This 1999 Oldsmobile 88 is running poorly. It dies at idle and runs rough at low RPM. It also has an Evap leak, a crusty heat shield, and wiring issues. We get it all fixed up and back on the road!
Sorry, I forgot to address the P1811, which is actually a transmission code. I will refer him to a transmission expert for that!
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Had a Mazda back in 2000 that even my decent mechanic thought had a bad ECM. Turned out my gas cap was loose, I wasn’t tightening it well when I filled up. Figured it out, code cleared itself and never came back.
Guy bought the car at 73 years old and drove 6,000 miles per year.
Definitely keep the comedy going like when you got scared when you saw the rusty Dodge playing Sherlock Holmes never get tired of cracking up when I see you have your silhouette picture with the white ford in the background and you say where's my matches! That is just half the enjoyment of the channel very high entertainment value
I love how he trashes to customers cars verbally and some of his memes he puts on his video heads it just makes you crack up laughing I look forward to watching every video over and over it never gets boring
You did right by this gentleman.
I like to put a little silicon grease on the gas cap.
Had to replace the filler tube on my 2000 buick regal for the same problem with evap
I've seen and owned several of those GMs, funny how recognizable its sound is to me. Love watching these videos with real rust belt cars. Oh yeah, self tapping screws are awesome!
I had an Oldsmobile Intrigue and I got stuck with the 3.5L V-6. Basically GM took their Northstar V-8 and chopped cylinders 7 and 8 off to make it a V-6. It sucked coolant like it was going out of style, and you had to take the motor out to change the sparkplugs and coil packs.
I keep hearing that quote from Joe Dirt: "How does a positrac rear end on a Plymouth work? It just does . . . "
I'm an industrial electrician and I will not touch anything but 3M super 33+ or Super 88. There just is no reason to. And yes there is a grand canyon difference between 3M tape and everything else.
Your channel should be called Watch Wes Wire
I drove that exact same car to 300k, then the body fell apart and we finally took it to the dump.
I've got a 3800 in my '05 Impala. 330k miles. The car is rotting away from the Michigan road salt around it, but that motor just refuses to die.
Super 88 makes the best bandaids.
Looks to me like his wipers don't work.
And now I understand the Evap problems on the Wife's '98 Park Avenue – thanks. Enjoy the diagrams!
Going over the problems with the 3.8 at the end, the intake manifold / EGR pipe problem is precisely what happen to ours, on I70, in Kansas @midnight, @70mph.
I'm pretty sure a car I had gotten at one point had a similar problem, but I wasn't so smart back then. Good to know for the future, I guess.
3M super 88 is the best and 130 for rubber tape
Honey pass me the jump pack, no dear that is the leak tamer.
That 3,8 sounded like a box of rocks to me.
last one of those I worked on , resulted a "remove the ECM, twist the can , to make it run again, long enough to get back to the shop, after that I advised no one to purchase a gm vehicle.
I also had evap codes on my Subaru Outback 2019. It took the dealer 2 weeks to diagnose it… even after a smoke test. In the end, it was a bad purge valve.
Bad MAF creates havoc. I had this in my truck. It simply cannot run w/o a good reading. Simple fix, but expensive part.
Crankcase sensor. I had a 1987 Olds98 and they replaced the mass air flow sensor, PROM, and other adjustments, and finally the last thing they replaced was the crankcase sensor — then it would not stop without notice on the road. Great car, when not in the shop. Paint went bad and other things fell off, and was a typical GM car of its day. Always had potential — never the reliability. People moved on the Japan.
Mass flow cencor is made in USA Japan. Not U.S.A.