No way I was laughing hard at the end 😂😂 we need a update on what happened to him

The “KOBE” part 😂………man that dude was happy you took care of him. Most shops won’t do that kinda stuff 🤌🏾

This comment is for their editor: great job with the subtitles and the meme references you are able to put in! Like that shit is hard asf! You are making this video so much more enjoyable for a wider audience thank you❤️👏🏽👏🏽

The more and more I watch this channel the more I love it!! The quacks get me every time and I cuss a lot as well!! The things you see coming from other shops is just unreal!

I swear that you guys are the only automotive channel that i follow, you guys are amazing in your simplicity in making content, you're just genuine and that's what i love the most. It makes me want to drop everything here and move there!

I'm not huge into cars but I love this channel. Yall work hard as hell but keep it lighthearted in the shop and its awesome to see.

Sorry I swear a ton. Thanks to the Marines I don't have a fucking filter half the time...

for a cheap degreaser, 4 parts water to 1 part dawn after the simple green treatment you were doing, dawn is a emulsifier so it bonds to both the oil and water to help flush oil out of tight spots. i hope this helps

Just don't break the lip on the way out. ...*Smack* That comedic timing was impeccable.😂😂

F*cking love will. Such a great person!! He has helped me get my daily get back on the road ASAP.

The opening captures a moment every car guy either has ir will experience absolutely perfectly. Where every person in the vicinity of the open hood is running the same 3 thoughts thoughts though their heads 1. How could this have happened 2. What could be damaged and how badly 3. Is this fixable? How much work is this going to be. Its a horrible feeling.

Internal radiator failure when coolant and atf mixes. Very popular on early 2000's nissan/ infiniti It'll need a Trans, radiator, complete cooling system flush, thermostats, etc. Not fun

First time watching..When someone thanks you like that it's worth more then any dollar amount..subscribed

You can see his heart break every time he finds something new, but he for sure enjoys his job

For real to have a customer so appreciative is priceless

Can't believe this is the first time you guys have ran into this. Super common on quite a few cars, neons, cobalts, Cadillacs and a few others I've seen it on, anything with those end tank coolers built into radiators. Fun and stinky stuff !

Man I can't wait for the update. Will, you're a goood man. Lots of love from Aus

“Dreams don’t come true without good people”. Mr Ellis with the wisdom.

There is something so great about watching people who are great at their job - this just seems like an awesome place to work

Been following for a while on Tik Tok but I think this is my new favorite KZfaq car channel. Y'all seem like such good people

“E85 cold start 🤷🏻‍♂️ “….i felt that lol

Menudo,Alcazeltser and Nesquick... dad essentials

I want y’all to know I spent 34 years knowing NOTHING about cars except changing tires and air filters. Recently got my dream car (‘05 Honda Element. Don’t ask lol) and decided to use the opportunity to learn my own car maintenance. There’s some stuff I won’t do, but channels like yours give me amazing info. How to associate a sound with a problem. How you diagnose an issue based on a vague customer statement. Where to source quality parts, how to know if your mechanic is fair and honest. You’ve given me the confidence to wrench on things I wouldn’t have touched a few years ago, and it’s saved me over $1000 in labor so far and my E is doing great! Time for a valve adjustment on the V-tech though, and I’m not brave enough to open the block yet so I’m taking it to a local element expert here in the PNW. Your team is amazing!

I work for a parts house and we were getting bad radiators that fit GM vehicles. You were lucky, the one instance we had was the antifreeze pumped into the transmission and destroyed the transmission. Cool channel, just found you guys. Best of luck in everything.

I guess the trans fluid identifies as coolant now

I like how these guys work. They pow-wow and brainstorm together to get the job done. Looks like a fun place to work.

I had the radiator blow up like that in my Tundra. Big old strawberry milkshake. They flushed my transmission and coolant system multiple times. The engine works fine but the transmission shifts hard. My radiator was factory Toyota.

Not only have I seen this, I had to diagnose it for a friend. It happened maybe 7 yrs ago in a ek civic. Car ran fine but once thermostat opened the trans would slip. Checked the trans dip stick and seen strawberry quick. Told him the rad had an internal break on the trans cooler side and needed to be replaced and trans flushed with new fluid added. Luckily it never had issues with cooling.

I've seen this once or twice at the shop I used to work at. Chrysler has a similar problem with the oil cooler on the v6 models. It sits in the valley under the I take manifold and is often misdiagnosed as a headgasket.

the pathfinders/xterras had the same issue with the integrated radiator/trans cooler. also those megan race ramps are the best! especially for getting slammed cars on a lift

i seen it quite a few times. mostly on the older 90s chevy blazers, the cooler inside breaks and the psi of the cooling lines is higher then the psi of the radiator . so its always getting trans fluid.

I'm not even interested in cars that much but you guys are too funny , this will be the only auto I watch

That shits such a pain in the ass too. My 04 grand cherokee did this maybe 3(?) years ago and I still get little clumps of strawberry milkshake when I flush the system 😂😂 gunked up the water pump too. You had the right idea sticking the hose into the block but I can almost promise that didn't get it all out the coolant passages 😅

trans cooler is internal to the radiator, it happened all the time with the vq40 xterras and frontiers, damaged the trans due to intermix

Lol I love watching y'all's vids on what people do to there cars y'all make my day

This was a thing on some of the M112/M113 (and honestly, a lot more engines) Mercedes cars back in the day, pointedly the ones that were sporting a Valeo-brand radiator with the integrated auto trans cooler. Exactly as was quickly called out here, the internal seals fail and you have oils going where oils shouldn't, low-viscosity fluids going where low-viscosity fluids shouldn't, or both if you're very unlucky. Best case scenario, new radiator/cooler unit needed. Worst case, transmission also needed.

Love when he goes “wtf”😂🔥

This just happened to an acura TL type s i was working on. Trans cooler blew internally mixing coolant and trans fluid surprisingly engine oil was clean. 15 gallons of trans fluid later trans fluid is clean but the coolant still shows gunked oil, regardless of the hours spent flushing it. New Thermostat Hoses Radiator and full send.

Man we had to do that that to a mini cooper at the track. Even my wife helped out

Yeah we need that update at the end! But great work on getting back on the track

These guys look fun to work with

Wow... thats crazy. U guys are good for catchin this stuff.

love these rare long video from you guys

I have seen that. Diesel cleans oil pretty good. Simple green very concentrated works too

On equipment we use cascade dishwasher detergent powder to flush cooling systems

this shop seems fun to work in hahaha

i bet you $100 car owner didnt know where he was supposed to put the Transfluid, and dumped 2-3 quarts into the Radiator Cap. Ive seen that before.

I've seen the interal radiator trans cooler fail before. Strawberry milkshakes the trans and cooling system. Need to disconnect all the coolant lines, Dawn the block and heater core. Replace the radiator, replace the transmission.

thats what we australians call a "milkshake" very common in our ford falcons

In commercial transport we clean coolant systems all the time just remove the thermostat and put fresh water and powder dishwasher detergent. Run it up to temp then repeat flushes with clean water until clean. Works great

This is my dream...come to a shop work on cars all day then afterwards just chill to music, clean up my shop, then rinse and repeat.

Liquid cascade dish detergent works great to get oil out of cooling system, or fleetgaurd makes a product called restore that is specifically for that.

You can tell just by the way he doesnt leave fingerprints on the paint and door pillars he cares about the customer cars.

This whole episode just had the "Wheres the...Gabagoo" meme running in my head.

Youre doing gods work!!

Ive been searching for another good YT channel for a while now. Thank god I found yours love your style keep em coming !!! Subbed!

Had this on my 2003 ford f250 , dawn dish soap works fine just dilute a bit

Will is going to save another day!

Brooo ain't no waaaay. That's tragic to see 😭. I miss buttonwillow, I use to race my 240z and my dad's g35 around there quiet some time ago before I moved out east. Please let the next video be an update on the poor gt86 🙏

We had this happen at the dealership I work at, trans fluid swelled all the coolant hoses, had to pull the motor and replace all the hoses and flushed the motor with simple green and a water hose until it was clean

I have seen it before. It happened to me in one of my old trucks. It had A. Transmission cooler inside the radiator for the truck. At show some point the transmission cooler leaked into the radiator fluid. I did not know until my truck stayed overheating. It took me quite a few hours to find where it leaked from.

Hey ya Team . I’ve only just started seeing your videos but it looks like you guys get some real “ GEMS “ rolling into your workshop . Keep up the good content . Cheers 🍻 , Woody NZ 🇳🇿 .

Last part send me off😂

that pink milkshake , engineering design courtesy for countries that freeze , they warm up the trans fast but fail when they mix

I’m always waiting for new episodes!!

awesome Kia K5 color orange look good. i like it

Love watching you guys great work .. question did you fix the wield on the header ?

Had one do that to me on a nissan frontier. Had to flush the motor cooling system and replace the radiator. We also had to flush the transmission

Good ol Milkshake of death. Radiator/Trans cooler internal failure of the weld, leeks trans fluid into Radiator coolant. Had this happen on my 05 Nismo Frontier a few years ago.

I had two Ford Excursions do this.. Remember drain the torque converter to. I had Coolant in there, too

Got to love the forbidden strawberry milk shake

i was an infiniti tech for 5 years, only seen this happen once. threw me in a loop for a little bit

Lmfao I love watching you guys 😂😂😂

A few dishwasher tablets crushed up and run through the system will breakdown the trans fluid. You'll have to do it several times til it runs clear. Had to do the same on my VW caddy van after oil cooler failed and filled the coolant with engine oil.

Awwww you got your cherry popped. I've seen that time and time again with all sorts of makes and models. I call it the strawberry milkshake.

That’s one clogged up radiator! Just when you think you’ve seen it all…😳

Some cars come with a transmission cooler built into the side caps of the radiator. And if that transmission cooler fails internally, you then end up with the strawberry milkshake you see here

I was hoping to hear Will when he went to scare him was that "Bad news.... Your new transmission is broken, then be like good news. It was a joke" But this is awesome lmfao

I love these videos

We had this happen to our 350k+ mile 94 suburban and we thought the radiator leaked internaly somehow since the trans cooler is inside the radiator which is stupid alone. Good luck cleaning all the trans fluid out lol you'd have to flush the lines and engine a bunch of times to get it out. Even then good luck 😢

Honda ridgeline does that a lot call it strawberry milkshake of death where internally the trans cooler lines mix w coolant i just run the water hose like you did from fire wall inlet and goes thru motor and lines

tiktok brought me here love this channel the vics vapo rub killed me

I remember the stung by stinger event a lot of fun

The constant look of horror on dudes face is killing me.

LL Cool J and 50 on the playlist yall doing it right lol

Very common in aus on Holden commodores to split internally in radiator

Older nissan Frontiers had this issue trans cooler was internal to the radiator and would fail and mix. Fried the valve body.

I have seen it, there is a recall on the Xterra that Nissan have sent out to the dealership,replace the radiator because the lines of the transmission connect to the radiator and if the radiator goes bad then you will have to replace the radiator and the transmission too. That happened to my uncles Xterra, I told him to replace the radiator but his mechanic said everything looks good the radiator is fine five years later bam there it goes the internals of the radiator goes bad then the water and transmission fluid starts to mixing in and you can’t dive it again

Use dishwasher soap like cascade . We use it to flush diesel cooling systems when oil cooler let’s go into the coolant. It’s right from Detroit manufacture

I got a feeling of nostalgia watching this I wonder why?

I miss my BRZ. It burned to the ground in may from a freak electrical fire

Inside the rad the two can mix if the tank cracks inside. Transmission cooler lines connect to the radiator. Unless you add a separate cooler for the transmission

I did a radiator job on a 2002 chevy 2500 it had a trans cooler built in the radiator

Man that be the cleanest engine ever

This was a common issue with Nissan with the Nissan pathfinders 06 and up the transfered and coolant was separated by a rubber wall and that wall would break and also get into the transmission

ive seen 90s chevys do it with the automatics due to trans cooler on side of radiator

2:26 I may be trippin’, but that’s Littleroot Town in the background… W

Came here after tik tok, you guys are definitely my new top car youtube channel. Sorry Donut 😅

watching this makes me want to work on cars and never tutch a car at the same time.

Interesting you’ve never seen this on a vehicle before and more specifically another Nissan… Good ole SMOD on the Nissan rad. Pathfinders and xterras are known to have this problem. Rad bypass and inline trans cooler fixes it. There’s a thin strip of metal that seperates the coolant from the trans. As the rad heats and cools the strip expands and shrinks eventually tearing itself and causing the mixture. Rad replacement and fluid flushed would’ve fixed the problem. No point in messing with the broken radiator