Chevy/GMC Truck: No Start - No Crank 

I would pay anything to be able to work with him for a week, imagine what you would learn ! i learn something new from Eric every video, and i can honestly say he has had a big impact in my career as a Heavy equipment Tech !

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I had something similar happen after the very last free maintenance visit I received from BMW Sahara in Las Vegas. All the sudden it was going into limp mode and throwing codes, had them look at it, $600-700 in purely diagnostic fees later I was told I needed a $5k turbo job done. Took it to a local guy who specialized in BMW's and he had it fixed within minutes. "Somehow" a hose or two had been disconnected and simply needed to be reconnected. I guess they figured they'd take advantage of the last time they were going to see the car and guarantee an easy return customer and a fat bill. Ended up being a blessing in disguise as it gave me the motivation to start learning about and working on my own cars so that could never happen again.

I was a little surprised he did not search for water damage elsewhere - it looks like a flood car to me as well (I posted separately on that).

and, if the lid was on and not removed, dried, cleaned, etc the lid keeps the water locked in for a looooong time and let's nature do it's thing and rot everything rottable.

Yep, this is why salvage titles shouldn't be allowed to be registered and driven again. If the vehicle is damaged to the point the insurance won't repair it the vehicle should be destroyed. It shouldn't be parted out because that just puts water damaged parts into the system. The entire vehicle should be shredded and recycled into beer cans. If you own a classic car and don't want it destroyed take the insurance max payout before they total it and cover the rest yourself. There is no justification for selling and titling salvaged vehicles to be driven on the road any longer. It just allows things like flooded vehicles to show back up on the market and screws Joe Carbuyer. Places like copart and the morons who buy totaled junk and repair it and sell it should be shut down. In the end everyone has a good time and makes money except the guy who ends up buying a vehicle that should have never been repaired and put back on the road. Sinking tons of time and money into a vehicle that should have been recycled. It is never worth buying a vehicle with a salvage title. Almost all of them are rebuilt by someone with little experience or knowledge and have been cobbled together as cheaply as possible. Worst of all the sellers will still want damn near market value for a vehicle with a clean title and give you some bull about it being rebuilt "better than it came from the factory." I went to school for auto body work over 20 years ago and did that for a few years and then went over to the mechanical side and ended up an ASE master mechanic. You can fix a wrecked vehicle just as strong or stronger than new if you have a full shop and the knowledge and tools to do it. Most of the folks buying and repairing salvage vehicles lack all of those things. A flood car is never worth bringing back, never. By the time you replace everything that should be replaced you have spent more than it will ever be worth. Every bit of electronics and wiring front to back needs to be replaced if it was submerged FULL STOP. No exceptions it should all be replaced bumper to bumper and you will never sell it for what it costs in time and parts to do that. Flood vehicles should be crushed and shredded immediately and not allowed to be hauled off "for disposal" because they just end up getting shipped to some rebuilder who patches it up and sells the problem to someone else. I'm in the habit of looking in all the electrical boxes I can and popping a door panel or two part of the way off and having a gander down in the doors. If you add in looking in any voids in the trunk under the carpet those are normally the places they don't or can't get clean. I also avoid cars that have lived their lives on dirt roads because they end up with dirt and dust everywhere and it will cause problems and you can find the evidence in those same places when looking for flood damage. It will look like someone dusted those surfaces with a nice brownish grey flour. If the guy bought it knowing it was a salvage vehicle then he made his bed. He's dumb as dirt imo but made the decision because he couldn't afford or didn't want to pay for a decent vehicle. If the seller somehow got a flood vehicle without a salvage title and sold it they should be charged with fraud. We need strong consumer protection laws to protect against that kind of stuff. A lot of states won't register salvage title vehicles and a lot of insurance companies won't write policies for them. So when a major flood happens in those states the vehicles are shipped all over the country to states without common sense consumer protections like not allowing salvage title vehicles to be put back on the road. I've got enough experience on both the body and tech side to say without a doubt that once a vehicle has a salvage title it should never be allowed back on the road as a registered and insured vehicle. We have enough cars, we don't need to save the ones that have been damaged so badly that the insurance says it's not worth fixing. It's 50% the fault of people selling salvage vehicles, 35% the fault of states and insurers for allowing salvaged vehicles to be put back on the road, and the last 15% is the fault of the people so dumb or cheap that they buy the things. It doesn't matter in the end who is at fault they should be illegal to register and insure in every state.

@@velvetjones Great through answer and I agree with every word of it. I have seen what hurricanes have done to cars and that box fits the description of a flood car - plain and simple.

Wesley Jones I personally disagree with you. Flood/water salvage vehicles yes others no bc at times the damage can be so small on some vehicles but yet the insurance is only in the business to make money not to fix stuff for you but to make money.

JLUMINADO would be smart to switch to that name napper and not have to worry about trademarks, while we all would get it. I really hope he sees your comment and can make a shirt!

@@layyouin6860 I hope so. I've been mentioning it on almost every video. I almost feel like I need to make one and just send it to him lol.

Stealerships getting mad.

Lots of youtubers have leeches that think they are making their mark on the world by TDing videos made by people whose boots the leech is not fit to lick.

yup the old BootLickers.

dennis aldeman I think that guy put a normal fuse in, started it, switched it back to the old fuse, and thought "I'm a fan, I wanna see a vid with my vehicle in it!" It was a success story.

Steven Corley I read your username as "Steven Crowder" and got excited for the half second it took to check your name again. Haha!

@@layyouin6860 LOL, I can safely say that has NEVER happened before. Wish I could be as popular (at least in my crowd) as Mr. Crowder.

@@layyouin6860 who the fork is Steven Crowder......

OH ROUGH COMMENT. OUCH. BLOODY GOOD VIDEOS MR E . TOP NOTCH.

I too want to see the ensuing carnage of swapping out the fuse box. Make it so Eric!

Cue up multiple big-boy swear words!

Agreed, would love to see this swapped out.

Same !

Izzynutz Restorations me too hope Eric films the box’s change out

Yep we had flood damaged vehicles from one part of Australia (written off) being sold in other states, customers were left out of pocket due to insane repair bills.

Yeah, I would definitely want to run a vehicle history report with this truck; because it’s screaming “I’m a flood truck” likely a victim of Harvey.

@@digitalrailroader absolutely! You can even run VIN numbers for limited background info for free! It will tell you if it's a flood vehicle (but then again that's usually only reported if insurance companies deem it a loss or similar)

Got chevy 2012 no crank no start. Been watching your videos. I popped the cats cause of rattleling.. now no crank no start. Jump starter,key on . cranks but no start. I did change the battery.. on cranks.just saw video of the two amp fuse, bout to swap

what was the end problem ? currently mine is pwrmde 2 amp blows upon ignition crankk chevy traverse

Unicrom63 😂did the same with my 2013 GMC, cover on tight, no corrosion, but lots of fine dust.

I guess I take following wiring diagrams and others for granted, I can look at older circuits boards and back trace fast (single or double sided) the newest stuff is multi-layer impossible and very often total junk

I went through mine in the mid 80's learning 70's tech. Fuel injection was starting to come out and the instructor was leading us away due to the computer control. Now that I'm learning more about the electrical and computer control, it's not as bad as I was led to believe. Wish Eric would have been the instructor!

Nah the blades are the same size and the actual fuse part is sealed by the plastic, so corrosion on the blades affects all fuse denominations more or less the same.

Ivan Would fix the fuse no parts needed LOL I like watching him work to

coming soon, all integrated into single magic smoke emitter vehicle brain =p

Salt water flood maybe. That's beyond bad.

Not a flood, you'd have bigger visible issues he would have noticed long before the fuse box.

@@Folsomdsf2 Yes. With a flood, you'd have starter and alternator failure, just as a beginning.

@@reecenewton3097 In the flood vehicle they replace whatever isn't working before it goes to auction, with used parts from a wrecker, so because the fuse box WAS working, they probably left it.

@@toysareforboys1 And if the water got high enough to cover the fuse box, it would have been inside the cab, too, soaking the seats and possibly up under the dash. No matter how you washed out the interior and let the seats etc. dry in the sun, the stink from a flood would never be out of there. It's known that after floods or a hurricane, people in the market for a used car are warned to look for "bargains" on late models as flood cars can be transported to states far away from the flooded locale.

Pull motor, drop transmission, fire parts cannon at it, etc.. heck they'd probably even want to change the ignition and pcm!

"While you're here, just wanted to tell ya that your pads are getting low"...

Then you'd be back 5 or 6 times under warranty, and it still wouldn't run right! 🤣

Dealer fires entire parts cannon at truck and never opens the fuse box lid

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I think Mrs. O does the editing...... Hides before being caned :))

It's a flood vehicle. Never thought I'd see one all the way up in New York. We see them here a lot in North Carolina coming from Florida, Louisiana and the other states nearest to us that get flooded out a lot. Before you buy a vehicle check under the carpet you'll see a lot of dirt or silt if it's a flood vehicle most times. Car Taylor's usually clean everything you can see really easy but they never pull the carpet cuz it's too much trouble. That's what's in that fuse box. It's where the truck sat in water for days in the water. Dirt and everything else collected there until it was pulled out of the water.

@@tgriffin6938 Same thing that crossed my mind just hope it wasn't ocean water or bye,bye floor boards and fenders and,and,and.......

@South Main Auto Repair Just adding, Yes! It would be rather interesting to see a follow up video! On this 2010 Chevrolet 1500 Silverado: Showing the power distribution box (fuse panel) and with all of its green crusties trying to make a connection. Lol! 🛠✌🏼❤️

looks like some type of hurry-reup-cane truck with a dusting of salt water.

@@Dirtyharry70585 jah, or whatever flooded area (no salt needed!), they'e out there and pumping through auctions nationwide ++++

afm lifters are a common issue on gm trucks , typically its a collapsed lifter, sometimes worst. typical repair is new lifters and vlom. or do what you did and do a delete function .

I was thinking flood too..

Definitely flood

👆🏻 real life mech

@@thespiritof76.. Thanks, just lots of experience with a variety of vehicles. Hope you have a wonderful day.

kens97sto171 U2 bud.

My 07 Sierra with 5.3 afm burned a quart every thousand miles at 55k

Mine was owned by people on a red clay road in Alabama. Im still spraying chunks of clay from the underside of my suburban. Amazingly the fuse box is clean!

2010, I'd think water intrusion, maybe a dash of salt water, was it used for plowing/towing/beach driving/flood location or contractor that uses the truck running to power larger inverter with hood open in storms? so many things other than it also being chinesium junk metallurgy in them there fuse-blocks....

@@throttlebottle5906 not sure on the chinesium metallurgy, basic galvanic or bimetallic corrosion, but many connectors are plated steel to reduce cost. It looked like silt in there suggesting submerged as you commented on.

and the box!

BoscoMoney I’m sure he loves the labor charges it brings into the shop

@@Newberntrains If insurance pays, I would triple the labor lol

I'm quite sure many "viewers" like it too, they learn and it helps them...

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that is the good old brine they use for deicing the roads. exactly what it does to aluminum.

Agreed

@outlaw63 don't forget beet juice and propylene glycol and 999-other supposed "non-toxic" stooge mixtures.

Your thirstyness for her has nothing to do with auto repairs. Check yourself

You took a completely innocent comment and made it sexual. Way to be a jackass. She's happily married dude... Smh I meant we love her as in she has no reason to be shy in front of camera.

@@budphillips9301, well let's see what boss man has to say.

Fair enough, but I'm sure if the man, the myth, the legend himself Mr. Eric O reads this he'll indeed realize that, I in fact, had zero dirty intentions in mind about his wife when I made this comment and was simply saying that Mrs. O shouldn't be so camera shy because we think she is awesome. Speaking of awesome, you can add South Main Auto, along with Eric himself, Trinity, and the entire family down at South Main Auto to that list. From my family to yours, God bless, SMA.