Mr Mechanic 10-11-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Legend has it that Kyle.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Can change your oil with his toes.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And that you can tell your tires ill pressure just.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
By how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every
Saturday morning they morphed together to form the greatest superhero
known to man. Mister Mechanic check engine likes, do stand
a chance? This is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. It's an interactive callin show where you've got
some questions, Well shoot the answer to you get you
back on the back, on the rack and fixing the car.
As you said, we began in service centers A fiftieth
and Dodge eightieth and Dodge Guaranteed Breaks forty ninth Avenue

(01:06):
and Dodge. Stop in and see us. We'll do breaks right.
The first time for you and get you going. There's
so many, so many different things out there. Breaks wise,
we're noticing that a lot of places that normally don't
do breaks are doing breaks around there. So places that

(01:28):
you get your oil change, like the quick blue places
are starting to branch out into doing some other things
besides the basic oil change. Sure, and sometimes that's okay
if it's easy. Sometimes it's not okay if you don't
know what you're doing, because.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
You can get over your head in breaks really quick,
because as soon as you open something, you're committed.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You're committed commitment with breaks.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
And the reason is that we don't live in a
state that it's Texas or Kalifornia, where everything comes apart
and goes back together really easy.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Everything around here, as we comes apart hard.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
And yes, as we talked about all the salt that's
on the road, everything is stuck together or frozen pins
and again, and if you're not careful to know how
to get them out. You know, the one thing that
you don't do if you got pins stuck in a
caliper anchor is you don't get the torch out and

(02:27):
heat them up, because now they've become out well, they
become missiles, they become bullets, and uh, you know those
things will knock out windows, car windows, They'll oh yeah, they'll.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
It'll leave a pretty good bruise on your side. To
ask me how I know that.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, they are you gotta they can me quite you know,
downright dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. So
leave that stuff to somebody. If you're one of the
sun that stops in and do that. You don't, don't
kill anybody's business, but just be careful about what you're
getting into, because, like you said, once you reach a

(03:04):
point of no return, you really can't go back, and
then you have to hook it on a tow truck
and bring it in because it's it's just a pain.
But once we've been there, done that, you kind of
know what you got to do.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
So nowadays, I just expect everything to break off with breaks,
and I expect the absolute worst case scenario and then
I have a great day when it just goes normal.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, exactly. And the other.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thing that I noticed too, is that like rear breaks,
and it can be front breaks, but usually it's rear breaks.
The rotors are thick enough to turn the problem is
is that they're just balls of rust.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
You don't know how big the chunks that are going
to come off of it. Yeah, and you end up
with a pitted, delaminated rotor by the time you're done,
and there's no saving.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
There's no saving it. So you've turned it all the
way down to the point where it's you've turned it
to the point where it's no good By the time
you get rid of all the rust, it's just quicker
and easier and probably a much better repair if you
just hang new roadors on it and be done because
you've gotten rid of all the rust. All the mating
surfaces now are all clean and no rusty. It's just

(04:09):
a much better repair. Do we like doing that? Well,
not necessarily, But it's all about the end result, because
if you don't, if you do a break job and
you end up with squeaky breaks, what have you really done?
You just not a good break job. No, You've just
you've created an annoying squeak after the fact, which nobody likes.
So well, we got some calls, full bank of calls.

(04:31):
Let's sit over to John John's got a twenty twenty
Subaru Forrester John, what's up today.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Well, I got a different circumstance here. I'm trying to
help someone that is low vision drives a car the
toscopic lens. He could stay home and be a dead beat,
but he doesn't want to take the government's money, so
he works close to where he's This all comes into
play with the problem is he works real close to

(04:57):
where he this thirty thousand miles. He bought it used
from a suberbrew dealers. It's it's a meant vehicle, thirty
thousand mile subrew forester. And he also wants to be independent.

(05:18):
He can't see all the stuff real Well, A couple
of things have come up now. The first thing is
he bought some fifty to fifty Anna freeze. And then
his last vehicle is window washer was on a certain spot,
so he went ahead and put in about a quart

(05:43):
and a half of it. But on his other vehicle
he was going on percent. Sure it was he put
it into the windshield washer instead of the coolant movie,
and that's not about the bottom line is your windshield washer.
I mean he's got anna freeze in the windshield wash

(06:06):
your unit. So I was gonna go over there and
pull the bottom on, drop a line and drain it.
Just not even ask questions.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Agreed, but.

Speaker 6 (06:16):
A lot of things apart. And I thought, before I
do all this, I'm gonna find out what kind of
dangers could I do to the pump. He didn't sell it.
He just added a little bit. It's not really going
to do much the first questions.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's not really going to do much to the pump.
It's just going to fill your windshield full of ana freeze.
And when you use the way you want to be
able to see, you won't be able to see. It's
just a mess. So do what you do what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Oh yeah, many times made a guy fill a wash
your tank with tire shine.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah that went bad.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I've had somebody fill the entire water the engine full
of washer fluid and burnt the motor up. Yeah washing,
Oh yeah, there's not much we haven't seen. Let me
tell you.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
I just didn't know. I figured you've probably seen something
that could adding. I just about to him. I told him,
no way, and then I told.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Him, well, it's not a big deal. Just just take
the hose off the bottom of the washer solvent, let
it all drain out. Go get yourself some uh some
hot water from the inside of you know, the house
and stuff, and fill it up and let it drain
through maybe a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Then you'll be good. You'll you'll be good.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
And then fill it back up with washer fluid and
then then run it through all the hoses, through the
windshield and then fill it back up and you're done.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Okay, thank you for that part. Now here's the second party.
I couldn't believe this. But he works right near I
mean he works and he lives near a grocery store,
so he likes to walk, so he walks to the
grocery store and herries to work. Well, he got a
recall or he had a problem where nothing but we

(08:01):
were getting ready to call you this week. Where all
the safety devices, the b ms, all the different I mean,
all the different stuff that he likes on the super
ru that tells him was a car next to him,
just to give him a second piece of assurance, and
all these features all turned off.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
So he was.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
He was going went ahead and uh kind of panicking. Well,
he looked it up what it was doing and figured
out that there was a recall on this thing, that
there's some some unit if you said it, I'd know
what told me a couple of times, but I forgot.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
So it needs a programming probably needs a programming recall
or something to computer control wise.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
Okay, No, it was it was an actual part and
that they had to and they said they had the
part in stock, and then they had to do reprogram
after they put that part in. And they said on
the internet to him that it was at least a
one hour job and but it needed a part. And
they called and they said, now that we got those recalls,

(09:05):
we have the part in stock and get you in tomorrow.
So he dropped it off and I at the dealership.
It's further away that he bought it. They gave him
because they bought it, we're gonna get him a free
oil change. Well, this vehicle now, he's had it now
since for two years. I'm gonna go back and look it. Damn.

(09:29):
But if I looked at it three times. But he
asked him if he could get a free oil change,
and they said, uh no, it's eighty dollars. And he says,
I this other this other dealership said they'd do it
for nothing, and I got the paperwork here and he said,
we'll call and he called back. He said the charge

(09:51):
of milly dollars, don't do it, so he got it back.
When I was checking out the santafreeze thing, he says,
should I just go ahead and get the inter freeze
or they all call I'll call the dealership and we'll
see if you know what we got to do here
and if I got to work my way down to
that place. And I go, okay, Well, anyway, I went
in and I pulled the dipstick and two questions come up. First,

(10:13):
it was down maybe at three quarters of a court
the most, and I told him, looks like it doesn't
have a name brand, just a blue oil filder. I
don't know if you've got synthetic in it or regular.
I'm going to have to ask the people that Mike

(10:34):
and Kyle of mister Mechanic, if they what should they do?
Is there one safe to add to it if it
gets down? And I can assume that it is a
full court, but I want to top it off a
And the next thing is I've always when I was
my dad was a mechanic in World War Two, and
he always tell me, if your oil gets milky in

(10:56):
the winter, when we had our nineteen seventy vehicles and everything.
He says, you that's water and dripping off these Yeah,
but he says, he says, if he's driving a lot,
usually you'll keep that milkiness from coming up. If you're
a car person that don't drive. But he says, nothing,
you get it. You'll you don't drive a lot sometimes
these carburetors, and he says, you'll get it. You'll get

(11:17):
more some of the gas down in.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Yeah, John, hang on quick second, we gotta take a
break and then I'll answer your question here in just
a minute.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
Be right, all right, everybody, The big Man himself, that's right,
the head of Marvel Comics is coming down to the
meeting today to hear what we've got on his latest superhero,
Mechanic Man. So it better be good.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Stevens.

Speaker 7 (11:39):
What uh, Stevens, how's that Mechanic Man jingle coming along?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
The Mechanic Man jingle?

Speaker 7 (11:47):
Yeah, the one you were assigned to produce last week.
That's what the Big Man from Marvel wants to hear.
So let's hear it.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
Okay, you you want to hear the jingle?

Speaker 9 (11:57):
Now?

Speaker 7 (11:57):
Well, why else would you be here? Stevens that's what
you were hired to do. Now you better sing me
the most beautiful, clever, catchy, soothing jingle I've ever heard.
Or you can pack up your nickknacks and hit the road.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, sure, here we go.

Speaker 8 (12:15):
I've got the jingle done.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
You know, of course I do.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
You know my throat's a little dry, though, so you
know it might be better to wait a few days
until after Lero.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
Leroy, get this man some water, now, sing to me.

Speaker 8 (12:29):
Okay, all right, here here he goes.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Here.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
Here's the jingle that I definitely wrote before today. Mchanic man,
mcchanic man, he does whatever mechanic can. Mechanic man, mechanic man,
he does whatever a mechanic can. He's a man, he's

(12:56):
mechanic man.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
Oh, oh my god, Stevens. That was absolutely brilliant, amazing work, Stephens.
He's done it again, Well done.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
That jingle is already stuck in my head. It's all
I'm thinking about. Cannic man, mechanic man does whatever a
mechanic can. Mechanic man, mechanic man does whatever. A mechanic
He's a mechanic man, mechanic.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Man, mechanic mchan man.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Not mechanical man, mechanical man.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Not mechanical man.

Speaker 7 (13:38):
Man, not mechanical man. Man, not mechanical man, mechanic man,
not mechanical man.

Speaker 5 (13:46):
Mean.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Mechanic man. Let's just shoot back into it. Tony's got
a seventeen Subaru Forester. Tony, what's up today?

Speaker 9 (13:58):
Oh hi, thankstick my call. I've got a twenty seventeen
Subaru Forester. And earlier in the year, the notice the
air conditioner, you know, it's still cold, but it wasn't
cold cold, so I thought, oh, I'm just a little
bit low on uh Treon. So I went and bought
one of those kids at the store with the you know,

(14:19):
the aerosol can of free on and the and it
had the built in gauge on it.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
And I I filled.

Speaker 9 (14:24):
It up and it was fine, and hey, I even
went and filled. I went and gave my other two
used cars a couple of twos of that, and they're
even colder now too, so they are all, you know,
they're all working great. And then all of a sudden,
the Subaru is not uh, it's not won't cold anymore.
And so I went on lifted up the hood and
I looked at it turned down the air conditioner, and
I noticed that the the it looks like I don't know,

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maybe the clutch isn't going isn't working anymore because the
condenser wasn't spinning, And I was wondering, you know what,
will low freon cause it to not engage and spin
If I try to get some more of that stuff,
maybe this time get the stuff with the ceiling or
with the lubricint in it. Could that possibly bring it

(15:10):
back to life? Or do I need to just take
it in and have it looked at? Uh?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes, no, no, yes, yes, and no go ahead, cap.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Okay, so we know it worked at one point this summer.
You put free on in it and it worked great.
So that tells me there's a leak somewhere. Yep, if
you should it doesn't use free on. Freeon doesn't deplete
in any kind of way.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
It leaks.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
We should make that work though way that way like
gas where it uses it. Go ahead, God, yeah, that'd
be expensive. Hold up to the free on pump here,
slide your card. So Uh, generally, I'm going to say
ninety seven point six percent of the time that I
opened the hood on a Subaru, the hoses at the

(16:01):
compressor are leaking. Absolutely, they have boxes of these O
rings because I know I'm going to go through them
every summer and.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
That would be my first thing. So what you do is,
I mean, if you got like a good quality free on,
most of it has dye in it because I mean
they put dye in the oil so we can find
these leaks. So you can take a black light, which
everybody should have at least seven or eight in their house,

(16:34):
and you just kind of shine it on there and
it's going to glow green.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
If it's green, it's.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
Leaking, Okay, then two more questions. Then if it if
it looked out and it's empty on free on because
it's the leak with that a positive compressor and not
turn on?

Speaker 6 (16:52):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
The high side pressure switch has to see pressure to
turn this thing on.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Will not dry run a compressor?

Speaker 9 (17:01):
All right? And then if if it's not turning on,
would it even take a Canada free on at that point?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
It will once it sees pressure. Yeah, I mean, you
don't have to have it. But see, here's the here's
the deal. You can't do.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
What you're gonna what you're thinking about doing is going
to the store and putting more refrigerant in it. You
can't do that now because you're opening the system, you're
replacing parts. Now there's going to be air in the system.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
You have to have it in.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, so you got to take it somewhere and you've
got to have a vatue. You've got to put a
fifteen minute to half an hour evacuation of all of
the air out of the system. Then you can put
the proper amount of refrigerant in it. I recommend that
you let somebody else do the whole thing as far
as evacuating it and recharging it, because it takes a

(17:54):
specific amount of refrigerant in that system. You don't know
just by turning the knob on and off whether you've
got half a pound, one pound, one and a half pounds,
and it's gonna work the best with the proper amount.
But you can do the repair. Yeah, you could do
the repair. You can do the repair easy enough and

(18:15):
then take it somewhere and have it done. But what
you did the first time is fine because you don't
have all that air that's intermixed. You just have just
for free on the leaked right. So yeah, this is simple, simple,
simple ring replacement more than likely you could have other leaks.

Speaker 9 (18:34):
I'm just afraid he's gonna say, oh, it's a thousands.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Could be that. That's not uncommon for that car either.
But you got to start at step one before you
worry about step two. And step one is to fix
your leak, recharge it and see what happens. That's what
That's what anybody has to do, not just you. Yeah,
all right, appreciate the call, Tony, all right, thanks for

(18:59):
the you bet, but that's just a that's a common
super repair. I mean, what do we normally do on
super repairs. That's the old rings you talked about. O
ring compressors are probably right behind that. And then it's
a sport track.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
I'm looking at the evaporator and evapp temp sensor. Yeah,
the blower fan isn't coming on. I'm going straight to
the back of the control head because that likes to
burn up.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh yeah, I forgot about the control heads. It just
like the it's all plastic snapped and plastic and everything else,
and they just burn up completely, just melt down. And
that's because of the blower motor drawing too many amps
and it just doesn't like it. And so you end
up not only placing the control head and the blower motor.
So we've got there's a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
So if you're driving a super down the road and
you start smelling something that smells like crayons when you
have your AC on, you're getting close to this repair.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Or somebody dropped crayons down the heating box. I've seen
that too, all right, all right, yeah, I've seen that too.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Uh, We're going to take a quick break on the
Mister Mechanics show. Will be back in a minute. Tracy's
been patiently waiting. Tracy, what's going on today?

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Hey? Doing well? How about stuff?

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Great?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Great?

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Great? Hey, Hey, I got a twenty thirteen Volkswagen Touring
and I'm getting the two two in bank one system
Lean with a higher than rpm, higher than normal, so
I can clear the code, but they keep coming back.
It started out that work would just do it once

(20:32):
every eight nine months, and I would notice if I
didn't have my air conditioning on, it would instantly stay
in a high idle mode. And I was just wondering,
if you ever you know it's come across this problem before.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
You bet we have.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
Well, so if we're running Lean we're getting too much air. Absolutely,
So the fact that this is you have documentation that
this is getting worse, that would lead me more to
like an intake gasket, something like that.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oil trap oil tad.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Does it make any weird noises like a screaming noise?

Speaker 5 (21:19):
But you know, every once in a while I hear
a screaming noise, but it's been quite a while.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Then the reason why I'm really asking about it is
because what does the air you know, turning the air
conditioner on and off have to do with that? If
it is an intake gasket.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Okay, so when you turn your air conditioning on, the
computer is going to take over one hundred percent as
far as idle because the air conditioner itself is a
huge load on that engine. So it's going to draw
your idle down naturally, and your computer is going to
totally control it from there.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, it's got a desired idle and it's going to
maintain that no matter what.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
So that's why that's happening.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
So if you've you've got a scanner, if you can
pull code, so can you look at data on your scanner?

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Yeah? I absolutely can.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yeah, Okay, so we're gonna look at short term fuel trim. Okay,
it's gonna probably be abbreviated st FT BANK one Bang two,
there'll be two separate pits. You only want to look
at short.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Term fuel trim.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
So now we get it running, get it up to
operating temperature. Look at what these percentages are, just to
set that code, they have to be probably European. You're
probably gonna be upwards of twenty five percent.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Positive.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Yes, because we're wanting to add fuel to compensate for
this air, so we're going to be positive. So now
what we're going to do is we're going to get
an external fuel source. I use brake cleaner. Some guys
use I don't want to have a huge propane link
at my shop. I use brake cleaner. And just kind
of gradually take your time with this. It doesn't have

(23:08):
to happen in two seconds because you won't find your leak.
Just go around slowly around the intake, Spray all the
runners where it screws. The intake screws to the engine block,
and you're going to see these numbers change, okay, and
if they start dropping way down, that's your leak.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yep, you found it.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Okay. Yeah, so I've done the break clean all over
the engine, but one thing I haven't done was pull
the cover off to get down to, you know, basically
worthy intake gass.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's gonna be intake gaskets.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
I've been thinking that, you know, it's it's something that
I didn't want it to be. I wanted to be
something maybe you know, yeah, or some kind of sensor,
but I would probably be getting a code for that
as well.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah, intake gaskets. Oh, rings on the injectors. Any thing
that's gonna be because that engine sucking all the time.
It's it's where we can pull air in at.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
The only other thing I'm going to tell you outside
the box, since this is a European car and you
said that once in a while you'd have a screeching noise. Right,
do you have an old mechanical vacuum gauge? Okay, pull
your dipstick, put that vacuum gauge in there, make sure
you get a good seal and let it run. You

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should be getting no more than one inch of vacuum
in that crank case.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
Anything that's great.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Anything more than that, there's what's called an oil trap
or an oil separator down in the valley of this engine,
and those have a huge failure rate.

Speaker 10 (24:44):
Yeah, okay, very good, And you could.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Be having an internal vacuum leak as opposed to an
external but that's the easiest.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Yeah, I agree with that as well. So yeah, I
think if you unless you have something else that's that's
that's a good start for me.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
So the last thing is is go find a fire
extinguisher so that if you start spraying carburetor cleaner and
inspire things that are hot and you catch a fire,
you don't have to go look for it.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
You already know where.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
It's at exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
And they've done that.

Speaker 5 (25:16):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, No, Yeah, I'm aware of.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
That, okay, just making sure.

Speaker 9 (25:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
No, I appreciate your time, you bet.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Crazy, appreciate it. The cal All right, we're gonna head
over to Bill. Bill's got an eighteen f one fifty Bill,
what's up today?

Speaker 10 (25:33):
Well, excuse me. It's a I got a three point
five Eco boost with the ten speed ten R eighty
transmission in it. Just give you a little background here.
I've got one hundred and twenty thousand or so right
on the truck right now and at ninety thousand miles.

(25:54):
I had the transmission and had the cf CDF drum
replaced at the dealer, and it shifts good. Everything shifts good,
except when I shipped from you know, back out of
the driveway, go from reverse to drive, and when I

(26:14):
hit drive, it's it's like I got too much rpm.
And it bangs in the drive sometimes and usually does
it when it's warm. I've added into a transmission place
eight or nine thousand miles ago and they couldn't find

(26:39):
anything wrong with the way it operated, and they.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
They what they do.

Speaker 10 (26:45):
They did my pinion gear seal in the rear end
and service that because it was leaking, which I saw.
But it seems like it's kind of getting worse to me, but.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
Well almost doesn't all the time.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Most of the time. The reason that it bangs into
gear for most any kind of transmission is because your
line pressure is going from zero to one hundred and
it's supposed to gradually go in. And if it doesn't,
if it doesn't gradually go in, because I got a
tend speed in mine and it it just you don't

(27:27):
even feel it. It just you feel just slightly going
to gear, but it's banging it's going from zero to
one hundred instantly instead of zero to one hundred gradually. Yeah,
the drum is locking up in a hurry, hurry, big hurry.
So it's something internal. What specifically, I can't really tell you,
but that that is the the reasoning and behind why

(27:51):
it's doing what it's doing. And it may not be
when they're looking at it. It may not be doing
that all the time, like you said, so it's hard
to catch it when it's actually doing it. Been You've
got a couple of different choices here one hundred and
twenty thousand miles. Do you pull it all apart and
fix maybe what's going on in there and and you're

(28:11):
not going to see anything, You're not going to have
an aha moment? Or do you just live with it
until such time as you end up putting a transmission
in it?

Speaker 2 (28:19):
But it's going to be something in the valve body.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah, and I do have valel body problems in the tens, but.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
You're gonna sods are all in the vowel body. So
the fact that it does go into gear tells me
the solenoid is moving. But that that solenoid is moving,
there's most likely a pressure de tent on the backside
of that solenoid. Is the spring broken, you know, et cetera,

(28:51):
so on so forth. Is there a hydraulic leak from
one passage to another because of a gasket that are
variable there?

Speaker 3 (29:01):
And and a lot of these vale bodies are they're
not so much serviceable like.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
They used to be. You just you get the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
You get the whole darn thing, boom out it comes,
the new one goes in. You get forty seven hundred
parts in one shot. And that's how its serviced. So
that's why, that's why it ends up that way.

Speaker 10 (29:20):
So how much am I looking at they get it repaired?

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, Well that's a hard question to say, because when
you open it up maybe and pull the valid body down,
maybe you've got an an aha moment that goes on.
You might turn into you know, and if you want
it completely fixed, you might end up into a transmission.
So you could say, you know, a couple thousand bucks
on up into seven eight, you know, to do something

(29:48):
like that. So it just and and transmissions are layered,
so you start at the bottom and you start building
these things from the bottom up. And when you you
got one hundred twenty thousand miles on where do you
how far do you take it down fifty percent? Fix
the problem and put all that stuff back together, and
watch yourself have another problem and you just keep Yo

(30:10):
yo and the transmission back and forth. It's it's a
tough decision as to where you say, I don't want
to have any problems. I'm tired of dealing to put
a transmission in it. And when you pull it apart
and just try about body. I know that's not a
specific answer for you, but it's it's it's part of
what it is when you pull something. When you pull

(30:31):
the sandwich apart, you got to see what's all inside
the sandwich you just bought.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
So how much do I pay you guys do that
the transmissions?

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, yeah, we do.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
And it's it's just something you have to kind of
get involved with and sometimes it takes a little bit
of time. Sometimes it turns into a week or so.
It just depends on And the part of the problem
here is that when you again yo yo and the
transmission to take an in and out and in and out,
what point do you stop and say, I'm spending a

(31:05):
bunch of money over here. We could have just done
this and solved all your problem and been done in
one shot, because everybody starts getting you know, customers get
upset if you've had it for a while and we
don't want it anymore and you want it to have gone.
But it's sometimes it's not that easy.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
I wish car was repair was that easy. It'd be
a lot easier for us. Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
Yeah, Well everything else on the pickup is yeah, runs
good and everything, and I've kept up with all this maintenance,
and I really like a pickup, But man, I don't
know if I will spent another eight thousand transmission.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Well true, true, go look at it. Go look what
in brand new one it will cost, and then your
decision will be easier for you.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
Well I did, I got it.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
So when you take that, and then if you've got a
great truck, you've been taken care of and it looks great,
it's not all beat up, you know, you'd the decisions
easier than spending sixty seventy eighty ninety so for one
hundred and twenty. If you want a Cadillac, maybe you
want to jump up into a cat.

Speaker 10 (32:16):
Maybe I'll bring it down to you next week.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
And yeah, give us a call. We'll give us a call.
We'll find a time to get you in take a peak. Okay,
appreciate the call.

Speaker 9 (32:28):
Bill.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break on the
Mister Mechanics Show. We're gonna come back and talk to
Brian after that. I'll be back in a minute on
the iHeartRadio in your podcast apps, so you can go
back and listen to what we were talking about and
listen to yourself on the radio and see just how
you sounded. You know, not everybody gets to know what
they sound like on the radio, so you get to
find out.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
And if you've got a hard repair or anything like that,
I mean, just listen to all of them odds are
we've talked about it from one time or another. Yeah,
we'll get you through that even when we're not on
the air.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah exactly. I mean, what else you're gonna do when
you're driving down the road? Listen to whatever it is
it's on the radio. Might as we listen to that,
all right. Brian's been waiting patiently. Thank you, Brian. He's
got a twenty twenty two Ford Ranger. Brian, what's up today?

Speaker 11 (33:15):
I think I got a strange one for it. I'm
getting a chattering, vibrating sound from underneath the dash dash.
But here's the weird part. It only happens between sixty
five and seventy miles per hour. Hit seventy one, it's gone,
hit six or drops down to sixty four and it's gone.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Okay, any idea what will be causing that something loose?

Speaker 3 (33:41):
There we go? Thanks for calling Brian. Well you know, okay,
that's sorry. Sorry we had to.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
All right, So I.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Guess your vibration.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
I guess the first thing we want to know is
is our Is everything else move but the vibration is
just underneath the dash? Or or is it? And I'm
just gonna throw out examples. So if if we got
a tire that's maybe out around or needs to be
balanced in the rear, and it's shaken the whole truck,

(34:16):
and it's just setting up enough of a harmonic that
it makes something underneath the dash vibrate.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
You know the.

Speaker 11 (34:28):
Car runs great?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, So do you if you feel a vibration anywhere else,
like in the steering wheels you're driving down the road,
or do you look over at the seat and see
the seat vibrating? As you're driving down the road.

Speaker 11 (34:42):
No, I'm not actually feeling any vibration.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
You're just you're just okay, all right, you're just hearing
something underneath there.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
The one thing that we can do is a visual inspection.
Climb underneath there with a good flashlight and then just
kind of tap on the dash and random places and
just kind of move around and get under there and
get your hands on things. Is there a shield or
there's a lot of small tiny things under there, a
lot of plastic things. There's a lot going on under there,

(35:14):
and you'll find something that isn't in there correctly.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, I have somebody with their fists just kind of
gently tap on the dash in certain areas while you're looking,
and then I would do that before you took anything apart.