Finding Engine Vacuum Leaks With A Cigar

Scotty Kilmer, mechanic for the last 43 years, shows how you can find engine vacuum leaks in your vehicle using cigar smoke. It really works as well as a thousand dollar smoke machine.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• vacuum
• leak
• repair
• find
• cigar
• smoke
• missing
• P0171
• check
• engine
• light

[MightyPhaeton]

Does it have to be a cigar? Can I use a cigarette instead?

[scottykilmer]

@MightyPhaeton sure, but cigars look better on video and make more smoke

[mayne242]

Scotty, my car has a hiss at a certain rpm (1800 rpm for my 6 cylinder car) under load (4th gear). Do you think this is a vacuum leak? Thanks.

[scottykilmer]

@mayne242 sure sounds like it, try smoking it out

[altops]

Is guaranteed carburetors a good source for replacement carbs?

[scottykilmer]

@altops never heard of em, so I can't say.

[TheLightningStalker]

I fixed my car, but now I have lung cancer.

[scottykilmer]

@MrRemainsunidentifie But it is rather funny, and I'm not promoting smoking. You don't inhale, and if you don't like that, just pay a mechanic to use his 1000 dollar smoke machine as I suggest in the video.

[DeepThroatYogurt]

Wow, not what I expected when searching "puffing on a big black hose"

[zeppelin67637]

@MrRemainsunidentifie It's funny that some people find it a problem in the first place.

[macuazito]

te amo scotty ..........i love scotty ♥

[LowkeeLT]

@thecardrawer10 Blinking.. way more harmful than smoking a cigar

[LowkeeLT]

The leak is fixed, by now my car has intake cancer

[blarson12]

What if you don't smoke? I guess i could always stick the hose up my ass and blow a big fart.