This the follow up to this video here https://youtu.be/IfuSRA1vTHY Just wanted to let you guys know it’s all fixed and the customer is happy 👍
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Once again, Beautiful.
You sir are the only mechanic in the world I would let touch my car, and I have major trust issues when it comes to mechanics. lol
You know we are allowed every once a miss
I blame Andy…..
Good post. You can always not notice something that is obvious once you find it.
Hard to see without full removal in not great lighting for sure. Maybe you can hire an out of work movie crew to light your shop while SAG is out on strike? 😛 Isn't it always the simple weird stuff that gets everyone? Cheers for sharing.
I went back and watched the last video again. If you watch closely it is nicked but not split that bad. Looked like it had been pinched. That would have been so easy to overlook.
DOH. Welp, at least you got closure! I hate it when you're fiddling with something trying to diagnose and the problem just vanishes.
For instance, I had an issue with my 2000 Honda CR-V where I suspected there was a backfeed into the signal side of the PGMFI relay that would hold the relay closed and keep the car running even when you turned the key off. I pored over wiring diagrams and determined that the problem could be in a couple lengths of harness behind two or three connectors. As I reached under the intake manifold to mess with one of them while in the fault state, I bumped something, the car shut itself off, and the problem vanished.
That was three years ago and I still am not brave enough to pull the intake and really go at the harness to see what's up.
It at 10:45 and again at 11:16 of your uh- oh video
It’s driving me crazy every since I’ve started watching your channel and I just have to ask. Where or why did you start using the phrase “old son”. Every time I here you say it I believe it’s from an old pbs movie or a book I’ve read. In my 70’s but it sure seems familiar for some reason. Thank you.
I chased an intermittent left front ABS sensor problem on my wife's Audi over about a year. Sometimes I could see spikes in the graph for that channel but otherwise it read fine. It had a new sensor, no change, new wheel bearing, no change. Every time I worked on it, it would end up looking fixed for a week or so.
I ended up swapping the front left & right channels at the ABS controller. The fault moved on the scope so I knew the controller was ok, and it must be something related to that wheel. Eventually I found an intermittent open circuit in the car side of the ABS sensor connector. One of the wires had broken from its crimp and was only being held in (surprisingly well) by the weather pack. One of those where I felt a little annoyed that I didn't find such a "basic" thing earlier, but also pleased that I felt absolutely certain I found the fault.
Nope. Does not need a new sensor. Just fix the wire and done.
Nice follow up. Probably not visible until the wheel is cranked hard one way or the other.
Always good to finial get the aah moment.
Up here in NE Wisconsin, 90% of the time, I just replace the speed sensors if possible. Corrosion is terrible around here and the sensors are cheap.
I like it Eric O. will say "look here! I missed that" and show us. Humbleness is a virtue. I noticed when I wear glasses I see stuff better, gettin' older I reckon…thanks for the follow up Mr O.
ERIC, U R GETTING OLD LIKE ME ~~ U NEED BIOFOCUL GLASSES???????
Unbelievable!
I wish I could work for you. I've done a lot of work on my own cars with my DeWalt carry toolbox with it's ratchets and sockets and a few other tools for a while and have tried to get a job at multiple mechanic shops in southern Oregon but none will give me a chance. There's not even certification required to be a mechanic here. One day ima try to get my own shop. After my 3 year infantry contract for the National Guard ima get another contract to be a wheeled vehicle mechanic; then after that's over hopefully I'll be able to make my dreams happen owning my own mechanic shop
Had a jeep liberty with an abs issue where the right rear was irratic. When i looked at it the owner replaced the sensor which is great new one and it worked for a bit because he moved it. Broke the internal clip bits in the connector because desert 120 hot and just snapped the retaining clip. So i looked at it and i was like ok…. Diagram says the modual goes all the way to the speed sensor and back and giving it 12v to the sensor and ground to the module. I saw that and checked for breaks in the wire it wasn't covered in thick insulation like that normal wire in wire loom protector which turns to dust you love em too lol. When i looked had ground but no power so interesting took apart the loom looked real hard and found a clean slice like that too in the 12v wire. Being cautious i thought what are the odds it was only that one….. It wasnt there was another break because i checked power at the break and still, nothing. Looked further up and sure enough, there was another break Chrysler who knew. So i checked there for my power and yes i had 12 volts took the bad bit out fixed it and boom worked. Now after a bit it came back again for the same problem but my repair held which is interesting. I isolated the segment that is to the wheels and i used a jumper wire and i still didn't continuity there but for the other side i did. My thoughts were "thats odd.. theres continuity on one side but not the other tested the individual wires and they did now." I connected it back tried again and it was working. So my thought was yes the connector is indeed bad replaced it and it fixed it i checked with my scanner now and i have wheel speed now.
Spend all your time flirtin with Mrs O…