife we do also have a Mini Cooper and other little things here and there but you know she mostly drives the charger so she would have to go be going to drive one of our other cars or the Mini Cooper as a daily driver and Ohio winners that would kind of suck her but Hellcat hmm hmm how to get the Hellcat faster oh I want one really bad that's one of those kind of ever since I saw the Hellcats I've wanted one horrendously right Knox dude I work on so much little shit plus now after the time change I don't know how you guys's states are on doing out in Illinois and shit do you guys do the time change and everything too where fall you fall back roll back an hour and everything also because it fucked me up for this last couple weeks after our time change happened rolled back an hour I get off work and it's dark outside and I can't do shit at night and it's fucking horrible it starts to get dark out at like 435 o'clock oh I hate it especially when I'm pulling me like slacker style and I haven't gotten all my fall like cleanup stuff done out around my house and I haven't gotten it done yet so now I'm slacking and can't shit get shit done because I get off work and it's dark out so I got like 15 minutes worth of light when I get off work and that's it so today that's all I did today was rush rush rush around outside trying to get everything done um outside while I had some daylight and some free time so I apologize that's why I didn't put out a video this weekend I was wanting to very much I want to do a video on how I keep track of my flat rate hours I know I've had a couple of people ask me that question being a flat rate mechanic how hard is it and everything along those lines so I'm going to do a video on me working as a flat rate mechanic how I keep track of all my hours how hard it is to do it little tips and tricks about working flat rate in general so I think that'll be a cool one I'll probably do that sometime this week I've got another tool video coming also this week so stay tuned on that one I had a couple smaller companies get a hold of me this last week who wanted me to do tool reviews and so if you guys had seen before I did a like a an amazon tool review where you can just get you know these smaller tools on the amazon so I've got a little build up of tools here that I can do a video on so that's what I'll be doing that one on my custom handle ratchet is one of my favorite tools and I hate to say it but everyone's like why don't you use it why don't you use it because I don't want to mess it up because it's so nice I mean I love it because that handle on that ratchet is just freaking awesome is really sweet but I don't want to get it dirty I know that's what tools are for but you know I don't know I'm weird that way my other favorite tool would have to be my um yep that is a clean vehicle tool that is exactly what that one is I think one of my other favorite tools is going to be the SVT the s rads 272 the coolant filler that thing is the biggest time-saving tool that I have it allows me to do coolant fills in like five minutes as compared to starting a vehicle letting it warm up with the burp bottle and cracking the bleeders open letting it warm up enough for the thermostats to open I want to do that with these coolant refillers it just vacuums every bit of air out of the system sucks all the cooling into it wham bam thank you ma'am done out in like four or five minutes flat that's that's one of my coolest tools dude hard knocks it's it's so worth it it makes it so much better and saves so much time it is pricey I mean they retail out at like 230 but just me alone because I I work at a dealership so flat rate work is save time save money you know that kind of stuff so it saves me a whole lot of time on just the the Cummins water pumps that came in they have a recall on a lot of Cummins water pumps yeah I have the adapters in my pressure test kit so that's what I use for that one but yeah that idea you do really do need the adapters for them the airlift form that one works too but these the dirt the Cummins they had a recall on a water pumps needn't replace and under warranty it only pays an hour to do it now granted to actually physically take the airbox out take the belt off get the water pump it's only held in my two bolts it's like one of the easiest water pumps on the planet change I mean you can change it shit you're not in like 10 15 minutes but then it takes like 45 minutes for a freaking diesel especially in Ohio cold weather to warm up enough to be able to open a thermostat and there's no bleeders on a Cummins either so you can't sit there and bleed the freaking system so you've got to wait for everything to open and even then you still miss an air pocket or two unless you out and test drive it so not only you spend in 15 minutes to do the water pump 40 minutes to warm up the truck then you have to take it for a test drive to slosh everything around and get it running bring it back into the shop open the system back up and then top off the coolant you're at like an hour and 15 minutes even on a good scenario just for doing the water pumps I know they're cake to do but it's just a whole lot of waiting if you got other stuff to do then you can put your shit down and go do what you do while the while the truck warms up but if you don't you just a whole lot of waiting whereas that vacuum coolant filler that thing sucks it right down puts it in right now and that's why it's awesome I get it hard knocks you know if if you don't have flat rate and you don't need to use that tool all the time it is pricey tool it is but for someone like me where it saves me so much time and I use it probably on an every other day basis and right now in the winter time it's hard core and use because people gots here core issues now they find out oh this time in the summertime I didn't check my heat and now it's freaking 20 degrees out and oh I don't have heat on my passenger side guess what buddy you need a heater core so I've done three heater cores here within the last like week and a half two weeks we've had like seven of them come through our shop in the last two and a half three weeks so yeah heater core season is among us pulling dashes ripping them things out I love doing them I do just because a lot of the time it pays I don't know seven eight hours on average to to do a heater core job and if you're good at what you do you know and you've done them before you know where the little hidden screws are then most heater cores they usually pay an average of six and a half seven hours right around there depends on what it is you know it all depends and then you also have another hour in pay for evacuating recharge of the air conditioning of the refrigerant so you've got that to do too so in the end it pays like eight hours and I know because one of the most done vehicles that I do for heater cores is probably like the nitros and liberties those things are freaking junk oh yeah those beamer heater cores dude they have so many screws hidden in random places they suck yes anthony sorry I already gave the shirt away I've been rocking on here for like 55 minutes now so yeah but yeah I do a lot of liberties and nitros and they pay like eight hours 8.2 hours something like that book time to do with the evac and recharge and I've got those things down packed where I can have that dash pulled change the heater core over adjusted everything else in it and some people opt to replace their their evaporator while I'm in there some don't but I can change that out to get it all back in put the dash back in usually just under three hours two and a half three hours I can have that thing out changed out back in believe that coolant system with my awesome coolant filler in like three hours so just because you get do it good at doing them we do quite a few of them still cold out here me huddling up by my little space heater and shit I would love to live in the southern states where I could go you know not feel guilty about having a race car so I didn't have to put it up for ever book time on a washer fluid tank it can't be that hard washer fluid on a silverado like mine you just pull the fender well and it can't be that much I'm not sure I'm not going to quote on that one because I haven't looked it up to do it but it can't be that bad it's just bolts guys you can't let these things get you all all down and out like oh this is going to be horrible this you know everybody says this is just a terrible job to do it's just bolts bolts and screws you pull enough of them the part that you want to take out it's going to come out eventually it's going to happen so just get to ripping the guys who the guys who don't do so well starting off in the automotive industry are ones who second guess themselves all the time and they sit there and they look at all that or they look at the service procedures on how to do stuff for like an hour and a half trying to plan out how they're going to take this dash out or how they're going to get access to this dude just get in there and get to ripping well a lot of guys they they worry about it because their flat rate and they're not thinking they're well they are they're thinking about it way too much on how much time that they're spending with it so then they get freaked out even more they go to look at service information they can't figure this out they can't figure this out rather than just going to the vehicle and start pulling screws and pulling bolts they're sitting there at the computer just you know freaking out over how much time that they're wasting when it's just hurting them and wasting even more time in the long run so that hurts them and then their confidence is all shit too i hate seeing that out especially cap students if you give them too big of projects to do and they're kind of timid already on top of that it's it's kind of a catch-22 thing you want to give them more work to do and a bunch of different work but at the same time you don't want to overwhelm and get their confidence all you know down and crap and everything like that at the same time too what's up captain ron what's up we gotta use google yeah that was captain ron so if you don't know captain ron he actually uh he lives here with me in my house him and his family do uh he went from the cable industry into the automotive industry so he's going to school right now and i have a house that's large enough to to house him and his family at the same time while he's going to school and everything to help them out and everything he's been a good friend of mine for a long time so he's doing an awesome job cap students like i said you don't want to overwhelm them but at the same time you want to get them working because they're going to be going flat rate you got to let them lose some time that's i think that's going to be another one of my videos that i do south main what's up man hey i've been paying attention a bunch to your videos you guys have been putting out some really cool uh scan tool work lately i'm really impressed by that stuff yep yeah your guys is uh your guys the scan tool videos that you put been putting out lately is really awesome especially with the um the telling people how to checking out on the uh the cam timing and everything putting it on a scope showing people how to actually scope something to figure it out which is really cool diagnostic work too the mini peak of it yes i really want one of those just because of that video alone i really like that one yes if you guys haven't subscribed to south main auto he puts out some really good um informational videos they are very specific sometimes to a lot of vehicles but they in general show how to use these tools in the correct ways which is the best thing for them to scope and a scope on a rope i'm gonna have to get one of those i've just been i've been focusing more on a lot of the electric tools that i was missing out on lately and i'm going to be getting the new snap on meter when it comes out here in the next week or so so we're going to work with that one and then i would like to get two more things i really want to get a good scope um our we have the zoos at the shop so i need to work on that one and i'd like to do a scoping video with that but i'd like a smaller scope rather than having to get out the the zoos and have that thing boot up that's the one downside that i have to our zoos that we have in the shop it just takes so long to boot up and get into the application and find out everything that i need it takes way too long to get in there if i want to use a scope i want to use it as a standalone kind of thing where i can just put the pins in hook it up turn the thing on like a meter and just watch it that's what i really want to do so another thing where the zoos is a fantastic awesome tool because it does everything but yeah the modus edge actually i might be doing a video of one of those here too because my snap on rep gave me a modus edge to try out for a week just to do maybe do a video here in the next couple weeks and do a comparison video on some scan tools of that caliber often you need a scope i use a scope at least once a week just to do a lot of verifications especially on running issues you've got running issues cam crank sensor issues scoping the the coils the modus edge i'm impressed by it so far so a lot of the stuff that it does i would compare it to the zoos at least it just doesn't do the the lookups in the intelligent diagnostics so if you have your own shop or you are uh or you're doing things on your own and working across a whole bunch of different vehicles lines is really cool to have some of the snap on intelligent diagnostics because you're able to go on and see the p or whatever code that the vehicle has it will even bring it over and look at all the inputs for that specific code so it'll make an paid input list just for that you can bring that one up and then you can reference that to a lot of the other to the online versions of it so you can see known good um readings that they have on the scan tools as well as other good fixes that technicians have put into their system if you fix something on that line then you're able to say hey okay i had this code i did this test i changed this part and it fixed it so you can see a list of what everybody um did for that one the by lookups i'm meeting the intelligent diagnostics on the snap on higher up scan tools the varus and the zeus i believe are the ones that carry the intelligent diagnostics i think one other one does i don't remember what that smaller line intelligent diagnostic scanner is but they are very very cool things to have i'm not sure the exact cost on what it is yearly to do them but i know there is an annual cost on having them our shop pays for it so i don't know what that specific cost is any of you guys have the intelligent diagnostic stuff through snap on how much was that a year or annually or whatever for that one get you some indication yeah buddy yeah the sure track that's it hex rex what's up man so i'm doing a whole lot of rambling here with all of this stuff and said yeah i got a video that for this i got a video for that what kind of video do you guys want to see coming up next i've got amazon tool videos to do i've got um modus edge and higher line scan tool stuff to do i've got um one for starting tex starting out in tech school i need to do one on that one i want to do a video on flat rate mechanics how i work flat rate how i keep track of my time and everything so that's four of them and there was one other one um being a uh thing about that one we'll leave that one in the bag video with fire people fire they like fire and they like diesel diesel soot i'm not going to do a harbor freight best and worst because i don't have harbor freight tools like i said and i'm not going to go to harbor freight tools just to get tools for videos as you can tell i have plenty of other videos to do you just set stuff on look at ron he just wants to set shit on fire the tech school one plenty of break clean just add break clean there you go add break clean light on fire watch it burn ron he shopped at harbor freight this last week he did and for the second time in a row he got a 90 degree air grinder and within 20 minutes the first one the second one within 30 seconds of use the motherfucker blew up how about that twice shit sucks you always get break clean and open wounds always you can't get away from that if you cut your hand you might as well just take break clean pour it on because it's going to happen within the next 10 minutes you can't get away from that but yeah he might as well burn his little air ratchet to the ground because i was pissed for him and like i said we don't have a harbor freight here in the town that we live in so we have to drive like 20 minutes to go go to them so that sucks for him so funny story all right so story time um i think i was two weeks into my mechanic gig started out of the dealership i had a really awesome tutor you know he was he's been in the business for a lot had been in the business for like 20 years at the time and we were doing a a set of valve cover gaskets on an lh body it was like a three five lhs or something crazy like that who keeps on sending me all these messages yeah you're goofy but anyways we were doing valve covers and something on this three five lhs and cleaned it all up you know got the job done put it up in the air and we ran it for a while just making sure that um you know nothing was leaking or anything like that so i'm sitting here with the light and he takes this thing of brake clean and he was spraying it off and i'm like hey doesn't that stuff ever light on fire because you know it says extra flammable and shit like that and sure as shit as soon as he said no i've never had it blow up before that stuff that he was spraying underneath the vehicle burned off my left eyebrow shit you not burn it off brake clean burn lit on fire scared the shit out of me i was i fell on the floor i i don't think he stopped laughing for the next 37 minutes it it was pretty epic pretty awesome open my eyes that's the only time i've ever had brake clean light on fire when i didn't mean for it to now you always make brake clean light on fire with you know a torch and some brake clean but that one time that you don't expect it the light on fire it'll get you it gets good so yeah that was a good one that was a very good one almost as good as the time with me learning to weld with some battery cables hooking up a battery backwards on a pt cruiser on my second day at work that was an awesome new guy training 101 yeah don't give the new guy too much slack on his chain at least keep him wrangled in and watch what he's doing for like two months at least so south main you guys have any newer texts at the shop that you guys have or is it just you being the the main gig there you guys have a chance to do training with younger texts you are the one and only he's the highlander they can be only one you remember that show yeah i'm old i'm getting there at least i was just asking the loneliest number so we've got uh like i said the the two cap students that i've got working under me right now it's kind of a new thing for me uh kind of came on all of a sudden you know like eight months ago and me being the shop form in the shop the only one who's got a lot of the the the pull in the shop to be able to do what i need to do and to be able to teach the guys also it's been a learning experience for me too yeah ron ron knows i'm not always the best teacher but i try to be um try to be as forgiving as possible because the you guys are gonna make mistakes the new guys they make lots of mistakes but the biggest thing is to be able to teach them to be able to make those mistakes and not make them multiple times be able to catch your mistakes ahead of time in the future before they happen or learn from your mistakes and not fuck it up again i think that's one of the biggest things that i've come into learning on the teaching aspect of it and i just bring that up just because i've got another um another i think it's a it's a high school age um gonna have a shadow with me uh i think this next thursday so i'm gonna have a high schooler who's gonna be coming in and doing career shadowing so that's gonna be an interesting one too i think it would be a youtube live if that would be a funny one to get the the high schooler on his job shadowing day so we're gonna do youtube live here while we're doing this with this high school student where do you think you're gonna be in five years and just put them on the spot freak him the frick out i think it'd be something neat all right so that haunt a guy do i know you is it mark horned up and dumbed down a lot of those high schoolers i thought it was fake account no mark was another one of the uh students who was in not underneath me but who was uh changed the channel name that's a good one he was another uh hourly guy in tech who was coming up um when i was like five five or six years into the business so he went through the whole learning phase and he jumped out and jumped ship and went to Honda bravo still pissed at you for that not being there when i came back but he went out and got to Honda so i think we're gonna be doing like we need to do some duramax versus Honda videos hey south main thanks for stopping in appreciate it and uh keep making awesome videos i i enjoy watching your videos too i i have a mix of like five or six channels that i like to watch on a regular basis yes i do follow a lot of other channels here and there but as soon as these five or six ones come out i like watching them and actually you know getting on commenting and critiquing you know within the a certain amount of time just because i like supporting those things also tug of war duramax versus civic that'd be a good one but um and i don't say that to put off guys who are newer on youtube it's just the kind of guys that have put in the time to their channel so i'm gonna put in time to theirs also yeah i left you and i went to another dodge dealership dude i was gone for like six and a half months that was it that was it you couldn't hold on for six and a half months yeah it happens it happens but anyways back to the youtube guys i get people all the time who are like hey why don't um why don't you shout me out on your channel or why don't you check my channel out and i do i always check the the other guys channels out i do i promise i do um but i'm not going to give a whole lot of shout outs to other channels right away unless i notice that you guys are on point with your videos and keeping up to date with them the biggest part about guys who get into the youtube gig they do a pretty decent job and they do they do good content but then if they don't keep up on their regular videos and stay consistent at least i knew you don't have to do a weekly video or eat a daily video or even you know biweekly videos you just do you know every other week or something like that every three weeks you guys have to stay consistent with it if you're not consistent your viewers won't be there they they will get turned off really fast by that because you know you're just not there for what they want to do and then all of a sudden you pop on their screen like three months later they're like who's this guy am i still subscribed to that shit i've seen it happen quite a few times and it pisses me off especially when the channels are really good channels like they put out really awesome content especially on the diesel stuff there's some really good guys who put out some really good content but then you know they'll post one video but then they'll go like four months or five months and not post anything that shits annoying so i will not push for guys channels unless they are on point with their videos they stay consistent they you know keep good to what they have made their channel name that's another big thing it's not changing your channel for what everybody tells and wants you to do yeah them rusty cars yeah them rusty cars suck but yeah not changing your channel from what all of the other people say yes it's a good thing to see and listen to your viewers and listen to what they think and put in you know some input because it's a good thing for you guys to be able to put in input and you know to give me an idea of what you guys like seeing but i'm not going to change my channel and change the things that i do just because oh yeah you should you should go buy a Mustang let's try that one get that one we like see a Mustang content no i'm i'm not going to go buy a whole bunch of cars or you know buy extravagant things just because that's where the viewers are a lot yeah if i wanted a shit ton of viewers i would go buy a new Corvette evidently you buy a new Corvette and you do some burnouts and maybe throw a turbo on it that's that's like 20 000 subs right there easy okay but ain't doing that Chevy Malibu shut up with the hellcat i want to buy a hellcat but i'm not doing it just because you tell me to i like you jim but i'm not doing it because you say i actually worked on a Malibu my my youngest sister look at my beard look at this guy look at this guy ron always asks a joke with me because uh he was getting a little bit of butt hurt just because my youtube channel took off and oh he didn't have all that time and extra stuff but he always makes fun of me because i'm just standing in front of a camera and look at my beard mostly awesome because he can't grow one but that's beside the point oh ron we love captain ron everybody likes captain ron it's pretty awesome uh he spent the rest of the hard work for it burn and then it blew up in his face yeah that's true no we don't we don't need more vet channels no that's beside the point i'm i've always been especially in the car stuff i don't like following the status quo of everything doing the core vets doing the kameros and the things that everyone does um my very first hot rod per se side car was a 72 amc amx so if you guys heard of those or love those i have always been an amc nut i i really like those cars my family's been into them a bunch there's something different nobody else knows what they are or anything like that so i love those um so i had one of them um i had one of the new fiat 500 debarths got to play with that a little bit mess with the boost and stuff on that one that was fun traded that went to some Subaru stuff i i get i get something shiny and have to change up quite often patreon and provide consistent income um as far as the youtube stuff not only you have to stay consistent you have to stay consistent for youtube standards as well um i'll have to bring up a picture of him in the backseat of my fiat it's pretty freaking hilarious um as far as youtube you don't make a lot of money especially when you're in the car and tool side of things because you have to come up with content that's relevant you have to come up with the content that the guys are going to want to watch and the stuff that they're gonna want to come back for not just the stuff you will you just like if you stick to that you know you you do have the viewers that will always stick with you to take the front seat no you have to open the hatch for his head to hang out the back while he sits in the back seat that's how you work a fiat but it doesn't pay a whole lot it right now at my level it's enough to pay for my snap on bill that's that's what i went for so i do a lot of other things with lift kits with the duramax and everything and all of that comes out of my pocket i do all of that i did start my own little business so i everything that i'm doing on here is under one roof for tax purposes i started that one start with the youtube channel but as far as the actual content compared to how much i get paid on it i would say i get paid from youtube 40 percent of the amount of money that i put back into the channel right now right around there with tool payments with the truck stuff that i do with the lift kit things components that i put on that camera equipment software for doing video editing you know all you know all the little odds and ends they all add up uh doing the giveaway stuff paying for the shipment on that i that's not a big deal it really isn't i i enjoy doing that because you guys do give a whole lot of time and effort i mean look right now it's 11 o'clock on a sunday and most of you mother truckers have to be at work in like seven hours so yeah am i gonna put bigger rims and tires on the truck how much bigger you want me to go this is a 22 by 12 with a 37 inch tire you want me to go full 40s i ain't gonna do that right now i would love to do an srt grand i like those two a lot you should be sleeping but yeah yeah 54s 24 by 14s with 40s see i'd have to change the whole lift kit and everything on my truck to go with that because right now my my truck it rubs has some rub in reverse and turning and it bugs the shit out of me beyond bugs so that's why i'm ordering the new springs for the rear the new lift block so i can turn up my front uh keys a little bit so i can get away from that little bit of rubbing i want to be able to take my truck and just blaster everything this winter that was another question that people asked me are you gonna put your truck up for the winner what are you gonna drive no i'm gonna drive that shit out of my truck this winter yeah i put all that fancy new stuff and fancy wheels and stuff i don't care i'm gonna drive that shit through the snow that thing is gonna go through some fields it's gonna be a good time because it can snow on yeah you and your four letter words i know it's all good in in perspective but i hate snow i really hate it yeah i hate snow if it was up to me i would love to live live in south carolina that would be my jam we've gone to south carolina uh down by charleston and stuff a few times i love that whole area the southern cooking and living i love that kind of stuff and the fact of not ever having to deal with uh snow or not much of it ever at least i don't care about hot i'm i'm one of the guys where it can be 90 hundred degrees in the shop i i'm not a big sweater so i don't sweat that much in the shop so it's not really bothers me yeah being dripped on that is the worst worst thing about being here in ohio it is horrible happen to go off not only do you have to spend 20 minutes to warm up a vehicle to be even able to see out the windshield to get it into the shop you gotta sweep it all off because once you get inside all that shit that's on top of the car it's gonna be on top of you once it starts melting in the shop it's a pain in the ass it sucks i hate it plus the fact that i have uh renaughts if anybody knows what that is um you have a lack of circulation circulation issues um i get tingling numbness in my hands and toes starting at around 40 45 degrees it it sucks ever it's happened ever since look at this cough cough you can keep coughing and stick my foot in your nut sack but no i got um frostbite about eight or nine years ago and ever since then i get i get horrible circulation my hands don't like to move or work in the cold weather so that's why i hate it it sucks dude i've spent time in the south we came down for a couple of weeks at least we uh we were down there the tools freeze your hands they do it's bad when you go out and you're outside working enough and my impact that i have outside to take off a set of lug nuts off a blown off tire decides it's too cold for this battery to work how the fuck am i supposed to do any work that sucks it sucks a lot but no i we spent time in uh the outer banks a lot and then before that in charleston been down to florida a couple times i would much rather be down there checking for his hernia his vegetatus ron getting all sassy up in here all right guys well i think that's about enough fun time for the night it's freaking 11 o'clock and i've been on here for 91 minutes now you guys are crazy enough to listen to me for that long crazy but i love you you guys are awesome i appreciate everything that you guys have done for me um i like doing the giveaways and uh yeah it's because you guys are awesome so again i appreciate it you guys stay tuned in for the next week i'm gonna be uh coming out with some really cool videos i told you the five that's going to be happening dropping over the next week or so um so yep stay tuned for those it's going to be some good ones you guys stay awesome