Mr Mechanic 8-3-2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Meet Bob.

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

Speaker 1 (00:25):
How you're walking.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
He's Bob, He's Kyle, and every Saturday morning they morphed
together to form the greatest superhero known to man. Mister
Mechanic check engine lights, don't stand a chance. This is
the Mister Mechanic Show on eleven ten, kfab.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Great Saturday morning to h This is a Mister Mechanic show.
Five five, eight, eleven ten is the numbers to get in.
Get in early because the calls well, the lions will
fill up. We want to get to your questions. We're
an interactive call in show where you have the questions,
we have the answers and uh at least the top
couple answers and try to help you out. I'm Bob

(01:09):
and next to me as always as Kyle. Good morning Kyle.
It's been kind of a crazy week has that.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
It has a lot of ups and downs, a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of ups and downs, a lot of trees down, a
lot of cars beat up. You know, Yeah, windows out.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Some people are getting a new car this week, whether
they want to or not.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah. When those those trees, they look they look neat
when they're in the air, but the next thing you know,
they fall. It doesn't take much to collapse a car, no,
especially you know, one of those fifty foot trees or
a big branch. It'll blows the windows out and next
thing you know, it's gets to the doors and a
split second. So you know, we had a kind of
a you know, we had to just right up here

(01:50):
in this particular area we had We had a car
fire the other day. Looks like there was maybe he
had traced it back to somebody had a gas can
in the trunk. And don't forget that. Don't forget that.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
We've seen a lot of things forgotten in trunks.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
M make sure that if you're doing hauling around gas
can so let's make sure you get them in get
them out. One thing that people don't remember, and since
we work at a gas station, we do know this
is take that gas can out and stick it on
the ground ground the can because it's a plastic can
and static electricity will set a fire. So you never

(02:25):
want to have you never want to do it on
the tailgate or your truck. It's got plastic on plastic.
You move that and uh, gas doesn't burn. It's the
vapors that spark. One of the gas burns after the
vapor sparks. I guess then it's we all take advantage
of it. We don't think about it. But yeah, take

(02:47):
that plastic and they're all plastic now. There used to
be metal, Yeah, every last one of them. Yeah, I
see every once in a while, guy will ring a
bring a metal gas canyon. That's I've got.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Quite a few of them, like the last thing that
you know, I ever thought I would ever collect.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
But as you.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Know, people bring them, you know, people bring them into us.
You know, somebody will move into a new house and
a lot of old metal gas cans and if it
looks cool enough, it'll make it in the garage on
the shelf and stare at it.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
We collect gas cans down on purpose. So do we like,
why do I why do I have that? Think it
to the gas station. They'll they'll use it. Yeah, and
we do until we load it to somebody and don't
come back, which is.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, it's fine. It's just a circle of life.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
That can Yeah, it's kind of a circle of life.
So be careful of that stuff that you're right in
static electricity, even the you know what's in the in
the trunk that carpet you move that plastic back and
forth in the carpet.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, it's like the balloon test that everybody did in
high school. You know, the science teacher is teaching you
about electric Yeah, rub a balloon on a piece of carpet.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, you rub it on your head and it sticks
to your hair, you know that kind of thing. So
always take it out, fill it on the ground, and
then you've grounded that. When you're done, tighten it and
put it back in the car. Just a little bit
of safety advice for everybody, so you don't have a
problem with that. So I haven't seen, you know, the
I've had a few cars that have run over some
sticks and the sticks are stuck in there and have

(04:12):
to get that all wedged out and going. So oh yeah, yeah,
that's just part of what it happens.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
So mm hmm. Interesting going sticks will go through your
tire too, so be careful running over them. I hold
a couple out of tires this week. I'll go right
through your oil pen. It's amazing how sharp certain things are.
Oh yeah, we've talked about what we've seen in tires,
and we've seen it all in the tires. I mean,
there's just not much that you can bring up that
we haven't seen in tires. Pulled out of tires, really yeah,

(04:42):
pulled them out of my feet too, But you know,
thank god the kids are older now. We don't got
those around the house.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Keys, screwdrivers, would plastic metal, of course, I mean spark plugs, scissors.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
I mean, I got a really nice chisel out of
a tire. I still got I use it all the time.
It was sharp, It went through the tire, through the wheels,
stuck in the brakes.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
You have to think about just how perfect that is
for it to be able to run it over at
that particular spot in time and space and oh yeah,
the universe, but it gets in there.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, this came in on a back tire of a car,
so I'm guessing the front wheel kicked it up, went
right through the back wheel.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I had a pair of big long scissors go through
one day, bent it over and they drove it in
and it was waplap, flap, flap flap. Pulled it out
and bent the scissors back over, and I stuck it
in the office. We still use it. Yeah, they were
good scissors.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I've got a lot of stationary going on from tires,
a few pencils, pins.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
All right, we're gonna head over to Steve. Steve's got
an O nine christ for Town and Country. Steve, what's
up today?

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Well, man, I take him having trouble with the travel bodies.
Uh it's an OH nine one hundred and fifty one thou.
I can it up to three thousand ron pm and
it takes five to six seconds to come back down.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Mhmm. Okay, so this is this is it is No. Nine. Okay,
So it is throttle body. It's I don't think it
has an idle air control motor on that.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I'm pretty it's all going to be internal. It's all
dried by wire.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
So is there anything in the way of the gas pedal, carpet,
floor mat, anything obstructing it?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well? Uh, I even pull up on the pedal and
it still takes that long idol back down. Okay, Well,
and I've had I've had it stuck before. When I
let off the gass, it just kept going and I
had to break it hard to get it to come
back down.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Mmm.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Have you pulled the rubber boot at all and checked
to see if it's if it's uh just really gummed
up or anything else along that line.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Okay, so let's start by looking at it. Let's pull
our boot off. I mean, you can just take the
entire throttle body off. Let's take a good look at
this thing, front back, everything. It's only four screws. Why
not take it off, right? You get a good look
at it front back. If it's dirty, let's get in
there and clean it, you know, and I mean this
is going to be above you know your means at

(07:19):
the house. But those do have a relearned procedure to them,
which you know you have to have a capable scan
tool to do it. But I mean, essentially it's a
plug and play. But we always do this base idle
relearn to anytime we replace them. But let's get a
good look at it. If it's dirty, let's clean it
and see what happens.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, because it doesn't have an idle air control motor.
It has to be relearned to a certain percentage so
that you have it says it, Okay, I want to
be relearned to seven hundred rpm. Well, that throttle has
to crack open just enough to make it seven hundred rpm.
And that's why that that we replaced a bunch of
parts with just a throttle body, which is great, you know.

(08:01):
So that's why you got to relearn it. And you
might be able to do it with disconnecting the battery
and put it back together. We never try that because
we've got tools to do it. Yeah, So I think
that's where you're heading, is a throttle body. But always, always,
in any kind of repair, check the obvious stuff first
because sometimes you'll go, oh, look at that.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now, do you got any big vacuum leaks anything like that?
Is there anything hissing under the hood? You like, when
it's in geared, does it? Does it idle smooth? When
it's in geared? Does it surge? It seems to Okay,
so we can roll out any major vacuum leak.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Then it's idling about nine thousand R right now.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Nine thousand RPMs. It's idling.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, that's get that to Indian put
it on the track.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, take a video of that and send this to
uscause I want to see that on an OH nine
christ or Town of Country.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah yeah, sorry, no, we're just kidding.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
So that that's where we would start first. You know,
check it, clean it, you know, if nothing else, get
a different one. You know, if you want to lessen
your costs, you could probably even go to the salvage yard,
go go to your poet. Yeah, there's tons of the
Chrislers out there that nobody takes parts off at all. Yeah,
so you could get a cheap one out there and

(09:25):
then see how it works and relearn it if you
need to, and and you know, get away a little better.
We'll get you fixed up.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
This will be.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
If I buy a brand new one, would I have
to mess relearning that?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
It'll run with it. Just like we said, just go
ahead and disconnect your battery, do your repair, hook your
battery back up. I'm betting you're going to be Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
That might solve and relearn things. Again, I'm not really
sure of that, because that's just not the way we
do it, So that's not a I can't tell you
for sure that'll work that way, but it probably will.
All right, it ain't gonna be any worse.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, I'm gonna wait for it to cool down a
little bit for a mess.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Sure, there, you aggretiate the call, Steve. All right, we're
gonna take quick break on the Mister Mechanic Show. Five five, eight,
eleven ten is the number to get in. Well back
in a minute.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
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Speaker 1 (10:52):
We're gonna head back to the calls. Jim's got a
motor oil question. Jim, what's up.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
Motor oil? I'm supposed to clean the engine while it lubricates.
I think it might be valvelene, but I'm not sure.
That's not a new technology. They've always had hidig motor
oil before. Does that reduce the lubricating qualities of a
motor oil having that ability to clean parts?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
No, No, No, they're just it's just a marketing campaign.
They've they've you know, they've had detergent oil out forever
and it's now. They'll do whatever they can do to
try to make it work, try to get you to
buy more oil.

Speaker 6 (11:37):
Well, the filter take that out of the oil as
it goes through the system. Or will that be in
there always until you chase your.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Wheel, Yeah, it'll be. It's going to dissipate over time.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
If if the filter is going to get the big stuff, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
It's gonna Yeah, that's what they're filters. It's for. It's
getting big stuff. And so that's not circulating metal and
what plastic and whatever else through there, the bigger stuff.
But no, it's and it's if it starts off when
you put a fresh court oil in at one hundred percent,
it's just going to start decigraating down just a little bit,
you know, seventy sixty fifty forty, it's going to kind

(12:14):
of go down a little bit. And that's kind of
why you change it, the conventional oil. That's why it
gets super dirty. You know, when you change oil after
three thousand, five thousand miles, it gets super dirty. It's
doing its job. It's grabbing all that stuff that's in
the block and or the contaminate.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Fludge carbon build up anything like that. I mean, you
got oil in a crank case that's constantly spinning, you
get what's called windage, and it just like if you
take apart like an old engine from the sixties when
we didn't have the oil technology we do now, it's
like it's like the bottom of a charcoal grill.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yep, yep. And now things clean far better. And you know,
you I hate to say it, but you really kind
of want your oil to be somewhat dirty when you
change it.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's yeah, just getting it out of the engine.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's getting it out of the engine now. Conversely, also,
the synthetic oils do a much better job of lubricating
and do a much better job of holding that oil,
holding that dirt in the oil over a longer period
of time. And there's studies out there that show that

(13:22):
when you take oil the full synthetic and you go
five thousand miles and you just change your oil filter,
then add that, and then they sampled the oil and
they tested it and everything else, and they're running up
to twenty five thirty forty thousand miles with the original oil,
and it's it actually gets better over time, believe it

(13:45):
or not. I don't subscribe to that theory because oil
is cheap, and yeah, we need to get it out
of there. Engines are five thousand to twenty five thousand,
so it just is you need to get it out
of there, but unsynthetics.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
So okay, well answered my question. I appreciate, appreciate your response.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
You bet appreciate gol.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
All right, We're gonna head over to Jack. Jack's got
a thirteen journey. Jack, what's up today?

Speaker 7 (14:15):
Taking a turn right or left, doesn't matter. Get a
hard knock on the rail on the frame when turning right.
Had the transmission check there is no codes. It's an
all wheel drive, So you go back to what I
would guess would be the differential on an all wheel drive.
Had the oil changed in it, it was terrible, terrible

(14:35):
burn new oiled it. It's not doing it as often,
but it still does.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Now.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
Is that something at the end of the UH drive
line or is it in where the UH drive line
comes out of the transmission to that particular part.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
So you're getting a knocking noise, but.

Speaker 7 (14:58):
No, not a knocking noise. That hammer and always like
like UH five sledgehammer hitting up against the frame of
the car.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Okay, well on acceleration, decelebration, just turning.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
In doesn't matter, and generally when you're turning, it happens.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, I'm going to get under there. The first thing
I'm going to do if this comes into my bay,
I'm lifting this car up. I'm checking every bushing underneath
that car, agreed.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
And the motor mounts are the other thing that I'm
checking too, because if you're turning, if you're turning, you.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yeah, you're putting a bind on everything, right essentially.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right. I've seen motor mounds go bad that have dropped
down and then the axle hits the subframe because sometimes
they leave you a fair amount of room.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Sometimes you got a credit card, right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
And as you're turning corners, you're, like Kyle said, you're
putting a bind on everything turning corners, and everything shifts,
and when it shifts, it goes bang bang bang bang,
and the next thing you yeah, right down.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
All right, you say a motor mount or bushy.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Well, I'm lifting it up. I'm checking everything. I'm going
underneath there with a pride bar. I'm control arms, every
bushing I can see.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Control arms, uh struts, carrier bearing, carrier bearings, all that stuff.
You've isolated it down, sounds like to the right front.
So and then have somebody get get in there and
kind of power break one in the gas, one in
the brake, and then stick it in, you know, drive
and then reverse and just power break it a little
bit and see what jumps around?

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Is this a common problem with this moll bar that
you don't love?

Speaker 1 (16:40):
What a mini?

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, I mean we don't. It's not an uncommon thing
to you know, have noises and stuff. I mean we
see it on all different types.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, we see it on all different kind of stuff.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
But well, outside the guys, I appreciate help.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Very much, you bet, thank you appreciate the call. All Right,
We're gonna head over to uh uh two thousand free
on a twenty vera Cruz vera Cruz. What's going on today?

Speaker 8 (17:08):
Yes? I like the vehicle, but I'm always happening to
put a corner oilers there are no week.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah, and they did have some problems with that in
twenty ten.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
And Kia, I mean they've had some oil consumption problem
of oil consumption problems.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
What what have you done? Have you have you seen
or talked to anybody about it.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
No, I get my changes, all right. What could be
wearing so much oil? Is do I need to trade?

Speaker 9 (17:53):
Well?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Maybe, you know. I guess there's a couple of different reasons.
One it could be.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
The piston rings are a huge problem them on these cars,
and that's why Hyenda and Kia both have extended campaigns
to repair this issue. Yeah, and that's basically just gone
through and replaced and redesigned everything inside these engines.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
What I would do is document them.

Speaker 8 (18:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
What I would do is go through and document a
little bit how much oil it takes when just kind
of write it down, you know, the date and the
and the time and and uh how much you're putting in.
And then I think I would visit the dealership and
ask them a question, and uh, see what they can
do for you. But I think Kyle is right, there's
some campaigns out there or some recalls there that should
help solve that problem.

Speaker 8 (18:43):
If like throde it in on a pickup. Do you
know a good.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Well, it depends Toyota Tacoma.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, do you want a great one? You want a
big big truck or little truck.

Speaker 8 (19:02):
Bed? A whole things on my wa.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, Sometimes you know the I don't think they make
for it what it was. The Maverick, the little forward
Mavericks are kind of nice, you know. The Rangers, they
got Rangers still, those are good the to us.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, Tama, thank you sir.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
You bet appreciate call.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
Appreciate it, you bet.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
All right, We're going to take a quick break on
the Mister Mechanics show. Five, five, eight to eleven tens
the numbers to get in. We'll be back in a bit.
Back over to Joe, who's been waiting patiently. Twenty twenty
f one fifty, Joe, what's up today?

Speaker 10 (19:41):
Oh hey, guys, I got this twenty twenty f one fifty,
bought it new. It's got about ninety two thousand miles
on it. Now got three point five and then the
tense speed electronic transmission that transmission chef shifts rough. Not
all the time, you know, sometimes it just dry as

(20:02):
smooth as can be. And then sometimes it just shifts
for rough, especially from like third or second to third
and then maybe forced to fifth gear. And I'm a
little worried about it.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
How many miles you got on this truck?

Speaker 10 (20:19):
It's got about ninety two thousand, Okay, has it been.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
That way for a long time, or just kind of now.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
I think it's getting a little worse. I mean, what
really got I mean, I've been aware of it, but
the other day my wife was riding with me and
she noticed it and I thought, holy smokes, maybe that
is getting bad. But you know, I pull trailers occasionally,
not real heavy trailers. I got ATV and a small

(20:47):
tractor that i'll pull on a on a trailer, but
not you know.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Have you serviced it at all? Or is it just
kind of ninety thousand on the same fluid.

Speaker 10 (20:56):
No, I had it. I had it changed, but it
went too long. I know that I should have I
should have had it changed before I did, but it's
you know, it didn't seem to make any difference.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, the first couple of things I probably is have
it when when you're gonna need to, yeh, look at it.
You're gonna need to look at it, probably pull some codes.
There won't be any lights probably on, but there may
be some codes in the in the computer that point
the technician in a certain area.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Maybe there is a be an update for that one.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Then a few with the newer trucks for shifting issues.
And it's just a software update. I mean, of all things,
you wouldn't think that that would cause intermittent shift issues.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
But as that ages over a period of time, things
can things will change on the inside of the transmission
and uh to open up the parameters for shifting here
and there can be a software download and that might
help punches frictions. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
The amount of time that the servos taken to engage.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, I mean all happens in microseconds, and you might
end up in a transmission. But let's let's h let's
do the look see first on the easy stuff before
we head that way.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Okay, well sounds good.

Speaker 10 (22:17):
I'll have them look at it. So anyway, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
You bet appreciate the call. All right, We're gonna head
over to Marion on a twenty twelve Kia Sorrento. Maryon
what's up today?

Speaker 11 (22:28):
Hey, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Great?

Speaker 4 (22:31):
Good?

Speaker 11 (22:31):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 8 (22:32):
Okay, we can.

Speaker 9 (22:33):
Hear you perfect good.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
I'm driving.

Speaker 11 (22:36):
I've got a mystery problem. First, my radio got dinner
Minton and it always seemed to be temperature controlled if
it was too hot or too cold. Now my backup
camera is doing the same thing.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
In the backup camera. Is that one in the rearview
mirror or does that come through the radio display as well.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay, now the cameras can go Let's just start with
the camera. Camera can can go bad because they are
they're a good camera, but they're not the high quality
military version at all. So car washes, slam on the trunk,
all that kind of stuff can cause bad video feed. Also,
the wire's got to run up through the door, so

(23:26):
the door hinges they can break up there.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
That's a possibility outside all day.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's in an it's terrible environment. Yeah,
it's shield, but water gets in. I see a lot
of them with water in them, so that more n
likely is either going to be a camera more issue.
Just kind of like out outdoor security cameras go bad.
Your radio.

Speaker 9 (23:52):
Hello, you're still.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
And your radio marine you're still there.

Speaker 11 (24:06):
I can't hear you. Okay, oh yeah yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Well, So with the.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
With the radio, how intermittent does it kind of come
and go or is it just like whenever we have
a drastic temperature change like you were saying, or can
you just be driving down the road and it'll come on.

Speaker 11 (24:28):
Uh in the winter time, it takes a while.

Speaker 12 (24:31):
For it to warm up as things with the heater,
and then if the sun's been beaten on through the
window during the summer too long, then I have to
cool it down with the AC.

Speaker 10 (24:46):
It seems like.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
It kind of sounds like the radio controller itself is
kind of going bad to me.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
I mean in electrical circuits, it doesn't matter what it is,
temperature is gonna affect it in one way.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Or prints the board something like that. Yeah. Yeah, I
would look into see what a new radio costs, or
maybe even a used one, or you know, maybe even
radios have gotten cheap. I'll tell you what, So maybe you.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Get upgrade to one where that has a backup camera
in it. Yeah, just kill two birds with one st
yea it installed and the ware you go. Radios have
gotten super cheap over the last few years. And I'd
look into an aftermarket and like Kyle said, do it
all one shot.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
That's what I would do.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Okay, Yeah, you get that has a backup camera as
part of it.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, maybe in there we're done. Maybe anywhere from you know,
three to five hundred bucks. You've called, you've killed both problems,
so that's what I would look into.

Speaker 11 (25:43):
All right, appreciate it, Thank you you bet Mari.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I appreciate the call. All Right, we're gonna head over
to David. David's got an O seven H three hummer, David,
what's up today?

Speaker 9 (25:55):
Hey, good morning boys, great before you be in there
a long time list. Great H three hummer. There's two
buttons on the dash that you push four high, four low,
and it automatically puts that transfer case into neutral, so

(26:18):
you can told the bid. My problem is I have
replaced the gear selector off of the transfer case with
one after market and then my mechanic replaced it with
a GM original. Still didn't get it to go to neutral.

(26:43):
So he bought a used bod Jorb that's buried in
the dash and still nothing. But he was talking to
his distributor and he says, well, I can get them
from GM, no problem. So we put that in. We
still have a problem. It's not working.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
So you have four high, you have four low, but
you have no neutral.

Speaker 9 (27:10):
Right exactly everything else. I got the four load, the
four high for lot neutral.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Okay, So I'll tell you what I'm going to go
to first I'm going to pull that encoder motor off
of there, and you've got a shaft I'm going to manually.
You can clip a pair of ice grips onto the
shaft manually try and put this thing into neutral.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, see if it works on the manual.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah, see if you can turn it and get that
transfercation into neutral. We know that we're going back up
into the problem or back up into the car and
looking for an electrical issue, potentially a module issue, wire
pinched under your dash something like that. Now, if you
can't get this thing to physically shift into neutral manually,

(28:00):
you know you're in the transfer case. Something's slipped or
buying bound up to where it can't shift. It's not disengaging.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, that that selector shaft is your fork in the road?
Am I going to the transfer case? Or am I
going electrical?

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Right?

Speaker 9 (28:18):
And like you say that, like you say that fork
in the road.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (28:25):
Unfortunately GM made two of those forts, one of the
metal fork, the other was like a plastic by fort.
And we checked that we've actually took that selector motor
off of the transfer case and tried to did it
to activate, just hanging onto it with our hands and

(28:48):
it still don't.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Okay. So you can't physically get this thing into neutral
manually either.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
So I'm for getting about the module, the switch, the
encoder motor, all that stuff. I'm taking that transfer case
apart and seeing what's gonna right inside, because if nothing
inside's working, nothing outside is gonna work.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Right right exactly? You got you got? You have more
of a mechanical problem. It sounds like from what I
can what we can tell now.

Speaker 9 (29:19):
You've you misunderstood me, uh electronical part. When I disconnect
that uh dear selector, it is the electronic part hanging
onto my hand. It don't shift either.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, So I'll party shirt.

Speaker 9 (29:40):
It's an electrical problem. And that's what I'm calling about.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
If you guys got.

Speaker 9 (29:46):
Any input, or if you've got and this is the
important part, if you've got one of your boys in
the shop that is a whiz kid with electronics, I'll
bring this to unit freaming hard.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
But yeah, it sounds like you've got a problem where
it's not. It's going from the switch to the module
to the encoder motor. So it's it's a matter of.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Where's our communication breakdown?

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Right?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
We're getting behind there with a scope and we push
the button. Is the button sending signal out? Is the
module getting signal? Is the module sending signal to the
encoder motor. We just got to follow our map.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
And sometimes it's not as easy as just just changing
that module. Sometimes it may have to be programmed in
order for it to know what to do, because it comes,
it comes blank, comes, it comes at as zero, and
you have to you have to write it. You have
to write it. You got to. You got to tell
it it's an O seven hummer. It doesn't know. It

(30:47):
could think it's something else, and that's why it won't work.
So you might be onto the problem. They just haven't
haven't programmed direction, correct.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Okay, yeah, all right.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
Now, if I really come to the point where I'm
getting tired of banging my head on a telephone pole,
do you guys do that electronical stuff?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yep, yeah, we can figure it out for you.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
All right.

Speaker 9 (31:11):
And you're on uh, you're on Dodge Street. Okay, I
don't I know where you're at. I might come and
see you boys. All right, I'm grateful. I'm grateful for
you being there. I get my information from you, or
I get it from your competitor in New Jersey on
a different channel, the car Doctor. You are definitely because

(31:41):
you're local, and I like local car doctors in New Jersey.
But I like to listen to him talk. They've got
a neat way of talking. Yeah, you guys are number one.
I'm grateful for you being there, and I thank you
for the information.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
We appreciate the call. David, call anytime. All right, we're
gonna take quick break on the Mister Mechanics Show five five,
eight eleven ten. We'll be back in a minute.

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Speaker 1 (32:17):
You know, Kyle, this is an interesting article they have.
They're having kind of I wouldn't say wars, but they're
having a kind of contests out there to see who
can get the best State Trooper, Coolest Cruiser award. And
I've looked through some of these and it's not just
this the same old you know right here we are, Yep, yep,

(32:41):
it's not the Barney's. You know, Barney and Andy are
out there. Didn't look like that, No, they actually have
a lot of places around the country really have some
unique and good looking designs on the side of their
vehicles and uh there you know, people are writing in
it's kind of a contest to kind of see Oh
that was just kind of an interesting you know. Of course,

(33:02):
I got the mustangs of Camaros, the Challengers, you know,
they sedans, I mean, they pick ups. I mean they
some places have gotten just police that's it, and others,
which is really all you need. You just need to
know who they are. And uh and some of them
just got super super creative and logos, and I mean,

(33:24):
well somebody else got involved in this, like a marketing
company got involved. So they're kind of neat the ones,
the sneaky ones that I see around town, or ones
that are the Ford Explorers that look like a normal
Ford Explorer till you.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Till you break the lawn and then you find out
it's yeah, super Ford Explorer.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Well when you get up next to it, you can
see that it says police and everything else on.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Oh they've done a good job. They've done a great
job of ghost painting.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Now there. Yeah, that's I would try to figure out
what the word was, but ghost painting is on there,
and it's like, and I have not because you know
both you and I never have a problem with breaking
the lar, over the speedlemon or anything, so it's it's
never me. But I just still just thought it was like, oh,
there's another one. There's another one.

Speaker 8 (34:08):
You know.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I guess that's something I've never really paid attention to.
You And be honest, how cool are the cop cars
in this town?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
You know, some outer states, in some outer divisions in
this country or other Just yeah, I've seen some other ones,
like Colorado's got some cool ones and some other ones
they've gotten creative. So if you get a chance, you
look on the internet and just kind of see that,
it's it's just kind of neat.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
We should make a TV show about that, Pimp my
cop Car.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, I would put a big stereo in it and
everything else like Pimp My Ride, which was it was.
It was fun for about a season and that was
about the end of that.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
You know, some of those cars, I don't know whatever
happened to them because we don't ever see them. You'd
think it would come up at Barrett Jackson or one
of those auctions we follow very heavily, but we haven't
seen any of them.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Well, they're all very unique and all very terrible looking
for the most part.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, I mean there was a lot on that show
that I didn't really agree with, but yeah, somebody had
to do it.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
It's completely unique. And then here is a very interesting
article the uh the mobile got an accent and we've
done some Wiener mobile.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Oh, the history of the wienermobile.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yeah, this one got an accident. So the Wiener was
upside down and it, uh, right in the middle of
the highway in Chicago. Somebody rolled the Wiener Yeah suburban
Suburban Chicago. The hot dog truck and uh, it was well,
it was kind of a smaller one. It kind of
flipped onto the on side and they had to go
out and get it. Valued riber lost control and overcorrected,

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causing it to roll. The Illinois State Police said no
injuries reported, just a bunch of hot dogs on the road.
That's about it.