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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 ille pressure just
(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 engin lights done, stand
a chance. This is the Mister Mechanics Show on eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanics show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. This is the interactive call in show. You
have the questions, we'll give you the answers and get
you back to fixing that car. As he mentioned, we
are bea can in service centers at eightieth and Dodge,
fiftieth in Dodge and Guaranteed Breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge.
(01:06):
Well we do breaks right the first time. Stop in
see us get some gas, some pop, candy bar, get
your car fixed. Good, good morning, Kyle. How are you well?
Hot and cold? Hot and cold? It's kind of that way.
Yesterday was nice in the afternoon. Oh, it was a
great day. Now it's nice and I fixed a couple outside. Yeah,
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is it nice to get outside? Yeah? You're all bundled
up and you're hot, and it's like, I gotta get
out of here. What can I fix outside? Yeah? And
I'm sure there's plenty of shops like fix outside. But
what are you talking about? Fix outside?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
See, that's the thing like that, I mean every shop needs.
I mean in summertime, we got the doors open. There's
things moving on. You know, there's things to look at here,
there and everywhere else. You shut the doors of the shop.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's quiet. Yeah, it's almost puts you asleep. Yeah, a
little bit waiting on parts. Wow, Yeah, there's yeah, there's
there's waiting on parts. But there's always something to do,
there's not there's never a lack of Let's just see
what's on the internet. Now, they got something to do,
got places to go, things that do. Reading on the internet.
(02:16):
Here's some interesting stuff we all kind of heard in
the news, but I thought it kind of announced it.
For those that don't watch the news too much like me,
President Trump is going to roll back this significantly. The
few economy standards. We probably all heard that. What we
probably didn't know or you didn't know. And I kind
of knew this, but I didn't know the exact numbers
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was what that number was. Now I noticed most cars, I.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Know what's on the weaker side.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well it so what the last administration set it into
was fifty zero point four miles per gallon as a threshold.
Set nothing getting fifty miles account I just don't. There's beer,
golf cart, your golf cart, and that's about it. There
is even the gas electrics are not. I mean I
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have noticed over the years, driving various amounts of cars
and seeing what people get when they leave it on
the dash because I don't look for it, but when
they leave it on the dash, people check their mileage.
And I don't ever see too many and we've talked
about this before that get right about the thirty two.
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The highest I see is about thirty four to thirty eight. Sure,
it's about it is that in the hybrids. In the
hybrids too, I don't care gasoline, you know, all that
kind of stuff. I mean, I used to have a
car that I worked on many years ago in California
that was a Honda. Used to get forty two miles
a gallon. You beat back in the eighties, the seventies
when we had the oil crunch in the eighties and
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a little bit into the nineties, we got better mileage
on stuff, oh yeah, than we did with fuel injection,
and nobody wanted it. And nobody wanted it truly. I
don't want the carburetors back either, because they're just a
pain in.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
The I forget the guy's name, but he developed that
carburetor and had it on a V eight Dodge and
drove it to the MotorCity Trade Show or whatever to
demonstrate he got fifty miles to the gallon on a
V eight carbureted card and sold that patent standard and
get somebody lost it. Yeah, we can't find it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We were gonna do it, but yeah, yeah, do you
have a copy, because they have a copy.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We could use the car.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And the guy that runs the car off of water
and all of a sudden he disappeared.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, who, I haven't heard from that guy in a while.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Since today he said something about it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I'm right alongside him. We should go back to Steve.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah. So anyway, we're dropping back to thirty four point
five miles per gallon, which loosens up a lot of
regulations for the automakers, which is ultimately going to be
a cheaper car. Is really what it's going to boil
down to. I think they should move it down to
like ten. Well, we're already ten for a lot of things. Yeah,
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but I mean we've come a long way.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Performance are it's gonna come out of there?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, we got to maybe get ten. Yeah,
let's shoot for five.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, I mean we're shooting for fifty to fifty point four.
And that's why the cars cost so much, and that's
why we're into electrics, and that's why where everything else
is because it's it's unattainable and the technology has to go,
and the technology that we have hasn't even close to
caught up to get fifty point four. I mean, you're
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you're shooting for the moon. So anyway, I just thought
that was well, I guess we'll wait and see and
just what happens over a period of time. We'll just
see how out how much cars come down because of that,
and they do.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
A couple more performance models coming out, maybe h V
eight here and there.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's amazing how we go a whole hog into one
thing and then reverse about face and start going right
back to what we already knew.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Maybe make a new Dodge Viper, make with V sixteen
this time?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
God, I'm full of great ideas you are.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I know that for a fact. We're gonna head over
to Mike. Mike's got a twenty four to Ford Escape. Mike,
what's going on today?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I got it. We're looking to buy a twenty twenty
Forard Escape all wild drive and it's got that Eco
boost engine. Is that a no no? Or is that
a goal?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, I'll let Kyle answer this, Vinaria.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's got forty four thousand on it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Okay, so it's probably been a good car up until now.
But one thing I will tell you about this Ford engine,
this one point five one point six Leader Eco boost engine.
They have a lot of issues as far as PCV issues.
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PCV issues lead to turbocharger issues. They've also got a
lot of cooling some issues, be it resolved or unresolved,
somewhere in here there was an engine block redesign. They
redesigned their engine block because the first run failed at
about fifteen to twenty thousand miles on average. Right, So,
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I mean it's far like it's a great car for me.
I mean, we get to work on them, We got
to do all kinds of stuff. I mean, it's not
the funnest engine on the face of this earth to
work on. But at the end of the day, I
guess I don't really get to pick that.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But the short answers, no, Yeah, it's not what else
you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's what I would consider. I mean, we in the
industry have what we call throwaway cars. Yeah, and these
were not. These are cars that I don't believe were
ever engineered to see two hundred thousand miles or even
get close. And by the time that you're putting PCV valves, turbos,
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fixing coolant leaks, et cetera, so on and so forth,
they have two electric coolant pumps that like to go bad.
You know, on average transmissions the transmission is no good.
I mean the bad far out weighs the good. I mean,
as much as I want to be a Ford guy,
and say, hey, they roll out a great product. This
is not that product.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
What else you're looking at? And what what draws you
to this? The size and the price? Yeah, what what
else have you thought about?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I always thought about anything. This just come up and
is a good deal. When I started reading about it,
and I was very hesitant, and I just thought, I
want some expert advice, and I went to you.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Guys, you got it. Yeah, not a lot of good
to talk about in that particular Ford Escape, the Ford Escape,
I mean, I don't know what they've ever had good
luck with that platform. I mean their first attempt at it,
I mean they were blowing up intakes and catalytic verters
were plugging left and right the second that engine thought
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about misfiring, and it just hasn't gotten any better from there.
I mean, as far as mid size SUVs go, you
know the Escape, I would put you know that, the Equinox,
you know a couple others, you know, the Jeep Renegades.
I mean they're all kind of in that same category.
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I mean, if you go like check out, like Honda, Crv's,
Toyota rav Fs, other mid size SUVs, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you want something in that era, or that size.
I would probably shoot you towards an HRV on Honda HRV,
that's probably what I would shoot you toward.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Okay, what about the pcvs else? Do they have the
kind like the old cars you just bush in.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Nope, it's a metered orphice league. Yeah, it's a metered
orfice hose.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And in that particular FOURD escape. There's there's a lot
to this PCV system. I mean, the valve cover, there's
a breather box on the side of the engine, the
oil separator. Oh, probably somewhere between ten and thirteen miles
of plastic tube.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, you know, Honda runs just a hose and a
piec of V valve. Because we just did one the
other day on one and this one looks like a
bull of spaghetti. Yeah, there's it was way over engineered
and it was unnecessary, but a lot of that had
to add. Would you throw the turbo to it too? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And I mean they're they're there's they're a problem car.
I've seen a lot of things go wrong and not
a lot go right with them.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What I would what I would suggest is go out
and find two or three cars you're interested in that's
going to fit your bill and you know size and
you're whoever's driving it doesn't have the blind spots and
everything else. Give us a call back and I'll and
i'll we'll help you some more.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Get you well, you help me part of it. I
can't thank you, know you bet appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
All right, we're gonna take quick break on the Mister
Mechanics show five five, eight to eleven tens and numbers
to get in me back in a minute.
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Speaker 1 (13:03):
All Right, we're going to call it. Talk to Scott.
Scott's got to use pickup Scott. What's going on today?
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Well, I not too long ago. I got rid of
my four two fifty super duty crew cab. I've got
to drive it quite a ways for my daily driver.
So I got another used vehicle, but I need a
pickup for I do some handyman work on the side,
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and we're going to start another small business that needs,
you know, a pickup bed. So I'm wondering, what is
the best used pickup out there that I can get
for under ten thousand dollars that's going to last me
one hundred and fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Hmmm, Well, well, do you need a big truck? You
need a small truck?
Speaker 9 (14:00):
I think I could. I could probably manage with like
the Toyota Tacoma size bed.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So we're talking half ton truck, yeah, halftn or maybe
a little smaller.
Speaker 9 (14:13):
Sure, you know, the first half ton is good enough.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The first ones that come to mind is a toyleta Tacoma.
The second one that would come to mind, as bad
as we beat up four just a minute to go
on the escape, I would probably say a Ranger. We've
got a Ranger that we specifically bought for the truck
for the shop, for a run around vehicle, because it
it's just was an indestructible truck.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It just keeps what years?
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Oh you should I be looking at? What mileage? Should I?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Four?
Speaker 9 (14:44):
On up?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'd say, yeah, I mean we got we got an
O four, but I think that goes back as old
as O two, and a lot of them will rust
so around this part of the country. So under ten
grand you have to kind of pick and choose what
you get. But there's some, yeah, if you look at
some I mean I just checked out an oh six
Ford Ranger that I think come out of some grandpa's
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garage because this thing was amazing looking and it's just
a matter of looking around to see what you can find.
But we bought it with a four cylinder, which has
been just I haven't done anything to that car, and
put a set of spark plug wires on it and
a battery in it, and just that's a body it.
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The Tacoma is a great solid truck. Those would probably
be the two smaller trucks.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
You've got, and then a larger truck. I mean, I'd
love to be able to fit four people in it.
I mean, your Coma has that capability. But Thunder would
be great because it's big. But they're they're high price.
Right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That you get what you pay for.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Silverado. I mean you're gonna have to go back quite
a ways. I mean early two thousand Silverados. You can
get a four door half time on truck, but I
mean condition around here is going to be tough to find.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, and you want and if you go back into
a ford, like let's say F one fifty and you
get a four door where you can haul some people
in it, I would get something. Yeah, and it's gonna
the price is the price is a tough part. You
almost got to go from where it started into what
you're the Coyote motors start. Yeah, you're probably starting there. Yeah,
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summer in twenty ten, twenty eleven. That V eight motor
has been a good engine all the way around, and
they don't really have much problems with some water pumps,
some hoses, maybe spark plugs every fifty, but that's been
a great motor. The V six is not terrible except
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for your just you got twin turbos to it, so
you want that. Yeah. As far as it's got great horsepower,
but as far as the money that you're going to
spend to fix it, it's just going to.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Be a lot, gotcha. Yeah, I mean I can do
minor repairs like the ones you mentioned. I've placed feel
pumps and hubs and all that stuff. Sure, but I
don't want to get into an engine at all.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's not something I agreed the time, agreed now that
that V eight Foard from twenty ten or eleven, I
think on up that they called the Coyote engine. That's
that's a that's a good, solid, great engine. Doesn't really
have much problems beyond that. The Chevrolets, you know, obviously
have their lifter problems and just have to be do
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your due diligence, due diligence and check it out and
see what they've had done. If they've already been you know,
maybe somebody's already gone through and done all the lifters,
then it's probably a good car for you. But it's
your it's your price that really narrows that field down
a lot.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
I know, I know. I just don't have the fun.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, yeah, no, I get it. I get it. Then
just be choosy and selective is to as to what
it was that But if you have, i'd i'd maybe
go down in vehicle a little bit, get a smaller
Ranger or something along that line or Tacoma that you
can get under ten thousand until you can build it
up the business up enough to get a bigger truck.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Right, all right, thanks guys, I don't want to take
up more of that time.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I appreciate it, appreciate it the call. All right, we're
gonna head over to Dan. Dan's got a two thousand
and one fifty. Dan, what's up today?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Yes, my Ford f point fifty's got a manual transmission
in it. And what bothers me is the RPMs fluctuate
so much. And I checked around for a vacuum leak.
That doesn't seem to be the problem.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Describe RPM's fluctuating like you're sitting here at idle and
your tachometers going all over the place.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Yes, the engine r and it goes up to like
twenty seven hundred rpm when I started up in the morning,
and and it just doesn't have a steady harpm because
it's a manual transition. I d through the parking lot
and you know, hjes racing the first gear and I'm,
you know, doing thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, it's probably gotta It's either got a vacuum leak
that's doing that, or you got an idle speed control
motor that's causing the problem.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, that's going to be part of your throttle body.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, but idle air control and they were very common
to go bad.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Oh they go bad?
Speaker 11 (19:33):
Or does it just being cleaning with a cleaner.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, the first thing you can do is clean that
throttle body. That's easy. You can do it yourself. It
doesn't cost a lot of money just to shop rag
and just kind of get in there and clean any
of the soit out of there.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The way you're going to want to do that is
to turn the key on, have somebody to put their
foot on the accelerate with the car off, put your
foot all the way to the accelerator. And then while
you're getting in there and cleaning it, don't don't force
it open. Don't take your finger and force open the
throttle body and do it that way. You'll ruin the
throttle body and stuff like that. Let's just drive by wire. Yeah.
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Two thousand, yeah, two thousand yeah. So yeah, you wanna
you have the have the throttle body open itself when
you clean it. Don't force it open.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Those were good for a couple different things as far
as vacuum leaks. Intake gaskets were one of them. So
does it get better as it warms up?
Speaker 11 (20:34):
It's constant cold or hot or anything.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Okay, and again with the PCV valve on this truck.
So this one goes in a rag. It goes from
the passengers side valve cover wraps around the back of
the intake to right below where that throttle body is.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Up by the firewall. Yep, way back there.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
What you want to do is get underneath there, and
you're gotta get your hands on this PCV. These PCV tubes,
there's a couple right angles on there, and at the
back there's a big gromet and those like to fall
apart because naturally PCV removes oil vapor from the crank case.
Rubber rubber oil weak point don't mix. So get your
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hands back there. If it's soft in any kind of way,
it's getting a new one.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
A lot of times you're right, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
Well, I use the parts cleaner kind of spray it around.
See if I get any difference in the RPMs. And
I didn't notice a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, a lot of times. If you if you follow
that hose up back in the back side of there,
you'll just run your hand across it. Next thing you know,
you'll hit it with your hand and all of a sudden,
the RPM will will drop down and it'll change and Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Sometimes you have to spray a ton of flammable stuff
underneath her to get anything to pick up, and either
you get a fire or you find your problem. I
don't like to really get too crazy with those anymore.
I like to use a smoke machine to find vacuum leaks.
But once while I'll live on the wild side.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
So it's usually just a flash, flash fire.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Kyle, Well, when you got enough of a down there,
it's a flash and a bonfire.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
But look at that.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
PCV tube really quick, or really because I mean sometimes
they'll suck flat and I'll cause an issue. Sometimes I'll
just break off entirely and then they'll have an issue
like what you're describing. But get a good look at
that to start with. So here's the rule of thumb.
The more vacuum leak you got, the higher the idol's
going to go. The less of a vacuum leak you got,
or a plugged throttle body or something like that, the
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lower the idol's going to go. You've got a vacuum
leak somewhere or a throttle by that's hanging open something
like that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Dan, we got to run. I'm up against a hard break.
So five, five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers
to get in. Will be back in a minute. Janis
has been patiently waiting. Thank you, Janie. She's got a
two thousand and two keya sportage. Janni's what's up today?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
I'll live in line Kin and my question is going
to be about the passenger side back window. I went
out last week to start the car to warm it up,
and I noticed that that window on the passenger side
was down about two inches and I thought about pulling
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it up, and then I thought, well, no, what if
it drops down even more? And the mystery about this
is when I purchased a car about two and a
half three years ago, that window never ever worked, and
so it was no big deal to me. I had
three other windows. Well, when I went out and found
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that it was two inches open, I don't know what
to think about that. I plugged it up, you know,
and put a big old garbage shack over the hole
the opening. I just don't know what to think about that,
and I know I'm going to have to try to
get it fixed or remedied. What do you think about
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a window that never opened and all of a sudden it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Is, Well, it's maybe it's a little possessed.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I don't know, things are broken even further.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, well I do know. I do know that these
cars have a tremendous problem with a master window switch.
And I'm going to guess that the master window switch
was probably bad. That's why it was up, and then
maybe you hit it at one point when you were
rolling the windows up and didn't notice it, and then
all of a sudden it just rolled down a little bit.
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That'd be my first guess. A lot of times those
switches or the rocker switches become just looser than normal,
and it's kind of a key up hondap kind of problem.
The other thing that I would come up with is
that the window regulator the cables in there are broke
and it just came down just a little bit. You
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haven't tried to put it up.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
No, I'm afraid it's gonna go down even further.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, well that's what we call diagnostic. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh, you have no idea how many things I've taken
far into left field before I was like, okay, here
we are.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
The first thing is to try it and try both.
I would if it was my car, I probably would
try it from the master switch, and if it went up, great,
then I just leave it alone and know that that's
probably the reason. Or I would go over. If that
didn't work, I would go over to the door switch,
the actual door switch, and try it from there. And
since you and if it goes up those two inches,
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I'd leave it alone. Don't you know you don't care
about it, so you know, and just kind of monitor it.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
If neither of those do anything, then I'm putting my
hands on the glass. I'm gonna try to lift it up. Yes,
if it moves freely, I know it's a regulator issue.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Right open the door. Put your hands on both sides
and so you got a firm grip on both sides
of it, and just kind of push it up or
push it down. And if it moves freely, then Kyle's correct.
It's it's got a bad regulator and the wires are broken.
And then you can push it up so it doesn't
snow in, and then you can tape it up. Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
When you talk about a master windows switch, is that
drivers each window.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Driver's door, driver's door. It's that switch that has four
buttons on it. It just controls all four.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Windows, right, okay, but each one has its own master.
No little switch is a master.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Noe, Nope, No, Just the driver's door is the only
one that has four They call it the master window switch.
Is just the only one that controls all four windows.
Every other door has just each individual one.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Right right, Okay, Well, all right, I'll try those things
and cross my fing.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well, then you know everything you need to know. If
it moves up and down, you got a broken regulator.
And then when you walk in to get it fixed,
you say I need a rear window regulator, and he's
gonna say, wow, do you know that? Say why? I
just know?
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Okay, I just thought it was kind of a wu
wu situation.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Now now it may have just came down on its
own because a cable broke. It hasn't completely broke yet.
That's why it's not all the way on the door.
That's a possibility.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Okay, Well, thank you for your suggestion.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You bet try those two and call us back next
week if you need to, or if you're quick, you
can go out, run out and do it now and
we'll be here for a couple more minutes. Ye, all right,
thank you, you bet, I appreciate it the call. All right,
we're gonna head over to Scott. Scott's got a two
thousand and four Dodge, Ram Scott. What's going on today?
Speaker 12 (27:52):
Oh, I've got the instrument cluster the led digit's down
bottom that they've been intermittent for several years. And I
even had it out once thinking I might be.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Able to repair it.
Speaker 12 (28:06):
Then I realized that wasn't a good idea, so I
put it back. And do you repair those or do
you know somebody that repairs the instrument clusters?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
We changed them. We don't. You don't really go inside there.
That is just a thing that is beyond just the
regular installer. So so how that is repaired is you
you take it to your garager, You take it out
and uh, you take it to the You get numbers
off the back of it, because there's going to be
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numbers off the back of the the cluster. You call
the dealership and you've got an exchange program. They'll they
want to know that.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Making them.
Speaker 12 (28:49):
They quit making them, okay, quit making them.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Like three years ago, there's a couple of places that
do repairs on instrument clusters, there used to be a
couple here in town, but they don't do it anymore
because it's not something I mean, this is something that
we don't see as much of as.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We use now. It's not sustainable as a as a
business thing that you.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Know, most of them that we find are. I mean,
the dealerships will either offer them or there's some places
on eBay that will offer an exchange program.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I forget.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
There was like flash Masters, there was Cluster nine. There
used to be a guy in Lincoln, but I don't
know if he's still doing it or not. They're the
closest one to us I know is in Loveland, Colorado.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah. They just that's all they do all day. Yeah,
they're set up to do it, just kind of like
a TV repair man or what they used to be.
So they have all the equipment to do that. You
bring it in, they have another one already rebuilt and
just shoots back out to you and they fix that
for the next customer. That's just how that whole industry
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kind of thing win too. So and then okay, and
then and they want they want the number off the back,
they want the miles so that they could they can
put it in there specifically so that you're not buying
a cluster and saying, okay, now it's got thirty thousand
miles left. There might be some they want you know,
your name and nothing that they want to do it correctly,
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and so does everybody else. But that's that. There may
be some things that you got to fill out in
order to make sure it's all up and up. But
that's what we'll that's what we would do.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
All right, Well, thank you, you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Bet appreciate the call. Scott. All right, we're going to
take quick break. All right, quick break back in a minute.
Paul's got a battery question. Paul, what's what's your question today?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
A few weeks ago you mentioned how the newer batteries
will fail suddenly.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
And my question is is there any test that can
be done to tell you where you are? Or do
you just buy a new one every five years and
be done with it.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Well, if you're getting five years out of them, you're
doing better than most people.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yes, I would say four years. I would say yes
and yes. Then I would say yes and yes. So, yes,
there is a test you can do. It'll give you
a percentage. What the tester that we use will tell you, you know,
recharge and recharge a battery and retest and it'll tell
you like twenty ninety eight percent. It gives you kind
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of a percentage there. Yes, that that most certainly can
be done.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Almost any any mechanic would have that.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, correct. But the other question you answered or
asked was you know you're just change it every four years.
So once you get to four years, it's not an
if it's a win, it's a win. It's going to
go bad, and we know it's going to go bad.
It's just a matter of where it is. So a
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lot of times the first hint and we're all guilty
of this because we put a new battery in and uh,
the first thing that we when we have a customer
come in that says I just put a battery in,
I say, well, let's go take a look. And uh
it's always always twice as long as what they think.
And anytime it's getting to be four, four and a
(32:18):
half or five years, just do it because you're it's
going to go bad. It's and it always goes bad
at the most inconvenient time.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
Is that what you do? Just replace it every four years?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yep? Yeah, what usually if I get a hint of
all of the crank and slow it just I put
a different one in, just because I know I don't
want to be stranded somewhere. Sure, it's it's just it's
just a great rule with them.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Okay, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You bet, I appreciate the call. All right, got Jared's
got an oh eight Dodge Durango. Jared, what's going on today?
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Yeah, hello, good morning, good morning. Got a two thousand
and eight Durango that was idling just fine, and went
inside and came back out and it had shut off.
I'm when to put on the consumer.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Code reader.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
It said a cylinder one missfire? Is did that just
possibly be some electronic issue?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Or well it just shut off? So the car died.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Yeah, it just died when I try to turn it
over now to just sit there and continually crank.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Okay, So cylinder one missfire is the first thing it
picked up. So the car is a crank no start now.
So the fact that it did missfire before it died,
I think the first place I'm going to go is
I'm going to check fuel pressure. I want to know
if it is this fuel pump working, because when they
start to run lean where your fuel line goes in
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on that truck is actually on bank two. So by
the time it starts going lean bank one starving for fuel,
so we can start misfiring there and then you just
collapse and die. So we need to figure out why
it won't run. And I mean a cylinder one missfire.
I'm not going to worry about that until I got
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a running engine.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Right V eight or six, that's the eight. We've had
a lot of problems with camshaft position, sensors over on
the right hand side head too. Yeah, where you're either
not you're not getting fuel, you're not getting sparks. We
go back to the basics that we've talked about for years.
Air fuel, spark, injector pulse. We got seven of them,
but uh, air fuel and spark is where you need
(34:43):
to start for sure, and then that shoots off into
air fuel spark, what timing, injector pulse, impression, compression, exhaust, all.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
That kind of stuff. Crankshaft broke.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, the first three is what you're We know we
got air, so you're interested in the first four or
air fuel, spark and timy.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Because I mean, it was running just fine and then
it was all just all of a sudden, it was
just done.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I agree with Kyle. It's either going to be a
fuel problem or you're gonna have a You're not getting
spark to fire and off at spark plugs.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So with your little code reader guy, does it give
you like an engine speed pit or does it just
tell you codes?
Speaker 7 (35:26):
It's just pretty basic, okay,
Meet Bob.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanics show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. This is the interactive call in show. You
have the questions, we'll give you the answers and get
you back to fixing that car. As he mentioned, we
are bea can in service centers at eightieth and Dodge,
fiftieth in Dodge and Guaranteed Breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge.
(01:06):
Well we do breaks right the first time. Stop in
see us get some gas, some pop, candy bar, get
your car fixed. Good, good morning, Kyle. How are you well?
Hot and cold? Hot and cold? It's kind of that way.
Yesterday was nice in the afternoon. Oh, it was a
great day. Now it's nice and I fixed a couple outside. Yeah,
(01:28):
is it nice to get outside? Yeah? You're all bundled
up and you're hot, and it's like, I gotta get
out of here. What can I fix outside? Yeah? And
I'm sure there's plenty of shops like fix outside. But
what are you talking about? Fix outside?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
See, that's the thing like that, I mean every shop needs.
I mean in summertime, we got the doors open. There's
things moving on. You know, there's things to look at here,
there and everywhere else. You shut the doors of the shop.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's quiet. Yeah, it's almost puts you asleep. Yeah, a
little bit waiting on parts. Wow, Yeah, there's yeah, there's
there's waiting on parts. But there's always something to do,
there's not there's never a lack of Let's just see
what's on the internet. Now, they got something to do,
got places to go, things that do. Reading on the internet.
(02:16):
Here's some interesting stuff we all kind of heard in
the news, but I thought it kind of announced it.
For those that don't watch the news too much like me,
President Trump is going to roll back this significantly. The
few economy standards. We probably all heard that. What we
probably didn't know or you didn't know. And I kind
of knew this, but I didn't know the exact numbers
(02:39):
was what that number was. Now I noticed most cars, I.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Know what's on the weaker side.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well it so what the last administration set it into
was fifty zero point four miles per gallon as a threshold.
Set nothing getting fifty miles account I just don't. There's beer,
golf cart, your golf cart, and that's about it. There
is even the gas electrics are not. I mean I
(03:07):
have noticed over the years, driving various amounts of cars
and seeing what people get when they leave it on
the dash because I don't look for it, but when
they leave it on the dash, people check their mileage.
And I don't ever see too many and we've talked
about this before that get right about the thirty two.
(03:29):
The highest I see is about thirty four to thirty eight. Sure,
it's about it is that in the hybrids. In the
hybrids too, I don't care gasoline, you know, all that
kind of stuff. I mean, I used to have a
car that I worked on many years ago in California
that was a Honda. Used to get forty two miles
a gallon. You beat back in the eighties, the seventies
when we had the oil crunch in the eighties and
(03:51):
a little bit into the nineties, we got better mileage
on stuff, oh yeah, than we did with fuel injection,
and nobody wanted it. And nobody wanted it truly. I
don't want the carburetors back either, because they're just a
pain in.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
The I forget the guy's name, but he developed that
carburetor and had it on a V eight Dodge and
drove it to the MotorCity Trade Show or whatever to
demonstrate he got fifty miles to the gallon on a
V eight carbureted card and sold that patent standard and
get somebody lost it. Yeah, we can't find it.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We were gonna do it, but yeah, yeah, do you
have a copy, because they have a copy.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
We could use the car.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And the guy that runs the car off of water
and all of a sudden he disappeared.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, who, I haven't heard from that guy in a while.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Since today he said something about it.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I'm right alongside him. We should go back to Steve.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah. So anyway, we're dropping back to thirty four point
five miles per gallon, which loosens up a lot of
regulations for the automakers, which is ultimately going to be
a cheaper car. Is really what it's going to boil
down to. I think they should move it down to
like ten. Well, we're already ten for a lot of things. Yeah,
(05:01):
but I mean we've come a long way.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Performance are it's gonna come out of there?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, we got to maybe get ten. Yeah,
let's shoot for five.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, I mean we're shooting for fifty to fifty point four.
And that's why the cars cost so much, and that's
why we're into electrics, and that's why where everything else
is because it's it's unattainable and the technology has to go,
and the technology that we have hasn't even close to
caught up to get fifty point four. I mean, you're
(05:31):
you're shooting for the moon. So anyway, I just thought
that was well, I guess we'll wait and see and
just what happens over a period of time. We'll just
see how out how much cars come down because of that,
and they do.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
A couple more performance models coming out, maybe h V
eight here and there.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's amazing how we go a whole hog into one
thing and then reverse about face and start going right
back to what we already knew.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Maybe make a new Dodge Viper, make with V sixteen
this time?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
God, I'm full of great ideas you are.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I know that for a fact. We're gonna head over
to Mike. Mike's got a twenty four to Ford Escape. Mike,
what's going on today?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I got it. We're looking to buy a twenty twenty
Forard Escape all wild drive and it's got that Eco
boost engine. Is that a no no? Or is that
a goal?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, I'll let Kyle answer this, Vinaria.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's got forty four thousand on it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Okay, so it's probably been a good car up until now.
But one thing I will tell you about this Ford engine,
this one point five one point six Leader Eco boost engine.
They have a lot of issues as far as PCV issues.
(06:53):
PCV issues lead to turbocharger issues. They've also got a
lot of cooling some issues, be it resolved or unresolved,
somewhere in here there was an engine block redesign. They
redesigned their engine block because the first run failed at
about fifteen to twenty thousand miles on average. Right, So,
(07:17):
I mean it's far like it's a great car for me.
I mean, we get to work on them, We got
to do all kinds of stuff. I mean, it's not
the funnest engine on the face of this earth to
work on. But at the end of the day, I
guess I don't really get to pick that.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
But the short answers, no, Yeah, it's not what else
you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
It's what I would consider. I mean, we in the
industry have what we call throwaway cars. Yeah, and these
were not. These are cars that I don't believe were
ever engineered to see two hundred thousand miles or even
get close. And by the time that you're putting PCV valves, turbos,
(07:57):
fixing coolant leaks, et cetera, so on and so forth,
they have two electric coolant pumps that like to go bad.
You know, on average transmissions the transmission is no good.
I mean the bad far out weighs the good. I mean,
as much as I want to be a Ford guy,
and say, hey, they roll out a great product. This
is not that product.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
What else you're looking at? And what what draws you
to this? The size and the price? Yeah, what what
else have you thought about?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I always thought about anything. This just come up and
is a good deal. When I started reading about it,
and I was very hesitant, and I just thought, I
want some expert advice, and I went to you.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Guys, you got it. Yeah, not a lot of good
to talk about in that particular Ford Escape, the Ford Escape,
I mean, I don't know what they've ever had good
luck with that platform. I mean their first attempt at it,
I mean they were blowing up intakes and catalytic verters
were plugging left and right the second that engine thought
(09:03):
about misfiring, and it just hasn't gotten any better from there.
I mean, as far as mid size SUVs go, you
know the Escape, I would put you know that, the Equinox,
you know a couple others, you know, the Jeep Renegades.
I mean they're all kind of in that same category.
(09:25):
I mean, if you go like check out, like Honda, Crv's,
Toyota rav Fs, other mid size SUVs, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
If you want something in that era, or that size.
I would probably shoot you towards an HRV on Honda HRV,
that's probably what I would shoot you toward.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Okay, what about the pcvs else? Do they have the
kind like the old cars you just bush in.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Nope, it's a metered orphice league. Yeah, it's a metered
orfice hose.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
And in that particular FOURD escape. There's there's a lot
to this PCV system. I mean, the valve cover, there's
a breather box on the side of the engine, the
oil separator. Oh, probably somewhere between ten and thirteen miles
of plastic tube.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, you know, Honda runs just a hose and a
piec of V valve. Because we just did one the
other day on one and this one looks like a
bull of spaghetti. Yeah, there's it was way over engineered
and it was unnecessary, but a lot of that had
to add. Would you throw the turbo to it too? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
And I mean they're they're there's they're a problem car.
I've seen a lot of things go wrong and not
a lot go right with them.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What I would what I would suggest is go out
and find two or three cars you're interested in that's
going to fit your bill and you know size and
you're whoever's driving it doesn't have the blind spots and
everything else. Give us a call back and I'll and
i'll we'll help you some more.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Get you well, you help me part of it. I
can't thank you, know you bet appreciate the call.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
All right, we're gonna take quick break on the Mister
Mechanics show five five, eight to eleven tens and numbers
to get in me back in a minute.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
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Speaker 9 (12:45):
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The Mister Mechanic Show presents the cheesiest songs of the
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Speaker 1 (13:03):
All Right, we're going to call it. Talk to Scott.
Scott's got to use pickup Scott. What's going on today?
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Well, I not too long ago. I got rid of
my four two fifty super duty crew cab. I've got
to drive it quite a ways for my daily driver.
So I got another used vehicle, but I need a
pickup for I do some handyman work on the side,
(13:32):
and we're going to start another small business that needs,
you know, a pickup bed. So I'm wondering, what is
the best used pickup out there that I can get
for under ten thousand dollars that's going to last me
one hundred and fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Hmmm, Well, well, do you need a big truck? You
need a small truck?
Speaker 9 (14:00):
I think I could. I could probably manage with like
the Toyota Tacoma size bed.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So we're talking half ton truck, yeah, halftn or maybe
a little smaller.
Speaker 9 (14:13):
Sure, you know, the first half ton is good enough.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
The first ones that come to mind is a toyleta Tacoma.
The second one that would come to mind, as bad
as we beat up four just a minute to go
on the escape, I would probably say a Ranger. We've
got a Ranger that we specifically bought for the truck
for the shop, for a run around vehicle, because it
it's just was an indestructible truck.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It just keeps what years?
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Oh you should I be looking at? What mileage? Should I?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Four?
Speaker 9 (14:44):
On up?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'd say, yeah, I mean we got we got an
O four, but I think that goes back as old
as O two, and a lot of them will rust
so around this part of the country. So under ten
grand you have to kind of pick and choose what
you get. But there's some, yeah, if you look at
some I mean I just checked out an oh six
Ford Ranger that I think come out of some grandpa's
(15:07):
garage because this thing was amazing looking and it's just
a matter of looking around to see what you can find.
But we bought it with a four cylinder, which has
been just I haven't done anything to that car, and
put a set of spark plug wires on it and
a battery in it, and just that's a body it.
(15:27):
The Tacoma is a great solid truck. Those would probably
be the two smaller trucks.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
You've got, and then a larger truck. I mean, I'd
love to be able to fit four people in it.
I mean, your Coma has that capability. But Thunder would
be great because it's big. But they're they're high price.
Right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That you get what you pay for.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Silverado. I mean you're gonna have to go back quite
a ways. I mean early two thousand Silverados. You can
get a four door half time on truck, but I
mean condition around here is going to be tough to find.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, and you want and if you go back into
a ford, like let's say F one fifty and you
get a four door where you can haul some people
in it, I would get something. Yeah, and it's gonna
the price is the price is a tough part. You
almost got to go from where it started into what
you're the Coyote motors start. Yeah, you're probably starting there. Yeah,
(16:27):
summer in twenty ten, twenty eleven. That V eight motor
has been a good engine all the way around, and
they don't really have much problems with some water pumps,
some hoses, maybe spark plugs every fifty, but that's been
a great motor. The V six is not terrible except
(16:48):
for your just you got twin turbos to it, so
you want that. Yeah. As far as it's got great horsepower,
but as far as the money that you're going to
spend to fix it, it's just going to.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
Be a lot, gotcha. Yeah, I mean I can do
minor repairs like the ones you mentioned. I've placed feel
pumps and hubs and all that stuff. Sure, but I
don't want to get into an engine at all.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
It's not something I agreed the time, agreed now that
that V eight Foard from twenty ten or eleven, I
think on up that they called the Coyote engine. That's
that's a that's a good, solid, great engine. Doesn't really
have much problems beyond that. The Chevrolets, you know, obviously
have their lifter problems and just have to be do
(17:37):
your due diligence, due diligence and check it out and
see what they've had done. If they've already been you know,
maybe somebody's already gone through and done all the lifters,
then it's probably a good car for you. But it's
your it's your price that really narrows that field down
a lot.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
I know, I know. I just don't have the fun.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, yeah, no, I get it. I get it. Then
just be choosy and selective is to as to what
it was that But if you have, i'd i'd maybe
go down in vehicle a little bit, get a smaller
Ranger or something along that line or Tacoma that you
can get under ten thousand until you can build it
up the business up enough to get a bigger truck.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Right, all right, thanks guys, I don't want to take
up more of that time.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I appreciate it, appreciate it the call. All right, we're
gonna head over to Dan. Dan's got a two thousand
and one fifty. Dan, what's up today?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
Yes, my Ford f point fifty's got a manual transmission
in it. And what bothers me is the RPMs fluctuate
so much. And I checked around for a vacuum leak.
That doesn't seem to be the problem.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Describe RPM's fluctuating like you're sitting here at idle and
your tachometers going all over the place.
Speaker 11 (18:59):
Yes, the engine r and it goes up to like
twenty seven hundred rpm when I started up in the morning,
and and it just doesn't have a steady harpm because
it's a manual transition. I d through the parking lot
and you know, hjes racing the first gear and I'm,
you know, doing thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, it's probably gotta It's either got a vacuum leak
that's doing that, or you got an idle speed control
motor that's causing the problem.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, that's going to be part of your throttle body.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, but idle air control and they were very common
to go bad.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Oh they go bad?
Speaker 11 (19:33):
Or does it just being cleaning with a cleaner.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, the first thing you can do is clean that
throttle body. That's easy. You can do it yourself. It
doesn't cost a lot of money just to shop rag
and just kind of get in there and clean any
of the soit out of there.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The way you're going to want to do that is
to turn the key on, have somebody to put their
foot on the accelerate with the car off, put your
foot all the way to the accelerator. And then while
you're getting in there and cleaning it, don't don't force
it open. Don't take your finger and force open the
throttle body and do it that way. You'll ruin the
throttle body and stuff like that. Let's just drive by wire. Yeah.
(20:11):
Two thousand, yeah, two thousand yeah. So yeah, you wanna
you have the have the throttle body open itself when
you clean it. Don't force it open.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Those were good for a couple different things as far
as vacuum leaks. Intake gaskets were one of them. So
does it get better as it warms up?
Speaker 11 (20:34):
It's constant cold or hot or anything.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Okay, and again with the PCV valve on this truck.
So this one goes in a rag. It goes from
the passengers side valve cover wraps around the back of
the intake to right below where that throttle body is.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Up by the firewall. Yep, way back there.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
What you want to do is get underneath there, and
you're gotta get your hands on this PCV. These PCV tubes,
there's a couple right angles on there, and at the
back there's a big gromet and those like to fall
apart because naturally PCV removes oil vapor from the crank case.
Rubber rubber oil weak point don't mix. So get your
(21:15):
hands back there. If it's soft in any kind of way,
it's getting a new one.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
A lot of times you're right, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (21:22):
Well, I use the parts cleaner kind of spray it around.
See if I get any difference in the RPMs. And
I didn't notice a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, a lot of times. If you if you follow
that hose up back in the back side of there,
you'll just run your hand across it. Next thing you know,
you'll hit it with your hand and all of a sudden,
the RPM will will drop down and it'll change and Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Sometimes you have to spray a ton of flammable stuff
underneath her to get anything to pick up, and either
you get a fire or you find your problem. I
don't like to really get too crazy with those anymore.
I like to use a smoke machine to find vacuum leaks.
But once while I'll live on the wild side.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
So it's usually just a flash, flash fire.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Kyle, Well, when you got enough of a down there,
it's a flash and a bonfire.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
But look at that.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
PCV tube really quick, or really because I mean sometimes
they'll suck flat and I'll cause an issue. Sometimes I'll
just break off entirely and then they'll have an issue
like what you're describing. But get a good look at
that to start with. So here's the rule of thumb.
The more vacuum leak you got, the higher the idol's
going to go. The less of a vacuum leak you got,
or a plugged throttle body or something like that, the
(22:35):
lower the idol's going to go. You've got a vacuum
leak somewhere or a throttle by that's hanging open something
like that.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Dan, we got to run. I'm up against a hard break.
So five, five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers
to get in. Will be back in a minute. Janis
has been patiently waiting. Thank you, Janie. She's got a
two thousand and two keya sportage. Janni's what's up today?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
I'll live in line Kin and my question is going
to be about the passenger side back window. I went
out last week to start the car to warm it up,
and I noticed that that window on the passenger side
was down about two inches and I thought about pulling
(23:18):
it up, and then I thought, well, no, what if
it drops down even more? And the mystery about this
is when I purchased a car about two and a
half three years ago, that window never ever worked, and
so it was no big deal to me. I had
three other windows. Well, when I went out and found
(23:40):
that it was two inches open, I don't know what
to think about that. I plugged it up, you know,
and put a big old garbage shack over the hole
the opening. I just don't know what to think about that,
and I know I'm going to have to try to
get it fixed or remedied. What do you think about
(24:04):
a window that never opened and all of a sudden it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Is, Well, it's maybe it's a little possessed.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I don't know, things are broken even further.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, well I do know. I do know that these
cars have a tremendous problem with a master window switch.
And I'm going to guess that the master window switch
was probably bad. That's why it was up, and then
maybe you hit it at one point when you were
rolling the windows up and didn't notice it, and then
all of a sudden it just rolled down a little bit.
(24:38):
That'd be my first guess. A lot of times those
switches or the rocker switches become just looser than normal,
and it's kind of a key up hondap kind of problem.
The other thing that I would come up with is
that the window regulator the cables in there are broke
and it just came down just a little bit. You
(25:01):
haven't tried to put it up.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
No, I'm afraid it's gonna go down even further.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, well that's what we call diagnostic. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh, you have no idea how many things I've taken
far into left field before I was like, okay, here
we are.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
The first thing is to try it and try both.
I would if it was my car, I probably would
try it from the master switch, and if it went up, great,
then I just leave it alone and know that that's
probably the reason. Or I would go over. If that
didn't work, I would go over to the door switch,
the actual door switch, and try it from there. And
since you and if it goes up those two inches,
(25:41):
I'd leave it alone. Don't you know you don't care
about it, so you know, and just kind of monitor it.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
If neither of those do anything, then I'm putting my
hands on the glass. I'm gonna try to lift it up. Yes,
if it moves freely, I know it's a regulator issue.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Right open the door. Put your hands on both sides
and so you got a firm grip on both sides
of it, and just kind of push it up or
push it down. And if it moves freely, then Kyle's correct.
It's it's got a bad regulator and the wires are broken.
And then you can push it up so it doesn't
snow in, and then you can tape it up. Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
When you talk about a master windows switch, is that
drivers each window.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Driver's door, driver's door. It's that switch that has four
buttons on it. It just controls all four.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Windows, right, okay, but each one has its own master.
No little switch is a master.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Noe, Nope, No, Just the driver's door is the only
one that has four They call it the master window switch.
Is just the only one that controls all four windows.
Every other door has just each individual one.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Right right, Okay, Well, all right, I'll try those things
and cross my fing.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well, then you know everything you need to know. If
it moves up and down, you got a broken regulator.
And then when you walk in to get it fixed,
you say I need a rear window regulator, and he's
gonna say, wow, do you know that? Say why? I
just know?
Speaker 8 (27:15):
Okay, I just thought it was kind of a wu
wu situation.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Now now it may have just came down on its
own because a cable broke. It hasn't completely broke yet.
That's why it's not all the way on the door.
That's a possibility.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Okay, Well, thank you for your suggestion.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You bet try those two and call us back next
week if you need to, or if you're quick, you
can go out, run out and do it now and
we'll be here for a couple more minutes. Ye, all right,
thank you, you bet, I appreciate it the call. All right,
we're gonna head over to Scott. Scott's got a two
thousand and four Dodge, Ram Scott. What's going on today?
Speaker 12 (27:52):
Oh, I've got the instrument cluster the led digit's down
bottom that they've been intermittent for several years. And I
even had it out once thinking I might be.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
Able to repair it.
Speaker 12 (28:06):
Then I realized that wasn't a good idea, so I
put it back. And do you repair those or do
you know somebody that repairs the instrument clusters?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
We changed them. We don't. You don't really go inside there.
That is just a thing that is beyond just the
regular installer. So so how that is repaired is you
you take it to your garager, You take it out
and uh, you take it to the You get numbers
off the back of it, because there's going to be
(28:38):
numbers off the back of the the cluster. You call
the dealership and you've got an exchange program. They'll they
want to know that.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Making them.
Speaker 12 (28:49):
They quit making them, okay, quit making them.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Like three years ago, there's a couple of places that
do repairs on instrument clusters, there used to be a
couple here in town, but they don't do it anymore
because it's not something I mean, this is something that
we don't see as much of as.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We use now. It's not sustainable as a as a
business thing that you.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Know, most of them that we find are. I mean,
the dealerships will either offer them or there's some places
on eBay that will offer an exchange program.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I forget.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
There was like flash Masters, there was Cluster nine. There
used to be a guy in Lincoln, but I don't
know if he's still doing it or not. They're the
closest one to us I know is in Loveland, Colorado.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Yeah. They just that's all they do all day. Yeah,
they're set up to do it, just kind of like
a TV repair man or what they used to be.
So they have all the equipment to do that. You
bring it in, they have another one already rebuilt and
just shoots back out to you and they fix that
for the next customer. That's just how that whole industry
(29:57):
kind of thing win too. So and then okay, and
then and they want they want the number off the back,
they want the miles so that they could they can
put it in there specifically so that you're not buying
a cluster and saying, okay, now it's got thirty thousand
miles left. There might be some they want you know,
your name and nothing that they want to do it correctly,
(30:18):
and so does everybody else. But that's that. There may
be some things that you got to fill out in
order to make sure it's all up and up. But
that's what we'll that's what we would do.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
All right, Well, thank you, you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Bet appreciate the call. Scott. All right, we're going to
take quick break. All right, quick break back in a minute.
Paul's got a battery question. Paul, what's what's your question today?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
A few weeks ago you mentioned how the newer batteries
will fail suddenly.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yep.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
And my question is is there any test that can
be done to tell you where you are? Or do
you just buy a new one every five years and
be done with it.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Well, if you're getting five years out of them, you're
doing better than most people.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yes, I would say four years. I would say yes
and yes. Then I would say yes and yes. So, yes,
there is a test you can do. It'll give you
a percentage. What the tester that we use will tell you, you know,
recharge and recharge a battery and retest and it'll tell
you like twenty ninety eight percent. It gives you kind
(31:28):
of a percentage there. Yes, that that most certainly can
be done.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
Almost any any mechanic would have that.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, correct. But the other question you answered or
asked was you know you're just change it every four years.
So once you get to four years, it's not an
if it's a win, it's a win. It's going to
go bad, and we know it's going to go bad.
It's just a matter of where it is. So a
(31:58):
lot of times the first hint and we're all guilty
of this because we put a new battery in and uh,
the first thing that we when we have a customer
come in that says I just put a battery in,
I say, well, let's go take a look. And uh
it's always always twice as long as what they think.
And anytime it's getting to be four, four and a
(32:18):
half or five years, just do it because you're it's
going to go bad. It's and it always goes bad
at the most inconvenient time.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
Is that what you do? Just replace it every four years?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yep? Yeah, what usually if I get a hint of
all of the crank and slow it just I put
a different one in, just because I know I don't
want to be stranded somewhere. Sure, it's it's just it's
just a great rule with them.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Okay, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
You bet, I appreciate the call. All right, got Jared's
got an oh eight Dodge Durango. Jared, what's going on today?
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Yeah, hello, good morning, good morning. Got a two thousand
and eight Durango that was idling just fine, and went
inside and came back out and it had shut off.
I'm when to put on the consumer.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Code reader.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
It said a cylinder one missfire? Is did that just
possibly be some electronic issue?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Or well it just shut off? So the car died.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Yeah, it just died when I try to turn it
over now to just sit there and continually crank.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Okay, So cylinder one missfire is the first thing it
picked up. So the car is a crank no start now.
So the fact that it did missfire before it died,
I think the first place I'm going to go is
I'm going to check fuel pressure. I want to know
if it is this fuel pump working, because when they
start to run lean where your fuel line goes in
(34:00):
on that truck is actually on bank two. So by
the time it starts going lean bank one starving for fuel,
so we can start misfiring there and then you just
collapse and die. So we need to figure out why
it won't run. And I mean a cylinder one missfire.
I'm not going to worry about that until I got
(34:20):
a running engine.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Right V eight or six, that's the eight. We've had
a lot of problems with camshaft position, sensors over on
the right hand side head too. Yeah, where you're either
not you're not getting fuel, you're not getting sparks. We
go back to the basics that we've talked about for years.
Air fuel, spark, injector pulse. We got seven of them,
but uh, air fuel and spark is where you need
(34:43):
to start for sure, and then that shoots off into
air fuel spark, what timing, injector pulse, impression, compression, exhaust, all.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
That kind of stuff. Crankshaft broke.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, the first three is what you're We know we
got air, so you're interested in the first four or
air fuel, spark and timy.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Because I mean, it was running just fine and then
it was all just all of a sudden, it was
just done.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I agree with Kyle. It's either going to be a
fuel problem or you're gonna have a You're not getting
spark to fire and off at spark plugs.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So with your little code reader guy, does it give
you like an engine speed pit or does it just
tell you codes?
Speaker 7 (35:26):
It's just pretty basic, okay,
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