summer off...slipping and sliding....

tal & kat next to the fix-it shop

i took the summer off unplanned, i had a class that started, june 27 thru sept 2..it is over so i am back blogging....

watch for new and unedited stories in the informal adventures of ronnie the repair guy...aka mr. fix-it....

he spent the summer on the slip n' slide with the kids!!!!

OBD gas leak codes

Common OBD Two Codes

Locking gas cap

One of the most common OBD two codes would be for the evaporative emissions system. These codes were designed by the manufacturer and mandated by clean air laws.

Basically this is that the fuel system on every automobile must be completely sealed. No longer are you allowed to vent fuel vapor into the atmosphere.

This means that a storage and burning system is necessary to properly handle the naturally occurring fuel vaporization process.

Depending on the year make and model of the vehicle the codes set will usually be in the P0400 range. These codes when set will help you determine what the problem with the system may be.

When the fuel vapor system is determined to be leaking the severity of the leak is measured. Individual codes may set for a small leak, a medium-sized leak, or even a large fuel vapor leak.

Also in the P0400 range of codes will be specific codes for the canister and purge valve functions of the evaporation emissions system. All of the failures in the P0400 range could be considered common OBD codes. Again depending on the year make and model of the vehicle. But I have seen failures in all parts of the evap at one time or another.

OBD two evap systems leaks

OBD two monitors the evaporative system by testing the ability of the fuel tank to hold pressure as well as purging the system to vent petroleum fumes from the charcoal canister storage device. The most common way that this pressure test is deployed is with a small pump.

In this type of system the powertrain control module tests the evaporative emissions system by energizing the pump. As pressure builds the cycling rate of the pump decreases. If there is no leakage in the system the pressure builds until the pump shuts off.

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If there is a leak pressure does not build up and the pump continues to run until the test cycle is completed. If no leaks are detected by this test cycle the powertrain control module will move on and test the purge cycle.

Some systems have purge flow sensors between the solenoid and the intake manifold. In this case the PCM monitors the signal from the sensor once per drive cycle to determine if there is vapor flow at the proper levels into the intake manifold.

Note that on some GM vehicles enhanced monitors can detect leaks and restrictions in the system as well.

In these types of enhanced systems a poor sealing fuel cap or one that is missing is capable of turning on the check engine light.

The common gas cap obd two code

I’ve put together a video that discusses these common OBD two codes. Since the fuel cap is often removed for re-fueling this has become known as the weakest link in the system. Even if the gas cap is properly reinstalled the sealing ring between the cap And the filler neck can become nicked or worn over time. This often shows up as an Evap system code for a small fuel vapor leak.

Gas Cap Code Video

Also keep in mind when you’re vehicle sets the gas cap Code the check engine light will remain on even if the problem is intermittent. It is necessary after the repair is completed to clear the codes and retest the system.

Looking for a heavy -duty vise.

We bought a vise for the fix-it shop about 15 years ago. We recently added a metal rolling table to the shop. Mr. Fix-it is going to rebuild a tranny soon and we redid this table to put the tranny on to roll it outside and work in the warmth and the sun if it ever gets here.....


So Mr. Fix-it wants to take our current vise apart and repaint , clean, re-lube it and put it back together.

I did not get a chance to get before pictures, but here are a few dismantled and a first coat of Bill Hirsch HI TEMP and HI GLOSS paint.

We started our hunt last Friday for an additional vise....all except 2 companies are made overseas....We started looking at several stores that we drove by on our trip through the city.  Everything we found on-line and in-stores was made in Chine, India, Malaysia.  We found one or two vise companies that still make their products in the U.S.A
I have requested information from them, there were no clear enough pictures on-line to see the quality so I have requested catalogs, I will keep you posted on that project. Also, the cost of the vises made in Asia all ran below $100.00 . The ones available in the U.S.A. all run between $200-$400. The Asian vises did not have removable pipe clenching jaws all the American made ones did.

The picture to the left is the base and spacer ring. Mr. Fix-it is going to do 2 coats before he bolts it on the new rolling transmission table.

I will keep you posted on how the search goes for the new vise for the bench in the shop. I actually had to resort to looking for a good used vise, because the stuff made 10 or 15 years ago is twice as heavy and double the quality. I think I may have found one in Rhode Island. It may be worth the couple hour drive......

Ethanol problems again.....

 problems again with leaving gas in a piece of equipment.....

this time it is a craftsman blower.....another name for equipment made by this manufacturer in this shop is "crapsman".......there is a chronic unavailability of parts and if the parts are available they are usually of low quality.....we ordered jackshafts for a craftsman riding lawnmower several years ago at 175$ apiece time two jackshafts and installed them, the customer took the machine home, driving the machine off of the trailer to start cutting his lawn they seized up....the customer brought it back to Mr. Fix-it, we dismantled it and found that there was no grease packed into either jackshaft from the factory.....they were sealed so there is no way we could have greased them if we tried........i am off on a tangent....back to the blower...............

This customer left gas in this trimmer.....it is 2 cycle gas.....i don't think it would have mattered either way, but the carburetor was compromised, the internal parts of the carburetor were damaged, the rubber parts and any aluminum was pitted by the chemical reaction.....which means a new carburetor.

So, we have a trimmer that costs $100.00 brand new.....Mr. Fix-it has put a $40.00 carburetor on it, changed a spark plug , and a few other basic stuff and thrown an hour at it anyway. Never mind the research to get the part number for the new carb and you basically have exceeded the cost for a brand new blower......

welcome to our "throw-away society"...

LINCOLN suction gun

We have had a Lincold suction gun in the shop for more than 20 years. Our original one recently was replaced with a "new" Lincoln.
The old one could have been rebuilt, but we assumed with buying another by the same manufacturer we'd have no problem with its functioning.
Almost immediately the gun was malfunctioning.... seems liquid inside would slip past gaskets inside, or the arm would not move at all.
Mr. Fix-it assumed it was because we were now suctioning ethanol-laced fuel. Which seems to wreak havoc on any rubber parts it touches. So we decided after having this gun only a few months we were going to have to rebuild the seals inside already.  What did we find? On the old Lincoln each end was threaded in case you needed to take it apart for any reason. Well, unbeknown to us upon purchase  the new gun's ends are crunched on, and cannot be removed for any reason unless you get a cutting torch you cannot get them off.
Thoughts:

1.) Our old LINCOLN was threaded on the ends for easy access.
2.) Our new LINCOLN was not threaded on the ends for "no access"
3.) Neither rubber seal on the suction guns was ethanol- resistant.
4.) there is ethanol in all the fuel we purchase in the Northeast except for Sunoco Racing Fuel (which we can only get by traveling about 20 miles in each direction at at a cost last I checked of $8.25 per gallon)

What can we do?

1.) We can ask LINCOLN to go back to their old design with the threaded ends so we can take apart the gun to rebuild everytime the ethanol damages the seals.

2.) We can ask Washington D.C. to stop allowing the ethanol to be added to fuel and let the corn go back to being treated as food (so maybe we could afford to buy food that had corn as an ingredient)  because all the petroleum companies would no longer be vying for it.
3.) We can purchase racing only fuel to put into all the equipment we run, therefore when it needs to be sucked out from the tank for any reason we wont damage the innards of the suction gun, well if we won Megabucks we could afford that!.



What do you think the chances of any of these 3 things happening? .......Yeah, I agree.

Whopping snowstorm to whallop the Northeast.....

A whopping snowstorm was predicted for the Northeast yesterday 10-15", so we trained New Englanders hunkered down. We went to the store got our bread and milk and waxed up our shovels and made sure we had spare shear pins for the snowblowers...

We planned  several small projects in the shop waiting for the snow to accumulate... our first project was to change the battery terminal on my grandmothers car as it was rusted and eaten by an outgassing battery.


We finish that project and then move on to her oxygen sensor... on December 18, 2009 Mr. Fix-it replaced a piece of her exhaust system , the flex pipe, in that particular piece of the exhaust there exists an oxygen sensor, a part that tells the engine how much gasoline to spray through the computer. The job went well back in December, or so we thought. About a week after replacement the ominous check engine light comes on .....we hook it to the tester and the code read either full rich or shorted, i cant remember exactly.

I dig through all receipts and find that one, luckily it has a year warranty. I call parts store and they ordered me another one. Of course I had to pay for the second one until I returned the defective one, another $100 out of my pocket right now!

Check out the pictures,it is kind of blurry, but it reads...ASSEMBLED IN U.S.A with foreign components....unbelievable.....maybe that is why it lasted a week and then failed?#$%$##@$%^^&&**(




See below pictures of oxygen sensor ......

seems like we are always doing re-do's with parts made overseas....do I sound like a broken record?

by the way, we missed the whopping storm, we got maybe an inch or two of total accumulation.               Life is good.....

Gasoline Scooter fuel filter failure

Last week we went in to the shop to the smell of gasoline, we found that a scooter that was in for service was leaking gasoline. We did not have the time that day to investigate further so Mr. Fix-It used some surgical clamps on the fuel line and clamped it off.
We were able to throw a little time at it late last night because Mr. Fix-it  was dirty and as gas was going to be running down his arm into his shirt from removing the fuel filter he wanted to have it as the last thing of his day.
He contorted himself into a pretzel-like shape and attempted to remove the fuel filter. The line was gummy and mushy, fuel was dripping... he finally worked it off. He positioned a new one and forced it on for now. When we work on the scooter in the next several weeks we will have more to do on the lines and fuel system. I will keep you posted.
Here is what happened to the fuel filter, the plastic melted because it was not ethanol resistant. Below is a picture.

Groundhog Day Celebration or Bust?

Groundhog Day comes with great anticipation in our shop, we are optimistic that every year we are going to have an early spring ...Mr. Fix-it and I wait for Punxatony Phil to come out of his hole to see if he will see his shadow or not.
As we get older we realize that the winter seems to get longer and longer here in the Northeast.....so the hour came and Phil came out and he saw his shadow...........6 MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!...Bust.

Mantra....

in our family and with our friends their mantra is...."if it ain't broke don't fix it", and "even if it is broke, don't fix it right away or better yet, don't fix it at all".....you can see where all this could lead.......

ROBOT VACUUM

My grandmother has been looking at a robot vacuum for more than a year, she has finally "jumped in" taking advantage of a recent inheritance and plopped down $59.99 plus shipping and handling. How can she go wrong, it even comes with a FREE wallet?

She was so excited to get it in the mail, take it out of the package, ignore reading the pamphlet on how to set up and run, and immediately plugged the battery pack into the wall for the endless 12 hour first charge.........

Thursday passes with the  no-charge indicator light still on....then Friday, still the indicator light is still flashing not charged yet......Saturday rolls around and same thing still indicator light flashing and no "robo-vac" running around the house vacuuming my 92 year old grandmothers very messy house.

Usually she is very strong-willed and will take suggestions from noone. I said to her as gently as possible....."how about I have Mr. Fix-It take a quick look at it?"....she almost immediately agrees with  my suggestion#$%^&*(!.

Mr. Fix-It is in the woodshed filling the stove because we have had single digit temperatures here in the frozen tundra of the Northeast. I bring him the robot vacuum.....he looks at me as if to say " you don't want me to look at that do you?"  Of course he digs in immediately and decides to first test the AC/DC adaptor and it is fine, he then takes off the battery cover and hooks a meter to it and finds it is charged fully.....so why wont this little plastic, made in china, piece of junk work?  After removing countless screws from the housing we seperate it. It takes just a minute or two for Mr. Fix-it to

see that the very small computer board that the battery pack plugs into is cracked.  We can either resolder a wire in there or send it back to the manufacturer, gramma decides to send it back.....at a cost to send it back of $8.95, can you believe they are charging her to send a defective item back to them? Another sub- quality made in a country overseas. Beware, this is just another reason to buy products made in the USA. And remember nothing is ever FREE.

  

INVENTORY DAY.......

Today started cold and sunny, almost like any other day in the frozen tundra we call the Northeast. We had several things on the top of the list today.....we need to change several 8 foot fluorescent bulbs in the shop and change an oil filter in one of our tenants furnace.

Mr. Fix-It and I enter the shop to the smell of gasoline .....we have a scooter in the shop for repair. The customer had left gas in it and ruined the carburetor. But in the time it was sitting in the shop the gasoline laced with ethanol literally ate thru the fuel line causing gasoline to leak on our floor in the shop. We clamped it off until we could get to the job. Remember with an average of 13% ethanol in the current gasoline sold here. it is natural corn based and absorbs water, hence the corrosion in all things carburated!

We never got to the inventory shelf today...

MADE IN USA

Mr. Fix-It and I have been struggling over the last several years with inferior parts for a wide variety of items we repair on a daily basis. Usually our repairs include power equipment and automotive items. We have found that whatever we buy that is made in a different country doesn't have the same quality as made here in U.S.A. I am not sure if the quality assurance is required but with the items that we buy we have noticed that there is a definite inferior quality to items made in China, Tiawan, Indonesia, Korea ect...I could go on with a very long list of countries we have noticed this from. Which brings me to an article I read recently that I will cite below in regards to our economy and putting the American people back to work.
BUY USA.....
A physics teacher in high school once told his students that while one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train at all, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind, read the following, obviously written by a good American.
Good Idea....one light bulb at a time.
Check this out. I can verify this because I was in Lowes the other day for some reason and just for the heck of itI was looking at the hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware  and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in the U.S.A. Start looking. In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else- even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get behind her.!
My grandson likes Hersheys candy. I noticed though that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it anymore. My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico now. I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything.
This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 watt light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value". I picked up both brands of bulbs and compared the stats, they were the same except for the price.  The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand and was made, get ready for this- the USA at a company in Cleveland, Ohio!
So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use everyday that are made right here in the USA  So on to another aisle- Bounce Dryer Sheets...yep, you guessed it, Bounce costs more money and is made in China. The Everyday Value Brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price!
Lay's stacked potato chipsin a can are made in Mexico. Good old Pringles made in the USA.
My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that are made in the USA .- the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!
If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others so we can all start buying american, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies!
(We should have awakened a decade ago) Let's get with the program. Help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the USA.

                      

Which brings me to the long- winded point I am trying to make. We have been buying parts from Tecumseh for almost 30 years.  Tecumseh went out of business in October or November of 2008. They were in business in The USA for more than 105 years! What parts that are still available , which are few and far between have been made overseas, I am not sure when the company started outsourcing to other countries but this is what we have found with their parts.....you will see several pictures posted in this entry, a set of points and condenser, One package containing the points and condenser made in Taiwan and the other made in the Czech republic. We have received at least 6 or 8 sets of there for snowblowers this winter. Every set of points we received was defective, it is clear that there was no quality control. the contact area that cones together to form the spark was pressed in too far and at an angle so the contact s touching area was maybe 10% out of a possible 100%. We called customer service at our parts distributor to advise them of what we had found on the first couple of sets. A month later when we ordered several more sets we received the same thing, defective parts, made in another country.....
 We make up new swear words as we try to work with these inferior products and we try to modify them so we can at least get the job out, it is anti-productive.
If everyone tries to do this we can send a message to manufacturers!!! Please buy American!
                                     

The Mr. Fix-It shop.....

There is always something new in the shop.

Chrysler minivan coolant leak very hard to detect .....

Mr Fix-It and I have been working for several weeks on a mystery coolant leak in a Chrysler Minivan.....the van has been losing coolant but the customers have been unable to explain when and where the coolant is making its grand exodus from the system.....the customers are elderly and pretty clueless when it comes to anything mechanical. Mr. Fix-It has asked them to check the level of the overflow bucket because it was losing some coolant and he did not want it to overheat...they called in a panic wondering why the windshield was covered in an oily substance....they had filled the windshield fluid bucket with antifreeze!  The antifreeze was dripping everywhere....the side view mirrors were covered, it was in the door moldings, down the entire sides of the van.

The reason we could not pinpoint the leak was because the customers kept filling up the radiator but not using a funnel, and all the coolant was filling the k-member and was leaking randomly depending on how and where the van was parked. We finally found the leak....the van had been overheated so badly that the side tanks, which are plastic  let go ...we replaced with an OEM radiator  and so far so good. We have asked the customer NOT to open the hood if they need anything checked to please come and we will do it for them.  It was a real challenge trying to clean out the windshield washer bucket which was filled with antifreeze.                      

sunday dawned clear and sunny.....

the telephone was silent.

mr. & mrs. fix-it on the cape

Today we loaded tools into the land rover and headed to the cape.

We had a job in dennis, ma. to do for our attorney. he could not start his 2001 volvo wagon.

We took everything we thought we would need and then some. On our last trip to the Cape we had also picked up his Toro snowpup which was in need of service.  

On our way down we had previously planned a meeting in Mansfiels for some training.
after that we hit the Sagamore Bridge which was under construction and headed down to Dennis, Ma.

We passed all the clam shacks closed for the season, wishing for one last succulent taste of a fried clam......we got to the house, which is on a hill with several inches of unplowed snow on the driveway and barrelled our way up.

We got out the tools we needed and  hooked the battery up to a battery charger, then checked to see where the juice from the battery was channeling. The rear passenger map light was on, upon checking it fornd it was defective. Mr. Fix-It removed it to stop the draw of power, we removed the 9 year old battery and replaced it with a new one. Drove the car arounfd the block for good measure. All was well , we would order the switches to change on our next visit to the cape.

Our original plan was to heard to Marthas Vineyard for a few days, but the sun was dipping below the horizon so we decided to trek down to Provincetown where we hadn't been in several years to check out the scene....we gor there long after dark, found a hotel, had dinner at the Lobster Pot, which was on the  waterfront and awesome. The next day we checked out Race Point, in hurricane -like conditions.....we camped and went on the dunes when we were kids with a modified VW bug , we had a great time in the summer there when we were growing up.  Mr. Fix-It and I started going there when we were only 18 years old. We camped and did the dunes every weekend for years, until life and bills intruded in on our life!!!

We hope to get there again on our next trip to the Cape. Above picture is my fathers modified VW bug in the 60's in the dunes of P-town....

quigley van fuel delivery problem......the van won't start.

My sister called today....her Quigley 4 wheel drive van won't start..... she rode into work today with her husband, and she left the van at home. Mr. Fix-It and I will go to their house later with a handful of tools.

Its arounD lunchtime and I need to go to work in two hours so we need to go to check the van....we brought starting fluid and a tester to check the level of the battery.

The Quigley has been  on a charger for several hours.....Mr. Fix-It pulls the air cleaner housing off of the engine, sprays some starting fliud in the throttle body and turns the key, the engine turns over and starts.
The problem is not the battery or the starter. It appears to be a fuel delivery problem. Mr. Fix-It turns the van off.  He jumps into the drivers seat for another test. He turns the key on to see if he can hear the fuel pump cycling. ...nothing.....
so its probably a fuel pump, which on the Quigley 4x4 van is in the tank which has been made to fit with the modifications to convert the van to 4 wheel drive.

Mr. Fix-It digs a little deeper with a tech he knows at a local Ford dealer. He pulls the schematic chart for the fuel system. Mr. Fix-It discusses several different scenarios with his tech buddy at the Ford dealer. Mr. Fix-It tests the fuel pump module which , unbelievably is mounted behind the drivers rear tire. It is made of aluminum and plastic, and the seam on the module is running in the up/down position.....very easy for salt, water and dirt to penetrate and corrode over a period of time....how convenient for Ford Motor to manufacture this part to fall victim to PLANNED OBSCOLESCENCE!

7 degrees.....broken water pipe

Today dawned sunny and beautiful, but when i woke up it was only in the single digits here in the northeast. The plan today was to take a day off, the first in many weeks, after last weeks no heat call at my sisters we needed a few hours off.

My cell phone rang and it was my brother- in- law . They own a local business in a strip mall. Their neighbor failed to keep his heat up high enough and froze the water pipe coming into the building!

The karate studio next door filled with water and when it had nowhere else to go the water came knocking on his door.... it came rushing through the walls, there were several inches of water in the building.

Mr.Fix-It and I  left the shop with a wet/ dry vacuum minus the filter and hit the road. We loaded it into my trunk and off we went not sure what we would find..

to be continued....





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sunday dawned cold and clear.....no heat call

Sunday dawned sunny and clear, but very cold. finally a day off...today is the day we have been planning on watching football playoffs with a crock pot of 2 alarm chili....it is already on its 12 hour simmer....

The telephone rings, not a good sign on an early sunday a.m.,  its my sister, she has no heat.....

We dress , pack a 5 gallon bucket with miscellaneous STUFF....screwdrivers, pliers, basic tester, flashlight, and much more....
there are several inches of new snow on the ground and its cold.

We get there, I have snow pants over my pajama pants. Mr. Fix-It has his trusty blues on.....
we are in.....the boiler room is in the garage in its own room, we hear movement upstairs......i get a text from my neice " are you coming soon? its cold!"  I text back," we are here!"   I hear her running down the stairs.

Mr. Fix-It is already into the furnace, he has checked to see that the oil burner switch is on, made sure there is enough oil in the tank, and checked the line to make sure there were no obstructions in it.... then he started taking the covers off to get to the innards.

He tried the reset button, nothing. tries to start and almost immediately shuts off. Mr. Fix-It said "there's no fire in the hole!"
Mr. Fix-It looks inside the chamber and its sooty black, no clean white burn.  Now we have to take all covers off, we try to figure out how all the covers come off..... we get the top cover off and look inside, we cant ever see the grid inside, it is loaded with soot!
My brother- in -law starts to vacuum....what a mess....soot is sooooooo dirty.
we are literally chipping away at the hardened soot.....slow but sure.....after several hours of cleaning between 4 people, and emptying the vacuum and blowing out the filter in the wet/dry vacuum many times, we all look like chimney sweeps....we finally break through the soot into the fire chamber.....cuts and blood , sweat and tears.....we take down the chimney pipes which are loaded with soot.
It is clear that this furnace hasnt been running correctly for some time.
Mr. Fix-It changes the filter, which was much needed. He then tries to fire it, it runs on safety mode until it kicks off again. My sister, brother-in-law and I all watch expectantly, it runs on safety for a minute and shuts off.
Mr. Fix-It continues to reassemble the covers on the furnace.....we are just watching noone is saying much. We are a dirty pack of soldiers.....
Mr. Fix-It is undeterred......
He opens the door to the sensor eye and blows out any dust that could be tricking the sensor into shutting off. Closes it up again. Resets it and again shuts off after safety shuts off.. He then checks the air door, the door is set at 10, that is unusually wide gap.....Mr. Fix-It adjusts it to 8.  Resets it again, and Voila!

We all breath a sign of relief there is ice on the inside of the garage door windows.....

Mr. Fix-It strikes again!


Follow up to the above post:  The next day my brother- in -law called Mr. Fix-It, the furnace shut off again. Mr. Fix-It suggested he close the blower door to a 6. After that and since no problemo. And the oil consumption has gone way down. Go figure.

Our thoughts on this incident after reviewing all information that led to the failure: Our conclusion is the technician that had been paid to clean the boiler may not have actually have cleaned/vacuumed it out for a couple of years and he kept opening the air door to continue to get it to run. Hence, carboning up the furnace and burning an awful lot of oil. Oil men want you to use alot of oil!  (Just my two cents.)

FYI...Mr. Fix-It has never worked on this furnace.

100k Toyota Highlander loud growling

Today a customer came in in a panic , several days ago she thought she heard revving in her engine , she said it sounded like the engine would not shift once she was on the highway  she was convinced that there was something terribly wrong with her transmission because she was driving it , it did not seem to want to shift.  She came in and Mr. Fix-It who is very cautious first checked the level of the transmission fluid. All was fine. Then he went to the fuse box under the hood to see if anything there was amiss, all fuses still in working order. Mr. Fix-it them went into the drivers area and opened up the fuse box under the dash, again nothing amiss.  Finally after exhausting all those things, he took it for a test drive with the vehicle owner..... they came back 10 minutes later.......wht do you think they found ?
Hints: Loud growling when steering wheel was turned to the left.....quiet when turned to the right....

I will post the answer tomorrow.


Wheel bearings!