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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
By how you're walking.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check engine lights, don't stand a chance. This is
the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, Kfab.
Speaker 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.
Get in early so we can fill up those lines
and get good questions. Get your question answered. You know
you got the questions. We'll give you the answers and
help you along. Either we know exactly what it is
or it can help you along that line. So I'm
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Bob along with Kyle as always. Kyle, good morning. Yeah,
what a great day.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
To go work on your car? Is I mean, it's
jack it up. Get a great day to have me
work on your car an even better idea?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Absolutely, you know, Kyle, I mean what does what does
your car say about you? What was the name of
your car say about you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I was hoping you weren't going to go by the
image of cars. No, no, no, no, I mean guy
lives in a garbage dump.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I mean we don't have cars that are just
named one, two, and three. I mean we have cars
it's got names on them, you know, and status thing.
Well yeah, I mean it's Toyota. There you go. I mean,
are are you a are you a cowboy? Do you
have a King Ranch? Do you got a Bronco? Do
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you have a range Rover? I mean you're just not
sitting still? Are and are you a wrangler? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
If you got arranged it over, you better not own
a T shirt. This is suit and tie kind of car, right, lariat?
Maybe you know, are you a bagabond? Do you gotta
be you gotta Are you an outlander? I mean you
got to escape?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you have to? Are you a rebel? I mean,
you know, just one of those kind of things. So, uh,
I mean, just what does your car do you have
chrome all over the place, are you simple? You know?
It's uh, there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Factors that go into picking the right car for you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah. Do you have some of the fake chrome on
every corner that that is possibly to lift the hood, trunk, doors,
and roof, just wrap the car.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Just a thought, just a thought. So if you have
your It's an interesting question, isn't it though?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I mean, if you have some if you have some
answers out there, you know that tell us what you are.
I mean you have to go back through with all
those cars and or you or you just bought the
car because you liked it and the name on it
was just what it happened to be. Or did you
buy the car because you're a rebel and you have
to have to get a rebel, you know, I don't know.
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It's interesting the manufacturers didn't do that by mistake.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No, I mean when what it was calculated? What goes
into naming a car? I mean, do they actually really
think it through?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think they do. Yeah, Because the Cadillacs went to
UH after the after the new regime kind of took
over many years ago, they went to the like the
the two hundred, I don't remember them all, but two hundred,
four hundred and six hundred. You know, they kind of
got rid of the El Dorado Brits. You know, there's
another one got to be I'm my Brohm. Yeah, actually,
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you know, so they got rid of all those particular
names and just but I.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Guess I guess where I'm going with that is I
drive a Ford falcon exactly, you know, and everybody. I mean,
if you know the bird of Falcony, that's a very
fast bird, fastest bird in the world. Yeah, this car
is not fast. Well, but it was for that day
when it came out, wasn't it not?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Really? Well? It beat the Volkswagen back then. Sure, I
guess we'll give it that. We'll ponder that some more
as we go through the show. We're gonna head over
to Doug. Doug's got a twenty seventeen CRB. Doug, what's
up today?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Hi, guys, Thanks to take my call. It's actually a
two thousand and seven CRV. No questions come generally. I
just inherited the car and I'm given to my daughter
and I wanted to go through and make sure I
had everything done. What I've done so far is I
had new you know, oil filter change, the plugs flushed,
the break system, changed the the transmission food, and a
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rear diff and I had the brakes and everyone was inspected,
so the breaks bakes look good. The car had a
good providence, you know on my mother in law just
never drove it that much. It only had about hundred
and five thousand on it, and it's a good shape.
But I'm curious what else should I be doing with
this car, well besides maybe changing the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Radiar food, Well, not too much. I think you've covered
a lot of the maintenance portion of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, I mean if it hasn't had a coolant flush,
I mean that's recommended every five years.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So yeah, which is good to do. You just started
over from ground, you know, from zero, and just kind
of went back again so you know where your records lie.
And if that stuff had been done, great, If it hadn't,
then then you did it again. And then you know,
I'd say you'd probably just go through it and do
a good inspection on it, you know, just check tire,
rode in and all that kind of stuff and just
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you know, maintain it from there.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I had the car in for a recall because it
had a frame issue and hon to fix that and
so that was fine. They didn't safety inspection at the time,
so they inspected you know, all of the drive tre
and so forth. And the brakes have got like four
or five milli later on the on the pad, so
those are good, but three are That's the thing I
thought about that probably something should be done that it
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hasn't been done for years, so play to break fuid.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I would agree. I would do the an freeze for sure,
because that that's stuff. The chemicals break down and ana
freeze and it just doesn't protect. We use ana freeze
mostly for you know, uh, corrosion protection and the temperature.
That's really the only two reasons you'd use it.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I mean, the only other thing that you could do.
I mean, just drive the car yourself for a couple
of weeks a week, two weeks. Try everything in the
car right, Does everything work? Does the AC work, does
the fan work, does the fan make noise? The seat
belts work, do all the work console, you know, stuff
like that, because that's all the convenience stuff that a
person behind the wheel is going to notice. I mean,
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we notice all the meticulous things and the mechanical workings
of the car you have. But I mean I can
tell you, you know, we go through the car, you know,
make sure all the seats move, make sure this works,
doesn't have a spare tire, all that kind of stuff.
But I mean there's always something that a convenience factor
that only the consumer uomer recognizes, Like I don't like
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where this arm rest sits? Should we look at that?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
The car had kind of a noise driving on the
high We thought perhaps it was you know, wheel bearing
or some of the transmissions. Turned out it was just
bad old tires and change the tires. Now the cars
remorkably quiet.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yep, yep. That'll do that soft rubber on the ground.
It makes a world of difference and noise and how
the car goes every every year that those tires get
every year that goes by, they get harder every year,
and then to the point where we get eight ten
years on them, they're just rock hard. So yeah, no,
I think you're doing great. I think you're doing great.
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Keep it up, drive like, drive it a little bit
like Kyle said, and if you don't notice anything, just
uh take it and run it and run it up
to a couple.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Couple hundred thousand miles. Yeah, yeah, CRV. It'll go forever.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Thank you guys, appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You bet, Doug appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna
head over to Robert. Robert's got an O four Ford Ranger. Robert,
what's up today?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Well, I've got the Ford Rangers, got fifty six thousand
miles on it. It's never given me any trouble except
the other day. I was going to the doctor. I
get in it. It started fine. I drove it to
the doctor's office. It set for about an hour. When
I come out to restart it, it wasn't right. It
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was like chugging and sputtering. I made it home and
all this time I could hear a kind of a
clicking sound going on, but my ears are not that great.
So I get it in the driveway. I shut it
off and it would never start. It would just like
chug a couple of times and quit, chug a couple
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of times and quit.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
So I pushed it.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
In the groage. Let it set all night. The next
morning I go out and I thought, well, I'll take
another look at it. It started fine. That's the story.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
I was wondering maybe what I heard is the fuel pump,
but my ears aren't that good, but it could almost have.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Been a fuel pump.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Other than that, I don't but now I can't trust it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well. In order to fix it, we got to make
it happen again. Yeah, and then we got to see
what isn't right? Is our spark not right? Is our
fuel not right? We can assume we're getting air. Yeah,
so that's what we're down to. We're gonna put a
fuel pressure gauge on it. We're going to test some spark.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah. Unfortunately, that's what's going to have to happen. I
know you don't kind of trust it right now, but
Kyle's exactly right. We've got to We've got to go
down through our progressions and the air, fuel, spark, injector pulse,
you know, timing. We know the timing is probably okay
because it runs fine. Now, Yeah, I know the exhaust
is fine. Does that run fine? So we can rule
out of mechanical Yeah, because everything back is back to normal,
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So we'll rule out the exhaust, will rule out timing.
You know, you're back down to air, fuel spark and
injector pulse injector pulse just kind of comes from the
computer and the crank.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Sensor fuel filter. It almost did when I try to
start like it wasn't getting killed, like starting and quit
starting quit.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
No, well, ignition will do the same thing. Yeah, but we've,
like I say, we've got to figure out where our
issue is.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And that's gonna A plugged filter is always a plug filter.
It doesn't magically clean itself.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So if it's running now and going fine, it's it's
not that it's always going to be plugged.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
A fuel pump can work fine and then not work fine.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, because he heated up and then the connections pull
apart electrically all of a sudden, it doesn't work. You
have your problem. It's sat in a nice cool garage
overnight and said I'm fine now and up it goes.
So what you what you need to do is uh
take it to your garage. You know you're the mechanical
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to use. If in just leave it with him and
maybe this is a day process, Maybe this is a
two day process, maybe this is a week process. If
you don't trust it, then let him drive it around.
He's been stranded more than once.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You know, we're used to it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We're used to it, so uh and that's what we want.
We want to be stranded so we can get out
of the car and say, okay, what am I missing?
Real quick and it helps us figure out what it is.
So home, we got a tow truck.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, we just made a phone call. Yeah, somebody come
and get us. Somebody come get well, you can call us.
We got a tow truck and just have you come.
We'll come get you. But that gets kind of expensive
over a period of time, so you know, but you know,
if not bring it to us, we'll we'll do exactly that.
Like you said, it's just part of working on cars.
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Part of working on cars is getting stranded. And every
mechanic at some points out there has gotten stranded.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
All right, I appreciate you, bet.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Robert shit call. All right, we're gonna take quick break
on the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight, eleven, tens
and numbers to get in with back in a minute.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
I was driving down a long and dusty road.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
My costs but a.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Dead and dropped a heavy load. The tow truck drivers said,
can I ask you why? Look at my cost said
why even waste the time. He said, why bother wasting
all your cash? And I said, I fixed everything on
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this here piece of crash. I fixed everything, man, I
fixed everything. Man, my car's a piece of craft Man,
A big t you west Man. It's cost me too
much cash man, So why fixed everything? I fixed my
air compressor, corporator, intatok, the mobilizer, oil, flinter eder for
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for reader, foster heat.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's a radiator, corkind, it's a winch of wiper, steering,
gaber clutch, matro cylinder and catalytic burger, HVAC.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Tony, gulf steering, calling.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Brank class crank shaft, crank case, prinky wife drive shaft.
I fixed everything, man, I fixed everything. Man, my car's
up piece of craft. Man, A big p o west Man.
It's cost me too much, cash man, So I fix everything.
I've worked on bbsmbg L e Z and G ball
joints during rack, airbags, e t ful bump ball during dipsticks,
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park blocks, kingdon power steering, CBD look done.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Remote starter, power train, supertarter.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Drive gain training, actual.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Transfer case, water pump, wheelbase. I mixed everything, man, I
fixed everything. Man, my car's up piece of craft man. Ah,
big p o west Man. It's cost me too much
cash man. Soh I fix everything? Oh fix see what.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We can help you with? All right, Kyle? So back
to our initial thing here. I mean, do you like
the mountains? Do you like going to tell you? Right?
What about Bighorn? I mean there's you like sheep?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I love sheep?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Are you a pathfinder? Are you a pilot? Maybe you're
just a navigator. You don't know where you're going. You
just want to navigate to wherever? You know? Are you
Grand Chero or Tacoma like you mentioned before? Yeah, back
back in the mountains again? Where a Tahoe or Santa Fe.
Maybe you like it warm? So I mean what what really?
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What's uh?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But you know I don't know that they have a
car for me?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, and and why don't we have a.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Brand new twenty twenty five Chevy fishing hole?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So maybe you don't have h I mean, why don't
you have something that's you know, there's no boring ones
like uh maybe the at the snooze mobile or the
napathon you know.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
I mean it's why does Chevy have the Acadia? Well
that sounds it's not even French. No, that sounds aristocratic,
don't it. Arcadia Acadia.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't know. Maybe you like maybe you like Locust.
Maybe it's too close to that. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Gosh, if we couldn't already overthink it exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know, maybe you know you're a lancer or you're
a titan. How's that you tighten? It's this article is
kind of funny. You know, maybe you're a sprinter. You
just you can't go slow anywhere? You got it. I
gotta I'm a sprinter.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I'm gonna buy this giant van.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I gotta have that car because it's a sprinter. I mean,
that thing has to go faster than anything else. That's
that's on this lot. You know, maybe maybe you're in
a group of people you want to be an armada,
so I mean you gotta have a sure defender, a charger.
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It's just interesting. I never thought of it in this
particular context. Just how we go about trying to find
the names for what it is. I mean why Henry
Ford had it pretty simple. I mean, you had a
model A, a T had a T. And most people
are yeah, most people, yeah, most people, you don't know,
they only hear about the Model A and T, but
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they don't realize there was a there was a W
H model Yeah, I'm going to get some of these
wrongs for you guys that had those old ones. But
there was You're right, there was a J, A N,
a W an X, probably not a Q or a T.
Or there was a D, not a Q or a V.
But he went through a lot of the alphabet and
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most now we can't do that, well, not back then.
But you know it's the Model A and the Model
T were probably the most.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, what was the first actual named car that
wasn't just a model number?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's a great question.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean you had to pierce Arrow. I mean that
was a very early car. I mean Hudson Terraplane. That
was a very early car.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
How about if you're you know, part of your country here,
so you got patriot, Patriot the accord, Okay, we agree
on that. The countryman, you know, Mini's got a countryman.
I mean Optima. So I mean you want an optima.
I mean you're you're eternally optimist, Kyle, that's what you are.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Maybe you live in the city, you get a metro
there you go, maybe you're a very intelligent person, so
you get a smart car.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You just want to get good gas mileage. Yeah, I'd
like to drive my lawn chair to work. Put wheels
on this thing. Interesting fact about the smart car while
we're talking about that, because we don't it's and get
a lot of pr on the shows. No, the smart car.
I've had the opportunity of working on quite a few
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of these, but I've just a random observation throughout my
day because you know, generally I don't have much else
to do. But the largest fastener on the smart car
is twenty seven millimeters.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Really, you know what it is? The lug bet.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Nope, oil drain plug is a twenty seven millimeter oil
drain plug. The axle nut on my half ton Chevy
isn't twenty seven millimeters.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And there's not and there's not enough oil in there
to really you could just normal you wouldn't need the an.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's like dump it out a five gallon bucket. Yeah,
you pull this thing out and all your oils out,
it's three courts. You better have to pay him, just right.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
They are a pretty safe car for the size that
they are. I've watched some crash tests on those, and
the sixty million hour crash tests against just go flying. No,
it just it. They deformed the it's going to be
unibody on the inside, like the Saturns are or were.
It's like a roll cage. It's like a roll cage.
Those things hit hard at sixty mile an hour on
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a side and they just would deform a little bit
and just kind of scoot off the side. Everybody got
out of it pretty quickly. It it's amazing how it's
gonna Yeah, it's got a space cage on the inside.
So they for the size of what they were, they
were remarkably safe. Yeah, but they weren't. They weren't designed.
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They were designed for a different part of the world.
They weren't designed for the the big honkin trucks that
are driving down the road, the SUVs and stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And you look like they fit in the back of them.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
No, they fit in the back of them. Yes, absolutely, So.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It was like the BMWi Seta that was like the
early smart car.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh, it's what you had to do in World War
two and that's what you got around in.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
But yeah, they there was a ton of really like
England had the Messer Schmidt.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
And if you guys ever watched Adam's Family when cousin
n it pulls up to the party, that's a Messer
Schmidt car. It was an actual car. And then there's
some other I forget what it was called over in Britain.
So I was watching a thing like the World's Smallest car.
It's like a one seat deal and it's really small,
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small it's like a phone booth in there, and they
like the world's strongest man get in there and drive
it around and then drag it on the ground and
he could hardly fit.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They're cool cars. I've I've looked in and worked on
both of them just a little bit. I've I've got
a customer. We've got a customer that has a measure Smitt.
We also have a customer that has an Isaeta and
a couple of customers that have those. So they're kind
of cool. I did. My wife wants one, but I
don't know if we need one. Not here one thought
it gets stuck in a pothole. I mean, those things
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aren't four wheel drive drive. I'm sure, well they're not,
and they're designed it. If you got a you got
a area you can go dry it in, like in
your neighborhood. But I wouldn't want to be on the interstate. No, no,
not at all, not even on a on a halfway
busy two lane road. I wouldn't want to be on it. Goodness,
I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I don't know that I could fit in one.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, you could fit in one. Not you
and your beer, but just you. You could fit in there
for sure. The beer's got a stale. All right, We're
gonna be back five, five, eight, eleven, tens and numbers
to get in. We got some open lines for you,
so give us a call back in a minute. Stop in,
see us, see you. We can get your car back
on the road for you. So maybe you just name
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your car after yourself like Ford did, not after himself,
but for a son Edzel mm hmm. Or maybe we
could have a we had a Henry J. Henry J. Yeah, yeah,
maybe we could uh have a Ford Kyle.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Gosh what I don't even want to know. I don't
even want to know. Man, what would the Ford bob
look like?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I don't know. Truck? Probably truck is some sort I've
always driven truck. So that's pretty much. Convertible truck. Yeah,
convertible truck. You know. Yeah, what I have is the
sun roof now, but you're right, I don't have a
I had a friend of mine that made a convertible
convertible hard top out of a sixty nine L Camino.
Sure it was.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
A sharp, gotta cut off wheel. You can make it anything.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah. He did a great job too. You know, when
it was raining, it was a hard top. When he
when it was a you know, convertible, he just pulled
it off. And I mean you didn't and it was
done professionally, So it's like it was supposed to be
that way. Yeah. Well so one, yeah, maybe maybe you
can just take the name off the back of your
car and put your own name on there.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, maybe you should do that. Why don't they have
generic cars? You know, we got generic everything else. I
mean we got I mean, you could buy generic Raisins.
I mean, you got great value brand Raisins. I mean
I would, I mean for fifteen hundred bucks, I'd buy
a honder CRW.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah. Well they do in Russia. So back in the
in the fifties and the sixties, they used to have
but just the black four door sedan just kind of like, yeah,
there you go, knock off a few numbers. So they
had all the all the cars were the same, all
four Sords today, and all the same motors. I mean,
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everything was the same. So if you're broke and you know,
you had a car sitting over there, you could easily
rob the parts for a fender or what have you
because everything fits the same. I don't think it's so
much like that anymore, but it used to be that way.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Oh yeah, parts were parts back in the day, I mean, Ford, Chevy, anything,
and it was just it was interchangeable across the line.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I mean now everything's specific and they only runs you know,
an X amount of years before they kind of delete that,
and then you got to go try to figure out
where you can find it. There's always a gap right
in there. If you can't find it at the dealership,
you have to go somewhere else to get it. Eventually
you find out after market.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
The funny thing about that, Like you had an old
Chevy truck, I got an old GMC truck fifty three.
So there's those little park light lenses in the front
of the truck, and nobody reproduces them. You can't get
reproductions anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Not on a GMC. No so Chevrolet. You can find
them all over the place.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, but these GMC park light lenses and the housings
that hold them everything, you cannot buy those. No GMC.
You get online, you start talking every well, nobody makes
them anymore. I gotta set I'll say five hundred bucks.
So I'm like, I'm not going to pay five hundred dollars.
So anyway, I'm at my buddy's house and he's got
an old Cadillac fifty Cadillac, and I'm you know, we're
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walking around and talking about the car, you know, normal stuff,
and I see these reverse light lenses and I'm like, okay,
this looks like something maybe possible. So next thing, you know,
he comes back, he's like, what are you doing. I
was like, I'm taking your car apart. Oh okay, well
go ahead whatever. So I take these reverse light lenses
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out there, get out the GM catalog. The reverse light
lens for this Cadillac is the exact same part number
as the park lane. Oh really for the GMC so.
GM used these as reverse lights through nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, so they're out there, they're everywhere, so nobody knows it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They were in the Corvette. You get out of Corvette catalog,
you can buy a new RePOP set for forty bucks.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Interesting, so nobody knew that and tell you that the
millions of people.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Until I just figured it out. How I just shared
it with the world.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh my gosh, how many millions of people know it
now that you just shared with it? At least a couple.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, watch out for your Corvette. Somebody's gonna rode your tail.
That would make up an old farm truck. That would
make sense. They probably needed some GMC stuff and they
needed to make this upscale truck. And well, GMC when
you and Cadillac were made in the same building.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, when I just pulled stuff off the shelter and
just make that fit and just throw it over there.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, they had a bunch of them, wow, because all
the cars had them had reverse lights. But you know,
only the GMC trucks, which weren't really as popular as
as Chevy, so they didn't sell that many because they
were what two hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
More, Yeah, they were two hundred bucks more, but they
were kind of the gentleman's truck, and it was just
an upscale. That's the one. You know, you went to
work with the Chevy and you went to Church and
the GMC. Yeah, and uh that's yeah, it's just kind
of gone from there. But that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
No, nineteen fifty three GMC was also the very first
year you could get an automatic transmission in any truck, Ford, Chevy, whatever,
first year you can get it out of it.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I'm guessing you got one of those.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I got two, five, five, eight eleven tens the number
if you want to buy a hydramatic setup for a
GMC Chevy truck.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
There you go, he got the number. Radio radio till noon.
All right, we're gonna head over to Jim. Jim's got
a fourteen Nissan Row. Jim, what's up today?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Well, a couple of weeks ago you were talking about
the ds on of vehicles that have possibility of a
bad transmission and that there's no fixing them, that you
have to replace it. Is that true?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That is true? I don't if you have to go
internal of them or by switches for them, then they
just don't sell. Maybe sell an external switch. I've not
seen much of that go bad, but anything internal, yeah,
you just replace the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
My thought is, could you take that transmission out, completely
replace it and put it like a generator? Who could
generator to it and run electric motor to the rear
ends or the front end for propulsion. Would that be
a possibility?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
No, then you'd have a hybrid.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Would that you could have be done? Though?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well theoretically yes, theoretically yes. And you see a lot
of things on youtubes and things like that, the people
that have taken like, for example, the last one I
seen was a guy that took the engine out of
a little Honda Civic and put a boat motor in
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there and took off the prop and took a chain
to it, and and yeah, yeah, he got the welder
out and everything else, and you poll start this two
stroke and was driving around without a hood on with
the with the boat motor sticking out the hood of
this car.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
So yes, if you got a welder, a cutoff wheel,
imagination and imagination twenty thirty feet a wire, you're good
to go.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Do you bet?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Now? That would be off the shelf somewhere if somebody had.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
No, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
These are guys with way too much time and and
uh with nothing to do but a YouTube channel, and
they make it work. I mean, I'm amazed at some
of the stuff that they do.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Well, I had something similar. I have a snowblower that
I wasn't using that took off the blower part and
attached the generator to it, and I've got a small
acreage and I drive it up there. It's self propelled.
I drive it out there and I run an electric
chainsaw off of it for cutting up treat limbs and
stuff like that. That's why I thought that if that's
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possible for that re using that snowboll or, would it
be possible to do something like that with a car.
You know, although you know, I'm not very gift today
that I was just hoping that somebody may already had
talked this over and came up with a kit that
could be done to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You know, well, I'm convinced if you've thought about it,
somebody's already tried it. You just have to get a
hold of that guy that's tried it and help helping
perfect what's going on, because yeah, it's there's some people
out there that that's just the way their mind works,
and they they would rather break it so they could
figure out to fix it a different way.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Well, I'll retired. I thought maybe I could start a
little cottage in the street, taking people's own rogues and repurposing,
you know, take a few bucks on the side. If
I knew enough to make it plausible, I could drive
around town with a sign. You know, you watch a
roade covered it over call tact me, I can do it.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, absolutely, Hey, you got a new business. You got
to do potential thriving business there until they fix their problem.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah. So it was just a thought. You know, I
heard that my Nissan's getting up there closely where you
said about eighty thousand miles. They might start following apart,
So as anticipating that might happen, if I had already
something on the drawing board test to what to do
if that happens, you.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Know, yeah, absolutely, yeah, you got plans already. I would
stay up late if I were you and start making plans.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah. Yeah, I got the problem. Not much to do.
I don't play golf, I don't fish. I'm retired, and
I don't have a lot of time for I got
a lot of time for stuff like that, you know, Yeah,
a unique you know, something off the wall, you know,
a lot of times you were in a situation like that,
you may come up with something that may never occur
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to you if you had, you know, a regular full
time job, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's part of what we do is
trying to you know, figure it out in cars. And
sometimes you have to work around to work around the problem,
to solve a problem, or you got to make something
to make it work. So until you can fix it
the correct way, you got to figure out how to
you know, get it done in the meantime. So, yeah,
it's fun to keep your brain going for sure.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Yeah. Yeah, So I just you mentioned that last week
you had a problem with these Nissans, and I was
just thinking about what a guy could do if that
happened outside just giving new transmission, you might be able
to have something that's actually more functional, you know, you know,
electric motor at the rear would probably I don't know
if you have better traction or better road control with
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an electric drive system than than a regular mechanical one.
I don't know if that would be these hybrids they
got electric wheels, how do they get to the power
to the drive mechanism of the vehicles that I don't know.
Much about these hybrids.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, it's just through the transmission. I mean they've got
that kind of thing too. And then they got the
electric motors are right out at the wheels. So Jim,
I got to take a quick break and sight hope
got you off. Probably sorry about that, but we've gotta
take a quick break. We'll be back on the Miss
Mechanics Show in just a minute. Talk to Larry real
click Larry. We got a couple of minutes. What's up today?
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Oh hey, I just wanted to say thank you. I
called you about my estate hoe.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Well show a month or.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
More ago, wasn't run bre aged. So anyway, I took
it to one shop and they charged one hundred and
fifty dollars. Had drove it down there, had to push
it home. They sent it out with a dead battery. Anyway,
I took it to another guy and he figured out
that the gear on the timing belt was moving around
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on the end of the crank shift.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
And I happened to have all them parts and uh
he salvage did he? He told me I need the
new crank shaft and then got the looking at it.
In the meantime, I canceled my insurance on it.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, and uh, he got.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
The look and he claimed cleaned up the end of
the shaft and figured he could salvage it if I
had the parts, and I did so he got it
running for me.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So the key way was okay, but the just a
the harmonic balancer had just been kind of damaged a
little bit, so it was moving.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
Well, it's a manual transmission, you know. It doesn't have
a harmonic balancer.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
You bet it does.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yep, it does well.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
All it is the gear that puts on me in
the crank scheft, that drives the chain.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, the chain, the belt yeah yeah, yeah, so no,
it has it it. Uh. Sometimes that metals a little soft.
Sometimes it moves back and forth. Every time he shut
the car off, it jerks it back and forth. And
we've seen the same thing happen.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Uh, I've got the tourists were good for it.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The Chryslers also had a problem with it. When they
had timing belts, they would jump and they used to
have pins that held them in place, and some had
actual The.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Last one of those I saw was in a newer
Ford truck with that V six with timing chain issues.
Had already done the timing chain, and it came to
me because it's setting timing codes. And so in the
reading for reinstalling this thing, you have to replace the
crank bolt because it's torque to stretch bolts. So it
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bottomed out well, it left the balancers a little bit loose,
a little bit loose, stripped out the keyway
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
By how you're walking.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check engine lights, don't stand a chance. This is
the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, Kfab.
Speaker 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.
Get in early so we can fill up those lines
and get good questions. Get your question answered. You know
you got the questions. We'll give you the answers and
help you along. Either we know exactly what it is
or it can help you along that line. So I'm
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Bob along with Kyle as always. Kyle, good morning. Yeah,
what a great day.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
To go work on your car? Is I mean, it's
jack it up. Get a great day to have me
work on your car an even better idea?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Absolutely, you know, Kyle, I mean what does what does
your car say about you? What was the name of
your car say about you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I was hoping you weren't going to go by the
image of cars. No, no, no, no, I mean guy
lives in a garbage dump.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I mean we don't have cars that are just
named one, two, and three. I mean we have cars
it's got names on them, you know, and status thing.
Well yeah, I mean it's Toyota. There you go. I mean,
are are you a are you a cowboy? Do you
have a King Ranch? Do you got a Bronco? Do
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you have a range Rover? I mean you're just not
sitting still? Are and are you a wrangler? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
If you got arranged it over, you better not own
a T shirt. This is suit and tie kind of car, right, lariat?
Maybe you know, are you a bagabond? Do you gotta
be you gotta Are you an outlander? I mean you
got to escape?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you have to? Are you a rebel? I mean,
you know, just one of those kind of things. So, uh,
I mean, just what does your car do you have
chrome all over the place, are you simple? You know?
It's uh, there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Factors that go into picking the right car for you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah. Do you have some of the fake chrome on
every corner that that is possibly to lift the hood, trunk, doors,
and roof, just wrap the car.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Just a thought, just a thought. So if you have
your It's an interesting question, isn't it though?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I mean, if you have some if you have some
answers out there, you know that tell us what you are.
I mean you have to go back through with all
those cars and or you or you just bought the
car because you liked it and the name on it
was just what it happened to be. Or did you
buy the car because you're a rebel and you have
to have to get a rebel, you know, I don't know.
(03:16):
It's interesting the manufacturers didn't do that by mistake.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No, I mean when what it was calculated? What goes
into naming a car? I mean, do they actually really
think it through?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think they do. Yeah, Because the Cadillacs went to
UH after the after the new regime kind of took
over many years ago, they went to the like the
the two hundred, I don't remember them all, but two hundred,
four hundred and six hundred. You know, they kind of
got rid of the El Dorado Brits. You know, there's
another one got to be I'm my Brohm. Yeah, actually,
(03:50):
you know, so they got rid of all those particular
names and just but I.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Guess I guess where I'm going with that is I
drive a Ford falcon exactly, you know, and everybody. I mean,
if you know the bird of Falcony, that's a very
fast bird, fastest bird in the world. Yeah, this car
is not fast. Well, but it was for that day
when it came out, wasn't it not?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Really? Well? It beat the Volkswagen back then. Sure, I
guess we'll give it that. We'll ponder that some more
as we go through the show. We're gonna head over
to Doug. Doug's got a twenty seventeen CRB. Doug, what's
up today?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Hi, guys, Thanks to take my call. It's actually a
two thousand and seven CRV. No questions come generally. I
just inherited the car and I'm given to my daughter
and I wanted to go through and make sure I
had everything done. What I've done so far is I
had new you know, oil filter change, the plugs flushed,
the break system, changed the the transmission food, and a
(04:49):
rear diff and I had the brakes and everyone was inspected,
so the breaks bakes look good. The car had a
good providence, you know on my mother in law just
never drove it that much. It only had about hundred
and five thousand on it, and it's a good shape.
But I'm curious what else should I be doing with
this car, well besides maybe changing the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Radiar food, Well, not too much. I think you've covered
a lot of the maintenance portion of it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Well, I mean if it hasn't had a coolant flush,
I mean that's recommended every five years.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So yeah, which is good to do. You just started
over from ground, you know, from zero, and just kind
of went back again so you know where your records lie.
And if that stuff had been done, great, If it hadn't,
then then you did it again. And then you know,
I'd say you'd probably just go through it and do
a good inspection on it, you know, just check tire,
rode in and all that kind of stuff and just
(05:39):
you know, maintain it from there.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I had the car in for a recall because it
had a frame issue and hon to fix that and
so that was fine. They didn't safety inspection at the time,
so they inspected you know, all of the drive tre
and so forth. And the brakes have got like four
or five milli later on the on the pad, so
those are good, but three are That's the thing I
thought about that probably something should be done that it
(06:02):
hasn't been done for years, so play to break fuid.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I would agree. I would do the an freeze for sure,
because that that's stuff. The chemicals break down and ana
freeze and it just doesn't protect. We use ana freeze
mostly for you know, uh, corrosion protection and the temperature.
That's really the only two reasons you'd use it.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I mean, the only other thing that you could do.
I mean, just drive the car yourself for a couple
of weeks a week, two weeks. Try everything in the
car right, Does everything work? Does the AC work, does
the fan work, does the fan make noise? The seat
belts work, do all the work console, you know, stuff
like that, because that's all the convenience stuff that a
person behind the wheel is going to notice. I mean,
(06:41):
we notice all the meticulous things and the mechanical workings
of the car you have. But I mean I can
tell you, you know, we go through the car, you know,
make sure all the seats move, make sure this works,
doesn't have a spare tire, all that kind of stuff.
But I mean there's always something that a convenience factor
that only the consumer uomer recognizes, Like I don't like
(07:02):
where this arm rest sits? Should we look at that?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
The car had kind of a noise driving on the
high We thought perhaps it was you know, wheel bearing
or some of the transmissions. Turned out it was just
bad old tires and change the tires. Now the cars
remorkably quiet.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yep, yep. That'll do that soft rubber on the ground.
It makes a world of difference and noise and how
the car goes every every year that those tires get
every year that goes by, they get harder every year,
and then to the point where we get eight ten
years on them, they're just rock hard. So yeah, no,
I think you're doing great. I think you're doing great.
(07:37):
Keep it up, drive like, drive it a little bit
like Kyle said, and if you don't notice anything, just
uh take it and run it and run it up
to a couple.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Couple hundred thousand miles. Yeah, yeah, CRV. It'll go forever.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Thank you guys, appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
You bet, Doug appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna
head over to Robert. Robert's got an O four Ford Ranger. Robert,
what's up today?
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Well, I've got the Ford Rangers, got fifty six thousand
miles on it. It's never given me any trouble except
the other day. I was going to the doctor. I
get in it. It started fine. I drove it to
the doctor's office. It set for about an hour. When
I come out to restart it, it wasn't right. It
(08:22):
was like chugging and sputtering. I made it home and
all this time I could hear a kind of a
clicking sound going on, but my ears are not that great.
So I get it in the driveway. I shut it
off and it would never start. It would just like
chug a couple of times and quit, chug a couple
(08:43):
of times and quit.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
So I pushed it.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
In the groage. Let it set all night. The next
morning I go out and I thought, well, I'll take
another look at it. It started fine. That's the story.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
I was wondering maybe what I heard is the fuel pump,
but my ears aren't that good, but it could almost have.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Been a fuel pump.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Other than that, I don't but now I can't trust it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well. In order to fix it, we got to make
it happen again. Yeah, and then we got to see
what isn't right? Is our spark not right? Is our
fuel not right? We can assume we're getting air. Yeah,
so that's what we're down to. We're gonna put a
fuel pressure gauge on it. We're going to test some spark.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah. Unfortunately, that's what's going to have to happen. I
know you don't kind of trust it right now, but
Kyle's exactly right. We've got to We've got to go
down through our progressions and the air, fuel, spark, injector pulse,
you know, timing. We know the timing is probably okay
because it runs fine. Now, Yeah, I know the exhaust
is fine. Does that run fine? So we can rule
out of mechanical Yeah, because everything back is back to normal,
(09:55):
So we'll rule out the exhaust, will rule out timing.
You know, you're back down to air, fuel spark and
injector pulse injector pulse just kind of comes from the
computer and the crank.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Sensor fuel filter. It almost did when I try to
start like it wasn't getting killed, like starting and quit
starting quit.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
No, well, ignition will do the same thing. Yeah, but we've,
like I say, we've got to figure out where our
issue is.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And that's gonna A plugged filter is always a plug filter.
It doesn't magically clean itself.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So if it's running now and going fine, it's it's
not that it's always going to be plugged.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
A fuel pump can work fine and then not work fine.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, because he heated up and then the connections pull
apart electrically all of a sudden, it doesn't work. You
have your problem. It's sat in a nice cool garage
overnight and said I'm fine now and up it goes.
So what you what you need to do is uh
take it to your garage. You know you're the mechanical
(10:58):
to use. If in just leave it with him and
maybe this is a day process, Maybe this is a
two day process, maybe this is a week process. If
you don't trust it, then let him drive it around.
He's been stranded more than once.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You know, we're used to it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We're used to it, so uh and that's what we want.
We want to be stranded so we can get out
of the car and say, okay, what am I missing?
Real quick and it helps us figure out what it is.
So home, we got a tow truck.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, we just made a phone call. Yeah, somebody come
and get us. Somebody come get well, you can call us.
We got a tow truck and just have you come.
We'll come get you. But that gets kind of expensive
over a period of time, so you know, but you know,
if not bring it to us, we'll we'll do exactly that.
Like you said, it's just part of working on cars.
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Part of working on cars is getting stranded. And every
mechanic at some points out there has gotten stranded.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
All right, I appreciate you, bet.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Robert shit call. All right, we're gonna take quick break
on the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight, eleven, tens
and numbers to get in with back in a minute.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
I was driving down a long and dusty road.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
My costs but a.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Dead and dropped a heavy load. The tow truck drivers said,
can I ask you why? Look at my cost said
why even waste the time. He said, why bother wasting
all your cash? And I said, I fixed everything on
(12:34):
this here piece of crash. I fixed everything, man, I
fixed everything. Man, my car's a piece of craft Man,
A big t you west Man. It's cost me too
much cash man, So why fixed everything? I fixed my
air compressor, corporator, intatok, the mobilizer, oil, flinter eder for
(12:54):
for reader, foster heat.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
That's a radiator, corkind, it's a winch of wiper, steering,
gaber clutch, matro cylinder and catalytic burger, HVAC.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Tony, gulf steering, calling.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Brank class crank shaft, crank case, prinky wife drive shaft.
I fixed everything, man, I fixed everything. Man, my car's
up piece of craft. Man, A big p o west Man.
It's cost me too much, cash man, So I fix everything.
I've worked on bbsmbg L e Z and G ball
joints during rack, airbags, e t ful bump ball during dipsticks,
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park blocks, kingdon power steering, CBD look done.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Remote starter, power train, supertarter.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Drive gain training, actual.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Transfer case, water pump, wheelbase. I mixed everything, man, I
fixed everything. Man, my car's up piece of craft man. Ah,
big p o west Man. It's cost me too much
cash man. Soh I fix everything? Oh fix see what.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We can help you with? All right, Kyle? So back
to our initial thing here. I mean, do you like
the mountains? Do you like going to tell you? Right?
What about Bighorn? I mean there's you like sheep?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I love sheep?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Are you a pathfinder? Are you a pilot? Maybe you're
just a navigator. You don't know where you're going. You
just want to navigate to wherever? You know? Are you
Grand Chero or Tacoma like you mentioned before? Yeah, back
back in the mountains again? Where a Tahoe or Santa Fe.
Maybe you like it warm? So I mean what what really?
(14:36):
What's uh?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
But you know I don't know that they have a
car for me?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, and and why don't we have a.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Brand new twenty twenty five Chevy fishing hole?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So maybe you don't have h I mean, why don't
you have something that's you know, there's no boring ones
like uh maybe the at the snooze mobile or the
napathon you know.
Speaker 8 (15:04):
I mean it's why does Chevy have the Acadia? Well
that sounds it's not even French. No, that sounds aristocratic,
don't it. Arcadia Acadia.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't know. Maybe you like maybe you like Locust.
Maybe it's too close to that. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Gosh, if we couldn't already overthink it exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know, maybe you know you're a lancer or you're
a titan. How's that you tighten? It's this article is
kind of funny. You know, maybe you're a sprinter. You
just you can't go slow anywhere? You got it. I
gotta I'm a sprinter.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I'm gonna buy this giant van.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I gotta have that car because it's a sprinter. I mean,
that thing has to go faster than anything else. That's
that's on this lot. You know, maybe maybe you're in
a group of people you want to be an armada,
so I mean you gotta have a sure defender, a charger.
(16:06):
It's just interesting. I never thought of it in this
particular context. Just how we go about trying to find
the names for what it is. I mean why Henry
Ford had it pretty simple. I mean, you had a
model A, a T had a T. And most people
are yeah, most people, yeah, most people, you don't know,
they only hear about the Model A and T, but
(16:27):
they don't realize there was a there was a W
H model Yeah, I'm going to get some of these
wrongs for you guys that had those old ones. But
there was You're right, there was a J, A N,
a W an X, probably not a Q or a T.
Or there was a D, not a Q or a V.
But he went through a lot of the alphabet and
(16:48):
most now we can't do that, well, not back then.
But you know it's the Model A and the Model
T were probably the most.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, what was the first actual named car that
wasn't just a model number?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's a great question.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I mean you had to pierce Arrow. I mean that
was a very early car. I mean Hudson Terraplane. That
was a very early car.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
How about if you're you know, part of your country here,
so you got patriot, Patriot the accord, Okay, we agree
on that. The countryman, you know, Mini's got a countryman.
I mean Optima. So I mean you want an optima.
I mean you're you're eternally optimist, Kyle, that's what you are.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Maybe you live in the city, you get a metro
there you go, maybe you're a very intelligent person, so
you get a smart car.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You just want to get good gas mileage. Yeah, I'd
like to drive my lawn chair to work. Put wheels
on this thing. Interesting fact about the smart car while
we're talking about that, because we don't it's and get
a lot of pr on the shows. No, the smart car.
I've had the opportunity of working on quite a few
(18:07):
of these, but I've just a random observation throughout my
day because you know, generally I don't have much else
to do. But the largest fastener on the smart car
is twenty seven millimeters.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Really, you know what it is? The lug bet.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Nope, oil drain plug is a twenty seven millimeter oil
drain plug. The axle nut on my half ton Chevy
isn't twenty seven millimeters.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And there's not and there's not enough oil in there
to really you could just normal you wouldn't need the an.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It's like dump it out a five gallon bucket. Yeah,
you pull this thing out and all your oils out,
it's three courts. You better have to pay him, just right.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
They are a pretty safe car for the size that
they are. I've watched some crash tests on those, and
the sixty million hour crash tests against just go flying. No,
it just it. They deformed the it's going to be
unibody on the inside, like the Saturns are or were.
It's like a roll cage. It's like a roll cage.
Those things hit hard at sixty mile an hour on
(19:13):
a side and they just would deform a little bit
and just kind of scoot off the side. Everybody got
out of it pretty quickly. It it's amazing how it's
gonna Yeah, it's got a space cage on the inside.
So they for the size of what they were, they
were remarkably safe. Yeah, but they weren't. They weren't designed.
(19:33):
They were designed for a different part of the world.
They weren't designed for the the big honkin trucks that
are driving down the road, the SUVs and stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And you look like they fit in the back of them.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
No, they fit in the back of them. Yes, absolutely, So.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It was like the BMWi Seta that was like the
early smart car.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh, it's what you had to do in World War
two and that's what you got around in.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
But yeah, they there was a ton of really like
England had the Messer Schmidt.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
And if you guys ever watched Adam's Family when cousin
n it pulls up to the party, that's a Messer
Schmidt car. It was an actual car. And then there's
some other I forget what it was called over in Britain.
So I was watching a thing like the World's Smallest car.
It's like a one seat deal and it's really small,
(20:24):
small it's like a phone booth in there, and they
like the world's strongest man get in there and drive
it around and then drag it on the ground and
he could hardly fit.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They're cool cars. I've I've looked in and worked on
both of them just a little bit. I've I've got
a customer. We've got a customer that has a measure Smitt.
We also have a customer that has an Isaeta and
a couple of customers that have those. So they're kind
of cool. I did. My wife wants one, but I
don't know if we need one. Not here one thought
it gets stuck in a pothole. I mean, those things
(20:53):
aren't four wheel drive drive. I'm sure, well they're not,
and they're designed it. If you got a you got
a area you can go dry it in, like in
your neighborhood. But I wouldn't want to be on the interstate. No, no,
not at all, not even on a on a halfway
busy two lane road. I wouldn't want to be on it. Goodness,
I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I don't know that I could fit in one.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, you could fit in one. Not you
and your beer, but just you. You could fit in there
for sure. The beer's got a stale. All right, We're
gonna be back five, five, eight, eleven, tens and numbers
to get in. We got some open lines for you,
so give us a call back in a minute. Stop in,
see us, see you. We can get your car back
on the road for you. So maybe you just name
(21:37):
your car after yourself like Ford did, not after himself,
but for a son Edzel mm hmm. Or maybe we
could have a we had a Henry J. Henry J. Yeah, yeah,
maybe we could uh have a Ford Kyle.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Gosh what I don't even want to know. I don't
even want to know. Man, what would the Ford bob
look like?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I don't know. Truck? Probably truck is some sort I've
always driven truck. So that's pretty much. Convertible truck. Yeah,
convertible truck. You know. Yeah, what I have is the
sun roof now, but you're right, I don't have a
I had a friend of mine that made a convertible
convertible hard top out of a sixty nine L Camino.
Sure it was.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
A sharp, gotta cut off wheel. You can make it anything.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Yeah. He did a great job too. You know, when
it was raining, it was a hard top. When he
when it was a you know, convertible, he just pulled
it off. And I mean you didn't and it was
done professionally, So it's like it was supposed to be
that way. Yeah. Well so one, yeah, maybe maybe you
can just take the name off the back of your
car and put your own name on there.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, maybe you should do that. Why don't they have
generic cars? You know, we got generic everything else. I
mean we got I mean, you could buy generic Raisins.
I mean, you got great value brand Raisins. I mean
I would, I mean for fifteen hundred bucks, I'd buy
a honder CRW.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah. Well they do in Russia. So back in the
in the fifties and the sixties, they used to have
but just the black four door sedan just kind of like, yeah,
there you go, knock off a few numbers. So they
had all the all the cars were the same, all
four Sords today, and all the same motors. I mean,
(23:18):
everything was the same. So if you're broke and you know,
you had a car sitting over there, you could easily
rob the parts for a fender or what have you
because everything fits the same. I don't think it's so
much like that anymore, but it used to be that way.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Oh yeah, parts were parts back in the day, I mean, Ford, Chevy, anything,
and it was just it was interchangeable across the line.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I mean now everything's specific and they only runs you know,
an X amount of years before they kind of delete that,
and then you got to go try to figure out
where you can find it. There's always a gap right
in there. If you can't find it at the dealership,
you have to go somewhere else to get it. Eventually
you find out after market.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
The funny thing about that, Like you had an old
Chevy truck, I got an old GMC truck fifty three.
So there's those little park light lenses in the front
of the truck, and nobody reproduces them. You can't get
reproductions anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Not on a GMC. No so Chevrolet. You can find
them all over the place.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yeah, but these GMC park light lenses and the housings
that hold them everything, you cannot buy those. No GMC.
You get online, you start talking every well, nobody makes
them anymore. I gotta set I'll say five hundred bucks.
So I'm like, I'm not going to pay five hundred dollars.
So anyway, I'm at my buddy's house and he's got
an old Cadillac fifty Cadillac, and I'm you know, we're
(24:45):
walking around and talking about the car, you know, normal stuff,
and I see these reverse light lenses and I'm like, okay,
this looks like something maybe possible. So next thing, you know,
he comes back, he's like, what are you doing. I
was like, I'm taking your car apart. Oh okay, well
go ahead whatever. So I take these reverse light lenses
(25:06):
out there, get out the GM catalog. The reverse light
lens for this Cadillac is the exact same part number
as the park lane. Oh really for the GMC so.
GM used these as reverse lights through nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, so they're out there, they're everywhere, so nobody knows it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They were in the Corvette. You get out of Corvette catalog,
you can buy a new RePOP set for forty bucks.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Interesting, so nobody knew that and tell you that the
millions of people.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Until I just figured it out. How I just shared
it with the world.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh my gosh, how many millions of people know it
now that you just shared with it? At least a couple.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Yeah, watch out for your Corvette. Somebody's gonna rode your tail.
That would make up an old farm truck. That would
make sense. They probably needed some GMC stuff and they
needed to make this upscale truck. And well, GMC when
you and Cadillac were made in the same building.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, when I just pulled stuff off the shelter and
just make that fit and just throw it over there.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, they had a bunch of them, wow, because all
the cars had them had reverse lights. But you know,
only the GMC trucks, which weren't really as popular as
as Chevy, so they didn't sell that many because they
were what two hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
More, Yeah, they were two hundred bucks more, but they
were kind of the gentleman's truck, and it was just
an upscale. That's the one. You know, you went to
work with the Chevy and you went to Church and
the GMC. Yeah, and uh that's yeah, it's just kind
of gone from there. But that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
No, nineteen fifty three GMC was also the very first
year you could get an automatic transmission in any truck, Ford, Chevy, whatever,
first year you can get it out of it.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I'm guessing you got one of those.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I got two, five, five, eight eleven tens the number
if you want to buy a hydramatic setup for a
GMC Chevy truck.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
There you go, he got the number. Radio radio till noon.
All right, we're gonna head over to Jim. Jim's got
a fourteen Nissan Row. Jim, what's up today?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Well, a couple of weeks ago you were talking about
the ds on of vehicles that have possibility of a
bad transmission and that there's no fixing them, that you
have to replace it. Is that true?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That is true? I don't if you have to go
internal of them or by switches for them, then they
just don't sell. Maybe sell an external switch. I've not
seen much of that go bad, but anything internal, yeah,
you just replace the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
My thought is, could you take that transmission out, completely
replace it and put it like a generator? Who could
generator to it and run electric motor to the rear
ends or the front end for propulsion. Would that be
a possibility?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
No, then you'd have a hybrid.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Would that you could have be done? Though?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well theoretically yes, theoretically yes. And you see a lot
of things on youtubes and things like that, the people
that have taken like, for example, the last one I
seen was a guy that took the engine out of
a little Honda Civic and put a boat motor in
(28:10):
there and took off the prop and took a chain
to it, and and yeah, yeah, he got the welder
out and everything else, and you poll start this two
stroke and was driving around without a hood on with
the with the boat motor sticking out the hood of
this car.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
So yes, if you got a welder, a cutoff wheel,
imagination and imagination twenty thirty feet a wire, you're good
to go.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Do you bet?
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Now? That would be off the shelf somewhere if somebody had.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
No, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
These are guys with way too much time and and
uh with nothing to do but a YouTube channel, and
they make it work. I mean, I'm amazed at some
of the stuff that they do.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Well, I had something similar. I have a snowblower that
I wasn't using that took off the blower part and
attached the generator to it, and I've got a small
acreage and I drive it up there. It's self propelled.
I drive it out there and I run an electric
chainsaw off of it for cutting up treat limbs and
stuff like that. That's why I thought that if that's
(29:12):
possible for that re using that snowboll or, would it
be possible to do something like that with a car.
You know, although you know, I'm not very gift today
that I was just hoping that somebody may already had
talked this over and came up with a kit that
could be done to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You know, well, I'm convinced if you've thought about it,
somebody's already tried it. You just have to get a
hold of that guy that's tried it and help helping
perfect what's going on, because yeah, it's there's some people
out there that that's just the way their mind works,
and they they would rather break it so they could
figure out to fix it a different way.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
Well, I'll retired. I thought maybe I could start a
little cottage in the street, taking people's own rogues and repurposing,
you know, take a few bucks on the side. If
I knew enough to make it plausible, I could drive
around town with a sign. You know, you watch a
roade covered it over call tact me, I can do it.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, absolutely, Hey, you got a new business. You got
to do potential thriving business there until they fix their problem.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Yeah. So it was just a thought. You know, I
heard that my Nissan's getting up there closely where you
said about eighty thousand miles. They might start following apart,
So as anticipating that might happen, if I had already
something on the drawing board test to what to do
if that happens, you.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Know, yeah, absolutely, yeah, you got plans already. I would
stay up late if I were you and start making plans.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Yeah. Yeah, I got the problem. Not much to do.
I don't play golf, I don't fish. I'm retired, and
I don't have a lot of time for I got
a lot of time for stuff like that, you know, Yeah,
a unique you know, something off the wall, you know,
a lot of times you were in a situation like that,
you may come up with something that may never occur
(30:59):
to you if you had, you know, a regular full
time job, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's part of what we do is
trying to you know, figure it out in cars. And
sometimes you have to work around to work around the problem,
to solve a problem, or you got to make something
to make it work. So until you can fix it
the correct way, you got to figure out how to
you know, get it done in the meantime. So, yeah,
it's fun to keep your brain going for sure.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Yeah. Yeah, So I just you mentioned that last week
you had a problem with these Nissans, and I was
just thinking about what a guy could do if that
happened outside just giving new transmission, you might be able
to have something that's actually more functional, you know, you know,
electric motor at the rear would probably I don't know
if you have better traction or better road control with
(31:47):
an electric drive system than than a regular mechanical one.
I don't know if that would be these hybrids they
got electric wheels, how do they get to the power
to the drive mechanism of the vehicles that I don't know.
Much about these hybrids.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, it's just through the transmission. I mean they've got
that kind of thing too. And then they got the
electric motors are right out at the wheels. So Jim,
I got to take a quick break and sight hope
got you off. Probably sorry about that, but we've gotta
take a quick break. We'll be back on the Miss
Mechanics Show in just a minute. Talk to Larry real
click Larry. We got a couple of minutes. What's up today?
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Oh hey, I just wanted to say thank you. I
called you about my estate hoe.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Well show a month or.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
More ago, wasn't run bre aged. So anyway, I took
it to one shop and they charged one hundred and
fifty dollars. Had drove it down there, had to push
it home. They sent it out with a dead battery. Anyway,
I took it to another guy and he figured out
that the gear on the timing belt was moving around
(32:53):
on the end of the crank shift.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Huh.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
And I happened to have all them parts and uh
he salvage did he? He told me I need the
new crank shaft and then got the looking at it.
In the meantime, I canceled my insurance on it.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, and uh, he got.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
The look and he claimed cleaned up the end of
the shaft and figured he could salvage it if I
had the parts, and I did so he got it
running for me.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So the key way was okay, but the just a
the harmonic balancer had just been kind of damaged a
little bit, so it was moving.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
Well, it's a manual transmission, you know. It doesn't have
a harmonic balancer.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
You bet it does.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yep, it does well.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
All it is the gear that puts on me in
the crank scheft, that drives the chain.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, the chain, the belt yeah yeah, yeah, so no,
it has it it. Uh. Sometimes that metals a little soft.
Sometimes it moves back and forth. Every time he shut
the car off, it jerks it back and forth. And
we've seen the same thing happen.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Uh, I've got the tourists were good for it.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The Chryslers also had a problem with it. When they
had timing belts, they would jump and they used to
have pins that held them in place, and some had
actual The.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Last one of those I saw was in a newer
Ford truck with that V six with timing chain issues.
Had already done the timing chain, and it came to
me because it's setting timing codes. And so in the
reading for reinstalling this thing, you have to replace the
crank bolt because it's torque to stretch bolts. So it
(34:28):
bottomed out well, it left the balancers a little bit loose,
a little bit loose, stripped out the keyway
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