Do an episode where Sandro showcases his own hacks in the shop and the boys judge em. That’d be great.

Sandro in the thumbnail it’s instant 👍🏼

Nolan acting like a high school boy working on a project with his crush 😂

As a Car mechanic I feel like Sandro is the only one thats 100% honest about his experiences. So relatable

Everybody else: "WTF?!?!?!" Sandro: "I've done that"

I remember when Sandro used to apologize for cursing now he just lets it rip lmao 😂

Socket paint hack - Use a bright color and a paper towel with a very light grip. The microfiber with a strong grip will dig into the grooves and remove the paint. A folded paper towel will stay flatter and have less of a change at removing the paint from the grooves.

I knew a guy back in my twenties who worked on the big rigs. He could do something similar with transmissions, it was freaky. He also compressed my brake calipers by hand while we were changing my brake pads. He'd have been terrifying if he weren't the sweetest guy you could ever meet.

You used a terry/microfiber towel with the carb cleaner. The hack used a paper towel, which had more contact on the surface, and didn't have any nap to reach into the stamped lettering as much as your towel did. Just a thought.

The punch a hole in the filter to drain it first is an amazing trick for diesel engines. They tend to have enormous filters and a bunch of oil in the filter. So you end up with way less mess in the pit or driveway. I've done it for decades on diesels and particularly annoying and messy filters.

STEPH'S SMILE IS CONTAGIOUS!

Hydroponics are also used to grow lettuce and tomatoes indoors ;) When I was in college studying biology, there was a lab fully dedicated to studying hydroponics (it was in France, near Paris in 2009-2013) and refining the technique. I was friends with someone studying and working in this lab, he once brought tomatoes that were grown there after making sure they were ok to be eaten. These were among the tastiest, most perfect tomatoes I've ever eaten. I now live in southern France where homegrown tomatoes are known to be fabulous, these hydroponics grown tomatoes are still among the best I've ever had. For those wondering what hydroponics are, it's a way to grow almost any kind of plants out of the ground, on a fiber substrate soaked in water and nutrients. And yes it's also used to grow "aromatics". Actually, "aromatics" growth shares a lot with tomatoes...

Sandro on the thumbnail, I click. Brother knows what he’s talking about

Homeboy picked that transmission up like it was Styrofoam

that paint trick is actually super legit, though i do it with nail polish and non acetone nail polish remover. it also works great on guns too if you want the engraving to pop

We need more of that girl. She is totally legit. Very knowledgeable funny and straight to the point.

You’ve found some proper legends in Sandro, Angelina and now Steph. They could have this channel all to themselves.

Try the vacuum hack w/ the oil sensor! I'd like to see what it's like trying to get the suction strength/fit right.

The hole to drain the filter, not something I would do on small filters, but as a heavy diesel mechanic, definitely worth while on filters on 85L V16 engines. A lot of the filters have drain plugs on them to save you having to do this. The vacuum also is a good trick for small engines, basically a home-made transducer, another tool I use regularly to swap out hoses and such without draining 1000's of litres of oil from a hydraulic tank. (Again, sometimes come built in on the machines). Greay video, Steph is a good addition to the Sandro, Angelina stars! 👍🏻

Loving the addition of Tony. Cool to have someone who knows the science behind some of these weird things means. Keep it up RMS

I had a chemistry teacher in hs that allowed open book labs; as she reasoned that real chemists aren’t going to 100% rely on memory every time they do something the first time. Smart lady.

Donut casually flexes one of their own is a scientist that has met a couple of legends.

I used the vacuum trick all the time working at Jiffy Lube back in college many many years ago when we needed to change out an oil drain plug and / or oil drain plug gasket

This series is getting better and better

PSA from a friendly nerd. The torque wrench to hand wrench trick will always over tighten. You will always be adding that extra leverage from the distance of the center of the torque wrench to the center of the hand wrench. This will always be over-tightening from the torque wrench setting. Cheers, great video.

I've used the punch a hole in the oil filter trick with inverted filters, so it drains down into the pan, instead of all over whatever components are nearby.

Sandro makes a good point about tutorials. even surgeons look through instructions before going through a procedure. no shame in a quick refresher

On heavy diesels with massive oil filters this hack is great 5:50 It makes the filter so much lighter and easier to control it and get it out from under the truck

I did all my sockets after seeing THAT video on TikTok. I did metric in yellow and inch in white. Worked well.

The paint pen trick works for electronics too when you cant read the chip number. Just rub some thermal compound (anything you can full the low spots with) and rob it off. BAM! Now you can read that proprietary part number that is just a few off from the public numbers datasheet......

My Auto mechanics teacher used to tell us to hit everything we were going to be working on with penetrating oil every day for at least 3 days before working on it to give it time to get in there break up rust and do it's job. Makes a huge difference working on vehicles with 200k plus miles and over a decade of salty winter driving in Northern MN.

0:30 yeah... weve done this also a few times as an emergency solution, when the alternative was "forget it, throw it away". works pretty well for that.

4:41 is very useful on cars with spin-on filters that are on the top of the engine and face down (2016 Subaru Crosstrek, for example). The punctured hole allows the filter to "breathe" and disrupts the natural vacuum inside the filter, allowing the oil to flow back into the crankcase. No oil puddle/mess to clean up after removing the filter.

1:20 Oh Lord... us D&D nerds knew this hack since the 70's.

I know 9:16 is an ad for the podcast, but I want to share my VG reliability story! I bought an 85 300ZX with 240,000 miles for $300 ($1 per Z) sort of running, sort of driving. It had no power until basically redline. Turns out that half of the cylinders had severe loss of compression (30-70 PSI on starter crank) due to bad piston rings AND someone took out an intake valve, ground it down to the size of the exhaust valves for some reason, and slapped it back in. The cams were also severely out of time, every sensor was bad, loose wires disconnected all over the engine bay, and it had no vacuum. Despite all of that, it ran like a champ! I even had it running with only 3 spark plug wires attached.

The vacuum trick is awesome, i work on heavy equipment and we do this often for hydraulic repairs. Then you don’t make a mess with oil. The oil filter trick with the punch is good too, also used it heavy equipment applications. Some of the filters used hold over a gallon of oil so it’s heavy when they are full so to prevent a mess we drain them out like that.

Love how Sandro was excited to do arts and crafts 😂

I would not punch a hole in an old filter until I know the new one fits. Trust me on this one.

Always love the whole cast for these videos. It can be any of ya'll, I'm watching, these videos are always great.

For that first hack, I had a much more extreme version, I was trying to drill some mounting holes on the engine cradle, and only had wood drill bits and an old single speed drill, after the first half of the holes, I discovered that I could lower the CAR onto the drill (braced on pavement), and exert as much force as I wanted without tiring myself,

You should do questionable UKposts car advice!

Used to use the vacuum trick on gravel pit equipment, rock trucks, excavators etc..... had to swap regular drain plugs for quick connect drain plugs.... don't have to drain and replace over 30L of engine oil, and more hydraulic oil..... clean process, saves alot of money on wasted oil

I've been a mechanic 40 + years, bikes, motorcycle, vehicles, helicopters and airliners. You guys are bomb. Ive only build motorcycles in my early riding years they make them plenty fast now, i never do anything without a manual. I am a snap on guy myself.

"Then everything sucks, and you're mad." Sandro sums up my life in a sentence.

Sandro really obsessed with people's hands in this one 🤣🙌

We need a special episode for every hack Sandro commented on „I’ve done that“ 😂

Sandro!! Passed by the other day not knowing it was your shop , didn't know you guys were so close 🤘

Any video with Sandro is always a hit!

11:30 - I am sure that will be throwing the torque reading off as it's adding another few inches of leverage.

the oil filter punch hack is super useful on certain semi truck and industrial engines. the filters are heavy af when full and punching them loses so much weight it just makes it easier imo

I have lifted a transmission into place like that but he got me when he said about under the steering wheels thats is my weaknesses😂well played

5:09 if you’re changing oil in a semi truck. Punching a hole in the filter is a big help ! Trying to unscrew and lower a hot filter with almost a gallon of oil in it, is a spill waiting to happen.

Poking a hole in the oil filter is a good idea in my case since my Excursion has such a big filter. It usually has about 2 quarts of oil in it so poking a hole makes is a lot easier to remove.

Definitely done the Jack and a wrench. Have also used a ratchet strap tied around a wrench and other end to a structural part on an ‘84 Chevy G20 van to get some bolts loose.

That one guy put together that car like it was made of legos.

Sandro is just chill as hell!

It's great that they all loved the "what no way" guy

Sandro is my spirit animal 😂

Ive done the paint marker socket trick. Not only does it make it easier to read but you can color code them. I had my common used wrenches in different colors for example.

That fender spring is cool if you're not traveling while turning because it's the tire pushing out the fender, and if traveling at speed, it will catch and rip the fender off.

The shop vac trick, also works for changing filters on diesel tanks, wouldn't suggest it for inline petrol ones tho.

Great to see Sandro 🎉 love watching these videos.

Punching a hole in an oil filter before removal is more useful when it's mounted up the other way so it drains into the engine instead of all over the place while you're unscrewing it. I learnt this trick when I bought an SW20 MR2.

I was doing some suspension work for someone and on hondas built 3-4 inches off the ground. The lower ball joints are SO close to the axle you have to release the bolt and nuts from the control arm holding the ball joint on first just to get the castle nut to clear and there's no way to get a socket on to torque it to spec. I tightened it as hard as I could by hand followed by a new cotter pin but the little wrench to socket adapter at 11:27 would've been clutch 2 days ago.

This was a super fun and cohesive episode, great job!

Y'all are so much fun to watch. Thanks!!!

I have used the hole in the oil filter trick on big boy oil filters where it saves you from making a huge mess. International DT466 has huge oil filters where they place them usually causes you to turn it to get it out causing oil to spill.

I did the first one on a brake caliper bolt way back when and it seriously was the only way without an impact driver. For strange underbody bolts that you cant put your body weight on the breaker bar end it really helps.

Eric from I Do Cars used a forklift to hold a junk block (no heads), and a front end loader to operate a 3/4 inch breaker bar to remove the harmonic damper. Needless to say, it worked.

We see Sandro, we click. Simple.

I work on diesel engines and quite often do oil changes. I pop oil filters every time. These trucks come in off route and are at operating temps when I get them in my bay. I pop the filters first thing and let them drain, then pull the drain plug, then get my parts and do my paperwork for the job. By the time I pull the old filters they are empty and cooled off.

Embossing sockets like that works, but there's really an art to getting it right. I usually just run those crusty PIttsburg sockets on the drill with a gray abrasive pad to clean up the BO finish on it, and the engraving usually shows up better afterwards. Fun fact, most shop presses are just a bottle jack in a frame.

Love Steph, Sandro and the donut bois!

Donut hires an insane amount of extremely smart people lol. Engineers, physicists.... guys....

That second one i did with my tools at work, instead of using a drill to clean it though i just put a drop of ethol on a wipe and just had it dry for a little less

The vacuum hack is also great on cooling systems and underground electrical conduit

I don’t even read the title. I see Sandro, I CLICK

A trick for the chemical tire inflation, you could see in one of the clips that the sidewall over inflated for a moment before it cut away. I remove the valve stem core to keep this from happening.

Dude lifted an empty aluminum housing got people thinking he’s the Hulk 🤣

i think the hack at the end didn't worked as expected cause you used a microfiber towel instead of the papertowel, the tiny strings of the microfiber towel i think went into the scored marks and cleaned them off which the paper towel didn't do on the original video

Great video! That transmission stick reminded me of something I did as a young determined 16-year-old when I was in high school back in the early 80's summer. I got tired of dad putting off helping me install a Muncie rock crusher 4 speed we had gotten at a salvage yard in my 56 Chevy Pickup. I wasn't a big kid, maybe 120 lbs. at the time. I layed under the truck legs toward the front and managed to roll that tranny up onto a small piece of plywood over my stomach used my feet and legs to lift the front and arms to lift the back to stick that bad boy in there! Dad couldn't believe what I told him I had done when he got home from work, till he saw it in place, I had managed to do it all by myself without a jack. I had helped replace many transmissions by that age and I knew how to do it. It took all day and many failed attempts but, to that point in my life it was about the proudest I had ever felt. Looking back though, one wrong move and I wouldn't have had 4 kids in my later years of life! True 100% I swear! Young people were different back then, not all of them but I was, when you don't have money, you make do with what you can think up.

I did my bushings with a DeWalt clamp, the kind with the tensioning trigger. Worked just like that car jack hack, but way more stable.

hey thanks for the video! new subscriber here and donut podcasts! 🙂

Love Sandro love Steph great video

That spring fender is a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

I used a version of the vac trick today to change a temp sensor on a system i just filled with coolant. On the REbead, i take the vavle core out and use starting fluid. Much much less starting fluid. As it expands it makes a cool whistling noise, and it contracts it does it again.

We used the vacuum trick when building boom trucks. From time to time the oil tank fittings would leak if they weren't doped. we could remove the entire 3" street 90 and re-dope it without a drop coming out.

yeah...... being big and a mechanic kinda suck. I'm a suspension mechanic and i'm 6'8". i made poor life choices. for pure dumb labor, being a giant is great. for reaching thru the engine bay to pick something up off the ground, also great. Underdash and tight enginebay work is hell for me. i often find myself in situation where i need the middle of my arm to bend or threading stuff via fingertips or long needle nose pliers.

Nolan feelin a lil giggly around Stephanie lol I love it

Sandro’s comment about arts and crafts is everything about this series 😂😂😂

In the oilfield, I've used the back bump on my picker truck to hold the 48" back wrench and the picker to pull the 48" pipe wrench on well heads before

I love watching these videos when I come back from high school ❤❤❤

If you do that socket engraving hack with the paint, you can just wipe off the paint before it drys so you don't need to use solvent on that rag (Carb cleaner is mostly just acetone). Just be gentle and try not to let the rag get pushed into the engraving. They use this technique on "How It's Made" in manufacturing processes (see the episode where they made Curling Stones if you need an example).

Used the vacuum and hole in the oil filter all the time when in the shop. Mostly just punctured the filter with to drain the oil to prevent a mess with large filters

4:48 Imagine you call yourself a professional, have worked in the profession for 20 years, but didn't know it or use it. What a deep insight. A full minute of excuses follows.

Steph was a good add. I like seeing the ladies on here - as long as they are knowledgeable.

Steph and Sandro perfect for this

Vacuum hack was done to me in 09. I was pulling the drain plug and co worker was doing courtesy cleaning. I heard the vacuum but didn't know it was a thing so when I pulled the plug no oil came out. I yelled up it was empty and he removed the vacuum. I had a face of oil. Oil filter punch trick is EXTREMELY helpful changing oil filters on a semi. They hold about a gallon of oil and are usually hard as hell to reach. Let it drain then take it off otherwise your taking a bath.

I had to press a wheel bearing on my 2002 BMW 330 I didn't have a press or a local shop but I did have my box truck from work full of chimney cleaning and masonry tools LOL the exposed frame really helped and I'm happy to say I got my wheel bearing in. That was five years ago and I even swapped the whole knuckle assembly to my 2004 BMW and she's still solid😅

I've bench pressed a transmission into place but standing that shit was crazy