Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

He should have used a kitchen knife like other truckers do. People should not overthink this. It's just two suction cups and if you're parked near a store knives are cheap.
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@ray_donovan_v4 As a mechanic since the '70s I have zero use for any conventional RV because they're giant money toilets normally used a few years then parked to rot. When you drive your home and it needs work you're not equipped to to that forces your home into someone else's shop. RV money will either buy property or a nice chunk of one if the buyer chooses wisely. If I had to drive my home, say for road work like working industrial shutdowns etc I would at most buy a fifth wheel trailer and tow with one of my trucks which I can swap out easily, and likely refit a horse trailer as they're rugged and easily fit motorcycles (I don't believe in ever being one-deep on vehicles).
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Have you set up your own well or leased drilling rights in a suitably profitable manner? Specialty lawyers exist to draft contracts protecting the rights owner. A steady supply of your own oil and gas is the ULTIMATE prepper/SHTF move because wells can be powered without reliance on the grid or fitted with backup power (see "oil field engines").
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He should consider having a custom bumper fabricated by a bumper fabricator who commonly do trucks. They can look great and take a hit too. He should have used converted SUVs with long production runs. Never ever be a beta tester! As a mechanic of many decades if someone GAVE me a Cadillac it would get sold fast enough to make a sonic boom. We didn't even fix trade-ins for resale since it as better to swap them to a specialty salvage.
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Absence of a weld leaves no mark and there is nothing for reference except other vehicles. Owners and techs will require weld charts or clear, brightly lit photos of correct welds to determine missing welds.
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Coolers which use engine coolant to cool oil via a heat exchanger add a failure point which does not need to exist. Separate oil coolers fail by leaking overboard which is easily visible (oil on ground and in engine bay), but oil/coolant heat exchangers fail by POLLUTING ONE OR BOTH SYSTEMS, a stupid idea on vehicles built to (inherently low) consumer standards.
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@Jaderian87 They are freely entered contracts. Those who dislike them are free to organize their life as I did and escape all that nonsense.
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@OLDMANTEA Anyone who can afford a house in a wealthy hood with an HOA in the first place should be smart enough to plan their live so they have more freedom. You don't have to worry about everyone, just yourself and your needs. It's far cheaper to live away from cities (which in the US are just prison with extra steps) but it requires refusing to be helpless. People who accept lazy default choices are still choosing.
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Don't buy Tesla, That was always a silly idea but thanks for the warning to save gullible potential customers. I'm a mechanic of many decades and nothing about green propaganda would convince me to get robbed by Elon Musk. BTW there is no way to conceal severe crash damage that an experienced body tech can't find easily so if in doubt have one examine your prospective toy (as in put it on a lift because the outside can look fine). Clean title and CarFax ONLY mean "clean on paper" since many damaged used vehicles are not reported to the insurance company then fixed with matching used donor parts which blend in.
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The US has the finest consumer protection industry lobbyists can buy. It's trivial for these wealth companies to extend software support cycles but they choose not to. BTW anyone who scores "expired" Chromebooks cheap enough can load Linux distros to make them somewhat useful again, but I would never buy one new. If you can learn to use a PC you can easily learn to install an operating system for FREE via Youtube videos. I buy used business class notebooks (and new ones now and then) then load my OS of choice and keep them for life unless I give one away to a friend. It's easy to get much more PC than one needs for modest money.
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RVs are how old people who are not mechanics waste money paying for yard art the vast, vast majority will barely use before they're too tired and disabled to bother. That money could go to wonderful hotels and be otherwise spent on actual TRAVEL. I can easily afford one but am far too wise to want one thank to my long experience wrenching. This lifelong mechanic considers motorized RVs a sucker play and most trailers (serious toy haulers, horse trailers etc sometimes excepted) similarly. Trailers are much wiser play because their prime mover is another vehicle that normally gets driven. Sitting is deadly to motor vehicles. Likewise buying a new car or truck is generally foolish so I don't and paid off my home(s) instead. Vehicles are RAPIDLY DEPRECIATING COST CENTERS. Because I do not buy new vehicles I easily afford my rather nice classic motorcycle collection and multiple trucks (bought for cash long ago) to serve all my needs and interests. I choose successful truck models proven in fleet service since fleet mechanics experience the best and worst hardware.
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The fix is mass use of a randomizing browser extension to click on video after video to obfuscate activity.
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Buried tanks cannot be properly inspected and are best avoided which is why I don't and would never have one. BTW a portable 500 gallon tank etc can be connected to the house easily enough while awaiting resolution. Propane is a painfully expensive way to heat but useful as backup so that is all I use my one small aboveground tank for, and should I tire of that I can have the company haul it off or even deliver it to them myself as I've a suitable trailer.
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A kitchen knife, long steel ruler or other shim releases vacuum nicely. Truckers figured this out long ago. No need to overthink it.
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@Ginger_scrapz Not every state has that stupid law. Wise are those who verify what applies.
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@AdamantineAxe It would also promptly ruin and clog the converter.
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Pigs like that are why Americans cannot trust our government. If you investigate the government HAVE OFFSITE BACKUP. That includes everything on your computers and phones. Learn the "rule of threes" and when you hide your backups make sure there is no reference to them others could use to steal them.
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That's why THIS experienced mechanic only buys used examples of very high volume trucks. The trucks get top priority for profit reasons so they remain in production long enough to build a strong aftermarket including performance upgrades. I get at least two decades out of my vehicles unless one bores me. So can anyone else outside the Rust Belt.
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Customers are no longer technically literate so they are incapable of discriminating between quality and junk. Junk is victorious because industry has been ruined by greedy gasworthy MBA parasites. OTOH when an appliance was MUCH more valuable (in the 1940s etc buying a fridge was a big deal) Americans expected quality. Today only tradesmen even know what quality looks like if they're old enough to remember it.
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