Mr Mechanic 4-26-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
He's a four time tire rotation champion. When he was
a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid. Bob's
so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.

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

Speaker 2 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Superhero known to man.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Mister Mechanic check engine lights don't stand a chance. This
is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Good Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get
in where Buchanan Service Centers A fiftieth and Dodge eightieth
and Dodge Guaranteed Breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge. Brought
to you by us Helping. This is an interactive call
in show. You call in, We'll help you with those
particular questions that you have and give you kind of

(01:08):
the top few answers or the exact answer, depending on
what your problem is. We've been through it before, kay, Yeah. Yeah,
It's always something new. It's always something new, always a
different noise, different battles, different wiring issue, different whatever issue.
There's always something different going on, and nothing's ever the same.

(01:31):
I'll tell you what you know. Here's an interesting article
I read.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
First of all, First of all, this is kind of
a GM is recalling some of their engines. Twenty one
to twenty four is going to be a recall soon
on the six point two liter. They've decided a lot
of those have kind of died and they need to
issue a recall. So there might be nearly nine hundred

(01:57):
thousand involved in those.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
What kind of thing are we seeing with these?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
They're not really specifically saying. From the article I read,
they did say that going from zero twenty to zero
thirty or forty is a I hesitate to say fix,
but I mean you're they're going up in wait, which.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Means so we're having bearing issues.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, we having bearing issues exactly. We're not feeling that,
you're not feeling they're not getting lubricated as good as
they should be.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
So they're going from the zero twenty up to zero thirty.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I've heard on some that have lifter boar problems as
far as the size are a little bit big for
the lifter boars. They're not really affecting the five threes
or the four cylinder turbos. Just for you people out
there that have those, they're not in that. Not that
that can't happen, but this is not in that specific recall.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
I didn't think the six to two was too big,
too far of a cry from like the five to
three six liter LS block. It's not it's not that,
but I mean they should have that down by now.
They recalled that thing through and the twenties something changed.
So something changed somewhere or the manufacturing process changed, because
twenties aren't having the problem and twenty fives aren't. So

(03:14):
somewhere kind of just out of COVID kind of thing,
you know, manufacturers this that or the other, or somebody
was sick and didn't get in on the meeting of
well that's the thing. A lot of people don't understand
it because I mean, if that engine was designed during COVID,
I mean, how many manufacturers were open to do business.
I mean, you sign a contract, you're going to buy

(03:36):
this amount of bearings through this year, YadA YadA, YadA,
sign here and next thing you know in your next
four years are tanked.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, when you run out of that supply, then then
you go to the next supplier. And my guess, like
everything that we drive in by and or fly in
is all done by the lowest bidder, and uh that's
where the parts show up to your pair plane as
the guy with the lowest bidder for the four year contract.
And that goes with you know, for Chevy Chrysler, you

(04:07):
name it, all. All automakers are the same way.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
And so I mean GM went through that a lot.
I mean with the remember the trail Blazer back in
what two thousand and eight or ten or whatever had
all those ignition switch problems. And you diagnose an ignition switch,
you go out to the dealership, you get an ignition switch.
You think, is it's the same thing. Yeah, I mean
we were putting an aftermarket you know, store bought ignition

(04:32):
switches that were better than what we were getting from
the from the supplier.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I remember that ignition switch and you pulled it out
and looked at it and it's like, this is a
terrible design.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Oh yeah, it was like a cassette looking thing.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
And yeah, the the and then you've got the ones
that go in the in the old Hondas that have
been there for the last fifty years.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, it's just a key cylinder and you got all
these solder joints on the outside. They're totally exposed.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yep, yep. And they did have one run about a
four year run through Honda that they had some bad
ignition switch. Is not that you know everybody does, but
you look at it and go, this is this is cheap,
it's plastic, it's it's it's probably six dollars to produce,
and you wonder why it's gonna last. So anyway that's
coming down the line yet to kind of watch for
the dealership doing a recall for you if you own

(05:21):
one of those vehicles. So and maybe yours is one
of the ones that isn't involved. The one thing about
auto manufacturing is that they have very meticulous records. Yeah,
they can tell you down to the day and the
shift when all new parts started going into the line
versus the other one. So they can take it down
to the day and say it's midnight. Anything before that

(05:44):
is not a problem. Anything after that is so they
keep meticulous records, which is really good versus just to see.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
The build sheet on some of these new cars. Like
I've seen GM pull up, like they just scan your
where your ven number is, and next thing, you know,
here comes this forty page book of you know where
the guy that put your steering wheel on eight lunch.
You know, they got everything.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
And that's good.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
It's nice to know and track that back down and
just saved them money by doing and doing all that
kind of stuff. So all right, we're gonna head over
to Phil. Phil's got an O four Ford Ranger. Phil,
what going on today?

Speaker 6 (06:23):
Well, so I bought this. It's got one hundred and
twenty six thousand miles and I just noticed today that
I parked at and I could hear a slight kiss
coming out of the dash and my I had previously suspected.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
That I might have a week in my heater core.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
But I don't have the other telltale signs where I
have a real strong radio radiator odor or I don't
have a drip on the floor. But this may not
have a drip, you know, it may not actually be
able to drip onto the floor like white ones. But
he's won to a second third opinion, and how.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
You place was well, let's let's back up to the
hissing noise. So if you were in it today and
it's a little cooler out this morning, were you did
you have it in defrost?

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Are you getting any kind of build up on the windows?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
So what kind of moisture build up inside the cars?

Speaker 3 (07:23):
But what you're making it sound like is air conditioning.
That's that's equalizing pressure.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
That or I'm thinking vacuum actuators.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, or you don't have the air conditioning on per
se this morning, but if you had it on, if
you had it on defrost this morning or defrost floor,
then the air conditioning is kicking on and off as
a dehumidifier, and therefore it would be on and then
the pressures build up a little bit and then and
once it once it equalizes pressure between the evaporator and

(07:51):
the condenser inside the system, you can hear a little
bit of that noise.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
So yeah, yeah, I did not have a fan on.
It's just going to the.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Opposition, Okay, Okay, just asking a question. So, yeah, you've
got vacuum underneath.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
There, so one way or another, your heater core is
gonna leak and you're gonna see it. It's either going
to be on the ground underneath the truck from the
evapp drain, or it's going to be on your floor.
If there's a leak there that's creating an audible hiss,
there's anti freeze going out with it. Yeah, and you're
going to see it one way or another, or it's
going to film up the inside of your windows. These

(08:31):
do use vacuum. I'm pretty sure this year has some
vacuum actuators underneath that dash. There could be a leak there, yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
And that may be. Yeah. I know this that when
I currently air condistrict just regular air condistrict, we still
get hot air. If I turn it onto Max, which
is going to shut another door, I could get cold there.
So that sounds very possible to that vacuum leak down

(09:03):
there and stop stop closing the door and just want
to hear.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
If you want to narrow it down to a vacuum
leak over on the passenger side where all your heater
hoses and AC lines go in, you're gonna see one
black vacuum line going inside that box, and there's gonna
be like a little pull apart, disconnect for it. Pull
that apart, and you know you can find a nut
or bolt or something small to stick in there so
you don't have a vacuum leak. Start your car, run it,

(09:31):
shut it off. See if you still hear it. If
you don't, then you know you've got a leak down
there inside the car or outside the car, outside the car,
underneath the hood. Just kind of disconnect it. You're disconnecting
everything inside. Now your heater functions and stuff won't work.
But all we're looking for is the noise.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think there's a vacuum tree over on the driver's side,
isn't there Mm hmm, yeah, vacuum tree. You could pull
the vacuum hose off and that'll.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, there's just gonna be probably one going inside. But
I mean, just take that off, shut off your car,
and see if you're still hear it. If you do
hear it, then you know you're looking underneath the dash
trying to find it. If you don't, then you know
you're taking a part of your dash to find a leak.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's just process of elimination. That's what we're trying to
do here, is process of elimination and the vacuum leak
is gonna be a heck of a lot easier to
find than doing a heater core.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Yes, I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Guys, you bet if it gets too uh, if that
gets too complicated, or you're having a problem, bring her by,
drop it off.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
We'll figure it out for you. All right.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Appreciate it, Bail, appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna
take a quick break on the mister mccanning show. Five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the numbers to get in. We've got some
open lines for You'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
Can't get a ride, can't drive to school? Oh full
same man, You ain't cool down the street on the
connextor on the figs you've been waiting for.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Hello Daddy, Hello Mom, I'm.

Speaker 8 (10:58):
Your Chevy Cossick Co. Hello World, I'm your wild Girl.

Speaker 7 (11:05):
Lomi Shelly Cossack cap.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
To Chevy Cossack cap.

Speaker 8 (11:13):
My interior is practical when it comes to safety. Man,
I wrote the rules. I may not be sixty and
I'm no fun, but Hello.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Daddy, Hello Mom, Man.

Speaker 8 (11:26):
Your chich Chevy Cossick Co.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Hello World.

Speaker 8 (11:32):
On your wild draw, I'm your Chevy Cossack.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Cap Susan's been patiently waiting on an O four Dodge Caravan. Susan,
what's up today?

Speaker 5 (11:45):
By I have a two thousand and four Dodge Caravan
and in one month at eight a quart of oil,
and so I took it down to where I get
my oil changed and they said, well, you've got splatters
all over the inside of your engine. So they said

(12:07):
you probably need a gasket. And I was wondering, since
I just recently became a widow, I don't know if
I should pour more money into this car or if
I should trade it in sure how many miles it's
got seventy four thousand, and I hadn't I hadn't driven

(12:30):
it because I kept my husband home because I didn't
want him to get COVID or he would have passed
away a long time ago, so we didn't go anywhere.
We literally lived off of, you know, all those delivery companies.
So anyway, I haven't put any money into it. And
I did go get the brakes done last month, and

(12:52):
they told me my strets and my whatever you call
those springs or something, their toast. So I mean that
those are the two issues I have it's possibly gasket
and possibly.

Speaker 9 (13:07):
The stretch.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
So I was just wondering what the ballpark park figure
that would be.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well, that's that depends on which gasket. Yeah, that's kind
of a broad term. In order to know what it is,
it's just gonna have to We're gonna have to look
at it in order to know for sure.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Kind of Okay, I mean it's it's charged to do that.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
It's a twenty one year old vehicle. But it's with
with the the mile logit you on there, I mean
you it's a toss up because this could be a
great car that makes a lot of sense to keep,
you know, in one aspect, because it's it's fairly cheap
to fix, and maybe it isn't worth a bunch of money,
but if you put a little bit of money into it,
it can last you a long time. Or it's completely

(13:50):
rusted out, has a lot of troubles and you're right,
it's time.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
For it to go. So that is kind of a
subjective thing. As far as the shots caused.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Many problems, yeah, I've owned it since twenty seventeen.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, So as far as the shocks and struts go,
those though, it depends on if they're like a ten
out of ten bad or they're like a two out
of ten bad. You know, ten out of ten's bouncing
all over the place. So it really just kind of
depends what we normally charge. We will charge a little
bit of a just a small fee to kind of

(14:23):
look it over, you know, like sixty five bucks something
like that, just to bring it in, give it a
once over, just to decide whether or not this is
worth putting money, and then you.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Can leave it right there, right then, and you can
fix if I choose.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yeah, yeah, we want to determine.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
So if you're losing oil, you're either burning it through
the engine or you're leaking it out a bunch on
the ground. And okay, you have to start with an
oil leak. Obviously we have gravity around, and gravity will
it's a valve covers leak, it'll drag it down over
the engine block and make it look at like a
ton of thing is leaking when only maybe one or

(14:59):
two things.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
So sometimes I constantly go get the oil shuft on
it with the break fluid, the power steering fluid, the
transmission fluid, and the radiator fluid and everything you know,
seems to be okay, except for.

Speaker 7 (15:15):
That one quart of oil in one month.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
That seems something like that.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
That seems like it's pretty big leak.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, yeah, pretty good leak going on.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Get it evaluated and you know, let's take a look
at it and kind of gets you a different view
of it. And then from there you can decide and
we can guide you and help you and say, no,
this is something. This isn't the first time we've told
people to fix cars, and this isn't the first time
we've told people to get rid of it, move on.
We have no problem with telling you to get rid
of it and move on because.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
We're better for everybody in the long run.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, we're serving you, so we're giving you the best
advice we can.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
So well, thank you.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, okay, appreciate the call, Susan, thank you. By all right,
we're going to head over to Kim. Kim's got a
twenty seventeen Kia Soul. Kim, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (16:06):
Ah?

Speaker 10 (16:06):
Yes, hi, my daughter has a twenty seventeen Kia Soul.
We bought it in June of twenty twenty with thirteen
thousand miles on it. It now only has forty nine thousand,
two hundred something miles on it. She lives in Omaha,
and she noticed that an oil some type of light

(16:28):
came on like at stop light.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
That it would go away.

Speaker 10 (16:33):
So we brought the soul to our mechanic and he
did some type of test to test the oil pressure
and he said it should have been a minimum of
fifteen and it was only five. He did put a higher,
more viscous oil in I think it's supposed to get

(16:55):
a five W twenty, but I think he put a
ten W.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Thirty oil in it.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
But I know there was a.

Speaker 10 (17:03):
Chia had some kind of engine class settlement suit. There's
some type of issue that I think this might be
the problem, but they won't do anything until it's like
the cars the engine shot.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, so I've seen this issue with Kia Souls and
a couple other Kias. You put an oil gauge on
there and it's low, does the engine make any kind
of noise? Is it abnormally loud?

Speaker 10 (17:34):
No?

Speaker 5 (17:34):
Not really?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
The first thing I'm going to do when I see
that and a Kia is I'm putting a different oil
filter on there. I'm going with a Wix filter somewhere.
One of their line Wix microguards something like.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
That, or a factory.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Or fact. I've seen fram oil filters. I've seen mobile
oil filters on Kia's drop the oil pressure considerably with
a handful of other ones, and they are commonly used
at local lube shops. A lot of guys use them,
but they don't work on the Kias for some reasons.
It's always Kias and big block Chevyes for some reason.

Speaker 10 (18:12):
I really don't even want the car anymore. I think
it's just a ticking time bomb. I just I don't
know what how to sell it. I can't sell it
to an individual because I think the engine's just gonna
blow out on well, the quickest thing to do anything
with the engine the way it is.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
But it might not be an engine problem.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah, so I'm saying it could be as easy as
changing the oil and going back with a good filter.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
So, Hondi and Kia are the same car company, Okay,
And we have run across this recently and it came
it came from a different shop and the same kind
of situation you had. We did some investigation, went back
with a Kia or Hondai oil filter and the pressure
came back up. Everything was perfect, no problems.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
What's so? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay, yeah, before we toss the car out, let's let's
try this simple thing. Let's let's put a factory oil
filter on it, fill it back up to see where
it's at, and he can run another pressure test and
see and then from there we can make decisions on yeah,
I don't want this anymore, or.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
And what to do.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
But we have we have solved this exact problem with
a simple oil change, oil change and oil filter. A
ten dollars oil filter solves this whole problem.

Speaker 10 (19:31):
Okay, And you recommended which which.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Brand like A at this particular point, do a factory?

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yep, do a factory because I have a Hondai too,
and I like the car, and I only use a
factory filter, always have from day one, just because of
that's the way I've done it, and I've never had
an issue. But that's what I would. Don't don't try
any other filter. Since we're trying to diagnose something. Let's

(19:57):
go back to the exact filter that Hondai or Kia
had out there, and let's see if our problem resolves itself.
If it does, that's how you change the oil.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Moving forward forever Okay, so like a plan.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Shouldn't be that way, but when you're in diagnostic mode,
you have to try to figure out what's going on
first and then kind.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Of figured out after that.

Speaker 10 (20:20):
All Right, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
You bat calls back if you need some more help.
Appreciate the call. Yeah, that's kind of a weird deal
in Nikyle.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, and we've seen a bunch of them.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, all of a sudden, like, yeah, it wasn't like
this has been a year or two things go on.
This has been just recently that we have seen in
the last six months that we've seen a lot of
this kind of happening with just oil filters and funny things.
So something may have been changed in the process of
aftermarket filters that we're not aware of. So could be

(20:51):
all right, five, five, eight, eleven, tens the numbers to
get in. We'll be back in a minute. Head over
to Kevin's got a two thousand and f one fifty Kevin,
what's up today?

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Good?

Speaker 11 (21:02):
Yeah, I've got twenty ten h F two fifth or
f one fifty uh platinum, and my problem is is, uh, the.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
Battery light is on.

Speaker 11 (21:17):
I've tried to clear it didn't clear when.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
I pulled up the scan on it.

Speaker 11 (21:22):
It said something about the audio. But I checked the
battery and uh, and the battery is running fourteen point eight.
Is that too high for a.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Battery at IDOL? I would think so, depending on the
reserve of the battery.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, it's kind of at the top. You're runn anywhere
from thirteen seven to fifteen two? Is your is your top?
That your your your marks where you want to be.
But it sounds to me like your all Nator's charging. Okay,
But you can have an all Nator bad just even
though the allinator's charging okay.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
I mean the regulator be bad inside of it, right,
I mean that's what we have to We aren't looking
at the big lead in this point, this particular scenario,
We're looking at the two smaller wires.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Going to it.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
I would check the connector on the back of that aldinator,
kind of wiggled around a little bit, because it is
kind of plastic and flimsy. Maybe even pull it off
and see if it's burnt on the inside. That that
would be more of what I would go towards. Wiggled
around a little bit and see if that light goes
off in the dash because the regulator, just like Kyle said,
can be bad. The allninator is still charging. Okay, but

(22:31):
what turns that light off in the dash is the
aldinator and various other things. But that's the first most
common thing that does that on that truck.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, okay, what what's what the audio.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
Codes on it? I forgot exactly what code it was.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
But does your radio work?

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (22:52):
I'm on it right now.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Yeah, okay, I wouldn't. I wouldn't read too much into that.
Let's get your alternator fixed and see what's happening there.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Because let me tell you what.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
We hook up the cars and we go through the
entire modules one through twenty, and there are codes all
over the place and just about every module of something somewhere,
and nobody is complaining about anything. So we don't really
we're not going to look to try to fix problems
that people don't have.

Speaker 11 (23:20):
But I know it's not good. But this life's been
on for almost a year and I've never I thought
it would show itself, but it really never did.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
So that's interesting, so I don't.

Speaker 11 (23:33):
Yeah, I'll try that.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, well, if it's been on for a year now, Kevin,
I mean, this is now you're used to it, Now
what are you gonna.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Do about it?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
So, yeah, this is what to do without it.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Now, if this was a week or so, i'd say
better get If it's been on for a year, I
see no reason that we can't stretch this to eighteen
months and then maybe twenty four months. I mean I
would get myself a triple A membership and then see
how far I can taco.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
I know I shouldn't have said that, but.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
That's a challenge. You just you just threw a challenge
up it is.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
I mean, I was, like I said, I was hoping
that it would show itself.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
You're right, I figure out exactly.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
What it was.

Speaker 11 (24:16):
But I thought I thought fourteen point eight was a
little high. But to me it is.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, the first place I'm going to use that alternator.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, the battery is a little bit weak. It's trying
to put more in on a freshly charged, I'm brand
new kind of battery.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
That number is probably coming down a little bit.

Speaker 11 (24:34):
So yeah, okay, all right, Well thanks guys, I watched
your show or listening.

Speaker 6 (24:39):
To your show all the time.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
We appreciate you listening. Thanks, thanks for calling. All right,
we're going to head back to Larry. Larry's got a
two thousand and eighteen Colorado. Larry, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (24:51):
Hi, how you doing?

Speaker 12 (24:52):
Yeah? I got twenty eighteen Colorado and I had and
it was the engine light was coming on and the
fan kept going. So I went to o'riley's and they
say it was possibly the temperature coolant temperature sensor. My
problem is is I watched a few videos and I

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tried and I took out the coolant temperature sensor. I
got it taken out, but I can't seem to get
the new one threaded in there. See if you guys
had any advice.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
To So what code did you have in the computer
to start with?

Speaker 6 (25:33):
Gosh?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
I can't remember it, Okay, no problem. I just thought
i'd ask.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
So your fans are staying on all the time, so
it's going in protect mode, Kyle, So it's uh, you
could have a cooling fan or cooling switch.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
I don't really replace many, if agreed at all, coolant
temperature sensors in Chevrolet. It's generally a thermostat or the
coolant is low causing this code.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
That's why I ask what the codes were in there?
I would expect we're gonna have a PO one twenty
eight in there for a thermostat problem. Sure, and then
the fan kicks on to it kicks on high to
protect itself from overheating because it thinks it's gonna overheat.

Speaker 12 (26:16):
Uh yeah, that code, That code sounds familiar.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Okay. So I mean as far as getting the temperature
center in there, I mean, does it look physically like
the same censor? It does, okay? And the thread pitch
is right. There was there a bunch of goop and
glue on this one when you pulled it out, a
bunch of thread sealer.

Speaker 10 (26:40):
There there wasn't okay.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Is the old one still good?

Speaker 12 (26:47):
Well it's not so good now, okay?

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Okay? All right?

Speaker 4 (26:51):
So I mean getting it threaded back in there. I
mean it's just kind of by the state of your pants.
You just kind of get it lined up and try
a couple of things.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
You know.

Speaker 12 (27:01):
I tried all kinds of tools and could get it
back on if I had to take it to mechanic shop.
Could I get it to a shop without that in there?

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Well, you're gonna overheat.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, you're gonna You're gonna need to sew it.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
So do you still have the old one. I mean,
are the thread portions of it still good to where
you could get a Wrencher tool on it? Yeah, okay,
can you run that one in there, run it back
and forth a few times, clean up those threads really good,
then try the new one.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
So just because you got a new one doesn't mean
the threads are any good. So let's try installing the
old switch, even if it's broke, and then we can say, okay,
I can put this in and out. And if you
can put it in and out and the new one
won't go in, then you need to take that one
back and get a good one, another one, maybe a
different brand, and then see if that one goes in.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
So I don't have to.

Speaker 12 (27:51):
Take off the manifold to get to that, because I've
seen some video there. I said, you have to take
off the manifold.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is that how you took it off? Did you take
it off to get the switch out?

Speaker 12 (28:02):
I did not take it off to get the switch out.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
If you got it out that way, you should be
able to put it back in that way. M h.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
There you go, all right.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
You just might be coming from threads that are bugged
up a little bit. And that's that's why Kyle wants
to have you put the old one back in so
to see if it actually threads back in. If it does,
then you know you got a new part problem. Yep,
new me You know new means never ever worked, right,
That's what new means.

Speaker 12 (28:29):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
And then while you're at the part store, if that
is all, if the if the threads are screwed up,
and you've got to put a new one in, get
a new one, and then get a thermostat and change
both of them at the same time.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Clear the code a bit. Your problems gone awesome, Appreciate
the call, Larry, all right, thank you, you bet all right.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
We're gonna take a quick break, come back answer the
rest of the calls in just a minute. We are
Buchanning Service Centers at fiftieth and Dodge. Eightieth and Dodge
Guaranteed Breaks, forty ninth Avenue and Dodge stop in see us.
Let's get that car back on the road. We're gonna
hit over to Charles. Charles has got a seven Dodge, Charles,
what's up today?

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
Fell has been listening to you guys on and off
for quite a few years, so My issue is when
I go to fill my truck up. Okay, I just
fill it up, and you know when it clicks, I
pull it out now when I go, and if I
have to make a semi quick stop within the first

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I don't know, probably fifty miles or less, it'll sometimes
shut off on me. It'll like it stumbles and it'll
it'll just die and then I wait a couple of
seconds turned on, boom it'll go.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
But it'll do that.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
Until I burn off I don't know, like a Gollon
or two. For some strange reason.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Is there any check engine light on in this truck?

Speaker 5 (30:02):
No?

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Okay, no check engine line. So the only thing relating
your problem to filling it up with gas is the
purge system. So I guess if I'm the guy under
the hood, I'm gonna look at the purge solenoid or
is it pulling vacuum when it shouldn't be? Is it

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stuck open? That's a general concern. I mean, we see
it day in and day out. People pull in fill
up their tank with gas. You hear them out there
long cranking the car yep, and we know what the
problem is.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
But the only other problem beyond that would be something
like the vapor canister you know, over in nearly twenty
years could be saturated to the point where it's full,
and when you're filling it full, you're just it can't
handle anymore.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
But both of these are that we're describing generally come
with codes. Yeah, they will generally set either a code
for the engine running rich or an EVAPP system issue.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, which also that that filling the canister also comes
back to the evap problem or the purge.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
The purges.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
The purge is what puts vapors back into the engine
as you're driving down the road. It kicks on as
you're driving down the road when you let off the gas.
So does that purge that should slam shut and not
allow any vapor at idle exactly. So that may be
why it may be not fully broken yet. It might
be just a little pulling, just a little bit of

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fumes in it. You'll know when it pulls a lot
of fumes because.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
It'll it won't run.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah, it'll flood out when you do that. And then
this happens a lot because you're feeling you're filling the tank,
but you have to displace all that air that's in
the tank and that just floods the lines and goes
right into the engine.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's why that does that.

Speaker 7 (31:52):
Yeah, and it doesn't And it doesn't matter whether I'm
filling it slow or fast.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
You gotta dispell the end.

Speaker 7 (32:02):
Once every once, every couple. I mean, it's got two
hundred and eight thousand miles on it and it's been
doing it for the last essentially ever since I bought
it when it had like one hundred and forty thousand
on it.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Okay, well you got the same problem as a guy
in the F one fifty. It's it's gone on long
enough now that it's a it's a game. It's just
part of your day, part of your day. This is
a Thursday afternoon, is.

Speaker 11 (32:27):
What this is.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
Yeah, I mean so, I mean, I mean, do I
really have anything to worry about or anything or just
deal with it?

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Not for the most party, you know, I go try
a purge valve on it, and uh that's going to
be thirty forty bucks. If you want, you can start
it up, take the hoses off, Take the hose off
the one side that's coming from the gas tank, and
see if it's got vacuum on it, if it has
a little bit of.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Vacuum on it. Change it. You're done.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
It's got two hoses. Two hoses coming from.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
The intake manifold supplies vacuum to this solnoidea and the
other side goes back to your tank.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
So one side you's gonna have eighteen inches of vacuum.
You know that's not your side, So pull the one
off so that goes to the back of the car.
If there's any vacuum coming out of that solinoid, you
know it's bad.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Replace it.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Yeah, okay, all right, thank you guys, you back.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Appreciate it the call.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
All right, we've got time for one more. All right,
we're gonna head over to Brett. Brett's got a twenty
sixteen f No fifty f two fifty. Sorry, I tried
to upsell you there, Brett.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
What's up.

Speaker 9 (33:37):
Yeah, So I've got a two thousand and six Ford
f two fifty. It's got two hundred and twenty six
thousand miles on it. I've done about everything you can
do to it as far as aesthetics, and the engine's
never been it's that six liter diesel. It's never been
anything done to it or whatever runs great. Drives great
down the road or whatever. But I've had it a

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couple of years now, and I hell at all once
a year. So when I get a load of you know,
two three thousand or more on it and I go
for a little while down the road, the wrench light
will come on and uh, you know, to lose a
little power. I'll feel it flow down or whatever, and
so basically I'll have to stop, turn it off.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Turn it back on.

Speaker 9 (34:18):
The wrench goes away, I go down the road and
then it'll you know, can hit it again or whatever.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
But