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Speaker 1: and spreaker and do your thing. It's UM, it's not

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Speaker 1: d C Chevrolet Silverado. Jeremy, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey, afternoon? I Uh, I got

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Speaker 1: this yet? Yeah? About three thousand miles more. Okay, So

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00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 1: who's who's eligible to do the powertrain warrant? Take coverage

426
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: only only the deal here's the problem because GM was

427
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: doing that five year, hundred thousand mile So here's here's

428
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 1: the problem. Um, you're gonna take it out to the

429
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,479
Speaker 1: best shop in the land. But it's not a dealer,

430
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: all right, and you know it could be you know,

431
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: it could be Mario N's Ready's repair shop or whatever.

432
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: All right, you get my point. And they're gonna work

433
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: in with this documented, signed piece of paper that says,

434
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, we took this pressure test and this proves it,

435
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: and this is low and so on. You know what,

436
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,679
Speaker 1: they're gonna tell you, we need to test it ourselves

437
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: because they don't. I've never seen a dealer acknowledge even

438
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: another dealer's work. It's not just dealer against independent, it's

439
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: dealer against dealer. It's attending physician against attending physician. And

440
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 1: I would do the same thing. Yeah, I want to

441
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: see that. I'm sorry, I want to do the test myself. So,

442
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,399
Speaker 1: you know, because the bigger because the bigger problem is

443
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: if they don't want to acknowledge the sound that it exist,

444
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: and you have a document, say hey, look I can

445
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: prove it. I got the piece of paper. You know what,

446
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: if they didn't want to hear the noise in the

447
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: first place, they could care less. And you've got gold

448
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: bars in the back of the truck. Well that's kind

449
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: of what I'm thinking. So I'm kind of basically at

450
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 1: their mercy at this point. I guess is the situation

451
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: either that or you're gonna find another dealer. Okay, yeah,

452
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: I mean maybe I'll do that and look around a

453
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, it doesn't say, you know, It

454
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: doesn't say just at this one particular dealer, right, it

455
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: says any GM dealer. Yeah, exactly, exactly. So let me

456
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: ask you this, Who's who's been servicing the truck up

457
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: to this point? I have myself, um, religiously, I mean,

458
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: you know, transmission, flute change, it is the whole nine yards.

459
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: I pretty much just do everything and so that, you know,

460
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: in a situation like this that might kind of put

461
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: me behind the ball. Well, can you can you prove

462
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: the oil changes? You've got receipts? Yeah? Oh yeah, I

463
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: got all that. Um, and I don't I don't think

464
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it does, not that my

465
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: voice counts. But I would you know what this is,

466
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: that this is that conversation with a mechanic time. You know,

467
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: I would go down to the dealership and talk and said, listen,

468
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, show him the bulletin, all right, and if

469
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: the guy blows off the bulletin in black and white,

470
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: and they should be aware of it. It's a common problem,

471
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: you know. And yeah, I mean that's my thing. And

472
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: if they blow it off, then all that dealership wants

473
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: to do is sell new cars and change oil. They're

474
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: not interested in repairs in my opinion, one other quick

475
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 1: I just did, uh, did do you have like an

476
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: extra ten seconds? Okay? I just did a new front

477
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: brakes on my sister Chevy Cruz UM and I used

478
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: the O E M pads and I was going to

479
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: use O EM rotors um, but the Delco place the

480
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: jobb or didn't have it. And and I looked online.

481
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: It looks like even a GM dealerships now with their service,

482
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: they use the that Delco Advantage line of h break rotors.

483
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: And you know, honestly, now it may be something to it,

484
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: but when I held him up next to the O

485
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 1: E M, I mean, they did look like they're just

486
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: as thick and the exact same and there's no pulsing.

487
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: So I mean, do you think by using those advantaged rotors?

488
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: I did? Okay, the advantage rotors, from what I understand,

489
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: are the less expensive line. All right, that's right oxactly.

490
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: So you know we'll use Delco Professional in the shop,

491
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: which is the which is the great above advantage. And

492
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: you know there's there's three choices in the Delko GM

493
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: family and they're gonna have to sit down and figure

494
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: this out because it's getting very confusing, uh, you know,

495
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: no crap, man, I'm with you. Yeah, it's just like

496
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: you know, tell me what it is. Is it G

497
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: M O E is a Delco professionals at Delco advantage.

498
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,239
Speaker 1: What's the difference? And we do you start looking at

499
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,400
Speaker 1: starters and alternators that don't really make your head spin

500
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: so and you know, so yeah, um, you know the

501
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: the dell Go advantages that I've seen, They'll have the

502
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: same outside thickness, but the actual thickness of the wall

503
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: of the rotor is a little thinner, and there may

504
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: not be as many veins per section, you know, heat

505
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: dissipating veins. They gotta cheap, they gotta cheapen it up somehow,

506
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, right, it's you know, you'll probably get

507
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: if I already guess and tell you the pattern, you'll

508
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: probably get twenty thousand miles out of them. And when

509
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: you take when you when you change the rotors for

510
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: the pulse, the pads will have another third to go. Well,

511
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 1: then I just day in that scenario, can I still

512
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: use the same pads? YEA, change them at that point

513
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: because we're you gonna do put pads on with more

514
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: and then when they went when they were right when

515
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: they wear out. You know, it's it becomes uh, you know, now,

516
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Just put rotors on and

517
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: then what if the what if that thirty or just

518
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: put pads on and then that thirty thousand mile pad

519
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: if it goes into the third or ever it is

520
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 1: thirty thousand miles, you know, what if it what if

521
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: it kisses the rotor and ruins the rotor and then

522
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 1: there's nothing the machine. You're gonna throw it away. You know. Listen,

523
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: the whole conversation and ideology of a break job. I'll

524
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: probably have to talk about it one day, but I've

525
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: got this whole belief system on on how you approach

526
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: breaks today because it's it's just very, very different. But listen,

527
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: be the guinea pig, call me in here, tell me

528
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: how those Delco advantage rotors are working. Okay man, all right,

529
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,239
Speaker 1: thanks Jeremy, good luck to you. You're welcome. Let us

530
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: know what happens zero zero. The car Doctor is coming

531
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: back right after this welcome back. We're on the end

532
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor. Let's go and talk to Mick

533
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: from Oregon to return. Call Mick. We're still working on

534
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: this jeep Cherokee. Yeah, I'm still working on it ron.

535
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,959
Speaker 1: So what we do the last time? Where we at? Okay,

536
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: all right, well where I'm at is is uh let

537
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: me tell you what it does here. Um, it'll start

538
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: up in idle fine, and if you accelerate get up slow,

539
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: it's fine. It's just when you accelerate fast it'll it'll

540
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: miss and it'll backfire in the intake the air box

541
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: kind of. Um. I have verified that that when the

542
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,959
Speaker 1: pistons on top death Center, that the rotors pointed right

543
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: where it should be. Okay, was it out? No? It wasn't.

544
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: It wasn't. So what was Why was the balancer at

545
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: the wrong mark when we talked last week or the

546
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: week before? The balancer now the mark on the pull

547
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: the pulley, now it's it's over where the index is

548
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: supposed to be. Um, So I don't know if that's

549
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: where it's supposed to be or not. That straight up

550
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: and down it's not doesn't seem like the correct location.

551
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but waitene, Yeah, it's there's a there's a

552
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: tab on the front of the cover and then there's

553
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: a there's a there's a mark in the balancer that

554
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: it should come around. And that's number one is that

555
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: does that line up as far as well? I don't

556
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: have I don't have that. There's no, I don't have

557
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: a tab on there. I don't have an index. How

558
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: about the cover? How could you not have an index?

559
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, because well you can't time it right.

560
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: But there's still gotta be a way to index. And

561
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: it's got to be there's got to be something there. Um,

562
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: I've never seen I've never seen one not have a mark.

563
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: I'll have to look into that this week. Um, So

564
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,239
Speaker 1: mechanical timing notwithstanding, all right, let's just work around that.

565
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: Did we ever check fuel pressure on this car? We did? Right? No?

566
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: I have it? Yeah, let's just check. Let's check. Yeah.

567
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned that in the first conversation a

568
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: month ago. But in case we missed it, let's check

569
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: fuel pressure and let's see what manifold vacuum? Is it? Idle? Okay,

570
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: let's get let's get back to basics. We're missing something

571
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: fundamental here, all right, um, and it may it may

572
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: come down to where did you ever did you have

573
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: the ability to scope? I don't remember. I don't have

574
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: a scope. Um, if I get one, I mean what

575
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: would I scope caman crank sensors make sure they're putting

576
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: out a good wave. You know you had changed caman

577
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: crank sensors, didn't you. I'm trying to remember the car. Yeah, yeah,

578
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: right right, because this car changed, right, this, this is,

579
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: this is different than the original concern for it, right

580
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: it is. So I don't know if this problem is

581
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: related or if it's separate, right, or if it's something new,

582
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: or if it's been induced by parts installed. Let's start over.

583
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: Let's let's start over next week. Give me fuel pressure,

584
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: manifold vacuum and idle. Where does manifold vacuum go when

585
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: you accelerate? All right, and this is driving down the road.

586
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: Let's go back to basics. Okay, if you've got a

587
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: way to scope, let's scope the cam and the crank

588
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: sensors and let's just see what they look like. You'll

589
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: they'll produce a square wave signal about five vaults. They'll

590
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: both be the same. All right, let's see what Let's

591
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: see what that does, and then we'll talk next week. Alright,

592
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: you're very welcome hanging there, zero nine zero. The car

593
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: doctor is coming back right after this. Hey, welcome back.

594
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: We're on the end of the car doctorre let's see

595
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: and from Hartford Vermont's check and in Ron I spoke

596
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: with you a little over a month ago, finally decided

597
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: on a car. I didn't get the RAB or the

598
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: CRV that we talked about. Sorry, hey, no, no apologies.

599
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: UM I got a Mass of c X five thoughts.

600
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: Um Mass is a good car. I like Masda. I

601
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: think Masda is um you know, they're they're I don't

602
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: know if they're in my top five, but they're definitely

603
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: in my top ten, all right. I think the issue

604
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,479
Speaker 1: I see with Masda's and it just seems to it's

605
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: always been this way. They get to be year five

606
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: and six and seven, and they get a little rusty

607
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: and beat up. So you want to start thinking about

608
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: doing things like fluid film or spraying some some sort

609
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: of corrosion prohibitor protection on the undercarriage. I think that's

610
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: a big deal. Uh, you know, it really depends on

611
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: how long you're gonna keep it. But mechanically and reliability wise, yeah,

612
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: I think they're good cars, I really do. Uh you know,

613
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: And um, I think they're often overlooked. If they could well,

614
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what they would have to do to

615
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: solve it. But it just seems like what I see

616
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: the cars that are here and the ones that are

617
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: especially in the Northeast and the salt belt states, Uh,

618
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: they just tend to get beat up by the corrosives

619
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: and the devices to melt snow and ice that you know,

620
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: it's an issue. So um, but you know, listen, enjoy it.

621
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, it's a good car. You'll be

622
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: happy if you if if you're happy in it, then

623
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: you know, just watch the undercarriage. That would be my comments. Um.

624
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: Also another email, Hey Ron, can you finish the story

625
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: about the suburban? I was listening to at the top

626
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: of the hour Terry from main Terry. Yeah, well, yeah,

627
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm start of doing this restoration on the on the

628
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: four suburban. It's fifty six thou miles on it. The

629
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: trans failed for whatever reason. Actually the torque converter went

630
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: south and I couldn't see taking the trans out to

631
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: do a torque converter at this point in the game

632
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: because you have to take you know, half the undercarriage apart.

633
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Speaker 1: So this has become a trans. The trans cooler lines

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Speaker 1: blisters on them, so I've replaced the trans cooler lines.

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Speaker 1: I am painting the trans cooler lines. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people ask me about this. With Benjamin More,

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Speaker 1: you get down to the local paint story, you get

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Speaker 1: Benjamin More low luster alkalide. All right, Um, I've sprayed

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Speaker 1: every hot rod I've done in the last ten years,

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Speaker 1: the undercarriage and the frames with it. It it'll it'll

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Speaker 1: stick the chicken poop it. Uh. It doesn't wash off,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't run off. It can get hit by rocks

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Speaker 1: at Uh. That's great stuff. It's really great stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, if you get out to the Facebook page,

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Speaker 1: you'll see the video that I did talking about the

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Speaker 1: trailblazer wiring. In the video, that's the three M spray

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Speaker 1: gun I'm using. I'm using the three M spray gun

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Speaker 1: system with the disposable cartridges. And if you can spray

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Speaker 1: through that, you can spray through anything. So it's good stuff.

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Speaker 1: But um, yeah, anyway, that's uh, that's the deal for

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Speaker 1: this hour. Until the next hour, I'm monading in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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