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Ford Model Ford
The Ford Model T is one of the first cars that many people could actually afford to buy. Made over a hundred years ago, it changed how cars were made and helped more people get around. It's important in car history because it made driving accessible to everyday folks.
Part
transmissions
The transmission is a part of the car that helps it move by sending power from the engine to the wheels. If it has problems, the car may not drive well.
Term
transmission control module
The transmission control module is a part that helps the car's transmission work properly. It tells the transmission when to shift gears for better performance and fuel efficiency.
Term
engine computer
The engine computer is like the brain of your car's engine. It helps the engine run smoothly by making adjustments based on information from different sensors.
Term
CVT
A CVT is a special kind of car transmission that doesn't have fixed gears like regular ones. It can change the gear ratio smoothly, which helps the car accelerate more smoothly and can save fuel.
Term
used part
A used part is a car part that has been taken from another vehicle instead of being bought new. They are often cheaper but might not work as well as new parts.
Term
new part
A new part is a car part that you buy brand new from a store. These parts usually work well and often come with a guarantee.
Car
GMC Terrain
The GMC Terrain is a type of vehicle called a compact SUV. It's designed to be comfortable and spacious, making it a good choice for families or anyone needing extra room.
Term
wheel speed sensor
A wheel speed sensor is a part of your car that checks how fast the wheels are turning. This information helps the car's systems work properly, especially when braking or during slippery conditions.
Part
ABS computer
The ABS computer helps your car's brakes work better by stopping the wheels from locking up when you brake hard. It makes sure you can still steer while braking.
Company
Dorman
Dorman makes replacement parts for cars, like wires and connectors, that help fix problems when the original parts break or wear out.
Part
speed sensors
Speed sensors tell the car how fast the wheels are turning. This information helps the car's systems work correctly, especially during braking.
Part
wiring harness
A wiring harness is like a bundle of wires that connects different parts of your car, helping them communicate and work together.
Term
check engine light
The check engine light is a light on your car's dashboard that tells you something might be wrong with the engine. It can mean anything from a small issue to something more serious, so it's good to check it out.
Term
traction control
Traction control is a system in your car that helps keep the wheels from spinning too much when you accelerate, especially on slippery roads. It helps you maintain control of the vehicle.
Term
scanner
A scanner is a tool that mechanics use to check what's wrong with a car. It connects to the car's computer and tells them about any problems or issues.
Term
miles per hour
Miles per hour is a way to measure how fast a car is going. It tells you how many miles the car would travel in one hour if it kept going at that speed.
Part
oxygen sensor
An oxygen sensor is a part of the car's exhaust system that checks how much oxygen is in the exhaust. This helps the engine run better and produce fewer emissions.
Term
lean condition
A 'lean condition' means the engine is getting more air than fuel, which can cause it to run poorly and create more pollution. It's important to fix this to keep the engine healthy.
Part
catalytic converter
A catalytic converter is a part of your car that helps clean up the exhaust gases before they leave the car. It makes the air less polluted by changing harmful gases into safer ones.
Car
Subaru Outback
The Subaru Outback is a type of car that is great for driving on different types of roads, including rough ones. It's popular with people who like to go on adventures or need extra space for their family.
Term
oil change
An oil change is when you replace the old oil in your car with new oil. This helps keep the engine running smoothly and can prevent damage.
Term
engine overhaul
An engine overhaul means taking apart the engine to fix or replace parts that are worn out. It's done to make the engine work better and fix problems like using too much oil.
Term
PCV system
The PCV system is a part of the engine that helps get rid of gases that build up inside. If it fails, it can cause the engine to use more oil and not work as well.
Company
CRC
CRC makes products that help keep cars running well, including cleaners that can help fix problems in the engine. Their kits are designed to clean out dirt and buildup that can cause issues.
Company
Justice Brothers
Justice Brothers makes products to help clean and maintain car engines and emissions systems. They work with professional shops to provide these services.
Term
burn oil
When an engine 'burns oil', it means that the engine is using up its oil while running, which can be a sign of problems. If this happens, it can lead to engine damage if not fixed.
Part
throttle body
The throttle body helps manage how much air gets into the engine. Keeping it clean can help the engine run better and use fuel more efficiently.
Part
PCV valve
The PCV valve is a part of your car's engine that helps control gases that come from the engine. It helps keep the engine clean and reduces pollution by sending those gases back to be burned again.
Company
Road Ready Wheels
Road Ready Wheels is a company that sells wheels for cars. They have a lot of options and often offer discounts, making it easier to find the right wheels for your vehicle.
Part
steel wheels
Steel wheels are the basic type of wheels made from steel. They are usually heavier and cheaper than aluminum wheels but can be less stylish.
Part
aluminum alloy wheels
Aluminum alloy wheels are lighter and stronger than regular steel wheels. They can make your car look better and help it perform better on the road.
Car
Nissan Pathfinder
The Nissan Pathfinder is a larger SUV that can fit a lot of people and their stuff, making it great for families. The 2019 version has a special kind of transmission that helps it drive smoothly, whether you're on the highway or going off-road. It's a good choice if you need space and versatility.
Car
Volkswagen Beetle
The Volkswagen Beetle is a small, round-shaped car that many people recognize. It became very popular because it was affordable and fun to drive, and it has a quirky design that makes it look different from most cars. Many people love it for its history and unique style.
Car
Gmc Sierra
The GMC Sierra EV is a new electric truck that can do everything a regular truck can, but it runs on electricity instead of gas. This means it's better for the environment and can save money on fuel. It's important because it shows how trucks are changing to be more eco-friendly.
Car
Honda Accord
The Honda Accord is a popular family car that is known for being dependable and easy to drive. It has a comfortable inside space and gets good gas mileage, which makes it a favorite among many drivers. The 2014 version is especially liked for how smoothly it drives.
Car
Ford Thunderbird
The Ford Thunderbird is a classic car that many people admire for its stylish look. It started as a small sports car but later became bigger and more luxurious. It's often talked about because of its cool design and its place in car history.
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Hey, thanks for joining us under the hood.
Shannon Nordstrom is not here to answer your automotive questions.
I'm Chris Carney here to answer your calls at 866-594-4150.
Shannon is gone on another adventure just for adventure's sake, right?
This one is just, this one isn't business related.
This one is finally off on an adventure that he has.
He's off riding snowmobiles with his buddies.
Yeah, which is, I feel good about.
Because I feel bad for the snowmobilers the last 14 months.
Yeah.
So I'm all for it.
I like it.
I don't want to do it.
I was in Florida the last few days.
And it was 28 degrees when we got into the parks.
So I don't want to go.
It was plenty cold.
Yeah, it was plenty cold.
It was great.
The only thing you missed was the snow.
It warmed up and it was awesome because there were no people because it was cold.
Also, no water rides, as you can imagine.
There's almost no measurable snow ever in Florida.
It's been very rare, except out like way out on the coast west.
But you'll get those flories where you'll get like a snowstorm, but it doesn't stick to anything.
And then it goes away.
And when we went there, first time I'd ever been to Disney at Christmas, I said to you,
I said, Chris, it's snowing.
You're like, what now?
Oh, that was so cool.
To wake up, you know, seven in the morning, walk out of the hotel room and it was cold.
It was like 28, 29 degrees, but the snow was just coming down heavy.
And it only lasted about three or four minutes and then it was gone.
And the day before, we were totally out there eating at the restaurant and it was 65 degrees
and the wind came up and it dropped down to 30 really quick and we all just froze.
Then two days later is back up in the 70s again.
That's a big swing.
So when you own a car and you're in those areas, how do people do it?
Right?
They've got cars that they are expected to run when it's 100.
They're expected to run when it's 20 below and we just take it for granted.
That's rough.
Back when we were kids, they didn't just work.
They didn't just work.
You had to do stuff to make it work.
Model T's.
Remember the old pictures of the old moving pictures?
They make a pile of coals, hot coals.
The neighbor used to do that.
You put them under the pan and let the heat get in there so you could actually crank it
because it was like butter in there.
I remember my neighbor going out to fan the embers under his truck so it would stay warm.
How many vehicles you think were burned to the ground because of that?
A lot.
The old wood model Ford with the old wood body or something.
Model T with a complete wood.
I said it on fire again, Maybell.
866-594-4150.
Let's go to Colorado and talk to Gary.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Gary, what can we do for you?
Yes.
Hi.
I've got a 2001 Subaru that has had two transmissions put in it now.
I don't know if they were the same donor cars or what, but he keeps getting the light that
says the transmission's bad, the mechanic.
Okay.
Are these used transmissions or rebuilt?
Do you think they're used out of another car?
I think they're used.
Okay.
If they're used, when you put it in, you need to put it in with the transmission control
module that came from the car.
So if we sell a transmission here at Nordstroms, we will sell the transmission.
We'll run it first to make sure everything works.
Then we'll pull that transmission with its transmission control module, which is separate
from the engine computer.
It's got its own little module there.
And then we strap them together and we send it out with the part, and we always have to
put that in with it.
Otherwise, you've got to buy a new module, have it programmed to that part to make it
work.
It just doesn't automatically work.
Some cars, you can do that.
Just put them right in your find.
Other ones, no.
Like a forward edge.
You put that transmission in your find because the programming is a calibration in the vehicle's
powertrain control module, which is engine and transmission.
It'll run.
But with these separate ones, especially CVTs, the constantly variable transmissions, you
have to have that module included with it.
So my guess is that if they're putting in a used transmission, they're not getting that
module with it and it's not operating.
So, you know, we had a customer bring a Nissan to our shop and they had done that and it
wouldn't work.
And we located, we tracked down the car that it came out of and had that recycling facility
send the part and we put it in and it worked just fine.
It was saying transmission failure.
It couldn't communicate with it.
It just wasn't working.
It was matched to that unit.
So I think that'll probably get you going again.
If you could locate, just find out, just have whatever shop put it in, find the facility
that sold them that part and said, we need the transmission control module out of this
car.
But it's bolted to the right close to the transmission.
Get it, put it in and it's probably going to fix your problem without having to pull
it back out again.
Good.
I will let the mechanic know.
There you go.
Gary, thanks very much for the call.
Thank you.
Good luck.
That has got to be the most frustrating thing in the world, right?
When you get done with the car and it doesn't work after eight hours, ten hours.
When you spend that much time working on a vehicle and then it doesn't work, now you're
second guessing yourself.
You're saying, well, was the part actually bad?
Did I put in another part and that part is good, the last part was good, but it's still
not working.
So what did I do?
So you're looking all over everything and then you find out what you put in was bad.
Whether that's a used part or a brand new part, whatever it is, it may, maybe they were
both fine, maybe they were both bad.
So it's tricky.
So that just makes for more diagnostic, more labor, more time.
And then when you eventually find it, then you feel pretty confident.
And it must be, I mean, how many times in your career have you done it at some fix and
it doesn't work and you're like, what the heck can you, you call somebody and go, hey,
this didn't work.
And they go, well, did you turn the switch over to B?
Did you turn the A B switch to B and you go, oh yeah, that fixed it.
There's been times where that has happened and that's how you learn and you just move
on, people forget and you'll just, you just, right.
And then six months later you go, hey, don't forget when you put that transmission in,
you got to switch the A B switch to B and they go, wow, Russ is so smart.
He knows everything.
You got to pass on your knowledge.
Everybody that learns something, if they don't pass it on, you are wasting what God gave
you.
You know, if you don't pass on, people worked hard to pass that on to you and to learn it.
I mean, think right now, if we didn't have, you either learn it from someone else who's
done it or you read about it.
So if the world were to cut off every, every form of communication that we have written
down right now, so all it was was passing our knowledge and then people just decided,
I'm not going to tell anybody anything.
I'm not going to give them my knowledge.
We'd be back in the stone age in a, in a generation because no one would know.
I was just thinking about that on while I was traveling.
I was like, because I was reading everything off my iPad and I was like, I can just read
everything unless it runs out of battery and this was the last iPad in the world.
Yeah.
You, you see those TV shows and movies where all the electronics disappeared.
Yeah.
Just people talking to each other and you know, the libraries of Alexandria burned.
I actually just misplayed.
I, I had a 50 terabyte drive on my key chain and I can't find my keys.
50 terabyte.
What was on it?
The Alexandria library.
Oh shoot.
Oh well.
866-594-4150.
Let's talk to Tim.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Tim, what can we do for you?
Hello.
I have a 2012 GMC terrain that I just purchased.
I just got 123,000 on it and the Stabilitrak and ABS lights are on and I've thrown a little
money at it.
It said the right front wheel speed sensor was bad according to my little fix finder.
So I replaced them all, but it's still showing bad after I took it somewhere with a actual
good scanner and I got power going to that.
He didn't think it had power to it, but it does.
You can shut the lights off on it, back out of the garage and they'll stay off for about
20 seconds and they come right back on, just wondering what your thoughts are.
So the sensors may not have been bad and if you've replaced them and they're still doing
it, either you put a sensor on which is still bad, which is very rare if they're, if they're
low, it would be rare or you've got a wire, a broken wire issue, which is very common
on those, especially in the front where the wheels turn back and they steer left and right.
Of course, all the wheels turn right, Chris, but as they turn with the steering, those
wires can break between the connection and the top.
So I would look real carefully there.
What we do is we go to the computer, we unplug it, the ABS computer, we go to that module,
we back probe there, we back probe at the sensor connector and make sure we've got continuity.
If we don't, we wiggle the wires around, see if it comes and goes, then we know we need
to replace the harness.
Our partner, Dorman product sells a lot of wire connectors for those.
So Dorman's got, you know, speed sensors, they've got wiring, the little connector, the jumper
harness that goes between the body harness and down below is a common thing to be reproduced
from them.
And also one with bare wires on the body end, if you don't have a plug up there, so you plug
it into the sensor and you run the harness up.
If there's any break in that, you're going to get that light, you're going to get everything
on the dash coming on.
Sometimes you don't even get a check engine light because the traction control portion,
it can't communicate, right?
That's where we would start looking.
You should be able to raise the vehicle in the air, to narrow it down, plug that scanner
in, put it on data, spin each tire individually.
And as you do that, read the scanner.
It should read miles per hour.
Okay, there's two miles an hour, three miles an hour, four on each wheel as we spin it.
Oh, right front, zero.
Well, what's going on there?
Let's back probe just that one and find out why we don't have continuity between the sensor
and the module.
And if the wire turns out good, well, then we check for the voltage at the sensor when
we spin it.
And do we have anything there?
No, the sensor's bad, or the tone ring's bad, one of the two.
But my bet would be if I was checking this out in our shop, I'm going to look, I'm going
to first spin the wheels, find out which one's dead, and I bet I'm going to find a broken
wire in one of those front wheel speed sensors where the wheels, you know, your steering's
turning back and forth.
I think something's going to be broken in there.
That's the most common thing for a terrain.
Does that help you out, Tim?
Oh, Tim's gone.
I hope he got some of that.
Lost him.
I sure hope so.
Tim, I hope you, I hope you got that information.
If not, go back to the podcast, YouTube, rewind.
I suppose if he didn't get the information, though, he's also not going to get the note
saying go to YouTube.
Well, you know, a lot of people will, they'll hear, they'll, they'll call us, they'll get
that information and then they will go back to the podcast or YouTube because they want
to, it's like a book.
It's like, can you write that down on a note and then they, they have it.
It's an audio note and you need it because I, if somebody told me something about, what
was that again?
Just go back and listen.
I want to write it down again.
Is that when we talk about sensors, there's a, there's a few sensors that you get the
note that the sensor's bad.
So they replaced the sensor, but the sensor going bad is what the sensor is supposed to
do.
Is that a design thing or is that a reading from the sensor or the act?
It's actually, well, that's the thing.
I mean, we, there's sensors that we talk about where they go.
This, I got a note that the sensor was bad.
So I replaced the sensor and that's not what went bad.
It was the sensor.
Right.
Like an oxygen sensor that says, um, it says failed low because it's stuck low.
Oxygen sensor bank one sensor one stuck low.
Oh, well we better replace the sensor.
It's stuck low.
No, it's actually stuck low because it's very lean and it's so lean that it's
sticking the sensor low and you replacing that didn't fix it.
But what could be the problem is the other oxygen sensor in the pipe?
Might have failed and that's, that's giving the wrong reading to the engine.
So now it's saying it's moving though.
So it's not failed according to the computer.
Right.
So it changes that fuel mixture and then the other one stuck low.
So now I'm replay, well, I replaced it twice.
How about you replace the good one?
Oh, that fixed it.
And it wasn't good.
In Tim's case with the, the engine with the check engine lighter that the
warning going off for 20 seconds, that's just not going off.
You're turning it off.
And then it's, it's rescanning itself.
That's like when I would say that on my light went off for a while.
Well, then it didn't go off.
Chris, I can't tell you how many people come in and we look at their car and we
say, yeah, your system's failed.
You need a catalytic converter.
Oh, okay.
Well, just go ahead and turn the light off for me.
Yeah, I'm not going to turn it off.
It's, it's going to be back on in five minutes.
Well, can you turn it off anyways?
There's, there's no reason to.
It's going to come right back on.
Right.
Well, I just want you to shut it off.
Well, why?
Well, I just want to go sell it real quick.
Well, then, then you're being fraudulent.
So no, eight, six, six, five, nine, four, four, one, five.
Oh, let's go to Oklahoma and talk to Mark here on the end of the hood show.
Mark, what can we do for you?
Yeah.
Hi guys.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Uh, cause actually it relates to a comment that you guys just said about selling
the car and being fraudulent.
Uh, I'm, I'm trying not to get good.
My son has a, uh, 2019 Subaru Outback.
He, uh, it has about a hundred thousand miles on it.
He wants to get a new car.
He would typically trade it in, but I tell him, you know, let me sell it for you.
I'm retired.
I have time.
I can put it on Facebook marketplace.
I'll get a couple of more thousand dollars for it.
The issue is it, uh, it burns about a quarter of oil.
Every oil change about every 4,000 miles or so.
And, and I would either need to disclose that or get it fixed or I won't sell them
on marketplace.
So I'll just tell him to trade it in.
Is there anything other than a total engine re, uh, overhaul that would, uh,
be causing that oil consumption?
It could be that it's got sticky rings in it.
Uh, it could have a, the PCV system could be, have failed and it's sucking too much
air through there.
What I would try before you, um, deem it bad, you could use a CRC emission system
cleaner kit.
That's something you can do at home on that car and clean out the whole.
Emission system and see, you know, it's cleans the oil, you're cleaning through
the intake, you're putting a, um, cleaning all of it out.
Um, that may help with that, but then you're going to have to drive it and find
out if it's still using oil, you're going to have to check the PCV system too.
And make sure that that valve is not stuck open and drawing too much air and,
and pulling oil up through the, the PCV system as well.
Um, the other option you have is you could, um, you, if you go to a professional shop,
our partner at justice brothers has a professional service kit that can be done
at a shop where they do the same thing, they'll go through and thoroughly clean
out the oil system, the emission system and check that PCV.
In this case, since he wants to find out if it's catastrophic or fixable, would
you go the, the professional route to make sure you get it diagnosed correctly?
And then you do want to diagnose it, but so you've got a couple of things going here.
I would rather sell that car.
If you're selling this thing on marketplace, you say, well, I'll get 2000 more.
Let's just call a number 2000 more selling it on marketplace than I will.
If I traded it at the dealer, if you sell it on marketplace, I would rather sell it
there and disclose that it uses the oil and let somebody buy it, knowing that
it's going to burn oil and it's not a lot of, that's not a ton of oil.
They'll have a good car.
They can drive for a while and they know about it as opposed to trading it
in to the dealer where that car may or may not be resold without the new owner
knowing about it.
Because now you've got somebody, I'd feel really bad if somebody bought it
thinking they had a good car, even if I did it indirectly and they buy it.
I can't tell you how many people come to.
I would say Chris in a year, at least 20 people every two weeks.
Somebody's coming to me that just bought a car, like meaning within the last two
weeks and it needs an engine or it needs a transmission.
And more than likely it was something that was showing up before it was sold.
And it may not be the person they bought it from or the dealer, but it's just
somebody along the line.
I knew it was doing it.
They sold, if you sell a car privately and that person says, you know, I've had
it a week or two.
I really don't like this car.
I'm going to trade it in.
Okay.
Now the dealer had no idea it was bad.
The dealer holds onto it, can't sell it for three months.
So they take it to the auction, it gets sold.
Somebody else gets it, goes to another dealer, then somebody buys it.
Now who's the bad guy?
Nobody knows unless they're driving it for a month and they check the oil.
So here's, hold on a sec.
Russ, I'm going to, I'm going to talk to Mark for a second.
So Mark, what Russ just said was not only are you a nice guy for making sure you
don't sell the car to someone who doesn't know, but you also have to make
sure you don't sell it to someone who sells it to someone who doesn't know.
So this call for you was a disaster.
Who's in first?
Because Russ is telling you you're, you're responsible for this thing all the way
down the line.
It's not even your car.
I'm sorry about this call, but it could be.
What's that going to cost to get professionally cleaned?
Well, you can try the, you could try the CRC kit yourself.
And I'm saying, don't try it.
I'm saying, go get it professionally done.
Cause then you know, probably, probably a few hundred dollars.
Okay.
You don't, if you do it yourself, you're, you're looking at less than a hundred bucks.
But if you do it yourself and you see that it makes a noticeable difference at
that point, you might say, I'll either do it again and really get it cleaner.
I'll take it into a shop, but you've, you see that you've made a difference.
But, you know, I mean, the, the shop, something you pour into the oil.
Yeah, pour into the oil, you clean the throttle body.
There's a, a kit that's introduced through the, the, um, the end, into the intake system.
So to clean the back of the vowels and everything.
So a chemical package.
You know, oil system cleaner is sometimes can make a huge difference too.
Just by cleaning up the rings, if they're starting to stick a little bit, but you
got to check that PCV system too.
You got a PCV valve for it and replace that.
Mark, good luck.
Thanks very much for the call.
And go forth and be a good person.
Like you are, you're doing the right thing, unfortunately.
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Let's talk to Roger in Minnesota.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Roger, what can we do for you?
Uh, yeah, you kind of pick my interest at the beginning of the show about the
uh, transmission control module being needed when you swap out a, um, a
transmission and specifically I've got a, um, a, uh, 2019 Nissan Pathfinder.
It's a all wheel drive and it's got the CVT transmission and, and, uh, so, uh,
anyway, it failed and we're going to swap that out.
So first off, thank you for mentioning that we need the controller with that
because we looked at the car dash parts.com and not all of them list the
controller with the transmission.
So that's a good way to sort that out.
Um, but I do have a question.
Um, assuming you've changed a few of these yourself and that, um, I'm wondering,
do you drop the whole front end out or you suspend the engine when you do that?
I've done them both ways on not Nissan's, but other vehicles.
And the other question I have is, um, it appears that the front, uh, right axle,
the one with the, uh, bearing carrier is, uh, kind of a chore to get out.
And I'm wondering if you have any advice on how to get those out of there without
using the, uh, the hot torch.
No, I mean, we've, we've got a tool for removing it, but yeah, they can be
really tricky to, to get those out of there.
A lot of times we unbolt the whole thing right from the, from the engine that the
brace and the bearing that goes on the engine, we pull the whole thing off
and slide it off, but you've got to drop everything in order to do that.
Most of the time we do, we've got a special, uh, tray cradle made for those
type of vehicles where we just lower it down on top.
We pull all the bolts out, take the struts off and just, you know, the top mount
and we just lift it right off and it's, it's right.
They're accessible to us to take apart makes it much easier for us.
Okay. Yeah. That's, that's kind of a, I watched a couple of videos, um, which,
which I normally try to do them for, you know, start something new like this, but,
um, and that's why I was thinking it sure looked like it'd be a lot easier if you
just dropped that whole thing down on a, on a table, you know, a good sturdy table
or whatever and go from there.
You could do it both ways, but it's not as safe by suspending it and it's harder,
you're going to take about the same amount of time.
You're removing less stuff, but you are also taking longer to remove less stuff
in your cramped areas and it's, it's not as safe.
If you get your arm stuck in a bad spot and that engine did decide it wanted to
fall, you're going to lose part of it.
It's, it's not, it's not safe.
Whereas if you put it on a cradle and you take all the bolts out and you lift
the vehicle off, it's there.
It's not going any further down than what it is.
Sure.
Okay.
All right.
That's, um, excellent advice and I appreciate you and your shows.
Thanks.
Thanks very much for the call.
Yeah.
That's what I'd do probably.
I mean, on this, on this, uh, Pathfinder, that's how I would do it that way.
I wouldn't.
You just, you know, depending on what, what transmission I'm taken out,
I would do it that way probably.
You know, I don't want to get the torch out on a Tuesday and, um, I was a little worried
at the front of that call and it had no worries.
Once Roger started just completely going right past me, uh, talking about the transmission
controller, like you said when we talked about it earlier, not, not everyone and some, some
you have to match, some you don't, some slip in, you know, some can just drop in and that
I don't want to get away from that when we talk about, because now it sounds, those
two calls are specific to those vehicles and it can be different no matter what.
Right.
Yeah.
You, you've got, you've got to know the big thing is do you know if you don't, you've
got to, you've got to work with the shop and like we've had.
So the customers, we've had a couple, they put their own part in that said, I can do this,
I don't need a shop.
They, so they put it in, they weren't aware of that.
Like I would.
Yeah.
The one guy, it cost him a lot of money because he, he put it in himself in an Nissan.
The controller did not come with the part.
He waited eight months to a year before he installed it.
So by that time, the car that he bought it from was gone that, and that recycling facility
we don't have that car anymore.
So he's like, now what do I do?
Well, he ended up, ended up buying a brand new controller from Nissan and having them install
it.
And it was, I want to say it cost him like 15, 1800 bucks to, to get that vehicle going
where it should have been a part that was included with the transmission he purchased.
And if you're going to car dash part with our partner and you're buying a transmission,
well, you get to talk to that recycler and you need to know these things.
You need to know what you need to get with the part included.
Maybe you don't have to install it right away, but still you need to know what's included.
And if it's a CVT transmission or any transmission for that, just say,
does the transmission control module come with it?
Because if it's not part of the engine computer, if it's bolted,
like a Volkswagen or something, like a Beetle bolted under the dash, I need that module.
And it's not necessary.
If, if you know what you're asking and what it's not necessarily a deal breaker,
you just would know that that's another thing you have to do,
which may be why that transmission caught your eye because it's at a price point where they know.
It didn't come with it.
You're going to have to buy a new one and have to have a program.
We get that.
And there are some transmissions that come with transfer cases, the PTU power takeoff unit,
and some that don't.
And some that have to be pressed to partners.
There's a lot of things that go into that.
So you want to know all these things.
And hey, if you're doing it at home, maybe you've got nothing but time
and you're looking to save money.
And maybe in the long run, you will save money, but you're not saving time.
And that's the one thing that sometimes people really should be saving because
the clock is our enemy.
It's constantly ticking until it stops one day.
So we only have so much of it.
What are you using it for?
You know, and if you're, if you're working on your car and you spend hours, I mean,
I, I got something, I'm working on a car project right now.
And I decided it's something where I need to go get a part.
And I decided, I'm going to make a, I'm going to make a trip out of it with my wife.
So we can do something together while we're doing this other thing.
And when we're working on cars, we're working on them together so that,
yeah, you know, so, so it's like, spend time with your friends, spend time with your kids.
It's great, you know, to work with your kids on cars.
Okay, Russ, that sounds like what you're doing.
Like you're like, honey, I want to buy this part so we can go on a road trip together.
She suggested.
So I should still go get this part, right?
For my product, because I could skip it, but then we wouldn't get to spend time
going to get the part.
Oh, you can't go.
Yeah, I'm still going to go get that part.
With Chris.
You go see your mom.
With Chris.
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That's the number to reach us here at the end of the hood show.
Let's talk to Ethan.
Ethan, you're on the end of the hood show.
What can we do for you?
Hi guys.
I got a question with a 2013 GMC Sierra with about 54,000 miles on it.
It has that ability where it deactivates to a four cylinder run when it's on during
light roads or highway speeds and doing some.
Yeah, I was wondering, is it worth saving or disabling that to save the engine?
I've heard that it can cause problems or cylinders could suck or because of just in
the higher miles and could cost an engine.
Is it worth stopping that?
It's old enough.
It can break with it working or not, but you might have a little better chance with
it turned off than with it on.
Even now, 14 years later.
Even now because it's probably getting pretty weak at this point.
My brother's just died.
He's got a 17 and it just died yesterday.
This isn't a switch.
You're switching.
You're not just turning it off.
Well, yeah, kind of.
You're putting, there's two ways to do it.
The right way where you take the engine apart and you disable everything and you put
regular lifters in it, that's the right way.
And that's going to guarantee you're not going to have that failure.
It can't happen.
It's physically not there.
That's expensive.
The other way is to go pick up a, so you can go to advance auto parts, pick up an AFM
Just go in there and say, Hey guys, I'm looking for a kit.
The guys at the counter, they've done this before.
It plugs into the, they call it a dongle.
It plugs into the OBD2 rear port under the dash.
So go in there in advance, ask them, I need an AFM delete and they'll be able to show it
what you need.
If they don't have it, they can get it in and it simply just plugs in and it tricks the
computer into thinking it's in a mode that it shouldn't activate that.
So it never turns on again.
And as long as you've got it plugged in, it's fine.
You unplug it and it goes back to working again.
So if you need to scan the vehicle, plug your scanner in, scan it.
If you don't plug that thing in and you're good.
So that's, that I would say, yes, you know, at this age, if it's working good now,
plug it in.
If it's already given you issues, that's not going to fix it because it's going to be
bleeding by the solenoids and that's the issue.
I haven't had any issues with it.
I know all 54,000 miles on it, good oil changes and everything.
That's low miles.
Extend it.
Yep.
That low miles on it, I would, I would definitely put that on.
Can keep using good oil, good oil changes, frequent oil changes.
The acids in the oils will build up and eat away at seals and things like that in that
oil system.
That's why you really need to keep the oil changed more frequently.
We recommend three months, 3000 on those to keep that down.
I mean, it may be protecting the engine, lubricity-wise, but there's enough acids
and things built up in there.
It can cause issues.
How much is it to do it?
The right way.
Yeah.
Um, we'll say about 3,500 bucks.
Okay.
You know, if you're having it professionally done at a shop, they've got to pull the heads.
They've got to pull the camshaft out.
You're putting a cam, lifters, all of it.
If, in Ethan's case, if money weren't his issue, this 50,000 miles on a 13, that might
be a case where it would be worth it.
If he, if he did that with the cam and lifters and did it the regular way, uh, he could save
the money of having to replace the entire engine for several thousand more than that
down the road at some point.
And he would probably get 300,000, maybe 400,000 out of that engine with good oil changes.
They are just, that engine without AFM is an amazingly strong, good engine.
And the value of that vehicle with that properly installed.
That 13 Sierra with that low of miles is right now, it is a valuable vehicle as it is.
And if you tell people, I've done this to delete and here's the receipts for it, they'll
be like, Oh, it's even better.
Yeah.
Because that scares people sometimes when they buy one of those and it's got 150,000 out,
they're like, well, if it hasn't failed, that might, and I don't want to risk,
I'm paying premium for a beautiful truck.
I don't want to risk that the engine might be bad.
Ethan, thanks very much for the call.
Good luck.
866-594-4150.
Let's talk to Tony.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Tony, what can we do for you?
Hey, I've got a 2014 Honda Accord.
And it's got the four cylinder in it and it's got 170,000 miles.
And I had the timing chain go out and I put a timing chain in it and it ran.
And it ran, I thought pretty smooth.
And then, then it started missing.
And then it started ticking like that, you know, it's got that variable speed cam deal.
I'm thinking that's what's causing it.
Is it the anti-knock sensor that I got to change or is there something else?
Oh, the ticking isn't going to be caused by a knock sensor.
Like ticking it idle and when you rev it up, you can hear it change with motor speed?
No, I don't.
You can hear it change with motor speed, but when you start it cold, it's not there.
Okay.
Um, yeah, I'm sure it's computer generated causing this knock, but I don't know where to go from
there. Should I take it to a Honda garage?
You're going to have to have somebody diagnose it if it's, if it's doing that.
I'd say if it did it when it's cold, but not hot, instead of the other way around,
it may need the valves adjusted because those should be adjusted when you're doing that
chain on there.
Okay.
It's, it's possible that there was an issue there, like there was some wear going on or
you need to replace some of that valve train component.
Yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna have to get it in and find out what's going on.
If it, if it's electronic, the knock sensor won't cause a noise like that.
But it could be picking up a noise that's, that could be picking up a wrong noise to
I mean, that's what, yeah, I've actually had some engines.
We, we did one recently in a Kia that the knock sensor was given a code for it.
That's cause the engine was knocking.
So it was like, I need a knock center replaced.
No, you need an engine replaced and that'll fix the problem with your knock.
All right. That's what I need to know.
I sure appreciate you guys' input and I'll get it down and get diagnosed and I'll give
you a call back and let you know how it come out.
Sounds good.
Thanks Tony. Thanks very much for the call.
866-594-4150. That is talking about the cold cars at being down in Florida with the cold.
The, we were okay.
I was totally fine.
I mean, it was, you know, at one point, probably wearing shorts, weren't you?
Oh, it's 20 degrees and 45 degrees.
And my daughter, we went to where my daughter works and it was one of those,
it was like one of those moments where I was like, oh, it's not.
I mean, if you're not prepared, they, a couple of the kids she works with just had never,
the one was from the Philippines and she was like, I've never, this is like 100 below for you.
She said, this is already here at 25 degrees is 40 degrees colder than I've ever been.
You know, she was just, and she was really having a heart even like in,
in the business where she was in, it was warm.
She, it was rough.
Yeah. It's, it's hard to get, it's, it's hard to adjust to that.
The cold or the heat when you, if, if you're not accustomed to it in cars too, they,
they have things that wear, but they, like I said, they just show up when they get stressed.
And they normally wouldn't be under that stressful condition.
And then, and then of course there's the operation of those vehicles. People,
a lot of people don't know how to drive when there's snow, but you got to, you got to
give them a little grace and think about it. You know, allow them to be stupid because if they're,
maybe they're, but they're 23 years old, they should know how to drive.
Okay. They're 23. They live in Texas. They may have never seen a snowstorm.
They may have never driven in a snowstorm. There may not have been one where there's ice on the road
when you, you know, in their driving career. So it's like, this is the first time
the people where we're at, where it snows every year, we have those first year drivers that have
never done it. We have people that, that are 70 years old. You think that they had done it before,
but every year they, they have to slide a few times before they went, oh, I better slow down.
That happens to all of us a little bit. Let's talk about Wisconsin.
Yeah. Well, Wisconsin, a gentleman had a, an older gentleman in his eighties had a beautiful
car collection of old Thunderbirds and different things. Had a whole shop full of beautiful stuff.
And his neighbor came and knocking on the door late at night.
They were getting ready for bed and said, uh, your barn's on fire. What? Your barn's on fire.
So they looked out the back and by the time they looked out back, it was in such fire,
there was no fixing it. And it, it took the better part of the night and into the next day to get
the fire out. It was so bad. And watching the videos on it, there was nothing left but charred
vehicles. He had saved one because it was out of the barn already, but the rest of them were
a total loss. And he said, I've just lost all my cars. All I have is the memories. I'm not going
to collect anymore. He says, I've, I've got this one and I might buy one because I want it, but
I'm not going to collect like I was collecting these to sell someday. He says, I've lost my investment.
If he's lost his investment, that kind of leads me to believe he didn't have the correct coverage
on them. Cause we talked about Berkeley one classics earlier and if he would have had that
on those cars, they would have agreed on what the price would was. So he at least could have had
some confidence knowing, all right, I hope I never have a fire. I hope I never have a total loss.
But if I have a total loss, I know I've got eight cars and they're valued at, you know,
the total value there is $580,000. I know what the dollar amount is if I ever had a,
a tornado or a tragedy and flatten the building. But in this case, I don't know what the situation
was, but he sure was sad because he had, he looked like he just lost a child. They lost everything.
And that, that happens. I see that happen with individual cars, fire, flood, collisions where
people are just not covered. I know people that they drive their old cars like that. And like,
you know, I drive it so infrequently that I don't have any insurance on it, no liability or anything.
No, I only drive it down to the parade downtown. Or I don't even drive it once a year. And I have
it out there. Eventually I'm going to get it going. And no, I mean, there, you, you get what
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About this episode
Listeners are treated to a lively discussion about automotive troubleshooting, particularly focusing on transmission issues and sensor problems in vehicles. Russ Evans shares insights on the importance of matching transmission control modules with replacements and offers practical advice for diagnosing ABS and Stabilitrak light issues in a 2012 GMC Terrain. The episode also features light-hearted banter about winter adventures and the challenges of maintaining vehicles in extreme weather conditions, making it both informative and entertaining.
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How do you fix a GMC Terrain ABS Light? How do you fix oil burning on a Subaru before selling it? 19 Outback 22 Toyota Tacoma Sliding window fix 13 Sierra Should I delete my AFM? 00 Accord Timing Chain noise after repairs Wisconsin Classic Car fire
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