Hoping to use this video as a quick reminder that before you get to involved in any repair just give things a quick look. Don’t touch but just look. You never know, sometimes you can strike gold and get right to the root cause or at least find some good direction. -Enjoy!
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I've HEARD that mice detect electrolysis. It's how they find water.
…and also why they chew through wires. They think there's water.
Peppermint oil is a repellent.
This lesson saved me just the other day, I replaced an oil filter gasket and got everything back together only to have a surging/stalling idle. The scanner told me misfires and a MAP sensor, but before loading up the parts cannon with 3 new sensors for $280 I decided to take everything back apart to retrace my steps and look over every thing I had touched. I took another look at the new throttle body gasket which I noticed didn't seem right when I put it on but assumed it was right because why wouldn't it be. I pulled out my original which was substantially thicker and found this gasket goes on the other side of the throttle body, old gasket installed and idle speed fixed. After I would have waited 2 weeks for the sensors to come which wouldn't have fixed my problem my next step would have been to tow it to the BMW dealer where they may have diagnosed it as a bad throttle body, which would have fixed the problem by accident, and billed me $2,500 because I ordered the wrong $1.88 gasket.
Found many amazing things thanks to a V/I: a/c not working, pressure switch unplugged, No EGR flow, unplugged. The best was a misfire on a Camry. Wires chewed up by meeces, found chicken on the engine cover and down the intake. Eyes don't lie
If you follow manufacturers diagnosis procedures every single one starts off with a visual inspection of the component or circuit, if there’s something obvious then clearly that’s your issue!! Use your eyes people we spend so much money on flashlights so use them
Visual Inspection – found a broken vacuum line. Win!
Rodents chewing on wires is a national problem. I worked in the cable tv industry for way too many years. The term “squirrel chew†was a common report as to the cause of an outage. Rumor was that the cable manufacture used peanut oil in the manufacturing processes.
I have been living in the faith that the O2 sensor pipes its reference air through the sheath (yellow here) that surrounds the wires… and the wires inside are just normal wires that you could solder and heatshrink, as long as you don't obstruct the sheath.
BUT, and this is a big but… I might be wrong.
He didnt use honda red electrical tape
Great video as always, what are the crimp pliers that you used on the butt splice repair on the O2 sensor?
I can look also!
Its always sweet when it turns out to be something relatively simple.
My wife complained of a hesitation in her RAV4. It ends up that the air intake box was full of acorns. If that wasn't enough, they half filled my grand Cherokee air box as well. The visual inspection is one of the best tools you have in your tool box.ðŸ‘ðŸ‘
Good find, Eric!
Great video Eric. Thanks.
its possible this vehicle came out of Jerkwater. Dr Jake would be proud for your find and fix. Blessings Dr O
Don't drop your butt….connector
"Just fix what needs fixin and move on" happened today for me. And its not the first time. Good sage advice.
Sometimes ill think "while im doin this, i might as well just….". Its been a lesson! I think i made out good today, but theres always tmrw.
Ah, the controversial "visual inspection" technique.
Do you know how many guys would have not worried about those little clips/fasteners and just plugged the new harness in and let it hang?
SMA, I know how you like to solve the root cause of the problem, so I want to know If the bill of sale for this repair job included a cat?
Hey that was a hungry little fella he'll from all the seeds that he left behind and everything else looks like you made a house in there or he's trying to keep up the great work
Those harnesses would be good places to apply Honda's 4019-2317 Rodent tape.
Very nice visual inspection and repair Eric O @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC
Great video Eric O @SouthMainAutoRepairLLC