Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Donut" channel.

  1. Oil coolers (usually neglected on street machines) and automatic transmission coolers can have impressive effect too.
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  2. The whole point of buying this stuff (real or fake) is clout not performance. Spoilers are expendable in the first place. Replacing a cheapy with another of same is less work than fixing the good one.
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  3. Bonus, you can have the same budget and get twice the tire count, handy if you wear out tires quickly. BTW "tire soap" is glorious. I didn't think it mattered until I got a tub with a used tire machine but now I'll only use dish soap etc when I'm not near my tub of tire spooge.
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  4. It's easy to pull fuses or flip inertia switches on older vehicles. We pulled fuses on our shop truck and while subhyoomans cracked the column several times they never got the truck. Thieves expect stock vehicles, You can also cut one blade off a fuse then swap so it looks fine but does nothing.
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  5. Diesel bikes are pretty much a waste of except in places like India where they were sometimes produced. The sole reason for military diesel motorcycles (also a waste because they fail to be quads which means no cargo capacity or ability to tow or ability to evacuate wounded troops with a wounded rider) was the Common Fuel Concept which got rid of (extremely dangerous in combat and a monumental logistic asspain) having to supply Mogas to expeditionary units.
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  6. Write a political statement on a set or mould in an American flag then if ticketed sue because your right to free speech by plastic yarbles was violated.
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  7. I collect truck pantograph jacks for many tasks and the best are hex drive because you can run them up and down with a cordless impact. I barely use my floor jack any more. Having more than one means I can toss cribbing (I use 4x4 and 6x6 wooden blocks drilled for rope handle like an aircraft chock) under the second after maxing out the first.
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  8. The inbreds who think its cool don't care who they blind at night with their lights aimed at the sky. Squatted trucks are a safe buy because they are not used for towing or hauling.
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  9. I use wooden cribbing to capture lifting progress first responder style so whatever I lift does not depend on the jack. I fell out of love dragging heavy jacks so I switch to an air bag jack which is ideal because I already own CO2 cylinders for MIG welding and "power tank" style uses. I also made a bag jack from an 18-wheeler suspension air bag to lift heavier stuff like forty-foot shipping containers when placing them. Of course I have pantograph jacks (truck versions preferred) with nuts welded on so I can use my impact gun, Hi-Lift jacks I no longer use much, and so called "railroad" jacks (Simplex only because I consider other latches dangerous) including a chain grab manual telepone pole placer with a chain grab on top. The moral here is one can never have too great a variety because that makes less common lifts easy. I gave away my conventional jack stands long ago as they're far too dangerous for my liking while cribbing and scrap rims can support most any vehicle safely. Self-service yards use (typically one vertical rim nested in a horizontal rim) rims to support their vehicles for good reasons.
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  10. Every mechanic and gearhead should already own a cordless angle grinder. (A fat inverter will run corded grinders from your battery, I carry one in my work truck to run corded tools.) You want on with 6" cutting discs (much nicer than the baby 4-1/2" grinders because they have faster edge speed and greater reach) and of course spare discs. I've cut through a 14-bolt axle (the actual axle, not the housing!) using them. Alternate option, a few Diablo Auto Dismantling recip saw blades and a recip saw. I saw a few to have spares in case of bending, but one blade and less than one battery will cut the front frame off a Suburban etc when harvesting LS drivetrains in salvage. A small cutting torch (the little HVAC size cylinders are fine) would go through one laughing all the way. I bring my kit to auctions to shorten steel beams to fit my trailer. A baby gas axe is also awesome around the shop. Every mechanic used to have one but moderns seem afraid of them or something.
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  11. USPS despite being Constitutionally mandated is under-supported by government whose politicians would prefer it privatized so their buddies get rich.
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