1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: Ron and an Ian. If you're not getting what you want, 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: keep looking. Don't look at price, look at what you're 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: getting everywhere the Car Doctor, I would pull the master 4 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: off and with to see if it's went back there, 5 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: and if it's not went back there, and then we 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: got to ask the question why where did the fluid go? 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian the 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the 11 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: phone and call in the garage doors are open, but 12 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: I am here to take your call at eight five 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: five five six and now running. Hey, it's time to 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: start your engines. Allow and welcome Ronating of the Car Doctor. 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: Here at a five five five zero nine zero zero, 16 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,400 Speaker 1: here to take your calls, your questions, your car. Let's 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: sob it, let's get on the air, let's talk about it. 18 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: You and I and they thank you for taking the 19 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: time to be here with us all today as we 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: get to continue the journey of fixing all the broken 21 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: cars out there in the country around the world. Really, 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: keep forgetting We are on the internet now podcasting, and 23 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: uh you know, we have fans in Australia and England 24 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: and all points in between. And you know there's some 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: when I look at the podcast map, there's some in Norway. 26 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: There's a couple in South Africa, and North Africa. There's 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: you know, of course I can't get a couple of 28 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: coffee in my own hometown because nobody knows who I am. 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 1: But hey, you know what, you know, worldwide popularity kind 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: of you know, it helps the cause and keeps you 31 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: going and doing what you do. Um, if you're new 32 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: to this radio show, I thank you. I am a um. 33 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: Let me say, I'm a forty three, forty four, forty 34 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: three year veteran of repairing automobiles. Most of them is 35 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: my own, you know, shop owner as a repair shop 36 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: and uh um, I've seen a lot, I've forgotten a lot, 37 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: and it kind of comes back to me in spurts. 38 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: I keep thinking, if I managed to get any older, 39 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: God willing, I'll forget more and remember more all at 40 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: the same time. It's gonna make for a very excited 41 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: retirement if that every day comes, if that they ever comes. 42 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: But we're gonna talk to you about your car that's 43 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: what this radio shows about. In some way, shape or form, 44 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: every car is reparable. Every problem is solvable. It just 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: takes some logical thought and sit down and think about 46 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: it and you know, come to a kind of a 47 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: positive conclusion about what's going on. Um, there are some rights, 48 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,679 Speaker 1: there are some wrongs. There are some things you don't 49 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: do with a car like this one good segue, How 50 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: Mikey you like that? That was smooth? So twenty Subaru 51 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: came into the shop this week at our Automotive A 52 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: a regular customer, Mr Cooper. Mr Cooper's out there. He's 53 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: a regular listener and a regular customer, and I consider 54 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: him a friend after all these years. We we we 55 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: get to talk from time to time. UM, I always 56 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: know it's her because I always get the I always 57 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: get the email that starts out his subject line only 58 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 1: has to say one thing. You know, it's the weekend 59 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: because his car has always break on Saturday and Sunday. 60 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: See hey, Saturday and Sunday breakdowns. He never breaks down 61 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. That's rare. His car is always and 62 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: like if it's real bad, his car will break down 63 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: at six oh one Friday night, right after we close, 64 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: you know, because we usually close it four on Friday, 65 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 1: so four o'clock Arminian standard time means six oh one. 66 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: Uh you know, that's usually when we get out of 67 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: the place. So you know, this week it was you know, 68 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: it's the weekend and blah blah blah, and it was 69 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: from Mr Cooper and I looked down. It was the 70 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: Suberu Legacy and it seems that the legacy being driven 71 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: by one of his sons, that the engine overheated. And 72 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: you know, my question was, well, how hot did it get? Well, 73 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: it started out with, well, the red light comes on 74 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: and it seems like it's overheating, but it's not. All 75 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: the time, We're not sure, and I'll let you know. 76 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: And over the course of the weekend I got three 77 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: or four emails. You know, it's getting worse. It's getting worse. 78 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: It's worse. Uh Like. So the car showed up Monday 79 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: morning and there it was, and it had overheated and 80 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: run hot. And when I lifted the hood, um, I 81 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: could tell that because the overflow bottle on the super 82 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: bru sits on the driver's side of the radiator and 83 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: it had completely thrown up. It was you know, it 84 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: was just like it's first time at a fast food restaurant. 85 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: After fasting it said I've had enough of this and 86 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: splatter the whole inside of the engine compartment with cooling. 87 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: It was like, oh boy, this is a sick car, 88 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: just like it would be on fast food. But you 89 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: get the point. So, you know, where do you begin 90 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,119 Speaker 1: the diagnosis? You begin at the beginning. We pressure tested 91 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: the cooling system and it showed a partial loss, but 92 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: nothing external and not enough of a hard leak that 93 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: you could say, well, is it real or isn't it? 94 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: It was just right on the fringe. And the other 95 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: issue was the top of the radiator was a little 96 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: for shmuzzled, which you know, my my grandmother would say 97 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: that Yiddish for oops, and you know, and the cooling 98 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: system pressure tester wouldn't really seal against the radiator. So 99 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: you know, are you fighting a bad tool, a bad radiator, 100 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: a bad engine? You know what is it? Start at 101 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: the beginning. Always prove what's good any diagnosis. Put water 102 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: in it, filled it up with water, tried to burp it. 103 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: I did. I used the cooling syste them um uh 104 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: system filler where we evacuate all the air out of 105 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: the system and fill it up with water. Filled it 106 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: up with water and started to run the car. Now, 107 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: one of the first tests you do in a situation 108 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: like this is while you're starting it started with the 109 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: radiator cap off. If the radiator cap is off and 110 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: the system is filled with coolant and you go to 111 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: start it and the head gas gets blown, it should 112 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: look like old faithful National guys are out at yellow 113 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: Stone vavoom because it's it's pushing air. It's drawing the 114 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: air in through the intake and pushing it out through 115 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: the head gas. Get pressurizing the cooling system while eruption. 116 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: We didn't have any of that. Okay, well, I said, 117 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: you know, maybe we don't have a head guess get issue. 118 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: Maybe there's something else going on here. And we continued 119 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,239 Speaker 1: and it got up to the point about warm up. Now. 120 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: One of the nice things about launch I have a 121 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: launch scan tool among others, and I'm using my my 122 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: my launched torque they call it, and I've got it 123 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: tied in through bluetooth to a wide screen TV for 124 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: two purposes. It's it just makes it easier to look 125 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: at this giant thirty six inch television screen and this 126 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: little tiny tablet, and you can keep your eye on 127 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: other things around the shop, you know you can. You 128 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: can work on other things around the shop and keep 129 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: your eye on the cooling temperature while you're doing it. 130 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: So I watched cool intemp come up when one thirty 131 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: one forty. Hey, this doesn't look bad. It's a gradual increase. 132 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: I put a cooling you know, the yellow cool and 133 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: funnel on the radiator, and I let it start to 134 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: burp out air because there was still some air. And 135 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: then it burped out a little air, and then all 136 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: of a sudden, it played like stock market the day 137 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: to president gets elected. Okay, it's just climbed like twang. 138 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: It went from one two to two thirty one degrees, 139 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: and I went, this is not good. Bottom lower radiator 140 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: hose was stone call top radiator hose was hotter than hot. Okay, um, 141 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: it seems like I've got something going on. Thermostat or 142 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: an air bound thermostat. There's something cock eyed here, violent eruptions. 143 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: You know. Now it's starting to boil over and okay, 144 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: shut it off. Cool down. Took the thermostat out, and 145 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 1: I got old fashioned, I got high tech. Old fashioned 146 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: got out the hot plate which we keep in third 147 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: babe bench, which is just sort of there. It's the 148 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: what if and the just in case um sort of 149 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: an efficient necessary part of any repair shop. You can 150 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: buy him a garage sales for three bucks. Ask me 151 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: how I know, and we you know, I have I 152 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: have a science beaker and one of those little glass 153 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: speakers that say pyrax on it looks cool. You look 154 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: like you know, you know Ivan the man scientists. As 155 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: you're sitting there with you know, you put water and 156 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: the heat it up and it boils and we put 157 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: the thermistead in and the thermostat didn't quite open enough. 158 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: It you know, just started to peak its head up 159 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: off the off the dash board, off the pillow. They're 160 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: like it just opened a little bit, and said, yeah, 161 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: it's not right. Took the new thermostat, and of course 162 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: I tested it, because what is new me never ever 163 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: worked And sure enough the new thermostat band popped right open, 164 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: had a thermometer in there. As soon as it would 165 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: started to open it was put the thermostead and put 166 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: a thermostat in it, put a thermostat. Then it got 167 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: up to the same thing again. Stock market, you know, right, 168 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: off to the edge, overheated, boiled over the whole nine yards. 169 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: I've got to have a bad head gasket. Got out 170 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: the five gas engine analyzer sniffed the little bit of 171 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: air that was floating around inside the radiator. We went 172 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: from zero parts per million to a hundred and fifty 173 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: one parts per million, which hydrocarbon gases inside the radiator. 174 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: Man not so good. So we've got a blown head gasket. 175 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: Why it reacted in the way it was reacting, Why 176 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: it didn't show when it was called? You know, I 177 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: can only tell you what's broke. I can't tell you 178 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: why they fail. I can just tell you that driving 179 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: it with the hot light on and and and knowing 180 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: it was overheating probably wasn't a great idea. And Mr 181 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: Cooper understands that. So when he hears this broadcast, he's 182 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: not gonna let us kids hear this because he doesn't 183 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: want them to feel bit So where do you go? 184 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: What do you do with this hundred twenty thousand mile 185 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: nine year old Subaru. It's kind of beat up. It's 186 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: got a different colored fender around each corner um. You know, 187 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: it's it's it's a younger driver's car. It kind of 188 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: remind you of that movie Days of Thunder, you know, 189 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: when Cole was first learning to drive, and every every 190 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 1: panel was a different color and had a dent it 191 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: and they pulled it into the pits and Buck goes to, um, 192 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: I can't think of the pit boss's name. He goes 193 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: to the He goes, hey, look there's a door we 194 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: don't have to fix and um uh. He walks up. 195 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: Robert du Valle as the actor. He walks up, he 196 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: kicks the door, and he goes, Buck, I don't want 197 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: you to be spoiled, right, remember that. It's kind of 198 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: like that. You know, every panel's dented except the driver's door. 199 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: And I was tempted, but I didn't want to push 200 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,839 Speaker 1: my relationship. So you know, it's a car. That's it's, 201 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: it's it's. It's not really worth putting head gaskets on it. 202 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: Because how hot did it get? You don't know? And 203 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: that's the answer. How hot it is hot? It it 204 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: blew all the cooling down of the bottle. It ran 205 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: stone hot until it was steaming. Um did it damage 206 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: the engine? Here's the case for ca Seal poured a 207 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: bottle of caseeal in it. All right, It took a 208 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,079 Speaker 1: little while to massage it through the system. We had 209 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: a Burt Bear. Took a couple of days to get 210 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: it to activate in terms of getting to everything. Because 211 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: I believe this was an extreme case, but what a 212 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: testimony to CA Seal. Even with as bad as this 213 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: engine overheated to that point of of an eruption, gave 214 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: it enough time, worked it into the system. Within you know, 215 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: a collective of about two two and a half hours 216 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: of massaging the system, burping, adding, burping, adding, sealed it up. 217 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: Third day started that car up. Normal temperature rise right 218 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: up to two d and twelve degrees. Fans came on, 219 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: cycled down, burped one more time, shifted cars gone. Now, 220 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: if you're out there in the used car market and 221 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: you come across this black Subaru with a primary grade 222 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: right front fender of primary grade left rear fender, stay 223 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: away from it. That's probably not the car to buy. 224 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: Because I'm not quite sure what happened to that car, 225 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: but I think it's going away and I can only 226 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: fix them. I don't know where they go after that. 227 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: But um, you know CA Seal did fix the car. 228 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: Uh you know, you guys asked me about caseal all 229 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: the time. And this is no add This is the 230 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: this is the bottom, bottom line truth bottle of caseal 231 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: in that car. Fixed, it fixed the head gas, get 232 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: normal cooling system operation, and it seemed like the way 233 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: to go and it worked really well for them. So 234 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: just keep it in mind that, um, yeah, you know what, 235 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: there are other ways out there. There's more than one 236 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: way to skin a cat and uh, you know that car. 237 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: My big concern though, is what's the rest of the engine, Like, 238 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what it's gonna do in degree heat 239 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: in July. How how hot did it get? And that's 240 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 1: the answer. You don't know, Um, you know, will it 241 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: have any other issues? So that's the story for today, kitties. 242 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: That was the repair of the week from from me. 243 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: And uh, just you know, it was just, you know, 244 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 1: just just one of those cars, just uh, a different 245 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,959 Speaker 1: colored fender every corner. It was just the funniest thing. 246 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: I enjoyed driving it too. You know it's, uh, you 247 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: look like a bandit driving that thing. It's you pulled 248 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: a beanie camp down and you kind of sneak around 249 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Anyway, eight five zero run in any of 250 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: the car, Doctor I hope you're having a good time. 251 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: I know I am. I'll be back right after this 252 00:11:52,960 --> 00:12:03,079 Speaker 1: and we'll open up the garage door. Stay tuned. Whether 253 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: it's a little red Corvette or you go. You've come 254 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: to the right place to get that car fixed. Ron 255 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: and Ay in the car doctor five five five zero 256 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Now back to Ron. Hey, let's get 257 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: run over and talk to Stephen Virginia for Dodge me 258 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: on Steve. Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How can 259 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: I help? Well, thank you very much. I and the 260 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: car is fun to drive, and I and you way 261 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: driving it just as you did your super so it's great. 262 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: Uh yes, sir. However, Um, the best way to describe 263 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: the issue to you is that the car runs in 264 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: two virtual modes to essential modes. First mode is as 265 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: it should. UM gets great gas mileage, great pickup power, 266 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: fund to drive and push accelerator. It can go up 267 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 1: to any rpm head. You can hear a little line 268 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: of the little neon wine that they have it just 269 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: it just sounds great. It has a second mode that 270 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: it goes into. No rhyme or reason, it just just doesn't. UM. 271 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: The entire car vibrates really bad. The from about p 272 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: m up Uh. The engine sounds literally like somebody put 273 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: a golf ball and a shot back, she says, voom, 274 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: and it gets terrible gas mileage. It sputters like when 275 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: you turn on the A C and just you just 276 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: kind of got that little hesitation that holds back and 277 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: it just sounds awful. Um. No engine lights light up? Um, 278 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: And like I say, it's no rhyme of reason that 279 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 1: it doesn't. Um. How often does how often does it happen? Steve? 280 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: I would say at least I would probably say about 281 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: at least two or three times a week. I drive 282 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: it about three times a week because I'm not really 283 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: I really cut back driving it since I'm not sure 284 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: you know what's really wrong with I don't want to 285 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 1: blow up. But yeah, I would say four days it 286 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: runs great, you three days it doesn't. And when when 287 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: it when it doesn't run good? Is it if you 288 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: come to an idol at a traffic light, does it 289 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: idle normal? No? At idols it sounds the whole our vaperation, 290 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: so the whole car vibrates. Steering wheel shake feels like 291 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: the engines running rough, like it's about the stall, Yes, sir, 292 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: And then and then when it stops doing that, what 293 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: do you get it to? Does it just straighten itself 294 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 1: out out by magic that all of a sudden, bang, zoom, 295 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: and it's it's correct, and it's and it's good. Can 296 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: it just do you have to shut the key off 297 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: to get it to correct itself or or will it 298 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,640 Speaker 1: just automatically start running better on mind of its own? 299 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: You have to shut the key off and then, yes, sir, 300 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: you do. You have to shut the key off. So 301 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: and it's it's just the turn of the key. You're 302 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: just turning the key off, turned the key started back up, 303 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's good. That's correct, and 304 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: I can drive it. I can start it and it 305 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: runs great. Get to loads for example, cut it off, 306 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: kind of back on it runs horrible, or vice versa. 307 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: It can start out horrible and run great. It's just 308 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: no reason. But it's always in the turn of the key, yes, sir, 309 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: but you probably can't replicate it such that a mechanic 310 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: could see it happen. And that's why I'm calling you, sir, 311 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: because I have I have. I have drove around the block, 312 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: I've drove around the loop, I've drove extra miles. I've 313 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: done everything I can do to get this car to 314 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: go into mode when I go up to my dealer 315 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: or my mechanic, and it will not go into the mode. 316 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about a couple of things. So 317 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: when a car acts like it's haunted, sometimes we have 318 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: to be ready for it because we never know when 319 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: it's gonna get spooped. So if this was at the shop, 320 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: instead of waiting for you to bring me the car 321 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: when it's broken, you know you'd have to leave it 322 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: with me. I'd tell you a Steve, I'm gonna drive 323 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: this car for a week. If it's happening on a 324 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: semi regular basis, I've got to see something happen. If 325 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: I were if I were the attending mechanic on scene, 326 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: I would hook up a fuel pressure gauge and a 327 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: vacuum gauge to this car. I want to see if 328 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: they're both normal when the condition occurs. What I'm what 329 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about fuel pressure wise, is obvious. Is this 330 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: thing losing a fuel pump for some reason doesn't have 331 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 1: a pressure or volume issue or you know, doesn't have 332 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: a fuel sample issue. And I could I could test 333 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: two of those real easy hooking up a gauge. And third, 334 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: while it's happening, just watching the gauge. UM. I like 335 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: to get things out of the way that, you know, 336 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: instead of guests saying what could it be, tell me 337 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: what it's not? All right? And that's why I look 338 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: looking at fuel pressure all the time. It's just a good, 339 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: simple way to go. Yeah, you know what, when the 340 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 1: problem happened, that had fuel pressure, it had volume, and 341 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: when I took a fuel sample it was clear. And 342 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: I would I would do that now, just because there's 343 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: no rule that says you can't have bad fuel causing 344 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: an intermittent problem in a vehicle today, UM or ten, 345 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. It doesn't matter. Get it out of 346 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: the way, check fuel pressure, have your mechanic look at that. 347 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: I want to know what manifold vacuum is. You don't 348 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: need to know what it is in the sense of 349 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: you don't need to know what's good or bad. You 350 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: just need to know that. And he could do this 351 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: simple enough that you know, most shops will have a 352 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: simple enough, cheap enough vacuum gauge duct tape it to 353 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: the windshield. Uh, and let's take the car for a 354 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: ride just tied into manifold vacuum. And you'll know what 355 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: good is because when the car is running normal and 356 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: you see eighteen nineteen inches a vacuum in the car 357 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: is running normal at idle, guess what that's good. If 358 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: you come up to idle when it's in your second mode, 359 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: as you call it, and all of a sudden it's 360 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen sixteen inches of vacuum, at least you can 361 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: tell me, hey, Ron, Manifold vacuum was low. That gives 362 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: me a direction, all right, that tells me something. One 363 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: of the things I have seen that causes intermittent issues 364 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: with these cars is the catalytic converter. All right, the 365 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: the catalytic converter on this particular car. This is a 366 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: two oh or two four, the four cylinder, Yes, okay, 367 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: The catalytic converters will start to crumble and go bed, 368 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: and they kind of wear like a giant golf ball, 369 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: and every once in a while that golf ball rolls 370 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: around inside the converter housing and it will actually plug 371 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,239 Speaker 1: and restrict the exhaust play and that'll cause the car 372 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: to do exactly what you're describing to it. So I'll 373 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: tell you what Stevie, hang on, I don't want to 374 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: let you go. There's a lot going on here. Let 375 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: me me come back to you after the pause, so 376 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: we don't just rush this off. The year you stay 377 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: put on Morton in the car, Doctor five zero zero. 378 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Don't go away. Hey, let's 379 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: get back to Stephen Virginia. Steve you around with the card, 380 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: Doctor eight zero zero. So to finish, the first thing 381 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about is do we have a cat issue 382 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: with this car? And I think the reason I'm gonna 383 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: take a stab at this and say, perhaps the reason 384 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: shutting it off and starting it back up is because 385 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: exhaust kind of shoves that giant golf bowl in the 386 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: hole and blocks it. And when you go to crank 387 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: it all right, the exhaust pulses or the engine cranking over, 388 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: or the physical release of pressure after it's been shut 389 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 1: off allows it to fall over the other direction, and 390 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: the car runs normal until it falls back the other shape. 391 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: I once, and I've had it more than once, but 392 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: I once recently had a catalytic converter that wore the 393 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 1: cat material into kind of like a triangular block, and 394 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: every once in a while, like a wedge of Swiss cheese, 395 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 1: and every once in a while the thin into the 396 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: Swiss cheese went down the pipe and it had melted 397 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: and it you know when I took it apart, and wow, 398 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: look at that. And then every once in a while 399 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: it fell along the normal way where eric could flow through, 400 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: and it wasn't an issue. So um, you know, catalytic 401 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: converters are high on my list of things to think about. 402 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: You can also tell look at the cat. Does the 403 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: outside shell of the cat? Is it discolored? If it 404 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: looks like it's overheated bluish orange, that means that cat 405 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: ran hot for some reason. And you know heat will 406 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: cause a catalytic converter or break up and fall apart. 407 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: So you know, the clues might be there. It's just 408 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: that they gotta they gotta want to take a look, 409 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: all right. I had a twenty Chevy Malibu in the 410 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: shop this week with a complaint of low power. Now, 411 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: no check engine light, no indications. I never experienced it. 412 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: If I counted on a check engine light to look 413 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: at that car, then I don't consider myself much of 414 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: a mechanic. I've got to go look for the clues 415 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: that are there if there are any, and sometimes not 416 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 1: finding any will tell me what's wrong with the car. 417 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: Because I know what's good. It's not necessarily always what's bad. 418 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,120 Speaker 1: In the Malibu's case, everything looks great. I did find 419 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: well one bulletin that might be an issue, and I 420 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: alerted the customers to what to look for, and they're 421 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: gonna do that in the coming weeks and get back 422 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: to me and let me know if they experience that, 423 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: and that'll tell me what's wrong with it. But the 424 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: point becomes, just because the check engine light isn't on 425 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: doesn't mean your car isn't diagnosable or repair able. Let 426 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: me ask you this question. When you turn the key 427 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: to the on position without starting it, do you see 428 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: a check engine light? Yes, you do, so bulb check 429 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: works all right, And that's that's always important to note, 430 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: so we we we know that much of it is good. 431 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: The other thing to think about on older Chryslers and Dodges, 432 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: that was very common. Look around the engine compartment and 433 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: underneath any broken ground straps between the engine and the 434 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: body and and the at the battery cables. Are the 435 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: connections good? Those are some of the things that has 436 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: the vehicle's age. They tend to wreak havoc and performance 437 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: as well. Last issue. All right, using a scan tool, 438 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: if after this problem, this second mode occurs and a 439 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: mechanic goes in and looks at mode six data. All right, 440 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: you ever been you ever been sick in your life, Stevie? Yeah, 441 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: you know, and you get that head cold on Wednesday? Yeah, well, 442 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: well Monday you kind of felt like crap, but you 443 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: didn't really and you weren't quite sure in your body 444 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: saying when getting the sniffles, I said, it don't feel good. 445 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 1: And then when day it's a full blown oh my god, 446 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: I just don't want to get out of bed today. 447 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: So if we look at your mode six, Dada, we 448 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: would see that something's coming. Same thing with a car. 449 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: Mode six is the sick indicator. It's the it's the 450 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,479 Speaker 1: self test that the computer runs to tell the you know, 451 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: central processing brain, Hey Steve is about to get sick. 452 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: Something's up, and you know, a mechanic using a scan 453 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: tool that has the ability to read mode six, we'll 454 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 1: be able to look at that and go, yeah, this 455 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: test looks at a line. Why is that? And and 456 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: and and that's important, you know, that's see, that's the magic. 457 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 1: That's not counting on a check engine life to tell 458 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: me what's wrong. That's using that's using the thing God 459 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: put between your ears. So you know, let's let's do 460 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: those couple of things. And then last I have seen 461 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:51,719 Speaker 1: intermittent cam or crank censors in those cars also also 462 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: create that problem because every other year I replaced that 463 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: sensor because it gets hot and goes bad. Yeah. Well, 464 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: and then and then you gotta you know, if you 465 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: have any of those sensors lying around, what if you 466 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: put one of the other ones back in? Does it 467 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: change the way the car behaves. I'll try that, you know. 468 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: I mean you could also look at this with a 469 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: scope if we wanted to get technical and see, do 470 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: we see it something out of time? Do we see 471 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: something change? You know, it's it's it's all reparable, Stevie, 472 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: it's all right there. We just gotta figure out how 473 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 1: to look for it and find it, all right, brothers, 474 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: And let me point out if you want to hear 475 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: this diagnosis again a couple of hours after this show 476 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: airs today, if you go to speaker dot com, you 477 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: can hit up the podcast. This will be our one. 478 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: It happened. It started somewhere about fifteen minutes into the broadcast. 479 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: You can pick up this whole conversation again, download it 480 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,199 Speaker 1: to your phone and you know, take it with you 481 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: and let your mechanic here and maybe it'll help you. Guys. 482 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: I'm glad to do what I can for you. I 483 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 1: appreciate it. You're very welcome. You take good care. Let 484 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 1: us know what happens Stevie, all right, all right, you're 485 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: very welcome. Um. Yeah, I just refused to believe that 486 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: not every car is reparable. I think everything is reparable. 487 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: I think what what gets in the way is, uh, 488 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: you know, do we stop thinking? Do we stop do 489 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: we stop testing? Do we you know, fall into the 490 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 1: subject of a motion? Had a customer this week. Nine 491 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 1: has been a customer forever. I knew nine in high school. 492 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: That's how long. I know Nina, right, and I can 493 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: kind of talk to her like this because we have 494 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: that relationship. She's got an O three Honda and the 495 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: battery died in January, and you know, she's got a 496 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: little nervous and let me look at the car. And 497 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,479 Speaker 1: I looked at the car. Nine of the batteries, bid 498 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: it needs a battery. She doesn't really drive it much. 499 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: She's got this O three Honda. It's got seventy two 500 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: thousand miles on it through the math. Right, it's you 501 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: know where the fifteen seventeen years old. It's so this 502 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: week she called me up in a panic. Oh my god, 503 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: the car won't start. The battery is dead. Something's wrong 504 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: with the car. Oh my god. Let me look at 505 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: the car. Brings the car in. I look at it. 506 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: The battery went bad. Brand new battery. I explained what 507 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,199 Speaker 1: new meant, right, never ever worked. But how could that be? 508 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: She said, there must be something wrong with the car 509 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 1: because it worked one day and it didn't work the other. 510 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: And I said, you know, the cemeteries worked like that too. 511 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: I said, one day you're not in, the next day 512 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: you are, um and that's just the way it is. 513 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: And some one day you'll be here and the next 514 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: day you won't, and that's just the way it is. 515 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: It's just like the battery. There's no rule that says 516 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: how long that battery is gonna last. You know, I 517 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: think I got it now, okay, I said, do me 518 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: a favor. Calm down, relax, go out and drive the car. 519 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: I put a battery in it. If it eats a 520 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: fourth battery, I've got a couple of things I want 521 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: to go look for, but I'm betting on a battery. 522 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: Batteries can't have seven and a half full standing voltage. 523 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: I think that was a bad Delco battery. And that's 524 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: just the way it is, so call it what it is. 525 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: But you know, just the point becomes there's always a reason. 526 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: There's always a reason, and we just got to find it. 527 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: So zero. I am running any in the car, doctor, 528 00:25:52,040 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: and I'll be back right after this Falco bad ack. 529 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: We're on nating the car doctor. Rolling along, Let's go 530 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 1: and talk to Bill and Vermont. Oh a Nissan Frontier 531 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: and a sixty five Rambler. Boy, I get a choice. 532 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: I can do both. Are which one you want to 533 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: do first? Bill? Welcome to the show. How you doing good? 534 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: What's going on? Kind of like to attack the Frontier first? Okay, sure, 535 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: go ahead, let's attack the Frontier. What do you got? Well? 536 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 1: I had to do a rear end in it about 537 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: a month or so ago, and uh was it rather expensive? 538 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: About four thousand dollars not a bunch of other works. 539 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: Not uncommon? You know that generation Nissan, the Frontiers and 540 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: the Pathfinders. They seemed to tear up rear ends for 541 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: whatever reason. Um, I anything move any updates for it 542 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: in terms of something stronger. Yeah, well, my mechanic told 543 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: me that what it has is is a breather in 544 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: it that sometimes gets clogged and builds up pressure and 545 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: blows seals that way. Yeah. Um, so what you could 546 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 1: do is put a rubber hose on the breathers coming 547 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: out the top and just extend the breather up high. 548 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 1: So what I've done is I've taken that breather and 549 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: just put a piece of rubber hose extended up higher. 550 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: And I'll buy another breather or just some sort of 551 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: um A restriction that won't allow dirt to get in. 552 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 1: But you know it's a one way check valve kind 553 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: of what's in the dip. Just extending it up and 554 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: tie strap it up out of the way. And then 555 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: this way, if you're going through deep water, if you're 556 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: going through you know, high dusty condition, it's it's tucked 557 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: up out of the way so it doesn't tend to 558 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: collect you know, dust and grit and get restricted and 559 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: you know it will help the system. So it doesn't 560 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: do with that did okay, but that is a regular 561 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: problem with those structures. Yeah, I've seen that before. That's 562 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 1: not uncommon. You can purchase a new rear, or you could. 563 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: It's it's been a year since I did the last one. 564 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 1: Because those cars are kind of going away down here 565 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: up in Vermont. I think they're you know, in other 566 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: parts of the country. They're older and they're probably more produce. 567 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: I'm but if I'm not mistaken, that rear new from 568 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: Nissan was somewhere on the order of twenty d bucks. 569 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't the worst. I just remember because I was shocked. 570 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: You could buy something back and play the back and 571 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: play brand new bolted in. So, yeah, the one I 572 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: got my mechanic. I don't know whether you get it 573 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: from Nissan or not, but it is guaranteed for a year, 574 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: and it came with all the break parts and everything 575 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: else is well. When I say twenty bucks, keep in mind, 576 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: you've got you know, you've got you've got some labor involved, 577 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: you've got a you know, you've got to bolted in 578 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: and like I said, my my my memory is a 579 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 1: year ago. So you know, if you paid four thousand dollars, parts, 580 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: labor tax, it's not out of the realm of of 581 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: of what's out there, and parts pricing can change overnight, 582 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: as we all know. So yeah, so I didn't figure 583 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: that was too out of line. Two other things, not 584 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: at all, not at all. Drive line parts get to 585 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: be expensive, So just just keep that in mind too. Um. 586 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: You know, be glad you could get them anyway. You're rambler, 587 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: yes or yeah, that's what he said. The re runs 588 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: are hard to find for that truck. Um. Back to 589 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: the truck for a second. Um. The other question I 590 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: had on that was the headlights on that truck are horrible, 591 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: and I was wondering if there's anything recommended for an 592 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: update that could help, because it seems like the low 593 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: beam on the truck is better than the high beam. 594 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: Are the housings clean, clean and clear? You know it's 595 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: it's it's not a case. So so they're just not 596 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: bright enough. Yeah, it seems like the low beam, like 597 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: I said, has better penetration and more light than the 598 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: high beam does. Are they factory headlamp housings? They appear 599 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: to be. Yes, all right. Are you the original owner 600 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: on the truck? No, I'm second Donner. The reason I 601 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: asked that is because I have seen vehicles with aftermarket 602 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: headlamps in them, and I haven't found aftermarket headlamps really 603 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: to work on anything to my satisfaction. The the way 604 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: they refract the light and direct the light is abysmal. 605 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: So before you start beating yourself up and trying to, 606 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: you know, sort this out, if there's a way to, 607 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: you know, maybe pull the headlamp out flipping around. Is 608 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: there an original Nissan part number on it doesn't look 609 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: like factory Nissan. That would be my first step. The 610 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: second is just take a hard look at them. Are 611 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: you you know I'm not doubting you. I'm just offering 612 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: a suggestion. Just be sure that those headlamps are clean 613 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: and clear, and that you know they're not faded in. 614 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: Headlamp restoration isn't isn't part of this process? One two three. 615 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: I'm just now starting to look at l e ed 616 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: headlamps as replacement headlamps for cars. And it's something somebody 617 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: had mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago for 618 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: an older and ninety three jeep Grand Cherokee. And I'm 619 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: starting to do some research for Stevie and yeah, it 620 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: makes sense if if you can find l e ED 621 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: headlamp kits. The question for you will be is if 622 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: you put an l e D headlamp kipping it into 623 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: that truck and the headlamps are in OHI and they 624 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: can't you know, if you if the piece of courtz 625 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: is twisted and it can't reflect the refract the light 626 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: through it, then putting a brighter light through it doesn't help. 627 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: It's still gonna you know, directed incorrectly if you understand 628 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: my meaning. So, but ELI ED headlamps can work. L 629 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: e ED headlamps do seem to be a good alternative, 630 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: and they've been out there a while, and you know 631 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: the nice part about them is they don't have nearly 632 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: the current raw factory headlamps, so we were actually we 633 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: can make do more with less if you understand my meanings, 634 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 1: So I would investigate L E D s. What's your 635 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: second question? Real quick? Okay? On the rambler, she's a beauty, 636 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: she's a sixty stripper, she's got six cylinder automatic power steering. 637 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: Paula breaks. They am radio eater and that's it right. 638 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: But I did the collaborator on and I had it 639 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: replaced about a year ago, and I can't get the 640 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: thing that it's a run properly when it's warm. When 641 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: it's warm, it runs fine, but when it's cold, it 642 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: is it's a bear to start. And I'm wondering if 643 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: you know some basic adjustments or something that I could 644 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: try on it to improve it a bit. Well, yeah, 645 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: i'll tell you what. Let me I'll tell you what. Bill. 646 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: Let me just pull over and take this pause, Mike. 647 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: He's giving me the high sign, and when I come back, 648 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: we'll dive into carburetor theory. One oh one, don't go away. 649 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: I'm running ending of the car doctor. We're back right 650 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: after this. Let's get back into a run and nating 651 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: the car Doc. We're talking with Bill and Vermont. Bill, 652 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: you're there, sir, Yes, I am. So the question becomes 653 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: the sixty Rambler had the carb rebuilt and it doesn't 654 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,479 Speaker 1: really run right when it's called but it runs good warm, Yes, Okay, 655 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: what have you done to try and correct it for 656 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: the way that it runs cold? Well, I basically h 657 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: I've had a coup of people look at it. I 658 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: don't I don't know carburetors very well myself, so I 659 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 1: didn't really want to touch it without some guidance. M 660 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: do you have Do you have a fireplace in Vermont? 661 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: In the house? Uh? Really? How can you? How can 662 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: you live in the house and with no fireplace? You 663 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: ever been in a house with a fireplace and Vermont? 664 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: All right, when they want to get the fire going, 665 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: what do they do? Open the flu right? Open the 666 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: flu a little little get a little more air flow 667 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: through it, right, and the fire picks up, and it 668 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: gets a little hotter in intensity, and it's it seems 669 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,720 Speaker 1: to kind of perriculate along. And then when they want 670 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: to slow it down, they kind of cut off the 671 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 1: air supply. Right. So that's how That's kind of how 672 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: a carburetor works. We're meeting and controlling something. In the 673 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: case of a carburetor, we're meeting and controlling airflow by 674 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 1: way of the throttle plate, the piece down at the bottom. Now, 675 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 1: inside of a carburetor, a carburetor kind of works the 676 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: way a toilet works. All right. Um, if you're like 677 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: Tom and you're fascinated by toilets, you would take the 678 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 1: little off the toilet tank and watch it flush. You 679 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: watch the water run out when the when the ball 680 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: drops all the way down, it seats, and then it 681 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: fills back up again. It's just the way a float 682 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: ball works. Inside of a carb there's the fuel supply, 683 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: there's the there's the flush. In case of what you're 684 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: dealing with is you're trying to balance the air flow 685 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: versus the fuel flow to get optimal burning or optimal mixture. 686 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 1: When this car. When you start this car up, you 687 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: get in it once to the floor, twice to the floor, 688 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 1: whatever it does to take it to start. The first 689 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,240 Speaker 1: thing I would do is have somebody pump the pedal, 690 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: open up the choke, take a flashlight, open up the choke. 691 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: Look down the throw of the carburetor. Do you see 692 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: a good solid shot of fuel coming out of the 693 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 1: accelerator nozzles? All right? You know you're you're looking. You're 694 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: looking for a burst of fuel, all right. Second thing, 695 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: start the car. What does the choke pull off to 696 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: or what does the choke do? Does the choke flap 697 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: open a little bit. It's no different than trying to 698 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 1: get a snowblower, a lawnmower going. You're trying to balance 699 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: the mixture. If you have to take a screwdriver tip 700 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: and gently push the choke open a little bit, does 701 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: the RPN pick up that the engine tend to idle 702 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,919 Speaker 1: a little bit? And last, make sure the mixture set 703 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: right when it's warm, because how it's affected warm pull 704 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: also affect the way it is called. Do those things 705 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: called back, I'm wanna eating the car doctor. Good mechanics 706 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 1: aren't expensive. They're placeless.