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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meat Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Legend has it that Kyle.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Can change your oil with his toes and that he
can tell your tires ill pressure just.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
By how you're walking out.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Known to man.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Mister Mechanic check engine lights, don't stand a chance. This
is the Mister Mechanic Show. On eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you, rainy Saturday morning to you. Well,
this is the Mister Mechanic Show. Five five, eight, eleven
ten is the numbers to get in. This is an
interactive callin show where you call in, we'll give you
some answer to set you on the right path, fix
that car, help you figure out what you want to do,
or was time to trade it? You know, one of
those things. So we are Buchanon Service Centers at fiftieth
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and Dodge eightieth in Dodge and guaranteed breaks forty ninth
Avenue and Dodge. So stop in and see us. We'll
get you fixed up and uh grab pop gandy cigarettes,
whatever you want on your road trip. Get going coming
back from fourth to July. Maybe you're in town, you know,
got to get back out of town. We're here to
help you. I'm with me always as Kyle, Kyle, How
you doing today? This is a little sticky. All your
(01:30):
fingers got them? All? Yeah? All right, good, good yep
right there. So you know I I last week I
completely forgot to update everybody on the Uh this is big,
the the illusion excuse me, the the ship that caught
fire with the EV's on it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, we've been talking about it for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, that's been a drift. Well it was two tuesdays
ago that it went down and uh it sank, and uh.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I thought we were going to get a lot more
out of this. I thought we were gonna be able
to talk about it for weeks and weeks I did too.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well. The fire apparently, I guess it burns hot and
the pictures I seen it finally went down, you know,
in sixteen thousand feet of water. So I don't think
we're gonna send any sub down to take a look
at it, at least not the one that blew up.
That's that's not the right need to take.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We need to know what we're gonna do, what's going
on down there?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, so they are. It's right off the Alaska Aleutian Islands,
So I you know, I don't you know that's kind
of where we fish for all our food. So are
we going to have some new what do you lithium cod?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, I think it could go either way, you know,
because generally when you got you know, some weird element,
you know, introduced into an ecosystem, you know, like the
chernobyl thing. I mean, you get all these animals with
extra parts and stuff, we're going.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
To grow bigger fish and maybe some what it could
be a boot for the lithium crab.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Industry up there, Glow in the dark, filets glowing the dark,
face down. Yeah, that'd be a McDonald's thing at Halloween.
You know, you get your little bucket glow in the dark.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
They say, you know, your teeth are glowing when you smile.
I don't know. I think it could be all right. Yeah, Well,
somebody's going to drag their lines and catch that baby.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But uh can you imagine getting hung up on that thing?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah? Yeah, So I guess our point is there there's
nothing good at sixteen thousand feet that is going to
be any any better by this being down there. But uh,
so they are monitoring the area where it's sunk, which means,
you know, when it started to sink. I don't know
why they're sitting right there because the currents are going
to take it down downstream about another one hundred miles,
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and they don't see any slicks or anything else on
at the moment. So I guess if they don't see anything,
it didn't happen. Yeah, you bet, well, just trying to
you know, I don't know what you said. It was
seventy fully electric cars. They aren't six hundred and eighty
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hybrid cars all coming from China. It beat it a
long waves though, if it was coming from China up
to Mexico and then drifted all the way to Alaska, Yeah,
it did pretty good. Yeah, about twelve hundred miles. Yeah,
that's a pretty good job.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So example, I wonder if that works for like everything, Like, say,
I wanted to leave this afternoon and I wanted to
travel around the world. Say in the bass boat, would
I have the same drag as like that ship? Or
do you think that they did better than I would do?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I think weight has something to do with how quickly
you're going, Yeah, and how quickly you sink so and
your bak, your bass boa would sink quicker from the
waves and everything else.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't know. You know, there's some rough seas out there,
but I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I don't know, a long time to get to England.
I don't think we got that. Yeah, I don't think
we got the last one off the ocean floor, did we?
But you know if we if if the ocean's dry up,
we've got cars to drive. How's that?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, they're down there.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Just air them out for a while, as you do
when the cars get in the flood.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And well, I mean, how do the cars How do
you think the cars have wish stand that? Because I
mean there's there's a pressure down there.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh yeah, they'll have some dents. Yeah, they'll have some
big hail dents. It's salt water. It'll take care of itself.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The rush corrosions ten years, so it'd probably take a
while for that to set in.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, not only that. I mean this stuff is probably
pretty hot when it hit the water.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
True, you know so well, that doesn't matter with lithium batteries,
it'll burn underwater. Yeah, if you haven't seen a video
of that, see how long that takes. That just burns
itself out. That's it doesn't It doesn't quit. So all right,
we're gonna head over to Bob. Bob, it's patiently waiting.
Two thousand and four f one fifty Bob, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah? I have and I'm having the transmission so at cold,
I drive and I don't have any issues. But once
it gets to operating temperature and drive, it wants to
like slip in the neutral and I have to downshift
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it into a lower gear and then it goes back.
Once I ship back up the drive, it drives fine
for a while, and then it'll do it again. I
tried taking the overdrive off. Doesn't seem to make a difference.
I checked the transmission fluid levels and to top it
off a little, and just wondering if it's something on
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the transmission that's easily fixed without having to drop it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm going to assume the fluid is good in full
the fluid is full. Yes, yeah, yeah, it does it
look burnt? Does it look cleaned? Did you change it?
Did you anything along that line yet?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I have not. It looks clean, it doesn't smell burn.
I've just seen some stuff on YouTube where there's a
keeper spring and overdrive. It kind of gets into that
felt body down below. But I'm just wondering if i'm
you know, I mean, I'm gonna look at the filter
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and obviously change the filter, but I'm just seeing if
there's anything else that I could be missing without having
to do a whole training replacement.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And how many miles are on it?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Did you say one seventy eight?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, well I think you're you're heading towards the training. Yeah,
so this is where you're head. And then the reason
I say that is because when it's cold, like anything
like oil, it's thick. The seals are able to hold
back pressure. But as it warms up, the fluid gets thinner,
it goes around that seals, and that's why you're having
(07:59):
an issue. You're able to drop gears and then kind
of manually shift it and make it go in for
a while, but eventually that's probably going to go out. Normally,
how we approach. This is kind of take your diagnostic
a little bit there, and then you pull the pan
and see what kind of debris you have in there.
You know, Kyle, it's one if you've got a bunch
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of debris, you know kind of where it's at. Looks
more muddy in there, and in the bottom of the
pan you'll see a bunch of clutch material. It's kind
of muddy. That's where you're going, and your choices are
to change the fluid and accelerate what's going on. Sometimes
you see pieces and parts and you know what's going on. Yeah,
you put it back together, pour the old fluid in,
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and run it for as long as you can until
such time as the inevitable comes up. But well, with
that kind of mileage is and you've probably serviced it
or somebody has. It's just kind of the The seals
go from a round seal to a flat seal and
they can't seal between the drums anymore. And to go
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in and pull all that apart just to replace the
seals is not feasible because you'll put it back together
and you will guarantee have another problem somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's unrelated to what you're doing. Yeah, you just got
to go through the whole thing. I mean, because one seals,
if one seals leaking, the rest are the exact same age.
Everything in there is just as old as the part
that's failed.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So the one thing you can find is they they
there's a mechanic and a can stuff that you could
it swells those seals, you know, and you can pour
that in there, let it circulate through and it'll swell
the seals to the point where your your pressure will
hold on your drums or not your drums, but you're
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around your drums and stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Okay, But with something like that, I mean, the training
was fine up until yesterday and daughter was driving. It's
de sick. They were going up the hill and it
felt like it was slipping. Before that, there was just
no issues. It's like it just got a multide tint. Yeah,
that's why it was.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, Yeah, it's just a matter of it was gonna
happen anyway. That's just that was the load that you know,
I put on it. Ninety degree day, hot, going up hills,
all that kind of stuff. It's just it's just a
stress that's on it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Okay. Yeah, Well I appreciate. I appreciate that, but I
just I know, I've seen some stuff on YouTube about
like the overdrive some with the keeper spring, and I
was gonna I'm gonna drop the pan anyway and check
the filter. But I was just concerned about or if
looking in deeper into that valve body and seeing if
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there was a torn spring or not.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, pulling that yeah, pulling that pan and see what's
in the bottom. I mean you you certainly could. I
mean the stranger things have happened, and sometimes you pull
them apart and goha, look at that. That's the only
thing we got going on. You fix that and put
it back together. But uh, just be careful when you
put brand new fluid in you might end up in
the same situation.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You bet, Bob appreciate the call. All Right, We're gonna
take a quick break of the Mister Mechanics show. We
backed answer some more calls.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
You need.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Some new times and new.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Spuck lugwise, believe me when I say, did you need
your oil change?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Tell me why.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Why doesn't your carstars? Tell me why does your back
seat smell like goir fun?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Tell me why why.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Don't you even have my bird blades. You need your
oil change them. When your fee filter was closed and
your king Ben pushings were gone, were gone, and your
rear differential was laying in somebody else's YO, tell me
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why why is your transmission food it low?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Tell me why why does your guest why let's really low?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Tell me why it's been that a taca.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Your oilj We're gonna head over to Tom. Tom's going
an eight Chevy and paula Tom. What's up today?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (12:44):
What?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
The glendor motor started making the standard noise, So I
got part to find out make sure which one it was,
and so I bought a new one, a but a
GM genuine and uh I put it in installed and
made the same noise. So my question is do I
assume a bad one brand the brand new one being bad,
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or do I look for something else causing the problem.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So you're getting a clicking noise like a hard snapping noise?
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Yes, huh okay?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Are you sure you got the right one?
Speaker 10 (13:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I took it apart enough that could feel that I
could feel it clicking before I took the old one
off and replaced it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So generally, what I do I've been in this scenario before,
and I'll take that actuator out, put it on my
work bench, and I'll very carefully take it apart. You
can take the cover off of these and then you'll
see the broken parts inside of it. It's just a
plastic gear, that's all it's happening.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yes, I did that on an old one once to
see how they work.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, and I mean do it with the new one.
Is there parts inside? I mean, it wouldn't be an
uncommon thing. I've seen it plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Plastic hold and plastic screwed to plastic.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Ok does your door move back and forth? Did you
try that?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Is it did?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Good?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
After the new sory, I took it off again and
I could I could move that door.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yes, okay, So we know everything mechanically is working fine.
We've just got this motor. That's an issue that in
that particular year. This is not a far reach for me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, not at all. So many of them and maybe
that one, maybe that one went back, and you know
it's we've had new parts go bad. You know, that's
that's not uncommon. That's what news stands for, never ever worked.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, gently pulled apart. See if there's something that guts
that it's broke. If not, you know, get it, get
it warrantied out. I think you're in the right spot.
If we know the door moves, it's not on a bind.
You know you got the right one. Because the clicking stopped.
You know you got power to it. You know you
got power to it if it if you unplugged it
and and the clicking went away, we know we got
the right one. So, uh, your last step is a
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failed part.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Oh key, Well, appreciate your good advice. Again.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You bet not a problem to If we can help
some more, give us a call. All right, We're gonna
head over to John. John has got an old excuse
me not, Oh, he's got an eighty five f two
fifty John. What's up today?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Well, I just want to break a tie. I've had
one person tell me one thing and another person tell
me another thing. Just real simple but in my viewpoint anyway.
But I've got it's got one hundred and one thousand
I've owned it since night, since I've had twenty five
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thousand miles on it. It's a sixth cylinder DOC six
that it came in do with a four speed in it,
which what I got going it deserally. May it matter,
but give me a great service. Got one hundred and
one thousand on it now. And when I bought the
truck with twenty five thousand miles, I checked all the
brakes went through it, and I did put new fronts
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on and it's a disc on the front and drum
on the back, and I'm going to do the backs
because I got a wheel. Soldiers leak and that's what's
prompted me to do the break job. But I went
into one parts house and I was buying the parts
and they didn't have everything. And I asked him, I says,
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they said, you're going to do calipers, and I says, no,
I'm leaving the calipers alone. They don't. There's nothing leak
and everything's good. They're nice and free. And I went
to another place. They said like, why would you do
a break job without calipers? And I'm going hmhm, I
got to ask you guys to say. You know is
that I bought I have a one time f three
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fifty and I had one to go out, which again
doesn't matter for the story with my point, but I
put one in and the brand new ones starts sticking
right away, and I think, you know, do I buy
try to put in two new ones? And they had
a another one hundred bucks at least for some calipers,
And I'm not really improving anything. Sure, you know, how
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do you see those calipers leak? I always see the
wheel solders leak on drums. But am I really steer
towards the person that says, if it's not leak and
just squeezing, you know, pulled back into position.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's what I would do. I would go back to
the guy that wants to sell you calipers and see
if they're free. If they're free, I'd take them. That's
what I would do, because he gets paid on how
many parts he sells and how much uh you know,
hourly plus commission. There you go, So what would we do?
What would Kyle and I do? Well, if they're first
of all, you got an eighty five fifty, so the
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possibility of them going bad is you know, it's there,
it's there. It's better than average, but it's not.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Another thing I should add is this truck only does
one thing almost time it goes from here sixty miles
to my farm, gets off three stops and comes back,
and that's all the truck does now, and it's in
its last fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, I think what we would probably do is if
everything looks great, they push back with the ease and
no problem. We're going to reuse them. And there's no
reason to replace that because for the exact reason you said,
and we've run across this more than once, is you
get a brand new one out of a box, rebuilt
one out of a box, and it sticks, or it
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has problems, or it leaks or blah blah blah blah blah,
And so why go create yourself a problem when one
doesn't exist. Now, at some point down the line, if
you've got a caliper leaking, yeah, I'm probably hanging to
probably putting hoses on it too, because those have a
tendency to fail, and then right around the crimp hads
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a tendency to restrict, and then it burns the pads
up because the calipers are holding on and blah blah.
So if I the thing that I always.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Go by, and I bought lifetime pads, theeramic pads, I
thought that if they break and they get wet. Maybe
they have ever had. If I ever need breaks again,
they'd never take them back because because I could, they
have break fluid on them.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So the other reason they don't care. They're not open
their box and you're not going to have an interview
projects no little.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Break clean does wonders clean them up, stick them in
the box, call a day.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Yeah, the other part, the other one question. When I
was underneath there, it's a nice tall truck, so you
can go under it real easy, but I can't find
it has one little drip in the rear end, and
usually about every three years I go under and it's
down about an inch and.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Doug on it.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
I'm being stupid. I can't believe it. I cannot. There's
not an actual on the punk in there on the back,
there's no uh sitting in the middle where you put
your finger in.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Where's that thing at It's on the front of the
differential kind of by the yoke. Yeah, you're probably gonna
have to chisel some dirt off to find it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's probably why you can't underneath there. So it's either
it's either on the back or it's in the braces
where the front pinion go to and it's it's going
to be inside that brace, that structural brace that you
see in there. And uh, I mean I.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Filled them a couple of times, but I just thought
maybe I'll ask him, you know, like the ones that
are on the back and you get up there and
I looked in the front. So where the heck's the
filler on this thing?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah? Now, John, just replace the brakes that are necessary.
And uh, if a caliper starts leaking in the in
the future, then do both and do both hoses and
be done. But don't create problems that aren't there.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
You just hammer me and say no, no, you're going
in there. You got to replace them in calipers. But
you sound that, you know, it sounds like that's that's
the way I would rather go. And it breaks the tie.
And I'm gonna go ahead and get those breaks today
and get it done.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Say yep, you bet, have a great day. Appreciate the call.
All right, We're gonna take a quick break on the
Mister Mechanics Show. Will be back to answer some more calls.
Bob's got a sixteen cruise, Bob, what's broke today?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Yes, sir, I've got two thoy sixteen crews.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I believe that's you know, one point seven or one
point eight.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
I keep forgetting them mixed up.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
I've got a fan problem.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
It's an electric fan. Stuck my hand down there.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
It quit.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Cooling on me.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
And the fan seems to be fine. It's spins real easy.
So I think they got some sort of relays or something,
don't they that controls that?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, so it's it got one fan or two?
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Okay? So anna freeze is full all that good stuff,
so it's it has it has reason to come on.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Yeah. Well, when as long as I keep moving down
the road, I'm fine. But set there and just idle,
you'll start going up. So I turn it off and
make it cool off. But when I turn the air
condition does exactly the same thing. So it must be
either one or two some sort of senses. It must
be out of it. Does that sound right?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, here's what we have to do. Will the when
you turn the air conditioner on, does the fan come on?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It does not, Okay, so we know it should, yep,
come on. So let's turn our air conditioner on. And
what we need to figure out is we need to
figure out what we're missing. Are we missing power or
are we missing ground there or do we have both
of those?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, that's what we need to know. Yeah, so you've
got a different relay that runs the cooling fans, and
you've got a different relay that runs the air conditioning fans,
so they're kind of on two different separate things. You
might even turn you might even start the car up,
turn it on the air conditioner and take a pride
bar or hammer and tap on it and see if
it comes to life. If it comes to life, you
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know your problems that you need a new fan. If
it doesn't come to life, you head exactly where Kyle's
telling you, and you got to check powers and grounds.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
Okay, got it? Well I only got two and forty
nine thousand. I guess something's got to go wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You're right, you're right. I'm guessing our money is on
the fan. Yeah, certainly it's not uncommon.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Alright. All right, I'll tap it with a hammer, and
you know, try to hit it more than once, because.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
As many times as you want, that's yours. Yeah, you
bring it down, we'll hit it some more for you.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Okay, Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You bet. I appreciate the call. We're gonna head over Richard.
Richard's got a twenty. What's going on today?
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I have a naturally aspirated B six F one fifty
XLT eighty eight thousand miles. On the driver's side valve cover.
There's like a little pressure valve there. It was leaking
when I bought it, and I didn't recognize it, and
so I took it back to him. They're like, oh, yeah,
we tightened it. If it gives you any problem to
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bring it back, it's under warranty and stuff. They'll fix it.
But I don't know what that thing does, that little
pressure valve. I think it does something to do with
the start stop thing at the red lights and stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And it's on the valve cover.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Pressure valve, Yeah, on top of the driver's side valve cover,
near the rear towards the firewall.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Are you talking about the fuel pump valve?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
It might be It is the only.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Thing I'm thinking on the back of that, because there's
no pressure on a valve cover in the crank case. Yeah,
that's where they put the high pressure fuel pump.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You got coils, you got a high pressure fuel pump.
You got v vts that are sticking out of that. Yeah,
those are towards the front. The coils are down the middle,
and pumps in the back.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a fuel. I'm thinking really.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
But but it was.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
It was. It was leaking oil.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, there you go. That's the key. That's the key
word right there. So you got to you got a
vacuum pump back there, okay on the passenger m Yeah,
vacuum pump on the passenger side. Those are pretty common
to the leak on the forest.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
This is driver's side. This is driver's side, near the
rear of the valve cover. I could say miss that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I missed that part.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Okay, Yeah, well it's on the driver's side, rear top
of the valve cover. And I think it has something
to do. Anyway, when I bought it, it was leaking
and I didn't recognize it because I didn't get the
truck hot enough apparently, and so the second time I
drove the truck a little longer that day, if I
had to take it back and go, hey, it's leaking.
(26:03):
You know, I just bought a twenty thousand dollars used truck,
and I get it. It's used but they're like, oh yeah, here,
and it's under warranty because I bought a little warranty
with it. But oh yeah, we tightened it to gives
you a problem to bring back. We'll replace the whole
gasket underneath of it. Or but I just didn't know
what that thing was, you know, I forgot that.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I can't recall a picture in my head of what
that was. We've had a few of them apart. I
would say, you know, half a dozen or better, but
I can't. I can't think off top of my head.
But it's got vvts on that side. It's got coils
on that side too, your pumps on the other side.
So this driver said, you know, I don't know right
off the top of my head. I'd have to get
a Yeah, i'd have to get a visual of it
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to kind of take a look.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Yeah, I could send you a picture.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
We'll probably work it. We'll look it up here on
the internet and and see what it comes about. So
stay tuned, Stay tuned, Richard. We're going to answer another call,
and we'll we'll answer that question on the other all right,
We're going to head over to Lawrence. Lawrence Gott twenty
twenty Ram Diesel pickup, Lawrence, what's up today?
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Yeah, I got a twenty twenty Ram. I started having
problems with it about six weeks ago. It started jerking
on me when I first started it in the morning
and hitting down the highway. I took it into my
local mechanic, and he's a pretty good Deesel mechanic. I
live in Plymouth, Nebraska. He said all the codes were
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showing up as the turbo was having problems, but he
took it in for an hour. He said that you're
not in any danger of it flying apart. The bearings
are finding on it. He said, it's spinning free. He
said he thinks it's in the veins and the actuator
that allows air in and out of the veins. Well,
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he said he couldn't get to it for about four weeks. Okay,
he said, you're fine to drive it.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
Well here.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
About four days ago, I went downtown and I started
to back up and it wouldn't go over five miles
an hour. I took it back to him and he
said it's still showing up, just as the turbo. He's
not really sure why all of a sudden it wouldn't
go over five miles an hour. We shut it off
and turned it on several times and that seemed to
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correct that problem. The kid that was diagnosing it for me,
he also said, do you ever run your compression break?
And I said, not normally. I don't know that much
about it.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
This is my first dithel truck.
Speaker 11 (28:36):
He said, start running that in automatic mode all the time.
So I'm up here in Omaha right now with my camper. Now,
when I took that trip up here this time, you know,
they have a meter on the dash that shows the
turbo working. The turbo was actually working for the first
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time in about four or five miles. So is this
all connected together or what is the deal with all this?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So my gues my guess is you've got an electronic
valve that is not moving up and down and getting
sticky or stuck in one spot, and it's just not
allowing everything to move freely on the inside. So if
you're actually you're exercising that valve, you're you know, expelling
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gas in a different spot and making things work, and
it's just it's just working better because and things get
gummy and crappy and sticky over a period of time,
and this is the reason that it's happening specifically, Well,
you do a lot of highway driving. You just kind
of do a lot of short trips, or well.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
I live about ten miles from the nearest town, so
a lot of times when we drive it, it's on
the road for about twenty minutes at a time. Right
right now, there was another thing that happened. I've left
this out accidentally. The exhaust system went into recharge for
the first time since they had the truck too. I
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don't know if that's all part of this or not.
In the last two or three days, it all seemed
to have happened at the same time.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, and things and when it goes into region, it's
just reboosting everything inside the cat, but it just gets
gummed up over a period of time, and I think
that using that other valve is just helping things kind
of work a little bit better and everything moving a
little bit better. I don't know if I have a
specific answer for it, but I agree so that the
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guy that told you to use that automatically must have
had this happen more than a few times. So that's
that's his fix for it. That's what I would keep
up doing. I don't know if there's any kind of
cleaner that you can put in there to clean that
a little bit too, that maybe it's getting gummed up
and to the point where things aren't sticking like they should.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
Oh, I'm supposed to take it back on Tuesday, and
they said they would take a deeper look at it
than they didn't tame at the time because they had
buses and semis wind up outside the door.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah. Yeah, it's hot. Everything wants to break when it's hot.
I tell you what.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
Yeah, Okay, I appreciate thank you for your you.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Bet, I appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna take
quick breaking the Miss Mechanics show. We back in a bit.
We're looking at this valve cover on this twenty twenty
f one fifty and the only thing we see here
is just there's just some holes. We got some VBT holes.
We got some uh there's a pot for the uh
fuel pump. That might be that fuel pump bolts to
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the top so that that's got a seal underneath it,
and then the rest of them are holes that the
tubes fit through. So I think that I think that
that fuel pump was probably a little bit loose. It's
kind of what I was thinking. The only other bolts
that are on this deal are all the perimeter bolts
that that bolted down what we have found in these
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particular and I don't know if this is old enough yet,
may not be able to be in a twenty twenty.
But these plastic as all plastic stuff, we warp, they
warp and they're brittle. So we go to pull one
of these things off and you turn upside down and
try to clean it off, and you grab a hold
of the plastic structural pieces on the inside and they
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just kind of break off in your hand, almost like
you know hard rock candy does. So we've replaced a
fair amount of these just because of the plastic, which
I don't know who didn't think that was going to happen,
but oh yeah, oh well.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I mean there's so many cars you can't even get
valve cover gaskets from that integrated.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
So that so that's our answer. Fuel pump on the
one side, and uh, because that's that's yeah, it's fuel
pump on that particular side and the perimeter, but replace
the gasket and maybe replace the valve cover if it's
got any kind of uh softness to it. I guess
it would be the best word. All right, we're gonna
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go over to Teresa's got twenty fifteen Nissan Ultima. Teresa,
what's up today?
Speaker 10 (33:09):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I just have a question my AC.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
When I use it, it seems like it gets above ninety three,
it doesn't cool it.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Just if it's eighties, it's cool.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
But once it gets in the nineties, I have one
heat oh one year.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah. Yeah, So you got two potential problems here. One
is the only way air conditioning works efficiently and proper
like it's supposed to when it came out of the
factory is that if it's full. So, for example, if
it takes one pound or refrigerant and it has eight
point eight in it, it's gonna be okay up to
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a certain range, and then it's just gonna fall off hard.
And when you get up to a ninety to one hundred,
it'll fall off really hard. So the first thing to
do is probably get an air conditioning recharge. The second
thing you can do visually is look at how much
debris is in between the radiator and the condenser. So
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if anybody that has a house has a home and
got an air conditioning. You go outside and you look
at the air conditioning unit outside of wherever you live.
You'll see how much debris and matted stuff is on
the air conditioning. The same thing happens to your car,
just over a longer period of time. So again you'll
get to a point where at eighty degrees you'll be fine,
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and at above ninety to one hundred it'll fall off
hard because you can't suck enough air through there, and
the temperature finally builds up in the cooling system, and
there's devices to shut your air conditioner. Also, it doesn't
damage it, So check the debris in the middle of
the radiator and a condenser and see how much stuff
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is there. And then the next thing is to get
an ac recharge. You obviously have a leak if it's low,
but that leak may be so so small it might
be kind of hard to find if it's down just
a smidget
Meat Bob. He's a four time tire rotation champion. When
he was a baby, his first words were automatic transmission fluid.
Bob's so cool he has engine coolant running through his veins.
And then there's Kyle, also known as Premium Unleaded.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Legend has it that Kyle.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Can change your oil with his toes and that he
can tell your tires ill pressure just.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
By how you're walking out.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Known to man.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Mister Mechanic check engine lights, don't stand a chance. This
is the Mister Mechanic Show. On eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you, rainy Saturday morning to you. Well,
this is the Mister Mechanic Show. Five five, eight, eleven
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interactive callin show where you call in, we'll give you
some answer to set you on the right path, fix
that car, help you figure out what you want to do,
or was time to trade it? You know, one of
those things. So we are Buchanon Service Centers at fiftieth
(01:08):
and Dodge eightieth in Dodge and guaranteed breaks forty ninth
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get you fixed up and uh grab pop gandy cigarettes,
whatever you want on your road trip. Get going coming
back from fourth to July. Maybe you're in town, you know,
got to get back out of town. We're here to
help you. I'm with me always as Kyle, Kyle, How
you doing today? This is a little sticky. All your
(01:30):
fingers got them? All? Yeah? All right, good, good yep
right there. So you know I I last week I
completely forgot to update everybody on the Uh this is big,
the the illusion excuse me, the the ship that caught
fire with the EV's on it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, we've been talking about it for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, that's been a drift. Well it was two tuesdays
ago that it went down and uh it sank, and uh.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I thought we were going to get a lot more
out of this. I thought we were gonna be able
to talk about it for weeks and weeks I did too.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well. The fire apparently, I guess it burns hot and
the pictures I seen it finally went down, you know,
in sixteen thousand feet of water. So I don't think
we're gonna send any sub down to take a look
at it, at least not the one that blew up.
That's that's not the right need to take.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We need to know what we're gonna do, what's going
on down there?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, so they are. It's right off the Alaska Aleutian Islands,
So I you know, I don't you know that's kind
of where we fish for all our food. So are
we going to have some new what do you lithium cod?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, I think it could go either way, you know,
because generally when you got you know, some weird element,
you know, introduced into an ecosystem, you know, like the
chernobyl thing. I mean, you get all these animals with
extra parts and stuff, we're going.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
To grow bigger fish and maybe some what it could
be a boot for the lithium crab.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Industry up there, Glow in the dark, filets glowing the dark,
face down. Yeah, that'd be a McDonald's thing at Halloween.
You know, you get your little bucket glow in the dark.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
They say, you know, your teeth are glowing when you smile.
I don't know. I think it could be all right. Yeah, Well,
somebody's going to drag their lines and catch that baby.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But uh can you imagine getting hung up on that thing?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah? Yeah, So I guess our point is there there's
nothing good at sixteen thousand feet that is going to
be any any better by this being down there. But uh,
so they are monitoring the area where it's sunk, which means,
you know, when it started to sink. I don't know
why they're sitting right there because the currents are going
to take it down downstream about another one hundred miles,
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and they don't see any slicks or anything else on
at the moment. So I guess if they don't see anything,
it didn't happen. Yeah, you bet, well, just trying to
you know, I don't know what you said. It was
seventy fully electric cars. They aren't six hundred and eighty
(04:06):
hybrid cars all coming from China. It beat it a
long waves though, if it was coming from China up
to Mexico and then drifted all the way to Alaska, Yeah,
it did pretty good. Yeah, about twelve hundred miles. Yeah,
that's a pretty good job.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So example, I wonder if that works for like everything, Like, say,
I wanted to leave this afternoon and I wanted to
travel around the world. Say in the bass boat, would
I have the same drag as like that ship? Or
do you think that they did better than I would do?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I think weight has something to do with how quickly
you're going, Yeah, and how quickly you sink so and
your bak, your bass boa would sink quicker from the
waves and everything else.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't know. You know, there's some rough seas out there,
but I'm ready for it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I don't know, a long time to get to England.
I don't think we got that. Yeah, I don't think
we got the last one off the ocean floor, did we?
But you know if we if if the ocean's dry up,
we've got cars to drive. How's that?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, they're down there.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Just air them out for a while, as you do
when the cars get in the flood.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And well, I mean, how do the cars How do
you think the cars have wish stand that? Because I
mean there's there's a pressure down there.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Oh yeah, they'll have some dents. Yeah, they'll have some
big hail dents. It's salt water. It'll take care of itself.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The rush corrosions ten years, so it'd probably take a
while for that to set in.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, not only that. I mean this stuff is probably
pretty hot when it hit the water.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
True, you know so well, that doesn't matter with lithium batteries,
it'll burn underwater. Yeah, if you haven't seen a video
of that, see how long that takes. That just burns
itself out. That's it doesn't It doesn't quit. So all right,
we're gonna head over to Bob. Bob, it's patiently waiting.
Two thousand and four f one fifty Bob, what's up today?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah? I have and I'm having the transmission so at cold,
I drive and I don't have any issues. But once
it gets to operating temperature and drive, it wants to
like slip in the neutral and I have to downshift
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it into a lower gear and then it goes back.
Once I ship back up the drive, it drives fine
for a while, and then it'll do it again. I
tried taking the overdrive off. Doesn't seem to make a difference.
I checked the transmission fluid levels and to top it
off a little, and just wondering if it's something on
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the transmission that's easily fixed without having to drop it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I'm going to assume the fluid is good in full
the fluid is full. Yes, yeah, yeah, it does it
look burnt? Does it look cleaned? Did you change it?
Did you anything along that line yet?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I have not. It looks clean, it doesn't smell burn.
I've just seen some stuff on YouTube where there's a
keeper spring and overdrive. It kind of gets into that
felt body down below. But I'm just wondering if i'm
you know, I mean, I'm gonna look at the filter
(07:24):
and obviously change the filter, but I'm just seeing if
there's anything else that I could be missing without having
to do a whole training replacement.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And how many miles are on it?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Did you say one seventy eight?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, well I think you're you're heading towards the training. Yeah,
so this is where you're head. And then the reason
I say that is because when it's cold, like anything
like oil, it's thick. The seals are able to hold
back pressure. But as it warms up, the fluid gets thinner,
it goes around that seals, and that's why you're having
(07:59):
an issue. You're able to drop gears and then kind
of manually shift it and make it go in for
a while, but eventually that's probably going to go out. Normally,
how we approach. This is kind of take your diagnostic
a little bit there, and then you pull the pan
and see what kind of debris you have in there.
You know, Kyle, it's one if you've got a bunch
(08:22):
of debris, you know kind of where it's at. Looks
more muddy in there, and in the bottom of the
pan you'll see a bunch of clutch material. It's kind
of muddy. That's where you're going, and your choices are
to change the fluid and accelerate what's going on. Sometimes
you see pieces and parts and you know what's going on. Yeah,
you put it back together, pour the old fluid in,
(08:44):
and run it for as long as you can until
such time as the inevitable comes up. But well, with
that kind of mileage is and you've probably serviced it
or somebody has. It's just kind of the The seals
go from a round seal to a flat seal and
they can't seal between the drums anymore. And to go
(09:06):
in and pull all that apart just to replace the
seals is not feasible because you'll put it back together
and you will guarantee have another problem somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's unrelated to what you're doing. Yeah, you just got
to go through the whole thing. I mean, because one seals,
if one seals leaking, the rest are the exact same age.
Everything in there is just as old as the part
that's failed.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So the one thing you can find is they they
there's a mechanic and a can stuff that you could
it swells those seals, you know, and you can pour
that in there, let it circulate through and it'll swell
the seals to the point where your your pressure will
hold on your drums or not your drums, but you're
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around your drums and stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Okay, But with something like that, I mean, the training
was fine up until yesterday and daughter was driving. It's
de sick. They were going up the hill and it
felt like it was slipping. Before that, there was just
no issues. It's like it just got a multide tint. Yeah,
that's why it was.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay, Yeah, it's just a matter of it was gonna
happen anyway. That's just that was the load that you know,
I put on it. Ninety degree day, hot, going up hills,
all that kind of stuff. It's just it's just a
stress that's on it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Okay. Yeah, Well I appreciate. I appreciate that, but I
just I know, I've seen some stuff on YouTube about
like the overdrive some with the keeper spring, and I
was gonna I'm gonna drop the pan anyway and check
the filter. But I was just concerned about or if
looking in deeper into that valve body and seeing if
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there was a torn spring or not.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, pulling that yeah, pulling that pan and see what's
in the bottom. I mean you you certainly could. I
mean the stranger things have happened, and sometimes you pull
them apart and goha, look at that. That's the only
thing we got going on. You fix that and put
it back together. But uh, just be careful when you
put brand new fluid in you might end up in
the same situation.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
You bet, Bob appreciate the call. All Right, We're gonna
take a quick break of the Mister Mechanics show. We
backed answer some more calls.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
You need.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Some new times and new.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Spuck lugwise, believe me when I say, did you need
your oil change?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Tell me why.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Why doesn't your carstars? Tell me why does your back
seat smell like goir fun?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Tell me why why.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Don't you even have my bird blades. You need your
oil change them. When your fee filter was closed and
your king Ben pushings were gone, were gone, and your
rear differential was laying in somebody else's YO, tell me
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why why is your transmission food it low?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Tell me why why does your guest why let's really low?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Tell me why it's been that a taca.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Your oilj We're gonna head over to Tom. Tom's going
an eight Chevy and paula Tom. What's up today?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (12:44):
What?
Speaker 7 (12:45):
The glendor motor started making the standard noise, So I
got part to find out make sure which one it was,
and so I bought a new one, a but a
GM genuine and uh I put it in installed and
made the same noise. So my question is do I
assume a bad one brand the brand new one being bad,
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or do I look for something else causing the problem.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
So you're getting a clicking noise like a hard snapping noise?
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Yes, huh okay?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Are you sure you got the right one?
Speaker 10 (13:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I took it apart enough that could feel that I
could feel it clicking before I took the old one
off and replaced it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So generally, what I do I've been in this scenario before,
and I'll take that actuator out, put it on my
work bench, and I'll very carefully take it apart. You
can take the cover off of these and then you'll
see the broken parts inside of it. It's just a
plastic gear, that's all it's happening.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yes, I did that on an old one once to
see how they work.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, yeah, and I mean do it with the new one.
Is there parts inside? I mean, it wouldn't be an
uncommon thing. I've seen it plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Plastic hold and plastic screwed to plastic.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Ok does your door move back and forth? Did you
try that?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Is it did?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Good?
Speaker 7 (14:07):
After the new sory, I took it off again and
I could I could move that door.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yes, okay, So we know everything mechanically is working fine.
We've just got this motor. That's an issue that in
that particular year. This is not a far reach for me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, not at all. So many of them and maybe
that one, maybe that one went back, and you know
it's we've had new parts go bad. You know, that's
that's not uncommon. That's what news stands for, never ever worked.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, gently pulled apart. See if there's something that guts
that it's broke. If not, you know, get it, get
it warrantied out. I think you're in the right spot.
If we know the door moves, it's not on a bind.
You know you got the right one. Because the clicking stopped.
You know you got power to it. You know you
got power to it if it if you unplugged it
and and the clicking went away, we know we got
the right one. So, uh, your last step is a
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failed part.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Oh key, Well, appreciate your good advice. Again.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
You bet not a problem to If we can help
some more, give us a call. All right, We're gonna
head over to John. John has got an old excuse
me not, Oh, he's got an eighty five f two
fifty John. What's up today?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Well, I just want to break a tie. I've had
one person tell me one thing and another person tell
me another thing. Just real simple but in my viewpoint anyway.
But I've got it's got one hundred and one thousand
I've owned it since night, since I've had twenty five
(15:39):
thousand miles on it. It's a sixth cylinder DOC six
that it came in do with a four speed in it,
which what I got going it deserally. May it matter,
but give me a great service. Got one hundred and
one thousand on it now. And when I bought the
truck with twenty five thousand miles, I checked all the
brakes went through it, and I did put new fronts
(16:01):
on and it's a disc on the front and drum
on the back, and I'm going to do the backs
because I got a wheel. Soldiers leak and that's what's
prompted me to do the break job. But I went
into one parts house and I was buying the parts
and they didn't have everything. And I asked him, I says,
(16:23):
they said, you're going to do calipers, and I says, no,
I'm leaving the calipers alone. They don't. There's nothing leak
and everything's good. They're nice and free. And I went
to another place. They said like, why would you do
a break job without calipers? And I'm going hmhm, I
got to ask you guys to say. You know is
that I bought I have a one time f three
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fifty and I had one to go out, which again
doesn't matter for the story with my point, but I
put one in and the brand new ones starts sticking
right away, and I think, you know, do I buy
try to put in two new ones? And they had
a another one hundred bucks at least for some calipers,
And I'm not really improving anything. Sure, you know, how
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do you see those calipers leak? I always see the
wheel solders leak on drums. But am I really steer
towards the person that says, if it's not leak and
just squeezing, you know, pulled back into position.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And that's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That's what I would do. I would go back to
the guy that wants to sell you calipers and see
if they're free. If they're free, I'd take them. That's
what I would do, because he gets paid on how
many parts he sells and how much uh you know,
hourly plus commission. There you go, So what would we do?
What would Kyle and I do? Well, if they're first
of all, you got an eighty five fifty, so the
(17:45):
possibility of them going bad is you know, it's there,
it's there. It's better than average, but it's not.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
Another thing I should add is this truck only does
one thing almost time it goes from here sixty miles
to my farm, gets off three stops and comes back,
and that's all the truck does now, and it's in
its last fifty thousand miles.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, I think what we would probably do is if
everything looks great, they push back with the ease and
no problem. We're going to reuse them. And there's no
reason to replace that because for the exact reason you said,
and we've run across this more than once, is you
get a brand new one out of a box, rebuilt
one out of a box, and it sticks, or it
(18:33):
has problems, or it leaks or blah blah blah blah blah,
And so why go create yourself a problem when one
doesn't exist. Now, at some point down the line, if
you've got a caliper leaking, yeah, I'm probably hanging to
probably putting hoses on it too, because those have a
tendency to fail, and then right around the crimp hads
(18:54):
a tendency to restrict, and then it burns the pads
up because the calipers are holding on and blah blah.
So if I the thing that I always.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
Go by, and I bought lifetime pads, theeramic pads, I
thought that if they break and they get wet. Maybe
they have ever had. If I ever need breaks again,
they'd never take them back because because I could, they
have break fluid on them.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So the other reason they don't care. They're not open
their box and you're not going to have an interview
projects no little.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Break clean does wonders clean them up, stick them in
the box, call a day.
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Yeah, the other part, the other one question. When I
was underneath there, it's a nice tall truck, so you
can go under it real easy, but I can't find
it has one little drip in the rear end, and
usually about every three years I go under and it's
down about an inch and.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Doug on it.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
I'm being stupid. I can't believe it. I cannot. There's
not an actual on the punk in there on the back,
there's no uh sitting in the middle where you put
your finger in.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Where's that thing at It's on the front of the
differential kind of by the yoke. Yeah, you're probably gonna
have to chisel some dirt off to find it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's probably why you can't underneath there. So it's either
it's either on the back or it's in the braces
where the front pinion go to and it's it's going
to be inside that brace, that structural brace that you
see in there. And uh, I mean I.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
Filled them a couple of times, but I just thought
maybe I'll ask him, you know, like the ones that
are on the back and you get up there and
I looked in the front. So where the heck's the
filler on this thing?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah? Now, John, just replace the brakes that are necessary.
And uh, if a caliper starts leaking in the in
the future, then do both and do both hoses and
be done. But don't create problems that aren't there.
Speaker 10 (20:57):
You just hammer me and say no, no, you're going
in there. You got to replace them in calipers. But
you sound that, you know, it sounds like that's that's
the way I would rather go. And it breaks the tie.
And I'm gonna go ahead and get those breaks today
and get it done.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Say yep, you bet, have a great day. Appreciate the call.
All right, We're gonna take a quick break on the
Mister Mechanics Show. Will be back to answer some more calls.
Bob's got a sixteen cruise, Bob, what's broke today?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Yes, sir, I've got two thoy sixteen crews.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I believe that's you know, one point seven or one
point eight.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
I keep forgetting them mixed up.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
I've got a fan problem.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
It's an electric fan. Stuck my hand down there.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
It quit.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
Cooling on me.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
And the fan seems to be fine. It's spins real easy.
So I think they got some sort of relays or something,
don't they that controls that?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, so it's it got one fan or two?
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Okay? So anna freeze is full all that good stuff,
so it's it has it has reason to come on.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
Yeah. Well, when as long as I keep moving down
the road, I'm fine. But set there and just idle,
you'll start going up. So I turn it off and
make it cool off. But when I turn the air
condition does exactly the same thing. So it must be
either one or two some sort of senses. It must
be out of it. Does that sound right?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well, here's what we have to do. Will the when
you turn the air conditioner on, does the fan come on?
Speaker 6 (22:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It does not, Okay, so we know it should, yep,
come on. So let's turn our air conditioner on. And
what we need to figure out is we need to
figure out what we're missing. Are we missing power or
are we missing ground there or do we have both
of those?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh, that's what we need to know. Yeah, so you've
got a different relay that runs the cooling fans, and
you've got a different relay that runs the air conditioning fans,
so they're kind of on two different separate things. You
might even turn you might even start the car up,
turn it on the air conditioner and take a pride
bar or hammer and tap on it and see if
it comes to life. If it comes to life, you
(23:18):
know your problems that you need a new fan. If
it doesn't come to life, you head exactly where Kyle's
telling you, and you got to check powers and grounds.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
Okay, got it? Well I only got two and forty
nine thousand. I guess something's got to go wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
You're right, you're right. I'm guessing our money is on
the fan. Yeah, certainly it's not uncommon.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Alright. All right, I'll tap it with a hammer, and
you know, try to hit it more than once, because.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
As many times as you want, that's yours. Yeah, you
bring it down, we'll hit it some more for you.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Okay, Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You bet. I appreciate the call. We're gonna head over Richard.
Richard's got a twenty. What's going on today?
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
I have a naturally aspirated B six F one fifty
XLT eighty eight thousand miles. On the driver's side valve cover.
There's like a little pressure valve there. It was leaking
when I bought it, and I didn't recognize it, and
so I took it back to him. They're like, oh, yeah,
we tightened it. If it gives you any problem to
(24:25):
bring it back, it's under warranty and stuff. They'll fix it.
But I don't know what that thing does, that little
pressure valve. I think it does something to do with
the start stop thing at the red lights and stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
And it's on the valve cover.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Pressure valve, Yeah, on top of the driver's side valve cover,
near the rear towards the firewall.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Are you talking about the fuel pump valve?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
It might be It is the only.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Thing I'm thinking on the back of that, because there's
no pressure on a valve cover in the crank case. Yeah,
that's where they put the high pressure fuel pump.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You got coils, you got a high pressure fuel pump.
You got v vts that are sticking out of that. Yeah,
those are towards the front. The coils are down the middle,
and pumps in the back.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a fuel. I'm thinking really.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
But but it was.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
It was. It was leaking oil.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay, there you go. That's the key. That's the key
word right there. So you got to you got a
vacuum pump back there, okay on the passenger m Yeah,
vacuum pump on the passenger side. Those are pretty common
to the leak on the forest.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
This is driver's side. This is driver's side, near the
rear of the valve cover. I could say miss that.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I missed that part.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Okay, Yeah, well it's on the driver's side, rear top
of the valve cover. And I think it has something
to do. Anyway, when I bought it, it was leaking
and I didn't recognize it because I didn't get the
truck hot enough apparently, and so the second time I
drove the truck a little longer that day, if I
had to take it back and go, hey, it's leaking.
(26:03):
You know, I just bought a twenty thousand dollars used truck,
and I get it. It's used but they're like, oh yeah, here,
and it's under warranty because I bought a little warranty
with it. But oh yeah, we tightened it to gives
you a problem to bring back. We'll replace the whole
gasket underneath of it. Or but I just didn't know
what that thing was, you know, I forgot that.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I can't recall a picture in my head of what
that was. We've had a few of them apart. I
would say, you know, half a dozen or better, but
I can't. I can't think off top of my head.
But it's got vvts on that side. It's got coils
on that side too, your pumps on the other side.
So this driver said, you know, I don't know right
off the top of my head. I'd have to get
a Yeah, i'd have to get a visual of it
(26:43):
to kind of take a look.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Yeah, I could send you a picture.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
We'll probably work it. We'll look it up here on
the internet and and see what it comes about. So
stay tuned, Stay tuned, Richard. We're going to answer another call,
and we'll we'll answer that question on the other all right,
We're going to head over to Lawrence. Lawrence Gott twenty
twenty Ram Diesel pickup, Lawrence, what's up today?
Speaker 11 (27:08):
Yeah, I got a twenty twenty Ram. I started having
problems with it about six weeks ago. It started jerking
on me when I first started it in the morning
and hitting down the highway. I took it into my
local mechanic, and he's a pretty good Deesel mechanic. I
live in Plymouth, Nebraska. He said all the codes were
(27:31):
showing up as the turbo was having problems, but he
took it in for an hour. He said that you're
not in any danger of it flying apart. The bearings
are finding on it. He said, it's spinning free. He
said he thinks it's in the veins and the actuator
that allows air in and out of the veins. Well,
(27:52):
he said he couldn't get to it for about four weeks. Okay,
he said, you're fine to drive it.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
Well here.
Speaker 11 (27:59):
About four days ago, I went downtown and I started
to back up and it wouldn't go over five miles
an hour. I took it back to him and he
said it's still showing up, just as the turbo. He's
not really sure why all of a sudden it wouldn't
go over five miles an hour. We shut it off
and turned it on several times and that seemed to
(28:21):
correct that problem. The kid that was diagnosing it for me,
he also said, do you ever run your compression break?
And I said, not normally. I don't know that much
about it.
Speaker 10 (28:34):
This is my first dithel truck.
Speaker 11 (28:36):
He said, start running that in automatic mode all the time.
So I'm up here in Omaha right now with my camper. Now,
when I took that trip up here this time, you know,
they have a meter on the dash that shows the
turbo working. The turbo was actually working for the first
(28:56):
time in about four or five miles. So is this
all connected together or what is the deal with all this?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So my gues my guess is you've got an electronic
valve that is not moving up and down and getting
sticky or stuck in one spot, and it's just not
allowing everything to move freely on the inside. So if
you're actually you're exercising that valve, you're you know, expelling
(29:27):
gas in a different spot and making things work, and
it's just it's just working better because and things get
gummy and crappy and sticky over a period of time,
and this is the reason that it's happening specifically, Well,
you do a lot of highway driving. You just kind
of do a lot of short trips, or well.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
I live about ten miles from the nearest town, so
a lot of times when we drive it, it's on
the road for about twenty minutes at a time. Right
right now, there was another thing that happened. I've left
this out accidentally. The exhaust system went into recharge for
the first time since they had the truck too. I
(30:10):
don't know if that's all part of this or not.
In the last two or three days, it all seemed
to have happened at the same time.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, and things and when it goes into region, it's
just reboosting everything inside the cat, but it just gets
gummed up over a period of time, and I think
that using that other valve is just helping things kind
of work a little bit better and everything moving a
little bit better. I don't know if I have a
specific answer for it, but I agree so that the
(30:40):
guy that told you to use that automatically must have
had this happen more than a few times. So that's
that's his fix for it. That's what I would keep
up doing. I don't know if there's any kind of
cleaner that you can put in there to clean that
a little bit too, that maybe it's getting gummed up
and to the point where things aren't sticking like they should.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
Oh, I'm supposed to take it back on Tuesday, and
they said they would take a deeper look at it
than they didn't tame at the time because they had
buses and semis wind up outside the door.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Yeah. Yeah, it's hot. Everything wants to break when it's hot.
I tell you what.
Speaker 11 (31:14):
Yeah, Okay, I appreciate thank you for your you.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Bet, I appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna take
quick breaking the Miss Mechanics show. We back in a bit.
We're looking at this valve cover on this twenty twenty
f one fifty and the only thing we see here
is just there's just some holes. We got some VBT holes.
We got some uh there's a pot for the uh
fuel pump. That might be that fuel pump bolts to
(31:37):
the top so that that's got a seal underneath it,
and then the rest of them are holes that the
tubes fit through. So I think that I think that
that fuel pump was probably a little bit loose. It's
kind of what I was thinking. The only other bolts
that are on this deal are all the perimeter bolts
that that bolted down what we have found in these
(32:00):
particular and I don't know if this is old enough yet,
may not be able to be in a twenty twenty.
But these plastic as all plastic stuff, we warp, they
warp and they're brittle. So we go to pull one
of these things off and you turn upside down and
try to clean it off, and you grab a hold
of the plastic structural pieces on the inside and they
(32:23):
just kind of break off in your hand, almost like
you know hard rock candy does. So we've replaced a
fair amount of these just because of the plastic, which
I don't know who didn't think that was going to happen,
but oh yeah, oh well.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I mean there's so many cars you can't even get
valve cover gaskets from that integrated.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
So that so that's our answer. Fuel pump on the
one side, and uh, because that's that's yeah, it's fuel
pump on that particular side and the perimeter, but replace
the gasket and maybe replace the valve cover if it's
got any kind of uh softness to it. I guess
it would be the best word. All right, we're gonna
(33:04):
go over to Teresa's got twenty fifteen Nissan Ultima. Teresa,
what's up today?
Speaker 10 (33:09):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I just have a question my AC.
Speaker 10 (33:12):
When I use it, it seems like it gets above ninety three,
it doesn't cool it.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Just if it's eighties, it's cool.
Speaker 10 (33:19):
But once it gets in the nineties, I have one
heat oh one year.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah. Yeah, So you got two potential problems here. One
is the only way air conditioning works efficiently and proper
like it's supposed to when it came out of the
factory is that if it's full. So, for example, if
it takes one pound or refrigerant and it has eight
point eight in it, it's gonna be okay up to
(33:43):
a certain range, and then it's just gonna fall off hard.
And when you get up to a ninety to one hundred,
it'll fall off really hard. So the first thing to
do is probably get an air conditioning recharge. The second
thing you can do visually is look at how much
debris is in between the radiator and the condenser. So
(34:05):
if anybody that has a house has a home and
got an air conditioning. You go outside and you look
at the air conditioning unit outside of wherever you live.
You'll see how much debris and matted stuff is on
the air conditioning. The same thing happens to your car,
just over a longer period of time. So again you'll
get to a point where at eighty degrees you'll be fine,
(34:28):
and at above ninety to one hundred it'll fall off
hard because you can't suck enough air through there, and
the temperature finally builds up in the cooling system, and
there's devices to shut your air conditioner. Also, it doesn't
damage it, So check the debris in the middle of
the radiator and a condenser and see how much stuff
(34:49):
is there. And then the next thing is to get
an ac recharge. You obviously have a leak if it's low,
but that leak may be so so small it might
be kind of hard to find if it's down just
a smidget
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