Glad to see you're still making videos Brian. You are an underrated og

Nice work Brian. Not many has your patience. I bought a jeep Cherokee that battery had contacted the hood. Fried computer but no fuse blown. I found that a little strange. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Good stuff to know Brian! Might run across one of those problems someday.

How to hook up jumper cables properly video to follow. Ah the battery curve oops bell curve on one side is positive and the other is negative at least 80 percent of us say so. Good stuff. Happy Motoring.

I picked up a 2003 Piaggio LT150 scooter that sat for years. Of course the seller claimed it just needed fresh gas and a battery (Yuasa = $95), but as always it was so much more. The master fuse was blown due to a previous reversed jump attempt (20 cents), as well as a bad starter button ($8), totally clogged carb (1.5 cans of carb cleaner), and lastly a stuck fuel petcock ($20). Still needs the 20 y/o tires (100 each) and sticky rear brake cable replaced ($35). Here in Oakland, California the Vespa / scooter dealer charges $165/hour shop rate, so working on older vehicles only makes sense if you DIY.

@SeanBZA

7 ай бұрын

Sticky cable is easy, you run brake cleaner down the inner core to wash it free, using a piece of plastic bag as a seal, and then follow up with WD40 to rinse, then finally a spray of silicone to wash the WD40 out. Will move freely again as the crud is gone. Does not work if the inner plastic liner on the cable is torn though, that you go to the bike shop and get just the inner cable, and replace it with that.

Great video, thanks for sharing 🇺🇸

Great vid Brian Dropping your 120th like 👍 Go Toyota!

Your the man Brian

Lucky you have an older Toyota, with only 2 types of fuse, not a more modern vehicle where you have standard ATO, mini ATO and micro ATO fuses, all in the same fuse box, and all buried up under the dash, where you need to either bend yourself in half to see, or use a camera to look in there to find the box, then contort to reach the fuses, then struggle to get the new one in place again. Yes keeping a small baggie with a good selection of fuses in that fuse box is great, it has saved me a few times, along with keeping some short pieces of solid core and stranded network cable there as well, which you can use to make an emergency fuse, just the one strand will do, thinner than the vehicle wire, so it fails first. Good use for the CCA junk, as it melts at a nice low temperature, so no smoke either.

Tip for those deep bolts is a small supermagnet, which you can get from the laser pickup in any CDROM or DVD drive, there by the lens. 2 per unit, and they are very strong, and tiny, so you just slip it into the socket, and it will hold the bolt or nut you are attempting to remove, and also will hold it in place to insert as well. Works well on any 10mm socket into a deep buried place.

@andreidoimetri

7 ай бұрын

Or old hard drives, they have big neodymium magnets

@SeanBZA

7 ай бұрын

@@andreidoimetri You want a small one that will fit inside a 10mm socket, not a big one. Tip as well is to take them, and use a thin steel wire, and dip them in varnish, and leave to harden on the wire. Wire wiped down with oil, so it will not stick, but magnet cleaned with brake clean. When dry pull wire out, put on other side, then dip again, so the magnet is sealed, as they will otherwise disintegrate into a magnetic powder when the coating on them is damaged.

this happened on an old '96 ford ranger i used to own. i never could figure out what happened to the electronics. this video was very cool to watch and great information! tytyty

@ickipoo

7 ай бұрын

Reverse polarity on semiconductors is almost always catastrophic unless protection is designed in. The simplest measure is a reverse diode across the input, which will blow the fuse if the supply is reversed, and that is likely what Toyota did in this case. I don't think every manufacturer bothers, however.

did that at work, helping a customer jumo start his car, i hooked up my end and he his. as soon as i clamped them they sparked and sizzled! i unhooked them and looked, he'd hooked them up backwards on his battery. luckily no damage which surprised me

i have a perodua myvi 2011 i accidently reverse jump start car due to flat battery i got in car and and turned key the dashboard came on as i cranked the engine nothing all electrics all dead i realised then what i did , i checked all the fuses they seems fine but not the relay fuses or you think the ecu is fried

Six sigma for Toyota means less than one fault at dealer level per thousand vehicles, while for the US manufacturers it means less than one fault per vehicle when it arrives at the dealer.

Did the wrap drive ever get here?

Sweet ☘️🇮🇪

Imagine having a cabin,or bugout place so inaccessible, or hard to get to that a paramotor was the only way to access it. Talk about no unwelcome house guests or visitors.. 😂

@SeanBZA

7 ай бұрын

Bet you will still have a door to door vacuum cleaner salesperson though, plus the JW and Scientologists visiting. But getting Doordash will be a little bit of an issue..........

Meticulous cable repair

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@SeanBZA

7 ай бұрын

Somewhere around 500 when I started, but 1200 plus when I finished, had to take neighbour to her doctor.