Is Sandro the Hispanic(?) chap guy with the neck tattoos? If so, he has another fan here in the U.K. he knows his stuff, and is funny at the same time. Smart and funny. The best combination.
Sandro talking about ruining your pedicure while pulling an oil plug just shows that he's such an amazing mechanic that he is out here changing oil with his feet, incredible!
lmao when he said "and thats how you steal gas from your neighbour" i died the fact that the the more you know card popped up made it 100x better hahaha
@@LobbyDaLobster yeah that's why I think it's a waste of time to feature them at all, since the logo alone is enough to dispel doubt on whether it's real or not
12:30 Reminds me of a funny time where a friend of mine wanted to use his remote start to warm his car up but he was too far away to get it to work. We both happened to be sousaphone players (Tuba that wraps around you), so he looked up at the bell on his, touched the fob to the brass and started his car from a literal football field away.
I feel like people who do the wrench on wrench crime have never thought of getting a long hollow pole and sticking it over the wrench for leverage. It's a whole lot safer and you can get way more leverage because you can make the wrench essentially longer just by sliding it over the wrench. I've used this method quite a few times because I like to keep my fingers and finger nails and not get blood blisters for when the wrenches slip off each other.
13:00 Kyle Hill actually made a video on that specific topic; it actually works because the wavelength of the radio waves used in those keyfobs for your car are a similar ratio to the size of a human head, so providing a slight barrier that lines up with the wavelength amplifies the signal. Or something, it's been a while since I saw that one.
What you are observing is a true quantum effect. In short, the radiation emitted by the key causes the atoms in your brain (mostly the water) to oscillate. The net effect is range amplification. To describe this particular phenomenon it is useful to think of the matter in you head in terms of a waveform, not as as a particle. It works with a bottle or jug of water too.
I remember in my apprenticeship in metal works, the very first thing our instructor told us 16 year olds was: DO NOT PUT THE COMPRESSED AIR PISTOL IN SOMEONES BUTT! Horrible accidents happened! First lesson 😄
Just discovered this channel a couple days ago. I've got to admit, I'm HOOKED! Totally subbed. Been turning wrenches for nearly 30 years and have never seen another channel like this.
Keep bringing Sandro back, dude's really entertaining. I wouldn't mind seeing him mixed into other videos/content as well. Just seems to have a strong, nice personality for the camera.
At 9:48 where they show the guy using three wrenches, there's a safer method that's been around for a long time. Get a chunk of steel pipe that can fit over the head of the wrench and use that to extend the handle. It's often nicknamed a cheater pipe because you're getting more leverage and as-such you're able to get a LOT of torque that you wouldn't have otherwise. I also say this because you could see in the clip that the middle wrench was flexing and I would be afraid of it snapping.
They also make leverage bars for wrenches that are flat and have two big teeth on the end that hold the wrench in. I use one all the time to break tie rod nuts.
Another option for the bucket separation trick is to use water. Water doesn't compress, but it'll also find it's way into places. If you can blow air down into a stuck bucket, you can blast water down into the same place. So if you don't have an air compressor at home or lying around, you can crimp the end of a hose or use a hose nozzle and spray it at the seam where the two buckets are stuck together and you'll end up blasting enough water in there that it'll fill up, you'll be blasting more water in than it'll be able to push out on top of an empty vessel, like a bucket, will float on water if it's not compromised. So the water will try to find the easiest way out, which is not where it's coming in; oh hey, while it can't compress, it can shove this bucket that's limiting its space out of the way and make it float. But my point is that using water from a hose is essentially the same thing for those who don't have an air compressor and it's doing it with a "thicker" fluid than air. The key is that more fluid is being shoved into the space between the buckets through the tiny gaps that are there with more pressure and speed than the fluid is able to initially flow out of the same space.
Pretty sure the zip tie on the drain plug isn’t for keeping your hands clean. It’s for keeping the drain plug from falling into the oil catch pan if it slips out.
The remote unlocking thing is true. Jeremy Clarkson did it way back when on TopGear and at first I didn't believe him and then I tried it on my own car from over 100 meters away in pitch black abandoned airstrip at a festival and then i saw the blinkers light up, they previously werent and i wasnt moving at all.
Ya I’ve don’t this so many times. If you forget to lock the car and you go inside the house just put the FOB to your chin and it gives you more distance.
The flat tire hack with the air hose really works. I worked for a company that made tire repair products and I came up with a SKU that we sold in Walmart stores in the 1990s. It was a little pack to carry on motorcycles for tire repair, and one of the items in it was a hose like this. Since it was my idea, my picture was on the packaging. I was posing in front of a bike while using the air equalizer hose. However, I used to joke that why would you take air from your other tire when there are thousands of other tires out there!
That ziptie on the oil drain plug: It's to make sure you don't drop the plug as it detaches as you're propably pushing on it to stop oil from pouring out before all the threads are cleared. I've dropped the plug a bunch of times. Can't imagine it being to just spare a few drops of oil on your hand.
13:30 I love how this is the third time I've heard Sandro reference Magneto in these channel. Ofc a mechanic's favorite superhero is the one with metal manipulation powers 😂😂😂
At 7:52 the idea of the air hose nozzle and Black syphon hose is to create a vacuum from with air pressure. With the nozzle inserted into the hose at the opposing angle a vacuum will be created which will pull gas from the upper tank. The air hose should be turned off well before the gas enters the lower tank.
The first time I changed oil I dropped the drain plug in the in the bucket and had to fish it out. The zip tie might be handy for some one who can't keep a grip on it.
When Justin asked if someone would be strong enough to pull the rope and start the car just made me imagine him pulling on the rope and ripping the car in half. "And that's how you take gas from your neighbor" That killed me.
I was a radio operator when I was in the military. My understanding is that key fobs also use radio waves to send the signal to lock/unlock the doors. I can't think of any reason why holding a fob to your head magically makes it work better. My best guess would be something to do with helping direct the waves in a specific direction. That or making them bounce off of stuff (hilariously, you can bounce radio waves off a building to get in contact with someone).
Being Generation X I have lived the birth of car security. 13 min into your video I have placed the car alarm fob to my chin to find my car from afar many times. This totally works! Sadly now I just check my phone to see where my car is. At least I can still use a paper map to find my way. great content fellas!
Yeah so hes 100% correct, the shape of your cranium allows the signal to bounce off the rear of your head and be sent out the front, allowing for extra radio waves pushed out... also, the remote, is higher.
12:33 - the "car-remote on your head" thing is 100% real. It works because your head is mostly made of water, and water can amplify the specific RF signals from key fobs. Here's a video from Kyle Hill ua-cam.com/video/ZrIf0PArZu4/v-deo.html It's super easy to test for yourself. Next time you park, walk away from your car and keep clicking the lock button until it stops responding; then put your key fob against your neck/head and try locking it again. Nine times out of ten, it'll work.
As a company driver, I pull down around $1,500 a week, running about 2,000 miles, get weekends, don’t have to worry about insurance, maintenance, permits, payments, or headaches. Spent 4 days with a seized hub in Mississippi earlier this year. Got breakdown pay for 4 days. Wasn’t what I would have made if I was running, but it definitely made sitting for 4 days a lot easier.
10:40 We used to have a pipe in our home garage that was specifically for extra leverage on the wrecker bar, or the wrench (if it could fit). Here in the Great White North, every bolt has to be broken loose, unless it just rolled off the lot.
I remember times we used a 4ft breaker bar with a 6ft pipe over it and me standing on it bouncing to lossen a nut we heated up with a torch. Gotta love living in the rust belt working on old farm equipment.
@11:55 instead of packing tape, it seems like silicone tape might actually be a sort-of long term fix for a broken boot. the silicone bonds to itself and is very elastic so it could probably last a while and definitely keep water out.
12:31 The reason why this works is your body acts like an antenna, so you can lock and unlock your car from a greater distance. When I get inside my house, I know my key hasn't got the range from me just holding it in my hand. So what I've always done is hold the key to my head, just to make sure it's locked.
semi truck tire retreading is NOT cutting new treads into worn out tires, its either rolling a new layer of raw rubber on top of the worn out carcass after buffing it down and then molding / curing that into new tread on the carcass, or sometimes they have a strip of new tread that they glue onto the carcass. it is never cutting groves in a worn out tire. the main controversy with this is the tread sometimes will separate from the carcass if not done properly, and this is why its legal to run retreads on a steer axle. tire grooving is a thing, but its typically done (legitimately) to modify new tires for better flex offroad, and sometimes like in the case of monster trucks, before they started making lightweight tires for them, they would cut off all the tread on a new ag tire and then groove new tread into the carcass to save weight. the air bucket hack sometimes works, but a more reliable method is to put the short end of a flat bar in the gap between the two bucket rims and turn the whole bar, thus leveraging the buckets apart. for the wrench on wrench hack, i got tired of doing this so i bought a cheap set of deep impact sockets, cut a short section off the end, and welded them to long bars. now i have a set of extra long 6 point box end wrenches and a set of medium long sockets. btw, don't attempt this unless you have a good metal cutting bandsaw.
I agree! Essentially the cavities (not necessarily empty) in your body (in this case his head) act as a resonance chamber for the RF signal from your wireless remote. Cool hack!
If you're interested, Kyle Hill actually posted a video about a year ago explaining why it works. I had to go back and look but it appears to be called "Can Your Brain Amplify a Car Key?" I assure you, despite it's clickbait title and thumbnail, he does a good job explaining the science. Been about that time since I've seen it, but it has to do with the FOB's wavelength and how the human body is a multiple of that wavelength so we basically can act like an antenna.
@@jonpinkstonI was just about to comment this, when I used to have that fm transmitter and it was acting funny, it would sound better when I would get close to it while touching it. Interesting indeed.
Fun Fact: The car FOB hack uses your skeleton as an antenna to amplify the signal so it can travel farther in a process called bone conduction. Press the FOB up to your skull on other large bones for best results.
For the last one, I never knew tires had wires in them, until the guy screwed up my tire realignment. Within two days, I had burned through the rubber on those tires, and when I went to check them, I got pricked by a piece of wire.
I work on locomotives, and I'll tell ya 4 1 1/2" wrenches have saved me so many headaches. When you have bolts torqued down to 200+ foot pounds and you cant get the half inch impact on it a single breaker bar isn't going to cut it always. Especially because they sit for years without coming off. Most of the locomotives I work on are from the 70"s and I even work on some from the 40's, and not every bolt or nut comes off often. I recently broke a 15lb sledge hammer trying to get a breakhead bolt out of the bushings. We had to turn that bolt into liquid to get it out lol
8:20 guys that's not a siphon. That's a vacuum generator. When the compressed air blows through the very end of that hose it ends up pulling from the other end. That's actually creating a pump.
Here’s a hack that can really help: instead of push starting your manual in 1st gear, use second gear. It will require a lot less “force” to turn the motor over. Use this all the time, especially when forced to push start my car by myself 🥵
Now I have snapped wrenches doing the 2 and 3 wrench breaker bar crap. I can't even count the scars on my hands from them snapping. All I can say, use expensive wrenches with a lifetime warranty. Snap On always takes mine back. Now of course I retired about 15 years ago now. Love this show and I'm binge watching the episodes now.
10:30 in the army as a diesel mechanic we just use a long steel pipe that would go over any wrench and just use that to crank it back. Maybe weighed about 15 to 20 pounds and was about 5 feet long
MY COUSIN HAD A 60SOME GALAXIE (HE GOT FROM OUR COUSIN, FOR A HALFBAG. THIS WAS IN THE LATE 70'S EARLY EIGHTIES) 3SPEED ON THE COLUMN,ANYTIME WE WANTED TO GO ANYWHERE, WE HAD TO POP THE CLUTCH. ID LOVE TO HAVE THAT CAR TODAY!
I believe everything Sandro says because he looks like a mechanic/technician, not even sure what a mechanic/technician is supposed looks like, but if you gave me a room full of people and Sandro was a one of them, I’d pick Sandro.
For roll starting a stickshift car you put it in 2ND GEAR. In the first gear the motor has a lot of counter tourqe. The higher the gear the easier it is to spin the motor using the tires.
That tire thing is pretty cool. Because at one point theyre both going to have the same air pressure, reason is, air is going to push against each other and just even out. It's a good life hack if you only need to get to the station.
It's definitely a faked video though. A simple tube won't have any way to depress the pin to release the air on both sides simultaneously. You would have to remove the core which would obviously let all the air escape immediately. Also, the back tire didn't drop whatsoever which it definitely would sag at least as much as the front especially at half PSI. He also didn't even thread the tube on to anything on the back tire, just set it out of view. Then he steps out of the scene and reflection entirely so they have a clean plate to easily splice in a new clip where the car is definitely just hooked up to a compressor.
9:54 Surely, they have a steel pipe around that's big enough diameter to go over the open-ended wrench. So many less points of failure or potential pivot. So much safer and you don't lose energy with the bending wrenches.
Another car key hack I've seen is that someone was away from their car (I'm guessing across town somewhere) and they were on the phone with someone who was trying to unlock the car, but didn't have a key. The person on the other end used their key through the phone and the person near the car put their phone next to the door lock and it unlocked the car. Would love to see y'all try it out.
That won't work. Key fobs are an RF signal (radio) you can't transmit that radio frequency over a phone call. I mean technically if you had the right equipment you could probably convert the radio signal of the fob to a digital signal on a PC, transmit that over the phone line; however you would need a way to convert that digital signal back to a properly modulated radio signal and then a way to transmit that radio signal as well. I think the latter is kinda how they unlocked the Tesla they mentioned in this video.
The whole skull fob thing works… the military actually experimented with transmitting radio messages to tiny wearable receivers attached to the inside of helmets, using your skull as the speaker.
As someone who works in a hotel kitchen, we use 5 gallon buckets, all the time and this is the bane of our existence. But theres a solution for someone in my line of work, if you have a steamer, the buckets just barely fit inside with room to close the door, steam for about 40 seconds and the buckets release instantly.
Someone not looking carefully might reach under to feel for the cat and grab a handful of razer wire and scream... Not as wack as you might think... Also, radio transmitters are omnidirectional (i.e. weak in all directions) and putting up to a surface helps turn that surface into a satellite like dish and focusing/extending the signal into a directional signal. It has the opposite effect behind you.
Y’all are awesome! My favorite is when yall test some of these hacks yourselves. Show us if it can be done. This video would be great for that! I would sincerely appreciate it. Try the pull on the tire l, see if it will start a stick shift? I would watch that. Sandro you’re the man. 😊
The first example with the barbed wire, it's true that you can take it off in just a few minutes but unless a thief wants to steal that specific one for some reason, he will most likely go to the next car where he doesn't have to spend those extra minutes removing the barbed wire.
Regardless of whether or not the "rope hack" works, there's the whole issue of potentially pulling the car forward, knocking that little jack down, then getting run over by the now-running car you're standing in front of.
The best thing about the rope pull start is that now you have a car running in gear, spinning the crap out of its differential, perched precariously on a jack. One little tip and off it goes through the neighborhood.
13:20 This works because your key fob operates on a frequency that resonates with our watery spherical heads. Basically, our heads are good antennas for key fobs. This also works for garage door openers.
I remember using a pressure washer on my old car, and the paint started to come off. I didn't realize it immediately. Ended up stripping the coat entirely, and then reapplying with the only tool I had - a paint roller. The surface ended up being matte and textured, which you can imagine, collected dirt like crazy on a white body, but there was no rust on the metal. Must've been some kind of an alloy, because it didn't rust, even without paint. I kept that car till the 2nd engine wore out, and cylinders developed too much of a gap. To fix the car would've been 2x its value, and I passed. Now I regret it, because I know the body would've been rust free to this day. If only I went ahead and bought a 3rd engine. 3.0L V6 Mitsubishi. Almost 300hp. I miss that car so much. I have the means, but I no longer have the car.
I use service truck tires on my Jeep to get the height in a narrow profile. I bought and use a regroover because for whatever reason, the grooves on the center portion are not as deep as when you get out to the sides (I measured when new). So I regrooved once and get twice the life out of them. I have never tried twice and doubt I ever will.
“The rope pull start” I used to do kart racing, racing karts are push start so we used to do this if we needed to get it running while it’s on the trolly, so I can’t say weather you’d be able to do that with a car engine it’s definitely possible with the 250cc 2 strokes we used.
there's another wrench cheat: instead of chaining wrenches together, grab a pawnshop/harbor freight wrench and cut the open ind off. Now you can slide a pipe on the wrench instead of wrecking other wrenches. OFC, this is only really useful if you find that you have to keep doing this with the same size bolts on a regular basis.
Use the car remote under the chin to unlock your car from a far distant. Another hack is using electrical/duct tape on a swivel socket or adapter to get a simi fixed position. If a socket is slightly to big or the bolt/nut is worn off alittle bit use a peice of paper towel in the socket to hug the nut/bolt tightly.
Sandro's cheeky little "that's how you get gas from your neighbors" killed me :D love that guy
I too was amused lol
same, that joke made me lose it
no more gasoline mouth for this guy
You can definitely tell he's done it before. Lmao
8:00
Sandro is like a teacher who changes your grade from F to A+ if you give him a legitimate reason. already fan of him
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exactly the last 3 they both kinda agreed despite giving it different ratings
Is Sandro the Hispanic(?) chap guy with the neck tattoos?
If so, he has another fan here in the U.K. he knows his stuff, and is funny at the same time. Smart and funny. The best combination.
@@marksaunderson3042 yup thats him
Can I ask why his shirt tag says Miranda and not Sandro? I spent like five minutes thinking y'all meant someone else bc his shirt said Miranda haha
I just love the humbleness in Sandro's eyes... Yet he is very cool. I just automatically feel compelled to respect every word this man says.
That's weird
Wich guy is he
@@putnamehereholdmadoodle The one in the thumbnail.. He is wearing a hat and is one of the mechanics.
@GerinHarada seems like there all really chilled out mechanics. This is a great channel. This is what youtube should be
He was scared of saying “then you do it”. Because he knows his dad would pull the belt out 😂 he knows, no talking back to parents 😂
Sandro is a man of many talents. He's a mechanic and a comedian, and judging from his canine teeth, a vampire.
ah. i see someone else noticed the fangs. i'm a little jealous of him. it's always been my dream to have fangs
With the rest of his teeth being that straight, I have to assume those are implants
@@AnhDonoi i want to get fangs done. not sure if i should get implants or veneers. i want 2 uppers and 2 lowers for now
I love when people have littol fangs
@@HYPERxSONICxFANx2012saaaaaame
Sandro talking about ruining your pedicure while pulling an oil plug just shows that he's such an amazing mechanic that he is out here changing oil with his feet, incredible!
Not enough people caught that 😂
lmao when he said "and thats how you steal gas from your neighbour" i died the fact that the the more you know card popped up made it 100x better hahaha
Sandro is the maaaan! Whenever he's like "aah I mean, I've done this" *looks sheepish*
He says “I’ve done this” way too much 😂
Yuuuup, killed me too
@@Los3rGam3s dude he does! We need an end of season clip show of Sandro being the Man
I was eating, bad idea.
Glad to see Sandro being a regular now, he's such a funny guy with a good vibe
He should just join Donut. He fits in so well haha
He is really great and needs to be permanent.
Your a funny guy with a good vibe
His face when the vídeo appears 😂
Facts!
With the tire regrooving, you can see that they filled the newish tire's tread with something and are simply scraping it out.
It's like nothing 5 minute crafts does is real!😜
Yes, but you can do that with the tyre repair stuff and get extra height. But yes, not bald
@@LobbyDaLobster 5 minute crafts is hot garbage and straight up dangerous.
@@LobbyDaLobster yeah that's why I think it's a waste of time to feature them at all, since the logo alone is enough to dispel doubt on whether it's real or not
Yeah, where he peels it away at 15:16 and there's a sharp corner on the right. Absolutely bogus. Five minute craps strikes again.
I love how everyone is talking about mechanic stuff and Sandro is still thinking about theft lmfao
And the Venturi effect!
@@edherdman9973”The More You Know 🌈 “😂
Sandro is that cool af uncle you’re always happy to kick it with and he’s always got the best stories and advice. Just has that good vibe
12:30 Reminds me of a funny time where a friend of mine wanted to use his remote start to warm his car up but he was too far away to get it to work. We both happened to be sousaphone players (Tuba that wraps around you), so he looked up at the bell on his, touched the fob to the brass and started his car from a literal football field away.
That's kinda awesome sending the fob signal through the tuba 😂
Thats so sick
Yeah if you do that hack with your actual head your more likely to get cancer.
@@auxc.6805 pretty sure thats impossible
@auxc.6805 just as likely to get cancer from your cell phone...0% chance
Sandro has got to have a fan club at this point 😆 Please keep adding to this channel, love the content 👍👍
I think the reason for the zip tie on the cap for the oil pan was to help stop accidentally dropping it in the pan
I was coming to say this.
Yes, if it wasn´t for the fact he is actually tightening the thing (turning clockwise).
@@sjurgabrielI'm pretty sure the video just got flipped when he posted it.
the hack is good for hot oil, as it should be when doing a change.
@@sjurgabrielI am here to say the same thing. Looks to me like it was being tightened.
I feel like people who do the wrench on wrench crime have never thought of getting a long hollow pole and sticking it over the wrench for leverage. It's a whole lot safer and you can get way more leverage because you can make the wrench essentially longer just by sliding it over the wrench. I've used this method quite a few times because I like to keep my fingers and finger nails and not get blood blisters for when the wrenches slip off each other.
Sandro is all of us. Guy is just awesome lol. An episode of sketchy and alleged things he's done I guarantee would be incredible hahahaha
I love Sandro, but it's great when there are more people reacting. Either way, these are quickly becoming my favorite vids on UA-cam!
Came to say this, where the Hispanic uncle and the sssniperwolf mechanic 😂
Definitely missed Angelina, shes got a great vibe
making this channel was a great decision guys!
Aaaaaagreed
13:00 Kyle Hill actually made a video on that specific topic; it actually works because the wavelength of the radio waves used in those keyfobs for your car are a similar ratio to the size of a human head, so providing a slight barrier that lines up with the wavelength amplifies the signal. Or something, it's been a while since I saw that one.
What you are observing is a true quantum effect. In short, the radiation emitted by the key causes the atoms in your brain (mostly the water) to oscillate. The net effect is range amplification. To describe this particular phenomenon it is useful to think of the matter in you head in terms of a waveform, not as as a particle. It works with a bottle or jug of water too.
You should not put this on your head unless you want to get cancer from it.
sandro is easily one of my favorite people on this. He seems like a pretty chill dude
You guys should make an episode every once in a while where you collect some of these and test em!
They have done a few on the other channel
that’s a good idea
that’s a good idea
I remember in my apprenticeship in metal works, the very first thing our instructor told us 16 year olds was: DO NOT PUT THE COMPRESSED AIR PISTOL IN SOMEONES BUTT! Horrible accidents happened!
First lesson 😄
Why would you even put that idea out there in a room of 16 year olds….
Just discovered this channel a couple days ago. I've got to admit, I'm HOOKED! Totally subbed. Been turning wrenches for nearly 30 years and have never seen another channel like this.
Keep bringing Sandro back, dude's really entertaining. I wouldn't mind seeing him mixed into other videos/content as well. Just seems to have a strong, nice personality for the camera.
Been a mechanic for over 30 years. I have to say I love these videos and the techs/mechanics you get for your videos. Thumbs up
At 9:48 where they show the guy using three wrenches, there's a safer method that's been around for a long time. Get a chunk of steel pipe that can fit over the head of the wrench and use that to extend the handle. It's often nicknamed a cheater pipe because you're getting more leverage and as-such you're able to get a LOT of torque that you wouldn't have otherwise. I also say this because you could see in the clip that the middle wrench was flexing and I would be afraid of it snapping.
The pipe over the wrench is known as a Polish torque wrench!
Depending on the size of wrench that could be a very large pipe.
They also make leverage bars for wrenches that are flat and have two big teeth on the end that hold the wrench in. I use one all the time to break tie rod nuts.
The one for the oil pan bolt, i feel like it kinda works to also make sure you don’t drop the bolt in the oil🤷🏻♂️
My thought exactly
If you do your own oil, then yeah maybe. If you are in the shop setting, then it's just a waste of literal time
Another option for the bucket separation trick is to use water. Water doesn't compress, but it'll also find it's way into places. If you can blow air down into a stuck bucket, you can blast water down into the same place. So if you don't have an air compressor at home or lying around, you can crimp the end of a hose or use a hose nozzle and spray it at the seam where the two buckets are stuck together and you'll end up blasting enough water in there that it'll fill up, you'll be blasting more water in than it'll be able to push out on top of an empty vessel, like a bucket, will float on water if it's not compromised. So the water will try to find the easiest way out, which is not where it's coming in; oh hey, while it can't compress, it can shove this bucket that's limiting its space out of the way and make it float.
But my point is that using water from a hose is essentially the same thing for those who don't have an air compressor and it's doing it with a "thicker" fluid than air. The key is that more fluid is being shoved into the space between the buckets through the tiny gaps that are there with more pressure and speed than the fluid is able to initially flow out of the same space.
Pretty sure the zip tie on the drain plug isn’t for keeping your hands clean. It’s for keeping the drain plug from falling into the oil catch pan if it slips out.
Same thought, kinda a good hack if you think about it.
@@munawerhayat-naqvi7409 weird, my hack is I just use my hands
Did oil changes 9hrs a day for seven months, i only see it being useful for when the plug is scorching hot, or for what Simon says
Was the drain plug in the clip reverse thread? He was turning it clockwise
@@nolanbroderick1234 you gonna zip tie every plug or stick a single brillo pad in the drain thing?
The remote unlocking thing is true. Jeremy Clarkson did it way back when on TopGear and at first I didn't believe him and then I tried it on my own car from over 100 meters away in pitch black abandoned airstrip at a festival and then i saw the blinkers light up, they previously werent and i wasnt moving at all.
Ya I’ve don’t this so many times. If you forget to lock the car and you go inside the house just put the FOB to your chin and it gives you more distance.
When I first heard about it the reason given was the water/fluid in your chest cavity and skull act as a magnifier for the waves
Yep. It’s a Top Gear hack.
If I remember correctly it's the water in your head and you can get the same result putting the remote against a jug of water.
I do this every time I need to find my car.
Daaaaang my man broke out the Venturi effect. Knowledge is power and dude knows some things! Loving this channel. Thanks for working hard y'all.
The flat tire hack with the air hose really works. I worked for a company that made tire repair products and I came up with a SKU that we sold in Walmart stores in the 1990s. It was a little pack to carry on motorcycles for tire repair, and one of the items in it was a hose like this. Since it was my idea, my picture was on the packaging. I was posing in front of a bike while using the air equalizer hose. However, I used to joke that why would you take air from your other tire when there are thousands of other tires out there!
That tire was 100% suspect. Pause it 15:23 and you can see the rubber peeling off of the original grooves lol
You can also see the small details that the tool would not have been able to make.
Yeah, I was looking for that comment. ;-)
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That ziptie on the oil drain plug: It's to make sure you don't drop the plug as it detaches as you're propably pushing on it to stop oil from pouring out before all the threads are cleared. I've dropped the plug a bunch of times.
Can't imagine it being to just spare a few drops of oil on your hand.
Could also be good for an in and out oil change shop, give your hand a little distance from the oil while it's still hot.
@@tristennichols1865 That does sound like a real thing as well!
13:30 I love how this is the third time I've heard Sandro reference Magneto in these channel. Ofc a mechanic's favorite superhero is the one with metal manipulation powers 😂😂😂
8:46 I think I could even look past the fact that Sandro is a real live vampire just because he probably turns any situation into a good time🤘🏼
the compressed air on the buckets trick also works for rubber handle bar grips! save yourself a ton of hassle
At 7:52 the idea of the air hose nozzle and Black syphon hose is to create a vacuum from with air pressure. With the nozzle inserted into the hose at the opposing angle a vacuum will be created which will pull gas from the upper tank. The air hose should be turned off well before the gas enters the lower tank.
The first time I changed oil I dropped the drain plug in the in the bucket and had to fish it out. The zip tie might be handy for some one who can't keep a grip on it.
Have to remember there's a weight of oil trying to push it out
Lots of love for Sandro, but I genuinely love all of the mechanics from the series!
Sandro is the boy, I bet he could tell some stories! 😂
Yes! Story time would be a great addition to this channel!
Truly appreciate Jobes genuine knowledge and understanding of each video👌🏼 as a technician it's appreciated
When Justin asked if someone would be strong enough to pull the rope and start the car just made me imagine him pulling on the rope and ripping the car in half.
"And that's how you take gas from your neighbor"
That killed me.
I was a radio operator when I was in the military. My understanding is that key fobs also use radio waves to send the signal to lock/unlock the doors. I can't think of any reason why holding a fob to your head magically makes it work better. My best guess would be something to do with helping direct the waves in a specific direction. That or making them bounce off of stuff (hilariously, you can bounce radio waves off a building to get in contact with someone).
Being Generation X I have lived the birth of car security. 13 min into your video I have placed the car alarm fob to my chin to find my car from afar many times. This totally works! Sadly now I just check my phone to see where my car is. At least I can still use a paper map to find my way. great content fellas!
I always hit the link button when Sandro's there! Dude is awesome. Everyone needs a Sandro in their shop 😂
"You gonna fuck up your pedicure." Sandro a straight up G, lmao.
3:21 classic father and i love 😂😂
"Cant separate a f*cking plastic bucket?.... no balls"
Yeah so hes 100% correct, the shape of your cranium allows the signal to bounce off the rear of your head and be sent out the front, allowing for extra radio waves pushed out... also, the remote, is higher.
12:33 - the "car-remote on your head" thing is 100% real. It works because your head is mostly made of water, and water can amplify the specific RF signals from key fobs. Here's a video from Kyle Hill ua-cam.com/video/ZrIf0PArZu4/v-deo.html
It's super easy to test for yourself. Next time you park, walk away from your car and keep clicking the lock button until it stops responding; then put your key fob against your neck/head and try locking it again. Nine times out of ten, it'll work.
Also I think you can use some water bottles
@@clion520 - yep, that should work too 👍 the main operating principle is the water and its amplification properties
As a company driver, I pull down around $1,500 a week, running about 2,000 miles, get weekends, don’t have to worry about insurance, maintenance, permits, payments, or headaches. Spent 4 days with a seized hub in Mississippi earlier this year. Got breakdown pay for 4 days. Wasn’t what I would have made if I was running, but it definitely made sitting for 4 days a lot easier.
10:40 We used to have a pipe in our home garage that was specifically for extra leverage on the wrecker bar, or the wrench (if it could fit). Here in the Great White North, every bolt has to be broken loose, unless it just rolled off the lot.
I remember times we used a 4ft breaker bar with a 6ft pipe over it and me standing on it bouncing to lossen a nut we heated up with a torch. Gotta love living in the rust belt working on old farm equipment.
Same trick works for old stuck handlebar grips 02:53
This is fast becoming my favourite Donut production :)
@11:55 instead of packing tape, it seems like silicone tape might actually be a sort-of long term fix for a broken boot.
the silicone bonds to itself and is very elastic so it could probably last a while and definitely keep water out.
12:31 The reason why this works is your body acts like an antenna, so you can lock and unlock your car from a greater distance.
When I get inside my house, I know my key hasn't got the range from me just holding it in my hand. So what I've always done is hold the key to my head, just to make sure it's locked.
semi truck tire retreading is NOT cutting new treads into worn out tires, its either rolling a new layer of raw rubber on top of the worn out carcass after buffing it down and then molding / curing that into new tread on the carcass, or sometimes they have a strip of new tread that they glue onto the carcass. it is never cutting groves in a worn out tire. the main controversy with this is the tread sometimes will separate from the carcass if not done properly, and this is why its legal to run retreads on a steer axle. tire grooving is a thing, but its typically done (legitimately) to modify new tires for better flex offroad, and sometimes like in the case of monster trucks, before they started making lightweight tires for them, they would cut off all the tread on a new ag tire and then groove new tread into the carcass to save weight.
the air bucket hack sometimes works, but a more reliable method is to put the short end of a flat bar in the gap between the two bucket rims and turn the whole bar, thus leveraging the buckets apart.
for the wrench on wrench hack, i got tired of doing this so i bought a cheap set of deep impact sockets, cut a short section off the end, and welded them to long bars. now i have a set of extra long 6 point box end wrenches and a set of medium long sockets. btw, don't attempt this unless you have a good metal cutting bandsaw.
Sandro: "And that's how you take gas from your neighbor" dude slays me
I would love to see Jeremiah explain how that key fob hack works. Never heard of it until now!
I agree! Essentially the cavities (not necessarily empty) in your body (in this case his head) act as a resonance chamber for the RF signal from your wireless remote. Cool hack!
If you're interested, Kyle Hill actually posted a video about a year ago explaining why it works. I had to go back and look but it appears to be called "Can Your Brain Amplify a Car Key?" I assure you, despite it's clickbait title and thumbnail, he does a good job explaining the science. Been about that time since I've seen it, but it has to do with the FOB's wavelength and how the human body is a multiple of that wavelength so we basically can act like an antenna.
It uses your skull as an antenna, it works for things like weak fm and am signals too.
@Ryster's Tech I noticed that when I was younger if you grabbed your radio's antenna it would increase your signal.
@@jonpinkstonI was just about to comment this, when I used to have that fm transmitter and it was acting funny, it would sound better when I would get close to it while touching it. Interesting indeed.
Fun Fact: The car FOB hack uses your skeleton as an antenna to amplify the signal so it can travel farther in a process called bone conduction. Press the FOB up to your skull on other large bones for best results.
For the last one, I never knew tires had wires in them, until the guy screwed up my tire realignment. Within two days, I had burned through the rubber on those tires, and when I went to check them, I got pricked by a piece of wire.
Sandro droppin knowledge bombs with fluid dynamics
You guys should do a “customer states” series, I watch those compilations sometimes
I work on locomotives, and I'll tell ya 4 1 1/2" wrenches have saved me so many headaches. When you have bolts torqued down to 200+ foot pounds and you cant get the half inch impact on it a single breaker bar isn't going to cut it always. Especially because they sit for years without coming off. Most of the locomotives I work on are from the 70"s and I even work on some from the 40's, and not every bolt or nut comes off often. I recently broke a 15lb sledge hammer trying to get a breakhead bolt out of the bushings. We had to turn that bolt into liquid to get it out lol
8:20 guys that's not a siphon. That's a vacuum generator. When the compressed air blows through the very end of that hose it ends up pulling from the other end. That's actually creating a pump.
Here’s a hack that can really help: instead of push starting your manual in 1st gear, use second gear. It will require a lot less “force” to turn the motor over. Use this all the time, especially when forced to push start my car by myself 🥵
Love Sandro and junior, funny guys
Now I have snapped wrenches doing the 2 and 3 wrench breaker bar crap. I can't even count the scars on my hands from them snapping. All I can say, use expensive wrenches with a lifetime warranty. Snap On always takes mine back. Now of course I retired about 15 years ago now.
Love this show and I'm binge watching the episodes now.
Sandro is why I keep coming back
Sandro is my absolute favorite in this videos.
So glad this channel was created, seriously love this idea
FYI, Re grooves are now mostly outlawed, 'Recapping' tires is common on semi trailer tires.
10:30 in the army as a diesel mechanic we just use a long steel pipe that would go over any wrench and just use that to crank it back. Maybe weighed about 15 to 20 pounds and was about 5 feet long
Sandro makes the channel. You guys gotta keep him
MY COUSIN HAD A 60SOME GALAXIE
(HE GOT FROM OUR COUSIN, FOR A HALFBAG. THIS WAS IN THE LATE 70'S EARLY EIGHTIES)
3SPEED ON THE COLUMN,ANYTIME WE WANTED TO GO ANYWHERE, WE HAD TO POP THE CLUTCH.
ID LOVE TO HAVE THAT CAR TODAY!
I believe everything Sandro says because he looks like a mechanic/technician, not even sure what a mechanic/technician is supposed looks like, but if you gave me a room full of people and Sandro was a one of them, I’d pick Sandro.
For roll starting a stickshift car you put it in 2ND GEAR. In the first gear the motor has a lot of counter tourqe. The higher the gear the easier it is to spin the motor using the tires.
yes, you'd have to use 3rd 4th even 5th, wheel was spinning pretty fast, clue
That tire thing is pretty cool. Because at one point theyre both going to have the same air pressure, reason is, air is going to push against each other and just even out. It's a good life hack if you only need to get to the station.
Or you could do the more sensible thing and be prepared with a 12v tire pump in your emergency road kit that everyone should have.
It's definitely a faked video though. A simple tube won't have any way to depress the pin to release the air on both sides simultaneously. You would have to remove the core which would obviously let all the air escape immediately.
Also, the back tire didn't drop whatsoever which it definitely would sag at least as much as the front especially at half PSI.
He also didn't even thread the tube on to anything on the back tire, just set it out of view. Then he steps out of the scene and reflection entirely so they have a clean plate to easily splice in a new clip where the car is definitely just hooked up to a compressor.
@@alwaysamongdragons7354 Why when I could just have a spare?
I’m a master tech and I would salivate to look at these videos with the guys.
9:54 Surely, they have a steel pipe around that's big enough diameter to go over the open-ended wrench. So many less points of failure or potential pivot. So much safer and you don't lose energy with the bending wrenches.
European stick driver here: Push starting your car, put it in 2nd gear before you pop the clutch. In 1st gear, the car tends to jump and stall again.
Sandro is awesome. Need to have him on more!
Another car key hack I've seen is that someone was away from their car (I'm guessing across town somewhere) and they were on the phone with someone who was trying to unlock the car, but didn't have a key. The person on the other end used their key through the phone and the person near the car put their phone next to the door lock and it unlocked the car. Would love to see y'all try it out.
That won't work. Key fobs are an RF signal (radio) you can't transmit that radio frequency over a phone call. I mean technically if you had the right equipment you could probably convert the radio signal of the fob to a digital signal on a PC, transmit that over the phone line; however you would need a way to convert that digital signal back to a properly modulated radio signal and then a way to transmit that radio signal as well. I think the latter is kinda how they unlocked the Tesla they mentioned in this video.
he probably had a flipper zero or another device like that that can record rf signals and play them back
That's beyond stupid, how would you send an RF signal over a fucking phone call?
That didn't work for me
@@Darjan_Spasojevic Yes, because it's physically impossible for it to work. It works for zero people
The whole skull fob thing works… the military actually experimented with transmitting radio messages to tiny wearable receivers attached to the inside of helmets, using your skull as the speaker.
As someone who works in a hotel kitchen, we use 5 gallon buckets, all the time and this is the bane of our existence. But theres a solution for someone in my line of work, if you have a steamer, the buckets just barely fit inside with room to close the door, steam for about 40 seconds and the buckets release instantly.
Someone not looking carefully might reach under to feel for the cat and grab a handful of razer wire and scream... Not as wack as you might think... Also, radio transmitters are omnidirectional (i.e. weak in all directions) and putting up to a surface helps turn that surface into a satellite like dish and focusing/extending the signal into a directional signal. It has the opposite effect behind you.
Y’all are awesome! My favorite is when yall test some of these hacks yourselves. Show us if it can be done. This video would be great for that! I would sincerely appreciate it. Try the pull on the tire l, see if it will start a stick shift? I would watch that.
Sandro you’re the man. 😊
The first example with the barbed wire, it's true that you can take it off in just a few minutes but unless a thief wants to steal that specific one for some reason, he will most likely go to the next car where he doesn't have to spend those extra minutes removing the barbed wire.
Regardless of whether or not the "rope hack" works, there's the whole issue of potentially pulling the car forward, knocking that little jack down, then getting run over by the now-running car you're standing in front of.
How does the tire hose get by the valve stem on either tire? Definitely wack!!
4:38 Never put your car in first gear when you jump start your car as it damages your gearbox and transmission. Go with the second gear
The best thing about the rope pull start is that now you have a car running in gear, spinning the crap out of its differential, perched precariously on a jack. One little tip and off it goes through the neighborhood.
13:20 This works because your key fob operates on a frequency that resonates with our watery spherical heads. Basically, our heads are good antennas for key fobs. This also works for garage door openers.
I remember a newspaper advertising a regroover here back in the 60's for just passenger cars.
I remember using a pressure washer on my old car, and the paint started to come off. I didn't realize it immediately. Ended up stripping the coat entirely, and then reapplying with the only tool I had - a paint roller. The surface ended up being matte and textured, which you can imagine, collected dirt like crazy on a white body, but there was no rust on the metal. Must've been some kind of an alloy, because it didn't rust, even without paint. I kept that car till the 2nd engine wore out, and cylinders developed too much of a gap. To fix the car would've been 2x its value, and I passed. Now I regret it, because I know the body would've been rust free to this day. If only I went ahead and bought a 3rd engine. 3.0L V6 Mitsubishi. Almost 300hp. I miss that car so much. I have the means, but I no longer have the car.
Love how one team is totally street and passing more hacks!
I use service truck tires on my Jeep to get the height in a narrow profile. I bought and use a regroover because for whatever reason, the grooves on the center portion are not as deep as when you get out to the sides (I measured when new). So I regrooved once and get twice the life out of them. I have never tried twice and doubt I ever will.
“Sometimes you got extensions all the way outside”
Man sounds like he’s pulled a jeep transmission or two in his time 😂
“The rope pull start” I used to do kart racing, racing karts are push start so we used to do this if we needed to get it running while it’s on the trolly, so I can’t say weather you’d be able to do that with a car engine it’s definitely possible with the 250cc 2 strokes we used.
there's another wrench cheat: instead of chaining wrenches together, grab a pawnshop/harbor freight wrench and cut the open ind off. Now you can slide a pipe on the wrench instead of wrecking other wrenches. OFC, this is only really useful if you find that you have to keep doing this with the same size bolts on a regular basis.
Use the car remote under the chin to unlock your car from a far distant.
Another hack is using electrical/duct tape on a swivel socket or adapter to get a simi fixed position.
If a socket is slightly to big or the bolt/nut is worn off alittle bit use a peice of paper towel in the socket to hug the nut/bolt tightly.