rev up your engines today since this mechanic Monday I'm gonna show you some
products I found that work great and don't cost much and as usual it's not
sponsored by anyone except the truth the first thing I'm talking about is a work
light the old-style stuff simple the light bulbs in here you can either plug
it into a law or get a 12-volt one the clamps on the batteries they got a big
disadvantage this is metal gets hot you can easily burn yourself so these aren't
the greatest and for other reasons he's either directional this way but they
don't really point and crevices you put it somewhere isn't gonna necessarily sit
right so check it out very simple it's got a socket just like a regular bulb
this was invented more for sticking inside a garage point the direction
anywhere you want the lights works really well but I actually like it as a
work light and here's why hey I ready had one of these drop like so just take
the top off pull it off there we go one two three that's it we have to solder
wires just screw it in and as you can see when I turn it on it's super
bright click it on whoa it's not dark anymore so when you're working under the
hood of a car there's no problem looking inside too nooks and crannies just
turning on not only can you see everything but look it's adjustable so
you can turn on to any angle put them where you want them shine them right in
the spot you want super bright yeah but not super hot you put your hands on them
you can feel a tiny little bit of warmth not much you're not gonna burn your
hands like you're in an incandescent ball and since they're fully adjustable
you can put one side down put it wherever you want moving around it's
gonna stay right where you put it no more fumbling with a flashlight you put
it somewhere it rolls and falls off or you can't get at the point in the right
direction and for working underneath the car hey
this thing is a miracle no more worrying about you can't see what you're doing on
earth as a car cuz it's dark under there and you go from this tell this haha
you can see what you're working on now it's got the street pad system it's
adjustable it'll stay nice and stable on the ground and then you can point that
wherever you want and it will stay there so why not do what I do repurpose a
whole garage lighting system until your work light with adjustable wings you
can't beat that things are like 30 bucks now how do they cost anything like I say
you're not gonna burn yourself and you'll be able to see like mad the last
thing I'm talking about disconnects hey maybe there are only ten dollars but you
wish you had them if you're working on a modern car with those funky electrical
clips that you can't get apart without damaging them now if you counted all
these removers there's 36 of them in this kit you might say Scotty
why do you have 36 of them well because things have changed when I was a younger
mechanic there were only three or four different kinds of connectors the worst
thing came you get a pair of pliers you'd squeeze them and they come apart
that was it but now they have 36 different types of connectors with
different ways of taking them apart and the worst thing is where they're located
there's no room to get two hands on it and you normally need to have two hands
to hold these fancy connectors back and then you don't have another pan to
disconnect them so you got it work with one hand to disconnect it one hand to
pull well that's how these things work we want an you shove it in and it pushes
all the connectors in and then you can pull it out with the other hand and a
lot of more even better that these you don't leave it on the chain you can see
they got a disconnect er you're on clamp one of the things and you can pull them
out one at a time if you want then you shove them in sometimes they'll stay in
place then you can use both hands to pull them apart especially on minor cars
a lot of computer circuits so you don't use much power
if you break these get them bent and you're forcing them off with a pair of
pliers or your hands when you put them back together again
they will insidiously over time not conduct the right amount electricity
your car can do insane crazy things when the computer system doesn't have the
perfect voltage there is such a tiny amount of power
often only five volts and maybe 30 40 milli amps of power hardly any power at
all these things have to be together really well so when you have to take
things apart to disassemble things you may not even be able to figure out what
the problem is and since this mechanic Monday I'm giving away one of these
garage light systems have a chance to win just place a clean non offensive
comment I mean you two comments below to have lighting to work on their car
anytime anyplace and you're not gonna burn yourself
because they're LEDs they don't get hot, so if you never want to miss another one
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