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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unletted. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ille 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.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Engine light Stone, stand a chance.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
This is an interactive call in show where you have
some questions. We'll give you the answers or point in
the right direction or help you out. You know. But
a new car, used car, crash car and all that
kind of stuff. So uh, with I'm bobbing and with me,
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it's always it's Kyle. Good morning, Kyle. Yeah, next week's
gonna be another hot week, so extra sticky, extra sticky. Yes,
if you haven't got your air conditioning fixed or you're
putting it off, or it's gonna it's could probably gonna
need something. Maybe maybe we're in a car next week.
There you go, save yourself whatever, trying to make it
over the hump.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, we're into the sticky days of summer. Yeah, we
had the hot Yeah, that's for sure. And it was
the wind will pick up here in the next month
and it'll just be windy.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We've got a pat or don't we Yeah, spring, summer, fall,
windy in between each one of those. Yeah. So here's
the interesting article Kyle I found was, you know, back
in nineteen fifty nine, we all, maybe not everybody knows this,
but Vovo come out with a new invention, which was
the seat belt, and they vowed not to you know,
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effectively put a patent. No patent allowed anybody and everybody
to use it and would not doing any in you know,
infringement claims or charge royalties or anything, just to get
the technology out of there. Sure, back in nineteen fifty nine,
just the seat belt, one seat belt assembly had fifty
different parts. How much you suppose I've not counted him now,
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but what do you suppose we're up to one hundred
at least one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty
more than that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So there's a lot going on with a seat.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I just thought it was inty well, you know, and
we just had a car in the other day. What
was that when a nineteen forty seven Chevrolet Business Coop?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
What was that with one yesterday? Yeah, it's a forty
nine forty nine and well you talk about simple, simple,
simple all the way around. Yeah, and to have back
in that that was a forty nine and ten years later,
fifty different parts and just one no mechanism, seems like
a lot. And I mean for years after that, I mean,
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seat belts were an option. I mean in my Ford Falcon.
I mean there's the holes in the captive nuts on
the floor, but it didn't have seat belts in the factory.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You had to pay an extra I don't know what
it was, twelve bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Now it's federally mandated. Yeah, I can't go out there.
That's a recall.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And I mean the seat belts that you got when
you opted to spend that twelve dollars in the Ford Falcon,
I mean it was basically a tie down strap.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Just enough and just then enough to cut you in
half on a big impact.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, I mean a small impact. I'm gonna keep you
from falling out of the car.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah. I just got a bunch of internal injuries. But
that's okay. You're if you make it to the hospital
in time, you'll be fine. Yeah, you bet so. All right,
We're gonna head over to John. John's got a ninety
eight Chevy pickup. John, what is up today?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well, good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I took some members down, like you told me two
on his vehicle, and we discussed this last weekend about
the thermostat and the coolant temperaturecessor for the e c U.
We changed both that and they didn't make a darn
bit of different. But I took some numbers down on
the fuel trim and my guy, I'm sitting here in
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front of me, and I've got two parades, one side
by side of my scanner, and I used the cursor
and cursed it and it praised it down a short
term on the left side where's two zero dash one dash.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Two at idol.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
And on the right side of the scanner where he's
short short term trim dash one one two nine one,
and then it's got another short term trim that two nine.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So they're all negative. That dash is negative. Is it
what we're gonna call it? It's not a positive. There's
none of that was positive.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Right, absolutely none more more positive is absolutely correct?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sorry, okay, all right, Well we've got a negative reading there,
and uh, the next thing that you want to tell me,
it's running rich. Yeah, if it's subtracting fuel. If it's
subtracting fuel, it's trying to the computer. If it's subtracting fuel,
the computer's trying to add. If you got a plus
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in front of that, it's lean and it's trying to subtract,
subtract or add fuel. Sorry. So what you're trying to
do also here is by taking some carburetor cleaner in
certain areas when you get those particular readings on the
short term long term. We're on the short term. That's
what we're worried about, is to spray around the intakes
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and things like that to see if that number shoots
up or changes by a bunch. If it changes a
you know, a one point two points, it's not really significant,
it will it will change that way anyway, just on
its own, What does it do when you take it
off idle?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
That's beautiful?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, so those.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But those numbers, yeah, they go way down to right
around zero plus or minus five.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I believe, Yeah, you probably didn't look at that didy.
What what he's asking is what those numbers do specifically
on that scanner when you take it off idle.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, the numbers changed, but they kind of it's kind
of hanker the same vicinity. I want to point some
mock you gentlemen. You know, he's still got the original
calendar calos on his vehicle at A ninety eight, and
I was looking at the internet yesterday and the Internet
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said them as depleted. They could give it the old
two sets is a false reading, and so I just
wanted to point that out.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, this car, we're a little bit old for that technology,
because that truck it should just have the old pancake
converter on the bottom. And I mean, okay, but I
mean we're going primarily off our upstream oxygen sensor, which
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is I mean, if you don't have a crazy amount
of back pressure, I can't really see it interfering a
whole lot with it. And you said it could make
good power off idol and you could go up a
hill with no problem.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That just tells us the cats are good. Yeah, John,
I think it's uh, I think you're down to the
nitty gritty of fixing this. You're down to uh doing
some research something. You're down to somebody doing some research
that's been doing it for a while and can pinpoint
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it down towards at.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Quick like ring rich lean rich up in the upper
right hand corner of the of the frame inside of you.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Get the scan of there.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Can I use that to uh look for a vacuum leak.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
No, you're gonna want to go off short term fuel
trim alone because that lean rich thing that isn't telling
you anything other than these numbers are headed up or
they're headed down. You need you know because I mean,
if it says lean, I mean you're anywhere from positive
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twenty five going down to the opposite end of the
spectrum negative twenty five coming up. It's just telling you
the direction that the fuel trim is going. It's it's
a PID that I don't ever really use.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, the short term fuel term memory, there is just
another tool that we use with another tool to try
to find where our problem is at. So it's it's
not you got to know what you're looking for. You can't.
It's kind of like the internet. The internet's full of everything,
all the crap that's out there, but if you don't
have an understanding of what you're already looking for to
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begin with, it's just miles and miles of information that
that confuses the heck out of you. So okay, I'll
tell you what.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I don't want to take it by any more of
you guys time, because I know you're really really busy. Probably,
thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I'll go back and thrashing.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
This thing and see if you play there's something out
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You bet appreciates call. All right, we want We're gonna
take just quick break and we'll be right back and
answer a few more calls.
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Speaker 7 (10:32):
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Speaker 2 (10:59):
Dennis has gotten four Cadillacs the bill, Dannis, what's up today?
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Yeah, say thanks.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I really appreciate your show, the best show.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
There's like two other auto mechanics shows and those two guys,
one of them's deceased, but you guys are still the best.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And there you go. We love it.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
And those two guys they just play repeats and retreading
like a retreaded type. But anyway, two thousand and four,
when I when the engine is operated in a normal
temp the temp gauge needle is straight up and down,
which is for the manual in the book. It's why
it's supposed to be in. It was always that way. Well,
now it's this hot weather, it tilts a little bit
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to the right, but it's not in the red zone.
Which is in the red zone is way on the
bottom of the gauge. But anyway, when it gets a
little bit in the in the warm, maybe about a
half inch quarter inch of the needle moving to the
right where it means it's hot. Well, they see shuts off.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
And my question is, hey, can I hot wire something
to the clutch on the on the compressor so I
or with that screw up the computer? What do you think?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
What's your opinion? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And yes and no and yes and no. Why not
fix the problem first? At least check the problem first
and you won't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
The fact that it happens in really hot weather. I'm
thinking that you've got a radiator that needs to be hosed.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Out externally, maybe internally, but externally. You know what the
what the air conditioning condenser looks like outside your home,
your house, and how much okay, imagine that how much
stuff is in all the cottonfly? Imagine that being between
the condenser and the radiator in your car.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Well, maybe I should flush that out and see and
then do the side flushing of the heater core. It's
got two hundred thousand miles on it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well then, and that's fine. The reason Kyle's going there
is you said a couple of things in there that
you probably don't realize. One was, it's fine until it
hits really hot weather. So when you get over ninety
to ninety ninety to one hundred and ten degrees, let's
just say the cooling system gets taxed another fifty percent
when you turn the air conditioning on another fifty percent.
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It really does. And if you're if that fan, I'm
assuming the fan works. Yeah, okay, Well it's.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
A new fan and freeze in the coolant section.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Right, But you ever ever throw a fan on the
back side of a or a towel on the backside
of a fan. You don't get in the airflow. There's
your problem. Check that. Check that first, okay, and then
and then to answer then your other question is can
you hot wire or can you jump a switch to
make the air conditioning come on all the time? Yes,
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you could probably hot wire either the low pressure switch
or a high pressure switch, depending on how it works.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yeah, you said the low pressure switch. Well I'm thinking
just the electricity that goes to the cutch.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well you can, you can, but that in a Cadillac
that's going to be terrible to get to. And if
you go find the low pressure switch and cross it
over it's much easier to get to and it does
the same darn thing.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Oh okay, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Have to mess with any of that. If you've got
a bunch of debris in the radiator, my guess is
you've never checked it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
The problem, ye, The big problem I have with hot
wiring AC systems, and I've seen this a lot, is
they shut off because the high pressure switch tells them
to shut off.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
If you've got a plugged up radiator and you're not
able to cool that free on, it's going to keep
building pressure. It doesn't never stop. Yeah, and then you
end up with an explosion.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah. We're not advocating for you to cross that over.
I know that's what you want to do. But all
that's going to do is vent off the back. It's
going to blow a hose out.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Once upon a time, I did that to my seventy
three Caprice, the ship Capri.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's going to cost you more money in the long run, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
And one other question on this north Star engine. And
when I come to the stop sign, we smell oil,
burnt oil fumes, and it's and I found out where
it's coming from. It's coming from under the planum where
the the planeum the start is buried by the intake planum.
Somehow there's this blue smoke coming out from under there,
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and I don't know if it's because there's some kind
of a pose of detached or at the Junkyard. I've
seen the Cadillac north Star engines with the planum off
and there's a hole where you can kind of see
the flywheel. I don't know if the hole the holes
in the block. And so I never talked to Neil
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about a Neil is supposed to be over there at forty
ninth Avenue, he's never asked him about that situation.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, it's it's it's a captured intake. I mean, you
pull the intake manifold off there, there's nothing really to see,
and that hole is there for drainage of whatever fluid
might get in there. So it's it's just a drain hole.
If there's a bunch of oil. And when you said
the Cadillac leaks oil, well yeah they all did, Yeah,
they all do. They all did. Your biggest your biggest
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defender is the back valve cover. That's your biggest defender.
Why it's a back valve cover, not the front. I
don't know, but it's hard because it's hard to get to.
But yeah, i'd imagine there's a fair amount of leaks
all over the place on this car.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Okay, well I'll flush that radiator and have a night.
I don't have a nice summer.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Then yeah, well I have meal do that. I can
tell you that he he won't cross over the LITW
pressure switch for you to make it run. So that's
a you thing. That's not that's not something I know
Neil won't do. He is a good guy.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yeah, thank you for my us so much for your help,
and you guys have an excellent job through throughout the votination.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, thanks, Dennis, appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna
go over to Doug. Doug's got a break question on
a twenty twelve Nissan pickup. Doug, what's up today?
Speaker 10 (17:15):
Hi, guys, enjoyed the show very much. Thank you. Yeah,
I got a two Nissan had the breaks done a
couple of years ago. And actually the guy who did
it's been a mechanic for fifty years, so I know
he knows what he was doing. And he produce the
rear brakes, new Helopers, new new linings a whole nine yards.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Now I want to have.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
About half to be a little more of the brake pedal.
And it's not spunky, it's there yet from down to
get And I asked him, I said, well, why aren't
the breaks, you know, full pedal? He says, no, I've
bled your break three times and I could not get
a full pedal because there's a problem with Nson breaks.
You have to have some kind of factory software to
actually initiate a break bleed for the Annulog breaks.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And again.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
He was satisfied that's what it was, and I believe him.
But anyway, you know, have half or three quarter of
a break.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
So I can have a forward.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
You don't know anything about what he's talking about here
about some kind of burger. We have to have Nissan
software to do this.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, all the time. So with all the and the
advent of ABS that comes along a B a BS
is in the middle of your brake system, right, you know,
underneath the seat for the most part, it separates the
front and it separates the rear. Well, those valves never
open unless you are on anti lock breaking. That's when
the valves open and pulse to to have analog breaking.
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In order for you to bleed things out, you have
to have a scanner that can open those valves to
allow free fluid. Uh, free flowing fluid from front to rear. Otherwise,
all you're doing is just bleeding out the front. So
that's the first place to do it. And sometimes we
also have a power bleeder and apply. A power bleeder
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allows you to do just what it says it's it
power bleeds everything through, forces it all out. Instead of
stepping on the pedal, bleeds, step on the pedal, bleed,
step on the pedal. So and boy, we have gone through.
Kyle of both of us have put the power bleeder
on something and has bled out right away and off
we go. Sometimes we've gone a gallon or two of
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fluid through a vehicle, depending on the size of the vehicle.
In order to bleed something out. It can be easy,
it can be a large pain.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So we've spent hours and hours bleeding cars.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, and a lot of times what happens there is
just because the there may be a problem in the
ABS unit that doesn't the scanner doesn't wants to open it,
but the ABS won't open it because it's bad or
something like that. So go down see one of our
see one of our stores, and they can put it
on a power bleeder, you know, leave it with us,
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and we'll get you a good pedal, not the other possibilities.
How the air got in there to begin with.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So we've also seen every time you pull your foot
off the pedal, you know you've done with your stop,
you pull your foot off the pedal, a little bit
of air, shoot in a caliber somewhere and get sucked
in from a caliber. That'll happen, and over a period
of time, your you go from a strong pedal over
to a soft pedal again. And that's because of something
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like that happening. And there's various other things with brakes,
but this is that work.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Over the last year or so, it just basically just
stayed the same essentially what I got back from him.
It had about half your quarter of a pedal and
still has that. And the pedal is hard to get
down there, but one is it's missing. It's missing a
little bit at the start, which drives me kind of crazy.
You get to push the pedal harder than you would
normally have to to get a break response. Would you
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push it it does work the fine so.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And there's a lot of there's a lot of reasons
for a low pedal, And this is a situation you've
got to go through your progression. And you know when
I mean progressions, You've got to go through your progressions
in order to say, Okay, let's bleed it first. Is
our problem gone? Yes or no? If it's not, then
we got to go to the next step and next
step and next step. So sometimes there's more than one
thing doing it. Sometimes that's all that it needs.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
So but yeah, okay, come, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You bet doun appreciate the call. All right, We're gonna
take quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show five to five, eight, eleven,
tens and numbers to get in. We'll be back in
a minute. Eric with the twenty ten Dodge Nitro. Eric,
what's up today?
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Hey, hey, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it,
you bet hey. I bought this car new back in
twenty ten. I was working for a large transportation company
and we were stationed about My wife and kids and
I were out in Salt Lake and we had a
two thousand and four Dakota and it didn't pass the
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safetyest touch, and so we just went traighted in on
this thing. Basically, I just I just want to keep
this thing running. It's been a great car. I'd like
to have it checked out from front to back, top
to bottom. I'm not sure when the last time the
radiators changed. And this thing has a gab of miles.
It's just that they're over thirty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Thousand thirty or three hundred thirty thirty. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
I rode the bus to work every day and my
wife was a stay at home mom. It's a brand
newe quarter of a mile to the bus stop every day.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, this is it, you don't We don't often see
a lot of Dodge Nitros around anymore. Most of them
are just gone in this part of the neighborhood.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
So oh, this thing runs like a champ. I just
want to make sure it stays running like a champ
at four wheel drive.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
The only like mappy part is that those plastic covers
on the wheels are kind of rotty loving, but I
live with that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
They're plastic.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I just want to keep it going, and I'm not
sure when the last time the radiator was flushed. I'm
not a mechanic guy anymore. I did that junk in
high school and I don't know, I don't have the
tools to do that. I just want to check out,
like I said, the back, top, the bottom.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, well, you know you're fifteen years old. You know
you should probably just go be doing through and just
do a lot of the maintenance and whatever you haven't done. Transmission, coolant, power, steering,
front of gearboxes, gearboxes, differentials, transfer case, all that stuff.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
You don't have to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You don't have to do it all one time.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
But just like I'd like to get the big stuff
out of the way.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, well we could do it all one time for
you or.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
My only cough, it's my only vehicle. And uh, you
know what what would that run me? To have you
guys do all that stuff because I want to keep
it running. It's a great car.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well, i'd have to sit there and tally everything up
in my head of what you may need and may
not mean. And you have all the stuff of what
you've done, but you kind of spend I don't know,
six hundred seven to a thousand maybe depending on what
you got to do, you know, Okay, And again you
don't have to do that all one shot. You have
to just do here and there, you know, do the
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do the radiator and maybe transmission to start with, and
then do some other stuff and you know, just just
kind of within the within the next year's time or
next six months were the time was, you just kind
of go all through it and then you're done.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Well, when we bought this thing and the air conditioner
was shot right off the.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Back, yep, they all were.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
We got to home, all we we took that out
to a large dealership I won't mention their name back,
and they would never fix it. And I finally took
it to a little shot down the street and they
were still under warranty. They put it in suppressor and
then we.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Suddenly had Yeah, they all went bad. It's just that
that style is what they did.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Well, I'm retired, so it's not like I can run
out by something new, right and thanks got super low
miles on it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So yeah, take care of it. It takes care of you,
you bet.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
But ready, like I said, I'm not sure when that's
done flushed, So maybe you do that. Look over a
few things and ye what is that run an hour?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Well we can kind of it kind of gets at
least you can start by doing the coolant and then uh,
from there you can we can kind of look it
over and just kind of formulate a plan and kind
of you know, get you a list of what they
are and what they cost and and kind of go
from there.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Okay, go, I need to make an appointment for that.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, give us a call, give us a call, and
then probably right now I would probably say just you
don't have to do it this second. You're retired, so
give us give us into August just a little bit.
With this heat going on, we got more than we
can do, so uh, we want to you know, once
it starts dying down just a little bit, we'll get
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you taken care of.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Driving the down thing. Yeah, and they just sit to
the garage.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Well, don't let her go to waste.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Now.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Well, it's a good car. I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I don't agree.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
You like it you on the street, but it's been
a very reliable vehicle. So yeah, i'd be stupid take
it on a car payment. And when you're retired, car
payments are kind of risky.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Give us a call next month, Derek, and we'll hook
you up, pick you up and make a plan. Appreciate
the call. All right, we're gonna head over to Don.
Don's going a twenty one hond a CRV. Don. What's
up today?
Speaker 11 (26:38):
Good morning, Thanks for taking my call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Bett.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
I've been an important technician for many years, retired now,
except I work at a motorcycle shop once in a while.
And I thought, okay, time to do a little to
OC maintenance to our Honda CRV. Brought it new superior
in Omaho and it's got about forty six thousand, and
(27:03):
I am looking for the level of the transaxle, the dipstick,
and I know the filler plugs and it's got the
tag onto the spells out hcfdsh too which is the
type of tran of fluid. But is that a dipstick
that little piece that jumps down it. I can't seem
(27:27):
to find the dipstick or do they use a side
plug to check the level?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I believe that one that should be over by the axle.
It's just like a plug you pull out and you
pour your fluid until it comes out and that's it.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
Yeah, by the interactle.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, I think it's on the driver's side if I
remember right, Like if it doesn't have the stick down
in front, then that's where it's at.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Usually. Yeah, these changed so much from model year to
model year and car to car that honestly, it's hard
to keep up on some of it. So, uh when
when it comes across our plate, then we'll kind of
look up to see where it is. But uh, yeah,
a lot of times they got a plug.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Most of the time they got they're handling. It's kind
of like a manual transmission. They're just uh uh, you
got field plug on the top with the rubber peel
and the spells out the products you need. Yeah, but
that is that's just a little jutting down piece. So
then you take that plug loose higher up than the
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drain plug and it'll either flow out.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Or it won't yep, yep, correct.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
And you think it's on the driver's side.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
If I remember right, But I mean I've seen a
million hondas in the last month. Yeah, it's kind of
tough to remember. But yeah, it's going to be right
down there, and it's going to be pretty noticeable as
to what it is. I mean, it's just going to
look like okay, okay, like a plug on a differential.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, exactly, very good.
Speaker 11 (28:59):
Okay, probably a seventeen milimeter, a fourteen millimeter or a
Heck or Hecks R Hecks.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Sir.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Is there any other product that was substitute for the
Honda hcfas too.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Nope, No, I would. I would at this pick your
point until they come to there may be something out there,
but at this point, and that being that new, I
would only use Han.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Uh, And then we I
like to I grew up with standard shift cars, and
if you put it, you know, you can drop it
down into S for super and then L for low
at a given time. You know, you don't want to
get crazy with down shifting, but I kind of like
to do that. Am I doing any thing wrong by
doing that?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
No? I wouldn't think. So it's designed to do it.
And if it's designed to do it, you know, get that,
get them clutchbacks working, and do it manually once in
a while.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
No. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's just kind of fun
drop down those years as you're coming up to a
stop or something once in a I don't do it
all the time. I just kind of wondered. I figured
they're there for a reason.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, And I do it on my car once in
a while too, and then it becomes a pain and
I quit it. I go back to automatic.
Speaker 11 (30:16):
Yeah, our other ones are super out back with the
six speed para shift. Now that one is fun.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
In the mountains and exactly we'll try that, Don and uh,
you know, if don give us a call, we'll do
some investigation for you to nowhere to ask for sure.
Speaker 11 (30:32):
Thank you so much, you bet really your help.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Absolutely appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna take quick
breaking the mister mechanics show, get back some more questions
and we'll be back in a minute. Tim got an
eighty five Jaguar. Tim, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hey guys, I appreciate what you do.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, you helped me a couple of years ago with
very hard to find leek on my two thousand and
six Honda with the V six. It was the the
figure eight O ring underneath the oil cover plate.
Speaker 11 (31:02):
I think it was.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yep, we got that one fixed, so yep.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yep, there's done that many times.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
What's going on with the jag Jaguar has got a
pretty good transmission fluid leak and then a smaller oil leak.
I've had it to a couple of shops around town
and they've pretty much said, what you told the guy
with the Cadillac, you know you got a Jaguar.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
We think it's pretty much the rear main on the
oil leak and the transmission. Who knows it's It's not
just the pan, it's something like where a linkage goes
in I think on the on the transmission.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So yeah, there's gonna be a bushing and probably a
seal in there.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
So that's something you guys would tie into or even
recommend tying into.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're you're probably gonna have depending on where that's at,
and most of those come from the inside out, and
which means you may have to drop the vow body
and do things of that nature. You're probably gonna want
to take that particular spot to a.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
An expert in these.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Things, Yeah, like like a transmission shop in order to
do that. And then if they're going to do that,
you know, and you think it is a rearmain seal,
you know, I'd have to look a lot of times
they will do a remain seal if they're pulling the
transmission to do any other kind of work to it.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Uh huh, okay, risk card.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
You know it's it's got twenty three thousand original miles
on it. I bought it from the original owner, and
it's just clean as anything. And you know, she's a
beauty and I just hate to have these leaks with it.
But you know, I don't know. I can't put forever
money in it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, now eighty five.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, But unfortunately, old cars were really good at leaking.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
And and those cars leaked on the dealership floor.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
That's what I've been told.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
So I just didn't know if so you think that
a transmission shop would be better than say a dealership,
like they I got the jag shop out there.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
On Yeah, you know, I don't know that. I mean,
well that's pretty old. I don't know if the dealership's gonna.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You might ask them. So I tell you some dealerships,
and I don't know for sure unless you'd asked, But
some of them, if it gets ten fifteen years old,
they don't even want to be involved. If it's not
something newer, you know, beyond fifteen, that's where they're cut
off is or twelve or whatever they're cutoff is. They
say take it somewhere else. We don't want to be involved,
(33:44):
so they may or may not. You know, I know
Porsche does not do that. I mean, I know Porsche
will if you bring in a sixty nine Porsche have
the engine rebuild. They got somebody can do it, you know,
because I had a customer that had that done. So
it cost him a bunch, but he got it done
right there, but a lot of places won't. You're right.
(34:07):
The reason we say that is because you're kind of
killing two birds with one stone. And the biggest thing
with the dry the valve body and and balls and
everything else to go on with the the valve body
in there is you've got to be careful and if
you don't deal with that on an everyday basis, it
can turn ugly.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
And then the whole transmission going exactly yeah, yeah, so okay, yeah,
I just I just hate having to put a piece
of cardboard down if take it to a car show
or a meat or something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You know, it's yeah, agreed, agreed. You know, start with
the biggest one and see if you solve that, and
then maybe if you're not one hundred percent sure of
the remains seal and we've done, plenty of remain seals.
That's not problem, but
Meet Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unletted. Legend
has it that Kyle can change your oil with his
toes and that he can tell your tires ille 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.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Engine light Stone, stand a chance.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
This is the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
This is an interactive call in show where you have
some questions. We'll give you the answers or point in
the right direction or help you out. You know. But
a new car, used car, crash car and all that
kind of stuff. So uh, with I'm bobbing and with me,
(01:07):
it's always it's Kyle. Good morning, Kyle. Yeah, next week's
gonna be another hot week, so extra sticky, extra sticky. Yes,
if you haven't got your air conditioning fixed or you're
putting it off, or it's gonna it's could probably gonna
need something. Maybe maybe we're in a car next week.
There you go, save yourself whatever, trying to make it
over the hump.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, we're into the sticky days of summer. Yeah, we
had the hot Yeah, that's for sure. And it was
the wind will pick up here in the next month
and it'll just be windy.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We've got a pat or don't we Yeah, spring, summer, fall,
windy in between each one of those. Yeah. So here's
the interesting article Kyle I found was, you know, back
in nineteen fifty nine, we all, maybe not everybody knows this,
but Vovo come out with a new invention, which was
the seat belt, and they vowed not to you know,
(02:02):
effectively put a patent. No patent allowed anybody and everybody
to use it and would not doing any in you know,
infringement claims or charge royalties or anything, just to get
the technology out of there. Sure, back in nineteen fifty nine,
just the seat belt, one seat belt assembly had fifty
different parts. How much you suppose I've not counted him now,
(02:27):
but what do you suppose we're up to one hundred
at least one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty
more than that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So there's a lot going on with a seat.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I just thought it was inty well, you know, and
we just had a car in the other day. What
was that when a nineteen forty seven Chevrolet Business Coop?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
What was that with one yesterday? Yeah, it's a forty
nine forty nine and well you talk about simple, simple,
simple all the way around. Yeah, and to have back
in that that was a forty nine and ten years later,
fifty different parts and just one no mechanism, seems like
a lot. And I mean for years after that, I mean,
(03:07):
seat belts were an option. I mean in my Ford Falcon.
I mean there's the holes in the captive nuts on
the floor, but it didn't have seat belts in the factory.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
You had to pay an extra I don't know what
it was, twelve bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Now it's federally mandated. Yeah, I can't go out there.
That's a recall.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
And I mean the seat belts that you got when
you opted to spend that twelve dollars in the Ford Falcon,
I mean it was basically a tie down strap.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Just enough and just then enough to cut you in
half on a big impact.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, I mean a small impact. I'm gonna keep you
from falling out of the car.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah. I just got a bunch of internal injuries. But
that's okay. You're if you make it to the hospital
in time, you'll be fine. Yeah, you bet so. All right,
We're gonna head over to John. John's got a ninety
eight Chevy pickup. John, what is up today?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well, good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I took some members down, like you told me two
on his vehicle, and we discussed this last weekend about
the thermostat and the coolant temperaturecessor for the e c U.
We changed both that and they didn't make a darn
bit of different. But I took some numbers down on
the fuel trim and my guy, I'm sitting here in
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front of me, and I've got two parades, one side
by side of my scanner, and I used the cursor
and cursed it and it praised it down a short
term on the left side where's two zero dash one dash.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Two at idol.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
And on the right side of the scanner where he's
short short term trim dash one one two nine one,
and then it's got another short term trim that two nine.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So they're all negative. That dash is negative. Is it
what we're gonna call it? It's not a positive. There's
none of that was positive.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Right, absolutely none more more positive is absolutely correct?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sorry, okay, all right, Well we've got a negative reading there,
and uh, the next thing that you want to tell me,
it's running rich. Yeah, if it's subtracting fuel. If it's
subtracting fuel, it's trying to the computer. If it's subtracting fuel,
the computer's trying to add. If you got a plus
(05:40):
in front of that, it's lean and it's trying to subtract,
subtract or add fuel. Sorry. So what you're trying to
do also here is by taking some carburetor cleaner in
certain areas when you get those particular readings on the
short term long term. We're on the short term. That's
what we're worried about, is to spray around the intakes
(06:02):
and things like that to see if that number shoots
up or changes by a bunch. If it changes a
you know, a one point two points, it's not really significant,
it will it will change that way anyway, just on
its own, What does it do when you take it
off idle?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
That's beautiful?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, so those.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But those numbers, yeah, they go way down to right
around zero plus or minus five.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I believe, Yeah, you probably didn't look at that didy.
What what he's asking is what those numbers do specifically
on that scanner when you take it off idle.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Well, the numbers changed, but they kind of it's kind
of hanker the same vicinity. I want to point some
mock you gentlemen. You know, he's still got the original
calendar calos on his vehicle at A ninety eight, and
I was looking at the internet yesterday and the Internet
(07:10):
said them as depleted. They could give it the old
two sets is a false reading, and so I just
wanted to point that out.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, this car, we're a little bit old for that technology,
because that truck it should just have the old pancake
converter on the bottom. And I mean, okay, but I
mean we're going primarily off our upstream oxygen sensor, which
(07:45):
is I mean, if you don't have a crazy amount
of back pressure, I can't really see it interfering a
whole lot with it. And you said it could make
good power off idol and you could go up a
hill with no problem.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That just tells us the cats are good. Yeah, John,
I think it's uh, I think you're down to the
nitty gritty of fixing this. You're down to uh doing
some research something. You're down to somebody doing some research
that's been doing it for a while and can pinpoint
(08:19):
it down towards at.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Quick like ring rich lean rich up in the upper
right hand corner of the of the frame inside of you.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Get the scan of there.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Can I use that to uh look for a vacuum leak.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
No, you're gonna want to go off short term fuel
trim alone because that lean rich thing that isn't telling
you anything other than these numbers are headed up or
they're headed down. You need you know because I mean,
if it says lean, I mean you're anywhere from positive
(09:00):
twenty five going down to the opposite end of the
spectrum negative twenty five coming up. It's just telling you
the direction that the fuel trim is going. It's it's
a PID that I don't ever really use.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, the short term fuel term memory, there is just
another tool that we use with another tool to try
to find where our problem is at. So it's it's
not you got to know what you're looking for. You can't.
It's kind of like the internet. The internet's full of everything,
all the crap that's out there, but if you don't
have an understanding of what you're already looking for to
(09:38):
begin with, it's just miles and miles of information that
that confuses the heck out of you. So okay, I'll
tell you what.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
I don't want to take it by any more of
you guys time, because I know you're really really busy. Probably,
thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I'll go back and thrashing.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
This thing and see if you play there's something out
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You bet appreciates call. All right, we want We're gonna
take just quick break and we'll be right back and
answer a few more calls.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
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and keeper. We're done in a garage with the oil
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Speaker 7 (10:32):
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never had a lot of read or write so well,
but he can change your attire like a ring handle bell.
Go go, Gormaster, mechanic, Go gone, mister mechanic, Go gom'ster Mechanic,
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Speaker 2 (10:59):
Dennis has gotten four Cadillacs the bill, Dannis, what's up today?
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Yeah, say thanks.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I really appreciate your show, the best show.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
There's like two other auto mechanics shows and those two guys,
one of them's deceased, but you guys are still the best.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And there you go. We love it.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
And those two guys they just play repeats and retreading
like a retreaded type. But anyway, two thousand and four,
when I when the engine is operated in a normal
temp the temp gauge needle is straight up and down,
which is for the manual in the book. It's why
it's supposed to be in. It was always that way. Well,
now it's this hot weather, it tilts a little bit
(11:41):
to the right, but it's not in the red zone.
Which is in the red zone is way on the
bottom of the gauge. But anyway, when it gets a
little bit in the in the warm, maybe about a
half inch quarter inch of the needle moving to the
right where it means it's hot. Well, they see shuts off.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
And my question is, hey, can I hot wire something
to the clutch on the on the compressor so I
or with that screw up the computer? What do you think?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
What's your opinion? Yes?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And yes and no and yes and no. Why not
fix the problem first? At least check the problem first
and you won't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
The fact that it happens in really hot weather. I'm
thinking that you've got a radiator that needs to be hosed.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Out externally, maybe internally, but externally. You know what the
what the air conditioning condenser looks like outside your home,
your house, and how much okay, imagine that how much
stuff is in all the cottonfly? Imagine that being between
the condenser and the radiator in your car.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Well, maybe I should flush that out and see and
then do the side flushing of the heater core. It's
got two hundred thousand miles on it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well then, and that's fine. The reason Kyle's going there
is you said a couple of things in there that
you probably don't realize. One was, it's fine until it
hits really hot weather. So when you get over ninety
to ninety ninety to one hundred and ten degrees, let's
just say the cooling system gets taxed another fifty percent
when you turn the air conditioning on another fifty percent.
(13:22):
It really does. And if you're if that fan, I'm
assuming the fan works. Yeah, okay, Well it's.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
A new fan and freeze in the coolant section.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Right, But you ever ever throw a fan on the
back side of a or a towel on the backside
of a fan. You don't get in the airflow. There's
your problem. Check that. Check that first, okay, and then
and then to answer then your other question is can
you hot wire or can you jump a switch to
make the air conditioning come on all the time? Yes,
(13:54):
you could probably hot wire either the low pressure switch
or a high pressure switch, depending on how it works.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yeah, you said the low pressure switch. Well I'm thinking
just the electricity that goes to the cutch.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well you can, you can, but that in a Cadillac
that's going to be terrible to get to. And if
you go find the low pressure switch and cross it
over it's much easier to get to and it does
the same darn thing.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Oh okay, but you don't.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Have to mess with any of that. If you've got
a bunch of debris in the radiator, my guess is
you've never checked it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
The problem, ye, The big problem I have with hot
wiring AC systems, and I've seen this a lot, is
they shut off because the high pressure switch tells them
to shut off.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
If you've got a plugged up radiator and you're not
able to cool that free on, it's going to keep
building pressure. It doesn't never stop. Yeah, and then you
end up with an explosion.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah. We're not advocating for you to cross that over.
I know that's what you want to do. But all
that's going to do is vent off the back. It's
going to blow a hose out.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
Once upon a time, I did that to my seventy
three Caprice, the ship Capri.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's going to cost you more money in the long run, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
And one other question on this north Star engine. And
when I come to the stop sign, we smell oil,
burnt oil fumes, and it's and I found out where
it's coming from. It's coming from under the planum where
the the planeum the start is buried by the intake planum.
Somehow there's this blue smoke coming out from under there,
(15:32):
and I don't know if it's because there's some kind
of a pose of detached or at the Junkyard. I've
seen the Cadillac north Star engines with the planum off
and there's a hole where you can kind of see
the flywheel. I don't know if the hole the holes
in the block. And so I never talked to Neil
(15:53):
about a Neil is supposed to be over there at forty
ninth Avenue, he's never asked him about that situation.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, it's it's it's a captured intake. I mean, you
pull the intake manifold off there, there's nothing really to see,
and that hole is there for drainage of whatever fluid
might get in there. So it's it's just a drain hole.
If there's a bunch of oil. And when you said
the Cadillac leaks oil, well yeah they all did, Yeah,
they all do. They all did. Your biggest your biggest
(16:24):
defender is the back valve cover. That's your biggest defender.
Why it's a back valve cover, not the front. I
don't know, but it's hard because it's hard to get to.
But yeah, i'd imagine there's a fair amount of leaks
all over the place on this car.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Okay, well I'll flush that radiator and have a night.
I don't have a nice summer.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Then yeah, well I have meal do that. I can
tell you that he he won't cross over the LITW
pressure switch for you to make it run. So that's
a you thing. That's not that's not something I know
Neil won't do. He is a good guy.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
Yeah, thank you for my us so much for your help,
and you guys have an excellent job through throughout the votination.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, thanks, Dennis, appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna
go over to Doug. Doug's got a break question on
a twenty twelve Nissan pickup. Doug, what's up today?
Speaker 10 (17:15):
Hi, guys, enjoyed the show very much. Thank you. Yeah,
I got a two Nissan had the breaks done a
couple of years ago. And actually the guy who did
it's been a mechanic for fifty years, so I know
he knows what he was doing. And he produce the
rear brakes, new Helopers, new new linings a whole nine yards.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Now I want to have.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
About half to be a little more of the brake pedal.
And it's not spunky, it's there yet from down to
get And I asked him, I said, well, why aren't
the breaks, you know, full pedal? He says, no, I've
bled your break three times and I could not get
a full pedal because there's a problem with Nson breaks.
You have to have some kind of factory software to
actually initiate a break bleed for the Annulog breaks.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
And again.
Speaker 10 (18:02):
He was satisfied that's what it was, and I believe him.
But anyway, you know, have half or three quarter of
a break.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
So I can have a forward.
Speaker 10 (18:11):
You don't know anything about what he's talking about here
about some kind of burger. We have to have Nissan
software to do this.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, all the time. So with all the and the
advent of ABS that comes along a B a BS
is in the middle of your brake system, right, you know,
underneath the seat for the most part, it separates the
front and it separates the rear. Well, those valves never
open unless you are on anti lock breaking. That's when
the valves open and pulse to to have analog breaking.
(18:39):
In order for you to bleed things out, you have
to have a scanner that can open those valves to
allow free fluid. Uh, free flowing fluid from front to rear. Otherwise,
all you're doing is just bleeding out the front. So
that's the first place to do it. And sometimes we
also have a power bleeder and apply. A power bleeder
(19:01):
allows you to do just what it says it's it
power bleeds everything through, forces it all out. Instead of
stepping on the pedal, bleeds, step on the pedal, bleed,
step on the pedal. So and boy, we have gone through.
Kyle of both of us have put the power bleeder
on something and has bled out right away and off
we go. Sometimes we've gone a gallon or two of
(19:23):
fluid through a vehicle, depending on the size of the vehicle.
In order to bleed something out. It can be easy,
it can be a large pain.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So we've spent hours and hours bleeding cars.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, and a lot of times what happens there is
just because the there may be a problem in the
ABS unit that doesn't the scanner doesn't wants to open it,
but the ABS won't open it because it's bad or
something like that. So go down see one of our
see one of our stores, and they can put it
on a power bleeder, you know, leave it with us,
(19:58):
and we'll get you a good pedal, not the other possibilities.
How the air got in there to begin with.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
So we've also seen every time you pull your foot
off the pedal, you know you've done with your stop,
you pull your foot off the pedal, a little bit
of air, shoot in a caliber somewhere and get sucked
in from a caliber. That'll happen, and over a period
of time, your you go from a strong pedal over
to a soft pedal again. And that's because of something
(20:24):
like that happening. And there's various other things with brakes,
but this is that work.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Over the last year or so, it just basically just
stayed the same essentially what I got back from him.
It had about half your quarter of a pedal and
still has that. And the pedal is hard to get
down there, but one is it's missing. It's missing a
little bit at the start, which drives me kind of crazy.
You get to push the pedal harder than you would
normally have to to get a break response. Would you
(20:49):
push it it does work the fine so.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And there's a lot of there's a lot of reasons
for a low pedal, And this is a situation you've
got to go through your progression. And you know when
I mean progressions, You've got to go through your progressions
in order to say, Okay, let's bleed it first. Is
our problem gone? Yes or no? If it's not, then
we got to go to the next step and next
step and next step. So sometimes there's more than one
thing doing it. Sometimes that's all that it needs.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
So but yeah, okay, come, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You bet doun appreciate the call. All right, We're gonna
take quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show five to five, eight, eleven,
tens and numbers to get in. We'll be back in
a minute. Eric with the twenty ten Dodge Nitro. Eric,
what's up today?
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Hey, hey, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it,
you bet hey. I bought this car new back in
twenty ten. I was working for a large transportation company
and we were stationed about My wife and kids and
I were out in Salt Lake and we had a
two thousand and four Dakota and it didn't pass the
(21:53):
safetyest touch, and so we just went traighted in on
this thing. Basically, I just I just want to keep
this thing running. It's been a great car. I'd like
to have it checked out from front to back, top
to bottom. I'm not sure when the last time the
radiators changed. And this thing has a gab of miles.
It's just that they're over thirty.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Thousand thirty or three hundred thirty thirty. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
I rode the bus to work every day and my
wife was a stay at home mom. It's a brand
newe quarter of a mile to the bus stop every day.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, this is it, you don't We don't often see
a lot of Dodge Nitros around anymore. Most of them
are just gone in this part of the neighborhood.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
So oh, this thing runs like a champ. I just
want to make sure it stays running like a champ
at four wheel drive.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
The only like mappy part is that those plastic covers
on the wheels are kind of rotty loving, but I
live with that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
They're plastic.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I just want to keep it going, and I'm not
sure when the last time the radiator was flushed. I'm
not a mechanic guy anymore. I did that junk in
high school and I don't know, I don't have the
tools to do that. I just want to check out,
like I said, the back, top, the bottom.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, well, you know you're fifteen years old. You know
you should probably just go be doing through and just
do a lot of the maintenance and whatever you haven't done. Transmission, coolant, power, steering,
front of gearboxes, gearboxes, differentials, transfer case, all that stuff.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
You don't have to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
You don't have to do it all one time.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
But just like I'd like to get the big stuff
out of the way.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, well we could do it all one time for
you or.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
My only cough, it's my only vehicle. And uh, you
know what what would that run me? To have you
guys do all that stuff because I want to keep
it running. It's a great car.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Well, i'd have to sit there and tally everything up
in my head of what you may need and may
not mean. And you have all the stuff of what
you've done, but you kind of spend I don't know,
six hundred seven to a thousand maybe depending on what
you got to do, you know, Okay, And again you
don't have to do that all one shot. You have
to just do here and there, you know, do the
(24:10):
do the radiator and maybe transmission to start with, and
then do some other stuff and you know, just just
kind of within the within the next year's time or
next six months were the time was, you just kind
of go all through it and then you're done.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
Well, when we bought this thing and the air conditioner
was shot right off the.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Back, yep, they all were.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
We got to home, all we we took that out
to a large dealership I won't mention their name back,
and they would never fix it. And I finally took
it to a little shot down the street and they
were still under warranty. They put it in suppressor and
then we.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Suddenly had Yeah, they all went bad. It's just that
that style is what they did.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Well.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Well, I'm retired, so it's not like I can run
out by something new, right and thanks got super low
miles on it.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
So yeah, take care of it. It takes care of you,
you bet.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
But ready, like I said, I'm not sure when that's
done flushed, So maybe you do that. Look over a
few things and ye what is that run an hour?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Well we can kind of it kind of gets at
least you can start by doing the coolant and then uh,
from there you can we can kind of look it
over and just kind of formulate a plan and kind
of you know, get you a list of what they
are and what they cost and and kind of go
from there.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Okay, go, I need to make an appointment for that.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, give us a call, give us a call, and
then probably right now I would probably say just you
don't have to do it this second. You're retired, so
give us give us into August just a little bit.
With this heat going on, we got more than we
can do, so uh, we want to you know, once
it starts dying down just a little bit, we'll get
(25:57):
you taken care of.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Driving the down thing. Yeah, and they just sit to
the garage.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Well, don't let her go to waste.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Now.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Well, it's a good car. I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I don't agree.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
You like it you on the street, but it's been
a very reliable vehicle. So yeah, i'd be stupid take
it on a car payment. And when you're retired, car
payments are kind of risky.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Give us a call next month, Derek, and we'll hook
you up, pick you up and make a plan. Appreciate
the call. All right, we're gonna head over to Don.
Don's going a twenty one hond a CRV. Don. What's
up today?
Speaker 11 (26:38):
Good morning, Thanks for taking my call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Bett.
Speaker 11 (26:42):
I've been an important technician for many years, retired now,
except I work at a motorcycle shop once in a while.
And I thought, okay, time to do a little to
OC maintenance to our Honda CRV. Brought it new superior
in Omaho and it's got about forty six thousand, and
(27:03):
I am looking for the level of the transaxle, the dipstick,
and I know the filler plugs and it's got the
tag onto the spells out hcfdsh too which is the
type of tran of fluid. But is that a dipstick
that little piece that jumps down it. I can't seem
(27:27):
to find the dipstick or do they use a side
plug to check the level?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I believe that one that should be over by the axle.
It's just like a plug you pull out and you
pour your fluid until it comes out and that's it.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
Yeah, by the interactle.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, I think it's on the driver's side if I
remember right, Like if it doesn't have the stick down
in front, then that's where it's at.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Usually. Yeah, these changed so much from model year to
model year and car to car that honestly, it's hard
to keep up on some of it. So, uh when
when it comes across our plate, then we'll kind of
look up to see where it is. But uh, yeah,
a lot of times they got a plug.
Speaker 11 (28:10):
Most of the time they got they're handling. It's kind
of like a manual transmission. They're just uh uh, you
got field plug on the top with the rubber peel
and the spells out the products you need. Yeah, but
that is that's just a little jutting down piece. So
then you take that plug loose higher up than the
(28:32):
drain plug and it'll either flow out.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Or it won't yep, yep, correct.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
And you think it's on the driver's side.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
If I remember right, But I mean I've seen a
million hondas in the last month. Yeah, it's kind of
tough to remember. But yeah, it's going to be right
down there, and it's going to be pretty noticeable as
to what it is. I mean, it's just going to
look like okay, okay, like a plug on a differential.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, exactly, very good.
Speaker 11 (28:59):
Okay, probably a seventeen milimeter, a fourteen millimeter or a
Heck or Hecks R Hecks.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Sir.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Is there any other product that was substitute for the
Honda hcfas too.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Nope, No, I would. I would at this pick your
point until they come to there may be something out there,
but at this point, and that being that new, I
would only use Han.
Speaker 11 (29:26):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Uh, And then we I
like to I grew up with standard shift cars, and
if you put it, you know, you can drop it
down into S for super and then L for low
at a given time. You know, you don't want to
get crazy with down shifting, but I kind of like
to do that. Am I doing any thing wrong by
doing that?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
No? I wouldn't think. So it's designed to do it.
And if it's designed to do it, you know, get that,
get them clutchbacks working, and do it manually once in
a while.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
No. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's just kind of fun
drop down those years as you're coming up to a
stop or something once in a I don't do it
all the time. I just kind of wondered. I figured
they're there for a reason.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, And I do it on my car once in
a while too, and then it becomes a pain and
I quit it. I go back to automatic.
Speaker 11 (30:16):
Yeah, our other ones are super out back with the
six speed para shift. Now that one is fun.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
In the mountains and exactly we'll try that, Don and uh,
you know, if don give us a call, we'll do
some investigation for you to nowhere to ask for sure.
Speaker 11 (30:32):
Thank you so much, you bet really your help.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Absolutely appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna take quick
breaking the mister mechanics show, get back some more questions
and we'll be back in a minute. Tim got an
eighty five Jaguar. Tim, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hey guys, I appreciate what you do.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Yeah, you helped me a couple of years ago with
very hard to find leek on my two thousand and
six Honda with the V six. It was the the
figure eight O ring underneath the oil cover plate.
Speaker 11 (31:02):
I think it was.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Yep, we got that one fixed, so yep.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yep, there's done that many times.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
What's going on with the jag Jaguar has got a
pretty good transmission fluid leak and then a smaller oil leak.
I've had it to a couple of shops around town
and they've pretty much said, what you told the guy
with the Cadillac, you know you got a Jaguar.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
We think it's pretty much the rear main on the
oil leak and the transmission. Who knows it's It's not
just the pan, it's something like where a linkage goes
in I think on the on the transmission.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So yeah, there's gonna be a bushing and probably a
seal in there.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
So that's something you guys would tie into or even
recommend tying into.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
You're you're probably gonna have depending on where that's at,
and most of those come from the inside out, and
which means you may have to drop the vow body
and do things of that nature. You're probably gonna want
to take that particular spot to a.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
An expert in these.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Things, Yeah, like like a transmission shop in order to
do that. And then if they're going to do that,
you know, and you think it is a rearmain seal,
you know, I'd have to look a lot of times
they will do a remain seal if they're pulling the
transmission to do any other kind of work to it.
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Uh huh, okay, risk card.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
You know it's it's got twenty three thousand original miles
on it. I bought it from the original owner, and
it's just clean as anything. And you know, she's a
beauty and I just hate to have these leaks with it.
But you know, I don't know. I can't put forever
money in it.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, now eighty five.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, But unfortunately, old cars were really good at leaking.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
And and those cars leaked on the dealership floor.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
That's what I've been told.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
So I just didn't know if so you think that
a transmission shop would be better than say a dealership,
like they I got the jag shop out there.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
On Yeah, you know, I don't know that. I mean,
well that's pretty old. I don't know if the dealership's gonna.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You might ask them. So I tell you some dealerships,
and I don't know for sure unless you'd asked, But
some of them, if it gets ten fifteen years old,
they don't even want to be involved. If it's not
something newer, you know, beyond fifteen, that's where they're cut
off is or twelve or whatever they're cutoff is. They
say take it somewhere else. We don't want to be involved,
(33:44):
so they may or may not. You know, I know
Porsche does not do that. I mean, I know Porsche
will if you bring in a sixty nine Porsche have
the engine rebuild. They got somebody can do it, you know,
because I had a customer that had that done. So
it cost him a bunch, but he got it done
right there, but a lot of places won't. You're right.
(34:07):
The reason we say that is because you're kind of
killing two birds with one stone. And the biggest thing
with the dry the valve body and and balls and
everything else to go on with the the valve body
in there is you've got to be careful and if
you don't deal with that on an everyday basis, it
can turn ugly.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
And then the whole transmission going exactly yeah, yeah, so okay, yeah,
I just I just hate having to put a piece
of cardboard down if take it to a car show
or a meat or something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You know, it's yeah, agreed, agreed. You know, start with
the biggest one and see if you solve that, and
then maybe if you're not one hundred percent sure of
the remains seal and we've done, plenty of remain seals.
That's not problem, but
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