I have Alldata and love following along with you as you diagnose. Don't know why I enjoy it so much, I do it all week. It's a lot less stressful when watching here though because it's your ice and time on the line instead of mine.. 🤣🤣 Thanks for sharing your repair efforts sir.
2006 is the last year of the inline 4.0L 6-cylinder Chrysler/AMC engine. I have one with 115K on the clock. You and Mrs. O busting each other's chops is priceless by the way. I've been married to my beautiful bride for 23 years now. October will 24 years.
As an avid watcher of Cutting Edge Engineering and Victory Outdoor Services, there are definitely channels out there that you dont see much hate on. Curtis at CEE is absolute top tier at welding, he doesnt let garbage leave his shop, shows the whole process on youtube and everyone talks about how good of a welder he is. Ryan at Victory has been doing concrete for over 20 years and is the same way, hes on every job site watching and making sure his people are doing the concrete jobs right. His people might not be great at concrete but he certainly is.
Hi Eric I make electrical panels as well as doing vehicle diagnostics and electrics. I have crimped and soldered 1000's of wires over 40 years. Nothing wrong with your job. I strive for perfection just enough and not too much with good adhesion and a nice shiny feathered edge. Even after 40 + years they are not always perfect. Occasionally I do one I am satisfied with where the joint is perfect with the correct fill and the heat shrink is perfectly square and positioned. plastic is not shrunk or burned back and just ends at or just inside the opening. Before heat shrink we had rubber sleeving you stretched with 3 pronged pliers and some special rubber lub. Ignore them!!! Oh and just to upset everybody I always use leaded 60/40 lead tin solder. Lead free is junk. All my workers use the same and will not use Lead free. We do 1000's or joints every year.
I am in the medical equipment business, so we are exempt from the lead free stupidity. Lead free exemptions are in place for aviation, medical and military. Now, does that send a message to the greenie-weenies? It should; if you want reliable connections that you must stake your life on, you DON'T use lead free solder!
@@dublindave5795It will also grow tin whiskers, leading to short circuits. The person who commented below pointed out that medical, military, and aviation, including space craft are exempt from the lead free restrictions. That tells me all I need to know about lead-free solder.
This came on just in time to watch and eat my chicken pot pie Eric! Once our daughter called us while out in her 02 Ford Focus and the complaint was that her head lights kept going dim. I immediately suspected the alternator so grabbed a multimeter and hit the trail. The wife and I drove the 10 miles to where she was parked at a gas station and there she sat with the car running. I checked the alternator voltage and it was putting out 13V. That was enough to run the car in the day time but not in the night with lights burning. I drove it home 3 miles at a time or whenever the lights went dim, Id pull over and let the battery charge enough to burn the lights and get another few miles down the road then pull over and charge the battery a little. I did that all the way until we pulled in the drive.😀
Eric, Your words of wisdom is why I watch your videos, Well maybe the second or third reason! First is when You have the Boss on your videos! She is the greatest! Thanks .
Just as I would start my solder concrete with a welder channel, Eric blows it out of the water. Only thing left is the I-never-torque-anything / channel. Thanks learned something from you again. 👍
The last time I had this code I...............stop right there. I know a lot of mechanics who use that line of reasoning to diagnose. I even know a guy who keeps a detailed list of codes and what fixed them. His first try is whatever was most common or "whatever worked the last time". His line of reasoning has just exactly the result one would think, crap. As a professional tech for over 45 years working in diagnostics I can tell you that I have a very low rate of hollering at the screen when watching this channel. LOL. Eric is always working at a very high level, well done!
I know you think these videos are boring, but this is day to day stuff in this industry. I deal with a lot of wire breaks as well, just mostly from collision damage. Great job as always. By the way I sent a package your way back around Christmas, just wondered if you got it and got a laugh from it. Take care.
Amazing video, and knowledge of working on vehicles, you nailed it, and quick. Also most likely fixed all them other codes. Your customers don't realize how truly lucky they are to have a Amazing mechanic, and a honest guy working on their cars!! Well done!
I bet they do know and that's why he has them lined up for work. This is a great channel, but I still haven't seen the "I can do it too" benefit just yet. I'll keep watching and trying.😉
I’m not a professional mechanic, I’m just an extremely competent diy guy. Although I suppose since I have had a couple jobs where I was employed as a mechanic maybe i am a professional? Nevertheless what I like about this channel is the thoroughness (like fluidfilm spritzing connections) of the repairs and doing stuff properly- like I would do them. I’m not experienced like Eric yet doing stuff well impresses me whether I do it or an excellent mechanic does it. A lot of the reasons I do my own work are wrapped around knowing the job is done right; there’s so few garages anywhere that have professionals as competent as Eric O. I’ve also just never been able to afford to pay twice or three times to get problems fixed and after a few go-rounds in my younger years that made me broke for weeks I just stopped using shops.
One time when I was taking my pickup to the stealership for a recall. I hit a skunk a half mile from the place. Man that thing was nasty smelling. It sure came back spotless! They must have run it through the carwash a dozen times.
Keep the Jeep 4.0 stuff coming. I just bought one after owning the JK with the big 3.6 v6 and I got tired of chasing gremlins with it. So now I am going to start archiving your 4.0 jobs.
Mrs. O, you did a great job on the camera! 😉👍 I for 1, want to see Mrs. O more often, she's awesome, you 2 work very well together, and it's so cute how you 2 banter back and forth. 😁 I say we put Mr. O in the office to handle phones and dealing with customers, and Mrs. O can do some how-to videos. 😎
I used to work for a very large connector company, in engineering. This company basically invented crimping in the 40s to support the war effort. In engineering, I had access to tremendous amounts of research which proved that crimping was superior to soldering. But if we rewind to the 40s, the real innovation was the manufacturing time of the aircraft - not that soldering was inferior. On an industrial scale, crimping was faster. So choose whatever method gets the job done.
Yes, crimping is a win/win - faster and better. Not necessarily cheaper from a parts and supplies perspective, but the time saved offsets any additional tools and parts cost.
@@jimurrata6785 Do you really think every factory crimp is done with a hydraulic crimper under several ton of pressure? That's what's needed to actually fuse copper strands.
I have the (early, pre Rubicon) 98 4.0 Sport. I bought it 3yrs ago and the first thing I did was clean and replace (if needed) every body and frame ground on it! I also own a 96 Ranger that drove me crazy with ground issues, so I wasn't taking any chances! Great video, Eric! 4.0 Wranglers are becoming dinosaur rare because the frames are so susceptible to rot!
I daily an 01 TJ 4.0. I welded in frame repair sections, rebuilt the grenaded Dana 44, replaced a seized front u-joint, replaced the exhaust, and fixed the EVAP system. Unbelievably, it is no longer throwing any codes for the first time since I bought it 3 years ago. The work on it never ends. Oh, yeah - the frames disappear under these here in the Rust Belt. I think they actually make new frames for them, though.
I'm very familiar with psoriatic arthritis and what can affect. My wife has been dealing with it for over 30 years. Finally got a med that seems to be helping quite a bit.
I'm lucky we have insurance that is affordable (also you must have it) in The Netherlands. So the specialist went straight to the best 💉💊 there is. The insurance does try to force specialist to first try all the cheaper options but my doctor said 👋🏻👋🏻when they asked😂
Oh yeah .... my favourite kind of video with you and Mrs O together . It makes my day cos you two together , with your good banter , always makes me smile 😊☺
as someone looking to pursue a career in this field, i cannot thank you enough for these videos. i learn something new every time. thank you for all that you do!!
@@Look_What_You_Did take your meds and go to your safe space and keep reading your reading comprehension books. It’s really paying off . My excuse I was fighting in foreign wars so you could have the right to troll and criticize folks
You just became my new favorite TH-cam channel! Three things you can’t do on TH-cam is spot on! You are a top notch diagnostic guy and easy for anyone to understand. Thanks!
Dude, you deserve all the views. You have the best diagnostic/repair TH-cam videos on the internet. Hands down. Even if you don’t get a million views, take pride knowing that your videos are of the best quality.
A quality gas-tight crimp makes for a really good electrical connection. But exposed like that ground, corrosion is gonna get you eventually. I'd think that soldering the crimp will help prevent the corrosion - especially with multiple wires in the crimp .
Good Sunday morning from Spain coming from a born/bred Texan that Just reached 74 yrs old. I daily thank my Lucky stars that my mech trade never put me in rusty land. My 2016 Hilux has no rust & looks about the way it did new. My hat comes off to you and your rust related diagnosis. KEEP UP THE GREAT CONTENT. MRS O IS THE BEST, EVERYONE NEEDS A QUALITY CONTROL INSP. LIKE HER. YES SCOTTY WOULD BE PROUD.
Hey Eric! Thanx for the g105 tips. We work on a lot of jeeps here in Spring TX. But the only Alternator issues are from computers/ tipms not grounding the relays. Not much rust or green stuff down here.
I just diagnosed a similar problem on my car and I'm not really a "car guy", per se. Had a handful of weird electrical problems and was seriously considering ditching the car. And then quite by accident I realized it was just a bad ground from the battery to the block. Put another cable and it's been fine ever since.
I had a similar problem with my car. Hoping for a ground problem. Turned out to be a mouse problem. About $900, a few connectors and a lot of splices later, it all worked fine again. And apparently mice do not carry liability insurance.
I was going to add "D: Tighten a bolt/nut/fastener without using a torque wrench" and its something you talk about all the time 😃 Great video fun watching you two work together.
Wow, when the conversation went to getting hit by a bus, my thoughts went to the final destination series, great ground lesson and back and forth with the Mrs, thanks for posting on this Saturday 😂
I thoroughly enjoy all your videos. You're smart and practical. Don't waste a lot of time on nonsense procedures and just get it done. Haters or knowitalls should be ignored.. I've been an amateur gearhead for 60+ years and I learn something new from you all the time. Keep up the good work!
Regardless of how mundane this all is to you, us blunt skulls really enjoy learning from you and gaining confidence fixing stuff on our own..."If I can do it, you can doi it". I never have, nor never will own a Fiat Chrysler...but information is an asset.
Eric, Excellent job with welding, crimping, soldering and puring concrete on a Thurdsay night. Jack of all master of a few! Oh and Thank you Mrs.O for the exceprional enhancing and other awsome camera work. Always great to see you in a cameo appearance! Have a great weekend!
Thankfully Mrs. O comes along at the right moment taking over supervision on the job giving the proper advice at the proper time enabling a comprehensive repair. Everyone watching the internet knows that a wire should never have any repairs done to it, that means no new terminators put on the end of the wire regardless of how you choose to do it. Any wiring problem should be solved with entire new wiring harnesses regardless of the time and the money it takes to replace it.
Can't believe you the forgot the other electrical trigger...dielectric grease (you know, the grease that conducts electricity 🤣)! That really would have would have stirred up the comment section! Nice repair, BTW. You may not be a "car guy", but you sure know how to fix them!
Like Eric was mentioning about Chrysler stacking grounds on each other on this vehicle, I had a similar situation but on the other side. I have a 1998 GMC pickup truck that has stacked positive cables, came from the starter to the battery and the stacked one runs across to the fuse block on the other side of the engine bay and on to the rest of the vehicle. Ever since last winter the starter 'seemed' to turn a little slow and the volt meter on the dash wasn't showing what I though it use to show. I finally decided to take it to a place like Eric's but local to me, I was expecting to maybe need to replace the alternator or the starter or both. what they ended up doing was to remove the coating off of both terminals that screw to the positive post (side terminal) and cleaning them so they will get good contact. Now it shows the needle on the dash where I remember it and the starter spins like it should.
Eric, even the videos that you consider boring and/or stupid have helpful hints in them. For example, in a recent brake job video, you hung the rotor on the hub backward to spray brake cleaner on the inside then, turned it the right way to clean the outside. I've been making messes on my work bench cleaning brake rotors for the last 40 years! I never even thought of doing what you did in that video! I used that idea on a particularly ugly brake job today though and now, I don't have to clean my bench! Todays brake job was on the front of my brothers 99 Toyota Avalon. All I can say is thank God for extra long, locking, flex head ratchets, wobble extensions and 3lb drilling hammers! I've seen and done brakes that were in worse shape but, not many! Thank you for posting your videos and, keep doing what you do!
I’m glad Mrs. O was able to help you fix this. 😉 Actually, the reality is that I’ve been trying to get schematics for my 05 Sebring convertible and finally got them, to find this same problem. New alternator but yet it won’t charge. Hoping to find it be this quick. Thanks again, Eric, for showing your work.
As a retired tech and then shop manager, I really enjoy most of your videos. I say most because my favorites are the ones with diag/electrical/driveability issues more so than the ones with mechanical repairs. Also as a past Jeep owner I wonder why you work around the hood and the hood prop when you can lean the hood back on the windshield frame, completely out of the way. Just idle curiosity I guess. Keep up the good work and the great videos!
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Before leaning against a car....show off one of the HUGE belt buckles! That'll drive 'em insane!
Great tool, I just wish it did 24 volts also.
I have Alldata and love following along with you as you diagnose. Don't know why I enjoy it so much, I do it all week. It's a lot less stressful when watching here though because it's your ice and time on the line instead of mine.. 🤣🤣
Thanks for sharing your repair efforts sir.
@@HouseCallAutoRepair A huge hanging set of keys are nice too.
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I'm just gonna say you crimped and soldered that wire perfectly just to piss people off.
Yes, but it would have been better sealed in concrete.
He did all that on Thursday Night.
Meow!
yeah it pissed me off, whotf uses vice grips to fold the tangs over? use right tool!
@@Shiznit304I used vice grips because I couldn't figure out how to do it with screwdrivers 😅
@@SouthMainAutono eric you need the pneumatic crimper tool calibrated to millinch pounds that you can only use meow on a Thursday night.
Finally, what we really need! A camera lady! 😊 She brings us a much more informative and revealing video! Thanks, Eric!
Mrs O upstages Mr O every time!
😅@@umajunkcollector
We all need a Mrs O.
Don't assume it's gender
@@jackhandyyyou're running a big risk of getting on the bad side of Mrs O 😅
Mrs O. is a National Treasure! 👍👍👍💯💯💯
The whole fort knox
International 😬👍🙏
Agreed 💯!!
Yeah, Eric is ok, but she is the important one on this channel.
Weirdos leave his wife alone lol.
The banter between you and Mrs. O is just fantastic. Always a treat when Mrs. O is around to keep our boy in line.
What 🤔
@@MacAutoDiag What part confused you?
Now we need a truck tour of Eric’s truck so we can judge how clean it is for ourselves 😂
a mechanics daily driver truck? very dirty and everything broken and wrong... 🤣🤣 at least everyone I know personally.
I never judge you inside of anybody's car I may look at one and go oh my God. But the minute I say my car is cleaner it isn't.
No I keep my truck pretty clean. Not like OCD. But I do like a clean truck. On the inside that is.
Pics or it didn't happen
TUNDRA TIME?
2006 is the last year of the inline 4.0L 6-cylinder Chrysler/AMC engine. I have one with 115K on the clock.
You and Mrs. O busting each other's chops is priceless by the way. I've been married to my beautiful bride for 23 years now. October will 24 years.
Great repair Mr.O. Nice to see Mrs. O running the camera.
Not sure which is more fun, Mrs. O Cameralady or What's Up Wednesday.
Mrs O speaks for all our wives everywhere, a wise woman indeed, cheers
As an avid watcher of Cutting Edge Engineering and Victory Outdoor Services, there are definitely channels out there that you dont see much hate on. Curtis at CEE is absolute top tier at welding, he doesnt let garbage leave his shop, shows the whole process on youtube and everyone talks about how good of a welder he is. Ryan at Victory has been doing concrete for over 20 years and is the same way, hes on every job site watching and making sure his people are doing the concrete jobs right. His people might not be great at concrete but he certainly is.
CEE is the same welder I was thinking of. It's crazy seeing how big some of the welding jobs he has to take on.
Even cee gets those stupid comments about how an apprentice in x country would be 100 better then him and he would fail the exams.
Ill have to go over to his channel and critique it just to prove you wrong lol
CEE is a chump. He'd get his certifications revoked in my country for his piss poor work.
This comment is an advertisement and it offends me. Just sayin’
As someone who works in the concrete industry, can confirm that when a concrete truck shows up, people change.
Love this video and always a good time when Mrs. O is there for commentary and video support. Thanks so much for taking us along on a Thursday night!
Hi Eric
I make electrical panels as well as doing vehicle diagnostics and electrics. I have crimped and soldered 1000's of wires over 40 years. Nothing wrong with your job. I strive for perfection just enough and not too much with good adhesion and a nice shiny feathered edge. Even after 40 + years they are not always perfect. Occasionally I do one I am satisfied with where the joint is perfect with the correct fill and the heat shrink is perfectly square and positioned. plastic is not shrunk or burned back and just ends at or just inside the opening. Before heat shrink we had rubber sleeving you stretched with 3 pronged pliers and some special rubber lub. Ignore them!!! Oh and just to upset everybody I always use leaded 60/40 lead tin solder. Lead free is junk. All my workers use the same and will not use Lead free. We do 1000's or joints every year.
Lead free solder is to make the tree hugger's happy. If you want a joint to not crack from vibration, you need leaded solder.
I am in the medical equipment business, so we are exempt from the lead free stupidity. Lead free exemptions are in place for aviation, medical and military. Now, does that send a message to the greenie-weenies? It should; if you want reliable connections that you must stake your life on, you DON'T use lead free solder!
@@dublindave5795It will also grow tin whiskers, leading to short circuits. The person who commented below pointed out that medical, military, and aviation, including space craft are exempt from the lead free restrictions. That tells me all I need to know about lead-free solder.
Crimp and solder - perfect. If Chrysler would have soldered that darn ground lug, well, we wouldn't have a video to watch! Good job Eric
Thank you,for gracing us viewers with your presence Mrs. O. Also, thank you Eric for another great video. 👍
This came on just in time to watch and eat my chicken pot pie Eric!
Once our daughter called us while out in her 02 Ford Focus and the complaint was that her head lights kept going dim.
I immediately suspected the alternator so grabbed a multimeter and hit the trail.
The wife and I drove the 10 miles to where she was parked at a gas station and there she sat with the car running.
I checked the alternator voltage and it was putting out 13V. That was enough to run the car in the day time but not in the night with lights burning.
I drove it home 3 miles at a time or whenever the lights went dim, Id pull over and let the battery charge enough to burn the lights and get another few miles down the road then pull over and charge the battery a little. I did that all the way until we pulled in the drive.😀
Eric-Don't zoom in without saying "enhance". Vanessa-Does it anyways.
That jeep sounded as if it was going to have some internal exit wounds at anytime. That Mrs. O with that smirky grin on her face -priceless
Eric, Your words of wisdom is why I watch your videos, Well maybe the second or third reason! First is when You have the Boss on your videos! She is the greatest! Thanks .
Your videos are enhanced whenever Mrs. O makes an appearance. Really enjoy watching the banter between the two of you. It's fun.
Miss O ❤ can tell a tail on Mr. O 😮. Best part of the real marriage. 😂 They work together priceless.😊😊😊
Its a joy to see the real SMA star (Mrs. O) 😊 Y'all are great together and remind me of the best times with my late wife. Keep em coming and God Bless
Sounds like you lost her too soon. Sorry man!
Just as I would start my solder concrete with a welder channel, Eric blows it out of the water.
Only thing left is the I-never-torque-anything / channel.
Thanks learned something from you again. 👍
The last time I had this code I...............stop right there. I know a lot of mechanics who use that line of reasoning to diagnose. I even know a guy who keeps a detailed list of codes and what fixed them. His first try is whatever was most common or "whatever worked the last time". His line of reasoning has just exactly the result one would think, crap. As a professional tech for over 45 years working in diagnostics I can tell you that I have a very low rate of hollering at the screen when watching this channel. LOL. Eric is always working at a very high level, well done!
Repair bad ground connector, $20. Fun banter between Mr. and Mrs.O, PRICELESS. 😁👍
I know you think these videos are boring, but this is day to day stuff in this industry. I deal with a lot of wire breaks as well, just mostly from collision damage. Great job as always.
By the way I sent a package your way back around Christmas, just wondered if you got it and got a laugh from it. Take care.
Another thing that gets people pumped is driveway body work you know the kind with spray foam and loads of bondo.😅
@@markcollins457 I saw a later model Avalanche today that had the spray foam treatment. Rust never stops, and that stuff accelerates it.
@@gregbarnett3141
Great Tuff - planned obsolescence
@@markcollins457 Hehe, an MOT in a can? Rotted wheel arch? Where?!? Not any more! 😂
What I love is when you have what is likely a pretty dull every day repair, so you drag Mrs O in and the video gets a whole lot better.
Love the interaction in this one 🙃 ..... but i think you should have welded that connection.....with concrete 😛
Welding with concrete, eh?? I see you graduated the Dewey Cheatum and Howe College of Auto Repair. :)
@@markh.6687 lol that's my solicitors name. I learned it all from TH-cam hehe
You two rock. This has to rank in the top 3 of my favorite SMA videos. Can't get any more relaxed, fun, and genuine than that!
Eric, you and Mrs. O are definitely a force to be reckoned with👍 You two make a great team. Have a great Saturday night😁
Eric you and Mrs. O are Outrageous 😊 and I am not Triggered with anything you do.
Amazing video, and knowledge of working on vehicles, you nailed it, and quick. Also most likely fixed all them other codes. Your customers don't realize how truly lucky they are to have a Amazing mechanic, and a honest guy working on their cars!! Well done!
I bet they do know and that's why he has them lined up for work. This is a great channel, but I still haven't seen the "I can do it too" benefit just yet. I'll keep watching and trying.😉
I’m not a professional mechanic, I’m just an extremely competent diy guy. Although I suppose since I have had a couple jobs where I was employed as a mechanic maybe i am a professional? Nevertheless what I like about this channel is the thoroughness (like fluidfilm spritzing connections) of the repairs and doing stuff properly- like I would do them. I’m not experienced like Eric yet doing stuff well impresses me whether I do it or an excellent mechanic does it. A lot of the reasons I do my own work are wrapped around knowing the job is done right; there’s so few garages anywhere that have professionals as competent as Eric O.
I’ve also just never been able to afford to pay twice or three times to get problems fixed and after a few go-rounds in my younger years that made me broke for weeks I just stopped using shops.
I'm smiling - Mrs O really knows how to get you going. You know she's one great wife.
Nothing beats watching Eric and Mrs. O on a Friday night 😄
That's what i like about thier videos.... They make you feel like part of the family...
One time when I was taking my pickup to the stealership for a recall. I hit a skunk a half mile from the place. Man that thing was nasty smelling. It sure came back spotless! They must have run it through the carwash a dozen times.
Just wanna say, I love the videos, for the laconic sense of humor and the basic car info, and when Mrs. O is involved, the wife will watch as well.
Keep the Jeep 4.0 stuff coming. I just bought one after owning the JK with the big 3.6 v6 and I got tired of chasing gremlins with it. So now I am going to start archiving your 4.0 jobs.
Mrs. O, you did a great job on the camera! 😉👍
I for 1, want to see Mrs. O more often, she's awesome, you 2 work very well together, and it's so cute how you 2 banter back and forth. 😁
I say we put Mr. O in the office to handle phones and dealing with customers, and Mrs. O can do some how-to videos. 😎
How can you not love this stuff.
I used to work for a very large connector company, in engineering. This company basically invented crimping in the 40s to support the war effort. In engineering, I had access to tremendous amounts of research which proved that crimping was superior to soldering. But if we rewind to the 40s, the real innovation was the manufacturing time of the aircraft - not that soldering was inferior. On an industrial scale, crimping was faster. So choose whatever method gets the job done.
Yes, crimping is a win/win - faster and better. Not necessarily cheaper from a parts and supplies perspective, but the time saved offsets any additional tools and parts cost.
What about when salt water seeping between every strand of crimped wires, is it still superior?
@@greentjmtl A proper factory crimp is going to fuse (weld) the copper strands.
There really shouldn't leave room for corrosion.
Crimp first, crimp real good. Then solder and forget about it for the rest of the frame’s lifetime. 😎
@@jimurrata6785 Do you really think every factory crimp is done with a hydraulic crimper under several ton of pressure? That's what's needed to actually fuse copper strands.
I have the (early, pre Rubicon) 98 4.0 Sport. I bought it 3yrs ago and the first thing I did was clean and replace (if needed) every body and frame ground on it! I also own a 96 Ranger that drove me crazy with ground issues, so I wasn't taking any chances! Great video, Eric! 4.0 Wranglers are becoming dinosaur rare because the frames are so susceptible to rot!
I daily an 01 TJ 4.0. I welded in frame repair sections, rebuilt the grenaded Dana 44, replaced a seized front u-joint, replaced the exhaust, and fixed the EVAP system. Unbelievably, it is no longer throwing any codes for the first time since I bought it 3 years ago. The work on it never ends. Oh, yeah - the frames disappear under these here in the Rust Belt. I think they actually make new frames for them, though.
Love watching you guys hang out and fix stuff...on a Thursday night...
I'm very familiar with psoriatic arthritis and what can affect. My wife has been dealing with it for over 30 years. Finally got a med that seems to be helping quite a bit.
I'm lucky we have insurance that is affordable (also you must have it) in The Netherlands. So the specialist went straight to the best 💉💊 there is. The insurance does try to force specialist to first try all the cheaper options but my doctor said 👋🏻👋🏻when they asked😂
Oh yeah .... my favourite kind of video with you and Mrs O together . It makes my day cos you two together , with your good banter , always makes me smile 😊☺
Always a treat to have Mrs. O in a video! The badinage between you two is a joy to hear. Thanks Eric, and thank you Vanessa!
You two just love each other it's fun to watch!
Mrs O makes a great camera lady Eric.
you two are absolutely awesome. the banter and teasing are brilliant. Have a great Saturday Night!
We need more Mrs O videography 👍👍
as someone looking to pursue a career in this field, i cannot thank you enough for these videos. i learn something new every time. thank you for all that you do!!
I can’t tell you how much I’ve Learned watching this channel. Always good stuff
@@Look_What_You_Did it means sooo much I can’t begin to tell ya . If you were older then 15 you would have understood
@@Look_What_You_Did take your meds and go to your safe space and keep reading your reading comprehension books. It’s really paying off . My excuse I was fighting in foreign wars so you could have the right to troll and criticize folks
Amazing that he called out the problem before even looking at the vehicle
Loving the banter. You two are nailing it
You just became my new favorite TH-cam channel! Three things you can’t do on TH-cam is spot on! You are a top notch diagnostic guy and easy for anyone to understand. Thanks!
We love any SMA video. They’re not stupid!
I’m watching on a Saturday night
This was one of your best videos Eric :D Special thanks to Mrs. O for the great commentary. Have a great weekend.
Dude, you deserve all the views. You have the best diagnostic/repair TH-cam videos on the internet. Hands down. Even if you don’t get a million views, take pride knowing that your videos are of the best quality.
Wow! Office manager, brake bleed technician, camera person.... Mrs. O must make a ton in salary!
don't forget Truck detailer...
Don't forget awesome mom and wife!
The banter between you two had me cracking up! More of that!
There is no end to the joy when we see you two together! 😁 Great video!
You do an awesome job in supporting your husband Mrs. O, love you just the way you are.
Blessings to you and yours.
A quality gas-tight crimp makes for a really good electrical connection. But exposed like that ground, corrosion is gonna get you eventually. I'd think that soldering the crimp will help prevent the corrosion - especially with multiple wires in the crimp .
Good Sunday morning from Spain coming from a born/bred Texan that Just reached 74 yrs old. I daily thank my Lucky stars that my mech trade never put me in rusty land. My 2016 Hilux has no rust & looks about the way it did new. My hat comes off to you and your rust related diagnosis. KEEP UP THE GREAT CONTENT. MRS O
IS THE BEST, EVERYONE NEEDS A QUALITY CONTROL INSP. LIKE HER. YES SCOTTY WOULD BE PROUD.
Again, great root cause analysis. I've worked with both EE and MEs and yes they are anal about process like soldering and welding.
Cleaned up and repaired grounds fix lotsa stuff! Should be done every 3 years up there and 7 down south. Your on-screen chemistry is Oscar worthy!
We finally got a good camera operator after all these years.
I don’t care what you do or how you do it, I’m just here for the commentary. It’s especially interesting when Mrs. O joins in.
Hey Eric! Thanx for the g105 tips. We work on a lot of jeeps here in Spring TX. But the only Alternator issues are from computers/ tipms not grounding the relays. Not much rust or green stuff down here.
Eric and Mrs O talking about his tools had me in stitches
I just diagnosed a similar problem on my car and I'm not really a "car guy", per se. Had a handful of weird electrical problems and was seriously considering ditching the car. And then quite by accident I realized it was just a bad ground from the battery to the block. Put another cable and it's been fine ever since.
I had a similar problem with my car. Hoping for a ground problem. Turned out to be a mouse problem. About $900, a few connectors and a lot of splices later, it all worked fine again. And apparently mice do not carry liability insurance.
Crimp and solder, best of both worlds. Working in the avionics world for 30+ years with hands on experience I applaud you sir. Not a hater😀
Had that same issue with a Dodge ram 5500, Alternator charging, ended up that little fuse on Positive battery terminal
Sharing the bond between you and Mrs O was lovely and true. Please don't be like other U-tubers...just be you. Peace DVD:)
I was going to add "D: Tighten a bolt/nut/fastener without using a torque wrench" and its something you talk about all the time 😃 Great video fun watching you two work together.
You havta tighten every fastener to the proper number of Doohickies per Inch-Meters to make sure it stays tight.-
Wow, when the conversation went to getting hit by a bus, my thoughts went to the final destination series, great ground lesson and back and forth with the Mrs, thanks for posting on this Saturday 😂
One of the most fantastic soldering jobs in the history of soldering. 😁. Thanks as always, Eric!
You crimped and soldered that connection the same way I would have done it. Nice work as always.
What an awesome solder job! Unbelieveable!!!
The banter between you and the misses is priceless!!! Love your content!
I thoroughly enjoy all your videos. You're smart and practical. Don't waste a lot of time on nonsense procedures and just get it done. Haters or knowitalls should be ignored.. I've been an amateur gearhead for 60+ years and I learn something new from you all the time. Keep up the good work!
Regardless of how mundane this all is to you, us blunt skulls really enjoy learning from you and gaining confidence fixing stuff on our own..."If I can do it, you can doi it". I never have, nor never will own a Fiat Chrysler...but information is an asset.
Ya missed #4 , the use of the wd 😂 ( that stuff always pisses certain people off 🤣 )
Eric, Excellent job with welding, crimping, soldering and puring concrete on a Thurdsay night. Jack of all master of a few! Oh and Thank you Mrs.O for the exceprional enhancing and other awsome camera work. Always great to see you in a cameo appearance! Have a great weekend!
Gone are the days of if it runs, it runs!
Thankfully Mrs. O comes along at the right moment taking over supervision on the job giving the proper advice at the proper time enabling a comprehensive repair.
Everyone watching the internet knows that a wire should never have any repairs done to it, that means no new terminators put on the end of the wire regardless of how you choose to do it.
Any wiring problem should be solved with entire new wiring harnesses regardless of the time and the money it takes to replace it.
Mrs’O’. It was great to hear you partially beat on Eric more entertaining than the repair 😊 thank you folks.
Can't believe you the forgot the other electrical trigger...dielectric grease (you know, the grease that conducts electricity 🤣)! That really would have would have stirred up the comment section! Nice repair, BTW. You may not be a "car guy", but you sure know how to fix them!
Failing to use Fluid Film or Brake Cleaner gets the crowd riled up also.
Thanks. That was a lot of fun … ‘on a Thursday night’. I did notice that this one has a fuel gauge showing… Less Than Empty! Jeez!
Eric , you have a nose for sniffing out bad ground wires! 👍
I love the relationship between you and Mrs. O! Reminds me a lot of my relationship with my wife, and we've been married for 40 years!
Like Eric was mentioning about Chrysler stacking grounds on each other on this vehicle, I had a similar situation but on the other side. I have a 1998 GMC pickup truck that has stacked positive cables, came from the starter to the battery and the stacked one runs across to the fuse block on the other side of the engine bay and on to the rest of the vehicle. Ever since last winter the starter 'seemed' to turn a little slow and the volt meter on the dash wasn't showing what I though it use to show. I finally decided to take it to a place like Eric's but local to me, I was expecting to maybe need to replace the alternator or the starter or both. what they ended up doing was to remove the coating off of both terminals that screw to the positive post (side terminal) and cleaning them so they will get good contact. Now it shows the needle on the dash where I remember it and the starter spins like it should.
Eric, even the videos that you consider boring and/or stupid have helpful hints in them. For example, in a recent brake job video, you hung the rotor on the hub backward to spray brake cleaner on the inside then, turned it the right way to clean the outside. I've been making messes on my work bench cleaning brake rotors for the last 40 years! I never even thought of doing what you did in that video! I used that idea on a particularly ugly brake job today though and now, I don't have to clean my bench!
Todays brake job was on the front of my brothers 99 Toyota Avalon. All I can say is thank God for extra long, locking, flex head ratchets, wobble extensions and 3lb drilling hammers! I've seen and done brakes that were in worse shape but, not many!
Thank you for posting your videos and, keep doing what you do!
You're so accurate about the wiring hate. Everyone in the comments is a NASA electrical engineer apparently.
I’m glad Mrs. O was able to help you fix this. 😉
Actually, the reality is that I’ve been trying to get schematics for my 05 Sebring convertible and finally got them, to find this same problem. New alternator but yet it won’t charge. Hoping to find it be this quick.
Thanks again, Eric, for showing your work.
Unrelated question! How did those brakes you put on the family van work for you? Did they warp?
Not yet, year later and smooth as butter!
Thanks for the reply. I'll look into them for our vehicles.@@SouthMainAuto
Dude, I don’t care what your working on. I’m here for the entertaining comments. ❤❤❤
As a retired tech and then shop manager, I really enjoy most of your videos. I say most because my favorites are the ones with diag/electrical/driveability issues more so than the ones with mechanical repairs. Also as a past Jeep owner I wonder why you work around the hood and the hood prop when you can lean the hood back on the windshield frame, completely out of the way. Just idle curiosity I guess. Keep up the good work and the great videos!
Because.
Thought the same thing.
I've had two 4.0's, one in a 2001 Cherokee (last year made) and a 2003 Grand Cherokee. They were loud. So loud, but I really loved those engines.