The Camco Water Bandit, and a sillcock key are two handy items to keep in your car’s emergency toolkit.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Sillcock Key
02:15 Water Bandit
03:11 Coiled Hose
03:45 Stop Leak
04:13 Outro
♪ Reuben’s Train by Nat Keefe plays ♪ So, say your car is broken down
with a leaky radiator, but you’re on a 24 hour run across state lines, and you need to top it off with water so you can get back on the road. Maybe you were able to pull over to a rest stop, but, it’s 3am, and no one’s there. Or maybe you have a truckload
of bootleg booze and you don’t want to alert the authorities. Regardless, with these two items, and, and, well, you’re gonna need a third item too, and maybe a fourth item, but anyway, with these two tools, you can stealthily acquire the forbidden water. ♪ Reuben’s Train by Nat Keefe plays ♪ A lot of commercial buildings
will have water faucets on the outside, but there’s no knob on ’em, so you can’t turn the water on. You need a key. That’s where the first tool comes in. This is called a Water Key or a Sillcock Key. It has four different sized square sockets on it that can turn on most commercial
water faucets or sillcocks. These are under ten bucks. I’ll put Amazon links in the video description, and it’s a super handy item to keep in your vehicle’s emergency toolkit. Obviously there could be legal
concerns with using these. You should never touch another man’s sillcock without his permission. That’s a good way to get punched in the face, but we’re talkin’ about emergency use here. So now that you can access water from any faucet, you need to be able to get
the water from the faucet to your car’s radiator, and, some of those sillcocks don’t even have threads on ’em. There’s no way to attach a regular garden hose. That is where the second tool comes in. ♪ Reuben’s Train by Nat Keefe plays ♪ This is the Camco Water Bandit. These are also under ten bucks on Amazon. It has a standard garden hose
connection at one end, and a silicone sleeve on the other to slide right over those sillcocks. The sleeve has ribs inside it to help it grip the pipe, and it tapers down on the inside, so you can even use this on
smaller sized barbed fittings. [pop] Now, mine has a metal hose fitting at the end, and it looks like the newer ones
are made out of plastic, but it’s not something you’re gonna
be using all the time, so, ehh, it’ll be fine. Mine is also missing the clamp. It comes with a plastic clamp that you can use to tighten
it down to the sillcock. If you lose your clamp like I did, you can just use a zip tie. Zip ties are another good thing
to keep in your vehicle anyway. And now, you can hook up your garden hose. I, well, I guess that’s the third item, or, or fourth item if you count the zip tie. You still need a way to get the water to your car. I like these coiled garden hoses
to keep in a vehicle kit. This one is a 25 footer. Now, you’re not actually gonna get the full 25 foot extension due to the coils, but it only takes up a small amount
of space in your vehicle. These can vary quite widely in price, but you should be able to find
one for under 20 bucks. Now, if you have a radiator leak, filling it back up is only gonna last as, long as it takes for it to leak back out. So, I always keep a package of this Bar’s Leak stuff in my kit. This stuff comes in both a powder
and a pellet form. It sometimes takes a while to work, but, if it’s a small pinhole leak, it’ll fix it, temporarily. Hopefully, it’ll slow the leak down long enough for you to get on to the next town. Anyway, these are a few of the items I keep in my vehicle emergency toolkit. Let me know if you want to see
some of the other stuff. I like to dig through here at least once a year, do a full inventory. ’Cause sometimes I take stuff out and forget to put it back in. That’s how I figured out that
that clamp was missing. Anyway, thanks everyone for watching. See you later, bye.
37 Comments
Why do you talk like an autistic leper?
Skip the Bars Leak, it can clog up a radiator system. Keep a container of black ground pepper instead. Works better and it can be flushed right it, no other damage
The real question is, how did this obvious time traveling moonshine runner get the amazon links into his video?!?
YES! PLEASE DEMO YOUR FULL AUTO KIT!
Bar’s Leaks is good stuff, just be sure to tell your mechanic that you put it in so they can flush it out when the leak is repaired. It can plug up small passages just like it plugs leaks and cause trouble you didn’t intend.
Very good. Thank you.
I bought the sillcock key and the water bandit with your affiliate link. I've bought several set of wrenches from a brand on Amazon called Duratech and with one of the sets they sent me a free sillcock key. I didn't even know what it was until seeing your video. But my garage is so messy that instead of looking for it I just bought the one you linked. I'll find the Duratech one eventually.
My experience with a water bandits was useful but the rubber will broke down within a year.
I have both of these tools in my RV, plus a short hose, because often campsites have water faucets without threads, and filling a 5 gallon container while trying to hold it with one hand is a pain.
1,000+ prepping videos and you mention something new and useful. Thank you.
First half of this video sounds like an advertisement for a male sex toy.
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Been driving for decades and not once would I or anyone I know have used any of this. I frequently pull a 33ft RV trailer through the desert too.
I use black pepper for small coolent leaks. A spoon full or 2. The pepper gathers and plugs a small hole or crack. Pepper will disapate over time and not clog the heater core. Your mechanic will thank you too. I smells nice when changing a leaky radiator or pump.
Great Idea for washing out the bootleg tank and getting shower water for camping. However, in my Engine's Cooling system, only distilled water mixed with Prestone is used, even in emergencies.
These seem like some great items for some homeless people to utilize at rest areas and what not. 🤔
Find a pipe clamp that works with the sillcock key
Great info! I've gotta admit, when you first started speaking I immediately though of Chit the "Is there a black purse in here" guy! 😅
Best advice of all, especially now that it's autumn: inventory your emergency kit once a year (like changing the batteries in your smoke detectors) so what you have in it (and what's missing) is top of mind 🙂
Skip the hose and keep your tools in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid.
"the ribs in the sleeve grip the pipe"
Is this Chit?
a pail would be good with no hose
Dont use the stop leak. It can clog up the oil valleys in you block.
Best "affordable" stop leak is the water glass with the copper powder in it by Prestone. A collapsable jug could replace the hose and you could take some with you! I've never had a problem opening those valves with my Leatherman pliers.
Pepper works good
Dude I have a version of that "water bandit" thing that i found in my dads stuff after he d*ed and I've been wondering what it is for the last 20 years…🤯🥳❤
WHere i live in san diego they have water outlets in the landscaping that look like sprinklers. You can get a special brass spigot that can be put in to one and you can get water because these outlets are usually pressurized all the time unlike the sprinklers.
I've bought a sillock key a while back, but never considered what you brought up. Many thanks.
Another 👍 funny ty 🏈🏀
This was a very helpful video. Thank you.
Flat shrink hoses would work better for storage size in a vehicle.
Won't work if they had another valve inside the building that controls the exterior faucet. Most residential houses does it in the Northeast, and I'm seeing more and more commerical buildings and apartments (new constructions) doing it too.
"This little tool here is called a Glock 19. And in an emergency situation where you need a lot of cash fast and you don't have a bank account, this little fella is your best friend"
For a radiator leak in a pinch, grounded pepper works
Show us more of the vehicle kits. Very helpful
Silly presentation but good information. Good job!