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And if you're looking for information on ways to make your car safe and dependable and long lasting, then do not move a muscle because you are in the right place. You're here with Aaron Clements and John Ryan. And I mentioned this last hour, but I really want to mention it again. And that is that we are so proud to be a part of the WDEL 101.7 Delaware News Radio Saturday lineup. We appreciate that very much.
And we enjoy all of you riding with the CNC Auto Show. And that also gives me a chance to mention that you can call the show from anywhere on Saturday mornings between 805 and 10 and be on the air. And the number 800-224-9090 or 706-863-5800. You can also watch and send a question at ccautoshow.com. John Ryan, it's time to do our favorite thing. And what is that? Let's go to the phones.
That is it. And Paul, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. And what can we help you with? Good morning, guys. I hope you can hear me okay.
I got you on Bluetooth in the car. I wanted to call in about your favorite tool. My wife got me a rotary tool about five years ago. The brand name is Dremel, but you know, a lot of people sell them. I thought when I looked at it, I said I will never use that tool. You know, I can use an angle grinder, I can use a hammer, you know.
I have used that Dremel tool for everything from brake work to cutting through holes, calcified hoses without hurting the tube underneath. I've cut door pins in half where you couldn't get in there with anything else. It's amazing how many things. I just cut the rusted bolts off a Camry exhaust system the other day.
And it's not as gross as an angle grinder. You can do a little bit more finesse work. It's amazing what you can do with them. Yeah, that's perfect. Wow.
And you're the second one that has said that. We had a person write in to ccautoshow.com and mentioned that their favorite tool was the Dremel on there. And like you mentioned, there's so many attachments on there. And I've used those before to get broken bolts out, hardened bolts, because there's a carbon tip bit that you can actually grind hard metal bolts down and get them out when they're broken off inside a block or something. They've got an attachment that goes in there that tips a chainsaw blade.
That curved blade, you can sharpen a chainsaw blade in about three minutes. It's amazing. Anyway, thanks guys.
I enjoyed the show. Thank you. And one of my favorite tools also helps all of my other tools. And it really don't stay in my toolbox, but it stays on the shelf.
And it's just above my box. It's PB Blaster. PB Blaster is a must have tool for any shop. An example is that you can have the best hand tools in the world, but if you just ring off the bolts, they're no good.
So putting a little shot of PB Blaster on bolts before you take them off can enhance the use of any of those tools that you have, any of the hand tools. Where are we going? All right, let's go to Lloyd. I like it. Hello, Lloyd, and welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
What can we help you with? Good morning. I had this 1991 F-250 Ford with the 7.3 engine in it, the automatic transmission. And when I pull a trailer, I got two trailers. When I pull one trailer, when I go up the hill, and then it shifts up instead of down. My other trailer, it works fine.
I wonder what causes that. So are the trailers roughly the same weight, or? No, they're different trailers. One's got lights on, one don't. Okay, what about the weight of it as far as the physical weight? Well, one without lights is a lot heavier. Not lights. The actual trailer, and the other one...
The actual... Go ahead. Lloyd, the big ones, the big trailer, the other one with the lights on is just the pickup box trailer. Gotcha. Yeah, because it's not going to be, or it's not uncommon for the vehicle to downshift going up a hill, especially when it's carrying a much heavier load.
It's ideal that it downshifts to maintain speed, that way it can obviously get in a different RPM range to pull the hill. Are you suspecting something with electrical? Is that what your question was? I think something with electrical, yeah. Yeah, one thing you could do just to absolutely rule that out is, of course, unplug the trailer and then go up a decent grade, obviously in the daytime where you wouldn't need any of the running lights or anything like that. Because there's not much that's going to be tied into, you know, as far as the electrical system, running lights, brake lights. I don't know, is it a seven-way plug for your gooseneck or... The big round plug? Lloyd, what did you mention the vehicles doing with one trailer that it's not doing with the other?
Mention that part one more time. Well, with the heavy trailer without lights, when I go up a hill, it wants to shift up. And with the lighter trailer with lights, it'll work fine. It'll shift down when you want to go up the hill. Hmm. Okay.
I think you figured it out. I don't know of anything that might be there, but I will tell you that I do know that when vehicles build up carbon, that's something we run into quite often. It can cause issues with pulling an object up a hill, but... It's a diesel.
Oh, a diesel. Okay. I take that back. Never mind.
Okay. Yeah, Lloyd, I would just, you know, kind of isolate the trailers. Obviously just leave both of them unplugged and see if it does anything different. The only thing that one could do versus the other, of course, there is a brake light signal on the one with the lights, of course. And if there was something in the wiring, it could be giving it a faulty brake signal to the PCM, which when a vehicle, pretend there's no trailer on it at all, if you're cruising 60 miles an hour and you tap the brakes, or the brakes come on, it will unlock the converter, the torque converter. So I would definitely disconnect the trailer and just, you know, make sure it either does the same thing or doesn't do the same thing, and then you'll know if it's trailer related or not. Well, I talked to one of my dealer, or mechanics up here, and he figured it out. I've got LED lights on it, tail lights. Yes.
And he said put regular bulbs in there and it'll work fine. And had you done that yet? Yeah. And it fixed it?
It fixed it. Oh, okay. Wow. All right. I just wondered what you guys thought about that. I would definitely have to see how it's wired up on the diagram.
I don't know, again, how that would tie into it other than giving a faulty signal for the torque converter to unlock. That's the only thing I would know. Yeah. Well, I bet he's having an electric call. Yes, sir. Well, we appreciate the call.
Thank you, Lloyd. We appreciate the call very much. Okay, to number the calls.
863-706-863-5800 or 800-224-9090. Where are we heading? Well, we've got less than a minute. Let's put Andrew on the line. Okay, we're going to lock him down.
Andrew, welcome to the show. We've got about a minute to hear the question and we may put you on hold once you mention the question. Okay. Okay.
I can be real quick. 06 Dodge, three-quarter ton truck. I've got the cab lights on the top, factory. Every time it rains, right underneath the second cab light in, I have water coming in on my sun visor and it ends up dripping down on my leg. I've pulled the gasket off. I've tried some materials like a friend suggested using dielectric grease to seal it out. That way you can take it back off if you have to change the bulb out. But that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas where I can go to see what the problem is on that? Andrew, in my experience, we've used a clear silicone made by Permatex.
They have silicones that have a lot of adhesion in it and, of course, they have some that just simply displace water. So I would definitely encourage you to look at Permatex's website or go to O'Reilly's and they would be able to, of course, suggest that to you. All right. Andrew, if you'll hold on one second, we may have one other idea for you. We have more tips.
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We're going back to Andrew. Andrew, welcome back to the CNC Auto Show and you were mentioning some items about your water leaking. Yeah, I've got rainwater coming in my cab. Apparently, it's my cab lights and I'm trying to find a sealant that will, of course, be clear but that will do the job but be able to make it so I can take them off. And if I have to replace the lights, you don't have to scrape anything or anything like that if I have to replace the bulb in it. Andrew, are those the factory cab lights as far as you know? Yes, sir. So they have the screw and then the lens comes off but the actual light housing still stays on the actual body, right?
If I'm not mistaken. No, just the wire goes up in. So the whole light comes off. Yeah, I know we've used the Permatex. It's a clear silicone but it has, you know, a lot of silicone, of course, has almost like a glue in it, adhesion, I guess, promoter or whatever it is. But the Permatex clear that we've used to seal those up does, you know, it allows you to be able to, of course, pull it back up.
Now, unfortunately, you definitely still would have to clean it back up if you had to replace a bulb and all that kind of stuff. But that's really the only thing we've ever had good success with. I know I've seen a lot of vehicles have like things like RTV, you know, as far as for making a gasket on there and no doubt that works but you just about have to use an air hammer with a chisel to get them off. Those don't have a gasket on them? They do but I'll be honest, I mean, they leaked from the factory.
They dry out so fast, yeah. Okay. Andrew, the other option, you know, that fellow that has that flex seal stuff, I mean, it seals a whole boat and he's riding down the, along the water in a boat sealed with it so it should take care of that. It should. But I'll have fun getting back into it.
Might not look that good but it'll seal it. Alright, gentlemen. Well, I appreciate it. Hey, thank you very much for the call. Number to call is 706-863-5800 or 800-224-9090 and that Saturday morning is 805 to 10. Where are we heading? Next up is going to be Walt.
Perfect. Hey, Walt, welcome to the CNC Auto Show and what can we help you with today? Good morning. I'm listening to you on the internet. I used to listen to other shows and I didn't realize y'all here in Atlanta.
I'm over here in DeKalb County and y'all are in Augusta. But anyway, I've got a 1995 Nissan Altima and I've been running 10W30 oil in there and just realized, got looking into my owner's manual and it suggests 530. And wondering if I have changed it now because I'm wanting to do an oil change and filter and all that. If I change it now, is it going to cause it to start leaking through the gaskets or anything of that nature and can that oil be run year-round?
I think that's a good question. Being that you're in the Atlanta area, obviously we have very similar climates. I think it'd be perfectly fine to go down to the 5W30. Essentially, you would be kind of still running the same weight oil just simply because our climate fits the range more of the after the W. Meaning like the 10 or the 5 is of course in its winter months, which would be perfectly fine in our climate. And then the 30 would be in the summer months.
So, you know, I really think that would be perfectly fine. However, you know, your 10W30 has been working. That's what you've been using for a long time. On today's vehicles, meaning if you were to buy a brand new one, two, three years old, I wouldn't steer away from the normal required viscosity just simply because the clearances are different. But on a 95, it's perfectly fine to use either 10 or 5W30. And what I will mention, one other quick thing on there, you may or may not already be doing this, but on the full synthetic, it used to be I really didn't recommend full synthetic that heavily, but now the price has come down so much on the full synthetic oil.
Many times you can use full synthetic and it's very little price difference and it does give you a little added protection also. Oh, okay. So I can go ahead and switch the synthetic too and then you say I can still just use the 10W30 with a synthetic or the regular also then. It wouldn't matter. That's right.
Now, the only thing with the synthetic is the only, I guess, you know, caution would be just if you do plan to go to synthetic, do stick with synthetic from here on out. Okay. All right. Well, I appreciate y'all being on the web and having a new show to listen to in the morning over here in Atlanta, Georgia. And I'm hoping someday if you weren't so far away, I'd love to bring some of my cars because I got an old 80 model Dodge diplomat with a slant six in there I'd like y'all to look at. So maybe one day I can get over to your area. Well, that sounds wonderful.
And those are long lasting engines too. And we, we really appreciate you, you listening to the show also. Thank you.
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That is perfect. Hey, William, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help you with? Good morning. And hello there. Um, did y'all do a second tech tip quiz today? No.
Would you like one? Well, I mean, that's fine, but I was calling in and tell you my favorite tool anyway. All right. Well, I'll tell you what, I'll go ahead and lay a tech tip quiz out there.
We, uh, we didn't have it, but we will, uh, we will do that. And of course the winner will receive the I answered detective quiz prize package. Here's the question. Ryan was an aircraft repo man. He was having a terrible back problem. He was thinking about getting an operation, but while he was getting his oil changed on his 2015 black Tahoe, I sat in his car with him and showed him a setting on his electric seat and his pain was gone in less than a month. What was it?
And so you get first shot at this one, William. Well, I think you adjusted the lumbar or the height or something, or the heat. He probably had electric heat. Oh, now you asked for that. You wouldn't have got an ah button if you wouldn't have asked for it, but you did. Oh, I'm fine. But everybody's been talking about oil changes this morning. And, uh, that's the reason I called in about my favorite tool is my wife came said she was going somewhere and she'd been bugging me about her oil change. And I was already in the shop about seven 30, you know, when it was 26 degrees out here. And, uh, my shop that I built 30 years ago out of old barns with a concrete floor that I could pull that vehicle up in this morning. That was my favorite tool this morning.
For sure. William, that brings that brings one up a favorite tool. Now I didn't have this one on our list or anything, but they make a, um, an air filter. I mean, a fuel fuel oil filter pair of pliers down.
It's kind of adjustable and it grips really well. I think that, um, I think the technicians are buying them from either, uh, Matco or Snap-on one of the two. But anyway, they're really neat looking.
I have both in my shop, Matco two boxes and Snap-on two boxes. Yeah. And the shop this morning, the shop this morning was my favorite too, especially that concrete floor.
Cause we've had like six inches of rain here in the past two weeks. Yeah. Your wife got there and you're under there taking a nap. Well, the biggest part about it is the fact that I could actually drive something in my shop.
It wouldn't pull a crap. Yeah. All right. Anyway, my beautiful wife, she's fixing to leave now and I'll talk with y'all later. Thank you. We appreciate it very much and appreciate the tool and, and, uh, and, and also turn us on to the tech tip quiz.
Okay. Where are we going? Next up, Steve. Hello, Steve, and welcome to the CNC Auto Show.
And what can we help you with? Uh, I inherited a 1965 Chevrolet CTM truck and it's been restored and I have some questions about oil and whether or not I should run non ethanol fuel in it and whether or not I should run an oil in it with, uh, with zinc. So, so the non ethanol, how often are you planning to drive this vehicle? Daily or week or something? Uh, it'll be driven, uh, rarely.
Rarely. So rarely would probably be a good option to run non ethanol fuel. Uh, if you're using a vehicle or a piece of equipment, whatever it may be, and you're, you know, consuming a lot of fuel, ethanol doesn't necessarily, uh, you know, or the, the bad side effects of ethanol don't really present themselves simply because you're using it.
Um, simply because you're using the fuel. Um, but when you're, you know, using something, uh, very frequent, frequently, you know, once a month, something like that, it's definitely recommended. Um, so I would say yes to that, uh, as far as the oil was zinc there again, you're not going to be driving it that much. Um, so I probably would generally, you know, stick with one with a zinc in it. Trouble that we found in somewhat recent past is it's hard to find oils that even specify if they have zinc in them or not.
Uh, I don't know if you've done any look in or research or anything like that. Um, now there are some manufacturers like of course AMS oil, you know, mobile one, many of the oils that you can find at O'Reilly Auto Parts that, that do, you know, kind of indicate what's in it. Uh, but you may add, you know, get online and actually find a forum of similar trucks and see what most of the people run as far as oil in that vehicle.
Well, I've got a shop full of oil with zinc in it. And Steve, I'll mention one other thing on the ethanol, uh, ethanol is, uh, you can, you can use non ethanol, but if you have trouble doing that, you're not driving the vehicle very often. BG products makes a beautiful, uh, uh, product that you can put in the fuel tank and it'll keep that ethanol from separating from the fuel.
But the best case scenario, if you're not driving it much is to use non ethanol, but, but that's another option. I have one more question. Absolutely. I have a, I have one more question. It has to do with brakes. Uh, this, this truck has four wheel drum brakes on it and, uh, when you really get down on the brakes kind of hard, it tends to pull to the right. And I see there are several kits available to put disc brakes on front and back, but I was thinking of maybe putting disc brakes on the front of the truck. What, how much do you think the would help my stopping ability?
Um, probably more than a hundred percent better. Um, I know Aaron, you obviously had a very similar truck or your dad did. And that was the one complaint you always had about it had a drum brakes and it pulled left one minute and right the next. And if it hit anything other than pavement, it would slide and all that kind of stuff. So this breaks really changed the driving drivability of that vehicle. Big time, especially, you know, that's a heavy truck. It's got a lot of weight over the front tires. Um, and just from a safety standpoint, it would be a very beneficial thing to do this break, swap it. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I know when I, I owned a lot of seventies vehicles, they were front wheel disc and rear wheel drum.
And, uh, I never noticed that. So, I mean, you wouldn't go all the way around just doing the front would be. Oh, I mean, if, you know, if, if, if you had some money saved up, I mean, it would definitely do very well with front and rear disc brakes. Because it would stop more like a modern vehicle. Of course, obviously it wouldn't have ABS, but still the stopping power would be there.
Uh, it would stop very proportional. Um, you know, because of course, if you put disc on the front drum on the rear, uh, even the vehicles that were designed that way that came off the factory still had more stopping power in the front than the rear. Um, so if you did it all the way around, I mean, it would truthfully make it like a today's vehicle.
Uh, you know, obviously take it up, you know, GMC Sierra today, of course, got disc all the way around. Um, so yes, it would definitely benefit. And with the kits they make, it's really a pretty neat job, the way that they have it designed. Cause you get the hoses, the calipers, the rotors, just everything's all nice and neat when you do it. Do you have to change the brake booster if you do this?
I don't believe the booster, but sometimes you do have to change a proportioning valve. Uh, you know, if you decide to do all, you know, of course front and rear disc brakes. Uh, but just like Aaron said, that most of the suppliers that sell those kits, uh, do just that. You know, do you want just the front kit? Do you want the front and rear?
And of course it's everything from the mounting hardware, caliper slides, I mean the whole nine yards. You can get them with the booster, without the booster. It's just all different ways that you're able to purchase them. Gotta take a quick break. Oh really?
Are you serious? All right, here we go. Let's grab some coffee and take this next exit. And we, as soon as we return, we will be going to Luther and Billy.
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And John Ryan, where are we going? Next up is Luther. Hey Luther, welcome to the CNC auto show.
What can we help with? I have a 2004 expedition and the headlight only work when I'm holding the stick for the high beam. And once I let it go, then the light goes back off. I replaced the bulb. I replaced even a switch when you turn it on. But I don't know what else to do to get the lights to work without me holding the stick. Luther, when you say holding the stick, are you talking about actually applying the high beams? Yes, absolutely. If I let it go, then nothing works.
Nothing works. Gotcha. That probably gets exciting when you're driving on a dark road there, Luther. Well, it could be. There's quite a few tests that you'd want to do as far as seeing where the voltage is coming from. Of course, it would be coming from the switch. It does actually go through that stick that you're referring to as the multifunction switch. Because, of course, obviously it does the turn signals left and right and, of course, the high beams.
It does the wipers, if I remember right. Could that be bad? Could it have gone bad also?
Well, I was going to say, that's one of the real common things that actually goes bad. I was going to tell you a little trick that you might could actually get a little more usage out of it if it does fix it. You know the hazard button right there on top of the column?
Uh-huh. Push that in and out 25 times really fast. What that does is many times, just because of a steering column, obviously a lot of dust and dirt and debris and all kinds of stuff builds up on that switch that's inside there. And it's just a regular circuit board with copper strips that, of course, either make connection or don't.
And what we see a lot of times is just they get dirty. And what happens is when you open that hazard switch up and down, a lot of times it can jar some of the debris that's on there and, of course, very well even make it work. As a matter of fact, the reason I say that is because, believe it or not, one of the tests in the forward manual is to actually do just that to see if it actually starts working. But that is called the multifunction switch, or some people refer to it as a combination switch.
But it is pretty popular for no headlights or intermittent operation of headlights. Well, I tried it then. I tried it.
Yep. And now I bring it to the shop. Let y'all see.
Can y'all do something with it? Another thing that you could try if that, you know, if you just want to spend a little bit of time with it, you know, you can go to the parts stores have it, O'Reilly's would have it. But, of course, any even grocery store or Walmart or one of those has the compressed air in a can.
You've seen those before. I think they're called dusters. You could also spray in the air with that many times. Again, just cleans the contacts up and will make contact. And, of course, all you'll be using that type of stuff for, Luther, is just to determine if that's it. If you do something like that and it repairs it, then, of course, you change out the multifunction switch. And it's not as bad as it looks like it would be as far as doing one.
They're not terrible. Okay. Thank you, sir.
Hey, Luther, we really appreciate the question. Number to call 706-863-5800 or 800-224-9090. Where are we heading, John Ryan? Next up is Billy. Hello, Billy. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with?
Good morning, guys. My favorite tool is a set of feeler gauges that not only gaps my plugs, but it sets the points in my whole pickup truck. Oh, yeah. I hadn't used feeler gauges that often. I mean, most of the items now, you'll check the gap as far as with a little feeler gauge for the plugs to make sure that they're good. Probably not even within the last 15 years if they're iridium. Yeah. Well, they're usually pre-gapped and everything's fine in that area.
Yeah, feeler gauges can be a good favorite tool. I got a 2008 Chevy Express van and it serviced the airbag lights on. When I'm going down the road, is my airbag going to blow out on me?
No, Billy. Actually, it'll do the exact opposite. That light illuminates saying that that system is no longer working because it obviously sees a fault with the system. So it turns the system 100% completely off because, as you can imagine, if it's seeing something it doesn't agree with, it may see a crash signal, it may see a seatbelt message that's never changing. It may say several different things. So in efforts to prevent premature deployment, of course, it turns that feature off and that's why that light's on. But we do get that question quite a bit because many people think, which is completely understandable, many people think that that means it could come out at any moment. But to be honest with you, it's 100% the exact opposite.
And I have seen airbags, now this is when the light is off and it's rare, but I have seen cases where, like especially somebody put aftermarket wheels on, a very, very low profile wheel, where a heavy jarring, that an airbag can go off unexpectedly. And I've never been there, but they say it's a really eye-opening experience. All right. Well, let's redetect Tip Quiz and let me get on the stage. Okay. All right. We're going to do it. All right.
We will read the question. Ryan was an aircraft repo man. He was having terrible back problems. He was thinking about getting an operation, but while he was getting his oil changed on his 2015 black Tahoe with tinted windows, I sat in the car with him and showed him a setting on his electric seat and his pain was gone in less than a month.
What did he do to make his pain go away? I would say it is. You're on stage. All right.
I would say it is the lumbar setting on it because that's where your back hurts is down at the bottom. That is true, but that is not the answer to the day's Tech Tip Quiz. Billy, I am so sorry. That's all right. All right.
Good try though. Thank you. Number to call 7 0 6 8 6 3 5 800 or 800 2 2 4 9 0 9 8 Saturday mornings, 8 0 5 to 10. Where are we heading? Next up is Richard. Hello, Richard. And welcome to the CNC Auto Show. What can we help with?
Good morning, guys. I was going to ask Mr. Clemens what the specific name of the BG product was for ethanol gas long-term storage in a vehicle. Okay. I do know it's got ethanol wrote on the bottle, ethanol treatment. John Ryan, you remember what that is? It's just a BG ethanol kit. BG ethanol kit. Yep. Of course we have a part number for it, but it's just a two-part kit. There's actually, it's really cool because of course obviously it does have the ethanol treatment in it, but it kind of, it makes it even cooler because of course it also comes with a feature chemical that also cleans the injectors too.
So it's kind of a double-edged sword there. Okay. BG ethanol kit. All right.
I appreciate it. Yeah. And we've watched it work. You can, you can pour fuel in and you can see where it can separate without the treatment and then you put the treatment in and it will not separate. And the theory behind it is that the chemical actually bonds with the water molecules and pretty much dilutes the water to a point to where it actually can be burned, which in your mind you're like, how can water be burned? But of course if it dilutes it enough, yes, it can and cause absolutely no problems. Do I need to wait until the tank is empty and pour that in then fill it up or just pour it in any time? They recommend you can pour it in at any time. I still recommend if you plan to keep that vehicle in storage, I like to go ahead and fill it up.
Only reason being is because of course, you know, many vehicles that you're probably not using have a steel tank and any air that's in that tank, meaning from the top of the fuel, wherever the level is to the top of the tank, of course that void could accumulate rust or moisture or anything simply because it's not submerged. I like to fill it all the way up and then protect it. No, I meant filling it up.
Is it required to stir the chemicals in there? Oh, yes, sir, it is. Yes, absolutely. Yes. So, yes, to answer your question, you could put it in there first, fill it up.
Obviously that would definitely mix it, you know, drive it a few miles and then park it. All right, guys, thanks a lot. Hey, we really appreciate the call.
And? Let's squeeze one more final tool in. Let's do it. Okay, let's jump in there. Ron, welcome to the show.
What can we help with? I just like to save my favorite tool in the shop. That's the Max Jack's hydraulic car lift. Oh, there you go.
Who could complain about that? This thing is great. It's four post and you can raise it up to two heights and put your safety bar in it.
And my roof is not high enough to walk under a car, but I can sit on my rolling stool up under at the top height and get to everything under there. It works perfect. Wow, that is perfect. What a way to end the show. A favorite tool there. Time clocks on E, we need to pull over for now, but we will be back on the road in no time. I'm Eric Clements here with co-host John Ryan Mooney, show producer Mason Rogers. Thank you, all of you. Thanks to all of you for riding with the CNC auto show.
