Bobby's....."How to" information and blog

Hey Folks, the video above is the one that really got my youtube account going. I shot this one last July while installing some soffit vents at a job I was working on. We filmed it in one take, straight off the cuff from a cell phone. This video is not the best quality and the audio is very low. The video just reached 10,000 views over the Christmas holidays. The video is titled “how to install soffit vents” and the reason I’m posting this video on my blog is so I can explain in greater detail on how to perform this project. I do intend on filming some better quality and more detailed videos on soffit vents in the future. Lets get to it!!!!! First of all there are two basic types of soffit vents…the continuous run type which is what I’m showing in the video and the individual panel type. I will stick to the basic procedure for the continuous run type since that’s what our video was depicting.   Step 1, on the bottom side of the boxing blocks measure the distance from the...

This 2000 Mazda Millenia had a rough idle and code PO300 stored in the ECM or computer. Being an ASE Master tech you would think this would be an easy one to repair. Right? No!!!This car made me wanna push my toolbox over a cliff and say “the hell with cars” “I’d rather be a greeter at Walmart” LOL. Anyway, All jokes aside….First, I removed a sparkplug for inspection. Plug was worn and looked original so I installed a new set of plugs and cleared the code. I took the vehicle on a test drive and the Check engine lamp popped right back on when the vehicle came to a stop. I cleared the code again and then noticed that a drive was not even necessary to trigger the lamp. The lamp would pop right back on at idle. I performed a brake torque test to see if the engine would stumble under load. No misfire at all nor did I notice a dead miss earlier when I drove the vehicle. I then checked the air intake hose for cracks, splits etc. No problem found! I then used a can of starter fluid to spray...