hello hello thanks for tuning in today i wanted to show you guys how to make a simple smoke machine
slash evap machine to find evaporative leaks and any type of vacuum leaks in a car excuse me
so it's simple to make usually these things run about 150 200 bucks online for a decent one you
can make this thing for probably under 50 bucks at home and i'll have a link in the description to
all the parts needed necessary and i'll go over it over everything as we're talking so first thing is
a mason jar just a glass mason jar get one with a screw down lid get a couple old socks you see you
got a soldering iron there three different barb fittings here to fit the common sizes of vehicles
one bike tire valve and a cheap 30 watt soldering iron so i'm gonna go ahead and plug this saturn
iron in while we're waiting and we'll talk about everything so basically what i did was i threw
some old socks in the glass jar here and you want to get a jar big enough to fit your soldering iron
the theory behind it the socks are to wick like the wick of a candle or something and
the soldering iron is going to heat up around that baby oil and create an immense amount of smoke so
you have these three ports here to hook up a vacuum host of different ones
um different sizes in the engine and everything and then we have the trader valve and tire stem
here to go ahead and hook a bike valve or a bike pump to so i recommend doing it with a hand pump
and that's what i have so i'll go ahead and hook this up like i said it's real simple to make all
you do is get a stepper drill and drill some holes and then go ahead and just glue these things in
cement them in epoxy and however you want to do it and then i just tape the jar because actually
a little bit of this baby powder goes a extreme i'm sorry baby oil goes an extremely long way in
this thing i've probably had this setting for two years now with one bottle of baby oil two socks
and i've used it numerous times so it is heating up in there and sometimes
you want to give it a little stir around a little shake get everything wet in there
and as you can see it is getting foggy in there you can see
my hand through there so you can see the smoke
circulating in there and it takes about three or four minutes we'll just let it set up and we
got the bike valve hooked up like i said this took me 10 15 minutes to make really really simple and
this will help you find a lot of leaks in a car honestly i just wanted to share it with everybody
so i'll show you pop one of these off and i have these little
vacuum caps on here to keep the smoke in but you see
it's really light right now but i'm sure you can see it coming up
and that's what you would use to kind of just pump into the evap system and baby oil
is not going to hurt it it's a petroleum your car might smell like baby powder but
that's a plus for most people you see the smoke coming out there
and it's creating quite a bit of smoke around me it's kind of probably hard to see in
the camera let me see if i could change the lighting maybe you'll see it better
we'll let it build up some more so you can get a real good view
but solder one soldering iron three different barb fittings a couple of vacuum caps a bike
pump a tire valve a glass mason jar a couple old socks and some baby oil and you see
it's producing it hasn't even been five minutes yet and it's producing a good amount of smoke
in there like i said you just splash it around it's not gonna hurt the soldering iron
as you can see i'm bringing up this you can see all that baby powder smoke coming
out or a baby oil smoke coming out open the big one up so you can see it
see all that smoke coming out
and all i'm doing is pumping a little bike valve
and you have a hose hook to that going into the engine with the engine off
and you just keep pumping air in until you found the leak
so yeah save yourself a couple hundred bucks make it at home thanks for watching please subscribe