Mr Mechanic 2-22-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Beat Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also premium unleaded. Legend has it
that Kyle can change your oil with his toes, and

(00:22):
that he can tell your tires all pressure just 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, don't stand a chance.
This is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get
in there so we can get your calls and get
you answered by the end of the end of the hour.
We want it. We want to get these get these
cold weather now warm weather question.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
We're a time crunch. Who knows how long this weather
will lasts?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We made it through, didn't we?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Kyle?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, you know what was it the other day? Yesterday
day before I think it was. It was almost to
the point where I was warm. I was getting used
to the cold weather. So I addressed to the point
where it's like I need to go out toe. Is
Ain't that crazy? It is?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Do you go outside and you just got your T
shirt on and you oh, this is pretty fair. How
much whining would we have done if this was in October? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh, completely, everybody whining about it. But you know, you
just have to look. I always look at the the
forecast ahead. I'm looking towards the end of the tunnel.
That's where I'm at, you know, get through. Now we're
heading towards fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
At the Yeah, the middle of the week, I mean, yeah,
next weekend's looking good. I mean, thank god, because we
got a swap meet.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah. So what kind of repairs do we have now?
Besides the batteries and the last thing? Now we have
window yeah yeah, cool.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Power steering has been failing left and right.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, oil leaks, window washer repair. I've already had a
few people that have used the windshield wipers as the
scraper and broke those mechanisms. On the inside. They're okay
with washing water to fast pace, but when the uh,
the blades stick to the the wind.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
They got a lot of torque, they got a lot
of break, they got a lot of.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
And there's there's what looks like elbow joints in there
and once they once there's no torqu to them. It's
like the old days. I mean that happened back in
the sixties.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
You'll take the windshield out of the seal.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that thing will keep going. The wipers
will still be stuck to the windshield, but not now.
The rubbers will just rip off and things crack and
break on the inside. So it's just part of it.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
We haven't got any of those, Like, we've gotten very
little wiper blade failure, very little washer Oh yeah. Like
I've only had one car that froze up and they
were from Arizona and they put like water and don
just soap in their washer thing and then hit the
road to head to o Mah. Well, guess what happened.
They woke up in the hotel parking lot and went

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to go Clayton the window it didn't work well.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Pros And yeah, we've done a couple of those. Couple
of wiper blades. We've done a lot of wiper blades.
A couple of motors blah blah blah blah blah. But
you know that that'll bet that'll be over. The best
thing is just to grab your wiper blades and just
peel them off the windshield then use them for the scrapers.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, if you get a move in first, I mean,
you know for sure, and I'll take over at some
point I'll melt the ice. Unless you got that wet,
heavy snow, then you're you're in trouble again.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'll tell you what. Let's blast over into the calls.
We've got a full banks going on today. We got
John with an eighty seven Grand Prix. John, what's up today?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Good morning, gentlemen.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
I got a dilemma? Okay, I got ninety seven pint
a Grand Prix, got a three eight super tried motorrant,
and I replaced the field pump and I bought the
pump from summit and anyway, huh, go ahead, go ahead, Okay, Sorry,

(04:02):
the bellf resistor was very very very hot.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
The resistor.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah it's got a resist okay, so it's the resistors
heating up.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, it is very much.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Okay, So how hot are we talking? Are you melting? Okay,
that's too hot.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Oh, now I've got to get into the archives of
my brain and remember how this system is wired. So
either your pump is creating too much resistance or you know,
you bought this thing from Summit Racing, So that tells

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me if they've got it on their shelf. This is
not a direct factory replacement pump. Does this pump need
a resistor inline with it or does do they want
you to do away with that and just run straight
twelve volts to this thing?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
What did the instructions say on it?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
And no instructions came with it?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Okay, so not an uncommon thing, because I mean they've
got parts for everything. I mean, these are race application parts.
So you're going to have to call Summits tech line
with your part number and say, hey, this is what
I got. There was no instructions with this time, and
there might have been at one point. I mean, who

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knows this pump's life on the shelf, but either you know,
do some research online, google your part number, because in
a lot of cases, especially in a racing application, they
don't want to resistor involved in this because it's going
to heat up because I mean, odds are I mean,
you went from a pump with brushes. This is probably

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a brushless pump, if I'm yeah, if it's actually a
good racing pump. So we need to do some research
because if it's not supposed to be there, yeah, it's
going to get screaming hot.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah too, man, I can tell you something about the
voltage going into it and all that the bolts coming out,
the voltage going into the resistance, there's thirteen point seventy
six volts and the pump that's the feed wire, it's
thirteen seventy six. Like I say, the pump wire is

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eleven o seven coming out of that BOLLS resister.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
So resistant work, yes, sir, the.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
Resistance is very much so working, you bet. But at
the switch in the back, I should say, the pump
in the back is ninety seven seven or ninety ninety
three going in and ninety seventy seven coming out of
the switch. Okay, So yeah, I got kill switch to
this thing.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Okay, so you've got a voltage drop there to worry about.
So I mean you've got to kill switch now involved
in this fuel system.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
Yes, sir, that thy am kill switch.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Okay, have you owned that kill switch?

Speaker 8 (07:11):
No?

Speaker 7 (07:11):
I have it my have spelled it with my hands.
There's the car ran on a very long time and it's cool.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
But if that makes a difference or not.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Okay, So you've got a thirty amp kill switch. So
again this is adding to my discussion of we don't
need a resistor now even more. And your resists doing
what it's supposed to do. It's resisting current, so that's
why it's getting hot. So you're feeding battery volted into it.

(07:41):
Your pump is trying to draw as much as it
possibly can, so it's going to its weakest link. Well, unfortunately,
I mean, your pump isn't drawing thirty amps, so it
isn't popping your kill switch, your resistors eating this entire load.
So I'm going to guess, and I want you to
confirm this with summit. This thing probably should be wired

(08:01):
directly to a twelve volt battery voltage.

Speaker 7 (08:04):
Sure, I was thinking of that, but I wanted to
make sure that you guys, well, I want to oh.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Sure you didn't have any problems before, right, absolutely? Okay,
you had a factory pump though, and then what you
added was an aftermarket pump and a kill switch. So
out of those two is your you gotta you gotta
take a giant step back and say what did I do?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
And that's what you did. You put that pump in,
you put that that other switch in and there you go.
That's what costs your problem. Try that.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
The body on this pump, by the way, is a
very big body, you know, the bigger diameter and everything.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
And like you say, you know, it's just more current.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
So yeah, oh yeah, it comentator and that thing's probably huge.
Just wanting to it's probably working at triple the r
p m of a regular fuel pump.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Which it's a go faster John, And that's what you're
trying to do is go fast.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
Yeah, ok carry, ask you guys a real quick question.
What's the fuel person's supposed to be as this forty
eight to fifty five pounds? Right, that's what's it on
the internet.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, Yeah, that's been too old for us to remember.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, I would believe that. I mean nowadays they're sixty
but yeah, I mean that's believable.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, John, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Try that.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Let us know what you what you come up with.
Appreciate the call.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
All right, we're gonna take just a quick break on
the Mister Mechanics Show and be right back with the calls.

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Speaker 2 (10:58):
Steven, what's up?

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Hey, good morning, gentlemen. I got one that might stump
you guys. So me and my mechanic are both confiered,
so here it goes. It's got the five to seven engines,
so I don't know if that matters. In two hundred
and ninety three thousand miles back in January of twenty
twenty three, had the heater core replaced because November December

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they were just blowing cold air, So replaced the heater core.
Everything worked great. Spring of twenty twenty three replaced the
raid eater because it was cracked. Working fine. Now Here
in the last three to four months ducks star blowing
cold air again. No matter what I would do, deprocessing whatever,

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they would just blow cold air out the vent and
not get hot chuck. Never once overheated, okay, was never
losing radio fluid. Okay. Here, just two weeks ago we
replaced water pump because it was leaking. And since January

(12:05):
of twenty twenty three, my mechanic has gone through four
different thermostats, all from different manufacturers, thinking maybe we had
to get a faulty one. Still a success. Uh checked
out the Blend door actuator here two months ago. It
wasn't the door itself was broken, so it wasn't moving,

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you know. So he replaced that, got chucked back chuck.
Worked great for about a week. We had extremely hot air,
and man and it started blowing cold air again. Took
it back into him. He took out the heater. Corey
replaced it with another one. He also replaced the Blend
door actuator, thinking maybe we got a faulty part from

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the manufacturer. Got juke back. Worked great for a week,
blowing hot air, started blowing cold air again. So here
we are okay, and we cannot basically out the problem.
It won't blow, it won't stay hot, and we don't
know why.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay. So my question, I guess is going to be
if you go out there and warmn this truck up
right now.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
And you grab both heater hoses going inside the truck.
Are they hot?

Speaker 6 (13:24):
I don't know, to be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
So we've got to decide are we going inside, we're
going outside?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yep? Okay, Well you're all inside to have to replace parts,
but we got to decide if your heater hoses are hot.
What Kyle's getting to is, if the heater hoses are hot,
then you've got a blend or problem. If your heater
hoses aren't hot.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
You got an engine problem. You need to know if
we're going to be working inside or outside before we
make any determining factor, because if it's happening outside, I mean,
and you've had thermostat problem, I mean you've replaced everything,
but at two hundred thousand miles, that's not uncommon to
hear about.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
No, okay, but I mean.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Do you have air in the system? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Are we that effectu in bubbles?

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Do you have a head gasket leaking?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Right?

Speaker 3 (14:03):
I mean if we go inside, I mean, is your
blend door motor working? I would presume it is. He's
put two in, But is your controller working? Does this
have a module that's flawed that's sweepingness? Thing cold is
its default cold. I mean we've got a fair window.
I mean we need to start with the basics. Are

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the heater hoses hot?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, And then I mean I've replaced a fair amount
of boxes, entire boxes, because we got doors binding up
in there.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, they warped. They're plastic.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, past get.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Two hundred degrees. They get degrees.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
By the time he pulls it out and looks at
it and everything kind of moves freely on the bench.
But yeah, when it starts getting hot in there and
you start flowing things through, it binds up. Like a
door in the house when you got super cold. You
can't get the door open when it's you know, sub
sub zero. Why can't you get the door to the
garage open because it's it's heaved in the same kind
of thing.

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, well, I know the most recent ond door actually,
or that he replaced here, replaced the entire box with
the metal one. It was almost like twelve hundred bucks.
It was stupidly overpriced because it came directly from no par.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, Okay, so we put a box in it. Okay, okay,
So we got rid of that problem. Sure, So now
we're back to what Kyle was saying, was we got
to know if the heater hoses are hot. Are we
manufacturing bubbles in the at two hundred and ninety two
thousand miles? I think that's what it was. And we
got a slight head gasket out of it, and all
the bubbles are going to go straight to the heater
core because it's the hirest point in the system.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yes, okay, basically all right, so it sounds like because
even he suspected maybe they're a bad head jasket.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Check that first. That's your first place you go to.
And then see you're warming the vehicle up with the
radiator cap off so you can allow the bubbles to
get out of the radiator cap. Then when you cap it,
everything's nice and hot. You put the radiator cap back on.
It's got nowhere to go. Goes to the heater core.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
God, do that first, and uh, that will tell you
in like Kyle said, find out if you've got hot there,
and then you know if you're going inside the car
or outside the car to fix it.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Okay, all right, thanks, I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
John.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
We're gonna hit over to John. Uh, let's got an
O six explorer. John what's up.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Hill? Broken this second? Yeah, I got a broken stud
on the passenger on the driver's side back, where is that?
Like any others, you just knocked it out and put
the new one. The new one in.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Pretty much, you're gonna have to take your breaks apart,
take your brakes off of there, knock your stud through
on that truck. Yeah, you should have plenty of room
to get the new stud in. And generally what I
do if I'm doing it at home, just find a
bunch of flatshers that are that size. Put on there,
Screw your lugnut on there, because you're getting a new lugnut.
Put it on there, take your ratchet, draw it in there.

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You go.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Always buy two lug nuts because you always screw up
the first one, and then the second one is the
one you actually finished the job. And the reason you
screw up the first one is because when you're pulling
on those threads to try to pull it in, it
just seems to screw it up for some reason. Yeah,
but you buy two one stud, two lug nuts. And
like you said, sometimes you have to shave off one

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corner if you're having trouble getting in in there. You know,
the back edge in order to get it in there.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
But you're gonna be You're fine, You're gonna be just fine.

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
To take it out, I gotta do it away with
the brakes. I gotta take them apart.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
You gotta have your brake roder off of.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
There yet it's got disc on the back correct, right, Okay,
So you got to pull your caliper off and your
anchor off, and then you gotta pull the rotor off
and that once you get that off, that exposes the
inside of that that has the hub to be able to.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Get to the back of that wheel Hubka.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Did you did you get the wheel off?

Speaker 6 (18:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, So so you got the wheel off. That's half
the battle right there. I mean you're almost done with
You got a studden lugnunt that's broken, and you got
the wheel off.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I mean that's now you're two bolts and a couple
of swings of a hammer away.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, okay, two beers all right?

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Question?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Quick?

Speaker 5 (18:21):
You bet on the dashboard where the hot and cold
gages the light went out on that? Is that hard
to get too? For underneath the dash?

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Now you don't go underneath the dash You take that
instrument cluster out. Yeah, there'll be a bezel around it.
I can't remember off the top of my head, but
if you it's kind of an I guess what would
you call it? Eve or awning that kind of shadows
your instrument cluster. There's generally two screws under that. You'll
pull those out and then just kind of gently start

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tugging on the corners and you're gonna get that bezel
off of there. Then four screws hold that in and
you go behind there and it's just like replacing the
tail light.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, back in six we still got bulbs. We all,
uh saw.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
We got bulbs.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah yeah, back in that era we probably still got bulbs. Yeah, yeah, that's.

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Speaker 2 (19:28):
Appreciate it, appreciate you all. I like that that dash ony.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, I couldn't, for lack of a better word, I
don't know what I would call it.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
We're gonna have to put that in the owner's man
we've got to submit something. Puta remove dash on it,
all right, five five, eight, eleven, tens and numbers to
get in. We back in a minute. Pat, it's got
a twenty twenty total Yarus.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Pat, what's up at the car? I didn't know they did?
They make yarses again?

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Thought they were?

Speaker 11 (19:55):
They stopped.

Speaker 12 (19:56):
They stopped making them in twenty twenty. That was last year.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh okay, I thought it was way before that. I
thought it was way before that too.

Speaker 12 (20:05):
No, no, twenty twenty, it was brand new. My question
is this. I noticed that the car was when you
went to start it, it was pulling pretty hard. I
let it warm up real good, and it was still
kind of pulling hard to start. So I took it
to the dealer and while I was there, it died.

(20:31):
It just everything's shut off. They put it so, they
put in a new battery. Well, on the way home,
I noticed that on the range how many miles you
have to go before you need to you know what
it is, probably before you need to gas up, that
it was reading almost like one hundred miles over what

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it would normally be like on a full tank, it'd
be three hundred and thirty nine miles the range it
always has been. All of a sudden it was four
hundred and thirty nine. And then the next thing, I
noticed that on the range, Like yesterday, when I started,
the range read three seventy, which is way over okay,

(21:17):
And then I pulled it out of the garage. Then
the range read three sixty eight, and then on the
way out down the driveway it read like three sixty seven.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
They must have put a great battery on this thing. Yeah,
so what's happening with your car? So here's what goes
on with that range detector. So they just connected the battery,
the car went to sleep. All these modules powered down.
That particular range indicator that is adaptive learned by how

(21:55):
you drive. You haven't driven it enough for it to
know what it's doing. I can tell you from driving
many cars and road tripping many cars with this particular thing.
I mean we're talking, you know, multiple cars, American for
and whatever. So when you disconnect the battery, that's got
to be learned adaptively to how you drive. Are you
driving in the city, I mean it's going to go
way down. If you're on the highway, you're gonna get

(22:18):
peak sticker performance gas mileage. So it's just got to
find its midway as to you know, your.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Style of driving. For example, my truck does a It
does the mileage and calculates that and I can adjust
it to twenty five miles of driving, or I can
adjust it to fifty miles of driving, and then over
that mileage of fifty miles, it says, Okay, this is
what your average fuel economy is.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
So your car isn't that advanced, but it's trying to
do it on its own, and eventually it's gonna center
and it'll be back to where you are used to see.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, let's give it a little time.

Speaker 12 (22:55):
Okay, so give it time. Does that have any effect
on the gas gage?

Speaker 13 (23:00):
Sell?

Speaker 3 (23:01):
No, No, your gas gage still reads the same as
they all did off a float in the tank.

Speaker 12 (23:07):
Okay, so current. So from what I understand, then it's
just keep driving it and then sooner or later it'll
find its way back to what it was.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, this is something that they, the manufacturers are put
in the car, so you're conscious of what your mileage is.
You know, back in the day, we never we didn't
care what it was when it when it got close, dimpty,
we put gas in it. Yeah, we weren't worried about
any kind of mileage. I mean, it's just what it is.
Now everybody's trying to get the exact I mean there's
people that obsessed with the miles of I've got to

(23:39):
drive this way in that way in order to get
the highest miles I possibly can.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
I've had people come in the shop that say, my
car is getting two miles less per gallon. I need
to fix now.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I want to tune up. I need air in the tires,
I need to tune up. I need a fuel injuction cleaning,
I need a I need a, I need a, I
need it. And it's like we.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Could put a million dollars in a car in two
a few miles.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
It just dropped it thirty Yeah, I just dropped thirty degrees.
Your mileage is going to go down.

Speaker 12 (24:05):
Yeah yeah, I'd like to get it back to what
it was, you know, so it'll come back.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Give it time. Don't do anything drastic until such time
as you've given it time to come back on its own.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (24:19):
Yeah, okay, take it out.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Curs around today. Yeah, it's a nice day. Roll the
window down, have around, it'll do it. Head to Lincoln
by the time you get back, maybe it fixed itself.

Speaker 12 (24:27):
All right, So there's because I was the guy up
there at the dealership said bring it back in a
week if it doesn't change. Yeah, So just there's no
need to do that then.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Or I would have it. There's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Drive it.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
It's a nice day. Like I said, head to Lincoln.
By the time you get back, it's probably going to
fix itself.

Speaker 12 (24:48):
Okay, Well that's that's reassuring. I thought maybe someone was
really messed up because I know the radio was goofy
and I had to reset the clock. That normal, Those
things weren't a big deal.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
But all low voltage and you're just dealing with low voltage,
and that's why I died. No big deal.

Speaker 12 (25:09):
Pat appreciate Hey, I certainly appreciate the information.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, appreciate the call. Thanks for listening. All right, we're
gonna head over to Travis real quick. He's got an
O eight Ford X. But uppe escape Travis.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Did he escape the phone?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
He escaped the phone, all right, But you don't see
a lot of escapes out there. We want to answer
this question. Travis, call back. I know you're listening.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
That being said, now I'm going to tell you everything
I know about the two thousand and eight Foard escape.
Did you see you're going to cover everything because I
don't know where to go.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
There's a lot to go. Well, they're not as bad
as the new escapes. Yeah, the owights were a heck
of a lot better. We just had one in the
other day. Was great condition too.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
What other vehicle have we had that plugged up so
many catalytic converters in a Ford escape?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Yeah, no, yeah, you have a misfire.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I get to start misfiring within one block, your catalytic
converters plugged in the intake, and you're gone facing twenty
eight in repair. Absolutely, Yeah, you're right with that warning.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
That was one problem.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Well, but the new escapes get I mean you get
a you get a rubber timing belt that powers up
to the oil pump. Yeah, and then and then it
comes apart. Motor no motor.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Well, this is an article I don't know if we've
seen on the New and I didn't watch news. I
just happened to see it a little bit. The uh,
this fifty two inch water main that blew in Detroit
and all of a sudden, water's all rushing down the street.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I didn't hear about this. You didn't hear about this
in for me? Fifty two inch water mainy blue in Detroit.
So you know what happens when when we have a
blowout in the middle of the street, water goes down
the street. Yeah, and then fifty two inches of that
a lot of water, and then it froze. So all
these cars are frozen to the ground. How come the

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red wings are playing in side now.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
They should be.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, we got plenty of eyes outs. So all these
cars are literally are literally just stuck and frozen in
time from the water rushing down and then they're just
frozen right in the streets and the driveways. Gosh, we've
seen so many like flood cars. But you know, the
water comes and goes, it gets out of there. What
is it like freezing like a soda bottle? Are these
cars gonna break?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Doors? Pop open? They have to.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now we gotta keep We got to keep you guys
up on this. We're gonna follow this.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Well, we'd have to because water is a powerful thing
and once you freeze it, it's even more powerful.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
And drop me off of my truck. After this, I'm
driving to Detroit. I'm gonna be on the scene of this.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna
come right back. Answer a couple of calls. Travis back
on the line. Oh eight, escape Travis. What's up?

Speaker 13 (27:47):
Yeah, I'm having trouble with my transmission.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay, what's it doing, Travis?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
We lost you again.

Speaker 13 (27:59):
We're to get to the top of the hill. Can
you hear me. I'm not a delivering mail.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
All right, stay at the top of the hill. So
what what's your what's the uh, what's the transmission doing
coming in and out of gear or slipping?

Speaker 13 (28:12):
No, it doesn't slip at all. It just goes from
first and it skips second all together. It's automatic. It
just goes straight from first to drive to third.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Mmm.

Speaker 13 (28:23):
I've never seen one do that. And it doesn't slip
at all. And I don't know if there's solenoids inside
the transmission or.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
You bet there is.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah there is, Okay, So, but they're not really easily
accessible because they're on the sidepan, not so much in
the bottom.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
So the fact that it's going from one to another
tells me it's probably not a solenoid issue. Believe it
or not, it's probably more it's a hydraulic leak that's
happening across your valve body, because that's the only way
it's able to shift. These shift hydraulically.

Speaker 13 (28:55):
So you're to shift easier if you manually go down
to low and then go into like you're just manually
kicking it into second, even though it goes straight to third.
But it will do that at a lower rpm versus
if you leave it in drive, it wraps it out
to like four thousand RPMs before and then you let
off the gas and then it seems to like almost
like you're clutching it. Yeah, off the gas and then

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it'll shift.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well, yeah, because you're lowering your pressure. It's shocking your
valve body and it's able to do what it's made
to do. But yeah, I mean, unfortunately, to do any
of these repairs on that, you're going to be taking
a lot of part. But what's happening is you're and
it could be as simple as a vow body gasket,
but again, you're not going to just get in there
and replace that.

Speaker 13 (29:38):
It's not Yeah, it's got two hundred and twenty one
thousand miles on it. It's just trying the limp it
buy as my as my backup.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
That's a vehicle.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, keep driving it the way it is. Anything more
is going to get pricey. There isn't a simple quick
fix to this.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, yeah, keep the title on hand. That way, if
you got to just dives on the side of the road,
you can leave the title in the glove box and
there you go. Tell somebody to come here.

Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Sorry to tell you that, that's all right.

Speaker 13 (30:07):
I just I've never seen a transfer. I've had several
transmissions go out on vehicles, and usually when you start
having issues like something like that, they're gone in a
matter of minutes.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, well, we've seen it before. We've seen it before.
But you're right, it's not it's not a common occurrence,
that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
They're always unique.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (30:27):
All right, Well, thank you guys, appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
All Right, we're gonna head over to Ed. Ed's got
a pick up with an AC. Question Ed, what's up
you need a year? You've been using the AC the
last couple of weeks, have you.

Speaker 11 (30:39):
Well, no, it's it's just a question about I don't
have it. It's just what I've seen on other pickups,
and I'd like to know how that works briefly, sure,
or how it's activated.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
The air conditioning itself. We're just giving you a hard time.
So what's the specific question you had?

Speaker 11 (30:59):
Well, how is the AC activated on the rear of
a pickup truck?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
You mean, like, uh, do you.

Speaker 11 (31:09):
Have to do you have to flip some switches? Or
is it live all the time or on the.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Rear of a pickup truck. You've lost me.

Speaker 11 (31:17):
The new features that they have on chivrolets, and I
think for that, like for the back seat are you talking, no, no,
the AC outlet?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh oh AC voltage?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, okay, okay, I thought we were talking about air conditions. Yeah,
that's why we're giving you a hard time about air conditioning.
But yeah, you just flip a switch and it turns
on that auxiliary inverter and away you go. It's not
constant as you're driving, and you have.

Speaker 11 (31:46):
To keep the engine running to keep it supplied.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
It is actually, uh, it is live when it's running. Really,
it is live when it's running. Because I have one
in the back of my truck and I want to
do a jump start with somebody one day with my
jump pack, and when I got done it was depleted.
I just plugged it in the back of my truck
and just let it go as I drove home.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Is that the same with Forge and everybody there?

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I don't know that I know GM is. And by
the time I got home from where I was going,
because I did a bunch of running around that day,
I kind of forgot. I plugged it in and I
got back there was fully charged. Okay, so it's live
and ready to go just about any time. And they
generally what year are you or what year are you
talking about?

Speaker 11 (32:26):
Well, I just seen it in the last couple of years,
and yeah, so you.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Know, I've not tried mine sitting still. I don't think
it works sitting still. I'm almost fact, I'm almost certain
it doesn't work sitting still. But they put an AC
plug in the back there so that you can fold
the tailgate down with what those special tailgates GM has,
so you can run a laptop and.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Other things back there. So yes, it has to be
running in order to work.

Speaker 11 (32:51):
Okay. One other question, Can a guy jump for an
engine to start an engine with the uh ulminator unplugged?

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Sure? Yeah, you can start a car without an alternator
on it, Yeah, yeah, because you're just not gonna run
without a jump on it.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
You're just going battery to battery. Yeah yeah, yeah, you're
taking the voltage out of one and you're putting it
into the other battery to get it going. And yeah,
you can technically do that.

Speaker 11 (33:21):
So so the engine would start. Yeah yeah, okay, okay,
Well that's that's all I had.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
And if and if the uh well, if the alinator
is bad on the on the dead vehicle, once you
take it off, it's it's not gonna last very long.
It needs the all nator to kick up and take
over what you just jumped.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Sure, but yeah, a car will run without an alternator
on it. Oh beg you.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Okay, yeah, I appreciate the call. It'll run right up
until the point where it depletes the battery all the
way down to nothing. Then it dies. Yeah. Yeah, just
like just like the other guy had with the with
the RS.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I mean, look at your weed whacker essentially. I mean,
if you've got the right magneto set up, you don't
even need a bad Yeah all right, we're gonna head
over to Brian.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Brian's got a fifteen one. What's going on today?

Speaker 11 (34:10):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (34:10):
Well, I'm calling because I've I've got a lot.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Of experience with.

Speaker 14 (34:17):
Coil packs going bad, I believe, Oh yeah, sure, And
at the moment I think I've got another coil pac
going bad. But I've also I took my pickup to
a parts store and had him run a check engine

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light on me, and they've they suspected an O two censor.
Would that kind of have the same effect as a
coil pack? You know, as far as you know, I
can feel it when you're when I'm going up the hill.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well, that's a fairly loaded question. Can O two sensors
affect driveability? Yes? Yes, Depending on what code you have
is going to determine my answer.