We Tested Farmer Car Hacks
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We tested "old farmer tricks" to see if these $0 car repair techniques actually work.
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"People drink this. Imagine what it does to your body"
Well I can confirm that after drinking it, my body is entirely rust free
Dang, I was worried about my rust buildup, but after downing a bottle of coke, my mind is at ease.
Thanks for giving me a cheap alternative to the hospital after eating metal
Fun fact. Bologna will remove car paint.
Coca Cola rots your teeth
All I drink is water and im rusty af
Old farmers trick: when driving a Jeep, just look in your rear view mirror after every loud clunk to see which new part you need to order!
Ha, what a lie. You know the glue failed and that rearview mirror fell off also.
I think you misspelled "Ford"
@@CreeperCustomPaintball someone drives a fiat
Can confirm
@@FrankFactor lol amazingly my rearview never fell off. But all the electric switches in the driver's side door failed in my jeep and everyone else I knew who had a 2000-2006ish cherokee
The point of the oil bucket isn't to remove rust, it's more of a penetrating oil usage. To make old pipe wrenches and such work again.
I was going to say the same thing. I grew up in and still live in a small midwest town (now after 60 years it's pop is up to 2500 and is the 2nd largest town in the county). Many farmers and shade tree mechanics. My Pop and Grandpa had a mower shop between the houses and they used the old oil to save rusty tools not to remove the rust.
@@smerk Holy shit maple syrup is $20 a quart lol
To me I saw it used to keep tools from rusting (or rusting more) when left in storage, especially if you live in a humid area and you know you aren't gonna work with your tools for the winter : take that old bucket, that old oil, dunk the tools in fall, pull them out in Spring : bam, not a speck of rust.
@@LeSarthois that too
Yes my grand father used to leave old tool to prevent them from rusting in storage
The egg in a radiator that has a small leak will stop it and will not harm your cooling system. However if you have a hole like what you tested it on nothing is going to "fix" that short of replacement or the damage or new radiator. Was a service tech/mechanic from 1984-2010.
I figured that hole was too big. Commercial radiator stop leak wouldn't have worked on that hole either.
A colleague, weekend rally driver used it a few times, but this hole was way too big 😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing, it's not gonna stop a bullet hole lol.
Also supposed to be just egg whites. Yolk is more like a lubricant than a binder.
@@randyman1331 So today we're going to shoot this radiator with a 50 cal and see if an egg fixes it lol
As a farmer I can definitely confirm that I lied and I’m in fact, not a farmer
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I herd nerfs
@@harmonicartist nerd-exclusionary radical farmers?
@@Mrich775 you bet your sweet bippy
You farm over at dee's?
If the hole is small, the egg will do!! I remember we used it in my grandfather's Chevelle when I was a kid and we drove over 300km to get to town to get it repaired, without any leaks!
Chevelle? Km? Doesn't add up
@@L3giT_Hax Australia possibly
@@L3giT_Hax Canada?
I had a 82 Mustang from Canada that had a speedometer in km.
@@L3giT_Hax my parents had if I remember correctly a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Heavy Chevy model from Canada.
You should try the panty hose on just an alternator belt. This old hack was before belts were serpentine. Just a pully to the alternator might work.
Yep have used it in to get home way back when on a truck with just alternator, fan and cam pulleys
I tried the pantyhose trick and it was more than sufficient. My legs feel energized and now I can walk everywhere. Screw that car, and man do I look great!🦵☺️👍
A much better hack is to keep a spare belt (along with your spare bulbs, spare fuses, a quart of oil, etc.) in your car for those emergent situations.
@@reruddock I carry all of that and then some. Plus I carry an AutoZone representative in the trunk, and that's pretty freaking worthless I gotta say (came with the car)🙄
Try it on your head it's way better on the way into a bank 👍
I've used egg whites to temporarily patch radiators several times and that "hack" DOES work for smaller holes, which is what most people tend to get, not large holes caused by someone ramming a screwdriver into them.
As noted above, I said egg WHITES, the yolk tends to be too powdery for it to work and breaks up too readily, while the whites turn into a perfectly rubbery plug
Inn addition to Ann egg put some spoons full with cinnamon powder. Have witnessed it several times and it always works fine. No leak even a year later, and smell’s like cinnamon rolls while your working😂
@@robinkaen4925 you have never fixed it since ??? so what if it breaks in the middle of nowere???
It is hack used often in countries like Russia on old cars used for decades and radiotors themselves evolved from time of Lada and other crap as well.
Same here. After putting in the egg in my mazda 323f I started the car kept driving and the leak stopped. So it got me home back in the day. After that i had it fixed. But it worked, it was a small hole and it was dripping not spraying like in the video.
I mean this channel is just a bunch of dummies “testing hacks” so can’t really take it seriously but the audience is so big it’s a shame the do stuff like that being idiots
"I'm here to have fun!" Justin is such a good addition to Donut.
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I'm glad he's starting to warm up to the crew and meshing really well
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8:50 This method works, and allows you to cover even a long distance, but it only works on older vehicles where a V-belt is used, not a serpentine belt. Only the V-belt pulleys provide enough wall to keep such tights from falling off. They do not provide a perfect power transmission, but are only used to wrap around essential pulleys, e.g. from the water pump and alternator / generator and such a trick allows you to return home from the route, even despite the considerable distance.
YES!
All you donuts forget that these tricks were performed on older cars. Aka your grandaddy stole your gmamas pantyhose and slapped the SOB on a 38 Ford or some shit haha.
V belts! Little more slip means more power and less bearing wear! Haha ;)
I came to say this. No way it could work with a serpentine belt, this is a V-belt only hack - which probably means it's been worthless for 20+ years.
I feel like they half ass everything there trying to like the oil is for a seized up tool that won't move
Thankyou for explaining this so I didn’t have to 👍🏼
@@Syscrush why worthless? even now somebody might have an old car and have this problem so its not an "expired" car hack
that was 'dip' you used for the window, not chewing tobacco
I was looking to see if anybody else caught that.
Yep definitely was expecting redman not Skoal
What’s the main difference between them?
@@TheNinthGenerarion Dip is finer, less coarse and chew tobacco generally is a lot less moist than dip. The coarser textures and lower moisture content of the chew tobacco makes it work better.
That and the “simulated” rain was just them using a hose. Sorry, but it doesn’t rain like that. lol
I'm sure someone else noted this, but the pantyhose thing is just showing how young you are. It originated from a busted fan belt. Not a serpentine belt. As a kid, I was shown this directly as an example of improvisation and thinking outside of the box.
As soon as they said it my first thought was, that's only going to work with a V-belt.
yup, I can tell you first hand it works on a v-belt.
It has worked and failed but it remains in the tool box.
It works on VW beetle engines. All they drive is a generator - being an air-cooled engine.
Ive used it on an old honda with ribbed belts i measured it as close made a knot to be tight and slipped it over just crank and alternator nothing else and it worked
The pantyhose is definitely meant for vehicles with a VBelt system. Less tension overall compared to a serpentine belt system, will get ya usually to the next mechanic for a proper belt on whatever it snapped from. Worked for me on my Caprice Classic and VW Beetle. Just be sure to keep revs low to make the pantyhose last as long as possible
and you eliminate the fluff, like bypassing a power steering pump :P
@@TroyC68 Exactly! crank, water pump and alternator at most
hello, here to confirm that, pantyhose worked twice for saving my ass, once in my very first peugeot 106, and second time in my wifes miata. as said above, just let the steering pump out
Haven't tried it on a "modern" car with a serpentine belt, but I have done it on an older vehicle (1972 Ford F-250) when I lost the Alternator belt... kept the alternator turning to keep the battery charged so I could get home with headlights on at night.
This was quite popular roadside fix in fiat 126 in Poland
I’ve personally done the bread trick at the 24 hours of 🍋 s race with a hot dog roll. Also I don’t think the pantyhose trick works on a serpentine system, would probably have better luck with a V-belt system like an old farm truck
That's what I was thinking too. Like an old 350. That's where the old shoelace trick came from.
I have done the pantyhose trick and it does work on V belt systems. I always assumed that serpentine systems wouldn't work.
Also if it's not trying to spin every single accessory. I think if they went from crank to alternator and water pump it would hold
I know some old guys who have cut off strips of their belts for the v belt system
Yes. Try it on a VW Bug. Probably work
As someone who has replaced my own clutch, I can definitely say that the bread trick with the pilot bearing, works. I have first-hand knowledge of this, it just takes forever cramming about 2 full slices of bread in the pilot hole to put enough pressure on the pilot bearing to remove it.
The egg hack actually does work for a small leak, but you have to leave the engine running. Also, the tobacco one does as well if done correctly. You have to go behind and give it a second wipe with a clean cloth to get rid of the haze. The tar from the tobacco is what makes that work, but it has to be wiped well.
I had a master tech teach me the bread trick at a dealership 15 years ago when I first started and didn't have the tools.... Still use it to this day in special circumstances! Keep up the good work guys!
It works better with a little bit of grease
If you're pulling a pilot bearing you usually have grease and a socket the right size, no bread required.
Wet toiletpaper works even better.
Likewise grease and a used clutch alignment tool that fits pilot bushing
Was just about to post, grease alone would probably be more consistent
I have personally used the egg trick and it worked amazing. With that being said, I was not overheating yet and the hole was small. Not an entire vein cut out..
They forgot the salt and pepper.
Was the hole in Donut's radiator not enormous? I'm not a mechanic so I haven't seen a ton of leaky radiators, but I was under the impression that the leak is usually a lot smaller than that.
I ask, because the Mythbusters actually tested the egg trick in episode 15 (S2004 E7) "Scuba Diver and Car Capers" and it worked. They stated the results as "plausible."
@@DaimyoD0 yeah they stabbed a huge effing hole in that radiator. Most of the time when a radiator starts to leak it's gonna be a crack or a pinhole, not a big screwdriver sized hole gouged out of it.
definitly dont use salt, but coarse black pepper is definitly something id recommend carrying in the glove box.
Yep worked for me before too. Important to only use this trick with a car you don't give a shit about lol, but under just the right circumstances you might get lucky.
An old farmer's trick that absolutely does work because I've had to do it on numerous occasions is to put pepper in the coolant when you have a leak in a radiator. One time I did it just so I could get home after a fender bender and ended up buying a radiator on the way, put it in the box in the back and then proceeded to drive for another 18 months with a brand new radiator sitting in the trunk of my Subaru on the pepper fix!
The old oil polymerizes and encapsulates the rust. So the longer it sits on the surface, the more of a layer forms on the tool. Its an old gun smiting trick for repairing spots where bluing came off.
your better off using phosphoric acid (CLR or coke if your ghetto) it converts iron oxide into iron phosphate which is an anti corrosion coating. old used oil is also carcinogenic so you dont want to really be handling that crap anyway.
Was the hole in the radiator not enormous? I'm not a mechanic so I haven't seen a ton of leaky radiators, but I was under the impression that the leak is usually a lot smaller than that.
I ask, because the Mythbusters actually tested the egg trick in episode 15 (S2004 E7) "Scuba Diver and Car Capers" and it worked. They stated the results as "plausible."
Also, it was in the original MacGyver series and I've read somewhere they took ideas from viewers but tested them first and this was the only one that worked.
It works I did it on a van of mine it took 3 eggs but it never leaked again
ive done egg to seal a leak and it works. I had a big hole late one night way too big for egg or any sealer and limped the truck to a walmart where my dad had me buy some potatoes to jam in the hole. it cooked on so good I didnt toss any sealer in with it then drove an hour home. 3 days later it was still sealed up when I put the new radiator in
Multiple eggs works best , and most rad holes are pin prick sized not large enough for an entire American Breakfast Platter to slide on through . Ya it works for most cases but the idea of having eggs rotting in my car is kinda gross . I don't want my car to smell like a mobile Denny's .
I fucking love the myth busters and these guys on this channel in a way have a similar job I’m so damn jealous
For rust removal I also use vinegar. It’s cheap and less sticky.
For rust / metal conservation I mix up boiled linseed oil with turpentine.
Vinegar and salt. I've used it for decades.
I just use bleach and ammonia. Very powerful, cleans the rust off in minutes.
@@TheSuperBoyProject lol I bet it cleans everything. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
For those unaware: that'll kill you.
@@americansmark it's a good on fries too.
every one of these hacks work they just so dumb they think they can spin the engine with panty hose.
I was taught the bread trick in two apprenticeships. Diesel mechanic and fitter and turner, definitely an innovative solution to a bearing removal.
Came in handy for my 2011 Toyota Hilux clutch replacement
I've actually done the panty hose trick on two cars. It really only works on cars that have 3 pulleys for a triangle belt (no ac or power steering). But I can confirm it will get you to the nearest auto parts store! My grandad has done it too 😂.
Egg definitely works for smaller holes. I did this temporary fix a few months ago. Still haven't changed the radiator but she's holding strong lol.
same. done it in my old forester, and an international tractor, neither have been replaced and still running nearly a year and just over a year just fine
If you also add a decent pinch of black pepper with the egg it works even better.
Can also confirm. My 91 Dodge Ramcharger had a pinhole leak. Dropped an egg in, lasted about 8 months. when it started to leak again, I just dropped in another egg. I wasn't about to put a $150 radiator in for what a $0.15 egg fixed!
Eggcellent.
@@TheChopperUnderground I wouldn't do it to an expensive car considering that egg can fuck up all kinds of important parts but if it works it works
100 percent have used the egg trick on a pinhole leak my Grand Cherokee got while we were heading to a campsite. my grandfather taught us growing up to only use the egg whites. 3 egg whites later it was fixed, lasted the whole week and we made it home.
That's make sense since you got no "gunky" yolks to deal with.
you had the eggs in the car ready or did you take them from home?
@@alexis8614 ill let you figure that one out your own (read the comment again)
100% can confirm this works. Was with my brother in Kenya 15+ years ago and his Helux sprung a leak. Picked up eggs and limped it in to the resort we were going to at Kilimanjaro.
@@alexis8614 we were going camping. We brought eggs with us for the week.
The coke and rust thing ALWAYS makes me laugh.
"Imagine what this does to your body"
OK, and what caused the metal to rust? oxygen and water lol. Imagine what those do to your body! They rusted steel!
Coke still is pretty far away from being healthy
Thank you for your valuable input, I'll make sure to take your advice and drink coke daily
@@TheDonutMan3000 I drink it every day, no issues with it. Got all my teeth too before you retort with "bad for your teeth," just brush your damn teeth properly everyday lol.
Technically he said to your teeth, not body, which is a pretty big difference. Coke is definitely bad for your teeth. There is no disputing that.
@@Reploidx9 it destroys your gut biome and causes mental health issues. Keep being smart buddy
Vinegar works amazingly well for rust removal. Love these videos. Keep em coming!
yes it dissolves metal and does nothing to protect the fresh exposed metal. try phosphoric acid instead.
When I was a truck driver, I've had to use the pantyhose trick to get a refrigeration unit running again. Worked for about 5 hours, and then had to do it again. Almost all OTR drivers know that one. It works on V belts, but I don't think it would work on a serpentine belt. And to fix a leak in an air line, a wad of gum over the leak, and wrap tape around it.
old school here, and yeah don't hook up your ac and other crap, this is a temporary fix, not to ride home in style fix. Many more work well, but be realistic about the outcome, it is teporary at best.
TIL that truckers carry around women's pantyhoses for *TOTALLY LEGITIMATE REASONS, IT IS NOT WEIRD.*
Yeah not for a serpentine type as for the egg it works but more like pin holes not large holes, the panty hose idea has been around forever.
Another hack: Use ratchet straps and duct tape to hold your Tacoma's rusted frame together
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Brother you know it!
My father and I use this, using brake oil actually cleans yellow headlights.
That's how my neighbor's Chevy rolls... or chugs
Panty hose will work on older V belts but definitely not a serpentine belt. Some cars had 3 different belts, one for A/C, one for water pump and alternator and one for power steering. I remember my first car in high school. I thought it didnt come with power steering because it wasn't hard to turn but it wasn't super easy. Turned out the power steering belt was missing 😆.
6:03 had me in stitches. I was expecting a hack using horse vomit to fix AC issues or something
The bread trick actually works really well, a lot of guys do it with rotary engine pilot bearings
Use grease in the hole not bread 🤦♀️
My brother is 2/2 on the bread method.
The bread allows for really bad fit for the bolt because it won't flow plastically. I hadn't got any bread so used playdoh and that works really well too.
I learned that trick from Chrisfix when he was pulling his trans out of his mustang years ago. He did it with a pilot bearing puller and he showed the bread trick.
@@dr_jaymz That’s actually a really good idea, I hadn’t thought of that
I used to live in the actual bush (outback Australia) and I've used eggs before to fix a radiator. I've also used ground pepper and chewing gum and all three worked.
The stocking trick also works, but I think modern stocking are made too stretchy. I've seen it done 30 years ago and it worked too keep an alternator running.
Good video guys, I got a few laughs.
That's dip not chewing tobacco though
@@svnbit8408 Nah nah, the chewing gum was to fix a radiator leak not grease up your windscreen. Rain-X is so cheap it makes no sense to use chewing tobacco or dip.
The stocking hack works as a V belt, there's no way it was going to work as a serpentine belt.
i think it mainly depends on the routing of the belt if the pantyhose trick works cause it just seemed like they couldnt get it tight enough around the crank.
@@evanmcmaster3900 A flat belt stays on its pulleys because it is flat and they are crowned. A stocking doesn't have the right geometry to centre itself.
8:18 fan belt, yes. Serpentine belt? No surprise there.😹 great hack for pre-serpentine belt Donks
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As a farmer up here in Wisconsin, I’ve heard none of these before. I dunno, up here we stick to the classics such as baler twine and duck tape to fix all our problems.
Been around farmers and ranchers all my life. Live on a ranch now. Southwest US. These "tricks" were talked about in the 90s, but I haven't heard much of them since. I have a feeling a few of them (egg, pantyhose...) would work OK on my old 2n tractor, but nothing much newer than that...
Haven't heard mention of a length of chain, so you can't be a farmer from Wisconsin... Around these parts if it can't be fixed with chain it can't be fixed. Ever again.
No way, you've never heard the egg in the radiator one? I would be very surprised if you hadn't
You can fix anything with ducktape. Learned that from The Red Green Show.
Same here from southern Alberta, we use a lot of zap straps as well
Well, the pantyhose trick does indeed work. My grandpa used this trick sometimes back in the days. Must have been weird.. car stops, grandpa tells granny to take her pantyhose off xD
yep. I actually had to do it once with my 90 Grand Am. You have to make sure you tie it tight.
Yes. Fun fact - it was part of the manual for several generations of Moskvich (popular and affordable car in the USSR). There were interesting tips for emergency on-the-road repairs in the actual car's manual. Also (almost) everything was made to be serviceable with no special tools. The cars were shitboxes compared to anything western though.
Also, from my experience it works way better with V belts. Its for old school stuff.
"My farm truck/tractor/combine don't have no damn snake lookin' belt! They didn't have those new fangled things back in my day!" say the farmer
It's because the nylon or whatever was stronger back in those grandma years.
It was basically a miracle product so they went back to the drawing boards to make it profitable for them.
3 eggs will seal a hole your size but 1 egg will seal pin hole size leak..! They do it on the farms and in rural areas when Dad was a kid
I have personally used the the bread pilot bearing method on my old Toyota pickup when I was changing the clutch. Couldn’t find a bearing puller that would fit and the bread method worked too well! Saved my life.
The pantyhose trick was before serpentine belts and was meant to be used on an alternator etc. A single belt. And it does work for long enough to get you to a shop or parts store.
Yeah that's what I was thinking when I saw that, system looked too complicated. I bet you could also use a piece of rope or something.
Yup. If you got something old and the v belt breaks, pantyhose around the crank, alternator, and water pump will absolutely get you out of a jam..
So do shoe laces. Speaking from experience!
Totally agree. I have done it myself on my first car back in the 80's/
It was also a good ruse to get a girls pantyhose off, just like pulling out the choke when you and your girl are riding around and the car "Suddenly dies"!
Well we gotta do something til it starts again. ;) ;)
The pantyhose trick used to work "better" with older cars that had the 1 "V" shape pulley. Those pullies rarely had 1 belt that had to drive more than 3 pullies. The multi-v belts can go into many weird shapes and have belt tensioners that will easily be too much tension on the matrial of pantyhose.
Try the panthose again but this time maybe on a classic beetle engine.
I was about to say the samething. The serpentine belt tensioners produce alot of tension
Yeah I agree it will work on older cars i think
Agree with an old beetle.
3 years in a garage I worked a client came with a beetle with panties as belt, also here in CZcams can see the engine actually starts using panties as starter
yep, V-belt only, saved me many times.
I came here to write exactly this. With an old lada samara, when the belt broke off, I drove about 50 km using pantyhose, which is the only thing I could find in the local area.
I can't keep my eyes off from your show..This is fantastic
Love the bread trick, use it all the time at work to pull out stuck primary clutches on rzrs and can ams!
I saw the thumbnail, i saw the egg. Its go time. -Edgar
Yes
Don’t you mean EGG-Gar?
Did you like the results?
@@Blacksmithcstms nah he’s good I actually said that
It's so cool to see this channel turn into almost a TV show with the episodes they do. You can really see how much everyone at donut has grown in to their roles
At the wrecking yard there was an old RC machine. When it got removed, there was a 3/4" pit in the concrete floor where the pop would dribble down when the bottle cap was removed.
Justin really out here cracking me the hell up in every vid he comes out in
it feels like Justin has been here for years. these two together are great!
Agreed. If they had to add a token black guy for diversity I'm glad it's Justin. He's a good fit
Most boring host by far
The egg one works, has to be a pretty small hole though, we did it on our old Opel/Vauxhall Zafira in the 2000s
they forgot to mix it, and add coarse ground black pepper
@@jasonmacdonald5468 ah, that might help!
mythbusters tried it back in the day and it worked for them too. Donut's hole is too big.
Wow, this is so fantastic I never knew this, thanks for the great idea
Old GM worker taught me to shoot grease into the pilot bearing and then use a socket to push it out. Has worked every time!
the oil for rust is also good to "season" it before hand.. coat it and it wont get rusty pretty easy way to keep surface rust off metal shop benches
Do you think unused oil would work better?
@@LagrangePoint0 They will be doing the same thing, unused oil will be lighter color is all.
@@LagrangePoint0 tbh not sure i've always just put a lil unused on a paper towel for benches or if you have a motor thats not going to get sealed up for a while.. huge help to keeping things "clean" but not idea if one would be better then the other
@@LagrangePoint0 no. waste motor oil is going to give you the same effect, except instead of recycling it (or dumping it into your diesel tank) its getting a second life. i consider it recycling as well as rustproofing at that point, lmfao
Think that's how they blue guns
I've actually used the pantyhose on an old ranger. it was the v shaped pulley system, and was a much less complex routing (because old). got me home!
Yup, that "hack" is ancient - from long before serpentine belts were invented. Back when v-belts ruled the universe.
Yep came here to say the same. The alternator belt on my old S-10 broke late at night, and I limped it to a gas station and bought a pair of leggs stockings, ( the individual kind, not pantyhose) and tied one of them tight. It got me home that night and to the parts store the next day.
egg white in rad works ; leave cap loose also ground black pepper works also. windshield ; tobaco sorta work. shaving cream works ( smear on wipe clean first). the hose will work if you do it right for a belt. grease, bread, wet paper , wet rag, all will push out the piolet bearing.
Panty hose works if you have a car that takes multiple belts or skip non-essential pullies, Diesel Oil on tools works to remove rust, egg in the radiator works for pinhole leaks, but works better if you mix black ground pepper in with the egg first.
I've seen the egg trick work on smaller holes (still temporary), and some people will just pack grease into the pilot bearing instead of bread - either one works!
I would rather pack grease, as the residue is at least something that belongs in an engine, where bread does not.
Soap works in the pilot bearing as well .
ChrisFix combined the grease with the bread.
As a kid growing up in Romania in the early '90s, i've seen my dad use the pantyhose technique several time with great success on his Dacia 1310 as a belt drive. I asked him about it as well and he confirmed that it, but he mentioned that it was a temporary fix, until you get to a car parts shop.
Romanians are known lairs, especially the gypsy ones
Yeah I’m sure your dad lied to you several times.
@@dankcount it does work, but to be fair, you could use wire and duct tape to temporarily fix most thing on a dacia 1310
It does work but on small engines with simple belt layouts (that serpentine buick layout is way too complicated)
I did it myself on fiat uno to drive 5km to the parts shop
For rust removal, I learned a blacksmiths trick where you use electrolysis and vinegar to remove rust. Just hook up the negative terminal of a car battery to the rusty tool and positive side to a metal rod. Submerge both into a vinegar bath with a few inches of separation and watch the fizzles destroy the rust. Just be safe and wear insulated rubber gloves and boots. After a few hours to 24 hours, you can wipe the rust away with one of those green scratch pads. But steel wool works best.
I know nothing of cars but can’t get enough of this Chanel, wish they posted more but I do understand and appreciate the work they put into each and every video.
What scent is it?
The oil hack needs to be used diesel vehicle oil, as it will have sulfuric acid formed in it!
It still doesn't remove the rust but it DOES stop the rust and rustproofs the tool.
It works even with the oil they used you could see a significant difference in the wrench sure it didn't remove the rust completely but it removed alot of it
@@johnhostetler2167 It doesn't remove rust at all. It does, however, bind with the rust which is why you get that black pitting.
Well most farmers would have old diesel oil from a tractor. More detergents and conditioners which would be best for annihilating rust
@@willweitzer7779 Tell me, what specific chemical, unbound, in that solution could "remove" rust? I'm a chemist, got a PhD and all, and I can't figure it out. I assume you mean old engine oil from a diesel tractor and not old diesel oil. What detergents and conditioners do you think is in that that there is not more of in modern engine oils? Synthetic oils are commonly not synthetic at all you know, they just use additives to give it a certain specification needed to call it "synthetic".
In reality you don't need to remove the rust, you want to bind with it to create something that prevents it from rusting further and any used engine oil contains fairly high amounts of carbon which achieves that.
"All you have is a 12 pack of eggs".
Proceeds to gesture to an 18 pack lol. I love you guys
Yeah, I noticed that, too. :D
i came straight to the comments😂😂
Back in the 80s, I tried the “egg in the radiator” trick……….and it worked!! 🤘🏻✊🏻👍🏻
I use the bread bearing removal alot works every time
Thanks for testing these! But the ones you called hogwash had some issues with the testing setup. The leak was HUGE to try to repair with an egg. In the rainex one, you used dip and not chewing tobacco in the sock, and the pantyhose belt was something that came about when there were only three pulleys the belt had to turn, and you should probably make it tighter by loosing the tensioner pulley and not just that tie it as tight as you can by hand. Cool video, nonetheless!
I was gonna say the same thing! That’s no chewing tobacco that’s dip! But anyone that doesn’t use the two doesn’t know the difference
Honestly, just any kind of tobacco works with the chewing tobacco one. even with rainex you have to be driving so that the wind over the windshield pushes the water up, same with tobacco. it works bc of nonpolar waxes that are naturally in the tobacco making a hydrophobic film over the glass, I assume. idk but I did it once and it worked okay. better than nothing, that is for sure.
Moreover, why on earth would anyone expect the pantyhose trick to work on a serp belt system? You need Vee belt pulleys to contain the fabric. Nothing to keep it tracking on a serp pulley. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️😵😵😵😵
100% agree. Stopped watching after the egg because they were just toooooooo stupid to watch any further. Let's take a pinhole solution and apply it for a gap you couldn't solder a penny into than make fun of it for failing. I was actually wanting to know what it would do and if there would be any long term engine damage inflicted by the egg.
@@markjr.9126 it's the nicotine. It works on the inside, it'll work on the outside.
Hey guys, I really like Justin as a new member of the team. Keep making fun car-related videos!
For real Justin cracks me up. The fucking Coke bottle. Lol
Pilot bearing trick I do instead is just wet paper towels. Same concept, cleans and the towels ive found are easier to clean up/dont disintegrate as bad.
10:22 LOL i've never heard of using bread, i was taught to use a shop towel soaked in grease (the towel just helps keep the grease in place). i suppose anything that is grease-like would work
8:00 my dad used to do this as a quick fix for his old Dacia 1410 when the belt for the radiator fan would snap but not as a replacement for the entire belt system.
It works on vbelts
romania in the house. you're not eu
9:00 -That hack works. Just not for newer serpentine systems that have a half dozen pulleys being run by a single flat belt. The hack will work in a pinch for a old V belt system. With V belt your running a much narrower belt on less pulleys.
The old school fix for a leaking radiator was either whole pepper corns or oat meal. For a blown head gasket egg preservative was put in the radiator.
The egg and or pepper will work on small pin holes where it can swell up and clog it. Had a pin hole from fan run on my Cherokee while off roading and dumped pepper in the system to stop it till I got off trail to fix.
The Pantyhose one does work if the car is old enough to be using an "A" section Belt, it doesnt work for the more modern Ribbed belts
I bet it would! I used a bungee cord I had in the bed of my truck just to get back to civilization. But you're right, it all depends on your pulleys what will work. I know a guy who claimed duct tape can work if you're creative
yeah, it work really well on old engine with simple belt track
this engine have to complexe track to tight the panty-belt enough to drive all the accessories
Yep old school v-belts not the new style multi ribbed. Actually did this on an old tractor to get it back to barn.
Definitely
Yup, in the days it was called a fan belt it absolutely did work.
Side note on sliced bread…the end pieces are sacrificial, specifically for keeping the main loaf from drying out from the ends inward. They should always be the last two slices left in a bag 🍞
It's the "Slut slice" because everyone touches it, but nobody wants it.
And then those two pieces go in the trash
"no bread left behind!"
Nah you use them for a stacked ham and cheese toastie
Idk man. Those end pieces are the best!
Chopping an onion in half and wiping down your window with it works very similar to rain-x too. I drove a Volvo wagon for 6 months with no wipers and the onion trick worked well
The egg trick works 100%. I punched a hole in my old pathfinder after it went airborne off-road and we made it home on 6 eggs and creek water. You needed more eggs and run it until it seals up. I had a fist sized place it bashed the radiator with the steering box! I say if u r in a pinch do it.
Pepper too
Eggs and pepper or cornstarch. Definitely agree you need an omelette in there for it to work lmao
If I remember correctly, mythbusters did that test, and it's sort of work. And they give it "plausible"
I've used the egg trick to fix the hole in my old EG radiator.
A "temporary" fix turned permanent.
i cant tell you how many times my temporary fixes end up being permanent.
at any given moment, all three of my cars are greater than 10% cable ties.
i brought a project to a car show one time and proudly announced to anyone that would listen "In front of you sits 4 cylinders of precision German engineering...and 57 zip ties"
Knowledge is always important
The old pantyhose tricked worked much better on older vehicles when the only thing you needed to turn was the water pump and the fan. Trying to turn an alternator, PS pump and the A/C compressor would never work. However it works fine on old ford trucks with just a single belt to the water pump / fan.
I have used tights (I'm from England) twice to temporarily replace a belt. Once on a 1992 vw polo where it was just the crank pulley and the alternator pulley. Then on a Land Rover Defender 300tdi where it just had power steering and an alternator. Much simpler belt arrangement and it can and has worked. My friend loved the fix so much when his belt broke he refused to put a belt back on it and just always had spare tights in his car.
Appreciate you all testing these out. These are some of the episodes I love the most. Anything that helps out those with limited budgets goes a long way for people.
A good one for rusted tools is putting 1 cup of salt to a gallon of vinegar, and let soak for a few days, we left ours in for 3 weeks and pliers you couldn't squeeze with a vise before, worked like brand new after soaking
The Oil Bucket absolutely works, just make sure the Oil in the Bucket is *VERY* used and yes, you will need to soak it for at least a week.
As Engine Oil breaks down it becomes very Acidic, it use to melt the soles right off of my work boots (within a month if I wasn’t careful) back when I was a Lube Tech…
The egg trick mightve been for older vehicles with lower rad pressure
If the hole is small, the egg will do!! I remember we used it in my grandfather's Chevelle when I was a kid and we drove over 300km to get to town to get it repaired, without any leaks!
It works for long enough to get you to a garage, same with recharging a battery with Epsom salt.
@@MarcSob22 oh it does work. I have a old ford 9n tractor and I was raking hay and developed a small leak from the rad rubbing. Walked up to the chicken house and put an egg in and finished 20 acres of hay. Only a 4psi system I think tho.
@@Mr.Badger69 does a ford 9n have a water pump? I think our 8n does but somone told me that was 1 difference between the 8n and 9n
Egg in the radiator worked in my s10.
Really creative and full of insight 😃
More Justin please! He's here to have fun!
I have used the bread trick before, worked like a charm. All I had at the time were cinnamon rolls. Took me awhile to clean out all the sugar from the hole. In the end I still prefer a bearing puller.
Yup, bread or heavy grease works but it's definitely messy. Puller is the way to go if you turn wrenches for a living
Soap bars work too
Day 424 of asking Donut to bring old B2B back
Wow you're fast
Yes please
i had a pile of old rusty chains and tools. spilled some oil on sandy gravel. cracked a beer and first sip pointed my eyes at the concrete mixer. WOW, little shovel of oily sandy gravel, no more than one chain at a time (too many gets tangled) and a couple tools into the mixer and turned it on. chains turned out great! (mixed results with the tools)
watching this channel makes me feel like an old person. oh right, i am. only the water pump needs to spin to get somewhere. use what ya got. i one got a copper wire wrapped around a couple time on a v belt to make it home. egg trick works on small holes. i thought bread trick was common knowledge.
The hole in the radiator was too big, but eggs are mostly startch and that expands In a cooling system therefore "plugging" the hole, it's not hogwash it definitely works.
No starch in eggs, pretty sure it just cooks in there and will plug the hole for a while tho
@@luckybynn5788 Eggs are good at clogging arteries , and arteries are scientifically proven to be the same as radiator fins. So it should work.
@@madsgrandad5558 Neat
@@luckybynn5788 Egg whites are mostly protein (albumin). I'd skip adding the yolk.
As a farmer, before I've even watched the episode I can confirm that we do know what we're talking about... Most of the time.
The egg trick definitely works too. My uncle did that on his car and it lasted for months. A couple of other tricks I remember that he did when he was younger were:
To stop a squeaky belt put some treacle (or another gloopy/sticky liquid) on it. Voila! It'll help the belt grip.
Hole in the exhaust? Take either end off of a tin can (beans for example), slice it down the middle and slide it over the hole, then wrap it tight with some metal wire.
They were poor back in the day. 😂
Do you mean cut both ends off of the can?
When he says either end, yes he means both ends. Did you really need to ask or ya just being a prick?
Yep, another good one. Bonus points my dad did cause he couldn't afford a new muffler but had to pass inspection, he patched the hole with a can, then sealed with black RTV for high heat all around it. They never noticed the damaged muffler and it was as quite as a 460 can be lol.
For the squeaky belt I have use deodorant as well!
@@George-nr2pu nice. I've done the same thing, but with a bar of soap.
Can I just say that Justin is a top quality addition to the Donut team 👌 I already liked him on other donut shows but I love his energy here
Totally agree! The more shows he does, the more he is getting in the groove 😎
I can assure you the "egg-hack" for leaky radiators is *not* hogwash.
I used this trick on an old Audi when it started leaking from a corroded area on the radiator that had turned into an array of tiny sprinkler holes. You need to add not just one egg, you go ahead and drop half a dozen eggs into the cooling system, slowly one by one while the engine is running.
I actually drove the old Audi for another month like this until I had an opportunity to swap the radiator for a new one.
Yes, there was a little bit of a mess to clean up, but that was mostly solved by running clean water and flushing the system twice.
My dad usually is the one that teaches me these kind of tricks, the egg trick is for a slow leak which I’ve done before until getting a new radiator. He didn’t know the pilot bearing one and thought I was nuts.
I did it, he was impressed but also pissed I took part of his lunch to do it.
use grease instead of bread works well
Justin has been a great addition to the Donut team. Keep it up everyone!
Equisetum (aka Horsetail, Puzzlegras, Snakegrass) works really well as a kind of "sanding paper" with rust removal. It contains Silicic Acid, which removes (slight) rust and gunge from my pruning shears.
I always used hydraulic oil to remove the rust, we soak chains in 5 gallon buckets of it at work, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for months when we forget about it, but when yky pull it out it's unseized and works like new
Most of these do work, but only on the older stuff. I’ve also used the egg trick as well as the oil bucket. The oil bucket works but it takes weeks if not months.
6:16 I bet the grease they used to maintain their tractors that contains acid and other chemicals etc. would do the trick for removing rust.
As an offroader i can tell you the egg trick on the radiador does work. We go in deep into the desert dunes trailing and when something like that happens it does work for the car to make it out of there.