Hyundai SantaFe: Broken Front Coil Spring
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- In this video I go through the process of replacing the front struts, springs and strut bearings on a 2017 Hyundai SantaFe. Always use a lil caution when messing with coil springs...they can bite ya! -Enjoy!
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Usually with most auto repair videos, I tune out or exit but the background (ADHD-like) commentary is absolutely hilarious. Taugh me something and kept me entertained, keep up the great work
I told my wife that I would be getting home a little late tomorrow after work because I was going to pick up a new set of muffler bearings for her car. She told me not to bother because the bartender said they were on back order! I’m thinking she is secretly watching SMA behind my back!
Nice 👍
Im 48 years old and i always loved to watch my dad work as he was a mechanic til he retired and i remember when his 1970 MONTE CARLO was running a little rough he would just take a pack of matches and set the points with them and like magic it was running smooth as silk again. Amazing how much has changed since then and how many different things need to be done on modern vehicles to acheive the same results. My dad is retired so now i spend time enjoying watching you now.
You do great work. Love your videos. Thanks for your hard work . 👍
One of the most knowledgeable and honest automotive technicians EVER.
Those wheel jokes were great, I feel bad for anyone getting... tired of them
or in Britain "tyred".
@@pudmina It's British either way: 'tire' is the original spelling, whilst 'tyre' is the new, posh iteration.
I am amazed at how you can look at a nut or bolt and 95% of the time know the size. That is a gift.
It's been said that saying "Come on, baby!" instantly doubles torque.
I read that too!
I find in general four letter words usually help with torque, that or busting up knuckles.
An old mechanics trick.
Somethin 'Me Ma' taut him!?
You got to make the right face also
Hate how easy he makes it look. I have work on Jeeps and have to spray the penetrating oil and wait a week for it to barely work
Another inspiring video from South Main Audi.
Thank you
It's been interesting watching you bounce back and forth between battery powered tools and air powered equipment. Professional workflow is very hard on gear! I like air tools because you don't have to worry about failing batteries, and I've got air tools that are thirty years old, still going strong.
Yes as a Heavy Truck tech I only recently started using Lithium powered tools, I see it the 3/8" drive impact I am using wouldn't OUTLAST my 3/8" Snap On air powered impact it has 20+ years of trouble free use. I do like the light weight Craftsman impact I am using but I see I need to treat it like a cell phone 🤔
Every new SMA video is better than the last. Also, love the casually placed 2 new Thor's in the last shot.
Good advice to have customer drive around for awhile to let things settle in first, before doing a more critical alignment (if they wanted to). How many shops would offer that advice instead of just banging it now? 👍
do the alignment now....the "settling" will be minor to the tire wear being major....save your tires now
I have time to wait for penetrating oil to penetrate overnight but I don't think it really does the job! Just got struts and lover control arm bushing replaced on my Volvo XC70. Great job Eric!
Always like the in-town test rides and seeing the house I grew up in.
A great mechanic with a good sense of humor. If you have never made a mistake, you have never lived.
I always appreciate that you do maintenance that the owner will never see.
You can buy a kit of locking lug nut reverse thread sockets at any auto parts store these days. Years ago I was replacing struts on a car and the strut bearing housing was broken. Ball bearings were bouncing all over my shop floor.
"Rub him and watch him grow".... you're killing me. :)
South Main, I enjoy your videos very much. The production is appreciated.
I haven’t replaced a muffler bearing in a long time thanks for reminding me of the construction of them.
"Muffler bearings", "Bumper seal", "Henry screw", Board stretcher" & "Bucket of steam" are some of my favorites.
Don't forget "Gallon of rotor wash" or "5yds of flightline", but guess that only applies to aviation. 😶😑🙃
I'm a lot manager at a dealership and just so you know I've picked up the habit of saying "Come on, baby" every time I've had to do something to a car, like change a battery etc 😄
It helps right?
I think that is an inherent trait in most people that work on anything mechanical.
I find myself saying 'c'mon mother lover' and 'hal-e-lu-yer' alot now!!! LOL
Here we go is another one... (Deboss garage)
I find myself tunneling my inner Eric by saying "Fancy!" now and again
I wheelie enjoy your videos! Thank you everyone at South Main Auto!
Most useful tool for doing these is the socket set with a hole in the middle you use to undo the strut top nut, try undoing it with a cranked wrench! Just done these on my Land Rover Freelancer 2 (LR2 on your side of the pond)
nice to see you are well stocked with brake cleaner in the alignment shop.
I did my son's Hyundai Santa Fe last fall, this looks so familiar. I just went to the "Rock Auto", not a sponsor, and got 4 struts with bearings and springs with swaybar links for less than NAPA wanted for 2 struts without springs. His the right rear spring broke.
Rock auto in the past has been accuse of selling fake parts, so watch out. I used them before too
@@thevinceberry I think th y were ok, they seemed like real parts, steel and they fit so yeah I think they might have been real parts.
@@thevinceberry
I'm pretty sure that RockAuto is only a warehouse and shipping entity. If you've gotten fake parts from them it could be that whoever is supplying pulled one over on them or actually took over the aftermarket. There's been a lot of super cheap crap replacing what used to be good brand named stuff as Eric mentioned. Moog and a few others used to be incredibly good quality but today are actually worse than some of the other alternatives. That's a damn shame. On incredibly critical components or on parts that require a lot of Labor to get replaced I'm leaning more towards going to the dealer and getting OEM. And sometimes the OEM price isn't that much more.
I've got a 2013 Toyota that has drum brakes on the rear. And all of the aftermarket drums I found at O'Reilly we're not manufactured correctly. They are hubcentric not lug Centric. And the center hub diameter was machined too large enough that it made the drum off-centered and this particular car does not have the small retaining bolts to hold the drum in place while you're assembling it. So I ended up having a pulsation while breaking and took me a while to figure out why. And that ended up being the cause. Took them back tried a different set had the same problem. Went to the Toyota dealer to the dial Caliper with me and measured the new ones from Toyota versus the factory ones that were on the car and they were spot on. They were also double the price. But it doesn't matter if it's a good price if they don't work.
Was the second gen Prius 2004 to 2009 so if you know anybody with one of those that wants drums replaced on the rear don't screw with the aftermarket you'll end up chasing a brake pulsation that you can't figure out the cause of
NAPA SPONSOR THIS MAN. Geez. Another great expose into the trials that mechanical deconstruction offer a good man. This man is a hero to his clients and they have no idea.
Great vid on strut change. We used cages around the spring , had one pop once the noise alone was scary. Things are goofed up ,the Telluride is made in Georgia USA and the good ol Silverado made in Mexico. Hard to get excited about new cars anymore.
Nice video. for a guy at home I like the quick struts, saves a guy from dealing with the spring and comes with the mount/ bearing.
Gotta love the old classic reach around! 🤣
A lot of suspension repair in the southern tier in the last 2 months.
I deliver foreign car oem springs,struts,etc everyday.
I even took some Audi suspension pieces to your brothers shop this past week
High ratio of "come on baby!" to minutes in this video.
Cops might pull me over for excessive come on babies/minutes.
A lot of "MOTHER LOVER!" too, and at least one "mother lovin' son of a hoohoo".
Legend has it that if a “come on baby” happens simultaneously with the phone ringing, the air compressor coming on, and a horn honk from Hey It’s That Guy, all subscribers will win $100, courtesy of Naper (not a sponsor).
This is mainly routine, you need to fun the game, otherwise it gets boring baby..😂😂
Time to make a drinking game out of his frequent sayings
Off on price? Dealer only spring and bearing. Quote was $ 460CA! Fix 1 strut $920CA! Aftermarket assembly $366CA for 2! Thanks for your channel !!
Just finished watching one video, and a new one pops up. Cheers, Eric!
Life is good.
How clean is that under hood area. Wow!
For the sway bar links I use a bicycle wrench. Park tools make some decent wrenches. Thin to get into the small space instead of using vice grips.
Nice one ! Thanks !!
I’ve been watching this channel for over 2 years now. This taught me how to find a good mechanic. I would use SMA but they are 4 hours away and also I drive a diesel. Sorry Eric, I know how you feel about diesels!
It definitely helps to have the right equipment when doing struts or anything else. Btw love how clean your junkyards are. Definitely not Detroit.
Yes, I noticed before you said it about the bellows thing that goes on the strut. I was hoping you would notice it before you got the whole thing together and have too take it all apart again.
Great video and we appreciate your thoughts and opinions on parts and the quality issues you’ve seen!
I would love to see South Main Auto reach 1,000,000 subscribers!
Thanks for the tip Mr. O, I almost re-used a strut bearing to replace a muffler bearing with a cracked race. It was a near-perfect fit, too. You're right though, that plastic would be a problem because of the heat. I'm talking about the main bearing of course, right behind the manifold injector. Those will get over 900F under sustained load.
P.S. Thank you also for the shout-out on the alignments and breaking bolts loose! If I put a set of tires on and I know I'm gonna align it, I soak the adjusters after I take the wheels off, then break everything loose when I come back with the fresh rubber. If I don't take ten minutes breaking one bolt loose under the car, I have more time to get camber/caster right, grease fittings, etc.
38:50 Shoot, that's a John Bean aligner from Snap-On... I hope Mr. O's is more consistent than mine! I work in a corporate shop, and our district got to be the guinea pig for some of these. V3300/V3400, what a piece. (facepalm emoji)
Great video. I found your channel looking for a plug swap on a '12 SanteFe sixer. My car has 150k and has not had any maint. done except oil chg. and brake work. Your shop seems pretty dialed into the Korean cars so its a great source for us shade tree mechanics. I've had bad tire wear so I'm thinking I have alignment issues. Also have a controller issue with a clunk when accelerating. I'll be watching your channel for more great tips on Hyundais, esp. SantFes. Thanks.
I have been driving the Santa Fe since 2008 as a company vehicle, have gotten a new one 2015 and 2020. Each has been a very good car. The 15 had the warranty engine issue but other than that a great car, the all wheel drive for winter has been perfect . Highly recommend to anyone that asks.
That used to be a long standing joke.
Muffler bearings.
But..just so you know Eric, Mazda made a car (think it was a 626) with muffler bearings!
As a ex parts guy, sometimes you see those jokes come to reality!
Supposedly, they smooth out the motion of the muffler during harder turns.
:-)
Dont we love changing springs , danger danger, I always use a web strab around the spring when in my hydraulic or manual spring tools,I once had one jump out , it hit me on my upper eyelid , 12mm dot , I looked like Jack Sparrow with my eye closed for a week , so glad I was not wearing safety specs , great video Eric always remember the rubber dude 😉😉😂😂😂😂
Love the innuendo Eric, love the videos dude keep it up. People where I live have the tenancy to cut the springs to lower their cars ride height. They keep doing it not realising they are doing something really dangerous and stupid
Used to be a common routine by car builders to heat a coil up until the car dropped onto blocks to set the lowered ride height.
@@Blazer02LS yeah but that's a lot better than just cutting down the springs. If you're going to lower the ride height of your car then do it properly instead of endangering your lifeand other people's. I have seen the aftermath of what happens if done improperly
@@philmerrifield1163 So have I, same thing with wheel spacers.. Get proper wheels or axles instead of running those.
@@Blazer02LS I've seen wheels come off cars with spacers, it weren't pretty. Guy then asked me if I could put the spacers back on after the repairs had been done. I told him that that's the wrong way of doing things and I wouldn't do it. I fixed/replaced the hub rotor etc put the wheels on and shipped it 2 weeks later he crashed the car and investigators found the wheel came off due to his own negligence and when he put the spacers on when he left me after my repairs and didn't retorque the wheels
@@philmerrifield1163 Yeah, I do the same, have seen them fail or the studs fail or come loose.
SMA, love the videos and love the closing, "If I can do it, you can do it." I believe him!
Why don’t we hear the sheep sound when you use Fluid Film and the big music chord when brake clean is sprayed?
Very imp birthday pending. A wise man would post a tribute to a great partner, Mother of his children & the reason for his healthy world outlook, Happy b-day Mrs O.
She is 21 again,right
I believe you're a trustworthy man Mr O. So why is it when you say "We'll come back and torque these to factory spec off camera" what I hear is "Two ugga duggas is good enough"?
Two ugga duggas would be better than my method. I twist it until I say click.
Always enjoyed your video. Lots of help for an old shade tree.
That lumber is reaching snap-on prices....
and still they don't give you a lifetime guarantee...
There's nothing more satisfying than the click of a torque wrench at the right spec 😃😃😃
LOL I agree the torx head in the link is only useful when it's new even then still a pain, after a year then it is completely useless, and the vise grips are the best option
when I change sway bar links, i cut the link in half, snap the rod off of each side so its just the metal ball, grab the ball with vice grips and zip it out. I spent too much time as a young lad trying the allens and wrenches and just like you said, theyre a useless pain in the ass so I learned to get destructive. I can change links in like 10 minutes now
@@peteragurkis3590 I usually try to take the nut off one time then got straight to the torch and slice the nut off. Can’t be tight if it’s liquid 🤣
The "TORX ON THE END of the LINK" engineers, are NOT, REAL engineers. "Disposable Product" division people.
My experience with customer saying " I plan on getting this" was just wanting the cheap rates, or just squeaking through justification. I still only fixed them right because great portion of them drove the cars for years after, and I didn't have to worry about come backs or it failing on whoever buys it and having them say I did the work when they sold it.
"Not a wheel big problem around here"...I hope you're proud of yourself, bingbong.
Broken springs must be a Hyundai thing, I used to have an 2010, IX35 (2.0TDi-4WD) When I looked up its MOT history (I'm in the UK, "Ministry Of Transport" Inspection, it's our equivalent to your annual inspection, applicable to all car's from 3 years old) Prior to my getting the car it had failed 2 previous MOT's (inspections) for broken springs (passenger side front and passenger side rear) and 2 years after getting the vehicle I had to replace the drivers rear spring before before submitting for another MOT inspection. (IX35 became the new Tucson)
Enjoy your channel, though its only some of the Asian stuff you work on we might see on UK roads. Shocked how badly vehicles rust over there, surprised manufacturers are not manufacturing with Galvanised frames/shells.
I always confuse my strut mount bearings with my muffler bearings. Thank you for pointing out the differences 👍
Even though aftermarket struts are often hit or miss, they are so much easier to swap, in a few minutes, and much less $$, I think that is still the best option
LOL!!! Good seeing I'm not the only one that talks to tools and parts!!
Can’t wait for my Autel maxis scanner to come in. Used my buddies to reprogram my PCM and rewrite my vin. Just manual swapped my 2001 Honda Accord F23A1 after having a failing automatic transmission.
I had never heard of Astro before watching SMA videos. I've since acquired a couple tools, and they're all very nice!
I ended up getting a few too. Not a sponsor.
Astro also makes paint guns too
I'm trying to get out of working on my own cars (having Toyotas in an environment where the roads are not salted helps.) The strut compressor reminded of my very early days of DIY, when I had to replace a strut. I couldn't get ahold of a hand-held strut compressor so I bought a dozen muffler clamps and placed the along the spring all around. I was all gansta until I held it just a _bit_ wrong and all the clamps zinged around to one side.
Ive been buying Astro tools since the late 80's..always been good quality tools..i actually have a 2 1/2 ton Astro floor jack i bought in 88 thats still as strong as the day i bought it.
Beautiful town you live in Eric. Great houses, love the U.S. flags everywhere. One question - why are U.S. roads in such poor condition? America is great at so much, but the condition of your roads is horrendous.
When you turned the top of the strut to release the plunger it reminded me of a buddy of mine I worked with. He was putting struts in car and couldn’t get the strut to expand. He had it in a vice and was tugging and pulling and tugging on it and couldn’t get it to expand. I told him to feed it taters and after fighting it for a few minutes I felt sorry for the guy and walked over and turned the shaft a quarter turn and it released and expanded by itself. We got a good laugh that day.
I believe there was a recall for this problem. I received a notice from Hyundai about the front coils on my 2004 Santa Fe.
You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel ..
Great job, you are always looking out for the customer.
Hey Eric awesome video! I love the long 1/4" ratchet, would you happen to remember where someone could buy it and what the model number is?
The best presentation on the topic anywhere ! Thanks mate !! Glad you are aware of the situation re: tyrannical plandemic .
I've always wondered if strut bearings and muffler bearings were interchangeable. Today I learned. I still wonder, though, since a strut bearing has plastic in it, you obviously can't use it as a muffler bearing - it would melt - but in a pinch, could you use an all-metal muffler bearing as a strut bearing?
Changing blinker fluid intervals will be reduced by half.
Hey Mr. O : with replacing the spring, bearing, strut on both sides... your opinion on simply using a strut assembly on both sides? Lack of availability, cost, or personal experience preventing this course of action?
I wheelly enjoyed your show today, Love the old buildings around your town very historic. .. 👍. Did you ever mention the brand of tire alignment machine you have? Thanks Eric
yeah I couldn't resist the pun , but maybe in your next video just shows your Wheel alignment machine thanks Eric have a great week
Its a Hofmann rack, he did an intro on it a while back after it was installed along with the new lifts in the other bays.
A nice easy panel to remove to get to the top mount bolt.. usually have to take the complete scuttle panel off and wipers..right pain in the butt.
A simple design like a removable panel saves a lot of faffing around. 😎
Do a 1991 Toyota Previa. Top strut mounts are under the dash. Right side has an access cover in the glove box but the drivers side - oh boy
that sounds crazy.
Nice work, I would have been looking for a brand new assembly.
It's hard to believe we have to live with crap parts or pay ungodly amounts for good parts. I sure get a kick out of being an early subscriber and friend and have seen the shop grow with more equipment and capabilities.
Huge help. Never done anything beyond an oil change but I managed to fix this as best as I could. Had to get a little finicky with tightening torque to specs but it's just a portable bomb, who cares how tight it sits right? Fml.
If the protective reusable rubber cover outlasts the wear part it either didn’t do it job the first time or it isn’t worth reusing.
Not as crusty as some you've done. Good job Mr. O!
Looks like that strut top bearing assembly has the yellow paint writing that parts from a junk yard pulled part has. Could that strut have already been replaced previously?
Just gotta just love Eric O. Great sense of humor!
"10mm... we got piles of 'em" Sooooo that's where all mine go!
Sorta like lost socks in the dryer; your sockets go through a time-space rift and wind up at Eric's shop.
I bought a used car once that had one in it. A snap-on too.
We know now...Where the 10mm Black Hole sends what it sucks in!!
@@shadetreemech290
That was mine....thanks
I'll send you my P.O. box number..
@@markh.6687 That makes so much sense and explains it all !
I just bought a vintage motorcycle, and the motor would not turn, the exhaust vales were seized. I soaked the stems in Aero Lroil penetrating oil overnight and they popped free! Penetrating oil does work!
"Don't pull the nipples" 🤣😂 dude always has me laughing.
Some like it, some don't
I find watching your videos is relaxing
Makes me wonder how many of your DIY or’s are looking up muffler bearings lol 😄
Actually they do exist. On engines that use a downpipe off a manifold and have the donut style gasket with the steel core, those used to be listed in service literature as an exhaust bearing. Pretty much all replaced now as simply exhaust gasket or donut.
Or blinker fluid replacement
@@WaniuszY I just released my blinker fluid damn manufacturer never install a fill hole to install.
Lol
@@WaniuszY And remember to get the right blinker fluid for your vehicle.
@@markh.6687 mine was green made yellow pop
Nothing better than Eric O on a Thursday morning!
Just did this on my wife’s 2012 Santa Fe. I just replaced the whole assembly though. Don’t have the cool tools!
You took the safest route. I always purchase the quick strut (full assembly). Compressing springs with janky spring compressors is not worth the risk for a DIY, shade tree mechanic. Just spend the little extra and buy the whole setup. Go search on RUclips for videos of spring compressors letting go. Gives you a really good idea of how badly you can get injured.
Everything is new
I lost all my balls out of my muffler bearing! Sounds tough with out the bearing so I don't think I will replace it. Thanks for the show.
I'm a fan of the complete strut assembly myself. No labor involved for working the "jiggly bits" back. Then your Brannik can do what it was designed to do, collect dust.
I have an older Brannik that collects lots of dust, because it cannot do the small diameter springs....
im just clearing my backlog but 34:10 YES, ERIC YOU GET ME, IM HAPPY!
for the common denominator tho, i mean yes it kinda is my job to deal with that, but by things loosened you actually speed my work by A LOT.... you have no idea how many times i had to actually use to torch at the allignment machine or adjust tensioning bars because the casters are off and i have to use a wrench and the largest metal pipe that will fit under the lift... praying i wont be busting my knuckles swearing all over the place... specially control arms that you have to torque till your wrist cant handle it and i have to loosen them again to have the thing go straight...
so yes ill love you and ill go the extra mile to do the "perfectionist" allignment on your car for actually giving me the time savings to do that....
Found a piece of a spring? Must be the piston-return-spring! Ask ChrisFix, he's good with that stuff!
Such a different world where I am . Here ppl still drive trucks from the 80-90s and they are not rusted out yet. There 2009 was toast lol craziness good place to own a dealership.
Is it too much work to add auto-generated subtitles to your videos? Seems like more and more channels are dropping them. Even though the words don’t always match, they still help.
Been getting some old SMA videos suggested. You've come a long way Eric - O. Great vids
I'm surprised the strut mounts/bearings didn't come as a complete assembly.
Right now its hit or miss on whats available.
Man I hope this 2x Iraq, 1x Afghanistan medically retired vet right here gets that THOR in your give away. It would help me at my job as a tire tech. Especially since the x wife just took me for all my money.
Thor is lookin good in these vids!
I’m lazy I bought the whole assembly 🤷♂️and all those ball bearings great sling shot ammo 😉.
Are you kidding? Quick struts. Only way to go.
I am still amazed by the amount of crust on the rotors on every vehicle.
I have the slightest of suspicions that the torquing to spec is like a McGuffin in movies; its mentioned but never happens.
He uses the German Gudeintite spec
Naaah, it’s spec’sd in ugga duggas from the factory. Trust me, not as many things as you’d think actually get full torque tool control in auto manufacturing. A lot is just ran in with battery powered impacts.
I'd love to see the tools required to torque a strut nut as a regular torque wrench is useless :)
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More feedback on aftermarket parts is helpful. Eric, I am also finding lots of crap out there! Delco lately is NG?