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I have seen people use a rotozip to get better cutting angles at the welds. Just take your time and get as clean cuts as possible. Try and get everything at the welds. Assuming you get everything squared away to be as close to factory as possible, you should not have many issues. Use weather resistant caulking and let dry for 24 hours before exposing it to water and things like that.
[quote=”ToyotaKarl” post=187979]What was the issue that forced you off the road? Did you run over something that damaged something on the underside? Regardless, the symptoms it is showing is not a good sign…[/quote]
It was the oil light that came on. I was low on engine oil but I did not think it would make a difference. One thing I noticed as I managed to get it into gear enough to get it home is that sometimes when I try and go into drive or reverse, it will make a grinding noise like the one you would hear on a manual car when you try and go into gear without pressing the clutch down. It makes me think that maybe a solenoid is not working properly. One that would control the clutch inside the gears possibly? I am not sureHi Eric,
I feel like there is a lot of grey area when asking this questing. For your particular channel, you are someone who posts very important intonation that’s essential for the job and your videos would help more rather than hurt provided the viewer understands and is able to apply it to their vehicles. There is also a lot of trial and error when you go to actually do the job so that has to be understood as well. I have viewed your videos and have had to re do things a few times before I got it correct like valve adjustments that can be tricky. The real problem is there are a lot of videos out there where the information may not be correct or the way they are doing it is a hack way of doing things and doesn’t exactly fix the problem. That is where a diy person can get hurt. Like anything else on the internet, you would want to research things and see what is correct and what isn’t. That’s something not many people understand. For a diyer, this is essential to be successful. I’ve grown to trust you so if I see it on your channel, I normally will only look at something different like a webpage or other video if something is missing in yours or if it’s at an angle I can’t see too well. Some things that are done “your way” like tightening valve cover bolts and not using torque wrenches would be something I would look up somewhere else if I was not familiar with how they are supposed to feel when tightening ect. All in all, your videos are the best with informing and thank you for that. I did a lot of validating when I first started watching and your methods are pretty much always correct and helpful. Thanks for what you do and I hope you continue that way.
Chris
Eric,
I have always said that you are the best when it comes to showing us things about cars because you always talk about the proper ways of doing things. I watch you, engineering explained, and chris fix the most because of that. I relied on you guys to show me the right way of doing things without cutting corners and getting the right information that is not misguided or understudied. You took a turn into the modding world when you did the fairmount and it is very educational. It really teaches us a lot about modifications and the work involved. I think that the reason people do not watch that though is because it is not relatable. You mentioned it yourself, the newer generation is not as interested in automotive work as they used to be. This type of thing in my honest opinion, is something for the die hard mechanic/gearhead people. I like them I think they teach me a lot when it comes to cars and seeing you do it and tackle it and learn as you go has taught me a lot. I am one of the few that is going to use this knowledge for my own as my career is not going to be in the automotive world but I still find it interesting. Please bring back tool reviews. Please bring back some of the fixing that people relied on you to be able to go at their projects with confidence because I feel like people (majority of them) go to you for instruction on how to do things themselves. They will go to autozone and not really know how to work on things themselves but will have a good idea because your video showed them how to. They own the civics and they own the camry. The fairmount is a beautiful car but not many people would have it event to follow on some of your mods. Great information but it is not something many people can relate to. I feel people watch things like grease monkey because of the drama and glamorization of their work summed up in 45 minutes. I love the information that you have put into the videos and it is a shame that not many people are into that. It really is because I see the hard work that you have put on there and you should be getting something out of it. I would hate to see you leave brother but hey bad times happen and I just hope that you can get back up there. Keep up the good work
Chris
[quote=”jjohnson1″ post=186124]It’s normal to see fluid moving when running. If your talking about foaming up, I have heard of Honda’s doing that when you mix Honda fluid with others[/quote]
now that you mention it yes they used other power steering fluid before. I attempted to flush it but don’t think I got it out completely. thanksThis blew my mind. I know the basics of a transmission but not the more advanced stuff. I did not know it transferred torque to the lowest resistance. Why though? Is it to have the vehicle more efficient?
Sounds like the torque converter is not engaging. Get one from the junk yard see if it does anything. If you want to save time and effort, go for another tranny.
I would check to see if anyone rewired it to stay on. I had a civic that did the same thing and it turned out the spliced the wire to constantly stay on.
if I had to guess there is a jet that might be clogged but then again, there are a lot of things that can be causing this. check the carburetor for sure to see nothing is obstructed
Hi there,
Eric mentioned in his live talk that GM Synchromesh works fantastic. You could try and change the fluid into that see if it helps. He seemed confident for it on manual transmissions anyways.
Chris
Eric,
I may not know too much about editing but if you need some videos cut down in length, I can help with that. I would not charge at all as you do plenty for us. That being said, I think it would be great you get an extra hand or two with what you do and I believe it will help a lot. As for my season idea I was giving you, I meant it for posting videos rather than work you do on your end. I got the idea from Good Mythical Morning. They post videos daily 5 days a week and on the weekends, the crew posts videos of their own. For a time (I believe it is a month) they stop posting videos then return to posting after. They make 2 seasons a year and they still have a good following. Just a thought. Thank you again Eric.
Chris
Eric,
You have become someone I look up to because of all of the things you do and how you want to help people. It does take a lot of time to do videos I’m sure. A suggestion: why not break videos into seasons? Your session can be 8 months of posting things and the rest can be taken to catch up or just wrench like you said. It can be a fixing it forward time period or repair videos for later when you get a little tired of the shop and you just want to edit stuff. You had time to reply to some of my posts and I thank you for that but hey, it’s time consuming. I get time is precious especially when you have a list of things to do that just keeps getting things piled up. I think it would be great to take some time to get away from videos for a while because people will understand seasons on your channel. At least I feel they would. Season one can be fixing it forward, another can be a project car, things like that. Take care and don’t over work yourself. Or maybe more appropriately, don’t get too dirty.Chris
[quote=”DrD” post=184896]There are actually a series of videos on different solvents/methods to try and clean catalytic converters – here one that Eric did on lacquer thinner
here’s one he did on soap and water
and another one on sodium hydroxide
I would guess that the efficacy of any cleaning method is going to depend on what the problem is – if the catalyst is fouled (with gunk like oil, dirt, etc.) then cleaning should be able to help (if you use an appropriate solution to do so) – however, if it’s damaged or has been partially removed, then all the cleaning in the world isn’t going to bring it back.
I would be hesitant to use lacquer thinner in my tank – the reason being as we get driven to use more “green” solutions, the make-up of lacquer thinner is changing – from a mix of methanol/toluene/acetone (which will burn just fine) to other things, that might not. (I’d be more inclined to buy the solvents and mix/add them myself than to use an unknown (if you can’t see the ingredients/composition on the label) – last thing you want to do is try to clean your cat, and in the process damage something else![/quote]
I guess I need to go back at some old videos. I have been getting referenced to them recently and I’m like what he did that? lol But thank you for your response. I saw that it did not work for him and even gave him an error code so I wont be trying it. I will look at the others and see what works for me. I think I have a vacuum leak so I will fix it first. Then I believe that one of the O2 sensors is out so I need to replace that. I noticed it was fluctuating voltage when the car was off after I just finished driving it for 25 miles. This is the downstream sensor so I believe there might be residual gas it may be burning off but I do not think it should be affecting it after the car was turned off for about a minute or two right?Thanks Eric I appreciate you enlightening me in it. Thanks again as always for everything you do for us 🙂
Well I am glad you looked into the idea. I know one car to another can almost be apples to oranges in cases but I was hoping something like common simple diagnostic procedures that can tell you quickly what the issue might be. You are right though it is hard to tell. Just thought maybe you knew of some you could throw our way. Again thank you for all you do Eric it is truly admirable.
Chris