Come along with me for some garage adventures. I have a passion for tools, welding, metal fabrication, working on cars and making all sorts of things in my shop. Here you'll find some helpful hacks along with a variety of how-to videos and reviews of products that I use. I also have a variety of things for sale on my website at : lucidautowerks.com/
Ultimate Manual Tire Changer - lucidautowerks.com/collections/ultimate-manual-tire-changer
VW Headlight Adapters - lucidautowerks.com/collections/e-code-adapters
Connectors & Terminals - lucidautowerks.com/collections/electrical
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I made a duck bill attachment as well . Can't believe how much money I've saved over the years . I use my buddies digital tire balancer and its perfect. I drive mk4 jettas ! With the factory 17 inch rims .little tough but I like the challenge
The bolts/lugs on the base is a great idea. I did the Hunter-foot duckbill mod on my own but I’ve had some struggles with it- mostly due to the wheels moving around over the post, and the damage from the winged centering hold-down fitting is frustrating and totally unacceptable. I’m going to weld some 1/2-20’s on there right now! The other problem I had was a destroyed a “heavy duty” pallet in 2-1/2 tires for my jeep. That’s a problem - but I don’t have my shop built yet so no concrete to anchor to. Thanks for the real world tips without the “look what I did!” attitude of other vids. Complexity and attitude is not required LOL
por fin encontré como hacerlo aquí en Perú están más atrasados no saben hacer nada felicitaciones
Awesome design! goldstar!
Bead Buster far easier to use, better design, no rim damage.
Method 4: Choose two different Home Depot locations for pickup. Use the text customer service feature on the website, cancel the unwanted item. Then go pick up the tool at the prorated discount…or “hack”. Took two minutes, no human interaction when using the text feature. I even double checked my order status and the batteries were cancelled as requested. Very easy, much smoother, and much faster👍
Thanks for your videos
Very helpful!! Thanks so much, theses were a right pain to remove before finding this video.
Nice trick. I was thinking it may have been the thermistor. Mine stopped working proper and it's nearly impossible to get to . so I took an air blower blew out my coil and it began working well. However a year later my compressor is starting to squeal every now and again. I would have never thought the clutch could be reshimmed. It's definitely worth a try. Thanks for the video. My dad used to always say. Start with cheap then go expensive. Most fixes are simple
Thanks for the video. It made me 100% sure I did not want to tackle this. I’ll bite the bullet and let the dealer do it.
Glad I could help, even if it was at my own expense 😆
Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to go over all your details. What did you learn, and what would you change doing this build?
I had to go one size bigger (12ga) with the wires to the elements and use a hydraulic crimp tool. Had the wires burn up a the crimp twice. I do use it hard, though. It runs for 4-5 hours a day, three days a week.
Thanks for this
I work in commercial HVAC and I want to be able to stick this to the metal decking and hang a winch on it. Does anybody know if this would be possible?
Do you have any insight as to why my contacter gets hot and smokes after 5 minutes? I’ve rechecked my wiring and the vfd seems to work fine. The contacter will eventually get too hot and pop and my second one is doing it too. I’ve ordered everything from your provided links. Could it be poor quality parts?
Not sure but sometimes heat is caused by resistance which is caused by bad connections. I’d start by making sure that all of the wires are appropriately sized and all of the screw terminals are nice and tight.
Which gauge wire did you use for hot and neutral wires at the contacter? Aside from that detail I’ve ordered every product you had linked and found the 18ga security shielded wire.
Going to bring another give away ? 😅. I’m thinking to buy one of those ultimate setup
Interesting, I was watching harbor freight welding table but it’s $30 more expensive
The autozone loan a tool 57000 will work. Then you need M5 and m6 bolts.
Just got them for 16.99
Ignorant people will always coment Ignorant opinions great video guy good luck God bless
Great video, thanks for the help
The kit is designed to be used with a new bumper with factory made cutout.
The bumper is made with a cutout line. That’s the same way the dealer does it if they don’t order one that’s been cut out.
0:05 Awesome Spinal Tap reference: "THESE GO TO ELEVEN" !!! 😂😂😂 Making 10 louder will never be the same as cranking up to 11. 😜
Why didn't you just use the control panel from the oven?
Size and a PID with SSRs is super inexpensive.
What is that piece made of, that you placed in the hole to do the final weld on the nut.
It’s a piece of aluminum that I turned on my lathe to protect the threads when I’m welding.
Where is the link on the p.i.d. programing
It’s at the bottom of the video description. You need to click “more” under the video title.
Thank you! Excellent video
Hey man awesome video! Have you done the wiring yet? If so did you go oem wiring or like curt brand wiring. If so how did you do the 4 pin end. Did it fit into the hitch bracket or just hanging?
I haven’t yet. I’ll probably make another video when I do.
Do you have a filter made for the shifter portion on the gauge for automatic cars?
I have red ones with the shift indicator filter here - lucidautowerks.com/products/vw-mk3-instrument-cluster-speedometer-filters?variant=21934620442704
@LucidAutowerks do you have photos how the cluster looks after filter color change? And are there other changes necessary if I have the black background cluster vs the white?
@@JessePacheco-dt5ru I have some pics on my computer. Send me an email at [email protected]
Thanks for the link to the motor. I'm going to try the 20 rpm for TIG welding. I found the speed as a flaw also. What were they thinking??
Thank you so much , I'm trying to restore a 65 IH Scout and you just showed me how to remove the spot welds. Thanks again
No problem!
This magician must work for Milwaukee
No sir. I’m just a guy that likes to tinker with stuff.
Beautiful product. I was all set on buying the cheaper usa version on ebay (guy in texas) but I may hold out and spend the extra for yours. Does your DIY builder version have the long lead time as well? Also as someone that does fabrication on the side, I totally understand the price point of your kit!
Thank you! I moved into a larger space and hired some help, so I’m slightly ahead of the timeframe listed but I didn’t want to change it and then start to fall behind. Shoot me an email at [email protected] and I can get into more detail about turnaround with you 👍🏼
Please sell the kit or do this service we would happily pay for iy
Could you changes tyre with off road tyre pls...
I want to buy one..
They can be found at ultimatemanualtirechanger.com
Why you didnt filled it up with concrete or sand?
Can this be done on a walmart hyper tough 3/8" impact? I'm even cheaper and wanted to convert the anvil to 1/4".
Probably meant prefill the filter itself
How can 1 get this manual tire changer? From medan, Indonesia
I sell internationally on ebay at - www.ebay.com/str/lucidautowerks
Were I can faun the kit can you tell me please
You can find them at ultimatemanualtirechanger.com
how did you bench test this?I have one that I want to sell but don't know how to check milage oranythiung and can't find anything on line how to do it haha
If you have a Bentley manual, the cluster harness pinout is in there. You need to cut up a cluster harness and add power and ground to a few wires.
@@LucidAutowerks Thank you! I actually ended up figuring it out, I just needed to connect another ground!
People in Ireland buy them if they are on sale but in not in shop to buy them at moment
As a 34yr professional commercial tire guy. Advice: Get yourself a tyreguy friend. World works on,"I know a guy"
But then how would I have made this video? 😉
I bought this unit and did not get the clip and carbon brush to allow the unit to give the ability to use the turntable for Welding. I've contacted vevor about this and am getting the runaround. They said it's a consumable they drop $60 off, and I then needed to find the brush and clip. I said no way either send the part or give me a return label and a full refund. I wouldn't have any idea where to buy the part and I'm assuming by there reply they don't offer replacement parts rendering it worthless in time. Bad business practice.
Yeah that brush isn’t a part that seems like it would be easy to source. I’ve heard that their customer service isn’t very good. I guess that’s the cost of buying cheap tools from an internet based company. You might be able to check on McMaster.com for something that would work.
Can you change ATV tires with this?
Awesome thank man
These small ones are rated up to 80 amps. That’s it! I’ve got a similar one, not from Vevor. I think it cost me, around 18 months ago, $325. Prices have dropped to about $263 now. I’ve gone to 120 amps and it’s been ok, but I wouldn’t go higher than that. Mine does have a reverse switch. I’m thinking of going to the next larger size.
My Hobart 190 just has letters for the settings, but apparently I’ve been using it at 180 amps on the rotary table! Haha. I did notice that I can’t wrench the chuck closed before welding because it’ll be super tough to open the chuck back up after the weld. Other than that, I haven’t noticed any issues.
@@LucidAutowerks well, other than the lug burning out. It’s a risk though.
@@melgross it’s been great ever since I replaced the lug and the clamp.
@@LucidAutowerks ok, not criticizing or anything.
@@melgross I know. I didn’t take it as that. I agree with you. I’m sure I’m overdoing it with this little rotary table. I had wanted to build one like This Old Tony did but I just don’t have the time these days.
Hopefully you see this I’m a little late lol. Something I’ve noticed across all tool brands especially Milwaukee is that there is always a massive price difference between a hex and anvil (driver and wrench). So I have a couple questions, 1: how has the performance been with the modified 2nd gen (I don’t think there is a 3rd gen impact wrench yet)? Have you been able to compare it to the hex impact in terms of performance? And how does it hold up to buying the purpose built impact wrench? Not sure if that’s possible for you or not. 2: is there a hammer/internal difference between the wrench and driver? Usually there’s some small machining differences etc, but I’ve noticed that these are just plug and play swaps. I’m just morbidly curious if they are just the same exact M12 tool, hammer and everything, just with different anvils and charging more for the wrench which I still dont understand. I might be a little more understanding if the hammer assemblies were different to compliment the hardware like on some tools I’ve disassembled but from what I’ve seen I don’t see any visual differences. Maybe the weight of the hammer? I got to know haha. Sorry for long post, thanks for any feedback and sweet vid!!! I’ll probably be doing this with a gen three here soon.
Wanted to add this too, main reason I’m asking about internal differences is to see if there is an actual performance difference between the two to justify the cost of the impact wrench. But as I said, everything looks identical so who knows
Great video, thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍.
Can't believe that factory part didn't come with those side clips. My guess is whoever was building up those kits didn't include the clips.
I got it from BAM Wholesale Parts and it seemed to be pretty legit. Someone in the Compass group said that their kit included them so maybe they were just forgotten in mine 🤷🏻♂️
@@LucidAutowerks that's what I meant by the person working at the factory putting the components in the box made the mistake. Most likely weren't a car person. Just a factory worker.
Just ordered my part! Thanks!