Legit man within a week and a half I had a brand new shaft at the shop ship directly from their supplier. And I was blown away at the quality of it and the fact that they use Spicer u-joints in it. I don't know who their supplier is but it looked pretty solid. They paid shipping both ways and the whole deal. I was pretty shocked considering it wasn't their drive shaft to begin with but thoroughly impressed with the quality of the new one. Hopefully they keep that supplier around for a while.
@@SouthMainAuto Dorman recently bought Dayton Parts and I have been selling that line for years and top quality products, I wonder if that's who's making the shafts now, Because if they are, Nothing but quality.. Look at Dayton for springs and such.
Agreed! Just replaced my first ever serpentine belt on the ‘04 Chevy Astro with no help to wrangle that recalcitrant snake into place. Finally used 3 spring clamps and a pistol grip clamp to hold the bitch onto the crank pulley, lower idler pulley and AC pulley and the rest was easy peasey. Hope your Suburban is still going strong. 👍🔧🧰🚘
OR - see the Hitchcock movie Cape FEAR ! The maniac hangs UNDER their vehicle while they drive away on vacation . He then proceeds to terrorize them when they arrive . HE could hold the camera in his teeth - like Uncle Fester with the light bulb ! 😆 LOL !
@@Rein_Ciarfella i remember watching Customer States What?! and he was using office paper bundle clips to hold belts in place. Same for me tho...just removed and replaced mine and it fought me the whole entire way.
Alaskan Wolf Another good tool to accomplish that! Maybe even better than the Pony clamps I used because the paper clamps take up less space so they would fit into tighter spaces. 👍
@South Main Auto Repair LLC 4:40 You are correct we don't lubricate those. The supplyer is supposed to. It's always feels weird when you see someone work on a vehicle you used to help build. Just a quick suggestion, If it's 13 though 16 year check the starter. We had an issue with the braided cable arcing onto the fuel line directly below and would melt though it. The fix is a rubber boot over the cable post.
Good afternoon from northwest Arizona. Watched a number of your shop videos over the past couple years and always enjoyed your dynastic and repair techniques. Most of your videos have been in the shop. Today was my first ride-along road test. While out I noticed the style of the small town homes looked somewhat familiar reviewing your page I noticed to my surprise SMA is in Avoca. Having lived in Springwater we’ve traveled 415 numerous times, great channel now a subscriber.
Man that was a good lesson on proper wheel alignment on the hub, I don’t use aftermarket wheels but good info. Thanks for the video I watch all of them.
It really does make a big difference, I have people come in the shop all the time with vibration issues with after market wheels not hub centered and or improper lug nuts. People will get annoyed too when they ask you to install aftermarket wheels and then you tell them they need a whole new set of lug nuts, I’ll work on them if they already have improper nuts, but if I’m going to be installing new wheels I won’t install them without the proper lug nuts because of the liability and potential vibration issues.
Much worse when there's a smaller wheel pilot than the hub spigot and the radiused back edge of the pressed pilot hole in the wheel sits on the outside face of the spigot with the nuts barely engaging any thread on the studs. I've seen that and the car had just passed inspection - literally - drove less than 100ft to get tyres because they were worn - not because the wheels didn't fit the car. I think I still have a photo somewhere. My eyes nearly popped out of my head.
I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to explain your thought processes and procedures as you sleuth out problems. You are not only amazing as a mechanic but you also have impressive skills as an instructor. Your personality and sense of humor make it a pleasure to watch and learn from your videos. I also appreciate your honesty and integrity. My hat is off to you!! I have had the privilege of working with some very gifted people over the last 50 years and learned valuable skills from each of them. You have recently shown me tips or skills I wish I had learned long ago!! Take care.
I am glad he also went the distance to find and get new shaft coming, most shops would have cleaned it up and regreased and sent them on the way and charged for replacing the shaft.
These are great vans and you get AWD for 200 000 miles move free. There is a guy in Canada who imports entire driveshafts for $570 Canadian dollars. Good cheap complete shafts that fit rav4 sienna and highlander. The complete units are cheap and great….no car gives you reliable AWD as long as Toyota Don’t buy the staked in unjoint kits
Today I replaced my dads caliper and fixed his other brake issues. Hes a lawyer and cant do much with his hands. lol He was just astonished at what I knew and what i could do. I gave ALL THE PROPS and MAD RESPECT to Eric O. If Eric saw the brake job I did he'd be proud. grease under the clips not on top etc.
You're correct Mr. O! A wheel with a proper sized bore is called "Hub Centric". They are called "Nut Centric" when the center bore is too large and the lug nuts create the clamping force as well as support the weight of the vehicle. You're also bang-on with those Toyota style nuts. When used in this manner on a non-OEM wheel, they are only meant to be temporary like with the included spare tire. It's crazy how many wheels I see come in (even from another one of our stores) and it has the incorrect mounting hardware.
Thank you Eric O, I've change my fuel sending unit on my truck and I ran into a problem with wire and connections and I said to myself what would South Main Auto do he would make it work. I learned off of your videos and I made it work thanks Eric O
Fun fact if you have a 1970 Chevy Nova SS with original wheels. The original SS steel wheels are lug centric and not hub centric. If you try to balance by the hub, the holes are so far off the the wheels wobble on the balancer. They have to be balanced off of the lugs. I searched and could only find one shop close to home that had a balancer that used the lugs. Everyone uses hub centric balancers since all modern wheels are made hub centric. Special thanks to Joe at Speedway Tire. Also, thanks to you, Eric for another informative video. Keep 'em coming.
Not many actually look for the problem, most want to point fingers to the other guy or play the blame game, that’s what I like about you Eric O and Rainman Ray, y’all bring a good name to auto mechanics
Had a all wheel drive 2000 Explorer that had the front drive shaft joint go out while we were coming from visiting family. Talk about the shakes, we had a little over a hour to reach home with that drive shaft shaking the whole car all the way home.
I used to work at Napa for years and this happened all the time with suppliers coming and going. One of the most annoying parts of the job. I went and started my own business. Hearing that the issues haven’t changed, I’m glad I left 💀
Glad you posted this, sometimes parts are bad and not easy to come by. Might make you look bad to some, but it's a clear and valid diagnosis and tepair.
I replaced the 2 piece driveshaft on my wife's 06 Sorento and the new one was a Dorman with Spicer "U" joints! I was surprised! That was over 6 months ago. So far, so good! Even though it is new, I had the local driveshaft shop (also known as "The Shaft Shop") check the balance. It was off a little, he rebalanced it and it worked! Way to go Mr. O! You and your customer made out well with that arrangement. Nice!
Erik not only do we take your word, but initially the camera was shaking when you were going down the road so we knew there was a vibration. Afterwards that shaking in the camera was gone. Good to go.
The tire shop I bought mine from had someone steal a ring out of the drawer and they only had three to give me. I just 3D printed a 4th, it took like 3 minutes to model it and 10 to print one. A few days later the tire shop was able to give me a full set.
I think it is really smart that Dorman has the savvy to c 664,000 subscribers to one of the BEST TH-cam channels on car repair and then take the initiative to develop a dialog with one of their fiercest critics. I mean u just hammer them every time. We have to use Dorman stuff, and a lot of it works ok. Ever buy a lug nut? The electrical stuff is horrible. But it seems they r watching and listening. If they would just cull their suppliers and switch to the ones that the OEM people use, maybe we could buy a sensor or module that worked longer than a month. And when and if they give u a well greased driveshaft that fits, buy twenty of their lug nuts and put them on that sweet little Sienna. And then tell your 3/4 of a million fans that Dorman isn’t the worst thing since hemorrhoids. I have watched every one of your videos since day one When I did a re stud of a Toyota aluminum four cylinder, I used your Rav Four videos exclusively. The car still runs great. Thank u Eric!!
Thats one of the good parts about Dorman, they honor their warranty without any troubles. Always had concerns for those driveshaft designs that used carriers.
Thanks for explaining the dealio to us. It was good that you tried to run it without that driveshaft. Now you know they will not run without it. If this happened out on a trip, you can't even do the old take it out until you get home. Very interesting.
Oh a new drive shaft, it doesn't look like it was installed property the u joints aren't aligned... oh that was me. So admits it on camera, then takes care of his customer like a real man. Good on you Eric. My faith in humanity restored. Thank you.
Never had a clue about the differences ~ hub concentric vs stud concentric! Wow, great info if I ever need an aftermarket set of rims. Hell, I didn’t even know that there was such a variety of lug nuts … . Thanks for some education, really 👍😎.
shouldnt be embarrassed when a "new" part fails especially when its for a simple reason, lack of lube. GJ man very thorough and pride taken in your work
Like I said in a few of your other videos, dorman is at least trying to make things right and better but including a few of us shop owners / techs into their close circle and take ideas and suggestions from us. Glad they stepped up.
While I don't think you did anything wrong, it's refreshing to see a mechanic doing what they can to make an issue right, and Mrs O certainly is very attractive
I ordered 8 injectors from parts geek .Did it on the phone read the man the part number off the OE ford injector and they still sent me the wrong ones .The electrical plug wasn't the same .I feel for you .Because you have a business and rely on the parts to get your work done.Take care Eric keep up the videos very knowledgeable and entertaining.
Wheel bearing grease repacking hack........as a Canadian snowmobiler, every off season I remove, clean repack all the bearing in my snowmobile. I always hated the mess when repacking them with new grease so my easy as pie, repacking hack is this......I use a grease needle. It gets right in there, around all the ball bearings or rollers if it's a roller bearing. You can put the grease exactly where you want it AND without the mess. Love the videos....Love it when Mrs. O pops in to keep things really real.
Hub centric rings on my aftermarket stud centric steel wheels made a huge difference for me (even with the correct acorn style lug nuts). $20 from Amazon as a last ditch effort and it worked great. I bought a few different sizes because it was hard to tell exactly what I needed, even with calipers.
I've a drawer full of them, some plastic and some aluminum and all different sizes. Now I can shop for used wheels and only have to worry about bolt pattern and offset
i agree. I never put aftermarket wheels on any of my vehicles with the appropriate hub-centric rings. I like to head off trouble before it rears its ugly head. I have used aluminum rings on both steel and aluminum wheels, and the plastic type rings on both steel and aluminum wheels. Never had a problem in the four decades of doing this.
Good call on the lug nuts Eric - one thing to watch, specially on Honda (and I believe Subarus) is that the OEM is actually a "acorn" which has a spherical seat lug nut and most of the aftermarket wheels we encounter have tapered-conical seats. On steel wheels, it isn't the end of the world - sometimes over-torqueing the lug nuts will "crimp" the steel, but usually it is fine. But on aftermarket alloy wheels, the cheaper ones without the steel inserts for the lug nuts, the spherical lug nuts destroy the soft aluminum tapers. -Just something to note!
Yeah the shape of the contact surface is super important, because that is what ensures that your wheels don't fall off. The friction between the nut flange and the wheel is what keeps the nuts from spinning off.
Ball-seat is used by Honda, VW-Audi, and Mercedes. They are rounded. Conical seat is straight. Improper surface contact provides no retainment torque. These Toyota mag-shank lugs (dual purpose) have a conical seat because the spare wheel is steel.
This was interesting and it just goes to show those that don't know that there are so many different resonant frequencies that different components of the car can manifest when they are not concentric or are a rotating assembly that is worn out. Resonant frequencies and how they manifest in vehicles is a lot of the car repair industry diagnosis. Would like to see a follow up video on this Sienna when the next center driveshaft (propeller shaft) comes in.
Saturday morning coffee and SMA video.Hey Eric I am the person that worked on Saturn Astra possessed "See Ivan's video" I bought nothing but GM parts. 3 bad cam phaser sprockets and 2 oem cam solenoids later. the car is fixed.
Hey Eric, I'm a contractor here in Cincinnati Ohio, and the availability of parts is getting worse and worse. I can't find anything, and when I do, it's just garbage. Love your videos, keep up the great work and until next time!
I liked your concentricity and nut discussion. Too many people do not understand what changing wheels can do. Don't get me started on back spacing and width. 😁
Here in another frozen north I have at least 6 OE rims for all my vehicles so I can keep a couple snows or studded snows mounted all the time. No question about lug nuts or wheel spacing or width. It also allows me to buy my snow tires in May when the distributors are giving them away.
I do the same. I got a junkyard set of OEM rims for my van and have snow tires mounted to them and just keep them on a tire dolly in my garage and covered off-season (the dolly keeps them off the concrete and easy to move)
It’s fairly common for aftermarket wheels to be fitted lug centric instead of hub centric. I had a 05 GTO that I put some aftermarket wheels on and had to use hub rings that were sized to the hub and the wheel. Mine were made of aluminum. I never noticed a problem when I did not have the rings installed. But once I realized the rings were needed, I installed them.
we experienced a weird thing years ago. a customer came in and said the car was shaking at a certain speed and she were not wrong. almost gave double vision over 40. turned out it was a rubber damper on a axle that had come loose and slid down. most violent shake ive experienced.
I've been having this problem in a used Sienna AWD Limited I just bought. Now I know where to first look and evaluate when I get it up in the air. It smooths out at times. But on acceleration, the steering wheel begins to vibrate sometimes pretty radically. If it was a cv axel in the front it would minimize if not stop because there would be little torque applied. It does not subside when I back off the throttle. Which raises my suspicions it's what you just addressed. The drive shaft area. Thank you. You're the go to man, I am subscribing to your channel. Your diagnoses on the Cam positioning plate on that Buick was wonderful. Keep up the great informative work.
Great video. Thank you for all the technical information in this video with wheel fitment and nut variations. I am always learning with your work methods.
I noticed your attitude changed when you found out that you put the drive shaft in the first time it's good that the company is going to replace it. 👍👍😀🇨🇦
I own a front wheel drive car now, I am going to make sure the axle shafts are safe before putting it on the road. Thanks Eric for the great work in detecting the vibrations of the car.
I’ve only ever heard of it being called hub centric or lug centric. I also saw the lugs wear through the holes in the wheels and the shoulder holding the load. Excellent video as always. Have a great weekend with Mrs O and the kids!
There used to be a CV joint-specific molybdenum-based grease available from NAPA that came in a squeeze tube with just the right amount for one CV joint. This grease was much less "thick" (viscous) than general purpose chassis grease. It was also included in the torn boot replacement kit from NAPA.
The first driveshaft you bought was a reman, A1C during the pandemic(just about all the A1C remans produced in 2020 to early 2021 are junk doesn't matter what part they are), this was bound to happen. As for NEW complete driveshaft assemblies just about anything for this sienna is either a DORMAN, or if you have money to burn the OE. There's about 4 large 'manufactures' for this driveshaft you'll actually run into but they're all produced by DORMAN.
That wheel dolly is a genius idea to move all 4 wheels at once across the shop to the tire machine thanks for the idea sma I just ordered one to take to my shop thats gonna save me alot of time since my bay is on the opposite side of the shop from the tire machine and balancer have a great weekend sma
Love your work and diags Eric. Can I make a request? Are you able to do an "in depth" rabbit hole on short term and long term fuel ratios? Keep up the great work and love your vids, ESPECIALLY the long multi part ones.
I can attest to the hub centric wheel issue. Had an aftermarket wheel on BMW with a wheel spacer set up on hub that needed a hub centric ring to stop the vibration of the wheel/tire.
Cool video Eric O. Currently, I'm not too crazy about Dorman, but in all fairness they have stepped up to the plate by providing affordable replacement parts that others don't. Now if they can improve the quality and reliability (at least up to O.E.M. specs), the potential is to become a #1 supplier.
I'm glad that Dorman is stepping up to the plate and helping you out with this one. I can't help but wonder how you would have fared if you didn't have your contact at Dorman, though. I'm very skeptical mostly because I've been burned by them in the past, the effort to get paid back for having to replace their failed part under warranty was not worth the time and headache in some cases. Not too unlike aftermarket warranty companies now that I'm thinking about it...
I will never buy generic, after-market, wheels! Was eventually able to buy hub spacers, after much searching, to get the wheel to center on the hub properly.
Personally, I think you understated the lug nut and hub centric issue. You explained it very well, however you are spot on with how the wheels should be centered. I would assume because of the area where you are at that these steel wheels have the winter tires and the aluminum ones are for summer. Still, they should have Summer and winter lug nuts that are appropriate for the wheels they are being used on. If nothing else but for safety as the torque needed to keep the lug nuts from falling off would be compromised if not put in the proper tapered seat. (Those "summer" lug nuts are meant to carry the torque on the washer and the "winter" lug nuts are "squished" into the rim at the seat). Thanks for your videos, you bring a lot of experience to a lot of people. BTW, glad you didn't dump on whoever put that drive shaft in...........LOL
Great video, detective! You were really close in the word you were looking for at 15:00: "concentric." I found the whole "hub piloting" really interesting-it makes sense.
In the auto world they are usually described as "hub centric" and "lug centric." Just jargon, I suppose. Hondas have been hub centric for at least 3 decades now. I bet it has been a lot longer than that.
Dorman tale. '08 F150, the HVAC "blend door actuator" failed. (For the record, it is not easy to replace, as it is buried pretty deep in the dash.) Replaced it with a Dorman from The Zone; it stripped its gears at both ends of the temperature range, even after the computer did the "relearn" sweep multiple times. Replaced it under warranty; second one did the same thing. Got hold of Dorman tech support and explained the problem. They said to pull the fuse, wait 30 seconds, plug the fuse back in, and the computer would do the "relearn" sweep, and this would solve the problem. I replied that I had already done that multiple times - with two different copies of the part - and that I just did it again because they asked, and it didn't help. Dorman Guy said "That's strange, that should have worked." And had nothing else to say, and did not reply to any further emails. I returned the second Dorman to The Zone and got the OEM part from RockAuto, and it worked perfectly. Now, as a home gamer, I don't really know how to put a monetary value on my own labor, but I damn-well spent more than $20 in time and frustration replacing that dumb thing three times in an effort to save $20 buying the Dorman part over the OEM.
Even only having months of experience in the field I could tell those wheels wouldn't work very well with those nuts. About half the people who come into my shop have a different set of nuts for the winter wheels, and the rest at least have hub-centric wheels so it doesn't matter as much. But the slack on those would have me writing a bunch on the work order before I handed anything back. haha Also that buzzing would drive me insane. I'd be pulling that door apart in no time if it was my own vehicle doing it. I already ripped the dash apart in my Camry because it buzzes sometimes. Still can't pinpoint it, so I think there'll be lots of foam getting taped into it.
Dorman is going to fix the problem. This should be interesting...
Legit man within a week and a half I had a brand new shaft at the shop ship directly from their supplier. And I was blown away at the quality of it and the fact that they use Spicer u-joints in it. I don't know who their supplier is but it looked pretty solid. They paid shipping both ways and the whole deal. I was pretty shocked considering it wasn't their drive shaft to begin with but thoroughly impressed with the quality of the new one. Hopefully they keep that supplier around for a while.
@@SouthMainAuto Dorman recently bought Dayton Parts and I have been selling that line for years and top quality products, I wonder if that's who's making the shafts now, Because if they are, Nothing but quality.. Look at Dayton for springs and such.
@@SouthMainAuto it’s because they are slowly trying to convert you
Before long it's going to be "Dorman, not a sponsor".🤣😂🤣
@@SouthMainAuto Might be SMT, they're already pretty big.
That's pretty funny about the driveshaft diagnosis when you asked the customer who put it on and he said it was you...
When you get so many cars a week, a year later it’s hard to remember
@@alvinbaker8137 A week later is hard to remember 😕
"Be nice to the other guy, because someday you might be the other guy." -Eric O
@@michaeldaidone1904 Yesterday is hard to remember :P
Ruh roh...
This would have been a good one to hang a Gopro camera under the car, pointed at that joint, then take it for a spin. Thanks for posting!
Agreed! Just replaced my first ever serpentine belt on the ‘04 Chevy Astro with no help to wrangle that recalcitrant snake into place. Finally used 3 spring clamps and a pistol grip clamp to hold the bitch onto the crank pulley, lower idler pulley and AC pulley and the rest was easy peasey. Hope your Suburban is still going strong. 👍🔧🧰🚘
OR - see the Hitchcock movie Cape FEAR ! The maniac hangs UNDER their vehicle while they drive away on vacation . He then proceeds to terrorize them when they arrive . HE could hold the camera in his teeth - like Uncle Fester with the light bulb ! 😆 LOL !
@@Rein_Ciarfella i remember watching Customer States What?! and he was using office paper bundle clips to hold belts in place. Same for me tho...just removed and replaced mine and it fought me the whole entire way.
Alaskan Wolf Another good tool to accomplish that! Maybe even better than the Pony clamps I used because the paper clamps take up less space so they would fit into tighter spaces. 👍
@South Main Auto Repair LLC
4:40 You are correct we don't lubricate those. The supplyer is supposed to.
It's always feels weird when you see someone work on a vehicle you used to help build.
Just a quick suggestion, If it's 13 though 16 year check the starter.
We had an issue with the braided cable arcing onto the fuel line directly below and would melt though it. The fix is a rubber boot over the cable post.
Morning Eric. Coffee in front of me and a South Main Video
Going to be a great Saturday
Good afternoon from northwest Arizona. Watched a number of your shop videos over the past couple years and always enjoyed your dynastic and repair techniques. Most of your videos have been in the shop. Today was my first ride-along road test. While out I noticed the style of the small town homes looked somewhat familiar reviewing your page I noticed to my surprise SMA is in Avoca. Having lived in Springwater we’ve traveled 415 numerous times, great channel now a subscriber.
Dorman to the rescue??? Man...I am out of the loop....Great job, Eric!
Man that was a good lesson on proper wheel alignment on the hub, I don’t use aftermarket wheels but good info. Thanks for the video I watch all of them.
It really does make a big difference, I have people come in the shop all the time with vibration issues with after market wheels not hub centered and or improper lug nuts. People will get annoyed too when they ask you to install aftermarket wheels and then you tell them they need a whole new set of lug nuts, I’ll work on them if they already have improper nuts, but if I’m going to be installing new wheels I won’t install them without the proper lug nuts because of the liability and potential vibration issues.
Much worse when there's a smaller wheel pilot than the hub spigot and the radiused back edge of the pressed pilot hole in the wheel sits on the outside face of the spigot with the nuts barely engaging any thread on the studs. I've seen that and the car had just passed inspection - literally - drove less than 100ft to get tyres because they were worn - not because the wheels didn't fit the car. I think I still have a photo somewhere. My eyes nearly popped out of my head.
I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to explain your thought processes and procedures as you sleuth out problems. You are not only amazing as a mechanic but you also have impressive skills as an instructor. Your personality and sense of humor make it a pleasure to watch and learn from your videos. I also appreciate your honesty and integrity. My hat is off to you!! I have had the privilege of working with some very gifted people over the last 50 years and learned valuable skills from each of them. You have recently shown me tips or skills I wish I had learned long ago!!
Take care.
I am glad he also went the distance to find and get new shaft coming, most shops would have cleaned it up and regreased and sent them on the way and charged for replacing the shaft.
These are great vans and you get AWD for 200 000 miles move free. There is a guy in Canada who imports entire driveshafts for $570
Canadian dollars.
Good cheap complete shafts that fit rav4 sienna and highlander. The complete units are cheap and great….no car gives you reliable AWD as long as Toyota
Don’t buy the staked in unjoint kits
I said to myself this morning if there isn’t a South Main video today, I’m going to call my Senator. Good thing we avoided that!
Hub centric rings is what that wheel needed . GREAT job Eric😎
I wish every mechanic was as honest as you, Mr. O.
Today I replaced my dads caliper and fixed his other brake issues. Hes a lawyer and cant do much with his hands. lol He was just astonished at what I knew and what i could do. I gave ALL THE PROPS and MAD RESPECT to Eric O. If Eric saw the brake job I did he'd be proud. grease under the clips not on top etc.
It's been a while since one's been posted. (Brake job) It would be awesome to see another...
You're correct Mr. O! A wheel with a proper sized bore is called "Hub Centric". They are called "Nut Centric" when the center bore is too large and the lug nuts create the clamping force as well as support the weight of the vehicle.
You're also bang-on with those Toyota style nuts. When used in this manner on a non-OEM wheel, they are only meant to be temporary like with the included spare tire. It's crazy how many wheels I see come in (even from another one of our stores) and it has the incorrect mounting hardware.
Everyone please pause to appreciate the genius of “drier than a popcorn fart”. 🤣😂
Was one of my dad's favorite sayings.
I put butter on my popcorn, so I don't have that problem.
Was it an accident that in the middle of this video there was an ad for Disney + with a guy making popcorn for a home movie night?? 😆😆
speaking of dad sayings.. any car or truck that was light in the ass and slid in the snow was "lighter than a fart in a skillet"
One of my favorites has always been, looser than a greased string in a chickens ass.
Oh man I have trying to diagnose this same vibration on my awd Sienna. Thank you so much for posting this video and doing such a great job.
Thank you Eric O, I've change my fuel sending unit on my truck and I ran into a problem with wire and connections and I said to myself what would South Main Auto do he would make it work. I learned off of your videos and I made it work thanks Eric O
The folks in upstate have a treasure in SMA. Awesome customer service. God bless.
Wow. Great job. Way to back up the customer. Always a pleasure to see your videos.
Fun fact if you have a 1970 Chevy Nova SS with original wheels. The original SS steel wheels are lug centric and not hub centric. If you try to balance by the hub, the holes are so far off the the wheels wobble on the balancer. They have to be balanced off of the lugs. I searched and could only find one shop close to home that had a balancer that used the lugs. Everyone uses hub centric balancers since all modern wheels are made hub centric. Special thanks to Joe at Speedway Tire. Also, thanks to you, Eric for another informative video. Keep 'em coming.
Not many actually look for the problem, most want to point fingers to the other guy or play the blame game, that’s what I like about you Eric O and Rainman Ray, y’all bring a good name to auto mechanics
Had a all wheel drive 2000 Explorer that had the front drive shaft joint go out while we were coming from visiting family. Talk about the shakes, we had a little over a hour to reach home with that drive shaft shaking the whole car all the way home.
Kolejny super film. Pozdrowienia z Polski.
@@HankScorpio64 How come you know Polish?
Pozdrowienia z USA.
(Greetings from USA)
Its really frustrating to go through literally dozens of various shops/mechanics and never find this quality of work and this level dedication.
I used to work at Napa for years and this happened all the time with suppliers coming and going. One of the most annoying parts of the job. I went and started my own business. Hearing that the issues haven’t changed, I’m glad I left 💀
Glad you posted this, sometimes parts are bad and not easy to come by. Might make you look bad to some, but it's a clear and valid diagnosis and tepair.
I replaced the 2 piece driveshaft on my wife's 06 Sorento and the new one was a Dorman with Spicer "U" joints! I was surprised! That was over 6 months ago. So far, so good!
Even though it is new, I had the local driveshaft shop (also known as "The Shaft Shop") check the balance. It was off a little, he rebalanced it and it worked!
Way to go Mr. O! You and your customer made out well with that arrangement. Nice!
Erik not only do we take your word, but initially the camera was shaking when you were going down the road so we knew there was a vibration. Afterwards that shaking in the camera was gone. Good to go.
14:58 my winter rims came with hub centric rings that are plastic and take up the difference of that aftermarket rims. Works great.
The tire shop I bought mine from had someone steal a ring out of the drawer and they only had three to give me. I just 3D printed a 4th, it took like 3 minutes to model it and 10 to print one. A few days later the tire shop was able to give me a full set.
I think it is really smart that Dorman has the savvy to c 664,000 subscribers to one of the BEST TH-cam channels on car repair and then take the initiative to develop a dialog with one of their fiercest critics. I mean u just hammer them every time. We have to use Dorman stuff, and a lot of it works ok. Ever buy a lug nut? The electrical stuff is horrible. But it seems they r watching and listening. If they would just cull their suppliers and switch to the ones that the OEM people use, maybe we could buy a sensor or module that worked longer than a month. And when and if they give u a well greased driveshaft that fits, buy twenty of their lug nuts and put them on that sweet little Sienna. And then tell your 3/4 of a million fans that Dorman isn’t the worst thing since hemorrhoids. I have watched every one of your videos since day one When I did a re stud of a Toyota aluminum four cylinder, I used your Rav Four videos exclusively. The car still runs great. Thank u Eric!!
Thats one of the good parts about Dorman, they honor their warranty without any troubles. Always had concerns for those driveshaft designs that used carriers.
Except on their hybrid batteries. They don’t honor those at all!
Thanks for explaining the dealio to us. It was good that you tried to run it without that driveshaft. Now you know they will not run without it. If this happened out on a trip, you can't even do the old take it out until you get home. Very interesting.
🔥Great stuff Mr O, you never disappoint. I went back and watched old old 🔥videos, and you are so much more relaxed in front of the camera these days.
Oh a new drive shaft, it doesn't look like it was installed property the u joints aren't aligned... oh that was me. So admits it on camera, then takes care of his customer like a real man. Good on you Eric. My faith in humanity restored. Thank you.
Never had a clue about the differences ~ hub concentric vs stud concentric! Wow, great info if I ever need an aftermarket set of rims. Hell, I didn’t even know that there was such a variety of lug nuts … . Thanks for some education, really 👍😎.
shouldnt be embarrassed when a "new" part fails especially when its for a simple reason, lack of lube. GJ man very thorough and pride taken in your work
Another great video from the master Eric O , god bless this channel and this man an his family.
You are a straight up good guy Eric!
Like I said in a few of your other videos, dorman is at least trying to make things right and better but including a few of us shop owners / techs into their close circle and take ideas and suggestions from us.
Glad they stepped up.
While I don't think you did anything wrong, it's refreshing to see a mechanic doing what they can to make an issue right, and Mrs O certainly is very attractive
I ordered 8 injectors from parts geek .Did it on the phone read the man the part number off the OE ford injector and they still sent me the wrong ones .The electrical plug wasn't the same .I feel for you .Because you have a business and rely on the parts to get your work done.Take care Eric keep up the videos very knowledgeable and entertaining.
Wheel bearing grease repacking hack........as a Canadian snowmobiler, every off season I remove, clean repack all the bearing in my snowmobile. I always hated the mess when repacking them with new grease so my easy as pie, repacking hack is this......I use a grease needle. It gets right in there, around all the ball bearings or rollers if it's a roller bearing. You can put the grease exactly where you want it AND without the mess. Love the videos....Love it when Mrs. O pops in to keep things really real.
Hi Eric, I like how you take the time to find the right part for customer's. You care about them.
Uh.... the wrong part helps who?
Owner of a 2015 sienna. Now I know it can't drive without the shaft. Thanks for your videos
Well it really depends on how the PTU is set up. Majority of the time you can I would say on most AWD's.
My 2005 sienna can’t drive with out the drive shaft installed. Van won’t move when drive axel is removed. 😢
Hub centric rings on my aftermarket stud centric steel wheels made a huge difference for me (even with the correct acorn style lug nuts). $20 from Amazon as a last ditch effort and it worked great. I bought a few different sizes because it was hard to tell exactly what I needed, even with calipers.
I've a drawer full of them, some plastic and some aluminum and all different sizes. Now I can shop for used wheels and only have to worry about bolt pattern and offset
It's not recommended to use them on steel wheels as seen in this video however. For alloy wheels, it absolutely makes a huge difference!
i agree. I never put aftermarket wheels on any of my vehicles with the appropriate hub-centric rings. I like to head off trouble before it rears its ugly head. I have used aluminum rings on both steel and aluminum wheels, and the plastic type rings on both steel and aluminum wheels. Never had a problem in the four decades of doing this.
Very useful info' about the aftermarket wheels and the need for spacers and the correct wheel nuts. Thanks Eric.
Thanks for taking us along when dealing with a tricky situation with supplier and customer. You are a stand up guy and its a pleasure to watch.
All I can say is you are one lucky man - Honest, Reliable, Knowledgeable and you have Mrs. O and family. Really always appreciate your videos!
Good call on the lug nuts Eric - one thing to watch, specially on Honda (and I believe Subarus) is that the OEM is actually a "acorn" which has a spherical seat lug nut and most of the aftermarket wheels we encounter have tapered-conical seats. On steel wheels, it isn't the end of the world - sometimes over-torqueing the lug nuts will "crimp" the steel, but usually it is fine. But on aftermarket alloy wheels, the cheaper ones without the steel inserts for the lug nuts, the spherical lug nuts destroy the soft aluminum tapers. -Just something to note!
Yeah the shape of the contact surface is super important, because that is what ensures that your wheels don't fall off. The friction between the nut flange and the wheel is what keeps the nuts from spinning off.
Ball-seat is used by Honda, VW-Audi, and Mercedes. They are rounded. Conical seat is straight. Improper surface contact provides no retainment torque. These Toyota mag-shank lugs (dual purpose) have a conical seat because the spare wheel is steel.
Wow classic Dodge pickup at 00:53 and I like the placement of the door remote at 19:05
This was interesting and it just goes to show those that don't know that there are so many different resonant frequencies that different components of the car can manifest when they are not concentric or are a rotating assembly that is worn out.
Resonant frequencies and how they manifest in vehicles is a lot of the car repair industry diagnosis.
Would like to see a follow up video on this Sienna when the next center driveshaft (propeller shaft) comes in.
Most impressed a mechanic who test drives a car here in NC that never happens they say they do but the odometer never lies
Saturday morning coffee and SMA video.Hey Eric I am the person that worked on Saturn Astra possessed "See Ivan's video" I bought nothing but GM parts. 3 bad cam phaser sprockets and 2 oem cam solenoids later. the car is fixed.
Ahhhh, the Astra with the bad Aura, lol! After that nightmare I hope its still running great for you!
I am glad your back. nice to see you and the lovely Mrs. O
New to the channel and I must say I will recommen it to my mechanic friends. Excellent info and video.
Hey Eric, I'm a contractor here in Cincinnati Ohio, and the availability of parts is getting worse and worse. I can't find anything, and when I do, it's just garbage. Love your videos, keep up the great work and until next time!
Hi Eric Kudos to you for taking good care of your customer and keeping good records! Kudos also to Mrs O as I think she does the invoices/records. 😀
I liked your concentricity and nut discussion. Too many people do not understand what changing wheels can do. Don't get me started on back spacing and width. 😁
Totally agree, and didn't get me started on rubber band tires... the destroyers of all things suspension
Here in another frozen north I have at least 6 OE rims for all my vehicles so I can keep a couple snows or studded snows mounted all the time. No question about lug nuts or wheel spacing or width. It also allows me to buy my snow tires in May when the distributors are giving them away.
I do the same. I got a junkyard set of OEM rims for my van and have snow tires mounted to them and just keep them on a tire dolly in my garage and covered off-season (the dolly keeps them off the concrete and easy to move)
I’ve subscribed to this channel for several years. Lately I’ve not been getting notifications of new videos!!
It’s fairly common for aftermarket wheels to be fitted lug centric instead of hub centric. I had a 05 GTO that I put some aftermarket wheels on and had to use hub rings that were sized to the hub and the wheel. Mine were made of aluminum. I never noticed a problem when I did not have the rings installed. But once I realized the rings were needed, I installed them.
I don't know about anybody else but the hoola girl would convince me of vibration. Hoola for the win!
we experienced a weird thing years ago.
a customer came in and said the car was shaking at a certain speed and she were not wrong.
almost gave double vision over 40.
turned out it was a rubber damper on a axle that had come loose and slid down.
most violent shake ive experienced.
My left front shanking bad at 50 mph
I've been having this problem in a used Sienna AWD Limited I just bought. Now I know where to first look and evaluate when I get it up in the air. It smooths out at times. But on acceleration, the steering wheel begins to vibrate sometimes pretty radically. If it was a cv axel in the front it would minimize if not stop because there would be little torque applied. It does not subside when I back off the throttle. Which raises my suspicions it's what you just addressed. The drive shaft area. Thank you. You're the go to man, I am subscribing to your channel. Your diagnoses on the Cam positioning plate on that Buick was wonderful. Keep up the great informative work.
Great videos Eric, you definitely do the best automotive videos and I watch alot of them.
Nice work Mr. O! Always enjoy your stuff!
Great video. Thank you for all the technical information in this video with wheel fitment and nut variations. I am always learning with your work methods.
I noticed your attitude changed when you found out that you put the drive shaft in the first time it's good that the company is going to replace it. 👍👍😀🇨🇦
I own a front wheel drive car now, I am going to make sure the axle shafts are safe before putting it on the road. Thanks Eric for the great work in detecting the vibrations of the car.
We could see the vibration in the camera. Nice work!
I’ve only ever heard of it being called hub centric or lug centric. I also saw the lugs wear through the holes in the wheels and the shoulder holding the load.
Excellent video as always. Have a great weekend with Mrs O and the kids!
Love the honesty and take in care of the customer
There used to be a CV joint-specific molybdenum-based grease available from NAPA that came in a squeeze tube with just the right amount for one CV joint. This grease was much less "thick" (viscous) than general purpose chassis grease. It was also included in the torn boot replacement kit from NAPA.
was that the split boot kind? do they hold up?
@@LAactor Never tried the split boot kind.
People making due.. you rock Mr O..
The first driveshaft you bought was a reman, A1C during the pandemic(just about all the A1C remans produced in 2020 to early 2021 are junk doesn't matter what part they are), this was bound to happen. As for NEW complete driveshaft assemblies just about anything for this sienna is either a DORMAN, or if you have money to burn the OE. There's about 4 large 'manufactures' for this driveshaft you'll actually run into but they're all produced by DORMAN.
That wheel dolly is a genius idea to move all 4 wheels at once across the shop to the tire machine thanks for the idea sma I just ordered one to take to my shop thats gonna save me alot of time since my bay is on the opposite side of the shop from the tire machine and balancer have a great weekend sma
Love your work and diags Eric. Can I make a request? Are you able to do an "in depth" rabbit hole on short term and long term fuel ratios? Keep up the great work and love your vids, ESPECIALLY the long multi part ones.
I love your admiration for Mrs. O. She’s the one who makes you great!
I can attest to the hub centric wheel issue. Had an aftermarket wheel on BMW with a wheel spacer set up on hub that needed a hub centric ring to stop the vibration of the wheel/tire.
repeat customer, very cool and you get to fix your own work. good tip re: wheel lugs . always great seeing Mrs O! keep up the fine work
Cool video Eric O.
Currently, I'm not too crazy about Dorman, but in all fairness they have stepped up to the plate by providing affordable replacement parts that others don't.
Now if they can improve the quality and reliability (at least up to O.E.M. specs), the potential is to become a #1 supplier.
Eric at least you're honest and you owed up to putting that on A year ago and you're taking care of it. That's why you're one of the best.
Good vibrations.. 🎶🎶🚗
great work work nice of you to find the cheapest route for your customer
Note to the non salt belt viewers, at about :58, that white on the road is salt, not snow!
Also the source of most of the rust problems.
I'm glad that Dorman is stepping up to the plate and helping you out with this one. I can't help but wonder how you would have fared if you didn't have your contact at Dorman, though. I'm very skeptical mostly because I've been burned by them in the past, the effort to get paid back for having to replace their failed part under warranty was not worth the time and headache in some cases. Not too unlike aftermarket warranty companies now that I'm thinking about it...
I will never buy generic, after-market, wheels! Was eventually able to buy hub spacers, after much searching, to get the wheel to center on the hub properly.
Tire Rack is pretty good at filtering out the wheels that don't match your hub
Cool Bob!!
@@Lowkey_ID Tire Rack will also include the required lug nut/stud and rings with their install kits if required.
Personally, I think you understated the lug nut and hub centric issue. You explained it very well, however you are spot on with how the wheels should be centered. I would assume because of the area where you are at that these steel wheels have the winter tires and the aluminum ones are for summer. Still, they should have Summer and winter lug nuts that are appropriate for the wheels they are being used on. If nothing else but for safety as the torque needed to keep the lug nuts from falling off would be compromised if not put in the proper tapered seat. (Those "summer" lug nuts are meant to carry the torque on the washer and the "winter" lug nuts are "squished" into the rim at the seat). Thanks for your videos, you bring a lot of experience to a lot of people. BTW, glad you didn't dump on whoever put that drive shaft in...........LOL
Great video, detective! You were really close in the word you were looking for at 15:00: "concentric." I found the whole "hub piloting" really interesting-it makes sense.
In the auto world they are usually described as "hub centric" and "lug centric." Just jargon, I suppose. Hondas have been hub centric for at least 3 decades now. I bet it has been a lot longer than that.
U da man. 😊😊😊😊 Always praying for your family Mr. O 🙏🙏 It's what I do.
Dorman tale. '08 F150, the HVAC "blend door actuator" failed. (For the record, it is not easy to replace, as it is buried pretty deep in the dash.) Replaced it with a Dorman from The Zone; it stripped its gears at both ends of the temperature range, even after the computer did the "relearn" sweep multiple times. Replaced it under warranty; second one did the same thing. Got hold of Dorman tech support and explained the problem. They said to pull the fuse, wait 30 seconds, plug the fuse back in, and the computer would do the "relearn" sweep, and this would solve the problem. I replied that I had already done that multiple times - with two different copies of the part - and that I just did it again because they asked, and it didn't help. Dorman Guy said "That's strange, that should have worked." And had nothing else to say, and did not reply to any further emails. I returned the second Dorman to The Zone and got the OEM part from RockAuto, and it worked perfectly. Now, as a home gamer, I don't really know how to put a monetary value on my own labor, but I damn-well spent more than $20 in time and frustration replacing that dumb thing three times in an effort to save $20 buying the Dorman part over the OEM.
When it is in dash I always go with OEM learned years ago from same experiences you have had.
@@gonesideways6621 Lesson learned for sure.
Just wanted to say been watching your videos for some time and always enjoy them in the 🇬🇧
Another great video!
Eric, One of Ivan's favorite repairs, "NPR", 'til later.
Ecnetric is off the centerline like a cam lobe concentric is centered with the base circle.
It seemed like it was vibrating/chattering under load (not just high rpm) which in my expierience is drivetrain related. Great call, Eric! 👍
Even only having months of experience in the field I could tell those wheels wouldn't work very well with those nuts. About half the people who come into my shop have a different set of nuts for the winter wheels, and the rest at least have hub-centric wheels so it doesn't matter as much. But the slack on those would have me writing a bunch on the work order before I handed anything back. haha
Also that buzzing would drive me insane. I'd be pulling that door apart in no time if it was my own vehicle doing it. I already ripped the dash apart in my Camry because it buzzes sometimes. Still can't pinpoint it, so I think there'll be lots of foam getting taped into it.
Just had to look at the dash. It was shaking like crazy when you did your test drive. Lol thanks Eric always enjoy your content.
Excellent
glad to see your back, hope all is well with you and yours.