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Bunch of calls coming in.
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Let's go right to California and talk to Jeff.
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You're on the Under the Hood Show.
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Jeff, what can we do for you?
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I have had a problem with the Honda Pilot and I had a solution to it.
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And I just want to share this with all of your listeners.
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And I'm not sure if you guys cover this on your show or not.
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But the service bulletin was sent out by Honda for an intermittent failure
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with the keyless entry in the TPMS control unit.
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And what's happening is you'll park your car in your garage or somewhere
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and the alarm will just start going off intermittently.
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Their solution is to, the service bulletin is to change that unit,
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which will cost you about $1,000.
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But I got on YouTube and did a stellar YouTube for a solution to this.
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And there's a guy on YouTube that put this, the board under a microscope
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and he found the problem, which was the one chip is not covered with that
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protective film and it collects deposits between 10-1 and ground.
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And it'll intermittently lock and unlock your car doors and set off the alarm.
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It's just enough millivolts that it senses that somebody is trying to steal the car.
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And so your alarm goes off and the solution is just clean it with alcohol
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and then cover it with fingernail polish.
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We are sitting here all of us in amazement.
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I don't know about Russ because he's probably done something like this.
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This sounds like a crazy person who Russ should meet.
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And all I can think is Chris wants a microscope now.
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I should have thought of that, too.
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He made a symbol over there like, yeah, Chris wants a microscope now.
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For sure. That's awesome.
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You cannot see the deposits with a naked eye.
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I haven't tried to put two magnifying glasses together and you still can't see it.
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But I went ahead and cleaned it with alcohol and a cotton swab,
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coated with fingernail polish, and it's been fine ever since.
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This thing was waking us up nightly.
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It would be in my garage and the alarm would just go off.
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I think at some point we had somebody call the show about this.
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Did you, where's that module located in that vehicle?
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It's underneath the dash behind the glove box.
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And it's in a plastic container, so you have to take that out and break it.
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Well, I'm not breaking it.
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There's latches that are very tricky to get undone before you can pull the board out of it.
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I mean, we'll have to put that.
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We probably need to put that up as a short on our YouTube channel, too,
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to give people another way to find that out.
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Because if they're not replacing it as a safety recall and you have to pay for it
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because it's just a bolt and like, hey, we found the problem by the part.
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A thousand bucks for one with a few drops of nail polish.
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Yeah, that's that's awesome.
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Jeff, thanks very much for the call.
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Well, there's, yeah, there's, there's several things like that
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that the dealer has released that are out of warranty.
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They'll say, oh, here's the fix for it, but you've got to pay for it.
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We built it wrong, but that's OK.
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We're not going to cover it, unfortunately.
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Russ, do you have a microscope at the shop?
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We can start harvesting these modules and then you could open them up and.
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I got one at home, but I don't know when to shop.
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And then we'll just do a little operation and we could resell them.
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Can we get an iPhone one?
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Can we get one of those that attaches to the phone so we can see?
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Here's where Russ knew that Chris would find a high interest in this.
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Run it through a pipe or something.
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That's the number to reach us here at the end of the hood show.
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Let's go to Landon in Ohio.
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You're on the end of the hood show.
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Landon, what can we do for you?
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Hey, guys, I'm a long time listener.
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Probably two or two or so years now.
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But so I have a I have a 1989 Chevy K 1500.
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And I've been having this weird issue that I cannot put my finger on.
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But it's a 350 TBI.
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And it's the only thing done to the motor is the has
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like the aftermarket carb style air cleaner.
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Instead of that, the long black tube one.
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And the previous owner said it had a very mild
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cam installed possibly and the head's done, but there's no proof.
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But sometimes it'll rev up and down up and down at idle.
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Sometimes it'll drop the RPM when you come to a hard stop
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and like almost stall and once it did stall.
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And if you're in park, it'll rev up probably like eight
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hundred or nine to eight hundred or nine hundred fifty RPM.
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And then it acts like it has a backing leak, but it goes away and comes back.
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And it's been doing it ever since you had the vehicle.
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Yeah. Yeah, I've had it probably.
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Did the previous owner tell you that it did this?
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No, he didn't really realize it.
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I didn't do it until I got a home.
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You know, he might have been in enough euphoria that you never noticed it
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right away. That's that does happen.
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Look at this nice truck.
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Oh, it is super clean.
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Ross Free. Well, in these trucks, you know, you talk about eras,
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but I just I had a guy from our area recently on the phone
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and he likes to ask me some questions every once in a while.
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And he's kind of went ham on.
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He just told me gathering these trucks.
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He's got a whole bunch of two wheel drive short boxes
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and he's got a whole bunch of two wheel drive, full size blazers of that era.
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Blazers and blazers and Yukon's that they made.
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And I was surprised how many a whole much was.
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But he just said that the square body phase has gotten so expensive.
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It raced up so fast that people are a lot of them
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can't afford the price of admission.
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Right. And these trucks are starting to grow.
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The following, I know Russ, they're they're taking off them and it's kind of crazy.
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But that motor, I would be curious how much cam he put in it,
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because if he didn't have the computer adjusted enough, any cam, that would be a problem.
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It's not a stock cam in one of those because they don't have a mass airflow sensor.
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They're running a map sensor.
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They're they're going to they're going to surge.
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They're going to run bad like that.
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And if even if you change the exhaust, you take off that factory catalytic converter.
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If it's got a straight exhaust on it with no converter, it can cause it to run that way too.
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And both of those things together equal it needs to be tuned.
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And you're going to have to find somebody that can tune it,
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but they're going to need to know what the specs of the engine are.
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They're going to need to know what cams in there the whole bit so that they can put that in.
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Now, an easy way to find out if it's got a cam in it or not, it still takes some time.
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But depending on the accessories you have on the front of the motor,
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it might be as simple as just pulling off the balancer, taking off the water pump
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and taking the timing cover off.
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And then you when you pull that timing chain, the top gear off,
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there'll be numbers on the end of the camshaft.
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You know, it'll say 262 comp cam or whatever will be right on the front of it.
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So you don't pull the whole cam out.
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That's the easiest way to find out if it's got a cam.
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So you get that, you write down the numbers and then you write down.
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OK, it's got straight exhaust on it with mufflers, turbo mufflers or glass packs.
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It doesn't have a CAD on it.
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I'm assuming it probably doesn't if this guy's mess with it.
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And then, you know, whatever else you know that's been done to the motor,
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There's still a couple of people out there that'll built burn chips
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because they have chips in an old burner and they pull out all that
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information in their computer and it will program a chip.
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And then you just snap it into your computer and it's done.
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Another thought, Russ, EGR was a huge problem.
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Yeah, just let's go back to the base problems before he's we went.
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We jumped right to that stock.
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Yeah, we jumped right to that comment about the cam.
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Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. What would you do?
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Yeah, if it's all stock, unplug that EGR, put a golf tee in the hose
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and see if it goes away.
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If it does, you're going to need the EGR valve and the little
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actuation solenoid on it as a pair, which is very affordable.
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Doral products has them. Yeah, as a kit, you can get the whole thing.
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And you might just do that anyway.
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Yeah, yeah, because of the age, if it's still got an EGR.
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And then the other thing is set the timing with the engine completely warm.
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Disconnect the timing connector.
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It's either going to be located under the hood under that little black
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tee shaped box on the passenger firewall under the hood,
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or it's going to be under the passenger side kick panel where the glove box
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area is and it's a brown and black wire, tan and black
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that's got a little black connector on it.
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You just unplug it and you'll hear the engine drop down an RPM a little
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bit. That means and the check engine light will come on.
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That means it's in the timing set mode and the timing is set to zero on those.
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And then once it's set to zero, you plug it back in and shut the key off,
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start it back up again and see if it changed.
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And if it's still the factory distributor in that truck and it's got miles on it,
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even the new ones are horrible.
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I would what do you buy usually for us to replace one?
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We've got one that we put three or four of them in and it's still
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given us trouble. I just hate those things.
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We'd like to replace them all because nobody makes a good one right now.
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Standard, dormant, none of them are making a good one.
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It's an off like WAI or some weird one.
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So instead of putting new ones in when we are putting reman engines in,
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we've been leaving the old ones in and saying, hey, we didn't sell you one.
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So we're not going to be stuck.
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But a lot of times you can get away with a new module,
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Make sure the bushings aren't loose inside of it and get new guts.
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It's the magnets in the in the shaft that are the problems.
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They lose their power.
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Landon, thanks very much for the call. Good luck.
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Is there anything that works in place of a golf tee?
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If it's Sunday and I'm working on it and I can't get to a store
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that has a golf tee and I need a matchstick bolt.
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Something that you just plug it, plug it.
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Yeah, I'll go in the kitchen and see if something from the wife.
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There's something in there in the drum.
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There's something in the junk.
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Haven't listened to our show and then ran out and said, where do I find
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golf keys? Yeah, I bought a whole bag of the run.
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Yeah, they're cheap.
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If you go to a golf course, go to a driving range.
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There'll be hundreds of them in pieces.
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There'll be bags all over.
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I just said to unzip the bag.
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You just need the top half, you know, the top part, not the bottom part.
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They'll be if you do that, they'll be like, what are you doing?
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You'll be like, I just need one golf tee.
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I'm sure they'll just go get some shrapnel off the range.
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I could walk over to any range right now and just pick up the top
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one that's busted off.
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That's the number to reach us here at the end of the hood show.
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Let's talk to Brian.
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You're on the end of the hood show.
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Brian, what can we do for you?
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Hello, I got a 2013 Ford Edge and I got a check engine light
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and I got a PO455 code that's evaporative emissions leak.
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And it says once I'll pop up, I'll say check the fuel cap door
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or check the fuel cap, but it's one of those capless fuel tank fillers.
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What do you think I got going on?
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Are there any engine issues?
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Surgeon runs bad or anything like that?
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It doesn't seem to bother on anything, you know, as far as rough idle
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or anything like that.
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More than likely it's going to be a canister and vent valve issue on the car.
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They've had some canisters that crack around the seams and seep air
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and vent valves that stick.
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Standard motor products makes a really great canister and vent valve combination both.
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I just did one on a Honda Odyssey yesterday.
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It had some water in it from driving through some deep water
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because the canister was leaking.
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It wouldn't have got water in it if it wasn't leaking in the first place.
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But you get those emissions codes when that happens.
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Secondary is the capless fill system with dirt and age.
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They can start to leak and instead of replacing the whole cap,
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which was standard, you replace the whole filler neck assembly in there,
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starting to sell a lot more filler neck assemblies.
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I know we've purchased several of them from Dorman products, put them in vehicles.
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So far, they've all been Fords.
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They've been Fusion, F-150s, Taurus.
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They just and it could be.
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Well, they started putting them on before other domestics.
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That's I think that's why it's good.
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And these were older ones, 13, 14.
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I was surprised when he said 13 edge and had a capless.
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I just didn't realize in my mind that was like, really?
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When he said that, I had a guy yesterday called me within 11
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and he says he says, yeah, I got a problem with my with, you know,
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I don't have a fuel cap.
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So I have a problem with it.
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And I'm like, oh, it's it's worn out.
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And I was like, yeah, well, they've been around for a while
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where you just stick the hose in there and there's no fill cap.
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Because what do you mean?
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There's no, who, who doesn't have a fill cap?
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I said, well, you don't, you just told me it doesn't.
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There's no, my cap's missing.
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I need another one.
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Oh, they want to know what kind of cap to buy.
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And I thought he meant it was a right capless type system.
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But no, he was missing his cap.
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But yeah, you know, the secondary is the fill neck itself primary.
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I would, I'd be leaning more towards that.
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And the only way to know that 100% is to get a smoke machine and to
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Smoke machines are cheap.
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Every shop should own one.
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Now you can pick a really nice one up for less than 200 bucks.
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You can pick a one that works up for about 80 bucks.
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So you should a shop should own one.
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Brian, just quick for other listeners that may have thought,
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what are they talking about?
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Your, your fuel system is a sealed system.
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And they have a vent system that lets that tank breathe so you can
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fill gas and it doesn't kick back at you.
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And then it takes any breathing of the tank through a basically a
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charcoal filter and there's valves that meter when that should be
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And that's the system that gets some problems.
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And then it just, the system does itself test, which it does every
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once in a while and it says, um, this isn't working right.
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And, uh, we, we can't let vapors get into the air.
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And so we got to fix this.
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That's what's going on here.
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Brian, thanks very much for the call.
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Let's go to Oregon and talk to Mitchell.
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You're on the end of the hood show.
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Mitchell, what can we do for you?
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Got a 95 Caprice and with a four, three V eight and a four
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Anyway, I, uh, I replied, I took it apart when I had problems
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starting with a couple of years ago.
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I took the valve body out, put it into a solenoid, cleaned it
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out, put a shift kit in it.
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But what happens is when you put it in reverse, when it's cold,
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it goes bam, right into reverse and it works great.
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When it warms up, reverse slips and then kind of chatters.
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Um, after it's warm.
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And I'm just trying to get my brain straight here.
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That has got the throttle body 4.3 that probably still has a, or
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does it have a kick or a throttle pressure cable or is that
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trance all electronic?
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I'm trying to remember.
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It's a, well, no, it has a cable, a cable that goes down
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from a throttle body on top of the engine.
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Cause at 96, I think it was when they went to the, the,
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the mini LT they called it in the, in that four, three.
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So you've still got the older generation.
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That's, that's what this is, is the four, three, the eight mini LT.
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But okay, that's fine.
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So when it's cold, it's fine.
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When it's warm, it slips.
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It slips and kind of chatters.
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If you're going back, if you're backing up a hill or so.
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If you have put in a valve body and the valve body is
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good and it was clean and everything was put in right.
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And there's no failures there than that leaves one thing
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basically on that would be that the seals, the lip seals in
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that transmission for that reverse clutch are, are leaking
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or the clutch is slipping because it's worn off as you're
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We know we've got, so we start off with a valve body.
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Do we have enough pressure going to it?
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Cause it works forward.
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Is it good in reverse?
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If it is, then you're applying pressure to it, but it's
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And because it only does it warm, if the clutches were
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worn out, it's going to slip cold or hot.
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But if the pressure is low, only when it's warm, then that's
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The seals start to bypass them when they get warm.
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Is everything expands a little bit?
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Can't seal against that.
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How did that fluid look when you took it apart?
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It's actually, yeah, it stays pink a long, long time.
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Um, but that's why I took it apart is because it was
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the same problem and I took it apart, cleaned everything, but
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I didn't, I didn't know to look for the seals.
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So are those accessible through?
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If you take the valve body off, oh, please don't say that.
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100% tear down to get to it.
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But if you took a valve body off, if you took a valve body
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off yourself and we're confident you got it back on
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correctly, you could pull the transmission.
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With a couple of tools off Amazon, you could take that
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transmission completely apart yourself, look for the
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failed parts and put it back together.
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Watching YouTube because it's, it's not any more difficult
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than, I mean, you've got to pull it out.
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Yes, but it's not any more difficult than what you did
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with the valve body and the, the ball bearings and the
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whole bit trying to put it on while you're on the
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ground upside down.
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You know, you take that valve body out, you've got
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that thing sitting up on a stand and you pull the
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pump out of the front of it, you start pulling things
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They all stack in there and get yourself a kit.
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I think the kits for those to rebuild them are still
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like three, 400 bucks.
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They're not that bad, but when you take it into a
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professional transmission shop, they got a lot of
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labor there to tear it down, clean it up, inspect
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everything, put a kit in it that's going to cost
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you more than what you're going to buy the kit for.
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And then you could say, wow, I built this, you
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know, it's, it's a, it's a Turbo 350 with an
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overdrive unit on it.
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And I did one on a, on a basically a really
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dirty floor one time and it actually worked
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Make sure you keep track as you pull stuff out.
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Keep track, but also YouTube videos.
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There are really extensive YouTube videos on
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rebuilding those 700 R4s and 4L60s and Turbo 350s.
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They'll show every piece.
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You can, you can find them all out there.
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It's not for everybody.
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Don't be thinking, oh, he told me I could do it.
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No, but it's something to do it upside down.
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He heard what he did already and thought, you
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know, there's something that can be done
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here, but that first time you dump that fluid,
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though, I was just curious what it was like.
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Cause if that was super clean yet, you can have
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clean fluid and saw these lip seals leaking.
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If you had clutches burned up, that first
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dump of that transmission fluid should have
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had not so much debris, but it should have
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been kind of stinky and gross.
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Mitchell, thanks very much for the call.
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That's a UTI I got a I think
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Because because there's there's
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I mean I could do yeah.
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That's a that's I can
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one five oh let's talk to
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Rhonda you're on the end of
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the hood show Rhonda what can
25:24
I have a twenty twenty four
25:29
I got it brand new.
25:31
And didn't have it maybe a
25:33
week and I would go to make a
25:35
phone call and I couldn't hear
25:38
anything it was all scratchy.
25:40
I had to hang up and the other
25:41
person on the other end
25:42
couldn't hear me or if I get
25:47
I occasionally will have the
25:50
It's real sporadic.
25:52
There's no time specific.
25:55
In fact when I called you
25:57
today I had to hang up
26:00
because I had the same thing
26:03
I've had it into my dealership
26:05
three times and they have
26:08
reset the phone or the phone
26:12
on the car and they have
26:15
did the updates on it.
26:21
And I've had it in three times
26:22
and now they tell me it's my
26:25
My phone is probably three years
26:27
old and they said well you
26:29
probably need to update your
26:30
phone it probably hasn't been
26:32
updated but it works in my
26:34
personal car which is a 23
26:38
and it works in my other car
26:43
Are those other are those
26:44
other GM cars or are they
26:46
what kind are they.
26:48
A RAM Dodge Ram pickup
26:53
Those are 100 percent
26:54
different communication protocol
26:56
systems than the GM.
26:58
So it is possible it's your
27:01
phone but it's also an awesome
27:03
excuse when the when the part
27:05
it's not a GM phone because
27:07
they don't make a GM phone.
27:09
So when they say our systems
27:10
working fine how do you know
27:12
you don't know but I have seen
27:14
a number of phones that are
27:17
more than a year old that are
27:20
not compatible very well and
27:23
it seems to be more in GMs
27:26
I have my current phone is
27:30
three years old and it works
27:34
wonderfully in one of my GM
27:35
cars and works horribly in one
27:37
of my other GM cars.
27:38
It just doesn't half the time
27:41
It's doing what yours is doing.
27:43
And yeah it's the phone
27:44
because another phone I have
27:46
of my wife's phones in there
27:47
it works just fine.
27:49
A different model phone.
27:50
Do you have somebody in your
27:51
family that you could pair
27:52
their pair their phone to that
27:53
vehicle and and try it a
27:55
That's what you need to do.
27:57
So so they did try it out
27:59
with the dealer this last time
28:01
that I had it in and like I said
28:03
it's sporadic it's not going to
28:04
happen every time but before
28:08
I had this car I had a 2021
28:11
Chevy Malibu and it worked
28:14
That's an older system
28:16
completely different design.
28:17
One of the things all the
28:18
time on those with Bluetooth
28:19
one of it's the that was I
28:21
was just going to say the
28:22
the software and the firmware
28:26
of Bluetooth which is a
28:28
brand I mean that's the it
28:32
changes and goes so fast.
28:34
Yeah so they're the new
28:37
car that GM car they really
28:39
don't need to make it backwards
28:41
compatible it's only going to go
28:42
back so far and if your phone
28:44
only goes so new they will
28:46
stop updating it at some point
28:48
and then that's that's it you
28:49
can't go any newer than that.
28:51
So it's very possible your phone
28:52
that's why you got to try a
28:54
But Russ my dad has a flip
28:56
phone programmed to a very
29:00
Yeah well that's a different
29:02
system blows my mind.
29:04
But here's the here's the other
29:06
Any vehicle and any phone
29:09
let's just say it's a 2024
29:11
vehicle and a 2022 phone
29:14
depending on where those
29:15
vehicles when those vehicles
29:17
and when that phone was
29:18
manufactured and what protocol
29:20
they used in a vastly
29:21
different as far as what
29:24
method of Bluetooth you're
29:25
using because that.
29:26
And even in a GM car a Corvette
29:28
radio a Silverado radio they're
29:31
going to have different Bluetooth
29:33
systems in there depending.
29:36
Now if you've got look on your
29:37
hall under interchange basically
29:39
Shannon if it says here's the
29:40
radio this fits a traverse this
29:42
fits a Malibu this fits a whatever
29:45
that would be the same protocol
29:47
but if it says it fits this but
29:49
it doesn't fit the Corvette it
29:51
doesn't fit a Camaro those are
29:52
separate those could be different
29:54
So the only way to try that
29:55
she can get this fixed is to try
29:58
a different phone you know maybe
30:00
a family members got one that's
30:01
riding around but you got and
30:04
And let's keep in mind too that
30:06
Bluetooth on its at its
30:09
base is like a radio.
30:11
So if you're listening to the
30:13
radio right now on 92.5
30:17
it's not always going to come
30:18
in perfect on 92.5 and you
30:21
might so I mean you've got
30:24
Sometimes you just get a phone
30:27
that doesn't work all the time.
30:28
Rhonda I'm going to ask and
30:29
that's getting better.
30:30
I'm going to ask a controversial
30:33
Is your phone an Apple or an
30:39
Those are usually better.
30:40
Because I've I've had problems
30:43
with GM playing with Apple for
30:45
a few years with like their
30:46
automatic charging and stuff.
30:47
And there's all kinds of stuff
30:49
online that said there's some
30:51
compatibility issues with some
30:53
But the fact that this is
30:54
intermittent is frustrating.
30:56
That it works all it works great.
30:58
It's almost like it goes so long
30:59
and it's like OK I've had enough
31:01
of this or this time I don't like
31:02
the way we connected.
31:04
It's just maddening and
31:07
it's a maddening thing for a
31:08
technician to try to fix.
31:10
Because all they can do if
31:12
they wanted to is replace
31:14
the communications module.
31:16
I don't know if they've done
31:18
And they may or may not have
31:20
permission from General Motors to
31:22
They won't allow them to do it
31:23
unless they verify.
31:24
They're going to ask them and
31:25
said did you try a different
31:26
phone and say maybe they'll
31:28
just say yes we did and it
31:29
didn't do any good.
31:30
They may let them change it.
31:31
But a lot of times there'll be
31:32
a Bolton that says hey this is
31:34
a compatibility issue which
31:36
they should be able to dig into
31:38
And sometimes I don't if you
31:40
listen to the under the hood
31:41
show every single call is
31:44
someone who has a problem
31:46
with their car that is unique
31:49
You know what I mean.
31:50
My car every third time I
31:55
Well not all the GM's and not
31:56
all the Ford's chug but that
31:58
And that this is just that
32:00
sometimes happens with those
32:03
I feel for it so frustrating.
32:06
Do you have someone that
32:07
could be with you and you
32:08
guys could do a bunch of
32:09
phone calling over a weekend
32:10
or something to take a
32:10
road trip and pair up a
32:14
Yeah it's my company car so
32:16
I can't take anybody with
32:18
me other than a fellow
32:21
Oh so I have to grab maybe
32:23
in my household phone so
32:26
maybe the company can borrow
32:27
you know a different phone for
32:30
Yeah it's my personal phone.
32:32
It's my personal phone.
32:34
So but you say possibly the
32:37
communication module.
32:38
Well there's a there's the
32:40
like you'd call it almost the
32:41
radio brain and it's got the
32:43
Bluetooth built into it and
32:45
that is the item that is
32:47
communicating with your phone.
32:49
That's what makes the
32:50
Let's see Rhonda thanks very
32:52
Hold on but keep listening
32:53
Rhonda I'm going to take a
32:55
We might have some help here.
32:57
Christoph you're on the end
32:59
What can we do for you.
33:02
Hey guys I guess it's two
33:03
weeks for two for me in a
33:08
So I can tell you I have a
33:11
personal experience with
33:12
technology support but also
33:15
this Bluetooth thing with the
33:17
car stereo with the phone
33:19
you guys are right on the money.
33:21
The number of variables that are
33:22
involved will drive you nuts
33:25
but the best thing you can do
33:26
is documentation and write out
33:29
the sequence of events what's
33:31
happening when it happens.
33:33
So you can keep track of how
33:34
often it is and it sounds
33:36
silly like keeping a journal of
33:37
it but it's like when you go
33:38
to the doctor and you say hey
33:39
this thing is hurting and
33:40
they're like okay when.
33:44
But number one thing that I
33:48
Samsung Android phone
33:54
Buick that I'm driving now
33:56
suddenly decided not to do
33:57
text message notifications
33:59
anymore without any changes
34:01
that I was aware of but it
34:03
would still take calls.
34:07
and I tried unpeering the
34:09
phone repairing the phone
34:11
didn't really get a
34:12
difference but I would get in
34:13
the car after not thinking
34:15
about it the next morning
34:16
and all of a sudden I would
34:17
get a text alert and the next
34:19
time I would get in the car
34:20
later in the day nothing.
34:22
So you have a number of
34:25
variables involved and it's
34:27
important to kind of line
34:29
those all up and see what's
34:30
involved so you've got a
34:31
specific car with a specific
34:33
phone but it's acting
34:34
intermittently weird so now
34:37
we have to track when and
34:39
why and what's going on but
34:40
here's what happened about four
34:43
weeks after my phone started
34:45
misbehaving with communication
34:47
to the car low and behold
34:49
Verizon pushed out a Samsung
34:50
update for my 2021 phone and
34:53
this was within the last six
34:55
months and I didn't think about
34:57
it at the time but ever since
34:58
that moment without changing
35:00
anything about how my phone
35:01
is paired and just assuming
35:03
I'll never have text
35:03
messaging in on my 2015
35:05
viewing text message just came
35:08
back and they've been
35:08
back consistently so since
35:11
they've worked consistently
35:12
it had to have been an
35:13
update I'm guessing from
35:16
Samsung Verizon on the phone
35:17
eventually that you can
35:19
enforce security update.
35:20
Yeah. Yeah. And I couldn't I
35:23
couldn't toggle anything
35:25
change anything go into the
35:26
admin developer deep root
35:28
settings of the phone and
35:29
change anything. The radio is
35:31
the radio the firmware is the
35:32
firmware the software is the
35:33
software and then on top of
35:35
that you've got the same
35:37
thing on the other end of
35:38
Bluetooth radio the firmware
35:39
for it the software within
35:41
the car that deals with the
35:42
stereo because it all pipes
35:45
entertainment system now and
35:46
so you're not crazy and and I
35:50
can tell you at least as a
35:52
long time listener intermittent
35:53
issues it plagues all
35:56
technology but the best thing
35:58
you can do is document and
36:00
that way when you're having
36:01
conversations with people you
36:03
may be able to find some
36:05
common clues that will help
36:06
you sort it out. Perfect.
36:08
Thank you very much for the
36:09
call Chris. Yeah. It's that
36:11
one's and then that's not an
36:14
easy one. If you're somebody
36:15
that has been resistant to
36:17
updates on your phone. Yeah.
36:19
Some people are you might
36:21
want to update your phone. And
36:22
then if you're like me you
36:23
also feel like the software
36:25
update you shouldn't. I mean
36:27
it's a miracle. So why are
36:28
you complaining that every
36:29
other once out of every 50
36:31
calls is bad. Of course. I
36:32
mean it's amazing. Yeah. This
36:34
is the problems that we have
36:35
nowadays are different aren't
36:36
they 8665944150. This is
36:41
the under the hood show. Let's
36:43
go to Connecticut and talk to
36:44
Alec. You're on the under the
36:45
hood show Alec. What can we do
36:46
for you. Thanks for taking my
36:48
call. I have a 2008 Chevy
36:53
cobalt with the two two. And
36:57
I just recently bought it from
36:58
a co-worker for my daughter.
37:00
She's going to be you know
37:01
doodling around college with
37:03
it. So I you know I get the
37:07
phone call at you know 10
37:08
p.m. where it's a day it
37:10
doesn't start you know she's
37:12
200 miles away at a grocery
37:13
store. But the it's like this
37:18
intermittent thing as I as I
37:20
was talking to her. She'll
37:24
get in it and it tends to be
37:26
only one it's super hot
37:27
because it's been really hot
37:29
in the last few weeks here.
37:32
But she'll get in it. She'll
37:33
start cranking it over
37:34
crank crank crank crank
37:35
and it'll fire up for a
37:36
sec and then die. And she
37:39
did that like five times. And
37:41
then she called me. This was
37:42
like last night or night
37:45
before. And then as we're as
37:47
I'm trying to figure out what
37:48
I'm going to do being hundreds
37:50
of miles away. And you know
37:52
it just just fires back up.
37:54
And it ran perfect. And then
37:56
I asked her about it. And I
37:57
guess it happened once last
38:00
week. And I was able to
38:02
obtain the old records
38:03
because it's a it's a
38:04
co-worker's mother's car.
38:07
You know it's only got 70
38:08
thousand miles. It's a 2008.
38:10
And apparently I was looking
38:12
at the notes and it said they
38:14
had this issue in August of
38:15
last year early August. I'm
38:17
sure it was very hot. But I
38:19
was reading the notes from the
38:20
mechanic that they took it to
38:21
and you know it said I don't
38:23
know intermittent. They said
38:25
they couldn't get they couldn't
38:26
reproduce it in the shop and
38:27
they just decided to put a
38:29
new fuel pump in it because
38:30
they didn't know what else
38:31
to do. And then I guess she
38:32
didn't have an issue from
38:35
September. And you know I've
38:38
had it for about three weeks.
38:39
It seems it has happened
38:40
twice. But you know the car is
38:42
used more consistently now.
38:43
It's not only driven 1500 miles
38:46
a year or anything. So I
38:48
guess I don't know exactly
38:49
what I'm asking. But you know
38:50
like I guess what kind of
38:53
would have to happen is it
38:54
would have to just not start
38:56
permanently. Then I could
38:57
probably diagnose it a lot
38:58
easier. But I don't know
38:59
if there's anything like you
39:01
know there's something that
39:02
goes on with these vehicles
39:04
when it's hot. And I don't
39:06
know any any suggestions. I
39:07
can I mean my wife and I
39:08
always drive coyotes and we're
39:09
not used to these like my
39:11
other daughter drives a Jeep
39:12
and I'm like always fixing
39:13
electrical. I can answer this
39:16
and I know what questions
39:17
you want to ask. And I have
39:19
the answer. The question you
39:21
want to ask is should you
39:22
buy a car from a coworker for
39:24
your kids. The answer is
39:25
always no. And there's no
39:28
way around it. No one made
39:29
any mistakes. No one did
39:31
anything wrong. But you
39:33
it was a great price. Yeah.
39:34
That's that's how they get
39:35
you. And it's the world. It's
39:38
not your co-workers. Driven on
39:39
Sunday. And it's not your
39:41
co-workers fault. It's not
39:43
anyone's fault. That's just
39:44
a whole run any other time.
39:45
It's how the world works.
39:47
That's just you can't do
39:48
that. It's so funny because
39:50
I saw my first car at the
39:52
seventy seven Toyota. I just
39:53
get it started up. You know
39:55
it's all you know I don't
39:56
drive every day obviously but
39:57
you just get it starts
39:58
right up. Oh and you need to
39:59
be sitting there six months
40:00
and I never have these
40:02
issues then till the Jeep and
40:03
the Chevy. How far away will
40:05
the daughter be when she
40:06
gets to where she's going.
40:09
180 miles from the house.
40:11
OK. All right. So Lisa
40:13
starts eventually but you
40:14
know the fuel pumps are the
40:15
big things on those. The
40:17
ignition relays have had some
40:19
issues with those when they
40:20
get hot. They lose it. And
40:22
a lot of times when they do
40:23
that they'll set a code. You
40:25
can read the code and see
40:26
that it's set an ignition
40:27
relay code and you just put
40:28
a couple of them and
40:29
there's two of them there
40:30
one and two that just replace
40:31
them. But that'll be something
40:33
you could do cheap could also
40:34
have a crankshaft sensor that's
40:36
that's failing gets hot opens
40:38
up shuts down then cools off
40:40
and restarts. And those are
40:43
the cheaper things that can be
40:44
done. I mean if I was trying
40:46
to fix something for a family
40:47
member I just want to throw
40:48
some things at it real quick
40:49
I'd probably go buy a couple
40:50
relays for you know 30 bucks
40:52
40 bucks whatever for the
40:53
pair of them and and maybe
40:55
even get a crankshaft
40:55
sensor and bolt it in just
40:57
to see if it made any
40:59
difference because I'm
41:00
otherwise you're going to have
41:01
to get a shop they're not going
41:02
to find it because in a minute
41:03
they may not even want to
41:04
touch it to begin with
41:05
because it's not doing it all
41:07
the time might be some things
41:09
you could try on your own.
41:10
What did that use for coil
41:11
and modules in that car with
41:13
a 2.2 right on the top one
41:16
you should be one is that
41:17
that one unit that sat in
41:18
there yeah should be one way
41:20
spark isn't yeah but
41:22
they're always spark now
41:23
but well no they're not
41:24
always but they they it's
41:26
one unit one coil pack you
41:28
know instead of a because
41:30
they would fail when they got
41:31
hot. Oh yeah the quad four
41:33
used to be crazy when was the
41:34
last time somebody called
41:35
with a quad four we had we
41:37
had a call a month ago with
41:39
that very car quad four
41:41
engine I think so because
41:42
you told them about putting
41:44
I think that was the
41:45
different when I was thinking
41:46
of I'm thinking quad four
41:52
But yeah it was doing
41:53
Somerset Regal vibes there
41:54
and the only thing we could
41:55
do is go back in time and
41:57
not and there's no where for
42:00
for it's just no way around
42:01
it's just how it I've sold
42:03
a car to a friend for his kid
42:05
and it blew up a week later.
42:07
I mean that's just all right
42:08
let's Chris look over the
42:10
negativity. All right go ahead.
42:11
All right. So you've got a
42:12
vehicle that's in good
42:13
condition. It's got good miles
42:15
mechanically. It seems to be
42:16
really sound. Your daughter
42:18
she probably liked the car up
42:23
He wants you to get something
42:24
completely different. Another
42:25
co-worker. OK. All right.
42:27
But I think that for
42:30
less than three hundred dollars
42:34
you could play darts parts
42:35
darts and get rid of the
42:37
problem. A really good
42:39
potential. That's kind of what
42:40
I was thinking. OK.
42:41
Actually it was online.
42:43
I took a look at a crankshaft
42:44
sensor. I kind of thought
42:45
Russell say that but I did
42:46
see there was a GM one for
42:48
sales like 30 bucks brand new.
42:50
You know wholesaler close out
42:51
and you know all that stuff
42:53
seems pretty cheap maybe
42:54
because it breaks all the
42:55
time. It's a lot of them.
42:56
Well you're talking about
42:57
it. You are talking about an
42:58
O8 cobalt. Yeah. Let's just
43:00
keep that in perspective.
43:01
But I have a seventy seven
43:03
there and it starts right up.
43:04
I'm like you're spoiled.
43:06
You're spoiled. You've had
43:07
good experience with something
43:09
else. You're good. I would
43:10
say start with like the rest
43:12
of those relays crank sensor
43:15
and then a module. And if you
43:16
did those three I'd be really
43:18
surprised. It's one of those
43:19
three didn't fix it. But you'll
43:20
never know which one it was.
43:21
It'd be like an ask our pit
43:22
stop. You switch everything
43:23
and it goes fast and they
43:23
don't know what they did.
43:24
Is it a seventy seven Celica?
43:27
No. It's a old Lankers or FJ 40.
43:30
That's that's that's why that
43:34
Alec, thanks very much for the
43:35
call. Good luck. 866-594-41.
43:39
5 0. Let's go to Oregon and
43:41
talk to James. You're on the
43:42
end of the hood show. James
43:43
what can we do for you?
43:46
Well, I've got a we bought
43:48
a couple of 2000 S 350s with
43:50
the 7.3 liter diesel.
43:52
And we've we got probably, you
43:55
know, close to half a million
43:56
miles on them and they never
43:58
had any trouble until now.
44:00
And I loaned it to a loan one
44:01
of them to a friend. And when
44:03
I got it back, it only had
44:04
about one percent of the
44:05
emergency brake left. And I've
44:09
looked at that thing and I
44:10
can't really figure out how
44:11
the emergency brake works on
44:13
it. But I've been wrenching
44:15
since the sixties on on
44:17
Ford's and this doesn't
44:19
look like anything I've seen
44:20
before. Is this maybe a
44:21
dealer only fixer? No, you
44:23
can you can fix them, but it's
44:24
got the drum disc on the back.
44:26
Doesn't it disc brake on the
44:27
outside? Yep. Yeah. So the
44:29
inside's got a drum. You know,
44:32
I hate to say they burned it
44:33
up, but it sounds like they
44:34
may have left the parking
44:35
brake on when they drove it
44:36
and that diesel will
44:37
overcome that parking brake
44:38
very easily and ruin the
44:40
pads. So you got to take
44:42
the wheels off and take the
44:43
drum off inside of the
44:45
drum. There's a set of
44:46
shoes like regular brake
44:47
shoes and some hardware
44:49
like an old go cart. Yep.
44:50
And then on the outside, you've
44:52
got the drum. So usually the
44:55
drums don't wear out that
44:56
fast and it is the parking
44:58
brake. So you should be
44:59
everything off. You know, like
45:02
CRC parts cleaner, brakes
45:03
cleaner. It's really good
45:04
for all that goo in there.
45:06
Spray that on there. Clean
45:09
it off everything very
45:10
well. I like to hose down
45:12
the whole backing plate
45:13
because you've got asbestos
45:14
fibers and stuff on that.
45:16
So I just give them a
45:17
light spray to soak
45:18
everything good. And then
45:19
I hose it down and run it
45:21
into a bucket, get it all
45:22
clean before I take it off.
45:24
And then new pads are new
45:27
shoes back there and new
45:28
brake hardware. Put it all
45:30
back together and that
45:31
should fix your problem. You
45:32
immediately see when you
45:34
get the drum off of
45:35
there. What the problem is
45:36
is like, oh, word, no word
45:38
of the shoes go. They're
45:39
gone because can I get
45:41
can I get those parts from
45:43
Napa or do I have to get
45:44
them from Ford? No, you
45:45
can get them from any
45:46
auto parts store that's
45:47
going to carry those parts
45:48
are going to be super
45:49
common. And for the
45:51
350, they're probably
45:52
going to have at least
45:53
two sets on the shelf
45:56
in their store. That is a
45:57
very common rear end.
45:59
James, thanks very much
46:00
for the call. Good luck.
46:01
866-594-4150. Let's
46:06
go to Nevada and talk
46:07
to Christian. We got
46:08
just a couple of minutes
46:08
here. Christian, go
46:16
Hey, we've got an O2 Chevy
46:18
Blazer, S10 Blazer. Also
46:20
previously I've had an O2
46:22
Chevy Silverado. I think
46:24
recently in those years
46:25
they come out with that
46:26
same rear disc brake
46:29
drum setup that they
46:31
have. And it seems on
46:33
these vehicles I've had
46:34
it's always a problem
46:36
keeping those drums
46:37
adjusted. Right now I
46:43
emergency brake to really
46:44
grab. I could be on a
46:45
slight incline and just
46:47
roll it. God forbid I have
46:48
to stop with it. So I was
46:50
wondering if you guys
46:51
could tell me if there's
46:52
any other solutions,
46:54
aftermarket solutions
47:00
made for holding the
47:02
vehicle. They are 100%
47:04
not made for stopping it.
47:06
emergency brake or a
47:07
service brake of any
47:09
immediately destroy
47:10
themselves if they're
47:11
applied when the vehicle
47:13
is rolling because it's
47:15
dissipate heat in the
47:19
surface. So the fix
47:24
hardware and new parking
47:26
brakes, they've all got
47:27
to be clean because
47:30
they're not like a big
47:32
parking brake on those
47:33
which will slow the
47:34
vehicle down and stop it.
47:37
Was never it wasn't
47:38
intended to either.
47:40
So yeah, you need to
47:41
replace the whole setup,
47:42
but they don't make
47:43
anything. They make
47:47
But they're not any better
47:50
find the ones that are
47:51
most affordable for you
47:52
and replace, make sure
47:53
you do the hardware,
47:54
the parking brake shoes
47:56
and the rotor back there.
47:57
And I should get you
47:57
back to normal again
47:58
as long as the cables
47:59
are good. Christian,
48:01
for the call. Good luck.
48:02
Two in a row, right?
48:04
Never. And then two
48:05
in a row, two parking
48:06
brake calls in a row.
48:09
the after show. I'm just
48:10
going to take it on
48:15
take it on the run, baby.
48:16
Take it on the run.
48:17
Oh, don't say we can't.
48:18
Oh, that was that short
48:20
enough. Are they good?
48:20
That's good. Copyright us.
48:22
Let's go talk to Dave
48:24
in Minnesota. Dave,
48:25
you're on the under the
48:28
Hold on. I I miss that one.
48:30
Dave, you're on the
48:31
under the hood show.
48:31
What can we do for you?
48:34
Yeah, I love your show,
48:36
I got a quick question
48:39
I have been a GM man.
48:42
all my life here, just
48:44
as kind of a work car
48:47
ran across a Chrysler
48:53
kind of wondering what you
48:59
very, very dependable
49:01
overall from our experience.
49:02
We see those come in here
49:05
pretty hard through
49:09
a few generations of life
49:10
cycles of where cars
49:11
get acquired and we even
49:13
have gotten they've gotten
49:14
old enough where we see them
49:15
at some of our impound
49:16
lot sales and stuff that
49:18
people have still been driving
49:19
them with lots and lots
49:21
I would say the weak link
49:23
would be the engine at
49:26
But in that particular
49:28
model, not with the
49:30
problematic history as
49:31
as much as it would be like
49:37
That just seems like pretty
49:38
pretty strong overall.
49:40
Pretty strong like an old Chevy
49:41
Caprice. They're the modern
49:43
day version of that big
49:45
where we'll drive heavy
49:48
They just seem to be.
49:49
Yeah, this is an all wheel drive.
49:54
you got a few more parts to break.
49:55
But can we turn them into race cars?
49:58
I'm sure somebody would.
49:59
But the all wheel drive part
50:00
makes it a little interesting.
50:02
Does it make it better?
50:03
OK, well, it depends
50:05
what kind of fun you want to have.
50:07
No, I think you for a car
50:09
how many miles are on it?
50:16
Yeah, I was thinking older.
50:17
Yeah, that's a great car.
50:20
No, no, no. We'll drive.
50:23
Yeah, like a challenger.
50:24
Yes, that's a pretty good one.
50:27
We simply people make some four
50:28
wheel drives on it like
50:30
jacked up four wheel drives
50:32
They'll take the challenger or
50:35
and they actually make spindles
50:37
to modify where the CV shaft
50:40
goes through and it drops
50:42
it down like four inches
50:43
so you can raise the car up
50:44
and put some 35 inch tires on it.
50:46
Remember those we saw at the Seamus show?
50:47
I forgot all about that.
50:50
they do all sorts of stuff.
50:51
These are a very popular car.
50:53
They were worth it in the after
50:55
market to make accessories for them
50:56
because they felt they were reliable
50:58
and enough people would buy them.
50:59
So that makes lots of parts
51:01
available for them and makes them
51:05
No, the way the wife ain't
51:07
going to go for a little lift.
51:09
And it's all tough to lift it up
51:11
Yeah, what did you do to my car?
51:15
Happy anniversary, honey.
51:19
Dave, thanks very much for the call.
51:22
Can I can I get out on the dirt track
51:24
with an all wheel drive and you could.
51:27
I just said they're not going to hold up
51:28
very well to the hits.
51:30
No, they're so thin.
51:34
Chris now are very there.
51:36
They're made to absorb energy
51:38
to save the occupants so they fold
51:41
where there was a Enduro race
51:43
at our local county fair
51:46
So we were watching old video
51:49
because a friend of mine had never
51:50
seen one and a lot of
51:52
Grand Ams out there.
51:54
A lot of Grand Ams still racing
51:56
in Enduro tracks and have you
51:58
ever watched a camper race?
52:03
Yeah, that's what I
52:04
mean. They're there.
52:05
There's the big one that
52:07
pops up every year.
52:08
The night of destruction.
52:09
And I think the last one was
52:10
maybe last year they stopped doing
52:12
it because it was a it's so
52:14
hard to clean the track.
52:15
They have to take dirt off
52:17
in layers because there's so much
52:18
to free in the track.
52:19
My wife wants to see them.
52:21
I guess they run one here every
52:22
year that says the night of
52:23
destruction coming up the end of
52:25
August at at nine ninety.
52:27
So I had I'm not aware.
52:29
They did a couple years ago
52:30
where they race and wreck.
52:31
But if that's so I mean
52:34
But I I love I stopped
52:36
watching all those videos
52:37
because I would send them to you
52:38
with great ideas and you guys
52:40
would never go for my great
52:42
Well, I didn't love your idea
52:43
you had that work are going to
52:45
take advantage of and I started
52:47
out with an experiment on YouTube
52:49
and it knocked off a thousand
52:50
views in like six hours.
52:52
And then of course it faded
52:53
But we'll we'll have even
52:56
But I just had to say, hey,
52:57
how much would that
53:00
Yeah, I'm scared to death of
53:05
Shannon's like, what are you
53:06
doing during work hours?
53:07
I'm like, no, it's authorized
53:11
Highly classified eight six six
53:13
five nine four four one five
53:15
oh, let's talk to Alan.
53:17
You're on the end of the
53:18
Alan, what can we do for you?
53:23
Russ, we talked about my
53:25
ninety seven Dodge half ton.
53:27
I was having the gurgling
53:29
in the heater core.
53:30
The whole week to go.
53:34
I borrowed one of those
53:37
Oh, the top extended
53:45
Brought home, put it all
53:46
together, put it on the truck.
53:49
Had the truck running
53:51
and it was good and warm.
53:53
Is up to temperature.
53:55
And it really didn't take much
53:59
Maybe a half a point.
54:04
And I noticed that the overflow
54:10
down about the fill line.
54:15
Ran the truck down to
54:17
Sandhills in Nebraska.
54:18
I went down for the race.
54:22
But I went down and worked it.
54:28
It ran its normal temperature
54:30
and I really couldn't tell
54:31
if it was gurgling or not.
54:33
I wasn't really paying attention.
54:40
Oh, Dunning, Nebraska
54:42
has full service gasoline.
54:46
So we came out and pumped it for you?
54:54
Did another stop for gas.
55:00
And let the truck cool down a little bit.
55:02
Something my dad always did
55:04
when he was on the road.
55:05
He just popped the hood open
55:06
and let the heat out,
55:08
which I guess is probably a good idea
55:12
And I looked at the overflow tank
55:16
you're three quarters of the way full.
55:25
OK, you filled it up.
55:27
So when you added the coolant to the radiator,
55:29
now you've taken out that air pocket.
55:31
You've gotten rid of the air
55:32
so that when it warms up
55:34
and it expands, it should push out
55:36
into the overflow tank.
55:38
And then when it cools down,
55:38
it should suck it out of the overflow tank.
55:40
If it doesn't go both ways like that,
55:42
it's either not full
55:43
or you've got a poor cap
55:45
on the on the radiator.
55:47
And some of the caps aren't as good.
55:49
Our partner Motor Red makes
55:50
some really nice caps.
55:51
They've been doing it forever
55:53
and that would fix that problem
55:54
of the past back and forth.
55:58
So, OK, well, I got to go out that way anyway.
56:02
So maybe I'll just look at it when I'm out there.
56:05
It's it's in storage right now.
56:09
It's got another problem with brakes right now.
56:12
I've got a weak wheel cylinder in the rear.
56:16
So why there was no traffic out there.
56:22
Alan, thanks very much for the call.
56:25
The what about pickup trucks?
56:27
Can I get a pickup truck out on the dirt track?
56:29
Why don't we do that? Is it just
56:31
a light in the back?
56:34
Do some drifting in it.
56:35
Get around to hook it up over the round.
56:37
An old camper drag campers around.
56:39
Those are races are great.
56:40
Get a let's get a bunch of 16, 17
56:43
year old kids get them out in the world of outlaws
56:45
with Knoxville Nationals when they're
56:49
That was a fun to watch.
56:51
That was fun to watch.
56:53
You had that thing on rails.
56:55
Yeah, it was the race was not for first.
56:58
In that never, never underestimate.
57:02
A child's ability to operate machinery very well.
57:05
You soon to forget that most of the pilots
57:09
in World War two and that were like 18, 19
57:14
years old and they were good, you know,
57:17
the older people just weren't.
57:18
I think when you're young and you
57:20
your your brain doesn't know you can't do it,
57:23
you can do it like the first guy to flip
57:25
a snowmobile off a ramp or a TV.
57:28
And those guys were just jumping off a ramp.
57:32
Then later, they said, let's fill a big tub
57:34
full of cardboard boxes so we don't die when we try it.
57:38
The first ones were were just doing it.
57:41
And then that's amazing.
57:44
So we heard your dad say you just won
57:46
the Knoxville Nationals.
57:47
What did he say after that?
57:48
He just said that a bunch of times in a row.
57:50
He just kept saying over and I'll go to your homework.
57:56
Yeah, that was fun.
57:57
Yeah, there's a lot of race fans around this area.
58:00
And I I don't always get a chance to watch,
58:02
but I tuned in that night when just the way
58:05
the lineup for the main was set up.
58:07
I thought it was going to be really quite interesting.
58:09
And that young kid races full time around here.
58:13
He's not within the world of outlaws all year,
58:16
but he races Knoxville regularly.
58:18
And when we had our Nordstrom's night at Houston,
58:20
he was running away with the feature.
58:23
And he would he had came down out of turn four
58:28
and there was a car pulling in that had mechanical problems.
58:33
And he just couldn't react fast enough.
58:35
He ended up riding him down the front straight away
58:37
on his back bar and he got himself disconnected from him.
58:42
But by then they had already called the caution.
58:44
So they blended him back into fifth place with the blender rule.
58:48
I think it was fifth place and he needed another lap or two
58:51
because he was coming.
58:52
But, you know, he's been fun to watch.
58:54
And he's wrecked a few things like, you know, Doug Wolfgang.
58:58
My dad remembers him wrecking a few cars back in the uses days
59:01
go wide open or go home.
59:02
And that's the only way to do it.
59:04
But they it was just fun to watch.
59:05
He passed from eighth to first in his qualifying feature
59:10
and never had a car in front of him the rest of the weekend.
59:13
How about that for an 18 year old kid?
59:18
And the race team originally was the race team out of Rapid
59:23
City, South Dakota, the Liebig Special, the Super 8 Special.
59:27
That was kind of the lineage of the family.
59:29
I'm getting that probably wrong completely.
59:31
But I know the Liebig's are longtime race builders.
59:36
I think at one time they may even own the track out
59:38
in Rapid City, the family.
59:40
And so they've had that going for a long time.
59:42
So Shane is one of the, I think, sons, not a grandson.
59:46
And so they've been around this for quite a while.
59:50
And that's got to be a big, big thrill for that family that's
59:53
involved on that car side of it.
59:55
And the family that's involved, mom and dad have been around
59:58
racing a lot, it looks like.
59:59
So that's some big excitement.
00:02
We're ready to roll, I guess, huh?
00:06
Happy birthday, Ava Rose, if moms and Ava are watching
00:09
today, she's my baby's 18 years old today.
00:19
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