Mr Mechanic 6-21-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob.

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

(00:24):
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 engine lights, don't
stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show on
eleven ten. Kfab.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Good Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight to eleven ten is the numbers to
get in. Get in early so we can get to
your call. This is an interactive call in show. You
call in with the questions, we'll help you with the answers.
Try to get that car back on the road, give
you an idea where to head towards. Tell you if
it's time called salvage yard or put money into it.

(01:07):
You never know, right Kyle, Yeah, Good morning Kyle. You
never know. I mean we had a car to yesterday
I had to send to the salvage yard. The rear
struts rusted away and next thing you know, they went
right through the end of the trunk and the rear
tires come into the fender wells and it just drags
and it won't go anywhere. Yeah, and you know, she says,

(01:29):
should I fix this car? And the answer sometimes is
no in that case.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I mean you're talking eight to ten thousand dollars
worth of Yeah, I mean demonstructure repair. You know, where
do you stop when you get into a car.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And we've seen it done. We've seen customers do that
because it's a sentimental car or something along that line,
and they do not want to get rid of it
for whatever reason that is. And if that's their decision,
that's what we'll do. But you know, you give them
an honest decision to start with, and what we would
do if it was our car, because we can resurrect
most anything back. Yeah, and at some point it's just

(02:06):
not worth it.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I remember Plymouth Horizon with that same issue years and
years and years ago, and you know whose car it was. Yes,
we welded it up. Yes, we got a shock back
in it.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
We got him through college, didn't we. Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, I remember riding in that car when it came
back through angle.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Iron embraces and stuff. Got him through car, and then
then we flipped him over into a Honda and that's
where he's been ever since. Yeah. Yeah, those were great cars.
So I had a Dodge Omnie and it was the
greatest car that I could just beat up and didn't
care leave the windows down, you know, you just did.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
That was a funny car.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Didn't change the oil, just added you know. It was
just one of those kind of cars. And if you
haven't had a car like that, it's the best. It
really is.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
He paid what fifty bucks for that car and we
kept it going.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh yeah, I probably put at least ten times out
of mount in it.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
But JB weld on the gas tank.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Gott do what you gotta do when you getting through college. Yeah,
then you throw it to the salvage jar. We're gonna
head over to Jim. Jim's got an zero three Honda CRV. Jim,
what's up today?

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, I'm gonna buy a two thousand and three hond
A CRV from my brother and it's been well maintained.
He's got one hundred and sixty five thousand miles on it,
he's got great records and all this other stuff. The
coolant was done at one hundred and thirty two thousand miles,
and from a miles perspective, that's not too long ago.

(03:31):
But it's been nine years. So I'm got to be
changing out the coolant. What looks like what's in there
now is just you know, the regular yellowish green type
of coolant. I don't think it's a standard Honda coolant. Sure,
So I'm going to be changing it out to the
same kind, you know, the prestone, you know, one that
says it's good for all cars and that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Sure is that going to be? Okay? Sure? You bet? Yeah,
you got import, you got import coolant. We most of
the time, and everybody, every manufacturer has their own color,
you know, for whatever reason, and just to mark what
they do to mark their territory, I suppose. But if
you use yellow yellow mixes with every color, and uh yeah,
it's a good idea to change it because the chemicals

(04:11):
break down and you're really you're after RUSS prohibitive is
really what you're doing? There. I mean, the so it
doesn't freeze is a big secondary in this part of
the country. You'd think it'd be the number one, but
the rust prohibitive is really what you're after, because otherwise
it'll rust so quickly that it just mudds everything up.

(04:32):
The air and the heater don't work, everything doesn't work,
water pumps go out, stuff like that. So no, you're
you're great. Get some of that import coolant and flush
it out of there and you'll be fine.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Well, there's a like a press stone that says all
cars is that it's.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Not going to be okay, sure, yep, Sure, that's that's
good too. That's good to the The industry standard is
kind of above the They kind of come out and
they look at everybody's stuff and say, okay, we're going
to make it to the top layer and yeah, it'll
cover everything. We've never had a problem with it whatsoever. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Second of all, that the transmission fluid it was changed
or flushed out. I guess at one hundred and thirty
two thousand. Again, that's nine years ago. So I'm going
to do the drain and feel kind of stuff right,
and I'm kind of overdo things so I'm going to
do the drain and fail three times to get it
completely changed out. I was reading on some blog somewhere

(05:28):
that you really need to leave in some dirt of
whatever in a transmission, otherwise you're going to have shifting problems.
Now this has been serviced, this would be probably the
third transmission fluid change out. And it's right. So it
isn't like it's you know, gone to you know, the
full time on the same fluid. But if I do
the drain and fail three times, do you think I'm

(05:50):
going to be doing the right thing.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I mean that's you know, probably a little bit
more than I would do. But I mean, because even
if you hook up a machine and you start flushing it,
I mean, I've had so many transmissions apart, You're never
ever going to get everything out of it. You're gonna
have brand new looking fluid after miles on a car.

(06:14):
But just the fact that it's still I mean, even
though it may look darker, it still needs to be changed.
But don't don't be a stickler about well it isn't
bright red. I need to do it again. It isn't
bright red. I need to do it again. You'll never
get back to that.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
No, no, and you're gonna be like Kyle said, you
will leave some in there anyway, just because of how
it works, and so yeah, you'll you'll be fine. Yeah,
and three times will be plenty if you want to
do it twice, great, three times ain't gonna hurt it,
not at all. Good rock.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
So I got stuff to do next week with the car. Again.
It's a great great shade. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
But they're great cars. They're great cars. Yeah, yeah, keep
it on the road. It's almost a classic at this point.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
All right, I think that answers my questions.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Appreciate, Appreciate your health, yeap, appreciate the call. All right,
we're gonna we're gonna head over to Dan. Dan's got
a one buick regal Dan. What is going on today?

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Well, long story short, it's a three eight Supercharge. It's modded.
It's it's kind of mod well, not kind of. It's
pretty modern. So long story short, I let my girlfriend
drive it. The idol kind of shot up to about
two thousand rpm. Thought it was the ike sensor idol

(07:36):
air control, so replace that. Still did it. The map
sensors reading high, the masterflow sensors have already been changed.
We changed the map sensor, we rewired it thinking it
was a short wire still doing it. We replaced all
gaskets when we get the cam. Yeah, I mean this thing,

(07:59):
it starts to give us a headache. And what is
the chances of the PCM going bad on something like that?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Mm hmmm, Well generally it's not.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
It's not mechanical. It's not a vacuum leak because we
could see it in the booths gage. You know, if
there's a vacuum leak, it's gonna it's gonna drop down
or go up, you know. But it's rock steady.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Why why do we put a cam in it? I
mean we just put a stock cam in it, or
we put something bigger in it.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
No, no, no, no, it was doing it before. It
was doing it before by a little fun car to
take you know, take out the track and everything.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Okay, So the odds of a PCM doing that on
its own and only having that issue this is a
first for me.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
Because generally something everybody.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
When these cars have a PCM issue, which they did.
They had a fair amount of issues, but every car did.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Then, Yeah, every car did.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Generally, I would say, I'm not running or some issue
like that. So we're just talking about high idle. Let's
just start with the basics of what I write. I mean,
so this is an OBD two car. Do you have
a scan tool you can hook up to this car?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Okay, Will that scan tool tell you the injector pulse width?

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yes, we've we've checked that and we had to modify
it a little bit because you know, we're running, you know,
we're we're using Hpchooners, so we had to adjust it.
So yeah, we're kind of we'll we're CT stomped. We think,
you know, we were starting to lean towards maybe a
short in the PCM somewhere. Because it's intermitute. It doesn't

(09:51):
always happen, and sometimes it'll happen a half hour driving,
and sometimes it'll happen within two minutes of you know,
just starting the car.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Okay, So I guess where I would go because I mean, again,
I don't know what kind of software HP Tuners is
using for this particular mod But so I'm speaking clearly
from my experience with two thousand and one Buick Regal
what I'm going to do in this scenario. So I've
got a narrow down. If I pull the IAQ motor

(10:22):
out when it has this issue, and I take a
rag and I stuff over that port, will it idle?

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (10:30):
If we disconnect the IKE sensor, it'll still idle. Nothing changes.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Okay, I'm talking about pulling that sensor totally out of
the throttle body, stuffing a rag over it, doing away
with that.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
Altogether that we have not done yet.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
That returns it to base idol, and base idol will
allow us to say, Okay, there's something else going on,
or is it the something's commanding the the IAQ motor
to do it.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I can't tell you how many times I've taken these
IAC motors out, put a new one in and I've
got the same issue. I hook up a scope. It's
a bad part out of the box. I mean, these
things were They were bad when they were new.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
They were right.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
I've heard that. I've heard that before.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
And you know, like, does this car still have a
R or did you take the I g R.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
We deleted the eg R and you know, did everything
it was doing it way before we had we started
even you know, going farther in modding it. But yeah, yeah,
so that that's why, Because it was sitting for close
to a year, uh at the garage, and you know,
we got it going and we had this issue and

(11:39):
we decided, you know, I replaced the idol air control
and it still did it, and I replaced some mass
airflows and so thinking that was it.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, you know, Dan, hang on quick second, on a second,
We're gonna put you on hole. We gotta pay some
bills and we'll come back in a minute.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
Yo.

Speaker 7 (11:55):
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travel back in time to nineteen eighty two. Say what
said a drip drop a triple to the your Oh,
your pants lack here, your car won't start?

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It goes bang bang, bigger your jump start the buget See.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
I am mister Mulcanic, and I'd like to say hello
to the pretty little lady on the side of the road.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Waiting for an expensive joe.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
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Speaker 6 (12:22):
B to?

Speaker 3 (12:22):
A friend to rob? And the caw was just no good.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
I can't hear the time of belts kicking the end
of the.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
Way eating and the child is just no good for
your drive to the right.

Speaker 8 (12:31):
Then he reclaims a click clock bang in the old
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Speaker 1 (12:42):
He here.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
It will give me your crutch or Mester cylinder.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
If I were in a.

Speaker 7 (12:46):
Control canister, same case, be the front seat heater because
I dutched in the mirror of courser than they appear giddly.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Be my baby.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
I fixed you. So let's go shaggy like Scooby Doode.
Because I'm empty the pin, the ladies pin. I put
the man in, mister McCann. So if you need to
go a bubble rejack, I'm a cancer who's got your back.
When the bist and the best friends that just called
the man.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
With the m all his till get you on the
road and the.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
Ditch because theodat.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Motail, let's head back to Dan and kind of give
you some points of where Kyle wants you to run.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
So so it's intermittent. So I mean, by all means
if you can get it to do it, I mean start,
you know with the IAC tests I told you about.
So the other that I'm going to go to is
is something commanding this thing to go up? Does this

(13:43):
car have a power steering pressure switch?

Speaker 5 (13:46):
Uh? Probably, I think so I think.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
That can command it.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yes, that can cause it to go up intermittently. We
need to look does the car still have air conditioning
or has that been removed?

Speaker 5 (14:01):
No, the car still has a C but we're going
to charge it with free on. But it hasn't been activated.
It even did it when.

Speaker 9 (14:08):
It was cold.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Okay, that's fine, like.

Speaker 5 (14:10):
In January February.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
But switches a go bad or switches it go bad.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, that doesn't matter. If a PCM sees a signal,
it does what it's told. Yeah, So we need to
see is there a kick up on this for AC
command through the throttle position sensor or anything like that.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
Well, we've done the parts cannon at it. We replaced
the MAP sensor, the mass airflow, the IKE sensor, and
the GPS and it's still it's still doing it.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
So the next thing, like, if we're still suspecting a PCM,
get it to where it'll do it. And then there's
two tests that will always do just kind of easy,
simple things that have helped us a lot in the past.
So get the PCM. I think on that it's still
in the air box, but there no, no, okay, So

(15:05):
just get it to where you have some access to it,
and when it's doing it, take a hammer and kind
of gently tap it all around the PCM. See if
that makes any change. Secondly, shut the car down, disconnect
your PCM, throw it in your deep freeze for twenty minutes.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Then plug it back in. See if your problem is
still there. Electronics get hot, and if we can cool
them down, then everything will start working.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Electronics get hot right, separate it comes.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, yeah, solder expansing tracks when you know a heat
and cold and everything. No, I totally get that. I
just figured maybe you know, is there any tricks that
testing a PCM before you know, replacing it.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
So we will definitely try that.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Out for your idle thing. You can test your PCM
to see its output, what it's commanding the IAC motor
to do manually. Okay, uh, you'll have to get I'm
sure you've got a wiring diagram for this car.

Speaker 10 (16:05):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
So your IAQ motor is going to have a driver's
circuit on it. It should have a power of ground and
in and out something like that, four or five wires.
So you'll have to figure out, you know, because odds
are you've got good power and ground, so you'll have
to look at the Bibles.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Yeah, Bibles reference and then ground and then there's another wire.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Sure, So we'll have to break out your wiring diagram,
find out your control circuits. That's probably going to be
two on that IAQ motor. And I use the scope
for everything, especially something like this. I use a scope
for I don't know if you have one of those.
I mean you could probably get by this is old enough.
You might be able to get a decent enough signal

(16:49):
out of a DVO.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
M Yeah, where you're using a fluke so yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Sure, and just backprobe. These wires don't break into a
wire anything. Use backprobe and get in there and test it.
See if your PCM is actually commanding this thing up.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, try those Dan, try that stuff and report back.
Let us know what's going on, all right. I appreciate
the call, DWN. We're gonna hit over to Sandy saying
he's impatiently waiting fifteen jeep Cherokee, Sandy, what's up today?

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Hey, So, about a week or so ago, my jeep
started overheating.

Speaker 11 (17:31):
I was getting coffee in the drive through and it overheated,
so I turned in drew knop and while I was waiting,
and then I turned the heat on and drove it
home and h it's I lived about eighteen miles from
where I was getting coffee. So I got home, called

(17:53):
my mechanic, started in to see him, and he called
me and said.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
That it was the thermost dead.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
We need a thermost debt. I said, well, I got
to have my car for go ahead and set it.
So after four hundred and fifty two dollars later, because
they said, you can't just buy their little piece in
there yet.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
You can't. Now, you can't just buy a thermostat anymore.
It's a whole plastic housing that you got to replace.

Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yeah, yeah, well this was, and so he replaced the
whole thing. He showed me the old one, and then
I drove it for like two or three days, and
then it started overheating again.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
So I took it.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
In and he called me and said it was the
cooling band and he said it wasn't coming on. He
said there three.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Modes.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Correct. Yep, another very common problem with that jeep. Yep.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
He replaced that so and they kept it several days
and drove it, and uh, he said, it seems to
be fine. Now, well, I drove it, got maybe a
mile away on the highway and it was just missing.
It wasn't running smooth at all. So I turned around,

(19:31):
went back and it's a four cylinder, right, because there
was the last time you had your spark plugs replaced.
And I said, one, I'm thinking you guys did it
one time. He said, well, we're going to get four
new spark plugs and put in there so and you

(19:52):
can wait. He said, we'll do.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
It right now.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
So they did that. Then they drove it around. He said,
see how they said, we're not gonna charge you for
the spark plug and the labor until we know it's.

Speaker 11 (20:09):
Running well enough.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
And uh. Then he mentioned something about her coil. Anyway,
So after they did that, drove home, drove the next
day to get coffee, drove around, and then I went
to go last night and it was shimming and missing

(20:34):
so bad that I drove around the block and brought
it home. So now I have to wait till monday.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
All right, all right, So hang tight here just a minute.
We gotta go do a break at the bottom of
the hour, and then we're gonna come back and talk
a little bit more and see if we can help
you through. All Right, We're gonna take quick break. We'll
be right back. How many miles around this cheap Cherokee.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
At two and twenty.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, all right, So that's that's the one thing I've
kind of wanted to know. So you're just having a
situation that at two hundred and twenty thousand miles, a
lot of these things that are going bad or normal
to go bad. So my guess if I had one,
is that the cooling fan is what started the whole problem.
But it warps the thermostat housing, so they replaced the

(21:24):
thermostat housing because you got to go to the source
of what the leak is and it probably overheated just
a little bit. The fan was working when they had it,
Otherwise they probably would have told you it needed to
be done at the same time. But being as electrical
parts are in two hundred plus thousand miles, I'm surprised
I hadn't. You haven't replaced it a couple of times,
be quite honest with you. Along with the radiator, they're

(21:47):
very common to do that. So the next thing is
spark plugs. They put spark plugs in. So I'm gonna
also think that you've got probably a coil that's bad again,
two hundred thousand miles. I would imagine most of these
things are on their second run as far as things
that you've replaced, and maybe if you put a lot

(22:08):
of highway miles on, it's highway miles are easier on
a car than starting start and stop is but it
just you can only really fix what you see is
broken at the moment. Otherwise you can recommend a bunch
of things that may are not necessarily bad at the time.
And I think that's kind of what you're going through.

(22:31):
So I think they're they're acting in good faith. It
sounds like they're trying to solve your problem. And if
it had a misfire there and then maybe it coils
the next thing again, I'm surprised they haven't been replaced before.
We don't want to drive this too awful much without
with it overheating, because we don't want to get it
to the point where the head gasket and overheating it.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
And is it still overheating or do you just have
the misfire?

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, okay, perfect, good, good, Well it's four cylinders, so one.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
One cylinder down, you're taking a lot.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
It's struggling. Yeah, it really is so morning. Yeah yeah,
I don't I don't see anything anybody's doing wrong. I
think it's just a Again, you can reckon, we can
recommend the heck out of replacing things just because it's
it could go bad. Now is it bad? No, it
could have go bad, absolutely. I mean but you know,
we could rack up a page full list of things

(23:25):
that could go wrong. So we've always kind of operated on,
let's fix what's broke because it's broke, and then let's
drive it around and see if anything else has a problem.
If it is, we'll call. If it's not, then keep
in touch if there's a problem. So I think you're
I think they're doing right by you. They're just you
have to you have to stick through this problem just
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
And this is something every every season mechanic has been
through this. Oh yeah, it happens to the best of us.
It's just you know, the simple fact of auto mechanics
is everything works great until it doesn't.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
I mean, it's a little bit it's a little bit
like surgery.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, they get in there and they say well,
we're just going to do this and then and then
then you talk to them after where you say, well
we did this, this, this and this, because we can't
really wake up and say, hey, do you want to
do that? You know, so you'll be fine, Sandy. I
just work through them with a little bit. I think
that they're doing the right thing.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
So a cylinder is the part by the spark plugs.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Well, the cylinder is kind of the bottom of your engine.
I mean it's kind of the length of your engine,
and there's you know, the piston moves up and down,
and the spark plugs at the top of that. Yeah, ignites.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
They're just one or four four four.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Cylinder is just a generic word for saying it's misfiring
on number one cylinder, and it's just it's a word.
They yeah, don't worry about cylinder. If it's misfiring on
number one, it's missfiring on number one. And also what's
not also common on that car is fuel injector, so
that could be why it coming and going. It's an
electronic part. It's no different than when the toaster quits.

(25:04):
It Sometimes it works and it was working great before.
Why did they quit? It's just electronics.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
So yeah, okay, Well I tried to tell my son
in law that they were doing everything. He said, no,
you got to call call call them the candy on KFA.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
That'll help you.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah. Yeah, Well we're here to help you through some more.
So if this doesn't pan out, give us a call.
We'll help you some more.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
I appreciate that. I have a cool day and stay cool.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
We're going to try. I appreciate it. Thanks for Collin, Sandy.
All right, we're gonna head over to Larry. Larry's got
a ninety five Chevy Van. Larry, what's going on today?

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Heather?

Speaker 9 (25:46):
Hey, my ninety five Shuvy Van? Is something low?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's supposed to be.

Speaker 9 (25:54):
Eighteen interested bottom of the bumper in the front, nineteen
in the rear, and it's setting fourteen the front and
fifteen the rear, So it's setting four inches low. Is
there any hacks to uh making it higher? And I
can see putting front springs on it, but I hate
to spend a bunch of money on rear strut rear

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leaf spring springs. Is there a hack for the leaf
springs short of tacking them out? Having a marine re
arched well?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Have you tried leaf spring and expanders and coil spring expanders?
Have you tried those?

Speaker 5 (26:30):
No?

Speaker 9 (26:30):
I haven't tried anything.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, well they don't exist.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, okay. So on your van, does it actually have
coil springs in the front or is it torsion bars?

Speaker 9 (26:39):
Now they're coils?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
And old two wheel drive sounds like yeah, conversion man,
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well these springs are old. I mean, what what do
you have happening? I mean, that's normal, it is, and
I'm surprised it's that gradual. But unfortunately, I mean the
only I mean, is there a cheap hack you can do?
I mean I've seen a lot. I've seen a guy
take a football and let the air out of it
and put it in between his coil spring and a

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back up.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I've seen that too. And if they make those now
that you can do that on a on a.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
On a professional looking level.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yes, yes, other than the football.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, I mean, but aside from that not really.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Everything has just I mean, if you had two thousand
pounds sitting on you, you'd be tired too, And the coil
springs are just compacted down, same with the leaf strings
as releaf springs, So not without spending a bunch of money,
are you going to bring it back up to right height?
But you know you're the first person that's ever measured
that I can recall.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, most people have no idea. Man, that thing's sitting low.
It kind of looks cool.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, a lot of customers will come in and say, well,
the left side is always low. Why is the left
side low and the right side is high? And I
you know, I hate to say but that some times
a gas tank is on the left hand side, so
that's a reason why. And then sometimes they're the person
driving is one hundred and fifty pounds, sometimes they're not,
that's a reason why. And uh and then sometimes it's

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just old like yours. So yeah, and you can put
you know those expanders in there that you can shove
in the coils. You can try to do that so
they don't press.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
It kind of just looks like a little wedge. They
sell them at like any regular parts store will have
them in a help section. But I don't know that it's.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
What is the right height bothering you? Or is it bounce?

Speaker 9 (28:32):
Is there any drawbacks? But not doing anything?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Well? No, no, I mean with where you're at.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
No. I mean I see these hot rod cars that
kids have around town where they'll take a cutoff wheel
and cut some springs out. Next thing, your axles riding
on the frame, and you've got big issues the paper. Yeah,
I mean where you're at. I mean you're well above
the scrub line of the truck. So yeah, you're fine.
It's not going to hurt anything.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
No, I wouldn't get.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
A spongy ride. But that's really about it. If you
put new springs and leaf springs in it, I mean,
it may have a stiff ride that you don't like.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, my that a lot might have bottom out a
little bit, you know, with what you have. But uh, yeah,
I just drive slowly. You're not driving fast with a
ninety five Chevy Van anyway, are you.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
No.

Speaker 9 (29:17):
I did put a new engine at it, like you
guys suggest that I put a nice three three stroker
in it.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Totally moly, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (29:25):
Funnyway, I got the old engine sitting in the driveway.
We took the head buffs. Haven't found out it definitely
had blown head gaskets.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (29:34):
Now the.

Speaker 9 (29:37):
Block is incredibly rusty in the passages. Is there any
easy way to get that out of there. Andy Good,
it's gonna use vinegar to.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Get down there.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Well, I mean you've got to torn apart this far.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I mean, the only way you're going to get it
apart clean like you want it.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
You dip them.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
You dip them. You take it to a machine shop
and you tell them to rip it and clean it.
And that's the only way you're going to get it out.
You're not going to get it all out, but you're
going to get ninety of it out. Now.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
They dip them in and they boil them, and that's
what takes it out of there.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yep. That's why anna freeze is so important from the
first caller, is that once that stuff accumulates, it's just
like sticking a rusty roder outside.

Speaker 9 (30:19):
So well, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
You bet appreciate the call. Larry. We're gonna take quick breaking,
mister mechanics showing me back in a minute. Jeff's got
a fourteen Chevy Captiva. Jeff, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (30:30):
Well, I was driving the other day and the smelled
like brakes got hot on the front and the rear,
and so I saw them with a Tim's gunna have
and they got really hot and then it went away
come back again. Friend of mine the cord apart, and
he thought the caliper was sticking. So on the front
end of put brand new caliper on the front left

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and new roaders all the way around with brakes on
the just the front. But I thought took care of
the problem. And it's sticking again in the rear on
the front it's sticking again the river. I think it's
just off an arm sticking. It doesn't get a hot
because this last time they get up about five hundred
degrees on the front left and the rights is one
hundred degrees. So I don't know with abs issue with

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you know, a computer, or I will lean.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
More towards a break hose. But that's the first place.
Let's let's start easy before we go hard. And uh,
I agree with Kyle. The break hose is the first
thing to do. So what you do in this case
is you drive it around. Either you just go replace it,
or you drive it around until it sticks again and
then you get underneath there and you jack the car up.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Can you turn the wheel? Nope, non't turn the wheel.
Let's open the bleeder. Can I turn the wheel now? Yep? Okay,
we know we got a hose.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
So what you did was just you cracked all the
fluid out of the caliber itself and it released. It
goes ah, thank you, I appreciate that. Well, now upstream
it can't it can't go back upstream. So when you
press on a brake pedal, you got twelve hundred pounds
of PSI forcing the brakes on and you got static
pressure backwards, so you don't have twelve hundred down and

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twelve hundred up. That's why it won't release. Okay, So
that's where we would break go first, and then after
that then you're probably heading towards ABS pump, motor assembly
or something.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
You haven't is there any ABS light on in the car. No, okay,
so let's throw that module out of our head. Let's
let's just start with the basics. Look at that break hose.
I bet you'll get it fixed with that.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, don't overthink it.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
This isn't this isn't a rare occurrence for us. This
happens almost daily we see.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
And so if the left front break hose solves your problem,
do them all, then go over and do the do
the rest because you know what's coming.

Speaker 10 (32:58):
Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah, great idea.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Appreciate the college.

Speaker 10 (33:02):
Yes, I'll do that thing very much to help you
guys have a great day.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
You as well. Yeah, break hoses are just one of
those things. They go bad internally and it's always directional.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
And I remember the first time I saw that, you know,
years and years and years ago. I was like, well,
it's a hose. If it works one way, it's got
to work the other. That's not the case. No, it's
got with these.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
It's got twelve hundred down and static coming back up
and more more or less static coming back up, static pressure,
and that's just not enough. So you know, kylege I
was gonna have any more calls. The IM going to
keep you updated. Remember well, a couple of weeks ago
we talked about the ship in the ocean that was
coming from China to uh Mexico that.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
That's on fire.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Well, caught fires with the evs and every they tried
to put it out, and then twenty two crew members bailed.
And that was June third, What is today twenty first,
So right now it's still a drift in the northeast
Pacific at one point eight miles per hour roughly about
three hundred and four miles off of the Attic, Alaska,

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so it should make Alaska what another week, another two weeks,