Comments by "ncrdisabled Submarine vet" (@ncrdisabled) on "HumbleMechanic" channel.

  1. I am 56 and my dad and his dad were master mechanics for over 50 years. I learned a lot and was working in his shop in 1982 when the business went to crap so I went in the NAVY and wanted to learn electronics but at 7 years e-5 I got hurt bad left me in a wheel chair. But even today I say work in a mom and pop during oil changes and such and see if is what you want to do.
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  2. I went in the NAVY to learn reactor repair and running it I got my AAS degree in Electronic eng Plus even thou my credit was bad I could buy a house with my VA loan
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  3. The problem I have was to much work and caused me to lose customers
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  4. Man I wish I had that on my gti but food and electric has prioritize
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  5. I am a disabled vet so money was always tight . Me and my parents were always american car and truck buyers . It was not allowed to buy anything but american. So when I moved out for 12 years before going in the NAVY on submarines . I always bought american and since my dad was a mechanic over 20 years when I was 17 but growing up the places he worked at since it was taxi places let me help from the age of 7 . I swept floors and other things but he showed me from oil change to engine and trans replacement I seen there belair taxi with over 300k . I went in the NAVY and got sent over seas to Holy loch scotland and you could not get american cars over there and since I was a e-4 at the time the NAVY would not pay to ship my car over .But when I got sent to Kings Bay GA I got back into american. But after buying blazers and other SUV and small cars I had so many problems with the transmission on the suv s . I did all the proper maintenance , I bought a toyota camry and had it for 5 years with over 200k on it .I hate to say this but toyota makes some pretty good cars right now I have a scion xa with 120k and small easy to fix except the inner wheel bearing which was a common failure. MY family down south still complains to me about not buying american so to make them happy I bought a 1961 stripped down fairlane with a 4 banger so far 3 years no problem I have been in NY up 90 miles from NYC so salt is the main killer not my cars mechanics .
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  6. I spent 7 years in the NAVY and was a reactor operator and all the hands on repair ways was always start at the end of the circuit and if it is not working cut in half and if it not working there you then cut it 1/2 again . With that mind set I got thu some very hard NAVY schools . 2 had a 45 % failure because they would not follow that way of repair . The NAVY wants it done there way as it has proven to work for them for years. I still use it today I an I was the navy in the late 80 s
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  7. Thanks, I am old school and always pulled out the distributor to prime the engine with oil
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  8. I had somewhat of the same problem My 2003 chevy venture would blow the back door automatic door open would blow the fuse. I used a 12 volt test light . I had a repair book for it and chased down the wire along the floor and found out it was caused by the factory had not put a waterproof system around the wire harness . I checked the other harness on the other side and it had the water proofing . I took it to a dealer and they had to fix it for free since it was a factory problem.
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  9. I spent 7 years on submarines during the 80 s I was on SSBN 619 634 and they were built in the late 60 s. But as time went by we got advanced tech . Before I became disabled we got a ESGM it had a metal ball spinning 3600 rpm in a magnetic field we still use it today . But it is still very advanced and just the school for the power supply was 6 months long . So I think the military we get the fully autonomous
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  10. I Spent 7 years in the NAVY during the 80 s on SSBN 619 634 which were built during the 80 s and were built during the 80 s There is around 150 guys on them . The only time I seen ladies on is during the day cruise for families. And yes some guys make luv in some places on the sub I even did the same thing !!! No woman can go on subs as we go out 70 days or so no breaks . Can you image a pretty lady around a bunch of horny guys !!!
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  11. I am 55 and my dad was a master mechanic over 50 years. he had tools from craftsman as the store was 2 blocks away. It was back in the early 60 s . He did buy some special tools from snap on and Matco. He had over 10k worth of tools buy the time he retired. Back then it was ok to take your kid to work so I could take a car apart and put it back together by the time I was 13 I even got paid from the age of 11 .But back then craftsman almost was made in American now most are made in China . Me I got 1/2 of his tools when he passed 6 months ago my brother got the other 1/2 So my tools sets are missing things but before I became a disabled vet I bought tools to replace them . Just last month I found a snap on 5 drawer tool box loaded with snap on and Matco and craftsman . I tried every thing to find the owner even put ads in the newspaper. I have this bad feeling someone was stealing them and he of she dumped them off the side of the road. They went down an embankment where you could not really see it and it was beaten up so I guess no one wanted it . I looked all the tools up on line a its over 6k of tools . So somebody is really screwed unless they had insurance I am a disabled vet in a wheelchair so I can not fix things like I used to . I am thinking about selling them.
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  12. Here is 1 for you I bought a 2018 mazda cx-9 gt the owners manual says to use 5w30 but the oil fill says to use 0w20 which one is right?
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  13. I spent 7 years in the NAVY on submarines as a nuclear tech. That is 1 job you could not make a mistake but even there sometimes you do
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  14. It looks great since I am a disabled vet and can not work your videos cheer me up would love to see longer videos like this . Thanks
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  15. I am a disabled vet and wife has to take care of me but i raised 2 kids of my disability pay . I usually get taken out for dinner at a nice place and since I am a diabetic I get to splurge and take extra insulin but well worth it.
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  16. I am 55 and have new ones and old ones and always check and make sure check every thing including the cig lighter if the car has one. I have had new cars that were kept outside had mice eat thru the wiring and can take forever to fix . Just the cig lighter used to power your phone ipad ipod or whatever . I bought a used car and the guy had to take off 100.00 just for it not working and it was not the fuse. It was a loose connection that he did not want to spend the bucks to fix it.
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  17. I am a disabled vet spent 7 years on submarines got hurt by a dumb chain that broke and it crushed me. I have a old chevy venture 2003 with 101k miles . It has been sitting for 8 years now. The problem is the head bolts pulled out of the head and its in the back of the engine You have to just about to pull the engine to get to even the spark plug. It is a not so common problem but there are a lot out there with this problem.Back went it bit the dust the dealer wanted 2200.00 to fix it . Most outside mechanics do not want to touch it. . I did not have the money to fix it as a disabled vet does not make much from the good old uncle sam. It has to have I think there called t certs At this point if I can find a easier way to do it why not try?
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  18. I was in the NAVY for 7 years and went in flat broke and they gave me everything I needed .my dad was a master mechanic for over 30 years and I learned a lot so I had no money so a recruiter got a hold of me and of course fill me with lies But he did say they will give you every thing you need . So I went in and went to electronics to broaden my knowledge when I was in reactor school they teach both so I seen a lot oif guys flunk out due to they could read a book pass every test but when they had to replace a recirc pump they could not get the grasp. The navy did have a great way to teach 1 you read about it 2 they tell you about it 3 they show you how to do it 4 you have to do it . The failure rate is so high 1 because it is crammed down your throat and every test you must pass at 100.00 percent. I went on to submarines even a harder thing to do there is a 40 % drop out by the time you get on a sub. We had guys come on and could not stand the closed in areas . Me I loved it . The one crazy thing we would do to the new guys it tire a string between the bulk head and go down 900 feet and its now on the floor.
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  19. When I was over seas for a while they have cars that get better mileage than we do in the USA
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  20. I have bought rotors for my 2006 scion xa and had some problems with them. I first got them at a scion dealer which cost me 2 times the aftermarket ones. They only come with a 1 year warranty . Then I got the life time ones from autozone after the ones from the oem failed 1.5 years later. I got the ones with a lifetime warranty and it has been 3 years and now they're beginning to squeal . So I am going to yank them off this week and see if it is the rotor or my break pads which are lifetime also
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  21. I am 55 and when I grew up my dad was a master mechanic . He used to take me to work with him at a taxi company where there was only 2 of them. I stated at the age of 6 and by 10 I could take a car apart and put it back together. I worked there fixing cars and getting paid for 5 year before going in the NAVY on submarines. I learned electronics so I knew mechanics and electronics. I had my son at 25 and daughter 9 years later . I thought both about electronics and mechanics. I also was a mcse ccna and thought them the basics of that to. I am lucky to have used my va loan to buy a old 1880 farm own 5 acres. But it gets even better I live in a small area and across the street from me down 1/2 dead in road I where the hind gliders land . I have been here over 30 years and my son is a master hond glider instructor . And last year he won grand glider instructor of the year in the hole USA. So now he can write his ticket where he wants to work anywhere in the usa. We know just about all the hang gliders and there is also a 2 acre area with a trout stream about 20 feet deep to 1 foot deep.. Only hang gliders can be in that are as it is a great camping area and we could go there ever since we moved here as we lived so close There is also a tire swing in the 20 foot spot. We also have donkey 4 goats 20 rabbits 7 cats 3 dogs and a few other animals. My daughter also can hind glide and I have been up to . My daughter wants to be a veterinarian. So I tell my friends to teach the kids to follow there dreams
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  22. I worked from the age of 11 and on the books at 16 I am not 55 . I worked at the beast job I ever had and loved it . It was back in Louisville KY in 1979 to about 1984 .I worked my way up to a warranty repair tech . The company made top car radios like BMW volvo peugeot and other high end cars. I loved repair radios the other 4 guys could not. They had a cafeteria it did not cost to much either .The guys I worked with were great You got 1/2 hour for lunch and 2 15 min breaks at 1 year I got 1 week of vacation . up to 5 years I got 3 weeks . I had all the top end repair equipment all provided by them. Then the delorean crap happened and the company had put a lot of money out for radios for them They made about 2000. have 2 of them and get folks wanting to buy them now and a gain . The company went under so the job market sucked so I got in the NAVY and went on submarines I got fee food 30 day vacation and you can save it up . Being on sub you got all kinds of perks . Like sub pay sea pay after 2 years carrier sea pay and sub pay . You get m loss or missing your family pay and they pay for you mortgage or rental or whatever or you can live on base housing for free all the time . The deal with the free housing is for 7 months out of the year When I got t0 E-5 I was making over 48k I was stationed in Holy Loch scotland rota spain and did some great port call now and then . I was not married for about 4 years and I even saved up 46 days and from scotland I traveled all thru that area over 500 miles . Plus I could hop on a military plane for 5.00 . But there are some bad parts you must like being under water for up to 70 days or more and cooped up in a small area with 150 or so guys . You worked 18 our days 6 on watch 6 repairing thing some time nothing broke so you get more time off. . Then you most of the time get 6 hours of sleep unless a brill goes of like launching 16 miles with more fire power to just about ruin most of the earth . And yes I would push the button . It come close a few times . You get great food frozzen but steaks shrimp lobster and have a king of variety to choose from like bergers hot dogs . The worst part is no fresh fruit of milk . I would have been in for 20 years but got hurt bad in a accident on the sub. I can not use anything from the waist down.When I got out as a disabled vet I lost all the special pays so over night I went from 48 k to 26 k . But I do not have to do any kind of work and that sucks!!!
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  23. You want secret . I spent 7 years on submarines for 7 years before a thing happened to me disabled 100.% . But on submarines there was 150 guys or so on a sub for around 70 days .So yes there is some bitching as they say he has a salier mouth. I also have a top secret rating and still have to sign papers every year not to tell what I know about where we went or did or what is on a submarines
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  24. I seen the Liquid nitrogen and brought back some memories . I spent 7 years on submarines . I was a reactor operator . We use it to freeze the pipe so we can fix the leak on the other side. I can not say  exactly  how the reactor works but I can tell you the hot water system has has only 2 valves . The problem with valves is the break down before the pipe. Man those were the days.
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  25. I started working at the age of 8 helping my dad who was a master mechanic . At 17 I went to work for a great radio maker and worked my way to warranty tech . I did that for 12 years and was making 11.25 hr when the company closed. It was now 1989 and times were hard I was living on my own but was not married thank god. I went in the NAVY on submarines and you get a lot of special pays on submarines .In just 1.5 years with all the special pays I made 42k a year . I was going to stay in for 20 or more I bought a new car and a lot of other stuff and was going to use my re up bonus but I got nailed with a chain while doing a torpedo reload test. I went from 42k to 25k over night and could no re up for the bonus. I was lucky I had put about 28k in the bank My dad touh me how to save . He was a mechanic for over 30 years . The stupid part of me ran up my credit cards during the times money was tight. So you never know what can happen over night. It not fun being in a wheelchair when you planed on haveing a great life.
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  26. I spent 7 years in the NAVY on submarines during the 80 s. There is no way to find the right tool sometimes on submarines . What are you going to do open the hatch and ask a fish for a torq wrench???? Oh I wanted to do 30 years in but I got nailed by a chain that was not tested in CHINA!!!!!! SO now I have to live in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.
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  27. I spent 7 years in the NAVY on SSBN 619 634 and was a IC 5 (SS) . I was lucky to make it thru the system . But you go to school out of boot camp since a IC tech has to sign up for 6 years and was a e-3 in boot camp . The NAVY trains you very hard all your tests must be 100.00 percent. But when you are training on the electronics and how to repair them. The school was 6 months long . But on the test for finding out the problem some of the guys way before you had made markes to find the problem The navy only replaces them every year so that many guys doing it can see the marks from the last tech and you cheat the system. You can not learn if you do not find the problem the right way . You carry it on thru your carrier .Yes I did the same thing as you will do anything to get thru the system, Buy I was also lucky as I had learned tv radio repair in High school. If you learn the basics of something that can help you later on in anything .But when a e2 comes on board and did not really learn hot to fix things it can cost the lives of the 150 guys on the submarines I have heard real story when a IC tech did not want to do the correct battery charge line up it actually caused a fire which did kill some guys . Fire is the worst thing on a sub as you are out to sea and you have no help. I am a disabled vet and can no longer work on out 2006 scion xa . I had a mechanic you used wire nuts on the radio and water go into it. It took me 3 days to find it and fix it . I do have a very good mechanic I have known him and his family for over 20 years . There in 1 mechanic 1 lawer 1 chiropractor and 1 dentist. The do come from rich families but have been very good to me it worth the few extra bucks to get things done right . I did do something for them I set up there entire computer systems from 2 weeks after I me them and still today fix some of the quarks .But those a few and far between .
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  28. Heck I seen a guy who had a 09 charger and he had a titled disabled that even had it own built in back up battery . The thieves cut the wire for the sensor and towed it away . Back in 1986 I was in the NAVY on submarines and I had chrysler laser turbo. I went out 70 days or so then come back for 65 days then go back out . I put my car in a place where it was taken care of. I went to radioshack and got a car alarm system for 30 bucks and it has a built in pager it works up to 1 miles plus it had a hidden siren . But I was away in a school and some one sliced my tires and some other guys tires on the navy base Bine must have been last since only got 2 of mine . I suggest to get a pager type it will tell you what is happening to your car.
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  29. Since I just found this I worked for a radio make for 5 years before going in the NAVY . Some folks called us radio tech other called us radio repair and even a customer radio repair tech. All meant the same thing.
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  30. back in the day I knew a guy who fixed them up and resold them as salvaged cars and trucks I had known him for over 10 year and was a deacon at my church. He had gotten a 1991 toyota camry dx 4 banger that had only 18k miles on it . It had been stolen in NYC and I live 90 miles up . It was sent to england for 3 years and the insurance wrote it off. But some how it came back here and was banged up it the front left side pretty bad . He and his crew welded it up and fixed the radiator . He had it for sale so I got it for 3k . I am a disabled vet so he had me on a payment plan. I thought if something happened I would stop paying if he could not fix it cheap.I payed it off and since at the time I could drive we loved it I got it up to 150k miles . Over that time I had to replace the radiator in a year after that at 100k replaced the cv axles . I had done all the maince according to the book Then while driving on the highway a idiot who was playing with the radio and we were stopped in the traffic. We were still and he hit the car behind us then that car launched into us causing our car to be crushed in the pavement. It put the trunk into the back seats lucky my kids were not in the car . It had no air bags . Both of us were flown to a crit care hospital . I from that point on could not drive with out special equipment on it. This was 6 years after I bought it and loved that car since it was easy to work on. My dad was a master mechanic for over 30 years so I learned a lot on older types of cars. Now the good and bad part we only got 1800.00 for the car even thou it had new tire and battery .The back frame was gone up to the back seat.But the engine and automatic trans were still in great shape . It was sold for poart at a auction I went just to see how much it would go for .It sold for 600 bucks some kid got it.I asked what he was going to do with it he said strip off every thing good and sell it. He made 800.00 just for the motor and trans and to this day I know the guy who bought it and he still drive a 1989 camry same engine and trans that were shot. The guy selling the parts made over 1500,00 not a bad deal if you do not look at the time of work he put into tearing it apart So you can buy a salvage car and have a great deal as we were hit in the rear not in the front where it had been wrecked To this day I still think that car saved my life Now we have a 2006 scaling we bought in 2009 we will have it paid off this year. It has help up pretty good to bad I was no longer able to do repairs or maintenance but it doses have 128k and just exhaust replaced cv axle and bearings both sides.
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  31. I worked as a tech with my dad and another tech. it was a taxi place with around 100 cars . now this was in the early 80s . it was bought out and the wanted to get rid of some of the old cars and slowly buy new ones. Since my dad and the other guy had many more years on me. They told me there may be cuts when the reduce there cars . So the righting as on the wall. I stayed there and looked for s different job. I found a great place and if you are a good tech the word gets out. So that is what I did and it has worked almost all the time.
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  32. I love the old style computer . It has a 3.5 inch floppy and most likely serial and parallel ports and a small hard drive and even not much ram . I have 2 from when I have to program sysmax and cummins programmable controllers the parallel port is used for the protection so you can not use the program with it plugged in. I also seen a box of cd rom either 680 mb or 4.7 gig byte or double sided 5.2 gig byte . I am a disabled vet spent 7 years on submarines to bad I got hurt by a chain that broke . But I was on SSBN 619 634 and 1 fast attack. The ssbn were built in the late 60s . The torpedo and ICBM are analog type and run off unix or dos 3.0 There is also a portable programmer serial type to program top secret things that I can not talk about . I would love more info on the old school computer. But being disabled from the waist down some time folks bring over the controllers to program as the fobs cost over 5k
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  33. I just see this video and my day was a master mechanic for over 30 years and I am 55 so when I was growing up and every weekend he would work at home on other folks cars , At 7 I got to start going to the taxi place where there was only 2 techs working on 50 cars or so. I learned a lot . But without certification I could not get a real good job So I went in the NAVY I started fixing diesel engines and liked it but I did not love it. So I switched to electronics and went on submarines . I loved that I was a reactor operator , But at my 7 year mark I got hurt bad and could no longer stay in so here I sit writing this I am in a wheelchair . But to me there are 2 ways learn from a small shop to see if you like it or go into the military . When I got out I could have used my va benefits and basic get all my tools and training books everything for free . As they say there 2 ways to learn the military way or the highway.
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  34. I am a disabled vet and got a shit load of tools from the NAVY I knew guys take entire sea bag full weigh over 200 lbs. I have random tool boxes . I am now in a wheel chair and have a hover round scooter that can got on grass and gravel .I got a metal detector at a garage for 5 bucks and since I can not work and own 20 acres with donkeys goats rabbits 7 cats 3 dogs and some other randen animals. But I got board so the metal detector just for ful I trolled around my property that is cleared around 10 acres so far over the last summer and not it getting warm ( damn NY snow and salt) I found over 150 tools . So every body should get one it you work outside . It a good thing craftsman home depot have life time warranties. But my local sears closed and not I have to be driven 40 miles to the only local one . I also hate the craftsman is getting tools made other than the USA there now crap and I have to go to yard sales and such.
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  35. Tell the girl good luck on the air force I spent 7 years in the NAVY on submarines . Very hard schools but well worth it. Go for it and learn everything you can I spent 7 years in and kick myself in a but for not doing 20 years!!!!!!
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  36. Sucks when things get lost during the shipping
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  37. I am getting tired of folks borrowing mine and not telling me you broke it . T last time was when someone borrowed my autel meter and brought it back without the3 adaptor. It cost me 120 bucks to re3plac e it ( SO THAT SEMMS LIKE THEFT !!!!
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  38. i always use the drain plug ,
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  39. The worst was the rattle and bad blower on a 200 VW bug. It took me 14 hours to do the repair. How can VW make it so hard. I yearn for the old air cooled that 1 person could take the engine out of a old bug
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  40. i wish i could afford one .
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  41. I am 55 and have been on both sides of the rope. My dad was a master mechanic for over 50 years before he died. he taught me all I know about fixing cars . I worked with him from the age of 8 and at 15 I was rebuilding engines and transmission. He worked for union and nonunion during his life . he went on strike a few times and the owner wanted me to come in and cross the line as I was just 14 which was illegal, Needless to say, I did not and I was not allowed to help my dad anymore I went to work in a coal mine under ground for 6 years. The strike there was different it was about living or dying under ground. I walked the line for 5 weeks and had saved up money for problems like this. I was making $20.00 an hour but strike pay was just $12.00 . A lot of guys could not live off that so the strike always ended sooner than it should have. I ended up going in the NAVY at 24 and was to be in for 30 but made it 7 as I got hurt bad left me with no legs . On the sub I was on you go out 70 days or so under water and work an 18-hour shift 6 on watch 6 hours fixing and some sleep then 6 sleeping or other things . Some times at least you are up 32 hours at a time.
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  42. I wonder how new factory cars are set up. I just bought a 2018 cx-9 and is it already set up for the best corning?
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  43. Yeah !!!!!!!
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  44. I spent 7 years in the NAVY on submarines SSBN 619 634 boomers they go out 67 days or more underwater You work 18 hour days 6 on watch 6 hours fixing stuff 6 hours sleep or fun time . When I got out I worked 3 days on 5 days off then 5 days on 3 off it was a cake walk for me but lots of guys had hard times
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  45. The family is always first!!!
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  46. I say put on a super charger!!!!
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