 That sucks Hangouts on air is going away August 1st. That sucks. It does suck. I'm gonna start this stream all quiet like Rustbell ASMR. Oh, no, just I can't do sign language. Hi everybody. I can't do that. Hi How are we doing? We're gonna do the entire part. We're gonna do the entire stream like this It's not creepy or anything Maybe just a little bit. Yep What's happening guys? Thanks for tuning into tonight's live stream with Rustbell mechanic and mr. Captain Ron here. What's up, everybody? So we're getting things started off right tonight. I have quite a few Topics to get through on tonight's live stream. Hopefully you guys will be enjoying what we've got here to Hopefully connect with you guys tonight One of the first things that I want to kind of get to on tonight's live stream is going not not to interrupt you But I just want to make sure this is actually going through first before you start getting into things Because technical difficulties. Yes, there's people. Okay. There's people here. I got a fixed chat. Hi guys. Yep Surprise chat's not working surprise. I must try to mess things up. Anyways, sorry And so tonight we're gonna go through a couple of questions That the viewers have given to me over the last couple of weeks or so that I kind of wanted to get into In more of an in-depth situation by situation kind of thing instead of making You know long huge detail drawn out answers on Instagram and stuff So I kind of want to get into those The question that is most asked To me on Instagram Facebook and just in general everywhere is hey, I'm a younger tech. I'm starting out in the industry I'm wanting to get in to be either a diesel mechanic or an automotive mechanic What kind of tips would you give me and I thought the I thought the question that you got the most was Is your beard real? Not quite Not quite because there's no questioning whether this is real or not wait. We all know it's fake Mm-hmm No fake news here. They make extensions hair extensions So I I literally had two of these exact questions today and it's gonna be very I guess Informative for those guys who are just kind of getting into the industry who are younger just out of tech tech school and I've put a couple of videos out giving kind of my opinions on it, but it's gonna be kind of a A Alex wishes What's up, Rory? Thanks for turning in buddy Andy's in here so starting out as a technician and Hopefully you're not starting out like that guy that I interviewed on my interview video and Starting off on a rough foot like that at the shop that I'm working at we're trying to get a new technician into the mix of things and Finding that technician to fill the spot has been quite We'll say a task challenging It has been quite challenging Just to either a get people interested in it or be to get them through step one of the interview process It just doesn't work so well so one of the best things that I could You know advise to you guys is if this is something that you are wanting to start as a career Make sure you have as much background on yourself and information to what you are capable of doing in An available spot ready to go to be able to explain to a possible employer Something that have readily on you know readily are available to you is a really good resume now I'm thinking about starting another video on how to do a proper resume for an automotive technician and some of the points I would definitely want to get on that one is Make sure you have a one-page resume more than one page on a resume multiple pages usually gets people Disinterested with what you have to do what you have to say They don't have time to flip back and forth through these resumes throughout your interview process They're gonna ask you the questions anyways But if you have that nice short detailed one-page resume that is the best thing to have for you in going into the job Opening if you don't like reading books your employers now you're like reading books is basically what he's saying Did I get this shirt off of this is actually off of dirty max jacks giveaway thing this is one of his newer designs blowing money It's kind of cool shirt. It is it's a really comfy shirt Definitely, hopefully I wouldn't be a dodge for that one Yeah, the blue Smurf and by the way people in chat I saw all people asking questions like what is the shirt and Rambo asked another question as well Since we get through like a first set of questions. We'll backtrack. We'll answer any of the questions We have on chat so and yes, Rory if you would like to come to Ohio. I would I would hire you in a heartbeat Please make the drive into Ohio. There's two guys on here. I would hire in heartbeat both George jumped from work right there I would hire him and I would hire Rory with thermax diesel I need technicians like that that would be something pretty awesome to see but then you'd have put up with both of us You know all the time so, you know, yes Yes, George junk from work It's definitely good to attach your certifications and putting your certifications on that initial one-page resume or cover letter is Something that would be perfect to have on that initial page the things that you're not going to want to go into too much detail on is Previous employers. Yes, you can because usually on your application process You're gonna have a whole page to fill out on where you previously worked and everything So having maybe just a small list of previous employers It might be good to have on there if you have room left over But the biggest things I would think that you need to focus on is both your training history your work history of What you're capable of doing and what you have done as a technician That's one of the biggest things that somebody wants to hire you on Whether it's just to fit the bill of what they need for that job and hopefully not be I guess overqualified for what they're looking for Obviously if they're looking for you know an hourly position They're not gonna want to hire somebody who's been working at a dealership for 15 years and pay that kind of you know Right, that's not exactly what they're looking for now If you're kind of hurting for money and you need to find a place and you're willing to do those things You know you might be able to squeak in but that's usually not the point where you're at in your career If you've been doing it for that long make sure you guys have that resume filled out to have it nice They're consistent to the point and be very honest with what you are able to do What kind of things you have done in the past if you guys lie on this portion of it That will be the first point of being fired You know we're like oh, yeah I can do tires and brakes in this net and you get look at a tire machine and you just Look like look at it. You just saw your first pair of titties and just No, it doesn't work that well I'm in 10th grade and want to be a mechanic. What do I need to do if you have the availability to start into a Program in your high school that's some kind of an automotive related program Or go and talk to somebody at like the local technical school technical colleges I can't say that I don't want people to go to the bigger schools like UTI or What some of the other big ones Like I'm talking about just schools for talking about like all big technical colleges For the big automotive ones the ones that cost like link and tech the ones that are going to cost you like 40 000 dollars a year They're Outrageously priced for what they can do and what they advertise that they can get you in as you're not going to get Any better of a shot of getting into a good paying job then you would for Going to a local technical school and doing the same amount of work The funny thing is that we talked about link and tech. I went to link and tech for the wrong thing because When I went to school link and tech they were actually doing a engineering Yeah, wire tech. That was the other one. What is it wire tech wire tech. Gotcha. Um, but they were doing they started doing like drafting like engineering drafting and architectural drafting. I actually went there and actually got a degree for that and Now i'm a mechanic where I should have probably went as a mechanic And now they're absolutely way overpriced for what they can do I've seen guys who have went through those programs and they seriously do not know Any more or less or whatever than the guys who go through our local technical college here and they pay A fourth of the amount or less to go to the local ones It's absolutely insane what they are charging for these things But as a private school they can show all their flashy bits on you know tv and put out We can get you into NASCAR camps and this and that and yeah No, one person out of each graduating class may get the chance to go there And work on a NASCAR team and sweep some floors. That's pretty much what they'll do too Exactly So in in talking about that one. I also wanted to plug my Latest idea that I just had over the last couple of weeks. I got to talking with the Local Chrysler program the cap coordinator at Sinclair community college, which is located in Dayton, Ohio That is the school where myself I went to school for automotive program as well as captain Iran Yep Many many techs in this area go to that school and it is a killer local school It does so much for you and is you know a pretty cheap source for actually going to a good technical college So if you want to put the link in the description, I am actually starting a go fund me page for a scholarship I'm going to be starting this rust belt mechanic scholarship And this is going to go to the students starting out in How I decided is if it's going to go directly to the cat program or to the automotive program in general depends on how many students they have filling these out And or or how much we have raised on the go fund me page This is going to go to a student who is Both got a good gpa and this is going to go to a student that has finished just their first semester in school So it'll be a fresh student going into college Hasn't really gotten the chance to start out much, but is really trying to put their best foot forward So they'll get their first semester in we're going to look at their gpa. We're going to look at their How their work ethic has gone because usually these programs are tied in to work at a local dealership Also, yeah, they're local. They're I guess general automotive knowledge what they've learned over the first quarter And then either uh, probably doing an interview process as well This will be able to go towards their purchase of tools or other things to work at the dealership boxes usually there with the grants and scholarships with the local community college they get heavy discounts on You know tools with the snap on mac mac code the big distributors Or you know, if they want a tool grant to be able to go and get more someplace else That's going to be then available for them as well So i'm going to plug that one a couple of times in here tonight That if you guys have questions about it, just go to that one and I put a description in there as well Staying pretty much exactly what I just said That will be paid out after the first semester of the 2019 2020 school year at Sinclair community college so I asked him where I asked him where the scholarship was when I went to school and he just was like You weren't you weren't in school when I You know whenever you know whenever you started doing your youtube's I was well beyond the point of uh being out of my first semester Which you know just to clarify for people who don't know the first semester whenever you go in This is just coming from a fresh student um the reason he's waiting that first semester is because You go into these classes in very first semester and you sit there and you're sitting around with 16 to 20 different other guys Once you get past that first semester About 80 of them drop I started with like 16 17 18 people in my class. I graduated with five including myself so Having having that waiting period of the first semester You don't want to give it to somebody who's going to immediately going to drop out and you know There's your scholarship money right out the door and not being used for what it's supposed to be used We want to make sure or well, I say we he wants to make sure that it gets used for Uh somebody who's actually going to stick with the entire program I also wanted to make sure it was going to somebody who was New into the program because that's the hardest part of starting as a mechanic Is the initial startup cost getting all those tools getting those extra training programs Getting that gas money to go back Uh to and from work and school only being able to work part-time So this is going to go to those guys who are starting off their automotive career on the correct foot hopefully What other questions we got Ron was a party animal in school No No, I was not the party animal in school. Matter of fact, I was the exact opposite. I was like school dad is what I was Thanks, kevin. I appreciate it. Uh the old duramax Content. Oh jrc's in here too. Miss that one slip in Uh duramax content has been coming on a lot I've had so much content to be able to go through. I actually have Probably two or three more videos that I need to do on stuff that I've been starting to do smaller upgrades here and there So those will be coming out over here in the next week or so That kind of leads me into the next question they That somebody had for me and quite a few people have been asking this one is how to get started in sponsorships So this is going to be reaching out for both kinds of sponsorships both the ones that You as a youtube creator or instagram Content creator or something like that would be looking into trying to get whether you're outreaching to companies or companies are outreaching to you so one of the first I guess points that i'm going to come to is guys don't really understand what the idea of These companies what they're actually looking for in a sponsorship The sponsorship that these companies are giving is either in monetary value or usually in just giving you free products to be able to do um reviews doing videos on And their stuff still costs money You know, they don't make their stuff for absolutely nothing and try to you know, get it out on that This is paying for advertising in one way or another So these things in costing money they want to be able to see a return In the products that they are giving you they want to see what kind of followers you guys have they want to see What kind of content you create how well you create it and how well you are describing the product That they are giving you a big thing is obviously going to be You know the the number of people that you're outreaches to So yeah, it is kind of a big thing whether you have you know as little as 500 subscribers or you have You know 50 000 subscribers They're obviously kind of beginning to go for the 50 000 one more easily And you'll be able to you know kind of get those a whole lot easier But it is not impossible for a 500 subscriber channel to get some really decent Um, I guess giveaways or some things to review from companies So the biggest thing that I would say to do is definitely reach out to companies that you are interested in But also keep in mind that at that rate companies are wanting to see a rate of return From their investment of giving you parts or time or whatever it might be So if you guys don't have that large of a following they might ask you to Purchase it and maybe at a discounted rate So you guys are going to have to spend money to be able to get the content to make money the first four or five Sponsorships that I ended up picking up here on youtube were definitely not free ones not by any means I had to pay quite a bit of money out in my first six months as a youtube creator Just on getting the products to be able to do these reviews on After I got some of those reviews under my belt companies started seeing that outward reach towards my You know follower base and seeing that people actually had Interaction with what I was showing them. So at that point they were like, oh, yeah, this guy knows, you know Pretty much what he's talking about and he's able to Get his ideas across so Once you can show that On your channel Then people are more than likely to give you those Sponsorships at a better rate or maybe even free ones I don't think I started getting free like 100 free products until after I hit About four to five thousand subscribers Right around there. Yeah, you can captain ron here guy himself Wanted to do here this last week, didn't you? Yep. I got a um got a sponsorship through boost auto I hit them up and asked them because they got these retro fit key fobs for the The older gem vehicles that look like the newer key fobs for the newer gem vehicles Um, I hit them up and that at first they were like, you know, hey, you know, we can uh, if you buy one, we'll We'll um, once you review, you know, once you do the video on it We'll give you 50 percent of your give it back and credit it back to you. So, um, I was able to end up getting one of those key fobs and then Did basically turned right around did a video on it and they were super happy about it and then Um, I asked them, you know, just the other day I was having some issues with my uh mirrors that I have and they're like, hey Uh, once you let us know what size your mirrors are and we'll send you a free set of glass to put in those You can do a review video show the quality of them. Um, and that'll fix your led problem You're in your mirrors. So so I got to get back to them on that one, but uh, It's uh, it's nothing huge, but it's a start that is where you start and then you work your way up into You know getting some bigger better sponsorships Lately I've been working really close to uh sp tools as you guys have seen I've been doing some product reviews for them And they've been a company that not only has been able to get me some stuff to be able to make content on But being able to have more of a two-way street kind of relationship with these things People who are coming out with new products. They want them reviewed You know put on to a youtube channel, but they also want hands-on testing for them as well If you are in say the automotive field You want to be able to offer that to these companies coming out Saying yes, I have a shop. I'm able to use these on a day-to-day basis I'm able to give you feedback Giving a company honest feedback on their actual things Is something that's pretty invaluable. It's hard for them to be able to pay for that honest opinions and especially for guys who are You know specifically technical in that field They understand what those products are for how they're used and how they relate to Other companies who put out like products in the field as well So if you're able to offer that to the these companies it works out really well on a two-way street Like said, that's something I've been doing with sp tools here being able to work with them as well as Some of the scan tools with top-down usa I'm sure you guys have seen the videos that I've done with the top-down art of pad in the art of mini Those scan tools I was able to work back and forth with some of their technical guys when they were first Kind of dropping these things here in the us and being able to iron out some of the kinks and making them a Bigger and better, you know product to be able to get out to the masses So yeah Mr. Captain ron here has dropped a link here Just an update for you guys who have come in just recently Started a go fund me page for rust belt mechanic Scholarship fund with the local automotive technical college To be able to give a little bit of dough to some of the guys going into the automotive field Starting out here in the fall. It's like jrc said that's like the ultimate hashtag techs helping techs right there That's that's exactly what I was going for I talked with The best sponsorship would be adopted by Jim That's a good one No, I I was actually talking with the cap coordinator. They're at simpler community college and When the guys graduate from these things they might have a couple of little things that they might be able to get rewards and everything But it's never in the monetary value And the high schools are very very stingy these days on giving out grants and things to guys That are coming out of high school and going into college And getting into the automotive field the hardest part is startup costs So being able to get that startup costs and you know kind of break that build down a little bit for those guys Getting into the technical field and the automotive field Hopefully that you know lessens the blow to the pocketbook as well as going to school for that I mean Sinclair's already got a tool a tool scholarship as well And I mean even I applied for it and I'm pretty sure that everybody that was in my class applied for it And that tool scholarship goes not only to Uh, not only covers mopar, but they also covered the gma sep the honda program All the other comprehensive programs that are there for the automotive department So it's not just like one department gets one and then one department gets one it's out of everybody So you're looking like you know somewhere around 50 to 70 people who are applying for this potentially and You know, it's like a one in you know, we'll call it a one in a hundred chance of getting a tool grant That will actually benefit you. So um having that having that kind of scholarship there just from a past student You know perspective Definitely helps for other technicians that are there Kevin, uh, he asked the question he said since he's just starting out at a young age I believe he's 17 just getting into the automotive field Should I spend the money on snap on or should I wait till I go to college? My biggest piece of advice on that one would be to buy off brand Buy cheap until you go to school when you go to school You get a between 40 and 60 discount usually on the snap on mac and matco brands Through their student programs They usually cut a big break to the students getting into the field Trying to lessen that below as well getting tools in in under your belt You know, maybe you get a starter set when you first start through them But then I personally would say wait until you go to graduate Before you buy like your biggest amount of tools at the point where you're getting ready to graduate You will have you know the starting time You will have the in-shop hands-on time in you'll have two years under your belt Going through the motions and actually working with technicians who are You know have been doing this for years and years and seeing what tools they use most often And that's going to be the biggest tell for you going into whatever specific field It is that you're going into whether that be automotive Maybe it's electrical based mostly or maybe you're getting into diesel You know depending on which area you're going into it might just be Something that you guys Need to pay attention to those more experience technicians that you're starting off with Thank you for 1o for that donation into the rest belt mechanic scholarship fund That is our first 10 dollars into the mechanic scholarship fund. Thank you Big ol buddy 410 if you guys haven't checked out his channel Tony over at 410 auto tech has a really really great channel. He does a lot of hands-on things does some tool reviews does some Shop practices kind of things he works at a gm dealership So make sure you guys go and check his channel out as well and to go back to that question as well I can't remember where I heard it from but Um, someone someone told me and it wasn't kyle For once he didn't tell me this but someone told me that Start out with buying your cheap stuff and then when it breaks upgrade to better stuff So don't go out and buy snap on unless you can absolutely afford it Um, like I said, the only reason I have snap on is because I got that discount through school But before I did and I was doing oil changes before I started school I went to harbour freight and I stocked up on what I could And when I found you know found something broke Then that's when I upgraded to snap on stuff or that's when I upgraded to something better Yep, that is a really great piece of advice Start off cheap start off easy the like you guys are saying the thousand piece the two 300 piece mechanic sets from craftsman husky Pittsburgh those things are great to start off with they get you in the door They get your hands on started on these things And then you will find out the tools that you break over over the you know the first year or so you're like, huh? Now that my budget can hopefully be able to you know afford a little bit better here and there Maybe you upgrade at that point because you'll know that those tools that you use day in and day out Those are going to be the ones that will show the most where and they will break more often So once you've broken something once or twice and have a kind of a pain in the butt time getting it replaced That's the point in which you Upgrade to something better. The other thing you want to look into as well is that I know you said you're just starting out um The other thing you want to look into as well is to see what not my law manufacturers What reps come to your dealership? Like for instance, we've got we've got a macco We've got a snap-on rep that comes to our dealership if you don't have one of those coming to you Don't go that route because it is kind of pointless I mean because then you got to go chase down a snap-on rep or you got to go chase down a macco rep So whoever comes to your shop, whether it be snap-on whether it be macco, whether it be a mac-debt tech Um, I think cornwell has techs that kind of people are coming out gear wrench Truck, I wish we had a gear wrench kind of come out of place that would be awesome Um, but whoever comes to your shop Go that way you don't have to have you know, you don't have to have snap-on It's a nice name and they've got great warranties on their tools But if you find that you're going to start breaking stuff like torx bits All the time all the time You're going to want you're going to want somebody who's going to come to your shop So they can warranty that out and get you your tool for place You don't want to have to spend time going to hunting somebody down to have something replaced Yeah, the biggest thing that is one of the reasons I purchase the snap-on and the macco things here at the shop It's because of the warranty and how Great the customer services is that the guys come to my shop physically come to me because with All of my shop stuff going on being the shop foreman being able to come in on weekends Doing tool heads great stuff doing youtube things for 15 20 hours a week I don't have time to go to towns over to go shopping and do tool replacements Or sending them in and waiting for them. I don't have time for that So the guy that comes to my shop to be able to get me those tools replaced when they're broken Is well worth the extra 10 15 20 percent that it's gonna cost me on the actual tool truck JC Smith says i'm hoping the ice cream man will come to my shop Don't we all hope for that one this week has been a brutal one for heat at least here in Ohio I know you guys down south and you know out west you're used to seeing some crazy numbers, but We saw like 94 95 degrees pretty consistently this week at work And it was pretty brutal in the shop being at around 99 to 103 degrees in there was pretty ridiculous Said it's even hotter back at Michael box I'm back in the corner where there's no air flow whatsoever. Never broke any of your tools yet. Well, just to let you know You're not using them right you're no You will break something Overtime something will break. It's a guaranteed point. I can definitely point to that one So we're gonna lead into a little bit of a lighter note here And we're gonna get all the the bitch session kind of thrown in here We're gonna listen to both my pet peeves captain ron's pet peeves and you guys can throw in some as well I want to start a line here of the shop pet peeves Oh brandon jones donated 25 dollars to the rust belt mechanic scholarship fund. Thank you brandon I appreciate that one. The link is also back into the description as my assistant coach That's pretty awesome. Thank you for doing so the assistant coach of my daughter's softball team He works for another dealership here in town or another or not another dealership another automotive shop here in town This got shared on instagram with With his his and tool heads great and stuff other stuff, but he dropped in job for 25 bucks So I'll make sure to send him a thank you. What's up, justin atv long time. No, see The big bearded snap on man right there. He's got an awesome channel. Make sure you check him out Anyways getting back to the topic on point shop pet peeves We're talking about the pet peeves of the other technicians in the shop We all know that the customers are You know horrible on getting us annoyed all day long or even the the service writers and such But i'm talking about other technicians in the shop I want to hear the pet peeves that you guys have For the other techs in the shop So the first one that I want to lead off with is going to be borrowing tools without asking Either technicians or whether it be salesmen. Usually salesmen are the worst Captain ron happens quite often. I don't have a problem if somebody Comes up to me and says hey, can I borrow this? I will say yes 99.9 of the time unless I'm physically using it right then I will say yes, but I like to know where my stuff's at So if it ends up walking away going to somebody else's toolbox without me knowing it That's when I get perturbed. Hey, some of your tools are in my toolbox right now Just saying yep And we'll lead into another point of this Not putting away shop equipment after you're done using it welders gas Torches Things like that ac machines get left out across the shop All the time. I know I put the welder back. I didn't This guy this guy right there No, there's a welder sitting there and a torch in my bay Oh captain ron. It's been just a long weekend dude. It was and I will give you that one. Wait, okay Taking a step back from this How who used to clean the shop all the time Used to Where's the used to tell me when I got tired now I used to I used to too. So I get to reprieve for this one time I'm pretty sure I was using the eating tacos right now. That sounds pretty awesome dick skinner Mm-hmm So that's good the food I cooked All right, you guys are other pet peeves when a co-worker bars one of my tools does their own mods to them They're like, oh Modifies your tools without asking that'd be grounds for castration right there pretty much Uh, huh Yep, exactly the guy with the special tools in his box Oh Yeah, those ones the guys who keeps all the hordes all the special tools puts them in his box Now we used to have a pretty bad time of that one. They all got stuffed into these other text boxes that's when our Owner decided to hey, we're gonna have a Toolbox like a snap-on toolbox down in the shop And those main things you guys use all of the time It's going in there. So in that like 30 inch roll cab cart All these all the time you use special tools are going to go in there We're in a catalog then put them in there So there should be no reason at all that any special tools should be stuffed into some of these box Down into the shop Have a guy so green he doesn't know the basic tools names Yeah, I can see that was that was me Where's that one thing that you do the stuff with? That that one thing of a jig that one thing with the spring thing with the with the claw like this that you just yeah That was me. I don't like parts department taking forever when you're in a hurry. That's just typical Absolutely stuff Now so one of the the small things that irks me to no end So when you're using an ac machine for all you guys in here, you know who use ac machines I know exactly what you're gonna say after you charge a system and you're checking the pressures and everything like that after you're done You don't just unhook the lines and roll the lines up and put the thing away Those lines are still filled with freon if you don't evacuate what's in the lines There's still usually between half and three fourths of a pound stuck in those lines So the next time when I go to hook up to a vehicle if I don't pay attention and see Oh, is there pressure on the gauges? Then either I have to Check that or I have to actually pull a vacuum and suck the freon that's in those lines out because the machine got shut off Before I can even start anything of what I do Now if you're talking about using the newer 134 machines or even the newest 12 34 yf machines How much of a pain in the ass is it to do a recovery? Very a big pain in the butt especially on the on the 12 34 machine So if you leave a half to three quarters of a pound Left in those lines and I have to use the machine next and I have to wait a half an hour To do a full recovery on what's left in the lines Oh, it bugs me so much to get that damn machine out and see pressure still on there That's such a big pain in the butt Uh, jake says messy texts that have their bench covered in junk Can't find the top of their bench. I can definitely get that one Yep, definitely There's one of those everywhere Oh, I'm not putting grease tubes back in the grease guns And we don't use grease guns that much so it's not that huge of a deal but like the The 134 and the 12 34 die we have a die injector gun because our machine doesn't inject the die Having that pumped out and there's no die left in those other like this much Yeah, there's not even a quarter of an ounce left in there and then all of a sudden Okay, now I got to take this apart go find the tubes fill it back up. No when it's empty be fill it Such a pain in the butt I know i'm kind of i'm i'm kind of jealous of you guys you guys didn't know uh jay young over his channel put on a big youtuber extravaganza meat down in halls, tennessee Unfortunately, I had to work on saturday and was not able to make it down there for that one But you guys look like you had a killer time Down in the hills of tansy went to Memphis went to where they go coyote ugly and One other place they only a couple other two or three places, but it from what I saw on facebook It looked like it was a fun time. Yes jay c when you use all the hand cleaner and don't replace it We got a guy that does that though. I mean we got yelled in but That's such a pain in the butt Such a pain or the freon In the machine you charge a vehicle and there's only like a fourth of a pound of freon left in the machine It tells you how much is left right on the screen and you don't say anything. You don't refill it all right When the delivery driver from parts drops off stuff without telling anyone you're stuck waiting for parts that are sitting Sitting in parts. Yep. It's just sitting in the delivery area That is one of my big that is a big pet peeve of mine like Like you're waiting on parts and they're sitting up there and nobody says anything to you and you've walked by Like two or three times and they know you're waiting and they know you're waiting on them and then you know All of a sudden you look up and they're like are these mine? Yeah, they've been sitting here forever. Well Fucking tell me Exactly Easy little one paper towels. Yep. That's another big pain one of the other big ones Uh as me as a shop foreman would be lying about comebacks Everyone has comebacks another thing as a new mechanic just guarantee that you Will have comebacks or you have comebacks. It's gonna happen. You're gonna get your ass bitten at one point Or another is a flat rate technician When one when that come back comes back in Yeah, you have Everyone has Guaranteed when that comeback comes back in Have the decency to look at it and say, you know what? Yeah, I missed something my bad Let me take care of that. You know Get the whole, you know, self-righteous guts out of the way and just say, yeah, I messed up not Oh, no, you know, I did that and it made it a little bit better or Yeah, I I did this and you know, it's a totally different issue But yeah, it does have the same code, but it's the same. It's totally different has nothing to do with what I did Why would the code have gone out? I'm laughing because I know who you're talking about Maybe Maybe Yeah You have the balls to speak up and say, yes, I messed something up And I will have it fixed That is one of the biggest pet peeves I have as You know the shot form and I have to relook through a lot of these comebacks To find out if it was an actual comeback issue for a technician or if it was something that Oh, you know, he got, you know bitten or it's just a coincidence that he had his check engine light on And the check engine light came on for something totally different like three days later You know, that's, you know, one of those hard things to be able to tell but Speak up and be honest about it I'm not gonna lie about that one Uh, we'll say some are uh broken shop tools without telling anybody That's a you know, that's just stupid because especially with our shop Our shop whenever something's broken, we're gonna fix it or replace it It's not like it's gonna sit there forever You're gonna get in trouble for you know, using it or breaking it. No, it happens So we're gonna get it fixed. It's a shop tool. Mine is, you know, we've got that we've got that, uh Closet that we keep all of our like chargers and stuff like and you know jacks and stuff like that in and happened to run around the shop looking for like a battery charger or the ac machine or the jack or something like that, you know Just like, you know People not putting shop tools back in the right place. You have to find it You know, you have to run around the shop and be like, oh, where's this? Where's this? Where's the battery charger? Yeah, who's got it stuck in their bay? Who's got a hiding? There's this place for everything our shop has a place for everything put it back to where it's supposed to go Uh, yes, george. I hate when people ask for your advice And then they tell you they're that you're wrong or they don't take your advice Why would you ask me a question if you didn't want my actual answer regardless of what it's gonna be If you are smart enough Or think i'm smart enough at least what you to ask me a question ask you questions all the time uh, huh Say hey your your bff brad's in here. What's up, brad? He's saying you're looking mighty cute. Man. Well, buddy. It happens It's kind of hard not to look cute when you look like this Soon as the g r8 who has the g r8 Yep, exactly When the parts department can't get parts right or the part is incorrectly labeled No labeled where it comes in the like yes This is the right part number and it comes up as like a control arm But you have a tie rod end in your hand. You're like, yeah, somebody labeled that shit wrong Or our previous parts guy who would order things and it would be completely wrong Yeah, you tell him I need a left outer tie rod end You end up getting a sway bar link. Yeah He just didn't know where these things were nothing. I hate his customers customers in the shop Like physical customers coming back to the shop area It's funny. They they put signs on our doors to say You can't go past this point unless you have authorization and then they still come back there Rory I totally get that one I guarantee with all the videos he's put out on duramax's and doing a lot of the bigger fixes How many questions a day do you get? Hey, I need to do head guests. It's online. What am I going to run into? And then they go to do it and they don't take your advice. Yes. Yes, Brandon. Beth is still there Uh-huh. Beth is still there Yeah, that is so annoying being able to answer a guy's question that he has the goal to ask And then he doesn't take your advice customers that sneak into the shop and ask you 10 000 questions where you're trying to work So in our shop, they decided for Legal reasons on all of the doorways that lead into the shop. This says no customers permitted beyond this point It is a legal violation It says that on the doorways every single doorway And every single doorway is closed And the customers will still After seeing that in bright bold silver letters Try to come into the shop. I don't look And these letters they are like Four to five inches tall. They don't they don't look it is so it plus it doesn't help whenever, you know Here's the door and then here's a big ass garage door that's standing wide open Just walk right through the garage door Or the ones that they maybe they won't come in to the shop But they will look and they will stand They're just like this standing right outside the edge of the doorway You know making sure I want you to touch my vehicle boy Then nobody does exactly if you don't trust me enough to work on your vehicle Don't bring it to me. I I don't want to see you in here I get I get a laugh whenever I see the customers like peaking through the freaking door windows like they're like Looking all around like this trying to see what's going on I just say they're laugh. Yep, exactly another pet peeve of mine is lazy wiring jobs So another pet peeve of mine for the guys who work in the shop We have to install a lot of these things called pastimes And they are pretty much a little black box that is able to shut off the ignition from starting if a customer is not paid for You know made a payment on their vehicle so we install these and For those times that I have to look at scotch locks I just I i'm twitching right now. I'm just thinking about the word scotch lock I cannot physically stand scotch locks three times in the last two months I have walked over to the parts bin which Our part supplier for our electrical connectors in little shop supplies is a guy Uh company called tifco So he comes in he looks and sees what's missing and he replaces them I walked in and I took all the scotch locks and I dumped them into a big cardboard box taped it shut and set it on top and Said we don't want these. I don't want them. I don't want to see them He forgets and he comes back the next week and he refills the scotch lock Like I don't want to see scotch locks in this place jump from work says if you use scotch locks at our shop You get fired that is exactly right. That's why I said I don't even want to see him in the shop But he keeps on refilling the stupid bin and I'm like I don't even want this bin in here Stop bringing them in all right Yeah, you scotch lock Nope Absolutely hate them as you guys can see on my video where I installed my op 7 rear tailgate light All of my trailer harness was scotch locked in for the seven pin inside the bed It was such a depressing time Having to cut through all of that nasty wiring because living here in the rust belt scotch locks just do Not work So dermax diesel wants to know what a scotch lock. What the fuck is a scotch lock? Just just do yourself a favor. Don't look it up. Yeah it says little plastic crimps with a Single metal sleeve with it's like a little u-thing and you pinch it and it cuts into a wire instead of physically soldering two wires together Or tapping into another one twisting the wires together soldering them heat shrink Nice and sealed up It just literally crimps two wires together so we can go back to use some wire nuts if you want Yeah wire nuts. We're gonna use interior wire nuts on this kind of stuff Just like a ceiling fan. It's fine Guy is asking what's wrong with his ac asked for pressure readings went off ambient temp pressure One compressor on he says low. I asked for specifics. He said no signs of leaks No, yeah one of those guys that if they're asking you for that detailed of questions and they're still not taking your advice Such a pain in the butt customers coming into the shop and going through your tools If a customer was going to come into my shop and touch my face They would they would get escorted off the premises Probably in pain too. Yeah. Yeah Nope, that would not happen Yeah, you're no mechanic. Yeah, this guy right here. Seriously come over to Ohio and I'll I'll put a mechanic tag on your sleeve Gladly come on. Royer speaking. Check says call the police. You're almost done You're almost done with that military stuff. Come on over here work in Ohio Gladly People who like to borrow your jump box exactly so mine Funny enough the other people who work at the dealership. I I've done reviews on a lot of those jump packs and stuff And I keep those in my toolbox the ones that I purchased Usually the genius boost ones are the ones that I have and for some reason They don't know how to use them Which is a good thing. I guess because they look at it. They're like, well, I try to use your jump pack thing I said yeah, it'd been nice of you to ask Well, I couldn't get it to work. Anyway said darn, guess you're not gonna use it again I hate it when they do that one or or they break your jump pack Yep, I had a service manager came back And went to grab my jump pack without asking It was plugged in and he just grabbed it and was walking off away from my box Get it ripped the charge port out of the inside of the jump pack And he had to buy me a new 175 dollar jump pack He was kind of perturbed that day. Funny thing is this still works, too Yeah, it does JC. Yeah, your jump box has got to be a big and Now JC, have you tried Any of the new genius boosts like the the 150s or the 200s like the big ones I'd like to see you try one of those. We ended up getting a one gb 150 For at the shop for the bigger diesel stuff with the 450s and the 5500s that we work on and it'll start anything I have never had anything that cranks even the slightest bit slow with using that jump pack on top of that It's also got a voltmeter on it too So when you hook it up to the battery, it'll actually read Current voltage before you turn it on to let you know, you know, just what the battery is sitting at So they're really nice Yeah, what are you just too late to start mechanic school in your opinion? I'll let you answer that one. Uh, honestly, there isn't a too late of an age um, I started Two years ago, so I would have been 36 at the time um So, you know 36 years old and I did a career change going into being a mechanic um, but we had guys in our in our class that um Some of them were just uh, what's the word? Any experience? No the no they were there, but they weren't uh, not proxy. What's uh It's They were there they it was like they filled a seat, but they don't have to pay for it Oh, okay. I don't want to talk about. Yes. I can't think of the word Um, but we had a guy in there. He was double my age Just taking the class just so he could learn extra, you know, learn more about what was going on with his vehicle So, I mean, honestly, there's not a too late of an late of an age to get started being a mechanic. It really depends on You know, if you think it's too late I mean, you know, if you if you're going to go through go through and get your certifications everything and start working in that working in a dealership you have to um, you have to keep taking consideration that Can your body handle it if you are older? I mean, no, that's a jump pack jc What he said he put three group 31 batteries in parallel with three sets of jumper leads The two and zero out kit out cable and mounted it all to a golf cart Now that is a jump pack. That is a jump. That's a crazy jump pack My advice on that one, uh age and starting it and it's not really going to be The fact of age it's going to be about financial stability If you're financially able to jump careers between this one and going into mechanic Or if you have, you know sponsors or any way to be able to get into that one Then, you know, that's probably one of the biggest things When should a mechanic retire asking for a friend asking for a friend? Uh, jim never when you have enough money to not have to worry about working on your own car When you have when you when I get to the point, wait a minute When you have enough technicians under your belt that you can sit back and watch our vials work That's when you can retire when I get to the point of I can say, you know what? I don't want to work on my own car today. I want to pay somebody else That's the day. I'm gonna retire. Yeah now there's some things like on the truck where you know, it might be where I don't have the facility to be able to do that and you know a special circumstance but like when I get to the point where My car needs an oil change and I'm gonna take it to fucking walmart or jiffy lube to be able to get it done Why don't you take it to walmart? That's going to be the day that I retire that one right there So the oldest tech that we have at our shop right now is 60 years old And that dude is more ripped than anybody in our shop Yeah, get into this 60 year old guy takes transfer cases and puts them up onto his shoulder and lugs these things up in Jeeps and 1500s and stuff all day long. He is a heavy line beast and still does it at 60 years old all right, so brad we just started a go fund me account for a Mechanic scholarship fund it's going to be the rust belt mechanic scholarship fund It's going to be going towards a technician that starts into the automotive program at sinclair community college Which wears where myself and captain ron both went to school Yeah, this is going to go on from now until the end of the first semester of the 2019 2020 school year We're going to do some interview processes and be able to give out Every single dollar that you guys donate to this go fund me account to the Either cat program or general automotive program at sinclair It's going to be able to help these technicians that are getting started into the field be able to purchase Toolboxes tools Any other kind of work things that they might need going into their first year of actual work So yeah, it's not a scholarship. So we can get tools. It's not a scholarship. So other people can get tools I have plenty enough tools and I don't need to get give outs or things from uh, I don't have plenty of tools, but i'm not going to take from you know kids Who replaces transfer cases? Oh, yeah I see We've been doing a lot of transfer case stuff. At least I have we got that transfer case built up in Wisconsin and just an fyi jc Kodiak truck up there. He does transfer cases not just for Chevy's but for dodges And fords and everything too fords. They like to blow up their entire cases They don't just come apart in little bits here and there. They blow up the whole thing Out the door. You're never going to see it again. Yeah, but mark up at kodiak trucks does the best job at rebuilding and beefing up Any transfer case on the market right now Yep, and it's going to be going to Brad, it's going to be going out to uh one or two of the technicians into those programs You can read more on the information on the go fund me page George, I do not steal from kids Yes mark is the man A conversion they never came off the line as four wheel drive No, no, it's not a kodiak. It's kodiak trucks That is his business name Back in the day when I believe it was 70s 80s He was in the first like initial big monster truck scene and he drove the big kodiak monster truck on the monster truck scene So that's where his name kodiak truck comes from They worked on a couple of kodiak trucks, but that's not where that name comes from Hashtag captain ron future sweatshop for kids Yep, exactly. It's called a dirty old sweatshop. Uh-huh So, yeah, the other thing that I wanted to kind of get to here Um on the end of the live stream here because there is a couple of other ones that are going to be going live here in a second the maintenance man and um A couple other guys are going to be going live here soon Tool heads crate we've had a lot of questions on tool heads crate Uh tool heads crate if you guys don't know is the monthly subscription service that myself mr. JRc 54 and captain ron I've been putting on here for the last uh five months or so And one of the other things we get is guys coming in That's right. No, but as goes live at nine also um So we get questions all the time on resubscribing So guys that have subscribed to a crate These things will automatically renew It will tell you that when you go to sign up for the tool heads crate every time whether it's a One month a three month a six month or a one year subscription. They are set to automatically renew So if you don't want it to automatically renew you need to turn that off It is just a feature that automatically happens through the site in the server unit That we are working on so just keep that one in mind for that Um, also this next month. We got some really cool sponsorships and things for tools that we were Uh got going on the biggest one is motive x tools. We've gotten the chance to do some Um reviews on some of their tools as you guys saw on my Nifty tools of the week this last week. They ended up giving us not one not two but three Sets of socket sets. They gave us a quarter inch of three eighths and a half inch drive Socket set with ratchet extensions swivels the whole nine yards. So we're not just gonna have one We're gonna have three golden wrench winners this month on tool heads crate We've also put out quite a few different promotions on instagram We're kind of trying to uh grow our instagram account as well to be able to get the information out there Easier and faster for you guys who are wanting to know that So we put out some promotions up there as well if you guys haven't signed up for tool heads crate We have put out a five percent off coupon on there And we've also are doing a giveaway for some free crate as well Yeah, uh that one of which we are going to go live on instagram Over on the ninth, which is this coming Tuesday. That's usually the cutoff date that we have for our monthly subscription So right there. That's when we're kind of going to be cutting things off So the winner will be announced the evening after 5 30 this coming Tuesday So if you guys are not subscribed to Tool heads crate on instagram Make sure you guys subscribe to that one because that's where we'll be going live through not mine not captain runs But tool heads crate Their actual instagram account. So make sure you guys give that one Follow Stop stop clicking it'll stop Just stop but it's annoying me. Yeah, I know. All right. So back to the instagram thing So if you guys go over to instagram make sure you guys like he said follow tool heads crate The free crate that we're doing for the month of july If you go you tag two friends and make sure you're following us on instagram Then you are entered into a giveaway for a free month crate for the month of july Like he said also the five percent discount on new subscriptions. That is I think it's july crate all in word gets you a five percent discount So if you guys know of anybody who wants to get in on this they can go over to tool heads crates website Use that coupon code get five percent off and that will take care of that So mason. Yep. Unfortunately that one is only over on instagram that giveaway But the golden wrenches you don't have to have an instagram account for that one Nope If you can just sign up for the tool heads crate that automatically gets you put in because we just do random drawing from subscribers who get the monthly crate for those golden wrench things and Sometimes we don't even know who puts them in or who gets them. We end up putting the wrenches in My son puts them in somebody puts them in a random boxes Then we'll put stickers on all them later. So when you guys get one of those wrenches You have to let us know that you got it because we sent it out to you. So you got to let us know We have no idea But yeah, we're gonna have just for keeping with the july theme We're going to have a red a white and a blue Wrench one of them is going to win the half inch set one i'm going to win the three eighth set One's going to win the quarter inch set happens. So Yeah, i said i have a quarter inch. I have eight and a half Whatever all three sets are going out red white and blue america So make sure you guys get signed up for tool heads crate. Um, you got until the 10th Night the ninth at midnight on tuesday midnight on tuesday to get in on that Going back to chat Kevin asked how much the subscription for tool heads crate is it is 35 99 a month Plus your shipping. So just keep that in mind as well. And then someone else also asked Kevin also asked is there any way you could do a cheaper tool heads crate for people like me We probably won't be doing any cheaper tool heads crates. However, we are going to start looking into getting Selling items selling items individually from past crates or Doing a past crate purchase box a one a one time box So if there was a you know a crate that you missed that you really liked and you wanted to get the tools out of that We're going to try to get some of those crates up But we're also going to be selling the crates or not the crates But we're going to be selling the contents of the crates individually as well uh from the website and we just got to get that put up there That is the other big thing jrc 54 if you guys haven't checked out his channel. He is doing a huge giveaway on his channel He's going to be paying off at least portion or mostly or all of somebody's tool truck account I guess I need I guess I need to get a tool heads crate now. It's kind of crazy All you have to do is you have to subscribe to all of us Jim ron and me and you also have to sign up for tool heads crate Which is the 35 99 a month sign up for a month that one And you'll be put into that drawing make sure you go and check out his channel as well Jim if you want to put a link up to where they need to go for getting in on that one You can do that one also. Andrew said he wants jim's quarter inch quarter inch in his box Yes, exactly Antonio So that's what we're going to actually start doing here in the next week or so We've been getting an inventory of anything that we have kind of left over from Overorders of the last couple of months Just trying to hopefully get to that one So that's about all I have for tonight. Don't want to go over too much into everybody else's streams for this time Thank you to everybody who donated to the rust belt scholarship fund We're going to keep on putting that one up in all of my videos as well as the live streams I don't want you guys to donate any money to my specific live stream I want you guys to donate to the scholarship fund see what we can get that one up to Help out some newer texts going into the industry here in the late fall time And if you can't do it right now, we're like I said, we're going to be doing this for a while We're going to mention it on the on our streams our youtube videos our live feeds all this stuff So if you can't do it now and you can do it later by all means But even if it's something simple as five bucks five bucks is helping Good deal. Yep. It's definitely going to help and you guys can keep a hold of that link If you guys want to see where it's at specifically, we're going to make a goal of $5,000 for this grant We're going to see where we're at you guys can keep updated on that one And we'll definitely be doing a live stream When it comes time to giving it to that technician going into the industry Well guys, that's about all we got for tonight. I appreciate you guys tuning in anything left Uh, just stay awesome. That's right. You guys stay awesome. See you next time guys And stay awesome high five Not helping I say awesome. No click it high five Click it. Don't leave me hanging. You can't do nothing. I can't no you cannot Ha you did nothing high five Thank you. Stay awesome