Most bizarre no start I've ever seen??? Ft. Autowit super capacitor jump starter.

After a tune-up, my customer's car ran worse. It shouldn't have run at all. But he made it across town for the Roadside Rescue. 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤, 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫.
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[@jwgti2314]

When a customer brings you their car to fix after they have "fixed" it you can guarantee you will either hear '"I didn't do that" or "that was already like that" 😂😂😂

[@Goultek]

I hear that every day, and "this happened by itself" when you see hammer marks on the fuel pump or other things

[@Asto508]

I sheered off some bolts on my car, I will always admit that I messed it up, but that's maybe just me.

[@microrest]

I remember one time I snapped a bolt off my thermostat housing, I used a tiny c clamp to rig it up.. Any time I opened it up, and someone saw it, I'd said yeah, I did that.

[@youtubehatesfreedom1870]

@@Asto508 its not just you a real man will admit when he's screwed up or just doesn't know about something

[@jamesmajor5978]

Sorry to be off topic but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account?? I stupidly lost the login password. I love any assistance you can give me

[@LaMaRaGe0622]

reminds me of a customer of mine said he had a crank no start condition. i got the truck towed to my house. I looked over to see if i saw anything and i did notice a new MAF sensor. I cranked it over to hear how it sounded cranking over. The truck took a while but it started up. I drove the truck down the street and it had hardly any power. On idle it would run fine but once i gave it some gas it just ran like crap and most of the time shut off. I was getting lean codes which was why they probably changed the MAF sensor. I felt it was definitely fuel related. I decided to change the fuel pump cause i could not figure out what it could be. no vacuum leaks or anything. Once i had the fuel pump out i can tell right away it was new. I compared it to the new one to make sure they were the same. I noticed that the old one had a rubber piece covering the bottom of the pump that feeds the fuel. I took the rubber piece out and just starting laughing. Well there's problem brother you forgot to remove the rubber piece when you took it out the box LOL

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

LOL. That made me laugh.

[@Techie1224]

lol

[@youtubehatesfreedom1870]

Shit happens hopefully they learned from it that's what counts

[@JoseTorres-pg2mg]

I really admire your attitude! Always positive no matter the mechanic problem!👍👍

[@shawnmoore5621]

Come on people start smashing👊 the like button for him, he needs and deserves the support from us!

[@Shawn494949]

Hi Shawn, its Shawn

[@doalex2085]

Liken the bike bro 😎

[@flightofarrow]

Here’s a tip for ya , don’t lay your tools in the engine compartment They will be forgotten or miss placed

[@kevinjohnson9736]

I got a MAC ratchet for free that way....lol

[@flightofarrow]

@@kevinjohnson9736 sweet find, buddy of mine worked on a car left a big screw driver , took it for a test drive heard something growling found it wedged against a pulley, his brother was changing a transmission in one of our farm trucks I started driving it something growling I thought the throw out bearing sounds bad crawled under it , there it was, hey mike you missing a pry bar Yeah This one Yeah! Where you find it? Wedged against the transmission Oh

[@Chevy-hw6lw]

Found a snap on wench inside engine bay. Returned it to young mechanic. Why can’t people be honest and kind. That young man was so grateful , I could have kept it , it’s not mine doesn’t belong to me. This is simple do the right thing. You guys bragging about how you kept someone else’s tools.

[@flightofarrow]

@@Chevy-hw6lw that’s good of ya, but you never read that in my story and as far Kevin’s story goes he found his in the engine bay, did he buy the car and then found it? Did he try to return it and couldn’t find the owner? May have left that out of the story I don’t know, did I assume that Kevin was a thief? No I thought he was a guy who found a ratchet and kept it , is it his? Well it certainly didn’t like its previous owner

[@Chevy-hw6lw]

@@flightofarrow fair enough I understood there may be more details to your stories and what I was saying it was necessarily directed to you or Kevin just anyone who not only keeps something that isn’t there’s but also doesn’t make a small effort to get it back to the person. I’m sure you know what I’m saying. What’s right 99 percent of the time is simple , just not everyone does it. And no I’m no saint either, I’m just saying my friend the world is a better place for everyone if we all try to do what’s right.

[@jayjayscoinbox9522]

When i seen you pull the first plug, i said to my self, "Champion? oh no, why would anyone use champion on a Nissan". I only have Nissan vehicles and only use NGK or Denso spark plugs.

[@zoticus1]

Champion works well in Chrysler's lol

[@jayjayscoinbox9522]

@@zoticus1 If I ever work on a Chrysler, I will keep that in mind.

[@epictoast6727]

@@jayjayscoinbox9522 do yourself a favor, and don't work on Chrysler's lol

[@bigteddy66]

Just as many bad ngk as champion. Quality really went down

[@bigteddy66]

@@josepeixoto3384 sometimes you just get bad ones of all makes. I have a yamaha quad and for years never had a plug change. Getting harder to start changed plug (ngk) perfect, but wouldn't start the next day. This went on and it turns out 8 plugs out of the box were duff. True. Ngk are usually good and I still use them. Just a bad batch.

[@slickricktheruler]

But what did the owner say about the gap in the plugs???? Lol didn’t you ask him about the gap??? The suspense is killing me. For heavens sake call him up and ask him.

[@Goultek]

This happened on it's own, I didn't touch the car !!... I heard that so often

[@seanconnelly2832]

Hahah

[@seeya205]

They were fine when I "dropped" them in the hole!

[@jimmywarledo4930]

Never trust pre-gapped plugs,always check em

[@joehyundaitech7961]

jimmy I agree and that is how I was taught always check the gap on pregap plugs

[@derekcolson1296]

depends on the type of plugs iridium plugs have to be preset at the factory. or with special tools that most dyi wont have.

[@imnota]

Visual inspection usually is enough, if they all look the same they're probably all well gapped, there's very little chance they all got smacked out of wack by the same amount.

[@Mav-a609]

You have been pumping out alot of videos lately. Keep it up!

[@RoadsideRescue]

Thanks, will do!

[@MattTZew]

What level are you Noah where you got to see this video 3 days ago when it was posted 3 hours ago?

[@Mav-a609]

@@MattTZew Any level let's you see the member only videos. It's great content and I highly recommend doing it.

[@LaMaRaGe0622]

that reaction when you pulled out the 3rd spark plug LOL

[@roxanneabbott8424]

I shared this video to my sister Christina. We both work on our own cars and trucks!

[@johndeeretractorguy.9855]

I have never installed a spark plug in my life without gaping them first. Even if they should be pre gaped correctly I still check them. Had some be correct but most are wrong and nowhere where I need them to be. Also have bought new plugs that have no gap like that. Just better to check then to do a job twice.

[@woofdawgg69]

I've never gaped my spark plugs and so far never had a problem I don't even know how to gap em lol

[@occamsrazor1285]

@@woofdawgg69 You use a little metal disk that gradually increases in height around the perimeter. But quality Japanese brands like NGK don't need to be gapped. Hell, quality Japanese bearings, like NTN don't even need to be re-shimmed usually. Their quality is that high. Even Makita's domestic tools (as in JDM) are higher quality than their exports. Japanese companies just have need to be as high quality as they can be. Look at Mitutuyo.

[@Techie1224]

most sparkplugs came pre gapped around 1 mm car will run with little gap diffrence but it will not get best power output

[@timothya2742]

Best practical auto repair vids I have seen to date. Brutally honest, no BS and it's appreciated. Real life work. What a concept

[@chuckdawson8742]

He is pretty green. But that's how you learn

[@oldgrizzlygamer]

You shouldn't apply the dielectric grease between the connections, it is an insulator. You should make the connections and apply the grease as a coating to protect it from corrosion.

[@robertheinkel6225]

When I was in the service, my vehicle was written up for not having a black gooey spray on the battery. Not on the terminals, but on the plastic body of the battery. They claimed it prevented corrosion. I asked how plastic would corrode, and he had no answer. I refused to do it, and he called his boss. His boss just told me to leave. I suspect they had a nice discussion after I left.

[@srnc9740]

That jumper is very useful here in Alberta Canada, where for more than a week temperatures plummeted at -30C and -41C with wind chill! Great video as always!

[@WatchWesWork]

"Fingers double-crossed". There's your problem!

[@RoadsideRescue]

:)

[@occamsrazor1285]

@@javierharlem312 Go phish

[@augustusshook2881]

You do a great job helping people out. I worked in a repair shop for 8 years. I would highly trust you to work on my car any time.

[@vr_finance]

I just spent $65 on a jump start yesterday and waited an eternity for a tow truck! Good job here!

[@Amen.22]

Usually your insurance will pay for a jump start.

[@anthonybc]

@Bones McGillicuddy I think they mean purchasing the roadside assistance package through insurance which will offer services like jump starts, similar to AAA

[@dodgeramman7908]

Dealt with a few of those Nissan intermittently no starts after some digging in wire harness found that white/tan wire to computer had a break in it.Did a short 18 gauge patch in fixed issue had 3 like this.

[@mystiqueman366]

I knew somebody with b15 Spec-V SER a few years back and I believe he had this same problem with intermittent no start. It's in the dash harness if I'm not mistaken?

[@darrelfuhrman8217]

I have been a mechanic since I was 14. I would recommend you getting a silver dollar spark plug gapper next time you go to Auto Zone. Also a good way to clean the inside of the terminals is at Ace Hardware or a hardware or a plumbing store, get some copper fitting cleaning brushes. I buy the ones with the looped handle. I cut off the loops, chuck it in my Makita drill. Cleans the terminals great. Also helps to clean drive shafts when replacing u-joints. I buy all 6 sizes. The 1/2” works on negative, the 5/8 works on positive. If you want to spread terminals without a battery terminal spreader pliers, use a heavy snap ring pliers made for snap rings without holes. Works a lot nicer than what you are doing! Hello from north east Montana. 10 miles from the Canadian border.

[@mpccenturion]

RSR - Thank you! That is strangeness, but I had a similar some 42 years ago. I worked on Beetle's VW. For a summer, I worked as a mobile if it was broke, and in the driveway, if they got it there. I used Bosch plugs, but I had customers who had been to a garage and the Beetle's ran with misses. I had 4 engines I looked at, in a month. All had "the cham" plugs. I started from the distributor out, condenser, points, Vac Adv. All was fine. The difference was only the plug. I pulled the ones out of my engine and put them in the first one. It ran fine after, even on a spin it was fine, and 20 minutes before it ran with fits. So, I grabbed 2 sets of Bosch and fixed the first car. The second showed up and this time I started from the plugs back to the coil. Another set of new "cham". I replaced the plugs first. It ran fine. When the third arrived, again, fresh plugs that did not work. Asking myself Why? has been a lifelong habit. Cheers!

[@johng1077]

Autowit awesome capacitor start pack, love the fact you can leave it for years and just pull it out some day way in the future and not worry about a dead battery on your starter pack! Love to have one Ernest, I will share this video or maybe the doggie sleeper series..keep up the great videos!

[@robertstillwell1544]

I think you have one of the most interesting channels on KZbin. I always send the link to your videos to my brother-in-law who likes to play with cars. I’m not sure if that counts as social media or not but either way keep the great work coming. I believe that anyone that complains about something you do is jealous because they can’t do what you’re doing. :-)

[@ainsleyhenderson4228]

Trust no one,check yourself,place plugs gently into position using peace of rubber pipe to hold porcelain in straight orientation,never use power tools on plugs,you can lose control and crack the porcelain,then misfires.Never put long reach plugs in short thread holes and vice versa.You have a lot to still learn young padawan,I am 61 now and always learning,since my first mechanical adventure at 12 on my mk2 1962 jag auto box strip down. Great content,just makes me feel old lol.GBYA,from yes a F1 race engine tech from UK.

[@stevepaterson7914]

Great videos. Just wanted to add something to watch for especially on those nissans. The main ground breaks off at the trans. It can sometimes work but I just runs through a small chassis gnd. Intermittent start and other issues. Every older Altima and maxima I have checked has had this problem.

[@twistedwrench490]

This was definitely installer error! He smashed them down and was to embarrassed to admit the mistake. I’ve even had people crack the porcelain on plugs trying to remove them on their own then stop because they know they messed up, then come into the shop saying they have a misfire can we check it out

[@lovetolearn5253]

I love when a customer comes in with a no start or a misfire after they messed around and plays stupid. Oh it just started doing it out of nowhere. A good tech is going to find it regardless but they could of saved the customer diagnose time if they're honest. we're going to find out the truth eventually so just tell your mechanic the WHOLE STORY and it could save time money and a trust.

[@Mav-a609]

I had the same thing happen in my diesel. Always have to check those sparkplugs in those diesel engines.

[@FourSeasonsNorth4x4]

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🤣😂🤣

[@1911loaded]

I hope you add dielectric grease to the airless boots. Other wise you might have low spark 🤔🤔🤔😂

[@ericouellette5293]

Also run half diesel and half gas you will get a extra 100 horsepower lol.

[@Techie1224]

lol diesel dont have spark plugs but it have another thing

[@darrelfuhrman8217]

@@Techie1224 Our IHC WD40, TD40, WD9, SWD9, TD9, and the TD14a all have 4 spark plugs. The 40’s have huge 7/8 thread spark plugs. The 9’s and the 14 have 18mm spark plugs. Those IHC diesels started on gas, then ran on diesel. There were 3 valves per cylinder. An intake, an exhaust, and a 1&1/8” diameter decompression valve witch lead to the spark plugs. Only IHC used this system. The WD40 came out in 1939, it was the first agricultural diesel tractor. It was hand cranked, mag ignition, run on gas to warm up, then switch over to diesel. Cat, John Deere and others used a gas pony motor to turn over the diesel motor.

[@snezhanavahtin1562]

i have encountered myself this same situation ordering "OEM" Toyota spark plugs from Ebay and compared to OEM at dealer they were tiny bit longer

[@edwardautrey3671]

There are a lot of counterfeit Toyota parts on eBay

[@gangser91]

order from rock auto cheaper than parts stores, never had a problem with them

[@HoppysBronco]

That's what I was thinking when it was suppose to be the correct part, but after regapping it was still a no start.

[@pnwRC.]

WOWZERS! That was a bizarre rescue! How did the car even start to drive across town with those plugs in it?

[@Techie1224]

either owner lie or it didn't stop from last plug replacement

[@ricklarson9524]

Shared to FB. Been ASE Master 40 years. I was crossing my fingers too. I like the videos. Never seen the capacitor jumper.

[@carsxarexhard4504]

“I hope it’s the spark plugs because I don’t want to fool with this anymore” 😂

[@mohabatkhanmalak1161]

Well, that was some adventure. Very interesting and enjoyed the clip. Thanks for posting.

[@nickv4073]

The wisest thing you did was not to mess with the stuck plug.

[@CONN-1888]

Super cap jump-starters are awesome. Just like this channel. Very educational.

[@chillybrit2334]

24:25 "I don't know why I can't stop talking" - RR Feb 2021 For some reason this really made me laugh. Complete stream of consciousness stuff.

[@papageorgeo7497]

A lot of thought in the diagnosis. 👍 That’s a job well done.

[@matthewautry]

I’m a Manager at a major auto parts retailer, and especially when it comes to spark plugs we will always damage them out of inventory rather than sell them due to how sensitive they are.

[@johnhanselman6371]

I notice customers call Earnest when they need to be rescued rather calling Earnest for what seems to be routine maintenance. Obviously the owner is a hack (Performed action without any practical knowledge and without doing any research).

[@wr8926]

Great job figuring out the spark plugs. My thoughts when the customer tried to install his own plugs & turned the gap into no gap he cracked the ceramic insulator & created a short or high resistance. I never trust out of the box gap settings. I always look up the recommended gap setting & use either a feeler gauge or spark plug gap tool that's available at any parts store.

[@lovetolearn5253]

Your city most have a battery terminal problem because you replace alot of terminals lol. Good job

[@TONYTHETlGER]

Salty humid air causes a lot of corrosion.

[@dennislippert8875]

@@TONYTHETlGER Look at the condition of the car... very dry location. When he opened the hood, I was stunned at how clean it is!

[@lovetolearn5253]

@@dennislippert8875 facts, my I work and own a shop in Cleveland oh and still dont replace that many terminals. Most are plow trucks or work trucks.

[@archiethedog4515]

Just taking notes when I will have to replace my battery. Thank you, very informative.

[@jeanclaudevandam4974]

Hey man. Just shared on my Facebook page. You are the very first video I have ever shared. Love the work you do and the attitude you have. Take care.

[@demil3618]

Nice one! To remove seized diesel injectors, I try to give it a go when the engine is warm (if that’s possible) and (if you can reach there) spray some freezing spray onto them. You might have a chance... ~20Nm for battery terminals I usually do, or as you say: hand-tight

[@jonathantarrant2449]

I thought it was piston slap, when l seen the first plug pulled, good job and continuing to the end

[@MrKingdavis13]

The easiest way to get that stuck plug out is to get the engine up to running temperature first then shut it down, pull that coil and spray some penetrating spray down inside the hole immediately, just enough to make a small puddle of fluid surrounding the threads then leave it sit for a few minutes. After a few minutes of soaking and cooling off try to break it loose with steady pressure but if it only moves a fraction of a turn stop and give it more time to soak and add more lubricant if the puddle drains away. After a few times doing that it should come out and if the plug didn't eat the threads on the way in you should be able to thread chase the hole and be good to go. I had a vehicle get towed into my shop once because the owner tried to change the plugs himself and got all 8 cylinders out but couldn't get them back in. The problem was that a previous owner helicoiled all 8 cylinders incorrectly so when he removed the plugs the coils came out as well and he threw them in the trash so I had to figure out what style were used and buy them again and insert them correctly to fix the issue. That sounds fast and simple here but since it was the dreaded hemi it has 2 plugs per cylinder which makes everything more expensive and twice as hard to work on. 16 plugs at $15.00 a piece plus the helicoils to fix all of them that are crazy expensive means it cost him more for that repair than I have paid for several vehicles. Lol

[@surf6009]

Thanks for the video. Yes, the brown snow was interesting. I live in Minnesota, never seen that before.

[@matthewmoos5284]

Lots of great info. Glad you were able to figure it out.

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

And, here we come to the the take-away of this. I used to work as an electronics technician back in the '90's and we saw a lot of VCRs, stereos, etc., and once in a while we had a unit come in that a customer had "worked" on (and obviously now, didn't work right). This one time, a customer brought a VCR in that refused to accept a tape and he had apart to replace belts I think it was on it. Well, long story short, he only had the tape carriage (that's the mechanism that holds the tape and takes it inside the machine when loading/pushes out when unloading) incorrectly timed to the rest of deck mechanism. So, if you don't know what you're doing, don't touch it.

[@hejasverigeee]

I have learned the hard way that all customers must be questioned carefully about what has been and what has been done to the car. When they slide with the truth, it turns out to be very time consuming for the professionals.

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

Just be honest. If you think you fucked it up, say you think you fucked it up. A lot less time is wasted trying to fix the real problem.

[@stipesks]

Shared on facebook Could definitely use it for my mobile mechanic business. Thank, Keith Stipes

[@dbc1702]

Remember, it can do this without the piston physically hitting the electrode on the spark plug, if the spark plugs are too long but not quite long enough to hit the piston top, the build up over time of excess compression can bend the electrode over time (several cycles of the piston) the excess compression because the spark plug is closer to the piston will bend the electrode back, so this can happen without the piston making physical contact. If you put that number 1 plug back in gapped correctly, and then cycle the piston several times on the key you will see the gap on the plug electrode shorten until it is touching, so your still probably right, cross reference the correct plug and see if it should be shorter. Plus if the plugs are cheap after market or no name copies, the electrode can be made of sub-par material making it softer and easier to bend with compression alone. We see this in single cylinder lawn mower engines every day, people putting any old plug in to finish the lawn. Usually out of a strimmer/brushcutter/weed eater.....

[@gurleensingh7855]

Shared the whole channel with my Snapchat. Hopefully got you some new viewers you deserve it!!!

[@wylde4zakk88]

So many problems can be noticed early if you just keep your eyes open. Good job Ernest.

[@kyrangerman519]

Here's a tip from an old schooler, use fogging oil instead of starting fluid! It serves the same purpose without quenching the oil off the cylinder walls. Fogging oil is the only product we use for starting issues...

[@RoadsideRescue]

nice! Ill look into it!

[@joka7316]

Brake clean is good for cleaning oil, even off the cylinder wall.

[@Techie1224]

why you do need oil on your cylinder walls ??? do you know that pistons have oil piston ring to prevent oil from getting into cylinder ??

[@kyrangerman519]

@@Techie1224 The cylinders are lubricated by oil from the connecting rods, there's always lube on the walls.

[@Techie1224]

@@kyrangerman519 oil ring located at the buttom of the piston and there is no need for lubrication from combustion chamber side the main job for oil rings to prevent oil from getting into the combustion chamber ,, as it gets burn and also oil leak into the cylinder make your spark plug dirty check this picture courses.washington.edu/engr100/Section_Wei/engine/UofWindsorManual/Graphics/Piston%20Rings.jpg

[@williamweaver3590]

This is a very interesting video. I am surprised the engine didn't at least fire. Why in the world would a Saturday mechanic smash the gaps shut? I always check the gaps on new plugs before installation. Just to be sure they are right. What's wrong with correcting the gap if it is wrong or you accidently drop one? Love your channel, keep up the good work. Bill W.

[@bmw-e30]

Anyone who leaves their car in that state for repair isn't up to much. Interesting video.

[@ekummel]

Back in the day, sparkplugs came in bulk packaging with no protective sleeve. It was up to the installer to set the gap as per the Chilton's manual!

[@gangas06]

You should really use brass eye rings on the negative cable instead of just smashing bare wires.also reason why you have to spread battery terminal on the positive is because you are using a negative battery terminal on the positive.if you didn't know they are different diameters,

[@metoon3092]

Nope They are all the same size clamps. Top post batteries - Positive is slightly larger than Negative.

[@gangas06]

@@metoon3092 measure them,positive post has bigger circumference than negative post.

[@metoon3092]

@@gangas06 That is what I stated.

[@darrelfuhrman8217]

If I buy the cheap ones at CarQuest, they are “one size fits all”, if I buy the good ones one is painted red & one is painted black. Good luck.

[@metoon3092]

@@darrelfuhrman8217 Red and Black paint is convenient! Still both of those are same size.

[@edwardautrey3671]

That was a great rescue!

[@EnricoHerold]

Hey i`m watching ur videos from germany and i like what u are doing there. if i could i would do it here too but thats not so easy in germany. nice job with the spark plugs :) i`m a mechanic too

[@AlanCooney]

Great video!! I once fixed an Audi TT with slight misfire caused by missing crush washer on 1 spark plug! It had been like that since New!, when it left Audi factory!!!

[@Crappie_Hunter_Seeker]

That was a very interesting issue! Shared on my facebook page. Would like to enter for the jump pack. I, like you, was thinking wrong plugs, but, no ! Way to go! Another job well done !

[@That08civicsi]

I remember once working on a nissan sentra I went to autozone the plugs they gave me were longer once I compare them to stock one went to another autozone to replace them and they showed me the same as the ones I went to replace .I return them and went to the dealer since I was confused of who had the right plugs they gave me the same size that was in the car and that fixed my problem. I would suggest you get a cart to put your tools if you park your truck across the street your tools will be easier to find on the cart than going back and forth ...good video

[@victorvillasana3409]

I’m not a real mechanic. But on stubborn spark plugs. I warm up the car to operating temperature. Then try to remove it by twisting on and offf slowly, keep repeating the process. It may take 5 or 10 minutes but it will come off. Sometimes just the warm up , and they slip right out.

[@melsmobileservices]

Shared on my Facebook news feed. As a mobile mechanic in Greensboro, NC .....I feel your pain with diagnosis of vehicles. I have a DRS lithium jump pack & have be looking at the super cap jump packs as a backup. I also carry HD cables.

[@Donfixit4]

Shared on the Facebook. I’ve been in the market for a charger. Love the videos Earnest

[@marccrane4830]

A friend of mine had a Honda that had a problem when accelerating just like a fuel pump problem. I drove the car for a week trying to figure it out. It was fixed when I replaced the spark plugs. I used a different brand and it was fine. Once in a while, I saw issues with spark plugs being manufactured BAD by a certain company. (NGK) This was back in the late 1970's back when cars were analog!

[@billpetley2632]

Another believer in anticorrosion washers, Best preventive maintenance procedure , Shared with my friends.

[@darrelfuhrman8217]

If they were dropped, one or more of the spark plugs could be cracked up inside. I have an old AC Delco spark plug tester. This is nice on single and twin cylinder engines. There is no such thing as a single cylinder engine missing. Some twins use the waste spark system with only a single coil, sometimes a single bad spark plug will stop an engine from running. Hello from north east Montana. 10 miles from the Canadian border.

[@blessedlife93]

Ernest my guy is gaining traction

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

There's a joke in there, somewhere.

[@jjanderson12001]

Always makes my day when I see a new video from you.

[@philheese1728]

You know why it started, right? You didn’t double cross your fingers! Good job. I would have left the stuck plug in- you don’t need that headache.

[@michaelbrennan7148]

Thank you Ernest. Good stuff.

[@stevedobbins2942]

Hey Ernest, I could really use that jump pack. I shared a video on my Facebook and gave you a shoutout. Thanks for considering me. Love the channel, keep up the good work!

[@AnonYmous-qg4ph]

#1: scan for codes BEFORE you unhook the battery or it will erase the memory. #2: never assume the customer knows what they are doing. If an issue starts after they worked on it, start there. #3: get specifics on symptoms. There's a difference between a no crank, a slow crank, an extended crank, and a crank/no start. If the battery is low don't assume that's the problem, you don't know how long the customer tried to start it. #4: after you retrieve your DTC's, do an actual diagnosis. Don't just start throwing possible solutions at it. #5: don't use those crappy universal wire clamp terminals. Do it right and use solid crimp or solder slug terminals.

[@Goultek]

When I fix cars, I sometimes see stuff that can't be explained, I just go for the fix and say to myself "WTF was that?"

[@chillybrit2334]

You can get tools specifically for gapping plugs. They have a little notch you hook onto the bend of the electrode and you use it as a lever to adjust the gap. Prying away with a screwdriver risks damaging the centre electrode or cracking the ceramic insulator around it, which in turn leads to a misfire because the spark jumps through the crack rather than from the tip of the centre electrode. Particularly a problem with the newer platinum or iridium plugs where the tip of the centre electrode is super fine. Well worth the few bucks they cost and many come with a mini set of feeler gauges in the most common sizes attached. Besides, as a mechanic or technician, more tools is always better :D

[@royceanderson2614]

Hopefully somebody Won that Jump Capacitor already but I just put u on Blast with Instagram. Great Videos.

[@spacejunkie84119]

I took one look at that car and thought to myself "looks like he got hit with that same dusty rain/snow storm that got us" then I saw your truck with the phone number and realized you are local. Good job, young man.

[@SawmillerSmith]

Some have no mechanical abilities. I've came across some interesting stuff.

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

And that's the thing. If people know they have little to no mechanical abilities (or even understand how the thing they're working on works), DON'T TOUCH IT!

[@malibuman8941]

Keep up the great work. I would not have started replacement of terminals though. Just needed to wire brush them all.

[@chriss6154]

I was thinking the same thing, just brushing off the outer layer woul have dealt w that but I guess they at least have a new clock on new ones now.

[@malibuman8941]

That means removing it and wire brushing the terminal and inside of ring connector.

[@alekseiivanov8530]

Remember the first rule in auto mechanic work: the client isn't always right. The client is always lie! Check twice what the client tells you. You couldn't check application of this spark plugs for this vehicle on the web site of its manufacturer? It is easy to do it because every spark plug has marked by part number. My opinion: client lied about gaps in the spark plugs. You should ask him to show you the last one new spark plug that he couldn't replace. So there will be 2 options: this spark plugs was already returned to shop by somebody without brains(because he removed the gap) or client removed this gap on the spark plugs before installing it. It could be interesting investigation 😁

[@fkyew]

You need to come up with a fender blanket/cover or protector to keep from chipping the paint when you lay tools on the edge of the engine compartment. And a magnet tray to keep hardware away from the work area. The blanket/fender cover eliminates the customer from bitching about scratched/ chipped paint job, and hardware in and around the work area is an accident waiting to happen. You could easily lose a small bolt down the plug hole and cause a major headache. A magnetic tray will keep things from walking away and hiding where you can't find them. Plus mag trays come in many sizes. Larger ones can keep your tools off of the pavement (make you look more professional)!

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

When they "de-gapped" those spark plugs they knocked off the conductive tip from the center electrode.

[@Techie1224]

or maybe he overgap them .. most gaps around 0.8 mm

[@markn1822]

Hey Ernest,great channel and I just shared video through iMessage for KZbin. Much respect from Boston MA!!

[@robs4517]

I don't recommend using an impact wrench on the 5.4 Triton spark plugs. I never had good luck with that. However I have had good luck with just a wrench and some WD-40 down the spark plug holes. You just turn it back and forth a few times, squirt some fluid down there turn it back and forth a few more times and they come out. Having said that I do own the spark plug removal tool as well.

[@joea2274]

I even found some times if you get the engine running and warmed up you can bust the plug free. Idk what it does but sometimes it helps

[@thomaslemay8817]

You kids, when I started working on engines none of the spark plugs wear pre gapped, you had to gap every single plug that you changed. Having to set the gap is not enough reason to replace spark plugs. I still have a full set of plug gapping tools. The strangest plug problem I discovered was a crack center insulator that looked fine unless you held the plug with the gap down. The installation had the plug liying on its side so it worked part of the time. The failure to ignite the fuel charge happened when the insulator slid over the gap shielding it from the fuel charge. The firing line on an ocilscope never vearyed but the cylinder power output would jump between full and no power in a random manner.

[@hello-do7pc]

I drive one of these too. The first thing I did was change the spark plugs to iridium platinum plugs. It's a game changer for sure. But as much as they sell them as pre gapped you really have to check the hood to see the specification of the gap. I feel like they might have gapped them for the 2.5l sentra because mine weren't gapped for the 1.8l and that could really affect the timing. I just used the coin gapper worked like a charm only 97 cents it's not hurting anyone's pockets to do it right the first time around. Looks like the guy might not have been familiar with gapping his spark plugs maybe he thought you were supposed to pinch them with a needle nose pliers. I don't think any of them come with no gap like that. The gap might be off to change timing a bit but other than that it wouldn't be that drastic. You never know people do the craziest things to their cars lol. If you don't know what you're doing don't do it lmao

[@james42519]

i have rockford batery jumpstart but would be nice not to worry about charging it all the time too. batterys can get damaged in heat too so worry about leaving it in the car. the one i have has jumped car a lot for a year because i didn't want to change the battery and money too so it worked. sometimes didn't need it for months and sometimes needed it every time started but got to the point where just needed to change it.

[@michaeldeleon7492]

Recommend using scan tool Monitor data Cam and crank sensor Reading Also the most common issues on the sentra head gasket and it caused no start If you have a C02 tester It will show on the coolant

[@shawnmoore5621]

Hello my friend, love watching your videos. I've been sharing your videos with my friends and family.

[@TrustingJesus67]

Wow what a weird case for you and I have never seen. You got it though. Thank you for the super capacitor battery jump start giveaway. If I win great and if not still got to see a good video on vehicle repairs.

[@kickbuttpotato5074]

This happened to a buddy of mine believe it not. Truck drove fine for 2-1/2 years then started misfiring all of a sudden. Threw a code for misfire on cylinder 1 so we pulled the plugs and both were closed shut. We thought the worst and thought the bottom end was shot and allowed the piston to hit the plugs. Put in a new pair of plugs and problem solved. Been fine ever since. He has since replaced the remaining plugs.

[@oldtree218]

Gotta have a sponsor I guess tho I'd hate to tell everyone how "great autozone is"..Never got a part from The Zone I liked. Warranty is needed. You'll use it.

[@gsc2866]

I dont care for autozone I like advance auto was better

[@DK_tk3]

You should never Gap new platinum or iridium plugs. They come gapped and the platinum coating will flake off if gapped. You can check the gap of course. Long story short just run NGK coopers on every vehicle.

[@BLAKEDILLONRACINGDEVELOPMENT]

Besides Ford, dodge and chevy. Ford- Motorcraft- GM- Ac Delco Dodge- Bosch

[@LondonPianoman]

I have a motorbike (alloy head, but air cooled) and often the plugs get real tight- but if you get the engine hot they come out no problem as the alloy expands faster than the steel of the plug- but never put cold plugs in a hot engine!

[@williamdyckman9704]

Very interesting diagnosis, bet you never thought you would come across something like that, bent electrodes !!

[@AnthonyLovato]

If you had to tackle the stripped plug, how would you handle it? PS I shared on FB. I really enjoy your videos, and the great attitude, keep up the good work.