I have noticed one very important thing about Eric, he has spent the money for the correct tools to do the job. It saves time and headaches. I think that is one of the biggest keys to his success. A man after my own heart.
Small town garages become like the general stores of old. People drop in just to socialize. I bet Eric knows enough about town affairs to become Mayor or knows enough not to run for office ; )
Yeah, Vinny is a regular at SMA. He's a vet and there is a video where Eric looked at his scooter or lawn mower, I cant remember exactly. But it was a nice change of pace from the regular vids.
Hi Eric, im 61 yrs old, been cert. mech. 35 yrs. Man i appreciate everything you do. I owned and operated my shop too. Excellent work, awsome videos! I love the fact that youre honest and transparent. You do one hell of a good job, trust me i know how challenging it can be. WayneP.S. im old school, i would have tryed to fix the old fan first. Probably just somthing stuck in fan motor, easy fix
@@picklerix6162 There is one when Eric helped him with his mobility scooter or lawn mower a while back. I think he fixed a broken bolt but don't hold me to it,either way it's a great video. I actually was thinking to send Vinny something with fan mail but I haven't heard from him in a while.
Well when they assemble stuff its the opposite of us trying to repair it, so they installed that whole radiator/fan assembly prior to installing the engine and transaxle LOL...much easier to install all those other parts before installing the hamster and squirrel cage HAHA!!!
@@wildbill23c I know what you mean, but those brainiacs that design cars should also consider that stuff has to be fixed once in a while. And I know they don't give a rat's ass.
Eric, 4:50 is my new wallpaper. As a photo it says so much. Thanks for years of great videos and your help fixing my P0449 on our '07 Tahoe. Bad vent valve solenoid.
Had to do the same job on an 03 Hondoo Civic. Much less stuff to pull than this Nissan. They do get carried away with the plastic expanding plugs these days! Enjoyed the video, thank you!
Great video. Was going to purchase that nice SK pry tool. Then, I realized that over the years of watching your videos I accumulated $5,000 of quality tools and a Snap On tool cart. My vehicles are now in such good condition I have not fixed anything in over a year. Gotta slow my roll on tool purchases for a while...
I need to get one of those high speed ratchets. Wow..had to remove the core support to get to the fan. This is why I like my old 1991 chevy truck. Easy to get to everything. 250,000 miles on it..just replaced original radiator. You post it Eric...I`ll watch. Best channel on YT. My opinion. New fan from Napper...not a sponsor.....but should be. Love the vids, keep em coming!! None of the "good stuff" in this one? awww shucks.
When you switch to the short fast forward sections, especially when ratcheting; it reminds me of the old "6 million dollar man" TV show. You should look into it and see if you could use that sound effect for those sections. ..or not. Thanks for another great video!
Nissans, to get out the fan is almost just as bad as taking a transmission out lol. I did a alternator on 08 Altima coupe and I had to take the whole front of the car out. Nothing is simple to do on them. Thanks for sharing
Except the old ones and the ones that are over hear in Europe are bulletproof it's just that American people think there getting a Renault/ Nissan that are made in France but not really what the Americans get is a cheap tati car instead that is stuck in the garage the whole time once again Europe wins
@@weldingjunkie yah and the American's make bmw and Mercedes Benz look like cars that faill to pieces and are stuck in the garage but there not there actually really good cars because the one's over hear are real Mercedes and bmw
Neil Murphy yeah I think it’s funny mostly because it’s the people that can’t afford them and or people who have never driven them, they are missing out because they are amazing cars some are from Africa mines from Germany plant. Probably because it’s diesel idk
The last time i worked under the hood, I had a real long bolt also. I was surprised when the back bumper came loose.. way to go Pontiac... Keep up the wonderful engineering. The dam space shuttle is easier to work on.
good thing you caught the radiator fan failure before it got really bad and blew the 40amp fuse causing an overheat. used to replace these left and right at the dealer, still doing these in the replacements in the fleet maintenance biz sadly
This repair is why I still have a nissan from the last millennium, all that's gotta be moved to gain access are the upper radiator support brackets. I don't even need to remove the upper radiator hose. It's a 99 jdm Sentra. It's got the amenities without the high failure rates of modern vehicles.
holy eric i find anti seize never works, at least in new brunswick as we use a ton of salt as well, what does work well is good old fashion grease, i use a tube of it with a little brush and apply it to fasteners, similar to fluid film, ive taken bolts out that were in there 5 years ago and they come right out grease still there, anti seize always turns into powder and disappears.. least in my experience. anyways thats my 2 cents buddy! keep the vids coming
Smashing job :-D Lots of bits and bobs to remove, but simple enough for diy'ers to do. A playing card in the spokes of a bicycle, i'm back to childhood days :-)
Hey there fella! Ya got a belt loop blowout there!😁 Yep, I'd have been cursing up a storm on this job! Some fine engineering from the folks at Nissaaaaan. Par for the course! I guess it's better than taking the radiator out the bottom, like the stupid Sable/Taurus. Sounds like there was no brush left in the fan - was just riding metal on metal on the commutator. Thing was about due to stop spinning any minute. Bet there was a nice groove, and pile of shavings in there, lol. Good to see Vinny making the rounds again, now that it's finally above 30°. Finally got my fittings for the OX Locker. She works great! Tried it out on the gravel driveway to the shop, and the inside tire would start laying a patch in a turn. Was digging right into the dirt. ZERO slip when it's locked. 👍 Just gotta remember not to lock it on dry pavement - will put some serious stress on things. Don't need to bust an axle now! Can't wait to try it out on the street in the rain ... 😁
Your no spring chicken, but your hand and arm speed are unbelievable. You must eat a lot of Wheaties. I am 63 years old, I am not as quick as I use to be. After I hit the comment button I'm going to the store and buy a case of Wheaties:) Thanks for the video.
Hey Eric O you diagnostic videos are awesome. I had p0440 on 03 Saturn.Followed your process as you did on the Pontiac Torrent. Using my Trusty Tech 2. Found a bad purge solenoid like you did. Click but no vacuum just like in your video. Part is on Order. I swear I am going to stop by your shop in I am up your way just to shake your hand and thank you personally.
Scott Yakoubian My truck was down about a quart so I had to stop at Nappernotasponsor yesterday. I had enough Nappernotasponsor rewards so it only cost me &1.50.
Beer cans are aluminum so they won't rot anyway just saying. That car most likely has the cvt transmission, Nissan makes horrible cvts, Nissan techs don't even like to work on them.
You need to take that old fan and write a different diagnosis on each blade and call it the Kilmer Wheel of Knowledge. You can let viewers fans spin it when they stop by.
As usual a great video. Correct the spelling of Main at the lower left of the the video screen. In the video it reads. South Mian Auto. Keep up the excellent work.
I see you doing a job like this and think back to the early 70's when I started driving and working on 60 era vehicles you could change a water pump without removing anything besides the water pump lol. if you owned a 21 piece socket set and a set of wrenches you could damn near tear down the entire engine in the morning and throw it back together that afternoon now you pop the hood and it looks like you'll need a toolbox full of specialty tool and 6 hours to change a set of plugs. if I was working on these new cars I'm afraid my go to tool would end up being a 3 lb. hammer.
this was great - seeing how the fan motors work with that pico really made me think. so when i replace the fans now over 100k get brand new ones because they run smooth. fingers lakers
So, my daughter's '14 Nee-san Sentra let the smoke out of the cooling fan and now it doesn't work. (Those electric fans run on smoke, you know.) I gave it a spin and it sounds exactly like the one you pulled out in this video Eric. Pretty cool to have a video from SMA that shows me exactly what to do. If Eric can do it...
Sorry to say, again.... in the lower left corner of the video it should read "South MAIN Auto" not "South MIAN Auto". OH new trade mark for me??? South Mian Auto™ LOVE the Videos.
Have you ever shown in a video how you keep track of where each bolt goes, when you are putting things back together? Or is it just clear where things go during reassembly?
I usually "just know". A couple years ago, I completely gutted the interior of my '65 Mustang, and for some reason - for the first time in my life - I was very careful to sort all the fasteners in labeled baggies, paper cups, etc. Almost immediately after disassembly, I discovered carpenter ants were converting my garage to powder. I spent all my spare time for the next few weeks working on that instead, and when I finally got back to working on the car, I was VERY VERY GLAD I had labeled everything!
I was wondering when the weather would be good enough for Vinny to make his rounds. What a job for getting that old fan out. It sounded like one of those games on TV where you spin the wheel of fortune :-) Happy June and D Day and Father's Day and Summer.
Eric O. probably did so but forgot to mention its good practice to bench test fan or on car w/ bidirectional scan tool before closing everything back up...😭
Just replaced the blue water on the Hondew with 195k. Replaced the fan motors about 175k. One of the fan motors had died about 150k but I didn't notice until the second went out. Similar maddening process but a but easier than the Nissan. Napper had the best price on blue antifreeze. Napper didnt have enough qts of the zerex blue so the substituted the more expensive German blue coolant. Napper did me proud.
They don’t make parts to last .i see you are still using your Astro light .i bought 2 from amazon they are brilliant lights best iv had Erik they fit any where .magnet is mint .good fix on the car Erik . Old jimmy west australia .
Aaaaah, another easy job at the old South Mian Auto garage !!!! Need to correct the bottom left Owner identifier word "" Mian "" to "" Main "" .... someone doesn't spell to well !!!!! But a nice job on the removal and install !!!! I sure do miss seeing them lunches that Mrs O made / cooked for you every day - that was like " Bonus " footage thrown into the video !!!!!
The sound of that old fan took me back to when I was a kid and attached playing cards to my bicycle spokes. Sounded much like that. Don't know if you have read my messages on the power drain I've been experiencing on my '07 Galant you did the rear alignment on. Anyway, I did some probing on the fuses. The only one I found any voltage on was the door locks. And then, as you would say, something interesting happened within maybe 30 seconds of probing the door lock fuse. I heard the door locks making to 'locking sounds about 15 seconds or so apart and then there was no more voltage across the door lock fuse. I know the door lock has a timer thing on it where if you don't open the door within a minute or so of unlocking through the fob the doors will relock. Go figure, lol. Car seems to start better, doesn't sound as 'sluggish' as it did before. Then I noticed I had missed the radio fuse which is located higher. I had replaced the radio 15 mos. ago and found the radio wasn't turning off like it should when you hit the center button. Of course, after contacting the company I bought it from found I only had a 1 yr warranty and it would cost $80 for them to look at it. And being only a $110 unit I wasn't going there. They did give me a couple tips and offered to help me diagnose the problem with an 800 #. but haven't got that far yet and of course had tossed the stock radio. Go figure, seems like all the things you save you don't need and those you throw out you do need. Such is life, lol. Thanks for sharing, Eric.
Didn't know Eric changed the name of his channel to "South Mian Auto" in the lower-left corner of this video. Hoping just a typo. Love the videos as always.
Great videos I for some reason I can not stop watching. I would really like to hear about what parts MFG you like . I have started doing my own brakes and I am wondering if am installing junk or not.
No bidirectionals to test the new fan? I use grease too. Even on outdoor lights at home. Makes Lowes Blows fixtures easy to change bulbs and dump the moths.
Did you get your HF impact back from AvE yet? He did the review, tear down, repair, and diagnosis on yours through a couple of vijaos. Interesting what he found. He did mention a couple times how yours had suffered a couple "hot suppers". LOL. If he only knew.
Tip lock hood latch with screwdriver while hood is open then check hood release lever from inside car to ensure hood release is working before closing hood for real.
The sound of the coolant draining reminds me.....I'll be right back!
you too huh? lol
ever watch eric andre?
I hit the pause, too.. 😮
Lol
I hope everything comes out all right❗
I have noticed one very important thing about Eric, he has spent the money for the correct tools to do the job. It saves time and headaches. I think that is one of the biggest keys to his success.
A man after my own heart.
Small town garages become like the general stores of old. People drop in just to socialize. I bet Eric knows enough about town affairs to become Mayor or knows enough not to run for office ; )
Yeah, Vinny is a regular at SMA. He's a vet and there is a video where Eric looked at his scooter or lawn mower, I cant remember exactly. But it was a nice change of pace from the regular vids.
best auto repair show on any platform period. Thanks SMA team.
Consistently the best video quality in the auto repair genre.
SMA come for the automotive expertise, stay for the “NAPA, not a sponsor...” another great video, thanks Eric!
Another winner from Nissan - fan replacement book time 10 hours.....
And another satisfied customer leaves SMA.
Thanks for the video.
Remember If you can do it, I can watch it!
When are u going to do more videos on Eric outdoors .
remember if you can do it you wouldn't be sitting on your ass watching my youtube
Hi Eric, im 61 yrs old, been cert. mech. 35 yrs. Man i appreciate everything you do. I owned and operated my shop too. Excellent work, awsome videos! I love the fact that youre honest and transparent. You do one hell of a good job, trust me i know how challenging it can be. WayneP.S. im old school, i would have tryed to fix the old fan first. Probably just somthing stuck in fan motor, easy fix
as soon as you lifted the plastic cover it's not that girls first rodeo.front end was replaced.
Yup. Two different colors is usually a give-away.
Nope nissan is cheap. That's not the only thing they dont paint.
Straight from the South Mian Auto shop (bottom left corner)
Oops
This is like taking a car radio apart. Layer, upon layer, upon layer of electronic crap! Good to see the Vet show up.
Good to hear that Vinny is still around! :)
That was the coolant draining? I thought you installed a tranquil fountain to add more feng shui to the shop
That's exactly what I was thinking! You beat me to the punch.
Glad to hear Vinny thank you buddy for your service.
whats better to start my saturday? fixing my car, or watching Eric fix someone elses car. I think the choice is clear.
It depends on how far you don't mind 2alking after your car breaks down! 😨
Hi Vinny, glad to hear him checking in on things now that the weather is good. Keep on scootin :)
Thxs Eric nice job,nice that too hear Vinny out making his rounds...
Yeah, I've heard Vinny's voice in at least 3 or 4 of Eric's videos.
@@picklerix6162 There is one when Eric helped him with his mobility scooter or lawn mower a while back. I think he fixed a broken bolt but don't hold me to it,either way it's a great video. I actually was thinking to send Vinny something with fan mail but I haven't heard from him in a while.
Mr Phillips who invented the Phillips Screw is from Portland Oregon.
Looks like it will be easier to pull the motor and go in through the trunk
Install fan then build car around it.
Awesome video Eric, good thing you didn't have to remove the transmission to get to the fan. Engineers at Nissan..... way to go.
Well when they assemble stuff its the opposite of us trying to repair it, so they installed that whole radiator/fan assembly prior to installing the engine and transaxle LOL...much easier to install all those other parts before installing the hamster and squirrel cage HAHA!!!
@@wildbill23c I know what you mean, but those brainiacs that design cars should also consider that stuff has to be fixed once in a while. And I know they don't give a rat's ass.
love getting home to watch your short clips. Know you can't get them all too busy just don't stop, please from me over the pond UK
Eric, 4:50 is my new wallpaper. As a photo it says so much. Thanks for years of great videos and your help fixing my P0449 on our '07 Tahoe. Bad vent valve solenoid.
Good to see Vinny back! Hope the arm on his chair is holding up after you fixed it years ago... Man I've been around too long 🤣
Just don't let him pick the lottery scratch offs!
Napa should sponsor you. You always tell viewers where you get your parts from.
It worked out really good!! I had to fix a car just like it!!, thanks for your detailed repair video!!! I watch your videos almost everyday!!😊
So how was brake clean incorporated into this repair? I thought it had to be used in all repairs...
Designed to be put together, not taken apart.
Hello everyone. I'm just letting you know that this video works on 7th Gen Nissan Sentra SV's. Those year's range from 2013 - 2019.
Also, great video
The master at SMA making it happen.
Had to do the same job on an 03 Hondoo Civic. Much less stuff to pull than this Nissan. They do get carried away with the plastic expanding plugs these days! Enjoyed the video, thank you!
Great video. Was going to purchase that nice SK pry tool. Then, I realized that over the years of watching your videos I accumulated $5,000 of quality tools and a Snap On tool cart. My vehicles are now in such good condition I have not fixed anything in over a year. Gotta slow my roll on tool purchases for a while...
You can never have too many tools 😉
No... No you don't.
I need to get one of those high speed ratchets. Wow..had to remove the core support to get to the fan. This is why I like my old 1991 chevy truck. Easy to get to everything. 250,000 miles on it..just replaced original radiator. You post it Eric...I`ll watch. Best channel on YT. My opinion. New fan from Napper...not a sponsor.....but should be. Love the vids, keep em coming!! None of the "good stuff" in this one? awww shucks.
When you switch to the short fast forward sections, especially when ratcheting; it reminds me of the old "6 million dollar man" TV show. You should look into it and see if you could use that sound effect for those sections. ..or not. Thanks for another great video!
Nissans, to get out the fan is almost just as bad as taking a transmission out lol. I did a alternator on 08 Altima coupe and I had to take the whole front of the car out. Nothing is simple to do on them. Thanks for sharing
Except the old ones and the ones that are over hear in Europe are bulletproof it's just that American people think there getting a Renault/ Nissan that are made in France but not really what the Americans get is a cheap tati car instead that is stuck in the garage the whole time once again Europe wins
Neil Murphy I agree with you there. My personal car is bmw 328 diesel I’ll never go back to anything else now
@@weldingjunkie yah and the American's make bmw and Mercedes Benz look like cars that faill to pieces and are stuck in the garage but there not there actually really good cars because the one's over hear are real Mercedes and bmw
Neil Murphy yeah I think it’s funny mostly because it’s the people that can’t afford them and or people who have never driven them, they are missing out because they are amazing cars some are from Africa mines from Germany plant. Probably because it’s diesel idk
Definitely still waiting on a tool box tour! Can't wait until you decide to do one.
The last time i worked under the hood, I had a real long bolt also. I was surprised when the back bumper came loose.. way to go Pontiac... Keep up the wonderful engineering. The dam space shuttle is easier to work on.
You make it look so easy. I would have been tear my hair out . What I got left. Thanks for the video.
Made with ease of assembly in mind. Never mind disassembly.
Keep up the good work Eric.
good thing you caught the radiator fan failure before it got really bad and blew the 40amp fuse causing an overheat. used to replace these left and right at the dealer, still doing these in the replacements in the fleet maintenance biz sadly
Hi Eric,
If you get some free time, you should take the old one apart to see what caused the problem, a la AvE❗
This repair is why I still have a nissan from the last millennium, all that's gotta be moved to gain access are the upper radiator support brackets. I don't even need to remove the upper radiator hose. It's a 99 jdm Sentra. It's got the amenities without the high failure rates of modern vehicles.
holy eric i find anti seize never works, at least in new brunswick as we use a ton of salt as well, what does work well is good old fashion grease, i use a tube of it with a little brush and apply it to fasteners, similar to fluid film, ive taken bolts out that were in there 5 years ago and they come right out grease still there, anti seize always turns into powder and disappears.. least in my experience. anyways thats my 2 cents buddy! keep the vids coming
Good point, I'm in Missouri, I use white lithium grease.
Smashing job :-D
Lots of bits and bobs to remove, but simple enough for diy'ers to do.
A playing card in the spokes of a bicycle, i'm back to childhood days :-)
Do you mean Kibbles & Bits???
Ron S, No it's Bits and Bobs :-D
Kibbles are beans and other plant products chopped or ground up, Not car related.
It’s is troubling to see so much removable plastic before you do the repair. Nice job.
Hey there fella! Ya got a belt loop blowout there!😁
Yep, I'd have been cursing up a storm on this job! Some fine engineering from the folks at Nissaaaaan. Par for the course! I guess it's better than taking the radiator out the bottom, like the stupid Sable/Taurus. Sounds like there was no brush left in the fan - was just riding metal on metal on the commutator. Thing was about due to stop spinning any minute. Bet there was a nice groove, and pile of shavings in there, lol.
Good to see Vinny making the rounds again, now that it's finally above 30°.
Finally got my fittings for the OX Locker. She works great! Tried it out on the gravel driveway to the shop, and the inside tire would start laying a patch in a turn. Was digging right into the dirt. ZERO slip when it's locked. 👍 Just gotta remember not to lock it on dry pavement - will put some serious stress on things. Don't need to bust an axle now! Can't wait to try it out on the street in the rain ... 😁
Your no spring chicken, but your hand and arm speed are unbelievable. You must eat a lot of Wheaties. I am 63 years old, I am not as quick as I use to be. After I hit the comment button I'm going to the store and buy a case of Wheaties:) Thanks for the video.
We just love all those plastic clips. Miss the day of all nuts and bolts. 👍👍
Hey Eric O you diagnostic videos are awesome. I had p0440 on 03 Saturn.Followed your process as you did on the Pontiac Torrent. Using my Trusty Tech 2. Found a bad purge solenoid like you did. Click but no vacuum just like in your video. Part is on Order. I swear I am going to stop by your shop in I am up your way just to shake your hand and thank you personally.
A wizard with all the tools of the trade.
I now call “NAPA” a different name. It’s “NAPA, Not a sponsor”.
Come on NAPA, sponsor this channel!
Scott Yakoubian My truck was down about a quart so I had to stop at Nappernotasponsor yesterday. I had enough Nappernotasponsor rewards so it only cost me &1.50.
Brian Burns I love it! Napanotasponsor ...autocorrect will learn to deal with it.
Great video. You always make things seem super easy even if they’re not. Have a great weekend.
Used to change those fans all the time at the Nissan dealer. They liked to go into nuclear meltdown mode and man would it stink.
Love all of your video's Eric. The Sentra would not be a bad cheep car if they didn't rot out so fast. I have seen beer cans with better longevity!
Beer cans are aluminum so they won't rot anyway just saying. That car most likely has the cvt transmission, Nissan makes horrible cvts, Nissan techs don't even like to work on them.
You need to take that old fan and write a different diagnosis on each blade and call it the Kilmer Wheel of Knowledge. You can let viewers fans spin it when they stop by.
lmao
👍
Better yet put the dollars on it and call it the wheel of fortune. Cause it going to cost you a fortune to fix it...
@@alanmatthews5949 Every other Fin should say "Buy a Toyota" though.
As usual a great video. Correct the spelling of Main at the lower left of the the video screen. In the video it reads. South Mian Auto. Keep up the excellent work.
I see you doing a job like this and think back to the early 70's when I started driving and working on 60 era vehicles you could change a water pump without removing anything besides the water pump lol. if you owned a 21 piece socket set and a set of wrenches you could damn near tear down the entire engine in the morning and throw it back together that afternoon now you pop the hood and it looks like you'll need a toolbox full of specialty tool and 6 hours to change a set of plugs. if I was working on these new cars I'm afraid my go to tool would end up being a 3 lb. hammer.
Very labor intensive job, not a big fan (no pun intended) of Nissan
Pun was definitely intended haha
That’s one way to get more comments, just misspell the watermark in the video... ;)
I literally scrolled through to see if anyone commented lol, I was going to if not! You win.
Wow! How do you ratchet so fast?
Sounded like that time a mocking bird flew in my living room then thought he could get out through the closed window.
He presses the X2 button 😁
Yes, South Mian Auto is BACK!
this was great - seeing how the fan motors work with that pico really made me think. so when i replace the fans now over 100k get brand new ones because they run smooth.
fingers lakers
So, my daughter's '14 Nee-san Sentra let the smoke out of the cooling fan and now it doesn't work. (Those electric fans run on smoke, you know.) I gave it a spin and it sounds exactly like the one you pulled out in this video Eric. Pretty cool to have a video from SMA that shows me exactly what to do. If Eric can do it...
Sorry to say, again.... in the lower left corner of the video it should read "South MAIN Auto" not "South MIAN Auto". OH new trade mark for me??? South Mian Auto™ LOVE the Videos.
I put red coolant in a Honda. Wondered how bad a mistake it was. Thanks for clearing that up.
Yeah, mr. O, I had the urge to use the bathroom the whole video, drip drip. Thanks for the good info !
Have you ever shown in a video how you keep track of where each bolt goes, when you are putting things back together? Or is it just clear where things go during reassembly?
I usually "just know". A couple years ago, I completely gutted the interior of my '65 Mustang, and for some reason - for the first time in my life - I was very careful to sort all the fasteners in labeled baggies, paper cups, etc. Almost immediately after disassembly, I discovered carpenter ants were converting my garage to powder. I spent all my spare time for the next few weeks working on that instead, and when I finally got back to working on the car, I was VERY VERY GLAD I had labeled everything!
Awesome job it went pretty easy once you got everything out of the way.
I was wondering when the weather would be good enough for Vinny to make his rounds. What a job for getting that old fan out. It sounded like one of those games on TV where you spin the wheel of fortune :-) Happy June and D Day and Father's Day and Summer.
Eric O. probably did so but forgot to mention its good practice to bench test fan or on car w/ bidirectional scan tool before closing everything back up...😭
Good thing you are located in NY. In a couple of other states they would have just duct taped a box fan to the grill!!!
Just replaced the blue water on the Hondew with 195k. Replaced the fan motors about 175k. One of the fan motors had died about 150k but I didn't notice until the second went out. Similar maddening process but a but easier than the Nissan. Napper had the best price on blue antifreeze. Napper didnt have enough qts of the zerex blue so the substituted the more expensive German blue coolant. Napper did me proud.
So nice when you get it all torn apart and you know everything is going back together with a click like factory.
The draining coolant in the background sounds like Ogre in one scene from the Revenge of the Nerds. He just keeps going on and on.
What came to mind for me was that bit by Adam Sandler the longest pee..
Looks like your hat Eric needs it 100,000 mile service as well lol
Haha
have you checked under the hat lately, that could use serviced too =p
I thought that was a chamois to dry the car off....
They don’t make parts to last .i see you are still using your Astro light .i bought 2 from amazon they are brilliant lights best iv had Erik they fit any where .magnet is mint .good fix on the car Erik . Old jimmy west australia .
Great job again like always
When what should be a simple job becomes a scraped knuckle cussing session.
This is where Hannah's hands would have done better.
Aaaaah, another easy job at the old South Mian Auto garage !!!! Need to correct the bottom left Owner identifier word "" Mian "" to "" Main "" .... someone doesn't spell to well !!!!! But a nice job on the removal and install !!!! I sure do miss seeing them lunches that Mrs O made / cooked for you every day - that was like " Bonus " footage thrown into the video !!!!!
Someone else doesn’t spell “too” well. Glass houses bud.
The sound of that old fan took me back to when I was a kid and attached playing cards to my bicycle spokes. Sounded much like that. Don't know if you have read my messages on the power drain I've been experiencing on my '07 Galant you did the rear alignment on. Anyway, I did some probing on the fuses. The only one I found any voltage on was the door locks.
And then, as you would say, something interesting happened within maybe 30 seconds of probing the door lock fuse. I heard the door locks making to 'locking sounds about 15 seconds or so apart and then there was no more voltage across the door lock fuse. I know the door lock has a timer thing on it where if you don't open the door within a minute or so of unlocking through the fob the doors will relock. Go figure, lol. Car seems to start better, doesn't sound as 'sluggish' as it did before.
Then I noticed I had missed the radio fuse which is located higher. I had replaced the radio 15 mos. ago and found the radio wasn't turning off like it should when you hit the center button. Of course, after contacting the company I bought it from found I only had a 1 yr warranty and it would cost $80 for them to look at it. And being only a $110 unit I wasn't going there. They did give me a couple tips and offered to help me diagnose the problem with an 800 #. but haven't got that far yet and of course had tossed the stock radio. Go figure, seems like all the things you save you don't need and those you throw out you do need. Such is life, lol. Thanks for sharing, Eric.
You could have a anti smooze assistant but that would another kind of video understandable!!!, nice work!!!
Swapped it out all zippy zap like! Thanks Dr. O!
Um, your logo on the bottom left corner of the screen reads South MIAN Auto
Scott R it’s Eric’s other shop South MIAN Auto for the non domestics 🇯🇵
seems I've seen that in the past....
It's a special message for Ivan T.👋
Did you really change your shops name?
In my days, we called that sound "playing cards clothes pinned to hit the spokes of the bicycle".
Just can't see what your pretty wife saw in you, she must have been really impressed with your tools! :) Thanks for the Vids Bro.
if they don't find ya handsome at least they find ya handy haha
Didn't know Eric changed the name of his channel to "South Mian Auto" in the lower-left corner of this video. Hoping just a typo. Love the videos as always.
i’m doing this right now, and i’m stuck on how you pull off the fan plug?? 😂 please help, do you press it from the side?
I know this video is 5 years old but I had that problem as well, so I took the fan out first, then it was easier to pull the plug apart.
Great videos I for some reason I can not stop watching. I would really like to hear about what parts MFG you like
. I have started doing my own brakes and I am wondering if am installing junk or not.
I once changed a radiator on an Opel Rekord D. It was attached with ONE bolt at the bottom.
Nice design Nissan! Make it so you have to take apart half the front end just to replace the cooling fan motor!
Same on a 98-04 MK4 Jetta/Golf
hi from a rainy scotland really enjoy your videos
Did you watch the video about your Harbor Freight impact that AvE did the autopsy on?
I believe there were two videos just fyi in case you didn't see the other
You make it look so easy. Addicted to your videos. Good Stuff!
yup! these are the type videos i ENJOY! :-)
Eric, you said you were finishing early, made me wonder how many hours do you usually average a week, over how many days?
All the best, Dave.
No bidirectionals to test the new fan? I use grease too. Even on outdoor lights at home. Makes Lowes Blows fixtures easy to change bulbs and dump the moths.
Did you get your HF impact back from AvE yet? He did the review, tear down, repair, and diagnosis on yours through a couple of vijaos. Interesting what he found. He did mention a couple times how yours had suffered a couple "hot suppers". LOL. If he only knew.
Tip lock hood latch with screwdriver while hood is open then check hood release lever from inside car to ensure hood release is working before closing hood for real.