Mr Mechanic 4-5-2025

Episode Transcript

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

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toes and that you can tell your tires all pressure
just by how you're walking. He's Bob, He's Kyle, and
every Saturday morning they morphed together to form the greatest
superhero known to man. Mister Mechanic check engine light Stone,
stand a chance. This is the Mister Mechanic Show on

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eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Great Saturday morning to you. This is the Mister Mechanic Show.
Four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven ten is the
numbers to get in. Get in early so we can
answer your question, get you back to that project or
back to to whatever you need to do to get
it fixed. We are a Buchanon Service Centers at fiftieth
and Dodge, eightieth in Dodge and guaranteed breaks forty ninth

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Avenue and Dodge, So stop in see us help you
out with your car gas, whatever you want to do.
You know, there's a lot of projects out there. We're
getting the back out of the the garages and and
uh or we're working on them in the garage. It's
trying to back them out, get them cleaned up. Man.
They get dusty over a period of time, right, Kyle, Yeah, Yeah,

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they're just you put them underneath mine, underneath the car cover,
and it's I pulled the car cover. I didn't realize
how dirty the car cover was.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, you got to clean the car cover. Now I
do your washing machine at home.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
It won't fit in there. I got I get to
get to a laundry mat. But I don't know. Yeah,
let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I want to use the washer after you.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, I'm not taking any shop towels or grease rags.
I don't. You don't do those at home.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Home.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I go to the laundry mat with my wife's like,
just throw them away. I'm like, I'm not get rid
of It's still a good right.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh yeah, it isn't completely soaked with grease, not yet.
That's how you know. You lubricate in your hand. You
don't even need baby oil, do you.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, No, they're fine. They get a little dry. Just
offer a transmission service.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And for those
of you don't know, transmission fluid is a great cleaner.
That's why you stick it in your solvent tank, and
it keeps your hands nice and moist.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah yeah, along with everything else you get from the
solvent tank. Your hands smell like solvent, for.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
They do, but it dries your hands out terribly. But
if you throw a couple of quarts of transmission fluid
in there, it not only cleans it, but it's not
nearly as bad. But spring's coming around, and uh, hopefully
we're getting on now we're past that freezing thaw. I
see a lot of trucks out there filling potholes, a
lot of potholes, not not craters, however, there were some craters.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
But oh, there's a bad one on Center Street right now.
We drove by it Monday morning. Yeah, I was looking
at it because I was driving. I was like, is
that a bag in the road. But there's a piece
of the road that was on top of the road. Now,
I mean I could see the rebar and this stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Ooh. I recommend just kind of staying back in traffic.
Don't follow that guy so far in the bumper kind
of come back a little bit so that you can
see if he's doing many, you know, evasive maneuvers, so
that you can do but if he doesn't, just runs
over top of him, that you're able to move back
and forth.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh yeah, I mean some of these streets out here,
I mean you're zigzagging all around the thing. I mean
the steerings really getting to work out.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's a road course. It is a road course. Yeah,
throwing the one and you know it all depends on
how much rubber is between the rim and the road
is really what's going to determine whether you're going to
kind of go over this pothole or you're going to
get a goose egg on the side. And those a
goose egg bubbles on the side as we call him.
They just they start small and then they get huge. Yeah,

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then they pop. Yeah you can't you know, can you
imagine just kind of what I've seen them so big
that they're almost rubbing the fender.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
We've seen them come in rubbing the strut yep, the
old four taurus.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
As you get a bubble and decide, yeah, and you
know the thing is is you look at the outside
of my tires and go, oh, that looks great. I
don't see any bubbles on there's no problem at all.
What you can't see is on the inside. And they
do get on the inside, and that's where your rims
been because the rims don't have as much material or
reinforcement on the inside as they do on the outside,

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because they've got to clear the calipers and oh yeah,
like you said, struts and kind of we were talking
about that earlier.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
This week, we got to put out our own newsletter,
you know, just a daily pothole and you know, just
have a map of where they're all at.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
And yeah, and the reason that I kind of bring
that up is because here in Omaha we had, uh
what we had somebody get into a pothole. I think
this happened last week something along that line. Anyway, they
were got in a pothole, it went flat. They're trying
to drive it to a safe place according to the article,
but by the time they got there, this the truck

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from I can kind of tell from this this truck
burnt down.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
It.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I mean it caught fire and just burnt up. And
as you and I both know, Kyle involved, yes, break
fluid is extremely flammable, and once you start getting there,
it can go up in a big hurry. But it's hot. Yeah,
it burnt the whole front of this truck. And based
on because we can tell the remnants, you know, we're forensic,
we can tell it was an F one fifty they

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said SUV, but it was an F one fifty. So
and that's kind of what you recommend. If you get
a hold and it blows out and try to make
it to the safest place. Don't do it in the
mill street, don't do it on the interstate, don't get
off the I will ruin a rim.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I don't care. Yeah, I'm not on the side of
the road changing anything.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah. Yeah, people zooming by an eighty mile an hour
that just don't care, bad enough fucking up the tow
truck that gets a little it is. That's why we're
the way we are is because we know that on
the side of the road, that's it's just not fun
and quick and happy, and you just get in, get
it out and get it done, get out there as
quick as possible, Do not linger and say let's see

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what's going on. You never know who's not paying attention.
We're gonna head over to Bob real quick. Bob's got
a fifteen Ford Taurus. Bob, what's up today?

Speaker 6 (06:29):
Oh yeah, it's a twenty fifteen four Taurus Limited six.
Uh huh. Let's see the check peel peel inlet light
comes on the dash and also the check engine light,
and I'm just curious what to look for.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, that tells me there is a code in the
computer pertaining to the EVAPP system and that fuel check,
fuel cap light or whatever, fuel fill light that's just
a secondary thing that comes on to get your attention.
So there's something wrong with the EVAPP system. Probably a leak.
Those were pretty good for leaks. They were good for canisters,

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purge valves.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Next, Yeah, fill filler necks that get all the road
dirt and salt. Yep, rott them out, yep, exactly.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
But yeah, we had you got to kind of get
in there, see what code you actually got start there.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Probably ended up doing a smoke test on it. Find
a leak, Yeah, there's it's probably nothing serious, but uh,
it's the only way you're going to get the check
engine light out. And as Kyle alluded to, there is
a smoke test. And what a smoke test does is
we actually have a smoke machine that actually interjects inert
gas smoke in there in the system, and once you

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close the entire system up, put the gas cap on
and all that kind of stuff. Wherever it leaks at
is where your problem's at. And sometimes it comes gushing
out in certain spots and other times it's a very
very small leak.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
So have a capitalists.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, same kind of situation. But it's not really
a cap. It's just a flapper valve on the inside.
But that flapper valve comes up against it's rubber on
the inside, and it comes up hard against another seal.
And that's over a period of time, every rubber piece
gets indented, indented and worn out and just doesn't feel

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like it should.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
So, yeah, does that come with the guests filled tube
or it's a cap that can be replaced on the tube.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, it's all one unit. Yeah, you're replacing the whole neck. Yeh,
whole neck is what you're replacing. But I wouldn't just
do that right off. The first thing you should want
to do is a visual inspection, because a lot of
times a visual inspection is got aha, look at that.
There's so there's so much. I mean, that's going to
be metal in some cases plastic, but most of the

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time it's going to be metal. But there's so many
other plastic connectors underneath there, and it runs all the
way forward to the engine, so there's a lot of
possibilities through the winter time for something to get drug off, hit, damaged, kinked,
you know. So just do a good thorough inspection you
might find it all right there. We did this same

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exact thing yesterday and we did a visual inspection and
sure enough, here what we come along was somebody fixed
it with duct tape, so it broke and they picked
it with duct tape and it didn't work, so we
had to go get a new piece.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
One time I stuck my finger in there, I could
get the flap or two open. But then when you
put the gas when there's no problem.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, there's a release lock on it. That's the size
of the gas nozzles. They're all uniform size, and when
it pushed, these two locks and it allows it.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
To Well, Kyle can because he's got big fingers, So
if you had a finger the size of the gas nozzle,
it will release and Kyle can do that, but I
can't do that. But that's why your fingers when.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Something like that happened. Do you know the sad affect
your gas my leach.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
No, no, no, this has more to environmental So if
you think, you think, yeah, if you think back in
the sixties, when you used to feel your your gas
tank full, all them fumes and vents would come back
out at you because where invented was right back out,
you know, out. Now it's all captured, goes through a
carbon uh canister, all that stuff. It's the self completely

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self contained system and that's kind of why they do
it now. So yeah, it's more emission controls.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Someone did tell me that there's a purge canister, they thought,
underneath the hood and that gets plugged up.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
That Yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
So your canister is at the back of this car.
It's mounted kind of right underneath your spare tire on
the bottom of the car. Underneath the hood. There's a
purge valve that goes bad. But that's the only thing
pertaining to this system that's under there. Everything else is
at the back by the gas.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, and we've got to vent valve and back we
got a purge valve underneath the hood and the purge
valve is what allows that to open, and as you're
driving down the interstate, it will release vapor back into
the system so you can burn it so that the
cancer doesn't get saturated and go bad. It's just a

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normal thing that happens. But that's part of the smoke test.
They don't generally get plugged up and go bad. They
just fail from being open and closed so many times
that they just stick open. So that's not uncommon.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Okay, does that hurt the car to drive it like that?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Nope, Nope, not unless that per valve is stuck open
and all the vapors are going on and flooding the
engine and you can't have a hard time starting it.
But other than that, if you don't have any of
those symptoms, no, you're not gonna know. It's difference.

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Oh okay, thanks a lot for your health.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
You bet, brib We appreciate the call. If you need
some more help, give us a call back. We're gonna
take a quick break on the Mister Mechanics show five, five,
eight to eleven tens the numbers that get in, we'll
be back in a minute.

Speaker 7 (12:25):
Yo, two, all the other mechanics out there, I only
got one thing to say.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
He said, if you ain't missed the mechanics.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
Oh, you need to know where.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
You can't fix this.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
My my, My mechanic works on my car, makes me
drive on the boby texting more your antire break John,
No matter what the type of weather, it feels good
when you don't break down. I jump on my ride
and I drive all around every Saturday.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I call this the mechanic. Fix it fall into the rest.
I don't mean to this, but you can't fix this.
You go home, boy.

Speaker 7 (13:00):
I told you you can't fix this, nobody, but.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
You can't fix this. You're not even holding the ride.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
You can't fix this.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Stopped air hammer time. A lot of interesting things going
on with those check engine lights you know here is uh,
this is kind of an interesting article. I ran across,
you know, in the in the the wake of kind
of everything that's going on here in the last few days,
last week or so. Most American made car, Yeah, most

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most what it was, most American made car. It's going
to be the Tesla, most American made the model. Why
that's gone by, the Honda Passport, Volkswagon, another Tesla, Honda.
These are all the ones that are made in the
United States.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
So are we talking like all the parts, everything's made
in America, just assembled in disassembled.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
This is kind of the most assembled. Yeah, we're going
to get over to that one in just a second.
But there's probably the ones that The Tesla is the
one that's made mostly in there, and it's probably ninety
some odd percent and it's still got ten percent that's
come from global parts and things like that, and a
lot of companies have decided to instead of import them,
they're just going to build them here. So they build

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their most popular models here like Honda Passport, Honda Odyssey,
Honda Ridgeline, Toyta Camri Lexus. You know, a lot of
those are here, and there's a bunch of plants. They
have a bunch of plants down in South Carolina because
they have such a bunch of workers down there and
the incentives are great. That's why kind of everybody.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Goes down Tennessee and Kentucky also assembling Hondas and Toyotas.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's just a way to avoid the tariffs that are
coming into the country so other places like So here's
the answer you're question. Here's the other the flip side
of that how much what percent of parts are are imported.
So in other words, when you have Ford, twenty one
percent of their parts that make up that vehicle are

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coming in from somewhere else, So you got about seventy
nine percent that's done here in the United States, and
that's pretty good. Honda's thirty five percent, you know, Subru's
forty five percent bringing parts in. General Motors is forty
six percent, so they they're almost half, they're almost fifty

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percent bringing them in somewhere else and doing them here.
And you know, the General Motors and for does a
lot of you know, assembly in Canada and in Mexico.
I mean they're not very far, but still they're not
in this particular part of the country. Ninety percent is
Vovo and one hundred percent brought in. Nothing built here

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whatsoever is Jagguarre and land Rover.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
So they are are they assembled here though, or are
they shipping over whole cars?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
They're they're shipping over whole cars. Yeah, that's Tata Motors,
which is out of India. Is who owns those of
petcular things. So a lot you know, they're just the
low version models of something like Hondi doesn't build they
have a select thing that doesn't build very many cars,

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and and and Honda and Toyda does that too, if
they got a model that sells maybe one hundred thousand
a year, like they're Supras for example. For to None
of those are made here. Those are all brought from
Japan and over to here because there's just no reason
to build a not that demand, you know, and there's
no reason to build a billion dollar, two billion, ten
billion dollar plant to build one hundred cars or one

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hundred thousand cars. It's it's the big deal. So that's
why those are over here. It's kind of interesting, kind
of knowing what what's here and what's not here. And
I was surprised to learn that that Tesla was only
had about ten percent from the rest of the world,
maybe less than that. I thought there was more being
in such a global economy now that I figured they'd

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be getting parts everywhere. But the fact that they're built
here and assembled here, which is good. So and maybe
we get more and more of that. Back to bringing
stuff in house in this particular country versus somewhere else.
We're gonna head over to Chris. Chris has got a
twenty fourteen Ram fifteen hundred. Chris, what's up today?

Speaker 4 (17:36):
I have a remote security system or whatever. He's a
little keyfob that just does not work with the system anymore.
Is there a way to replace these things or fix them?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Are you talking about an aftermarket one on there? Right?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't know if it'll aftermarket or not.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
As a party or key yet it is.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
It is not part of the key.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Okay, so it's just a little black hanging remote on
your keychain. It sounds like it's probably aftermarket because Chrysler
that would be integrated in the key in that year
with those the day that that was put in there,
it was outdated. So there's no parts you're going to get.
There's no repairing it after the fact. It's they just

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go in and chop them out and put a new
one in.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, I mean you can, you can maybe the Yeah,
there's such a wide variety of those particular aftermarket alarms.
You might be able to go to a place and say, hey,
do you have anything like this? Is their parts available?
They're more likely going to tell you no, and yeah,
you just you just take it out and put a
different one in and and kind of move on.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Is that something I could do myself.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
How handy are you with electricity?

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Very?

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Okay, So you can read a wiring diagram and follow it, yeah,
I mean it's not horribly hard. I mean when you
get underneath there, you're going to see where they spliced
into it, so you already know the wires you have
to tap into, right, and then you just get your
new unit that'll come with I mean you could buy
it on Amazon essentially and save a bunch of money,

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and you know, you just find out because your new
one will come with a wiring diagram and you just
connect the wires more or less.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, but you need a little background in that because
when you get underneath the dash and like you said,
it's already been tapped in for you, it can be
you know, wiring can be very confusing when it's uh,
you get a handful of it.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
The guys that put those things in there, they don't care.
They got to do ten of those a day, so
you neat about it isn't ever the case.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yeah, and with any project, the first time you do
it takes a while. But yeah, no, if you've got
that ability, then no, just and you can read the
instructions of what comes on and get underneath her and
get a wiring diagram. You've got power coming off your
ignition switch and the rest of it goes to a
certain extent. Yeah, it's not terribly difficult.

Speaker 9 (20:04):
Okay, Well, very good.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
You bet have a great day. Appreciate the call. All right,
we're gonna head over to uh. We're gonna take quick break.
Hang tight, and we'll be back in a minute. People
have been patiently waiting. Bronson has got a seventy six
jeep Wrangler. Rot's what's up today?

Speaker 6 (20:26):
Hi?

Speaker 8 (20:27):
So I got that nineteen.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Jeep.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yeah, and I want to off the body and then
I want to find a newer jeep and use the chassis,
and then I'll put the older body on that jeep
on that newer chassis. Okay, And I want to know
what kind of jeep should I get to use the
chassis off of?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Well, that's quite the project. But on a jeep, it
was made to come apart.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
It was made to come apart, So you're gonna need
something that has the same wheelbase. So this is probably
gonna be.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
So how new are you wanting to go? Like, at
the end of this project, what do you see do
you see a carbu rated engine? Do you see a
new fuel injected pinnister?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I mean, where are we what are.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
We looking to gain from this swap?

Speaker 8 (21:26):
Do you want to have like a better engine?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Yeah, okay, So I mean you're gonna have to, like
Bob said, we're gonna have to look at the wheelbase.
What's our wheelbase of this cheap They were all kind
of pretty short. I mean, you know, I'm guessing probably
somewhere in the nineties. You know, you'd have the four
leader with power steering, power brakes. You know, that's a

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pretty great start. You know, you got fuel injection there. Yeah,
they were a great running, durable engine, automatic transmission, you
could have a manual transmission, transfer case, all the modern
features of a car. And it's going to be fairly
easy to you know, I mean, get it running. Let's
say the hard part is going to be do the

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body mounts line up? What do I have to change
in order to make this happen? Is the wheelbase a
scoche off? But it's close and we need to move this.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, and in seventy six that's probably I'm going to
say a CJ five is probably what I'm thinking, and
the CJ seven kind of came after that. But back
then they had a three oh four I believe it
was a V eight that was in there, and you
could easily, you know, put something like that in there
and you know, fuel inject that and make it have

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all the power and you need. And in fact, that
a V eight and and that year of vehicle was
more than enough power.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
A lot of them ended up on their lid because
of it.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, yeah, more than enough power. So uh yeah, you
got you got to start. You're not gonna be able
to take a seven and put it on a five
without shortening something up or LinkedIn in the frame, so
you're gonna have to be kind of there's be some
work involved. Yeah, I mean it's the easiest thing would
be to find what you have and uh you know,

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maybe get a different body for it and then kind
of move move the engine from there. It's kind of
what I would preliminary think about it.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I mean anything, I mean, chassis swaps are I mean
it's not really like a new thing.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
I mean, guys have been doing.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
It for years with the S tens and you know,
other frames before that. It's just it comes down to
if you can find one with as close to correct
or the same wheelbase, that's the best place to start.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
And lucky for you, there's plenty of a lot of
people have done this. There's look on the internet. There's
plenty of books out there to get all the parts
right off the internet that you want. You don't have
to go looking all over in salvage yards and stuff
in order to find what you need.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
So and I mean with going with something in the nineties,
I mean you're getting rid of those leaf springs up front.
I mean you can get some you know, coil springs
on there. You know, maybe'd ride a little bit better,
more steering capabilities, things like that. Yeah, you know, the
nineties would be a perfect place to start looking.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
That help it all? Yes, all right, if you need
some more help, you know where we're at. Calls back anytime.

Speaker 8 (24:26):
All right, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
You beat, appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna go
top and list. We're gonna go to Brad. Brad's got
a twenty nineteen jeep Cherokee. Brad, what's up today?

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Okay? I talked to you a couple of weeks ago
about we changed the transmission fluid all this and we
had codes and stuff. Yeah, we got I think we
got all that resolved. It turned out to be an
ABS module which we changed last night, put brand new
one in from the dealer. We still have some codes

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that apparently needs to be a program with a VN
number or something correct to marry it up to the
to the ECU.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah, it comes, uh, it more or less just comes dumb, stupid.
It doesn't know what vehicle you're sticking it into, and
you've got to tell it, Hey, this is a VEN
number and this is what I'm putting it into so
that it knows because not every vehicle has the same
characteristics ABS or what have you.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
So yeah, okay, and any place that would any garage
could probably do that. It wouldn't have to be the dealer.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
No, it doesn't have to be the dealer. A lot
of garages can do that. There's also places that will
come to you, the mobile places that will come out
to you and do it right right at the house.
And yeah they can. They're there's services out there now.
Since you've got so many vehicles that have so many

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different licensing and it can get kind of ricey depending
on what you use for you know what your garage
is going for. I mean, if you're just an import garage,
you just you pretty much have all import stuff and
they don't have no domestic and vice versa. So there's
there's a company out there that will they have all
that stuff and have everybody's stuff, and they just charge

(26:19):
according to what your problem is. And they can even
update your vehicle as should it need be, so you
may have updates on that vehicles you don't even know
about and they can come out and do all that
for you.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Okay, well, we put this in last night and you
took it for a couple of test drives and everything
around the neighborhood, and half of the stuff came back
as far as like this prenomena was working that we
still had other codes and of course with the van,
but today went out and jumped in and get ready
to go to work and it wouldn't start, wouldn't turn over,

(26:56):
and we're thinking it's because of the brake pedal. There
was a code on there for brake pedal something to
do with that. Yeah, that seems kind of odd that
it wouldn't drive today when it drove yesterday.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
A little bit.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Well, let's think about this. We've got a module in
there that's totally offline right now, that's on our high
speed canvas. So the what you were doing yesterday could
be a limp mode.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
It could.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
I mean twenty nineteen jeep. It's a breakout system. It
uses a gateway module. So if it sees this thing
offline for so long, I mean, it's going to throw
a big red flag.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, like I'm getting stolen or something. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, something isn't right and everything needs to talk for
this particular car to work. So yeah, I would go forward.
We know we replaced the module, we know it needs
to be programmed, Get it programmed, and then see what
code you got then. Yeah, but I mean with your
brake pedal. The only thing that's tying the brake pedal
itself and the starting system is the brake light switch.

(28:07):
If you have no brake lights, you have.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
No start, right, So we go do this when we
replace a major component like that, we'll go through and
have this updated before we even take it out of
the or even go drive it, you know, sometimes before
we even move it, so we won't even put it
into gear. Depending on what the problem is and what
we're replacing so and some cars are a large pain

(28:30):
to get everything in and done and other ones are easy.
And this one's probably more of on the easier side.
But there are other models out there, other car models.
It's like this is going to be terrible.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
So yeah, that's your next step. And if you want us,
you know, it's something that we can do, or I
can direct you to somebody that probably comes to the
house if you if you're interested, you know, hang on
the line and we'll get you some numbers. All right,
we're gonna head over to uh, appreciate the call there, Brad.
We're gonna head over to Bob. Bob's gonna o six
Toyter Corolla. Bob, what's up today?

Speaker 9 (29:07):
Yeah, that's your buddy, Bob.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Hey, Bob, what's up driving.

Speaker 9 (29:12):
My son in laws two thousand and six Toyota.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (29:16):
And there's a heat shield over the gas tank in
the back. Okay, it's go close and I'll uh, I
know it's there for a reason. It just covers about
half the gas take, which is plastic. Yeah, it's just

(29:40):
a shield.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Well, it'll fall off by itself, Bob, No sense of
getting excited about it.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, it might take till next to your season.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
But hey, yeah it's a this is a game. Now,
let's see how long we can keep it there before
it gets out.

Speaker 9 (29:57):
Yeah, it's rattling pretty good.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Go, I tell you, Well, so what that shield is
there to kind of you know, shield the exhaust from
the gas tank because you're right, the gas tank's plastic,
so we don't want any excessive heat there. What we
normally do is we'll go underneath there and take a
look because there's tiny little bolts and it's a very
very thin metal and over a period of time it
just kind of rusts through. Well this sometimes the repairs

(30:23):
the washer. Yeah, the repair is super simple. You just
get yourself what we call fender washer. You know, a
big washer that's probably two inches in diameter with a
tiny hole in the center. You just take that screw
of that nut off, put it over top of their butt,
the nut back on. Now it's got two inches more
to grab and you still retain the heat shield, which

(30:44):
is a good thing. I mean. And if it's all
ripped up, torn up and everything else, then yeah, you
can certainly go pull it off. But sometimes it's a
simple repair. Not only do we fix it in that spot,
but we fix all the other ones with fender washers,
so we the repairs along. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Around here you get an extra year. Yeah, you can
get a bigger washer than that.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. And there's some that are pretty super critical. You know,
they'd run the exhaust really close. But there's other ones
that are like, I don't even think they needed that
because that was eighteen.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
There's plenty of room underneath there.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, so that's what I would try first, I mean study,
And I'll tell you what. Sometimes yanking out those heat
shields is not all it's cracked up to be.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
I gotta take the exhaust system down.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, I had to cut them out, you know. So yeah,
that's what that's what we do.

Speaker 9 (31:32):
Okay, how busy you are? You next week?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
We can handle it. Stop, buy a Bible, take care
of you. We'll lift it up to take a look.

Speaker 9 (31:43):
All right, I'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
All right, sounds good. Appreciate the call. All Right, we
gonna take quick break on the Mister Mechanic Show. We
back in a minute. Canon Service centers at eightieth and Dodge,
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car repaired, get a car washed. We got it all.
Let's head over to Larry. Larry's got a ninety one
f one fifty pick up. Larry, what's up today?

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (32:07):
I got no spark, so so I get a little
troll shooting. Didn't check for signal and the coil. I
got power on both sides with my test like, didn't flash.
So I said, well, I'll get a new nation modul
looked online and I put it. It was like seventy
seven bucks by the whole distributor nation while coal pickup
put it in there still no spark.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Okay, well let's so, is there the distributor's crank. Well,
you got a new distributor, but you know that the
rotors cranking over correct, you can see it moving. Oh okay, good, good, perfect, okay.
Because they had problems with those and sometimes the cams
that it's hooked onto, we just got to start at

(32:51):
the base ninety one. We got to throw back into
our archives.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, so this is the module on a distributor or
Is it on a.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Fender distributor contributor? Yeah, so it's on there. We know,
we know we have power. We had power at the coil.
Do we have power at the distributor? Right?

Speaker 10 (33:12):
I did not check that, you know, three or four
wires or I suppose it's the red one.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I can well. The things Kyle that the pine kind
of pop into my mind are fusible links over by
the the starter. That's the first thing that I think
those that have a tendency to go bad and burn.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Believe it or not, we were actually working on one
of these trucks this morning. I had a fuel issue,
no start. Gosh, it didn't get into the ignition set.
It's been so long since we worked on these TFI.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah. Yeah, so obviously you gotta have and that's all
going to go from.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
So you've got to pick up coil. You've got your
module on the side of the distributor. Everything's right there.
So now with so you've got a new coil, new distributor,
new module, everything right.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
I did not put a new coil on there. But
I'm not getting any signal.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Okay, so you're still not getting any signal from your module.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, we got to go check power because it's you
got power coming to the module. The module will make
the pickup reluctra will make him break the circuit. We're
just going to go through this and make him break
the circuit. Then it's going to go to the module,
and the module is going to create spark from there,
and then it's also going to send a signal to
the computer that is going to say, hey, I'm sparking,

(34:29):
therefore you need to do the injectors. So that's going
to come back. So yeah, I think the first place
we got to make sure is we've got power there.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
That and look at the computer on these that's the
one that's down in the left fender. They're good for
green connections.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
There and getting water in them because they.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Fill with water because the cowls plug up and then
the bottom of your fender rots out.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
And you fill the computer with water. Yeah. And also
also the the window cel and drips down into the
fuse box and drips into that computer.