Throttle Cleaning and V6 Access

These videos were a part of my series "Quick Tips". I shot them both on the same day and posted them together. The Throttle Cleaning video was a video dedicated to BowlingBallOut who posted a question about a sticking throttle on his Saturn. He was so pleased with the result he sent me my first video response. I was happy to help with his car and possibly getting into his wife's "good graces". Chalk that one up for another person helped by EricTheCarGuy.

The second video, V6 Access is about getting just a little bit more room when your working on a transversely mounted V6. I think it will be helpful to those who are looking to swap out spark plugs or in my case replacing a hose to the heater core. I hope I save some scraped forearms here.

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Throttle Cleaning

V6 Access

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O2 Sensor Basics

I have fallen behind on these posts lately, sorry. I posted this video last week as a video response to the check engine light video that seems to be my most popular video. I did some cool custom graphics for you on this, made em from scratch I did, took me a whole day. Thing is this video seems to have fallen on it's face. I thought I covered the material well but perhaps I went a bit too fast with my voice over and lost some people. It's funny how you can put so much effort into one video and not get any response back, while the video that I just threw together to get something up gets all the attention. Well at the end of the day it is all market research for me because one day soon you will have to purchase the good information. I will still be posting free FYI videos but if you want the nitty gritty you will have to pony up some green to get such useful information. At this point I think the more I do the better, I think I'm still figuring out my audience and they're still figuring me out. So for now I will just keep making videos and see what sticks.

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Checking fuel Pressure, the quick way

Here is a video that I posted as a response to the Honda main relay video. I had a lot of questions on that video about main relays so I decided to do some clarification. I tried to stress in the original main relay video that if you don't have fuel pressure to look to the main relay as a possible cause, I think this video does a better job of covering that instance. I must stress however that this is a quick check and should be performed with a great deal of caution as gasoline is very flammable and should be kept away from any ignition source. If not you may have more than a no start condition to deal with if you are not cautious.

I've had some great questions posted to this video that I hope to cover in future episodes such as, old gas, sticky throttle, and a dirty fuel system. I like questions, it makes it easier for me to cover topics that you have an interest in so keep them coming.

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Test Drive

Test Drive is a new play list that I created for the ETCG YouTube Page. I took some of the old videos that I posted on my ICK69 channel and re-edited them for ETCG. These were videos I did of cars that I thought were cool, or cars that I had to drive for my old job. I hope these videos will be entertaining and give you some food for thought. Watch the whole play list if you get the chance.

The design of the opening sequence was contributed by Cputub1, a friend of mine on YouTube. I added the motion graphics and the rest is history.

I hope you enjoy these, they were fun to make.

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9Second Mustang

1998Acura Integra Type R Supercharged

1957Chevy

2009Acura RL

2009Acura TSX

Acura NSXT

The Galaxie

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New Website

Well the time has finally come and the new EricTheCarGuy website is up and running. I'm proud of what has been accomplished here, ETCG was just an idea 6 months ago and now it is a full fledged reality. The future for ETCG is to make the full length versions of the videos available in the next couple of months on the "Fix It" page. Those of you wishing to get the latest updates on the availability of those videos as well as see the occasional ETCG news letter are more than welcome to sign up on the "Fix It" page.

I've also started a series of videos called "Quick Tips" that cover quick how-to topics on auto repair and maintenance. As the title implies these are just little facts to file away in the back of your skull for future reference.

Well I'm off to do more work, I hope you enjoy the new site. If you have any questions or comments you can send them to me at Eric@EricTheCarGuy.com.

Special thanks to Matt Snedaker for his help with the functionality of the movie player and the sign up section.

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ETCG

Honda No Start? Possible Main Relay

Well it has been some time since I posted a video or blog, did you miss me? Well you don't have to be mean about it. Well this latest video is about fixing a Honda/Acura no start condition created by a lack of fuel pressure. The most common cause of this I've found to be the Main Relay located under the drivers side dash. Once you get it out it may be a matter of soldering a poor connection on the circuit board, if this is the case you will be able to perform the repair for $0, yes you read that correctly. I hope this helps you get where you are going, if it did, remember me fondly and buy my videos. Speaking of...

This brings me to the reason that I have not posted in a while, I've been working on the new ETGC website. I have the overall "look" of the site created, I only need to make a few things work like they should and we will be ready for launch. I've had a heck of a time learning the language of the web but thankfully I know someone who does that sort of thing that needs some work done on his car, this will save loads of time and hopefully mean that the site will be up and running in the next week. You really want to see it, I made it very pretty to look at. There is also a page where you will be able to sign up to purchase new full length ETGC videos that will be on the market in the very near future if things go as planned. If you think you saved money with this video wait till you see what is on the horizon, I'm not kidding.

For now look at the lame site that is about to be extinct.

EricTheCarGuy.com

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Till next time

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Have fun
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ETCG

Episode 9, Octane Ratings and the 4 Stroke Engine Cycle

I know it has been some time since my last post but here we are to talk of octane and compression. As the video states I was having a conversation with someone the other week and the subject of what grade of gas should they put in their car came up. I thought the subject would make a great ETCG video and here we are.

I wanted to take a different approach to this one than the traditional videos I have been making up to this point and use more voice over as well as some animation. The animation was courtesy Ford Motor Company by the way, thanks guys. I have been noticing a trend in my videos of late becoming somewhat long-winded for YouTube purposes and was hoping to find a way to make them more efficient in getting the information across. The next step for me is to actually script these before I shoot and I think I can get even more from them. Keep watching.

I know I am getting less frequent with my video postings of late but the reason for that is because I'm teaching myself some new software that will enable me to create a new website for ETCG. Look for that in July, perhaps sooner. Also on the new website I will be making longer more in depth repair videos available for purchase as well as some other interactive parts to the site. I have a lot of footage that I have yet to edit. As I said, keep your eyes out for that sometime in July.

Well that about wraps things up for this blog. As always if you have any questions or comments you can visit me at EricTheCarGuy.com.

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ETCG