MY MOM S UNBREAKABLE TOYOTA CAMRY WAS BROUGHT DOWN BY 1 ELECTRONIC MODULE

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On today's episode of Watch Jay Argo, we are back in the shop, but today we are here with
my mom's Toyota Camry and it's broken.
She just took this thing on a huge road trip and it came back with a check engine light
and no more remote start.
What is going on guys?
I am Watch Jay Argo and today, like I said, we are in the shop with my mom's Toyota Camry
and my dad.
Watch this Argo.
What year is this?
It's a 2017.
Okay, I thought it was a pretty new Camry hybrid.
We bought a 2013 with a few, I don't know, 20,000 miles on it, drove it to 200,000, until
it blew the head gasket.
So then we bought this 2017 and it's not near as good a car as that 2013, but we were already
having more trouble with it than we did with the old one.
I didn't do anything but change the battery, not the battery, but I never changed the battery,
I mean the brakes, the wheel hub.
We did the wheel hub.
Oh yeah, did the wheel hub and, I don't know, the rock go through the radiator.
Oh hey, not the radiator, the hybrid cooling, yeah, the little, the mini one.
It was just a few dollars.
Just a few dollars.
Yeah.
It didn't cost much to fix that and then just basically just break some tires and air filters
for the most part.
We drove it for years and this one's a lot tinnier, the doors don't stay open, you open
the doors and they'll just slam shut on you, you know, and all the doors, it's like they
got rid of the detents on them, you know.
Let's look at the door stays.
Well they're there, you just have to, you only have, yeah, but if you open it up, you
only have the full notch.
Yeah, if you just go, you know, just, if you're sitting in the side of a car, man, they'll,
they used to hold themselves open, they won't anymore.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
But anyways, the car still, I mean it gets 42 miles per gallon.
The other one, we never changed the battery in it, except for the small battery.
Yeah, 12 volt.
The 12 volt battery, we haven't changed it yet, but it lasted for almost from 2013 until
2025.
The original battery is still in it.
Yeah.
And the only reason the battery went bad is because we parked it and quit using it and
then it failed.
And then this one has 93,000 miles on it?
Yeah.
Way better seats.
These are super nice.
Yeah, they're comfy.
This is a much nicer car.
It's got modern options.
No auto wipers.
I don't know.
Auto headlights though, auto high beams, that's always nice.
I don't know what it's got in it.
All right guys, well, today we are going to scan this thing and see what's going on with
it, why this check engine light's on now after a quick trip to Dallas.
It came back very upset.
Let's turn this thing on here.
We need a full on.
Just push twice.
There it is.
Okay.
Not ready to drive.
And we'll bust out the Icon T10 here.
Sorry about the beeps.
All right guys, we got some codes here.
So let's see what we have.
Report and sure, let's just skip all that.
We don't need a shop name here.
And the codes are active grill, active grill, air shutter, a stuck on, which is, I guess
that one's being reported as a EOBD code.
And then the ECM is actually giving us active grill, air shutter, a actuator stuck open
confirmed.
And it is current.
And the check engine light is on.
So let's see what happens.
Can we control that thing?
I assume we can.
Yeah, you should be able to see it.
But give me a second here and let me go to, let's, let's go to special functions here.
All right.
So our active grill shutter should be right down in here.
You can see it there.
There's one of the slats.
Here's another one of the slats.
There's only two.
There's a pivot point.
Well, it's got a center.
Yeah.
Right there.
So yeah, there's only two.
I guess if it was going to be stuck, it's good to be stuck in the open position.
And we were thinking, I thought I might find a rabbit in there.
Right.
You know, but no, small deer.
I think if we can reach in there and just pry a little bit, let's see what happens.
Okay.
Ouch.
Nothing.
We're just helping it.
That's all I'm trying to do.
It doesn't feel good.
It's probably got a bad actuator.
It might, but let's try to drive it.
Okay.
You drive it.
I'll watch.
Let's command some shutter speed.
Sure.
It looks like it works to me.
Okay.
Oh, it's still trying.
Wait.
What?
What does shutter closing operation fixed length mean?
Oh, okay.
The test stopped and the car said open back up.
I think maybe it just needed a little exercise.
Well, it kind of struggles on the open.
It probably had some dirt in it.
Yeah.
Who knows?
There could have been a bird in there or something that tried to close that door.
There's definitely a big insect right there.
I think the fix for this might be we just take the shutters out.
Now we go to the car wash.
Just take the shutters out and let the motor move.
You could.
Just cut them off.
Probably not.
You got a hot butter knife.
We can reach through there and cut that off.
Shutter half open.
Let's try this one.
I mean, yeah, you could delete them, but they definitely help with warm up.
Shutter delete.
Okay.
That's half.
And that's open.
Off.
And then on.
I don't know if our 2013 had this on it or not.
If it did, it never gave us a second's worth of trouble.
Well, you know, that's why Jared's minivan won't remote start too because, well, it got
in a wreck and then he bought it after it was rebuilt.
They put the front and back together and left out all of the electronics.
They didn't put the shutters in.
They didn't hook up his parking sensors.
They just left it all out.
Yeah.
So it's complaining.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
It sets a permanent check engine light.
Well, no.
I'd have to trade it in.
I'd have to go remove the bulb from the check engine light.
Alright.
Be like your grandpa did.
He just took a business card over his.
He said, what business?
What check engine light?
Well, I say we just go blast this out at the car wash.
I say we just leave it alone.
I mean.
Just clear the codes and listen.
I'll clear the codes, but there's some bugs in there and I, you know.
I'll let Jan drive it.
Your mom will clean the bugs out.
I'll clear the codes, but that's the only code, which is pretty impressive.
Guys, for some reason, the shutter operation, we couldn't make it work on the other one.
So that's why we switched to the Autel.
I know.
You're going to wonder about that one, but for some reason, it just errored out when
it tried to do the special functions on Toyota.
Let me see if it's got any oil in it.
Probably fine.
Yep.
Over full.
Shouldn't be.
All five quarts.
It's only got 90,000 miles.
It shouldn't be burning oil yet.
It's clean as brand new.
She might have just had it changed.
Alright.
It's 100% green.
I don't think I ever changed oil on that 2013 once.
You know, you really never have to change the oil on these.
Well, if she takes it down, then it doesn't.
I ain't got time to mess with it.
Oh, wait.
This isn't a plug-in.
I thought it was like my car.
No, it's not a plug-in.
Yeah.
My car never runs.
That was the fix.
Yeah.
That was easy.
You'd kind of be in trouble if you couldn't manually activate that, though.
You do have to be able to actuate it to figure it out.
You don't want to just clear those codes.
Yeah.
At least it works.
Yeah.
It works great.
Make wood again.
Well, she might have been doing 100 miles an hour while she was going down there.
Yeah, it's possible.
It's possible.
Too much air load on it.
Yeah.
Can't move over X speed.
You know, I bet it probably has some kind of speed logic in the grill shutter computer.
The grill shutter has its own module.
Well, if it did, she broke it.
At least the Autel was saying it had its own module.
I kind of think it would, you know.
What module?
The grill shutters.
Oh.
You have to go to the grill shutter module to command them.
Oh.
So, at first, you know, the code showed up in the ECM, which is why I was thinking that
you just go there for the special functions, but you don't.
You go to grill shutter.
Well, that was a lot easier to fix than the last thing I worked on this week.
I still think we should wash it.
But what?
Was it not a Toyota?
No.
It was a Chinese, 600-ton Chinese press.
Uh-huh.
The Puzzle Maker.
Have I showed that to you?
I went over to the shop and saw it.
But you didn't do anything with it, did you?
No.
No, no, no.
I took videos of it.
It has a 550-millimeter main piston.
Uh-huh.
About that big around.
Sure.
600 tons.
And that thing makes, I don't know, I don't know how many jigsaw puzzles a minute.
But, boy, it's really going.
We had to make a wrench to take the nuts off.
The nuts were that big around.
Uh-huh.
We made a wrench that was this tall.
Sure.
Three inches thick.
Put it around the nuts.
And then took two forklifts.
Took one forklift and hooked onto the press.
One and hooked onto the nut, onto the wrench.
And pulled it as hard as we could.
Still couldn't take them loose.
So we got a jackhammer.
Put a jackhammer against the wrench.
Uh-huh.
And squeezed the jackhammer.
So it turned that big wrench into an impact wrench.
Sure.
And after a few dings with that, it came loose.
How'd you make a three-inch-thick wrench?
Your plasma table.
Three-inch-thick.
Oh, okay.
And welded them together.
And we bent that, too.
Okay.
I was like, your plasma table can do three-quarters, though, right?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Three-quarters is no problem.
Yeah.
But three is nuts.
Like, three is...
So, yeah.
It wasn't quite three, but it's pretty close.
I mean, it bent that thing.
Sure.
Then we put...
Yeah.
We put...
Let's see.
What did we do?
It's 2.5, right?
Yeah.
Three-quarter times...
Yeah, same thing.
So about three.
But anyways, then we had to...
So we put a stiff back on one side.
About that long.
And then we took a piece of metal out of three-quarter-inch steel and welded that down
because we bent that big wrench.
Ah.
So they asked us how we'd know when we got it tight.
And we said, you know, we'll just...
When the wrench bends.
When the wrench bends back.
That's always the answer.
Well, it's either when the fork flares out or when the wrench bends, that's when you
got it.
Yeah.
Anyways, it worked.
So...
They were making puzzle pieces.
So I had to go up to Kansas City just for a quick check for a couple of little...
Well, because it wouldn't wrap it again, you were telling me, right?
So this thing has rapid...
Well, it has to stamp.
So it's just going super fast.
And it wouldn't wrap it back.
No, that was the 1,000-ton one that I fixed a couple of weeks ago.
Okay.
At the same place.
Okay.
Because it would go down and press.
And it's supposed to come down at a high speed.
Uh-huh.
Right before it hits the puzzle.
It slows down.
It's done by distance.
There's an encoder.
And you don't want to slam a 1,000-ton press into its head.
But you want to move as fast as you can because you got to...
It's production time.
Mm-hmm.
So it comes down real fast.
And then it slows down.
Presses 1,000 tons.
But you want it to come back up fast.
Sure.
So the problem with it was it wasn't coming up fast.
It would only come up at about that fast.
Sure.
It would come down, but it wouldn't return.
And what did we find out on that thing?
Oh, we found out that it was making metal.
Yeah.
Internally, it was making metal.
And the filters weren't running.
No filters at all.
Yeah.
And...
But they existed, but they just weren't...
Well, they're passive filters.
Okay.
So it would suck oil out.
Run it through a filter.
Yeah.
Run it through a filter and squirt it right back in.
Right?
But the problem is, is your oil, I don't know where the metal is being made.
I suppose it's probably being made in the pump.
Yeah.
And...
Because this is one where the pump ran all the time.
Okay.
And anyways, what we found was we took all the solenoid...
We had diagrams.
Of course, they were in Chinese.
Uh-huh.
And I couldn't figure out how it worked by studying the hydraulic diagram.
And I actually didn't figure it out until I got home.
Because after I got home, after I fixed it and I got it running, I started to figure
out this diagram.
And I got home and I started studying that program, but now I had it wired in my brain
how the solenoids had to work.
Yeah.
But I looked at the diagram and said, this diagram will not work.
Something's not right.
I finally figured out they showed the solenoids in the wrong position.
So anyways, it dawned on me after I got looking at it that they had showed it in a relaxed
position, not in a...
Because they showed that it was pulling in.
The trouble is, when it pulled in, it didn't close it.
It opened it.
Ah.
And that's...
So it was a normally closed solenoid that would open.
But they showed it the opposite way.
So it was real confusing.
No wonder nobody else could work on it.
Nobody touched it.
People came in and looked at it and they said, we're not working on this.
And then they'd leave.
And so they called us in Wichita and we drove up there and took us, let's see, it took us...
Well the night we took it, we worked on it all day and I got down to the very last servo
cup piston.
It had a big piston, a big servo piston that moved with a little piston.
So it was just a servo that moved it.
Well that last one I went to take out and I reached in to pull it out of the block.
I couldn't get it out.
Ah.
So I thought that one's probably, that may be the one.
So we got in there with a pair of needle nose, square needle nose, because we could stick
it and open it.
And there was no other way to get it out because it was a blind hole.
So you know, it's delicate too.
So you have to be very careful.
We got it pulled out.
Once it was out, there was the whole, all around it was scored.
Yeah.
The side of that thing was completely scored.
I mean, we looked back in and we could see little tiny pieces of metal.
So there'd been metal coming through it and that's the one that had to push the cylinder
back up at high speed.
And you're saying, when it's in low speed, it's like the pilot and then when it's in
high speed, it opens the big cylinder, is that?
Yeah.
Okay.
And when it, well, when it opened this one, that would put full speed behind to shove
it up.
But it was wedged shut.
Of course.
Because there wasn't enough hydraulic pressure because, you know, the hydraulic pressure
is common to everything, including the stuff that's moving.
So the stuff that opened was getting some of the pressure, which, so there wasn't enough
pressure to push that pilot back because the pilot was supposed to just, it was just supposed
to float back when the pressure comes off the backside because there was nothing but
the pressure that was pushing up the ram was also pushing on that cup.
But if the ram was moving up, it wasn't enough when it was stuck.
Once in a while it would work.
So we took that out and then I said, oh, we're going to fix it.
So we left, they threw us out because it was five o'clock.
So I thought, okay, we'll go get some Scotch Brite pads.
So we went and got some, I went to Lowe's, they didn't have them, went to Home Depot,
they didn't have them, went to O'Reilly's and they had that, O'Reilly's had them Scotch
Brite pads, the red and the greens.
So I bought several of each and then I thought, okay, now how are we going to spin this thing?
Because all it was, was a, it was a little, a little piece of steel about yay big around.
Sure.
That was probably an inch on the outside, seven eighths on the inside and it was just
about that tall, open on one end, like a little, like a little open ended can, polished
on the outside.
Of course.
You can't hold it.
You can't hold it and it's hardened so you can't grip it.
So what we ended up doing was buying a, we went to Home Depot and bought a nipple removers.
Have you seen them?
Yeah.
So when you got to bust it off nipple and a valve, you can stick it in there and they're,
they're, there's like an easy out.
Yeah.
We had to buy one for the house or something.
That's right.
We did.
That's what gave me the idea.
Yeah.
Okay.
While we were working on this house.
So we went over to Home Depot and bought that, put it in the cordless drill.
And then if we could, we could hold with the Scotch Brite pads, we could push it.
It wouldn't bite.
Yeah.
Cause that's something that, that cup was so hard.
Of course I didn't want it to bite it anyway, but if you pushed it hard enough, I had enough
friction where we could squeeze the cordless drill and spin that thing at high speed.
And so we had one on the end and then another one on the side and I ended up going down
to, I got down to 2000 grit sandpaper and that thing looked like a mirror when we were
done.
The first time I shoved it back in, I couldn't get it back out.
So I pulled it back out.
When I pulled it out, scored all down.
So inside the block, there was score marks.
So how do you fix that?
Right.
Yeah.
Normally I would take it out and use solvent, wash it and clean it.
But I couldn't do that because.
And then run a mini home through it or something.
Well, you got to be very careful because there's, those are machined together, right?
They usually, they usually bore that hole and then they chrome that little piston.
Yeah.
Then they grind the chrome to fit.
So it's perfect.
There was no leakage.
Right.
I didn't really care on this.
In this case, because it's a great big piece and it didn't need to be polished like a spool
that moves back and forth in a, in a little, you know, hydraulic top or something.
Yeah.
So what did I do?
We, uh, Oh, so we went and bought a dremel tool.
Uh huh.
What else could you get?
So in a dremel tool, you can get the kit with all the little polishers and I didn't want
to put the sanding disc in there.
I didn't move too much material, but they had some, they had some little tiny discs
that we could put in there.
Yeah.
Oh, I know what we did.
We took the, they have a little polishing, a cloth polishing wheel.
Yeah.
They've got the white ones.
The white polishing wheels.
Yeah.
That was too big of course.
Uh huh.
So we spun it up to speed.
What was up to speed?
We cut that wheel down with a knife, made a mess, but then that would go inside.
And so we ran that thing back and forth just because, I mean, how hard, cloth on steel
is nothing.
Sure.
But I, you know, then the other thing I did was finally, I think what really solved it,
we took a piece of 2000 grit sandpaper, you know, you couldn't put two fingers in it.
Yeah.
Right.
Because it's such a small hole, but you can stick your thumb in.
So I took a thumb with a 2000 grit.
I also didn't want to put any grit in the system.
Right.
You know, and grit comes off your sandpaper.
Uh huh.
So I had a piece of sandpaper that I'd been using.
So I cleaned it off because I knew the loose stuff would be gone.
Sure.
Stuck that in and just went like this, you know, back and forth and went in with the
dry, with the, with the Dremel, cleaned it, put it back together and it just, it just
slipped back and forth.
So your fingers started up.
It's still running, but we had to clean all the, we wiped out.
Did they sell that solenoid valve I hope for, I'm sure they do.
Well, this is a, the one we just fixed, the 600 ton had all Parker hydraulics all the
way around.
It had the same servos in it, but they bolted onto the outside.
So if it's bad, you just go get a new one.
Sure.
Everybody has the Parker stuff.
They figured out on the newer one how to, how to ruin that process.
So what they did was they took a giant block of steel, big block of steel, and they bored
and inserted the inserts right into it, pressed them in.
Sure.
So if that, if that's bad, you change the big block of steel.
Yeah.
No repair.
Right.
Of course, I'm sure it was cheaper to make because they didn't have to buy the parts
from somebody.
Right.
They just made it themselves.
Do you think they sell that block?
Well, it took us three months to get the, uh, the tie rods because that's how we got
this job on the 600 ton was the, the tie rods, uh, uh, which are about yay big around and
I don't know, 10, 12 foot tall, at least 10 foot tall, uh, with them break big nuts on
them.
Yeah.
One of them tie rods had cleaved right where they machined it because where they machined
the outside chrome, right?
Because it's got a big bearing on it for, for running the platen up and down.
Sure.
But where they cut it down to thread it.
Of course, that's just mild.
It's like 1045 steel or something, 1045 carbon, whatever the Chinese were using to make it.
Yeah.
But when they, when they machined it, they, they, they made sharp angles and you can't
make sharp angles when you're machining and it cleaved right in one of them sharp angles
like angles, like you've cut my diamond.
Yeah.
So the new ones that came in from China, their exact replacements, they, obviously we weren't
the first ones to have this in their perfect radiuses.
So they, somebody had said, Hey, here's your problem.
Obviously we, that wasn't the first one to break, but we put four new ones in it because
all the others had the same sharp angles and I told them, if you're buying one, I ain't
turn this thing down unless we do all four.
So they bought all four and uh, I don't know what that cost to ship them a lot.
Yeah.
It was like, it was a crate that filled the whole back of that truck just with them four
rods.
It's probably, you know, we say a lot, but it's probably $800, you know, when they put
it on a ship, it's cheap.
That ship is less than you think.
A car is like 800 from China, honestly.
Yeah.
That's a little different though.
Goes in a container.
Yeah.
This thing probably weighed as much as a car, probably as much as that when they came in.
So anyways, got it all together.
It's making puzzles.
They're all happy.
This was a lot easier fix.
This is my kind of fix.
I forgot.
We should show you guys the check engine light has cleared.
So this thing's going to make some noise as it starts up here, but it's going into a ready
to drive mode.
Look at that.
No more check engine light.
How mad is it going to be?
The door's open.
Look at that.
That's crazy.
All the new cars, if a door's open, they set the e-brake and won't let you move.
I'm kind of mind blown that this lets you drive.
That's nice.
Everything should let you drive if you want to.
You want to take your door off, take your door off.
The problem is when you're working in service, you just want to pull stuff in and you don't
want to close the door because you're putting a cycle on the door, which is only hurting
it.
Well, there you go, guys.
Mom's car is fixed.
She should be happy back on the road.
We'll see if it fails again, but I really doubt it fails again.
Active grill shutters are usually pretty bulletproof until they've been in a collision.
Every single time I see one broken, it's a collision or maybe a really big rock or a
bird.
It could have collided with something.
It could have.
It really could have.
It could have been in fighter jet mode and taken on debris.
Big warning.
Birds, birds, birds.
Anyway, that is it for today, guys.
Thank you so much for watching.
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So that coil was in here and it's clearly new, but I opened up the distributor cap yesterday
on the old Jeep, and I've got the vacuum advance off just to get the fuel pump out, but that's
all solid state, right?
Yeah.
Isn't that Pertronix?
I don't think it's Pertronix.
If it was, it'd be...
They usually hang a little module in there.
That's probably, that's probably just a...
A wannabe HEI or something?
I guess, I mean, it's got a coil, so it's not HEI.
Yeah.
Internal resistor, breakerless.
Yeah.
Huh.
All I know is it runs great as soon as you get some fuel in it, but...
Carburetor don't look like it's been off.
I mean, that's an old, isn't that an old...
Motorcraft too, bro?
Motorcraft?
Yeah.
AFB?
The accelerator pump is leaking out of its drain hole like crazy.
Yeah.
So the diaphragm's got to be bad, right?
Yeah.
I mean, but it works.
It clearly, when you pump it, it's getting fuel.
Just don't pump the throttle and you'll get better gas mileage.
Missing the belt on the alternator.
We're not worried about that guy.
This AC compressor turns.
The other one's AC compressor is fully locked up.
I saw that.
Yeah.
So.
But this one's going to run as soon as we figure out the fuel issues.
Oh, by the way, a good, important thing, speaking of air conditioners.
What's that?
You know, we bought that Dodge, I think it's a 2000 Dodge with a mechanical injection.
Yeah.
An old common rail Cummins, right?
Yeah.
And we drove that thing up to, mom and I drove that thing up to, I don't know, way up north
to get something.
Uh huh.
I can't remember.
We, oh yeah, we bought a bunch of stuff at an auction.
Like Montana north.
No, no.
This was just up, I think it was up by Kansas City.
Anyways, of course we went on the, you know, it was 60 degrees, 70 degrees one day.
The next day it was 20.
Sure.
For the high.
And we drove that truck up there and we froze to death in that truck.
No heat?
Well, the heater core hoses, I just, I was going to point this out to the viewers.
The heater core hosers were completely hot, both the inlet and outlet, and the heater
core was hot under the dash.
And so you go look online and everybody tells you, oh, it's the heater core.
It's the heater core.
But you got to flush it.
Fresh air coming in or something instead, right?
Hole in the heater box.
And that's the other thing.
Well, no, the other thing they said was, well, it's your damper door.
Yeah.
It's just between, you know, between the air conditioner coil and the heater coil.
Sure.
Damper, damper door is bad.
Damper door is bad.
So I took all that apart.
I even took the motor apart for the damper door and I could, and it worked fine.
I put it up on, it clocked and I checked it.
It was torquing full all the way in both directions.
Knew that wasn't it.
Well, even that, while it was running, I reached up under there and took that damper motor
off and held the door over with my fingers.
And it still didn't get hot?
Still blew cold air out.
Okay.
The problem is you didn't have active grill shutters.
Yeah.
That's the problem.
No, I had a passive grill shutter is what I had.
Did you put cardboard up there?
No.
Okay.
So I even took the top off up here to look down in and see if the outdoor air seal was
sealed.
It was working.
It was sealing off.
So I had one of the guys at the shop take the blower motor down out and we took a camera,
went up inside with a bore scope and looked around the edge and looked inside.
And the first thing you're presented with is the AC coil.
Sure.
That's what made me think that was the air conditioner and AC coil.
That AC coil, the coil itself was totally matted top to bottom.
Oh, with trash.
It's because there's no cabin filter.
Of course.
And if they park it under a tree, this thing is made to suck all the trash right in behind
the hood.
Yeah, they all are.
And it would suck all that trash right down into it.
And so it ground that stuff up in the fan, blew it right into the-
AC evaporator.
Into the evaporator coil and plugged that thing off solid.
So we went in there and we could just take a brush and just hit the front of that coil.
Yeah.
All the stuff just fell down off of it, but it was matted thick.
So we took a vacuum, stuck it around inside there and vacuumed that out and then spraying
it with coil cleaner.
Uh-huh.
Then we're going to just put a little bit of, put a little bit of water through it.
There was, that's the whole reason there was just no air going through it because it was
plugged off.
So anyways, we'll just, so if somebody's working on one, that could be the issue.
And so, and there's no way to get that thing out without tearing, you got to tear the dash
out.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because the whole box is up underneath, you know, inside.
Yeah.
This one wouldn't, this one would still be a pain in the rear, but it'd be a little easier.
I don't want to do either one.
Yeah.
Next time, straight to Walmart and buy one of those 12-volt ceramic heaters.
It'll get you home.
We thought about it.
We ended up, we stopped at the farm store and they had foot warmers that you put inside
your shoes.
Uh-huh.
Because the ----, my feet were the only thing that was cold.
Right, right.
We had coats and gloves, so it was really comfortable.
But our feet were freezing because the cold air would blow.
And the passenger was getting, Jana was getting all the cold air.
Sure.
So she, she was trying to put her feet up under it just to keep the, keep that cold
air.
So we went and bought them things.
Don't, don't buy them.
They don't work.
Yeah, a 12-volt heater.
I should have bought that.
That's what gets you home.
Should have bought that.
Yeah.
But anyways, just if somebody's working on one, that, that helps.
Yep.
Well.
All right.
This should run.
I'm, I'm fighting for my life on this because the tank's going to have to come down, but.
There's no bubbles in the sight glass on the air conditioner.
I mean, it's not moving.
With it not turning.
Right.
I was like, what do you.
You gotta, you gotta have that compressor turning to see bubbles.
Okay.
I was like.
Gotta have a full head.
It's crazy that these had sight glasses.
That's a.
Yeah.
That's a wonderful thing.
And it's right here.
So, you know, you shoot the gas in.
All you need is a white bottle of magic gas and you can make this thing go.
I'm sure it's on 12, no, it may be on 134A.
It's not converted.
No.
Oh, look.
It's got normal size caps.
It's not, it still has screw-ons.
It's not a conversion.
Yeah.
It's not.
Oh, it's still on 12.
I guess we could crack it and see if it's in there and then recover it because why not?
And then put 134A.
There won't be nothing in there.
Nothing in there.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
Who knows?
Like, like I said, this air compressor turns, so it might, might just come to life.
Yeah.
Don't gather on it.
Yeah.
You know, 134A.
That turns.
The pulley freewheels.
What do you mean?
Turn.
You mean.
The pulley's locked up on the other one.
You mean it turns with a pipe wrench?
Yeah.
The pulley is locked up on the other one.
That don't turn.
All right.
I didn't try the compressor.
Oh, gosh.
Yeah.
Who knows?
It may be the clutch is just too far back.
You know?
Yeah.
I see it's got a gap at the bottom and no gap at the top.
We'll find out.
We'll, we'll give it some power.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
They cut the wire to it.
Yeah.
I would too.
Yeah.
Where's it supposed to go?
You don't need one.
Right here.
You don't need one.
It's probably just stuck.
It's probably welded together.
It might be.
I didn't look to see if it was turning.
As hard as that turns.
Well, you know what's crazy is this junk is always, it's always out of freon, never works,
you know?
Even if it's been converted.
Yeah.
New cars, anything made after like 98, the AC just works.
Every time.
We drove that 2013 Toyota.
I think we drove it for 10 years before I had to put a can of gas in it.
Yeah.
And now you got to buy that one, two, three, four, five.
One, two, three, four, why?
Why?
It's super rare still.
It's not, I mean, it's, it's mandated now, but it's still a hundred bucks again.
Oh, it's so expensive.
Yeah.
It's going to be rare.
Also look at this.
The flare nut won't turn there.
I actually bet my rent.
That's because somebody smashed it with a pair of channel locks, but let's see if it'll
now that it's out of the pump.
Okay.
I'm just going to have to put a bunch of lube in there, but like I had to remove the pump
with the flare, the whole hard line that they come out with the pump because it was so seized
up.
That's because nobody, somebody didn't put a tubing wrench on it.
It looks like they crossed it.
It looked like they used a pair of channel locks on it.
Probably.
That'll do it every time.
It was, it was impossible.
I tried, I tried line wrenches.
I tried half inch 13.
It's definitely a half.
It's not a 13.
13 way loose.
It's probably Whitworth.
It's pretty, it probably is good old AMC.
Parts Benjy.
All right.
Have fun.
I think you're good to go.
All right.
Go see the kiddos.
Yeah.
Getting hard for you to get in there.
You're going to have to switch to a crossover.
I got a Jeep for you.
I don't think so.
I don't think so either.
I'll be back.
Okay.
