Hello everyone welcome to the channel I'm glad you're here with me! My name is Mike, I work as a mechanic and I love cars and anything automotive related. I have 15 years of experience on cars and light & medium duty trucks. I have experience in many different varying engine types from gasoline to diesel. I've worked for dealerships and independent shops I can share the knowledge that I've learned here on this channel. This channel is here to show you my everyday work adventures and show you what I do as mechanic. I try to show you how I do repairs and diagnostics on common things that I see on the daily here at the shop. I try to give you a general idea of repairs and diagnostics to help you out with similar repairs that you might be doing yourself. If your here just to watch because you like this kind of stuff that's ok too, hopefully you can find my videos entertaining. All that said thanks for stopping by I hope you enjoy the channel and I hope you have a great day!
@@MagicMane-dn5hp in theory I guess you could I would just be worried in case it’s super tight on there and it strips threads coming out but other than that taking it off I don’t really see a huge deal with it as long as you don’t use it to put it on
Cars that I had with high mileage Ford Crown☑️ 80's Toyota pickup truck ☑️ Suzuki Forenza Station wagon☑️ My longest lasting cars that never gave me any problems.
Things that are on the market hit n miss are flood cars. Car fax or what ever only works when the vehicle is reported. Folks buy the totaled cars from auctions that insurance has totaled it. And now with the storm Helene in few months there will be more flood cars out there.
Min Subaru forester 2002 2,0. Har gått 400k km. Och fungerar fortfarande hur bra som helst. Service 2 gånger per år är en mycket enkel grund regel detta är mer dubbelt så åfta som de flesta tillverkare rekommenderar. Service är motor olja och filter vår och höst. Vart annat år bränsle filter. Och lite extra smörjmedel i bränslet en gång i månaden gör stor och.
I had to translate this but keep up with the services and it should last. I'm big on doing maintenance more often than waiting for something to break, so keep doing what you're doing. It sounds like you got it right!
My 2006 Xterra made it to 285k miles before the transmission failed in 2022. I chose to donate it to a charity vs fixing it. I never had any major issues with it.
wow, blower motor assembly has a... motor inside - sensational looking forward for next videos: - wheel assembly has tires! - what's inside the oil pan - mystery resolved! - how sound can hold a seatbelt? mystery clicks investigation
Mike back in my poorer days I took my 1981 Accord with 160k blower motor apart. Back then they were held together with long machine screws. Brushes worn out. Got me some alternator brushes and filed to fit. Still working fine when I sold it 3 yrs later. This was back in the day when repair was more common than toss and replace. This was actually better for our environment as there wasn’t as much junk going to landfill 🤔 Your blower motor was a one time use and toss. Repair skills have deteriorated so much since my 1972 rookie season. Del
Hi Mike, do you know the _easy_ way to disassemble the blower motor? Just *don't record* it and the bloody thing will just disassemble itself. 🤦♂ 😂 Anybody who complains about you using your screwdriver handle for an _impact device_ obviously won't know that *everything's a hammer!* 😁😁 *Thank you* for the video Mike. Apologies for me laughing at your struggles but I was really laughing at my second sentence. Have a good one! 👍👍
@@nsz2302yeah some manufacturers were ok 2000-10 in fact, the Honda CRV was still good in 2021 (too early to tell on the 2022 and beyond) BUT it was designed in 2010
My buddy has a 2005 that he bought brand new with the 6.0l. He has 450k miles and he's a contractor, so it's been loaded up with a couple thousand pounds of tools since he bought it. It's rusting out (Chicago area), but the motor/trans are still good. He changes the oil every 3k miles.
Depends on the vehicle. Sometimes you cant believe what miracle it took for it to hit 100K. I wouldn't buy a 300K lifted diesel pickup from a community college student. 😆
If it sealed and a light lube is on the parts where's the crap coming from . Your lack of knowledge is the reason you think you have to shoot off get educated.
Apparently, your lack of listening skills contribute to a really silly comment. I took the plastic cover off. It’s not that things get in from the outside that plastic gear overtime has a tendency to sheer teeth and strip out. Hands that’s where the debris come into place and then those debris can cause it to jam up. You seriously need to watch the video before you get excited to go to the comment section and try to talk crap.
I am neither a mechanic nor an engineer however I do have a few questions. First off what year is the vehicle that this throttle body came out of? Second how many miles are on that vehicle? This throttle body does not look like it is out of a newer vehicle based on the condition of the rest of the throttle body and yet there is no degradation or damage to these plastic gears. You say your question is who thought it would be a good idea to use plastic gears because what if something gets jammed in the gears how is making the gears out of metal going to prevent something from getting jammed in the gears? Though I am not a mechanic I can say this I run ram ProMasters for a transport business we put on about 20,000 mi a week between all our vehicles driving coast to coast every week with team drivers. We have ProMasters with well over 600,000 mi on them. Because of the amount of miles we run we have extra parts sitting around all the time I literally just opened up a throttle body off of a wrecked 2015 promaster that had 585,000 mi on it (not original engine but original throttle body as engine was replaced with a jasper short block)The gears inside are plastic and look like they are brand new there is no degragation or wear on those gears after nearly 10 years and over half a million miles, so I'm not quite understanding how metal would be better? What's wrong with this plastic being there? Keeps the cost down for the manufacturer and in turn keeps the cost down for the consumer.
@@leonkurtz1933 The throttle body that I showed in the video was for an example of how they’re building them. It’s actually quite new out of a 2015. Depending on the usage of the car, you will get different failure rates. It seems like you are running a lot of highway miles. I would think in a transport business that would actually mean less wear on a throttle body if it’s consistently staying at highway speeds versus an every day car that has stop and go traffic to deal with under certain conditions. I’m not an engineer myself, but in my line of work I run into cars that need repairs so I see a bunch of pattern failures. When I have a failed part I always try to figure out why that part failed and the past couple years I’ve had more than enough throttle bodies coming into my shop where the plastic gears are either rounded out or sheared, causing throttle body issues. The driving style and driving pattern can definitely change the wear on these items also the state in which you live in. There’s a lot of factors like temperatures and things of such. I have a good friend of mine that wrenches down in Arizona and he tells me he sees a lot of stuff melting due to extreme heat on their roadways and their state.
Ummm….that’s why there is a cover that seals those gears. Also, if you know anything about engineering, if the ECU senses no throttle input from the go pedal but the throttle body isn’t at the correct throttle percent relative to throttle input, it will shut down the engine.
@@JPM788212 I took the cover off to show people the gears and it’s not about stuff getting in there. It’s about the gear shearing off and stripping. Plus a lot of people are under the assumption that the ECM is going to turn off the vehicle. That’s actually not true and ECM cannot turn off a vehicle. They can only limp it if anything due to safety concerns because how would you feel if your computer falsely identify something and turns your vehicle off in the middle of the highway doing 80 miles an hour That would cause an accident
I sold my bought new 99 Accord last year at 250k to a good friend. I just think verifying any thing bought at auction or car lot is almost impossible to verify service. I think best bet is to buy from individual you have serviced the car for years. I’ve done that several times but I owned my own shop for 36 years so I probably had an advantage over you. Del
This is the part where the guy with no understanding of the design parameters/considerations and validation details of this device draws an incorrect conclusion about the fitness of this part? "Hurr durr... Plastic bad! Am i rite guyz?" 🙄
I see these gears on these strip out often I don’t need to understand design parameters to know it’s crap when the come I with stripped gears often bud!
Thank you VERY much for the video... I want to share my experience, after doing a temporary repair to the HPFP end of the hose (removed the very loose Merc one and replaced with a black (not silver--different sizes) fuel line clamp. The car (2015 c300) would not start after merely swapping the clamp. It was a complete mystery as to why... After testing fuel pressure a few times without running the engine, I could not get it to start. I had the 3 bolts for the wiring harness out, the 4 bolts for the HPFP cover out, the foam and aluminum covers off too. HPFP plugged-in. strong cranking yes, but no start --almost like no ignition. Tried a dozen times, even priming the fuel system, all the logical tests... Frustrated as hell, I buttoned everything back up after a couple hours of diag. Gave it one last try ---all put back together--- and it fired right up (gas leak gone too). I don't know if this will help anyone, but if the car won't fire-up after leak testing... try putting it back together fully. I haven't run into anything this weird and dumb.. maybe it's just me---weird and dumb...lol.
Just finished replacing my window regulator. Your video was so thurough and I appreciate you adding all the problems you encountered because I encountered them too. Couldn't have done it without your video!
They've been using plastic gears inside stuff like that for a very long time. Even back in the day in the German cars with the AFM fully mechanical style units. We used to pop them open on some cars and move the metal Tang on the gear to help the response on some cars. Definitely not advisable unless you know what you're doing.
Just because a gear fails with the butterfly open, doesn't mean your engine will sit there and rage out at 10,000 RPM, if you pin the butterfly open, that doesn't mean the ECU will feed the fuel required to support that RPM. Not to mention, I know it's plastic, but are you an engineer? You would be highly fucking surprised what you could do with plastic.
I am not an engineer. I’m showing how companies are cheaping out I don’t care how great plastic is you should never have that in vital engine components.
You don’t need to be an engineer to know this is shit brother. They’ve been trying this crap for years in different areas with the exact same results, stripped gears 😂
@@biometal770 exactly I’m glad somebody understands where I’m coming from. The comment section for this video is crazy people support plastic. You’d be surprised.
@@TheEnthusiastMechanic I see this! So many people seem to be on board with these plastic components, yet have no idea what they are talking about. Like this guy above, asking if you are an engineer. What he clearly does not know is that, to be a good mechanic these days, it requires an engineer level amount of knowledge.
No need for that if you out your hand through the oil dip stick on the bottom youll be able to reach the adjuster bolt easy with a 13mm open head wrench
Use a degreaser like super clean diluted with water to clean the engine bay with water as well. The belts may need to be replaced possibly but first stem is to clean the engine bay.
I know there’s many types of plastics for many types of use case scenarios and that’s great but they could at least not use plastic in a vital engine component. That’s all I’m trying to say, but I understand we’re gonna be in the world of plastic cars soon
@@TheEnthusiastMechanic You are assuming the gear will fail simply because it's plastic and not metal. You realize that the engineers realize it's a vital component, there are DFMEA reviews for the gear/material, right? There might be a FS of 2 or higher on those gears.
@furyfantoo you might wanna contact the Chrysler engineers because they shear the plastic gear all the time I’ve had repeated cars come in the shop with stripped gears and most Chrysler models
You a think metal gear couldn't be jammed? Plastic is self lubricating. Metal would require lubricant that would eventually dry out and wear the gears.
Where do you work to not notice the problem of traditional splined shafts getting rusted stuck in the bearing tighter than a brick in the butthole? Sounds like heaven to me
I work in the rust belt I deal with several frozen axles in bearings and bearings into the hubs. You missed the point of the video where it’s about how does this design work in the long term? How much can it handle? For example I don’t care how easy it can be to replace them if I have to replace it 3 times a year if the design doesn’t hold up like the traditional bearings.
VW Lupo 3L and Audi A4 had that kind of hub too with integral bearing in the late 90' People made special tools with a bolt and spacers as you are suggesting to take them apart, to not have to order a complete replacement hub.
Enjoy your content and I learn a lot. But no need to tell us something is boring. Just skip ahead to what you want to show. Or speed up to 4x speed in editing. Every time you mention something being boring, I question if the content is boring (it's not). If I thought it was, I'd jump ahead.
