Ashley P

Youtube your camera tips. Tell us what video helped you the most. (Crap, you can learn how to start/taxi a P47 on YouTube.)

Hey, we raced some of my old cars just the other night....across the hardwood floor! (About 2005?)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm too busy.....

I found a small vacuum leak at the pcv elbow, but the misfire remains. Fantastic. Fuel trims looked good before and after the vacuum leak repair, so I wasn't hopeful. Dang the Ford scan data that won't show every misfire that I can feel.

Where are Tino, Matt, Mike...?? You know JohnC, the guys who actually take their cars to the track. (Wow, I would put the tomato at my head emoji here, but there are too many choices!)

Biden tries to be a pilot? Really, ATC likely saved lives.

Well, I think you are all correct. Cars are NOW heavily electronic, and moving toward electric. Currently (pun intended) electronic gremlins are a pain for me (a small % of the number of jobs, yet a much larger % of time). And I know fully electric can't happen in the next few years. In between, petro cars will be clung to like my "guns and religion" as long as that fuel is remotely affordable/available. I guess the price of petro determines if petro vehicles remain. If they do, there will be very few shops locally (if trends continue) that have the knowledge to keep them going. At a car show a few weeks ago a woman with 60s chevys lamented that there's almost nobody to work on her cars. I just nodded in agreement since I'm 6-8 weeks behind since about july of 2020.

So, as far as repair work both now, 5, 10, 25 years out, what is demand going to be? If you think that eventually electric is everything, until then.....will people double down on keeping "old" (paid for gas/diesel) stuff on the road? Will the "simple" things of the early 2000s remain repairable and competitive....like Cuba's 50s cars? If gov mandates electric, and/or prices petrol WAY up, then there won't be much choice.

What do you think about automobiles of the future? 5, 10, 25 years ahead, what's gonna happen? Locally the independent repair shops are closing up. My brother is wanting to build a bigger service shop. What do you think repair trends will be?

Sweet! The clutch gap is "precise" and is adjusted by shims. It can make or break the clutch operation. If yours works fine, the gap is good.

Where does the H come from? Most likely from splitting H20 by using electricity. Energy and heat is like a shell game at the fairgrounds.

https://store.allcomputerresources.com/skimremoval.html SKIM removal from certain years/models for $145.

I think the SKIM would have to be eliminated from the factory ECU.

Physical fitment is easy. I'm wondering how the Mopar guys eliminate (or otherwise adapt) the security/ignition key? If someone has a 2005 Hemi in a 1985 truck, how'd they get around the security (assuming they are using 2005 ECU and engine harness)?

What's wrong with the 3.8 mopar? Or it's 6 speed manual?

Skip to 5:32 and tell me the troll level! LOL

Gas mileage. And I think the 3.8 would be more reliable than an LS. I'm talking pre VVT 3.8.

Kevin, if transplanting an engine and ECM, say about 2005 van or Jeep with 3.8, what security hurdles need to be jumped? Where should I look for answers? I didn't sleep well and now I'm pondering a 3.8/6 speed swap into an S10...

I hope you get some good passes on it soon. I'm studying the trans mount, but I can't tell if it's "solid" or not....? The reason I ask....I think it's highly unlikely for the pump to break and cause the bellhousing to break. It's likely the other way around. Double/tripple check driveshaft length and make sure the trans mount is more flexible than the engine mounts.

Next goal: making 10 gallons of gas last the rest of the year. Urgh.

^ When I do/say really stupid things, I just pause and admit it, and then declare that I'm running for President. Your employee sounds like a candidate too.

Read comments under the vid.

It's trying to look like a Copperhead. I'd pet it with birdshot as a reward for it's efforts.

House?? What house? A tree fell crushing the corner of the Goat shed, narrowly missing (6 inches) the Goat and the dump truck cab. It tore down the overhead wires to my shop and well pump. I spent spare time for a couple weeks moving the tree and running a temp wire for water. Me and the boys took out all remaining old sheet rock this winter. Know how to get a ceiling down that has old fiberglass insulation on it? Get into the attic with a water hose, wet it all really good, then kick it down. Zero dust. (Well, "nothing's perfect" in case the Caddy Machinist ever reads this.) Carpenters have worked a few days for me getting several odds and ends done. Leveled most all ceiling joists, reinstalled shower stall and sheet rocked that bath, opened up a closet wall for bifold doors, and started trimming the windows (interior). I'm running behind....need to get a LOT of electrical and HVAC done so they can box around some stuff. And lumber is higher now than during Covid.

I've been waiting MONTHS to ask the pros here...I've worked on said 4.6 because it had random misfires. I replaced the OLD spark plugs and a coil or two, the truck missed on the customer on the drive home. They returned and #3 (IIRC) showed some misses, so it got a coil. They called a couple weeks later and said it was missing again. If I notice (feel) the engine missing, both the misfire monitor or cylinder contribution screens are likely to show NO misses. At least for a while. Then they might show about a dozen misses on a particular cylinder. After several more seconds of missing, a DIFFERENT cylinder will show misses. If run long enough, most every cylinder shows misses. Fuel has been run very low and twice I've added a few gallons, so I don't suspect contaminated fuel. The miss is sudden/violent enough to make me think it's lack of spark. (And fuel trims work OK when starting fluid is added.) What have I missed?