In this video I have a look at a customers Toyota Tacoma that has a fuel leak on the engine. It appears that someone has had their fingers in this one causing the issue. It also has some messed up issues in the marker lights. She's a crusty one boys 😅
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It's fine. Oh man. I can't even framework? Okay, oh, it's got the stick shift. Oh, it freaks like gas.
That way it comes out, it's handy, huh? Fancy. All right. hard to tackle this gas leak. I Guess watch up on the toolbox.
I Step on the brakes. That right front marker light comes on. All right. What you guys do on that for a while? Somebody's been here already.
obviously. Uh, you know, wiring harnesses out of those clips, aftermarket bolts, and the pressure regulator. It's peeing reality and uh, the injector here on the end. But you know, missing bolts here on the fuel rail so somebody's had their fingers all over it already.
Uh, let's see if we can't take the rail off at least. uh. seal it. injectors All right I don't know it might be I Think it might be easier for the throttle body out of the way little hoses.
Somebody's definitely been in here playing of course. I Don't know if we'll be able to lift it up past those studs with the coolant hoses on it. We will find out here shortly. Remote can go over here.
Foreign. That'll give us a little more room I wonder what they were doing in here? Always a million dollar question. All right. Well, we have to get the fuel line unhooked.
Get this return line unhooked I Don't know if I can squeeze them with my finger or not. Oh look at that I did yippee. Maybe I can do this one too. Oh wow.
I Get my junior technician badge. Let's say yourselves, um, this little dampener right here is great. Smack in the way of this. Bolt for the fuel rail with a leasing injector wires.
see if we can't Wiggle anymore if I'm putting that light right there so you can't see foreign. This one over here looks pretty rough. I Have to get something. Grab that rear one.
Let's see about taking this little guy off if we can do it without damaging the O-rings like I said, we have to remove it to get to the bolt. All right now we can get to that Bolt and the other bolt here. Let me grab a 12 mil. All right, that wasn't very snug.
What? there's that? Okay I wonder why somebody was in here to begin with? Were they trying to fix a leak? Or you know what was going on? All right, let's pop right out. Yeah, apparently you've nailed in there. Let's unhook the purge valve here. Foreign.
So here's the one that was leaking. I Think for obvious reasons. Oh, that's gotta be PC o-ring Here's another one. orange.
You're hanging out of it so they sit inside of a plastic cup in the intake. Yeah, this little ring is is sliced so that one's completely chowdered up there. It's got this. this will ring.
Look at that one. I Don't know. wonky something. Definitely in here playing.
Well, let's hope that we have the right ones. Let's see what we have. We ordered these bad boys from Napper. All right, let's see if we got.
this little ring goes at top. We have this one here that goes at the bottom that fills the plastic cup. I'm not sure about this fella. It appears that they had some sort of o-ring at the very top, but short of just sealing that I Don't know unless it went here, which seems kind of weird unless that holds tension. I Don't know. Let me look in service data. It's kind of an older vehicle I Don't know if we'll find anything, but we're going to look what we know for a fact that one goes there. Put that ring back on.
Let's see if we can figure out where that little fella goes, but that O-ring feels good. Let me look at service data. must be a different application because all they tell you is apply a light coat of spindle, oil or gas to new O-rings installing each injector, the O-ring and the insulator. That's exactly what we have the insulator and the O-ring so it must be.
Whatever that came with in that aftermarket kit is a little different application. So if we put it together and see something different, well, we'll do something different, right? But until then, we'll keep on keeping on. there's the part number. These were pretty inexpensive.
We'll save all these little guys like I said, just in case and figure out something different. but put these in, wiggle them babies in. Maybe that's what happened. Maybe somebody tried to seal these up.
Obviously somebody's been in here. I Mean you can see. Maybe they jammed that extra piece on because it came with the aftermarket kit and then all hex broke loose by trying to fix a problem. They created a problem.
who knows I don't know I never get the full stories. so I don't even ask. It's like trying to ask a child something. Half the time we talk to the customers we just figured out.
Along the way it's easier. Good news and bad news. So I set it on there. Good news is the last guy that worked out was the hack and he left us the bolt here.
I Assume that's the one that goes here so we'll save that. Let's stick that over here. The other thing is I see the spacer right here at the end of my pointy fuel. that hole that spaces from the cylinder head to the injector rail.
I look back here. It's Mia So that's why that rear bolt was not very tight making the rail sit on here. all the cockeying. Well the other good news is the guy with the hack so way down here in the Chattahoochee see if I can get a hold of that sucker? Come on baby, come on, be nice.
Oh you mother you guys saw I had let me put you down. Where'd you go baby? You can't get that out because we need it. Otherwise the rail's not going to sit straight there it is. boys.
So there is our spacer for the rear bolt. So there's that little thing and it's got a little chip out of it. but no big deal. See, we can't put her in here where it belongs.
Well, at least they left all the parts and pieces laying around for us. That's good news. We'll get these injectors lined up and a little hole they got going. There's that one. there's that one. I'll have to rewind the video. Be kind. Please rewind.
Remember that sticker used to be on the VHS tapes I do um I'll three white maybe I dropped that but I kind of doubt it being the way that it felt. So let's uh, give these a snug a dug all right and then what I want to see is if the injectors want to go down any further, you know, indicating that we need that other rubber spacer but they don't they're very Stout Okay, so I think we're in good shape, Let's put this bolt back in like I say I'm assuming that's where it goes. That's one we were missing, right? you can always assume. Set that back there.
Beautiful. We're doing really good. You and I look at that baby back in, put a couple bolts on it and everything kind of put back together and hooked up. see if she leaks gas anymore.
It's got quite a puddle under here. One clickety clack, two Clickety clacks. All right. we're home free.
How do we go from working on? be working on one of these things? I Don't know. We may never know. Is that where this one goes? Probably? I Think this one door's here. Put that baby in.
It's gonna be better than when we found it. Look that baby in foreign. Get all of our injectors plugged back in here. We're going to take and be a nice guy.
We're going to put all the wiring harness back where it belongs even though the last guy didn't make you wonder what the heck guy was doing in here. huh? Let's just hope it wasn't a shot. At least a guy who's getting paid got that down there. If that belongs, there's that one.
There's that one I don't know about that one. Let's get this back over here. I'll buy it back on there. plug it up as they say is this and that we'll see if the guy wants his brake lights fixed.
Probably just the bulb shorted out is my guess I've been wrong before. There you go baby. Let's see. look at this down around here.
man. you've been this harnesses out all the way around the front. This is consistent. Look at that one clicked in I want to clicked in I'm guessing the silver down there front injector I think didn't go up the smoke foreign turn signal is on I've got the classic flashing through brake light marker lights flashing.
This one's flashing. everybody's flashing back here. Oh, let's see what kind of the hackery we have underneath. but oh boy.
I Don't think we're gonna pick her up on a lift folks. Uh, we'll crawl around on the ground here for a minute. However, here's our spliced in trailer converter. Got a big meltable right through it.
freaking blob coming out of it. Tell you what Got an idea. Here's my idea. One two, Go my shoe.
Okay, we'll see if our problems fixed. Okay, oh look at that. We fixed the array. Let's make sure turn off our turn signal here.
Step on it. We gotta get fit. Okay, everything works there. We have brake lights back. Let's click the wrong button. Yep, we've got brake lights back there. We got turn signal and turn signal. We did it.
We're good. How do we know where the problem was going to be? Experience: Can't tell you any more than that. Pretty common issue. What's this thing for? I Don't believe ever worked on the same guy did the brake lines.
Pretty rough truck. We're gonna leave it like it is. I'll get under there and cut those wires a little differently so they don't touch each other. but she's pretty rough shape so well.
These pictures brake lights, worm and no more gas leak so that's good. but it's pretty much well done anyways. We'll even ask go Fix that Chevy and then what? We start working on.
Made me cringe when you took out a bolt with a battery impact right beside a fuel leak. Is there any danger of a spark from a battery impact driver igniting petrol fumes or am I being paranoid. I was expecting a hand ratchet or an air impact instead.
So the Hack that Worked on this Yoda before you should have Graduated from a Mechanic School somewhere. Prison ? On the Job Training ? Looks Ridiculous. 🤪
Do you think it was a Bad Batch of Soy Saucy that Deteriorated the Onion Rings ? Did you mention what Year this Yoda Crustation was ? 🤔 Thanks! 👍
Eric O. is releasing a meditation album featuring the soothing sounds of doorbells, air compressors, and that step stool.
Looks like owner butchery to me. They are often too embarassed to admit anything.
Probably was the Yoda Dealership that couldn’t Figure Out their Own Equipment. 🤪👎 Somebody making Way Too Much Money Designs this Nonsense. 🤔👎
your remark about the customer acting bad…. ive had children that when acting bad didnt come close to some of the customer's ive had to deal with. as my daddy used to say" NOW THATS A CRYING SHAME"!!!!
Looks like there was 2 different brake light lenses
Those mismatched tail lights would drive me crazy
Wrong bulb dual filament
Great one Eric.thank you Sir for your time today !
Good job, Eric O.appreciate the channel, buddy 👍
Thanks Eric, lovely to see the precision laparoscopic surgery tool being repurposed for picking up small pieces from the depths! Designated single use instruments for infection control, they will however serve your purpose for many years. Your videos are very important to my ongoing interests, as a previous mechanic turned surgeon!
It's like watching an assembly line of repairs that makes most so scared they cant even find the parts they removed. Whole lot of frustration cured in minutes.
I remember the warnings on VHS tapes, I still have my vcr from when I was a kid, I also remember when the naughty channels were scrambled, then it would go clear for just a second, I saw a boob! Lol hope your mouth is doing better 🙂
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How many clickety-clacks make a ugga-dugga?
Is it me or was there two different brake light assembly ?
probly the wrong bulb someone put a single filament where a doble belongs.
His cousin Vinny did it lol😂
What's with that brake fluid reservoir that fluid looks brand new?
Must be like old home week, you stop @ Wilberts, & see some of your old patients 🤔🗽🇺🇸
Often a lighting problem like this is due to the tail light convertors for the trailer lights. More so if it is an aftermarket add on. You know, the little box back there that changes a 5 wire feed to a 4 wire for the trailers 4 way flat plug.
It's rusty and crusty, but I'm guessing the repair bill wasn't too expensive, so worth throwing a few bucks at
Working on another Toyota again 😂, kidding . When they break they are all junk😅. Great job. Awesome video!!
Finally a NAPA sponsored video!!!
Those new Tacoma trucks never filled the shoes of their previous generations. Built more like the lousy American vehicles.
Eric, I thought Scotty said Toyotas never fail. Or maybe Scotty worked on this Tacoma? Oh that's right, he doesn't actually repair anything, he just runs scan tools and accepts most things as unimportant if broken. Great job once again. God bless south main auto.
What? No Outro??…. Im not sure whether im supposed to like and comment or not… hmmmm…. ?
That truck is one big hack job😂
Anyone else notice 1 led and the other is incandescent 😊
I was laughing at the two different tail lights as well. The right looked OEM but the left appeared to be an aftermarket LED!
Tell that guy to put his tools out by the road next garbage day.
I just fixed a tacoma …. hit the brake the left turn signal lights up. It was an aftermarket plug and play trailer harness that was the issue. Yes…Called it.
the extra parts in the kits are grommets for other applications, as Mr.O guest. I've seen them used on 2.7L T100s, 4Runners and I think the 2.4 Tacos but I'm not 100%.
She is well done from the rusty looks, the engine sounds like it could continue to live on!
Lighting problems 1st place around here go to back and see who’s been working on trailer plug in
Wire Cutters and Experience FTW!!!!
Calling the previous guy a hack was being mighty generous.
I hope this person is not a viewer of yours Eric, but don't worry your videos are not wasted on me, Thanks for the help. keep posting.
I think you hit the nail on the head! Someone thought both pieces went on the injectors and messed it up!!! Lol
You sir are a genius. Been watching your videos for a few years now. What is the part number on the grabber tool you used to grab the spacer and bolt?? I have to buy this!!
Very precise fixes that didn't unravel into other potential problems. Keeps the old gal trotting along.
Stick a fork in that one it’s done 😂😂!!!!
WOW, Eric you never cease to amaze me ! noticing the missing spacer for the fuel rail ? Nice piece of detective work there, and that"s you truly are a world class automotive technician , and snipping those wires on the aftermarket harness to fix the brake light issues , again, I guess experience really can be your best friend . Well thanks for this video, please keep em cummin ! 😊
Your voice is get better and nothing Blew up and it's Running plus neutered the universal trailer harness getting Blinkey all better!!!; )
Another great video Eric. Maybe it was just the camera but the left and right taillights appeared to be different. LED on the left and incandescent on the right. LEDs don't mix well with incandescent.
Eric O’… Amazing! You fixed it before the snow melted off!
I don't see what the problem is with spraying gasoline all over the hot exhaust. That second spacer really wasn't needed. I mean Eric O did successfully drive the vehicle into his repair bay. What an up-tight thing to stress out over a few missing nuts and bolts on the high pressure gasoline rail. LOL. I find this entire video totally unbelievable. Some people have utterly no common sense, and they do not know it. Whoever touched this engine before Eric O, needs to down their tools, back away slowly, and never ever touch a car again except to drive it.
when one know's what you are doing easy does it
Remember going to blockbuster? Just like the movies I would spend too much on their overpriced junk food.
Fixed before the snow melted. Very good job sir 🎉
That truck wasn't even long enough in your shop to dry out.
All the connectors came off. Not a shiv-a-lay.
Junior T-man badge. 🎉
You know it’s a hack job when they install a different taillight than factory.
How man Chevy's does it take to get to a Nissan? One chevy, two chevy's, three chevy's…. Slit a fuel injector seal… The world may never know. LOL
Anybody else notice that when he pressed the brake pedal.. the right brake light came on slightly after the left brake light.. maybe a mismatched bulb??? one glowing up faster than the other.
Some crusties under that thing..
It’s fixed! The extra seals weren’t required!
With today’s information highway, how hard is it to find out which oring goes where? And how many seals are on each injector.
To bad they didn't lose a couple of 10mms for you to find!
Was one turn signal in the back red and the other yellow? or a I having a stroke?
They were probably in there trying to change the Canute valve and then they lost interest
2nd gen Access cab, 4 cylinder, 5speed, 4×4, that's a kinda rare combo. I didn't know the 4 cyl AC came in 4×4. Looked on autotrader and found 3 within in a 500 mile search.
I had an injector go bad on my 99 toyota with a 1mz v6. All the auto parts stores advertise fel pro injector o-rings for my engine, when putting the new o-rings on they were very loose and after reassembly, of course i saw gas spraying out on startup, one of the o-rings got pinched. Had to get a Dorman universal o-ring assortment to get the proper sized o-rings. I wonder if this is what happened to this guy.
Old age and experience beat youth and enthusiasm anytime.😂
Does that happen to every frame back there. If if does, you have to replace your vehicle every 10 years?
I work at the other shop in town, we just fixed a truck like that with a fuel leak last week, must be a common problem 😅
Surprised a Toyota needs that repair
🎶"Way Down yonder in the Chattahoochee, never knew how much that wire pick meant to me"🎶
Whoever left the car with bolts missing & parts not put back should have his tools confiscated! What a hack.
What's up that black TJ Rubicon?
You need to have a video of cars that are just a few months from the crusher.
Wait… never mind. You already do. Wow! The frame was almost gone on that one.
What was that doohickey you cut out? Trailer adapter? What’s that supposed to do? Not familiar with that thingie.
You’re the best, Mr. O. Thanks for taking us along. Great video!!
Never fib to your dentist, doctor or mechanic. They know the truth just by looking. 🤷♂️😏
Detective Mr O in the mysterious case of "somebodies been here before"
Pepperidge farm remembers.
Be kind…warn your mechanic the parts he needs are scattered on the engine. Thank you, sir, for another informative video.
2 different tail lights 1 reg 1 led
That allways gets me,if the customer would tell you the truth it usually would save himself $
I did the wind back for you, that spacer was already out of position when you removed the bolt.
Hack job is right, mismatched tail lights, LED and incandescent… Oy vey..
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I THINK EVERY VEHICLE YOU WORK ON IS A PIECE OF JUNK
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"Trying to fix a problem they created a problem. "
"I never get the full story so I don't even ask. "
"It's like trying to ask a child something half the time when you're talking to customers."
Good one… I got a chuckle out of your comments.
Keep up the good work!
So, Mr. O., Was the "guy who was in here before" the owner of the truck? Or spouse???
One LED rear marker light/turn signal combo and one old-school bulb with a yellow turn signal. Says it all, really. 🤔
Scotty thinks you faked it. Toyotas never fail😂
2 clickity clacks and you're golden
the light coming on with the brakes sounds like a ground issue to me, & the led tail light doesnt help.
Why does it have an led tail light on one side and the incandescent tail light on the other side,… BTW, Best youtube auto channel right here…..
It looks like a fine example of a "Friendly Truck" — as in "I had a friend work on this, but…"
Someone's already been into it. It's always fun trying to chase the monkeys out of somebody else's circus. Mr. O to the rescue! A man of patience and skill.
Who remembers blockbuster video? 🤤
Disco dancing, Mr. O.? It's 75$, 5$ for the hammer and 70$ for knowing where to hit it.
Eric, just one time, end your show with "if I can do it, you don't stand a chance
That tacos been rode hard and put up wet
Boyfriend says to girlfriend…I can fix that…
Thus incomplete and incompetent fix.
But he looks handy! 😂😂
People meddlin where they ought not to be meddlin again….
I cannot fathom how much of a hack you have to be to drop the bolt and the spacer, directly below the fuel rail, and no retrieve them. That bolt was just sitting there, and the spacer was not that much further down.