Mr Mechanic 5-24-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Beat 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 Unlited. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ill pressure just.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
By how you're walking.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check engin 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 to eleven tens and numbers to get in,
Get in early so we can answer your question to
get you back to fixing that car. It's gonna be
a nice day, a long weekend to do it. You know.
You get the parts and decide in between beers which
which part you want to do and how long you
want to take? Next to me is also is Kyle?

(01:06):
That that sound about right? Kyle? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
In my younger days. That's how it went down. That's
so much, so many beers these days.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well you just you know, I mean, you don't want
to rush into it.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
It seems like I get a lot more done.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Don't you know. Yeah, when you have to stop to
take part, you have to, it just slows things up,
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
What happened to the weather this week, I don't know,
just all cool back down. It's it's kind of a
it was a great week last week, Yeah, nice and
was productive. I mean you could get out and do everything.
Now this week it's either raining or cold.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
And there's that's typical. I mean, that's ND. Five hundred weather,
isn't it. It's either great weather or raining.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Didn't you know what? Here in two three weeks will
have the College World Series. It'll be one hundred and
fifty degrees and then it'll be one giant storm and.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
You got to go get your stuff done now, get
your get your car shows in before it does all
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
And you can set your watch by a College World Series.
You're gonna get sunburnt, you're gonna get rained on pretty much.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, thunder thunderstorms. I've been I've been there when the
thunderstorms are rolling in and it's like it's time to go, guys,
oh gosh, this is coming. And it did.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
You either get wet or you get a third degree sunburn.
There is no in between.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I've been to Indianapolis too, and I can tell you
that I've been there when it was sunshining great and hot,
and just like you said, and I've been there and
was soaking wet, soaked to the bone. I should have
brought more clothes.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
That was That was a hot day at the racetrack
is different than a hot day anywhere else because it's
twice as hot.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, all yeah, all that pavement and asphalt and
and it just radiating cars, yeah, just radiating. Back up
on you. Here's an interesting article that I kind of
ran across to Connecticut is introducing a bill that would
target people going over one hundred mile an hour. Okay,
it's kind of entry. Fines would increase, and eventually, you know,

(03:06):
the second time to get a little bit more money,
and then the third time they would tow your car
and keep it for forty eight hours. And then so
you get all that and then have to pay the
storage costs and seems legit I mean, I'm all for
it because we don't need to be going one hundred
miles an hour anywhere. Well that's your opinion, Kyle. Sure, yeah,

(03:34):
not all the time, No, we don't. But you got well,
you see the motorcycles shoot by and they're you know,
they're going one hundred mile an hour. He's a lee
and it doesn't take.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Very much on Dodge Street at drive time. Yeah yeah, yeah,
when I'm in my stone Age pickup with my air
conditioning on.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah yeah, that's that is not the place to be
doing that. But yet you see that all the time,
that is for sure. Let's just jump into the calls.
He've got a full bank of calls, John, he's got
a sixty nine Mercedes. John, what's up today?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Hey, hey guys, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Bet.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
It's funny you mentioned those motorcycles. Uh, My son's a
motorcycle mechanic and he's got a Dino and makes those
go even faster. Yeah, it's crazy, but then again he
gets there. He gets the wreck bikes too. That happen
a lot. Yeah, quick, easy, Well, hope, it's easy. I've

(04:30):
got this Merthades. I've had it in a garage for
ten years. It's a diesel. It's covered in dust and
it's coming out. Okay, I bought it from the neighbor kid.
He bought it at an auction when his grandpa died. Uh

(04:50):
make a long story short. His grandpa was a mechanic.
His best friend died, gave him this car. He put
it behind his shop and let it tires go flat
and sit and face and only drove it a few times.
The kid said, but that's part of the thing.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Ran.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
I got it in my garage. I did put like
five gallons of diesel fuel and I first got it.
But like I said, it's been at least eight to
ten years it's been in the garage. Should I have
to get rid of that fuel or put more good
fuel on top of that fuel?

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, it's dieselso I mean they'll run on transmission fluid
if you want. But in my opinion, if you want
to not cause problems down the road, because she diesel
can gel and thicken up, cause all kinds of issues
with the injection pump on this car, which is going
to be a pretty primitive thing. But you're not going

(05:49):
to be able to find parts. So if it were me,
I would have that tank out of the car, clean
it out because it's gonna have sludge and everything else
in it. New rubber lines, flush out the steel lines.
Just get everything out of there, and then you know
you're good.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, I would do. I wouldn't do anything different than
you do a gas motor. Yeah, you know, just st
it's all been sitting. It's gonna things have separated in
there as much as things can and and yeah, it's
all gonna be goo and uh or liquid goo and filters. Yeah,
I agree with Kyle. Yeah, that's your best. That's your best.

(06:30):
It's gonna be a lot of work, and but that's
your your best avenue to have a great outcome.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Because if you've suck up something from that tank and
plug up an injection pump on that thing, I mean
it's gonna be it's gonna be an expensive trip out.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, and that's that still might happen anyway, just because
everything has been dry and old, but at least your
your best foot forward has been has been given. Yeah,
that's that's what I would do if it was mine,
for sure.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Sure, sure. Now I remember when I bought it from
I mean, it was running, but we had to it
was a hard starter, that was for sure when it started.
But he drove it like quite a ways, he said,
like fifty or sixty miles after he got it from
the auction and then he moved from out of town

(07:20):
to here. I live in Lincoln, And the reason it
came on a flatbed to his house and I was
immediately attracted to his baby blue contraction. He needed some cash,
so I got real reasonable. But the idea, this thing
only has thirty thousand miles on it.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, they're indestructible. Those old diesels. They just were built
like a tank and they would run and they would go,
and they just would brack up three hundred thousand miles
without a thought and without any problems or maintenance. I
mean they were designed to be rebuilt on the site

(08:00):
of the road and the ditch and uh, and be
brought back to life and drive another one hundred thousand miles.
So yes, I mean they're they're great cars and great technology.
And Kyle said, pretty primitive, but primitive to the point
where it was simple.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
So I've been looking at parts are rarely available. There's
they have is full of.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I'm sure they don't. And because they them old ones
the old diesels were just like you said, destructible, and uh, people.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Are restoring them. Yeah, there's a market for them. They're
out there.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
And if they're not here in the States, they're certainly
in Europe because uh, they don't get rid of them.
They don't get rid of them. And there's they're they're
a dime a dozen over there. They're like they're like
they're like a Chevy Cavalier over there. You know everybody
had one.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right, guys, looks you got my work cut out
for me. I appreciate your help.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
You bet keep in touch. We'd like to see how
the how the end product turned out. All right, we're
gonna take quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show. Five, five,
eight to eleven tens numbers to get in and be
back in a minute, almost.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
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Speaker 7 (09:14):
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Speaker 6 (09:17):
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Speaker 8 (09:24):
I'm all out of oil.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
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Speaker 3 (10:38):
We're gonna head over to John. John's got an eight prius? John,
what's up today?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
All right?

Speaker 7 (10:44):
So you know I discovered something interesting. I thought you
guys might find it interesting to know. But I have
an eight prius. We bought it back in twenty sixteen
with three hundred and fifteen thousand miles.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I've called you guys before. Well.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
I noticed the abs pumps a couple of years ago
was running a little bit more often, and as the
months went on it became more and more often, and
it's done to about five seconds before it runs again,
and you know, every five seconds. And I and I
know it's a problem with like Gen twos and threes,

(11:19):
I believe, but I decided, you know what I'm gonna
I'm going to end up replacing this thing. I'm going
to change the breakflow first. I'm just going to run
it out and put branding stuff in it. I did it,
and the problem just disappeared.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Interesting.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
I kid you not, I'm blown by this. I mean
I felt like because I thought, well, I'm going to
do this because I'm going to replace it anyway, and
then that'll be one lest thing I have to do.
And I'm literally in my car. I could have it
in part with the car on and it would run
every five seconds. I've been in my car for now
fifteen minutes and it hasn't run one time, and I've

(11:55):
driven it a few different times. I went to Walmart
to get some more because I have another aweight and
I'm just to change the break fluid in it prevented it.
And I'm just astounded.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, and that it is. That is kind of interesting
that it would do that. And you know, break food
will thicken up over time. And and that's why we
we flush it. We should be flushing it more than
what we do, because it break food attracts moisture naturally and.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
It carrious deposits. I mean, it gets dark, it gets dirty, yep.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
It does, and it naturally attracts water and moisture that
we have around here all the time, and that thickens
it up. And yeah, new fresh break food in there.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Get those valves working, yep. Get the valve working great, exactly.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
I'm just floored by this. I can't wait to go
on this preous forum ment and just tell everybody like, hey,
before you change that.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, that's well, that's yeah, that's simple, easy, and and
a lot of times we'll do that the same thing
with noises with power steering.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
You know a little a little cheat where I put
a board against it against the seat and push it
real tight, left the car off, and I just went
over to each wheel and opened up the out and
let it bleed out, you know, using my ABS pump
to pump out the whold fluid, and just made sure
I didn't let the master cylinder go low. And it did.
Everything's good, no codes, no problem.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well that's an interesting way to do it too.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
I saw it online. I thought, wow, that's pretty clever.
Let me try that.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, we always have an extra guy, so we'd always
put somebody in there pumping the pedal and making sure. Yeah, yep,
that's great info.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
John.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I appreciate the call.

Speaker 8 (13:25):
Yeah, I have a great day, you too.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
All right, We're gonna head over to Leslie. Leslie's got
a eighteen Hyundai Sonata. Let's Sie. What's up today?

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Well, I got another another question on break fluid.

Speaker 7 (13:37):
Okay, wise to change it.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
When you don't have to change the breaks, or just
wait and do the flush at the same time you
change your breaks pads.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
I always do it when I change brake pads, because
you you're doing a break job. I mean, get a
good bleed on your breaks every day time. I mean,
you're right there, you're got fluid, you're right opening it
up anyway, Just simple enough.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Just to do it then, unless you've got some extra
time and you want to go out and bleed your
breaks just because you don't want to watch another rerun
in the house. Otherwise, Yeah, I agree with Kyle. Will
just do it all at the same time, all right, No.

Speaker 10 (14:20):
Real benefit of doing it when your breaks don't have
to be changed.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
No, No, I mean I mean in theory, I mean,
give or take. If you're drive in the city, you're
replacing breaks every forty thousand miles in front or rear
or something, just knock it out, then that's plenty enough
of an interval, unless it takes you ten years to
get to that interval.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Right, agreed, agreed. Yeah, it's something that you like. I
said that the Germans and the European cars that they
suggest that all the time. It's just not something the
American cars do that much. And it's not a bad idea.
It's just something that most people don't think about it.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
But most American cars, I mean we're still on Dot
three fluid. I mean some of these Europeans, I mean
we're up to Dot five fluid and full synthetic break
fluid and things like that, or you know, the nature
of the breakdown of the fluid could be different. Yeah, exactly,
better safe than sorry with those ones, because the sorry
part gets expensive.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
It does, and that's why we suggested doing it. When
you do the breaks, just because you're already there, you
got the wheels off, you might as well just uh
get everything done. Grab somebody for you know, twenty minutes
flush everything out. You know, it's just the best way
to do unless youve got a power bleeder, which makes
it a whole lot easier.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
I got one of those, and I was using it
on one of my older cars and hooked it up
and then sure enough, I was like, oh, this thing
isn't pumping yet. I'm gonna go in the house and
grab whatever I gotta grab, grab a soda, and come
back out. Would suck the master cylinder dry and it's
all in the bucket. I'm that didn't take long.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
No, that's that's our that's our opinion, Leslie. All right,
thank you, you bet appreciate the call. All Right, we're
gonna head over to Bob. Bob got a seventeen f
one fifty Bob. What's up today?

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (16:05):
Well, hey, I called last week about the message center
on the dashboard.

Speaker 8 (16:09):
Yeah, yeah, it worked. We saved me four hundred bucks.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Well you're welcome attery disconnect.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'll give you the address where you can send a check.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
How's that Yeah, yeah, it's in the mail, all right,
got it?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
All right, I appreciate the call. Well, I'm glad that helped.
I really am thanks, Bob, thanks for checking back in.
We're going to head over to We got a little
bit of time, Joel. We're gonna have Joel. Joel's got
a truck purchase question. Need some advice, Joel. What's up today?

Speaker 11 (16:44):
Yeah, I'm looking at purchasing a new truck.

Speaker 12 (16:48):
And with the price of the vehicles.

Speaker 11 (16:50):
Nowadays, you know, really trying to identify what what do
you guys see as the trucks that are last and
you know, the having the least amount of problems. I'm
kind of focusing in on them, Afford, GMC and Chevy about.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
The So you're looking for a half ton truck half ton?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah, doing much towing with it at all, or just
kind of normal grocery.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah, kidder, little little.

Speaker 11 (17:18):
I'll be doing some tow and I do some custom
woodworking and I tow items out to two clients. So
small trailer and such.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Nothing major. We're not towing giant twenty foot trailers. Nothing,
huge trailers.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
No, Okay, Sometimes sometimes the fifteen hundreds can kind of
be a little light on that. If you've got a
big trailer, big trailer.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah, Bob and I are both Chevrolet guys. Ford makes
a good product I don't like working on them, but
they make a good product. And depending on the engine.
They're turbochargers, they have their.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Issues, they do. I usually recommend the VA just because
it's it's B eight you're towing. The V six twin
turbo's got more power and more everything to it, but
it's also got twin turbos to it that are gonna
break and go bad and leak leak cost you cost
you fifteen to two grand per side, and there's just
more going on, and more going on is more money.

(18:20):
And since they've switched let's just start with Ford. Since
they switched into the into that new V eight Coyote motor,
it's got water pump and hose problems, but for the
most part, very solid engine. Yeah, very solid.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
They've fixed a lot of things with that engine. I mean,
they've got a couple of things that aren't as bad
as I mean with the coolant leaks and everything. Those
are coolant leaks. I mean that's eventually gonna leak coolant.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean. But on the flip side of that, they
Ford has led for the last five years running. They've
led the industry and recalls, So you need to research
exactly what you're getting into ever lay GMC. You know,
obviously a GMC is just a little flashy or Chevrolet,

(19:06):
so you can save some money by going that way.
Your five to three is going to be a great,
decent motor. They're recalling a lot of the six twos,
but the six two is depending on the year, either
recalling those from what twenty one to twenty four, but
prior to that twenty one they're still a great motor.

(19:26):
Don't get the greatest gas mileage or they've got plenty
of power.

Speaker 12 (19:30):
So would you recommend five three over the six twope
or kind of just general every day driving and some
some minor towing to get better gas mileage and just
yeah in general.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, if you're if you're you're either you're either in
one camp or another. You could care less about gas malage.
Do you want the horsepower or you want the gas maleage.
You'll do anything to get it. So, but yeah, the
five three is a good all around not really much
problems with it, just you know, the basic coolant leaks,
but everybody has. But yeah, it's it's a great solid engine.

(20:03):
It is.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
I got one with two hundred and eighty thousand miles
on it.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah original? Is it original? Yeah? Yeah, two hundred and
eight thousand miles. So yeah, they're they're a great engine.
They really are.

Speaker 13 (20:15):
Awesome.

Speaker 8 (20:15):
But I appreciate it, gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
You bet appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna take
a quick break on the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven,
tens and numbers again. We've got a couple of open lines.
We'll be back in a minute. We're gonna head over
to uh John John's got an eighty three Buick Skylark. John,
thanks for waiting.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Is this? Oh, you're a welcome guys.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
How you doing it?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
A We're doing great? Is this a front wheel drive?
Is this a real wheel drive?

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Well?

Speaker 5 (20:39):
This is front wheels DRIVEW got it?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I hate it.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
I can't stand it. But anyway, getting to the point,
I ain't need to find somebody as wonder if you
gentlemen can help me find it. That was the electric
part of the exitius which I need an ac Delco
of these these other ones that buy from these other
parts stores.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
Anywhere in the guards.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
And I was wondering if you count if anybody that
tells them, I try Summit and I tried Rockotto and
rock Otto and SMIT don't sell them.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Just getting too old enough that it may be kind
of tough to find that. So you're looking for an
ignition switch.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Right, Yeah, the electrical part surf with a wiring a
low storing column.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I would probably try, and it may maybe a tough try,
but I would try maybe eBay. The other thing that
I would probably try is, uh, maybe you can if
you want an AC Delco one, that probably is gonna
be tough to find, just because they're not producing it anymore,
and you know, new old stock is going to be

(21:45):
kind of tough. So you might be able to find
Go on card dash parts dot com that searches salvage
yards around the country. You might be able to buy
a whole column that has everything on it and you
can just take off that ignition switch and you know,
you get it. You know, you get an AC Delco one.

(22:06):
They didn't have a lot of problems with those, as
I remember because I worked on them. That might be
one avenue, but you're gonna be kind of tough to
find that. You might find if you got an AC
Delco number by searching the internet. You might be able
to search the internet that plug that number into your

(22:28):
browser bar and see what you come up with. There
might be there's somebody out there that has new old
stock of ignition switches. It's just a matter of searching
and searching and searching.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Once you get the part number, it'll kind of narrow
it down. Because I mean, Bob, how many swap meets
have we been to where you just see a guy
with just tots of new old stock ac Delco something
And yeah, here's a bunch of part numbers. I don't
know what they are.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Well, let's just, for example, say you can buy old
steering gall and from a guy out of uh, you know,
a state away that's for fifty bucks plus some shipping.
But you've got more parts than you ever want there.
You may not use them all, but you know you've gained.
You've gained what you wanted. And sometimes when they get
this old, you got to do what you got to
do to get what you want.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Yes, sir, okay, I'll keep looking.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
All right, sounds good, John, you as well, you as
well appreciate you listening. All right, We're gonna head over
to also another John. John's got a twelve buick on
clay John, what's up today?

Speaker 10 (23:32):
Good morning, guys. I've got a twelve enclave and occasionally
here lately when I pull it into the garage and
shut it off. When you put it in the park,
it's supposed to unlock the doors and do that kind

(23:53):
of stuff. Well here lately it hasn't done that, and
it's only intermittent.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Okay, so it doesn't it doesn't know that you put
it into park. It's kind of really what it boils
down to.

Speaker 10 (24:07):
Oh, okay, so there's is there an adjustment on the shift?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
You know, I you kind of have to hook a
scanner up to it to see if it actually the
things that you've you've put it in park, we've known that.
We just the car may not think that I will
you say, is that the only problem you have is
door locks and not.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
A lot courtesy circuit isn't working. So when you put
it in park, sometimes they'll unlock it and sometimes they won't.

Speaker 8 (24:36):
Write yeah, And then once we got into it one time,
the horn started beeping like you know, the theft okay.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
And if you use your keyfob, everything works fine. When
you approach the car, you can unlock it and everything
works okay.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I know that we have ran into problems with the
Arcadie is and this is pretty much the kind of
the same thing the Buick enclave. Where do you have
the connectors that come off of like twenty pin connectors
that come off of the doors and they snap into
the body and those will become corroded on the inside

(25:18):
of those yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
They're actually just a gutter. I mean, because all the
water that comes in the car goes down the cow
right past this wire harness.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
And goes right in there, and we pull.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Seal shrinks or anything on that loom, and they're the
next thing that's going to get wet.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, And it just depends on to get that wiring
loom on the body side, to get the entire wiring loom,
and it's very time consuming to put it in and
do all that kind of stuff. We had a car
one time it just kept losing losing doors. So it
lose windows and door locks one at one point and
then other times it'd come back just kind of like

(25:56):
what you're doing. But if you're losing it on the
left front door or we're all that valet and in
security has all.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Come off our module approach module right stuff.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Right, it's all getting turned on turned off with the module.
It may not be getting any of that signal over
to the BCM to say, hey, you just unlocked me.
I'm okay. I don't need for the alarm to go off.
That's probably because of because you're having door locks it
sometimes and not others. I don't think you're getting the
communication to the doors that you need to.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Do.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
You think maybe on hooking on hooking the battery and
let us set for a while and then hook it
back up with that reset the stuff for you.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
If it's a connection issue. No, I mean, are you
going to hurt anything by doing that again?

Speaker 8 (26:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Is it easy? Yes?

Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, and try it.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Stranger things have happened. Yes.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
On the door post, I've got the door open right now.
I'm looking at it. It looks like it has a UH.
If I can pull down on this little UH nector
net will disconnect the all the connectors and just clean
them up and make sure there's no pull those out.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, pull those apart. They do come in and out
pretty easily. And you know, strangely enough, when they went
to that system, they had more problems than they did
when they ran the wires in the door and left
it inside the body. Yeah, way more so, pull those
apart and just see how crappy they are. Aren't if
they if they all full of green terminals and things

(27:32):
like that, they're almost impossible to clean. The only thing
you really can do is put some dielectric grease on
the pins and then plug it in, plug it out,
plug it in, plug it out, and try to get
some good connections to it to make it work.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
Okay, yeah, well, thank you much.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
All Right, sounds good. Appreciate the call. All right, we're
gonna head over to Mike. Mike has got a twenty
fifteen super Roof Forest or Mike, what is up today?

Speaker 14 (27:58):
Got a question on the seat fluid. It's got about
forty thousand miles on it, just regular suburban type driving,
and there's really.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
No other than inspection.

Speaker 14 (28:09):
They don't say the changing CBT fluid unless you're in
severe driving conditions. Just wondered what you and Kyle thought
about changing the fluid. It's quite a process to do it.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
We do generally. I'll recommend them every forty to fifty
thousand miles.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah sixty at the outside that the fluid inside that
special fluid only use that CBT fluid. But they're they're
not really a transmission that has a lot of problem
with the CBT portion of that, but some preventative maintenance
on it could certainly keep it going into the you know,
the two one hundred and fifties to two hundred thousands.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Okay, there's it's not a terribly difficult process to change
this fluid. It's kind of a if you don't have
the right tool to fill it, that's where it kind
of bites. But I mean it's just a drain plug
like you drain your oil. And then on the side
of the transmission, on the driver's side, closer to the back,
you'll see like a oh, I think it's a ten

(29:09):
millimeter Allen bolt that you take out to fill it,
and you gotta we have a machine that you just
fill the fluid in this little pumper thing and it's
you know, just like a hand pump you used to
fill your bike tire and you have a small tube
that you put in there, and then you pump it
up and fill your fluid.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yeah, until it drains, until it drains out just a
little bit, you know, you're full.

Speaker 14 (29:30):
Well, So it's more of a mileage issue rather than
an age issue.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, pretty much. I mean because where we're at, we
I mean people drive these cars a lot.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, we're kind of in a severe area too. I mean,
even though it doesn't seem like it is. I mean
we're the weather is severe. Yeah, the weather is severe.
We're not we're talking dusty roads here because it's all
there's no dust getting into that because it's all sealed.
But you're going from one hundred plus to negative. So
that's that's where the severe part comes in. And actually

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it's the negative that kind of kills it. Yeah, breaks
things down.

Speaker 14 (30:05):
Some earlier callers about break fluid. How often should that
break break fluid be changed? What kind of a cycle?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Probably in this I have to look at the manual
to see what they They've.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Never really looked into it. I mean I'm guessing that
they're probably saying every couple of years or so many miles.
I mean, we just when it's time to do breaks,
you just kind of, yeah, not my personal vehicles, we
just kind of knock it out.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Probably sixty sixty thousand miles five years is probably a
good rule of thumb. But the reason that we're not
sure of it is because every manufacturer is different. Some
will tell you to go ten thousand miles on an
oil change. But you know if you if you do don't.
If you do that and don't check the oil, you
end up putting motors in So.

Speaker 14 (30:51):
Sounds like on both them air on the side of cautions.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, if it's if it's car, you
like your car, you're going to keep you know, spend
a little bit of money on permititive and it's in
the sixty thousand mile range where there's transmission, fluid power.
String ain't so much anymore because they all got electronic
and break and coolant. It's just it's just a great
cheap way to keep things going.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
It really is great, great advice.

Speaker 14 (31:15):
Thank you very much for the show, guys.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
You bet appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna take
quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show and come back
and answer the rest of the calls. Be back in
a minute. We'll get over to Rich. Rich is gonna
blast from the past ninety nine astro Van Rich what's
up today?

Speaker 13 (31:29):
Yeah, yeah, the I tried to turn the addition on
and it takes it while dealing with it before. You
might say years years in place, I imagine, and that
My question is does the should it be rebuilt, taking
apart rebuilt or or is there a special deal gotta

(31:53):
go take?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
What are we talking about rebuilding here?

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Rich?

Speaker 13 (31:59):
It won't start, No, it'll start, but I have to
turn the key many times on and off it'll line up,
I guess.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Okay, so you're not cranking. So we need to figure
out what is going on. Why it isn't cranking. There's
nothing really to rebuild.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Line up you mean line up with what?

Speaker 13 (32:23):
Well, I imagine it's a lineup gear lineup deal. In
the ignition before the t will turn normally without without
trying to turn.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Oh, so you're putting the key in the ignition and
it won't turn. You have to kind of keep messing
with it in order for it to actually turn correct.

Speaker 13 (32:42):
Yeah, you got you gotta play with it a little
bit before it.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, okay, so we got to lock problem.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, does this key look like a butter knife or
does it actually have ridges in it?

Speaker 13 (32:54):
Yeah? Butter knife?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, Okay, it's so worn out it didn't know what
to do. I would take it over to a locksmith
and say this is what my key looks. I got
a butter knife here, can you make it have ridges
in it? So that does a lock and tumblr? Yeah,
and they might be successful and cut a new key
based on what the year is and the ven number
and all that kind of stuff, and your problem's over.

(33:15):
And then the next step. If they don't do that,
you buy yourself an ignition lock and tumbler that comes
with two keys, and then you pull at during and
change it that way. But that's that's that's how we
would approach it. Always try the cheaper portion first, get
a new key, and then if not, we just get
a ignition lock and tumber because they're cheap enough, especially

(33:37):
for that car.

Speaker 13 (33:40):
Oh well, just about when you started explaining things an
air force yet, Frank.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Do you have another key or you just got one key?

Speaker 13 (33:51):
Ah, we may have one another key.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Try another key if it has a bunch of ridges
on it. These are very common for the uh for
the like you said, to look very smooth. It looked
like a butter knife and they won't work very well. Yeah,
if you got another key, try it, and if not,
go to a locksmith and have a locksmith cut you
a new key, and I bet your problem is solved.
Try that, Rich that that'll solve your problem.

Speaker 13 (34:20):
Okay, you bet.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I appreciate the call. All right, we're gonna head over
to Bob. Bob's got a twenty twenty GMC canyon. Bob,
what's up today?

Speaker 15 (34:30):
We got a twenty twenty GMC canyon and the transmission
started shifting, not shifting properly down geared between second and
first year.

Speaker 8 (34:42):
Of the engine.

Speaker 15 (34:43):
Light came on. Took it to the one of the
autopartments store and Illinoid that was closed. We took it
to the dealership. The dealership says, not only is it
just to sell, They said more needed to be done
to it and it might need to be rebuilder.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Or or replaced.

Speaker 15 (35:06):
So they held GM because it was still on warranty,
and GM told him, yeah, we're having problems with those,
go ahead and replace it.