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Specialty and Custom Vehicles•Design, fabricate, and install vehicle brake systems, including procuring the required parts, making them if necessary. Such as changing brake systems from air to hydraulic, vacuum assist to hydraulic assist. Change trailer brake systems from air to hydraulic, or electric, or vise/ versa, or electric to hydraulic, including installing in cab controllers, along all associated plumbing and/or wiring.•Extensive electrical knowledge, wiring harness repair, harness design fabrication and installation, including complete vehicles, isolator installation, load requirements, alternator specification and install, inverter and inverter/charger specification and installation, battery and cable specification and installation, and generator installation and wiring.•Change engines from diesel to gasoline or vise/versa, propane to gasoline, carburetor to fuel injection (TBI and TPI), install turbochargers, and water/methanol or propane injector systems. Changed transmissions from manual to automatic and vise/versa. Along with all associated mounts, brackets, and accessories. •HVAC systems, such as OEM, after market, tie in, and second compressor. Including specification, design, and installation.•Additional skills include pneumatics, hydraulics, carpentries, metal fabrication (sheet and plate), some upholstery, and some body and paint.

• Repaired and maintained trams, buses, motor homes, trolleys, and electric vehicles. Making repairs as necessary and ordering parts as needed.• Worked with manufacturer of trams, buses, motor homes, trolleys to correct owner concerns, including recall, campaign, and warranty issues.• Refurbished units to customers needs, including, complete rebuilds, installing additional A/C, wheel chair lifts, change seats, and radios. Did research and recommendation as to materials and time requirements.• Worked solo in the shop doing all aspects of the operation, from write up, to parts, to final delivery, for two years until work load increased to warrant the hiring of an additional mechanic. • Performed on site repairs and installations to equipment at numerous customers’ locations across the United States.• Fielded phone calls for diagnosis’s, technical, and parts questions from around the world.

High School, Machine Trades

Learned all aspects of Metal Machining, including draft and design, blueprint reading, precision measurement, machine setup and operation.

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