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We are glad to have you with us. Russ Evans is here to answer your automotive questions.

Thanks for joining us under the hood. Shannon Nordstrom is here to do the same.

Welcome, hoodies. Thanks for tuning in so we can help you tune up.

I'm Chris Carter here to answer your calls at 866-594-4150. Got calls coming in.

Should we go right to them or do you got anything pertinent? I saw that the

Big Ford Recall got expanded to include Edge Explorer.

I'm just starting to wonder if when they mandated federal that you have rear safety cameras,

it was just a ploy to make the manufacturers give them more money.

It might have been. Gosh, it seems like there's been a lot of recalls on those.

What, when did that go? 23? No, it's been long before that.

Was it? Oh yeah, thanks so.

It's nuts. It's just all of them. It's just all nuts.

And now the latest thing with, you know, the emissions, people heard like a rollback over.

No, I get questions. How many times do you have? I had two this week.

Yeah, this week. This week from people that were like really serious.

And to the point, our outside salesman, Tim, had said,

yeah, he was, I had a shop told me they rolled back emissions.

He even saw a new 2026 Silverado on a truck.

And it was up on the top and they looked and it didn't have any def on it or anything.

I said it was probably a military vehicle.

You know, it's a police vehicle because if they were going to have made a change like that,

it wouldn't have come this fast.

They would have had to have gotten into the pipeline.

Engineering would have to redesign the vehicles.

There is quite a bit that would have to happen before those vehicles would hit the road

with different emissions on them.

You know what's going to happen when they, when we see it on the lot for sale

and there's a sticker on it that has certain emissions of it.

It won't be all of them. It'll be some of them.

You're not even going to not get in trouble for it yet.

Right?

I think they did enforcement on somebody as recent as a month ago, I think.

Yeah, you're still getting it.

So if you have a 25 or a 26 that's full emissions and you think you're going to

delete that in 27, if the trucks had less emissions, you're still getting hung on it

because it happened.

You go to jail for smoking pot and then your state the next year says,

Oh, now it's legal.

We voted in Minnesota.

There's still people in jail in Minnesota that were busted for it a year ago or two when it was not.

I've said this on the air before.

I can't believe I can say smoking pot or the word marijuana even on the radio.

Yeah, I can't even, I just, I'm uncomfortable.

You probably couldn't have done that 15 years ago.

No, 866-594-4150.

Let's go to Nebraska and talk to Mike.

You're on the end of the hood show.

Mike, what can we do for you?

I am a quieter 1987 big Conovan with a 460 in it and I would like to put the Edelbrock intake on it.

And the question I have is when I put the gaskets on, what do I do with that exhaust crossover?

All right, I'm hanging in here.

You know, I'm thinking about this too.

Because shouldn't that be a fuel injected 460 in the van?

Well, yeah.

No, 87, no, 87, 87.

It's probably still 87 doesn't have a variable venturi carburetor on it.

Well, the carburetor will be replaced it will be with an Edelbrock intake and carburetor.

Is it a, is it a very, oh, you're putting it, you're not putting the fuel injection on it?

No, no, he's just putting a carburetor.

I was trying to, I got confused on the year for a second because that is a carbureted van.

I just say you put the sniper fuel injection on it, you'd actually increase your mileage instead of

getting the same because if that's got a VV, you know, variable venturi carb on it,

and you switch to a Edelbrock, you're probably going to drop some, well, if that thing isn't.

Let's just go down his road.

Apparently he wants to, all right, he wants to do this.

Let's see, what do we got?

Well, you can block it off, but you might have some carbicing.

They make a block off kit that comes the crossover.

It comes with the gaskets, there's little metal plates, you can put them on.

We used to put them on our old Pontiacs and stuff, you know, the 400, you block them off and

then sometimes the carburetor, sometimes it wouldn't, it depended on the climate.

If you're in a really cold climate and you're going to plan on driving in the winter,

you better leave the carb heat, at least some of it.

Sometimes we drill a quarter inch hole in each, each one of those

going across to warm them up, but it with no carb heat on that

in a, in a northern winter, you might have a problem with icing.

Okay.

You get that Venturi effect, cold air goes through, it will freeze up and then it won't idle

till it warms up.

I see.

So you would suggest a drill a hole in it?

Well, if you've got the, if you've got the two gaskets that came with it

and it's got a block up plate, here's what I would do.

Edelbrock has a amazing tech line.

Call them, tell them what climate you live in and ask them what their suggestion is,

because they know how much heat that carburetor needs.

They might have a thing.

To not ice.

Exactly.

But not to get too technical.

I need the thing.

I can tell you, I was working on, on Shannon's land rover yesterday.

He's got an old land rover and.

Drove it home last night at 1030 with a smile on my face.

Oh, that's good.

Yes.

When you start that up cold on high idle, the carburetor will frost over the bottom of it.

But they conveniently located the manifold, the exhaust manifold, right onto the intake manifold

to make it nice and hot and make it run worse when it's warm.

But also so that things can catch on fire easily if the carburetor holds up.

Thanks for the encouragement.

But it's there for the heat.

They put it underneath for the heat.

There's no way around it.

It's already got a big insulator spacer in it.

Without that, it wouldn't run when it's warm.

But again, it also makes ice when it's cold.

It will ice up enough that it will hold the throttle open partially until that manifold

heats up and closes it.

That's part of their fast idle system, I think.

So, Mike, that you called for one thing and you got just more piled on you.

There you go.

Oh, yeah.

And we questioned his decision.

Yeah.

He mentioned the Sniper thing.

Does that take a different intake manifold then?

It does.

It's going to, well, they're going to provide with that system.

You'll get an intake, carb, everything.

You can get carbs just to fit that.

But it's a, the Sniper electronic injection has an external fuel pump that goes on the

rail down underneath, right where the factory would have put it in the end of 87 early 88.

And then you bolt it to the top.

You hook a few sensors up and that thing runs an O2 sensor.

So it's really going to look at the fuel mixture and only give it the fuel it needs to operate.

It will make a difference in fuel mileage compared to a carburetor.

But it may only be a couple of miles per gallon.

And depending on how much you drive that, it's a van.

You know, if you don't drive it a lot to make up what you pay for the fuel injection,

it might not be worth it.

It's only, it's really worth it if you can say, I got fuel injection in here and I

never had it.

That's fun.

That's worth it.

That is fun.

And it's going to run smooth, you know, year round or smoother.

Mike, thanks very much for the call.

Good luck.

866-594-4150.

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Now let's go to Texas and talk to Scotty.

You're on the end of the hood show.

Scotty, what can we do for you?

Yeah, how y'all doing today?

Great, Scotty.

What can we do for you?

Okay, I got a 2006 Jeep Liberty.

I've had it for a couple years and off and on it seems there seems to be some electronic glitches

and I'm wondering if that's a common thread with the 37 Jeep Liberty or if there's a remedy to

fix it because it's multiple glitches like the recently I've experienced the fuel gauge

light comes on and the gauge just needle drops all the way to the bottom.

And then 20 minutes later it'll pop back up and it'll go off.

Same thing with the check engine light.

It's not shooting any codes, but the check engine might have come on and then an hour or so later

it'll go off.

The ESP light does the same thing.

Is there something that all of that would be connected to a sensor or something

electronic that I'm overlooking?

Do you notice any changes in the way the vehicle operates when these

lights are going on and off?

Negative.

That's not necessary.

That's a good sign as far as driving it, but that's not necessarily a good sign as far as

diagnosing it, correct?

Correct.

Russ is trying to write me something and I can't understand it.

Is that a gauge?

Is that a cluster?

Maybe.

Make this whole thing maybe.

I would fail at charades.

Everybody knows that.

And Chris, you know that.

Could it be the actual, yeah, the entire cluster under the dash like that?

Could it be that?

Definitely could be 100% the cluster.

And it could all just be false signals.

And the only way a person's really going to know is...

Never got that one either.

The only person's ever going to know is if you have a scanner or a tool hooked to it at

the same time and watch what's actually happening and see if you're getting the

same indications on the scanner as you do on the cluster.

A real-time reader, right?

Yeah.

So you can see what's really happening.

You want me to tell you what's wrong with it now?

Well, I was waiting for you, Russ.

I was just trying to jump in.

He's like, he's watching me drown here.

This is like beating a dead horse.

Okay.

Thanks, Terry.

I think you're sending units bad in the tank.

So what's happening is when you lose the signal from the tank back there,

not only does your gauge go down, but the engine computer can't read it either.

So it turns the check engine light on.

Check engine light comes on and gets a bad signal to the ABS.

It says invalid data and it gives you that ESE light.

So I think you're sending units failing.

Very likely.

It's, well, that's somewhere we would look if you're analyzing it.

If you grabbed yourself a cheap $20 multimeter and hooked it to that tank,

one to ground, one to the tank sending unit on ohms,

and you could hook it up back there or hook it up at the computer, whichever went,

watch it.

And when that gauge goes wacky, the gauge on your meter is going to go all over the place

if the sending unit's bad.

But that's likely what's going on.

Pretty common.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

We've done a few of them.

Can you hold up your sign again, the first one you drew?

Because now I'm starting to maybe get it.

Empty on fuel or yeah.

The fuel tank.

That's the fuel gauge you drew there.

We should play charades with our YouTube viewers during the show.

No, we shouldn't.

And then we could show them things and then make a comment in the comments and say,

what's this one?

Is that a billion dollar idea?

I don't think so.

Scotty, thanks very much for the call.

Good luck.

866-594-4150.

Let's talk to Dale.

You're on the end of the Hood Show, Dale.

What can we do for you?

Yeah, like I told the caller guy, this is kind of an unusual call.

It's a 1942 international harvester model H tractor.

Okay.

Russell had this.

Go ahead.

Russell, get this.

It's six-hole, you know, because it's so old.

And it's also a positive ground.

Now, I have been having all kinds of trouble trying to make, it's got a generator,

you know, trying to make this generator actually charge.

So I finally decided I'm going to go to an alternator that I bought from a tractor

parts store over in Michigan.

It's a alternator.

One wire is all.

So you just have to run that wire to your battery.

But do I change from positive ground to, well, you got to go to a 12-volt, too.

You know, it's a 12-volt system, not six.

But do I change from the positive ground?

Any idea?

Yeah, you got to swap it because the alternator can't be swapped inside

the way the diodes are running it.

They run one direction and the current flow is to the ground, positive to negative.

It's, you'll burn it up if you try to hook it up.

Everything else can be switched.

If you got a positive ground, your lights aren't going to, they don't care.

They go either way.

They're like a stove coil one way or the other way they heat up.

They work.

They're going to light.

Okay.

Your gauges are going to have to be reversed because they go up and down based on resistance.

So you're going to have to swap those around.

They actually make little boxes.

You can put on these things to swap polarities and voltages.

Okay.

The only gauge it's an amp meter.

Yep. Now the amp meter works in series.

So it should work.

It should work because it's just measuring the flow of current and it's going one direction.

You know, it goes through it.

Either direction it's going to show charge or discharge.

In the worst case, when you hook that thing up, if you swap positive negative ground,

if that gauge is going backwards, you've got to swap the in and out on them.

There's two wires coming in and it just flows through.

Okay.

It's measuring a river current.

So you will need to change your coil though because your coil is got the way it's set up.

You've got positive coming in, which is negative coming in.

Is it a coil or does it have a magneto system?

It's got a coil, unless it's got both, but it'll have a coil to fire it.

So yeah, you'll want to put a 12 volt coil on it, which is a negative ground coil.

But it's still, again, it's a coil.

It goes one direction unless there's a diode built in, it'll all flow either way.

But you need a 12 volt coil on there when you put the 12 volt.

Now you're going to have to switch your either switch all your lighting

to put 12 volt bulbs in it, which will work.

Or you probably have three bulbs on it.

You know, the two headlights, maybe one in the back and then one in the instrument panel

in that amp gauge, which I doubt you probably even have that.

But you want to switch those over to 12 volt.

Yeah.

Is there anything in the distributor then that would be different or the points?

The points and the points and condenser, they're all going to, they're still,

they're going to be the same.

That's just a store.

The condenser is just a storage device for the reserve energy when you

break those points.

And then the the points don't care.

They're just a switch on off.

Very little.

You're good.

You're lucky that you have so little items on this old vehicle.

It's not like a car from the past.

There's very few wires, but it still can be a bugger to try and figure stuff out on it too.

But okay.

Thank you guys a lot for the help.

Thanks, Dale.

I told you, I said, you know, I was just watching.

I'm over three.

I would have to say, Russ, that was a very good description of the amp meter amp meter.

When you said it, it was just a river of current.

That was good.

I just, I was sitting there looking at him.

I was like, that was good.

That was a good one.

I completely understood what he was talking about.

Not me.

866-594-4150.

Let's talk to Don.

You're on the end of the hood show.

Don, what can we do for you?

I got a 2017 Dodge Durango.

It's a RT with the Pemi all-wheel drive, about 90,000 miles on it.

We've had it since probably 15,000 miles.

And it makes a noise only when you turn left that I've had it in several shops.

It feels like it's in the middle of the car, like underneath your seat.

I've had people ride in the front, back, way back.

It doesn't really do it going straight.

Mostly you got to make that left turn with a little bit of throttle.

So I had taken it to the local Dodge dealer and right away the kid said he knew what it was.

But he thought it was front wheel drive and whatever that was, obviously wasn't it.

So they said they took it in the shop, took some of the fluid out of the transfer case,

brought it to me in a cup.

And it had one small chunk and a little silverish looking in the oil.

So they said transfer case.

And let me get you a quote, which was like four grand.

And I said, well, I got to think about it or whatever.

Throw it home, took it to my buddy shop that I trust.

He's one of the ones that's been helping me try to figure it out.

Or anyways, we went ahead and got a transfer case from a reputable recycling yard,

which is near Brandon where I live.

I won't mention their name, but anyways, went through all the trouble to put that in

and it still makes the same noise.

And we've done, I mean, differentials have been checked and I don't know what else to do.

Is the noise, I mean, it's, is it audible from the outside?

If somebody hears you turning or is it something you're just picking up resonating?

Oh yeah, if you got somebody, somebody standing there can kind of hear it.

Yes, we've done that.

When they put this case in there, it really sounds, go ahead.

They did check the tires, right?

They have the same tread depth and they're the same size, front and rear,

same tread depth, not just same tires.

Right, because the tires are fairly new.

Okay, because if that tread depth is off and they put another transfer case in it,

it's trying to destroy the transfer case you put in it, just like the original,

because I've had that happen before.

Something to look at for sure.

Yeah, looking to make sure that tread depth is the same,

because of the same number on the side, the numbers the same,

but you have 430 seconds on the front and 930 seconds on the back.

They can look pretty good if they're like an AT tire with a lot of grooves.

You could just, oh yeah, they look pretty good.

Oh well, they're way off.

Because if you take these two tires and you set them...

It's kind of like a tighten itself.

Yes, it will, because if you take two tires and one is 430 seconds smaller than the other

in tread depth and you make a white chalk line on both those tires

and you roll them 10 feet, when you go 10 feet,

those chalk lines don't light up anymore.

They're a foot apart.

That's an eighth of an inch, by the way.

Yeah, thanks Chris.

Took me a minute.

And it's like a cup.

That's a line.

A cord.

Yeah, a cord.

There you go, a cord.

But that amount, imagine that.

You roll these tires 10 feet and they're a foot apart.

That's like taking that drive shaft and twisting it.

A foot.

And if you twist and that's a lot smaller, so twist even further.

Yeah.

Now you're twisting the clutches inside of that transfer case

and you're going to rip it apart.

So you want to make sure that those tires match

and that's why we rotate tires on those a lot.

That helps.

Yeah, and I'm pretty adamant on that on oil changes.

Well, check that out.

Does that have a chain in it, the transfer case like the four-wheel drive?

That's what drives the front.

The chain drives the front

and then it's got clutches in it.

So that's something to check for you right away down in there.

You can get a tire depth gauge at any auto parts store for about two dollars.

But yeah, you said you've already checked out all the drive shafts

and then you might want to just also pay attention

to what's going on in the rear differential

to make sure that that's got a limited slip system in it

that there's something not hanging up there too.

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you're on the Under the Hood show Joyce what can we do for you? Well I was on the highway and

um there was an accident

there was a truck had uh

I don't know it went down an embankment oh no and there was a big tie-up

and uh the cars were going just stop and go stop and go stop and go so I

I was close to the car in front of me when my engine just stopped and uh

I tried to pull over to the side couldn't get all the way because I was too close to the car

because the car lost power

and my car was like halfway on the lane and halfway off so it was really dangerous I got out of the

car and uh got to the side of the road and someone um stopped to help me um

but it happened again

when I was just backing out of my driveway

so after you got off to the side of the road you were able to start it and then drive home?

No uh I wasn't able to start it um

someone stopped and he tried to start it and he couldn't start it

and it was really dangerous the person who

was uh you know tried to help me was

very brave because the traffic had picked up and the truck was zooming by and

so when the truck when the car didn't when the car didn't start and the person was trying to help you

they went ahead and um did they try jump starting it or were they just trying to finesse the

the throttle a little bit or what was their attempt to start I gotta just help us understand the problem

uh well they got in the car and tried to get it off the road okay and they they couldn't do it

they didn't try to jump start it I mean was was the battery dead or was the engine just not

going to start for you the engine just didn't start it stopped it it completely stopped on

the highway yeah okay such a terrible situation when that happens because especially when it's

intermittent so when did it start again well um the police came and um they

they did start were able to talk start the car but after much

attempt okay so we have to figure out here Russ what when in traffic car just stops

that's we've got to find out some more stuff first well the fact that it restarted again eventually

how much time had passed by the time police got there had been probably 15 minutes a half hour

before the car started one hour how long how long do you think it was probably it was

probably at least a half an hour okay has it run ever since just fine except for

the she said it pulled out of her driveway and backing up and it died again just recently

and that was a few that was a yeah and that was a few minutes after this first incident okay a few

minutes after but have you driven it since then no a few months after a few months that made more

sense because yeah she would have to port it into her garage like it sounds like it's it sounds

like a heat thing she was sitting in there in a driveway you know in the traffic it got

hot it so it could have a crankshaft sensor issue we put a number of those on these cars

but I think the way to find this is you need to get it into a shop you need to explain to them

just like you did us give them all the details and tell them you know it's hot and it shut down

and then they can use that information and hopefully run the car on a warm day idle until

it dies and if it does have a crankshaft sensor issue that will show up yeah it'll heat up

it'll open that up it'll shut off it'll die they'll be able to say oh this is what it is we got no

crank signal and replace and get it going I think it has something to do with the heat

that's that's causing that sensor to fail and Joyce the hard part about this is if you

just start replacing parts you may not replace the right one right and so you we've you really

really need to be able to duplicate this and that's why you've got some good scenarios where

it happened I get the heat in traffic coming out of your garage I don't quite understand that

you know but it could very easily be something that once they can get it to die then they'll be

able to tell instantly if they know what they're doing what what it doesn't have did it lose fuel

did it lose spark is there no computer signal where it's not able to control the injectors

that's the stuff that they they've got to have that car not working or else they'll be guessing

right because if it runs great otherwise they'll just be guessing now they'll guess the most

likely culprit and they may ask for your permission and say hey let we want to try this this is a

likely culprit a crank shaft positioning sensor or something like that but that can't be a guarantee

that when you get out on the road again that the same thing might not happen until you

can prove it a little bit so it'd be better if you could get to a shop and duplicate the problem

if at all possible Joyce thanks very much for the call good luck that is something

uh that younger listeners might not 50 years ago 40 years ago that's a common you're in

traffic it's hot you're worried about your car now no nobody worries about their car in traffic

I mean you don't sit there it's go it's going overheat gotta shut it off yeah you just sit

there now turn the air on turn the radio on exactly but the bigger the bigger thing that I

got out of this whole thing I was concerned when she said it died in traffic yeah and she

wasn't off the road she didn't say if it was day or night really but it wasn't off the road and then

she got out of the car you can when you if you get out of the car if everybody else was stopped

you gotta be sure of where you're going to and I think everybody was stopped because there was

that accident ahead of her it's not like a bad accident too I mean somebody off a ravine

and there was fire and didn't she say that I mean you don't want to get out of the car

though and go with the shoulder and stand equal to or in front of it you want to be behind

it so if somebody hits that car it's going to keep going like a train like a train you want to go

towards the train you know back backwards not this just came up to I watch I was watching a video

about a chain reaction accident don't get out of your car if cars are hitting yeah don't get out

and try to get away to make sure he had buckled in brace yourself yeah eight six six five nine

four four one five oh let's go to Nebraska and talk to Thomas you're on the end of the hood show

Thomas what can we do for you hi I have a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan and I have several issues at

the moment I'll one my wife can drive it in and out of town and within probably by the time she

gets back the battery light comes on and she'll pull it off to the side of the road she'll turn it

off turn it back on the light will go off keeps happening once in a blue moon and then the other

thing is is she is also having cruise control sometimes it'll work sometimes it's not I've

been checking fuses I've been checking relays what else am I missing that it could be missing

either the battery light or the cruise control maybe they're correlated I'm trying to figure it

this out here's all I know here I'll give you the first part of this Thomas the cruise control

shutting off randomly could be a lot of things it could be tail light could be the brake pedal

could be the ignition system could be I'm trying to follow Russ so far so good right keep going

now you now you take yeah or that alternator may not be putting out enough voltage so the battery is

a little low and it shuts it off that's one of the first things to go I will add to that the battery

the battery is new the battery has been like put in less than a month but the alternator is not

what's causing that battery light to go on is not if that alternator is low

and it's not charging enough and it's turning that light on the first thing to go is the cruise

air conditioning convenience things the radio just doesn't seem to shut off it should

should be one of the first things but they have no way to kill that but yeah it'll kill the convenience

items that are controlled by the computer or the body module so likely you've got a low voltage

issue put a number of alternators on those things okay that'd be the first thing to look at

the alternator now is that something I can bring in yeah what's the testing you would do Russ

yeah test it simple bring it into an alternator test and they load everything up turn all the

lights on the rear to fog or all that stuff and see get this that's going to be holding

under a load is it doing what it's supposed to do and there may even be some codes in either the

body control module and people miss that they'll look at the engine and they'll see no codes but

then you look at the body control module and it says low voltage low voltage low voltage

engine didn't pick it up but the body control module did and Thomas thanks very much for the

call that's the place to start good luck 866-594-4150 for those watching on the youtube feed that's

my daughter the other person in the studio that's my daughter she was bring your daughter to work

day uh-huh we do it once every 25 years and today's her day you used to come to work with me

often when we used to do like holiday stuff yeah at least once a year it's been a while

yeah then you come to the shop and she was like two yeah you haven't even

matter of fact you're here for the first time in years when we were talking earlier i think

you said five like five or more yeah years so she's never been in this studio she has actually

that's what she before before you guys were able to use it that's right yeah there we go all right

now be quiet we're working over here we're busy 866 my my test it works 594-4150 let's go to

oklahoma dress not know that i just noticed i built it but it doesn't mean i know what i did

let's talk to charles in oklahoma you're on the under the hood show charles what can we do for you

yes i have a 2013 mustang with uh 700 miles on it um i used to turn over and now it does not

even turn over i have changed the batteries not recently but when you turn the key on it goes to

like a half a tank of gas and i know the gas tank is full it just doesn't crank i changed the relay

out several times still nothing had a guy come out and read codes he couldn't find any codes

to speak of uh so i'm kind of at a loss whether i just take it in or do i keep trying to search for

the answers well i think that um the sad part is is that it may not be fixable and you may have

to give it to russ or or chris or chris yeah i mean it sounds like it's a very you know not a

great car yeah so just have to give it to someone well i mean it's 2013 last time and i only had

700 miles yeah yeah you didn't sense my son has a meter at all there i'm sorry i apologize

that is a berkeley one classic for sure did he just say 700 700 miles i caught that right away

what is the 700 miles so uh i got that's why it's not work we gotta know more about the car

is this a v8 mustang or what is this thing yeah it's a v8 uh it's the cody motor um it's a 5-0

um it i could say that i don't don't know uh it could be you know it could be the fuel pump

it could be a number of things but let's let's you know they're not reading anything okay let's

go back though when you you said when you and you got a new battery and i'm assuming correct

uh the battery is probably about two years old and it's been sitting in storage most of the time

we're in the car yes yes any sort of a battery maintainer on it all

yes i had a battery uh tricker on it yeah even with a maintainer you they can die sometimes but

i'd be scared i would want to be testing to make sure i've got a good clean battery voltage

if i had a car that sat that long that much and it needed a maintainer on it i'd definitely

be looking into one of those new lithium optima batteries that jump starts itself because if it

sits in it goes dead after too long you just use the connection on your phone and turn it back on

that is the i i'm still so russ i've not seen that yet i was here we oh you weren't here you weren't

here oh but i'm i want to hear about this optima makes a battery that jump starts itself when it

gets down to 30 it shuts itself off and then you use the bluetooth connection on your phone to

turn it back on oh you tap into that so for kids mm-hmm they've got a reserve not a kid anymore but

still for younger people yeah that are in college and the car goes dead all the time oh it went

dead what do i do i got a jump started dad no just grab out your phone let me do get my i want

to make sure if they're gonna if a college kid's calling for a jump that they pull out the right

app right along with you they'll find it in the other thousand they've got on there like me

so all right back to the car first thing make sure the battery's got full voltage if it's not

cranking second thing turn the key on just turn it on to the run position without starting it and

watch the dash if you've got a little flashing theft light or a solid illuminated theft light

you got a security issue and it's not allowing the car to start you could have had a problem

with the key the transponder especially if it's been sitting this long but another thing that's

very common on those cars is the starter they get a little they get a little something going on

inside and they don't make contact when you turn them on and i want to jump in here and just be clear

that a 2013 with 700 miles is it's got issues that are not normal to a car that's used regularly

it's we're in a different we're in a different situation here than a normal 2013 usually

they're kind of okay but the things do happen yeah that's pretty low miles and it's it's common for

batteries to go dead and starters to not make contact and that can be checked because if you

got somebody that's a bill got got a meter just a simple meter then go down to the starter and see

am i getting voltage if i'm getting voltage to the starter and it's not and the exciter

wires got voltage and it's not kicking in starter's got a problem um now this Berkeley

classics Berkeley won classics they are going to want to ensure this car for you but we are going to

want we're going to want to guess what color it is first let me ask a question yeah this is a Berkeley

classic because of the way he uses it not because no it's a Mustang gtv8 um that fold that's

definitely one of their cars they'll ensure unless you're driving it every single day okay and

he's obviously not driving it every single day that is true so i think that this car is steel gray

chris i was gonna say gray i'll say uh i'll go out i'll go out there a ways i'll go uh

that bright blue all right it is black sophie red okay all right let's see charles what color is it

it is far range in red oh our guest guesser sophies wins the prize stay on the line and

producer dug over there we'll get you hooked up with a hoodie before he goes away just real

quick one classics give me 30 seconds why does the car of solo miles did you buy it new did you get

it from a family member what what's the scoop no i bought it new uh and my intent was to uh i didn't

need the the Mustang at the time and so i put it in my garage and did everything and prep for to

keep it about a year there and i was going to drive it and uh it started for the first four

five years and then it finally just didn't want to start so at that point i just said well i've got

a problem and so i did know exactly what to do after that so it's just been sitting there i am

i've been maintaining the the tires and the the fluid levels and everything but it just doesn't

start if you if i think it i think you're right it may be a starter problem because the starter

does not engage so if you call the tow truck and bring this to your favorite repair shop to fix this

it's either going to be a a pretty quick fix they're going to nail it down and they're going to say

you need a starter or you need a battery something quick like that or b you got some rodent damage

and you're in some serious trouble now that's then we're not going to sound like he's got this

in a rodent free environment that's well that's pretty much your only two right guys so you've

either got something yeah a no crank situation is a pretty quick fix on a car with this low miles

because nothing damaged it yeah rodent damage is a whole another story so i mean it's fine with that

only two out well then you're then your option is it's not going to be too bad if you took it in

Charles thanks very much for the call i was parked next to one of these at the grocery store

last week yeah i'm cool with it it's uh yeah i'm down with it those are pretty cool looking

they look nice eight six six five nine four four one five oh let's go to Nebraska and talk to John

you're on the end of the hood show John what can we do for you yes sir i have a slight oil burning

problem i have a excuse me i have an old five Colorado with a 3.5 five-cylinder automatic

four-wheel drive i've had about eight of these and some of them were way more miles than that i'm 160

thousand on it and uh it's it it it's really strange it it uses oil about a quart in a thousand

miles and uh i have an old hot rider so i'm used to stuff that's used oil before in my life that's

for sure but this is really odd it doesn't smoke except occasionally when i go on a short run

and go into the store come back out and start it it'll do a little puff but not every time

but it's noticeable and most of the time there's no sign of smoke coming out to tailpipe at all

catalytic converter is burning up all that oil which is hard on the converter but

we need to find out where that oil's coming from there's there's really three options on this the

piston rings could be worn out causing the oil burning you could have bad valve guides in the head

which you could pull the head off and have that redone to do it or it could be even a simpler fix

bg products makes an oil system cleaner a flush for the engine you can put in there and you run

it and it's a it's a heavy duty cleaning that's made to free up stuck rings we've had a number

of these we've owned a couple here at norsens maybe three or four of them we've had some issues

things going on over the years with them different things but oil burning because of stuck rings in

these engines is one of the problems and if you flush this thing completely if you use the product

and you clean it out thoroughly you can eliminate that but it's something you're not you're not

wasting your money because a thorough cleaning of that engine could really help at this point

to prevent any future issues but then you may discover you still need valve guides or valve seals

put in it in the head um on top for oil burning not really a valve cover update on this engine like

there are you know dormant product cells at valve cover we talk about a lot and that has to do with

oil burning on a lot of v8 engines even some of the four and six cylinders but not on this

particular i'm thinking more along the lines of clean it up for oil system control or valve

guides john thanks very much for the call good luck we don't really have a lot of vehicles

named after our area i was just thinking colorado i mean it's not very evocative the dodge dakota

oh yeah badlands additions i guess yeah but we don't have like a a Chevy mandan the laverne

fire truck bar go that'll do it for this hour of the under the hood show and don't forget you

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