 What is happening YouTube? That's right, we're back here with Rust Belt's Nifty Tools of the Week again, coming at you with three or four brand new tools that I picked up over the last couple of weeks. These have been able to help me out here with my job. Make sure you guys stay tuned, we'll go in depth with them. First up on our Nifty Tools of the Week, we've got some Matco tools. This is the RCT76 Relay Circuit Diagnostic Tester Unit. This unit, it's gonna run you about 201 bones on the Matco truck, or if you pick it up on Matco online, and this is gonna be a relay diagnostic setup. You're gonna have all these six different little adapters here for the majority of the relays that you guys are running. This kit is gonna be able to plug in to where any standard relay is going to plug into in like a PDC housing, and then here on the ends, you've got a couple of different styles. You've got everything from your ones with a 37A, and with a standard 37 circuit. If that relay housing doesn't have an opening for it, this will be able to use the ones without the A circuit. So you've got six different adapters for it, and then here you also see that you've got a universal adapter for those ones that obviously do not come into the kit. It's got everything from your 85, 86, 30, 87, and 87A, all those individual little pins to be able to plug in for testing them. Now when you plug these in, you're gonna plug them right in here to the end of the kit, and then you've got a positive and negative that you're gonna hook to your battery. When you plug it in, the little circuit tester here is gonna do an initial check of the circuits. It's gonna tell you what has power, what has ground. Each one of these little indicators here on the unit has a red and a green little indicator. Red indicates power, green indicates ground. So you've got that. And then also on the main unit for testing while you're doing this, it's got little banana jump leads where you can put the leads to your meter in to be able to test for voltage or whatever you're needing to at those points. The standard middle position of the rocker switch is in the off position, and then you're gonna move it to the one position that's gonna be actuating the 87, and then number two would be the 87A if that circuit is available in the relay that you're testing. Now this kit has been awesome in being able to test certain vehicles this last week. The only downsides that I'm seeing to it so far is this battery cable setup that they have to it is only about a foot and a half long. It does kind of accordion out to a couple of feet, but I think if they would have had another three foot lead on this, this really would have helped. Not every time is your battery right next to the PDC where you're testing. So if that doesn't work, then you've got to have some kind of jumper leads to the unit, to the vehicle's battery, or to the ground area there, or if you've got a positive lead on your PDC housing that's output, you can put it to that and then to a chassis ground also. I would give this one about a four out of five stars on that one. It's helped out tremendously in actually finding the circuits, but like I said, because of the lead issue right there, you kind of got to lose a little bit on that one. Other than that, really great tool. It's definitely staying in my toolbox. Maybe you guys will see it come into yours as well. Second up on our list is gonna be the newer Snap-on CTR717. This is an extension of their 14-4 line. This is the quarter inch drive long neck electric ratchet. Like I said, running on their 14-4 system, just like the other shorter version of this, it's gonna have all the same exact features. It's got the battery indicator right about where your hand is gonna be. Obviously, I wish that they would make that one a little bit higher, so it's, your hand's not covering it all the time, maybe to put it on the side. But as far as torque output and everything, works about the same. Just like all the rest of the 14-4 line, it does have the variable speed trigger running from zero to 350 RPM. Torque output is going to be the same as the other ratchets at 35 foot-pounds of output torque. Now, when I got this one, it did come with an extra, one of the newer 2.5 amp batteries, so I did like that one. I haven't done full testing on if I can tell the difference really a lot between the two and the 2.5 amp hour batteries. But so far, this one's working out really well. In comparing it to the shorter version of the ratchet, now I don't know if it's just because this one has a little bit of extra length to it, but it doesn't seem like it quite has the kick that my quarter inch shorter version has to it. Does have a nice little cover to the head of it. It comes with light LED on the end, just like the other one as well. Battery seems to fit just fine. I have dropped this one a couple of times already and still keeps on kicking. This will work with all your other 14-4 systems. It's a little bit on the pricey side. If you're gonna get this one, just bare tool and use the batteries that you already have. It's gonna run you right around 229 bucks. You get it with this and one single battery. It's gonna run you like 350. And then if you get the full kit with the two batteries in a charger, that one's gonna be running you all the way up to 446 bucks. So a little bit on the pricey side, especially when you're getting in the new 2.5 amp hour batteries, but it's helped me in a couple of different places. I don't know if having that extra 2.5 to 3 inches on here is gonna make up for that cost and everything of having the second one to it. But I'm gonna be putting this one through its paces and if I find any negative things about it, I will definitely be letting you know. As for right now, I'm enjoying it and it's definitely making its way into my toolbox. Third on our list, we come to another Matco tool. It's the MDTT9107 electric brake controller and force meter. This brake controller tester is going to be testing everything from the lighting to the brake controller output on all of the newer style trucks. The issues that we had on the difference between older and newer style trucks was the newer ones have controllers that are built into the actual truck. They have CAN bus systems and then they also have the output which is pulse width modulated to the battery plus as well as the brake controller to the rear of the trailer brakes. The newer ones, they have these controllers. They also have reference feedbacks from that pulse width modulation. So these are able to read that, read it correctly that it has the ECU output and the circuitry that is working correctly. And then it's also able to work with the older vehicles as well. Now as you see, this one has a very long lead. That was probably one of the only negative things that this unit actually has. I actually use my own little Velcro strap to be able to Velcro it all up because you always don't need that. But in the case of being able to hook it up and run it to the inside of a quad cab long bed truck, that nice long meter that lead is actually there for you. It is interchangeable lead. If you end up breaking it, breaking it and you are able to change the cable end out for the adapter to the seven pin, not the end to the end that actually goes into the unit, you would have to get the whole cord for that end. Now when you plug this thing into the unit, it's gonna light up whether you have your 12 volt auxiliary power and then it's got all the other indicators for your other lamps as well. Your ground integrity, you're gonna see that one light up really nice and bright if you have a good ground. It also has this little section right up here up top just to the left. It has your ECU detected. That's gonna be your CAN bus and your pulse width modulation feedback. It's got that as well as the power to that signal. Now the other cool thing I like about it is the pulse width modulated output of these brake controllers, it's very dependent on a load. For instance, when you hook this thing up to a newer truck or the older versions that just have the seven pin that plugs into it has a little LED lights on it, it's not gonna have the correct output reading. The little trailer brake area is just gonna be sit there slightly flashing for you because it's not able to read these pulse width modulation and it also does not put a load on the system. This unit will actually put a load onto the truck and have the truck think that an actual trailer is hooked up. So when you're putting it onto the screen of say the newer Rams, you're able to adjust the gain in the screen. Normally without a truck or a trailer hooked up, you wouldn't be able to make all those adjustments because it doesn't know that an actual trailer is hooked up to the vehicle. So when you hook this up, the truck actually thinks there's a vehicle adjusted and put onto it. So you're able to make the adjustments that you need to as well as hooking it up and then you're able to adjust your gain, pinch the controller and right here, these little blue lights will light up in sequence along with how much you either press the brake pedal or pinch the brake controller for the manual brake press. It's gonna put a load on it and it's gonna be able to test that full brake output so you know everything is working from your newer brake controller module. Very nice tool, a little bit on the pricey side but for being the first one of these ones to the market that works for everything to test out these newer trailer brake systems, it's not too bad at 207 bucks. I thought it was a pretty good deal. I don't know if you guys will think that but for all the trailers and the trailer brake outputs that I test for these conversion vans and other vehicles, I think it's well worth the money for that one. I definitely would recommend it. I'm gonna keep on using it and I will do probably another video with that one as well, hopefully you guys enjoy it too. The last nifty tool that I've got for you this week isn't an actual tool but it's in addition onto my service cart here. The service cart number that I have is in a KRSC33 APRK. It's a 33 inch wide cart that you guys have seen a bunch of and all the accessories that I put on it as well. The mat that I ended up getting it for it was a JKRR33W55A is that part number. It is a really nice heavy duty mat that has two adhesive strips both in the front and the long sections here in the front and the back underneath of it that's gonna lightly stick down to your cart. One of the biggest things that I missed from having my blue tool cart was a nice work surface to work on top of. In that case that I wanted to take something apart on top of here, I don't have to roll out the other trans bench or another bench to do things on. I'm able to just close the lid, do the work on here. It's got some nice quarter to half inch little beveled edges that stick up for this one inch outside diameter. Gonna stick right onto the outside edge of your existing top. So it's not gonna slide around when you guys are applying it. Also, it has a beveled edge that's another quarter inch up into the inside of it. So it centers itself as well. I think it's a pretty nice little add-on to my cart. I'm actually able to do a lot of work from it. At 114 bucks, you know, you guys can take that or leave it as you will for that one. You guys could probably roll out a little rubber mount yourself, but for how this one is molded and formed has that nice little raised lip here on the edge. I thought it was a fantastic buy and a nice addition for this cart. And hopefully you guys, if you have one of these carts you get one of these as well. Well guys, that's about all I have for you in the way of Nifty Tools this week. If you guys haven't been paying attention here on the channel, every single week we do a live stream on Sunday evenings. This last Sunday was really special because we did a donation session for the Tornado Disaster Relief Fund here in Dayton, Ohio. We took donations throughout that hour, hour and a half live stream that myself, Captain Ron and Justin Dow were able to come on and answer a lot of viewer questions when it comes to doing different technical things, technicians and warranty items specifically. But we ended up taking just over 160 bucks in donations that night. I will be doing some matching of that as well. And we are gonna be putting that full donation towards both the Matthew Fund here in Dayton as well as the Dayton Food Bank which also disperses food and needed supplies between the Dayton and Salina Disaster Relief that we have. So I'll be making that into a video coming up here as well. Also, make sure you stay tuned here in the next two weeks. We're gonna be going up to North Prairie, Wisconsin to Ryan's Diesel Service. Truck Master and Bertrand 850 are putting on an amazing truck show up there. It's gonna be a huge deal. If you guys plan on coming up that way make sure you message us or message the guys over at Ryan's Diesel Service. Tell them you're coming, especially if you're bringing a diesel truck. They're gonna have a dyno there. So make sure you sign up for that one. It's gonna be 100 bucks to run your truck on the dyno. Show everybody what you got. See if you can beat my big old dirty max also. I appreciate you guys tuning in today. Thanks and as always, you guys stay awesome.