one, two, three, four! Rev up your engines! It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel today I'm going to show you some smart
tools that can be used for fixing very stupid car designs
now the first stupid design is this GM radiator it has these cooling lines that
cool the transmission that go into the cooling part of the radiator but they
don't have bolts that screw them in anymore here's an old broken radiator I took out
what happens is the lines you just push into these holes and lock with a little
spring and there's only one reason for making them that way it's cheaper to
manufacture them instead of having to have somebody in there screwing the line
on and making it tight it just pushes in and snaps but it makes it taking apart a
gigantic pain when you have to replace the radiator unless you buy a disconnect
tool like this Lisle it just slips over the line like this snaps on then you
push it in the hole and twist it a quarter of a turn that unlocks the
spring then you can just grab the line and with a little force off comes the
line, now without this little tool it's virtually impossible to get that off
without breaking something so the tool has bypassed the stupidity of the design
now another stupid modern design in this GM vehicle is
you can't take fuel pressure that easily anymore now taking fuel pressure used to
be as easy as taking air pressure, you'd have a gauge with the Schrader valve put
it on and read the pressure but no of course to save money they took the
Schrader valve off the fuel line so now there's no longer any place you can
easily test it so tools to the rescue again you get a fuel pressure gauge kit
and it has a million different adapters so use the adapter that fits on your car
to take the fuel pressure now this whole kit only cost me about ninety bucks but
you don't need to buy them all if you only have one car you only need to buy
the adapter for your car to do the fuel pressure checking so if you're working
on your own car you really may only need one adapter and one gauge to take the
fuel pressure on it but in the case of this GM you need two specialty
tools because the line you need another one of these specialty tools from the
line to get the line off of the engine the line is right here and you have to
put the specialty tool on here to get it on and then to wiggle it off and pull
the line off then the gauge snaps over the line that you disconnected,
yes and I too wish for the old days when you could just snap it right onto a
valve and not have to mess with all this garbage but if you don't want to swear
in modern designs when you're fixing them, use these smart tools and get
even with a people that designed these things and remember if you have car
questions just visit the Scotty Kilmer channel
