Real Mechanics React to Ingenious Tiktok Hacks
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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We asked real mechanics to break down some of the sketchiest car repairs we could find on TikTok.
Huge thanks to our experts!
Angelina -- / ms.a_theshopteacher
Heber -- / hat_matters
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More Heber, dude is hilarious and bounces well off Angelina with innuendo after innuendo 😂
"I like da cars. Vroom Vroom" lmao
He bounces off her well? Nice innuendo yourself, sir.
"Bounces well off Angelina"
Phrasing
@@MrNeosantanamore innuendos!
Disagree. But still enjoyed the episode.
I've been missing the Angelina and Sandro bits, understandably they have been absent. Heber nailed it and made it just as entertaining. Great job and thanks guys. Shout out to Sandro, hope things are going well for you and miss you, bro.
What happened with Sandro?!
@@SecondSincehis family business (the OG location at least) got closed down.
@@0num4 Well that fucking sucks! But i totally understand he has other things to sort right now than doing these videos. Hope to see him again soon.
Fuck this corporate bullshit dawg. Sandro and this bitch need they own shit, donut is liberal garbage
@@SecondSince donut won’t let him make his own channel
Ok, so I'm not technically saying Sandro, Angelina, Steph, and Heber having their own show would be incredibly entertaining, I'm typing it.
Don't forget paul
Sandro+Angelina.
All we need.
But I didn't say that.
😂😂😂
I always want to see more Angelina. But this was great for Heber. I’ve seen him in other videos but just still didn’t really know him and what he does there. Heber really got to be himself here. Which was hilarious. No matter what he said it just turned raunchy quickly. Y’all picked up on that and ran with it. Great video. And I now get a sense of Heber and who he is. Now watching Donut videos I have a better sense of this Heber guy that I’ve recently seen.
That zip tie video with the spring is fucking terrifying.
The guy casually playing with that bomb he made... yikes! If you're gonna do something that inherently stupid you can at least hurry!
@@viceroybolt3518learn strengths of plastic its pretty good under tensile load, just cus sum looks scary dont mean it is
I had to do that with my Belltech springs for my mustang and it worked.
There's always a right way to do something dangerous.. that ain't it. Not by a long shot! Ratchet straps would've been the safer dumb shit option.
@@reeegg9218 there is no way to evenly distribute the force being applied to each zip tie. all it takes is for the one with the most load to pop and set off a chain reaction
I love the addition of Heber! the perfect personality to bring in as a new regular
I don’t think they had a choice. Everybody else left them.😂 you gotta work with what you have left
@@rafaelmunoz497 I don't know man,. So. say that he was pushed into the limelight by the overlord. The new owners of Donut are hugh mungus a-holes, which is an undisputed fact. Heb has a good, good-guy attitude. All in, he's a good addition to the team, I think.
@@rafaelmunoz497 But be honest the duo works perfectly ,the two appear to be brothers😜🤔
😂 a good addition? Do you know most of the original people all quit? Donut is dead. I'm just watching the rest of the train wreck.
@@gb8628 what the hell is even that!?
Bike mechanic here, that ziptie trick with frayed brake/shift cables is so handy. I use it all the time to save cables instead of replacing.
TIL, I've just been cutting them short and crimping a new end cap.
I just use my fingers very slowly, usually works. But this seems better.
Works on lawnmowers too
Hilarious, every clip Heber turns into some sort of innuendo. Has Angelina cracking up.
Glad we finally got Heber featured in a video.
Angelina is by far my favorite 😊
If you want paint out of a can to come out well soak them in hot water (very hot) for a fem minutes, shake them, soak them again until you cant feel a temp change when you shake. Reduces spitting, runs, ect. Also helps the paint lay down better and cures faster.
I so could have used this trick this morning. 😂😂 No Lie.
@@MrBoomer513 Its always like that isn't it? Find out what you need a little too late.
Thanks for the tip
How have I never heard that before? Thanks for the tip Shooter.
Another tip with rattle can paint to avoid it spurting is to turn the can upside down when you're done doing a coat and press the cap so it shoots gas through but no paint. This will stop the cap clogging between coats and stop it flinging boogers the next time you use it
The sawzall shaker is great as in about 10-15 seconds you can completely mix any paint/foam/etc can. If you don’t want to make one you can order amazing ones for $30. And once you have one you’ll never go back to the old school method. And generally I find when you use these things the paint takes a good 1-3 days to separate again, so no issues if you step out for lunch or have to finish up the next morning; it’ll still be good to go.
Respect to Angelina for the Rat Fink shirt!!! 👍
I second the motion!
At this point I feel like you can put Angelina with anyone and it would be awesome, shes so great
Bro she literally copies everyone’s mannerism. Her laugh is atrocious like kamelas. And she’s not funny.
The socket loom trick is a real hero when I'm trying to feed fiber into 25-30 feet of the stuff
"Is that what all the subaru owners do?" God damn you didn't have to roast us like that 😂😂.
Never owned a Subie, but I've been blowing vape clouds into intakes to find vac leaks for a decade!
I've never seen anyone else do this, and was fairly proud of myself when I tried it out and it worked. It's much quicker and easier than buying and setting up a fogger.
Glove over the filler cap secured with a zip tie, and blow clouds into the brake booster vac line. When you've got a few good blows in, squeeze the inflated glove to increase pressure while blocking the booster line with your thumb.
The toilet brush/drill thing is also great for cleaning the grout on your kitchen/bathroom tiles
Gonna try this
Amazon. They sell a whole kit of quick release/connect brushes for a power drill. Comes with the "toilet bowl" head, among many others. Great for interior detailing, and yes, that method works for cleaning automotive carpet. For less than $20 USD, it's 100% worth it. Break it all free and then vacuum it up. Also, the others make quick work of cleaning all season floor mats.
Ryobi has them if you want to know who you're actually buying them from.
The hard bristle ones are also great for getting most of the inner bark layers off of a live edge slab.
Archimedes said "Give me a long enough lever and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world."
Trump said "They're eating the cats".
@@samuelgarrod8327
KamLa: 😮😂😂😂😂🤨
Angelina is my internet queen. We need at least 2000% more of her.
Amen!
Well if some dude would volunteer to just tip her a dozen times, we would within a generation have new generation. But I think she wised up the first time. You never know, it is california after all.
@@erbterb that's completely nonsensical
@@davesykes283 have you not watched the video?
Creepy.
Alternator/generators on Air-cooled VWs have a split pulley. You use spacers to change the tension on the belt.
I had a belt fly off on my 67 bug. Drove it 1 mile home with no fan/alternator. Smoked the hell out of the oil. Ordered some new spacers and replaced the belt. Was a good time.
im a73 model these guys are new new school
Yeah, split sheave on old Volvo AC compressors (York/Tecumseh) and then almost EVERY tractor with a belt driven alternator/generator built before 1995.
I lost the alternator nut on my 71 bus on my way home from a night shift so ended up driving it a few miles at a time with a handful of breaks to let it cool off lol
The worst bit about it is when you get a bug, and need to add a little tension to the belt, and find that the previous owner threw away the spacers he didn't need rather than putting them on the outside of the pulley!
I had air-cooled VWs for years, and, if you have your belt properly tight, you don’t slip it on like that because the screwdriver will leave a place in the belt which is an easy failure point. Plus, it’s freaking scary when it’s tight.
the chemistry with these 2 feels good.
So now Donut is doing a version of the commercial and then it instantly cuts to the same commercial in ad sense! So we get to watch the same product twice
It’s been like this for a while. I would watch their in-video sponsor video before but now its skip city because i know here comes another.
Ublock origin bro. No ads
@@terrykennedy7422 I was just going to post the same thing.
Pretty sure but correct me if I’m wrong that they don’t choose the Adsense ads, it’s more of an algorithmic thing so naturally ads they’ve done with companies who advertise through Adsense are more likely to be played
I honestly prefer it that way imo. If I'm getting an ad anyways, at least it's from donut and not some random ad
as a detailer i kno that the brushes if used the right way don't damage ur carpet at all they in fact make them like new because they straighten the fibers that were straight before u stepped on them
Heber has the perfect personality for this.
What a fun pairing. More Heber and Angelina! They work well together.
Hes like the 4ever friend zone
😅
The process of adjusting the belt tension on that aircooled VW involves removing half of the Alternator pulley (the top one) by removing the nut and a bunch of washers. You put some washers in the middle of the pulley (Less washers = more tension) it's a little tedious but not too hard to do.
14:15 Doubt it. Floor mat are designed to get stomped and scraped for years. If you find a brush with softer bristles go ahead and get that one but I wouldn't worry about it
Angelina seems so stoked to be included in the commercial. Made it really fun to watch. Props to you girl, get that bag!
That was Steph.
@@wbfaulk lmao
A racially colorblind king right here???
she wasn’t…
That wasn’t Angelina 😂
11:06 safety glasses? Nah, full plate armor...and even that might not be enough.
Put on your PT belt and you'll be safe from anything.
19:34 fist time in my life that I see a heptagonal bolt.
I thought it looked funny.
Yeah, I seen that too.
Hahaha. Nice catch.
14:50 bike mechanics gettin some love!
Bike mechanics wouldn’t use a zip tie though. It can soooo easily be done with your fingers. I have that this “trick” has gone viral - it’s just wasteful
@ For real though, that's a lot of access derailleur cable and zip ties are like gold to mechanics, touchè
Yeah but it's pointless. Put the crimp cap on _before_ the cable frays, instead of after. Also, there's so much cable hanging out of that derailleur that he should just cut the frayed end off and cap it.
Heber is underrateddd ❤❤❤❤
The cool thing about those Volkswagen engines is that neither one of those pulleys move to apply tension. The generator pulley is a multi piece pulley with shims. You take the nut off and the outer portion and either add or remove shims in order to make the two halves further or closer, thus tightening or loosening the belt
Iron oxide or rust is a chemical reaction. By painting over rust and creating a barrier from anything getting in, or out. At some point there would be no more oxygen to react with the metal. Its like a bug in a jar with no air holes. At some point the bug would asphyxiate/suffocate.
I just tripped over your Channel guys and I'm so glad I did.As a 62 year old
Aussie Male, I absolutely loved the way you guys spoke facts and bounced tongue in cheek
Commentary all the way through.Its definitely a Subscribe from and looking forward to seeing more.Clap Clap
I usually skip past the ads but Steph was in it so I had to watch. She's awesome.
"Is that what all the Subaru owners do?" Frigging savage & I love it. Bwahahahahahaaa!
The drill brush trick works amazing on those crappy french needle pile carpets that are like velcro. Get's all the dirt out in a jiffy.
Edit: they do sell kits with a drill brush attachment already on them. They can fuzz up your carpets. I'd say needle pile carpets are more sensitive to fuzzing than velour carpets, but no one will notice it.
Heber and Angelina killing it on this🤣 so funny. And as a career mechanic this feels like coffee break at work when we all laugh at hack/fail reels in the break room.
Donuts mechanic has a lot of motion 😂
The guy with the pain can mixer looked so satisfied, which is understandable. Very nice!
Ive used a cigar many times for vac leaks. Old guy taught me years ago
The zip-tie-fix for braided steel wire 're-braiding' works like a champ. I've taken entire threads of a wire out of my 7x7 stainless steel wire and re-wound it in a finger-spun-method pretty much exactly like that to get a 6x7 slightly-smaller-diameter wire that is still a wire. Works fine as long as the wires involved didn't get folded. If they fold...past that kink, you'll need luck to continue doing that. Works fine for 'fraying' aside from that in my experience.
Not me getting an ad for the nissian kicks right after y’alls 😂
As a tobacco harm reduction advocate, 4:09 warmed my heart in the best possible way. That's what its all about and Heber has it absolutely right.
I see Angelina I tap like button
10:02 This is what it would be like if mechanics were treated like server operators, having to do full service on a car without allowing it to have any downtime would be a creative challenge
Pretty hard to change the brakes on a moving car
@@swamp-yankee get some desert folk to drive it on two wheels for a bit
6:19 A 1.5 gallon garden sprayer from Home Despot does the same job without the need for a second person. I have 3 of them, one for ATF, 1 for DSG, and 1 for CVT, because you don’t want to cross contaminate transmission fluids.
Yeah I'd like to see more episodes with Heber with the rest of you guys on RMS I think he'd be a great addition to you guys 💯
Glad to see Donut has a real mechanic there and not just car enthusiasts who know how to do varying levels of wrenching.
Rust is not a bacteria. It's a chemical reaction involving oxygen, hence why the generic term is oxidization.
Rust is car cancer. Nuff said
Similes hate to see you coming 🤣
Not literal cancer. But it's like cancer on cars.
There were quite a few more of those than I was expecting that I might actually use. Maybe not the zip-tie on the coil springs one, and definitely not the "replacing a belt on a running engine" one, but certainly more than zero. So thank you for not just providing material to mock, but also material to legitimately educate. :D
Heber wild with those hand motions 🤣🤣🤣 dudes funny
That was wild. That guy knows how to how to party.
"Just the tip." A flood of memories just came to me. That's how you get them. 😂😂😂
11:56 "You make it fit, and then you get off"
I love your videos. One quick note about VW belts. There is no tensioner on that belt anywhere. The alternator or generator pulley is in two halves, with shims between. You have to hold the pulley in place with a screwdriver (into the slot of the alt/gen), and loosen the center bolt, being careful not to lose any of the shims when you remove the outer half of the pulley and the bell washer. Then of course, you reverse the process with the new belt in place, being sure you don't pinch the belt between the pulley halves. It's not horrible but it is a fiddly pain in the butt sometimes, especially if you drop that stack of shims and they roll in six different directions on the garage floor. That's why a lot of VW owners utilize the trick shown in the clip. Your daily lesson from a layman. Cheers.
Sandro lost his shop. Yall should be hiring him for every video, he's awesome and I'm sure could use the support
I mean, he owns another shop, it's not like he's living on the streets now my guy lol but I agree, love the dude.
he cares for his shop over appearing in donut videos. if you actually watched his content, you’d know that he’s the one who chose to step away from donut. stop faking support it’s embarrassing
He originally had 2 shops but lost 1 as the landlord raised the shop's rent.
So all his work had to move to his other shop. He had a video on his own channel where he stated that he has a backlog of work that needs to be done since the shop is overcrowded.
He can't drop his main responsibilities to his customers and his shop just to do Donut.
You have to get an appointment to even talk to him. He's busy AF.
I almost want to send Angelina and Heber some wireloom tools. I've done the wrench trick, but you can't do it on wires that already have blocks on the end. A wire loom tool opens up to take just the wire, without having to go all the way over the end.
Perfect! I get to spend my two hours at work watching Angelina and this guy Herber
He is not new to Donut btw, only not been on RMS before.
The real question is how do you spend two hours watching a 20 mins video?? That’s some next level procrastination right there
@@DigitalicaEG Honestly i do sometimes also just play some random videos in the background while I do other stuff, so I can relate
@ it’s called having a life.
Edit: you wouldn’t know anything about it
I think this guy is the type of car engineers I like to bring my car to. Angelina is always so nice and knowledgeble, she's like a live car engineering encyclopedia!
Maybe a dumb question, but doesn't covering the rust with paint prevent the oxygen from getting to the metal, thus stopping rust as long as the paint isn't chipped off?
That is correct. Idk what these people are talking about. You can spray sheet metal that you knock most the rust off of with any decent off the shelf paint and it will survive ages.
Rust is oxygenated metal. so the O2 is already in there. Rust is like a sponge. It has lots of spaces to store moisture and o2 on top of that. Not to mention that the rust is not a flat surface so it kinda defeats the point of painting it. and if the rust is bad enough, it will flake off and take the paint with it, both destroying the paintjob and making a nice home for more moisture and o2 to get in, so that it will spread even faster from there.
Every professional sands or metal brushes the rust off first for a reason.
@@dsauce8780 your life doesn't depend on sheet metal, and sheet metal does not have any tension/torsion on it. People get used to cars so they forget how much their life depends on it working properly.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx I don’t think you understand what you’re saying. Iron oxide is a stable compound. Without moisture present the electrolyte for the required electron mobility to facilitate further oxidation isn’t present. Ipso facto if you properly cover rusted metal it stops rusting. There are also materials like coreten steel that are designed to form an oxide layer to protect itself similar to the way bare aluminum will protect itself with it’s own oxide layer.
Regardless of the metal type or use this is true. If your frame is rusted to shit you probably shouldn’t use it. But the idea that once there is rust in your metal that covering it doesn’t stop it is just plain wrong.
@dsauce8780 and @PositiveOnly-dm3rx I think both have a point: as @dsauce8780 said, iron oxide is stable (as far as I know?) but as it is created, it flakes off, exposing more fresh iron to any potential oxygen, which is why rust is a problem. That I'm guessing is why you always get rid of rust before covering it, to minimise the risk of the iron flaking off and as @PositiveOnly-dm3rx said to prevent any flaking from compromising the covering used to isolate the metal from the atmosphere.
What doesn't make sense from @PositiveOnly-dm3rx is the assertion that since you're covering oxygenated metal, the O2 is already there so it'll keep doing damage... doesn't oxygen get bound up in the rusting reaction? Meaning once it has reacted with that bit of iron, that's it, it's bound up, oxygen isn't a catalyst for the reaction, it's a reagent, is it not?
That was actually a fun episode. With all the innuendo and stuff hahahahaha so natural, both of their interaction.
I was going to do the whole ... Angelina and Sandro!! chant ... but Heber is really cool! lol Great vibes.
13:21 "You mean to tell me for 40 years, I could've done it like THIS? Ain't no way."
I like this dude better than the other. Just feels more natural and actually funny
18:40 this episode was def a mechanic episode with all the dirty jokes😭😭😭 love it!
What happened to Angelina's lip ring?
It looked so cool 😁.
The Honda crankbolt is infamous for being impossible. Torque specs are 188ft/lbs. No way. At the factory, there is some demon, or Superman, that literally torques it to +1400 ft./lbs.
The color of the straps have a meaning. It's not duct tape but in line with the red green show. "If the women don't find you handsome,at least theyll find you handy"
If Adam is Shop Daddy, then Heber is Shop Papi.
And Angelina is Shop Mamacita
The zip tie shift cable trick really does work, but I have found that it's faster to just use your fingers to put the cable back together. On an unrelated note. The VW fan belt trick only works if the belt is being run too loose. There is a shim stack that goes in the center of the generator pulley that is used to adjust tension. If the belt tension was right either the belt would snap, or the screwdriver would go into orbit.
Finally, Angelina is back, now we need Sandro back and we're set.
You should hit her up.
Just enjoy the channel..
These weird fan girl comments demanding the presence of certain hosts is just odd.. get on with your life
@@OLI-vx1md local 80year old discovers people have preference in hosts, more at eleven
@@APunishedManNamed2lmao he's out looking for comments asking for other hosts to comment. Shit funny
@@TheTwoTwoForReal I don't know why that made me laugh as much as it did lmao
hammering on smaller sockets to a bolt head to get one unstuck is something we've done a few times but it should also be noted that metric and imperial have some nice "in between" sizes that you can use as well BEFORE trying the "hammer on" method and you may actually get a better/tighter fit with one of those(for us it's usually because of rust).
This one has a lot more innuendo
VW belt adjustment, is done by shimming the generator pulley, either widening to loosen the belt by letting it run lower in the pulley, or narrowing it to tighten the belt by making it ride higher. So normally, for belt replacement, you'd undo the centre bolt of the Gen pulley, and separate the two parts of the pulley. I've personally never used the screwdriver trick, but I can understand why a lot of people would. (I do the same thing, just not with the engine running lmao)
For a rounded bolt I use a rubber band to fill any gaps to grip the socket
I love how they explain everything. Mrs A rocks!
19:40
I think this dude might legitimately think rust is caused by bacteria...
I’m telling you if you flipped Midwest techs with west coast techs the Midwest techs would absolutely make a killing. We are used to dealing with nightmare situations on the daily.
110% accurate. I'd kill to work in a non rust belt state.
"Just the tip" Heber saving me from another Tristan video. Keep it going with these two!
The newer “Smoke” machines are actually just like vapes (for nicotine at least) use a mix base of propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin as a carrier where as the new leak machines and fog machines use just pure propylene glycol and that’s why it smells like marshmallows sometimes lol but that’s why it’s also none toxic if inhaled in smaller quantities. Fun fact lol the old machines sometimes even had a smoking pipe or cigarette end attachment, but if you have ever seen a current small counter top culinary smoker with a bowl for wood chips that was the start of the smoke tester.
Those black zip ties are often rated 175lbs, they feel a lot less secure than they are.
I always keep a pack on me, they're almost always handy somehow.
10:30
On the alternator, the pulley is made of 2 separate plates with a taper on them and some shims in-between them. When you want to loosen it you put more shims in and when you want to tighten it you take some shims out. It's a really simple and effective system
Fun fact: if you just use an inline six, you don't even really need harmonic balancing. Goes for a V12 as well. Naturally perfectly balances all first order imbalances. You still can have some heaving and other higher order stuff, but those are pretty much always accepted, as just throwing on a simple harmonic balancer isn't enough to balance it, and the vibration amplitude of higher orders is smaller as well
The jazz piano during the "hand shaking" at 9:46 is kinda perfect.
To tighten the belt on that VW, the generator/alternator pulley is a 2 piece design, using shims on either side of the outer half of the pulley. Add shims in between to loosen the belt, and subtract to tighten. The extra shims go on the outer section behind the bolt, so they remain with the component. It's the only way to adjust the belt tension, since the gen/alt is bolted solid to a bracket. Same rules for V-belt tension apply.
I like this guy! He’s funny. Angelina thinks so as well, she kept repeating his jokes and thats the easiest way to kill a joke
Heber and Angelina Duo is fantastic!! This was a great episode
BEST RMS EPISODE YET , GREAT DUO ... SUPER FUN.
Angelina really enjoy it when you're hosting the show. Please give us more. PS you and Sandro make a great team on this channel
Simplest way to get a stripped bolt out is to weld a larger nut to the top of it. Added bonus the welding acts like heat shock.
Love that we are getting to see more Heber here and on Donut. Dude is awesome, funny, and knowledgeable!
I am very impressed with how much knowledge she has.
@14:45 - It works... The frayed strands, if Not damaged, still have a twist Memory, all you are doing is getting them to realign by twisting in the proper direction.
This was a good one, glad to see you guys getting back to basics.
The VW pulley hack make sense to all aircooled guys because the tension on the belt is adjusted by the shims increasing or decreasing the space inside the main pulley. Kinda like a CVT without the C.
Great combo of Angelina and Heber! And Heber - I like the toy cars, too!
Was not expecting Heber to be this endlessly entertaining ngl
I've actually done the zip tie trick with springs myself. Definitely worked in a pinch. But I find using some steel hose clamps, 10-12 inches, the best solution since they gradually release pressure as you unscrew them off...