Checking Washer Fluid, Engine Oil, and Air Filter

if you over grease that it will actually push the seals out of it and cause more damage to your excavator so that's over 250 hours typically the buckets hinge points they like to do it daily most guys do it ever okay every other day something like that there is a recommended chart for that so this is the racetrack so you have you have a 50 a 250 500 a thousand and if you go around you can see what you're supposed to do at those hours so now you may be wondering why are we not actually running the piece of equipment on the job but everything that I'm showing you now and coming up in the next few minutes is signs of a good operator this is what's going to impress a company if you go to work for one and if you go to buy a piece of equipment the little things that you're going to see next are going to keep it running long term so make sure you pay attention to this stuff it may not be the most exciting but I think it's some of the most important show us where do we check the different fluids and what they are like about your machine okay he just said something that was pretty critical think about your machine when you open starting up in it you can check stuff like your windshield washer fluid that's a visual as you can see you're gonna enter the engine compartment where you can pull the dipstick to check your OL but while you're going we try to put stuff like that where you can see it as you're going also check your air filter we're right here typically on a Volvo the way we do our air filters you don't you don't open up the you never open up our air filter okay we have it to where the computer when it when it yet starts getting sub much restriction it will tell you at that time the air filter needs to be served so going into a lot of detail in this section of the video because I want you to be more than just the lever puller in fact thanks the Xbox and Playstation the younger generation is coming into the construction scene with eye-hand coordination giving them an edge when they first plop their butt into the piece of equipment in fact what I've noticed an experience by hiring some of the younger guys that they catch on much faster than I would have ever given them credit for but the problem is that doesn't make them a good equipment operator the first time a piece of equipment goes down or makes an odd noise they kind of look at you like a deer caught in headlights they have no clue what's going on and knowing you piece of equipment inside and out is a…