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About this episode
Listeners dive into a range of automotive issues, starting with a Jeep Wagoneer that has been causing safety concerns for a caller's family. The hosts discuss battery problems and potential electrical issues that could be causing erratic behavior. Other callers share their experiences with a Dodge Ram's injector problems, a Jeep Gladiator's oil requirements, and a Honda Accord with tire vibrations. The episode is packed with practical advice and insights from the hosts, making it a valuable resource for anyone facing similar automotive challenges.
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jeep wagoneer issues
battery problems
dodge ram injector issues
jeep gladiator oil
honda accord tire vibrations
vapor lock solutions
power steering cooler
brake fluid types
23 Wagoneer Bad Batteries 17 Ram Diesel Scored Cylinders 20n Jeep Gladiator 6.4 Oil Type 92 Lesabre power steering leak 07 Accord tire balance 67 Galaxy 500 vapor lock 09 Silverado 2500 HD No crank 92 Chevy truck rear shaft leak 13 CR-V brake fluid type
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Welcome to the Under the Hood Show, we are glad to have you with us.
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Thanks for joining us under the hood.
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it was like a digital ghost of Shannon there, it wasn't me, it was actually just an echo.
Alright.
866-594-4150, got calls coming in, should we start right Adam?
Yes.
Let's talk to Brie, you're on the Under the Hood Show, Brie, what can we do for you?
Hi there, my grandpa Ron is on here too, so I have a Jeep Wagoneer, it's a 2023, I've
been having a lot of issues with it.
I've been folding my children up in the back seat, all the lights in the dash keep coming
on, it will randomly die on us when we're driving it, it will randomly honk the horn,
lock the keys inside, even if no one is touching the keys, like it is, I took it to the dealership
and they basically said it needed new batteries and replaced the batteries in it.
Yeah, they've had a lot of problems with batteries.
My daughter has one of these vehicles as well and it's had all sorts of wacky issues and twice
I think they've replaced the batteries in it, oh it needs batteries, they put batteries in
it and then it's working and it's like, well the batteries are so bad and they've got
to keep getting replaced, you know, get some better batteries, something as goofy, but
is it working now that they put the batteries in it?
So far I've only had it back a few days, it just doesn't make sense to me that
the batteries are causing it to lock us out of the vehicle, even with our keys inside of
it, we'll step out of it and it will just lock us out, holding our children up in the third
row.
Voltage is huge.
But the batteries, it's possible in that.
Yeah, voltage is a huge issue with these things, but I would, you know, if this
thing's still under warranty, isn't it?
Yeah, well we're under our extended warranty and no, well you can still, you can still
contact Chrysler directly and you can contact the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in
the Safety Traffic Administration because this is a safety thing, say, hey it's folding
up my kids in the back seat, oh nothing worse than when kids get folded up in the
back seat.
To answer your question though, we'll be right off the get, yes, battery can cause
this.
Oh yeah.
And the other thing I was going to say is, you know, the keys in the vehicle
locking, that one you can solve yourself.
Take the keys out.
Right, yeah.
But they've had a lot of issues with these, with those batteries, I know, because of my
daughter's like, why is the battery dead and the thing's not even a year old?
I said, because there is obviously a problem with it.
And it's not like it goes dead overnight, it's dead all the time, they can't be
charged like they failed, so it's funny, you know, we've got our partner over
at Clarios with Optima batteries, we're going to be talking to them after our show.
We're going to be doing an interview with them talking about their new battery shop
on YouTube channel and stuff, and if you're wondering about batteries and what
makes them go and what makes them go dead, that's the place to go.
But to answer Breeze's question a little bit further on it, that battery nowadays.
There's two, this is a stop-start battery, there's a main vehicle battery and they
both have to be working.
Nowadays, those are in the circuit of the vehicle.
All the time.
The battery is a working part of the electrical system.
So if you do have a bad battery, all sorts of weird things can happen, like you
have a bad.
Bad heart.
Yeah.
Not working.
Yeah.
Why am I not my fingers numb?
That's got nothing to do with my heart.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So does that help you out there, Bree, a little bit at least?
Yeah.
Yeah, it makes sense.
That is, so you're already in the extended warranty after a couple of
years.
Do you have anything else on it?
No.
It's just that when I took it in there, they were like, oh, well, now you're in your
extended warranty, which thankfully my husband bought the extended warranty, but of course
it covered all the work they did except for the batteries.
Yeah.
They don't cover batteries because they consider them like gasoline.
It's a wear item, a usage item.
I would not go with a factory battery in that.
I would go with the best aftermarket battery you can find for that vehicle.
Is that, that's not going to fix, I mean, if they're having issues with it, you could
be some separate.
If it's the batteries is the problem.
Yeah.
By all means, you got that fixed.
Put the batteries in it.
If it's working, you're good to go.
Yeah.
There could be other things going on electrically with that.
There could be something on that CAN bus system.
You could have a body control module, failing an engine computer.
Any one of the modules could be shorted causing this issue, causing it to get wacky, but you
got so many things going on.
It could be battery power.
And we've talked about it before.
Sometimes batteries go bad no matter what.
Oh, brand new batteries.
The best ones.
Brand new or a week old or a month old, they sometimes just don't go.
So breathe, start.
Yeah.
You might be okay now.
Good luck.
Thanks for the call.
866-594-4150.
Let's go to Idaho and talk to Alan.
We're on the end of the hood show.
Alan, what can we do for you?
Yeah.
So I got a 2017 Dodge Ram, three quarter ton diesel.
And I had depth on it and the depth, it was covering up all my smoke issues.
I couldn't tell.
And anyways, one of my injectors in bad and blew up my six cylinder up to that.
Yep.
So I'm trying to decide what, I mean, can they just ream that cylinder?
Is it worth it or is it better just to go find a new block?
Or I do have a neighbor that has a 2010 motor.
I wondered if it was similar or if it, like, are they compatible or?
No, those would be different.
It depends on how bad the cylinder is.
If the cylinder is scored horribly, it's going to have to be bored and you can't
bore just one cylinder.
It's not a good idea.
You need to bore all six, hone them to fit the rings and the pistons and replace the pistons
in the right.
And you could do that.
I mean, it's, it's not the end of the world.
If you don't have an engine full of metal, like where you had a rod go out or something,
you still got good rods and everything.
You could put a new set of standard, you know, if it's got standard bearings in,
throw a new set of bearings in it, you wouldn't have to turn everything, bore it out,
put new pistons in it.
You're, you're good to go.
And you, you could even make some updates to the engine while you got it apart, you know,
not necessarily have to go crazy in on the whole thing, but you're definitely going to have
to, if the one cylinder is just scratched a little bit, then they might be able to put
a piston in it and hone it.
You won't know until you tear it down in a mechanic and a machine shop measures and
verifies those things.
But it's normal.
I mean, you inject or go out, it'll, it'll score the cylinder, but sometimes
it just trashes the piston.
What's the difference in price between the, the two options there?
A lot.
If you can get by with just honing it and putting one piston in it, because there's no damage
to that cylinder, then you're, you're saving thousands of dollars versus the other way.
Cause I think, you know, a rebuild three levels here.
Yeah.
If you pull that engine out and buy, you know, a used engine could let's just say
cost you six to $9,000 dependent on the miles, just for the engine, a, you know, honing one
cylinder and this is on the bench, cause you still got lots of 20 hours, 25 hours, 29
whatever it is to pull that engine with whatever the shop's going to get, but with it on
the bench, if you're doing just one cylinder versus boring all four, four times the
cost.
Okay.
You know, cause you got, you got per cylinder to bore it, but you got the same tear down.
You got to tear the whole thing down either way.
It's a lot.
It's a lot.
He's going to save thousands, but it's still going to cost thousands.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
At the very minimum, you lose one cylinder when you lose an injector, you, you are
going to, and you're going to have to replace, you need to replace all six injectors.
Cause if you had one fail, guess what?
There's others getting ready to fail.
So even if he has them look at it and they say it's shot, even if he decided
to throw the truck in the river, he's still going to be thousands in to, for the shop to
check it.
Cause they got to pull it out to diagnose it.
But this is it.
So this is a 17 truck.
Yeah.
You know, this is worth a ton of money for sure.
If you spend 15 grand and put an engine in it, even a little more than that, you
still, you still can't go buy that truck running off a lot with a new motor or a good
use motor.
I mean they're expensive.
Everything's really expensive.
So yeah, you want to save money.
You might look at a certified used option.
Injectors are very important.
We suggest to people when you're putting a diesel engine in it, it's very important.
Put new injectors in it.
Yeah.
You know, if the turbo fails, okay, you lose boost and starts burning oil.
If an injector fails, you can trash a cylinder super fast.
Does that help you out there, Alan?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That helps.
So the 2010 motor my buddy has is not, they don't, they're not compatible.
I don't think that block is compatible with the block you have.
You got to run all the numbers and see on there.
I mean, there's external stuff that definitely make them not compatible.
But anytime, you know, the 24 valves and the 12 valves, a lot of them are interchangeable
with themselves, not 12 for a 24, but a 24, that whole system and a 12, that
whole system.
A lot of those were interchangeable, but there are certain things with the electronics
on the new ones that are not interchangeable.
So you've got to look that up to find out for sure on your block casting.
But you don't think so.
I don't think it is.
I really don't think it is.
Alan, thanks very much for the call.
Good luck.
866-594-4150, that's the number to reach us here at the end of the hood
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866-594-4150, let's talk to Ryan, you're on the end of the hood
show.
Ryan, what can we do for you?
I've got a 2020 Jeep Gladiator that has a 6-4 hemi in it.
It was built by Rubitrux in North Carolina.
And it calls for 040 oil.
I want your guys' opinion on 040 oil.
I do live in South Dakota, so it is cold, but I'm just curious on 040 and it's hard
to find.
You've got to special order it and everything.
Let me wait.
I'm going to take a shot at this one, Ryan.
I'll ask Russ here and I'll see if I can nail this one.
Use it.
That's it, because if they say to, you don't want to mess that up.
Right?
Yep.
That's what you want.
GM was changing oil brands or oil types to cover up a problem they had with the 6-2.
The fix is to change the engine, period.
They built it wrong, you need to ... that's not going to help it.
But it's just a band aid to get you by to kind of slow down the problem so that they
can get some engines built so they can take care of people, which they've been doing unless
you're over 100,000 miles, then I've got a couple customers that are over 100,000 miles
and they're less than two years old in the truck and they are.
I was just going to say, human.
I bet they're not human.
You made it 100,000 miles, it's like on a truck that's a year and a half old.
You guys suck.
Yeah.
That's what they're saying.
But yeah, you're changing that viscosity.
That's what the engine is designed for, works well on that.
If the engine's built correctly, those 6-4s were great engines.
They've been built well.
They ran well.
Lots of people with a couple 100,000 miles or more on them already with that weight
oil and they're having no problems with them.
It's expensive, but yeah, it's working well.
So I wouldn't go change that around.
Okay.
I was just kind of curious because you read stuff on, you know, online, everybody's running
different stuff and this and this and I just thought I'd talk to the pros.
If you, you know, if you, if you had a whole forum at some point.
I think you meant me.
Yeah.
There you go.
If you look and you see a whole forum, a reputable one, and you've got every single
person on there agreeing the same saying, oh yeah, we're running, you know, 5W40.
That's perfect.
That's exactly what we're running.
And they say, oh, we've all been running it for 200,000 miles.
I ran it since it was brand new.
No problem.
Then I start taking that with a grain of salt and like, all right, I'll think about
it because we've got real world people, but you will always find somebody.
I bet if you go to Google right now and type in running 10W30 in my 6.4 Hemi, you're
going to find people.
Oh, I run that all the time.
It works great.
You know, you can find, you can find all sorts of stuff.
It's like, type in why is broccoli bad for you?
Why is air bad for you?
Why is eating your vegetables bad for you?
I mean, you will find all the bad stuff you want, but usually the factory, if they have
a problem with it, they'll get it changed within the couple of years.
If they know that their oil weight has been an issue, it will be changed.
This has been history.
We have seen this on many vehicles where the manufacturer says, nope, this didn't
work.
We're changing our viscosity to something else.
That's why we don't put it in the owner's manual anymore.
That gives them leeway to change it on the fly without it being in print.
You know, we've talked about that in a bad way before.
I mean, or we've questioned, you know, that they don't put it in the manual anymore
and that screws some people up.
They put it in as an addition.
I couldn't find it for my pressure washer.
But sometimes that's a good thing because then it's not in there wrong.
They find out something later and they can, they can fix it one way or another.
And a lot of it has to do with use, because you'll find like Honda motors that you see
on almost every piece of power equipment, whether it's a pressure washer, a go kart,
lawnmower, lawnmower, a wood log split or whatever it is, they will often change
the oil viscosity slightly for the use that it's intended for.
The temperature, the load that's on it, all those things.
If it's a lighter load, they can get by with a lighter oil and it has something
to run smoother, less wear, starts easier in the cold.
So you'll see that with vehicles, too.
The.
Internet.
I've heard of it.
I as as an owner of a new vehicle to me, I've done some looking at just basic
questions.
I'm like, I wonder if that, and I look it up on the internet and I'll get a forum.
Okay.
I can't believe how much and mine's just a normal car.
I'm just asking the waste of time that is on those forums and the bad info that is
on every forum.
And I don't mean as a whole, but someone will say, I have this.
Can I do this?
That first person says, yes.
The second person says, no way.
Third person says, you guys are jerks.
You probably voted for X.
And then they start arguing with each other.
It is so much noise.
It's almost unusable.
How do you, how do you find out?
How do you look as mechanics?
It makes it really difficult to what's even worse is when you think, okay, I
got this problem.
Let's see if anybody else has had it.
And when you go to the internet and you type it in 50 different ways and no
one has had that issue, you're on your own, buddy.
They haven't even heard of it.
That would be better than what you sometimes find.
Yeah.
We're looking for something that's like on a car that's six or seven years old.
You should have heard of it by now if it's pretty common.
Yeah.
And you get the people come in and they think they're mechanics and say, oh,
everybody's having this problem.
Well, then why doesn't it show up on the internet?
If everybody's having it, no, not everybody's having it.
You're having it.
And then sometimes they'll say, oh, well, actually it does that.
That's a whole different thing.
Yeah.
I just spent all this time looking for something else or, oh,
it hasn't done it in a month.
Eight, six, six, five, nine, four, four, one, five.
Oh, I told you guys, I think it was off the air about the lawnmower.
I saw the other day a kid was riding and it was going up and down.
And it was, it was, I have a new one.
I have a new issue.
I have a new neighbor, no, no issues, but their lawnmower is
idled so high that it sounds like an air pressure or a pressure
washer or a weed whip on max, you know, when you gun up the throttle.
This lawnmower runs at one speed and it is.
So, I mean, I've looked to see if there's a something out there
just running full speed and it's just a normal lawnmower
that is so amped up that it just, the whole house, the dog
is bouncing around.
My wife's like, what is that noise?
I can see what he's doing.
I'm like, holy moly, that thing is so idled up.
It just is so, it's very tense.
It feels like any minute it's just going to explode.
And it will eventually, if it's not governed and working
like it's supposed to, it's supposed to be, I mean, they make
them to run at a certain, they make the blades to cut at a
certain RPM, you know?
Oh, I wonder, I bet it cuts great.
It probably does.
Unless you have to, he probably has to push it to keep it
on the ground because it's going so fast, it's just blowing
the grass down.
It's just lifting up like a helicopter.
Oh, can you imagine?
This thing sounds like it, man.
It is, it is so high idled.
I wonder how much it would take because they have those
suction blades that lift, pull the grass up and throw it.
I wonder if you had one of those, if you put like
a propeller blade on a lawnmower.
Do you remember when we were younger, right?
I think this was, they had the lawn boys that didn't
have wheels.
Do you remember those?
It was like it, it would float around.
I don't remember that.
Boy, I should remember that.
I wonder if that's just a dream I had once.
But I think I remember one that didn't have wheels
and it was supposed to float itself over your grass.
And I remember seeing it and going, well, that
seems like a terrible idea.
Could have been something that was in popular mechanics
for sure.
I read a lot of those.
That, I've been reading it lately.
That's, uh, read the old ones, go online.
There are some crazy stuff on there.
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Daryl. You're on the end of the
hood show. Daryl, what can we do for
you?
Yeah, I've got a 2002 Buick
LeSaver, 3,800 engine.
There's one here in the pipe that
goes with the power steering that
goes around up to the front and
back.
I think it's been rubbing on the
sway bar, but I don't think.
Yeah, cool.
I like that.
Put it kind of like a rubber
around it or something, a rubber
there or something.
They still sell it.
It's a it's a power steering oil
cooler.
It doesn't really look like a cooler
because there's no fins on it.
It's just a big long loop of
metal and it wears through on the
Grand Prix. It'll Sabres, the Park
Avenues, the Regals, all of those
cars, Monte Carlos.
Huge problem with those.
You could just replace it with a
power steering hose, but
the fluid will wear out faster.
It'll get hotter. It'll burn in
cooler climates.
It's usually fairly good.
If you get a really hot climate,
you can get that fluid pretty
burnt, cause damage to the rack
from overheating damage to the
power steering pump.
The best thing to do is just get
another cooler loop for it.
I want to say they're less than
200 bucks. It might be even less
than 100 bucks for that loop, but
they call it a power steering
cooler line.
It's both a hose and a cooler.
I already saw it.
Yeah, after Marko was just
good as you get, like,
I'll be using them.
Yeah, any auto parts store is
going to carry it.
We've put on a number of mev's.
We've replaced lines.
We look up power steering hose
for the Sabres and it'll say
pressure hose from pump to rack.
It'll say return hose from rack
to cooler, cooler line
and then from cooler to
pump, you know, things like that.
So it's you tell them you want
the big cooler loop on the power
steering line and they'll show a
picture of it. It goes up and
makes like a giant L shape and
then loops back.
But we've replaced a number of them
over the years that were leaking.
They rub through on the sway bar.
If they're in the wrong position,
they'll rub through on bolts
and nuts and body mounts and all
sorts of stuff.
Any place on that line, you can
see that's contacting another
piece of metal and it looks like
it's going to rub. We cut a piece
of fuel line to slip over it, to
protect it, keep it from rubbing
through.
Daryl, thanks very much for the
call. Good luck.
That seems pretty straightforward.
It's not too bad at all.
OK, all right.
And I would have guessed.
He's gone now and we can't, but
I would have guessed it was either
silver or gold.
That was Saber.
Probably.
Or white.
866-594-4150.
Let's go to George and talk to Bob.
You're on the end of the Hood
Show. Bob, what can we do for
you?
My wife bought a 2007
Honda Accord with a couple of
thousand miles, a couple of
hundred thousand miles on it.
Needed tires.
We got new tires and it has
a vibration in the front end as
if the tires are either out of
round or out of balance.
Or maybe both.
It's from a big-box
store.
So I'm having trouble getting
through to some
justice on this.
I think they are going to be
able to melt the tires
properly.
Notice that the tires are
either out of round or out
of balance.
Maybe both.
It's from a big box store.
It's an out-of-round wheel if
that's the problem.
And
also
I have my doubts about how
their balances are being
proved or zeroed, we'll
call it.
How often should that be done
on a coat?
A lot of
times it'll tell you
the new ones are automatic
and they'll tell you when it
tells me, hey, it's time for a
recalibration. We're seeing
discrepancies between
balance cycles.
We know what the original one was
when you calibrated it and now
it's off. So they're pretty smart.
They know what the original
parameters were and they know
what it is today. They know if
it's been moved for cleaning
or whatever. And it's safe to
assume that any big-box store
is going to have a pretty
big-box. They usually don't keep
them very long, five, six years
and they're getting new equipment
from what I've seen anyways, Costco
and those places I see do that
often. But I just had one
the other day. They
put new tires on and they shook
and they brought them back twice
and they said, well, they said they
balanced them and they're just fine.
There's nothing wrong with the tire.
And I said, go back again
and tell them, look, this
when you go on the road and they
said, well, it's a suspension. It's out of alignment.
It's like, no, alignment won't cause
a shake. This is a vibration.
I said, when the car's in the air
turn the tire
and see if the wheel is turning
100% round or if it's bent
and hopping up and down or side to
side and then look at the tire
and sure enough when they just spun it
by hand and the wheel was 100%
perfectly smooth. But the
tire tread was moving up and down
almost a quarter inch. So you can
balance an egg
or a square tire. You could balance
it. It would spin on the balance
or just fine. But you put it on the road, it's going to
hop up and down on that surface. So it has
to be smooth. A bent wheel will cause
that. A tire that has
a broken belt or one that's just made poorly
will do that as well. And occasionally you'll get
a tire that is off.
Sometimes you'll get a series of them if you
get the serial numbers right in a row that are off
as well. That is rare.
We've only had that happen a couple times in
probably 30 some years of putting
tires on. But I have had
one tire that was no
good or one tire that
I was able to take back several
times. I've had them where I was able to dismount it
turn it around a little bit, put it
back on, air it up and then it was fine.
But for whatever reason it just
did not seat perfectly on the
beat of that wheel and it was off
and gave me a hopping tire.
They shouldn't hop. You know, wheel bearing
it will make noise.
It will be loose and it can
cause some vibration.
Things they can see if they're standing at the front
of the car and they grab a hold of the wheel and it's tight
it's not flopping around
they're good there. The only other thing that
causes that vibration other than an axle.
You know an axle shaft could do it too
if that axle shaft is out around and that's
a car that can, you can have some
axle but those do it on acceleration.
When you're under load
accelerating they'll vibrate or
if they're taking a turn around a clover leaf
they'll vibrate.
But a steady
55-60 miles an hour
with the cruise on if it's vibrating
that usually translates to a
tire issue
or a wheel bent issue.
Hard to get
I know what you're saying though
at any place it's hard to get
if they're doing just tires mainly
it's hard to get them to
hop in and go for a drive
and do more diagnostics.
They're
get it in you've got a guy trained just to
put a tire on take a tire off and balance it
that's it they're not trained to find out
what's wrong when there is a problem.
So what's Bob's next step?
He's going to have to get it in there
humor me here
this thing did not do this before you put
tires on it so now that the tires are on it
let's put it on the hoist
let's spin the tire you don't even have to take it off
the car let's just spin it and see if it's straight
and if it go hops up and down and the
wheel doesn't you got a tire problem you're going
to have to figure that out and get a different
tire on there get it balanced whatever it takes
to make that tire go around in a circle
without hopping up and down can you switch
them from the back you could try to switch
the position and see if your vibration
changes to a different area
but you definitely want to get it up
up off the ground turn that tire
and see if the tread hops up and down
if it hopping up and down the car's
going to hop up and down.
Does that help you out at all Bob?
Yes it does but I'm wondering
also are the tires flat
spotted if they have
to sit for an hour before it goes into the
tire shop could the tires be flat
spotted? No no
no they
you know a tire if you
store brand new tires
without air and without a load
on they can sit there
upright for a long time they'll be fine
on a car no you're
not going to get flat spot unless that car sits
in storage through a lot of temperature changes
for a very long time typically
four or five months in one spot
and then a lot of times it'll come out of it when you start
driving it but it's a
car stored on the ground in one position
through a winter where it's hot it's cold
it's hot cold it can get a
an indentation in that tire in that one spot
if it doesn't have the right air pressure
usually just the right air pressure is
enough to overcome that issue.
If you come down pit lane a little too fast
sometimes you can flat spot if you're just getting fuel.
Bob good luck that
is a that's a
rough one because yeah like you said
and like we were talking about with the
equipment usually new equipment because
they're not
it's not people who have a bunch of years experience
doing it it's someone who's trained to do that thing which is great
keeps your cost down and
you get some good tires
at a decent price but it
if there's a little bit of an issue they might
not know that even
so good luck
eh that's a
that's a bummer 866
59441
50 let's talk to John you're on the
end of the hood show John what can we do for you
what you
do all the time I called once
before on my 674
Galaxy 500 with
a 289 and the
vapor locking and I thought about the
only alternative I
did put a one inch in so block
if you call it whatever I call it you know
underneath the carburetor
it seemed to make a little bit of an effort
but it's still vapor lock so a day
like yesterday and today it'll vapor lock
terrible
I don't know I suppose about the only thing I
do is put it in the fuel injection system or what
well you could put
on a regulator
a low pressure regulator at the carburetor
and put a low pressure fuel pump
back at the tank
that way you're pressurizing the fuel
just a couple pounds
three four at the most
and returning it back to the tank
and it's circulating
it more often because you're
basically circulating it none right now
but it would circulate it keep the fuel cooler
and it also keeps it under pressure
which keeps the vapor lock down just
like a radiator cap keeps
your engine under pressure keeps
it from boiling
and you need to drop that fuel
but if the if the boiling the vapor
lock is coming the vapor
boil off is coming from inside
of the carburetor that's a
that's a problem because it gets so hot
you wouldn't know until
you
I can drive it like from
you know I'm like 130 miles
from Sioux Falls I can drive from here to Sioux Falls
go through the tunnels like pipe store
what not and then it's fine however
I started off at a party like
when you get an ice cream cone come back out
to start it up
start but don't want to run very well
and then you play the gear and it dies
and you have a heck of a time get going
you know once you get going then it's just fine
that sure sounds like it's a carburetor that's hot
that's causing that issue
so it's getting it's getting cooler fuel coming
up to it and then it cools off so it
could be that it's and
you put a block in there that kept it cooler
that could be an issue with it too
there's there's many different things to try
for those kind of things that
you just got to you got to narrow it down narrow it down
can be difficult
you know find out if it's a fuel fuel
pressure thing you could try the the fuel pressure
and the return to the tank as well too
that's one thing that's that
a lot of people do on those those older
ones like that and a non
ethanol fuel in that because when you got a heat
problem like that you don't have
pressure like you do with fuel injection
so you need to use a non ethanol
fuel only that's my only
my only experience with vapor lock
was my buddy had a
like a 71 Ford
pickup and he used to carry
around a cooler
yeah jug of water like a
cooler like a
sip and cooler and he would just
when it would die he'd go under the hood and
pour a little water on it and off we'd go
that's not the best way to handle it though
or it's gets you there
if it's yeah part time
people done that with Ford new Ford
diesels with the overheating
that sounds
that sounds worse that sounds more
frustrating it is John thanks very much
for the call good luck 866
59441
50 getting lots of
messages about hover Morris there
they're they're all over they're
common this one this
one's electric
sounds like it would be
it would just cut I
I'd not pay attention and lose track
of it
this one is an 11 inch
11 inch cutting and it runs at
7000 the the blades
go 7000 rpm
so it's perfect for like the backyard of
apartment where you have like a
3 by 5 piece of grass 11 inches
there's some big giant ones too there's some
big they're they're all they're
they're common they're fine
I'm scared just thinking about
them 866
59441
so let's go to Maine and talk to Keegan
you're on the end of the hood show Keegan what can we do for you
hey guys
thank you for taking my call once again
you bet I appreciate it
so today I'm working on a 2009 Chevy Silverado
2500
with 6 liter gas
it has a no start no crank condition
I already set the starter
looks like the positive cable
comes in the battery spine no voltage drop
and the signal wire is getting
no 12 volts when the key is
turned so I've backtracked it
back to the ECM
I checked the
main ground the black and gray
straight wire coming from the ECM I'm getting 7
ohms of resistance
which seems really high to me I want to verify
that that's not good that's not good
what happens if you jump the starter
relay in the box under the hood does it crank
I didn't try jumping
because it has that signal wire where
I can't take a screwdriver to it
and bypass so I'm setting it
back probe to the 12 volt
and I'm getting no 12 volts at all
nothing's powering that
when I backtrack you see the relay
and then you have possibility and zero ohms
back to the relay it doesn't seem to be a break in the wiring
it's just not getting power
7 is too high pull that fuse box out on the
driver's side and turn it over and look at the bottom
see if it's corroded and make sure all the connectors are
seated properly because we see that a lot
with those they loosen up
I did just
see that actually I'm looking at it right now
so the fuse box I think seems nice and clean
I don't see corrosion
could be internally
I don't know where that
that ground actually connects on the
brain where is that
at I don't know where that actually
that's on the ECM ground
looking at the wiring diagram
it's still on me should be on the back of the block
back of the block
by the transmission that's where the grounds are
yep
back of the engine the back of the block
so I should check that
see why I'm getting high resistance
there you go Keegan good luck
thanks very much for the call
866-594-4150
let's go to Arizona and talk to Paul
you're on the end of the hood show Paul what can we do for you
good talk to you guys
I listen to you all the time on Saturday and I just happen to be home
off an elk hunt here that I didn't
get my call but anyway
that's neither here nor there
a little discuss this anyway I got a
92
C1500 extended cab
4x4
and I got a leak out of the rear
transfer case
on the
cold and took a shaft
and I was wondering if there was any
sealant or anything I might add to the
transfer case
now on that one you need to pull the shaft out
and put a new seal in it but while it's out
you also want to check the bushing on the back
transfer case
does this one have a slide in
drive shaft or does it have a bolt
on drive shaft at the back of the case
it just slides in
on the slide in ones
you're going to want to pull it out, slide it out
look at the drive shaft yoke to make sure it doesn't
have any grooves in it or a spot that's
worn low if it does you got to replace
that yoke or the whole shaft
if that's good then check
and slide it in there
without the seal in it see if it
has a lot of play up and down if it does
you'll have to have a new bushing put in the end of that
inserted to keep it from flopping around
and then put a new seal in it but there's
nothing you can add to it to try to
fix it there's a lot of
oil system stop leaks and stuff like
that that are made out there
Justice Brothers makes a good one but it's made
to condition the seal
to keep it soft
from getting bad
from new it's not going to fix it now
if you've got a worn shaft or you've got
a wear in the bushing that is definitely
not going to fix that you have to replace both the
hard parts first before a seal is going to seal it
but it's unfortunately
nothing you can do quick but
you block the wheels and then you can take that
drive shaft out and replace that seal pretty easily
it just taps in there
does that help you out there Paul
I think so yeah
you got another shot at the
you got another shot at the elk or is your
season done
no no I'm I can go out this afternoon
but
we had a bunch of rain and the
puddles are all over and they're
drinking out of the puddles so it's just
random or to have to grab in there
they ain't no
no set pattern on them any
right now
well good luck on both
eight six six five nine four
four one five oh
let's talk to Roger you're on the end of the hood show
Roger what can we do for you
yeah I'm working on
a Honda
2013 Honda CRV
friend asked me to do kind of a
100,000 mile maintenance thing on it
one of them things I was going to
do is the brake
fluid flush on it
and I'm a little confused because
on the top of the cap you guys
probably answered this many times already
but on the top of the cap
it says use only dot three or dot
four brake fluid
they always thought that
if you use three you use three if you use
four use four and I don't
know what's in there so
does it matter what I use
no I mean if it's saying use either
one you're fine if you
have one that wants only
one and you put the wrong
kind in it that's an issue
they're not the seals aren't compatible with both
but if you've got one that has seals compatible
with both you're fine you could have both in there
yeah otherwise when you go to
a shop they wouldn't know
and you'd destroy it so
if the factory said use dot
three or dot four but not both
do not mix then you'd have a problem
and they don't say that
gotcha okay perfect
thanks for a double check
Roger thanks very much for the call good luck do they taste the same
you know
I know what it tastes like
I'm not sure maybe I probably tasted the four
you never know when it's
running down on your face
do you on that one
I know on some things you can
you can tell by looking at it
obviously what it is
but in this case you can't tell
no they
that's the thing so there are
certain things that are colored
our partner at peak cooling
they make all makes
all model antifreeze they make
specific colors you know cause some are
purple some are blue some are red and that's great
it's great that they do that you know
that you're pouring in what the factory
had and that's important
for a company to do that there are other things
like brake fluid any brand
you choose it's
all one color as far as
I know I've only seen clear brake fluid
and that's great should be clean and clear if it's turning
black it needs to be flushed
metals build up in their acids
build up it can eat up components
especially in ABS if you've got
let me see
transmission fluid could be clear
could be red
those are the only two colors I've seen
gear oil is always
a light tan color
front rear differential whatever
transfer case that could be blue
if it's like an auto track or it could be
a red if it's a transmission fluid
if it's a gear oil
it could be light tan
other gear oils clear almost in those
but most of them now are going to be a
transmission fluid type
color depending on what they put in there
see what else we got there
for fluids power steering fluid
it's either going to be red like a transmission fluid
because that's what it is or it's going to be
like a clear color like a brake fluid
and that can be mixed up
and one the other day
a good one and we notice it quick
car was overheating
so we said why is this thing overheating
it was in for something else didn't even touch
the radiator so
I took the cap off to fill it
and some spilled on the ground
I'll guess it was probably
a half a gallon that spilled on the ground
but I put almost two gallons
in to fill this thing up and then it started working
but I noticed it was purple
an odd color purple and it was not the purple
for this Chrysler vehicle and it smelled funny
it smelled like soap
it was weird
I got the fluid in there got it topped off
ran it for about
30 minutes 40 minutes
but it was fine works great now
then when I got back
I was talking to the guy and he said what was that all it needed
was to top it off how low was it
I was like almost two gallons and I said
whatever's on the ground that I hadn't cleaned up yet
is what where to go
anaphrase doesn't evaporate
anaphrase doesn't evaporate
washer fluid evaporates
somebody had put the purple bug
remover washer fluid
in that radiator
oh no is that
we see anaphrase in
washer fluid all the time
people grab
anaphrase and they'll pour it in purple red
but we don't
often see it
in the radiator it wasn't in an overflow tank
I mean it was in the radiator
so they had they went to some links
to get that in there what's the worst
thing you've ever accidentally
tasted
gasoline is not good
yeah that's the worst one
that's probably the worst one because it burns
what's the most common one
most common is oil
engine oil
power steering fluid engine oil is underneath trying to find a leak
and it's running right in your mouth
I think it's right
where
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