Engine Overheats after Full Rebuild, but Why? (YOU WONT BELIEVE IT)

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This video is covering the weird overheat on a 3406B Cat after a full rebuild by another shop. Turns out to be a pretty interesting reason. @AdeptApe on Venmo or AdeptApe@yahoo.com on PayPal for donations, thank you so much for supporting the channel!
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  • @AdeptApe
    @AdeptApe Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching. Cooling systems should always be vacuumed filled to prevent air bubbles in critical areas using something like this Airlift on this Amazon Affiliate link: Airlift Cooling System Vacuum Filling System: amzn.to/3D9AlPu @AdeptApe on Venmo or AdeptApe@yahoo.com on PayPal for donations, thank you so much for supporting the channel!

  • @ianloy1854

    @ianloy1854

    7 ай бұрын

    The cooling systems have a design "requirement", it is actually an installation specification that is checked during a installation review, that the cooling system can fill fully using a steady stream of coolant. I can't remember the actual flow rate - but a softly flowing hose is a reasonable description. Sometimes this is made possible through the (discouraged) use of bleed valves at the high point of the coolant lines. OEMs use a vacuum filing system at production so the system can be filled faster and there is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with using one. But if it is required to get a full fill it is probably indicating that there is a problem with the coolant lines routing that has been changed or is restricted etc.

  • @Rocksteady176

    @Rocksteady176

    5 ай бұрын

    I bought and used this airlift system 3 times already. It works great.

  • @jpbnr2931
    @jpbnr2931 Жыл бұрын

    Can't blame the cat for catching a mouse 🙈😂

  • @mauricemotors8207

    @mauricemotors8207

    Жыл бұрын

    Good one 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @woodmanhugh

    @woodmanhugh

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha !

  • @RustyorBroken

    @RustyorBroken

    Жыл бұрын

    You sir, win the internet for today.

  • @davebullock3517

    @davebullock3517

    Жыл бұрын

    🤦‍♂️

  • @VladGoro25

    @VladGoro25

    Жыл бұрын

    Laughing soo hard :))))

  • @02dirtymax
    @02dirtymax Жыл бұрын

    This is why as a mechanic as soon as you think you have seen it all, something comes along and proves you wrong!!

  • @bradfordprice3781

    @bradfordprice3781

    Жыл бұрын

    Murphy's Law: what can go wrong will go wrong, even if you don't know it can. The mouse has proven why it is impossible to idiot proof anything. There is ALWAYS an idiot standing by to show how ingenious idiots can be.

  • @michaelmartinez1345

    @michaelmartinez1345

    Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting find!!! That poor mouse went to the wrong place to sleep... It is a reason WHY I like to put a shop rag or a piece of plastic sheet in front of inlets and hold them in place with rubber bands.... Yes, it does take some time to do this, but it also prevents several hours of troubleshooting and down time, of an extremely expensive asset.... This could easily offset the few minutes of prevention to avert a potential catastrophic failure... Protect open spigots and hoses before moving onto the next steps of repairs....

  • @uncle_moose

    @uncle_moose

    Жыл бұрын

    And then there is o'tools law that states that Murphy was an optimist.

  • @pickelsvonbrine

    @pickelsvonbrine

    Жыл бұрын

    I have never even heard of something like this! Wild.

  • @stuartandrews4344

    @stuartandrews4344

    4 ай бұрын

    @@pickelsvonbrine First time for everything...

  • @upstatehauling6996
    @upstatehauling6996 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Josh, I should have brought it to you to begin with!

  • @AdeptApe

    @AdeptApe

    Жыл бұрын

    Always happy to work on a Cat or a mouse in this case. Hope she runs great once it's back together. Thanks for bringing it in.

  • @joshuajesch7154

    @joshuajesch7154

    Жыл бұрын

    Love your vast knowledge. Just curious if anything else had to be done to the ole B model and if the waterpump was ok with the rust in it? I have a 3406B 4MG model that I installed a new water pump on...but also has slight rust from a separare problem.

  • @diesellivesmatter

    @diesellivesmatter

    Жыл бұрын

    Cats are, after all, good at catching mice.

  • @james94582

    @james94582

    Жыл бұрын

    At least it wasn't a complete failure on the rebuilding shop.... But glad it is being taken care of now and getting you back on the road!!

  • @francomtz7115

    @francomtz7115

    Жыл бұрын

    The cat and the mouse like Jerry he always got the cat.

  • @jeriwollmann7366
    @jeriwollmann7366 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the shout out Josh. Jerry caused this destruction. Tom finally had his revenge. Made me laugh. Great diagnosis video.

  • @AdeptApe

    @AdeptApe

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Jeri

  • @1965Gindy

    @1965Gindy

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol, the guy who sent the pictures?

  • @WilliamLaakkonen
    @WilliamLaakkonen Жыл бұрын

    Wow- drives home the need to plug orifices with at least a shop towel when things remain open during repairs. Never hear of one of those getting in a cooling system before! Thanks for sharing Josh, love your videos.

  • @volvo09

    @volvo09

    Жыл бұрын

    I saw someone's picture of a cooling system filled with corn.... They left the radiator out for a few days and a chipmunk or red squirrel filled it up.

  • @RustyorBroken

    @RustyorBroken

    Жыл бұрын

    I left the air cleaner off the intake of a diesel for an extended period of time once. After putting it back together and firing it up it had an occasional miss and stuff was shooting out of the stack. Turns out that squirrels or chipmunks had stored walnuts in the intake.

  • @carlcarlamos9055

    @carlcarlamos9055

    Жыл бұрын

    We had a shop rebuilt engine sent out to a job with a rodent nest in it.

  • @colincostine9775

    @colincostine9775

    Жыл бұрын

    I once left an engine with the manifolds off in the shop during a rebuild in the winter for just two days. When I went to rotate the engine manually after finishing assembly, it wouldn't turn a full revolution. I ended up cleaning out a cupful of mouse bait.

  • @Mike_Hughes

    @Mike_Hughes

    Жыл бұрын

    I always try and make sure that my orifices are as plugged as possible...

  • @ericdziadosz7145
    @ericdziadosz7145 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, that's weird but makes sense. Worst animal versus engine one I heard to this point was a landfill compactor (Al-Jon), had a Cat C15/D398TA pre-DPF engine (its been 20+ years since it happened), and it had been parked overnight outside of the maintenance shop at the landfill after running the previous day. Early morning, Operator comes in and fires it up only to be startled by the immense amount of racket that occurred when it cranked over and fired up. Shut it down quick, but the damage was done. What happened? Somehow a stray cat (no pun intended) had crawled past the shields over the engine cooling fan/shroud, and met Mr. 600 HP Caterpillar radiator fan, and it had dismembered the feline and shattered the blades on the 6 foot diameter nylon fan blades. The blade remnants ended up piercing the radiator, and I felt sorry for the techs from our shop who had to go out to it, as they were picking out pieces of the furry culprit from the engine compartment for hours. Radiator, fan, reversing hub, and some of the shields had to be replaced. Reps from Al-Jon came out as they had thought they had it closed off well enough that Mr. Whiskers could not gain access to the void between the fan and radiator during shutdown. They came out and went over it and made improvements to the engine compartment so that it would not happen again. Ironically it was the only time that an animal had ever gained access to a space like that, even on the older Detroit 8v92 powered compactor machines that weren't as well protected as that new machine was. Needless to say, it was the most expensive Cat fight I had heard of up to that point.

  • @francomtz7115

    @francomtz7115

    Жыл бұрын

    The problem with new machines is they are too tight for anything and if a critter gets in there they can't get out in time when they sense the operator.

  • @rcnelson

    @rcnelson

    Жыл бұрын

    I once helped lift a huge Cat radiator still in a heavy wooden crate. It's hard to believe a fan blade for something that massive could be destroyed by an 7 lb. cat.

  • @konradcomrade4845

    @konradcomrade4845

    Жыл бұрын

    I put a cloth, sprayed with some insect spray under the motor hud. Animals don't like the smell and stay out, even when they would be attracted by the remaining warmth of the engine in night!

  • @CharlieK92004

    @CharlieK92004

    5 ай бұрын

    Aw, poor Fievel.

  • @75LS1Vega
    @75LS1Vega Жыл бұрын

    This is the second time I have seen this exact problem. The last time I seen it was on a 1958 Ferrari that had been apart for a while. Apparently the mouse made a home in the radiator while it was in storage. When the customer reinstalled the radiator, the mouses home and his/her siblings/children met their demise at some point and clogged up parts of the cooling system!! One of the odder diagnosis I have been involved in during my years as a tech!

  • @XFolf
    @XFolf Жыл бұрын

    I feel very justified suddenly for always being OCD about blocking up every line/hose when I'm working on stuff, tho in my case it was just to keep out dust LOL!

  • @thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259

    @thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259

    Жыл бұрын

    Mice love to build nests using all kinds of stuff that clogs passages. Some areas, bees do this as well.

  • @mattdeckert6150

    @mattdeckert6150

    6 ай бұрын

    And mud daubers..

  • @GoldVP...
    @GoldVP... Жыл бұрын

    Same with my cat in the Pete. Except it was a rag from a new pump install. I pulled it all apart on the highway, halfway between Edmonton and Grande Prairie Alberta, and thank goodness I had 12 bottles of coolant

  • @danielrepman5606
    @danielrepman5606 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting! Further reinforcement for capping open ports. We had a Cat come in with a mysterious overheat issue that turned out to be a blue shop towel in the oil cooler, coolent inlet...so along with plugging ports, make sure you remove everything...lol.

  • @guacamoleweiner69
    @guacamoleweiner69 Жыл бұрын

    I love you josh. You'd be surprised how many animals mess with stuff out in the jobsites. One time we found a rattle snake and pieces in side the front diff of a Cat 657 scraper. One of the service guys left the dip out. The diff was over heating and we drained the oil. The oil was plugged up at the econo plug and we had to remove the trans and open the diff with all the oil in it. Found most of the snake in there all ripped up. We checked the axles and planetaries. Fun times. Love you josh (no homo)

  • @rodbender6184

    @rodbender6184

    Жыл бұрын

    Snake oil in the diff.

  • @chasewebber4316

    @chasewebber4316

    Жыл бұрын

    No homo lmfao good ole 2000’s lingo here to stay

  • @badgerpa9
    @badgerpa9 Жыл бұрын

    Cat caught the mouse. Guess he wanted to leave this cruel world, just chose a bad way to do it. Either that or he liked his alcohol and had to much Ethyl. Good education on keeping openings covered and plugged when working on engines. Glad you did a video on it. Be safe Sir.

  • @lbz4life534
    @lbz4life534 Жыл бұрын

    I work for a large city municipality. we have a fleet of trash trucks. We have never found a mouse in side an engine but we have found them everywhere else. Mice and rats both in the trash bodies usually where the hyd leak is, that's right they chew through 5000 psi hyd hose.

  • @yyl3683
    @yyl3683 Жыл бұрын

    Thought it's the shop guy left a rag there, didn't expect the end result at all😂

  • @edwarddavis507
    @edwarddavis507 Жыл бұрын

    Great lesson for anyone who does engine tear downs and rebuilds. Thank You for sharing! So glad I caught this video!

  • @bencojo6846
    @bencojo6846 Жыл бұрын

    And that folks is why you keep things covered up till it’s time to install them. Always love what you are doing, and have learned a lot from you, like how to run overhead and how to remember the sequence

  • @aaronk534
    @aaronk534 Жыл бұрын

    Thats crazy. I think about that occassionally with an open engine especially outside. Great vid

  • @RustyorBroken
    @RustyorBroken Жыл бұрын

    It's always a good idea to use a little Decon additive in your coolant.

  • @jimgam730

    @jimgam730

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣😂

  • @robertthornton7553

    @robertthornton7553

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for a great video.i once had mouse in my heating boiler,But never in an engine yet ,can I suggest someone needs to change the cat 😺

  • @ianatkinson8464
    @ianatkinson8464 Жыл бұрын

    Rats and mice do love the taste of coolant and screen wash. All ways clean any spilt on wires or engine off.

  • @johnmumford1135
    @johnmumford1135 Жыл бұрын

    My dad has that same problem almost with the C15 in his truck. In 2021, the temperatures were rather high at about 210°. Then one night in Kingman he saw a small coolant leak but said it wasn't that bad and wouldn't do anything, the very next day, that same leak put us on the side of the road for 7 hours in the middle of nowhere, about 10-15 miles from Flagstaff if I remember correctly. Later that year, they had to put a new radiator in it I think for I don't remember the reason but it was all rusted out below from when they switched the coolant from the green stuff to the new red stuff. A few months ago, the engine was rebuilt and he said it still runs at about the same temperatures as it did before. But he said it still gets hot and he doesn't know why, he thinks it's a low flow water pump. I wish his company would send the truck up to your shop to take a look because their mechanics are just interns right now, then one quit a few days ago so it's just one now.

  • @alandominguez3839

    @alandominguez3839

    Жыл бұрын

    Take it to empire 😉

  • @juniormoraes5195
    @juniormoraes5195 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Josh I am a diesel engine mechanic here in Brazil. I always follow your videos, here we don't have Caterpillar in trucks, but we have in machines and industrial. Your explanations are very nice. Success to you.

  • @ilovemydad1416
    @ilovemydad1416 Жыл бұрын

    For AL G.RITHIM cuz I don't have much to say, but darn, you and ezrider,are my favorite diesel mechanics. Although he is more a driver than mech, his knowledge is amazing.

  • @B0RN2RACE100
    @B0RN2RACE100 Жыл бұрын

    That is wild. I was having a conversation with my stepdad the other day about how a 3406 can pressurize the radiator but not blow a head gasket, he told me he think the space between the valves doesn’t have enough metal and an overheat situation makes hairline cracks on those heads, he has had to change a few heads already

  • @billyhorton5779

    @billyhorton5779

    Жыл бұрын

    These older mechanical fuel injection pumps (scroll fuel system) people would liked to "turn the fuel up' for more HP, would also result in cracks in the cylinder head and other engine damage.

  • @HANKTHEDANKEST
    @HANKTHEDANKEST Жыл бұрын

    OH MY GOD, OF COURSE IT WAS A MOUSE! Civilized man's oldest adversary: the humble mouse. Gets into your grain, eats it, everybody dies. Gets into your wires, eats them, everything gets fried. HIDES OUT IN THE COOLING SYSTEM? Just... goddamn it. Nice "catch" Josh, looks like you've been promoted to chief mouser at Western States!

  • @wazza33racer
    @wazza33racer Жыл бұрын

    Amazing the engine got as far as it did, without catastrophic failure.

  • @johngillon6969
    @johngillon6969 Жыл бұрын

    My brother once stored his 1969 jaguar XKE in some one's garage for a period while he was assigned in the airforce to alaska. when he returned two years later and tried to start the car, he broke the crank shaft because some mouse had packed one of the cylinders full of dry dog food. the mouse simply climbed in the exhaust pipe and filled the cylinder after coming thru the exhaust pipe muffler the exhaust manifold and then thru the open valve. If i had not been there i would not believe this story either.

  • @johnduncan9749
    @johnduncan9749 Жыл бұрын

    That mouse seen that big block of yellow cheese and could not resist.

  • @FarmerSteveO
    @FarmerSteveO Жыл бұрын

    I saw something happen similar once on a 3306 TA in a D6D CAT on an in frame rebuild where a shop rag was waded up and left in the port between the aftercooler and head. Took a while to figure out, but just have to go through the troubleshooting process like you did! I guess kind of like a doctor forgetting his tools when he sew’s up the patient! Lol! Great video!

  • @robertficek7586
    @robertficek7586 Жыл бұрын

    RIP Fievel!, he was well known to make nests in the engine compartment, but a baller move to try to move inside the block.

  • @ArielJRodriguez
    @ArielJRodriguez Жыл бұрын

    Awesome diagnoses! Really enjoy these videos, you really know your stuff. Thank you!

  • @kraftzion
    @kraftzion Жыл бұрын

    The old ethylene glycol coolant was an animal attractant. Many dogs died from drinking it. Maybe the newer stuff still has a sweet taste/smell.

  • @JesusTorres-qr1gz
    @JesusTorres-qr1gz Жыл бұрын

    That's very kind of you to share it with us, most kind, from the endless summer paradise Puerto Rico, Jesús Torres.

  • @catslife5501
    @catslife55014 ай бұрын

    Well done Columbo!! Enjoyed this vid👍

  • @mikebressette6291
    @mikebressette6291 Жыл бұрын

    I did an out of frame a few years ago. put the truck back together and started it, very shortly after starting a very black squirl jumped out of the stack and ran out of the shop. it must have got in the exhuast while the truck was outside the shop while the engine was being rebuilt, and was in there when we put the motor in and hooked everything up.

  • @jamesford7182
    @jamesford71822 күн бұрын

    I used to love getting difficult problems like this. It took the drudgery out of the week. Beats the hell out of doing the same jobs over and over. In the early '70s I think I changed the head gasket on every Chevy Vega every made.

  • @bernardkinsky1637
    @bernardkinsky1637 Жыл бұрын

    I had a similar problem with a brand new CAT 245 excavator that was shipped from the USA to SA Capetown .We unloaded the machine from the ship, loaded it on a lowboy,the radiator cap was missing ,while I was were unloading the machine in the yard I noticed that the water temperature was very very high.pulled it in the service bay and after a long while of testing and guessing as to what the proplem could be. We found pieces of a dead bird in the radiator hose .that was in 1978 and have never forgotten about it .

  • @tihspidtherekciltilc5469
    @tihspidtherekciltilc5469 Жыл бұрын

    I'm working on 12 snowblowers currently and restoring a 79 Ariens to add to my collection. Out of the 13 machines, some maintained but most not, 9 were damaged by mice with some mice getting caught in sprockets and chains. Not exactly the funnest of jobs having to clean the transmissions out and replace broken chains but the little bastards put food on the table. One ate through a plastic fuel tank and overdosed on ethanol.

  • @lylejohnston4125
    @lylejohnston41254 ай бұрын

    My daughter inherited a '69 SS el Camino that hadn't run in 23 years. Mice made the exhaust their home and peed on the #5 exhaust valve so much, it stuck open, broke off and took a massive chunk out of the cylinder wall of the 396. The Hooker headers were rusted out and They even made it through too the intake on one plane due to the valve overlap. I plug exhaust during long storage now!

  • @1977jelliott
    @1977jelliott Жыл бұрын

    A shop I worked at that had pretty poor housekeeping had some bundy tube, a roll of it, sitting around for years. One day I use it to make a brake line on a customer's car, could not get the line to bleed, no fluid through the line at all. Turns out that ants had got inside the tube, I mean lots of them, died inside it and turned into a solid ant mass blockage. Open ends invite creepy crawlies.

  • @jerediswatching6563
    @jerediswatching6563 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are great man. I really enjoy what you share and how much you know. Thanks for posting!

  • @AdeptApe

    @AdeptApe

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching.

  • @CarlosDieselElectric
    @CarlosDieselElectric Жыл бұрын

    Great find. We learn something new every day.

  • @madmax222
    @madmax222 Жыл бұрын

    Love these. Happens more than I would care to admit in water cooled systems with open recirculation

  • @K_Hansen
    @K_Hansen Жыл бұрын

    in my years of working on the 3406 PC TA's and A models i have seen two spun impelers one was split the other just spun, probabably from re-using the impeler to many times after a seal change

  • @CMSgtSanders
    @CMSgtSanders Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for teaching me more about my engine. As always great video.

  • @raymondclark1785
    @raymondclark1785 Жыл бұрын

    When I was a parts manager for a foreign car dealership in Princeton I had a mechanic ask for an AMC water pump. We were a dealer for them to. I told him to be sure to read the instructions in the box. He went into a rant about how long he'd been a mechanic A little latter he was back ranting that the pump wasn't pumping Bring me the box! In the box were the instruction, still clean and folded. If you had rad the instructions you would have learned that the new pump has a bigger impeller, you needed to pull a head bolt, install the pump and then use the new bolt that's still in the bottom of the box. Same dealership ran stock car's, one day before a race at Trenton they rebuilt a Chevy V8. When they started it burnt rags were flying everywhere, they suspected they had left rags in the cylinders while the heads were off :( They pulled an all night pulling the heads only to find the side pipes were blowing out rags from under the bench the welder hadn't swept up :(

  • @longinogiorda34
    @longinogiorda343 ай бұрын

    No sh.....?! A mouse????wtf! After 40 plus years of marine engineer work this is unf....in’ believable. Kudos to you 🎉

  • @rogergroover4971
    @rogergroover4971 Жыл бұрын

    That’s crazy! Who would ever guess? Very cool breakdown and explanation! Thanks!

  • @GeekBoyMN
    @GeekBoyMN Жыл бұрын

    Definitely one of the more bizarre problems I've heard of. Good catch!

  • @justinsane7128
    @justinsane7128 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing work Columbo

  • @sneaks01
    @sneaks01 Жыл бұрын

    That is one expensive mouse trap!! 😀

  • @johnmarshall4442
    @johnmarshall4442 Жыл бұрын

    I work in Aviation A&P for 26 years . Good video in aviation you always cap and plug everything when you take things apart. GOOD REASON WHY .

  • @williamwade7059
    @williamwade7059 Жыл бұрын

    Happens all the time in Wisconsin when the temperatures drop. Mice love to live inside your air and cabin filters. When I haul Trane components all the the hoses and air intakes are blocked off to stop creatures from building nests in them.

  • @a68k_de
    @a68k_de4 ай бұрын

    You can quickly get into really bad trouble with bad parts. Just like it happened to me. I had the water pump replaced in my 1983 Ford Capri with the 2.3 liter V6 engine. The first one was from SKF and made noises - exchanged - also made noises - exchanged... then another one from Hella was available. I have photo evidence on my website. The housing around the pump wheel was closed and either happened when the pump housing was cast or was not separated afterwards? In any case, the pump wheel could not transport water and the engine became too hot. We puzzled around for ages until we removed the water pump again and compared one pump with the other one... (End of song: We reinstalled the old water pump that I actually wanted to replace when rebuilding the engine, and it still works today). But you can now get such a step sold... it's unbelievable.

  • @MarzNet256
    @MarzNet256 Жыл бұрын

    That is so crazy. The zoom in at the end sent chills down my spine. It's like...a whole new genre of horror.

  • @markgeyer3591
    @markgeyer3591 Жыл бұрын

    Wow 👌...Didn't See that Coming!..Great Video

  • @truckladders4104
    @truckladders4104 Жыл бұрын

    Great video A great example of best practices of covering/capping any hoses tubes open components during rebuild An alternate title dot the video might be A game of Cat and mouse !

  • @Horus9339
    @Horus933911 ай бұрын

    Now I have to say I have seen it all, I would have never guessed that in a long time. Thank you for sharing? Really though, thank you Sir.

  • @ZylonFPV
    @ZylonFPV Жыл бұрын

    That was super interesting! It was a detective job and can’t believe it ended up being a mouse! How did the owner react to it?

  • @upstatehauling6996

    @upstatehauling6996

    Жыл бұрын

    Im not thrilled, that's how!

  • @MrNastytrucker44

    @MrNastytrucker44

    Жыл бұрын

    @@upstatehauling6996 at least the shop that rebuilt it didn't destroy your motor through poor workmanship. I think they should east the cost of this repair for you. When i tear a truck apart i always block every single hole off with rags and tape including the air lines because of the mud wasps we have here in texas.

  • @needmoreboost6369

    @needmoreboost6369

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrNastytrucker44 good practice👍 same here in Australia along with all the rodents and other critters ect I’ve seen rods/valves bent because mud wasps or mice have seen a combustion chamber as a nice home

  • @jasonwood9263
    @jasonwood9263 Жыл бұрын

    That was a good one. Mice and farm equipment do not mix. Love your work dude and thank you!

  • @jackvisn
    @jackvisn4 ай бұрын

    It reminds me of the Air Traffic Controllers joke. "You land 10,000 planes safely nobody remembers...have one small mid-air collision and nobody forgets". The odds of this are small and plugging every hose/hole during a rebuild aren't feasible. Good thing the engine was shut down before damage. We have all seen acorns in airboxes. That mouse had a bad day!

  • @HarrisFS
    @HarrisFS Жыл бұрын

    Well that was a twist ending. The whole video up to the mouse reveal I thought a mechanic left a rag inside.

  • @bradleyauman279
    @bradleyauman279 Жыл бұрын

    Wow that's so crazy another great video keep up the good work Sir you are very good at what you do

  • @donw3912
    @donw3912 Жыл бұрын

    Looks like the Cat ate the mouse... A great video..good teaching one to show the importance of keeping open holes plugged when apart for service...and to look your new parts over thoroughly.

  • @VepaAus
    @VepaAus Жыл бұрын

    CAT and Mouse , how ironic. Kinda like Tom and Jerry situation. Great pick-up mate.

  • @bindig1
    @bindig15 ай бұрын

    Oh man. Friggin mice. At first I thought it was a paper shop towel. I bought a 1990 F250 once that had sat for years. Mice made a nice cozy nest in the air filter box and intake hose and made a nice meal of of all the wires under the hood

  • @carltonlane8931
    @carltonlane8931 Жыл бұрын

    Good find,great diagnosis,thankyou for the video.

  • @dijebrothers5994
    @dijebrothers5994 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your time. You are very amazing BOSS

  • @townsendliving9750
    @townsendliving97502 ай бұрын

    I knew exactly what that was when I seen you pull it. I have had that same issue on a Dodge truck, left the cap off and the mouse drown in the coolant reservoir. No heater for awhile, was very hard to clean out

  • @MacPoop
    @MacPoop Жыл бұрын

    Seeing an animal in there, that's 100% new! I've seen this rust a time or two before after fresh rebuilds; Cause #1 is some mechanics filling up with just tap water only (that's OK, keep reading) just to get ALL the swarth & crud out, and make sure everything is working right before draining & dumping 15 gallons of coolant in the engine after the very first 1 or 2 heat cycles on water, yet don't get *all* of that tap water out and whatever's in the *tap water* reacts with metal & coolant for some very nasty compounds. Cause #2 is mixing tap water with concentrate rather than distilled I saw that mistake way more than anything else - suddenly thermostats aren't lasting very long, radiator cores crusting up and not cooling efficiently. Not near as bad as 100% water but still no good. I've seen a red shop rag completely wound around a water pump impeller before. Don't f*ck up cooling systems young mechanics, we all make that mistake at least once in our careers 😁

  • @fanman4230
    @fanman4230 Жыл бұрын

    Back in my dim and distant past I had a weird overheating problem arrive at my workshop. It was on a Morris Marina with a 1300 A series engine. In slow moving traffic on a hot day it would run at normal temperature, but, out on the open road it would overheat, basically the opposite of what you would normally expect. After a bit of head scratching I made a discovery that I had to confirm with the customer. I asked if he had recently had an accident repair done, to confirm what I had found. He said yes he had slid into a gatepost on an icy bend and had the car towed to the main dealer for a front end rebuild and new radiator, waterpump and fan. The A series engine is fitted to a lot of different vehicles including the original Mini. I had noticed that the radiator grill was getting hot when it should have been in a stream of cold air. Turns out that the dealership had fitted a Mini fan that in its intended transverse engine vehicle pushes air from the engine bay out through the side mounted radiator into the wheelwell. In this inline engine it was, at speed, trying to force air against the incoming airstream, effectively preventing air from passing through the radiator. When moving slowly this wasn't an issue. I replaced the fan with the correct one and problem solved. We also gained a regular customer.

  • @dereksmith1803
    @dereksmith1803 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it. Would love to have seen the customer's face when you showed/told him.

  • @mannydiehard1
    @mannydiehard1 Жыл бұрын

    Great vid/investigation 👍

  • @buckskinlady
    @buckskinlady Жыл бұрын

    Man I was expecting like a shop rag wedged into the coolant system but not a poor mouse. I guess that’s one way to get killed by a cat!

  • @screwplanplaybook7121
    @screwplanplaybook7121 Жыл бұрын

    I had to replace my water pump engine still getting hot well after the shop, last one in Nephi,Ut and the owner and everyone one was baffled, well oil cooler was plugged, the red and green coolant was mixed anyit plugged up the oil cooler, so pulling over parleys summit was a blast, it over heated going up the pass and when oil cooler was replaced no more over heating issues. Thank you for the video.

  • @pauljordan756
    @pauljordan756 Жыл бұрын

    Nice detective work!!! 😁👍

  • @sjg4967
    @sjg4967 Жыл бұрын

    The Cat Columbo... Always gets his mouse....! Awesome.

  • @johnniezuniga6841
    @johnniezuniga6841 Жыл бұрын

    You are the best thank you for sharing all your knowledge on all your other videos thank you very much take care and God bless

  • @benbirkigt493
    @benbirkigt493 Жыл бұрын

    Gives a whole new meaning to we have a mouse in the house lol great video love your videos.

  • @deanh7190
    @deanh7190 Жыл бұрын

    Proving once again that an adept ape shall overcome a cool mouse 🤣. Very interesting video👍

  • @larrytalley117
    @larrytalley117 Жыл бұрын

    Fun and informative video! Love these videos from the Ape!

  • @AdeptApe

    @AdeptApe

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi Larry! You were early on this one.

  • @larrytalley117

    @larrytalley117

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AdeptApe I used to have over heating issues with my C7 right after buying my RV. Found the acrylic surge tank, which is part of the cooling pressurized system had a split at a seam, causing the system to not hold pressure. That was not hard to find since it was spraying coolant everywhere. I replaced the tank, but still had some over heating issues. Next was to have the cooling system flushed and filled with new coolant. It was better but temps would still rise when climbing up hills. What I discovered was that I was exacerbating the issue with how I was driving. My C7 has a direct drive fan, and I was allowing the engine rpm to get too low under when climbing. The Allison transmission was not down shifting far enough to keep the rpm’s above 1500 to 1800 rpms. Actually I found a sweet spot at 2200. This reduced the load on the engine and forced enough cooling air through the radiator. Remember the engine in a diesel pusher is actually mounted backward and my radiator is in the rear, not side mounted. Side mounded radiators usually have electric or hydraulic driven fans and are not necessarily rpm connected. Maybe this will help someone else with an older C7.

  • @jesushelpme6995
    @jesushelpme6995 Жыл бұрын

    Years ago I had a mack r690 250 4 valve. I had a mack dealership shop install a new radiator (I didn't have time to do it myself). I picked the truck up, drove roughly 3 miles and the temperature gauge pegged. I took it right back. Whomever hooked up the bottom radiator hose didn't remove the rubber protective cap from the radiator. The cap was the kind that went over the radiator pipe stub. The guy had to fight to get the hose over the rubber cap to put the hose on. The guy must have been asleep, on drugs, or something.

  • @Justme-jt1ef
    @Justme-jt1ef Жыл бұрын

    Wow never even thought about that happening that’s crazy.

  • @mohammedahmed1109

    @mohammedahmed1109

    Жыл бұрын

    For real 😂

  • @Justme-jt1ef

    @Justme-jt1ef

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mohammedahmed1109 nah for fake.

  • @scrotiemcboogerballs1981
    @scrotiemcboogerballs1981 Жыл бұрын

    That’s crazy glad you found the issue I hate mice there nasty creatures thanks for sharing buddy

  • @invisiblekid7374
    @invisiblekid7374 Жыл бұрын

    This has got to be one of the weirdest if not the weirdest vehicle problem I’ve ever heard of. On any vehicle ever! Crazy!!

  • @donalfinn4205
    @donalfinn4205 Жыл бұрын

    Well done!☘️👍

  • @JasonSmith-vd1sz
    @JasonSmith-vd1sz Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding video!

  • @SuperSecretSquirell
    @SuperSecretSquirell Жыл бұрын

    I had a truck drained down and left the pan under the truck overnight. When I came in the next morning there was 6 dead mice floating in the coolant.

  • @AndrewNeilBaird
    @AndrewNeilBaird4 ай бұрын

    Found a dead crow in a vertical exhaust pipe , and a nest of mice in an air box . But worst of all was a Yellow Jacket hive in the ventilation system, vehicle was laid up for a few months , jump started it and the cab filled with very angry wasps as they got blasted by the air fan on full hot . 😂😂😂

  • @gutsngorrrr
    @gutsngorrrr Жыл бұрын

    Wow, I was not expecting that one.

  • @AstrologerJoe
    @AstrologerJoe Жыл бұрын

    Good job Josh! 🐁

  • @vaughncowan4055
    @vaughncowan4055 Жыл бұрын

    Great job. I learned a lot.

  • @jimmotormedic
    @jimmotormedic Жыл бұрын

    I was going to say another cat choking on a hair ball story. But I have a feeling this is going to go on a while

  • @TheChunky2010
    @TheChunky2010 Жыл бұрын

    Rest in pieces Mickey

  • @MustadMarine
    @MustadMarine Жыл бұрын

    A mouse! Excellent piece of detective work, sir!

  • @giuseppepippoizzo6506
    @giuseppepippoizzo6506 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, explanation.

  • @toolfreak11
    @toolfreak11 Жыл бұрын

    This shows that capping lines and hoses for contamination control is really important. Also, how do you meet flat rates while making videos? The cat dealer I work at skimps is on time pretty bad

  • @nuggetwv5302
    @nuggetwv5302 Жыл бұрын

    I've never heard of that. But that will be on for the books.

  • @marcusholmes7942
    @marcusholmes7942 Жыл бұрын

    great work legend

  • @lambertleigh2724
    @lambertleigh2724 Жыл бұрын

    Wow...I wudda never thought that happen... BUT you never know.... GreaT VideO...!!!!

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