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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meat 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 Unletted. Legend
has it that Kyle can gingerr oil with his toes
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and that he can till your tires ille pressure just
by how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every
Saturday morning they morphed together to form the greatest superhero
known to man, Mister Mechanic check eg and like still.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Stand a chance?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is the Mister Mechanic Show. On eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to this is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
We are Buchanan Service Centers, the fiftieth and Dodge eightieth
and Dodge Guaranteed Breaks, forty ninth Avenue in Dodge. Get
in early so we can answer those calls for you,
get you back on the road, Get you to the
part store. You know, Kyle. Good morning, Kyle, nice.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Day, Yeah, yeah it is. You should if you're.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Out there listening to us you should be able to
get your information, get back to fixing that car. This
would be a nice day today, nice weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, call us from under the hood. Yeah, that's the
best place we could walk you through anything.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh yeah, right there. You know, I ran across something
the other day. Kyle, what is the most ticketed cars
the most Who's the top ten most pulled over cars
in the United States?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, I would guess any sporty import with a coffee
can ask looking muffler on it that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Goes pop pop pop pop pop pop.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, and now the acoustics in my bay are great
right there on Dodge Street.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Those don't go fast, They just sound fast. That's just
the all that noise and no speed, All that noise
and no speed. Well, here you go Kia Stinger, which
is kind of a sports car, Dodge Challenger. And in
all of the ones that the you know whatever they are,
this catpacker, trap pack, rat pack, I don't know what
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they all are, but the the Nissan three seventy Z,
that's one of those pop pop pops, you know, along
with the Infinity. Who knew Infinity was going to be
such a young culture.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And that's just caught on within the last probably three
to five years.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Before I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
They were a nice upscale luxury car that's turned into
you know, I've never.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Been a fan of them, mind you, by the time
and I see them.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a horror story they are, and they've been beat up, tortured.
I mean they just and it's you know, infinished, and
they all.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Have just obscure oil leagues.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, well it's Infinity. It's just an upscale Nissan, which
you know, you and I if you listen to the show,
you know about that Mitchubishi Lancer. You know, Scion, Well
Scions no more, but you can find those. Those are FSR,
the E three and a Mini Cooper, you know, and
there was some there that that I thought for. And
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there's no Ferraris, Porschas or Lamborghini's on there.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
They're less than one percent of the car community. But
I agree most people that have them know what they
spent on it. So hey, let's uh take it easy. Year.
My bank account depends on it.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, well, nobody needs their insurance to go up because
they got caught doing one hundred and twenty even though
you want to.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You know, I remember, like way back, way back, like
when I started driving, I remember reading a statistic and
Car and Driver or one of those magazines that if
you own a red car, you were more likely to
get pulled over.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yep. I was like, why red? It's just visual you
can see it and any bright color. And now we
have so many pastel colors, it just kind of almost
blends anything.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, road, it's a pretty basic color now. I mean
we got lime greens, we got pinks, we got everything else.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it used to be red would just stuck out,
and you know, the tan colors just in the green colors,
they just kind of blended in. But you're right. Red
was had one of those cars and true if you
get pulled over. Oh yeah, we got pulled over.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We were going fast. That's why. All right, we're gonna
head into the calls. John's got a ninety eight Chevy pickup. John,
what's up today?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, good morning, gentlemen. I got a ninety eight Chevy
pickup and excuse me, I still have a link condition.
I changed the intent manfold jacket and change the mass
airflow sensor, tuned it up with plugs, and still have
a link condition.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What should I do next?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's the code you're getting is is a Liane code?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, peel, sir, okay, So it's affecting both banks. We
know we got potential a good mass airflow sensor, so
we can rule that out. We've changed intake gaskets. We
can assume that those are sealed. So have we looked
at the fuel system?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, fifty pers of pressure at idol. And then it
comes up with as you re the motor.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Up, sir, okay, exhaust leaks. How's the exhaust man a
full bolt? So they're all there, all eight of them.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Side, okay, okay, okay, So.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Lean do you think to do that? Okay, nope.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I mean if it's able to set a lean condition,
we can assume that there's no misfires, no miss none
at all. A misfire creates a rich condition in the
eyes of the O two sensor. We're putting raw fuel
in the catalytic the other way, so we're looking for air,
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too much air, not enough fuel.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All the real quickly, Like I gotta ask you a question,
there is real dinky little cracks around the bin, or
it come to the flange I'm a the learner, or
the pipes come together from front.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
To air Okay, so our catalytic converter is behind the
upstream O two sensor. The upstream O two sensor is
the one telling your computer we've got a lean condition.
And then ninety eight. I'm not sure what kind of
downstream O two sensor they're using, but any exhaust leak
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between the O two sensors, if it is leaking at
these tiny little cracks, we need to determine that, you know,
if there's really small and minute, I mean, for testing purposes,
get some of that exhaust paste. It's kind of a yeah,
this little glue stuff. You're getting a tube and you
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can just wipe it on there when it's hot and
it'll dry and effectively seal those too. I mean, at
least give you a test.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, give you an idea what you're doing. But you
kind of diagnos a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So the next thing, So you say you got good
fuel pressure. Pressure is one thing. Volume is a whole
nother thing, and the RPM of your fuel pump is
an entirely other thing. You can have either one of
these things failing and still maintain fuel pressure.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Mh way, Okay, I'm just going to ask that question
because these are very common to fail in that particular year,
very common.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
So it's inside the intake mapple, inside the planum.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
The only other odd ball long ball to left field.
And I don't know if this truck even it should
have some version of this, but I'm not sure how
they do it because generally I can't remember if that
Chevy has a MAP sensor or not it does. Okay,
have you tested that?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Okay, we replaced that two shirt an m AP sensor.
Yes we have.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Do you have a scan tool that will allow you
to see.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Data, allow me to do what I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Look at a data stream? Or do you just have
a code reader?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I have a stamp on a scan Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
What does the barometric pressure say?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, i'll tell you right now. I don't know what
the baron mag pressure is, but the fuel ratio is
fourteen point five, and I know it's supposed to be
fourteen point seven.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, yeah, it's supposed to be it's supposed to be
fourteen point seven, But that's fourteen point five. It's pretty
darn close. I don't know if that's going to trigger.
But what really boils down here is there's it's got
some sort of vacuum leak, and it might be very
minor because all the air that's supposed to that the
mass airflow sensor is supposed to adjust. Everything has to
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come through the air filter through the snorkel, and if
it pulls anything in somewhere else, it sets a code
like that. A fuel can do it, but there might
be a fuel strategy being off just a little bit.
It's it's the one thing that we do is we
hook up a scanner and that's what that's what Kyle's saying.
You got you can look at the data and you
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can spray carburetor cleaner in the areas and you watch
for it to jump up. And when it jumps up,
then you know that you've got an area that's got
a vacuum leak. And when you do, you address that
particular point kind of like you do with intake manifolds.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, so yeah, with the MT twenty fire, so you
should see something in there that says short term fuel
trim and long term fuel trim. Right, That's what I'm
going to go off of to do this test that
Bob's explaining. So we need to if you it's been
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a lifetime ago since I've used the MT twenty five hundred.
I mean I started out with that tool. Everybody did,
and it was great for the time and for your truck.
It's a perfect tool. So I don't know if you
can pick out and make a custom data list, take
all your other stuff out of the scenario, and only
monitor short term and long term fuel trim.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
That's what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So the first thing I'm gonna do, and even if
you can't, just monitor, just focus on short term and
long term fuel trim. So start your engine up, look
at what your fuel trim is. Let it warm up.
So to set this code, you're gonna be plus or
minus minus, say twenty five percent. That's gonna set your
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lean code. Plus twenty five percent. That's going to set
a rich code. You want it to be somewhere generally, Chevrolet,
I see in the realm of ten percent. So if
you're at idle and you're seeing twenty five, step on
the gas. See if that changes. See if it goes
the other way. See if it finds a medium in there,
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and you're say sitting around two percent, you know you've
got a vacuum leak issue. Because you're off idle, your
intake has pressure if you're off idle and it's going lean,
I'm going to the fuel system right away, so that's
a great which way to go.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I gotta ask you real quick questions, sir, Sure, okay.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The rich lean rich lean up there in the corner
of the scanner in the parade, just right up their
way up on top of the inside of the scanner,
the rich en rich wing. Oh, can I do all
for that?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I'm not very good with with the the whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You Yeah, I'll tell you what. Why don't you hang
on a second? We got we gotta take a quick break.
I'll explain it all to you when we get back.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
That SI understanding there by the anti threes. I knew
she must have been about forty three.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I heard her going claim.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
That seventy one mustand and I knew it wouldn't be
long before her tires were all ball, but she would
still be mine. Yes, she's mine, all mindstgain.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
I love noticable expert another court of oil vapor. I
love notable, so up inside to take a ride with
ball love noticeable singing and seem singing my butt born
ray back. I love with a hundred mile dollar.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Train, Alex with a two thousand and two f one fifty, Alex,
what's up today.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, I've got a two thousand and two f one fifty.
I just bought it here recently, and the foural drive
does not work. I turn to switch. The four by
four light does not illuminate. I don't hear any sounds
or anything like that that's activating it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay, Well, this car has a like a window looking
motor on the back of the transfer case, and a
lot of times they'll get with all the salt we
have that they'll get corrosion and everything else on it.
So I would start by checking the wires, making sure
nothing's pulled down on it, pull the connector apart, look
inside for anything that's green and yellow and purple, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Good visual inspection on especially with the age of this truck.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And then you could have somebody up up top start
and run the car, somebody you trust, and uh, you
know know, put it into four wheel drive as you're
down there, just very gently tapping on it with a
hammer and see if all of a sudden it doesn't
become unstuck and start working. That'd be the first few
steps that I would take, And then the next step
is to you know, check for powers and grounds down there, Kyle,
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I would think, but it usually they sit dormant a
lot of the time. They were very common to go
bad and it just see if you can shock it,
you know, yeah, and make it come back to life.
If not, you got to start and then kind of
go backwards out. If that doesn't work, that basic stuff,
you go go back and check the fuses and because
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I mean, the only three things went bad in these
things was the motor first, a switch probably second, and
then a module you know, up in the fender after that.
That's about three things.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I'm gonna yeah, I agree. One let's go where the
weather goes? Yeah, right to that motor.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, a lot of things and it just gets rust
it over it a little bit rusts over a long
period of time makes it stuck.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Sure, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
All right, appreciate it, Cal you bet all right. We're
going to help with John. John's got a twenty twenty
tota John. What's up today?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Well, guys, go I never missed the showers. If I
miss you, I'm on your podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
We're going I appreciate you. So my question today is
I've got the twenty twenty hybrid four And yesterday I
got a notice that the uh it just occurtesy notice
it's not a recall. It's saying that the flow shut
off alves could get it developed a cool link. We've
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had this incident. If you e her have it, just
keep this notice to your golf compartment and bring the
car in and we'll fix it. If you fixed it already,
you know, provide just a good ticket and we'll see
if we can pay it back. And I just do
not know where this the flow shut off valves, So
the coolant is, I got the motor open. I'm looking
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here and i'd like to watch my seeing a slight finally,
anything going wrong. I've got thirty eight thousand miles only
on this vehicle, and it's just pristine, right, and I
want to keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well most of the time, some of the coolant valets
we've done on somebody's hybrids have been underneath the hood
and they've been on how and they could be a
lot of different places. And we're going to try to
look up here real quick to see maybe where it's at.
But usually it's run along the frame rails, Okay, to
the right or left the frame rail, and you know,
you'll have engine coolant, then you'll kind of have hybrid
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coolant also. So the easiest way to do that is
just to probably follow you know, maybe some of the
coolant lines to see where it goes to. There could
be a small Yeah, it's gonna be a small hose.
It's not going to be a big radiator hose. This
is going to be more like a three eight hose
by the size of your thumb kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, it's probably it looks like it's over by the
battery kind of where your heater hoses go in. It's
probably somewhere where the hybrid stuff is is on.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
The driver.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Trunk, are in the back end hatchback.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, so it'd be on the left side of the
engine bay kind of in the back then, because it looks.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Like no, no, by the back of the motor, back
of the engine bay.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, because what these two control valves do is it
just maintains good fast flow through your heater core. Okay,
So yeah, it looks like it's a kind of just
right down there behind kind of parallel with the valve cover.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, just as an electrical connector to it. And then
in and out and uh, obviously it's an on and
off kind of switch. So yeah, I would just kind
of monitor that just a little bit.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
And I think it is off the frame down there
in the back.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
No, it's going to be up kind of on the
engine bay kind of back where you see your heater hoses.
Just follow your heater hoses, you'll find it. Okay, it's
right in line.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Okay. And the other side of that same question, I'm
used to everything I have as old I got is
is a drive eighty two Toyota diesel and eighty five
Ford F two fix everything on them, right, and everything's
pretty old and h But this pink coolant that they
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have and the usually signifies when they change colors or
something that it's the kind they usually want you to use.
It doesn't need anything now, but I'd like to have
it on my shelf. Is that a special coolant, the
pink color?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mh, it is.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Something that they want. Yes, you can also if you
go to the park store, you can buy.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They have universal import coolants.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yes, and it's yellow, so it mixes with all the
same color. But you can easily you can easily look
on the back label and it'll tell you whether it's
you know, compatible to the tote and the hybrid portion
of it, and it's most all of it is. Anymore
on that, but each manufacturer will have their own kind
of color so that.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
They can definitely don't use the coolants I've been using
on my or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
No green stuff or anything like that, and they're just
a good universal.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
It's pretty sure. But I wanted to as long as
I had you on the phone on this unit, I
thought i'd ask you if that it's probably that color
is signifying something.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, I don't know if it's necessarily significant, you know, Yeah,
I don't know if the color is where it needs
to be. It's more of the properties in there. But
you know, like Toyta used to have at one point
they were like red, it was red hot, Bressler's purple. Yeah,
Honda has blue.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
I mean so oh yeah, yeah, yeas.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, So that you don't know if you're fighting a
washer fluid leak or on the ground.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So the color is not so much, Uh you know
your problem is I guess, yeah, No, it's more about
the properties in it. So, like Kyle said, when you
go to the part store, you'll find import coolant and
it'll tell you whether that's it what it is, and
most of the time that yellow because yellow mixes with
every one of those colors and don't change the color.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
That's why I've seen that one.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Okay, yep, great, Thank you for all your answers and
I just love your show.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I appreciate you. Listen. Thanks, John, appreciate the call. All Right,
we're gonna take quick break in the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven,
tens and numbers to get in. We'll be back in
a minute. Jump back into the calls and go to
John's got a two thousand and four Silverado, John, thanks
for waiting. What's up today? Hey guys?
Speaker 7 (20:58):
One quick question and complaint? Which one do you want first?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I don't care?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Okay, quick question. She's started five point three and it's
starting to sound like I've got a gear drive cam
and I don't. So I've narrowed it down to either
my water pump or the tension pully. Is there a
simple way to check that before you pull them off?
I mean, if I pop the belt, louse, can I
feel some noticeable shake in the water pump?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah? Sometimes, if it's bad enough. Generally you'll have a
leak by that point.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Well I'm not losing any fluid yet, Okay, Yeah, I
just don't want to wait for total failure.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, generally it's the AC tensioner.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Generally, I was going to say that either tensioner is
very prone to go bad on that particular year and
can scream like crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So okay, just pull the main belt.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Pull the main belt because that's easy enough, and just
relax the belt kind of leaves where it's at and
then start it up. And if your noise is still there,
I agree with Kyle. It's the AC idlers that's causing.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Okay, And if it's down there, if it's.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Not bad then and it's original, I would change it
anyway because it's gonna go if it's a win.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
If it's original, change the water pump you said no, if.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's if that idler pulley down there and that that
runs the air conditioning belt, if that, if that's original
and it hasn't been changed, I would change it anyway
because it's gonna go bad.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah, it's original. I'm pretty sure. Years ago I replaced
the top.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah. Most of the time they lock up, throw the
air conditioning belt, then you don't have any air conditioning,
and that's how you discovered that that Polly has been
bad for a long time, just hanging down there.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
All right, Okay, that makes sense. And my my only
complaint is you guys aren't on for two hours.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I know I've been saying it for years. Yeah, I
could do this.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Get some other people appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I appreciate the call, John, I know it's it's it
just it's tough sometimes, isn't it. Yeah, everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
To If I was better looking, i'd be on TV.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, that's why we're doing this. All right, We're going
over to Janie. Janece has got two thousand and two
Kia Sports Jans. What's up today?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
I live in.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Lincoln and I've had the car for about two years.
The dealer told me I needed break pads replaced and
it would be about five hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Does that seem about right?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Is that front and rear breaks?
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
I didn't ask.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
I didn't think about asking.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Okay, well, if it's front and rear breaks, you know,
let's just let's just say it's front and rear basic breaks.
Where you don't need rotors or you don't need anything else.
I would say that's kind of pretty close in line. Yeah,
I mean a lot of as we if you listen
to us at all, you notice that we'll tell you
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that the pins are a lot stuck and things like that,
and a lot of the calipers just because of all
the salt. It's on the road and used to be
just omaha, but I think everybody is adopting it now
and over a period of time those get stuck. So
a lot of times you'll add a pinkit in there,
which brings it up to a probably about that price.
If it's let's just say it's front breaks and rotors,
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five point fifty is maybe just a little bit high,
but close right in there. Usually that price is somewhere
in a four and a half range if it's like
front breaks and rotors. But that price really determines on
just what they're doing for sure, because there's so many
little things that you can have front brakes and a
pinkit or resurfacing the rear rotors, and so the answer
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your question, yeah, I think that price sounds pretty good,
but it kind of depends on exactly what they're doing.
If they're if that.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
They're just throwing brake pads on the front, that's way high.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah. If they're just doing front breaks and that's all
they're doing, then that's double the price it should be.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Okay, all right, Well, at least that gives me a
starting point.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Do you have a do you have any any kind
of documentation or what they had or what wanted to
do for sure?
Speaker 11 (25:21):
No, I just had them do something else and ask
them to identify anything else that might need doing, you.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Know, Okay, sure, sure, and that's.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
What they said.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
They said the break pads, but I failed to ask
you know, front rear, and I don't. Well, if you're identifying, yeah, if.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You find out what it is, you know, calls back
today or calls back next week and we can give
you a better answer to that.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
Okay, Well, thank you for your program so much.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You bet appreciate the call. Thanks for listening. Yeah, you know,
on breaks are when we get breaks on an ask
them inal or the phone. It's just kind of a
rough idea until we pull it apart. I mean, things change, Yeah,
things change a lot. And if you are in California
or Texas or something like that, and a lot of
the things that don't happen down there.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's easy money down there, geez.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, because the caliber, once you loube up the calipers
and the pins and everything else, they'll stay that way
for a long time because it doesn't it doesn't wash
out like it does here, it doesn't get all the
salt in it like it normally does, and calibers can stick.
And there's just so much more involved in any kind
of rust belt state to do your breaks, and you know,
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sometimes you need it. Used to be you always needed fronts.
Now they've kind of switched it around a little bit,
so your rear brakes are the ones that go out first.
And the reason they do that is because they're bringing
the rear breaks in first before they bring the front in.
Because back in the day, everybody knows when they stop
on the break, the front end knows is down real hard.
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Doesn't do that so much. The rear brakes come on
to kind of slow you down and even pattern which
gives you more control on braking, and your car stops
quicker and faster. And they've just figured that out. It
seems like they figured that out kind of after ABS
came along.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, there's been some you know, crazy changes with braking systems.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I mean it's gotten far better. It really used to
be sixty in the front forty in the rear. Now
it's kind of reverse that, where it's sixty in the
rear and forty in the front. They've gotten better pads,
you know, some car poll I've we've changed pads on
some cars at one hundred thousand miles in the front
(27:41):
and the rear. They've gone through two sets of rear
brakes before they've gone through you know, one set of fronts.
So yeah, it's brakes are not the way they used
to be.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It's crazy when you drive old cars like you know,
because I'll drive regular truck around all the time. It breaks,
you can rely on you know this and that. I
mean just old cars, four wheel drum manual brakes. You
hit the pedal, you don't know what's gonna happen. Yeah, yeah,
and you got to go and right, you're going left.
You're doing something. And they did.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They had, you know, in the early years, they had
a tough time with a four wheel disc just trying
to get good brake pedal out of it. And I
think they finally have solved that problem.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Portioning valves and moving pressures around, and I mean it's
been a lot of trial and error, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And now everything is four wheel disc it's got good
high pedal and feels good where. Yeah, there's a lot
of technology compared to the old drum brakes all the
way around that you had to hold onto the steering
wheel if you were going to break, because.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You not to drive. It's an adventure.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I didn't know if it was going to throw you
to the left lane or the right lane, and uh,
your steering wheel was going whichever way grabbed first.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Gosh, I've driven some cars with some sketchy.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Brakes, so have I or no brakes. I did one
of those just the other day. It had absolutely Yeah,
you're just using the parking break zero.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's like a neutral parking break. I hope we stop.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, I've gotten to the point to learn that not
everybody tells you when they say got a break problem.
They don't how to get here something. I don't know
how they got it here, but man, sometimes it goes
to the floor. But they failed to mention that completely.
They just said there must be something wrong with the breaks.
So I have not hit anything, but I've learned my lessons.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, be prepared.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
All right, we're gonna take quick break on the Mister
Mechanics Show five, five, eight to eleven ten. There's numbers
to get in. We'll be back in a minute. Forty
ninth Avenue and Dodge, So stop in see us, get
your car fixed, get some gas while you're there, Pop
candy cigarettes. We got it all best selling vehicles in
every state in twenty twenty four. Of course we know
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who this really kind of this is vehicles, so this
is everybody, but Ford is kind of the best one
that goes with their F one fifty and we all
know that best seller. They got twenty four states. It's
kind of interesting. I never really kind of going by
state before Chevy Silverado I got eight states coming fast behind,
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and that this used to be third was Tuta. The
Tyde Raft four is in eight states. That kind of
is the most common. Then Honda cr V and then
the Tesla is kind of number four.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And I'm curious to see what these numbers are going
to do for next year.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh, they're gonna flip flop like crazy. I can already
tell you that the F one fifty stand where it's
at and that's.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Not going anywhere that grandfathered in so deep.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah yeah, And I've seen that Tuta has overtaken Chevrolet
here recently, so they were kind of teetering there for
And this is just the best selling car by state,
but the Raft four has been is rapidly becoming the
second most purchase vehicle in the in the country rightly.
So it's a great car. I mean, uh, yeah, we
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recommend him and uh, great car on the normal side,
great car on the hybrid side to it does a
great job. I mean, there's I don't they all have
their you know, Toda had some B six engine problems
when they came out in the tunders here recently. But
they caught that quick. They caught it. They caught it
in one hundred thousand engines before GM caught it in
(31:28):
eight hundred thousand engines that the GM is going to
recall for the six twos. So uh, at least they
caught it at one hundred hundreds, a heck of a
lot cheaper than eight. But they build a great product
all the way around. And the CRV is another, you know,
great product there. The Tesla, he's going to suffer a
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little bit with everything else that's going on.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
In the world here. Yeah, I mean, it is what
it is. But I mean when we're talking about cars,
and you know, because everybody asked me, you know, what
kind of cars, what kind of car do they sell
now that doesn't have any problems?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
They all have problems.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
They all have every car line, every manufacturer, any new
first year model. I mean, they're gonna have their their issues.
So I mean I always just tell people, you know, hey,
do your research. Which companies are handling these issues? Great? Right,
You've got Toyota, Honda, Hyyendai, Kia, all these other lines.
(32:26):
You know, Chevy does great with recalls. I mean I'm
still getting recall notices from my two thousand and eight
Chevrolet mm hmm. And I'm like, cool, Yeah, you want
to put airbags.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
On this thing, go for it. And you know the
other thing you can do too, is uh And I
recommend this to several people that want to they don't
know what kind of car they want. They want an suv,
but they don't really know what they want. They want
something that looks sporty, this that or the other, whatever
they're whatever. Go to a parking lot somewhere, go to
the mall, go see what people are driving, you know,
instead of going from car deal or to car de
(32:57):
or to car, just walk through the parking lots. Heck,
I kind of like that. That's kind of neat. Boy,
that's ugly. You know, I wouldn't drive one of those.
And you kind of say, okay, what is that? And
I'm not going to have that and just kind of
see how many you're in the parking lot. Tells you
what people are driving, and then you can start narrowing
your search for down from.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Depending on where you're at, that might yeah be kind
of a well, I mean, because if you're in a
parking lot full of range drovers.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well, depend but you've got several places you can go to.
You don't take one parking lot and make your decision.
You go several different places. But you know, you narrow
it from I don't know down to ten and then
from ten down to five and then from there go
shop from there.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Now, don't make a quick decision.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, at least you've narrowed it down to a handful
that you can make decisions from and then start doing
your research as to okay, and then you go drive it.
I've had Several people say, well, I looked at that car,
but when I drove it, it was horrible. The seats
were bad, that controls were this, this, something was at
So I said, I just can't drive that. They just
move on to something else. So that there's a big
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factor of getting in and out of it, sliding in
and out. If you're maybe older, you don't want to
get down into a car and back up out of
a car. That's a big factor. Yeah, same with a
big truck. I mean, you got a big truck out
there with a four inch lift that's got running boards
on it. You're going to get tired of climbing in
climbing in a cool factor in a hurry. It does,
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it does. It's just it's like climbing a ladder. I mean,
why have it every day? And then after a while
you always see that truck the new next generation comes down,
you know, Yeah, they get tired of it. So there's
a lot of factors. You just got to find out
what's what's good for you. But yeah, I'm sure with
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with the used car a new car, everything's kind of
switched up here a little bit.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Uh, here's just interesting. One in Nebraska's F one fifty,
Arizona Chevrolet, Minnesota Chevrolet, Iowa Chevrolet. I thought they'd be foured,
you know everybody everybody in the Midwest is I thought.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I would be a RAM state.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I just picture that is RAM state.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
And I don't see any of those anywhere. There's just
not not one on here. Tota RAB four, that's Florida,
that makes sense. What's Alaska? What do they drive up there?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
What are they?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
A Hawaii Toda, Tacoma?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Okay, throw your surfboard.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
In Arkansas, GMC Sierra, Yeah, I see, I would. I
just it's interesting, it's interesting or what goes on
Meat 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 Unletted. Legend
has it that Kyle can gingerr oil with his toes
(00:21):
and that he can till your tires ille pressure just
by how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every
Saturday morning they morphed together to form the greatest superhero
known to man, Mister Mechanic check eg and like still.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Stand a chance?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is the Mister Mechanic Show. On eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to this is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
We are Buchanan Service Centers, the fiftieth and Dodge eightieth
and Dodge Guaranteed Breaks, forty ninth Avenue in Dodge. Get
in early so we can answer those calls for you,
get you back on the road, Get you to the
part store. You know, Kyle. Good morning, Kyle, nice.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Day, Yeah, yeah it is. You should if you're.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Out there listening to us you should be able to
get your information, get back to fixing that car. This
would be a nice day today, nice weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, call us from under the hood. Yeah, that's the
best place we could walk you through anything.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh yeah, right there. You know, I ran across something
the other day. Kyle, what is the most ticketed cars
the most Who's the top ten most pulled over cars
in the United States?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, I would guess any sporty import with a coffee
can ask looking muffler on it that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Goes pop pop pop pop pop pop.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, and now the acoustics in my bay are great
right there on Dodge Street.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Those don't go fast, They just sound fast. That's just
the all that noise and no speed, All that noise
and no speed. Well, here you go Kia Stinger, which
is kind of a sports car, Dodge Challenger. And in
all of the ones that the you know whatever they are,
this catpacker, trap pack, rat pack, I don't know what
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they all are, but the the Nissan three seventy Z,
that's one of those pop pop pops, you know, along
with the Infinity. Who knew Infinity was going to be
such a young culture.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
And that's just caught on within the last probably three
to five years.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Before I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
They were a nice upscale luxury car that's turned into
you know, I've never.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Been a fan of them, mind you, by the time
and I see them.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
It's a horror story they are, and they've been beat up, tortured.
I mean they just and it's you know, infinished, and
they all.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Have just obscure oil leagues.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, well it's Infinity. It's just an upscale Nissan, which
you know, you and I if you listen to the show,
you know about that Mitchubishi Lancer. You know, Scion, Well
Scions no more, but you can find those. Those are FSR,
the E three and a Mini Cooper, you know, and
there was some there that that I thought for. And
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there's no Ferraris, Porschas or Lamborghini's on there.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
They're less than one percent of the car community. But
I agree most people that have them know what they
spent on it. So hey, let's uh take it easy. Year.
My bank account depends on it.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, well, nobody needs their insurance to go up because
they got caught doing one hundred and twenty even though
you want to.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You know, I remember, like way back, way back, like
when I started driving, I remember reading a statistic and
Car and Driver or one of those magazines that if
you own a red car, you were more likely to
get pulled over.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yep. I was like, why red? It's just visual you
can see it and any bright color. And now we
have so many pastel colors, it just kind of almost
blends anything.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, road, it's a pretty basic color now. I mean
we got lime greens, we got pinks, we got everything else.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it used to be red would just stuck out,
and you know, the tan colors just in the green colors,
they just kind of blended in. But you're right. Red
was had one of those cars and true if you
get pulled over. Oh yeah, we got pulled over.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We were going fast. That's why. All right, we're gonna
head into the calls. John's got a ninety eight Chevy pickup. John,
what's up today?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, good morning, gentlemen. I got a ninety eight Chevy
pickup and excuse me, I still have a link condition.
I changed the intent manfold jacket and change the mass
airflow sensor, tuned it up with plugs, and still have
a link condition.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What should I do next?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
That's the code you're getting is is a Liane code?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, peel, sir, okay, So it's affecting both banks. We
know we got potential a good mass airflow sensor, so
we can rule that out. We've changed intake gaskets. We
can assume that those are sealed. So have we looked
at the fuel system?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, fifty pers of pressure at idol. And then it
comes up with as you re the motor.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Up, sir, okay, exhaust leaks. How's the exhaust man a
full bolt? So they're all there, all eight of them.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Side, okay, okay, okay, So.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Lean do you think to do that? Okay, nope.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I mean if it's able to set a lean condition,
we can assume that there's no misfires, no miss none
at all. A misfire creates a rich condition in the
eyes of the O two sensor. We're putting raw fuel
in the catalytic the other way, so we're looking for air,
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too much air, not enough fuel.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All the real quickly, Like I gotta ask you a question,
there is real dinky little cracks around the bin, or
it come to the flange I'm a the learner, or
the pipes come together from front.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
To air Okay, so our catalytic converter is behind the
upstream O two sensor. The upstream O two sensor is
the one telling your computer we've got a lean condition.
And then ninety eight. I'm not sure what kind of
downstream O two sensor they're using, but any exhaust leak
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between the O two sensors, if it is leaking at
these tiny little cracks, we need to determine that, you know,
if there's really small and minute, I mean, for testing purposes,
get some of that exhaust paste. It's kind of a yeah,
this little glue stuff. You're getting a tube and you
(07:00):
can just wipe it on there when it's hot and
it'll dry and effectively seal those too. I mean, at
least give you a test.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, give you an idea what you're doing. But you
kind of diagnos a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
So the next thing, So you say you got good
fuel pressure. Pressure is one thing. Volume is a whole
nother thing, and the RPM of your fuel pump is
an entirely other thing. You can have either one of
these things failing and still maintain fuel pressure.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Mh way, Okay, I'm just going to ask that question
because these are very common to fail in that particular year,
very common.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
So it's inside the intake mapple, inside the planum.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
The only other odd ball long ball to left field.
And I don't know if this truck even it should
have some version of this, but I'm not sure how
they do it because generally I can't remember if that
Chevy has a MAP sensor or not it does. Okay,
have you tested that?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Okay, we replaced that two shirt an m AP sensor.
Yes we have.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Do you have a scan tool that will allow you
to see.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Data, allow me to do what I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Look at a data stream? Or do you just have
a code reader?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I have a stamp on a scan Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
What does the barometric pressure say?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, i'll tell you right now. I don't know what
the baron mag pressure is, but the fuel ratio is
fourteen point five, and I know it's supposed to be
fourteen point seven.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, yeah, it's supposed to be it's supposed to be
fourteen point seven, But that's fourteen point five. It's pretty
darn close. I don't know if that's going to trigger.
But what really boils down here is there's it's got
some sort of vacuum leak, and it might be very
minor because all the air that's supposed to that the
mass airflow sensor is supposed to adjust. Everything has to
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come through the air filter through the snorkel, and if
it pulls anything in somewhere else, it sets a code
like that. A fuel can do it, but there might
be a fuel strategy being off just a little bit.
It's it's the one thing that we do is we
hook up a scanner and that's what that's what Kyle's saying.
You got you can look at the data and you
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can spray carburetor cleaner in the areas and you watch
for it to jump up. And when it jumps up,
then you know that you've got an area that's got
a vacuum leak. And when you do, you address that
particular point kind of like you do with intake manifolds.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, so yeah, with the MT twenty fire, so you
should see something in there that says short term fuel
trim and long term fuel trim. Right, That's what I'm
going to go off of to do this test that
Bob's explaining. So we need to if you it's been
(10:04):
a lifetime ago since I've used the MT twenty five hundred.
I mean I started out with that tool. Everybody did,
and it was great for the time and for your truck.
It's a perfect tool. So I don't know if you
can pick out and make a custom data list, take
all your other stuff out of the scenario, and only
monitor short term and long term fuel trim.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
That's what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So the first thing I'm gonna do, and even if
you can't, just monitor, just focus on short term and
long term fuel trim. So start your engine up, look
at what your fuel trim is. Let it warm up.
So to set this code, you're gonna be plus or
minus minus, say twenty five percent. That's gonna set your
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lean code. Plus twenty five percent. That's going to set
a rich code. You want it to be somewhere generally, Chevrolet,
I see in the realm of ten percent. So if
you're at idle and you're seeing twenty five, step on
the gas. See if that changes. See if it goes
the other way. See if it finds a medium in there,
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and you're say sitting around two percent, you know you've
got a vacuum leak issue. Because you're off idle, your
intake has pressure if you're off idle and it's going lean,
I'm going to the fuel system right away, so that's
a great which way to go.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I gotta ask you real quick questions, sir, Sure, okay.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The rich lean rich lean up there in the corner
of the scanner in the parade, just right up their
way up on top of the inside of the scanner,
the rich en rich wing. Oh, can I do all
for that?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I'm not very good with with the the whatever.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You Yeah, I'll tell you what. Why don't you hang
on a second? We got we gotta take a quick break.
I'll explain it all to you when we get back.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
That SI understanding there by the anti threes. I knew
she must have been about forty three.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I heard her going claim.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
That seventy one mustand and I knew it wouldn't be
long before her tires were all ball, but she would
still be mine. Yes, she's mine, all mindstgain.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
I love noticable expert another court of oil vapor. I
love notable, so up inside to take a ride with
ball love noticeable singing and seem singing my butt born
ray back. I love with a hundred mile dollar.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Train, Alex with a two thousand and two f one fifty, Alex,
what's up today.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, I've got a two thousand and two f one fifty.
I just bought it here recently, and the foural drive
does not work. I turn to switch. The four by
four light does not illuminate. I don't hear any sounds
or anything like that that's activating it.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay, Well, this car has a like a window looking
motor on the back of the transfer case, and a
lot of times they'll get with all the salt we
have that they'll get corrosion and everything else on it.
So I would start by checking the wires, making sure
nothing's pulled down on it, pull the connector apart, look
inside for anything that's green and yellow and purple, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Good visual inspection on especially with the age of this truck.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
And then you could have somebody up up top start
and run the car, somebody you trust, and uh, you
know know, put it into four wheel drive as you're
down there, just very gently tapping on it with a
hammer and see if all of a sudden it doesn't
become unstuck and start working. That'd be the first few
steps that I would take, And then the next step
is to you know, check for powers and grounds down there, Kyle,
(14:17):
I would think, but it usually they sit dormant a
lot of the time. They were very common to go
bad and it just see if you can shock it,
you know, yeah, and make it come back to life.
If not, you got to start and then kind of
go backwards out. If that doesn't work, that basic stuff,
you go go back and check the fuses and because
(14:38):
I mean, the only three things went bad in these
things was the motor first, a switch probably second, and
then a module you know, up in the fender after that.
That's about three things.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I'm gonna yeah, I agree. One let's go where the
weather goes? Yeah, right to that motor.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, a lot of things and it just gets rust
it over it a little bit rusts over a long
period of time makes it stuck.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Sure, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
All right, appreciate it, Cal you bet all right. We're
going to help with John. John's got a twenty twenty
tota John. What's up today?
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Well, guys, go I never missed the showers. If I
miss you, I'm on your podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
We're going I appreciate you. So my question today is
I've got the twenty twenty hybrid four And yesterday I
got a notice that the uh it just occurtesy notice
it's not a recall. It's saying that the flow shut
off alves could get it developed a cool link. We've
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had this incident. If you e her have it, just
keep this notice to your golf compartment and bring the
car in and we'll fix it. If you fixed it already,
you know, provide just a good ticket and we'll see
if we can pay it back. And I just do
not know where this the flow shut off valves, So
the coolant is, I got the motor open. I'm looking
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here and i'd like to watch my seeing a slight finally,
anything going wrong. I've got thirty eight thousand miles only
on this vehicle, and it's just pristine, right, and I
want to keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well most of the time, some of the coolant valets
we've done on somebody's hybrids have been underneath the hood
and they've been on how and they could be a
lot of different places. And we're going to try to
look up here real quick to see maybe where it's at.
But usually it's run along the frame rails, Okay, to
the right or left the frame rail, and you know,
you'll have engine coolant, then you'll kind of have hybrid
(16:46):
coolant also. So the easiest way to do that is
just to probably follow you know, maybe some of the
coolant lines to see where it goes to. There could
be a small Yeah, it's gonna be a small hose.
It's not going to be a big radiator hose. This
is going to be more like a three eight hose
by the size of your thumb kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah, it's probably it looks like it's over by the
battery kind of where your heater hoses go in. It's
probably somewhere where the hybrid stuff is is on.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
The driver.
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Trunk, are in the back end hatchback.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Okay, so it'd be on the left side of the
engine bay kind of in the back then, because it looks.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Like no, no, by the back of the motor, back
of the engine bay.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, because what these two control valves do is it
just maintains good fast flow through your heater core. Okay,
So yeah, it looks like it's a kind of just
right down there behind kind of parallel with the valve cover.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, just as an electrical connector to it. And then
in and out and uh, obviously it's an on and
off kind of switch. So yeah, I would just kind
of monitor that just a little bit.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
And I think it is off the frame down there
in the back.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
No, it's going to be up kind of on the
engine bay kind of back where you see your heater hoses.
Just follow your heater hoses, you'll find it. Okay, it's
right in line.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Okay. And the other side of that same question, I'm
used to everything I have as old I got is
is a drive eighty two Toyota diesel and eighty five
Ford F two fix everything on them, right, and everything's
pretty old and h But this pink coolant that they
(18:41):
have and the usually signifies when they change colors or
something that it's the kind they usually want you to use.
It doesn't need anything now, but I'd like to have
it on my shelf. Is that a special coolant, the
pink color?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Mh, it is.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Something that they want. Yes, you can also if you
go to the park store, you can buy.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They have universal import coolants.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yes, and it's yellow, so it mixes with all the
same color. But you can easily you can easily look
on the back label and it'll tell you whether it's
you know, compatible to the tote and the hybrid portion
of it, and it's most all of it is. Anymore
on that, but each manufacturer will have their own kind
of color so that.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
They can definitely don't use the coolants I've been using
on my or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
No green stuff or anything like that, and they're just
a good universal.
Speaker 9 (19:34):
It's pretty sure. But I wanted to as long as
I had you on the phone on this unit, I
thought i'd ask you if that it's probably that color
is signifying something.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, I don't know if it's necessarily significant, you know, Yeah,
I don't know if the color is where it needs
to be. It's more of the properties in there. But
you know, like Toyta used to have at one point
they were like red, it was red hot, Bressler's purple. Yeah,
Honda has blue.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
I mean so oh yeah, yeah, yeas.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, So that you don't know if you're fighting a
washer fluid leak or on the ground.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
So the color is not so much, Uh you know
your problem is I guess, yeah, No, it's more about
the properties in it. So, like Kyle said, when you
go to the part store, you'll find import coolant and
it'll tell you whether that's it what it is, and
most of the time that yellow because yellow mixes with
every one of those colors and don't change the color.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
That's why I've seen that one.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Okay, yep, great, Thank you for all your answers and
I just love your show.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I appreciate you. Listen. Thanks, John, appreciate the call. All Right,
we're gonna take quick break in the Mister Mechanics show five, five, eight, eleven,
tens and numbers to get in. We'll be back in
a minute. Jump back into the calls and go to
John's got a two thousand and four Silverado, John, thanks
for waiting. What's up today? Hey guys?
Speaker 7 (20:58):
One quick question and complaint? Which one do you want first?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I don't care?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Okay, quick question. She's started five point three and it's
starting to sound like I've got a gear drive cam
and I don't. So I've narrowed it down to either
my water pump or the tension pully. Is there a
simple way to check that before you pull them off?
I mean, if I pop the belt, louse, can I
feel some noticeable shake in the water pump?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah? Sometimes, if it's bad enough. Generally you'll have a
leak by that point.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Well I'm not losing any fluid yet, Okay, Yeah, I
just don't want to wait for total failure.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, generally it's the AC tensioner.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Generally, I was going to say that either tensioner is
very prone to go bad on that particular year and
can scream like crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So okay, just pull the main belt.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Pull the main belt because that's easy enough, and just
relax the belt kind of leaves where it's at and
then start it up. And if your noise is still there,
I agree with Kyle. It's the AC idlers that's causing.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Okay, And if it's down there, if it's.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Not bad then and it's original, I would change it
anyway because it's gonna go if it's a win.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
If it's original, change the water pump you said no, if.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's if that idler pulley down there and that that
runs the air conditioning belt, if that, if that's original
and it hasn't been changed, I would change it anyway
because it's gonna go bad.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah, it's original. I'm pretty sure. Years ago I replaced
the top.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah. Most of the time they lock up, throw the
air conditioning belt, then you don't have any air conditioning,
and that's how you discovered that that Polly has been
bad for a long time, just hanging down there.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
All right, Okay, that makes sense. And my my only
complaint is you guys aren't on for two hours.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I know I've been saying it for years. Yeah, I
could do this.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Get some other people appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I appreciate the call, John, I know it's it's it
just it's tough sometimes, isn't it. Yeah, everybody wants.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
To If I was better looking, i'd be on TV.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yeah, that's why we're doing this. All right, We're going
over to Janie. Janece has got two thousand and two
Kia Sports Jans. What's up today?
Speaker 7 (23:20):
I live in.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Lincoln and I've had the car for about two years.
The dealer told me I needed break pads replaced and
it would be about five hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Does that seem about right?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Is that front and rear breaks?
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (23:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (23:42):
I didn't ask.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
I didn't think about asking.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Okay, well, if it's front and rear breaks, you know,
let's just let's just say it's front and rear basic breaks.
Where you don't need rotors or you don't need anything else.
I would say that's kind of pretty close in line. Yeah,
I mean a lot of as we if you listen
to us at all, you notice that we'll tell you
(24:07):
that the pins are a lot stuck and things like that,
and a lot of the calipers just because of all
the salt. It's on the road and used to be
just omaha, but I think everybody is adopting it now
and over a period of time those get stuck. So
a lot of times you'll add a pinkit in there,
which brings it up to a probably about that price.
If it's let's just say it's front breaks and rotors,
(24:29):
five point fifty is maybe just a little bit high,
but close right in there. Usually that price is somewhere
in a four and a half range if it's like
front breaks and rotors. But that price really determines on
just what they're doing for sure, because there's so many
little things that you can have front brakes and a
pinkit or resurfacing the rear rotors, and so the answer
(24:56):
your question, yeah, I think that price sounds pretty good,
but it kind of depends on exactly what they're doing.
If they're if that.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
They're just throwing brake pads on the front, that's way high.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah. If they're just doing front breaks and that's all
they're doing, then that's double the price it should be.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Okay, all right, Well, at least that gives me a
starting point.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Do you have a do you have any any kind
of documentation or what they had or what wanted to
do for sure?
Speaker 11 (25:21):
No, I just had them do something else and ask
them to identify anything else that might need doing, you.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Know, Okay, sure, sure, and that's.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
What they said.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
They said the break pads, but I failed to ask
you know, front rear, and I don't. Well, if you're identifying, yeah, if.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You find out what it is, you know, calls back
today or calls back next week and we can give
you a better answer to that.
Speaker 11 (25:49):
Okay, Well, thank you for your program so much.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
You bet appreciate the call. Thanks for listening. Yeah, you know,
on breaks are when we get breaks on an ask
them inal or the phone. It's just kind of a
rough idea until we pull it apart. I mean, things change, Yeah,
things change a lot. And if you are in California
or Texas or something like that, and a lot of
the things that don't happen down there.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's easy money down there, geez.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Yeah, because the caliber, once you loube up the calipers
and the pins and everything else, they'll stay that way
for a long time because it doesn't it doesn't wash
out like it does here, it doesn't get all the
salt in it like it normally does, and calibers can stick.
And there's just so much more involved in any kind
of rust belt state to do your breaks, and you know,
(26:39):
sometimes you need it. Used to be you always needed fronts.
Now they've kind of switched it around a little bit,
so your rear brakes are the ones that go out first.
And the reason they do that is because they're bringing
the rear breaks in first before they bring the front in.
Because back in the day, everybody knows when they stop
on the break, the front end knows is down real hard.
(27:00):
Doesn't do that so much. The rear brakes come on
to kind of slow you down and even pattern which
gives you more control on braking, and your car stops
quicker and faster. And they've just figured that out. It
seems like they figured that out kind of after ABS
came along.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah, there's been some you know, crazy changes with braking systems.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I mean it's gotten far better. It really used to
be sixty in the front forty in the rear. Now
it's kind of reverse that, where it's sixty in the
rear and forty in the front. They've gotten better pads,
you know, some car poll I've we've changed pads on
some cars at one hundred thousand miles in the front
(27:41):
and the rear. They've gone through two sets of rear
brakes before they've gone through you know, one set of fronts.
So yeah, it's brakes are not the way they used
to be.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It's crazy when you drive old cars like you know,
because I'll drive regular truck around all the time. It breaks,
you can rely on you know this and that. I
mean just old cars, four wheel drum manual brakes. You
hit the pedal, you don't know what's gonna happen. Yeah, yeah,
and you got to go and right, you're going left.
You're doing something. And they did.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They had, you know, in the early years, they had
a tough time with a four wheel disc just trying
to get good brake pedal out of it. And I
think they finally have solved that problem.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Portioning valves and moving pressures around, and I mean it's
been a lot of trial and error, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And now everything is four wheel disc it's got good
high pedal and feels good where. Yeah, there's a lot
of technology compared to the old drum brakes all the
way around that you had to hold onto the steering
wheel if you were going to break, because.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
You not to drive. It's an adventure.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I didn't know if it was going to throw you
to the left lane or the right lane, and uh,
your steering wheel was going whichever way grabbed first.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Gosh, I've driven some cars with some sketchy.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Brakes, so have I or no brakes. I did one
of those just the other day. It had absolutely Yeah,
you're just using the parking break zero.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's like a neutral parking break. I hope we stop.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, I've gotten to the point to learn that not
everybody tells you when they say got a break problem.
They don't how to get here something. I don't know
how they got it here, but man, sometimes it goes
to the floor. But they failed to mention that completely.
They just said there must be something wrong with the breaks.
So I have not hit anything, but I've learned my lessons.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah, be prepared.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
All right, we're gonna take quick break on the Mister
Mechanics Show five, five, eight to eleven ten. There's numbers
to get in. We'll be back in a minute. Forty
ninth Avenue and Dodge, So stop in see us, get
your car fixed, get some gas while you're there, Pop
candy cigarettes. We got it all best selling vehicles in
every state in twenty twenty four. Of course we know
(29:50):
who this really kind of this is vehicles, so this
is everybody, but Ford is kind of the best one
that goes with their F one fifty and we all
know that best seller. They got twenty four states. It's
kind of interesting. I never really kind of going by
state before Chevy Silverado I got eight states coming fast behind,
(30:14):
and that this used to be third was Tuta. The
Tyde Raft four is in eight states. That kind of
is the most common. Then Honda cr V and then
the Tesla is kind of number four.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
And I'm curious to see what these numbers are going
to do for next year.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Oh, they're gonna flip flop like crazy. I can already
tell you that the F one fifty stand where it's
at and that's.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Not going anywhere that grandfathered in so deep.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah yeah, And I've seen that Tuta has overtaken Chevrolet
here recently, so they were kind of teetering there for
And this is just the best selling car by state,
but the Raft four has been is rapidly becoming the
second most purchase vehicle in the in the country rightly.
So it's a great car. I mean, uh, yeah, we
(31:05):
recommend him and uh, great car on the normal side,
great car on the hybrid side to it does a
great job. I mean, there's I don't they all have
their you know, Toda had some B six engine problems
when they came out in the tunders here recently. But
they caught that quick. They caught it. They caught it
in one hundred thousand engines before GM caught it in
(31:28):
eight hundred thousand engines that the GM is going to
recall for the six twos. So uh, at least they
caught it at one hundred hundreds, a heck of a
lot cheaper than eight. But they build a great product
all the way around. And the CRV is another, you know,
great product there. The Tesla, he's going to suffer a
(31:49):
little bit with everything else that's going on.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
In the world here. Yeah, I mean, it is what
it is. But I mean when we're talking about cars,
and you know, because everybody asked me, you know, what
kind of cars, what kind of car do they sell
now that doesn't have any problems?
Speaker 3 (32:03):
They all have problems.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
They all have every car line, every manufacturer, any new
first year model. I mean, they're gonna have their their issues.
So I mean I always just tell people, you know, hey,
do your research. Which companies are handling these issues? Great? Right,
You've got Toyota, Honda, Hyyendai, Kia, all these other lines.
(32:26):
You know, Chevy does great with recalls. I mean I'm
still getting recall notices from my two thousand and eight
Chevrolet mm hmm. And I'm like, cool, Yeah, you want
to put airbags.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
On this thing, go for it. And you know the
other thing you can do too, is uh And I
recommend this to several people that want to they don't
know what kind of car they want. They want an suv,
but they don't really know what they want. They want
something that looks sporty, this that or the other, whatever
they're whatever. Go to a parking lot somewhere, go to
the mall, go see what people are driving, you know,
instead of going from car deal or to car de
(32:57):
or to car, just walk through the parking lots. Heck,
I kind of like that. That's kind of neat. Boy,
that's ugly. You know, I wouldn't drive one of those.
And you kind of say, okay, what is that? And
I'm not going to have that and just kind of
see how many you're in the parking lot. Tells you
what people are driving, and then you can start narrowing
your search for down from.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Depending on where you're at, that might yeah be kind
of a well, I mean, because if you're in a
parking lot full of range drovers.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well, depend but you've got several places you can go to.
You don't take one parking lot and make your decision.
You go several different places. But you know, you narrow
it from I don't know down to ten and then
from ten down to five and then from there go
shop from there.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Now, don't make a quick decision.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, at least you've narrowed it down to a handful
that you can make decisions from and then start doing
your research as to okay, and then you go drive it.
I've had Several people say, well, I looked at that car,
but when I drove it, it was horrible. The seats
were bad, that controls were this, this, something was at
So I said, I just can't drive that. They just
move on to something else. So that there's a big
(34:03):
factor of getting in and out of it, sliding in
and out. If you're maybe older, you don't want to
get down into a car and back up out of
a car. That's a big factor. Yeah, same with a
big truck. I mean, you got a big truck out
there with a four inch lift that's got running boards
on it. You're going to get tired of climbing in
climbing in a cool factor in a hurry. It does,
(34:26):
it does. It's just it's like climbing a ladder. I mean,
why have it every day? And then after a while
you always see that truck the new next generation comes down,
you know, Yeah, they get tired of it. So there's
a lot of factors. You just got to find out
what's what's good for you. But yeah, I'm sure with
(34:46):
with the used car a new car, everything's kind of
switched up here a little bit.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Uh, here's just interesting. One in Nebraska's F one fifty,
Arizona Chevrolet, Minnesota Chevrolet, Iowa Chevrolet. I thought they'd be foured,
you know everybody everybody in the Midwest is I thought.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I would be a RAM state.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I just picture that is RAM state.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
And I don't see any of those anywhere. There's just
not not one on here. Tota RAB four, that's Florida,
that makes sense. What's Alaska? What do they drive up there?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
What are they?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
A Hawaii Toda, Tacoma?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Okay, throw your surfboard.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
In Arkansas, GMC Sierra, Yeah, I see, I would. I
just it's interesting, it's interesting or what goes on
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