Motormouth Radio

The boys talk about diagnosing vacuum leaks, try to decipher a mysterious trouble code for a caller, discuss rental car options & share seized engine elixir strategies with a regular on this weeks show.

Ray repairs his wife's throttle body problem, a caller has a Mustang with flaky vacuum, followed by a VW with cruise control issues. Joe diagnosis them all and we still have time to interview Carl Anthony from www.AutomoBlog.net

A 74 Corvette at the U.D. provides Joe with all sorts of diagnostic challenges including spark, fuel & seized brakes. The Mercedes SUV Ray worked on pulls hard then corrects itself mysteriously on a road test. This show marks 18 years of MotorMouth Radio!

The Bronc drops the news about his retirement from the media, & caller Markinstalls a heated windshield grid which inspires talk about car-guy gifts. Hey Matco Man Brian digs Ray's 13 lb lasagna and the cool jazzy music featured on the show this week.

We discuss some of the specialty tools needed to work on late model cars, Joe explains why power-braking a Ford helped diagnose an engine misfire, and we plod through the 2018 list of MotorMouth Radio's memorable moments on this show.

Rusty Becker, veteran go-kart racer spends some time in the studio this weekcluing us in on Long Island's rich history & his return to karting. The boys were gifted with a pair of cowbells from a listener and play all cowbell inspired music on the breaks.

Ray & Joe talk with Jeepin' Al about a rebuild for a listeners Jeep, then try to diagnose aneutral safety switch in a callers Camry. Mark Worman from Graveyard Carz on the new Motor Trend TV channel calls in to share information about the launch of the shows 10th season. It's "Mopar or no car"on today's show.

Ray & Joe talk about car diagnostics that aren't linear, which leads to explaining what "logic lock" is.A re-structuring at Coker Tire holds our interest, and it's revealed by a caller that we not only like Vanilla Fudge on our ice cream, but in a concert hall as well.

The boys explain what its like to work "blindly" on a car, switch gears and cover an air bag installation in a Motion Monte Carlo, then slide into driver distractions. Car Anthony from Automoblog.net calls to clue us in on the best time of year to buy a car, and we get a field report on the Escalade Joe diagnosed out in the parking lot.

The boys discuss Ray's painful snow plow installation, Joe's 97 Maxima EVAP revival andlast week's parking lot diagnostics. Winter weather windshield wiper choices are covered as well as a callers Ford Focus TPMS concern on this show. Our new YouTube winterizing video debuts.

The boys host Steve linden and talk about his recommended winter storage choices.Talking about old vs new car tech leads to a thread about collecting old car ads from magazines, and we get a phoned in recap of the recent SEMA show then discuss resto-mod preferences.

This week we discuss Instagram posts, then delve into car winterizing strategies. Porsche relays & body panel alignment followed by how to work in uncomfortable positionsin a car gets clarified from Brian from Matco Tools.

The boys tackle a small EVAP leak, bad grounds, high tech gear polishing, and motorcycles failing to trip traffic light senors. Callers rave about Blue Devil head gasket repairand share a wiring horror story on an '87 Trans Am

A caller talks about Winter car storage concerns in Nevada then the boys talk with Carl Anthonyfrom www.Automoblog.net about regional corrosion found in cars, and Ferritic Nitrocarburizingof brake rotors. We also find out what the heck it is the Automoblog guys do anyway.

A flaky Saturn fuse confuses a caller, Ray wrestles with cranky brake caliper hardware,then the boys talk about their homemade tools and Joe's Subaru fix using his Power Probe.

We diagnose buzzing Hyundai’s, Mercedes air pumps & Caddy throttles & still talk with Dave Hays from www.HotRodInnovations.cool about his Grand National Roadster Show entry & new products.

The boys cover a danger drive in a Buick G.N., a hot engine in a Saturn Sky & revisit a Honda Goldwing charging issue before moving onto body mount replacement in a Dakota & an ignition fault in a 1975 Nova SS.

The boys do a Malba show recap, talk with Bob O'Gorman from www.Autolift.org about shop lift safety & maintenance, then close out with weekly tool incentives from their favorite Matco tool dealer Brian.

The second hour of the remote found us talking about bad fuel pumps, danger drives, & a local Indie car movie. We were fortunate get Gary "The Local Brush" & show organizer Billy Velvet behind the mic.

Our first remote broadcast was done at the Malba Field & Marine Club car show in Queens.Author and Motion Performance maven Marty Schorr shared the mic and live car repair calls were fielded.