A recall is an official fix for a problem that could make a car unsafe. If your car is affected, the company typically repairs it so it doesn’t break down or cause a bigger risk.
A fuel pump moves gasoline from the tank to the engine at the right pressure. If the fuel pump fails, the engine may not start, and the car can strand you—so it’s a common trigger for safety recalls.
Car
Chrysler products
They’re talking about Chrysler cars that had a recall related to the fuel pump. The idea is that the fuel system problem could make the car not start or break down.
A “safety issue” is a serious problem that could make driving dangerous. In this case, the fuel pump problem could stop the car from starting or leave you stranded.
Term
GM 6.2
“GM 6.2” is a GM engine that’s about 6.2 liters in size. The point here is that the engine had failures when the vehicles were still relatively new.
They’re saying the brake pedal goes down more than usual before the car starts slowing. That can indicate something wrong in how brake pressure is building or how the brakes are set up.
The master cylinder is the part that creates the pressure in the brake system when you press the pedal. If it’s not working right, your brakes can feel delayed or not respond normally.
The Ford Escape is a small SUV meant for daily driving. In the podcast context, it’s mentioned because some versions have had brake problems. If you’re considering one, it’s worth checking the brake system history and how it’s been maintained.
The ABS module is the computer/controller for the anti-lock brakes. If it’s not working, the car may not manage braking pressure correctly, which can affect how the brakes feel or perform.
The brake caliper is the clamp that squeezes the brake pads against the rotor to slow the car down. If it sticks, the brakes may not respond normally when you press the pedal.
Hydraulic pressure is the “push” created by brake fluid when you press the brake pedal. If the pressure doesn’t build or reach the wheels, the brakes won’t work consistently.
The host describes a step-by-step brake troubleshooting method. Instead of guessing, you measure brake fluid pressure and follow it through the system to find where it stops working.
Term
two stage process
They’re saying the brakes don’t always grab all four wheels at the exact same moment. Usually the front brakes start first, and the rear brakes join in after pressure builds.
A brake pressure gauge is a tool that measures how much “brake force” is actually being sent through the brake system. It helps a mechanic confirm whether the front and rear brakes are getting the right pressure.
Term
brake pedal bleed
Brake bleeding is the process of getting air out of the brake fluid lines. Air makes the brake pedal feel spongy, so bleeding helps the pedal feel solid and responsive.
A wheel cylinder is part of drum brakes. Brake fluid pressure makes it push the brake shoes outward so they press against the inside of the drum to slow the car.
This is when a shop replaces a bunch of brake parts together instead of only fixing one suspected problem. It can reduce repeat visits if the whole brake system is worn out or has fluid issues.
Brake pads and rotors are the parts that actually slow the car down by creating friction. When the pads press on the rotors, the car slows and the parts get hot.
The Ford Edge is a Ford SUV. The host is saying some Edge models have had brake problems that show up often enough that repair shops see them regularly.
The ABS pump is part of the car’s anti-lock brakes. When you brake hard, it helps control brake pressure so the wheels don’t lock up and you can still steer.
The host is talking about a repair strategy where shops swap out the entire brake system rather than fixing just the broken part. That can be more expensive, even if only one component is actually failing.
Concept
front brake vs rear weight shift
When you brake, weight shifts forward. On a bicycle that can make you tip over, but a car’s tires and suspension keep it stable even though the front end takes more load.
The Chrysler Town and Country is a minivan. Here, the problem is with the headlights, which can be caused by electrical parts and wiring, not just a burned-out bulb.
The Chrysler Town & Country is a minivan, which is a vehicle made to fit more passengers. The podcast mentions that an older one had headlight problems that would start and stop. If you’re dealing with or buying one, it’s important to check that the headlights work consistently and that the issue isn’t just temporary.
“Intermittent” means the problem comes and goes. That usually suggests an electrical connection or component that’s failing only under certain conditions, rather than something that’s totally dead all the time.
A relay fuse block is the car’s electrical “control box” for things like lights. If a relay or fuse there is bad or loose, the headlights can act up—like turning off even though the bulbs are fine.
It’s a small computer in the front of the car that helps control things like lights. When it fails, certain electrical features may stop working even if the bulbs themselves are fine.
Relays are like electrically controlled switches. The relay center is where those switches live, and if they fail, the car may not send power to the lights.
TIPM is a power box that controls fuses and relays for multiple electrical systems. If it has a problem, you can lose functions like headlights even when the bulbs are okay.
They’re saying this problem shows up on Dodge vehicles often enough that shops recognize the pattern. That helps with faster diagnosis and repair planning.
Modern cars have computers that talk to each other. If one computer can’t “reach” the others and the wiring is verified, the computer/module itself may be the problem.
A headlight module is the electronic control unit that manages functions like turning the lights on, controlling beam behavior, and coordinating features such as auto leveling. If the module fails, it can trigger headlight issues even when the bulbs themselves aren’t the root cause.
Auto leveling headlights automatically aim the beams so they don’t point too high or too low when the car is loaded. If the control module for that system fails, the headlights can behave incorrectly.
HID headlights are a type of headlight that creates light using an electrical arc. Because they use special control parts, a problem with the headlight module can cause the lights to act up.
Cylinders are the engine’s inside chambers where the combustion happens. Adding oil there can help protect the engine when it’s been sitting for a long time.
JB 80 is a type of oil/lubricant spray. Here it’s suggested to coat the inside of the engine cylinders so the engine isn’t dry when you try to turn it.
“Rings” here refers to piston rings, which seal the combustion gases and help control oil on the cylinder walls. After long storage, rings can stick from varnish/corrosion; oil soaking can help loosen them enough to rotate the engine safely.
Term
penetrate
Here, “penetrate” means the oil soaks into the engine’s internal surfaces. Letting it sit gives the oil time to reach the parts that need lubrication.
The front balancer is a front-of-engine part connected to the crankshaft. Turning it by hand is a safer way to see if the engine can move before trying to start it.
Pistons are the parts inside the engine that move up and down in each cylinder. Moving them by hand helps you see if the engine is stuck or if there’s rust or binding.
A bore scope is like a tiny camera on a flexible stick. It lets you look inside an engine area to see if there’s rust or damage before you spend money fixing it.
The fuel tank is where the gas is stored. If the car has been sitting, the old fuel can cause problems, so cleaning the tank can help the engine run better.
To “crank” the car means trying to start it by turning the engine over using the battery. It’s a basic check to see if the engine will spin and act normally.
A carburetor is an older-style fuel system part that mixes fuel with air. If the fuel hasn’t reached it yet, the engine may crank for a while before it can actually start.
The starter is an electric motor that can overheat if it’s cranked too long. Pausing to let it cool helps prevent starter damage and improves the odds of a successful start on older vehicles.
Oil pressure is how well the engine’s oil is being pumped around. You want it to build up before starting so the engine parts get lubrication right away.
These are older ignition parts that help create the spark to start the engine. If they’re worn or corroded, the spark can be unreliable, so the engine may not start well.
Term
recheck all those fluids
After running the engine briefly, you should check fluid levels again. This helps catch leaks or low levels before they turn into bigger problems.
ZDDP is a chemical added to some engine oils to help prevent wear inside the engine. It’s particularly important for certain cam/lifter designs that rub a lot.
A solid lifter cam is a valve-train design where the lifters don’t self-adjust like some modern systems. That means it needs the right oil protection to keep the cam and lifters from wearing out quickly.
A lifter additive is something you mix into the oil to help protect the parts that open and close the engine valves. Here, it’s used to add extra anti-wear protection for a solid-lifter setup.
Joe Gibbs racing oil is an oil brand that’s made for performance engines. The point here is that it includes zinc-based anti-wear protection that helps protect certain cam and lifter designs.
Electronic seats are seats that move using motors, and they can remember settings for different drivers. If the battery was changed, the car may need to “re-learn” the seat settings so it behaves normally again.
Disconnecting the battery is like power-cycling the car’s electronics. It can fix weird behavior after a battery change because the car’s computers restart cleanly.
A jump pack is a portable battery that can keep power on while you’re changing the car’s battery. That helps the car’s electronics stay “awake” so they don’t get confused afterward.
A fuse box is where the car keeps safety devices that protect electrical circuits. If something overloads, the fuse is supposed to blow instead of damaging wiring or modules.
A battery post is the metal terminal on top of the battery where the cables clamp on. Getting the connections right helps prevent shorts and protects the car’s electronics.
An arc is like an electrical spark that can jump when wires accidentally touch metal. When changing a battery, you want to avoid that spark to prevent damage and keep it safe.
CAN bus is the car’s internal messaging system. It’s how different computers in the car share information—if the messages get messed up, resetting can sometimes fix weird behavior.
Controller area network is just the formal name for the car’s communication system. It helps the car’s different computers work together instead of acting independently.
Cars have computers that remember settings and error codes. Resetting/clearing that memory can sometimes fix strange behavior when the car’s computers got confused.
A battery maintainer is a device that keeps your car battery charged when the car isn’t being driven. It’s meant to prevent the battery from going dead.
The OBD2 port is where a mechanic plugs in a scanner to read your car’s computer. Some cars also provide power there, which can help keep settings from resetting during a battery change.
Cars run on a 12-volt electrical system. If you power something from the OBD2 port, it may only be able to handle a small amount of current before a fuse blows.
A 3-amp fuse is a safety device that breaks the circuit if you pull too much power. If you use the OBD2 power and turn on bigger electrical loads, that small fuse can blow.
A vacuum pump pulls air (and some moisture) out of the AC system before refrigerant is added. That helps the system work correctly and reduces the chance of problems later.
An AC recharge means adding refrigerant so the car’s air conditioning can cool again. If there’s a leak, the refrigerant will run out quickly, so the shop usually has to fix the leak or replace the leaking parts too.
A refrigerant leak means the AC fluid is escaping somewhere in the system. If it leaks, the AC won’t stay charged, so it can stop cooling again right after a recharge.
A Schrader valve is the same kind of valve you’d see on a tire. It has a small removable core that lets a shop connect a hose to add refrigerant and also helps keep it sealed when you’re not connected.
An oil change is when the old engine oil is drained and replaced with fresh oil. The host mentions it as a good time to also check whether your car has any recall repairs.
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I, Doug answers them, lets me know what's happening.
Then I just flip the switch and then now,
it's all on you today to answer the questions.
So get on that.
866-594-4150.
866-594-4150.
Got a couple calls coming in.
Anything breaking news that we need to get to?
No, not really.
I was looking at recalls before I came in
and there's just a million.
It's just, it's endless now.
Is it because-
There's a lot of cars.
I'm going to look for them.
Is it always been?
Yeah, there's been a lot, but there's so many cars
and so many models now.
They've changed.
I would imagine that there's recalls
that aren't necessarily crucial,
that I can see if I search for them.
So it seems like there's a lot.
I wonder if that has something to do with it.
Just the availability of the information.
Recalls, on recalls, on the same recall again.
And then there's-
Been there and done that.
There's a lot of those weird recalls where we'll see.
We've seen recalls for fuel pumps on some Chrysler products
because they could be a safety issue
and leave you stranded, right?
Mm-hmm.
We don't want your fuel pump just failing
and you're not being able to start your car or breaking down.
And that just goes to show that a lot of those are,
some of them are politically driven to get them out there.
And for whatever reason, some judge rules in favor
and says, oh, that's a safety thing
because you have other vehicles with known failures
and they just say, oh, sorry, you're 40,000 miles.
Well, take the GM 6.2 in the beginning
when those things had 60,000 miles on them
and they failed and they were only two years old.
They said, oh, tough luck.
And those could literally blow up going down the road
and leave you stranded or stuck in traffic where it was dangerous.
But a caravan with 300,000 miles and a bad fuel pump,
they were covering those.
I think they're still doing it on some of them.
It's a weird deal.
So yeah, there's a lot of recalls out there
and more coming, I'm sure.
866-594-4150.
Let's talk to Harold.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Harold in Minnesota, what can we do for you?
I've got a 20, 10, four to escape with a three liter engine.
And I'm having great problems.
I don't have a light showing,
but the pedals suddenly got strange.
When you step on it, where it normally is breaking,
you can feel it start to break.
And then it goes down about two inches more
before the brakes come on.
I've had it in two shops.
The one shop replaced the master cylinder twice
and adjusted the rear brakes because it's got the drum brakes.
No change.
Now the shop looked at it and said,
I'm not sure I'm going to have to think about it,
but I would like to get back to you.
But it seems like nobody knows what's going on.
Yeah, that's a pretty common one on some of the Ford products,
the Fusion, the Escape.
They've had some issues with brakes that they've had problems
with brake boosters, which can lead to a weird pedal feel,
but they've also had some pressure related issues
in the way of either a master cylinder failure
and ABS module failure
or a brake caliper or hose failure.
All those things have to work together
and you just have to start at one end with a pressure gauge
and work your way down.
For example, if you've got a brake caliper that is stuck
and it is not allowing it to.
When you step on the brake fluid goes towards the caliper,
the caliper doesn't grab the wheel like it's supposed to.
So then you let the pedal up and when you hit it again
as a second time, the fluid displacement is different.
But it needs to like a hydraulic jack.
It needs to display so much fluid for the master cylinder
and have it all reach those calipers.
And then when you let off, it pulls it back.
And if that doesn't have a constant movement,
it will get all wonky.
So they need to start at the beginning.
Put what's that?
I say when they were checking and had down the hoist.
They had someone inside and we're spinning.
The wheels and as soon as it began to feel a little bit
on the brakes, it grabbed the front wheels, not the back.
The back didn't come on until it was where the normal feel is.
You can feel being hard.
That's the way it's supposed to be.
The front goes first and then the back and it's a two stage process.
But on the hoist is much different than on the road
because if you if you're stepping on it, you can start to feel those brakes apply.
But you can't turn them by hand.
When you're on the road, you've got a thousand times more force with that.
You know, you got a 4000 pound car and you're moving forward
at 30 miles an hour, so it may not do anything going down the road
other than feel a little bump.
What what is typically done to know for sure what is going on is to get a break
pressure gauge and that screws into the master cylinder.
Usually they'll get two of them, one for the front, rear,
and they'll check what the pressures are and say, OK, we've got 4000
pounds of pressure here and then they'll move down to the ABS pump.
They'll check that.
Do we have the same pressure there and then they'll go out to each wheel
and make sure we have the same pressure at each wheel.
And they may even have to put a block off stop on each wheel, each caliper
and on the on the rear to make sure you have a solid pedal.
And if they do and they've gone all the way down to the wheels,
it's one of those wheel cylinders or or the calipers.
So it's it's a long process.
A lot of shops don't have all the equipment to do that.
And a lot of shops just don't do that.
They they look at the normal, easy stuff, correct, perfect repair.
But there are some places such as California and so a few other states
that have there's a reason in our labor guide, we have what they call
a complete brake system replacement operation.
There's a time and it says pads and rotors this time, master cylinder
this time, complete brake system this time.
Well, why would they put it in there if it wasn't done in some places?
So some of them, instead of wasting a lot of time trying to find out what's
wrong with it, you get out in California, like some shops will say, we'll do a
brake job and a brake job is rotors, pads, brake shoes in the back,
wheel cylinders in the back, brake hoses in the back, brake hoses in the front,
calipers in the front and a master cylinder, the whole system.
Anything that is aware item or has fluid in it gets replaced and they bleed
the brakes and fix it.
And sometimes it's less expensive than you think it is.
But when you're doing it all together, it's easier than trying
to figure out if you make three trips back trying to fix the same thing
and they're spending hours on it.
It would have been easier just to nail in the first place, but your vehicle
and some of the other fords, the fusion and things in the edge, they've been known
for some weird stuff that comes up like this.
And we've seen them fixed with any of the things we mentioned, either a
caliper that's bad, a brake hose that's bad or a master cylinder or an ABS pump.
It's so for Harold, what is there a break?
Can you take it to a break shop?
Is there someplace he can?
There's not a lot of break only shops out there anymore.
The dealer should be able to take care of it because they're stuck with fixing
a lot of these.
They may want to replace the system, which is pretty, pretty common on these
when they start going bad.
A lot of shops just say, no, we'll replace the whole thing because we're not
going to get in once you say you've had this problem already.
They'll be like, we can fix it.
We'll replace the system.
Harold, good luck.
Thanks very much for the call.
In my experience of controlling brakes, if I use the front brake, I flip the
bike.
So why doesn't that happen in my car?
It's heavier in the back.
Okay.
I'm glad that there's just one pedal in my car because when I first started
riding motorcycles, I would wear out that back brake and lose control because I
was so afraid to hit that front brake.
I think every kid's flipped over on a bicycle at least once.
Oh, yeah.
What happens if I do this?
866594415 oh, that's the number to
reach us here at the end of the hood show.
Let's go to Nebraska and talk to Tom.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Tom, what can we do for you?
I've got an old floor Chrysler town and country.
Headlight problems started out intermittent and it just keeps getting worse
and worse and worse.
When my wife drives it most of the time at night, she has no headlights.
Hmm.
How are you operating them?
I mean, are you automatic?
Automatic.
I fiddle and rattle and around the relay fuse block under the hood.
Sometimes I get under the hood.
I went and looked at the, uh, the plate up there.
It says what all the relays for.
And to me, it looks like it's in a code.
It's just letters that has nothing to do with headlights or anything like that.
It is.
So, um, you've got, whether it's in the automatic position or just manually
turned on all the time, you sometimes you don't have them, right?
Can't do anything to get them to come on.
Uh, it mo, uh, almost all the time now in automatic, no headlights.
Occasionally I can get them to work in the manual position.
Okay.
And, uh, when they're not working, if you hold that turn signal switch back
towards you for the bright lights to flash to pass, do those come on?
I don't remember now.
Well, you can check and see if they, if they do, if, it tells you
you have power and ground out there, but that van has, uh, they have been
known for problems with the front control module, which is that relay center
there that you're messing with.
There's a module in there.
Okay.
Okay.
And it's, um, right.
Totally integrated power module.
They call it.
It's been a big, a big issue.
Dorman products sells those parts in our partner over at Dorman.
We've replaced a number of those over the years because of this issue on, on Dodge
products and a shop can diagnose it and check it for you and tip them.
That's the one totally.
It took me that long to, took me that long to figure out that acronym.
And you can, you know, you can take it in, they can scan it, look for codes, but
if it's got loss of communication codes and they verify all the wiring to, to
it is correct, then more than likely that unit has just failed and it's, it
needs to be replaced as failed then it could, could be.
You'd need to have a shop check it and, and find out what's going on and put
one in if that's what it needs to be doing.
It's, it's, it's not just a relay or something like that then.
No, not, not with what you're describing, because it's a couple of
different power sources there for it to fail in those positions.
It's got to be something bigger.
We, Russ, you and I have, have, I know that I've been involved with two vehicles
that have had light loss.
One was the, the loner.
On the road.
What was Oscar's car did that for a while and that got fixed.
What was that one?
That was, uh, he had a bad headlight module in that.
To control the headlights.
Yeah, and it was in the, in the headlight unit, but it controlled both sides.
Right.
The driver's side controlled both sides because he had the auto leveling
headlights and it was also control of the headlights themselves.
So when they turn on, cause they were the, the HID lights.
So we had to replace that.
We replaced the whole headlight and that took care of the problem.
Yeah.
And the other one just didn't be driving down the road and all the lights
would go off the headlights, which was bad and it would heat up and when it
heated up enough, the resistance would tell that thing shut downs of the
circuit breaker and it would shut off and they would be off for a while.
And I had a few cars over a short period of a couple of years that had
headlights that would just shut off.
And that was a scary three in the morning going to work.
Tom, thanks very much for the call.
Good luck.
That's a scary, scary problem.
866 and important to fix 866594
415
Oh, let's go to Kansas and talk to Ken.
You're on the end of the hood.
Show Ken, what can we do for you?
Got a 62 Chevy that's been parked in the garage for the last 22 years.
Wanted to see what your thoughts, what steps should be taken to get that back on the road.
Pick up.
Yeah.
Car or truck?
Uh, car.
All right.
Well.
It may, it may take less than you think the first thing is, uh, we look them over safety
wise, make sure that rodents haven't eaten anything wiring, fuel lines.
We'll look at the rubber fuel lines and give them a bend, pretty good bend and see if
there's any big cracks or anything like that in them.
And, uh, if we don't see anything, if they all look good, I guess the question to
start, how many years, 10 or 22.
I miss that.
So we will, you know, do, do that.
Just a quick thing, just to see if the car's worth going any further with, we'll
kind of do a quick evaluation tires, things like that.
And of course we're going to see if the engine even turns over because if we can't
turn that engine by hand, um, there's, there's a problem.
The first step before even trying that, you know, you open the hood, the first step,
I would pull the spark plugs out of it all the way around and I would, I would
spray into the, into the cylinders, get yourself a spray.
If you've got a can of JB 80 from Justice Brothers or, uh, or something like that,
you know, spray in the cylinders to get them coated with some oil.
Cause a little, little too much isn't really going to hurt much, but just
sprayed in there, sprayed around with the straw, get it on the, on the sides of the
cylinder, and then I would let it sit really at 22 years.
I'd really let that thing sit a week because that's not going to hurt it.
And that'll allow that oil to penetrate and get down in those rings.
And then I would grab that front balancer by hand with some gloves on so you can
get a good grip on it and try to.
Yeah.
Cause if you're just trying it bare handed, you might not be able to turn it, but
that might not be, it's just not quite enough.
It's like opening a jar of pickles.
You know, you can't do it.
You put the gloves on all of a sudden you got it.
But yeah, just grab it, try to turn it back and forth each way, just a little
bit and see if it moves.
And if it, if it does go one way and then goes the other, turn it a little bit
further that one direction and then turn it back the other way a little bit.
But what you're trying to do is work the pistons up and down a little at a time.
So if there is any kind of rust in there, you know, if you have a bore scope,
you can look in there and you're, then it's all over, you know, it's either
good or bad, but if, if you're just doing it at home without that, just try to,
try to turn that thing over.
And once you get it moving good and you can turn it over by hand several
times, that's a, at the point where I would put new spark plugs in it.
I would make sure the 10, I had 22 years.
I'm going to take the fuel tank off, take the fuel tank down to a radiator shop
where they can clean it out thoroughly.
You're going to have to dispose of the gas in it first.
They might be able to do that.
You just call them and find out if they can.
But a good radiator shop will be able to, and they're hard to find now.
There's not many of them around except for the big diesel ones and clean that
tank out very well, put it back on, then crank the car over with a battery.
It's, it's going to crank long enough because you don't have any fuel up at
the carburetor yet.
It's all back in that tank.
It's going to take a while for it to get up there and you'll probably crank it
for about 30 seconds and then stop and let that starter cool for 10 minutes or
so crank it again.
Now this is going to do a couple of things.
It's going to get the engine to build oil pressure while you're doing that before
it starts and it's also going to get the fuel up that line.
And by the time it gets all the way up there to that carburetor, then you'll,
you'll know if it's going to start or not.
If it's still, does this still have points and condenser in it, the old style?
Yes.
Yeah.
Then, you know, those are old unless they look like brand new.
If you take the cap off and look and the points look like brand new, just leave them.
No sense in replacing them.
But if they're corroded and they've got some, you know, pitting or something in
from age, get a new set of points and condensers, probably 40 bucks.
Advanced auto parts still sells a lot of classic car stuff.
So go there and pick those up and then just crank it.
Once you get that, you know, if your fluid's full, of course, your, your engine
oil and, and, uh, antifreeze and, and your transmission fluid and run it.
We suggest running it for just a few minutes.
Once it cranks 23 minutes tops and then recheck all those fluids again and
then started up again and run it till it's warm and then take a look at those fluids
after you've had it good and warm and run it for, you know, 20, 30 minutes, I would
change the coolant in it because of the, the age and the metals it'll pick up and
the engine oil and oil filter and then it's running.
So now is the time to go through and check all your breaks, check the fluid.
Don't roll it till you check to make sure they're solid and all that.
But as far as getting it going, we don't want to do any damage to something that's
already there.
So first thing to do is get some lubricant in those cylinders, wait a week and then
try to turn it by hand.
Awesome.
Okay.
Hold on a second, Ken, before you go anywhere, 62, that's a classic.
It's white.
I was, uh, um, Doug, do you want to guess on this one?
You can type that in.
I'm going to go, go further than this.
I'm, I was going to say white.
I'm going to say it's off-white or cream.
That's the original.
Yeah, bright white.
Okay.
Green.
Doug says green.
Ken, what color was the car originally?
It's Roman red.
It's a 327, 340 horse, all blifters.
Oh, then you've got it before you, before you changed the oil.
22 years ago, you had been fine.
But when you changed the oil this time, you absolutely must put a lifter
additive in there that contains ZDDP or you will destroy that solid lifter cam.
It has to be put in there when you put the oil in it.
Your other alternative is something like Joe Gibbs racing oil or one of those
that contains the zinc because those solid lifter cams, they will be destroyed.
I just saved his car with that question.
You did.
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and I love that thing. I worked my coat. I should have worn my hoodie. I wear my hoodie a lot.
Oh my gosh. I was wearing one of my hoodies that is lettered up with BerkeleyOneClassics.
I call it my best one, because it's, well, it's my nicest one. I mean, yeah, it says BerkeleyOne,
but I mean, it is my nicest one. And I realized I was wearing it, and I was painting my truck,
right? Oh yeah, yeah, I saw that. You put an inflatable booth up. Yeah, so I'm painting my
truck, and I've got my hoodie on under my paint suit, and the paint suit was keeping me pretty
unpainted. It was pretty cool. And at one point, I got this. A picture of your paint suit being
like a suit painted on like you're in sports illustrated. Yeah, no. Okay. They're probably,
I've seen some pretty cool ones out there. They look like a tuxedo paint suit in their
disposable. So at this one place, I get this, this piece of grass blew into my paint, right?
I would open the door, and it was like, I have seconds to get this piece of grass out and hit
it with my gun real quick to level it back out, or I'm going to be waiting for it to cure a few
days and sanding and so, so I'm like, what do I do? I don't have, there's no rag. There's nothing.
So I'm like, okay. And I, I would have had to run into the house. I didn't have, I was like,
I don't have any rags for this in the shop. So I'm like, I'll just use my hoodie, you know? So
I'm like, can't use a paint suit because it's a different kind of shirt. So I, so I was like,
unzip the top and I pull this hoodie off real quick. And I grabbed the corner. I'm just going to
just use the sleeve and get it out of there real quick. You couldn't do it. And as soon as I did
that, I went, that's my, my good hoodie. What's going on? So, so I throw that away and I grabbed
my shirt and I'm like, I got it. And I'm like, oh boy. And then I hit it with some more paint.
And I'm like, that's going to run. No, to blow on a little bit. Perfect. And I was like, just got
lucky. My, my favorite hoodie is the, it's in a, it's one of the originals. Is it a gray one?
It's like a light brown. Yeah. It's like a, like a wine color. And it's real thin and
threadbare and it's got some holes and stuff. And it's, it's my favorite article of clothing,
I think it's too big. It's just, it's wonderful. I wish we could sell those. I wish we could sell
30 year old hoodies because they'd, would they be in the vintage store? It's the greatest.
Let's talk to Alan. You're on the end of the hood show. Alan, what can we do for you?
Yeah. Thank you for taking my call. You bet. I've, I've got a 2016
beauton clave and it seemed to be running fine. Except one day when I went out to start it,
it was a little hard starting and the battery was about four years old. So I figured it was
probably time to change the battery out. So I took it up to the place that I used
for my service on my vehicle and I asked them to replace the battery, which they did.
But once they replaced it, they're going haywire.
I, I have these electronic seats and I can program them for two different drivers.
Right. And that no longer work. My air conditioner in the back, back into the car would
automatically kick on at will. My CD would automatically start playing when I didn't
even have the system on. So I guess my curiosity is, is there something that they might have
done when they put that battery in or something that happened when that put that battery in?
Or is it the fact of the matter that maybe the computer system was getting ready to go?
And most importantly for you, Alan, is there an easy way to fix this? Right.
There you go. Yeah. You don't want it to be burned out module. You want to be able to go
unhook it for five minutes and then hook it back up. That's what you want.
That's my first thought, Chris. Unhook what? Unhook that battery. Disconnect that battery for
about 10 minutes. Then hook it back up. Go out right now. Yep. Then hook it back up. Make sure
the doors are open. One of them when you do this, because they may lock when you hook the battery
back up. Okay. You know, if you're, if you're doing one, this is inside. You know, if you got one
that's under the hood, you, I've had that happen. You hook the battery up and click and you're like,
Oh, really? Get the thing out. I think my bad. I think they said my battery's under one of the
underneath the seat or wherever it's on the floor in the back. So yeah, you, I would do that first
because it sounds like the module may just be, it may just be confused. It may have been a
disconnected hook back up and it had a little bit of power and it just, it wasn't completely dead
yet. Once the battery was disconnected. That is why in our shop, when we change a battery,
I always like to keep the car powered. I take my battery jump pack and I hook one end to the
ground on the car, not to the cable of the battery, but like to the engine block, hook that up solid.
Right. And then I take myself a little bitty. I've got a wire with an alligator clip on both ends
and I clip one on the other end of the jump pack that's still hooked to my jump pack. Right. And
I put the other end on the red battery post on the fuse box there, the little, little, and then I
change the battery because then I have power. You got to be very careful that you don't arc
something to ground from the positive when you're doing the change of the battery, but
it keeps the vehicle powered enough that you don't lose any memories. And that's been going on for
50 years. People, you know, trying to save radio presets in, in cars when they, you know, in the
70s or whatever late 70s, when they first came out with some digital stuff, people like, well,
how do I keep those? They were worried about just their radio was all they had back then or their
clock. But what can happen if you power down a computer, a computer may work perfectly fine
until it's shut off. And when you shut it off and restarted, it may not restart again. Imagine a car
that you start up and then while it's running, you remove the starter from the vehicle. As long
as you never shut it off, it's going to operate perfectly. But the second you turn that key off,
you'll never be able to start it again, because the starter is gone. Same thing with computers,
you shut down a computer. If something has failed in that system, and it can no longer
boot up again properly, it can be all sorts of wacky like yours is acting, but you have more
than one system there. There's not one system that ties all of that together. So I think you have
more than one item corrupt on there. Something's going through the CAN bus, which is the controller
area network, which is basically saying it's like computer cables, cable TV for your whole car.
They talk to each other. They're not talking right. And I think that maybe just clearing the
memory out and letting it forget what was the problem and starting over with a baseline,
it may take care of your whole issue. Now, do I hook both sides of the battery?
No, either one, negative or positive. We usually unhook the negative. If you're taking the negative
off first, here's why they say that. People ask, why do they always say negative? Because if you
put a wrench on the negative and it slips and you touch that, you know, it to the metal of the car
while you're taking the negative off, it's not going to spark because that's where it's grounded
to. But if you're on the positive side, loosening that up and you move your wrench and hit the metal,
poof. And that's bad. So take either one off you like. I'd take the negative off and just
leave it off for 10 minutes. It'll be completely dead at that point. Alan, thanks very much for
the call. Good luck. That leads to a question I've had recently, battery maintainer. I'm
hooking it up, taking it off. What's my order? It didn't matter. Okay. That's what I thought.
Because you're not going to be hooking it to the car. And it's smart. I mean, when they touch,
it doesn't do anything. Right. Okay. Jumper cables is a whole different story. And now they have
smart jumper cables, which don't turn on unless one's good and one's bad. Well, that's my jump pack
too. I bought a new jump pack and that just says, I just hook them up. It's dead until it won't do
anything until it sees the right connection. I still got a rugged geek and that thing is still
operating. Me too. Crazy, isn't it? 866-594-4150. Let's talk to Jeff. You're on the end of the
hood show, Jeff. What can we do for you? Yeah, I was picking up on what Russ was talking about
while they do a battery change. They hook up that way. I was wondering if I've got a cord
that goes to the OBD and it's got like a cigarette plug into it. And I plug it into my battery pack
and that's how I keep the memory and stuff alive. Is that doing it that way as well? Yeah.
That's got a power. There is a 12-volt power source in that OBD2 port and you can do it that way
or a cigarette lighter if it doesn't have a one-way diode built into it. They do make one for the
cigarette lighter, but you just got to make sure you don't turn anything on in that car
while you're doing that because that is so small of a wire and a small. Some of those,
that power wire is protected by a 3-amp fuse, which is super small. So if you were to hook your
battery pack to the OBD2 port and then open your door, the dome lights probably are going to be
close to that, but maybe not. But definitely anything more than that. Turning the headlights
on, brake lights, turning the ignition switch on, you're going to blow that fuse and then you're
going to lose that power. And then people say, well, I put a battery in, but now I don't have,
I can't scan the car anymore. What's going on? Well, you don't have your voltage there anymore
because that fuse is blown. So in Jeff's case, it does work. Just be careful with it. Right.
Jeff, thanks very much for the call. 866-594-4150. That's the number to reach us here at the end
of the hood show. You were talking earlier about borescopes and putting a borescope down there
to make sure. Love the borescope. Here's the thing. Workable, usable borescopes now are,
you can find a decent one for $8 or $9. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a shop can buy one for $300. That is
amazing. Top of the line. Yeah. It takes pictures, takes video.
You can swallow it and look at your gallstones. I mean, it's amazing.
I think it's so hot though. I know. We got to turn the light off. I got one during some
flashes at like prime day or one of them. I just saw something pop up. It was like $12 and it
extends out, I think, 12 feet. It's got a light controllable at the end. It's got a focus and
I don't have anything to use for, although I do have, we have something going on.
We have something going on under our steps with raccoon. Not sure. Not sure. Something.
We get visitors in the night. The cats in the neighborhood. We've had possums on our front
steps for raccoons. There's something going on under the steps and this spring, I have the scope,
but we also, this spring for the first time, have snakes in our yard. So I'm afraid to use it.
I don't want to see what's under the steps. I'm too scared to put that scope under there.
But there's, there's no poison in snakes where we live.
No. No, I'm. So snakes don't bother you if they're not poison.
They don't bother me at all in the abstract. Like I'm not afraid of snakes at all.
But they do. We just have this tendency in our brain to run from a snake when it's there.
If you said there's a snake over there, can you go get it for me and get rid of it? I'd say yes,
but when I got close, I couldn't do it. So they've got a, right now it's the prime season for snakes
down in East Texas or in front of spring coming up and they have poisonous snakes,
but they have more non-poisonous snakes that accidentally get killed because they eat a lot
of stuff that you don't want running around on there. They have one called a diamond back water
snake and it looks like a cotton mouth and it's a big snake, but you could pick it up.
It won't hurt you. It might try to chew on your arm, but it doesn't have to eat the bite you,
you know, but a lot of those get killed. The only way to tell them apart from the cotton
mouth basically is looking down on top. The diamond back water snake has bug eyes like
a, like those pugs, like the dogs. They stick up like a frog on the top and the cotton mouth,
you can't see the eyes on top. So you, you got to run. So I've seen people like, oh, look, let's
pick that up. No. What do you think? It's so snakes, not, not my thing. My wife, she pick them up.
She didn't care what it is. I love snakes. So my daughter's got a pet store. They have snakes
and my wife is like, can I hold it? Like, I don't want to hold that thing.
Yeah. That is nuts. I would say a yes. I'll hold it. But then once it comes time, I'd be like,
I'm going to go out. I'm going to go outside. We have found so many things in cars here. I'm
glad we're not in the south for a car working on because here we found, you know, big spiders and
all sorts of weird stuff. Cats under hoods, but down south, you get a car that hadn't run for a
year and they tow it in. You're working on it. You got a tarantula up under the dash or
snakes and scorpions. Yeah. No good. No good.
I was just thinking of my brother worked at a grocery store when he was a kid and they would get
the crates of fruit in their beat. He brought one home once. He brought a tarantula home
that was in the, and I was like, what are you doing? What? Don't, don't, what?
Okay. Let's go to Kansas and talk to Bradley. You're on the end of the hood show. Bradley,
what can we do for you? Oh, 99 Ford cars air conditioning. I put a,
one of them do it yourself, refill cans on. Okay. And then, and then when I took it off,
it just seemed like everything came back out. It just air, just air and everything just came
back out. About the same hole you put it in, it came back out that hole. Right. Yeah. Okay. So
that's, that's really common. When I've got a system that comes in and I connect my gauges to it
and I see that it's empty, but I need to do a recharge on it first to see what's wrong with
the system to save myself time because it always gets me. I will verify there's no pressure in it
first and that with my gauges, but then I'm going to unscrew the valve core, which is in there. It's
like a tire core unscrew it, throw it away. I put a new one in there. It's a $2 part, $1 to $2.
I put a new one in before I recharge it because so many times, Bradley, I vacuumed it down
for an hour. I've recharged it. I run it. It's perfect. I'm like, this is great. I'm ready to
send this one home. I'm calling the customer, telling them, you can come pick it up in 10 minutes.
I take that line off and it's leaking. I'm like, oh, really? So just replace them. So what you need
to do now with this car is you need to replace both valves, the low one that you used and the
high one, but then you're going to need to get a vacuum pump put on this to evacuate all the air
that's in the system. So shop's going to have to do that and then recharge it. Or just take it
into a shop and say, hey, I need a AC recharge. I use the can on it and it worked, but then it
all leaked out right away out that same hole. So can you put two new valves in there and do a recharge
on this? They'll be able to do that for you. But that's what's going on is you've got a leak.
Yeah. And there's no, there's not really a way for him to fix that at home, is there?
No, not at all. It's got to go into a shop. Bradley, why don't you stay on the line? We're
going to have producer Doug get you a hoodie because you've been, you've been a long time
loyal listener. Yeah, long, frequent caller over many, many years. Yeah. Let's talk about this
just for a second. The, because the valve you're talking about is like a tire valve,
a Schrader valve. That's exactly what it is. And what I remember when I learned this, I was amazed.
The little button that you push in there, the little thing you put the stem inside the stem,
there's the little button you push. You can hold with your finger and let a little layer out.
That is actually removable. You can put a tool inside. So the core is, so that is the valve.
Right. The valve is, the valve is the little button inside there. Right. So that is what,
like when you guys replace the, you're not replacing the threaded part, you're replacing the
inside part and that can get, we can go threaded like a tire on the outside. We're replacing
inside and they're quick connectors on the AC system. Yeah. And then, but you can, like,
there's a tool where you go in and you unscrew the little button inside when you're a kid. Yeah.
And pull that out and you, the screw, the outside. Did we all do that when we were kids? Take the
valve cores out and go back in. No, no, we didn't know that they came out. We thought it was one
big unit. I did. Yeah, you did. Maybe that's why I'm doing this show now, huh? My neighbor,
big Johnny, he, well, he would go, he'd take the little tool and he would unscrew it just enough
to let the air out and then you couldn't, it was like a prank he played. But I used to say,
listen, if we don't know that that's a prank, it's not really a prank. It really is just like
slashing somebody's tires. When I was, you know, that's not a prank. If no one knows it's a prank.
Full confession. When I was a very young kid, but driving, I went to a girl working at a restaurant
in a fast food place. I went to her car and made sure nobody was looking and I used my tire tool
and I just turned it enough to let the, and uh, yeah, I let the air out and I conveniently was
there at the, I asked her friend, what time should she get off work? Cause she's like,
I don't know. She didn't want to give me the time of day. So I got there and I saved the day.
I said, uh, what's that? She was probably right to, to steer you away. Yeah. So I, uh, I was just
having a bit, can I change your tire for you? Sure. So I changed the tire and then I took her
with me and we went down and put, tried to put air in the tire. I said, oh, it looks like your
valve core is leaking. Let me, I think I can fix that. And I did that and put the, put the tire
back on the car and all that and got her to go out one time, one time, took her, took her to
dinner. It was a very nice date. The whole bit got done with the date and I said, so any chance
we could do this again. And she says, uh, maybe if you had just asked me, I don't, instead of letting
the air out of my tire and I went, what? And she's like, that is not cool. Thanks for dinner. I was
like, oh no. Yeah. That's it, man. If it's a prank, it's like, you know, Tom's story, don't do it.
Tom Sawyer, where he pretends to be dead. That's fine. It's a funny prank unless the insurance
company pays out. Now it's a felony. Yeah. Yeah. 86659441
five, oh, what has caught your attention in the automotive world? What, what's sticking out there
for you? Man, so many of these backup camera things, more and of,
how can they all be bad? And they say, look like they're different companies making these, but
are they getting the one component that fails in them, whatever that we don't know what that is?
It's, it poxied into the board. Is that coming from, you know, one of those companies like the
airbag people? So they're all bad, but they're, they're a lot of them. So many are coming into
my shop and they're like, I backup, but hey, your backup camera doesn't work. Have you got the
recall done? What are you talking about? I know it's been out for a year. There's a recall on them.
Oh, I, I didn't get a notice. Well, let me print it out for you. And I printed when I'm,
when I'm doing an oil change or anything, it shows me active recalls on my screen.
So I just hit the print button that prints it out. So here you go. Take it in. The dealer
will give you a new one for free. If, if you're under that recall, right. And if they've got one
available, but there's a, there's, there are a lot of those going out and you don't need one
unless you had one. Right. Now you need one because you've had one. And if you depend on it
and you don't get, it's, it's, it can be a, yeah, I dicey in a car with that has one. I use both.
I'm looking in the camera and I'm looking to see if anybody's coming around and I'm constantly
looking at the camera as I'm looking, cause you never know what my cat runs on or whatever it is.
I notice that in the car that has one, I use both. I use the camera. I look out the windows.
I use my mirrors constantly. I'm very good at it. When I'm in the other car,
I look down at the stereo. There's no camera. So I kind of don't do all three things. Anyway,
I like, I realize I can't use all three things. So I don't use the other two that are available.
I notice my, my attention wandering, even though in the car with the camera, I use them all.
It is a weird thought to ignore when you don't have it all of a sudden.
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About this episode
Recalls, brake diagnostics, and electrical gremlins all show up as practical ways to avoid repeat trips and unnecessary spending. Hosts note “there's just a million” recalls, then connect safety issues like fuel-pump failures to real-world consequences. For brakes, they emphasize starting with a pressure gauge and tracing hydraulic pressure through the system, sometimes recommending a full brake-system approach. The show also covers headlight/TIPM problems, battery-swap electronics resets, and reviving long-stored engines with careful pre-start checks.
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