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It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going show you how to find leaks in your car using smoke, now
mechanics have been used in smoke machines for years, I got one here, hiding
under all this junk, but it's got one major disadvantage that sucker cost over
a thousand dollars, but I found a smoke machine by custom smoke that costs just
a little over a hundred dollars, and that's why my thousand dollar machine is
sitting down here, the hundred dollar one works just as well, it's actually easier
to use, as you can see, it's made out of a paint, can has a heating element in it,
makes smoke which you can blow around to find where there's leaks in your car,
that's what I call American ingenuity, make a better mousetrap, hey you're going to
make a lot of people happy, it's a very simple device, there's a heating element
inside, and you just go to the drugstore get some mineral oil and pour it in a
little bottle that comes with the kit, then you just sprinkle a little bit of
the mineral oil on the covering of the heating element, then just put the top on
and seal it, like any paint can, and then you hook the positive cable to the battery,
and the negative cable to the battery, to generate the smoke, and the smoke comes
out the other end, so you can stick it in place us to see where there's a leak, the
smoke will come out where stuff is leaking, now I'm a mechanic, so I use the
pressure regulator that comes with, hook it up to my air supply, and that pumps
the air through, but you could take it off and just blow in it with your mouth
to push the smoke through, or you can get a bicycle pump and use a bicycle pump to
pump the air through the system, so the smoke will show where the leaks are, you
don't have to have an air compressor, now let's say your vehicles running lean, you
can go to the brake booster and you can take off the hose there, and then just
inject the smoke inside there, and check where the smoke coming up, and in this case
it's way down here, the mass airflow sensor is leaking, so it needs replacing,
talked about quick way to find something that's wrong,
now I showed this to other mechanics and the first thing some guy said was, oh that
thing looks dangerous, but really it's got a fuse on it, so you'd have to worry
about the wirings going bad, it's fused, it's got a pressure regulator that
regulates the pressure to like half a PSI, so it doesn't damage anything
by blowing the smoke too fast, and of course it has a very basic safety valve
the top of the paint can if it did for some reason build up too much pressure,
the top of the can would just snap off, but I've never had that happen, because
hey the smoke is coming out of here where the pressure is just going to come out of
this hole if it builds up too much pressure, and it never has for me anyway,
now as with any smoke machine, it's best to use them outside like I am
in a driveway, because if you're inside a garage that's sealed up, if you use a
smoke machine and you say working on an evap system that has gas fumes, the gas
fumes could get blown up and you could cause an explosion somewhere, but if
you're working outside like me you don't have to worry about that, they would just
dissipate into the air, you can use it to find leaks in exhaust systems, just stick
it in the pipe and put a towel there, and wherever the leak is the smoke will come
out, I've even used it to find leaks in the sewer system of my old house, it's
so crooked the pipes are always breaking, finds them real fast, now really the only
thing I have against this smoke machine is, this guy is so small the only we can get
all of them is by his email, and there it is custom smoke at yahoo.com, you have any
questions about him, just email it to him, hey Bill Gates started out of a garage and
who knows how big this guy will get, because if you build a better mousetrap,
people will come knocking to your door, and remember if you have any car
questions, just visit the Scotty Kilmer channel
and I'll answer them as soon as I get done talking with this dolphin