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You can listen on Facebook or you can go to I heart, whatever's good. Yeah. Just tune on in. Okay. We, uh, we will go over to Joe and let's see, uh, let's see here.
Okay. Joe, welcome to the CNC auto show and what can we help you with? Hey, um, I think I may have a, uh, uh, the answers to your tech tip. Oh my goodness. Man.
I'm so glad that Joe, man, I really, really need somebody to answer this tech tip quiz for me. It would be very helpful. Uh, you mind if I put you on stage? Oh, absolutely. All right.
Hold on to that railing when you go up there. Okay. All right. Now here we'll go.
Uh, Joe, you are on stage. I'm going to read this question. Uh, and of course you already know all those wonderful prizes that you'll get. And, uh, plus if you win the TV crews will pull up and the antennas and all the satellite deals will go all in your house and you won't even be able to walk out of your house for a while.
Most people go to, uh, go out of town to some another country just until they try to find out how to handle their finances better and all. Okay, here we'll go. All right. Johnny owned a 2002 two wheel drive Chevy truck with a 5.3 Vinco T as he was performing a DIY project. He put something that cost him under 20 bucks on the truck and it caused him to lose his truck home and wife. What did he put on his truck that cost him under 20 bucks and why did it make him lose his truck home and wife and Joe, we are ready for you to answer our tech tip quiz.
What is it? I think he put it on the mud plants to have an offensive, uh, thing on the back that, um, his wife didn't like at all. Oh, so why, how did he lose his truck because of that though? She took everything.
She has a good lawyer. Well, I mentioned before now that the title to that truck was in his name and, and, and, and yeah. And to be honest with you, she didn't want the truck. Oh yeah. I was thinking like the, the, uh, since there was a heavy duty truck, I was thinking you might have put it in, put on some like big rig type, uh, mud flats that had like the, the, the silhouette of the, of the, so the pretty girl on there.
Oh, and she walked out and looked at his mud flats and just got ticked off. I had another, I have another answer too, but I don't know if you get the gift to answers. Um, well, I'll tell you what you can, uh, you can call back and definitely give a second answer. Would you do that? Yeah, I'll be, I'll be happy.
I have a rule book that they make me follow. And they said, absolutely find somebody call back with a second one, but they have to, it has to be on a separate call. So if you do that, that would be great because I look forward to it, Joe. I think you can do it, man. Oh, thank you. All right.
No doubt. My mind. All right. Thank you, Joe. Oh, wait, wait, wait, Joe. Let me give you, let me give you something real quick right before you go. Well, actually Mason gave that to you.
I'll talk to you soon. Bye-bye. Oh, Joe. No, Joe, Joe.
It's not that bad, man. Okay. We'll go to the next caller. Let's go over to, let me, I want to be right here because one of the, okay.
Yeah. We'll be going to Ralph. Ralph, welcome to the CNC auto show and what can we help you with? Good morning, gentlemen. Hopefully I can help everybody else out. Fantastic. My, my, uh, my experience with frozen fasteners and fittings, uh, something my grandfather taught me many years ago was if you can get a ranch on it, uh, take a hammer and try tightening it just so slightly, just enough to set up vibration and maybe break any corrosion or tension and then try to loosen it.
If it moves any at all, just keep doing that procedure. Oh, and I think that's very wise advice and that is true. Uh, you know, Ralph, since I, since you're on the phone, I think you're going to be the one that kicked this thing off that we're going to do today. Have you ever heard a wicking wicking? Yeah. W I C K. Yup. That's it. All right. It's a, it's a capillary action and I do a lot of brazing and soldering. Oh, fantastic.
Okay. Now with wicking, uh, we have a glass that has a little bit of PB blaster in it and the PB blaster is that is, um, it is probably a little, we'll probably put a little bit more there because we don't have that much in there. Uh, but what happens with bolts and I've actually seen this is even both when they have a lot of rust on it. Now the bolts we have don't have that terribly much rust.
It's all I could find. It was late last night when I was looking around for some bolts. Um, but the reason that it's important to spray them down with PB blaster before you do even your action that you were talking about is that that PB blaster will actually do a capillary action and go up those bolts. And I've seen it even go through rust, uh, go through a rusty nut, followed the threads all the way upward.
And that's, what's kind of wild that you just see it instead of it being at the bottom and adjust flow upward that and followed the threads all the way through the nut and help dissolve that rust. So I'm going to, as we're talking and we'll talk about this more as we're, uh, during the, uh, during the show, I'm going to put a bolt in there in this class. Now you won't be able to, we're going to describe it because some people are only listening and we put a bolt in this PB blaster and we will see during the show, if it follows those threads upward, Michael, I'm going to put a little bit more PB blaster in there, sort of, uh, cover the head of the bowl and then we'll see how this does. Okay. We're going to keep you informed Ralph.
So stay tuned and, um, it will work. Okay. And, um, one other thing about PB blaster, I love that stuff. Um, old school, uh, hmm. Oh, wow. That is, that's amazing. Also, well, we're going to keep listening, Joe, because I mean, Ralph, we're going to keep you informed on, on how this does as far as following the threads up and a great tip on the bumping and thank you for sharing it with others. Okay.
One, one quick comment about your tech. I'm not even going to attempt it, but the first caller about the gentleman putting his girlfriend on the truck and taking a picture. I love that.
Yeah, that was good. Wasn't the smartest thing he's ever done though. But, uh, yeah, that, if you go take a picture of your girlfriend, I wouldn't do it on your truck. Bad move, dude. I don't know about that answer. It cost 20 bucks. Yeah.
Now Michael just mentioned that, uh, he didn't know about that answer because we said it just cost 20 bucks. I don't know about, yeah, I don't know. I'm not even getting into that. I'm staying out of that one.
No, no, not even going there, Ralph. Yeah. I'm gonna let that dog last sleeping. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm not, I'm not working with that. Okay. Ralph, thank you very much. And we appreciate the call. Y'all have a wonderful day and you do the same.
Okay, here we go. The, um, we'll take a real quick break and I'm here with automotive machine shop expert, Michael rivers. We're gonna make a quick pit stop and we will be right back after these messages. Let's head back down to the car care studio with Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. CNC auto show is brought to you in part by KCL a one-step pouring solution designed to stop coolant leaks and help prevent future leaks. You can find KCL at Walmart.
In addition to find part stores nationwide, check store websites for hours of shipping information. And remember, don't just seal it, K seal it. And that was pretty quick. I'm Aaron Clements here with cohost Michael rivers. We're back on the road and ready to answer your automotive questions. And we're also discussing common car questions that you may have.
Well, actually talking about more DIY common car, uh, tips more than anything. And you can watch this show on Facebook. You can listen on our heart. You can, uh, listen, uh, on this channel, WGAC and the number 800-224-9090. We'll go over to let's go over to Trevor. Trevor, welcome to the CNC auto show.
And what can we help you with? I have an O2 Dodge 2500 pickup with five speed transmission for about the past couple of weeks in fourth and fifth. When you try to accelerate the transmission seems like it's slipping.
The motor revs up and you have to kind of let off the port to catch up and start accelerating. And I need an answer that's not bad. Okay. I wrote that part down.
It does not, not something bad. Okay. The, um, have you, um, have you had the transmission fluid checked yet? No, I'm, I'm very familiar with automatic transmissions. I've rebuilt a half a dozen or so of them. I've never had a problem with any manual transmission.
So this was a manual transmission. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. I missed that. I evidently missed that part.
I didn't know. Okay. And you mentioned that at, uh, at a certain speed, uh, did you say fourth and fifth year and you're giving it the gas and it's feeling like it's slipping. Yes, sir.
Okay. Yeah. And it probably is slipping. It sounds like you have a clutch issue. Michael, what do you think be my guess?
Yeah. Uh, I would say a clutch, uh, your clutch is slippings probably just worn down, uh, very much like breaks for worn down and, and it's very similar to breaks. You have an asbestos surface that has a certain thickness and, uh, and over time, well, actually the clutch disc is what wears, but when you replace this, you would do it all at one time. You would replace the throw out bearing, the clutch, the pressure plate.
Um, there's a little pilot bushing in there. You would do that. Uh, you would also take that flywheel off and take it to a machine shop and ask them to resurface the flywheel and all of that is pretty much called a clutch job.
And so it sounds like that's what you would need. Now, the way I normally can confirm that and make sure that it's not something different is I drive them around a block and I'll shift it from first and then go to second and then let off the clutch. Like I'm wanting to spin the wheels. And if the car don't jerk and just go and instead goes, Ooh, then, then kind of, you want to hear that again?
Ooh. And then takes off. Then it's normally the, um, that would be the clutch does have slippage. And again, that's the main thing you want to get it all done at one time. And then once it's done, if it hadn't been done in a long time, wouldn't hurt to change the manual transmission fluid because it does wear out over time, but you're right. It's not going to cause that problem, but, uh, just good to replace it after a period of time. Sometimes there's just smells first, you know, granny first or really per second and third year is it's fine. I mean, as far as getting on, it's just that fourth and fifth is the ones that, that it actually slipped in. Yeah. All that sounds like I'm going to be pulling transmission out. Yeah.
Really not much more now. Michael had a good point. It was just getting ready to mention, uh, Michael, you say something about the smell that goes with it. Yeah. A lot of times you can use a burnt smell. Yeah.
A little asbestos burning smell, not uncommon to go along with it, but I can't think of anything else that would cause it to slip on a manual transmission other than the clutch being bad. So I would, uh, it does sound like transmission. How many did you tell me to turn this boat and wiggle his wire and then it was going to be fine. Well, you can do that. It's just not going to help. Great news, whichever. We do appreciate your calls, but that's always a good project. You'll enjoy it. Oh yeah. I'm sure.
Oh, just kick back. Thank you very much. Okay. Number to call 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 8 hundred. And we will, um, we will give a real quick tip. And then when we return, we, uh, we have Jim who will also have some tips. I'm gonna, um, I'm gonna just mention this part. Uh, I was torn about this on whether to mention a battery as being a DIY tip at one time they were, but what I'm concerned about now, some batteries are located under the floorboard sums and the, uh, um, trunk sums in the fender.
And you have to own almost all modern cars. You're supposed to supply some power to the system. So you don't lose the memory on everything that's there. Uh, you got voltage arcs. So, um, I lean toward on a battery, unless you've got some experience in the equipment, uh, I would recommend having someone install that for you, uh, and not using it at that as a do it yourself. You could get into some problems with that. Sure. And it sounds good.
Okay. Well, uh, we are, uh, here with Michael rivers, automotive machine shop expert, and we need to pull up for a few minutes, but we will be right back. So don't wiggle, even that upper lip at all, because we're going to be right back after this. It's time for more good stuff with Aaron Clements and John Ryan. Mooney CNC auto show is brought to you by O'Reilly auto parts. Your professional parts people. We are back in the car with you. I want to say thank you to Michael rivers being here with us, uh, Sharon machine shop, uh, tips, and also helping to answer automotive questions.
And we are ready for you instead of beating around a blush. I believe I am going straight on over to, uh, let's go over to Jim. Jim, welcome to the CNC auto show.
What can we help with? Hey, Aaron, Michael. Hey, Jim. Yes, sir. That little DIY project I'm trying right now, and I'm having a either coincidental or causal reaction to it.
Let's take a look at the landscape. Here's the car. Oh, seven crown Victoria, 4.6 liter V8 mileage, 107,000. And I had begun with some of these cars that I've had for a while to introduce on a DIY method, some seafoam product.
Seafoam is, uh, can be used in the engine engines gas tank. That is in a one ounce per gallon as they market the product that preventative or maintenance type ratio and anything that goes above that, starting at two ounces per gallon as a cleaning ratio. So I put in two ounces per gallon, for this car, for the first time, 85 miles ago. And while I was driving it yesterday, I began to sense when the car is in most noticeably about 40 miles an hour, which is right above the torque converter, clutch engagement and overdrive. Every once in a while, I get that little bit of a buck once, maybe a half a dozen times in the 80 some odd miles. That's signifies to me a misfire. Now either electrical or fuel can't say it's so intermittent. And when I parked the car and stand behind it and listen to it, I'll every so often, I'll get a little bit of a, of a shake and a little notice in the exhaust, like a little puff once in a while.
So curious if you have any experience, either view with what may be, you know, either view with what may be related or unrelated to that process. Am I working through the cleaning of injectors gradually? And that's what's happening. Do you, would you think it'd be somewhere else? And Jim, my guess is your, that vehicle's not due for a maintenance tuneup. You've probably already had the plugs replaced. Is that right?
I should have made that part of the landscape. Yes. 80, it was done 21,000 miles ago, full set of plugs. Okay.
All right. And, and, and, and no doubt a bumping sensation is more commonly in the ignition system, but in most cases, if it was in, it was, if it was mostly in the ignition system, you would also feel it under slight acceleration, about 40, 45 miles an hour. You would feel a definite dropout because that's when the ignition system is under the most load.
So, um, that makes me wonder just a little bit. Uh, but it, it also, um, it, it could be in the fuel and what you're doing is not a bad thing, but I lean toward the ignition system. I would, uh, the only way to be able to, uh, save for sure would be while it's misfiring or while that's, uh, seeing that feeling is to have an IDS laptop or it, they call it the machine, but actually it's a laptop and the computer can actually count the misfires. And like, if it looks at one cylinder and it counts up, it has five misfires and this other cylinder has, uh, 50 or 60, then it would know that that particular cylinder, that one cylinder does have some misfire and no doubt more commonly on those, it would be an ignition coil above all above all else. And do you think that data, if it's, uh, occurred in the history in these last 80 something miles only is when I've noticed that that's it introduced this product. Is it going to store that data? Even if it's not misbehaving at the time of the connection to the computer?
Yes, it will store the misfire data. So that can be retrieved. Good. Yeah.
All right. I think I'm going to run it around some more. Let's let it see if it's going to progress.
Cause it is so isolated that right now it's not a nuisance, but I know it's not right. So let me monitor it and then I can go from there. Well, I think what you're doing is perfect. And, uh, Jim, this gives me a chance to mention something.
We have this bolt that just the head part of the bolt is immersed in PB blaster. And we've been sitting here watching this the whole time and Mason come into producer. He come in and looked at in the beginning. He said, wow, that thing has climbed a thread if one up one. But since then, since we put this in there, it is up a minimum of what would you say three, four, four threads. So it is climbing up these threads. So that's why it's so good to spray something down. Uh, and of course we'll probably won't have time to see it go through the nut, but this is heading that way. Yeah. This will actually go through the nut onto the, uh, onto the other end.
So that's, um, that's great to spray stuff down before you break it loose. This way you can maybe do a couple of time-lapse photographs and then post a couple of them in sequence over if it has to be a day or half a day up on your Facebook and people can then get an idea of really how far it went and how long it took. Great idea. That's it.
We might just do that. And I got a little comment about your tech tip quiz. I don't think I have an answer, but I, I tell you what, I come in from a different angle.
I'll tell you what I think about it. When I listen, and this may be towards the answer, who knows, but it results as you listen to them, the losing of the truck, the wife and the house. That sure sounds a lot like most country, Western songs. Like if you played one of them backwards, you get all those things back. Cause when you put, put a, you put a CD in a car and you play that song and he starts singing along, he would lose his truck.
He'd lose his wife and he'd lose his house. That is true. But anyway, and dog and best friend, everything. That's right. That's right.
It all goes away. So anyway, so I'll take a look at this and watch it perform and see what it gets. So thanks for the hint. And we'll go from there. Sounds great, Jim. And we'll keep you informed on our wicking capillary action.
Capillary action. Sounds like it's rising like a thermometer in South Carolina in July, doesn't it? It's moving. There's no question. Jim, thank you for the call. You bet. Good day to you both. Thank you. You too. Bye-bye. Okay.
The number to call is 863-500-706-863-5800 or 800-224-9090. Let's go over to, let me, let me make sure I get this right. Chris, Chris, welcome to the CNC auto show. What can we help you with? Oh, my goodness. We're going to need to put you on stage. Are you okay with that? Chris, I'm going to read this question one time and I'm depending on you to answer this for me.
Here's the question. Johnny owned a 2002 two-wheel drive Chevy truck with a 5.3 code T as he was performing a DIY project. He put something on the hood that cost him under 20 bucks and it caused him to lose his wife, his home, his truck, everything. What did he put on his truck? Well, earlier in the episode, I didn't realize that you would say he put something on his hood. I just thought you said he put something on his truck.
So I have no idea. Well, actually he did put something on his truck, but it wasn't on the hood. Well, it could have been on the hood. Well, I was going to say he might've just straight pipe just exhaust, which that's extremely. Uh, and, and, and how would that make him lose his truck though? Well, that can't be good for your truck.
Am I right? Oh, so the, the loud exhaust might've messed up the truck. And then now how did, why did he lose his wife? Well, I wouldn't want to be married to anybody with a straight pipe trouble that, you know, you stay in one of the squatter trucks running around and they're just super loud and annoying.
I wouldn't want anybody to have one of those. She just, she just listened to that noise and said, I'm out of here. Took the house too. Yeah. That was my guess.
Sometimes it can be annoying. She just, she just up and left. You might've been right on the breaking point. And that was the last thing that sealed the deal. Thank you, Chris.
You made me laugh in my throat sore. Have a great day. Okay.
The number to call 800-224-9090. And I want to say thank you to Chris for giving us a call. I love that.
Okay. We'll be right back after this. Welcome back to more of the CNC auto show with Aaron Clements and John Ryan Mooney. As we navigate the COVID-19 crisis, O'Reilly auto parts is dedicated to serving you. We've been deemed an essential business. So our doors will stay open.
We encourage you to buy online, then pick up curbside together. We're committed to getting through this and we are back with you with automotive machine shop expert, Michael rivers, co-hosting we're answering automotive questions, given DIY tips, and we are looking for your phone call 800-224-9090. We do have a tech tip quiz laying on the table. Also, we're going to go over to Lloyd Lloyd.
Welcome to the CNC auto show. And what can we help you with? Lloyd, this is for you. And did I pronounce your name wrong? Is this for Lloyd?
Yes, absolutely. We are all eyes are on you. And we're ready for your question. Ever 2019 audio for with 26,000 miles on it. We've been getting a safety system, sensor malfunction, visual and audible warning followed by an airbag light. The first time was two months after we bought it. And it's come on nine different times. It's been in the shop, eight times.
Nighttime will be next Tuesday. They're unable to fix it. I was wondering if you had any idea what might be causing it? Did they mention if any codes were being stored inside the vehicle? Every time we take it in, they check the codes and don't tell me what they are. But when we pick it up the lights out, I'm sure it comes back on and we take it back in. Okay, I would I would ask a lot of questions on saying what codes are being stored. Because you want to start documenting everything that you talk about.
And and no doubt that they're most likely doing their very best that they can do. But if you've got a vehicle that their bag lights constantly coming on, you may end up having to go further than just locally to be able to get this done. So to do that, you want to gather as much information as you can. When you have the car there, I would recommend saying I want to know what what trouble codes are being set in this system. And I would like to because that way, if it comes back on, you'll be able to say, well, they have been doing this, the next thing I would do is confirm if you if there's any bulletins on the vehicle. In most cases, if a vehicle had a problem with a airbag light, in many, many cases, other ones around the country would do the same thing. So I would definitely go ahead and look for any bulletins.
And then also, I would ask Mr. Google and Mr. YouTube, because those two can help you tremendously find out if there's other people around the country that's gone through the same thing. And in doing that, you should get an answer. If you don't, you may have to call the factory service, customer service line, and say this is a vehicle that I have, having problems with airbag lights, and it's come on the I've taken it back this many times.
And I need some relief on getting it squared away. Yeah, we've done that. And I caught him, it had a recall that they thought might fix it. And that didn't do it 24 hours after we picked it up and went off again. They seem to be focusing on some sort of seatbelt latch, but that hasn't fixed it. We've notified Audi National. And I believe that we're now looking at the lemon law thing.
This thing has had nine different times for the same problem. So I think that might be the next approach we have to take. Did they replace the seatbelt latch? Oh yeah.
Okay. So they have put a new one in there. Yeah, they've done that.
They've done everything that the little computer tells them to do, but still it's not working. And that's the bad part. A lot of people are looking at a problem like that and they'll say, wow, doesn't replace every part on there. What else can it be? Well, the unfortunate part is you got all that wiring in between that it still can be. And of course, still you got the inside of a computer that can do it. My thought process, this is just my gut feeling.
If you've already replaced the latch and they're having that much trouble, usually what I found in the past is many things like that turn out to be the computer itself. And in that case, it would be the airbag module airbag computer. Uh, because what I found in the past is a computer or module, a tell on everybody else, but it won't tell on itself.
So it'll make you think something else is wrong when in effect, it could be wrong. That's my gut feeling. Uh, but again, uh, keep everything documented and you may very well have to, um, to go the other route. But I think doing what you're doing now is a very good thing.
Ask and finding out what all your options are. You've done the first things I talk about. The second thing is I feel like that I would, um, let them know that what you will need to do if you're not able to get it straightened out, because you don't want to go through that all the time. Yeah, I kind of agree with that. They've given them nine different times to fix it.
They just seem to have any idea what it is. So we'll go for a new vehicle, see what that works out. Well, or, um, or also just tell them that, uh, you, uh, is there a chance that they feel like the computer might be bad? And if it is, would they put one on? Cause if it's not, if it's not a computer, you're going to have a wiring issue.
That's going to be very difficult to find. Yeah. That's my thought.
They said the computer was fine about the third or fourth time it was in. So we'll see. Okay. Thanks for your time. Oh, thank you. I hope you have a fantastic day.
I know that's gotta be frustrating for him. Okay. Let's go over to, um, oh wow.
Those are very close together. So I'm going to go up here to George. George, welcome to the CNC auto show. What can we help with?
Good morning. Well, I want to try to answer the tech tip quiz. Okay. George, you're on stage already. You're up there.
And I'm going to read the question real quick. Um, the Johnny, he owned a 2002 two-wheel drive Chevy truck with a 5.3, Ben Cody, as he was performing a DIY project, he puts up on the truck that costs under 20 bucks and it caused him to lose his truck home and wife. What did he put on the truck that cost him under 20 bucks? George, all eyes are on you. Our philandering Johnny put a front license plate tag with some other woman's name on it.
Oh, and then double down by hanging her panties from the rear view mirror and his wife sued him for the horse and took everything. And, uh, and, uh, Johnny's a bad boy. Wow. You just, uh, you just created a very tough mental picture for me, George.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what to do about it or do with it. Sorry, but it was your scenario. All right.
Let me put that in front of the judges and see what they say, um, that George, they're all shaking their head and it's a matter of fact, it's kind of, you know, how they kind of lowerly shake their head, but George, that was a good try though. And, and, uh, I'm going to be trying to get rid of that mental picture as I go. Hey, thank you for the call. Okay.
The number to call is 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800. Uh, but the bad part is I'm looking up and we are just about out of gas. I mean, the gas gauge only I'm asked James and the other ones to please give us a call back next, uh, next week, because we will be, uh, back on the road again next week, Michael, I want to say, thank you very much for joining us today. Well, it was a lot of fun. Uh, and I also want to congratulate, uh, Michael and the whole Bose machine shop team, your wife, all the ones that have worked so hard, uh, to make it happen. Y'all going to be moving to a new, larger expanded location. Looking forward to it.
A lot of, a lot of exciting things happening. Yeah. Uh, want to recommend everyone, uh, that does work on their own car and definitely all the much, uh, professionals, uh, have a good machine shop, wherever you're located, get to know a good machine shop near you.
It can save your butt at times. Okay. We, um, we're going to head out and we'll be back on the road in no time with more of the CNC auto show.
