Chevy 3500 Duramax Keep Blowing Cooling Fan Fuse 

2002 toyota tundra how hard is it to change out the headlight buckets

I have 2 cars with a few problems. I may have to take a drive put there so u can fix them. Im around albany

Hey Eric, thanks for the shout out! Great stuff, as usual. :)

Eric O is definitely the MAN!

It's hard to make money being an honest mechanic unless you specialize. Hence why a good mechanic is so difficult to find.

I wish he’d move down south where we would have access and our cars last more than 3 years without rusting out. Example is the Jeep he bought from Tennessee.

I live 175 miles from SMA and I've considered it. I do most of my own wrench-turning, and have some good, honest local mechanics I can turn to when I'm in over my head, but SMA is always there in the back of my mind as a plan C, D, or E, if all else fails.

I'm in Florida dnd wish to take my 5.3 Envoy to him to replace the rear main seal .. but I'd end up using about 20-30 quarts of oil getting there

yup that works

"-) a little smoke ,OK, but not to much, computer world, been there done that, ended up buying a new putter. love it.

I am a two way radio tech and have seen that "repair" all too often!

like finding a gas leak with a sigaretlighter.

Scary facts.

I jus checked. From my house 4hrs and 45min 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

387 miles from me. Shows about 6 hours. If I am ever vacationing or visiting his area and have car issues that I can't handle on the road then it's going to him. I am a mechanic myself and it would pain me to have someone else touch one of my cars. However I could hand it over to Eric O if needed.

13hr and 43 minutes. From Atlanta Ga. 879 miles. I do have family in NY and that's about a 2hr drive from my relatives house to SMA.

Would take about 4 weeks one way to ship my car over the Atlantic Ocean to Eric's shop.......I'm out :-D

2 day drive from my house 2,900km’s

Eric fixes the problem, the doctor would want to feed the truck pills just to keep it going but not fix the problem. Then your truck would get all these other side effects.

TEAC Fan here’s a bunch of fuses. Just change them out twice a day and when your out I’ll sell you some more. If it gets worse we will have to up the fuse rating. Take it easy though I don’t want your wiring to burn up by pushing it too hard, we might have to install a resistor to lower your alternator output. It will lower the efficiency of your other circuits but it will keep your risk of electrical shock down.

Jason The Municipal Mechanic that’s a shockingly accurate metaphor

@@JasonTheMunicipalMechanic on a semi-serious note: the "other shop" might have suggested putting in a automatic reset circuit breaker in place of the fuse... badda-bing... true bandaid fix.

Kinda sad honestly

@Jason Bowman idk.... the wiring on a CRJ-200 seemed kinda finicky at times

I was a Commercial Pilot, Director of Maintenance, and Chief Engineer in our charter company for over 35 Years. 1 lear 24, 1 Metro SA226, 1 Aero Commander 500A, 5 MU2-B35/36, 13 Piper PA31, and others through the years. I also did all the Piston Engines, and Turbine Engines including the TPE331-6 & -10 engines for both repair and overhaul. Being a TPE331 "Engine Guy" and pilot, I always wanted to get my hands on an OV-10 Bronco to "play with." We did have a DHC-1 Chipmunk and an Aero Votechody L-29 Jet Trainer for that..... but a Branco would have been.....very special. I still have a 250 Watt 28 Volt Landing Light with alligator clips on it to bridge a pulled Circuit Breaker for testing for shorts. It will draw a maximum of about 10 amps if the circuit is shorted, (and a smaller light for 2 Amp Circuits) but will normally allow the equipment to function when not shorted. Watch the light and manipulate the wiring bundles. When the light bulb lights brightly, you are getting close. Practicing an emergency descent in the Lear from 41,000 feet 10,000 feet one day, Flight Idle, Gear down, Roll to 60 degrees angle of bank, let the nose fall to -30 Degrees, wings level, and decend at 240 Knots indicated. Go to pull the gear up and the Gear Breaker blows. Returned to the field and installed the bulb across the pulled breaker and gear up and down as normal. Gear down and manipulate the wiring on the R/H Gear leg....and....winking light with an arcing sound, and we found the problem. At 240 Knots, the wiring to the squat switch, ....well.....did not fair well where it normally bent during gear retraction. Easy find and easy fix. I love Eric's Videos. They are great educational entertainment. Being on the West Coast of Canada and working on Airplanes as well as vehicles..... I am SURE GLAD we never had to deal with the Rust and Corrosion that he sees....WOW! He is an Auto Hero!

Sir that statement does not make your career look very good. Maybe you weren't avionics or just promoted up to desk jockey. Eric's troubleshooting process is spot on.

This was reply to Michael Marks 20 yr career of not fixing wiring. Seems to have posted several times. Aircraft have constant wire problems due to stress, temp variations, weather, abuse, and cheapskate manufacturing. There's miles more of it on planes and the one's you worked on probably were already on their last legs.

OV-10 puts you in the Vietnam era. Retired AF crew chief, C-141, B-52 and KC-135

So, how do you know the dealer worked on it?

Flat rate i'm sure.

Should be " worked " ( as in , nah , don't wanna )

Ken Oath. Too many dealers and the like are getting away with being incompetent and robbing people without any consequence.

Eric never said this truck was looked at by the dealer. He said "another shop." Don't assume.

Apparently his friends added some too.

@@bradklingensmith can't please everyone lol

The guy from north main auto!!!

No joe.....its your friends at dorman.... Didnt sell a clutch

I'll bet some of those thumbs down were people who just sold theirs, for this reason.

Lol

It's called "experience". There is no substitution for it.

@@rattmann36863 captain obvious......

William Kraft And Eric had the truck fixed before the owner came back from lunch too! 🤣🤣 He best be bringing a to-go box for the shop! 😋

SMA Cafe' ????

I'd like to turn him loose on my 2012 freightliner cascadia it has a bunch of wire gremlins

I totally get how he found it, but not having a lift to pick the car up would end my attempt to fix it myself. Oh, to be rich instead of so darn good looking!

Exactly. I hate mechanics like that, the ones who don't want to WORK for a living. Kinda like useless lawyers and politicians.

Simmons Rockwell well we find nothing wrong but hey we will sell you a new vehicle

Because they can't read a wiring diagram.

Mostly because they lack the expertise and are only interested in quick fixes. And quick fixes mean swapping parts, not tracing down problems.

@@tjroelsma - It's because service work such as brake jobs, tune-ups, and the sort, pays more and is easy. Like I said, they remind me of worthless lawyers and politicians.

Doctors mistakes many times get buried.

Confucius Say: "One looks with the eyes, not with the hands."

Same here.

Great, now I'm visualizing Eric O with a 'fro.

What truck is it?

@@rodiona8781 2014 Chevrolet Express 1500 Cargo Van 4.3L V6 RWD. It is the single most UNDER-POWERED vehicle I've ever driven. It is too much van for that size motor imo. They shouldn't even make them. They should come standard with the V8. I do alot of highway miles, and not alot of weight so I figured it would get the best gas mileage. WRONG! Over the last 87,000 miles it averages exactly 13.425 MPG. I have friends with the big Express 2500 and 3500, they crush me in MPG. Nothing good about this setup at all! Sorry I'm rambling, can you tell I hate this van?

excellent ... I enjoyed that comment too ... as I just posted above