 Hey, what is happening YouTube? Thanks for tuning back into the channel right here with the Rust Belt Mechanic and Tonight we're kicking off our very own live stream set up right here on wrenching Wednesdays I know we talked a couple of weeks ago about doing a really nice live stream cool hangout event and Just start doing this on the weekly something like that just to be able to wind out See how people's weeks are going and just hang out and have a good old time So this is us kicking it off. Not sure how many people are gonna kind of Tune in tonight, but hey, we're hanging out here on a Wednesday night Sassy in the house. What's up Andrew? Wrenching the bolts. What's up, man? Hey wrenching the bolts also Hey, why don't you hit me up on Instagram DM or Email me at the Rust Belt Mechanic at gmail.com and I'll see about getting you in here tonight I might be able to be able to have a couple of people on tonight just to chat for a short amount of time here and there Maybe see how things roll. I know it's a little hot in here tonight You guys see the the fans going in the background. We had a C in this hole get up But of course in true fashion once you get the nice studio all made and all figured out The AC compressor outside took a dump. So unfortunately, it's a little toasty out today I think we hit like 99. So it was kind of ridiculously Bill the puppy is absolutely amazing the puppy that we got is 10 we sold now and she has been one of the best dogs that we've had You know come out that I've ever had from the the whole puppy String So today, let's go into a little bit before we start bringing some people in on Hey, what have we been up to over the last week or so? Oh, she's asleep at the master apprentices feet So this last week or so what have I been up to I have been doing a whole bunch of crap we're gonna say at work and That was one of the things that I kind of wanted to bring up about guys working in both dealerships and different, I guess independent platforms of Taking work from other technicians that either a could not get the job done Couldn't get it figured out or are on comebacks That's one of the things that really was kind of hit home and I think I'm gonna be doing a video or maybe even a video series on that idea and Kind of wanted to bring that up and see what you guys had and your thoughts about it. I know In the shop we have a couple of pretty good Technicians, it's a pretty small shop, but we also have a couple of We're gonna say seasoned mechanics Who are not exactly willing to change with the times the the most I Would have to say and it's kind of frustrating sometimes to see them try to diagnose some of these newer vehicles and be like I said because they have not You know kind of change with the times and not really gotten with the latest and greatest things that They're diagnostic skills when it comes to these newer vehicles Boy, they are the pits like absolute pits I've got one that we're gonna be looking at tomorrow morning where another tech had a I think it's a 2017 RAM 2500 where It's a dual alternator setup and there is a code causing a check engine light and it's for an alternator Well, he decides hey, I'm gonna put an alternator on he quotes an alternator I don't know the whole diagnostic setup though He went to but it only took about 12 minutes for him to get the vehicle into the shop go through whatever his Diagnostic time was gonna be and at that point he quoted an alternator well Thank you. I don't need her quoted call the customer ends up coming back said okay. Go ahead do that alternator. It's gonna cost him $500 for this 500 bucks, okay, and he puts this alternator on and While he's in there. Well, mind you he gets the alternator already on and all done and the belt back on and everything And at which point he gets it done. He goes back out to the service writer and says hey, well, we got this on there Really wasn't sure I didn't realize this is a dual alternator setup and this other alternator doesn't have a belt going to it So I don't know if they just bypassed it because that alternator wasn't working or what's going on with it But yeah, we're gonna have to look into that alternator as well at that point You know, everybody's hands should just be nailing their forehead about Exactly what word vomit just came out of this technician's mouth And I'm telling you what the word vomit that comes out of some of these text mouth when they're trying to I guess Disseminate what is good diagnostics from what is shit diagnostics? They're trying to make what they they have done sound, you know, right and There's just no way you can sugarcoat that amount of retardedness and put it into a nice dish It just does not occur So tomorrow it gets taken away from him and handed over to Me and one of the the younger guys to where we're gonna be having a look at it because likely the check engine light was on in the first place for Having this issue of not having a belt on the alternator Even Reminds me even came up and tried to bring the diagnostic process up Which craisler has in you know, bold letters for what you have to do for this specific code and pretty much There's not a whole lot of diagnostics one that came on to this code a couple of these codes They they give you it's just check this check that is the code live Yes, it is and then at that point they're gonna say okay. It's a belt on it Yes, or no, if it's on it, then guess what it needs an alternator That was his sound process, but he didn't realize there was a second order It didn't have a belt on it. I'm telling you what McBake. How was your week going? Miss you little buddy. I'm gonna have to say that one If anybody doesn't know if there are a couple of cool guys in here beer says toolbox footage McBake has a YouTube channel master apprentice has a YouTube channel There's quite a few people quite a few studs in here that have their own YouTube channel So make sure you go and kind of look into everybody's Goodies and see what they got going on Jeff early. What's happening, buddy? Everybody else getting through their week. Okay, actually make bait you miss me by a long shot So thankfully since I started going back to the dealership I was able to negotiate the hours that I really wanted to work So I am working from like 7 a.m. till 4 4 30 right around there So now when I get off at like 4 4 30 that is like the nicest work day To be able to get off at that time be able to get done and everything and as a matter of fact today I actually went out early because we had all of our racks full Got everything in Have two or three cars and I'm waiting on ok's for a couple of them are actually pulled apart It's kind of stupid to put them back together. So they're waiting on ok's all the racks were used up across the shop So I needed to do a little bit of training. So I might as well You know kick the can down the road and head home and do some training. So that's what I did I think I headed out right around 3 3 o'clock today so I could do a little bit more training Unfortunately, you know since I hadn't been in the dealership realm for the last Seven or eight months. I am a little bit behind on some of the training a lot of what I had is still up to date and up to Par but you know, they've come out with a lot of new models new model training new technology and stuff that I'm having to kind of catch up on the training end of things Bama in the rain Hey, it's raining pretty much everywhere of East Coast today Coast tools. How's it going? Yeah, 21 people hanging in here. Make sure when you guys cruise in here, make sure you throw that thumbs up, too I like to see all those cool little thumbs up coming The new house Ryan is absolutely fantastic It's a little overwhelming at times We like I said in the videos going from a little, you know, like quarter acre it took us literally 12 minutes to mow the grass and We'd eat to now mowing over 10 acres of grass and taking care of pretty much What would be a nature reserve and all the other buildings and stuff here on the property? So it's a lot of work on top of that Getting all the normal homeowner stuff kind of rolling through In normal homeowner fashion when it rains and pours Everything else seemed to happen like that this week as well The AC went out here in the studio and barn area So I just got a couple of quotes for that and to have the AC unit replaced and get a new Coil unit put on the HVAC because you do have to upgrade to the new needs are 410 a I don't know if it's a each that guys in here upgrading to that new Freon it's gonna end up costing like four grand To be able to do that and switch everything over Kind of hard to bite onto that bullet But it is what it is and then of course after that We had an issue with water pressure And ends up the we were on our own well in our well pressure tank Decided that the bladder inside was gonna totally get out of that one. So That's another cool thing coming in for the week That's right, I picked up an old Chevy truck from an Air Force farm supply truck 6 to diesel All of the guys that I've heard that have been working with the earlier six to diesel's the non-term skis They say they're they're great. They're great little work horses great to work on pretty simple and everything they just When the guys are looking for for power or anything, you know, they're They're kind of dogs when it comes to that. However, you know, you guys are just looking for our poor farm truck That's the way to do it Thoughts on aircraft maintenance tech for older guys So aircraft maintenance, I have personally not ever been in or around but I do have a couple of buddies Who are in that field that I've come to know through YouTube? It is pretty much the most stringent when it comes to any of the autumn autumn I'm gonna say automotive repair, but it's not automotive any kind of the blue collar technician tool related repair Because they have so many stringent rules that you have to follow all of your tools They have to be cataloged reported whenever you have anything new has to be cataloged recorded in Everything has to be shadowed into the toolbox. So it's usually a lot of extra You know time energy costs when you're talking about some of the tools Grand you may not need as many tools depending on what kind of section of aviation Repair you getting into whether you're doing Mechanical whether you're doing hydraulics primarily they usually tend to keep guys kind of separated when it comes that Not too many technicians that I have known of at least have been done the like the whole gambit repair when it comes to automotive I know a couple of guys who did sheet metal repair did a lot of that did some avionics electronics when it comes to that one there there's a whole lot of areas that you can kind of dive and get into and Like I tell everybody in the automotive field anyways It doesn't matter what age you're at if it's something that you're gonna be passionate about and you want to work for it Then go and do it. I mean yes, it might be a little bit of a harder road for you But especially if you're able to have the support system family Friends to be able to help while you're going through any kind of schooling training then Why not go for it? I mean, what's the worst so you can you know lose out on just say hey I went for something that I really wanted to do and it may not have worked out. Trust me. I've done it literally the last seven months of my life was going for something that I thought I really wanted and then Hitting a stone wall in that sense of things I Definitely say go for it Bill says he's thinking about downsizing his Titan XD Looking at the gladiator or ranger. How's the gladiator for towing with a max-toe package? So not gonna lie The gladiator is a Wrangler. It's glorified. It's got a little bit more of a truck rear end Having kind of the four-link ish style suspension set up to it So it's gonna be able to you know, handle some kind of a tow or a load a little bit better than a Wrangler But when it comes to your float, it's your steering For the power that you're gonna have and towing you're pretty much towing with a Wrangler So when they say that they can do I want to say it was like up to 7500 pounds Don't quote me on that one probably know more than I do when it comes there but I I felt them in how they tow and They float along You know a little bit it you get a little bit of the front end kind of wiggle back and forth You already know how Wranglers are going down highway at highway speeds throw an extra six seven thousand pounds behind one of them That front end becomes a little bit more floaty than I really would like to see them I wish they would have some kind of a trailer Mitigation package when it comes into it But yeah, and I have not driven any of the new Rangers yet So I can't put my two cents in on that one. I don't even have any friends or buddies who have even Driven or ridden in one of those yet What was your favorite vehicle they have youth that they've had being fixed So I'm not going to say individual vehicles, but I am more of a diagnostics guy and a figuring things out person At the dealership. I am certified to work on pretty much anything that comes in the door from brake suspension HVAC electrical transmission manual trans Pretty much anything and everything that Chrysler has to offer. I had certifications in so I can do anything but there are Things that most of the other technicians in the shop do not have any kind of certification in so Those are the things that I get stuck on the most often diesel work for one There's nobody else in the shop right now that has full certification on deep diesel work As well as automatic and manual transmissions nobody else in the shop has Anywhere close to level three or four certifications on those so I definitely get stuck with those on top of that the dealership that I work at does a whole lot of conversion vans and I was one of the first guys who kind of jumped in with the dealership to get training on Working on these conversion vans whether it be the explorers getting into the Ford transits and the Chevy Line up with the Sierras or the Savannah's and the the Chevrolet Express Vans the You know crazy all Delta ones, but I do a lot of work with those but the stuff that I really like the most is gonna have to be diagnostic work trying to figure out the stuff that Just wants to throw you for a loop But you really have to use your brain power to try to figure it out. I really enjoy a challenge I guess when it comes to that one when this chip short is over Do you think there'll be a glut of new cars on a lot leading to some good deals? Absolutely Excuse me. I was actually talking with one of my old professors from The automotive college the other week about this one and that was one of the biggest things that came up that right now Vehicle prices are so over inflated Because of the fact that there's no new vehicles coming into the stream to be able to have people buy So instead of being able to buy brand new vehicles because we're not out there They're having to buy used ones. So the used market is filling in for the new and Because of that that's driving up prices Driving up prices that means people Who have crappy cars are definitely giving them away And trying to trade them in because they're actually worth something right now But at the same time The guys who have like the bigger vehicles of stuff nicer vehicles are not trading them in because if they were having to replace them Especially when it comes to the truck market truck market right now is inflated like nobody's business They are bringing dumb money if you have a truck right now that you do not need to replace Then it's time to pretty much sell it for that one But if you if you like I said if you have to replace it then you're going to be paying some premiums pricing for that one Seeing kodi's diagnostics kind of streaming on in here. What's happening kodi good to see you buddy haven't seen in a while But like I said with that In the used car market I see that once we finally do get a flood of the new Chips and electronics to be able to get all these newer vehicles from outside countries Then i'm pretty sure we're going to see a massive flood of cars especially From ford, you know, everybody sees where those are at they made that very Live and public where all of their cars that don't have any ecms in them are being stored So it's almost like you know a seventh wonder of kentucky to be able to go down and see the the mass horde of You know non-moving ford cars that are brand new It's kind of crazy to be able to see those things, but I think that's going to be bringing some You know really big deals on new cars when it comes to the uh the chips coming in and then at that point it's all about market strategy and you know with a market strategy coming in and You know heavily discounting new cars That means used cars are not going to be as valuable and hopefully the market's going to come down to a more I guess manageable level at that point Hey, thanks for tuning in buddy I know everybody gets busy. It's crazy busy this time of year especially Um, we're getting all kinds of new stuff coming into the dealership as well when it comes to the The whole diagnostic scene of things and how everything's changing these days We've been seeing a huge flood of brand new specialty tools come into the dealership realm and because they're having to you know make these specialty tools to work for The newest latest greatest vehicles and because they have those coming in Uh, they've got to make new special tools for them. So our special tool count is risen significantly Over the last, you know, four to five months, I guess um so We're seeing a lot of that stuff and we're getting busy for it This is playing chaos. Why are chips being autographed? So that if you Yes, yeah, it was one of the largest um processing chip factories overseas burnt down and probably I want to say they said like 60 to 70 percent of the automotive market Got their processors for automotive ecu's from this one factory Obviously, this is going to find a huge shink in the armor of the supply line coven in general has Just pointed out a whole lot of vulnerabilities when it comes to You know the actual automotive market and getting parts Any kind of processes that we need for Building new things or putting parts together We're we're seeing massive fallacies within the system Shipping is another huge one that's totally gone down the toilet But you know finding out that you know this large of a percentage Of the market is reliant on a single factory alone I have a feeling there's going to be some new players into the Processing chip market after this whole thing goes down because They they are not going to all want to buy their stuff from the same people anymore so has um anybody actually bought a new car Or a used car in this market right now And has anybody actually gotten a decent deal? I know the word's a decent deal Is kind of a relative thing Right now, but it's kind of cool to hear some of the Stories of people actually finding decent cars right now If that truck isn't something that you really need right now Like I said, if you're looking to downgrade or if it's something that you really don't have to replace in the this market Then right now selling the diesel truck It like I said dumb money For somebody to be able to offer $29,000 Yeah, I know the diesel version of the titans are a little bit more desirable but Come on Two or three years ago 29 grand for a used Titan I wouldn't have thrown that kind of coin at it I'm not saying that I'm not a huge Toyota guy But at the same time They're desirable cars They really are in this market people want them and the market drives that People need to stop paying MSRP plus for cars in the market self Um in a way, yes However, the drive to purchase the cars has gone on for so much And been driven so high lately because of the lack of Cars being in the market That's hard to not want to pay Or something that you can even get your hands on Even look into like the side-by-side UTV market Most of the guys who are wanting those We're actually getting the new ones right now, which by the way around here Nobody's got any new inventory in stock. Not anything that's really worth anything the stuff that people really want but My boss at the dealership actually ordered one back in February or march And he just picked it up this week You know the week of august 5th come and picked it up Got it into the dealership And went to go get it and the salesman who was helping him out Actually went up to him and said, you know, buddy, I'm just gonna let you know Uh, I know you've really been wanting this but hey, there's a lot of other people that are in the line waiting Who have said that they would pay five thousand dollars over msrp to get one of those new units Right now because they don't want to wait. They don't want they don't have that time to wait They need it for something and because that need and that one are there. That's what's driving the prices up So not a whole lot of people are really doing that Actually selling them, but the the people who really don't need them right away Hey, I made five grand on having an order that I didn't pay for yet So, you know, that's that's a pretty good little return right there if you really didn't need it That's pretty awesome. I would say if I had the cash right now seriously just Go and put it in on uh, some kind of rare new vehicle Or something that's going to be heavily desirable The new tesla trucks that are coming out Yeah, go ahead and put your money in on those because the new ones once they actually You get to come it out and pull your number on that one If this market's still like this and still wanting trucks period Let alone the newest flashy truck from tesla, whatever Yeah, those things are going to be going for way over msrp too That's going to be crazy But wait a new mazzi cx 32 Sticker Yeah, you got a drive to be able to find those deals How many hours do you think you make on an average per week? If you don't mind sharing I was a level one chris so does jeep ram tech in south florida Our dealer made an average 24 hours per week for each tech 24 You guys are running A full fledged chris so does jeep technician Dealership and you're not running at least 90 percent efficiency Let alone a hundred, you know should be seeing at least hundred percent efficiency so Here's a problem some of the dealerships that I've been seeing Before COVID hit when they could actually get parts One of the biggest issues was overpopulating technicians That means paying the technicians a little bit more On the per hour, but having a whole bunch more technicians Uh kind of flooded within their place that each of these techs are only having one day to work out of Now this is going to get your in general This is going to get a lot of your customer and warranty work done faster You're not going to have much of a wait time at all on those because the techs are fighting for jobs But this is You know throwing huge red flags in the market now your technicians are fighting over jobs You're fighting the yet work You're trying to make it as much as you can off of every single job. So doing the over Hear me or not Oh, there I am. I'm back But anyways You should be seeing a hundred percent efficiency with a well staffed dealership Who has technicians to be able to do and complete all the work that comes that's coming through the door You should not be over staffed You should be able to feed your techs with enough work to keep them busy And make them happy and they should be efficient at it So our dealership most of the flat rate technicians that we have are averaging over 50 hours per week And that is saying that they are there for like 40 to 42 and a half hours per week So they are at roughly 110 to 115 at least Each week that they come through now the hourly guys They're gonna pay a whole lot less Generally, they're not seeing a hundred percent But that's also because they're doing a lot of things that aren't making money in the shop They're taking out trash or taking out tires cleaning floors cleaning windows cleaning walls Washing vehicles as needed when picking customers up Just being the general porter thing on the same time So you're not gonna see a hundred percent efficiency out of those guys, but you really don't need to It's all about the flat rate guys and seeing them get efficiency Oh, yeah campers are crazy right now too, Bill Justin what's happening, buddy? Getting myself introduced welding it this morning got enough scrap to make myself look two foot tall welding table Nice. I've been Wanting to do more dabbling and welding lately um, so funny enough as to be a chrysler dealership right now there is a Recall that came out I want to say I don't know people come in If come in if you know the recall for the 25 and 3,500 rams where you're actually welding The tow bar links together the nuts because they're known for coming loose and the tow bar Is actually, you know coming apart from the sleeve so in that In that whole sense, they have us weld The adjustment sleeves and links together So our dealership had to buy a new welder for that one and they actually spent money on a decent welder They got a Lincoln. I want to say is this 610 series The one with the nice digital screen all the adjustments to it That one has been pretty nice and pretty easy to learn on especially when you're able to See what the machine is going to Recommend per the gauge of steel that you're working on Once you get the gas all kind of figured out and set up it made the learning process go a whole lot better so well for him That thing about petro's trade under pay people from work because they put those 80 ohm to 4 p.m. 4 12 o'clock shifts Yeah, yeah, those are that's that's hard to hard to swallow You know seeing technicians or people who are working those kind of weird hours That's that's very hard to see Doesn't matter if it's you know automotive or diesel tech kind of spot. Yeah Right later as a lot of recalls in the past few years 2018 to 2020 models Oh recalls Yeah, that is not a single manufacturer kind of thing. Unfortunately over the last couple of years recalls Has been a plague to the automotive community in that You know, they are They're coming out by the droves month by month by month I we probably see a new one come out Every day to every other day These recalls that are coming out on vehicles are just absolutely ridiculous. But Thankfully most of them have also been Stupid fixes to where I can just hook up a scan tool Kind of tap into it seeing okay. Does this happen or did this happen? No or yes And then at that point go ahead and do a flash reprogram The recall pays two tends to do and most of the time for some of those recalls Especially if they're on newer vehicles that get done before they leave We usually just give it to the hourly guy and say hey Here's the ipad our ipad. It's got a mobile hotspot. They can do a lot on the lot and You know, check this do the recall on these 12 g-brain glitters that are branding out here because they have a lot of flash programs. So Easy peasy quick and done. You know, they're they're not too bad the recalls of today aren't Nearly as bad either as you've seen recalls to be in previous years Especially for manufacturers like Hyundai who have had so much bad luck when it comes to engines oil consumption piston ring issues pcb The whole nine yards they've been tearing down engines Trying to rebuild them and ends up replacing a lot of engines Losing a lot of money. Thanks to their recalls Thankfully the domestic market hasn't really gotten into the Hey, we're going to have to replace a whole bunch of engines now kind of recalls It's on somebody so it takes about 45 minutes to do an oil change Make 60 off of it. Hey, that's not bad With the eco diesel egr cooler recalls, what's your method for getting the god awful torx pulled up? That horrendous Singular torx bolt on the very back of that egr cooler bracket Is the vein of most technicians existence Please 30 torx or 40 torx Yeah, it's on the back of the cooler a little stupid bracket and I would I would almost seriously go to to bat betting that At least 75 of the vehicles that are put back together After doing the egr cooler recall on the new eco diesels Don't have that torx pulled back into it. I would almost guarantee That they don't have it going back in because the technician has got so pissed that They just throw it across the shop So when I do that recall The tool that I use that has worked the best Has is going to be the easy red Really shallow A little rashing but flex head wrench That you can put bits into so I've got a quarter inch Bit that is also a 40 Torx that goes into that one and it's thin enough to fit in there. It's able to flex it I want to say you're going to be at about A 30 degree angle or so is where you need to be out on that one And a little bit of a longer handle on that easy red It gives me enough torque to be able to get it out Now in some of the circumstances I'm able to get it out. I've got this the shorter easy red one That's only about four to five inches long and has the dual swivel ends one end has a quarter inch socket fitting and the other end has just the Quarter inch hex that you can put bits into A lot of those I will try that one first because that one I'm able to get in there a little bit easier So I use that one to get the bolt out But in that off chance that I can't then I need to go to the longer version of it Hopefully that helps or if you have any kind of a shortcut, please feel free to share That's one of those things that's really nice in the technician community That if you're you know A lot of techs are struggling with some of these things and some of the recalls and The bs that you have to do and deal with This sucks to do especially under warranty time warranty time these days and just More or less go suck of that one They they have gotten so Stingy Stringent on their warranty times right now That I'm pretty sure That they don't do time studies For real technicians the time studies that they're doing. I'm thinking they are some kind of A computer program that puts in how many bolts have to be taken out and we're going to calculate in so many Issues or corrosion issues that would come up through so many vehicles in what areas And we're going to base our time off of that Not actually putting a technician Onto a vehicle to do a repair and timing them over doing it so many times Yeah, they're time studies I have stopped doing the request time studies If anybody didn't know for chrysler you Can put in a request for a time study on certain fixes or certain TSB's recalls Whatever it might be you can put in requests for time studies on those because hey I did this and we documented this and showed it this way and using these tools And never dilly-dally and just went to it and we knew what we're doing But we can't get it done in that time More or less the people who have put those in recently Saying okay, we'll take that into consideration. However, we feel the time study on this specific Fix with this specific part is is up to snuff with what the standards for The industry are and we won't be updating it anytime soon Great. Thanks for asking for my input Not at all ER system works great that it's in the trench Yeah, how they do time studies I am Not sure how they're actually kind of doing them or completing them, but Whatever they're doing They're getting so short to the point Where they are one of the reasons That dealerships cannot find technicians And I don't get how these automotive manufacturers Don't know and don't understand this What are you doing to be able to get new technicians excited about working for your brand? Well, we're gonna first Not offer any kind of corporate Health care plans no corporate benefits packages Probably 90% of the dealerships don't even Participate in parts or rewards points programs anymore We're gonna cut your time study labor times for any warranty work by 30% this year and Um Oh, yeah, we're gonna make you need to purchase more and more special tools to be able to work on our stuff Because you know new stuff needs new tools and you got to buy the tools not us But we're gonna make you do it That's what manufacturers are doing for new technicians these days And they wonder why a lot of these techs don't want to work for them I don't know I digress Get on my little soap box here for a couple minutes to read a couple more comments Bottom line out Dory says as a young diesel tech What would you suggest working at a dealership corporate or at a private shop? It depends on what the private shop does But you are going to get more of a broad Band of what you're going to work on what you're going to see working for a private shop because Generally, they've got to take whatever comes through the door Whereas a dealership more corporate thing They they might be okay. I'm gonna go work for a mac dealer. Hey, you're gonna get really good at working on max But you may not see a whole lot else come through the door Uh, now that's not a bad thing. Like I said, I do work for a dealership. Uh, I don't know heard the jack billy squad about working on a lot of overseas vehicles toyotas Subaru's less I just I don't know a lot about them. Yeah granted a car is a car electric. It's electric gasoline is gasoline and it works the same way in a lot of vehicles but The little intricacies of how they build things and the way they use certain properties You know I'm a little bit more one Lane focus as from working for the dealership So I guess keep that in mind that if you want a more broad spectrum of what you're going to be able to see and things work on Probably more look into a private shop About a month ago to do an airbag for a trailer Usually takes half an hour to an hour most was So rusted it took me And my tsa four hours to get it out That is depressing That sucks so much Now I I I've had that go on now. It has been quite some time Since I've done a recall or a labor Intensive warranty thing that didn't pan out. I remember some of the crap ones that I had one was a Electro hydraulic control unit on the robotized manual slash automatic transmission that comes on the Diesel pro masters had to replace one of those units and The service information made it look and sound so simple to do and warranty time only ended up paying Let's say three four hours something like that had the the regional tech associate r rta Come in and help me do the job because they were really weren't sure on it And it took us to working together almost six and a half to seven hours to replace it immediately after he's like Now that time study is a little bit off What made you think that one? Yeah, what's happening if it's not broken fix it Well, I'm not yawning for because you it's it's me. It's me Yeah, they just plain sucked Heavy equipment tax in my area make more than the operators I do Because a lot of them really don't have to work on this stuff You still got to buy all your tools and equipment and machinery Uh, a lot of jobs don't offer that you have to have it What's up ETR garage good to see you in here You have to take off the air box 30 times to bleed the clutch on the diesel pro master transmission It sucks so much Um, thankfully recently I want to say that the scan tool uh brought in an automatic bleed function That was programmed in kind of like an automated abs brake bleed So it's not I remember what you're talking about where it takes so long to bleed these The the single clutch on those. It was just such pain in the butt, but I want to say that it was I don't remember if it was the clutch Master and slave where they had a solenoid that would turn on and off to help bleed it kind of like an ab an automatic abs bleed procedure Or if that was for the The actual clutch shifting What's your opinion on a 2011? Cummins engine Now I am assuming that you are meaning a 6.7 later um And not any of these smaller Engines or big diesel pusher engines or anything like that Excuse me Ram 6 7 so yes I have worked on those quite a bit and 2011 Is a good year to be able to have Anything prior to the def age is You know a good thing to have right now. You don't have to deal with any of the def issues the heater Tubes that come over or the plugging up def injectors that still cost Three to four hundred dollars On average and have to worry about crappy def But anyways those six seven are very robust engines I honestly has never Yet replaced a single engine. I haven't even had the cylinder head off of one of those Now the only thing that I would have to say Because of the newer stuff. They are running The cp4 High pressure pumps now instead of the earlier cp3s the cp4s are More efficient. However, they are a lot less Forgiving when it comes to outside Debris or any kind of issues with fueling in the fuel system They tend to break a whole lot easier if you have any kind of fueling issues So that's why I always recommend if you're going to be driving a cp4 truck Definitely put some kind of Pre-filter and make it a really good one whether it be You know a fast or I recommend air dog lift pumps Excuse me on some of those and the factory one doesn't always catch everything really great Or people just plain ignore them people see that little light come on that says, you know with water and fuel And they just ignore it for a week or so They're the ones who are going to be purchasing You know a $3,100 high pressure pump or roughly $8,000 worth of injectors One of the other I Told him that he would need to pay me $40 an hour Joe dropped at that. I mean Sadly enough for a certified Experience technician right now You'll be going to start that 40 bucks an hour Round in this area. So this area of Ohio. It's very rural Not too close to any cities or anything like that Big diesel community still but there's a lot of diesel techs where there's a lot of diesel drops So Getting into the initial pay in this area is a little bit lower than anywhere else pretty much in the country So 40 bucks an hour is a little bit high But like I said for some really experienced technicians, that's pretty good Learning but I'm hesitant to do anything that I'm not familiar with because I don't want to mess anything up For example clutch adjustment on semis Now don't blame me on that one That is one of the hard parts of being a young technician coming into Learning and into training. Hopefully I really hope that you have a really good other technician Who is a top tier guy who you are kind of going with And being shown the ropes by to be able to bounce things off of ask questions You know just just have that kind of you know your back pocket And not just flying by the seat of your pants. So this is kind of diving straight in It's always hard kind of weighing your Hey, do I just dive in and start ripping stuff apart or do I go in and look at the service information for literally everything When I know it's just nuts and bolts, but then find out. Oh, okay It's something that's very specific to this one job that I should have known It's hard to balance Turbo actuators are a very common issue on any six seven Whether it be from that model. You're the newer ones Regardless There's a couple of different options when it comes to that Never go to a dealership and buy A six seven Cummins turbo actuator They're the same exact part they come Directly from the turbo manufacturer. They just have a fancy mopar box, you know that they come in But they're coming from From the turbo manufacturer directly So you might as well get on the turbo manufacturers website And we're one of them from there I know one of the dealerships Head off the six seven. It was now traces of off road fuel Pour it in. Yep They will board that warranty So fast They find that red fuel anywhere in that system That's a big old no no not only of that I've seen guys who have been caught by that in the dealership who have then been turned into Either the state government or EPA or whatever it might be and They end up getting dinged for like a $10,000 fine For having off-road diesel fuel in their on-road truck That's bad. It's not good You're experiencing my last 17 hour till I get my AESC and diesel engine air brakes Yeah, that would be a good thing to definitely at least get your ASEs I always tell guys that hey when you're getting into things you may not have the most experience to be able to put on your resume But at the same time, um, you know, you guys can get the certifications That at least shows that As a younger technician getting into this gig that I really want to put the effort forward on becoming trained on becoming certified On on that route. So it's always a good thing to get some more certifications That's about it. I'm kind of your area working for Wayne waste manager work is starting out at $54 an hour Oh Yeah, but hey, if you want guys to come in and work on them, grab me trash trucks You have to pay them boys some big money to be able to do it same thing California in bay area you can get 40 to 45 hour $40 45 full hours loaded tools Five years or more under the belt. That's that's pretty good That's a lot of money, but also they're in that same area of the country The cost of living is a whole lot higher too Chad Olmer, what is happening buddy? Good to see you happen in to the chat here on winter Wednesday Taxman comes for you. Yep. You can't have that off-road fuel He come and get his pound of flesh out of you That's why so when I moved on to the property here, there's actually a couple of fuel tanks And the the one that was marked diesel I still had stuff in it didn't realize how much on there or anything But ended up putting a new pump on there because I wanted to utilize it for on-road diesel for my truck but Needed to get the all the old fuel out of it So had to kind of find somebody who you use off-road diesel And then at that point ended up getting like two or three 55 gallon drums And I ended up I didn't think there was that much in there, but I ended up pumping out right around 175 gallons of off-road diesel that was still left over in that tank I'm gonna guess it was probably at least a year and a half two years old But the stuff that he was putting into uh, older farm machinery They wouldn't care one way or another on pretty much how old it was as long as it wasn't Totally destroyed diesel that Yeah, it'll come out. All right Every day fleet tech in the house still at work working away at 9 p.m and Putting in that hard hours buddy hard hours Pack yes, it's expensive to live out on the west coast That's why you have to get paid 40 45 bucks an hour. You can't afford even an apartment for that much Worked on hydraulic systems, but when they're in school and working on diesel Do you think they have very easy transition? Um hydraulic systems are a big thing of a lot of diesel work Um, you are going to have a lot of pto's a lot of aftermarket accessories A lot of dealerships or I guess aftermarket places are looking For as kind of a background for guys that if you know how to use the hydraulics and hooking them up You know how to do pto's Um, finding a job in the up-fitter market would be a lot easier too. I would say Oh, yeah, it's not about handling it But with the fuel that I had the fuel was like at least two years old I wasn't about to put that through my truck Not not even in the slightest No, yeah, you're definitely gonna have more tools in it And that's another thing that I I I tell to a lot of the younger guys coming in that Hey Don't first off don't go into tool debt As much as you possibly can But at the same time Finding the right tools to fit the job that you're doing is very important And finding a set of tools that you become efficient with And can help save you time That's how you kind of weigh out your options of is this tool worth it Is it worth going into I guess a little bit of debt? I don't I don't think truck debt Not having a truck account especially when it's a zero percent interest is that bad But when you get into interest paying interest on tools I find it hard to swallow that one still but like I said, you've got to weigh out your options on Is this going to save me time and money? Enough to be able to make up for what I'm paying and interest and stuff I don't know just another thing to weigh out I'm struggling with a question every tech has When is it time to find a new job? The crazy offers and my job is too used to having me around well First off if you know where you're at Buddy, you know what you're worth to that shop In my mind Push the boundaries a little bit You know if if you are what you say are And you are worth it that much to that company that you're working for especially there In in that area where they where you live down south It's super simple for you to find a good job And you like I said what you said you've probably already getting dumb offers from other places to come over to them Start pushing the envelope with the shop a little bit I'm not happy in what I'm doing. I want to be What's it going to take for you to make me happy? you know Toolboxes have wheels for a reason If it takes a little bit of threatening to you know say hey, I could be leaving could be heading out the door I'm not really appreciative of this kind of work not really appreciative of This kind of crowd of people that I'm having to work with dealing with all this Bull crap and you know broken this broken that not having the right equipment Whatever the great may be Start pushing the envelope a little bit say hey You better get this stuff fixed or you know, you're probably gonna have a technician walking out the door You find out real you're real quick that uh you're you're Not as easily replaced as they really wanted to think Once they actually are trying to find the technicians and realize they can't even find baseline technicians Let alone good experience technicians that are leadership roles Dillon better paying more money for giving you more to be able to stay for it Awesome, Andrew Stopping through more truck stops than I know of any other person Everyone is on the same pay scale. We're having several people leaving Well, since the people are leaving Is as the company figured out that they aren't able to fill the shoes of those people who have left yet Or is it not exactly kicked in yet on saying oh crap? We're heavily Heavily understaffed right now You can always capitalize on that one and say hey This person left this person left and this person left You know, I think that's worth, you know Handle in this extra time money and whatnot bottom line to it is Have a backup plan for yourself have a plan You know kind of moving forward if one of those offers that you have is something serious And it's something that you want to really go for you know kind of You know get in good with them try to Try to feel outlay the land make sure they're not just pulling your tail be for sure on that one and then Like I said, if you know your stance where you're at with the the company that you're at right now Push the envelope, but be willing to walk You know, that's one of the things where they're going to try to call people's bluffs Especially in the first bit, but when you start having more than one two Three of the technicians or lead guys walking out the door they find out Maybe I can't replace them as easy. They're just demanding you work more Oh Is that not the uh put essential COVID almost caught the fly That annoying little fly here in my shop right now. It's being a pain in the ass I almost got him I'll get him one of these times He has good technicians Fine took five out of the shop paycheck because It's one of your experience Yeah, a lot of high tier techs are leaving A lot of the times because these other shops and stuff are Say, you know, they're low on techs too Everybody is low on techs right now So if they can find a way to steal techs from other dealerships and not have to take the time and energy and Such to be able to grow tech from a younger age Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna pay more to steal one Gladly working this was Most I hate having to threaten to leave get a raise Scenes backward, but I've seen it work for others in my dealership. I've never done it It's not something in my book either Um But I've done it too. I don't like to do it But at the same time Uh, you believe what you believe in you know what your value is within the The tech world in the shop I have actually left the dealership that I work at now twice and come back to it two times From them wanting to have me back so bad that they pay me You know, sometimes almost 15% or more Than what I was making before to be able to come back. So That's always nice to see that Now EFT, I know how much you absolutely love Love seeing Uh the union word on that shop. How excited are you about possibly going to a union shop? Can you even say the word union? Without having a conniption fit I have a hard time with that I do But that's only because the UAW Tried so severely hard To get me fired from my job That i'm still a little salty about that Not as salty as the salt master everyday flea tech is but i'm still kind of salty at the UAW for that one Wasn't for a long time, but you're fine with it now Yeah I have just had In my personal experience So much bad experience With unions that have either You know affected me directly We're seeing friends or family working for Or just in my field alone If you guys hadn't seen that I did a a little video series on The UAW and how them going on strike. I think it was like a year and a half ago. It's a while ago Affected my job and the shortage of parts no deliveries Pretty much screwed up the whole line of What our dealership was doing To be able to get A couple extra bucks for their people and yeah, it was all fine and dandy But they didn't take into account how many people they were hurting either so It kind of sucked so at the point where I gave my Whole two cents, which was a personal opinion alone It was a personal opinion that I gave on the subject They deemed that hey, we don't like this guy enough to where They found out where it worked and totally bombarded the phone system You pretty much hacked email and put it Our dealership was getting on average 50 to 100 spam emails per hour From this whatever group that was coming through trying to get me fired for my job for my opinion On the UAW scandal at the time If you're trying to fight for getting people on your side and your view That's one way you don't do it Will your experience go with you or would you start all over as you think about? Yeah, I guess the same thing are if you're working on the same things Or are you work going to be looking at working on different things? Yes In in the grand scheme of things Unions are good for You know a lot of different things like you said Trying to get people a fair wage for if they're being harassed by corporate companies You know the the little man is getting beat on by the big man just to be able to get a couple extra hours You know reworked or whatnot Yes, there is a place here and there for them however Unfortunately just a lot of organizations have given The whole union name are really really bad rap and put a really sour taste of my mouth. That's for sure Starting over in seniority Will you be using a lot of your same experience at the new job or are you going to have to have mass amounts of training to be able to Mesh into this new job Yeah, I see how it would be Hard to start over with vacation time But obviously it's got to be pay scale enough that it's Trying to draw him away from working where he's currently so pay scales got to be at least Semi decent on that one. Maybe if you just were first shift Maybe you wouldn't be so salty Have you ever thought of that one putting that in the old, uh, you know upstairs dog and calculator and seeing how that goes Just working one of them normal, you know, seven to four nine to fives That's gonna help Times they are changing Isn't that the truth? That is definitely the truth I'd started four dollars less an hour But free insurance And top out at five dollars more than you make right now now insurance Is another really big subject that I would I'd love to do another video on Because I've learned a lot about health insurance over the last couple of months And figuring out what is available to you or not available to you To dealership that work out now they Are semi notorious for being overpriced when it comes to Your rates on health insurance and From more or less from what I we've been told or what people said Is because the majority of the workforce and our dealership is heavily using the old medical insurance bit they're Using it for recurring testing that has to be done recurring treatments There's some there's some sick people and unfortunately It's driving the price up drastically For everybody else at the dealership. I don't know what your guys's premiums are through the dealership I was just wondering Hey, our employer says that they pay 50 percent, but I never even saw that on Any kind of stubs anything it might be that shows what the dealership's paying But I do know that this last time they upped it to 279 50 like 280 dollars per week To be able to get insurance That's for me my wife and our one son So you have to get a family package for their rules and regulations you have to have a family package and With that family package it's going to cost 280 bucks a week. That's all like 11 or 1200 a month in health insurance That's just absolutely outrageous. I just I couldn't fathom doing it. So I ended up getting on The open marketplace. There's a whole bunch of third party Places that get paid by the government to help people Get into the health care open marketplace and I was able to get insurance for us for literally half And the cost that was going to cost me for my half paid for insurance at the dealership crazy stuff Yep singles paying Big money we're at too. It's like 70 some dollars an hour for a single person health insurance On top of that a lot of these places. They're taking away the options and the freedom Uh, I remember earlier on in the career when they came time signing up for the health insurance They had like two or three different choices And that's what their broker brokers would bring and say hey, we really did our shopping for you We've got you know, these different options of plans for whoever whatever And you know, see what they're interested in what they want They ended up finding out that the plans were Too expensive and the whole point of paying You know seven eight hundred dollars at the time Was just meaningless So they didn't want to do it Well guys, we are rolling in at the one hour and 17 minute bit here and I'm thinking that we're just about done for this episode Now I'm gonna be kind of toying with the whole live stream thing. I really enjoy You know kind of just hanging out with everybody getting to talk in the chat But I'm gonna try to bring in I know earlier on in this thing I said I might bring some people on and I'm I'm sorry you know, buddy, uh, mr. Brandenburg I Ended up just kind of chatting through everything But I'm hoping to have a couple of really cool people on To hopefully interview in here and for this kind of wrench and Wednesday stuff I've I've got some Some pretty cool plans for some people that I want to get interviewed. I think it's gonna be pretty interesting So make sure you stay tuned for that one and turn on the bell notification to I have heard of a lot of people that have had issues with youtube and getting notified when videos are coming out Yes, I know i'm not putting out more than you know one or two videos a week right now I am working at doing that a little bit more and more as things are progressing here in the shop But I'm able to get more time and such to be able to do some more good videos The other question that I had for everybody in closing here was You know had to do more with some of the tool reviews That I have done and can do here coming up on the channel I know everybody gets excited for tools for us to their Rust belts nifty tools of the week or any kind of tool reviews in general And I'd like to do those more, but obviously with the property and everything that I have Kind of coming up here with this one. It's made it a little bit tougher To be able to get some of those nifty tools Kind of here and being able to do the testing all for them So I guess the question is how Against Having sponsors in the videos You know having to listen to a 30-second sponsored bit by myself Would you be if that What would be the sponsored segment for that time would be monetarily coming from that company And being able to put that money back into the channel and purchasing more tools for more reviews Uh, you know, I know a lot of people they absolutely hate looking at ads And on top of that if they have to look at youtube's ads and then Me talking about some other company for a couple of seconds. They just Totally get turned off Totally and they don't want to even watch the video anymore But I'm asking you guys whether that's something that you know, you guys are kind of like or yeah I could put up with hearing about a set of speakers or a home security system or whatever it might be for A little bit to be able to hopefully get some more tools and some more tool reviews on the channel I can't wait to see me on a tractor to start in my yard. I can't wait till I own a tractor either Between a tractor and a utility side by side that I'm wanting to buy I really want if you guys know what it is that I really want to do canam You know, if you didn't know I sold the other canam that I had that maverick x3 was just a beast But for working here on the grounds, I need something more utility and canam has this new Defender XP pro Six by six with a six foot hydraulic dump bed Oh, it is nasty It is super nasty. It's a really cool looking machine So I'm hoping to get one of those. That's what I really want Hopefully before the snow starts flying sooner. I'll be able to get one but I don't know with the shortage also Of side by side the utility vehicles Who knows when it comes to that? well Evidently there's not a whole lot of people to have a whole lot of qualms against me Doing kind of ads. I guess people would have said something But if you guys are listening to this later on feel free to leave down in the comments below You know, whether you guys Really don't want to see any kind of ads in the vehicles me talking about anything other than the tools Or if that's something you can deal with being able to Handle so we can get some more cool tools on here to Do and look at Do not get a join to your gator that is stupid to work on I will concur with that one because this last weekend we had When I went up to Ryan's diesel service up in Wisconsin, they had One gas and one diesel Gator doing a pull off of each other and something happened with the diesel one And he was working and wrenching on that thing for like Five or six hours trying to figure something out dumb and just couldn't Ended up rigging something up in the end Just to get the thing going I've I've heard nothing but horror stories on some of those so Not really looking forward to that one. All right guys. Well, looks like we're going to uh Kind of tune on out of here tonight. I appreciate everybody tuning in. I really enjoy Being able to hang out with you guys on some of these awesome wrench and winstays Here coming up soon. We'll be doing some cool interviews and maybe we'll bring the captain and Couple the old posts and everything from that have been here on the show before And we'll get some really cool stuff rolling on that one I'm also hoping to put this thing into podcast format coming up here on the next couple weeks. That's why I'm kind of Tiptoeing into the Wednesday live stream to see what everybody kind of thinks what kind of You know people that we have show up so we'll see Thank you summer. I appreciate the opinion on that one Makes the giveaways better Yes, it does and I do enjoy doing some really great giveaways here on the channel too You know, I like seeing you guys getting some really cool stuff Over and over and so that's pretty nice All right guys. Well, I'm going to be tuning out and we will catch you guys on the next stream Next video we're going to be having come out. It's going to be probably something to do with the Dermax and Maybe even a live stream this weekend weekend coming from michiana Automania, I will be up there and ship shawarma indiana For the big truck show up over there. So if you are in that area Come out say hi. It'd be a good time All right, take it easy guys catch you next time you guys stay awesome