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Speaker 1: water pump. Couldn't get it, you can get the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: gang of relays in the way. They don't make tracers anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anien the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: Let's get over to Bill in Michigan. Chevy pick him

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Speaker 1: up truck and some break issues. Bill. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir, How can I help? Thank you? Ron Chevy.

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Speaker 1: This is a half ton two wheel drive with a

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Speaker 1: bad ron I ended up buying a shell out of Texas.

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Speaker 1: I moved all the major components to drive train, the

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Speaker 1: brake system, gas tank, rear end, rebuilt the front end.

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Speaker 1: I'm at the end of a restoration. My front brakes

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Speaker 1: will intermittently lock up. There is no pattern to this.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking it was weather related. Now this truck

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Speaker 1: Does this have there's a two wheel drive. Does this

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Speaker 1: axe of the load compensating valve. No, it does not.

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Speaker 1: There is that something you well, that's why there's there's

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Speaker 1: the rear brakes. It doesn't have that though it does not.

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Speaker 1: It does have a computer with anti lock only for

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Speaker 1: the rear brakes. And there's another proportioning valve that goes

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, got you. So

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Speaker 1: You haven't driven this, it'll just what is it? You

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Speaker 1: neither one of the front wheels will move, all right,

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Speaker 1: And in order to get the wheels to unlock, what

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Speaker 1: They do it on their own, so to speak to

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Speaker 1: either the weather changes. There is one thing. I can

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't unlock. I have not tried that, and that

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Speaker 1: it's pressure from the master's side or the prop value.

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Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, Ron, I appreciate the time with

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Speaker 1: Thank you again for the information. You're very welcome Bill anytime.

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Speaker 1: How can I test it, so um just you know,

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Speaker 1: making belts, tensioners and idlers. And we've arranged to talk

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna go to Gary and Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: to Gary, Wisconsin, Rendezvous. Gary. Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Uh? First of all, Ron, you call.

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Speaker 1: I talked to you about three years ago and you

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Speaker 1: go there? Have you? Have you scanned this for codes? Gary?

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Speaker 1: So I can't do that. But that doesn't mean I'm

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Speaker 1: code reader, you need something that's going to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Here's the deal, all right. You know, you're you're you're

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. Thank you very much, glad

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Speaker 1: You know, what are the signs that I've got a

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Speaker 1: bead belt, a bad tension, or a bead idler. So

426
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 1: some of the things that you want to look for

427
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: is that, just like you mentioned the noise to check engine,

428
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: um you might have some heavy steering. Obviously not this

429
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 1: time of year because it's cold, You're not gonna have

430
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 1: your air conditioning on, but maybe your air conditioning is

431
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 1: not working properly. All those are indications that those belts

432
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 1: are not working properly, and so you want to keep

433
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Speaker 1: an eye on those type of things. But you can

434
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,639
Speaker 1: also look under the hood and see if those belts

435
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,920
Speaker 1: are cracked. UM. And again, as I mentioned, it will

436
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: depend on what part of the country your your liveing in.

437
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: It will depend on what your climate is like in

438
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 1: that part of the country, which will dictate how often

439
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: you want to to change those belts out. But you know,

440
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: the more dryer type of climates are going to make

441
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: that belt dry out sooner, or if you're not driving

442
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,679
Speaker 1: your vehicle that often, you want to look at uh,

443
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: taking care of those belts more often. Back to the

444
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: part of your original question though, is that, UM, you

445
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: know when you do change out your belts, UH, if

446
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: your belts making a noise, or if you're you're seeing

447
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: some issues with a heavy experience as an example, you

448
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 1: want to change out the belt. The tensioners and the

449
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 1: idlers together, they all work together. They are a team

450
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 1: in the ensuring the efficiency of the vehicle, and most

451
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 1: often UM than not, it is UM it's them that

452
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: are together working together. You want to make sure that

453
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: you have the highest quality products sitting there. So you

454
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: don't want to change out your belt, put a brand

455
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: new belt on it and have an old tensioner or

456
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: idler there. You want to put them all brand news

457
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: so that they all work together efficiently. And of course

458
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: when we're looking at our belts, it's it's color, as

459
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: you say, it's it's cracking an overall condition, but it's

460
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: also depth of the of the belt itself. Right, there's

461
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: a way to measure the depth of the grooves of

462
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 1: a serpentine belt. And and you know, just like we

463
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: look at the tread on a tire, comes back to

464
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: tires again with Michelin. Uh you know that that that

465
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: that that the belt will actually wear out just like

466
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: a tire when it gets down below a certain level,

467
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 1: the belt goes correct. Yes, you know, so that becomes

468
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: a failure. Um when you talk about you know, belts, tensioners,

469
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: and idlers, you can purchase them individually. Does Michelin give

470
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Speaker 1: us the option to purchase it as a kid? You know, thinking, gee,

471
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: if we're gonna change it, let's just buy it as

472
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: a kit and get it over with. Yeah, So we

473
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: the Michelin product to sell sold on Amazon today and

474
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: you can go out there and look. Um, we do

475
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,679
Speaker 1: sell them as a kit so that when you identify

476
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: your product, um, your application, your vehicle, it'll tell you

477
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: these are the three items. So here's the serpentine belt,

478
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: here's the tensioner, here is the idler. So um, you

479
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: can buy it as a kit and Amazon will ship

480
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: it as a as a virtual kit to you, or

481
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: you can buy it individually as individually. Amazon's the only

482
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: place right now as far as picking up Michelin belts,

483
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: tensioners and idlers gene. Yeah, so you can. You can

484
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 1: go to the Michelin Belts UM store at Amazon as

485
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 1: well at Amazon dot com backslash Michelin, or you can

486
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: visit Premium Auto Products dot Com. Both of them will

487
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: take you back to Amazon, but Amazon is the prime

488
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Speaker 1: location for purchasing this product. Um. As far as the listeners,

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Speaker 1: before I let you go, is the website again or

490
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 1: where's the website? Of the listeners want more information about

491
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: Michelin belts, tensioners and idlers and overall you know belt

492
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: belt maintenance, how to check their belts as their website,

493
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: you guys have up Yeah, so again Amazon dot com,

494
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: back slash Michelin, We'll take you directly to the Michelin

495
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: store or um Premium Auto Products dot com cool Beans

496
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 1: Gene is always a pleasure to talk to you and

497
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: take good care of your called you. You were a

498
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: trooper today. I appreciate you getting through it. Um, thank you.

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00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: The listeners appreciate it to you'd be well and we'll

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00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: talk to you again real soon. Okay, thank you, You're

501
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: very welcome. I'm running the Car Doctor. We are back

502
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:36,959
Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back, ran name

503
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor once again thanks to Jean Triplett and

504
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: the folks over at Michel and Mission Belts, tensioners and idlers.

505
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: More information onlinemanber You can pick those up via Amazon.

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00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: Let's let's go over to Jesse and Missouri ran with

507
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Speaker 1: a V ten Jesse. Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

508
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: How can I help? Thank you so much for taking

509
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: my call. I just ran onto your program by accident

510
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: going down the highway. Oh well, we're glad to have you, sir.

511
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: How can I what my problem is? I have a

512
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: Dodge V ten motor uh four wheel drive. I bought

513
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: to vehicle brand new and Uh. It has been a

514
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: perfect truck up until about five years ago. Uh. You

515
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: can be going down the highway with it running fine.

516
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: I pull a fifth wheel trailer with it sometimes no problem,

517
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: running great, and all of a sudden it'll just start

518
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: bucking and jumping missing out. I've had to have it

519
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: towed in more than once. I've had it two dealers

520
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: in North Dakota, South Dakota, UH, Minnesota, Missouri, and numerous

521
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: independent mechanics, and nobody can find out what's the matter

522
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: with it. Uh. The latest diagnosis I got was from

523
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: an ex Chrysler man and he says it's in the

524
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: wiring system. So how many miles are on at Jesse

525
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: thousand original plugs? No? No, we no, no we. There's

526
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: been two plug changes in it since I had it.

527
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: We've we've changed the throughout positioning sensor. We've changed the

528
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: Uh it doesn't matter on the end of the crank

529
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: position censor. No fault codes right. Well, No, it's got

530
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: that O B D one on it, and I don't

531
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: know nobody knows how to read that O B D

532
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: one or it's absolutely worthless, which most mechanics tell me.

533
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: The O B D C one system was worthless. Well

534
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't as high tech as the O

535
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: b D two. But you know what, I can't sit

536
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: on my rear end and say, well, it's not O

537
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: b D two. I can't diagnose it. I'm a mechanic.

538
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: That's what I'm supposed to do. So you know, the

539
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: better shops have kept their O b D one equipment around.

540
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: I've still got mine minds wrapped in a plastic bag

541
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: hanging up on the pegboard and cast ever needed. So

542
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: enough about that. You know, I'm just curious, are we

543
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: gonna see a fault code where we're gonna see a

544
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: forty three which tells me we've got a problem on

545
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: cylinders one and six? Are we you know, just just

546
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: what sort of fauld codes are in there? Do you

547
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: ever see? And no, you won't, Actually you want to

548
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: take that back question back. You won't see a check

549
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: engine light because it's pre O b D two. It's

550
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: O b D one, So you know part of the

551
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: puzzle here is lying in that plug. Well I do

552
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: see a check engine light though, okay, all right, so yeah,

553
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: that's when it gets acting up like that. The check

554
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: engine light definitely comes on. All right, So when the

555
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: next time it happens, because depending upon how much time

556
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: has gone by from now since then, I'd love to

557
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: see what fault codes are in there. I mean that

558
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: could put you in a direction in a heartbeat, that

559
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: could lead to a pennant faster than uh the Mets

560
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: trying to win the World Series. Um, we've changed the

561
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: computer before we continue to change stuff. Listen, you can

562
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: check up a cheap, good old school O B O

563
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: B D one scanner up on eBay. Uh real easy, Um,

564
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: take a look. Go to eBay. Go look for an

565
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: empty snap on scanner. All right, we called it empty

566
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, alright, scanner. I bet you can pick that

567
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: thing up for under five hundred bucks. We called it

568
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: the brick and had it was state of the art.

569
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: It's day alright. Make sure it's got the right cable

570
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: for O B D one. It should, all right, And

571
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: at least if you can get codes out of this,

572
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: that's half the battle. Brother. Now, I'll tell you where

573
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: I think I would look. You know, without going for codes,

574
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,959
Speaker 1: I would pay very careful attention to the engine wiring harness.

575
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: All right, Um, this has the six pack coin is this.

576
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: This is not individual coils, right, This has one one

577
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: large coil up on top of the motor. No, no,

578
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: it's scot It's got six different packs. Okay, it's got

579
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: six different coil packs, right, because go ahead now, I

580
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: don't think it's that. I think it's if it isn't

581
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: the wiring. There's a black gray wire that comes off

582
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: the PCM. If this is the motor I'm thinking of,

583
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: there's a black gray that comes off at pin nineteen

584
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: of the PCM and it goes to the it goes

585
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: to the coil pack. That particular wire creates all sorts

586
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: of misfire and bucking faults. Make sure and you can

587
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: own there's gonna be feed wires going from the coil

588
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: to the PCM. You could own those. You could even

589
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: disconnect them at the PCM and at the coil end

590
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: and run twelve volts and ground through each leg, or

591
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: run twelve volts through each leg. Can it power up

592
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: a light bulb at the other end if we wanted

593
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: to check the seat of the wires have high resistance

594
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: in them? All right? You know, so there's there's thing

595
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: as we can test. But before we go down this

596
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: elaborate method of doing this, You know, Jesse, this is

597
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: no different. Then you go to the doctor and he says, Doc,

598
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: my elbow hurts. Sorry, my X ray machine is broken today.

599
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: Let's guess, right if the if the X ray machine

600
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: was broken, we would wait and try and find another

601
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: X ray machine, or we'd find a way to get

602
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: the rest of that information because there's an awful lot

603
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: of parts you can change in poke at right. All right,

604
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: So I have located now a supposed to be a

605
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: wiring harnessed technician uh down in Kansas City, Missour about

606
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: fifty miles away from me, and I'm thinking I'll have

607
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: to trailer down because I'm gonna take it down the

608
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: highway and just runs wonderful and pretty soon I'm sitting

609
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: off the side of the highway. Right. Well, I'm gonna

610
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: take it down to him and see if he can

611
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: come up and see if and ask him before you

612
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: take it down there, ask him does he have does

613
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: he have uh, you know, an O B D one

614
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: scan tool? And then to me, it's worth the trip

615
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: until you get that tool in your hand, you're only

616
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: looking at half the possible problems. I appreciate the call,

617
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: Jesse give me a shout. I mean, hey, make out.

618
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: I'm glad to help and walk you through this as

619
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: best I can. From my end, I'm running any in

620
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: the car. Doctor, I'm back right after this welcome back.

621
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: I had to um. I had to work on a

622
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: diesel truck two weeks ago. We had to do a

623
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: water pump. And there's a special tool that's required to

624
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: lock the flywheel in place so you can take the crank,

625
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: take the harmonic balancer off, uh the pulley on the

626
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: front of the crank. And it was a forty fifty

627
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: dollar tool kit. And it was an O two Chevy

628
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: Silverado wh fix all the it fits all the dirmax

629
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: as I think up through oh six. Now you could

630
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: ask yourself, because I had one somewhere in the shop.

631
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: I don't know where it went. It's, you know, as

632
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: organized as the shop is, we still gee where we

633
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: put that every once in a while. And I bought

634
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: another one. And you can make the argument in your head,

635
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: you know, Gee, fifty dollars is a lot of money.

636
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: But like our last caller, how many parts have been

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Speaker 1: thrown at this car. They've changed spark plugs twice, they've

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Speaker 1: changed coils, twice, they've changed the crank sensor, they've done

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Speaker 1: all sorts of parts component replacement, and nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: scan that O B D one light. You can't, you

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Speaker 1: know you can. You can put lipstick on a pig.

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Speaker 1: It's still a pig, all right. Um. You can't diagnose

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Speaker 1: something without knowing what you need to know. You don't

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Speaker 1: know what you don't know. Um, the amount of money

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Speaker 1: you spend on parts to guess you know what, spent

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Speaker 1: five or a thousand dollars on a tool and no,

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Speaker 1: And this way you'll fix it quicker, and you'll have

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Speaker 1: a tool for the next time you want to make

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Speaker 1: the repair on something like it, and you'll be that

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Speaker 1: much better prepared till the next time. I'm ronan ading

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Speaker 1: in the car doctor reminding all of you the mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you