Replace Cabin filter in 2012 Hyundai Elantra

 

 

The other day I brought my daughters 2012 Hyundai Elantra into the dealer for an oil change. They changed the oil and brought me the cabin filter to show me how dirty it was. It was dirty for sure! They said they could change it for me for 58.00. Wow! That is one expensive filter! I told them that I will pass for now.

After leaving the dealer, I went to the local auto parts store and bought a new cabin filter for 19.00.

Here is what I did to install it:

I opened the glove box and removed the stoppers that keep the glove box from opening too far.

 

 

 

You will see the filter cover.

 

 Pinch the tabs together on each side of the cover, and remove the cover. You will see the filter. Pull the filter out.

 

 **NOTICE- When you pull it out make sure you look to see which way the "flow" arrow is pointing so you can put the new filter in the correct way.

 

Here is the cabin filter for the 2012 Hyundai Elantra I got from my local parts store.

 

 

Insert the new filter with the flow arrow the way it was when you pulled it out.

 

 

 

That is about it! Just snap the filter cover back in, replace the glove compartment stoppers, and you just fixed it and saved money!

 

 

 

Fix a water heater - Pilot light keeps going out

So, I had been having issues with my water heater pilot light going out. The only way I knew was at 5am when my wife tried to take a shower and woke me up and said " there is no hot water". Not a good way to wake up at all!
I would get it going again and it would last a week or so and then it would go out again. Sometimes I would relight it and check it before bed to be sure it was still on, and it would be off. I would relight it again and it would stay good for a week or two.
Well, after fighting with it, I decided to call and see if it was still under warranty, since the home was 6 years old. My water heater is a State GS650YBRTW.

I called State and they said that it was already out of warranty and it had a 6 year warranty. Since I didn't move in until August of that year, they said if I sent them my closing statement, they would update the warranty to the move-in date. Cool!
Well, I could not find it, so I just called a repair company in the area. They came out and said it would be 700 dollars to fix it. THEN tried to sell me a new BETTER Rheem unit for only....2100 bucks! Do what?? 700 was bad enough, there is no way I was paying that OR the 2100.
So, I was back to trying to fix it myself. I was able to get my warranty updated and they sent me a new pilot light assembly hoping that would fix it.







I checked everything out to be sure I had what I need to do the job and everything seemed to be there. I got my tools ready as well. I had three wrenches 1- 3/4, 1-7/16 and 1- 3/8 inch. These were to take the lines out of the gas valve. a flashlight to see into the burner assembly area, screw driver to remove the screw holding the pilot assembly to the burner assembly, and pliers to remove the broken viewing glass that I had.

I shut off the valve that went to the gas valve so there was no gas going to the system. I started to take everything apart starting with the tubes going into the Gas valve.

Once I got those loose I pulled apart the ignitor wire from the ignitor.

Then I removed the nuts from the burner compartment cover and since everything was loose, I worked the door out and away from the water heater.

Once that was done I could pull the whole burner assembly out of the water heater. When I tried to do this, it would not come out. It was stuck on something. I got my flashlight and looked in there and realized it was set down into a bracket. Below is a video showing how you have to lift it up out of that bracket to remove the unit.

Now that it is out, i took a good look at it, so that so that I could see where everything was mounted. I used the screw driver to remove the screws holding the pilot assembly to the burner assembly. There were three screws.

With that off, I pushed the new pilot assembly through the opening in the cover and re-attached.

Then I replaced the viewing glass I broke when I tried to pry it off. You can see, there are little tabs that hold it in place. I used the pliers to pinch those tabs together which allowed it to be removed.

Then I pressed in the new glass

I then just re-installed everything the way that I took it out. One thing to note, make sure you tighten the middle gas tube first when re-installing the tubes into the gas valve. It will give you more room for the wrench not having the smaller tubes in the way.
Once I got everything done, I turned on the main gas valve, lit the pilot light and fired up the burner!
Now that the burner was on and gas was flowing, I sprayed my bottle of soap bubbles around the fittings to make sure there were not leaks.
It took me maybe 1/2 hour. The parts were free for me since they were under warranty so I saved some big money!
I hope this helps you if you find the need to go through the same process!

Fix a Poulan Pro gas blower

One of the items I recently had to fix was my Poulan gas blower.

It started to bog down when it ran and eventually got to the point where it would start but would stop after a few seconds of running. I checked the usually stuff like the air filter and made sure it had enough gas. It was like it was starving for fuel.

I did some digging on the Internet and found folks taking about the bogging could be due to the fuel lines. I took a look at my fuel lines and they were old and very hard, so I figured there could be a crack in one of them causing it not to get the fuel it needs.

 I researched more and found a company that offered parts for my model. I did a Google search for my model name. I think it was from repair clinic.com. I ordered a new fuel filter, replacement fuel lines ( there were two, one was larger in diameter than the other).

When they came in, I carefully looked at how the tubes were ran on the blower so I could reinstall everything once I got it taken apart.
Once I got everything put back together with the new fuel lines and filter I cranked it up, and it ran like a champ!!
The parts cost me around 15 dollars and took me maybe 20 minutes to install and now my blowers runs as good as new!