Mr Mechanic 7-12-2025

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 will as Premium Unleaded. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his toes,
and that he can tell your tires ille pressure just

(00:24):
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 done, stand
a chance? This is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic Show. Five, five, eight,
eleven ten. As the numbers to get in, get in
early so we can get to all the calls before
the end of the day. This is interactive call in show.
You have the questions, we'll give you the answers, head
you in the right direction, or just directly fix it
for you because we've seen a bunch of them. Have
them in Kyle, Yeah, quite a few. Yeah, Yeah, we

(01:06):
don't know all the answers, but we can certainly get
get you in the right directions to figure out what
you gotta do. So it's going to be a great weekend. So, boy,
if you've been putting off any kind of repairs in
the driveway, this is the time to do it, really is. Yeah,
well I have too, so the simple stuff. But it's

(01:27):
gonna be a great weekend to get that done because
it's going to turn back hot again. It's July for
for you know, we understand that a lot of air conditions,
a lot of a lot of weird things and air conditioning,
you know, just those things don't get used. In most
part they were great, but there's certain cars that have
certain things that have certain problems and always like to

(01:50):
go bad. We see more and more air conditioning compressors
going bad electrically than I think we ever used to
in the past.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I've we've kind of been keeping like a tallly of
compressors the month of June. I mean we had to
have done forty compressors. I mean there was just a
stack of them outside of the shop.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
When it used to be in the old days, they
would go apart internally and then all the crap would
go through the entire system and then it would just
be flush and replace and flush and replace, and it
just got more expensive. But now they've just gone bad
electrically and you can't buy just clutch anymore, which is
actually a great thing because that repair never turned out

(02:33):
halfway decent. I don't care who did it.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
There was always something. Yeah, there was always they didn't
line up, or they weren't machine right and you get
a rattle or yeah, it was always something. Yeah, So
that happens more often than not. And then you don't
have certain cars that just have leaks like suber Us.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
You know, if you get a Super ruin that's low,
you got both manifold lines that are leaking, got bad
O rings. That's the only thing that leaks on them.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's the only thing that leaks on them. But they
leak every time. So if you have a Super out
there and you get your air conditioning recharge and it's out,
replace those two O rings on the top of the
compressor and then have it evacuated and recharged and then
you'll be done. Yeah, and then other things can go wrong,
but very rarely, yeah, very rare.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
There was a Honda I did last month and it's
probably the first time I've seen a modern compressor, it
was a CRV, and I've seen one of these modern
compressors just totally shell out. I took I got it
in and looked at it and figured out what it was.
Took the line off, and I mean it was like

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metallic gray spray paint inside.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, because it's all aluminum inside, and when it starts
to go bad, all the shavings come off and that
just gets circulated through the system. That's what I mean
by having to replace the condenser, evaporator.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
We did everything. Yeah, it wasn't anything I didn't replace
on the air conditioning.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
And that's part. And some of those hondas back in
the day used to have one called black They were
Black Death, which meant that everything had to be replaced. Hoses, evaporator, condenser,
blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
You can't get it out.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You can't get it out. And the new condensers are
designed way differently than the old condensers, and they just
got to be changed.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
We were looking at because our salesperson brought in a
core sample of a condenser and you can't blow through
this thing. I don't know how the oil gets in it.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, I don't know, pure hundred and fifty three hundred
pounds of pressure pushing through, so that'd be the only
way it goes. But it's yeah, it's it's sometimes technology
is the redesign is good. Sometimes redesign is bad. It
all just kind of depends on what we're talking about
and some things they shouldn't have messed with, that's for sure.

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All Right, we're gonna head over into the calls. We've
got a couple of calls. Bill's got an O five
Pontiac Grand Prix. Bill, what's up today?

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Hey, guys, my brother in law bought a thousand dollars car,
two thousand and five Pontiac rap tree. We've already you
know what that means. We've already replaced several parts. But anyway,
it's pulling a P thirteen fifty ignition control system and
I assume that's the ignition control module that fits underneath

(05:09):
the ignition coils. Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, I mean that's kind of the roundabout place that
is putting you in. So does it run?

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, yeah, it.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Runs, but he says, you know, he drives it for
a while and then you know, like maybe park somewhere
and it won't start back up until it cools off.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay. Yeah, so when that happens, what you want to
do is check the spark to find out if it
doesn't have any spark. These cars were great for coils
going bad. Then they would snap internally and the module
and fry the module.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
So okay, yeah, yeah, we've already replaced the coils, okay,
and so you check the spark next.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, when it won't start, just pop a spark plug
wire off there, get a test light or a screwdriver,
and just hold it maybe a quarter a half inch
off of one of those poles, and you'll know if
you have spark right away.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Those snap pretty good too.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, if you're brave enough, put your finger over it
and has crank.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
You want to have some fun, stick your finger in
your mouth first before you get close to it. May
give about two inches three it is, it'll snap, you
will know. They also have problems with the ground underneath
the bottom of there too. The ground will get corroded
and things like that. But you're down to really with
a crank no start. You're down to a module or
a crank sensor. If you replace you know all the

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coils and usually all that you only have one coil
that fails. You won't have all three, but that's usually
that's what causes that problem. Coils get old, plastic deteriorates
and snaps at the heat sink in that module.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Okay, okay, you bet appreciate the call.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I've been a while since we've seen one of those,
isn't it. Well.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
We had one that was kind of skating around the
station for a little bit and they got it, and
you know, we did a couple repairs, and he did
a couple of repairs himself and it had It's the
only time on this particular engine, I've seen a coil melt.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Down, I would agree.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
And yeah, I mean I found that I did a
voltage drop on that ground and it was what one
point seven volts. There's like no ground, so the power
had nowhere to go. So you're charging sixty thousand volts
into this coil and you can't dissipate.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, just melts down internally.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, we ended up putting a module coils connector everything.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And yeah, and those were great engines, great great engines.
They got those all the way up to the point
where they perfected it right up to the point and
then they quit it. Yeah, I mean why not? You know,
I don't get it sometimes.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, they were great. I mean when they did away
with them. I mean I was really good at intakes
and oil pans on those things. I could have timing
cover gaskets in that thing in an hour and a
half and then they're gone.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, the plastic intake would go bad because of the
EGR valve. All of a sudden they would rub sure
and suck all the in freezing hydro locket and at
a stop light, and you didn't know why. Yeah, there's
some interesting things going on there. All right, we'll go
over to John. John's got a ninety eight Chevy pick up. John,
what is up today?

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Oh? Well, I still got a problem with this saying.
I mean we've done everything, do it, you know, I'm
just got to thinking about something about it. And still
got that po one seven one seven two and one
seven four code I'm missing moving too lean And I

(08:34):
got to think about something. You know, we never changed.
We changed everything else in this dark thing. You take
gaskets all the way to the fuel pump, you know,
and we've never changed the the flames gaskets on the
exhaust manifolds because they're pretty corroded. Like you know, we
can't hear no popping noise without running, or any any

(08:57):
kind of exhaust noise when it's running up there on
the will the pipes come to the manifolds. But I'm
wondering if it's leaking somewhere around there. I sprayed that
thing with water, Sophie, warm water when it was cold,
and I couldn't get I couldn't get any bubbles out
of it, you know, So I don't know what do
you guys think i'd done editing.

Speaker 7 (09:18):
Of this night?

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, that's what I was going to suggest, But if
you don't see any leaks, then we know it's not
coming from that.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
It would be I mean, because this is an old
primitive system. I mean, this is early OBD two. I mean,
it would take a pretty good leak to get that
two censor to pull clear lead. See I mean going forward,

(09:45):
I mean, if you've done that much to it and
we're still going lean, I mean, have we checked vacuum
in the crank case. If you pull the dipstick tobe
out when it's running and you put your thumb over
it does it try to suck anything in or do
we have like a brief asphere.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
And getting that the intake maple gas if we change them.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
No, I'm not getting at that. But I want to
know how much vacuum we have inside the engine.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
I see like there's in.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Vacuum.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Do we have vacuum or do we have pressure?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, we need to know kind of the shape of
this engine. I guess I would say I've never done that,
but that's an easy enough thing. And I mean the
dipstick tube is small enough you can stick your thumb
over it and you'll be able to tell if you're
pulling or pushing anything extreme. I mean, no more than
an inch of pressure or vacuum either way is acceptable.

(10:42):
I mean other than that, I mean, I'm sure you've
taken a look at the map censor.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Right, Yeah, we changed it, okay.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
And the mass airflow sensor as well.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah we changed that okay twice we thought maybe we
had a bad one. It took up back and got
another one and put it back in and it still
got the same MO.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
What about the coolant temperature sensor? If we looked at that.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Well, no, we haven't looked at that. We haven't done
anywhere that we changed EVR valve. Well, we haven't done
nothing with the cool tem possessor. What would what would
that have something to.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Do with that?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Well, because any car that's fuel injected has to manufacture
its own fuel strategy. So you know, let's go back
to the carbureted days. If it was negative forty outside
and your choke didn't shut, you weren't running. If it
was you know, one hundred degrees outside and your choke

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was slam shut.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
You weren't running.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
So we use a coolant temperature sensor to kind of
predict your fuel strategy. So if it's shorted and it
thinks that this car is negative forty, it's going to
want to run rich. If it thinks that it at
the top end of its peak four hundred degrees, it's
gonna want to run lean and well, but that would

(12:10):
do it. Let's let's let's there's two different sensors. Well, yeah,
and let's not go that far. I mean, let's take
a look at this sensor. Maybe, oh it out. You
can probably get an omespec on that sensor.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
And John, let's uh, let's take a We're gonna put
you on hold for a quick second. We're gonna we're
gonna take a quick break and we'll talk to you
after the break. So five, five, eight eleven tens the
numbers to get in. We'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Coming to theaters this spring.

Speaker 8 (12:39):
Hey boy, it's getting real busy out here in the garage.
The story of one mechanics fight to believe in himself.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh wow, in the barage.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
But I'm just a cashier.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
When no one else would believe in him.

Speaker 8 (12:56):
I've seen you under the hood, babe.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I knew you'd get with it.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
Tell me something, Mom, Are you happy in this antig garage?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Or do you need more?

Speaker 9 (13:26):
Is there a car that you're looking for? Change the
oil in this car?

Speaker 8 (13:37):
Cause it won't change itself? So worm, Oh, you'll stop cashiering.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
And be some mill.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Take it away. Mom, you're a really good singer. I
wasn't expecting. All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Tell me something, Mark, Why won't this course it come?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Ever?

Speaker 9 (14:09):
Start it?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Just staying?

Speaker 7 (14:12):
No good?

Speaker 1 (14:16):
I've checked everything under the the time belt. Finished this
up a little bit.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
John, Yeah, I understand where you guys are going with
that switch. I'll change that darte. I'll loan it at
first and I'll change it. I think what it's doing,
like you say, is just keeping it in more or
less in closing an open loop and it's you know,

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or closed loop, excuse me, and it would not be
getting the right type of fuel.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
So do you have a scan tool?

Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yes? I do?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Okay, yeah, because I briefly remember, I mean we've had
a couple separate GM problems. I couldn't remember if you
had a scan tool. So does your scan tool show
you short term fuel trim?

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Okay, So if that, I mean, if you can see
if it's an open or closed loop, that's one thing.
And secondly, I want to look at short term fuel
trim only. Let's I mean, if you have a scan tool,
it's capable of making a custom data list where you
can just pick out short term fuel trim. That way,

(15:30):
your scan tool can put all its energy on that
one PID and it'll work faster.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
So I got I can't do that, Okay.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
So let's just pull up short. Yeah, let's just pull
up short and go around the vehicle, and let's just
disconnect vacuum hoses. Let's pull your brake booster off and
put a cover over that engine port and see if

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that brings your short term fuel trim down. Yeah, if
it doesn't, let's plug it back in. Let's go over
to the next vacuum line, which is I think PERG
solenoid or something like that. Let's unplug that. See if
that brings your short term fuel trim down. We're looking
for numbers. I'd say on a GM, I'm comfortable under
ten percent fuel trim at idle. I mean ten percent

(16:24):
a little high, but I mean it's not going to say.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Or you're looking for a change when you unplug something
on the short term fuel. So if you if all
of a sudden, you see a dramatic change when you
unplug something and plug it off, and now you see
everything is all of a sudden going a different way.
There is your system where you've got the problem. Does
that makes sense?

Speaker 6 (16:49):
That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
And you might if you don't have a scanner like that,
you might you might have gone to the edge of
your ability and you might have to take it to
somebody that's going to do that and get deep into
it in order to solve your problem. That's just that's
nothing on you. But sometimes you just you got to
have the equipment to do it, so.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Oh don't buy all that, guys. Thank you so.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Much, all right, appreciate it, Thanks John, thanks for calling.
All right, we're going to head it over to Steve.
Steve's got an oil leak question, Steve, what's up today?

Speaker 7 (17:23):
I got a two thousand and five fifty with a
seven to three powerstroke eighty thousand miles, so it's it's
pretty little mileage, of course, and I developed an oil leak,
a pretty severe one, and of course it drips out
down by the bell housing. But I'm told that all

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your oil leaks are going to be up on top
by the turbocharger because the when that block was cast
for the seven to three stroke on the passenger side,
they actually put a cast in the casting, a five
eighth diameter hole, so if you do get a leak,

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it can run down and out the back.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yep. And there's oil, there's oil rings, there's there's oil
o rings back in there. There's a couple of things. Yeah,
it it I just we just did this on our
tow truck. I've gotten oh one with a with a
power stroke in it, which people are trying to buy
from me. But I won't let it go because it's

(18:34):
too good engine.

Speaker 10 (18:36):
So well.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yeah, yeah, but there there's an oil pump back up,
and there's an oil pump back up in there on
that in that v part of it. And there's also
some O rings that are back up in there too,
and over a period of time they just fail. So, yes,
you're correct. Everything is kind of down in the center
in there, and that all engines are not flat. They
are tipped backwards just slightly, and everything runs right back

(19:01):
that on that intake valley and then right over the
bell housing and down.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
I'm told there's also a hose, high pressure.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Hose for your turbo. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (19:14):
Okay, well so you have worked on them? Is that
something you work on you know every day?

Speaker 1 (19:21):
No, I don't.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
I do.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
We don't do much diesel. I know about him because
I got two diesel tow trucks. But if you hang
on after we get off the air, I will will
certainly send you to a gentleman that does a great
work on diesel stuff. Okay, hang on, hang on, Steve,
we'll get you. We'll put you on hold and we'll
get you that number.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
You bet, thank you, you bet?

Speaker 1 (19:49):
All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We're gonna
head over to Mark. All right, Mark, hang tight, We're
gonna be right back to a quick break. Mark has
been patiently and waving. Mark know seven two fifty, what's
up today?

Speaker 10 (20:01):
Well, I was gonna say the guy who had the
he replaced his MAAF censor twice and that last caller
or two collars ago, Yeah, was his a GM or.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
It was there was all right?

Speaker 10 (20:18):
Well on my forward, I did the same thing, replacing
the MAF sence or twice. That something was wrong with that.
All I had to do is I ended up cleaning
the brottle plates with carb cleaner and a toothbrudy.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I understood. Yeah, sometimes that stuff gets out of there,
and when it does that, it just it creates everything
gets corroded. For those people to understand that that is
just that all sorts of stuff is around in there
and you've got to clean all that out of there
because that's a metered air leak, and that metered air

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leak is factored into the fuel strategy, as Kyle was saying,
and if it's not there, it throws things out, which
I'm probably pretty sure that he's cleaned that.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, I mean he's had the intake off twice now,
I think.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
But yeah, yeah, but that is that is a valid point.
If it does get gummed over, the idle drops you,
that metered air leak has gone. Now the fuel strategy
is different and the light comes on for some reason.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
So yeah, agre' When testing that, we'll see generally it's
kind of tough to get a code with just lean
at idle, I've found, especially with modern cars. Maybe some
earlier stuff possibly, but whenever I'm looking at a lean
or rich condition, I mean, firstly, i gotta warm up
the engine. Then I'm gonna look at short term, long

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term fuel trim, and I'm gonna drive the car. Because
if it's lean at idle, I'm leaning more towards a
vacuum issue intake or vacuum issue, which would be throttle plates,
hose leak, basket leak.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Something like that.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
If I'm lean off idle, because once we open that
throttle body, we hit the gas pedal, the throttle body opens,
vacuum doesn't exist in the manifold. We got pressure, so
we're not gonna have We're not gonna find a vacuum
leak really effective. You know, that's an idle thing off

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I'm going towards the fuel system. Are my injectors clean?
Things like that, Do I have enough fuel pressure? Do
I have enough fuel volume?

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Right?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
How many amps? Is my fuel pump? Pulling?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Things like that, And that's where you get into that.
Sometimes you can replace parts and solve your problem, and
I'd probably say, you know, maybe sixty seventy percent of
time you can solve it that way, and then the
other thirty percent you just need somebody that's been there,
done that and can find the minute thing that's going on.
And sometimes that's obvious. Sometimes that's really digging in and

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getting it because you have to think that everything has
this x amount of miles on it, just a matter
of what has torn or moved or just slightly that's
causing that problem.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Fuel trim has stumped me in the past, and I
mean it's tough for everybody. I mean, I don't know
if there's anybody that I've met and I've know some
pretty sharp texts that I mean, know absolutely everything about
fuel trim. It's one of those things like tuning a carburetor.
Everything's by the seat of your pants. Yep, every one

(23:23):
of them. You're going to see. For the most part
is going to be somewhat different. I mean, except we
have cars that we know what's happening right away, Like
Ford Triton came in one. You know, you're looking at
a PC YouTube.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, every time, but I mean there's.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Certain things, but I mean otherwise, Yeah, it's by the
seat of your pants. You just got to go through
the steps and trust the process.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yep, pretty much we're gonna hit over to Tom. Tom's
got a ninety four to to pick up. Tom. What's
up today?

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Yeah, I got you were talking earlier about air conditions
and well this one the last two years in a row,
I've taken it in and having it, you know, charged,
and it leaks out before the end of the summer
is over, and it makes it through most of the summer,

(24:17):
and so I think the leak is maybe so small.
They've used die to try to find the leak and
haven't been able to so far, and so it's kind
of expensive to do that. Every I don't I don't
smell any leak or fumes or anything from it. I
don't know if I should be worried about that or not,
but it's like, no, I'm wondering if it's okay, instead

(24:39):
of maybe try another place. But do you use those
you know, those kids you get from where you do
it yourself with a can. I've been kind of told
you probably shouldn't do that, but I can't.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Are you talking about buying a can that maybe has
some stop leak in it so that we can stop
up the whole.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
Well or not or no stop leak?

Speaker 11 (25:02):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
I've heard you not to do that.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
No don't. I was just going to ask if you
were going to say that, it's going to tell you don't.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
So here's here's how we normally do it. I mean,
sometimes you have sniffers that you can sniff this refrigerant
and you can go around and you you guess, you know,
to go all the connections and see where it is
because it's a little heavier. They are very very touchy.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
If you have an oil leak, it's going to go off,
Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
And if you put and die in the system, and
you've put in a fair amount of die in the
system over the years, and you go through every spot,
whether a UV light not just looking at it, you know,
normally with a UV light and glasses and you don't
see anything. Nine times out of ten, you've got an
evaporator problem. We just had one of these the other

(25:49):
day in a Masda and you know, we charged it up,
didn't see anything. Initially, you would let him run for
a couple of weeks and said bring it back in
a couple of weeks, give it a hands to leak,
and there was nothing. Didn't see anything, so we did
an evaporator on it, and you can't see any of that.
Sometimes you can get tailtale signs out of the evaporator

(26:11):
drain because the water will wash it off and you
can see it through the evaporator drain. That's probably fifty
percent of the time. The other fifty percent of the
time it's a it's a calculated, educated guess because you
know it's leaking and it's going to be green somewhere,
but it's not. And this one was just full of
green once we pulled apart the evaporator.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
I did have a new eric and Inster put in
it about five years ago. But I know I got
a compressor, but I don't know for sure if I
got an evaporator or not.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I doubt it. I don't doubt it. Evaporator is one
thing you'll know. I mean it'll be real expensive. It'll
be expensive. It'll be two twenty five hundred dollars. So
it's you got to pull the whole dash. On some
foreign cars, maybe A TOA that might be a little
easier because they split the system. Honda does, but I
don't think it does. You got to old dash has

(27:03):
got to come out of the thing most of the time, so.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Should not be able to probably smell, yes and no.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yes, if it is a pretty good sized leak, it'd
have to be a good leak though, But if it's
if it's taking three to four months, that's not a
big So if you have if you have a three
to four month leak and a tire, how tough is
that to find?

Speaker 5 (27:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Really exactly same. The same scenario is, yeah, it lasts
pretty much well, you know, Yeah, if you had a tire,
they're going low went flat over four months. It's that's
a very slow leak. And you don't run the air
conditioning all the time. That leak and the evaporator is
going to come out when the air conditioning is running
and you've got more pressure on it. When it's just

(27:47):
static pressure, it may not be leaking near as much
as when it is actually running. Yeah, so I would
give it one more good lookover with glasses and and
you be light, make sure you're not missing or catching
anything else.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
See if you can, like, if you can pull your
glove box apart, maybe take the blower motor out, find
where this evaporator is in the box. See if like
you can pop the blower resistor or something out to
where you could get a good look at this this evaporator,
because I mean we use borescopes and all kinds of
stuff to help us. Would like do that, but yep,

(28:25):
I mean if you can take you know, the blower
motor out, I mean a couple of screws, drop it down,
get a look at the face of this.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah. You know they make they make things on Amazon
that you can just plug into your your phone, your
cell phone and uh just kind of snake it up
in there. Yeah. It's just like a very small, you know,
half the size of a pin and you can I've
used it for many of things. I mean, I have
one for automotive, but why check things and wiring in
the back of the house and you know, down a wall.

(28:54):
They're great for a host of things. It's only sixty bucks.
I mean, it's it's just not and to know it's
a peace of mind to know where you're at and
what you kind of do. But like Kyle said, pull
a couple of those things, snake that up there, look
around on your phone, just give it a give it
a colonoscopy and see what it's See what I was doing.
Nothing there.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
I like the way you were.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I just got and.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Right exactly. You bet appreciate the call. Well, I was
trying to relate it, Kyle. I'm sorry. Everybody knows what
that is.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
So you bet.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right. We're gonna take a quick break of them
as a mechanic show. We'll be back in a minute.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
You know, we've done this in the past, Kyle, and
I thought it was kind of interesting. And a lot
of cars are you know, we're kind of made in
America bound, and that's I kind of like that. I
try to buy what's made in America if I possibly can.
That's tough to do, but when I see it, I
do it. One through four Tesla, the most made are

(30:03):
they completely made in the United States? Not completely There's
nothing that's one thousand percent ninety nine point nine percent. Yeah,
but there's still stuff that has to come from where
a global economy anymore? Everybody is Jeep Gladiator was number five.
That kind of surprised me. Kiah ev kiya Ev. Is

(30:25):
there Honda Ridge Line that's seven, actually it's seven, eight
and nine or are all Hondas Ridge Line, Odyssey Passport?
He had Volkswagen at ten and just you know, on
down the line, you know, Honda Acura Jeep Wrangler, and
that's you know, it goes all the way to where

(30:46):
did it go all the way to ninety nine in
ninety eight? Ninety eight? Is Cadillac Lyric I thought that
was that? That's that? Ev oh okay, so I thought
that was been more United States, but apparently it's made
somewhere else. Nissan Rogue, that's very very popular car. That's

(31:07):
ninety seven, so that comes from Japan. And then the
tout Or Rev four hybrid comes from Japan there at
ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
I see super cross track there.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah, Subaru cross track too that you know, that is
another surprising one that's at the very bottom of the
most American made.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
You know, back to where we started the show, we're
talking about subar rus and that common manifold leak there.
The cross track is the only line of Subaru, and
I've liked to say that I've worked on a fair
amount of suber Us.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
You have.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
The cross track is the only one I've ever put.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Evaporators in, so somebody changed it.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yeah, They're totally different than any other, than the Forester,
than the outback, than anything else. The cross track is
its own separate because I mean, I've had HVAC issues
on other ones, but the cross track has evaporators that leak,
and then there's a evaporate ter temperature sensor that kind
of sticks in the front. I've done a handful of those.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
That so you've heard it here. First, we've got a
new Subaru's got a new HVAC engineer apparently. Yeah, so
you decided to take what was working good and screw
it up. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, that'll happen. We see
that all the time.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Up until that car came out. I mean, it was
just a couple O rings and that was it.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Now they had problems in the the uh the HVAC
control head that would burn. Oh yeah, things like that.
But that's that's a blower fan issue. Yeah, it's blower fan.
That's across the that's across the board. So it's not
just that. So here's another interesting article. I thought this
was this particular gentleman bought an Aston Martin three point
five million dollars. I didn't know there was one that expensive.

(32:47):
V twelve thousand horsepower, goes eleven thousand rpm up to
eleven thousand rpm for how long. I think that's where
it's redline.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Is it comes apart?

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, all the way comes apart. It's got you know,
it's got straight exhaust. I mean, it's more or less
just a racing car. If you've ever heard a Ferrari
fire up, it's it's a distinct noise, beautiful noise, but
it's so anyway. It's got special headphones. Blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. He's suing Aston Martin because he
was out driving this car and the thing is so
loud that he almost hit an ambulance and caused him

(33:20):
to die. It seems like a driver problem. Tell me,
I'm sure you just didn't go get to this car
and they say here's the keys, have a nice day.
I'm sure there was a whole tutorial about how this
car runs goes a brief overview of what you just
gave us. I mean, tells me that this thing probably
shouldn't even be on the street. And if it is,

(33:42):
it's loud, and V twelve's unbridled out the exhaust can
be majorly loud.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
So yeah, I mean you're up there with top fuel
ye cars, yep, as far as loud, Jason, let's go
with Jason real quick.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
We got an F one fifty. Jason, we got a
short amount of time. Tell me what's up?

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Sure, guys, me out with this truck a few times.

Speaker 11 (34:01):
Basically, it was intermittently dying at the stop light with
no check engine lights. So I cleaned the throttle body,
clean the air fuel mixture. I thought it might be
just relearning its idle, but I still have weird like
sluggish stutters, and it'll and just comes to a dead
you know, it just dies of the stoplight, no check
engine lights, no nothing, and I'm still chasing the problem.
What year twenty thirteen six to two.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Does that have a fuel pump driver module on it?
Back by the spare tire?

Speaker 11 (34:31):
I believe it does.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Okay, very common to corrode and go bad.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, you might take a look.

Speaker 11 (34:38):
So randomly and intermittently dying. I mean, he apparently doesn't
even that has no problems otherwise.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, if it's the problem, wait till you see it,
and you'll go, ah, look at that