I witnessed a foreskin pull a fully loaded double axle with the brakes locked across a job site with a ½ ton V6 Chevy. There were scalded tire marks for months!
I had a ranger fall off a car dolly(forwards onto the frame) and the tires wedged onto the ground went ahead and dragged it on home the last few miles down the freeway tires howling and smoking away lol
Been there done that while changing the head gasket on a older than Jesus Chevy 350. She was chugging coolant faster than a pirate with a keg of rum to himself.
@@aoeuidhtnsnthdiueoa oh, but sometimes it does! But if so, then something will fail in a way that you absolutely have to get the culprit out of the garage to proceed - for whatever reason, unimaginable prior to the event. Like the car lift dies right after winching the truck 10 inches off the ground.
@@Airman.. There's a whole contingent of folks that operate on similar mental frequencies and pathways. Odd you haven't noticed before. Then again, you mighta just thought we were... on meth, or crazy. Well, the effect is somewhat similar!
How to repair trailer wiring in three easy steps- #1 Start at the rubber on the brake pedal and work your way out to the tires. #2 Rip all the old s***t out. #3 Replace all the old s***t with new s***t that works.
@@thewolfin Only the cheap garbage "vinyl tape" has glue that comes off. If you get actual electrical tape then the glue wont come off unless it gets really hot, and it also sticks a lot better.
@@steampunkskunk3638 a reason to tape each connection separately and then if you must tape that section of the loom together. The next person to come along may curse you out if you do the latter
Hey, I work at snake river trailers, honestly surprised you didn’t curse out the workmanship more haha. I’ve been watching your videos for several years, love the content.
Dewclaw made himself a shirt out of the wrappers from Vietnames subs. Those are some mighty fine glue-stick skills there Dewclaw, very sharp looking, nice crisply-ironed creases. Give this man some glitter and a hot glue gun, I can't wait to see what kind of formal wear he'd make out of discarded Big Mac boxes.
The great thing about solenoids (or more generally, inductors) is they don't spark when you hook them up. Instead, they spark when you disconnect them!
I am past the point of trouble shooting brake wiring this days, as I am too old..... if there is an issue..... I just yank all of it off, and install a new kit and that solves having any issues for years, until you loan the trailer out to a best friend you didn't know you had, that naturally has the ability to screw it up while in transit to return your trailer back to you....
Looked like the outline of a famous cartoon mouse with big ears, but it was early in the day and my brain was still above the belt line. A few hours later might have been different. Been there, done that with trailer wiring, but wasn't the kind of problem you had. The wiring for the lights, including required running lights, was complete spaghetti bowl chaos. The trailer was a friend's and had been through two prior owners who kludged things together with no consideration of best practices for durability or reliability - and left behind all sorts of abandoned wire runs with splices everywhere using different colors, adding to the ambiguity. Getting the lights legal again on the side of the road - at night - was a challenge. At the earliest opportunity at his home we chopped out all the abandoned runs and re-ran proper wiring through the proper wiring races.
"It's OK, it's only flat on the bottom." thanks uncle B. I just ejected the remainder of my coffee from my mouthhole. Now I gotta brew another batch. FAAAK!
When I'm thinking out loud and some asshole asking if I'm talking to myself I always respond with "some of the best conversations I've ever had have been with myself". Usually gives me a wide berth.
80s rabbit pickup, if she's diesel my brother and I just rebuilt one. 60mpg at 55mph all day long but she takes a minute to get there. Watch for splits in the head between the valves, ours was cracked on every cylinder. Ordered a *new* one from over seas.
Often heard in hallowed workshops late on a Friday night when the last of 18 bolts holding a critical piece of equipment has just snapped off as you were torquing it up with a fully certified and calibrated torque wrench.
When dealing with trailer wiring, I've found if you're running the factory wiring the best thing to do is to just strip it all out. Run some nice, new Ancor trailer wire, use proper heatshrink butt connectors and get it sorted proper like.
Just a tip for the next time you use those tire plugs, you are supposed to burn the excess tips of plug hanging out after you install it. It serves to vulcanize and seal the plug into the tire.
That connector on the trailer has a built-in countdown timer in it, as soon as it senses six hook ups or one hour it drops the brakes out and fuckers the turn signals. Every trailer has at least one!
I sold a running driving super clean one of those vw’s with not a spot of rust for $2500 about 3-4 years ago. Hated that slow pile. I can accelerate faster on my bicycle.
There's a pretty simple reason for this happening and honestly it's one of the most common reasons for trailer failures of all kind. Luckily there's a simple fix. You made the mistake of taking your eyes off the trailer for a period of longer than 2 seconds. If you can manage to not do this, you stand to get a solid 5-10% fewer trailer failures.
Doubtful. the u.s. landed on the moon 6 focking times with men aboard! In a day and age when computers were as large as bathrooms, and with less of a budget, factoring inflation than nasa does today. 50 years later and not one nation has landed on the moon with men aboard, in a day and age where computers are smaller than ur hand, and who knows how many more times powerful. Its occums razor. Why not? the money is there. The technology is there better than it ever was, and yet, the u.s. still talks about another ten years before their next moon landing. Even musk won't attempt it. What's his claim? 5 years? Its actually hilarious if you think about it, musk talks about "colonizing" mars but has yet to get a single soul to the moon...
@@rayg9069 - for the u.s. i get it. but china still hasn't done it. slave child labor fits their bill but to lose two grown men on the moon is beyond comprehension?
@@interstellarsurfer - bollocks. because landing on the moon is a perfect way to embezzle funds. a 30 million dollar lander could cost 4 billion as far as we are concerned. Do like nike. Just do it!
Are the wires on the new break away good quality, well thought out pre-tinned copper or just cheaper-than copper and even more prone to oxidation aluminum wire? No F*&@ing focus on them. Edit: Mandatory apology for double post, 9 of the 10 voices said do it, the last one's an idiot.
Look at how stiff they remain bent; almost certainly el-cheapo aluminium conductors. Much more prone to vibration induced brittle failure than copper, so obviously the best choice for this application!
Oh man, I'm laughin so hard, actually have a tear or 2 sliding down my face. Just be glad that long ass bolt was just a torx and not a weird-ass square drive. And them noises when you were applying colorless schmoo to them trailer wires... holy crap that reminded me of the night I nearly ODed on Taco John's.
On the trailer I just fixed, which was 20 years old, the only wiring issue that I found was the wiring done by the last mechanic to work on it. Everything else looked original, and worked perfectly.
Kaboomf you can’t back up a hill without getting out and manually disabling them, that’s what ‘s wrong with surge brakes, also you can’t tap the brakes on the trailer and not the vehicle to steady it.
I've never seen a trailer with electrically-actuated brakes here in Europe, must be a North American/Canadian thing. Over here they're generally a mechanical over-run system. That said the lighting wiring does the same thing goes crusty, gets botched up with choc blocks and speaker wire, then short circuits and blows the lighting fuses on the towing vehicle.... At least when you're careering blindly towards a ditch, the trailer brakes still function.
Yes, yes, Europeans still use the mechanically actuated braking system. In the US we switched over to electrical. It's less expensive, and, obviously, "anybody can fix electrical". Just check under any parked trailer for proof.
Those conductors are almost certainly aluminium and not tinned copper. Much worse than copper in every respect; especially with regards to brittle failures in high-vibration applications and suseptibility to corrosion when in contact with more noble metals (basically any metal). Edit: AvE was being sarcastic, I just missed it. :/
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Locked brakes just means you need a bigger truck to pull it.
I witnessed a foreskin pull a fully loaded double axle with the brakes locked across a job site with a ½ ton V6 Chevy. There were scalded tire marks for months!
And lots of spares.
Dont forget to stop every once n a while to rotate the tire a lug nut that way u get the mot from ur tires
Moar power!
I had a ranger fall off a car dolly(forwards onto the frame) and the tires wedged onto the ground went ahead and dragged it on home the last few miles down the freeway tires howling and smoking away lol
its not as fun unless you're doing it on the side of the highway in the rain at night.
Been there done that while changing the head gasket on a older than Jesus Chevy 350. She was chugging coolant faster than a pirate with a keg of rum to himself.
Why is it always in the rain at night? EVERY FUCKING TIME. Nothing ever breaks within limping distance of my garage.
@@aoeuidhtnsnthdiueoa oh, but sometimes it does! But if so, then something will fail in a way that you absolutely have to get the culprit out of the garage to proceed - for whatever reason, unimaginable prior to the event. Like the car lift dies right after winching the truck 10 inches off the ground.
I have only ever had two flat tyres on semi trailers. Both at night in the rain!
It's also curious how the Statie always pulls up just as you're finishing. They're like blisters...they show up after the work is done.
Engage the safety sandals
Is dewclaw Linus in disguise?
chinese safety shoes
Is that DewClaw's tech tips?!
You never know when a beach will land on you. you must always be prepared.
Steel toed and insulated soles.
Everyone should own a trailer. I'm up to 4 and I have dain bramage!
Shh and at least two trucks.
I lost my shit on this one. Well done.
@@CodyJv And you'll be damned if you ever find a combo that works.
I have one trailer and thats enough been trying to guve up the drink nearly did than had to hitch up the trailer and bam drunk and swearing
Naw, I just have 2 motorcycles
I’m Asian, I have a built-in safety squint 😒
LMFAO!
Do you mean that it's always Active :P
so thats how you people are so industrious
If you really are asian i love you so much
Rahul Sawant that’s right
"Good for another 100,000 kilometers, or until next hook-up."
Too true!
Enjoying watching your descent into madness.
ionhavoc2 definitely on meth
@@Airman.. Nah, he's been like this for years - and he's still got all his teeth. 😅
Descent? He have always been there, and we all love it.
@@Airman.. There's a whole contingent of folks that operate on similar mental frequencies and pathways. Odd you haven't noticed before. Then again, you mighta just thought we were... on meth, or crazy. Well, the effect is somewhat similar!
I dissent your madness!
Dewclaw was wearing “Air Jesus’es “.
Jesus cleats.
Jerusalem cruisers
@@SH19922x Crimson caligula sounds like some kinda roman vigilante.
@@jackstrawjr2963
Thanks man, you made my day :D
you don't like sparks? thought you'd be used to sparks, all the grinding you must do on your welds
Electrickity Sparks not to be messed with.
@@jeffreyhueseman7061 my favourite is 'eclectic trickery'
Just pour silicone on top of weld blank spots and paint it, nobody will know :D
I so love hearing him serenade to victory after completing a task. I have taken the anthem for my own now.
"Longest bolt in history, Nyloc Nut...." I almost spit out my beer.
count your fuckin' blessings it wasn't a stover nut
My stomach hurts from sympathy laughter. Forkin nylocs...
Famous saying of the day: “If you have a 3-wire harness, it’s always the 4th wire that carries the current!” 🤓
Gotta love a 'tuber who voluntarily demons his vids in the first minute.
He's said many-a-time don't watch the ads that get injected into his vids.
Ya might catch something that won't wash off.
check out ziptiedandbiasplies
Take it from a professional auto electrician. When dealing with trailers, its always easier to just re-wire than repair.
Yep not worth the hassle
Man, the most helpful advice is sometimes just simple.
How to repair trailer wiring in three easy steps-
#1 Start at the rubber on the brake pedal and work your way out to the tires.
#2 Rip all the old s***t out.
#3 Replace all the old s***t with new s***t that works.
When you find wire nuts at literally all the connections......
Electrical tape - yeah, how is it it's so sticky, but sticks to bugger all?
@@thewolfin Only the cheap garbage "vinyl tape" has glue that comes off. If you get actual electrical tape then the glue wont come off unless it gets really hot, and it also sticks a lot better.
@@twizz420 here in the desert that is texas that expensive elechickens tape might as well be molasses after any time out in the elements
@@mfThump to be fair, anything in the Texas desert is probably going to melt.
That slime the tape develops has another issue, it's conductive. If you wrap electrical connections in it they can start shorting in a few years time.
@@steampunkskunk3638 a reason to tape each connection separately and then if you must tape that section of the loom together. The next person to come along may curse you out if you do the latter
I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I can’t do that. This mission is to important for me to let you jeopardize it.
Yup, loved the 2001 reference
Daisy, Daisy...
@@gorillaau ditto on the reference.
@@cjtzioumis686 I love the movie too but yeah great reference.
@@gorillaau also did you know the Alexa can do the song as well it if you have one you better try anyone.
"can't play hockey, that fucking sucks" - most Canadian thing ever said.
Hey, I work at snake river trailers, honestly surprised you didn’t curse out the workmanship more haha. I’ve been watching your videos for several years, love the content.
“I gotta get back to work so I can heal up” - one from the Claw I gotta use. Good stuff boys.
ive worked on many trailers. i try my best not to drive behind them.
How many picnic tables had to give up their cover for that shirt?!
This is where I Start from Scratch.. Rip out All the Old wire
then Repeat every 5-7 years..
Dewclaw made himself a shirt out of the wrappers from Vietnames subs. Those are some mighty fine glue-stick skills there Dewclaw, very sharp looking, nice crisply-ironed creases. Give this man some glitter and a hot glue gun, I can't wait to see what kind of formal wear he'd make out of discarded Big Mac boxes.
If he got down on his hands and knees he'd look like a picnic table.
The great thing about solenoids (or more generally, inductors) is they don't spark when you hook them up. Instead, they spark when you disconnect them!
And behold, Brother Bumblefuck brought forth the holy Phallus of Canadiok.
A long bolt with a nylock nut but in a place where you get less than 1/4 turn, laugh it up.
Old Dewclaw was looking like he was ready to go to the club and tell sea stories to all the young lads!
I am past the point of trouble shooting brake wiring this days, as I am too old..... if there is an issue..... I just yank all of it off, and install a new kit and that solves having any issues for years, until you loan the trailer out to a best friend you didn't know you had, that naturally has the ability to screw it up while in transit to return your trailer back to you....
As an electrician, this guy cracks me up.
As a Jew I can say its required to say L'chaim whilst stripping wire.
Looked like the outline of a famous cartoon mouse with big ears, but it was early in the day and my brain was still above the belt line. A few hours later might have been different.
Been there, done that with trailer wiring, but wasn't the kind of problem you had. The wiring for the lights, including required running lights, was complete spaghetti bowl chaos. The trailer was a friend's and had been through two prior owners who kludged things together with no consideration of best practices for durability or reliability - and left behind all sorts of abandoned wire runs with splices everywhere using different colors, adding to the ambiguity. Getting the lights legal again on the side of the road - at night - was a challenge. At the earliest opportunity at his home we chopped out all the abandoned runs and re-ran proper wiring through the proper wiring races.
"It's OK, it's only flat on the bottom." thanks uncle B. I just ejected the remainder of my coffee from my mouthhole. Now I gotta brew another batch. FAAAK!
As an Australian I have to ask, were you having a flat white?
Lmao! I thought the sticker on the tongue said "Okay to ship defective"
Light the tire plug on fire for a few seconds and it will slip right in like if you spent hours liquoring it up beforehand.
And never rely on a vehicles ground. Always run a ground wire.
Hey ground in cars as minus is ass like in tractors... Imagine the problems with modern glued cars yuk
The craftsman Knipex!
Also, Klein has knipex making their pliers now as well
Love the clerks reference “I am not even supposed to be here today”
Apropos... a transcription of this would read like a chapter of Finnegans wake.
My favorite line "I like to do some of my thinking in my head..." LMAO
"and the rest I do with my other head"
When I'm thinking out loud and some asshole asking if I'm talking to myself I always respond with "some of the best conversations I've ever had have been with myself". Usually gives me a wide berth.
Then I flush and get back to it.
Stolen from the Stooges:
Curly: "I tried thinkin', but nothin' happened"
80s rabbit pickup, if she's diesel my brother and I just rebuilt one. 60mpg at 55mph all day long but she takes a minute to get there.
Watch for splits in the head between the valves, ours was cracked on every cylinder. Ordered a *new* one from over seas.
Rabbit Pickup, nice. I've got a few of them.
I was waiting for it and in the very last part, you didn't let me down.
"Let's think this through, I like to do some of my thinking in my head...."
I'm still laughing
Love the TMR customs sticker... got the same one and that lets me know somebody builds off road shit and has good taste in products!
Use a cordless drill with a bit to ream then use rubber cement to lube the plug
We need a series...."The Captain Dewclaw and Uncle Bumblefuck Chronicles"
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde
Oh man I totally forgot about Forky McForkface! He's verking! Kinda
That moment you decide "One last video." Then realizing you're going to be awake another 22 minutes.
21:48
My new ringtone
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Often heard in hallowed workshops late on a Friday night when the last of 18 bolts holding a critical piece of equipment has just snapped off as you were torquing it up with a fully certified and calibrated torque wrench.
When dealing with trailer wiring, I've found if you're running the factory wiring the best thing to do is to just strip it all out. Run some nice, new Ancor trailer wire, use proper heatshrink butt connectors and get it sorted proper like.
Polar wire is great trailer wire as well
20:10 as a refrigerator technician, that uses rtv everyday, this was something missing in my life, and I will use, starting next week!
RUclips moderators: "look at the extension lead ! demonetized"
"I don't need that pin, fuck it"
And down goes the crane.
Dewclaw: this thing suuucks!
Me quietly: take it apart...
What more scary than a mechanic doing electrical work? Watching Dew Claw try and plug a tire was up there!
The equipment for the trip to the moon only had to work for about a week.
Haha every video I watch from ave there is something new. He reminds me if my father just without the swearing.
My dentures fell out, I laughed so hard.
Adam Sandler impersonations now too? Wonders never cease.
Just a tip for the next time you use those tire plugs, you are supposed to burn the excess tips of plug hanging out after you install it. It serves to vulcanize and seal the plug into the tire.
The best damn stuff to use in place of Silicone is Bondic (that UV active "adhesive"). Also works well in place of heat shrink tubing.
Step 1: Start with a known good battery
Step 2: *Verify Ground Integrity*
then move on to the individual circuits
Damn it im still laughing. "Longest bolt in history, nylock fucking nut."
THAT'S NOT AN IMPACT SOCKET!!!!
AND IT'S 12 POINT FFS
A wise man once told me " If you cant fix it with a hammer it is electrical"
Obviously wasn't adept at bangin' pixies.
Jeremy Clarkson?
@@bebopalloobop Not what i would call a wise man. Entertaining but not wise.
That connector on the trailer has a built-in countdown timer in it, as soon as it senses six hook ups or one hour it drops the brakes out and fuckers the turn signals. Every trailer has at least one!
I sold a running driving super clean one of those vw’s with not a spot of rust for $2500 about 3-4 years ago.
Hated that slow pile. I can accelerate faster on my bicycle.
"Simplest thing's first" and then ignores the simplest thing first ;)
man says; 'trailer wiring, I mean, QED'
god says; 'fair enuff'
god disappears in a puff of faintly alarming green schmoke!
There's a pretty simple reason for this happening and honestly it's one of the most common reasons for trailer failures of all kind. Luckily there's a simple fix. You made the mistake of taking your eyes off the trailer for a period of longer than 2 seconds. If you can manage to not do this, you stand to get a solid 5-10% fewer trailer failures.
Electrical tape sticks to itself pretty darn good
You sir are the king of tongue-i-lingus or tongue tangulations, either way...love ya!
Laughed so hard the last 3 minutes lol, love your videos! I broaden my vocabulary everytime lol
“That’s just siliconcarne so we’ll just blast that back in there”
I laughed way too hard at that 😂
Dude. 19:29 ish omfg I'm dying over here! I know I'm laughing it up lmao
We sent a man to the moon. Stanley Kubrick insisted they film on location.
Doubtful. the u.s. landed on the moon 6 focking times with men aboard! In a day and age when computers were as large as bathrooms, and with less of a budget, factoring inflation than nasa does today. 50 years later and not one nation has landed on the moon with men aboard, in a day and age where computers are smaller than ur hand, and who knows how many more times powerful.
Its occums razor. Why not? the money is there. The technology is there better than it ever was, and yet, the u.s. still talks about another ten years before their next moon landing. Even musk won't attempt it. What's his claim? 5 years?
Its actually hilarious if you think about it, musk talks about "colonizing" mars but has yet to get a single soul to the moon...
@@michael-dm2bv Government types are too busy embezzling tax monies to waste the funds on anything as extravagant as another moon mission. 🙄
@@michael-dm2bv Occupational Safety are still working on the forms and risk assessments.
@@rayg9069 - for the u.s. i get it. but china still hasn't done it. slave child labor fits their bill but to lose two grown men on the moon is beyond comprehension?
@@interstellarsurfer - bollocks.
because landing on the moon is a perfect way to embezzle funds. a 30 million dollar lander could cost 4 billion as far as we are concerned. Do like nike. Just do it!
you could drill holes in the center caps to get the grease gun in there
uh oh! Dewclaw can't play hockey? He'll hafta move to the US! Atlanta would be good, they got rid of their team in the last century.
And demonetized. I love your videos Ave. You make me laugh like I was still in high school and not worrying about my ever receding hair line.
A whole trailer wired without a scotch lock? I didn't think manufacturers knew how.
This x1000
Scotch locks: How did you want to green up your wires today?
Literally in pain from all of my laughter.
Dude your shop is going to smell like dead tree carcasses for months!
Back to your old ways! I haven't laughed this hard at your vidjayoes in a while
Are the wires on the new break away good quality, well thought out pre-tinned copper or just cheaper-than copper and even more prone to oxidation aluminum wire? No F*&@ing focus on them. Edit: Mandatory apology for double post, 9 of the 10 voices said do it, the last one's an idiot.
Look at how stiff they remain bent; almost certainly el-cheapo aluminium conductors.
Much more prone to vibration induced brittle failure than copper, so obviously the best choice for this application!
@@mortlet5180 That's because a trailer NEVER moves until it's been fixed. Again.
And the age old battle of Man vs trailer continues...
20:39 LMAO at "open the pod bay doors hal", such fantastic cinematography.
We are laughing it up. As a prior rv tech, I'm loving this. As well as your content. Twin falls Idaho here. 😘
Regardless I need your new stickers!
I’m going to have to check out this
FuckU R Us place to buy me some sweet sandals too. But definitely going to have to put some socks on with them.
Locked up brakes just means you'll need an extra tire change. Don't worry 'bout it.
"Can't play hockey"... at least Dewclaw got his schtick in.
Oh man, I'm laughin so hard, actually have a tear or 2 sliding down my face. Just be glad that long ass bolt was just a torx and not a weird-ass square drive.
And them noises when you were applying colorless schmoo to them trailer wires... holy crap that reminded me of the night I nearly ODed on Taco John's.
you mean robertson.
thats another wonderful canuckistan invention. screw does'nt fall off the bit and doesn't get fuckerd by looking at it.
Electric Brakes? Who's awful idea was this?
On the trailer I just fixed, which was 20 years old, the only wiring issue that I found was the wiring done by the last mechanic to work on it. Everything else looked original, and worked perfectly.
Yeah, what's wrong with European-style all-mechanical trailer brakes?
Probably the same useless pricks who designed the Chrysler electric transmission.
Kaboomf you can’t back up a hill without getting out and manually disabling them, that’s what ‘s wrong with surge brakes, also you can’t tap the brakes on the trailer and not the vehicle to steady it.
@@carls6359 Because you back up a hill every 5 seconds, right?
If I could thumbs up twice I would so I guess you have to accept the other in the ballon knot great vid 👍👍
I see Dewclaw had his welding sandals on.
Also, you say "Mazel Tov!"
Nice.
I've never seen a trailer with electrically-actuated brakes here in Europe, must be a North American/Canadian thing. Over here they're generally a mechanical over-run system. That said the lighting wiring does the same thing goes crusty, gets botched up with choc blocks and speaker wire, then short circuits and blows the lighting fuses on the towing vehicle.... At least when you're careering blindly towards a ditch, the trailer brakes still function.
Yes, yes, Europeans still use the mechanically actuated braking system. In the US we switched over to electrical. It's less expensive, and, obviously, "anybody can fix electrical". Just check under any parked trailer for proof.
I think that trailer's too small if he's going to use it to carry his balls...
The center prong is for reverse lights
Those conductors are almost certainly aluminium and not tinned copper. Much worse than copper in every respect; especially with regards to brittle failures in high-vibration applications and suseptibility to corrosion when in contact with more noble metals (basically any metal).
Edit: AvE was being sarcastic, I just missed it. :/
Mortlet when he said “every strand is tinned” is the sarcastic joke.
C130 electrician here. All the wiring in the plane is aluminum. Hundreds of miles of it.