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Can we just go home if it's below zero shouldn't that be a general rule? Oh, it's so stinking cold, sick of the cold people. No! It's new york, no winner, blah blah blah! Oh yeah! Let's get to it chevy and he writes oh come on chevy. You can start, maybe she doesn't want to start. I don't really want to give it gas because it's so cold, but we're gon na come on baby.
You know you love me. Oh i hate doing that. Sorry, folks, just plug your ears. If you don't like that, sound oil light comes on periodically all over the place.
Typical chevy boy, she's running like poo poo uh, do an inspection. All nader gage dips down below 14 normal uh check out pressure sensor. That is on also fix that all the tire pressure light also price tires, for it also check alignment on it. Oh also check the engine light good, so they made a point for the engine.
Light left the list of mile long, so we'll check everything over there. Let's get her in first before it stalls, it's barely running, i'm gon na try to take my foot off the accelerator here, all right, she's idling somewhat, let's see if we can't get her in before it dies. Oh it's a little cold out today! Maybe i didn't mention that it's been cold for like freaking ever oh now we got some kind of dinger going off. I think it means we have no oil pressure, something i don't know so.
It sounds like. We've got a classic case of your po-521. Your chevy oil pressure sensor switch there that fails. You can't see inside here, hopefully nothing's in here all right now we're in where it's warm uh, you're gon na have to deal with the incredibly loud furnace on youtube, not loud in real life, but you'll have to deal with it.
Uh. Let's see it's throwing a code. 175 172 says: please take care of that thanks a lot love, always yadda yadda, so uh just beating down his list. The oil light that comes on.
I bet we're gon na find the code uh. I think it's a 521d chevy set the oil pressure switches go bad on them. Super duper common. The alternator that dips down between 10 and 14 on the gauge is also pretty common.
These chevys use a smart charge type system so once once the battery is fully charged. Let's say it's been running for a while, it doesn't demand. You know a full 14.2 volts, all the time, it'll cut it back to 12.6 to reduce emissions. So i think it was such a problem when gm came out with that system, they actually came out with a service bulletin, because so many people were going back to uh the dealership and saying hey.
You know my alternator's not working and sitting at 12. You know so so there's that and then i think they go into a high charge mode where they're like 15.1 or something so that doesn't surprise me. I haven't seen that complaint in a while, but it doesn't surprise me uh inspection, tire pressure sensor, uh give him a price on tires. He wants uh the factory tires, not these big jabronies.
He says i want the tires on it that it calls for not these big old wide jabronies would like an all season. Call me for prices. The alignment so anyhow we're gon na check out the engine. Light first see what's going on with that: we're gon na warm up our patties and uh we're gon na get in it and uh get after it. Let's see she's done scanning see what the survey says. Four codes in the engine: control, module, rich rich engine, oil pressure sensor and evap vent system, performance, classic, um and they're. All current so must be didn't know about this one or that one so like i said the 521 doesn't surprise me super duper common uh and then these rich codes is probably a flexi fuel. Don't these have the issue with uh, with the flex, fuel and alcohol counters off and so on and so forth.
Somebody stuck a brand new one. They hopefully didn't put the alternator on it in an effort to combat the uh fluctuating gauge. Let's see, do we not have free, oh yeah, freeze frame looking for it, they should put a big button that says: freeze frame. So, let's see where our fuel trims were at the event, long term, minus 29 and minus 28.
That's really bad fella. So, let's just poke through, i don't know if these ones have uh alcohol reset here, fuel composition reset. Let's look at that and let's see, let's see if it tells us what the alcohol level is first, 80 percent. It thinks holy smokes that's too high.
If you blow a .80, so let's fix that real, quick there. We go we're back to three, so he should be fixed. Now, let's throw a pipe on the exhaust and start up see if we fix the wrench problem and then the other problem is damn door. Doesn't open now fricking doors froze shut or something because it wouldn't stay shut.
So, like a fool, i pushed the door lock down to see if the door would stay shut, then and then it does. But now now the gap ding door doesn't open gosh. I hate trucks, i don't really hate trucks. I just hate it when my day doesn't go right and it's monday.
So how do we know if we fixed it is we're gon na go into fuel trim? I'm surprised it didn't start a little better. Oh okay! It must erase all the fuel trims when we uh when we cleared the alcohol counter, because that's how it calculates it big dummy anyhow we're going to be looking at long-term and short-term fuel trims and we're going to pull up some other stuff here. What else we want to pull up? There's our alcohol content close enough all right, let's fire it up, it should start a little bit better than it did outside i'll. Tell you that much hooray! It starts better.
We got ta wait for this nick close loop and now we'll see where our fuel trims settle out here. So she just hit a closed loop still pretty cold. I see our short term is already about -10 ish. I don't know how long this thing's been running.
Rich, it might need an oil change because it might be real stinky, let's see if she got the stinky snake, which could make a huge difference. Oh, is she black? Let me smell it. What the hell am i i can't smell that thing. Stupid cool ever since i got the moment, i can't smell, but i did get oil on my nose. Gosh we're going to go, get the lovely misses, though i don't know she's starting to settle down better. There even said an idle, so plus or minus 10 kind of general rule. We probably should have looked at it before, but kind of had a hunch what was going on anyways, so, okay, no big deal left, take it for a shake, make sure everything's cool, because this is just sitting in one fuel trim cell cell 14, whatever that means. What's up old girl um? What are you doing? Well, your kid took care of the garbage friday yep, not in the dumpster.
Oh yeah. Are you gon na hit him? Are you if you want me to no? Oh, okay, all right? Well, now i feel guilty. I should go help you i'll go help you here, i'm going. Let's go.
Let me shut the camera off dirty, i'm going to help you all right. So i'm pretty happy with that folks that that should uh repair his issue here. So let's shut her off hallelujah. Don't hate trucks, no more code, 175 172, fixed alternator gauge.
I printed them out. They still have a surface bolted on this one. I couldn't believe it in 2012. They still got it information on the voltmeter gauge fluctuation, due to regulated voltage, control systems, blah blah blah gives here.
Customers complain same complaint. He has uh. Where did he complain about it? Now that he's complaining, just around 12 or 10 to 14, sometimes lower, always seems to charge, and then they basically explain it here that it fluctuates between 12 and 14, with the regulated voltage control system, when it's in fuel economy mode it can dip down as well As 12.6 so and not to worry like say, we'll warm it up and double check it, but, like i say this is a super common complaint on these chevys i'll. Give him a copy of this that uh so check the oil light coming on check.
Napa is on their way up with a oil pressure switch for it. Super common i've done other videos on these. So i'm not going to record that, for you, inspection val automatically fails got 10 windows, so he'll take it somewhere else for that uh tire pressure sensor. Let's go see what that needs, and then this one here check.
We did that alignment. My boy josh is gon na have to do it. It originally only had the appointment for this down here. That was what appointments for.
So this is super common. When this happens. Folks, if you're going to a shop uh, not throwing stones to this guy, but if you're going through a shop and you and you make an appointment for an engine light. Please don't do all of this because, typically and just like today, i don't have time for all of this.
I schedule it for about a one hour slot to fix the engine light and then now i've got to free up an alignment. Rack and you know, go through and do everything else, but anyhow, let's keep cranking. Keep that in mind, though. Let's see we're gon na fire, this little guy up we're gon na go into the tpms. I don't remember which model i'll tell this. Is it's the its? It's 600 and then we're going to go through and pick chevy, not alpha romero. I don't even know what that is, so i'm going to go through and id the truck and then we're gon na go see which uh sensor is not working here. So we can do the whole deal, not that one i get so click happy.
It might actually been the right one because we're looking for a 2012 um, so 315 snapping they're all 315.. What's it matter, why do we? Why do we have all these options? Nine to nine 11 and 12., let's see if they're, 4, 33 or 3 15.. So let's pick a 315 megahertz. Oh, you know what i forgot to tell you something: uh-huh yep valentine's day girl, oh thanks, their annual toolbox.
So we're going to trigger one of these bad boys and see if it's of course we could have picked nope the right one, okay, so that one's not that okay. So let's go start over for real trigger, we got to see which one's the dead one. Sometimes, if you're wondering are they 433 or 315 megahertz, and you start on a dead one like this. One here is probably dead, then you just don't know so, let's go through and see who's dead who's, not that this one appears to be dead.
No, it actually worked. It took a while, but it worked so we'll see it took like a long time, 19 degrees, so they're warming up a little so we'll see if this one takes forever. I think that one tire up front's ball during a welding ball smooth. So this is kind of odd.
Both rears say that they're, a duplicate sensor, which they would have to be a duplicate of one of the fronts. How in the thunder can that be i'll? Tell you how that can be so uh, for example like here with the auto i can copy the id of any sensor that i that i trigger. Let's say i trigger this one. Let's say as a ding dong and i snap this one off.
I copy the id or i i collect the id with the all time. Like you know, people people got the id and then i hit duplicate and then it makes me a new sensor. So i'm curious, if perhaps at some point, one of those sensors has gone bad. Somebody collected the id information off it and made a couple duplicates.
The only way to tell is to break this tire down and see what kind of sensors in it you know. Is this an all-tell, a schrader, a gator, an orange, you know and did somebody copy it? So that's all! I can tell you folks um what i'm gon na do so six six one four, seven seven i'm to go out here and i'm going to clear the info out of it and i'm going to rescan them and see which one it's a duplicate of. So i just cleared the info and that left rear comes up with that last three is a 661, so that was that was a copy of one of the fronts. Now, when we trigger this one, let's see if it comes up as a duplicate id. It probably does because you see all that black stuff around the stem somebody's been in there uh, because that's a bead sealer or some some crap so somebody's already been in here and i think they've got the id numbers all screwed up and then what we'll do? We'll see if this pops up duplicate id, if it does that's what i'm betting, what happened? I bet somebody didn't know how to use their tool didn't know how to make a unique id and then just programmed it with whatever yeah you see how that says, duplicate. So let's go like this and let's see if this is true, let's back back out we're gon na hit, ok we're to erase the data we're going to go back to the right rear here and then we're going to trigger it, which it'll probably trigger quite quickly. I'm assuming and it is - and you see the id number 661. so this right rear has the same id as the left rear, which has, i don't remember, which one up here had the 661 id uh, so we're on the right front.
Let's trigger this one. Okay, so the right front, so they're all copies of this one. Here on the left front, which, let's spin the wheel around town yeah, the sucky part, is we don't know which of the three tires has programmable sensors in it? So let's say one of these is an oem and two of them are aftermarket. Now we don't know who's who uh, because we can't rewrite the id on an oem sensor, but we can rewrite the ids on aftermarket sensors if that makes sense.
So this gets a little tricky. We might have to break down three tires to find out what's what, but he also wanted a quote on tires. So maybe we'll save that for that time, unless we go look at the back tire there and it's if the back tire has black schmoo all over yeah, i see so it's a duplicate, uh the tires are junk anyways. You know these front tires are pretty well had uh, let's see, is there black schmoo on this one? There is not son of a huge, we got ta take a guess.
We got ta gamble, sometimes you can figure it out like this uh. Let's see who's got the shiniest valve core, oh that one's pretty shiny that one we know has got black shmoo on it is this one shiny, oh see now: she's all she's, all corroded she's she's a little bit darker! So have a look at that we're going to use our context clues now. That could be, because i had the wrong bell stem cap on it too. It could have had your classic short valve stem cap instead of the appropriate one here, all right.
So a little bit crusty or a little bit, uh oxide, oxidized, bright and shiny and that's got a square shoulder too so a little different shoulder design. We got ta get mortar and folks. This has got freaking black goo all over it. That's got the square shoulder and what we got up here.
Folks, i'm thinking the two rears are probably the this one has a tapered shoulder. So that's probably an oem sensor, but this is not the one we're in problems with. Let's take a gamble. Let's peel the one wheel off the back see what kind of sensors in it. Let's see we broke her down. What is that here replacement? I don't know what the heck. This thing is got a lot of junk inside the wheel. Here, though, somebody, instead of cleaning the beat on it, they just goop up all this black crap um.
I do not recognize this brand. Oh, i think it's a schrader, let's get my readers, yeah schrader.com says schradersomething.com, that's too bad man! This this thing is so corroded. So that's why they got all the black gobbly goopy crap, on it yeah they're, trying to seal up a bead leak instead of fixing actual problem, we just smear black stuff all over it awesome um. That does not look like one of the programmable schraders.
I wonder if that's an oem that has a model number on it, because the new the new schraders are really tiny. I don't know 315 megahertz and i can't read the model number uh. What i would do in this case. I would just program them a couple.
Unique ids for the back tube and stick it in it and that's going to fix the issue here. So i don't know how he would have got all these duplicate ids, but obviously that's its problem. Lady, so we're gon na go to programming, and then we want to auto create an id we're gon na have to move this sensor over here. You got ta, keep the four feet away, otherwise it detects it and then it's going to auto create a new id for us.
Now it detects one sensor correct and then it's going to program that sensor and then we're going to auto create another one. So that way there we don't get all these mismatched ids, but at some point somebody did some honky wonky stuff there and uh. You know or copied the sensor right here, three times at least twice: okay, so that one's got a unique id. So we walked this one over.
We set that one down. We pick up this one. We come back here and then we come down here and then we just auto create this one. We wait for it to detect it, so this is a great little tool.
The ts-508 wi-fi is also a great tool for maltel. I have that one also that one works great. This one's pretty cool has an obd2 dongle. You can do some other stuff with it, but works pretty good.
So that's programming that one and no now everybody's gon na have a unique id we're all unique in our own little ways. So there's that now we have two unique sensors. I'm gon na peel that other back wheel off we're gon na take that over we're gon na pop the sensors in it go around and program them all. Let's see if the old jimmy's happy with us now so we're gon na trigger the left front.
We should be golden now, hopefully, oh yeah, that's a pisser. This left front is not reading right. Now, i'm trying to do it one more time. I know it was really really slow.
The first time we did it. It took a long time for it to read it, which is usually an indicator of the battery status yeah val dang, it all the heck. I might have to do a third one now at that point you just do them all. Let's see if this right front one's working yeah, but that one's working of course, these two better work they're the two we just put in when i had some crap, the one that was a duplicate, is now not functioning awesome. Well, i just tried it for a third time: still: no beans, that's a bummer, so i'm gon na pop a new one in that one: okay, folks round, two uh three out of four sensors ain't, bad right. So now this left front should work and it does. I still got to go through and straighten out the uh tire pressures and stuff. You got ta go ten plies on this thing, so we're gon na go through we're gon na copy all of the ids.
They should all now be unique in nature. Never trust the battery status over here where it says: okay, just for the record, so then we're going to go to relearn and then we want to do an obd2 relearn, because i already plugged in the dongle up inside the truck and then this way here. We don't have to put it in relearn mode and go through and this net. So let's only take a minute here.
It should sometimes it starts blowing the horn on these chevys. I think it's on the newer ones when it's doing the obd2 relearn obd2 relearn. Okay, it says: okay, we're a couple: okay, guys you and i let's come around here little tight over here. This is our light out now negative.
Let's start it up and she should be out now we might have to go through and trigger it. Nope so she's out uh, we just got finished dealing with the money light. I don't want it to warm up too much so we'll shut that off. Let's finish up with that folks, so again, for you guys that are working in the shop and thinking about a tpms tool, the alt, the its 600.
I think is that what we called it, it's something its 600, a great little tool. I don't know if i would want it in a shop that i had a bunch of ding dongs working at. If you know what i mean, it's a little more fragile than the other one. That i'll show you, which is also a great tool.
So this thing's awesome has a lot of other options on it. Now, if you're looking to just do tpms, is it that one? I don't know, let's look in this case the uh 508 or 608. I think it is no problem one. That's that's.
Our battery testing tool must be maybe this case right here. Let's have a look at this yeah. That's got ta, be it so this 508 wi-fi. I think it is yes, so this ts, 508 wf wi-fi this one's great, because you don't need to use the all-tell manager on your desktop to update it because it does it through wi-fi.
It does tpms systems, it does your key fobs. It works just like this. One does as far as programming and reading and everything it does obd2 relearns via the cable, which is a little less convenient. These things are super cheap. Typically, you buy 20 sensors and you get the tool for free. You know maybe four or five hundred dollars. If you're looking for one in the shop, that's a rock solid tool, this one gets my approval. Uh, the its 600 gets my approval too, but uh this one's more, like dummy proof, if uh, if you know what i'm saying, i'm not saying that shop guys are dummies, but i've seen some clowns in some other shops and uh, perhaps that one, the more rugged Design, it's probably better, let's see, check out the tire pressure sensors, also on fix that he says jack, that one's fixed um.
The other thing we need to fix. He wants the engine light fixed uh, we fixed those two coats but remember i forgot the uh. So the 172, the 175 we fixed with the alcohol reset 521. We got your parts here from that, but, like i've done a video on this before you got your sensor, you got your gasket.
You got your screen piece of cake uh. Now we need to move on real, quick, like a little money, because we're running out of time way behind uh this 446 event system performance. Let me put my cap on my shirt. You guys are gon na have vertigo before this video is over uh.
Let's go to let's just look at some live data, real quick and we want to look at evaporative emissions. We want to see where our fuel tank pressure sensor is at. Currently it's venting we're not purging anything. We got 43 percent fuel level.
We don't want that fuel pressure about a bing bada boom. So there's your problem, lady. Okay, so we know what the problem is with that now: uh 2.61 volts saying that it is under a vacuum right now of negative 9.72 millimeters of mercury. So if we were working on a ford, we'd be like hey we're in good shape for the shape, we're not a chevrolet 1.5 volts is good.
Now i doubt this thing is under vacuum, but to be sure, we're going to come over here we're going to take the cap off e85 cap, we're going to put it back on. I didn't hear it go, so we know it's not under vacuum. Then we're going to come back over here have a little look-see have a little see 2.59. So 99 of the time.
Every time it's a fuel tank pressure sensor. Why does this give us a canister vent code? You ask: did somebody just ask that if you just ask that raise your hand, so evap system, vent system or evap evaporative emissions, vent system, performance, she's, a performer folks uh? So what that's saying it's like it's giving this fuel tank sucky sucky through the purge solenoid and sees this and says: hey whoa, hey we're in a vacuum uh! But i've got it venting. We should be at atmospheric pressure, but we're not so that says: hey she's not performing she's, not a performer. We throw the code for performance, because the only thing it can assume is that this vent is not functioning as it should.
If that makes sense to you, so the sucking comes from the purge. Solenoid tries right here: the can the purge, wherever that's at right here, the purge that normally would put a vacuum in the tank. The vent will open and close depending on what part of the evap testing it's in. So typically it's open to the atmosphere, but when it's open it's expecting to see this is zero and it doesn't so it can only assume that it's plugged. So the problem is with the fuel tank pressure sensor and or the wiring blah blah. Let's see if we can reach it, just unplug, it make sure it goes to five volts so we'll see. This is all we need batteries we're out of batteries. What's up miss, though, do you have some batteries for our wrench? I don't know if you want to open her up and spin that, for me you're pretty much a technician.
Oh they're, not crusty. Are they no okay? You got in know, so it's a pain in the neck to get uh above that gas tank without pulling the drive shaft. So what i'm gon na do i've got to go through and torque the wheels on before. I forget that nobody likes their wheels flying off when they leave the shop.
Trust me, i know not come here pumpkin. No, it's not loud up here, uh. So what i'm gon na do is. I ordered a fuel tank pressure sensor because once i pull the shaft and stuff and can get to the top of the tank, if that's what it is, i just want a new one to put in it and to fix it.
So that's the plan uh, while we're waiting for the parts store, i'm gon na go through and change the oil pressure switch sensor, which way were these old girls. I don't know you just dumped them into my hand, i'll, say, plus down um, i'm gon na change that oil pressure switch now. I've got other another video on that and i also have videos on the fuel tank pressure. Sensor, diagnosis, a little more in depth and replacing it so you can go ahead and check those out all right here we go, the parts have been changed, so pressure switch screen like say done: videos on those fuel tank pressure sensor; i've done videos on these.
So i didn't want to have too much repeatability uh, let's see kion engine off, let's see where we're at over here we're closer to where we should be so. The 1.35 bulbs we're close to atmospheric pressure now, ideally, 1.5 is perfect. You're going to be somewhere between 1, 3 and 1 6., so now what we need to do figure out where we left off here folks, what we need to do is check now that we have a functioning fuel tank pressure sensor. Is we need to see? Does the rest of the evap system work? Hopefully it does so that is probably going to be under active test.
We want to do a purge and seal and we want to see. Does the purge valve work? Does the vent valve work uh, quick and dirty what we can do because she's warming up in here, let's go to the vent solenoid and we're going to close that off. So it's venting right now it should go to not venting still says venting. It's not changing status, that's awesome, it's handy and typically, what we would be looking for is an increase in fuel tank pressure, voltage and pressure. So, let's see did it change to not venting. Maybe this pit isn't working right, never trust your scan tool. Rule number one bless you sorry and what i'd like to see is i'd like to see our pressure increasing, but we don't know if the canister vent valve is actually closing pretty sure i left the key. Oh man, almost tripped i'll, be tripping.
I did not leave the key on, therefore, that is why it's not functioning cause. I'm a ding-dong. Isn't that what you always tell me? Okay, let's see hey now, it says not bending, because i'm and let's see if we have a steady increase in pressure and you can see that we do so. What's that tell us so this is what we're doing is natural vacuum leak detection? It's like leaving a gas can out in the hot sun.
What happens when you leave a gas can on the hot sun itself, buffs right up what happens when you leave it in the cold? There you go so there's your e-bath test. So this tells me that the canister vent valve is closing. It's warm in the shop, the fuel is volatile and it's expanding. And now, when i open the vent valve, it should go to atmospheric pressure and it does so the only thing we have, let that tells us that the purge valve is tight.
Like a tiger, the canister vent valve is tight, the gas cap is tight and this thing's sealed up. However, we need to find out. Does the purge work because it's a chevy and typically they don't work we reach in there and fire it up for us there. Young lady and then what we're gon na do is the perch solenoid is gon na give some sucky sucky.
It should draw the tank into a vacuum and then we're gon na seal it off. Okay, so right now we're gon na bump her up and you can see it's drawing the tank into a vacuum and now we're going to seal it off, and we should maintain that vacuum for a little while it shouldn't decay quickly. But we already know the system is sealed, so we're happy with it right now. The commanded state is zero percent purge no sucky sucky, the back door is closed, she's blocked off and it should be holding vacuum with a small amount of decay, and it is so we're happy shut it down.
Oh girl, kion, please so meow we can go through. We fixed the rich bank, one we fixed the rich bank too. We fixed the engine, oil pressure sensor and we fixed evap. We hit clear codes and we say adios muchacho um.
So now we're we're good everybody's happy codes are fixed. I gave it a glance over for inspection, obviously not gon na pass with the tenant windows uh. The frame is also broken. Why did that not clear my codes? Yes, i want to clear codes so uh the not yet run, but it's you what the key's, not right young lady, she thinks so it wasn't on now.
You're the ding-dong see this is what happens. This is the higher help i get around this place. Yeah you get paid get bird, i got ta run home i'll, get it okay hold on a minute i'll. Give you a smoochy wuchi do so the front end is tight, looks like somebody's done. The ball joints they've done the tie, rods. They've done the upper control arms, i assume they would have done an alignment, but i'm going to have my boy josh check it out once uh his lifts spreed up today i mean you know obviously somebody's been in there. So that's good. The cams will move uh.
We got to check this control arm. I see that's an og og ball joints. Aftermarket outer tie rod, so we've got to jack this up, put take the tension off it ball. Joints are probably wasted on this side.
Typically, these chevys all need ball joints, but, more importantly, like say, the frame is: is cracked from there all the way up and around it's going all the way, so these chevys uh always rot the frames out. The frames are always routed in half back here, so we always stay on for inspection and if it's the three quarter - ton that has a cross member that bolts there. Oh she sounds pretty thin over here too. Oh yeah, she is she's all rotted out there too.
So um, let me get show you we'll get the judge i'll show you super super common. Usually these trucks are only good for about seven, seven or eight years in new york. The judge these trucks rot out faster and you can replace them um yeah, so that frames junk there and then again over here, so yeah she's a see-through edition, that's what the chevy silverado se stands for see-through edition, uh other than that inspection-wise. Other effectiveness, new frame she'll pass just fine, probably what we'll do with the tinted windows and stuff we'll send them down to the other shop, uh and they'll uh they'll take great care of them all right folks, so that's that uh we've done uh beat down his List everything is hunky-dory, uh, except for what's not um, like i say we're just gon na i'm gon na quote him on his tires that he wanted quoted on and uh have josh mcguire.
Do the alignment for him get the front end line back up and then, like i say, with the tinted windows and the broken frame he's going to have to go to the other shop? We know lots of places around here that do lick them stickums. Don't even look at the vehicle as long as the engine lights out. So of course i don't do that here because it's nonsense so we'll send them there and what i'm going to do, i'm going to send you down there in that comment, section the questions. The comments the concerns uh, while you're down there subscribe, ring the bell and uh look at the uh things that pop up on the screen i'll show you the other videos.
I have we're doing oil pressure, sensors, doing fuel tank pressure, sensors, doing lots and lots of chevrolet evap systems, they're very, very failure prone and i've probably covered every bit of a chevy evap system on previous videos. So try not to repeat anyhow, you guys have a good day and just my reviews, if i can do it, you can do it thanks for watching.
Thanks for doing these vids for us Mr.O, helping through the cabin fever.
Replace the oil switch leave the screen out
Dang it looks cold 🥶! Not fun.
I wonder what’s do at -40
Don't they all have a list? I know my Chevy Thunder does!
Love me some SMA!!!
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Just sat down with supper and this pops up. Gonna be a good night. Steak and Eric O.
the dreaded LIST !!!
Best way to cap the work day!
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