MazdaB3K
Welcome! This channel is dedicated to the various automotive projects (and other random things) I work on out of necessity(or hobby) at my home. Anything from something as mundane as an oil change to something as complex as an engine swap are all on the table. I try to make my videos assuming that the person watching wants to get into the world of wrenching but doesn't quite know where to start. I enjoy teaching and I am aware I do blather on a bit at times, please bear with me. My videos are generally packed with quite a bit of good information so try and listen and watch to the end if you can.
Contact me at mazdab3k@gmail.com for questions, comments and business opportunities
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New video is up. Had to do this one twice as the intake wasn't compatible with standard Ford gaskets. The job did eventually get done and done right. Truck is running fine now.
https://youtu.be/4SEgntQftbY
3 days ago | [YT] | 2
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If you are needing to replace an intake on a Ford modular engine (4.6, 5.4, 6.8) two or three valve, I do NOT recommend using the replacement intake made by ATP. Just did the job and I had to do it twice because the cooling passages in the intake would not seal using Ford style gaskets, though the ATP said those gaskets were compatible. So... an $85 dollar set of gaskets went down the drain and I had to rip the intake out, switch it back to the somewhat suspect insert gaskets it came with and put it back in. I gooped the cooling passages with RTV so hopefully that keeps them from leaking even with the cheesy gasket. Time will tell. I did film this so it will turn into a video at some point down the road.
1 week ago | [YT] | 3
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New video is up. This one wound up shorter than I thought it would be, but it still contains plenty of useful information for small engines in general, not just chainsaws
https://youtu.be/X9XbMrmN9oU
1 week ago | [YT] | 1
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New videos are up. They are a linked pair as in the short is part 1 and the long form video is the part 2 of the saga of my gas F250 up and dying out of no where a few weeks ago. These two videos are also significant as I moved from my old video editing software, OpenShot to CapCut. CapCut is intuitive enough that I downloaded it, installed it and made these two videos all in one go. I'm impressed and I'm only using the free version. I guess I've joined modernity with video editing now.
Part 1: youtube.com/shorts/E633IRq9T4...
Part 2: https://youtu.be/MFvAudz74Lw
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0
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Today is another good day. Ms. Mildew is back up and running. Was a bit tricky to diagnose but she had a bad engine computer. Computer was damaged when a ignition coil shorted out. It was an interesting troubleshooting process if anyone would like to see an after action type video where I go over what I found and the testing that I did to find it.
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 2
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Today is a good day. I fixed my daughter's laptop, fixed my pressure washer, fixed my air compressor and hopefully I'll finish the troubleshooting needed to fix my gasser F250 (Ms. Mildew). She's running on 7 at the moment. I made recordings for what is going on so far with Ms. Mildew and the air compressor. Pressure washer was a carb swap and boring though I had to replace the o-ring that goes behind the quick connect coupler.
The laptop... somehow my daughter snapped the ground pin off on the laptop power cable. Even as an IT professional in my 40 years on this earth I have never seen a snapped ground pin. I really don't know how she does it. Hand her a cord and she will snap the end out of it, somehow someway. A new power cord end and she's good to go.
I'll try to have another video of something up by tomorrow, no promises though.
**Update**
Truck is still broken. Grand conspiracy of broken PCM confirmed.
1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 1
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New video is up. I still find it funny that there were no burnt out bulbs while I was filming this. Then a bulb on the instrument cluster burned out shortly after I filmed this. Nuts.
https://youtu.be/Ry3bOdXc4yU
1 month ago | [YT] | 1
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Still around folks. I reply to comments when I can and I've been filming stuff, just not had time to do video editing and get the videos up.
1 month ago | [YT] | 3
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New video is up, on a Friday no less. Coverado approached me and did ask me to make a video in exchange for get the product for free. That being said, the covers do look good and are holding up. Most importantly, the wife is happy and that's enough for me.
https://youtu.be/kBEo92PLrR4
2 months ago | [YT] | 2
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Video for this week is up. Kinda proud of this one because the pacing is actually decent for once. Pacing is something I really struggle with but for some reason this video really just... flowed.. It's been a month or so since this video and the AC is still ice cold. Coldest in the fleet actually.
https://youtu.be/K6HzEZC6EXs
2 months ago | [YT] | 3
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