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Here are my suggestions. I have watched most all of your videos, but if you have already done these, then please ignore. My memory is not the greatest anymore!
These are real gravy work, but since some of your viewers don’t have the know how, easy jobs can seem hard.
1. Tie Rods. Particularly inners. I do these quite a bit. I use the Lisle tool for removal, but I have seen that Harbor Freight has a much more inexpensive set. Sometimes you can get away with an open end wrench. Also about how to remove the outers and the importance of putting the jam nut as close as possible back to the original measurement to help out the alignment guys…
2. Replacing a broken wheel stud.
3. Bench testing O2 sensors.
4. Struts. I saw the video where you used suicide sticks for the spring removal. Quick struts are so nice and easy to do…
5. Noid lights to diagnose fuel injector signals.
6. Fuel injector cleaning/fuel pressure test/On-rail vs in-tank treatment. It has been my experience that on-rail is the only sure way those injectors will get a good cleaning. Some of my friends swear by Techron and other in-tank treatments, but I don’t agree… You?
7. Blower motor replacement, once again, gravy work but can really confuse some.
8. Diagnose a car with P0171 with a vacuum guage… This was problematic in Toyotas with plastic intake manifolds.
10. Cleaning a dirty EGR… Have a relative with a 1996 Acura with this issue.
Just some suggestions. Thanks!
Karl!
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Some of the things you’ve mentioned have already been covered. The EGR videos for one.
I’ve also showed O2 sensor testing as well as O2 sensor operation.
Many of the other topics you mentioned will be covered at some point. At the moment there is only one of me and it does take time to produce specific video requests. For the most part I’m a slave to what comes through the door. Because of that it’s hard to create a schedule to cover a particular topic. I am hoping at some point to cover the electrical series as well as a series on engine performance and emission controls.
Give it time and I’ll get to it. Thanks for the suggestions.
Back in the 90s i worked as a gm tech. and we had a school coarse called strategy based diagnostics (S.B.D.). It was basically a class to help with your approach to diagnostics. It also taught short cuts to help you get to the root of the problem. For example if the cig lighter is inop but you know the horn works and they share the same fuse, you have eliminated the fuse without opening the fuse box. Anyhow that’s just 1 example. There were many more and i still use this approach today. I think this would make a great topic for a video. So much time is wasted on diagnostics and quite often its 90% of the time in the shop.
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