Recent content by BlakeTheCarGuy

This reminds me of when my coworkers all laughed at me for buying expensive drill bits and are like our Harbor Freight master set or whatever it’s called works fine. Then they ended up breaking or not drilling through anything so they come and get mine and then they go get more Harbor Freight...

I always grab deep first. Very rarely do I use shallow unless it’s all that will work. I don’t know any auto tech that grabs shallow first. It’s always deep or semi deep that gets grabbed first in my shop.

I’ve gotten messages from spammers more than once. Usually it’s about my classified ads or my wanted ads but I’ve always reported them as spam. They always bail once they respond to a wanted ad but don’t have pictures of the item they “have” lol.

I do actually I have all 50 states. But if there’s any you want to part with I’d be happy to get them from you.

Some of you asked to see more tools. Here’s another small fraction of them. Each box has a story lol. The black tote is yard sales and eBay and the other boxes are all from the pawn shop back when we had a really good pawn shop. I’ll slowly get more pictures posted but I have so many tools it’s...

Diagnosed and replaced the intake manifold on a used car at work. 2017 Hyundai Elantra Sport. Apparently a common problem on these because we had two manifolds in stock which is unusual if it’s not a common problem. Forgot to take an after picture but I will tomorrow. I haven’t been doing much...

I wanted to put some regular bolts in but they wanted me to use the same type that came out of it which I can understand but I think regular bolts would of been fine because who is going to go thru the effort to steal that piece anyways lol.

On the anti theft module that goes right behind the steering wheel it’s part of the smart key system.

The last day and a half has sucked for me lol. I hate interior work but it is nice to do something different for a change. 2018 Highlander with 68,000 miles needed a steering column it had a click somewhere internally and was jerking too. It made me remember why I hate modern cars lol. I...

Bump. Anyone want to give $40 for the Knipex?

It’s had like 6 radiators put in it as well after a collision we kept getting bad ones. We talked to someone who a mechanic referred us too that supposedly studied Cherokees and he said he thinks there may have been a flawed block. He said in 2001 they used whatever parts they had laying around...

I was around for the tail end of Popular Mechanics not that I’m old enough to remember them being new but I have a lot that my dad gave me and I got at the pawn shop that are amazing lol.

We put a new one on and a new head as well exact same issue came back on first start up.

Overheats and when you turn it off the radiator cap shoots off and blows all the coolant out like a volcano.

The last owner said he thinks what happened with the previous owner is they most likely lost the title but had the title and vin for a 73 one so they made this one a 73 and it was the time before everything was computerized and said you could get away with it back then.