My Jeep Is Folding My Kids Up Like a Taco

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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.

He's going to save thousands, but it's still going to cost thousands.

Oh 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.

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.

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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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Let's go to Minnesota and talk to

Daryl. You're on the end of the

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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

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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