Mr Mechanic 12-13-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
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 Unleaed. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires in pressure just.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
By how you're walking.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
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 lights, don't stand a chance. This is
the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. Get in early so we can answer the
rest of your calls and get them all handled. This
is an interactive call in show. You have questions, we'll
give you the answers and shoot you back out to
the garage and get that done. Or you can go
back to the couch and think about it some more
and do it much later.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
M hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Do you think Kyle is that about right.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, I'm looking out the window right now, and I
can tell you if I had a project, I would
still have a project tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, it's snowing out just a little bit this morning.
Cases is the first show of your day, and you're
just getting up from a hard night last night. You know,
you never know, Yeah, I you know. One thing that's
top of my mind is and this is interesting problem.
We all have had a battery experience where it just
goes dead and he jump started and off you go.

(01:39):
We've all been there. Sure, we've noticed in the last oh,
I don't know, three four or five years that sometimes Honda's,
for whatever reason, just they'll die. The battery just dies.
That's it. There is no jump starting it, there's no
trying to get it going. There's it's either got to

(02:01):
be put on the back of a tow truck and
brought in or in the case of what we did yesterday,
as we went up and put a battery in the
guy's car in his house at his house, only because
he had such a narrow garage inside that can Yeah,
you can't toe out of it. And it's not something
we normally do. It's just that how much of the

(02:23):
side of the car you're going to scrape up before
you have to stick a newer car in a very
narrow garage. But anyway we put couldn't jump started. A
couple of different jump packs. Nothing would grab a hold
of it. And we put a different battery in it
and zoom off it went. It just seems to go

(02:43):
dead short. Even though the lights would come on. I
mean it had power, it had enough to you know,
make it seem like it was alive, it just would
not do anything. So and we've been noticing that more
and more and more, and we talked about it more
with the AMG or AGM batteries that they put in

(03:05):
cars now, and it just seems like when they're done,
they're done. So even more we always have said that,
you know, kind of take care of those batteries when
they start to get to the four to five year mark,
because it's not a matter of if, it's a matter
of win, and you don't want to have to call
your significant other to have them come down and get
you from the bar. Dude, you're just gonna stop off

(03:28):
to have one, you know, conversation, and next thing you know,
you're stuck there.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
You got to come up with something really clever. This
is where it died.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I was getting you something nice. I was getting you
a couple of coasters for later. All right, we're gonna
head over to Matt. Matt's got twenty fourteen f one
fifty Matt.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
What's up, hey, guys? On my truck. Recently, I bought
this used owl, I don't know, about six months ago,
and it had about one hundred and two thousand on it.
I've put about fifteen on it, and all of a
sudden the other day I started smelling burning oil. And
when I got it, I put the valveleine that restoring

(04:12):
protect in it for like four different oil changes. And
I've heard this and it's the eco boost, the six
cylinder or whatever. And I'm wondering why, all of a sudden,
what I start smelling oil? And it's usually only when
I'm idling, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
And what kind of oil was it?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
What I put in at first was that valveleene synthetic.
It's called restore and protect, And I did that for like,
like I said, about three or four oil changes, and
I just everything was fine and nothing's making any noise
or anything. But I've just noticed idling. As since it
started getting cold. When you start your car in the winter,
I've started noticing when I climb in and I'm smelling

(04:51):
burning oil, and I'm religious. I was getting it changed
like every three thousand miles anyway with that, and I'd
get it changed at the Valvelene places in town. In
this last one, I just put full synthetic in, but
I start smelling it before that, So okay.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
So if you're smelling oil, you're leaking oil. That's the
only way that that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Or burn it, one of the two, depending on how
you're smelling it. Right, this requires conventional oil. It's a semisynthetic,
and if you go to full synthetic, here's just one
option is that the full synthetic is much thinner than
the other. And the thing that we've noticed is that
when we switch conventional oil from conventional to full synthetic,

(05:37):
you will have it'll create leaks, it'll find leaks, it'll
find leaks and never had before. And then when you
go when you go back to the regular oil that
you have just a regular five twenty semisynthetic, all your
problems go away. So that's that's one possibility. I would
probably go look to see where this leak is actually happening.

(06:00):
Is it underneath the engine? They're kind of common for
oil pants and turbos, turbos, turbo lines.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Uh, turbos leak a lot on these There is if
this thing hasn't had turbos on it, and it hasn't, okay,
there is some updates to these lines. The oil feed
line on these engines, they've redesigned it because it was

(06:27):
causing them to It caused a situation where it looked
like it was burning a lot of oil, but it wasn't.
The oil was basically just sitting in the turbo leaking
past the rings and then you'd start it up. You
would people would complain. We can see complaints of you know,
when I first started the first three seconds, I smell
oil out of the tailpipe. Issues like that. That was

(06:49):
a feed pipe redesign that fixed that. But they are
known to have turbos leak externally and you'll get a
huge smell of oil when you start the engine.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Would I would I see anything on the ground because
I've been every time I park it. You know, I've
been looking and I haven't seen anything. So when you're
talking about leaking. Could it be catching or it's just
burning off on the exhaust manifold or something.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, if the turbo is leaking, I mean the turbine
side of it is going to get really hot, so
you may not It may take a very large leak
to see this leak, because once you start the engine,
that thing gets really hot and you know you're carboning
up right there, so you may not see a leak
if it's a small enough one.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, and ford to actually put what we call a
diaper underneath the bottom of there, and it's about a
four three by three piece of felt felt that covers
probably the rear main area and up towards the front
so that.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
They can hold a lot of oil.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Several courts can hold several courts oil, so.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yeah, or to siege just from the naked eye, if
you're just moving your truck out of the way every.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Day exactly, And they're great.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
If I if I go back to this five twenty
you're talking about, and it goes away, and my should
I just keep doing the conventional then and.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, I have problems again, And that's how they do.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Any additive Is there any additives to will or anything
that would seal it up so I don't have to
do any major repairs.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
No. No, the five twenty that came out of the
factory with is what it was designed for and it
works great. No really reason to change it. But if
it was my truck, I'm going to take a look
to see if I got any leaks first, to see
where it's at and see where it's coming from. Then
I would switch back to the oil and monitor it.
Did my problem stay the same, get worse, get better,

(08:38):
you know, do kind of a diagnosis that way, so
you have a clear cut of this solved the problem,
because there's nothing better than knowing what solved the problem
and why.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, get under there, see where it's coming from. Maybe
clean it up a little bit, do your change, and
see what happens.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yep, Okay. On a second second note, I wanted to
say thanks to you guys at listening quite a bit
on the weekends. And it's the first time I called
in and I was first in and I was very
entertained by your guys. Sure, you guys do a great job,
So appreciate the advice.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Absolutely, we appreciate the call. Appreciate you listening.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Okay, thank you, Bud.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
You bet all right? Okay, all right, all right, We're
gonna take just a quick break and we'll be back
to answer another call in a minute.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Now, this is a story all about how my wrenches
got flipped turned upside down.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
Man, I'd like to take a minute. Just sit right there.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
I'll tell you how it changed the oil on a
Chevy bel Air on the west side of a dirty
garage in a twenty fourteen minute you missu mirage. I
was chilling out max In lubing some gears when I
saw a couple.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Of dudes who were up in the years.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
When these old dudes pulled into the station, smelling like
genter cream, prudes and bacon, they said, pull up your
pants unless you're ready to tussle or maybe take a
look at some American muscle. They pulled out of maybe
seven or eight, and I headed home, thinking, man, that
was great, a couple.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Of old dudes without any hair.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Let me work. Gone to fifty seven Chevy Bell.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Ahead, We're gonna shoot over to Jim. Jim's got a
twenty one Subaru Ascent. Jim, what's up today?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Well?

Speaker 7 (10:13):
I wanted to Uh, I need to change the battery,
and I have a battery chargers that has a point
three five amp maintain can I can I connect that
up to the terminals and and replace the might take

(10:36):
him off, have a hooked up and replace the battery
and maintain all of my stuff. Or should I just
take off the terminals, replace the battery and got it
what I need?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Well, yes, it can be done that way.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
However it never works.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, And here's the thing, here's the risk that's involved
in that. So you can do it that way. You
can start your car and disconnect your battery and do
it that way as well, but your positive side is
never going to be dead. So if in the midst

(11:21):
of you know, undoing your cable ends lifting your battery
out of there, let's say that that positively touches something
that's metal, what kind of issues are we going to have? Yeah,
we are going to run your positive side that is
live straight to ground and that can cause an incredible

(11:46):
amount of issues in a car. So there is some
risk involved in it. I mean, if you're confident in
doing it, and you know, maybe you have somebody there
to help you while you have your hands over these
connections and they can lift the back to reout and
put the new one in, and you can be really
careful not to do this. Yeah, it can be done

(12:06):
that way, and you know, maybe you won't lose any
memory at all in my experience. Yeah, I mean, we've
done it that way. We've done them running, we've done this,
we've done that, and we've seen what happens when it
goes bad anymore. I mean, like, if I'm changing the
battery on my own car, I just shut it off
and changed my battery started up. It's way easier to

(12:28):
reset radio stations than it is to replace PCMs BYD
control modules, fuse panels.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Typically, Yeah, typically you won't lose your radio stations on
most cars anymore. You'll lose your time and then you'll
you know, that's about it for the most part. But yeah,
I agree, you're redoing the radio stations plus redoing the
time is just a small.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Price to pay for what could happen?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
What could happen? Yes, absolutely, have we done them what
we call live you know, start the car, run and
pull the cables off and then have somebody change the
battery while you hold the cables. Yeah, we we have,
but not very often. That's just kind of a rare
case that we do because somebody doesn't have any codes, anything,
any anyway anywhere, and it's there. They've been told of

(13:23):
the risk before we do it.

Speaker 7 (13:24):
So yeah, okay, Well I thought, well, I was worried
more about whatever the car knows being driven all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, it's it'll being a Subaru. There is one thing
you'll have to do when you do this, and it's
very easy. So the throttle position will need to be
reinitialized whenever you disconnect a battery on any SuPAR U
and for you to do that when you get your
new battery in there, I take it this is probably

(14:00):
push buttons start. Yeah, okay, So what you're gonna do
is don't put your foot on the brake, push and
hold the button for ten seconds, and all your lights
are gonna come on your dash and that's key on
or what you know we know as key on, and
you wait for ten seconds and then you shut it off.

(14:21):
That's all you do, and then you'll start your car
and it'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
A lot of a lot of those things are already
pre programmed into the computer. So when it knows it's
lost power, because it knows they've already made up this
particular eventuality, and it relearns going on because they know
this is going to happen.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, I mean, the transmission is an adaptive drive deal,
but your pcum already knows. It's already adapted to that.
So you're not gonna like if you got in there
with a scan tool and cleared codes, Yeah, it would
reset the adaptive, but we aren't doing that.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Now. You're worrying about it too much. You're not going
to have a problem other than reset in the clock
and maybe some radio. That's about it.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
Oh okay, Well I was kind of aware of I
don't want I didn't want to make a bigger problem. Yeah,
by just say, trying to save a little time.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Absolutely, No, it's better to make a phone call and
find out what's going to happen. But I've never had
any major problems in the sub rout change in the battery.
It's a it's been very simple, straightforward. You're done, great,
appreciate your health. You bet appreciate the call, Jim. All right,
we're going to head back over to another gym with
the seventeen Silverado. Jim, what's up today?

Speaker 8 (15:35):
Hi, good morning, Thanks for taking my call I let
the program. So I've noticed in the last few days
my temperature gauge has been fluctuating a little bit, about
eight to seven degrees one way or another, around one
hundred and eighty degree mark. And I noticed my fluid
level was just a little bit low, no more than

(15:57):
a half a gallon of Anna freeze low. So I
added a little bit seem to help with the temperature
a little bit. But now I notice it again it's
kind of fluctuating some more. And I don't know if
this is just typical. I've never noticed the four in
this truck. I've had it since day one, So I'm
just wondering do something I should be looking for.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's kind of an odds thing for to move back
and forth like that. Right, if it's low on an freeze,
you've got a leak. It just depends on where. The
first thing that I would be looking at is either
a the water pump or the gaskets that built that
water pump to the block. That's probably that is the
most common on that car by far of anything that leaks.

(16:38):
And yeah, maybe some fittings and that's about it. It's
it's pretty solid as far as cool and leaks go
anywhere else, so that one is probably the major. And
you know, obviously the radiators is another one.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
But if it's low on an freeze, we got to
find a leak first.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yes, And if you find that the thermostat bowls to
the front of that water pump, always put a different,
new good thermostat in it at the same time. But
I think you're heading towards the water pump.

Speaker 8 (17:11):
Okay, okay, And yeah, I looked underneath the hood a
couple of times. Haven't seen any leagues, haven't smelled anything,
But that doesn't mean it's you know, that stuff evaporates,
I think pretty quick, so it can.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
And the fluctuation that you're getting back and forth is
see some air in the system from being low, and
when it goes past the sensor, it just it reads
proper with with fluid on it. When it has air
on it or a pocket or something like that, it'll
fluctuate back and forth. And that's that's why it fluctuates
a little bit. It could be a possibility you got
a sensor bad, but not very often. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Know, I've ever really put one in the no vy.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
The only time you put one in the Chevy is
when you're changing spark plugxiness snap it.

Speaker 8 (17:51):
Off, yeah right right, I mean the the air coming
out of is hot. I mean it's I have to
turn it down even it gets so hot in there.
So I'm not really losing any actual heat coming out
of the vent, right you know.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
So, but you're your sensors down in your sensor down
in the cylinder head so and the heater core is high.
So as long as you're getting some flow through there, yeah,
it one can affect the other. And yeah, it's just
I would I would look for some I would look
for some leaks to start with.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
Okay, all right, I'll do that.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
You bet sounds good. Appreciate the goal. Yeah, it's that's
and so, and you're going to find more leaks as
the temperature goes down. Same with the tires seal shrink seals. Yeah,
you know, if you started up and then you've got
a leak, expandsion and contraction happens every year, don't it. Yeah,
especially when you lose more air in the tires and

(18:49):
a little bit more inner freeze whenever it gets down
to sub zero all the time, and and then we're there.
We're there. We're there tonight. That's for sure. That is
for sure. Uh, we're gonna take Yeah, we're gonna take
quick break in the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven,
tens of numbers to get in. We've got a few

(19:10):
open lines for you and we'll be back in a minute.
I'm gonna head over to Kevin. Kevin's got a twenty
eleven HONDI Tucson. Kevin, what's going on today?

Speaker 8 (19:18):
How you doing great?

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Hey, I'm I'm putting a fuel pump in a in
that Tucson and when I pulled the fuel pump out,
there's a there's a hose on the underside of it.
I'm assuming it's like vacuum break or something like that.
Well that piece came out, is that mountain somewhere or

(19:40):
is that just float on the bottom of the tank.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Okay, So it's like kind of like a plastic corrugated
hose kind of thing. Yep, yep, Okay, So what that is?
So if you get underneath this car and look at
the gas tank itself, you've got a fuel pump in
one side. Well, your gas tank, there's a drive shaft there,
so your gas tank has this giant horseshoe cutting the
bottom of it, so you want to use all your gas.

(20:05):
So there's a siphon tube from one side of the
tank to the other. That's what that does. It doesn't
mount anywhere under there. It just kind of floats around
down there. And there's another sting in it on the
other side.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
That was my concern was does it mount on there
or what.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Nope, it just kind of floats in the bottom there.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Did it come all the way did it come all
the way out?

Speaker 9 (20:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Okay, so you'll have to pull the other side of
your cinder and hook it back up to that, otherwise
you'll run out of gas at half tank. So yeah,
I mean, just while you go very much.

Speaker 6 (20:43):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
It's it's it's an interesting design, but it's really the
only way that it works. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, it's the only way you can do it.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's the only way you can do it, and hopefully,
I mean, we've never really had any problems with that
particular one. But like vovos, you used to have to
feed that hose when you get a new fuel pump,
feed it over to the other side, which was a
large pain in the bleep, and uh, it was just horrible.
I hated them, just hated them.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Everybody does it, I mean, it's really the only way
you can do those.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, But the new style they seem like they've everybody
else has kind of figured that problem out where they
just snap in the bottom and stays there. It doesn't
come out, doesn't. It's not part of the main fuel pump.
It's part of the secondary sending unit, which you never
really moved that much. Yep. But that is the just
the culmination, like you said, of when you've got all

(21:37):
wheel drive and you have to make room for that
drive shaft running from the front to the back, and
it's got to have a runs right through the to
the gas tank, you know. And I am kind of
surprised they did make kind of a horseshoe on that,
you know, so it goes to one side. I'm surprised
they didn't try to run the drive chaft through the
gas tank.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, they run drive chefts through oil pants. Why not
the gas tangling.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
The exact reason I said that is because why not
we can't move to we can't move that. We've got
a one.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Bad you joined and you got gas everywhere.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
No risk, no, And sometimes you look under it. Sometimes
you look underneath the car and you go, well that
was that was pretty ingenious, that was pretty inventive. And
then you look underneath her and.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Go that was the opposite of what you just said.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
How many people were off that day when they designed
this and everybody but two were out of the office
and this is what they decide And how many committees
did that get through before? Yes, I tell you what.
Here's an interesting article the best selling car brands in

(22:47):
the world. This is just not United States, but it's
just in the world. And this is just the latest survey.
So in the world, four point seven million units is Toda,
followed by and this is kind of going down the
list here. Number two is three point two million is Volkswagen.

(23:09):
And you know they sell a lot of cars all
over all over the world.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh yeah, to sell more parts than they do cars.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah, you're right there. Hey, that was very well said.
Two point one for Ford and uh who's BYD BYD
is coming big in the electric car version. And this
is not so much here in the United States at all,
but they're they're two million just around the world. So

(23:40):
a lot of electric cars around the world, whether that's
sustainable or that's just it'd be interesting to see that
they're number four. Just how how far they go up
or how far they go down. I think they're going
to go down, I really do. Followed by Honda and
then Honda Suzuki. That was a surprise one. How did

(24:01):
that happen? Because they they're just all over the place
around the world. I just the United States market, they're
just not here.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
I can yeah, I can count on one hand the
amount of Suzukis I've worked on in the last decade.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Really and still have fingers left. We've got two that
come in regularly, and luckily so far all the parts
that we've needed for are been available. And you're right,
they just is I think they're just waiting for him
to die. Yeah. Number ten is Chevrolet at one point
five million, you know around the world, and on down

(24:37):
to the very bottom with seven hundred and eighty four
thousand is Audi. So out of the big three, you
got four to number three, Chevrolet at ten, and Chrysler
is not even on the page.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
So there you go, speaking of you know, cars around
the world. I was I believe it, or I was
on Center Street the other day and I was behind
a day Who really, I thought to myself, I need
to speak with this guy one because how is this
car still.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
On a road. Well, I'm guessing somebody bought that car
and has been in a garage, so it's been in
It was clean, It was exactly it was. It was
somebody that an older person bought and never drove that much.
Therefore it it stayed.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
And it's yeah, that's one case, but the other that
this car was not from this temperate zone was pristine.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Oh, also got brought up here from a Florida.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Something or wherever wherever they would be. Yeah. I was
going to talk to the guy, but he didn't want
to pull over. I'm a day WU master certified technician.
You're a what what did that take, Kyle? That a
one page test? No, it was actually eight different tests.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, and uh six six quest No, it was quite.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
It was thirty questions.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Test.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
It was over a week long process. Oh my gosh,
whole training scenario.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yes, and that lasted well.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
By the time my little patch came in the mail,
I was already laid off. Yeah, that's how that went down.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Brother.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, I wouldn't call it that. I met Bob the
week later.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, he finished training, Yeah, finished training in the car
was done. Yeah, Well you got some valuable information you're
never going to use.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah, and I got a cool patch if I could.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Ever find it. Oh yeah, absolutely. Here's a here's an
article that I ran across to for all you uh,
travel trailer enthusiasts, because I'm sure there's a lot of
people out there. They got a few. Yeah. The airstream
has got the cow Poke version of the stetson and
the four sixes package. So it's basically a airstream on

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the outside as we all know it. You know, big long,
big airstream. But it's all it's got three hundred watts
solar panels on top, lithium ion batteries. Let's see what
else it's. It's just all outfitted in all leather on
the inside. I mean it's it's a sharp looking unit

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inside and outside. If you can part yourself with one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars worth of.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm okay with that. But here's the thing. I'm gonna
buy this one hundred and seventy thousand dollars cow Pope
travel trailer. The salesman needs to be the guy from
Smokey and the Bandit that hired him, the little cowboy
guy at the truck rodeo. Oh yeah, yeah, I need
that guy as the salesman. Yeah, well all side whatever

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if that guy's there.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
With the big ol' hat. But yeah, anyway, those are
available limited edition, so if you think you need to
have one, I think you should go get one. I mean,
that's a house on wheels right there. I see no
reason not to have No, I don't. I just thought
it was interesting. All right, We're gonna head over to David.
David's got twenty eighteen four Escape David, what's going on today?

Speaker 9 (28:25):
Well, let's see, I was missfiring real bad. I'm an
uber driver. Of course, the miles are gonna hat up
after a while. I'm at about one hundred and sixty
two thousand miles now, and I was missfiring. I had
the plugs replaced. Help a little bit turned out. I
had one of the tests on there said cylinder three

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miss fire. I had the cylinder one cognition call replaced.
The missfiring was much better, but it's doing it again,
not as bad, so I'm thinking maybe I need to
replace another one. Could that be.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yes, No, yes, m You could have the same one
that's bad depending on depending on which bot, or you
could have a different one that's bad. Did you have
you hooked up this thing at all to see which
one is actually misfiring causing a problem.

Speaker 9 (29:17):
Yeah. At first it come up cylinder three, and that's
when I had the spark plugs all replaced. Sure, Then
I went to O'Reilly's. They hooked it up, said it
was cylinder three. I went to a shop they replaced.
They said cylinder one was miss firing. They replaced that
ignition coil. Hey. When I got it out on the road,

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it was much much better. But it's still missfiring a
little bit. So I'm wondering if the third cylinder just
didn't show up on their test and that one needed
to be replaced two or what very possible.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Ford? And I've said this a million times on this
show Ford for a for a Ford to set a code,
I mean it, it's a pretty extreme scenario.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's got to really misfire, it's got to really have
a problem to the extent.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Like I've had a fuel injectors unplugged and driven these
cars more than two miles and it never set a light.
So what I would do generally with Fords if I
have something I'm not sure about, Like, if you're sitting
here running this car just at idle, does it run bad.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
There's been a few times where I first started it
seems to run bad, but it goes away after about
three seconds.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Okay, Well that opens up a whole nother window of
what's wrong with my car, Kyle, Cause this particular Ford
had huge issues with cylinder heads, huge issues to the
point where they redesigned the engine block.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
So that being said, if you're if you leave a
car sit and you started up and it runs bad
for three seconds, the first thing I'm doing is block
testing this car, knowing the history of you've had random
misfire issues.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Your misfires coming from your misfires potentially coming from the
fact that the anner freeze is leaked into one of
the cylinders and when you fire it up, it.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
That tree about three seconds to burn it off.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Burn it off, and then it's running fine afterwards.

Speaker 9 (31:25):
So I've heard they've had coolest problems with this engine,
something called intrusion or something like that. Yep, I did
have that warning come up on my deal, okay. And
I did notice that one of the shops I went
to after I had the plugs replaced, that's where I

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got that that message. And when I checked the coolant reservoir,
when I started to unscrew it carefully, all of a sudden,
it started boiling up and almost build up the whole tank.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
So you got pressure.

Speaker 9 (32:04):
Yeah, I'm thinking they overfilled it or something. I don't
know what what happened.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Now you're creating, you're creating bubbles.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
If you're if you have this particular cylinder head engine
block issue, so your engine is essentially an air pump.
If that gas gets bad and you're still pumping air
with your cylinders, your error is going to go out
the tailpipe, but it's also going to enter the cooling
system and then you get that kind of soda can

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effect when you open your radiator cap.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
So you're you're creating the cars, creating bubbles, creating bubbles
in the cooling system.

Speaker 9 (32:44):
So not good.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Not good.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
So I would you know, talk to your shop that
you've been working with and tell them you want this
engine block tested. It's a pretty simple test. Any shop
can do it and get a good block test on
this car. I'm guessing it's going to fail.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yep. We'll see.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
You've got to do it cold and you got to
do it hot.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yep. Let's see where it goes from there, and that
makes your decisions of what you've got to do a
head gas coot or if you're moving to get a
different car. So all right, sounds good. We've got David's
squared away what he needs to do. We're going to
take a quick break and be right back on the
Mister Mechanic Show. Last call before the last call of
the day. Darlene twelve hundred, what's up today?

Speaker 9 (33:26):
Yeah, okay, so this is the deal.

Speaker 8 (33:30):
We've got a couple of issues.

Speaker 9 (33:33):
I got the tire indicator.

Speaker 7 (33:34):
Like on, it's on now.

Speaker 8 (33:38):
I took it in and they did the sensor check
and they said it's not the sensors. We've checked, the tires,
checked the air. No, it doesn't seem to be a problem.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
Well, so I leave the shop and.

Speaker 8 (33:55):
The tire and eventually it comes back on. So get
home to turn up and then a drugs the next
day and it comes that on.

Speaker 9 (34:07):
Okay on right now?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, So are are they airing up the tires to
what it says in the door, or are they airing
it up above what it says in the door? Do
you know?

Speaker 6 (34:19):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (34:19):
I'm not sure?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, So, for example, most of these systems are fairly easy.
If it says thirty two on the door, for example,
when it gets this cold, you're gonna want to put
it up to thirty four or thirty six if you
put it. If you if it says thirty two and
you put it at thirty two, the next morning, the
light's going to come on because it's going to drop
below thirty two. It's just, it's just it knows. So

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if it's thirty two in this kind of temperature outside
and it's supposed to be at thirty two, put it
at thirty six. Get yourself a four pound window of
air shrinkage so the light don't come back on. That'd
be the first thing that I would do. And then
the second thing I do is have all the tires
tested and see, excuse me, a sensor's tested to make

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sure they're all working. Now on a tout, sometimes you've
got to go through a elite relearn procedure. There may
be a button on the dash. There may be a
button underneath the dash.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Be sure they're checking the spare tire too.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Spare tire too exactly. And I don't know on a
tunder there's a sensor, but there could be. TOUTE is
very good at putting full sized spares in with a
sensor on it. No matter, no matter what you do
with all the tires on the ground, you haven't done
anything with the spare tire and that could be your
exact problem. Okay, so check all four and maybe even

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check all five. Make sure they're all up to it.
Let's like I say, four pounds above what it says
in the door. That's your first test.