LScowboyLS

Oh wait, now I remember, because they know more about auto repair than anyone on the planet! - not to mention that they get me laughing so hard I can't even function for an hour!

only this fellow is really in the same league of car diagnosis

sha4000

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Are those the 2carpros?

xspsi6

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I don't diagnose from 70psi I diagnose from the hydro lock that occurred from the injector being stuck wide open when I tried to start it in the morning.

Trust me 87 fuel has 0 to do with this failure I have ran almost 100k miles on 87 no ill effects .
It does pick up a bit of power with premium but not much the difference is not worth me spending an extra 30 cents per gallon.

LScowboyLS

no, we are talking a whole other level of auto mechanic, these two knuckleheads - Tom & Ray have degrees from MIT and are friggin hilarious, and over the last 37 years have taught the most knowledgeable mechanics in the country the art of troubleshooting by understanding the engineering of the underlying systems in combination with good old common sense!

Not many auto mechanics ever took a thermodynamics class in their life, much less at MIT, and on todays modern cars, boy does it show!

if I just needed to rebuilt my sister's 1984 Camaro 5.7L - then 2carpros or Eric the car guy would be fine, but not nearly as entertaining or authoritative.


Tom & Ray Magliozzi at work

sha4000

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Are theses the guys that are on NPR on Saturday or Sundays in the morning around 10am.

Gene01

Yes. They are Click 'n' Clack, the Tappet brothers.

sha4000

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Wow I always try to catch these guys when I'm driving. They give some pretty good advice and are mildly entertaining.

LScowboyLS

mildly entertaining? - when I listen to them, I am laughing so hard that I am a menace to the other drivers on the road!

I truly believe if you listened to 10 years of their shows, and understood what was taught, you could work as a senior mechanic in any auto dealership in America

Yamae

I am not a mechanic but shop owners offer me to pay twice more than mechanics get. But I politely refuse it because it is just my hobby to fix cars that can't be fixed by mechanics who are not good at electronics.

I used to enjoy listening to Tom & Ray's radio program when I was in the USA. It was my favorite program indeed. They taught me a lot. Without them, I couldn't be here at the Forum and also shop owners never asked me to help. I liked their way of thinking and suggestions.

Listening to the program, I thought the mechanics there in USA were nearly as good as them but soon I realized not so. That's why people ask Tom & Ray so many questions not relying on mechanics.

Are you trusted well by customers, xspsi6?

fixmiester

Wow, I think this is a little too bizzare; hydrolock did not do this. The most probable cause is that IF you had a stuck injector, and continued to drive this car for hundreds of miles, not only would the cylinder be misfiring, but the raw fuel would likely have scavenged the lubrication off the cylinder walls, causing extreme wear, creating low compression. Would a real mechanic have allowed a car running like this to have been driven that much?? Wow.

sha4000

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I actually went to school to be an auto tech and graduated at the top of the class in 2005 but had to go into another field when everything went to hell in 07-08. I'm very adept at solving problems on cars but my knowledge gets a little shaky here and there when I'm out of practice. I actually did my first timing belt job on my LS at the school before graduating even though the instructor kind of hogged most of the job. He was salivating when I brought it in the shop. I spent so much money at the dealership with my 91 it pushed me to learn how to do these things on my own. Anyway I don't listen to that radio show to laugh, I listen to see how they solve peoples issues so that if I ever come across the sames ones I will know the things to check and not just on a Lexus but ANY car. Sometimes they make me chuckle, hence mildly entertaining.