EVAP "Russian Repairs" (Suzuki XL7 4x4 - PHAD Work Truck)
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2020
- My trusty 2002 Suzuki XL-7 PHAD Work Truck needs some spring TLC!
Every time I fill the tank to the brim, it smells of raw gas, and the classic P0442-Small EVAP leak code popped up.
But is there only one leak?
Let's fix it the PHAD way: NO PARTS REQUIRED :)
Enjoy!
Ivan 
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It’s refreshing when you see someone actually fix something rather than replacing it.
Ivan, I'm an Old guy. I guess I must be part Russian? Because I've been fixing things "The Russian Way" most of my life. LOL!
There's the right way, the wrong way and the Russian way!
First off, you fixed it! That's the big kudos.
I see you had the oxy-acetylene rig there in the background... Silver brazing a whole new copper/nickle line in the gas tank blow-back fitting might have been a better way to go. The soft copper/nickle threads may not be up to the task of holding over the long-term due to the material's softness. Of course, this is assuming you have sliver solder on-hand.
As always, I very much enjoy tagging along on your repair efforts. The knowledge I've filed away for future intense DIY work is impressive! You and Eric O. have certainly earned my viewing fee expenses! ;-)
Excellent idea! Ivan, since you have the torch, you can use these tips in this very useful video. I just bought myself a small gas welding kit to replace a faulty fridge compressor, cleaner and tighter joints with silver or even lead/tin solder as this is not for a drinking water pipe.. ruclips.net/video/wJD712DB6S0/видео.html
Exactly what I was thinking, replace it all, braze it in.
I agree also 100% with brazing on a repair like this. And Ivan, that Henrob torch that you have does an excellent job of brazing. Try it, you'll like it!
TakeCare,
Bill
I was thinking to slather the threads of the nut in epoxy before inserting the pipe but your suggestion of silver soldering is superior! My dad was a dab hand at it back in the day!
I was also thinking that brazing might last longer
Trust me… my wife is Russian. I often use her father’s help in my many of my projects. Couple of observations…1) Russians are very creative; 2) They don’t like to spend money if not needed; 3) function over style; 4) just want to get it done quickly. For someone who tends to “over think it”and “ over do it” I am often frustrated with his approach. That said, the end result always works.
Hi Ivan, Now that you are an American it's called "Yankee Ingenuity".
Pudge was one of my fav players
During this COVID-19 mandatory government home confinement your videos are a very welcome relief, thank you Ivan!
Stay healthy, Argeny!
Creative. Those metal tabs on the evap valve would have snapped off if I had tried that. Thanks for the review. See you later down the trail...
That wouldn't be an issue, just use another russian fix then. I would just through a zip tie or a hose clamp to keep things tight.
You and Eric O. Have some of best car repair videos on RUclips.
Great job Ivan. Thanks or keeping us entertained while we’re stuck at home.
Oh yeah, that's the way to keep the XL7 running! Nice job Ivan and thanks for taking us along for the repairs!
I like your scientific approach to automotive challenges while providing (when appropriate) DIY fixes.
I'd have to say those were probably the cleanest " Russian repairs I've seen you do Ivan. 👍
Great repair job and preventative maintenance is always the answer to unforeseen breakdowns. The jeep is holding up well for 18yrs and gets the job done.
Great job Ivan!!! Stay well out there guys!
Another excellent downrange covert field repair, and you saved yourself the time and trouble not too mention the expense of chasing that valve
You do what you have to do under the circumstances and I salute your ingenuity. When I was in the Army, we called this "Battle Damage Assessment and Repair" or, BDAR. It was simply a bombastic way of saying "jerry rigging." They published a manual for this and everything! It actually contained a number of clever tricks to get you out of a bind, although they were only sanctioned under emergency conditions.
Take care of your vehicles and they will take of you! Truer words were never spoken. Ivan you're wiser beyond your years.👍
XLn't ingenuity Ivan! "Fix what you've got!" Always the best method!
Great video. I learn so much from watching all your videos. Keep them up.
Nice repair..I like your positive outlook on spring being here...at least on the calendar😎
Improvise adapt over come. Nice fix Ivan love no parts required.
by thinking outside of the box I got promoted mechanic technician and a magician good job Ivan
Great repair Ivan, this is advanced Russian repair, proper Russian method would be welding with a car battery and a slit mask.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice Engineering skills Ivan.
Great job young man!!!! Improvise, adapt, overcome!!!!!
Love the Russian repairs. Thanks Ivan.
Great Thinking outside the "parts required box" Ivan, always worth a shot if labour cost is free..Stay Safe Mate..
Great video..watched it from beginning to end. I always say you "look after your vehicles". It is true don't wait till the last minute do a repair that needs your attention now!. Im always thinking one step ahead of how can I fix this with what I have at my disposal. Love all your diagnostic videos. Keep up the great work.
Also take care and please keep posting videos!! We have a lot of time on our hands right now!
Being 66 years old and starting at 10 years old working on lawn mower engines, I learned to improvise a lot. Did this especially on my own vehicles is why I believe you never buy a car from a home mechanic in most cases. At least I would never sell one of mine to anybody else before I would bail it. However when I did work for family members or somebody else I always did it the best I could the correct way. In my situation I probably would have ground it off, cut the line to the right length with the bend drilled the hole out to correct diameter just fluxed it and used plumbing solder because I don't have a MIG welder Still a great fix, stay safe and healthy keep up the good work.
Every time I see your Suzuki, I think that's old - then I realize my van is an '03 as well! Newest car I have.
Ivan, I just want to take a minute to take you and Amanda to please be careful with this covid 19 right now. I love your channel .
Ivan, very nice repair! So simple easy to do, Haha! Thats the benefit of the old vehicles!! Nice fix!
First of all if I had been the one on the grinder you would have seen the part fly across the room. 2nd Thank you for something other than the Beer virus to look at. 3rd Keep up the good work.
Oh SNAP!
@5:31 I was looking right at it without eye protection!
@6:57 knocking us over like Eric O...
All I could picture @17:36 was crunch and snap.. nicely done!!!
Good advice at the end about taking care of things as they pop up.
I've had my 01 Navigator for 19 years and learned if I don't fix even the smallest issue right away, the problems add up quickly and overwhelm me (make me hate the vehicle).
Totally agree! On the flip side it seems when the issues are fixed, the car feels happier and rewards the owner :)
Great video Ivan.
Great job Ivan ,thx man stay well
No labor cost = unlimited creativity!
Ahh crap - I almost missed this one! Nice fix man! That was great! My kind of fixes.👍 I'm half Lithuanian ... and it was Russian-controlled at one point, so you never know, lol. 😁
Yeah, I love that NiCopp tubing myself. I have a couple hundred feet of it in rolls, mainly for brake line, but you can use it anywhere like you said. It's easy on the dies, and never corrodes - it'll only turn green! Lasts forever, so long as you pay attention to rub points when running long lengths of it for brake or fuel line.
It's sad on the newer vehicles that manufacturers have made 100% sure that NOTHING can be disassembled and fixed. Main reason I love the old ones. On my '93 Volvo 940, I was able to completely remove and disassemble the power window switch without using a single tool! Everything came apart by prying with my fingers. Cleaned up the copper contacts, stretched the spring a touch, the window now works, and the switch works better than new. 😎
Ivan, great video!!!!!!!!
Ivan, at first I thought your channel was just going to be a phad but now I see that it'll be phorever!
brilliant Ivan!!! Your PhD is not only theoretical but practical!!! ;)
Nice job Ivan, I hope you and your family are heathy and safe. Btw I hate evap leaks lol it’s always on top of the tank. Thanks for sharing... Jay
Nice video ERIC, keep up the good work.
Lol Eric would have replaced some parts 😁
nice repairs! I think Eric O had to replace a vent solenoid on a tracker or Suzuki years ago and the part was discontinued so he improvised with a common vent solenoid from gm today and it worked mint.
That’s what I call a great Russuz repair Suzuki should be proud 👍 I can’t tell the difference between dialectic grease and silicone paste either
Nice repair Ivan. I recently at work replaced a fuel tank on a 01 Chevy tracker, ran into the same issue.
Good job on the Suzuki Ivan, do your best to keep that rust at bay.
Ivan will be keeping his cars going very deep into the apocalypse.
Nice, I cant stand staring at the CEL. Driving my own vehicles so well done...also living in Vermont, it seems like Every ticket I get for a CEL. Is Evap. Related, the rot takes these systems out all the time in the rust belt!
Better than any dorman part available
I like your welder I have one zigzag do you like it and then never had any trouble with it even though I use just the flux core wire but these days I like to get gas and then I can see which way I could go yeah you're doing you doing it the right way keep up the good work.
I would've silver brazed it. Good job Ivan!
When faced with adversity, there is a little Russian in all of us.
Great video Ivan. great fix the Russian way.
Last time I needed a Suzuki part from the dealer. I called the former Suzuki dealer, They said " We can get Suzuki parts but it takes a month and there's no warranty no refunds." So Russian repairs are a good thing!
I liked the help start on the wire brush
I hate those chicken shite fold over tabs. Brand new they work sorta. But when you open them up they can fracture when you try to fold them back down. 4 screws would be better, but you live in the rust-belt and they would corrode.
Nice repair! That’s what we call “shade tree” repair in Texas. It works, it will last a good long while, and it was labor only. SWEET!!
Thanks for the great video. Keep them coming. Lot of us are shelter at home and these videos keep us looking up.
great choice of car
Nice fix I would label this one MUSTIE 1 REPAIR. CHEERS
Ivan makes cars BTF (better than factory), great content brother.
Well done Ivan. You still "da man." 😁
Sweet ivan muy bueno. Stay safe
A good ‘Battlefield Repair’ Ivan, only thing I would have done different would be to braze (hard solder) the elbow to the vent plate. The Kunifer (trade name over here in the UK) tubing brazes very well and the overall finished look is much more tradesman like. OK I know it’s out of sight and won’t be seen but ‘if a job’s worth doing...’.? Great channel and videos👍🏻🙂.
Bro your are a genius!!!!!!!!!
Great video with no new parts. 👍
6:57 ground, we don't need no stinkin' ground! classic and timeless move lol
Das good comrade. You have big brain!
Like your Russian fix. Be safe
Plus you have the roll over valve, BTW depending on vehicle you can cut an access hole above whichever valve you need to service via trunk without dropping tank.
Very cool repair Ivan!! I should definitely invest in a welder! Too many times I could've used one. It's been about 15 yrs since I've had routine access & use of a few.
I love the creativity! Hope all is well with the ongoing situation. . 😷😷😷
Thanks for the comment Cuba! When I got this little MIG from my brother I wondered how I ever survived without a welder!! Stay healthy and strong! 👍🙂
Ivan,
Great repair and video - thank you. Those gas tank straps are still available - Spectra Premium ST444 at Rockauto.
God bless
Paul (in MA)
Yup that's where I got mine 👍😁
nice job Ivan, N . P .R
Having to Bump starting the bench grinder love it!!! if its not broke don't fix it!!
*@**15:55*
"Silicone paste" is just that- silicone blended with glycerol
into a paste or cream.
"Dielectric grease" is the above, with zinc oxide powder mixed in.
Oxides (green crusties) do not conduct electricity.
The "rust" of zinc is very pure, and has nearly zero conductivity,
and doesn't react with solvents or temperature.
The ingredients are right on the tube.
If you didn't have a welder- you could've also
silver soldered that together, or even brazed.
That was way cool!!! :)
Second thumbs up for Russian repair!!
Love the Russian fixes!!
Good advice.
And that's how we fix the reactor back in Russia !
The Russian way is nicht verboten in my book. Dock dock dock. Great video Ivan!
Привет, Иван! На субарях похожие стоят ,может даже такие же .😉
Hi Ivan nice my motto is just because it’s not in the book doesn’t mean you can’t do it , and you can stop that rust on the tank straps with double boiled linseed oil just wire it off and brush on the oil I have it all over my 40 year old VW Rabbit still on the road in salty Canada .
Nothing left to brush off in this case 😂
Love it!
The gas tank straps can be repaired....Go to Home Depot/ Lowes and buy yourself some galvanized 1.5 strapping used for HVAC and pop rivet it to the old stuff to bridge the rusted part.... something we did in NJ long time ago
Not worth it... New straps are cheap on Rockauto lol
@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics Can't be cheaper than $10
Nice fix that any handyperson DIYer with a welder can do. I do not have a welder however.
Good work anyway
Using ye brains. I Love it.
i would go with a brake line and soldering iron , no rusting.... my previous car had return hose factory jammed and tank exploded on a hot summer day, Spanish assembly, luckily tank was mostly empty, not for security reasons but refilling :) ... it cracked few inches so I had to solder it, cousin is still driving it, no complains ...
I had a 2001 grand Vitara and still have a sidekick, man they are great vehicles. Unfortunately as you know in PA rust catches up to 20yr old vehicles. I would love to find 1 with minimal rust.
Use silicone grease to poison the oxygen sensors! Good show!
Hey Ivan, Easy on that “springtime” stuff, they’re calling for up to 8 inches of snow tomorrow over here in upstate NY.
Ha I'm sure we'll get some slush as usual
Well done Ivan, but one thing and I only say this because I suck at welding you might want to practice a bit.
Hylomar blue, non setting gasket maker is perfect material to use in this scenario. It is very high viscosity non setting material.
Berry good...
Those Nippon Denso style of canister closed valves is always a problem in rust areas, they always rust jack for sure.
This exact thing happened to my Aerio. Slight smell of fuel when full. I made a new flange out of gas resistant PETG on a 3D printer. Your solution, threading brake line is smart if you have a welder.
Also my charcoal canister cradle was totally disintegrated. That turned to be a bigger project in fabrication. No parts are available.
The vent valve was another story. Argh. Eric O has a good vudeo on substituting GM parts.
If you dont want to weld the nut, I heard JB Weld stands up to fuel vapors. Any other ideas?
When you do the "hack" videos you need to speak with a thick Russian accent.
Great video, attacking the problem the smart way!!! I never heard the term "rust jacking" before but I'm way to familiar with the results with these salted New England roads. I'm predicting that in about 2 more months my crap car will have jacked itself up far enough so I can do the brakes without the floor jack or jack stands. How much $ is the Leak Tamer?
That's the way they do it today in Cuba...parts are not available for anything, so you improvise,and invent repairs...you may have an old Chevy using a Russian motor and truck rear end....Good Job in thinking outside the box...