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866-594-4150. Hey, I do what I can. And that's the limit of it. I answer the phone and say

hi and then you guys take over.

I do what I do. I play my little songs.

866.

You got that too?

Oh, Ray Stevens.

866-594-4150.

That's Ray Stevens.

Okay.

It's a haircut, the haircut song.

Don't know it.

I only know a few Ray Stevens.

The streak.

The streak. The other thing I looked at it, I realized the other day and didn't know it.

Ray Stevens did the theme for the Cannonball Run.

Huh, okay.

That makes sense.

It's actually one of those comedians that's a really good singer as well, but it's a,

I guess it's a serious thing. You've seen the Cannonball Run at least one part.

Yeah, the beginning of it with the Lamborghini chase.

Okay.

That whole thing.

That's him?

That's him doing the song.

All right.

I popped up on YouTube under, it said, Songs by Ray Stevens at the Cannonball Run and

opening.

There you go.

Now it makes perfect sense when I listen to it.

You never know where we're going on this show.

You just never know.

Briar Rabbit.

866-594-4150.

Let's talk to Alan.

You're on the end of the hood show.

Alan, what can we do for you?

47 Dodge Caliber.

I got to replace the power steering pump.

Any thing there I'm going to run into that is going to make it a problem or is it pretty

easy?

It's not too bad, but I think you're going to need it.

It's bleeding.

Oh, bleeding.

It's fine.

I think you're going to need a pulley puller for that, which is cheap.

You can pick those up.

Auto parts stores, Amazon, whatever.

Not too bad, but.

No, actually.

Does that one come off complete with the bracket?

It actually has the pulley.

Okay.

If it comes with a pulley, then you don't need to pull it off.

The ones you see without a pulley, a lot of times you're going to need a puller.

A pulley puller.

Yeah, a pulley puller to pull the pulley.

I didn't want that fun and excitement.

No.

And if you have the choice about buying one with or without, I'd always buy it with.

So you don't want to press that.

It's getting in the right spot.

If it's off by a 16th, it's going to wear the belt off.

You don't want that.

But as far as bleeding it should not be a problem.

You put it on there, you fill it with fluid, and then what we do is we start up the car

and run it for a second until we get it as full as we can.

Then we turn the wheel all the way to one side to the lock and shut the key off.

And we wait until all the bubbles come up out of the fluid and it's clear now.

And then we start the car up.

We crank it just not back and forth, but just crank it all the way to the other side to the lock.

Turn it off and wait until all the bubbles are out of the fluid.

If there's no more bubbles after you turn it the other direction and it's quiet, then you're good.

You're done.

And some will work their way out as you go, but the major ones are going to be in the beginning.

You want to turn it and wait.

And with it against the lock, it's going to open up the valve and allow the air to just make its way to the top of the reservoir.

That's what you want to do to get it out of there.

If there's no air bubbles in there, then it can't suck them back down into the pump when you start it up.

That's the trickiest thing.

They also make a little suction tool, which is really cool.

We've used those a few times in our shop when we've had...

Like those ones for kids' noses?

Yes, exactly, but it's got a cone on it.

The cone gets crammed in the top of the nose of the pump and then you...

And it puts a vacuum on it and it pulls the air out.

It's a little harder because that fluid is so viscous compared to air that you really got to put a load on it.

But it'll pull the air bubbles right out of it.

It's like evacuating an AC system.

Pretty cool.

I think you can do it.

Okay.

Now, tires on the ground, off the ground.

On the ground?

We do it on the ground.

Yeah, you want to put a little load on it as you're turning it.

If there's no load, sometimes it'll just bypass.

There won't be no air will come out.

Yeah, that's true.

One other thing.

97 Dodge, half ton.

I got to bleed the brakes on that.

I had to do a rear brake job on it.

Yeah.

I drove it quite a ways before I could do that, but that's another story.

Any...

And it's got the rear anti-lock brake on it.

Anything I got to watch there as far as bleeding it to start on the far corner and go across,

but as far as making sure that light stays off because I've heard of them not going out.

Yeah, bleed the brakes.

Make sure you get them all all bled out all the way around and then check your fluid level.

Don't let it get lower than the pickup tube in the master zone of the hole in there.

And once you get them all bled out, what we like to do is get the vehicle out on some loose dirt, gravel,

and accelerate until I'm over like 30, 35 miles an hour and then hit the brakes so the analog brakes go off

and the pump runs a few times.

Do that four, five, six times and then you can bleed them again just to make sure you get all that air out.

Unless the pedal feels great.

If the pedal feels great and it's got good pedal height and the fluid's good after you've done that with the analog,

you're good.

If you don't run that analog pump, what can happen sometimes is when it does kick on on ice or something the first time,

the accumulator may not be charged in it and it may drop down to a really bad level and not stop the vehicle.

So we run them through the test and make sure they operate when we're bleeding those brakes.

Okay.

Yeah, I can do that where it's where it's sitting now.

It's the the quartz rock parking area.

I'll do it.

Yeah, I think a lot of these vehicles have automated brake bleed with a scan tool.

But if you don't have a scan tool that'll perform that and then sometimes it takes a little higher end one to do that,

then you're going to be stuck with the old the manual way, which is still fine.

Just activate it.

Yeah, just get it working.

Alan, thanks very much for the call. Good luck.

866-594-4150.

Let's talk to Dave in Minnesota.

Dave, you're on the end of the hood show. What can we do for you?

Yeah, we're kind of curious if you guys had any idea where I could figure out what my Bronx Road 2 was actually worth,

because it's kind of a classic, I guess.

If you have an older car and you're trying to get a value,

I always tell people that your value is going to be determined by what people are willing to pay for it.

And you can usually determine that by what people are selling them for,

because they'll know if they're not selling their price too high and they'll lower the price and they'll adjust.

And a lot of times you can see cars that are already sold.

One place to go would be autotempest.com.

There used to be a partner of ours and I still use them quite often to look up

all the time things.

So I'll look up and I'll say,

well, what's a 2018 Tahoe selling for?

Because I'm trying to determine for a customer,

is it worth putting an engine in this vehicle?

And I look and say,

well, how much did you pay for that?

I paid $5,000 for this vehicle, this Chevy Traverse,

five years ago, and we look it up and say,

well, that was a long time ago and values have changed.

The value of the dollars gone down, so cars are more expensive.

That thing's now selling for $11,000.

And they're like, oh, well, then $5,000 to put an engine in it seems reasonable.

When in the beginning,

that's what they paid for it.

So they don't want to pay that now,

but things have changed in times of cars.

With yours, I would type in autotempest.com,

type in 84 Bronco and with bare minimum,

because there's features you can add, engine sizes.

Those are all going to pop up.

I guarantee you they're going to be in the description,

but if you put too many descriptors in there,

it's going to block your results.

Yeah.

By the way, they're written by the consumers and dealers

putting their cars in there.

There's a lot of dealers put them up,

but that'll give you an idea what they're going for.

If you look it up, I guarantee you're going to find some stuff.

Is this a Bronco Sport, the small one,

or is this a full-size Bronco?

It's a Bronco, too,

but it's got the Waldoch conversion kit on it.

Oh, yeah.

Those are still pretty desirable,

because there's almost none around.

I just don't see those vehicles around anymore.

So you should be able to...

I'll bet it's worth more than you think it is.

And it's a Waldoch.

It's going to have an automatic in it, isn't it?

V6 automatic?

Yep.

The other thing is, too, you can go to eBay Motors

and look at...

and set your filters to sold.

You can do that on anything you're looking at.

If you don't look at what people are asking

or what they're listed at,

but if you go to the sold section of eBay,

it'll give you kind of an idea

of what people have been buying.

And once you get a determination there

of what it's worth,

if you're keeping this vehicle

or if it's just in your possession,

our partner over Berkeley One Classics,

this is something that they would specialize in,

something they would cover.

So you're obviously thinking it's not junk,

it's worth something,

because you've got this classic,

it's all together one piece,

and they'll ensure things.

We don't talk about it as much,

but they'll even ensure spare parts.

They have spare parts coverage for vehicles

that people have collectors,

and they're like, what do I do with this Hemi engine

that's spare or somebody steals it out of my garage?

They'll cover that.

They'll cover the car.

They'll cover this Bronco.

I mean, there's all sorts of stuff,

and they'll help you too.

They'll cover it if you have the Hemi

next to the vehicle that it's not in.

Right, or completely disassembled.

But if you tell them, hey, I want to ensure

there's Bronco for $50,000,

they might say, yeah, let's renegotiate that

because we know what these are worth.

We can't tell you what yours is worth exactly,

but they know what's too high and what's too low.

They'll try to help you out with that a little bit too.

Dave, thanks very much for the call.

866-594-4150.

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Shannon's not here.

Means more room for calls.

So 866-594-4150.

I saw yesterday or in the news this week,

I should say,

another recall, Toyota backup cameras.

I'm going to solve this whole thing

with the recalls and the backup cameras.

All right, so I wish the government

and the manufacturers, this is what I want.

I want them to say, hey, backup cameras?

Yeah, they don't always work.

Yeah, sometimes they don't work.

So even if you have one, it might not work.

And that's it.

Then just go, yeah, it's a tough one.

Because I wonder what percentage of vehicles

have been recalled for backup cameras?

Oh, a ton.

I mean, like a very large percentage of every vehicle model

with a backup camera has been under recall at some point,

it seems like.

Almost everyone.

No, not every vehicle.

But every, I know every vehicle I've had with a backup camera,

either A has been recalled or B, it doesn't work.

It didn't work.

I had to have it replaced.

All mine work.

Yeah.

Both mine are aftermarket.

Yeah, exactly.

The one I put in yours, it worked perfect.

The backup cam, the front cam, all the cams were just worked.

Yeah.

Because they weren't factory junk.

You know what we've replaced Takata airbags with backup camera problems.

Yes.

We have mentioned backup cams more times

in the last two years than we have airbags.

Now, they still haven't got the airbag problem fixed.

They're still recalling those babies.

Still Takata.

Oh my gosh.

But the backup cams, yeah, that's crazy.

And the dealers are being, the manufacturers are being forced

to fix these things.

I think they should just say,

we're going to shut them down until we negotiate.

Yeah.

We never will.

You know, we're just, no, we're not going to do it.

I talked about it last week, my car, I called and said,

hey, the backup camera doesn't work all the time.

And they were like, yeah, I know.

What was the other thing with the Hondas that they said,

was it the stop, start or something?

They said, I just turn it off because the cars,

sometimes they wouldn't start up after you shut up.

Oh, okay.

They would take a couple of times and you'd have to hit the button

to restart it and they would run rough.

And they're like, yeah, they just do that.

Right.

I mean, they just do that.

It's not supposed to, well, they can't fix it.

Yeah, we know.

Ideally, yeah.

There's nothing we can do.

So just deal with it.

They should, they should allow it to be shut off permanently.

Cause it like, I do know people that who have auto start,

stop, who just automatically get in their car,

they start the car and they push,

mine has a big button right there.

I can, I can turn it off with the push of one button and it's

right there.

And I know a lot of people turn on their car and then push

that button and just leave it off.

So what about you, Chris?

You're backing up in the dark like I am in the morning.

For me, when I back up, I put it in reverse and I'm not even,

I don't even see the camera first.

I'm looking behind me.

And if I don't see any cars, I start backing up and then

I look at the camera as I'm still looking around.

So I'm looking around and the camera is just like one extra

thing.

It's like, oh, did I see something on the camera?

I better stop because I didn't see it by looking out the

window.

I don't use that camera for anything.

But when I'm in the shop and I've got the garage door closed

and I need to back up as close to the door as I can without

hitting it.

So I have more room in front of the two hoists that are face

to face.

And I'll watch and it'll go B, B, B, B, B, B, B, and then I

watch the camera because I can't see how close the door is to

the trailer hitch.

But the camera gives me, that's the only time I rely on that

camera or when I'm backing up to hitch something, I don't, I

don't rely on it.

And I think that's because I went without them for so long.

But I use my mirrors 100% except when I am, if I'm backing

out of a parking spot, I use my mirrors, I look at traffic and

then as I'm coming out and I know I've already cleared it.

I use the camera just in case someone comes breaking it.

You know, if someone comes last minute, that's it.

The only thing I use the camera for is new traffic.

I always make sure, yeah, I don't even notice the camera when

I'm backing out of a spot until I get out and I'm out far enough

to look for new traffic coming.

I have customers, I've, I ride with a lot of them and I've had

some I've ridden with, I hop in the car in front of the shop

and they put it in reverse and they never look back.

They put it in reverse and they, they stop and they stare at

the camera and they're going really slow and hitting the

brake and then hitting the brake and I'm going, I'm going to

throw up, stop doing that.

And they, they just stare at the camera the whole time backing

up and then they put it in gear and go forward.

And this is all ages.

Yeah.

Like you got to look around.

So I'm looking around and I'm looking at them going,

why are they not looking at the camera?

Right.

Yeah.

The only thing I do, I'd notice the other thing that I do,

which is bad, is I leave for work at two in the morning.

So there's never traffic.

It's never, right?

That's the, the look on your face was perfect.

There's never until there is, right?

Still there is, but also I get in the habit of not worrying

about traffic coming out of my garage.

So when I do it other times, like if I go do it at noon on a

Sunday, I realize, oh, I'm used to not paying that close

attention because it's usually two in the morning.

So I, I kind of have to remind myself to do that.

Just habit because I do it every day and I do look, but I

don't, I don't always register it.

You know what I mean?

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

I know exactly what you mean.

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Let's talk to Jake.

You're on the end of the hood show.

Jake, what can we do for you?

Hey guys.

Thanks for the show.

Love listening to it.

I've got a 27.

Yeah.

2017 Chrysler Pacifica and it's got a hard shift going.

I believe it's going into fourth gear.

It's inconsistent.

I did find a YouTube channel where somebody showed how to do

a reset for the shift memory and tried that.

It didn't seem to have anything changing with that.

I'm wondering if you guys had any ideas.

Have you changed the transition fluid in this yet?

No, just bought it earlier this year.

It's got a sealed transmission.

I did take it to a shop for a pre-buy inspection.

They said transmission sealed.

We can't really look at it, but we did check the dipstick.

Fluid looks clean and smells good.

Yeah.

You can definitely check the fluid.

It's just a little more difficult.

On that transmission, resetting those adapters, that can help,

but we've also seen a few of them with some sticky valves.

The solenoid opens, but the valve doesn't move quickly,

so what happens is it builds up fluid pressure.

It holds there and all of a sudden the valve goes thump and moves

and it goes right into gear hard.

That's a pretty good vehicle and we see very little problem

with the transmission.

They're fairly affordable because we have so many on our shelves

because they just don't fail that often.

But we have had some luck with those transmissions by doing

a complete fluid flush using the Hot Shot Secret Fluid.

It has their FR3 friction reducer in the fluid and it's helped.

You need some kind of additive in there to free up the valves

in the transmission and that would be a suggestion that we would use.

It would be something that you could try to make this work

if you're doing it yourself kind of thing.

I would give that a shot.

How hard of a job is that?

Well, I think on this one it's going to be a drain and fill

on this Pacifica to change it.

If you look on YouTube, you'll see how this is done,

but most people would do that.

On the drain and fill ones you can do at home.

It's easier if you don't have a pit, which most people don't at home.

If they do, there's probably someone trapped in it.

No, I don't, unfortunately.

You can use four car ramps, good sturdy car ramps that are made,

and some car ramps will...

Now, there's something that's a little helpful tip

that a lot of people don't know at home.

Some car ramps right on them will say,

do not use four of these together.

They're only rated for two because four are the angle they don't like,

but other car ramps will say these are rated to be used four at a time,

which keeps the car level because if the car is not level

and you've got it ramped up on one end, that causes a problem.

You don't want to put it on a hill with...

I saw a guy one time was going through Kansas City,

we were going down to the races,

and there was a car on a hill,

one of those big steep Kansas City driveways on car ramps.

And I was just thinking,

that is going to launch off the end of that thing

and just get down there and it's not going to be pretty.

But yeah, make sure it's level when you're changing that fluid in there.

Alright, that was good.

Jake, thanks very much for the call. Good luck.

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Did I see a thing I think I saw this next year,

2026, the big three US automakers,

which I maintain is just the big two, because I don't, you know,

there's some conversation on that.

And then you got Tesla now. Is that not in the big three? It's not.

They're American.

It's not what we call the big three.

It's the numbers of cars that they...

Ford.

The volume.

GM Dodge. That's basically what we're talking about.

That's the three.

Yeah.

There's only two cars for sale in 2026 in those automakers.

Really?

That's it. Two cars.

Out of the two or the three?

Out of the three.

I'm sorry, three. Corvette.

Yeah.

Mustang and the charger.

Yeah. So Chevy has...

They're all crossovers, right?

Yeah. Malibu.

The Impala's gone. The Camaro's gone.

Oh, what else did they have?

I think I read that.

They said...

They still have any...

There's no Buick's left.

Is there...

The Regal's gone too.

So all they have is like the crossovers.

Mm-hmm.

Traverse, Acadia, Traverse.

I thought that's...

No, I could be wrong, but I thought that's what I saw in...

You have to check it out.

I think you're right, Chris.

There are so few cars.

There's some...

Honda, of course, still has cars.

Not a lot, but they have cars.

And yeah, they're just...

They're switching.

So...

And a lot of it has to do with the...

Just the generation, the people.

Yeah.

That what they want.

They're wanting different things.

Yeah, it's crazy.

I was just talking to somebody I know yesterday

and they were mentioned.

They happen to own a club, like a nightclub.

And they said,

And we got a problem that this younger generation isn't drinking.

They're doing other things, but vaping and things like that.

But they said they'd rather vape and drink coffee than buy alcohol.

And that's what keeps those places...

You know, that supports them, whether you like it or not.

Mm-hmm.

But they said,

We're looking at other things because there's like places

that are doing coffee bars and dance music now

and in their nightclubs in big cities like Minneapolis and stuff

instead of that, because they're not doing like,

Well, things change.

And people, instead of talking face to face,

they're all sitting across from each other talking on their phones.

So weird.

To themselves or other people in the bar.

It's like, oh, it's noisy in here.

So we're just talking on our phones.

The interaction level between customers in our shop and myself

with the old school people, it's great.

But with this young generation, they're coming in

because they got to get their car fixed.

But I've had people stand in front of me and text me

what's wrong with their car instead of talking to me.

They just don't do it.

They're just like, yeah, okay.

Your son used to be one of them.

He'd text me, not in front of me.

He'd talk to me in front of me, but, you know,

he was like, there's always a problem with my car.

And then he'd come in and you got it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, now he's a ball of fire.

He won't stop.

Yeah.

I'm like, but that's great.

But I had that.

So you see that.

And with, I'm like, come on there.

Yeah.

Just how crazy is that Oscar?

The difference between him, whatever it was five years ago.

Now you guys, it's so funny watching how much he's changed.

Yeah.

And there was two things that happened there.

And I think the one, one day when I found out what he was doing in school and we started

talking and all of a sudden he's like, oh, and then he started talking and then, then

he met a girl, a real girl.

And then he married her.

And now he's like, I'm like, this is great because he's super smart.

Kids are genius.

And he talks to people.

I think now to be successful, you just have to talk to people because there's still 80%

of the world is still people that want to talk.

So if you're young and looking for a job, we suggest you learn to talk.

But not to me.

I don't.

Right in cursive.

I don't know.

I'm fine with that.

Just be on your phone.

Yeah.

It's a different generation.

I have to, I have to text my grandkids like Merry Christmas and love you and all that because

if I send them a Christmas card and I write it out in cursive, they can't read it.

They can't.

They can't read it.

They can't.

They can't read it.

So I just want to thank you for it.

Hi.

So I have a 2016 Mazda CX-9 and I just got my oil changed and they asked me, or they

suggested me get my transfer case oil changed.

And I said no, because I didn't really know what that was.

But so that's why I'm asking.

I was, I don't know, like, what is that?

And what I don't want to be, you know, as a woman, I don't want to be taken advantage

of with other people.

And so I just wanted to get more information about what that is and what you recommend.

Like, I have 76,000 miles on my car and it's an all wheel drive car.

And so I was just wondering what that was.

And if you guys could give me the insight on that.

Me and Doug do the same thing, by the way, right?

When we bring it somewhere, we're like, oh, no, we're good.

And then we text you, Russ, and go, do I need to get this fixed?

I do that.

And then I go look it up for myself and see if I need it.

Then I go somewhere else because I'm too embarrassed to go back to the same place and say, oh, yeah.

I decided after looking at YouTube, you do need to change that.

It's 10 years old.

It needs to be changed.

It gets moisture in it.

Metal builds up in there from the normal wear of parts and it just, the heat breaks down

things and it'll turn black and gooey.

You want to change it.

There's almost no fluid in that thing.

So it doesn't require a lot.

But because there's so little in there, it will disappear as it gets hot and bad.

And then you have to put a transfer case in it and they're not real cheap.

And also it's a good time to inspect it for leaks because if they're changing the fluid, they can see if it has a leak in it.

Those vehicles aren't near as bad as some of the other ones like Ford's with what they call a PTU, a power transfer unit.

It's a transfer case.

Still transfers the power to the other set of wheels in the rear of the car to move it in the snow and things like that.

But they leak and they hold like a pint of fluid.

And when they do leak, they'll burn up really quickly.

So we actually sell a remanufactured transfer case with a drain plug in it and a fill plug now so that it can be maintained.

Whereas yours can be.

It can change that fluid.

You can't change some of the original, the fluid and some of these original power transfer units in the Ford's because there's no way to get all the fluid out.

Even when sometimes they use a straw to pull it out of the bottom and you just can't get it in because of the angle and the way the plugs made.

There's a piece of metal behind it.

So they have to come up with a new design with a hole in the bottom.

Whose job is that?

Do you send the new guy in?

They're like, yeah.

It tastes as bad as it smells and it's awful.

But on yours, I would definitely suggest getting that changed.

It's, I don't know.

They probably want a couple hundred bucks at the most to do that somewhere in there.

I think so.

Yeah.

I think they said right around there.

And then they also talked about like my rear differential.

Both of those.

Clues and getting those changed.

Are those related to each other or are those two different things?

Separate units, two different things, but same system.

They're part of your all wheel drive.

You need to change that rear fluid and change the transfer case fluid.

You don't need to do these like every year or two years, but with the miles you have on it, I'm thinking if you got a 16, let's just say it's 10 years old.

You've only got 70,000 miles on it.

That's not a lot of miles.

Even if you have only owned it for four or five years, you're still pretty low.

So you could probably change this fluid now and go another five or six years before you have to think about doing it again.

Does she have to do both right away?

I would do both of them now to avoid the expense of the part because that rear ends probably going to cost you 2,200 bucks for a good used one installed.

And that transfer case is probably going to be, you know, 1,500 bucks installed.

So you want to change the fluid and it's a good time for them to, if you're going to this place and they're talking to you about changing this fluid, they better be looking at the outside of it every time you bring it in for an oil change to tell you, hey, I noticed this has started to leak.

I just want to let you know so you can get that fixed because if they're just going to change it when it needs to be changed and they completely ignore it while it's leaking, they're not doing you a really good service of maintenance on your car for you.

Does that help you out there, Megan?

Right.

Yes, it does.

Thank you guys so much.

I love the show.

Thanks very much for the call.

866-594-4150.

Let's talk to Jack.

You're on the end of the hood show, Jack.

What can we do for you?

Well, I'm just kind of curious about something, but I think I already know what you're going to say.

I got a 69 Torino GT fastback.

I'm rebuilding the motor on it.

It's set for quite a while, so I'm just kind of curious if I should have the transmission gone through.

Do you know how many miles are on the transmission?

I believe there's 84,000.

84 on a 69 Torino is what we consider almost worn out.

Those were the days of the 100,000 mile transmission, 100,000 mile engine.

That was a lot back then.

That was a high mileage car.

If this was 1976, that would be considered a high mileage car with getting close to 100.

I would say yes, but the good news is that Torino transmission is much cheaper to rebuild than a 6 or 8 speed or even a 4 speed automatic overdrive.

There's not a lot in there.

That GT's probably got a C6 in it, and that's pretty buildable for a reasonable price.

If you look around, you'll find a builder that'll do that I would think under $2,000.

You could even do it yourself if you feel really motivated.

There's a couple tools you can pick up to buy, but if it's kept really clean, you can do it yourself.

They make a little stand to attach that to an engine stand, and you stand it with the tail shaft down, you unbolt the pump,

you put a couple bolts in there, you pull the pump out, set it on the bench, you go through.

Things come out one at a time. They go back in one at a time.

There's a couple things you got to press down with a tool to release snap rings on.

You take it apart, make sure that thing is clean.

You've got to benefit because you have one that's not burnt up yet with a bunch of metal filings and trash in it that you'd have to clean out.

But because it still was working, you can go through it, and you could probably do it yourself.

If you're building the motor yourself, you could definitely do that as well.

I know a lot of people don't like certain things.

A lot of people that do body work don't like to do engines.

A lot of people that do engines don't do body work or vice versa on electrical and cars.

Transmissions can be a little intimidating at first.

I built probably five or six C4 and C6 transmissions in turbo 350s and even the 700R4s back in the 80s.

After doing a few, it wasn't too bad except I didn't like all the transmission fluid.

I just got it everywhere, all over me and my hands and my hair and just everywhere.

If you put it all together and it works, you're like, hey, I feel accomplished.

If you put it all together and it doesn't work, now what have I done?

The other option too is to just trade yours in on a rebuilt unit unless you're trying to keep a numbers matching car and there's a number on it.

There may not even be a number on it.

Usually there is, but there may not be.

If you search that thing up and down and don't find a number, you can trade it in on one that's already built.

Good to go.

Does that help you out there, Jack?

It sure does.

I'm just going to have it rebuilt because it's all matching numbers for the car.

It's all original.

Have it rebuilt.

Hold on a second, Jack.

Don't go anywhere.

This is a Berkeley one classic for sure.

Yeah.

I'm going to go first.

What color?

We're going to guess the color, Jack.

I'm going to go yellow and that's because I can picture that because my neighbor had one.

I knew somebody who had a red one.

Red one.

All right.

Yellow, red.

What color is it, Jack?

Well, the rest you got is it's red.

Oh, there you go.

The black stripe.

I was going to say something black.

I wasn't picturing it.

This one I knew was all red.

It's pretty decent.

Now, I hit it with the gold.

That's a stretch.

Just guessing on the Le Mans.

The red, that could be anybody's game.

So I just got lucky.

Jack, thanks very much for the call.

Good luck.

He can stay on the line there.

All right, Jack.

Stay right where you are.

We'll get you a hoodie from Berkeley one classics.

Yeah.

866-594-4150.

Let's go to Las Vegas and talk to Shannon Nordstrom.

Shannon, welcome to the Under the Hood show.

Tell us about SEMA.

If I say what's new, what stands out for you right now?

First thing pops into your head.

What is it?

First thing that pops into my head was that the future section

at EVs and all that stuff that they have had in the last couple

of years was much smaller.

And there was less activity in that area.

The future is now.

The last couple of years, that was booming.

And there was still some amazing stuff there.

And it's quite impressive what you see there.

But I just noticed they didn't have as much area of quarantine.

And I think, Russ, you might have just said part of it.

Some of that stuff is already here.

And other parts of it.

And some parts of it is that it's already, you know,

there's not as much money being put into that space currently.

And so some of that is on pause, probably,

or just not getting pushed as hard.

Because it doesn't come for free to go to SEMA.

So there's a lot of people, I'm sure,

that are judging their budgets as they work through whenever time

we're in.

But no, that was something that jumped out at me right away.

And it was not as many cyber trucks getting doctored up on the floor.

But the ones that were, oh my goodness,

they got some fun stuff for them.

Like with the overlanding campers on the back that square them up

and they can look less like a garbage dumpster on the back.

And, you know, things that were really cool that way.

I don't know.

There's so much, though.

It's overwhelming, as you guys know.

But it's just hard to figure out what your favorite thing is.

But there was no real big trends that I noticed.

A few more scouts.

Seems like they've been just slowly creeping in everywhere.

Just so you'll see a customized scout here and there.

The things that were there from the Mother's Wax Young Builders competition,

they had a section for that, were absolutely incredible.

There was a 70 C10 pickup all slammed to the ground.

I think it was a 70.

I got a lot of pictures of stuff I'll put up online here pretty quick.

But this truck had an LT4 supercharged motor in it.

It was just clean, hard bed cover on it.

They had left it up to a completely finished box.

And I didn't notice it until I got around the back

and I saw their car show display board in the box

that the truck was all wheel drive.

And that really impressed me the way they had made that truck.

It just reminded me of the old school.

I just couldn't help but think of a Typhoon.

Wasn't it the pickup of the Typhoon or was it the Cyclone?

That thing had power to burn.

Cyclone truck.

I couldn't remember which one it was.

The Cyclone or Typhoon, I always screw them up.

One was the two-door Blazer and one was the pickup.

I thought you were going to say that

and under the hood you'll stick around the bed in the back.

I did not see that rust.

You know, I had one in my backpack.

I could have slapped one on there,

but I don't think they would appreciate it.

They'll never know where it came from.

Another thing was I did a drop-in at our partner Hot Shots Secrets booth.

And in their booth they had...

That's the name wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway.

I think it was Scott Jennings.

He holds the world record for land speed of a Cummins.

They had an assault flat's car.

One of them long, skinny, looks like a cigar flying down the thing.

Like from the movie Rat Race.

The flying cigar.

It is just sleek and cool and 317 miles an hour.

They showed all the products that they used from Hot Shots Secrets in there.

And they had that Cummins just a cranking on the assault flats.

So that was really cool to see.

But you know what, Russ and Chris, I saw my highlight

and my wife had to just put a hand on my shoulder

because I was a little bit sad.

Somebody did what I had been talking about doing for 10 years.

And they had to completely one-off a 19...

It wasn't an 81, but it was an 80 Indie Payscar Trans Am.

So it would have been a very close, similar clone to the one that I had dreams of doing something with.

And they completely did it the way I was thinking.

They had an LT4 supercharged motor in it.

They had custom made turbine wheels, 18's on the front, 19's on the back, custom suspension.

The paint, they went just a little more modern paint.

The interior, now this one didn't have the Recaro interior like mine did,

but it had the factory interior, they just made it look modern.

But that car, it looked like an 80 Indie Payscar, but it wasn't.

And that stopped me in my tracks because that's really similar to what I had thought about doing.

So it must have been a good idea.

And the folks from Johnson's Restoration Shop or Johnson's Rod Shop,

they must have had a bigger budget and more time because they nailed it.

What stands out?

The year we were there, I remember being...

I noticed that there was large attention paid to the aluminum F-150, which was coming in the next year too.

That was a common thread throughout the show that they were looking towards that.

Is there something like that at this show where you kind of notice everywhere you go,

they're kind of talking about what's next and leaning into it?

No, that's what I mean.

A couple years ago I was out here, obviously the Broncos, since it came out,

there's Broncos everywhere doing different things to them.

The Jeep are still popular, all the pickups.

The truck section just continues to be huge.

I think the truck section just continues to be bigger and bigger.

It seems like to me every time I come.

Just seeing all the custom trucks, I got to go back to that Young Builders section where you talk about trucks again.

There was a gentleman that had done a 76 Chevy four-wheel drive halftime.

I got pictures of this I'll post too.

They made it like the Spirit of 76 truck, but in their own version.

They had the light blue theme went to the interior.

The interior was made up to look like the old denim down the center,

but it was all kind of a lighter blue fading into white.

That truck was so well done.

I'm gawking at that.

I'm going to jump back to that Trans Am.

I'm standing there gawking at it because it did kind of stop me in my tracks,

and my wife's taking pictures of me gawking at it.

All of a sudden I hear Nordstrom, and there's Joey from Sioux Falls.

Oh yeah.

Kyman.

He stopped me and we were talking there for a little bit,

and he's chatting with a guy from Rapid City that has a restoration shop.

But then next to him was a guy from Cody's Interior,

and they all had just started talking,

or they knew each other in some way between the three of them.

And as we talked, I find out that this Cody's Interior,

who's not a youth, I believe it was,

he's the one that himself hand did the interior in that 76 Chevy truck.

So I got to ask him about that, and he said that the guy that owned the truck,

he said they were trying to figure out exactly how to do it.

There's a lot of really light colored leather in there.

And so he had sent him a video of him eating Cheetos and working on it.

He said he had to find an interior that he could eat Cheetos,

and it would clean up easy before he would put it in there.

And I just got to kick out of that because you just think,

Cheetos on your hands, working on a white leather interior,

that seems like, that would be funny.

Who's the most famous person you've seen down there yet?

Well, you know what?

There's a lot of people lined up for people that I don't know.

Fair enough.

That happens.

And the rest of them are all dead.

No, I laugh because I told my wife, I said,

I guarantee you that these people that are lined up for these folks,

these are all folks that are big on YouTube or have a specialty show

that we just don't watch.

But yet they've got millions of fans.

And maybe I'm just old enough that I'm not doing that all the time.

Maybe it's because I'm busy enough, I'm not doing that all the time.

But yeah, that's what I noticed.

A lot of people lined up for people that I didn't know.

But a couple of times I leaned over and I'd rub her neck to see who it was.

And one was a drift guy.

I'd have to Google it.

One was a drift guy, a famous drift guy.

And another one was one of the guys from Fast & Furious.

We're up against the clock.

I gotta cut you off.

Just like normal.

It's like you're here.

That'll do it for the Under the Hood show.

Our special correspondent from Las Vegas, Shannon Nordstrom.

All right, now we're back.

We're on the after show.

Welcome to the after show.

Okay, so.

Oh, it's after.

I think the guy that I was just trying to think of was Jesse from Fast & Furious.

What's his name in real life?

Jesse.

Oh, are you still there guys?

Yeah, we're here.

I was like, Jesse.

Are you there?

Are you still there?

Are we here?

Can you hear us now?

I'm here.

Jesse, are you talking about you talking about Vince?

No, no, no, no, no.

I wouldn't know.

I don't know.

I wouldn't know who that was.

Jesse was the brother.

He was the brother.

Yeah, okay.

No, he wouldn't do it for me.

Was he the tech guy?

No, I think you're talking about...

Was he the computer guy or one of the smart guys?

Oh, maybe.

All right, let's change subjects instead of listening to you guys try to think.

Yeah, get me out of this, please.

Get me out of this.

I'll send you a picture.

Tony Stark.

Figure it out.

How long before we...

How long before we start seeing...

And we were just talking about this on this episode of the show about how there's no more

cars.

No.

American.

There's trucks.

There's just trucks.

Crossovers and trucks.

How long before...

This will sound silly now, but it won't in 10 years.

How long before we see things like the new Blazer at SEMA?

Or...

You see them now, but I bet there was 10 of them.

Do you see any Blazers?

Did you see 10 Blazers?

New Blazers, customized?

Well, no, I didn't.

Wow.

Like the new Blazer or the EV Blazer?

No.

I'm going to go back over a little bit today.

Any new kind of SUV crossover.

I don't think they've made it...

I mean, in my noticing, they haven't made it to the aftermarket specialty...

Just the Broncos and stuff.

Broncos, Jeeps, of course, but we haven't quite gotten off of cars.

You still see a little bit of the Subaru stuff here being customized.

I mean, that's kind of a thing yet.

Give them that rally look.

And I did notice that in the Toyota...

Toyota had a huge presence, and I know we had to just bend to Toyota,

but they had a concept Camry, a concept Corolla.

They had a number of cars in their concept area.

One thing they had there is they had a hydrogen Tundra.

That was kind of cool.

They had used some of their Mira chassis, and they had made a hydrogen Tundra.

And that was impressive.

I stopped and looked at that for a while.

But no, going back to the cars, I saw that they had cars in their area.

And when we were up in the Mopar booth, they were in another hall.

They weren't in the central hall.

We saw them late in the day.

And they had some of their muscle stuff really getting flexed again.

That wasn't that long ago.

They weren't going to do that anymore.

And they were flexing their muscle this time.

It was good to see from the motorhead side of things.

That's for sure.

Well, and we haven't talked about this yet.

I say there's...

Yeah, go ahead.

We haven't talked about this yet, but when we were down in Texas at the car show at Toyota,

someone had the electric charger, and they were showing off the fake sounds of the electric charger.

It sounded real.

It sounded...

Am I wrong in thinking that it sounded completely real?

Yeah, it was crazy.

Like people around us, including you two, not knowing if it was the electric charger or not.

Yes?

Yeah, because it came around.

I couldn't see the front or back end just the side, and I heard it, and I said,

Oh, well, they customized that thing.

What'd they do to it?

And as it turns around, there's no exhaust on that.

Hey, that's the electric one.

It's like, yeah.

Pretty impressive on the sound.

I mean, the sound was legit.

It's got a sound system in it that was, you know, upgradeable too, and it's to make people

feel like they're gas cool instead of electric cool.

It's at idle, which is off.

It was warbling like it was ready to jump out of there.

What...

I know...

All right.

Every year, I mean, the booths are sometimes outlandish.

What's the most outlandish booth that you've seen this year?

Like, I think when we were down there last time, the Ford booth was 20 containers with

trucks stacked four high.

What's the thing that's caught your eye on that side?

You know, that's a great question.

I've missed a few things.

Yesterday was our only full day we had at SEMA, so I did not see everything.

But from a non-manufacturer standpoint, the folks at Blueprint Engines had a huge display

and they had a chip-fuse Lincoln Continental, big two-door Continental convertible in there

that was slammed down and just...

It was just awesome.

Is it green?

But they had a lot...

Yeah.

Yes.

Kind of a greenish color.

Yeah.

But just a lighter color, but it was just a...

The floor space that they were taking up and then they had their crate engines all the way

around the edges, they took a big swing at SEMA this year.

But one that I saw that really caught my eye in a different way for not being as big as

impressive was our neighbors to the south from North...

I'm going to say the name wrong, but the technical school just outside of Sioux City,

Northwest Iowa Technical School, they had between their auto body program and their

mechanical program restored a K5 Blazer and they brought it to SEMA with their students,

some of them that worked on it.

And I thought that was so cool and the Blazer turned out awesome.

And I got a chance to talk to the instructors.

We know them.

We've gotten them some product for their students down there before to help them do their training.

And they had started this thing from a total Midwest rust bucket.

It broke in half once they started taking it apart because it was so rusty.

And they did a very, very good job.

That group of students did.

And they were so proud.

I took my picture with one of the kids, young kids, and they were also doing...

They got a drawing coming up.

I'll get some love for them on social media, but they're doing it for a fundraiser and

they've got a shivvy that they're selling.

It's not this one, but another one.

But that was impressive.

They had spent the money and they'd raised funds and they told me what it cost.

It wasn't cheap.

But they got down there with that K5 Blazer and they had a 10 by 30 booth, nothing huge.

And they were just standing there really proud of what they did and letting people know about

the great programs that are available in the Midwest if you want to learn how to do that kind of stuff.

I thought that was pretty cool.

That is cool.

All right.

Anything...

Guys, I got to run down and meet our representative, Mr. Firestone.

We're going to go do a visit with our partners from Pete here at 930.

Hold on.

So I got to get rolling to go meet him.

Hold on one second.

I'm going to dump you out of here.

I'm going to put you on hold.

For producer Doug.

Yeah, Doug wants to talk to you.

Hold on.

All right.

He's gone.

We're gone.

There we go.

That's a full update there.

We're out of here.

Thanks, everybody.

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