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Bunch of calls coming in.
Let's go right to California and talk to Jeff.
You're on the Under the Hood Show.
Jeff, what can we do for you?
I have had a problem with the Honda Pilot and I had a solution to it.
And I just want to share this with all of your listeners.
And I'm not sure if you guys cover this on your show or not.
But the service bulletin was sent out by Honda for an intermittent failure
with the keyless entry in the TPMS control unit.
And what's happening is you'll park your car in your garage or somewhere
and the alarm will just start going off intermittently.
Their solution is to, the service bulletin is to change that unit,
which will cost you about $1,000.
But I got on YouTube and did a stellar YouTube for a solution to this.
And there's a guy on YouTube that put this, the board under a microscope
and he found the problem, which was the one chip is not covered with that
protective film and it collects deposits between 10-1 and ground.
And it'll intermittently lock and unlock your car doors and set off the alarm.
It's just enough millivolts that it senses that somebody is trying to steal the car.
And so your alarm goes off and the solution is just clean it with alcohol
and then cover it with fingernail polish.
We are sitting here all of us in amazement.
I don't know about Russ because he's probably done something like this.
This sounds like a crazy person who Russ should meet.
And all I can think is Chris wants a microscope now.
I should have thought of that, too.
He made a symbol over there like, yeah, Chris wants a microscope now.
For sure. That's awesome.
You cannot see the deposits with a naked eye.
I haven't tried to put two magnifying glasses together and you still can't see it.
But I went ahead and cleaned it with alcohol and a cotton swab,
coated with fingernail polish, and it's been fine ever since.
This thing was waking us up nightly.
It would be in my garage and the alarm would just go off.
I think at some point we had somebody call the show about this.
Did you, where's that module located in that vehicle?
It's underneath the dash behind the glove box.
And it's in a plastic container, so you have to take that out and break it.
Well, I'm not breaking it.
There's latches that are very tricky to get undone before you can pull the board out of it.
That is awesome.
I mean, we'll have to put that.
Interesting.
We probably need to put that up as a short on our YouTube channel, too,
to give people another way to find that out.
Because if they're not replacing it as a safety recall and you have to pay for it
because it's just a bolt and like, hey, we found the problem by the part.
A thousand bucks for one with a few drops of nail polish.
Yeah, that's that's awesome.
Jeff, thanks very much for the call.
Well, there's, yeah, there's, there's several things like that
that the dealer has released that are out of warranty.
They'll say, oh, here's the fix for it, but you've got to pay for it.
We built it wrong, but that's OK.
We're not going to cover it, unfortunately.
Russ, do you have a microscope at the shop?
No.
We can start harvesting these modules and then you could open them up and.
I got one at home, but I don't know when to shop.
And then we'll just do a little operation and we could resell them.
Can we get an iPhone one?
Can we get one of those that attaches to the phone so we can see?
Here's where Russ knew that Chris would find a high interest in this.
Run it through a pipe or something.
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Let's go to Landon in Ohio.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Landon, what can we do for you?
Hey, guys, I'm a long time listener.
Probably two or two or so years now.
Cool.
But so I have a I have a 1989 Chevy K 1500.
And I've been having this weird issue that I cannot put my finger on.
But it's a 350 TBI.
And it's the only thing done to the motor is the has
like the aftermarket carb style air cleaner.
Instead of that, the long black tube one.
And the previous owner said it had a very mild
cam installed possibly and the head's done, but there's no proof.
But sometimes it'll rev up and down up and down at idle.
Sometimes it'll drop the RPM when you come to a hard stop
and like almost stall and once it did stall.
And if you're in park, it'll rev up probably like eight
hundred or nine to eight hundred or nine hundred fifty RPM.
And then it acts like it has a backing leak, but it goes away and comes back.
And it's been doing it ever since you had the vehicle.
Yeah. Yeah, I've had it probably.
Six months or so.
Did the previous owner tell you that it did this?
No, he didn't really realize it.
I didn't do it until I got a home.
You know, he might have been in enough euphoria that you never noticed it
right away. That's that does happen.
I've done that.
That's great.
Look at this nice truck.
Oh, it is super clean.
Ross Free. Well, in these trucks, you know, you talk about eras,
but I just I had a guy from our area recently on the phone
and he likes to ask me some questions every once in a while.
And he's kind of went ham on.
He just told me gathering these trucks.
He's got a whole bunch of two wheel drive short boxes
and he's got a whole bunch of two wheel drive, full size blazers of that era.
Blazers and blazers and Yukon's that they made.
And I was surprised how many a whole much was.
But he just said that the square body phase has gotten so expensive.
It raced up so fast that people are a lot of them
can't afford the price of admission.
Right. And these trucks are starting to grow.
The following, I know Russ, they're they're taking off them and it's kind of crazy.
But that motor, I would be curious how much cam he put in it,
because if he didn't have the computer adjusted enough, any cam, that would be a problem.
It's not a stock cam in one of those because they don't have a mass airflow sensor.
They're running a map sensor.
They're they're going to they're going to surge.
They're going to run bad like that.
And if even if you change the exhaust, you take off that factory catalytic converter.
If it's got a straight exhaust on it with no converter, it can cause it to run that way too.
And both of those things together equal it needs to be tuned.
And you're going to have to find somebody that can tune it,
but they're going to need to know what the specs of the engine are.
They're going to need to know what cams in there the whole bit so that they can put that in.
Now, an easy way to find out if it's got a cam in it or not, it still takes some time.
But depending on the accessories you have on the front of the motor,
it might be as simple as just pulling off the balancer, taking off the water pump
and taking the timing cover off.
And then you when you pull that timing chain, the top gear off,
there'll be numbers on the end of the camshaft.
It'll be stamped.
You know, it'll say 262 comp cam or whatever will be right on the front of it.
So you don't pull the whole cam out.
That's the easiest way to find out if it's got a cam.
So you get that, you write down the numbers and then you write down.
OK, it's got straight exhaust on it with mufflers, turbo mufflers or glass packs.
It doesn't have a CAD on it.
I'm assuming it probably doesn't if this guy's mess with it.
And then, you know, whatever else you know that's been done to the motor,
you send that off.
There's still a couple of people out there that'll built burn chips
because they have chips in an old burner and they pull out all that
information in their computer and it will program a chip.
And then you just snap it into your computer and it's done.
It's that simple.
Just plug it in.
Another thought, Russ, EGR was a huge problem.
Yeah, just let's go back to the base problems before he's we went.
We jumped right to that stock.
Yeah, we jumped right to that comment about the cam.
Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. What would you do?
Yeah, if it's all stock, unplug that EGR, put a golf tee in the hose
and see if it goes away.
If it does, you're going to need the EGR valve and the little
actuation solenoid on it as a pair, which is very affordable.
Doral products has them. Yeah, as a kit, you can get the whole thing.
And you might just do that anyway.
Yeah, yeah, because of the age, if it's still got an EGR.
And then the other thing is set the timing with the engine completely warm.
Disconnect the timing connector.
It's either going to be located under the hood under that little black
tee shaped box on the passenger firewall under the hood,
or it's going to be under the passenger side kick panel where the glove box
area is and it's a brown and black wire, tan and black
that's got a little black connector on it.
You just unplug it and you'll hear the engine drop down an RPM a little
bit. That means and the check engine light will come on.
That means it's in the timing set mode and the timing is set to zero on those.
And then once it's set to zero, you plug it back in and shut the key off,
start it back up again and see if it changed.
And if it's still the factory distributor in that truck and it's got miles on it,
even the new ones are horrible.
I would what do you buy usually for us to replace one?
We've got one that we put three or four of them in and it's still
given us trouble. I just hate those things.
We'd like to replace them all because nobody makes a good one right now.
Standard, dormant, none of them are making a good one.
It's an off like WAI or some weird one.
So instead of putting new ones in when we are putting reman engines in,
we've been leaving the old ones in and saying, hey, we didn't sell you one.
So we're not going to be stuck.
But a lot of times you can get away with a new module,
a new pickup coil.
Make sure the bushings aren't loose inside of it and get new guts.
It's the magnets in the in the shaft that are the problems.
They lose their power.
Landon, thanks very much for the call. Good luck.
Is there anything that works in place of a golf tee?
If it's Sunday and I'm working on it and I can't get to a store
that has a golf tee and I need a matchstick bolt.
Something that you just plug it, plug it.
Yeah, I'll go in the kitchen and see if something from the wife.
There's something in there in the drum.
There's something in the junk.
Haven't listened to our show and then ran out and said, where do I find
golf keys? Yeah, I bought a whole bag of the run.
Yeah, they're cheap.
If you go to a golf course, go to a driving range.
There'll be hundreds of them in pieces.
There'll be bags all over.
I just said to unzip the bag.
You just need the top half, you know, the top part, not the bottom part.
They'll be if you do that, they'll be like, what are you doing?
You'll be like, I just need one golf tee.
I'm sure they'll just go get some shrapnel off the range.
I could walk over to any range right now and just pick up the top
one that's busted off.
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Let's talk to Brian.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Brian, what can we do for you?
Hello, I got a 2013 Ford Edge and I got a check engine light
and I got a PO455 code that's evaporative emissions leak.
And it says once I'll pop up, I'll say check the fuel cap door
or check the fuel cap, but it's one of those capless fuel tank fillers.
What do you think I got going on?
Are there any engine issues?
Surgeon runs bad or anything like that?
Just a code?
It's just a code.
It doesn't seem to bother on anything, you know, as far as rough idle
or anything like that.
More than likely it's going to be a canister and vent valve issue on the car.
They've had some canisters that crack around the seams and seep air
and vent valves that stick.
Standard motor products makes a really great canister and vent valve combination both.
I just did one on a Honda Odyssey yesterday.
It had some water in it from driving through some deep water
because the canister was leaking.
It wouldn't have got water in it if it wasn't leaking in the first place.
But you get those emissions codes when that happens.
Secondary is the capless fill system with dirt and age.
They can start to leak and instead of replacing the whole cap,
which was standard, you replace the whole filler neck assembly in there,
starting to sell a lot more filler neck assemblies.
I know we've purchased several of them from Dorman products, put them in vehicles.
So far, they've all been Fords.
They've been Fusion, F-150s, Taurus.
They just and it could be.
Well, they started putting them on before other domestics.
That's I think that's why it's good.
And these were older ones, 13, 14.
I was surprised when he said 13 edge and had a capless.
I just didn't realize in my mind that was like, really?
When he said that, I had a guy yesterday called me within 11
and he says he says, yeah, I got a problem with my with, you know,
I don't have a fuel cap.
So I have a problem with it.
And I'm like, oh, it's it's worn out.
And I was like, yeah, well, they've been around for a while
where you just stick the hose in there and there's no fill cap.
Because what do you mean?
There's no, who, who doesn't have a fill cap?
I said, well, you don't, you just told me it doesn't.
There's no, my cap's missing.
I need another one.
Oh, they want to know what kind of cap to buy.
And I thought he meant it was a right capless type system.
But no, he was missing his cap.
So there we go.
But yeah, you know, the secondary is the fill neck itself primary.
I would, I'd be leaning more towards that.
And the only way to know that 100% is to get a smoke machine and to
test it for leaks.
Smoke machines are cheap.
Every shop should own one.
Now you can pick a really nice one up for less than 200 bucks.
You can pick a one that works up for about 80 bucks.
So you should a shop should own one.
Brian, just quick for other listeners that may have thought,
what are they talking about?
Your, your fuel system is a sealed system.
And they have a vent system that lets that tank breathe so you can
fill gas and it doesn't kick back at you.
And then it takes any breathing of the tank through a basically a
charcoal filter and there's valves that meter when that should be
open and closed.
And that's the system that gets some problems.
And then it just, the system does itself test, which it does every
once in a while and it says, um, this isn't working right.
You're leaking.
And, uh, we, we can't let vapors get into the air.
And so we got to fix this.
That's what's going on here.
Brian, thanks very much for the call.
Good luck.
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Let's go to Oregon and talk to Mitchell.
You're on the end of the hood show.
Mitchell, what can we do for you?
Got a 95 Caprice and with a four, three V eight and a four
L 60, I think.
Anyway, I, uh, I replied, I took it apart when I had problems
starting with a couple of years ago.
I took the valve body out, put it into a solenoid, cleaned it
out, put a shift kit in it.
But what happens is when you put it in reverse, when it's cold,
it goes bam, right into reverse and it works great.
When it warms up, reverse slips and then kind of chatters.
Um, after it's warm.
And I'm just trying to get my brain straight here.
That has got the throttle body 4.3 that probably still has a, or
does it have a kick or a throttle pressure cable or is that
trance all electronic?
I'm trying to remember.
It's a, well, no, it has a cable, a cable that goes down
from a throttle body on top of the engine.
Cause at 96, I think it was when they went to the, the,
the mini LT they called it in the, in that four, three.
So you've still got the older generation.
That's, that's what this is, is the four, three, the eight mini LT.
But okay, that's fine.
So when it's cold, it's fine.
When it's warm, it slips.
Yeah.
It slips and kind of chatters.
If you're going back, if you're backing up a hill or so.
If you have put in a valve body and the valve body is
good and it was clean and everything was put in right.
And there's no failures there than that leaves one thing
basically on that would be that the seals, the lip seals in
that transmission for that reverse clutch are, are leaking
or the clutch is slipping because it's worn off as you're
applying pressure.
We know we've got, so we start off with a valve body.
Do we have enough pressure going to it?
Yeah.
Cause it works forward.
Is it good in reverse?
If it is, then you're applying pressure to it, but it's
bleeding off.
And because it only does it warm, if the clutches were
worn out, it's going to slip cold or hot.
But if the pressure is low, only when it's warm, then that's
usually seals.
The seals start to bypass them when they get warm.
Is everything expands a little bit?
Can't seal against that.
Yeah.
And it'll leak.
How did that fluid look when you took it apart?
Oh, it's great.
It's actually, yeah, it stays pink a long, long time.
Um, but that's why I took it apart is because it was
the same problem and I took it apart, cleaned everything, but
I didn't, I didn't know to look for the seals.
So are those accessible through?
No.
If you take the valve body off, oh, please don't say that.
100% tear down to get to it.
Yep.
But if you took a valve body off, if you took a valve body
off yourself and we're confident you got it back on
correctly, you could pull the transmission.
Yeah.
With a couple of tools off Amazon, you could take that
transmission completely apart yourself, look for the
failed parts and put it back together.
Watching YouTube because it's, it's not any more difficult
than, I mean, you've got to pull it out.
Yes, but it's not any more difficult than what you did
with the valve body and the, the ball bearings and the
whole bit trying to put it on while you're on the
ground upside down.
You know, you take that valve body out, you've got
that thing sitting up on a stand and you pull the
pump out of the front of it, you start pulling things
out one at a time.
They all stack in there and get yourself a kit.
I think the kits for those to rebuild them are still
like three, 400 bucks.
They're not that bad, but when you take it into a
professional transmission shop, they got a lot of
labor there to tear it down, clean it up, inspect
everything, put a kit in it that's going to cost
you more than what you're going to buy the kit for.
And then you could say, wow, I built this, you
know, it's, it's a, it's a Turbo 350 with an
overdrive unit on it.
And I did one on a, on a basically a really
dirty floor one time and it actually worked
pretty good.
Make sure you keep track as you pull stuff out.
Keep track, but also YouTube videos.
There are really extensive YouTube videos on
rebuilding those 700 R4s and 4L60s and Turbo 350s.
They'll show every piece.
You can, you can find them all out there.
It's not for everybody.
Don't be thinking, oh, he told me I could do it.
No, but it's something to do it upside down.
He heard what he did already and thought, you
know, there's something that can be done
here, but that first time you dump that fluid,
though, I was just curious what it was like.
Cause if that was super clean yet, you can have
clean fluid and saw these lip seals leaking.
If you had clutches burned up, that first
dump of that transmission fluid should have
had not so much debris, but it should have
been kind of stinky and gross.
Mitchell, thanks very much for the call.
Good luck.
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That's a UTI I got a I think
I might do that.
I think I'm going to.
Is it time.
I think so.
I'm going to just hang this
up and go do that.
Because because there's there's
jobs now where I don't have to
get down on a creeper.
Right.
I mean I could do yeah.
That's a that's I can
get I like getting on the
creeper and rolling around and
going under but they got an
engine hoist at most of those
shops that once you get down
they can just lift my.
Okay.
Well yeah then I'm in eight
six six five nine four four
one five oh let's talk to
Rhonda you're on the end of
the hood show Rhonda what can
we do for you.
I have a twenty twenty four
Chevy Malibu.
I got it brand new.
And didn't have it maybe a
week and I would go to make a
phone call and I couldn't hear
anything it was all scratchy.
I had to hang up and the other
person on the other end
couldn't hear me or if I get
an incoming call.
I occasionally will have the
same thing happen.
It's real sporadic.
There's no time specific.
In fact when I called you
today I had to hang up
because I had the same thing
it's all scratchy.
I've had it into my dealership
three times and they have
reset the phone or the phone
on the car and they have
did the updates on it.
And same thing.
And I've had it in three times
and now they tell me it's my
phone.
My phone is probably three years
old and they said well you
probably need to update your
phone it probably hasn't been
updated but it works in my
personal car which is a 23
and it works in my other car
which is a 24.
Are those other are those
other GM cars or are they
what kind are they.
A RAM Dodge Ram pickup
and a Subaru.
Those are 100 percent
different communication protocol
systems than the GM.
So it is possible it's your
phone but it's also an awesome
excuse when the when the part
it's not a GM phone because
they don't make a GM phone.
So when they say our systems
working fine how do you know
you don't know but I have seen
a number of phones that are
more than a year old that are
not compatible very well and
it seems to be more in GMs
than other cars.
I have my current phone is
three years old and it works
wonderfully in one of my GM
cars and works horribly in one
of my other GM cars.
It just doesn't half the time
it doesn't work.
It's doing what yours is doing.
And yeah it's the phone
because another phone I have
of my wife's phones in there
it works just fine.
A different model phone.
Do you have somebody in your
family that you could pair
their pair their phone to that
vehicle and and try it a
little bit.
That's what you need to do.
So so they did try it out
with the dealer this last time
that I had it in and like I said
it's sporadic it's not going to
happen every time but before
I had this car I had a 2021
Chevy Malibu and it worked
just fine.
That's an older system
completely different design.
One of the things all the
time on those with Bluetooth
one of it's the that was I
was just going to say the
the software and the firmware
of Bluetooth which is a
brand I mean that's the it
changes and goes so fast.
Yeah so they're the new
car that GM car they really
don't need to make it backwards
compatible it's only going to go
back so far and if your phone
only goes so new they will
stop updating it at some point
and then that's that's it you
can't go any newer than that.
So it's very possible your phone
that's why you got to try a
different one.
But Russ my dad has a flip
phone programmed to a very
new Corvette.
Yeah well that's a different
system blows my mind.
But here's the here's the other
thing too.
Any vehicle and any phone
let's just say it's a 2024
vehicle and a 2022 phone
depending on where those
vehicles when those vehicles
and when that phone was
manufactured and what protocol
they used in a vastly
different as far as what
method of Bluetooth you're
using because that.
And even in a GM car a Corvette
radio a Silverado radio they're
going to have different Bluetooth
systems in there depending.
Now if you've got look on your
hall under interchange basically
Shannon if it says here's the
radio this fits a traverse this
fits a Malibu this fits a whatever
that would be the same protocol
but if it says it fits this but
it doesn't fit the Corvette it
doesn't fit a Camaro those are
separate those could be different
units.
So the only way to try that
she can get this fixed is to try
a different phone you know maybe
a family members got one that's
riding around but you got and
it's inconvenient.
And let's keep in mind too that
Bluetooth on its at its
base is like a radio.
Yeah.
So if you're listening to the
radio right now on 92.5
it's not always going to come
in perfect on 92.5 and you
might so I mean you've got
that in there too.
Sometimes you just get a phone
that doesn't work all the time.
Rhonda I'm going to ask and
that's getting better.
I'm going to ask a controversial
question.
Is your phone an Apple or an
Android?
It's a droid.
OK.
OK.
Those are usually better.
Yeah.
Because I've I've had problems
with GM playing with Apple for
a few years with like their
automatic charging and stuff.
And there's all kinds of stuff
online that said there's some
compatibility issues with some
Apple products.
But the fact that this is
intermittent is frustrating.
Totally.
That it works all it works great.
It's almost like it goes so long
and it's like OK I've had enough
of this or this time I don't like
the way we connected.
Right.
It's just maddening and
it's a maddening thing for a
technician to try to fix.
Because all they can do if
they wanted to is replace
the communications module.
I don't know if they've done
that yet or not.
And they may or may not have
permission from General Motors to
do it.
They won't allow them to do it
unless they verify.
They're going to ask them and
said did you try a different
phone and say maybe they'll
just say yes we did and it
didn't do any good.
They may let them change it.
But a lot of times there'll be
a Bolton that says hey this is
a compatibility issue which
they should be able to dig into
and find.
And sometimes I don't if you
listen to the under the hood
show every single call is
someone who has a problem
with their car that is unique
to them.
You know what I mean.
My car every third time I
started it chugs.
Well not all the GM's and not
all the Ford's chug but that
one does.
And that this is just that
sometimes happens with those
phones.
I feel for it so frustrating.
Do you have someone that
could be with you and you
guys could do a bunch of
phone calling over a weekend
or something to take a
road trip and pair up a
couple of phones.
No.
Yeah it's my company car so
I can't take anybody with
me other than a fellow
employee.
Oh so I have to grab maybe
in my household phone so
maybe the company can borrow
you know a different phone for
or something.
Yeah it's my personal phone.
It's my personal phone.
So but you say possibly the
communication module.
Well there's a there's the
like you'd call it almost the
radio brain and it's got the
Bluetooth built into it and
that is the item that is
communicating with your phone.
That's what makes the
connection.
Let's see Rhonda thanks very
much for the call.
Hold on but keep listening
Rhonda I'm going to take a
call here.
We might have some help here.
Let's see.
Christoph you're on the end
of the hood show.
What can we do for you.
Hey guys I guess it's two
weeks for two for me in a
row here.
How you doing.
Very good.
So I can tell you I have a
personal experience with
technology support but also
this Bluetooth thing with the
car stereo with the phone
you guys are right on the money.
The number of variables that are
involved will drive you nuts
but the best thing you can do
is documentation and write out
the sequence of events what's
happening when it happens.
So you can keep track of how
often it is and it sounds
silly like keeping a journal of
it but it's like when you go
to the doctor and you say hey
this thing is hurting and
they're like okay when.
But number one thing that I
found is my old
Samsung Android phone
in a 2015
Buick that I'm driving now
suddenly decided not to do
text message notifications
anymore without any changes
that I was aware of but it
would still take calls.
So kind of weird
and I tried unpeering the
phone repairing the phone
didn't really get a
difference but I would get in
the car after not thinking
about it the next morning
and all of a sudden I would
get a text alert and the next
time I would get in the car
later in the day nothing.
So you have a number of
variables involved and it's
important to kind of line
those all up and see what's
involved so you've got a
specific car with a specific
phone but it's acting
intermittently weird so now
we have to track when and
why and what's going on but
here's what happened about four
weeks after my phone started
misbehaving with communication
to the car low and behold
Verizon pushed out a Samsung
update for my 2021 phone and
this was within the last six
months and I didn't think about
it at the time but ever since
that moment without changing
anything about how my phone
is paired and just assuming
I'll never have text
messaging in on my 2015
viewing text message just came
back and they've been
back consistently so since
they've worked consistently
it had to have been an
update I'm guessing from
Samsung Verizon on the phone
eventually that you can
enforce security update.
Yeah. Yeah. And I couldn't I
couldn't toggle anything
change anything go into the
admin developer deep root
settings of the phone and
change anything. The radio is
the radio the firmware is the
firmware the software is the
software and then on top of
that you've got the same
thing on the other end of
Bluetooth radio the firmware
for it the software within
the car that deals with the
stereo because it all pipes
the stereo and the
entertainment system now and
so you're not crazy and and I
can tell you at least as a
long time listener intermittent
issues it plagues all
technology but the best thing
you can do is document and
that way when you're having
conversations with people you
may be able to find some
common clues that will help
you sort it out. Perfect.
Thank you very much for the
call Chris. Yeah. It's that
one's and then that's not an
easy one. If you're somebody
that has been resistant to
updates on your phone. Yeah.
Some people are you might
want to update your phone. And
then if you're like me you
also feel like the software
update you shouldn't. I mean
it's a miracle. So why are
you complaining that every
other once out of every 50
calls is bad. Of course. I
mean it's amazing. Yeah. This
is the problems that we have
nowadays are different aren't
they 8665944150. This is
the under the hood show. Let's
go to Connecticut and talk to
Alec. You're on the under the
hood show Alec. What can we do
for you. Thanks for taking my
call. I have a 2008 Chevy
cobalt with the two two. And
I just recently bought it from
a co-worker for my daughter.
She's going to be you know
doodling around college with
it. So I you know I get the
phone call at you know 10
p.m. where it's a day it
doesn't start you know she's
200 miles away at a grocery
store. But the it's like this
intermittent thing as I as I
was talking to her. She'll
get in it and it tends to be
only one it's super hot
because it's been really hot
in the last few weeks here.
But she'll get in it. She'll
start cranking it over
crank crank crank crank
and it'll fire up for a
sec and then die. And she
did that like five times. And
then she called me. This was
like last night or night
before. And then as we're as
I'm trying to figure out what
I'm going to do being hundreds
of miles away. And you know
it just just fires back up.
And it ran perfect. And then
I asked her about it. And I
guess it happened once last
week. And I was able to
obtain the old records
because it's a it's a
co-worker's mother's car.
You know it's only got 70
thousand miles. It's a 2008.
And apparently I was looking
at the notes and it said they
had this issue in August of
last year early August. I'm
sure it was very hot. But I
was reading the notes from the
mechanic that they took it to
and you know it said I don't
know intermittent. They said
they couldn't get they couldn't
reproduce it in the shop and
they just decided to put a
new fuel pump in it because
they didn't know what else
to do. And then I guess she
didn't have an issue from
September. And you know I've
had it for about three weeks.
It seems it has happened
twice. But you know the car is
used more consistently now.
It's not only driven 1500 miles
a year or anything. So I
guess I don't know exactly
what I'm asking. But you know
like I guess what kind of
would have to happen is it
would have to just not start
permanently. Then I could
probably diagnose it a lot
easier. But I don't know
if there's anything like you
know there's something that
goes on with these vehicles
when it's hot. And I don't
know any any suggestions. I
can I mean my wife and I
always drive coyotes and we're
not used to these like my
other daughter drives a Jeep
and I'm like always fixing
electrical. I can answer this
and I know what questions
you want to ask. And I have
the answer. The question you
want to ask is should you
buy a car from a coworker for
your kids. The answer is
always no. And there's no
way around it. No one made
any mistakes. No one did
anything wrong. But you
it was a great price. Yeah.
That's that's how they get
you. And it's the world. It's
not your co-workers. Driven on
Sunday. And it's not your
co-workers fault. It's not
anyone's fault. That's just
a whole run any other time.
It's how the world works.
That's just you can't do
that. It's so funny because
I saw my first car at the
seventy seven Toyota. I just
get it started up. You know
it's all you know I don't
drive every day obviously but
you just get it starts
right up. Oh and you need to
be sitting there six months
and I never have these
issues then till the Jeep and
the Chevy. How far away will
the daughter be when she
gets to where she's going.
180 miles from the house.
OK. All right. So Lisa
starts eventually but you
know the fuel pumps are the
big things on those. The
ignition relays have had some
issues with those when they
get hot. They lose it. And
a lot of times when they do
that they'll set a code. You
can read the code and see
that it's set an ignition
relay code and you just put
a couple of them and
there's two of them there
one and two that just replace
them. But that'll be something
you could do cheap could also
have a crankshaft sensor that's
that's failing gets hot opens
up shuts down then cools off
and restarts. And those are
the cheaper things that can be
done. I mean if I was trying
to fix something for a family
member I just want to throw
some things at it real quick
I'd probably go buy a couple
relays for you know 30 bucks
40 bucks whatever for the
pair of them and and maybe
even get a crankshaft
sensor and bolt it in just
to see if it made any
difference because I'm
otherwise you're going to have
to get a shop they're not going
to find it because in a minute
they may not even want to
touch it to begin with
because it's not doing it all
the time might be some things
you could try on your own.
What did that use for coil
and modules in that car with
a 2.2 right on the top one
you should be one is that
that one unit that sat in
there yeah should be one way
spark isn't yeah but
they're always spark now
but well no they're not
always but they they it's
one unit one coil pack you
know instead of a because
they would fail when they got
hot. Oh yeah the quad four
used to be crazy when was the
last time somebody called
with a quad four we had we
had a call a month ago with
that very car quad four
engine I think so because
you told them about putting
the module in it.
I think that was the
different when I was thinking
of I'm thinking quad four
now OK for a joke.
But yeah it was doing
Somerset Regal vibes there
and the only thing we could
do is go back in time and
not and there's no where for
for it's just no way around
it's just how it I've sold
a car to a friend for his kid
and it blew up a week later.
I mean that's just all right
let's Chris look over the
negativity. All right go ahead.
All right. So you've got a
vehicle that's in good
condition. It's got good miles
mechanically. It seems to be
really sound. Your daughter
she probably liked the car up
until now.
He wants you to get something
completely different. Another
co-worker. OK. All right.
But I think that for
less than three hundred dollars
you could play darts parts
darts and get rid of the
problem. A really good
potential. That's kind of what
I was thinking. OK.
Actually it was online.
I took a look at a crankshaft
sensor. I kind of thought
Russell say that but I did
see there was a GM one for
sales like 30 bucks brand new.
You know wholesaler close out
and you know all that stuff
seems pretty cheap maybe
because it breaks all the
time. It's a lot of them.
Well you're talking about
it. You are talking about an
O8 cobalt. Yeah. Let's just
keep that in perspective.
But I have a seventy seven
there and it starts right up.
I'm like you're spoiled.
You're spoiled. You've had
good experience with something
else. You're good. I would
say start with like the rest
of those relays crank sensor
and then a module. And if you
did those three I'd be really
surprised. It's one of those
three didn't fix it. But you'll
never know which one it was.
It'd be like an ask our pit
stop. You switch everything
and it goes fast and they
don't know what they did.
Is it a seventy seven Celica?
No. It's a old Lankers or FJ 40.
That's that's that's why that
goes all the time.
Alec, thanks very much for the
call. Good luck. 866-594-41.
5 0. Let's go to Oregon and
talk to James. You're on the
end of the hood show. James
what can we do for you?
Well, I've got a we bought
a couple of 2000 S 350s with
the 7.3 liter diesel.
And we've we got probably, you
know, close to half a million
miles on them and they never
had any trouble until now.
And I loaned it to a loan one
of them to a friend. And when
I got it back, it only had
about one percent of the
emergency brake left. And I've
looked at that thing and I
can't really figure out how
the emergency brake works on
it. But I've been wrenching
since the sixties on on
Ford's and this doesn't
look like anything I've seen
before. Is this maybe a
dealer only fixer? No, you
can you can fix them, but it's
got the drum disc on the back.
Doesn't it disc brake on the
outside? Yep. Yeah. So the
inside's got a drum. You know,
I hate to say they burned it
up, but it sounds like they
may have left the parking
brake on when they drove it
and that diesel will
overcome that parking brake
very easily and ruin the
pads. So you got to take
the wheels off and take the
drum off inside of the
drum. There's a set of
shoes like regular brake
shoes and some hardware
like an old go cart. Yep.
And then on the outside, you've
got the drum. So usually the
drums don't wear out that
fast and it is the parking
brake. So you should be
able to just clean
everything off. You know, like
CRC parts cleaner, brakes
cleaner. It's really good
for all that goo in there.
Spray that on there. Clean
it off everything very
well. I like to hose down
the whole backing plate
because you've got asbestos
fibers and stuff on that.
So I just give them a
light spray to soak
everything good. And then
I hose it down and run it
into a bucket, get it all
clean before I take it off.
And then new pads are new
shoes back there and new
brake hardware. Put it all
back together and that
should fix your problem. You
should be able to
immediately see when you
get the drum off of
there. What the problem is
is like, oh, word, no word
of the shoes go. They're
gone because can I get
can I get those parts from
Napa or do I have to get
them from Ford? No, you
can get them from any
auto parts store that's
going to carry those parts
are going to be super
common. And for the
350, they're probably
going to have at least
two sets on the shelf
in their store. That is a
very common rear end.
James, thanks very much
for the call. Good luck.
866-594-4150. Let's
go to Nevada and talk
to Christian. We got
just a couple of minutes
here. Christian, go
ahead.
Hey, guys, how you
doing today?
Great.
Hey, we've got an O2 Chevy
Blazer, S10 Blazer. Also
previously I've had an O2
Chevy Silverado. I think
recently in those years
they come out with that
same rear disc brake
drum setup that they
have. And it seems on
these vehicles I've had
it's always a problem
keeping those drums
adjusted. Right now I
can't get the
the park brake or
emergency brake to really
grab. I could be on a
slight incline and just
roll it. God forbid I have
to stop with it. So I was
wondering if you guys
could tell me if there's
any other solutions,
modern solutions,
aftermarket solutions
or what's the deal
with those?
Well, they're only
made for holding the
vehicle. They are 100%
not made for stopping it.
So they are not an
emergency brake or a
service brake of any
kind. They will
immediately destroy
themselves if they're
applied when the vehicle
is rolling because it's
so thin it can't
dissipate heat in the
back that that pad
surf or the shoe
surface. So the fix
for it is new
drums, new brake
hardware and new parking
brakes, they've all got
to be clean because
with the old drum,
new parking brake,
they're not like a big
F 350 Ford for a
parking brake on those
which will slow the
vehicle down and stop it.
Was never it wasn't
intended to either.
They don't grab.
So yeah, you need to
replace the whole setup,
but they don't make
anything. They make
aftermarket parts.
Yes, lots of them.
But they're not any better
than the factory.
So if you can find
find the ones that are
most affordable for you
and replace, make sure
you do the hardware,
the parking brake shoes
and the rotor back there.
And I should get you
back to normal again
as long as the cables
are good. Christian,
thanks very much
for the call. Good luck.
Two in a row, right?
Never. And then two
in a row, two parking
brake calls in a row.
All right. Now we
believe we are on
the after show. I'm just
going to take it on
faith that we are
off the radio
and just on the
take it on the run, baby.
Take it on the run.
Oh, don't say we can't.
Oh, that was that short
enough. Are they good?
That's good. Copyright us.
Let's go talk to Dave
in Minnesota. Dave,
you're on the under the
hood show.
What can we do?
Hold on. I I miss that one.
Dave, you're on the
under the hood show.
What can we do for you?
Yeah, I love your show,
guys. Thanks.
I got a quick question
for you.
I have been a GM man.
I've had a 3800
all my life here, just
as kind of a work car
ran across a Chrysler
300C with a three
six liter, just
kind of wondering what you
think of that car.
The car itself is
very, very dependable
overall from our experience.
We see those come in here
that have been ran
pretty hard through
a few generations of life
cycles of where cars
get acquired and we even
have gotten they've gotten
old enough where we see them
at some of our impound
lot sales and stuff that
people have still been driving
them with lots and lots
of miles on them.
I would say the weak link
would be the engine at
some point.
But in that particular
model, not with the
problematic history as
as much as it would be like
in a Jeep or a
of Han or that
I don't know.
That just seems like pretty
pretty strong overall.
Pretty strong like an old Chevy
Caprice. They're the modern
day version of that big
where we'll drive heavy
good car.
They just seem to be.
Yeah, this is an all wheel drive.
So oh, but yeah,
you got a few more parts to break.
But can we turn them into race cars?
Pretty so.
I'm sure somebody would.
But the all wheel drive part
makes it a little interesting.
Does it make it better?
OK, well, it depends
what kind of fun you want to have.
OK.
No, I think you for a car
how many miles are on it?
30,000.
It's 2014.
Oh, 14.
Yeah, I was thinking older.
Yeah, that's a great car.
Yeah. No, no, no.
No, no, no. We'll drive.
It's got to be 14.
All wheel drive.
Yeah, like a challenger.
Yes, that's a pretty good one.
Yeah.
We simply people make some four
wheel drives on it like
jacked up four wheel drives
out of these.
They'll take the challenger or
the this one
and they actually make spindles
to modify where the CV shaft
goes through and it drops
it down like four inches
so you can raise the car up
and put some 35 inch tires on it.
Remember those we saw at the Seamus show?
I forgot all about that.
Yeah, so they they
they do all sorts of stuff.
These are a very popular car.
They were worth it in the after
market to make accessories for them
because they felt they were reliable
and enough people would buy them.
So that makes lots of parts
available for them and makes them
pretty tough.
There you go.
No, the way the wife ain't
going to go for a little lift.
And it's all tough to lift it up
and put some.
Yeah, what did you do to my car?
Don't tell her.
Happy anniversary, honey.
Dave, thanks very much for the call.
Enduro car.
Can I can I get out on the dirt track
with an all wheel drive and you could.
I just said they're not going to hold up
very well to the hits.
No, they're so thin.
That's true.
These new most car
Chris now are very there.
They're made to absorb energy
to save the occupants so they fold
where there was a Enduro race
at our local county fair
the other night.
So we were watching old video
of Enduro races
because a friend of mine had never
seen one and a lot of
Grand Ams out there.
A lot of Grand Ams still racing
in Enduro tracks and have you
ever watched a camper race?
Just online.
Yeah, that's what I
mean. They're there.
There's the big one that
pops up every year.
The night of destruction.
And I think the last one was
maybe last year they stopped doing
it because it was a it's so
hard to clean the track.
They have to take dirt off
in layers because there's so much
to free in the track.
My wife wants to see them.
They run.
I guess they run one here every
year that says the night of
destruction coming up the end of
August at at nine ninety.
So I had I'm not aware.
They did a couple years ago
where they race and wreck.
But if that's so I mean
she's into it.
But I I love I stopped
watching all those videos
because I would send them to you
with great ideas and you guys
would never go for my great
ideas.
Well, I didn't love your idea
you had that work are going to
take advantage of and I started
out with an experiment on YouTube
and it knocked off a thousand
views in like six hours.
And then of course it faded
like they do.
But we'll we'll have even
better ones.
But I just had to say, hey,
how much would that
worked out well?
Yeah, I'm scared to death of
that, by the way.
Shannon's like, what are you
doing during work hours?
I'm like, no, it's authorized
experiment.
Yes.
Yes.
Highly classified eight six six
five nine four four one five
oh, let's talk to Alan.
You're on the end of the
hood show.
Alan, what can we do for you?
Hi, uh,
Russ, we talked about my
ninety seven Dodge half ton.
I was having the gurgling
in the heater core.
Oh, yeah.
The whole week to go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I borrowed one of those
vacuoles.
The fans.
Oh, the top extended
sure.
Yeah.
And.
Brought home, put it all
together, put it on the truck.
Had the truck running
and it was good and warm.
Is up to temperature.
And it really didn't take much
if if at all.
Maybe a half a point.
How the point.
Yeah, maybe.
And I noticed that the overflow
tank was low
down about the fill line.
So that's not OK.
Fill it up.
Ran the truck down to
Sandhills in Nebraska.
I went down for the race.
I didn't.
But I went down and worked it.
And.
Pretty much it.
It ran its normal temperature
and I really couldn't tell
if it was gurgling or not.
I wasn't really paying attention.
So coming back.
I stopped.
Oh, Dunning, Nebraska
has full service gasoline.
Really?
So we came out and pumped it for you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, got up to
fix down and.
Did another stop for gas.
And open the hood.
And let the truck cool down a little bit.
Something my dad always did
when he was on the road.
He just popped the hood open
and let the heat out,
which I guess is probably a good idea
work for him off.
And I looked at the overflow tank
and went, wow,
you're three quarters of the way full.
And that's normal.
Like three.
OK, you filled it up.
So when you added the coolant to the radiator,
now you've taken out that air pocket.
You've gotten rid of the air
so that when it warms up
and it expands, it should push out
into the overflow tank.
And then when it cools down,
it should suck it out of the overflow tank.
If it doesn't go both ways like that,
it's either not full
or you've got a poor cap
on the on the radiator.
And some of the caps aren't as good.
Our partner Motor Red makes
some really nice caps.
They've been doing it forever
and that would fix that problem
of the past back and forth.
So, OK, well, I got to go out that way anyway.
So maybe I'll just look at it when I'm out there.
It's it's in storage right now.
It got put away.
It's got another problem with brakes right now.
I've got a weak wheel cylinder in the rear.
So why there was no traffic out there.
Browsk is seven.
Alan, thanks very much for the call.
Good luck.
The what about pickup trucks?
Can I get a pickup truck out on the dirt track?
Why don't we do that? Is it just
a light in the back?
Do some drifting in it.
Get around to hook it up over the round.
An old camper drag campers around.
Those are races are great.
Get a let's get a bunch of 16, 17
year old kids get them out in the world of outlaws
with Knoxville Nationals when they're
just children.
That was a fun to watch.
That was fun to watch.
You had that thing on rails.
Yeah, it was the race was not for first.
In that never, never underestimate.
A child's ability to operate machinery very well.
You soon to forget that most of the pilots
in World War two and that were like 18, 19
years old and they were good, you know,
the older people just weren't.
I think when you're young and you
your your brain doesn't know you can't do it,
you can do it like the first guy to flip
a snowmobile off a ramp or a TV.
And those guys were just jumping off a ramp.
Then later, they said, let's fill a big tub
full of cardboard boxes so we don't die when we try it.
The first ones were were just doing it.
And then that's amazing.
So we heard your dad say you just won
the Knoxville Nationals.
What did he say after that?
Nothing.
He just said that a bunch of times in a row.
He just kept saying over and I'll go to your homework.
It was so great.
Yeah, that was fun.
Yeah, there's a lot of race fans around this area.
And I I don't always get a chance to watch,
but I tuned in that night when just the way
the lineup for the main was set up.
I thought it was going to be really quite interesting.
Mm hmm.
And that young kid races full time around here.
He's not within the world of outlaws all year,
but he races Knoxville regularly.
And when we had our Nordstrom's night at Houston,
he was running away with the feature.
And he would he had came down out of turn four
and there was a car pulling in that had mechanical problems.
And he just couldn't react fast enough.
He ended up riding him down the front straight away
on his back bar and he got himself disconnected from him.
But by then they had already called the caution.
Sure.
So they blended him back into fifth place with the blender rule.
I think it was fifth place and he needed another lap or two
because he was coming.
But, you know, he's been fun to watch.
And he's wrecked a few things like, you know, Doug Wolfgang.
Right.
My dad remembers him wrecking a few cars back in the uses days
go wide open or go home.
And that's the only way to do it.
But they it was just fun to watch.
He passed from eighth to first in his qualifying feature
and never had a car in front of him the rest of the weekend.
How about that for an 18 year old kid?
Yeah.
Wow.
And the race team.
Easy to win those.
And the race team originally was the race team out of Rapid
City, South Dakota, the Liebig Special, the Super 8 Special.
That was kind of the lineage of the family.
I'm getting that probably wrong completely.
But I know the Liebig's are longtime race builders.
I think at one time they may even own the track out
in Rapid City, the family.
And so they've had that going for a long time.
So Shane is one of the, I think, sons, not a grandson.
And so they've been around this for quite a while.
And that's got to be a big, big thrill for that family that's
involved on that car side of it.
And the family that's involved, mom and dad have been around
racing a lot, it looks like.
So that's some big excitement.
All right.
Anything else?
We're ready to roll, I guess, huh?
OK.
Happy birthday, Ava Rose, if moms and Ava are watching
today, she's my baby's 18 years old today.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's weird.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
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