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Speaker 1: you can start the argument with me if you want.

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Speaker 1: But for a vehicle to be out of alignment to

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Speaker 1: of alignment. I mean something is severely cocks the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Let's get over to Anna in Iowa, who has the

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Speaker 1: answer to the dual quand question for barrel carburetors. Wham,

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Speaker 1: how do you know that answer? Did you used to

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Speaker 1: drive a car that? Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: ron and Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where

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Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion

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Speaker 1: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: at eight five in a hundred and now running. Where

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Speaker 1: to begin? Uh? You know where to begin? I have

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Speaker 1: two great repairs of the week this week, and I'm

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Speaker 1: old I'm getting I must be getting old. And on

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Speaker 1: needed to get it resolved. So on my doorstep I

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Speaker 1: found at this past Monday, and that's okay. Diagnosis said

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Speaker 1: Now this has an E and that's not I'm not squeaking.

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Speaker 1: That's an e g R valve. It's an electronic e

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Speaker 1: So diagnosis of the of the three codes led me

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Speaker 1: on engine off basis, which means it's a circuit fault,

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Speaker 1: all right, P zero O F two or O f a.

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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense, right, Like why don't we get

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Speaker 1: the genius that why do we get away from using

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Speaker 1: guys I was talking to technical support, I had calling

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Speaker 1: all right. It got down to where and I'm not

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Speaker 1: I don't like ohming, but sometimes you have to that.

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Speaker 1: There's a hot at the one side of the coil.

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Speaker 1: It seems that it just makes everything that much harder

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Speaker 1: they you know, for years I've been saying, hey, let's

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Speaker 1: Probably not, but my ego right that check and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: Why can't they put the oil filter up top where

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Speaker 1: long it's gonna last, you know, it's it's it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like, um, we've mounted a nuclear power plan on

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Speaker 1: Chris always said, he thinks the engineers designed it in

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Speaker 1: that happened this week at the shop. I'll return right

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Speaker 1: after this. Don't go away. Vehicle not taking you where

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Speaker 1: you want to go? Well, call Ron. He's the expert

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Speaker 1: let's get over to Roberta and Vermont Roberta. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the car, doc or how can I help? Thanks? Um,

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Speaker 1: can I help? Yes, sir, Thank you, Joe Show listen

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Speaker 1: down that way. But you have to swap both wires,

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00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: the positive and the negative. You look at a wiring diagram,

429
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: it'll it'll make sense to you. Um. What I would

430
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 1: tell you to do is, you know, take a picture

431
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: of whatever it is you're changing before you change it,

432
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 1: so that you know what you're looking at. And you know,

433
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,879
Speaker 1: so when the phone rings or somebody comes along to

434
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: talk to you and yammer in your ear, you know

435
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:45,679
Speaker 1: which which wire went where? Uh you know, not that

436
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: that ever happens in the shop. Uh oh please. Uh.

437
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: Somebody walked in the other day at lunchtime and I'm

438
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: working on something in lunch and I was I was

439
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: just knee deep in something and I was just focused

440
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: and somebody walked in and started talking to me about

441
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: so and so sent me up from someplace that I've

442
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: never heard of, and I was like, you know, I

443
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: keep thinking, I gotta put a security guard out front. Uh,

444
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: you know so and I had to stop what I

445
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,360
Speaker 1: was doing and then, you know, catch myself back up.

446
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: So just always position yourself where you are um in

447
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: terms of you know, mark it down. Don't be afraid

448
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: to take pictures or write things down. But that's what

449
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: I would do. You know, does the problem now transfer

450
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: to the right front channel, which tells me, you know,

451
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: it's it's coming off the wiring, And does it stay

452
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: on the left front channel, which tells me it's the inputs,

453
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: it's it's it's the module itself. Have you ever heard

454
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: of the hub itself causing the wheel on the back

455
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: of the hub that takes the sensor. Have you ever

456
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: heard of that? Are if they're worn? If the sensor

457
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: is worn and weathered, all right? It can you know,

458
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: how how does the tone ring look when you see it?

459
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 1: Or is this is this ensconced inside the hub? Can

460
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: you you can see this on the outside? Right? Yeah?

461
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: You can yeah, um, and you can see this tone ring?

462
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: Can't use in't invisibly visible from the outside? Oh yeah yeah?

463
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: Does it? Does it look weathered and beat up? Yeah?

464
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 1: It just looks stal to me because I just reading

465
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff, you know, on the internet, and

466
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: while somebody said something about it might be the hubba well,

467
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: I said, how could how could it be the hub?

468
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: If it's if it's running like it's supposed to. Well,

469
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: because and you have to look at it careful, there

470
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,000
Speaker 1: could be a crack. Um, How can I explain this?

471
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: You ever look at the top of the castle? You

472
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: ever watched King Martha and the you know, the top

473
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: of the castle always had like a square top to

474
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: it had a turret. It was it was high and

475
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 1: a low, and a high and low and a high

476
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: and the low. Well, if you were to look at

477
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: a scope signal of a wheel speed sensor, it would

478
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,159
Speaker 1: look like a castle top high and a low and

479
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 1: a high and the low. And it's crisp and it's

480
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: clean and it's sharp and they're all evenly spaced. If

481
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: there's anything in that tone ring, if there's contaminant in

482
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: that tone ring, if there's a hairline crack in that

483
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: tone ring, okay, that you don't see by the naked eye.

484
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: If that tone ring is slipping on the hub or

485
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: on the axle, all right, it will cause a false

486
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: ABS event. Because you know, if you had the ability to,

487
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: and you had the equipment, I would tell you, I'd

488
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: hook up a lab scope, compare the left and the

489
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: right front, and just make sure that we have too

490
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: equally space to evenly spaced, and the amplitude is the same,

491
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: the size of the signal equal on a straight line acceleration.

492
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: And then when you hit the pothole to bump whatever

493
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: it is that sets it off, does that signal from

494
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: the left front somehow change but the right front does not?

495
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: All right? You know you could try that in the

496
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: sense if you wanted to. I don't know if you've

497
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: done this yet, but if you can find a pothole

498
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: in the road, you know, does it happen? Is it

499
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: more likely to happen hitting left front only or right

500
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: front only? So it's it's it's left left front only,

501
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: so you can hit the you can hit the right

502
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: front and the problem doesn't happen. Yep, Okay, I would

503
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: take a real careful look at that hub or as

504
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 1: I said, I would, I would change that that tone

505
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: the wiring around and see if it's still shows points

506
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: the left front. It's either wiring or the hub itself.

507
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: And you just haven't seen it. You haven't, you know,

508
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: you can't catch it the easiest one right there, right, yeah, alright, Bob.

509
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 1: I replaced both hubs myself about six or seven years ago,

510
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: both the same bland and everything. So right, yeah, well

511
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: if they if there was six or seven years and

512
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: it's been running okay, then it's not likely that all

513
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden one magically, you know, is the is

514
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: the problem. It's it's it's failed now because of the weather.

515
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: I understand. You know you guys get a little bit

516
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: of snow and corrosive material up there means sometimes corrosive material.

517
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: Yeah when that when when that white stuff falls? Uh yeah,

518
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: so that'll be during the road. Boy, just eat everything. Yep.

519
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: So all right, I appreciate it very much. You're very welcome, sir.

520
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm here. If you need me, you give me a

521
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: call back, you'd be well, you're welcome. I'm running any

522
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: in the car. Doctor, I'll be back right after this.

523
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:16,199
Speaker 1: Don't go away tell them back. Car doctor, Let's go

524
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: down Miami Way and talk to Gus a Levan Honda. Gus,

525
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: welcome to the car doctor. How can I help a

526
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: ran Banks for taking the call? Um Ron? I had

527
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: uh inside the instrument cluster there's a little led display

528
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: and it said, UM check check gas cap. Yeah. So

529
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: luckily I have a cousin has the exact same car.

530
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: So I swapped out the gas cap ran it For

531
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: about a hundred miles, nothing happened. Hit the forums a

532
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: little bit and everybody mentioned, uh, soulenoid purge vout. Okay,

533
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: So I I go to my cousins. I read the

534
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: oms on his, I read the oms on mine. They're different.

535
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: So at this point I've decided that it is a

536
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: soulennoid purge vout up there in the engine bay. So

537
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: I went went ahead and bought one Norman one and

538
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: took the air box out. UM, took the top mold

539
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: out of the purrige valve and the bottom bolt was

540
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: tucked in very nicely right behind the barbs that send

541
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: the heater hoses UM through the firewall. So long story short,

542
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: I don't I didn't have anything any type of tool.

543
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: I mean I tried with a universal joint to try

544
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: to get in there with an eight millimeter socket and

545
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: not enough room to operate a box and wrench any

546
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: um to operate a box and wrench. So I was

547
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: a little bit frustrated, so I buttoned it all back up,

548
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: take it to my trusted mechanic down the street. You know,

549
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: he hasn't done for me in forty five minutes. I

550
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: was kind of in a rush, so I I talked

551
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: to the check that actually did. I say, hey, how

552
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: did you access that bolt? And he said, oh, special tool?

553
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: And I just didn't have the time to say, hey,

554
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: can you show it to me? But I'm wondering what

555
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: tool he used to access that bolt. I mean I

556
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: tried universal joint box and um, I just and unless

557
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: he had like a salted wrench, I don't know people

558
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: have access. Did did you happen to look as the

559
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: valve installed properly? No? I haven't. Actually, you know, I

560
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: have I have seen guys, um you know, uh, I've

561
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: seen guys take a well, yeah, they'll kind of let

562
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: it hang. They'll take a chisel and smack it off

563
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: at the eyebolt and then uh, you know, all sorts

564
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: of weird things I've seen in my in my day,

565
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: and in particular for that repair. You know, Um, I

566
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: don't know of any special tool to get around you know,

567
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: have I would I take a cheaper wrench or a

568
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: cheaper set up and heat and bend something to make

569
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: it work. Sure, I do that stuff, not all the time,

570
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: but as the need arises. So it might be a

571
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: special tool at that particular shop has. But there's nothing

572
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: that stands out in my mind that allows that to happen. Uh,

573
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: you know that there's something that's that's interesting, He said,

574
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: to take a look at it, because I was actually

575
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, I don't even really I

576
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: could just unplug the hoses and just let this thing flow,

577
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to do that. Well, yeah, I'm

578
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: not saying that that's the right way to do it.

579
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: I'm just they do it, um, you know, and you

580
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: know I've seen, I've seen. You know, guys will tell me, well,

581
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: that's why God invented zip ties. We just kind of

582
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: zip tie it to the old one and kind of

583
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: let it hang out in space. Um. You know, let

584
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: me let me ask you this question more importantly or

585
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: just as important. Did it fix the problem. Yeah, it

586
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: did fix the problems it was now Yeah you can.

587
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: But here let me just tell you this too if

588
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: you want to check, if you want to check a

589
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: purge valve next time. And it's admirable about o ming

590
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: things and comparing specs, because that's what you do today, right.

591
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: You want to know what's a good spec? What's it

592
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: looked like? Um, what you could do is you could

593
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: take off the you could disconnect the purge on the

594
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: feed going back to the canister, to the rest of

595
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: the system. Start the car electrically disconnected. Put your finger

596
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: over the whole. If their suction there with no with

597
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: no electrical applied, that valve is that valve is bad? Right?

598
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: I didn't think of that. Sometimes sometimes simple works best. Hey, guys,

599
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: stay put, let me pull over and take a pause.

600
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: When I come back, I'll give you two for nickel brother.

601
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere I'm running any of the car doctor.

602
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: We'll return right after this. Welcome back rounded the car doctor.

603
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: Let's get back to Gus in Miami. Gust two for

604
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: Nickel brother. What's your second question? Awesome, real real quick

605
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: with that purge valve back to my other one would

606
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: that affect gas mileage by any chance. Well, it'll if

607
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: it's if the valve was failed and open causing fuel enrichment. Right,

608
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: what would happen if purge valve can't be controlled to

609
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: a degree? It in theory, it'll upset the apple cart

610
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: because it's gonna draw a fuel vapor out of the canister,

611
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: or worse, it's gonna draw a fuel off the top

612
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: of the tank, depending upon how much you fill the

613
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: tank or if you over fill the tank. So in theory, yeah, um,

614
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, do you have a scan tool? Okay, watch

615
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: fuel trim? You ever look at fuel trim? Just for giggles,

616
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: you know, just I have? I have, but I don't.

617
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: I guess I'll do that now after I've changed it.

618
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: But I didn't notice a little bit of bad um

619
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: feel gas miladi on the check gas cut. But but yeah,

620
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Dawn check that out. Well because understand, understand,

621
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: and you know again now we don't know for sure, right,

622
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,959
Speaker 1: but we do know that when a check engine light

623
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: comes on, the vehicles exceeding emissions as defined by the

624
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: Clean Air Act of by one and a half times

625
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: the legal limit technical textbook answer, Right, that's the fancy words. Okay,

626
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: So logically we know the manufacturers do alter the way

627
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: the vehicle operates and runs. You know, we've seen a

628
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: lot of the goals that if the check engine light

629
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: comes on, ABS light comes on, traction control lights come on,

630
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: vehicle stability control lights come on. And the question is why.

631
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: The reason is because they feel that if the vehicle

632
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: isn't in emissions compliance, it's not operating, it's not operating

633
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: an optimal tune. So they cut back. They pull back

634
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,959
Speaker 1: on some of the engine functions or functionality or range

635
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: of power and range of operation in order to try

636
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: and maintain emissions. So it could all right. You know.

637
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: One of the neatest things that I I see is

638
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: and I can't think of the name of the company,

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Speaker 1: on the show here from time to time. I've still

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Speaker 1: got a dash pack, a little module that I put

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Speaker 1: on the suburban and I'll put it up on the

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Speaker 1: left side of the dash and I'll just watch Fuelturem

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Speaker 1: while I'm driving. There's nothing wrong with the truck, but

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Speaker 1: I just I kind of get to know what known

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Speaker 1: good looks like. So if I think I have a problem.

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Speaker 1: I can go back and look at Okay, that's off.

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Speaker 1: I know that numbers off. You know that numbers off

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Speaker 1: and so on, so you know, don't be fair to

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Speaker 1: take out the scale too mean. Look, yeah, I could

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Speaker 1: easily do that with my cousin on the exact same car.

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Speaker 1: All right, going to my second question. Um so when

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Speaker 1: my mechanic and I trusted him, he's done. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: you know what, brother, I'm sorry. Hey guys, I'm sorry, brother.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was your second question. The clock is

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Speaker 1: gonna take you and I'm up against the end of

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Speaker 1: the show. I love talking to you. Man. You call

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Speaker 1: me back again another time and I'll get you right

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Speaker 1: on until the next time. You'll be good down there

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Speaker 1: in Miami Way, Gus and uh again, I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 1: Until the next time. I'm rounding any in the car

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Speaker 1: doctor reminding all of you good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you