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I'm happy that you have done another basic electronics analysis and brought us in to watch it progress. Great work Eric!

Excellent lesson there. 👏

I fixed photocopiers before I retired, so I always had a bit of time to think over the customer complaint while driving to the site. That thinking led me astray many times, fixing what I thought was the problem, not necessarily the problem the machine actually had.

I actually thought I could smell the smoke!

"Let's see what they were hiding underneath the tape" I'm in this video and I don't like it!

I remember a wise man who once said, "plan your work, and work the plan". Thanks for showing this. Don't jump to conclusions.

Fiat Fix it again tony

nice one Eric

Super diagnoses, the OCD in me would love to see a fix though, this is not a criticism, i really enjoy your content

Eric, a “potential difference” is just a fancy way of saying subtraction. For example, say there are 20 particles here and 17 over there, then the “potential difference” is 20-17 or 3.

Great video - I was hoping you might do another proof by running a jumper cable (or other known good heavy gauge cable) from the starter to the battery terminal, and repeating the voltage drop test. But not sure how practical it is to do so on that car.

This problem happens to my friends car i was fixing before we were thinking it was the alternator and battery between them but so we installed another alternator and another battery only to last a few weeks and happens again 2 times in 1 month Unitl I recheck fuses cables and i noticed the positive terminal end was not really making good contact there was my little big problem solved Now its fixed Always check terminal battery end you never know what will be done to it

It's because...... you're the MAN !!

Lesson learned right there.its hard to not jump right to the fix when the flat rate clock is ticking.but it could save me buying a starter .I have to tell myself to slow down to go fast.

I'd like to see a part 2 also, I can just imagine those positive battery cables going all over the place under the hood.

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Good basics but if you could teach basics AAA would go broke

My first step would've been checking the air in the spare tire

Is the owner of that vehicle Nate the Hoof Guy because it looks like there's some salicylic acid on that terminal with a wrap. 😂

Keep us posted so we can see the drama unfold. On the next episode of of SMA, did Mr. O solve the mystery of the clicking starter, or was it two problems that at first glance was only one? Will Mr. O win the lottery and call Mrs O and tell her he’s calling in rich? Tune in next week to find out! Same O time same O channel. 😂

Gravy! If you ain't a meat head. Which Dr O ain't.

shouldn't you remove the neg cable to play with plus clamp?

Oh, the old "Bad Cables" trick. Oldest trick in the book. Eric, you sound kinda like my Dad...he'd say: "You don't know, till you know." Later I'd hear, "Now you know."

Still , fantastic You are top gun !!!!!!!! We keep on learning Show thar to Miss O.

Finally! Eric O working on Jap Crap! (I use that term with love!!) Thanks for making my post surgery boring recuperation not boring!

I knew last week that the cable connection at the battery was bad.

Since you called us out... I'll toot my own horn: I probably would have discovered the bad connection very bright and early. Any time I get a car with voltage problems, my habit is to immediately wiggle the battery cables. Maybe it's a demographic thing? For whatever reason, many people in my area don't like tight battery connections. I come across that so often that I've come to expect it.

Do you measure banshees in Canada units or freedom units? 😊

I had a Chevy S-10 on which I found a corroded starter cable. I thought I would just trim off an inch or so and would be good. Not so. I had my heavy cable cutters and I cut that first inch and still saw corrosion. Another inch, then another inch and another. by the time I found good clean copper I was 1/3 the way down the cable. Getting at the starter to replace the whole cable was, for me and my situation, going to be a difficult job. So.... I went to Home Depot and found I could get a inline cable splice specifically for that gauge of cable. It was more or less a heavy cylinder of brass with allen screws and a heavy duty heat shrink tube to cover it all up. It was a piece of cake to install and I used my heavy duty heat gun to contract the heat shrink tube till the gooey stuff came out both ends. I think that "patch" would have lasted forever, except the pickup was hit and totaled while it was sitting parked by someone with a run away truck with no breaks. 🥺 I liked that pickup.😥

And so you really appreciate that new starter I also replaced the battery cables. MOST SHOPS

I was thinking, with a drop like that, just engage the starter until it starts to smoke to find the problem.

7:00 A little Brake Kleen and then a few drops of Fluid Film on the pivot. 👍

Your smokin’, Eric!!! 😂

That diag was sizzlin’!!! 😊

Oh yeah, I’d have been well on the way to fitting a new engine, never mind a starter.

Nice example. E!!!

I would have done three used engine swaps and then found the corroded cables by accident. If I'm lucky.

Excellent video as usual !

Also, can we please have a Part 2 on this ???

Need to give her a bottle of wine to have with all that cheese.

Especially when it’s a pain in the hoo hoo to get to starter. Do your checking of the contacts!!

im learning great things from you sir....great job and knowledge

I would've checked the battery terminal first a 100%

Anyone on here that says they would have checked that before is full of crap!! They would have checked it after they put a new starter in, when that didn't work 😂

I would have checked the battery terminal before I pulled the intake manifold but that's just how I roll.

With the amount of starters that I have replaced on these old Hondas, I probably would have been out a starter, too.

I definitely would have checked that first...LMFAO, J/K Eric, have a great day!!

I believe it had a bad ground

surprise hondon't start? I'm in. I'm gonna guess cruddy connections.

I put one brake pad on backwards once. It happens.