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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meant 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 a premium unleaded. Legend has
it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
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and that he can tell your tiresale pressure just by.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
How you're walking. He's Bob, he's.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed together to form
the greatest superhero known to man. Mister Mechanic check engine
lights don't stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
On eleven ten, Kfab.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, good morning, it's Saturday again. You know what
that means. It's time for the Mister Mechanics Show. We
are an interactive Colin talk show. You have the questions.
I've got my version of the answers, or the right
answers sometimes five, five, eight, eleven, ten, and the numbers
to get in, get in early. Hopefully these lines fill up.
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It's just me to day. Bob's well, I guess we'll
call it vacation. He didn't tell me where he was going,
so I figured somewhere nice, somewhere nice and probably warm,
somewhere right, yeah, yeah, maybe somewhere away from cars, you know,
like mckinaw Island or somewhere you know, living off the grid.
The thing is, what would he do with himself? He
works on cars all the time, all day, all night.
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I don't know. I've tried that, like going somewhere where
there's like no motor vehicles, and I'm like, huh, what
would I have done if I had been born in
the pioneer days, you know, just fixed wheels and stuff,
probably be working on the on the wagons, shoeing horses.
See a need, fill a need? All right? Yeah, we
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are Buchanan Service Centers fiftieth and Dodge eightieth and Dodge
Guaranteed Breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge. So it's been
a busy week here because we've kind of been up
and down with weather and climate. Cars are hugely affected
by weather and climate. So the best thing you can
do is, I mean just kind of prepared. Listen to
what your mechanics says. You know, hey, is your battery's
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looking kind of if he like just if he if
he's questioning it in any kind of way. It's just
better to do it because here in a few weeks,
because I kind of set my watch by this, by
the College World Series, I know that we're going to
get some hundred degree weather coming up because I've been
to those baseball games. I've been sunburnt there. I know
what happens that week, and you can set your watch
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by it. So now's the time, you know, let's prepare
for summer. You know we're going to have some rain
coming up. So I mean, are your tires good? I
mean some are around here. You don't really have to
worry so much about tires, but they're still really important.
So just a tip there. So let's jump right into
the calls. We got Scott here holding with a twenty
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twenty three toilet at Tacoma. Scott, what can possibly be
wrong with this pickup truck?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well, nothing's wrong with it. It's a great truck. I
got less than ten thousand miles on it, okay, and
took it in for the second oil change and the
dealer wanted to put in some oil additive for kim
Bucks okay, and I declined it should I get some?
Or what's the deal with that?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well? On that particular truck. I'm not one hundred percent
sure what kind of additive he is recommending now, saying
that we'll go back to last week's show when Bob
and I were discussing Chevy six to two recalls. So
they had issues with these engines, and they've recalled a
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bunch of them, and there's two stages to this recall.
Some of these engines are just getting different oil and
an oil additive. Other ones are getting engines So this
oil additive, I mean, it might be worth the phone
call to maybe dig a little deeper in that, say, hey,
what's this additive giving me? Is this a problem solving
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kind of additive? What's it involved? I mean, if it's
just you know, some kind of like Lucas pouring snake
oil kind of stuff to keep your engine clean, like,
I would probably decline it as well, because if you're
changing your oil and regular increments, your engine's going to
maintain itself. So that would be where I would head
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with that one. If okay, actually like a friction modifying
additive that the engine needs, then it needs it, if
it's okay, So that would be my advice there. Okay, Well,
thank you very much love the show, you bet, Scott,
thanks for the call. All right, Yeah, oil additives. I
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mean every year we're coming out with something different. I
remember if you know, what was it fifteen years ago
or so, GM came out with that Dexos oil and
you had to use Dexos in all their engines. Otherwise,
I mean it would avoid the warranty, it would do
all sorts of stuff inside that engine. You would have
timing issues, you'd I have all kinds of issues coming
down the pipe. And then now Dexos is in all oil,
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Like unless you find some old stuff sitting on the shelf,
you can't get oil without Dexos in it. So I mean,
which is I think is a good thing. I give,
it's something that certain engines need, but it won't harm
other engines. So I mean every year we're seeing different oils.
It's changing every day. All right, let's talk to Troy.
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Troy's got a twenty eleven towning Country Troy. What's up?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Good morning, Good morning. Hey. So I was changing the
oil in my vans this week. It's got that three
point six kind of star engine, okay, And when I
took the oil cap off, it's got the oil the
oil filter up on top of the engine.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
So when I was taken the cap off, that center
part that the filter slips onto kind of popped off
in my hand. I tried to get it back in
there and everything the best I could. I did notice
that my oil pressure when has gone down a little bit.
I mean when you rev it up, I mean it
goes up to thirty thirty five psi when you're driving,
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but when you're an idol, it's about ten or eleven,
which is lower than it's supposed to be. But I mean,
how big of a deal is that?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay, So walk me through this, because there's two different
styles of this engine. So okay, the part that came
off is that in the cap or is it in
the filter housing?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
In the filter housing?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Okay, So that's the early style. And I'm surprised that
we still have this one in the car still because
those ones had a failure rate. I mean, I've taken
that filter out and that spring all unload and shoot
that detent valve all around the shop.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
So though, so this isn't like anything new.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's been redesigned. So those were a problem from the
get go, and normally, like I say, I rarely see
them anymore because they've all started leaking and been replaced
with the newer model. It does need that because that's
what keeps so when you start your engine, your oil
pump pushes oil up to this filter housing and cooler
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assembly that's underneath your intake there, and that's a detent valve.
So when you shut the engine off and the pressure
goes down, it'll keep some oil up at the top
of the engine. So it is very important, and that's
why you're seeing an oil pressure change. So what I
would recommend doing is just replacing that whole filter housing.
Just get that old one out of there. It probably
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needs it anyhow. If not, you're going to save yourself
a big oil leak down the road.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
So so I don't want to ask you a question
that makes you uncomfortable, but I had that changed out
about a year and a half ago because we had
a bad, foolent link with it, and that's what my
mechanic put in. Is that kind of is that kind
of bad on that mechanic or well.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You know, I don't know exactly how to answer that one,
because I mean, he's kind of subject to his part supplier.
If they still had old ones on the shelf, then yeah,
I mean that's what you're gonna get. I mean, we
always put because there's certain ones, there's plastic ones, and
there's metal ones that replace that. I prefer to go
with these metal options because you don't have near the
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failure rate down the road. Because I mean, give or
take any Chrysler Jeep product that has this engine in it.
We replace them daily, and you know, by going with
the updated metal one, we see half the failure rate,
because I mean you're lucky to get seventy thousand out
of them. So I mean that would be my recommendation.
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You may talk to him and see, you know, kind
of hey, can you work with me? This is the
part that I want. It's made by dormant products. You
can look it up online and it's in all of them,
and I'm housing and it fixes that problem. So I mean,
maybe bring it up to him, just say, hey, you know,
can you work with me here a little bit on this.
You know, we put this in and here I'm having
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this failure. It broke and now I got low oil pressure.
Help me save engine. For sure, I'm sure they'll do
something for you. You bet all right, let's all right,
we're gonna take a quick break here, Doug, hang on
the line here. We'll be back in a second.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Bum bum bum.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
bum bum bum bum.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Mister mechanic, you change my transmission fluid and sparked, rotate
my tires and watch it all over and you break
bad so.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You don't get run over.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Mechanic, my car is so don't even have a working
cruise controls. It's my pos mister mcanny, you are the bad.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna jump back into the calls.
We got Doug eading patiently. Oh seven CRV Doug, what's
up today?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Well, just a question for you, and I'm a big fan.
I listened to the show every week. Is there any
truth or is this urban legend that, for example, the
Honda is a two thousand and seven serv the floods
they use like an freeze and atf Aro prietary to Honda.
So if you don't use their fluids end up having
a problem with those systems.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yes, so there's some truth to that, and there's some
logic to it. Every car has their own specific fluids. Basically,
I mean every dealership will sell you fluid for this car,
So any freeze, any freeze you can go with, like universal.
I mean that car should have had like a like
an Orange or a Green Country anti freeze in it.
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They make a universal import anti freeze that we use
that works fine for all makes across the board. With
trans mission fluid. They also you are going to find
bottles that are compatible for Honda, and we use those.
We use certain fluids, certain types of Honda transmission fluids.
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We only use Honda because there isn't any substitute, you know,
in the aftermarket. But as far as transmission fluids, I mean,
if you find a good synthetic transmission fluid that is
an import universal, that'll work just fine in there. Now,
when you get to gear boxes on these Hondas, Honda
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fluid only. This is a special dual pump fluid they
call it for their gearboxes that you can only get
through Honda. You can't. I have never seen it on
a part store shelf for anything. But if you put
anything other than that in there, you're going to have
some major issues. So that's the years.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
But I didn't know if you're true, but it kind
of makes sense you're saying. But I just recently just
work on I had the train of fluid changed by
Honda and the gearbox foot they put their floods in yep,
but I didn't do the radiator yet. So I'm thinking
that I just have densole as they used a compatible
an freeze with it.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yep, yep, yep. And there's aftermarkets like I say, I
mean there are all specific colors. I mean Chrysler's got pink, purple,
every other color along the way. I mean Ford's got red, orange, green.
So I mean our universal fluids or universal anti freeze
that we use, it's yellow. It mixes with any color.
So I mean you're going to tell that it's been
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serviced and everything like that.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Okay, Okay, So as long as it's just should a
person just drain it and refill it or drain it, flesh.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It and fill it, well, it would depend on how
dirty it is. I mean being in seven, I mean
we have a machine that just kind of we start
the car, we warm it up, we get the thermostat open.
It applies a vacuum to the system, sucks everything out
of the cooling system all in one, you don't have
to open anything and you just flip a knob and
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it fills it back up. Spill free, mess free. Easy
to do now too. Like what you're saying, I mean,
we've had some cars where we you know, you have
to drain it and a lot of guys will go
down to the bottom of the radiator to that pet
cockscrew and take that out and drain all your anti freeze.
Then you put that screw back in and find out
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now it doesn't seal, or the radiator's warped and you
got all those problems. Or you take a hose off
and you put it back on you clamp, but then
you got to run it and bleed all the air
out of it. It's more time consuming, and you know
there's more issue for errors. I mean, it's not as
simple and easy as that, but if you got time,
it's definitely doable as far as you know, like the
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old days, you know when you saw a guy out
in his driveway with the garden hose flushing everything out.
That's on an as needed basis. I'm not necessarily going
to hook a garden host to my engine and fill
my engine with just running water because I don't want
that because you know there's still going to be water
inside your engine even after everything drains down. You can't
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get all that out of there. But the heater core,
that's something that you can flush with just like a
garden hose, just low pressure rolling through there a couple minutes,
flip it side to side, flush out your heater core.
That's something I mean, we do a lot of that
in the winter time when you've got a system that
hasn't been maintained and it sludges up in the heater
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core because that's pretty much the lowest spot on the system.
That's where everything gathers. So yeah, once in a while
it's good to flush out the heater core. But I
mean just for regular maintenance, if everything's working fine, I
just take it to your local garage. I them do
a cool and flush on it.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
Easy pig. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I appreciate it, you.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Bet, Doug. Thanks for the call. All right, we got
an open bank here five, five, eight, eleven, ten or
the numbers to get in. So I've had a lot
of questions asked lately, you know, just around you know,
like how do I pick the right mechanic for me?
You know, like What's how do I pick a good mechanic?
So I wanted to talk about that for a little
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bit of the show here. So when you're looking for
a good mechanic, you got a first take in mine.
I mean, because the dealership is always an option, not
always you know, the most time savvy option for everybody.
And most of the time of dealership's a long ways
out of the way, can possibly be more expensive in
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a lot of cases, and it takes time for them
to get you in, and I mean your car's down
and out for a week or so. But I mean,
we have plenty of aftermarket garages here, so in order
to pick you know, like what's the right mechanic for me?
I mean you've got to kind of there's an interview
process that I tell everybody. It's like, hey, what kind
of car do you have? Okay, where do your friends
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take their cars? Do they have the same kind of
car as you? You know, call and chat with the
mechanic on the phone. What are you what's your experience
with this? Do you work on this car often? Can
you help me with this particular problem? Do you have
certified mechanics? You know, things like that are important in
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picking out a good mechanic for you. So I understand that.
You know, I mean there's people outside of our direct area.
Not everybody can bring their car to see me if
you can and service center, I'm sorry to say, but
there's plenty of other great mechanics out there, so I
mean it's important to pick the right one. And I'll
get into that here a little bit later on the
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show as to why that's important. But we got Ben waiting.
Ben's got a ninety four Ford Explorer. Ben, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Are you there? Yep, Yeah, ninety four Ford Explorer, And
I've got a transmission leak. Okay, a couple of years ago,
I was at the part store asking about stop leak
and he also mentioned it might be coming from the
Torque Converter area. Okay, what do you know about them?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Well, do we know that it is for sure coming
from the tor Converter area.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No, that's just kind of he must have known about
the Explorers.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And okay, so first of all, what we've got to
do is we got to narrow down where this leak
is actually coming from, because I mean, you've got a
seal on the front of your pump for the tor
converter to slide in and out of. You've got the
pump seal, the case, and then you've got the pan.
You've got lines, you've got the the tail shaft housing,
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you've got cooler lines and the radiator involved in this. Right,
So generally what I do first is get underneath there
and clean everything off as good as I can, because
I'm sure there's fluid everywhere, because transmission fluids about the
consistency of water, and you drive down the road and
it just sprays everywhere, right, So I would get that
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cleaned off. Isn't it big enough to leak to where
if you start this you'll see it drip.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, it's just you know, it's just a maybe a drip.
And when I shut it off, and I can't tell
you it's kind of coming up from around the top
of the transmission. I've checked the old pan and retort
the bolts down there, and it's it's not coming from there.
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It's just coming up from the around the top of
the transmission.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, So at the top of the transmission there's a vent.
Every gearbox in a car, you know, regardless of what
it is, has some kind of vent because it'll create
its own pressure, so if you have fluid coming out
of the vent, you know, generally any of those, first
thing I'm gonna do is check my level and my
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two fol because if it's twofold, that'll cause fluid to
come out of the vent. Secondly, on top of most
of these, I'm not particularly sure on a ninety four Explorer,
It's been a a little while since I've been underneath one,
but there should be a rubber hose that connects to
a metal tube on top of the transmission that should
carry you know, any vapors up it, and you want
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to make sure that that's connected because being ninety four,
I mean it's a piece of rubber. It could have
fallen off, and you know you'll get some build up
of fluid there that you know on highway. You know,
it could vent some fluid. It's still a possibility, but
I would check those things first.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So that the hose, the hose assembly is up kind
of towards the top of the transmission.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Then should be right on top.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, that's a little hard to check up around and there.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, you kind of got to just kind of slide
underneath the car and get your hand up there and
feel for it. And if you feel a little tube,
that's your vent coming out of the transmission and somewhere
in around there. I mean, you kind of got to
work blind, but I mean you'll find that hose and
generally they go back by the transfer case somewhere and
you can find it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So you don't really think a stop leak may solve
it or anything.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I don't know that I would put anything like that
in a transmission because generally a stop leak would tell
me that it's thickening the fluid in some kind of way,
and you don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know that I would do that with this, right, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
All right, you bet, thanks for the call. Ben. All right,
we're gonna take a quick break here on the Mister
Mechanics show. Five, five, eight, eleven, ten of those numbers
to get in. We'll be right back. Get in quick.
We're almost done here. Goodness, we need to extend this
show out a little bit. I think we're gonna head
over to Keith. Keith has a question, just a general
motor question, Keith, what do you got for me?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Well, when did they quit using the zinc in the motor?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
While?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh that went out? Oh, probably, you know, around the time.
I mean, because it was always important with flat tap
a camshafts, like any of the all old cars, you
had to have zinc in the oil. And I mean
a lot of diesels like Rotella's diesel oil still uses zinc,
isn't it. But I would say, I mean, off the
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top of my head, if I were to guess, I
would say somewhere in the eighties, late late eighties, off
the top of my head. I mean, that would be
kind of where I would put that, you know, because
after that, I mean, after the small block Chevy kind
of went around changed and now we got roller rockers,
we got all this other stuff. It's just not.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
The barcode on a container how old it is.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Or not.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
No, you could probably take a picture of it and
google it, you know, if you're just looking for to
see if this oil has zinc in it or not.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Right, I got cases and cases of oil, But I mean,
I guess a lot of us got ten I just
use it on.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't use that much, but sure, sure.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Any ol is better than oil.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, and I mean it should say, I would think
on the back of it, you know, if it contains
zinc or not, because, like I say, in the early days,
I mean, that was an important thing to know because
I mean that's actually I've heard it.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I've heard it ruined a lot of engines too.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh yeah, I mean if you didn't have that, I
mean I've seen camshafts make it ten miles and.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Just so I understand from this one guy, I know
he puts diesel only oil and his gas burners. Oh yeah,
well that that would have that in there.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Right it should. Yeah, my old Ford Falcon, I mean
that's a straight six. I use fifteen forty rotella and
that's got plenty of zinc.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
How about five forty synthetic diesel oil that I mean,
since it's a synthetic, I'm not sure if it's going
to have it or not.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I would almost doubt it. But I get any of
your conventional rotella's last time I checked habit, which was
my own.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
I mean, there's motor oil as something else.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Other than that. I have had instances where I didn't
have it, or you know, I didn't have like the
old GMC truck I had. You know, there's a few
of those I work on. They do sell just zinc
by itself, right, and you can get that through most
of the speed shops will have them Speedway Motors and
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Lincoln and I get it from there. You can order
it online readily.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I mean you can get that supplement of zinc then, right.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yep, and then you just add a little bit to
your oil change and the way you go directions are
on the side of the bottle. Easy.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
And that's for the only injus with the rollers on
of a cam up on top right.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, no zinc is going in any of your flat
tap at camshafts, So any of the really old stuff
like that, you know, the new stuff I mean with
rollers and stuff like that, you don't necessarily need it.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Now, can you team mix synthetic and the red lert
together or not?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's not gonna hurt anything.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I mean, you have like an extended life motor. I mean,
if you have a little bit of like like three
quarts of synthetic, can you just go ahead and top
her up with the other or not?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
What kind of motor are we talking about putting this in?
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Well, what I'm going to be I'm I'm gonna probably
be putting in a wrap.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Four that's I mean, And you're saying it's ten forty.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
No, it's a it's a five thirty.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Okay, So if it's five thirty.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Had extended life full synthetic and then and then top
it up with one or maybe two quarts of the other.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, I mean, if it's a five thirty engine, then yeah,
you should be fine with that. I don't see that
causing any kind of problem, because again we're I just wish.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
There was another substitute for the transmission fluid in them,
but I guess there's not.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right in the toyotas. Yeah, I mean, there's a universal
synthetic out there that you.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Can use, really just the top of it up right.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yep, yep. You can go to your parts store and
just find, you know, a synthetic universal import fluid and
you'll be.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Able to look at it. Right. Here's what this thing does.
You know, when you first started up, it is almost
seems like it has to get a certain temperature or
something to get it in the overdrive. And there's a
winter time, you got to almost drive almost a half
a mile before to go into overdrive. And I just
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wonder if there's a temperature problem now or something otherwise,
it just shifts perfect after that.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Okay, So does it shift hard when it's you know, cold,
or does it shift just normally?
Speaker 8 (25:57):
It just waits a long time to get an overdrive. Okay,
it wraps out and then all of a sudden you'll
slowly go down to overdrive.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Have you serviced the transmission?
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Well, I think it has been. I think it's even
had a computer in it, because I think back then
they had a lot of problems computer ruining the transmissions
in those mm hm. And I think it's been replaced,
and it just it's just kind of odd to me
that you just can't take off if I'm a cold start.
You got to wait a while before it gets in
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the overdrive. Okay, it doesn't matter how you drive it either,
rip on it. I guess it is a shorter time.
But I'm not that kind of a driver though, So
that's why I.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Flaugh of that long sure. Yeah, So I mean with
it being a cold only issue, I mean what I
would do first? I mean, let's look at our engine,
because clearly when it warms up it wants to work fine,
So let's start with looking at our engine. Is our
cool and ten sensor reading or is it sending our
transmission and control module a skewed signal. I mean, is
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everything working fine with the engine when it.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Never it's never had any you know, check engine lights
or anything, never has Okay, and that's that's got to
check engine light with an oil change in too.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, it'll have like a maintenance required light. Yep, that was.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
You just cancel out and it goes back again.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, it just resets back to your oil change interval.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
But I got to confess though, the oil like that
thing does come on. I just reset it all the time.
Maybe I shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, you're you are changing the oil right here, Keith,
what's that you do? Change the oil in it? Right?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Okay? Perfect?
Speaker 8 (27:43):
Yeah, just worried about other things, like it's trying to
say it needs an oil change or something.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah. But yeah, I mean try servicing the transmission. See
what the fluid looks like in this car. I mean,
if it's really gritty and dirty, I mean, maybe try
getting some new fluid in there. See what that does?
I mean the next cast, I mean, you're going to
be pulling the transmission pan and looking for debris stuff.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Like that, and I just hate to do it. Complete,
because you know what happens when you put a change
oil in the old transmission too sometimes.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, yeah, but it is recommended. I mean it is
a maintenance thing. So I mean, I mean if it's.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Low, if it's low now because of minage on it,
I just will add it and just forget about it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Sure, I mean if you can live with it. Seems
like the cars.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Living with it, well for the first age. You know,
first age is not too bad. It's not rupped it
out or anything. I have more trouble with the ten
pieces underneath of it.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, the heat shield yep.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
But what hurt that because where I was driving the
seeing that truck went across the road and put a
put a slick of cement under it, and I actually
hydro planted through that and got that pan pull of
cement and actually broke some of the tabs on and
I got to up to the body on it the pan.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, yeah, that's an odd scenario.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
I mean I should have went after him. I hadn't
fix it because you don't drive through it. You don't
drive on a major highway and have a guy have
a shootopen on a cement truck.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, that seems kind of dangerous, all right, Keith, Well,
thanks for the call. I got to take a quick
break here and the mister Mechanic show five, five, eight, eleven,
ten or the numbers to get in. We'll be right back.
So back to my conversation from earlier about how to
pick the right mechanic. What's the right mechanic for me?
So my conclusion so for a lot of people out there,
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I mean your car is that's one of the biggest
expenditures of your life, is your automobile. So you want
to trust it with somebody that's treating it like that.
And the thing about auto mechanics as opposed to us
a lot of other trades and professions and stuff like that.
You know, we don't. It's not one necessary to certify
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as a mechanic to have a mechanic job. You can
go and get a toolbox at the local hardware store,
grab some tools, fill out a job application. You're a mechanic.
So it's important for us as mechanics to continuously train
because I mean, take doctors for instance, doctors go through
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fifty plus hours a year of training clinically and in
the classroom things like that, and to the best of
my knowledge, I don't think the human body's changed a
whole lot since the last ice age. Automobiles change about
every six months pretty drastically, and there's always changes things happening,
software updates, especially nowadays, everything happens fast. So it's important
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when you find or if you move and you're away
from your regular mechanic that you've trusted for years, it's
important not to just you know, call the closest shop
in town. Let's call a bunch of shops. Let's talk
to these guys. Tell me about your technicians. Do you
specialize in my kind of car? Is this the right
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place for me? Do you have guys there that are
really good with electrical stuff? If you have an electrical problem,
Because it's not the simple times anymore. This any I mean,
a simple tail like not working could turn into you know,
a ten hours worth of labor in tracing wires in
a hurry. So it's important to find a good shop,
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a reputable shop. Talk to your friends, talk to your family.
Who are they using? So just going forward, I mean,
just to kind of throw that out there. I mean,
it's important to you know, have a relationship working with
your mechanic. You know, figure out what the shop offers.
You know what their labor rates are. Is this a
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car that they prefer to work on? You know, maybe
you know they're an import car shop. We prefer these,
but we will look at your buick. You know, what
are their specialties? Things like that are important to answer,
you know, get answers for anything else. You can call
me back. I'll be here every Saturday. I can guarantee it.
So let's jump back into the calls real quick. We'll
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take one last call here. We got Jack with twenty
seventeen GMC truck. Jack, what's going on?
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Well, I have a locked issue with my truck. Normally,
if you have a lock that sticks, you know, it
might just be a selenoid issue. But the problem I've
been having is sometimes you go to unlock the truck
and as soon as you hit the button to unlock,
it relocks everything. And then you go through that cycle
three or four times before it finally kicks out. Sometimes
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you have to just put your hand on the handle
and catch it before it relocks itself. Sure other times,
other times the keys in the if you shut the door,
it automatically locks everything and locks you out. Okay, that
only happens if you leave the key in, and then
other other times it'll lock the tailgate but not the
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side doors. But it'll lock the tailgate for a week
to two or three months, and then all of a
sudden it'll just unlock it.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
So and I haven't and I haven't been able to
take it in because you know, you have to schedule
an appointment a week or two out, and sure it's
never doing it at those times.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Okay. So in this truck, I mean, this is a
pretty new truck. So all the locks go through the
body control module in these chevies, And what the I
can tell you if this were in my bay. The
first place I'm going to look is that driver's door
lock actuator. You know, can we move the button up
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and down freely? Because generally when you push that, it'll
lock all your doors, And if that's binding up in
any kind of way, like you suggested earlier, that could
be our whole issue, is you know, because when this
thing locks, it sends a signal to the body control module.
It tells all the rest of them the lock away.
We go
Meant 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 a premium unleaded. Legend has
it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
(00:22):
and that he can tell your tiresale pressure just by.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
How you're walking. He's Bob, he's.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed together to form
the greatest superhero known to man. Mister Mechanic check engine
lights don't stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
On eleven ten, Kfab.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, good morning, it's Saturday again. You know what
that means. It's time for the Mister Mechanics Show. We
are an interactive Colin talk show. You have the questions.
I've got my version of the answers, or the right
answers sometimes five, five, eight, eleven, ten, and the numbers
to get in, get in early. Hopefully these lines fill up.
(01:05):
It's just me to day. Bob's well, I guess we'll
call it vacation. He didn't tell me where he was going,
so I figured somewhere nice, somewhere nice and probably warm,
somewhere right, yeah, yeah, maybe somewhere away from cars, you know,
like mckinaw Island or somewhere you know, living off the grid.
The thing is, what would he do with himself? He
works on cars all the time, all day, all night.
(01:27):
I don't know. I've tried that, like going somewhere where
there's like no motor vehicles, and I'm like, huh, what
would I have done if I had been born in
the pioneer days, you know, just fixed wheels and stuff,
probably be working on the on the wagons, shoeing horses.
See a need, fill a need? All right? Yeah, we
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are Buchanan Service Centers fiftieth and Dodge eightieth and Dodge
Guaranteed Breaks forty ninth Avenue and Dodge. So it's been
a busy week here because we've kind of been up
and down with weather and climate. Cars are hugely affected
by weather and climate. So the best thing you can
do is, I mean just kind of prepared. Listen to
what your mechanics says. You know, hey, is your battery's
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looking kind of if he like just if he if
he's questioning it in any kind of way. It's just
better to do it because here in a few weeks,
because I kind of set my watch by this, by
the College World Series, I know that we're going to
get some hundred degree weather coming up because I've been
to those baseball games. I've been sunburnt there. I know
what happens that week, and you can set your watch
(02:30):
by it. So now's the time, you know, let's prepare
for summer. You know we're going to have some rain
coming up. So I mean, are your tires good? I
mean some are around here. You don't really have to
worry so much about tires, but they're still really important.
So just a tip there. So let's jump right into
the calls. We got Scott here holding with a twenty
(02:50):
twenty three toilet at Tacoma. Scott, what can possibly be
wrong with this pickup truck?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well, nothing's wrong with it. It's a great truck. I
got less than ten thousand miles on it, okay, and
took it in for the second oil change and the
dealer wanted to put in some oil additive for kim
Bucks okay, and I declined it should I get some?
Or what's the deal with that?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well? On that particular truck. I'm not one hundred percent
sure what kind of additive he is recommending now, saying
that we'll go back to last week's show when Bob
and I were discussing Chevy six to two recalls. So
they had issues with these engines, and they've recalled a
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bunch of them, and there's two stages to this recall.
Some of these engines are just getting different oil and
an oil additive. Other ones are getting engines So this
oil additive, I mean, it might be worth the phone
call to maybe dig a little deeper in that, say, hey,
what's this additive giving me? Is this a problem solving
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kind of additive? What's it involved? I mean, if it's
just you know, some kind of like Lucas pouring snake
oil kind of stuff to keep your engine clean, like,
I would probably decline it as well, because if you're
changing your oil and regular increments, your engine's going to
maintain itself. So that would be where I would head
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with that one. If okay, actually like a friction modifying
additive that the engine needs, then it needs it, if
it's okay, So that would be my advice there. Okay, Well,
thank you very much love the show, you bet, Scott,
thanks for the call. All right, Yeah, oil additives. I
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mean every year we're coming out with something different. I
remember if you know, what was it fifteen years ago
or so, GM came out with that Dexos oil and
you had to use Dexos in all their engines. Otherwise,
I mean it would avoid the warranty, it would do
all sorts of stuff inside that engine. You would have
timing issues, you'd I have all kinds of issues coming
down the pipe. And then now Dexos is in all oil,
(05:06):
Like unless you find some old stuff sitting on the shelf,
you can't get oil without Dexos in it. So I mean,
which is I think is a good thing. I give,
it's something that certain engines need, but it won't harm
other engines. So I mean every year we're seeing different oils.
It's changing every day. All right, let's talk to Troy.
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Troy's got a twenty eleven towning Country Troy. What's up?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Good morning, Good morning. Hey. So I was changing the
oil in my vans this week. It's got that three
point six kind of star engine, okay, And when I
took the oil cap off, it's got the oil the
oil filter up on top of the engine.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
So when I was taken the cap off, that center
part that the filter slips onto kind of popped off
in my hand. I tried to get it back in
there and everything the best I could. I did notice
that my oil pressure when has gone down a little bit.
I mean when you rev it up, I mean it
goes up to thirty thirty five psi when you're driving,
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but when you're an idol, it's about ten or eleven,
which is lower than it's supposed to be. But I mean,
how big of a deal is that?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay, So walk me through this, because there's two different
styles of this engine. So okay, the part that came
off is that in the cap or is it in
the filter housing?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
In the filter housing?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Okay, So that's the early style. And I'm surprised that
we still have this one in the car still because
those ones had a failure rate. I mean, I've taken
that filter out and that spring all unload and shoot
that detent valve all around the shop.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
So though, so this isn't like anything new.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's been redesigned. So those were a problem from the
get go, and normally, like I say, I rarely see
them anymore because they've all started leaking and been replaced
with the newer model. It does need that because that's
what keeps so when you start your engine, your oil
pump pushes oil up to this filter housing and cooler
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assembly that's underneath your intake there, and that's a detent valve.
So when you shut the engine off and the pressure
goes down, it'll keep some oil up at the top
of the engine. So it is very important, and that's
why you're seeing an oil pressure change. So what I
would recommend doing is just replacing that whole filter housing.
Just get that old one out of there. It probably
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needs it anyhow. If not, you're going to save yourself
a big oil leak down the road.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
So so I don't want to ask you a question
that makes you uncomfortable, but I had that changed out
about a year and a half ago because we had
a bad, foolent link with it, and that's what my
mechanic put in. Is that kind of is that kind
of bad on that mechanic or well.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You know, I don't know exactly how to answer that one,
because I mean, he's kind of subject to his part supplier.
If they still had old ones on the shelf, then yeah,
I mean that's what you're gonna get. I mean, we
always put because there's certain ones, there's plastic ones, and
there's metal ones that replace that. I prefer to go
with these metal options because you don't have near the
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failure rate down the road. Because I mean, give or
take any Chrysler Jeep product that has this engine in it.
We replace them daily, and you know, by going with
the updated metal one, we see half the failure rate,
because I mean you're lucky to get seventy thousand out
of them. So I mean that would be my recommendation.
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You may talk to him and see, you know, kind
of hey, can you work with me? This is the
part that I want. It's made by dormant products. You
can look it up online and it's in all of them,
and I'm housing and it fixes that problem. So I mean,
maybe bring it up to him, just say, hey, you know,
can you work with me here a little bit on this.
You know, we put this in and here I'm having
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this failure. It broke and now I got low oil pressure.
Help me save engine. For sure, I'm sure they'll do
something for you. You bet all right, let's all right,
we're gonna take a quick break here, Doug, hang on
the line here. We'll be back in a second.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Bum bum bum.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum
bum bum bum bum.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Mister mechanic, you change my transmission fluid and sparked, rotate
my tires and watch it all over and you break
bad so.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You don't get run over.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Mechanic, my car is so don't even have a working
cruise controls. It's my pos mister mcanny, you are the bad.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, all right, we're gonna jump back into the calls.
We got Doug eading patiently. Oh seven CRV Doug, what's
up today?
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Well, just a question for you, and I'm a big fan.
I listened to the show every week. Is there any
truth or is this urban legend that, for example, the
Honda is a two thousand and seven serv the floods
they use like an freeze and atf Aro prietary to Honda.
So if you don't use their fluids end up having
a problem with those systems.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yes, so there's some truth to that, and there's some
logic to it. Every car has their own specific fluids. Basically,
I mean every dealership will sell you fluid for this car,
So any freeze, any freeze you can go with, like universal.
I mean that car should have had like a like
an Orange or a Green Country anti freeze in it.
(10:46):
They make a universal import anti freeze that we use
that works fine for all makes across the board. With
trans mission fluid. They also you are going to find
bottles that are compatible for Honda, and we use those.
We use certain fluids, certain types of Honda transmission fluids.
(11:12):
We only use Honda because there isn't any substitute, you know,
in the aftermarket. But as far as transmission fluids, I mean,
if you find a good synthetic transmission fluid that is
an import universal, that'll work just fine in there. Now,
when you get to gear boxes on these Hondas, Honda
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fluid only. This is a special dual pump fluid they
call it for their gearboxes that you can only get
through Honda. You can't. I have never seen it on
a part store shelf for anything. But if you put
anything other than that in there, you're going to have
some major issues. So that's the years.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
But I didn't know if you're true, but it kind
of makes sense you're saying. But I just recently just
work on I had the train of fluid changed by
Honda and the gearbox foot they put their floods in yep,
but I didn't do the radiator yet. So I'm thinking
that I just have densole as they used a compatible
an freeze with it.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yep, yep, yep. And there's aftermarkets like I say, I
mean there are all specific colors. I mean Chrysler's got pink, purple,
every other color along the way. I mean Ford's got red, orange, green.
So I mean our universal fluids or universal anti freeze
that we use, it's yellow. It mixes with any color.
So I mean you're going to tell that it's been
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serviced and everything like that.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Okay, Okay, So as long as it's just should a
person just drain it and refill it or drain it, flesh.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It and fill it, well, it would depend on how
dirty it is. I mean being in seven, I mean
we have a machine that just kind of we start
the car, we warm it up, we get the thermostat open.
It applies a vacuum to the system, sucks everything out
of the cooling system all in one, you don't have
to open anything and you just flip a knob and
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it fills it back up. Spill free, mess free. Easy
to do now too. Like what you're saying, I mean,
we've had some cars where we you know, you have
to drain it and a lot of guys will go
down to the bottom of the radiator to that pet
cockscrew and take that out and drain all your anti freeze.
Then you put that screw back in and find out
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now it doesn't seal, or the radiator's warped and you
got all those problems. Or you take a hose off
and you put it back on you clamp, but then
you got to run it and bleed all the air
out of it. It's more time consuming, and you know
there's more issue for errors. I mean, it's not as
simple and easy as that, but if you got time,
it's definitely doable as far as you know, like the
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old days, you know when you saw a guy out
in his driveway with the garden hose flushing everything out.
That's on an as needed basis. I'm not necessarily going
to hook a garden host to my engine and fill
my engine with just running water because I don't want
that because you know there's still going to be water
inside your engine even after everything drains down. You can't
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get all that out of there. But the heater core,
that's something that you can flush with just like a
garden hose, just low pressure rolling through there a couple minutes,
flip it side to side, flush out your heater core.
That's something I mean, we do a lot of that
in the winter time when you've got a system that
hasn't been maintained and it sludges up in the heater
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core because that's pretty much the lowest spot on the system.
That's where everything gathers. So yeah, once in a while
it's good to flush out the heater core. But I
mean just for regular maintenance, if everything's working fine, I
just take it to your local garage. I them do
a cool and flush on it.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
Easy pig. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I appreciate it, you.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Bet, Doug. Thanks for the call. All right, we got
an open bank here five, five, eight, eleven, ten or
the numbers to get in. So I've had a lot
of questions asked lately, you know, just around you know,
like how do I pick the right mechanic for me?
You know, like What's how do I pick a good mechanic?
So I wanted to talk about that for a little
(15:07):
bit of the show here. So when you're looking for
a good mechanic, you got a first take in mine.
I mean, because the dealership is always an option, not
always you know, the most time savvy option for everybody.
And most of the time of dealership's a long ways
out of the way, can possibly be more expensive in
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a lot of cases, and it takes time for them
to get you in, and I mean your car's down
and out for a week or so. But I mean,
we have plenty of aftermarket garages here, so in order
to pick you know, like what's the right mechanic for me?
I mean you've got to kind of there's an interview
process that I tell everybody. It's like, hey, what kind
of car do you have? Okay, where do your friends
(15:51):
take their cars? Do they have the same kind of
car as you? You know, call and chat with the
mechanic on the phone. What are you what's your experience
with this? Do you work on this car often? Can
you help me with this particular problem? Do you have
certified mechanics? You know, things like that are important in
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picking out a good mechanic for you. So I understand that.
You know, I mean there's people outside of our direct area.
Not everybody can bring their car to see me if
you can and service center, I'm sorry to say, but
there's plenty of other great mechanics out there, so I
mean it's important to pick the right one. And I'll
get into that here a little bit later on the
(16:32):
show as to why that's important. But we got Ben waiting.
Ben's got a ninety four Ford Explorer. Ben, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Are you there? Yep, Yeah, ninety four Ford Explorer, And
I've got a transmission leak. Okay, a couple of years ago,
I was at the part store asking about stop leak
and he also mentioned it might be coming from the
Torque Converter area. Okay, what do you know about them?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Well, do we know that it is for sure coming
from the tor Converter area.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No, that's just kind of he must have known about
the Explorers.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And okay, so first of all, what we've got to
do is we got to narrow down where this leak
is actually coming from, because I mean, you've got a
seal on the front of your pump for the tor
converter to slide in and out of. You've got the
pump seal, the case, and then you've got the pan.
You've got lines, you've got the the tail shaft housing,
(17:40):
you've got cooler lines and the radiator involved in this. Right,
So generally what I do first is get underneath there
and clean everything off as good as I can, because
I'm sure there's fluid everywhere, because transmission fluids about the
consistency of water, and you drive down the road and
it just sprays everywhere, right, So I would get that
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cleaned off. Isn't it big enough to leak to where
if you start this you'll see it drip.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No, it's just you know, it's just a maybe a drip.
And when I shut it off, and I can't tell
you it's kind of coming up from around the top
of the transmission. I've checked the old pan and retort
the bolts down there, and it's it's not coming from there.
(18:27):
It's just coming up from the around the top of
the transmission.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Okay, So at the top of the transmission there's a vent.
Every gearbox in a car, you know, regardless of what
it is, has some kind of vent because it'll create
its own pressure, so if you have fluid coming out
of the vent, you know, generally any of those, first
thing I'm gonna do is check my level and my
(18:51):
two fol because if it's twofold, that'll cause fluid to
come out of the vent. Secondly, on top of most
of these, I'm not particularly sure on a ninety four Explorer,
It's been a a little while since I've been underneath one,
but there should be a rubber hose that connects to
a metal tube on top of the transmission that should
carry you know, any vapors up it, and you want
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to make sure that that's connected because being ninety four,
I mean it's a piece of rubber. It could have
fallen off, and you know you'll get some build up
of fluid there that you know on highway. You know,
it could vent some fluid. It's still a possibility, but
I would check those things first.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So that the hose, the hose assembly is up kind
of towards the top of the transmission.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Then should be right on top.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, that's a little hard to check up around and there.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, you kind of got to just kind of slide
underneath the car and get your hand up there and
feel for it. And if you feel a little tube,
that's your vent coming out of the transmission and somewhere
in around there. I mean, you kind of got to
work blind, but I mean you'll find that hose and
generally they go back by the transfer case somewhere and
you can find it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So you don't really think a stop leak may solve
it or anything.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
I don't know that I would put anything like that
in a transmission because generally a stop leak would tell
me that it's thickening the fluid in some kind of way,
and you don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I don't know that I would do that with this, right, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
All right, you bet, thanks for the call. Ben. All right,
we're gonna take a quick break here on the Mister
Mechanics show. Five, five, eight, eleven, ten of those numbers
to get in. We'll be right back. Get in quick.
We're almost done here. Goodness, we need to extend this
show out a little bit. I think we're gonna head
over to Keith. Keith has a question, just a general
motor question, Keith, what do you got for me?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Well, when did they quit using the zinc in the motor?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
While?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh that went out? Oh, probably, you know, around the time.
I mean, because it was always important with flat tap
a camshafts, like any of the all old cars, you
had to have zinc in the oil. And I mean
a lot of diesels like Rotella's diesel oil still uses zinc,
isn't it. But I would say, I mean, off the
(21:09):
top of my head, if I were to guess, I
would say somewhere in the eighties, late late eighties, off
the top of my head. I mean, that would be
kind of where I would put that, you know, because
after that, I mean, after the small block Chevy kind
of went around changed and now we got roller rockers,
we got all this other stuff. It's just not.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
The barcode on a container how old it is.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Or not.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
No, you could probably take a picture of it and
google it, you know, if you're just looking for to
see if this oil has zinc in it or not.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Right, I got cases and cases of oil, But I mean,
I guess a lot of us got ten I just
use it on.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't use that much, but sure, sure.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
Any ol is better than oil.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yeah, and I mean it should say, I would think
on the back of it, you know, if it contains
zinc or not, because, like I say, in the early days,
I mean, that was an important thing to know because
I mean that's actually I've heard it.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I've heard it ruined a lot of engines too.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh yeah, I mean if you didn't have that, I
mean I've seen camshafts make it ten miles and.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Just so I understand from this one guy, I know
he puts diesel only oil and his gas burners. Oh yeah,
well that that would have that in there.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Right it should. Yeah, my old Ford Falcon, I mean
that's a straight six. I use fifteen forty rotella and
that's got plenty of zinc.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
How about five forty synthetic diesel oil that I mean,
since it's a synthetic, I'm not sure if it's going
to have it or not.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I would almost doubt it. But I get any of
your conventional rotella's last time I checked habit, which was
my own.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
I mean, there's motor oil as something else.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Other than that. I have had instances where I didn't
have it, or you know, I didn't have like the
old GMC truck I had. You know, there's a few
of those I work on. They do sell just zinc
by itself, right, and you can get that through most
of the speed shops will have them Speedway Motors and
(23:32):
Lincoln and I get it from there. You can order
it online readily.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I mean you can get that supplement of zinc then, right.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yep, and then you just add a little bit to
your oil change and the way you go directions are
on the side of the bottle. Easy.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
And that's for the only injus with the rollers on
of a cam up on top right.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well, no zinc is going in any of your flat
tap at camshafts, So any of the really old stuff
like that, you know, the new stuff I mean with
rollers and stuff like that, you don't necessarily need it.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
Now, can you team mix synthetic and the red lert
together or not?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's not gonna hurt anything.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
I mean, you have like an extended life motor. I mean,
if you have a little bit of like like three
quarts of synthetic, can you just go ahead and top
her up with the other or not?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
What kind of motor are we talking about putting this in?
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Well, what I'm going to be I'm I'm gonna probably
be putting in a wrap.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Four that's I mean, And you're saying it's ten forty.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
No, it's a it's a five thirty.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Okay, So if it's five thirty.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Had extended life full synthetic and then and then top
it up with one or maybe two quarts of the other.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, I mean, if it's a five thirty engine, then yeah,
you should be fine with that. I don't see that
causing any kind of problem, because again we're I just wish.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
There was another substitute for the transmission fluid in them,
but I guess there's not.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Right in the toyotas. Yeah, I mean, there's a universal
synthetic out there that you.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Can use, really just the top of it up right.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yep, yep. You can go to your parts store and
just find, you know, a synthetic universal import fluid and
you'll be.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
Able to look at it. Right. Here's what this thing does.
You know, when you first started up, it is almost
seems like it has to get a certain temperature or
something to get it in the overdrive. And there's a
winter time, you got to almost drive almost a half
a mile before to go into overdrive. And I just
(25:43):
wonder if there's a temperature problem now or something otherwise,
it just shifts perfect after that.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Okay, So does it shift hard when it's you know, cold,
or does it shift just normally?
Speaker 8 (25:57):
It just waits a long time to get an overdrive. Okay,
it wraps out and then all of a sudden you'll
slowly go down to overdrive.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Have you serviced the transmission?
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Well, I think it has been. I think it's even
had a computer in it, because I think back then
they had a lot of problems computer ruining the transmissions
in those mm hm. And I think it's been replaced,
and it just it's just kind of odd to me
that you just can't take off if I'm a cold start.
You got to wait a while before it gets in
(26:30):
the overdrive. Okay, it doesn't matter how you drive it either,
rip on it. I guess it is a shorter time.
But I'm not that kind of a driver though, So
that's why I.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Flaugh of that long sure. Yeah, So I mean with
it being a cold only issue, I mean what I
would do first? I mean, let's look at our engine,
because clearly when it warms up it wants to work fine,
So let's start with looking at our engine. Is our
cool and ten sensor reading or is it sending our
transmission and control module a skewed signal. I mean, is
(27:02):
everything working fine with the engine when it.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
Never it's never had any you know, check engine lights
or anything, never has Okay, and that's that's got to
check engine light with an oil change in too.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, it'll have like a maintenance required light. Yep, that was.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
You just cancel out and it goes back again.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, it just resets back to your oil change interval.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
But I got to confess though, the oil like that
thing does come on. I just reset it all the time.
Maybe I shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, you're you are changing the oil right here, Keith,
what's that you do? Change the oil in it? Right?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Okay? Perfect?
Speaker 8 (27:43):
Yeah, just worried about other things, like it's trying to
say it needs an oil change or something.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah. But yeah, I mean try servicing the transmission. See
what the fluid looks like in this car. I mean,
if it's really gritty and dirty, I mean, maybe try
getting some new fluid in there. See what that does?
I mean the next cast, I mean, you're going to
be pulling the transmission pan and looking for debris stuff.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Like that, and I just hate to do it. Complete,
because you know what happens when you put a change
oil in the old transmission too sometimes.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, yeah, but it is recommended. I mean it is
a maintenance thing. So I mean, I mean if it's.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Low, if it's low now because of minage on it,
I just will add it and just forget about it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Sure, I mean if you can live with it. Seems
like the cars.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Living with it, well for the first age. You know,
first age is not too bad. It's not rupped it
out or anything. I have more trouble with the ten
pieces underneath of it.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, the heat shield yep.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
But what hurt that because where I was driving the
seeing that truck went across the road and put a
put a slick of cement under it, and I actually
hydro planted through that and got that pan pull of
cement and actually broke some of the tabs on and
I got to up to the body on it the pan.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Well, yeah, that's an odd scenario.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
I mean I should have went after him. I hadn't
fix it because you don't drive through it. You don't
drive on a major highway and have a guy have
a shootopen on a cement truck.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, that seems kind of dangerous, all right, Keith, Well,
thanks for the call. I got to take a quick
break here and the mister Mechanic show five, five, eight, eleven,
ten or the numbers to get in. We'll be right back.
So back to my conversation from earlier about how to
pick the right mechanic. What's the right mechanic for me?
So my conclusion so for a lot of people out there,
(29:39):
I mean your car is that's one of the biggest
expenditures of your life, is your automobile. So you want
to trust it with somebody that's treating it like that.
And the thing about auto mechanics as opposed to us
a lot of other trades and professions and stuff like that.
You know, we don't. It's not one necessary to certify
(30:03):
as a mechanic to have a mechanic job. You can
go and get a toolbox at the local hardware store,
grab some tools, fill out a job application. You're a mechanic.
So it's important for us as mechanics to continuously train
because I mean, take doctors for instance, doctors go through
(30:26):
fifty plus hours a year of training clinically and in
the classroom things like that, and to the best of
my knowledge, I don't think the human body's changed a
whole lot since the last ice age. Automobiles change about
every six months pretty drastically, and there's always changes things happening,
software updates, especially nowadays, everything happens fast. So it's important
(30:53):
when you find or if you move and you're away
from your regular mechanic that you've trusted for years, it's
important not to just you know, call the closest shop
in town. Let's call a bunch of shops. Let's talk
to these guys. Tell me about your technicians. Do you
specialize in my kind of car? Is this the right
(31:14):
place for me? Do you have guys there that are
really good with electrical stuff? If you have an electrical problem,
Because it's not the simple times anymore. This any I mean,
a simple tail like not working could turn into you know,
a ten hours worth of labor in tracing wires in
a hurry. So it's important to find a good shop,
(31:38):
a reputable shop. Talk to your friends, talk to your family.
Who are they using? So just going forward, I mean,
just to kind of throw that out there. I mean,
it's important to you know, have a relationship working with
your mechanic. You know, figure out what the shop offers.
You know what their labor rates are. Is this a
(31:59):
car that they prefer to work on? You know, maybe
you know they're an import car shop. We prefer these,
but we will look at your buick. You know, what
are their specialties? Things like that are important to answer,
you know, get answers for anything else. You can call
me back. I'll be here every Saturday. I can guarantee it.
So let's jump back into the calls real quick. We'll
(32:21):
take one last call here. We got Jack with twenty
seventeen GMC truck. Jack, what's going on?
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Well, I have a locked issue with my truck. Normally,
if you have a lock that sticks, you know, it
might just be a selenoid issue. But the problem I've
been having is sometimes you go to unlock the truck
and as soon as you hit the button to unlock,
it relocks everything. And then you go through that cycle
three or four times before it finally kicks out. Sometimes
(32:51):
you have to just put your hand on the handle
and catch it before it relocks itself. Sure other times,
other times the keys in the if you shut the door,
it automatically locks everything and locks you out. Okay, that
only happens if you leave the key in, and then
other other times it'll lock the tailgate but not the
(33:12):
side doors. But it'll lock the tailgate for a week
to two or three months, and then all of a
sudden it'll just unlock it.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (33:22):
So and I haven't and I haven't been able to
take it in because you know, you have to schedule
an appointment a week or two out, and sure it's
never doing it at those times.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Okay. So in this truck, I mean, this is a
pretty new truck. So all the locks go through the
body control module in these chevies, And what the I
can tell you if this were in my bay. The
first place I'm going to look is that driver's door
lock actuator. You know, can we move the button up
(33:53):
and down freely? Because generally when you push that, it'll
lock all your doors, And if that's binding up in
any kind of way, like you suggested earlier, that could
be our whole issue, is you know, because when this
thing locks, it sends a signal to the body control module.
It tells all the rest of them the lock away.
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