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Speaker 1: my fault. Ron and Anian, this is your therapy. This

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

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Speaker 1: your engines along. Welcome Ronny and the Car Doctor here

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Speaker 1: not a phony, Tom Ray, we'll call you back, Executive producer.

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Speaker 1: You're you're on the board again this hour. I guess,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm starting to get worried about Tony.

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Speaker 1: going on? Well? You know, see it's Tom's fault, Tony. Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't listen. I'm talking. No, It's it's not Tom's fault.

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Speaker 1: and uh last hour. We were sitting here and I said,

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Speaker 1: go back to Metropolis. Well you know, listen that tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Who we picking tomorrow? Ton of Cotville, big big blue?

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Speaker 1: people didn't know about that. Yeah, that's listen. I started

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Speaker 1: appreciate the call. I appreciate the comments. I loved how

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Speaker 1: getting that car fixed? Right? Eight five five five zero

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Speaker 1: Let's go over to Dianne, Louisiana. Some questions about buying

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Speaker 1: I help hi? Ron? Um, I am wanting to buy

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Speaker 1: You know, there's there's there's even doing it on my

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Speaker 1: And you know you gotta think of all those things. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna buy this Mercury Grand Marquis and stay

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Speaker 1: graandmar Key, because you are right, they are easier to

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Speaker 1: either way. Welcome back. We're naing of the car doctright

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Speaker 1: Main O H Chevy Malibu. Al. Welcome to the car Doctor. Sure,

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Speaker 1: how can I help? Have an O eight Malibu at

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Speaker 1: And UH replaced a crank sensor and the cam sensor

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Speaker 1: Now we're at a point of long start. Okay, when

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Speaker 1: There's a three wire sensor. Yeah, I recall as a

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Speaker 1: so right, but it's coming you saying that you've got

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Speaker 1: I have to I have to have time. I tested it.

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Speaker 1: We had ten volts and then I've been re checking everything,

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Speaker 1: and inducing twelve vaults right to that sensor? Well, I've

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Speaker 1: and and and make it work on its own. Let's

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Speaker 1: get it away from the thing that's broken. Um. But

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Speaker 1: If you look at this on a scan tool, Um,

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Speaker 1: UM scandal. But I am reading our PM now as

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00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: I turn it over. Okay, well if you're reading. But

425
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,959
Speaker 1: if you're reading our PM and if you're reading RPM

426
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,879
Speaker 1: while you're cranking it, that doesn't make any sense. It

427
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: sounds like the crank sensor is working. Yes, do you

428
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 1: do you have let me ask you this. Do you

429
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: have a scope? All? No? Um, I'd love to see

430
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: if we could get we can get a signal out

431
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: of that out of that uh sensor. Um. Uh. You

432
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 1: know if we could just put it. You know, it's

433
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a square wave. Do we um? Uh?

434
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 1: Do we have an issue? Uh? The other question I've

435
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 1: got is, and I know this sounds I know this

436
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,479
Speaker 1: is gonna sound strange to you. Get your hands on

437
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: General Motors service bulletin Um. Um, it's actually a piece

438
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: of service information. They're gonna treat it as a TSB

439
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: internally in GM. If you go into all data you'll

440
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: find it. But they talk about a service engine light

441
00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 1: during uh crank no starter or heart start condition and

442
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: it will set a three thirty six and it's contaminated fuel,

443
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: you know. Um. Uh. So you know, maybe before we

444
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,360
Speaker 1: go pulling our hair out, let's cover you know, let's

445
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: go back to what can you tell me the car has?

446
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: You know, um? Maybe and maybe you know, backing backing

447
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: up a second, thinking about it, do you have a

448
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: do you have a stethoscope or something you can listen

449
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: to the injectors with yes, did the injectors click? Uh? Yes,

450
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: it's loading up right now? Okay if the injectors when

451
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: you when you turn it over, it sounds like the

452
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: timings off it coughed back to the intake and those

453
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: all kinds of crazy things. Um, I have tested. It's

454
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 1: got a hundred fifty pounds compression. He wants as far

455
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: as to look at the timing because someone told me

456
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: that we believed it was cam phaser timing is right on. Yeah,

457
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: and I've seen I've seen cam phaser issues. But it'll run.

458
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: It'll just run real bad and rough. Um, you know,

459
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: it'll still fire. It's a long mower engine, man, it's

460
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: just got it's just got five extra cylinders. Let's let's

461
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: think about the basics, so you know, let's let's let's

462
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: think about what's good as mechanics. Right, Let's just put

463
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: put a fuel pressure gauge on it. Check fuel pressure

464
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,239
Speaker 1: sixty pounds. Let's take a fuel sample, all right, go

465
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 1: out and get a bottle, out and get a bottle

466
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: of Snap. Will drink the Snap will fill the Snaple bottle.

467
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: If it fills the Snaple bottle in twenty seconds while

468
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 1: cranking it, fuel pressure is good. Now, you can take

469
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: a fuel sample. Fuels clean, move on. But let's just

470
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: be sure if the injectors are clicking then and you've

471
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: got a cranking signal at the tack at the at

472
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: the scan tool, I gotta tell you, it sounds like

473
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: the crank sensor circuits working. Yeah. I've thought that too,

474
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,719
Speaker 1: but I've just concerned because the voltage reading is law. Right, Well,

475
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: let's get away from the voltage reading for the moment

476
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: and let's just go with functionality. Do the injectors do

477
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: the injectors click? Doesn't have spark? If the if they

478
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: got a good spark and the attempts do click and

479
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: like I said, it kicks back, it copts up through

480
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: the end. All right, do do this? Then? All right?

481
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: Unplugged the crank sensor does it? Does it? No? Does

482
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: it no longer hav injector pulse when you do that?

483
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: And you know why because it no longer has injector

484
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: pauls in It no longer has spark, I bet you.

485
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: And if if that's true, then guess what, there's nothing

486
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: wrong with the crank sensor. There's nothing wrong with the

487
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: crank sensor or the circuitry. Then don't worry about it

488
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: at that point. Um, if you can get a square

489
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: wave on it and scope, it's great, you know it

490
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: would be It would be nice if if you could

491
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: scope and compare cam crank to it. You know what

492
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: I mean when I say a cam crank overlay, you know,

493
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: and and and look at cam timing in relation to

494
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: the crank and then you know, see what you've got there.

495
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: But then maybe I'll buy the fact maybe it jumped time.

496
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, that's right on. Timing is right on

497
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: the mark. Okay, let's let's let's figure out what's good.

498
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: All right, let's do that this week. Let's figure out

499
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: what's good. Unplugged the crank censor. You should lose sparking

500
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: injector pulse plug it back in. You should get it

501
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 1: back to me. That tells to me. That tells me

502
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: that um, crank censor is working. I don't see how

503
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: it's not. And then we'll talk about We'll talk about

504
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: cam censor next week. I'll be here, all right, sir,

505
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: very good. Do you have my email? I don't ron

506
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: at card doctor show dot com. Very simple. I can

507
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 1: figure that out. Yeah. Um. And then if you would

508
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: email me the VIN, the seventeen digit VIN and um,

509
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 1: you know, let me know what the test results are.

510
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: We'll talk next week. All right. I appreciate you. You're

511
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: very welcome, sir. You you you do all that. We'll

512
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: talk to you soon, Yes, sir, you're very welcome. Zero. Yeah.

513
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta go backwards and you gotta figure out,

514
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, here's what's good. Okay, then you know prove

515
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: it's bad. How can I prove the crank sensors working

516
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: or not working? What if I unplug it doesn't take

517
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: away sparking injector pulse? Yeah, I guess what it's working. Um,

518
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: we don't know if it's working effectively. We don't know

519
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: how clean the signal is. And that's where the scope

520
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: would come in. It will tell us, you know, is

521
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: it a precise signal, But at least it tells us

522
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: you know what we're actually seeing there. That twelve volte number,

523
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: I gotta look that up. That doesn't sound right to me.

524
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: Five zero nine zero zero. The car doctors coming back

525
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: right after this. I got er time. Right it on

526
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: the wall, so you don't forget to call for car advice.

527
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: Done right? Eight five five five zero zero zero. Now

528
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: back to row. In a way, I'm glad. Well. One

529
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: of the nice things about Okay, we're not the world

530
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: with driving this week is because a lot of weird

531
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: things happened at the shop this week. And I said,

532
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: when this one particular thing happened. I said, Oh, I

533
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: want to talk about this Saturday. Oh I can't. I

534
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: won't be I'll be doing a remote. So here's what

535
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you. How to service the drive

536
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: line Ford escape eighty eight thousand miles on it my

537
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: my my daughter's car. She was in from uh A,

538
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania this week and approaching ninety thousand miles. You want

539
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: to go through drive line fluids. Trans has been done,

540
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: but I've never done the rear differential. Shame on me. Um.

541
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: She kind of racked up some miles and it got

542
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: away from me. But you know, I never I had

543
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: never serviced the rear differential on her car. And I

544
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: had never serviced what they call the PTU or the

545
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: power takeoff unit, which is up front. It's the it's

546
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: the piece that UM directs the rear drive shift and

547
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: helps create the four wheel drive option for the front,

548
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: sort of like a front transfer case, if you will.

549
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Ford is thinking, and I like Ford.

550
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: I think Ford makes a great car, I really do.

551
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: But every once in a while you kind of run

552
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: into that engineer that I think, you know, I don't know.

553
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: He he he went out for a liquid luncheon, came

554
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: back in at two o'clock in the afternoon and said, hey,

555
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: let's build it. Anybody who cares. Let's see if anybody notices.

556
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: The PHIL plug for the front power takeoff for the

557
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: front transfer case unit is a tiny little thing. It's

558
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: a it's it's like a Torqus plus fifty um steel

559
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: plug cast into an aluminum case. Stealing aluminum. You put

560
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: stealing aluminum together. It's like your relatives at the holidays.

561
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: Nobody gets along with each other. And to get it out,

562
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: you have to move the turbo intercooler tube, which is

563
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: held on with these one time use only clips. So

564
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: that becomes a joy, and the kicker becomes that there

565
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: is less than twelve ounces of fluid in the p tu.

566
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: Think about that. That's less than a pint. There's less

567
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: than a pint of synthetic gearlube in this transfer case.

568
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: It's a very light that's a very light oil um

569
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: and it's going to evaporate over time. And it came

570
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: out black. It was beat to death. Now Ford's answer

571
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: is it's lifetime fluid. And I keep saying, yeah, but

572
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: who's lifetime? What if I outlive the car. Okay, at

573
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: least the front transfer case, the p TU, you could

574
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: drain the differential. I think the guy went out at

575
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: lunchtime and did a little bit more than just had

576
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: a couple of beers. I think he was smoking something.

577
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: The PHIL plug. There's a three eight or I'm sorry,

578
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: a half inch drive Phil plug, a traditional differential, Phil plug,

579
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: removal plug, inspection plug, whatever you wanna call it, in

580
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: the very back of the housing. So you find your

581
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: very flat, thin, easy access, low clearance ratchet and you

582
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: get it out. But there's no way to get your

583
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: finger because they put the cross member, the rear cross member,

584
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: right behind the plug. So you've got a distance of

585
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: about maybe a half of an inch, maybe five eighths

586
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 1: of an inch. What are they thinking? And there's no

587
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: way that there's no way to drain the fluid, all right,

588
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: So you know what we've done is we've created a

589
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: sucker um you know, copper tubing vacuum pump, a steel drum,

590
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: and we pull vacuum on the pump and we put

591
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: this in with a tube and we we extract that.

592
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: We've we've created a tool for it. But I don't

593
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: understand what they're thinking. Because you know the times that

594
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: I've done this, we haven't serviced a lot of these

595
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: drive lines yet because they are getting older by the way.

596
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 1: Time we have to do this to yours. Tom has

597
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: the fluid comes out black and it's just conventional gear oil.

598
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: And you know what, you can read any fantasy fairytale

599
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: you want. Gear oil wears out. I don't care who.

600
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: I don't care who can. You're never gonna convince me otherwise.

601
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: I see gear oyl come out black and beat. I

602
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: see gear oyl come out brown and foam me. It's

603
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: water contaminated as yellow. What are we doing here? I

604
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: gotta tell you you know what. And you guys have

605
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: been listening to me for years, and you know what.

606
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: I tell it like it is. I think Ford made

607
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: a mistake on this. For a simple what would it

608
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: cost to drill the bottom of the case and make

609
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: the differential drain itself? And then there is a proper tool.

610
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: We do have the mighty vack hook tool that you

611
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: can fill with U up top. You would make it

612
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: a serviceable component. I'll tell you the thing that really

613
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: kind of got me in the front of the rear differential.

614
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: There's a viscus coupling, which is part of the old

615
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 1: wheel drive operation of the vehicle. And I gotta tell

616
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: you that viscus coupling looks exactly like the one from

617
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: the Toyota CN is that we change from time to

618
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: time from Toyota that viscus coupling is you can buy

619
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: it separately from Ford that viscus coupling, and you can't

620
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: buy it separately. You gotta buy the whole differential is

621
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: it's half the price. Um, you know, it just sort

622
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: of makes you wonder, like, how come Toyota is twice

623
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: as much money as for it is Toyota on an

624
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: ego trip. You know what? We can pick on Toyota

625
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: a little bit too. All good cars, just some of

626
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: the engineering leaves you scratch in your head. Zero the

627
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: crocs coming back to wrap it up right after this,

628
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: Je's really will find my phe night, She's ll find

629
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: my phone, my phone. Welcome back on a Need of

630
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,959
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. I want to close out the show

631
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: today with some comments about autonomous cars. Uh comments recently

632
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: from the President's desk. John Galvin from Triple A. He

633
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: talks about today's today autonomous cars are a reality, a

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Speaker 1: triple A. We've done research to understand consumer attitudes towards

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Speaker 1: self driving cars. We focused on three main areas, driver comfort,

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Speaker 1: comfort with the idea of sharing the road with a

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Speaker 1: self driving car while walking or riding a bike, and

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Speaker 1: if a driver wants a semi autonomous technology in the

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Speaker 1: next vehicle. The results of our most recent studies show

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Speaker 1: seventy three percent of US drivers are too afraid to

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Speaker 1: drive to ride in a to drive, right to ride

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Speaker 1: hit a fully self driving vehicle, up significantly from sixty

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Speaker 1: three in late Additionally, sixty three of adults report they

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Speaker 1: would feel less safe sharing the road with a self

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Speaker 1: driving vehicle while walking or riding a bicycle. Slightly more

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Speaker 1: than a half of drivers want send me autonomous vehicle

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Speaker 1: technology in the next car they buy, or at least

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Speaker 1: um Yeah, Like it makes no sense. It's it's the

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Speaker 1: goofy part is it's all we this generation, you know,

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Speaker 1: the twenty years before me, the twenty years after me.

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Speaker 1: It's all we know to drive yourself in a car.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about this before. I want to be

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Speaker 1: able to control that thing if I'm sitting in it.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I want to know. It's gonna happen. And

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Speaker 1: this occurred to me this week when I was doing

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Speaker 1: some reading and thinking about it. With self driving cars,

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Speaker 1: are we gonna do away with parking garages? Why would

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Speaker 1: you need to park the car? Have to drop you

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Speaker 1: off for the theater program, the car come back in

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Speaker 1: two hours? Trying to right think about it, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna need parking lots anymore. Oh boy, where

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Speaker 1: will the future take us? I'm running aading the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: I'll be right here to take it with me. Good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you everyone, she knows

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