Or, maybe they craft some ingenious remedy of their own. Then, they go to an auto parts store and buy what the scan tool tells them. Somebody buys some parts and throws them on. Now, we’ll get problems in our shop as they happen, long before they get passed around to every “expert” in someone’s phonebook.What happens now when a car has a problem? It gets Googled, then YouTubed. No charge…no go.And DIYers won’t be diving much into this. “It’s just a small leak, it’s not that bad yet, I’ll fix it at the next oil change, I’m only keeping this car for another month.” All the excuses will be gone. If you can’t charge the battery, you go nowhere! This is a huge benefit to auto technicians. Then, there’s the rattle noise that gets fixed by turning up the radio, until it turns into a grinding noise and eventually a car that gets towed in, and I can’t believe how much we’re charging to fix it! You know the stories!So, here’s the EV connection. Or the car catches on fire or smokes and stinks as it goes down the road. They all get ignored until they make a huge mess and make it more difficult for us to fix. It is the charging system, and to be exact, when the charging system isn’t working!Think about all the other problems with cars. Neutral.I do think there’s a lot more than meets the eye whichever side you’re on, and I think the future is the only way we’re going to know the ultimate success of EVs, which will be long after my tank of gas runs out and I coast through those pearly gates (I hope)!But, regardless of which way you feel about these new electron-burners, I have figured out, hands down, the best part about them. I understand both viewpoints, so I’m just neutral on the conversation. Whether you support or oppose them, it’s a deep subject that can be viewed in different ways. Do I have an opinion? Sure, but I’m more interested in the facts, and I get them from both sides. I don’t get involved in opinionated discussions about electric vehicles (EVs). However, it’s a really good step because you also want to make sure you don’t have something really bad like a hole in the top of the piston, which is super rare but I have actually seen a piston get broken from this exact type of damage. Now, with the borescope, sometimes it might be challenging to see exactly the damage going on. What I like to do better is pull the ignition coils, pull the spark plugs and run that borescope down the spark plug wells. However, that only gives you part of the story that doesn’t tell us anything about the exhaust valves or potential damage to the pistons. Typically with this failure it results in bent intake valves, so you could in theory pull the intake and inspect the valves. If you’re not seeing either one of the cams turning, it’s most likely a timing belt issue. If you see the exhaust cam turning and the intake cam is not turning, it’s usually the timing chain. You’ll want to have someone crank the engine while you’re looking down the oil fill hole. You have to peek back a little bit in order to see the exhaust cam. With the oil cap off you can see the intake cam pretty easily. We could also take out the two T30s from the upper timing cover, pull it back and inspect our belt that way. So we’re going to pull the engine oil cap off and take a look at our cams through there.
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