The Toyota Camry is a well-known car that many people drive. The 2003 version is part of a series that was made for several years and is known for being dependable and comfortable.
The ABS pump helps your car stop safely by making sure the wheels don't stop turning when you brake hard. This helps you keep control of the car while stopping.
The Dodge Grand Caravan is a family minivan that has lots of space for passengers and cargo. It's designed to be practical and comfortable for everyday use.
An EVAP problem happens when the system that keeps fuel vapors from leaking into the air isn't working right. This can cause warning lights and other issues with the car's performance.
A smoke test is a way to find leaks in a car's system by blowing smoke into it and seeing where the smoke comes out. It's a useful tool for finding problems.
Purge valves help manage the fuel vapors in the car, making sure they go to the engine when needed. If they don't work, it can cause problems with how the car runs.
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2010 Caravan
The 2010 Caravan is a minivan made by Chrysler. It's designed to be roomy and comfortable for families, making it a popular choice for those needing extra space.
The charcoal fuel vapor canister is a part of the car that helps keep fuel vapors from escaping into the air. It stores these vapors until they can be burned in the engine.
The leak detection pump is a small part that helps check for leaks in the fuel system. It makes sure that no fuel vapors are escaping into the environment.
The charcoal canister helps trap gas fumes from the fuel tank so they don't escape into the air. It's important for keeping the environment clean and ensuring your car runs well.
A solenoid is a small device that helps control the flow of liquids or gases in a car. It works like a switch that opens or closes to let things flow through.
The check engine light is a warning light on your car's dashboard. It tells you that something might be wrong with the engine or other important parts of the car.
Cold tires are tires that haven't warmed up yet. When it's cold outside, tires can feel hard and not grip the road well until they heat up from driving.
A flat spot on a tire happens when the tire gets squished while the car is parked for a long time. It can make the car shake when you start driving until the tire warms up and gets back to normal.
The transmission is what helps your car move by sending power from the engine to the wheels. It can change gears automatically or manually, depending on the type of car you have.
The transfer case helps control how power is sent to the wheels in vehicles that can drive all four wheels. It lets you switch between two-wheel and four-wheel drive, which is useful for different driving conditions.
All-wheel drive means that power goes to all four wheels of the car at the same time. This helps the car grip the road better, especially in rain or snow.
General Motors is a big car company that makes many different brands of cars, like Chevrolet and Cadillac. They are important in the car industry and often have news about their business and new cars.
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Steel wheels are a type of car wheel made from steel. They are usually heavier and very strong, making them a good choice for certain types of cars, especially in winter conditions.
The Pontiac GTO is a classic American car that became famous for being very fast and powerful. It's one of the first cars that made people really excited about muscle cars.
The Toyota Supra is a fast and stylish car that many people love for its speed and looks. It's been popular for a long time, especially among car enthusiasts and in movies, making it a cool car to talk about.
The Acura NSX is a really fast sports car that was made to compete with some of the best cars in the world. It's special because it combines great performance with the ability to be driven comfortably every day.
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a big, tough SUV that can handle rough roads and off-road adventures really well. People like it because it's built to last and can go almost anywhere.
The Jeep Cherokee is a smaller SUV that can go off-road and handle tough conditions. It's popular because it's good for both adventures and everyday driving.
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up and we can watch Chris get in the face of the microphone. I'm Chris Carter here to answer your
calls at 866-594-4150. We got calls coming in. We got calls going out. But quickly,
give me a minute of where you've been. You got to do the happy birthday, Mr. President.
And Russ was there also, but we went down to Birmingham, Alabama for the 82nd Annual Automotive
Recyclers Annual Convention and Expo. And at that convention, our company was proud. Our family was
proud as I was installed as the 79th president of that trade association that's been around,
I think since 1943. And it was a very, very fun weekend. We had a family there, had a big chunk
of our managers group there. And just like I said, a lot of pride for all of us involved for what
we've done out here in the middle of a cornfield in South Dakota to be able to have an opportunity
to lead the industry's biggest trade association into the next year. And this is part of a five
year commitment that I made to the organization to give back. There's so many people in that
organization that have helped us be who we are and what we are in different ways. And I've always
been one to ask a thousand questions when I meet somebody and I try to learn things. And now it's
time to reciprocate and give back to a lot of the people that are growing in the industry also.
So it's a big commitment, but I'm all up for it because it means a lot to me. And there's a lot
of really good people in the automotive recycling industry. And it's where some of my best friends
are that I get to see just a few times a year. And so it's pretty amazing. Congratulations.
Yeah, thank you. You bet. 866-594-4150. That's the number to reach us here at the end of the
hood show. Let's go to Louisiana and talk to Udro. Udro, you're on the end of the hood show.
What can we do for you? I have an 03 Camry. It's a rear brake question. That year Camry
is at least based on my experience and what I see online is notorious for a
pretty soft pedal. About 75,000 miles ago I replaced the brake booster and
I put a used master cylinder on there from Cortex Parts only because the fellow that was doing the
work was pretty adamant about aftermarket master cylinders not being that good from his experience
and OEM would be better. Of course OEM was just it was crazy expensive. So after hearing about
Cortex Parts from you guys, I took a shot and it seems to be working fine. The only problem
that I'm having really is the soft pedal which it's always been like that but
when I took it in a couple weeks ago to get the rear brakes adjusted,
my guy told me that when he went to bleed them that the fluid did not shoot out of
the air. When he was doing the adjustment to let the air did not shoot out with the pressure that
you're kind of used to seeing. It did come out but it didn't shoot out with the force that
he was expecting it to. So I'm just trying to get an idea if maybe the master cylinder
might be shot and that is affecting the not only the pressure when he went to bleed them
but that overall kind of soft disc pedal and it still stops fine and everything. I've been
driving it for so long. I'm used to it being different than any of my other cars but I'm
just curious about that pressure thing and all that. Quick question, just a recap. We heard
everything you said but I just want to ask and make sure I heard it correctly. The reason you
put the master cylinder on was that to get rid of the soft pedal to begin with or was that because
of another problem? Yeah, I didn't follow through on that. I put a new master cylinder on there
because the old one, the original, was leaking into the booster. There we go and then you know
out onto the ground and so my god, if I just put... No, that answers the question. That answers the
question. So your pedal feel now is you're saying similar to the pedal feel you had before you
replaced it? Honestly, it's always had a soft pedal from day one. So it's the same pretty much
as it was before you replaced it? Yeah, I didn't replace it. I didn't leave it. The replacement
didn't come from the soft pedal it came from. Okay. Seeing some spots in my carport. Oh no,
no, no, 100%. No, I was just trying to... That hasn't changed. No, I was just trying to nail down as if
the leaking master cylinder and now the replaced master cylinder, if you're having the same pedal
feel then as you do now. Yes. And you're saying yes.
It never adjusts. I also have a 2013 Corolla and when I get in there and drive it, the pedal is
so much different. Two different cars. Two different systems. Yeah, I want to let Russ talk about
what he would be analyzing. Well, if the brake pedal has been soft since you've owned this car,
since it was new and it was where it was supposed to be and you had a leak and now you fix the leak
and it's still the way it was, nothing's going to change. It's the way it is, but it's working.
As far as fluid that doesn't come out like it should, that's like taking a ballpoint pen and
pushing down the fuel valve on the fuel rail and then my customer telling me, well, I've got fuel
pressure. There's fuel coming out, but I check it with a gauge and I've got three pounds. That's
so the best way to do these things in the accurate way is these gauges have become so cheap. You can
go to Amazon and pick one up. Amazon is not a sponsor. I don't think they sponsor anybody,
by the way. So you can get a brake pressure gauge. You take the lines off the master cylinder,
you screw the gauge in there in the each one on each side and you see what the pressure is
and you compare that to the factory table. It's going to be a lot. If that's good, you know,
your master cylinder is perfect. Then you put the lines back in, you go down to the wheels and see
if you got pressure there. And if you do not have the correct pressure at all four wheels,
then you go back to the ABS pump and find out why fluid's not going through it or why you've got a
bent brake line somewhere, one that's kinked off. But it's probably operating normally now. If it's
the way it was before you got it, those cars, I wouldn't say they have a soft pedal, but they have
a lower pedal than what you would feel in a lot of Hondas, a lot of other Toyotas.
That's just the way they're designed. Now you do want to look if you've got weak braking at one
wheel, one of the four wheels, you need to find out what's going on with that. Like if you hit the
brakes and the ABS goes off on looser pavement because you've got more pressure to one wheel
than the other. But if it's still the same way it was before, if you're just trying to improve that
original feel, I don't think you're going to because most of those cars, like when we do a
brake job, I drive them before, I feel what they feel like, I drive them after, they feel just like
the other ones. Udral, thanks very much for the call. Good luck. 866-594-4150. That's the number
to reach us here at the end of the hood show. Let's go to Connecticut and talk to Richard.
You're on the end of the hood show. Richard, what can we do for you?
I have a 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan. I have an EVAP problem that I had a smoke test done,
I had a canister put in, the integrity valves, two or three put in, the purge valves,
and I can't find a leak. Is there anything else to check on this car that's driving me crazy?
Well, that can be a pesky one and I'm going to just make my normal assumption here that that
vehicle is running just fine and you have no other problems other than the pesky light that
won't go away. True. And so the smoke test they did, did not find anything seeping out anywhere?
Nothing, nothing so far and I had it done twice and I was wondering if there's anything on top of
gas tank that you can't really see in this car unless you drop the tank. Well, on a 2010 caravan,
I'm just trying to remember that system. If it has a remote charcoal fuel vapor canister,
I think it does. I don't think it's right on the tank. It does, it's separate. Yeah, and have you
say you did replace that or haven't replaced that? Well, they call that the integrity valve, right?
No, this would be the fuel vapor canister. Yeah, that little valve on there they call a leak
detection pump or a fuel integrity valve. That's the like the like the vent valve on the canister.
And but the actual can the actual canister itself could be just overwhelmed with the,
you know, as it absorbs the vapors or sometimes raw fuel if it gets kicked into the system.
It just can't breathe like it's supposed to and there's it puts a different amount of pressure
in the system that it's used to and that'll trigger that light because it's not functioning properly.
That's about the only thing you haven't replaced, it sounds like.
Where would that canister be? I replaced that whole charcoal system. Oh, you did push the
you call okay. That's the same thing. You already replaced that. Yeah, you'll need to
if you've replaced that with the valve and you've got a new fuel cap on it, you've done
everything you can do at home other than a smoke test. But he says he did one. They did one. Well,
they may not be doing it right or there may be something else going on in there. We use the
smoke test to find out do we have an and a pressure test because the smoke may not be going. You may
not see where it's going. It might be so small because that's a small leak. It's a very small
amount of vacuum or pressure that it's looking at. So if you it takes special tools because you need
a regulator to cut that down to two PSI. But if that's put on and it sees that it's leaking just
like you're charging a home AC system, they'll watch for a leak over a period of like an hour.
And if it leaks, they know there's a system leak and they got to find it typically on a van like
that replacing the canister with its valve replacing the purge valve up in the engine and
a fuel cap. One of those things is going to fix it. We don't know which one it is without testing,
but one of them is going to fix it. It may be that one of the parts you have is leaking or when
they put it together, one of the fittings is leaking a little bit, but it's definitely seen
that it has a leak. The other option would be that it has a problem with the computer and the
computer is saying there's a problem when there's really not. And how would you check that Russ just
by testing all the other things first with a physical gauge and the pressure gauges and then
checking the solenoids, making sure they're coming on. When you turn them on, you have flow. When
you turn them off, there's no flow. And if that's accurate, then yeah, because with a scanner,
you could command those valves and see if they're operating correctly. So yeah, it sounds like
you've probably spent, have you done this yourself or you've been spending money on it, Richard?
I've been spending money on it. How many dollars have you spent on chasing this peskyth problem?
About $600 already so far. Oh, I know what Chris's answer would have been if you had known it was
just a vent valve. What would your answer have been, Chris? Leave it. Try it. But that is,
but the problem is it covers up other codes sometimes. If your check engine lights on and
all of a sudden you get a secondary code and you don't notice it and there's something else going
on, that's not in the best interest of your paying attention to the details of your vehicle.
Is it there's nothing on top of the gas tank? Is there any sensors on the top
other than the fuel pump? I don't believe so. Has it had a fuel sending unit put in it in the last
whatever year or two? No, none whatsoever. I have owned the car for 14 years. It was a year
old when I bought it. In the past two years now, I can't get it through emissions. And how I get
it through emissions is I take the code off and I run it right down and I've been lucking out.
I guess I'm catching it in a cycle where it's not, the computer's not, how would you say,
going through the... Well, there's only, yeah, there's certain parameters when it makes that
test. And so we didn't say that on a national radio show no longer at all. So we're, we'll just,
we'll give the black men in light or men in black. You know what I'm trying to say.
Men in lights, sure. Yeah, we'll pray over your car. Good luck. Good luck. Mark in Massachusetts.
I don't want to say his name again. I would get a second opinion. 866-594-415. Men in black. There we go.
Yes. Let's talk to Mike here at the hood show. Mike, what can we do for you?
All right. Hey guys. I got a mystery vibration question. It's a 2015 BMC Afton Denali.
Fairly high miles, 185,000 miles. And it seems like it's directly proportional to temperature.
The colder it is in these mornings, the longer the vibration happens, as I'm driving it,
but it's only a few miles, right? Some cold start, get a few miles down the road. And the colder it
is, you know, it might be four or five miles, the warmer it is, not there or a mile or two,
and it goes away. Now, to give you a little background, I just put new tires on it. I put
some cheap tires on it in the middle of summer. And I didn't notice it until it started getting
cold. But I don't know if that's going to those that, you know, they did, I'm thinking maybe
my first thought was cold tires sits outside, you know, you have a flat spot on a lot of the
tires until they warm up and flex a little bit. And that would jive with the direct
proportional, the colder the temperature, the longer the vibration lasts. But I'm just wondering
if there's something else I should think about, like how many torque converter you enjoy? What
else could be... Well, with that many miles on the truck, you said 180, right?
That, it does open up other ideas and options, but the truck itself had been working good,
running good, smooth, and, you know, all its life, you haven't had problems or things you've had to
replace. Yeah, great, no check in your life, nothing, that's a pretty good truck. Well,
what we run across on some of these would be that tire, that the tire opportunity is something it
could be. And so you might just maybe, if you have an opportunity to get it inside, or when the
temperatures were warming up here in the next week, if you're in our area, see if that problem goes
away. Because if all of a sudden we have nights where it doesn't get down to the 30s like it has
been, and all of a sudden it's staying at 45 degrees overnight, and your problem goes away,
it could be an indication, but it could also be something else going on with
inside the torque, inside the transfer case. It could be something inside the transmission
with that cold temperature, but we don't want to worry about that quite yet. I think I'd want to rule
out the tire situation first. The good news is the cold has been like three days and now you got
the whole rest of the year ahead of you, so. Yeah. That's what I was thinking, I'm going to find out
here in a month or so. I've had vehicles like that before with tires on them that just when
they're, when they sit and it's cold, they'll vibrate a little bit until they get warmed up
and get going, but it's not super normal. I mean, usually they're pretty true and not a problem.
If it's cold, it's old and cold, it's tires. I kind of cheaped out, and I went with,
I did it by light truck tires. I went to Walmart, I don't think I'd say that on national radio,
but some cheap tires are put on it. Yeah, that's your fault. You can say that.
You're not the first or last person to do that. That's okay. But
Russ, would you think he should just keep zeroing in on the tires or?
Yeah, I can't think of anything that would cause a problem cold, but not
warm, you know, warm other than a tire with what he's having. Yeah.
Does that help you out there, Mike? I'd stay on that track. Maybe try,
maybe try rotating the tires, just put front on back once you see any changes, but
just, I would definitely just pay attention to it, make sure it doesn't get any worse,
make sure you don't have any, if you haven't changed fluids in your transfer case yet,
with that many miles on it, it'd be a good time to do it just as a maintenance item.
Yeah, it seems like a new truck, but it's 10 years, 11 years old.
But when they, when they drain the fluids, just have them inspected to make sure there's not
excess filings. I'm guessing you've done transmission service on that with that many miles,
but probably a, if it's running good and the fluid looks good, it'd be a way past a great
time to have that done. What about doing a burnout every morning to get them warmed up,
just like a patch? Like staging for a drag strip. Exactly. I'm not against that. Hair dryer.
The tire. He's going to have a really hard time doing that in this all wheel drive denial.
On that one there, you can't even turn off the four-wheel drive system. You really got to want
it. Yeah, you had a supercharger first. You'd have to commit really hard. Yeah. Mike, thanks
very much for the call. Good luck. 866-594-4150. What's caught your attention? You've been
sending out some texts in there and emails of stuff. Yeah, but I don't always remember what I
send you. I'm expecting you guys to remember. I wrote the one down yesterday, but I didn't
write it down and bring it. Well, I think probably the biggest news that has been
hitting a lot of the news networks is the fact that one of the big domestics, General Motors,
just took a $1.6 billion right off against earnings in the third quarter
to basically as a correction for their losses on the investments in the rapid deployment of EVs.
I hope I said that correctly and carefully. It was the fact that they went in so hard, so fast,
the money that was invested is not returning to the bottom line or even into the cash flow the
way it should be. I don't know how that big-time accounting works, but they took a right off
against earnings, a one-time right off, to correct course and said that they will be
continuing their development, but at a different pace. Sure. What was that Mary said about
all electric by what year? Exactly. I think it was 2035. Whatever it was, it's not happening.
I know just based on now we can see that what they're doing,
but that is the pace it should have went at if the market would have been allowed to control
things. Right. Because there is a- Probably gave them a jumpstart. Everybody. Exactly. You've
said it many times. They're not going to make that goal, but they're going to be a lot further down
the road. Well, the technology is highly advanced, but the progression is going to be more palatable
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And boy did we have a road trip with Mr. Russ Evans and going back to his hometown part of this
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Beast Employee Appreciation and Car Show at Toyota headquarters in Plano, Texas.
Believe it was the 34th annual. Was it that many? Oh wow. Yeah. I didn't catch that.
Yeah. So going, but basically going back to when the show started about when we could have
been there for their first year one. Not there, but there. You know, actually had to hold up
phones then. We'd been on a landline just holding it up. It was so fun. What a great event. And it
was just employees cars in the car show. And there were hundreds of cars. Oh yeah. And I loved how
they had them separated out. There was a, there was competitors. There was classics. And then there
was Toyotas. It was really what a cool car show. And to see the amount of car people and just,
I mean, there was everything in that show. There were exotics. There were Drift's cars.
Yeah. There was classics that were, yeah. And then Resto. All originals like the gentleman
we interviewed. What was his name again with the GTO? Mike. Mike. That was Mike. Yeah. I'm gonna
post it up on YouTube this week. Yeah. We've got a video to be posting up of just a very. It was a
good story. A very unique one off GTO when you get right down to it. Possibly less than 50 of a
made. Yeah. That he didn't even know about was driving it like a everyday beater until,
but there's a great story in there with father son, his father, and then him father son with his
son. Excellent story. So that'll be coming up on YouTube here pretty soon. That, that story will
post and that'll be fun. And we did an interview with one of the marketing vice presidents,
Nick Miller. And it was just a fun interview because he had been involved in so many things.
He was involved in the launch of the Supra the second time on the marketing team. Lots of projects.
He got involved in the Supra racing series that came after that.
He's been involved in a lot of things that were just fun to talk about the motorsports arena.
And so I really, I know you guys did too. We really enjoyed the conversation with Nick
and that's posted up on our podcast and we picked our best of show or at least,
we'll call it our favorites, each one of us. Yeah. That was fun. And we got to go out and
just look through the vehicles and kind of figure out which one we liked the best. And
there was a ton of favorites out there. That's hard to do. I don't want to be a judge at a car
show. We liked pretty much everything, but it was just the one that really jumped out at us
that made us go, let's go take a second look. I know you guys had your favorites and I had one.
I had about five, but the one really jumped out at me. Yeah. I picked a 1991 Honda beat
and just it caught my eye because it was yellow. Yellow kind of catches my eye and it was tiny.
This is tiny little mid-engine. I didn't know it even existed a fun car. And they call it in the
world of the people that know them, the mini NSX, because it came out the same year as the
Acura NSX, that generation. And it was really the guy that had it was an enthusiast of enthusiasts.
I'm going to try to get him on for an interview. He knew a lot of people in the car world down in
the Fort Worth area. And I told him about a friend of mine, Dallas Fort Worth Toy Museum,
Ron Sturgeon, that is from our industry originally. And he's been on quite a few TV shows and stuff
with his dogs and different things. And I said, have you been to his new toy museum? Because he
just moved it to a new place. It's kind of been back where the original salvage yard was. And
he had stuff stored all over the place. And it's finally been on earth to bring it out into the
open. And he knew Ron. He's been to the toy museum and he knew him. So he was going to make that
connection back. I said, I don't know Ron like amazing, but I go, he definitely knows who I am.
We definitely know each other. And that was fun just making those connections and just finding out
who know who, what Russ, what was it you had picked? You had a really cool looking 70 Chevy
truck, but it had a motorcycle in the back of it too. And it all matched. It was a theme garage
theme, the truck in the hole. Yeah, it was just they made it look it was still old and but it was
new and it was kind of cool. And that was a lot of fun to see that truck. And you got out there
right right after the rainstorm after yeah, right. Yeah. The show was perfect. And then
while we were inside at the Toyota experience, which is a whole nother subject,
there was a really big, they call it a gully washer, just sunny sky, then downpour probably an
inch of rain and then nothing sunny again. And there were car, I felt so bad there were cars out
there with windows, hoods up and just felt bad tops down. The forecast was zero rain. I'm glad it
didn't happen a half hour earlier. We would have been in trouble. Yeah, but a big mess. And what
was your pick there, Chris? I had a Japanese imported fire truck. It was a
Was it a Land Cruiser pickup? No, it was an FJ. It was an FJ. Yeah. And it was lifted and then it
had a new roof welded on it was a fire truck and then he imported it and got it found it here. The
guy imported it he bought it here after finding one in Japan. He was able to find one here and he
got it. It had all Japanese instruments and stuff and he was going to leave that all there and it
was very, very cool. I think I had posted a bunch of pictures that I forwarded on to our Facebook
page for under the hood show, but if not, I'll go back and we'll make separate posts of our
winners and put them on our Facebook page. Yeah, I got to go back and get that information,
but we'll post those winners and we'll post a few more pictures of the show. It was really,
really cool and we really enjoyed the event and we're just very thankful they invited us down
and the folks there that were from Toyota Insurance, that's the partner with Berkeley One
Classics. They were just tremendous. They treated us with amazing hospitality, had a lot of fun
going out and having dinner with them and going out in the town for the night to watch the end
of the football game and just had a great evening. And if you're in the cars, coming out of a
steakhouse in Dallas, Fort Worth, that area at 10 o'clock at night, it's pretty, it's all right.
Do you remember when I pointed across the street and I was showing the, I said there were those
spoked wheels on those Vogue tires and I said, oh, there's some Vogue's and you guys were like, oh,
that's probably just the thing or whatever. Those were Trues and Vogue's from the 80s.
Were they? Oh, wow. I thought I heard that song. I was like, wait a second, Trues and Vogue's.
I looked it up and went, that's right. That's where the Trues Spoke Wheels and Vogue Tire
Company, which is gone now. Trues and Vogue's. It was a, that was, if you were the thing.
Well, was that on a car or was that the one that was in there? No, they were just tires in the
window. Oh, that was at the Louis Vuitton retail, I think it was. Retail store. They're right across
the street from where we were in that area. Interesting. Interesting. I just knew that they
dressed up the windows because they always have wonderful window displays. My wife always drops
in on those stores. Trucker Joe is listening right now. He's going to be like, yep, I got it.
Trues and Vogue's. Yeah. So that was fun. That was really cool. 866-594-4150. Let's talk to Jack
and Kansas. Jack, you're on the under the hood show. What can we do for you? Boy, I'll tell you
what, I got a 2001 Jeep Cherokee that a fellow was driving down the road, hit a bump and it just
quit. It just filled it up with fuel. I put one of them cheap little testers on there and no
codes will show up and it'll turn over and it'll almost start on ether.
My brother seemed to think that they've heard that there's a leak somewhere inside the
wiring harness that may break. You ever heard of that? Yep. Passengers side down that fender well,
there's a harness that runs down there from that battery area. They've been known to have some issues.
So if it hits a bump and dies and it won't start, if you're trying to scan it while it's not starting,
you're not going to be able to scan it because it powers the vehicle, powers the computer. So you're
not going to get any power to the fuel injection of it, but you can get power to the spark but not
to the fuel injection. So you're going to have to, I would say plug the scanner in, set it on the
windshield and move that harness just very slowly. Just barely touch it and see if you can get the
scanner to come on. And if you can, every time it comes on and goes off, just move the harness
in a different spot until you can narrow it down really good. Then take that harness apart,
find a connection in it and go from there. Boy, you know what? I am so glad I called you because
he worked for Don's dealership and he told me that they've had issues with that. Yeah, but nobody
remembers. I barely remember where it was until I hear you on this call and I went,
wait a second, I know this one. I know what that is. Yeah. Well, you can just start wiggling around.
Well, Chris, you'd love that kind of answer and I also know what Chris would do again
is he would, if he was wiggling around and it came back to life and he wiggled it enough times
where it never quit again, you'd be done. Yeah, he'd leave it until it broke again. Well,
that's the thing. If I fix it by wiggling it and I bring it in, is it going to find that fault?
Are you going to be able to, if he wiggles that harness and it comes back, Russ,
and then he drives in with it running, are you going to be able to find the problem?
Yeah, see? He's got to find the problem. He's got to move it until he breaks it.
My fix is right on this one. Just drive it. Jack, thanks very much for the call. Good luck.
866-594-4150. Let's talk to Jordan in Iowa. Jordan, you're on the end of the hood show.
What can we do for you? Hey, what's going on, guys? What can we do for you?
I have an 85 Buick Le Sabre Collector's Edition, if that makes a difference.
Do you remember that one, Shannon? I was looking at Chris and I was like,
collectors? And then all of a sudden it hit me and I went, I remember it doesn't have a badge
like on the side of the land on top or whatever on the back that says collector's edition.
Yep. And the hood ornament says collector's edition as well.
Okay. So we're not crazy. And listeners, this truly is that that's correct.
What's going on with this big bad Buick?
Well, I've been a technician for about 10 years now and this guy is a little bit out of my wheel
house when it comes to wiring. The wipers will not turn off and there is, if you go to the wiper
motor underneath the hood, it has the delay on it. So there's a little from what I see is a pulse
board from what I can tell that what that's what that is. How many wires on it do you remember?
On the motor, there is a, there's four pins. And then does it have two in the center,
four pins to the side and two in the center on a separate plug?
There's three. So there's two that are vertical and then one goes horizontal off to the side,
which connects to a green relay. Keep going. That goes that. Okay. And so I got the plug to the
motor and then there's another smaller pin coming off of the motor. And there's a blue wire that
connects to that smaller pin that goes straight to that pulse board. And if I unplug that blue wire,
the wipers will park, but then I don't have my delay. Okay. That's up. Okay. Under the dash of
that, there should be a delay module. Okay. Try to find one for a friend of mine in Texas and I
walked through my you pull it yard here. It's not my yard at all. It's that guy over there. But
anyways, I walked through the yard and I found like eight of them, but not for that, not for what I
needed. I was looking for one for like an 83 Chevy truck and they're, they're a little different.
There's a spot where they switch and what I was finding was the other design, which I think is
what you have. So I would suggest looking into you pull it yard, but it's going to be a little box
you're going to find up under the dash. It's all just a little, it's small. It's like two inches
square or so with a little round thing on one side of it and some pins. That's your delay module for
that. And if it, if it's not working, you're, they're just going to stay up all the time. Sometimes
you can turn it off and then turn the switch on and back or off and back on again and they'll come
down and park and they'll stay there. Otherwise it'll just stop wherever you turn the key off and
some cases, but I think, I think your problem is going to be that delay module. I can't recall
ever having a wiring issue with that body style. I can't remember what they call that body anymore.
It's been so long, but with that body style car, I don't think I ever saw a wiring issue. It was
almost always either the switch had a broken wire in it, which you'd know because none of these other
functions would work. The little stock or the wiper motor itself, but you've got a motor that
operates when they're operating. It's typically that board every time, the underneath the dash.
Okay. What's that called again? It's called a pulse wiper module. Okay. If you look one
up on YouTube or the internet, you'll see pictures of it and see that it's not available.
And if it was a little bit newer, it'd have it integrated right into the wiper motor.
Right. Right. But this one's before that's what I was asking about the wires. It would have less
wires on it. You said keep going. I was, I was gone in the middle of the wiring. It was like,
I remember them. I remember looking right at them and I'm plugging them, but I just, I feel
Russ has got a different mind than I do. Then let me commend you because it sounded like you were
on, I knew you were faking it, but it did sound like you were on board and you were ready to answer.
I sold 500 of those wiper motors probably. 866-594-4150. That's the number to reach
us here at the end of the hood show. Joe, you're up in just a second. While we, I just want to say
one thing about our trip to Texas. We missed an opportunity without, we met someone who had a
connection to a big private collection and he called and said, could we tour this place? The
guy said yes, but not until later and it didn't work for us. We almost, that was, I felt like, oh
man. He was telling us all the cool stuff in there and I was like, oh. I felt like I was just about
to see, it was finally going to be worth it, the show for me, but no. There's always another
chance. That's true. Let's talk to Joe in Iowa. Joe, you're on the end of the hood show. What can
we do for you? Hey, thanks for taking my call. I have a 1974 600 dump truck. I recently purchased
it from a farmer and it ran great when I got it. I probably had it for about a month, but
then I kind of noticed it was idling rough and then it was having trouble starting up in the
morning and now I can't even get it started at all. I used starter fluid. She'll fire up for
four or five seconds and yeah, I was thinking it was maybe a fuel filter or something, but I can't
find a fuel filter on it. One of my friends told me it was maybe a mechanical fuel pump that went
bad, but I don't know. I was just looking for some information on an older truck like that.
Yeah, this is the old, this is a real common 55-year-old dump truck scam. They sell them and
they run for a while and they just sell them like hotcakes and then you find out you've been tricked.
That's pretty much, this one's real. You look this one up, a lot of people, a lot of people
buying those 55-year-old dump trucks. Was this a diesel? No, this is the gas, gas edition, yeah.
Okay, we had somebody call in here, show's back that had an old dump truck with a diesel in it
and I was just trying to, that's right. He was asking questions about fuel additives and different
things and that was that. No, he had a different kind of, 700. Yeah, he had a fuel system question,
how was the fuel system built or the oiling system or something about it, I remember, but I, okay,
I digress. I'm trying, you know, I don't know which carburetors on this one. Sure, I'm thinking
the factory one. Some of the, so some of these had a fuel filter in the fuel pump that they had a
spin on filter or cartridge on the bottom of the fuel pump housing, depending, I just remember seeing
some of those. Yeah, that's what I think I have. Yeah, if you got a nut looking thing on the bottom
of the fuel pump on the, like a bowl, that spins off. Make sure that's clean, but you know, you
don't have to do that. You can just take the line off of the carburetor and disable the ignition
system so you don't get any stray sparks up there, but you know, take the power wire off and move it
to the side. But when you crank it, you should get plenty of fuel out of there. If you put a cup
there or something as you're cranking it, it should fill that thing pretty quickly. If it doesn't do
anything, that's your problem. You're not getting any fuel up there. But if you've got pretty good
fuel flow and you think, wow, that's a lot of fuel dumping in there, it should be running on that.
It could be as bad as the float, the needle could be stuck in the seat. So the float could be
sitting on the bottom of the carburetor, ready to let the fuel in, but the needle is still stuck
inside of the seat because it's old and set for a while, got some garbage in it, whatever.
Sometimes you could kick a little air in that hole with a blowgun, just a couple pounds to
knock it loose to see if it'll run. We've done that on old things. We just wanted to try to fire
up like we were going to purchase and back in the ADC like this truck. Like, can we get it going
without pulling the top off the carb? But if that does it, you would definitely need to tear the
carburetor down and just put a kit in it. You could buy a rebuild kit for probably 40 bucks for
that thing. Have it clean, put the kit in it, put it together. If I had something that old,
I'd probably put a new fuel pump on it. I would put a fuel filter in line before the fuel pump,
and I would replace the rubber sections of the line going back to the tank, make sure the tank is
clean, and then those trucks ran great when they ran. But once that fuel system got dirty from sitting,
they had all sorts of problems you just couldn't fix without a tear down and fix. But we're not
talking about tearing the engine down, just rebuild the carburetor, put a fuel pump on it,
put a filter in line, make sure everything's clean, including the tank.
Is there some of those carburetors in that era that had a filter right at the carburetor?
The General Motors did right where the line went into the body of it. There's two nuts,
one nut for the fuel line, and then you had another nut that you would take off the filter,
and usually when you were taking off the fuel line, the nut would spin on the filter, so you
had to have a wrench. I remember we had some Ford Pickups, a particular Ford Pickup back in the
day, we were trying to get to the state fair with my dad. They had a short and a long screw-in
silver filter on the end of the two barrels that stuck out. Now, this one could have better,
they may have removed it. They're different threads intentionally, so you can't just cram the line in
there. Joe, thanks very much for the call. Good luck. Had a flashback, had a memory there. I have a
question here. Someone calling about that Le Sabre on the chat says, I had a 91 Winnebago Warrior
with that pulse module that went out. I replaced it with three relays.
Would that work on his Le Sabre collector's edition? Well, that would make it work without the
pulse system, but he wants the pulse system to work because it's a collector's edition.
Everything needs to work? Maybe he wants it. Shannon, when I was in Dallas on Monday this week,
I'm driving on the road and I went, what the heck is that? And my wife said,
is that a Grand National? No. And as it got closer. Was it a GNX? It was only, yes, and it was only
about maybe four driveways ahead of us, and it was coming to us, and there was blue smoke coming
out of the back. And as it got close enough, I said, yep, that's a really beat original GNX.
It was, you could hear the turbo, but the panels on it, no rust, but the panels were
what you would see like an 85 Regal. Yes. Just beat, but the guy had it all original.
I, uh, I missed one on an auction when we were in at the convention.
It could have been a fake GNX too, but either way,
that brought a price that I might have paid, but I wasn't bitten either.
Do you want one finished or do you want to get one like that where you,
I don't want to work that hard. Okay, just checking. Yeah.
That'll do it for this hour of the under the hood show. Thanks for listening.
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About this episode
Listeners are treated to a lively discussion filled with automotive advice and personal stories. The hosts celebrate Shannon's recent appointment as president of a major trade association and share insights from their trip to an automotive convention in Alabama. Callers seek help with various car issues, including a soft brake pedal on a Toyota Camry, EVAP problems in a Dodge Grand Caravan, and a mystery vibration in a GMC Denali. The episode highlights the hosts' expertise and camaraderie while providing practical solutions to listener dilemmas.
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