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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: Did you see it? Go? Bio went like that? Because

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Speaker 1: Not you. Your job is to walk in. You know,

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Speaker 1: see what's going on here. Ellison, Welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Yeah, run get out to talk

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Speaker 1: or two hundred thirty dollars. That's about right, Ellison? Is

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Speaker 1: to ye, Ellison. Good to hear from your brother. You

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Speaker 1: That's a whole another. That's a whole another story on

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Speaker 1: a whole another level. He's a riot. Um, he's hidding

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Speaker 1: Ninety eight Lincoln Town Car. Mike, Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: how can I help? Hey, Ron, thanks for taking my call. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: the caliper in all likelihood. Well, what about getting on

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Speaker 1: to Alan in Florida, Ranger two point nine and the

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Speaker 1: high idol issue. Allen, Welcome to the car Doctor. How

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Speaker 1: can I help? Well, I'm trying to figure out if

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Speaker 1: I can if the UH rear, the gear ratio and

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Speaker 1: so tell me the story. What's going on here? Well,

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Speaker 1: when I picked up the vehicle fifteen years ago, UM,

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Speaker 1: What's high? None that will none that would settle down?

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Speaker 1: Do you live near the highway or can you get

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Speaker 1: it learns. Is that a computer issue? I think it's normal. Well,

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00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 1: what I would the other thing I would do is,

426
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, if if you want to really see um, well,

427
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's a fair test. I was

428
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: gonna say, disconnect the IAK and drive it and see

429
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: what happens. But I really think what you're seeing is

430
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 1: remember in the old days when cars had carburetors, Yeah,

431
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: all right, and what they have on the side of

432
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 1: the carburetors. As as more mission controls came on board

433
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 1: and things got a little more complicated, they had a

434
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 1: dash pot, right, They had a mechanical dash pot that

435
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: kept the throttle from slam and shut. I think what

436
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: they're giving you is they're giving you an electronic dash pot.

437
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: Because my Ranger does the exact same thing. To tell

438
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: you the truth, it's done it since. And I actually

439
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: worked on my Ranger. It used to be a customers

440
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: vehicle and then when it blew the rear didn't want

441
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: to fix it. We brought it from him. But I

442
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 1: worked on that truck geez, probably since it had forty

443
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it. And and and you know, it's done

444
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 1: it as long as I've ever seen it. It's never

445
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: really given me cause for concern. Yeah, back to what

446
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 1: you say about the over vehicles. He used to have

447
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: back pressure when you let off the throttle. Well, right,

448
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: they'd have a well, they'd have a dash pot. Right.

449
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: They wouldn't want this throttle the slam shut. They wouldn't

450
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: want the idol to drop down to us, you know,

451
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: to to base sidle right away. They wanted it to

452
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,360
Speaker 1: get there on a cushion. Uh. This vehicle have air conditioning.

453
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: I'm sure it does. Living in Florida. Yeah, well I

454
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: bought it. I bought the vehicle in Alaska. And you know,

455
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 1: if it's got air I bet I bet the I

456
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: bet the way the idol drops down low is a

457
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: little different with the air on than the air off.

458
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: Does that change it? Um? And then it didn't seem

459
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: to a because I'm thinking, I'm thinking maybe engine load

460
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 1: you know, do this. Let's let's be scientific about this,

461
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: all right. However you do it, figure out how far

462
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: off that sparometer is? Alright, I can actually I can

463
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: tell you or off it is. It it's off for

464
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 1: four miles an hour up to about thirty, and then

465
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: up to forty it's about three miles per hour off,

466
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: and then after about sixty it's almost it's about a

467
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: mile off. How do you how do you know that?

468
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: What are you gauging that against? Um? I like with

469
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: my phone GPS? Okay, so you do have a GPS

470
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,679
Speaker 1: on your phone. You do have miles per hour on

471
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: your phone? Yeah? Okay, then you know as much as

472
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 1: it as much as much work as it might be.

473
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: I think to go through and change the gear ratio,

474
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna matter. I think I think

475
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: that generation Ranger, it was either there was a three

476
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 1: seventy three gear ratio and the next one was way down,

477
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: was right. I think that's and you probably have the

478
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: highway gear. You probably have the lower numerical gear. The

479
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: three is what you're telling me. So what you could

480
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: do is if you can figure out and there's there's

481
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: ways to figure out what gear ratio is in this mark,

482
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: the drive shifts, spend, the wheel count, the number of

483
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: revolutions you could see. If the factory scan tool, the

484
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: I d S has the ability to program what rears

485
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: in the vehicle under calibration, I don't know if it'll

486
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: do it on a ninety. That's kind of old. You know,

487
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: it was probably stored in the processor at the time

488
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: of the flash when the vehicle was first when the

489
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: vehicle was first assembled. But there are ways to correct that,

490
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's going to fix it for you.

491
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: The last, the last thought I have is if you

492
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 1: have access to a scan tool and you think this is,

493
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, a vacuum leak. I'd love to see what

494
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: fuel trims are. I'd love to see I'd love to

495
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: see where fuel trims are. I let's see what our

496
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: two censor activity is. If everything looks normal, I'm back

497
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: to my first statement. I think what you're seeing is

498
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 1: a normal condition for that generation truck. That's what they

499
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: tend to. That's my experience. I haven't seen a lot.

500
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: I will I will admit that I have not seen

501
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: a lot of manual transmission rangers. I've seen five, and

502
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: I can attest that I've seen four of them do it.

503
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: Three of them do it, four of them do it.

504
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: Four I can see if I've seen four of them

505
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: do it. I have to think back in my mind.

506
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: It's been a while since I've seen them all. And

507
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: you haven't ever changed to computer route. Now, I've never

508
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: had a change of computer route. And the truck ran fine.

509
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: It never gave me. It never gave me a light,

510
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: It never gave me a stalling issue. It never gave

511
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: me a reason to even consider it. So, you know,

512
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: unless you've got a symptom beyond hey, I think you know.

513
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: Here we are again. You know I think the idle

514
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 1: speed is too high. I'm gonna tell you, I think

515
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: it's normal. Come to New Jersey. Come to New Jersey.

516
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 1: You can drive my eighty seven. You'll say, uh, it's

517
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: sixty six. I think we are off the Parkway. I

518
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: lived there for nine years. Uh Pennington, Okay, Yeah, And

519
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,719
Speaker 1: you're no, you're not far enough up. You gotta come

520
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: all the way up. You gotta you gotta, you gotta

521
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: come all the way up to the land. The pizza

522
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: and good bagels. No, that's even further. We're way up.

523
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: Let's see where what eggs it? Are we off the parkway?

524
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: Mikey and we sixty six? I think we're sixty six?

525
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,479
Speaker 1: Mikey scratching his head. Now, I got him thinking too.

526
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,239
Speaker 1: Were we won sixty six? Were one sixty six? That's it?

527
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: I knew there was another number in there anyway. The

528
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: spring of your coming up through Well, you're always welcome.

529
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: Listen to the coffee pots, always on everybody, So all right, Alan,

530
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir. You take good care of a

531
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: happy new year. Zero nine zero the car doctors coming back,

532
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: don't go away? Welcome back, corminated the car doctor, Tony

533
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: and Georgia. Oh nine Dodge Ram, what's going on here?

534
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: Hey do buddy? I love listen to your show? You there? Yes, sir?

535
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: How are you? Can you hear me? I can can

536
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: you hear me? Can you agree to me? Weird sound

537
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: at first? And then it's good, Yeah, that's my voice.

538
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: That's that's the natural tone of my voice. Um, it

539
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: just sounds weird. So that's why they put me on radio. Actually,

540
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: that's why. That's a whole another story. How can I

541
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: help you today, kiddo? Well, first off, I love your show.

542
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 1: I've been listening to it over the last year. I

543
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 1: own a lawn care business in Georgia, and all day

544
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: while I'm owing along, I listened to the show and really,

545
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: really really enjoy it. So let me let me ask

546
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: you a question before you ask me a question. You're ready.

547
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: So you do you do lawn care? Do you repair mowers?

548
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: Or you cut grass? I cut grass? Okay? Has the

549
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: ethanol issue affected you with your mowers? Um? It really

550
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: has not affected me that much. I have had a

551
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: fuel line dry up, you know here there. You know

552
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: that I've had to replace. But really that's about it.

553
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: But maybe that's because you know the fuel you know,

554
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: I run through twenty gallons a week, you know what

555
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: I'm saying, So it doesn't really sit in there. How

556
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: many more? How many more? How many mowers are you

557
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: running on a weekly basis? Well, I have four different

558
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: mowers you know that we use here and there, and

559
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: there's no snow or anything here, so we're out working

560
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: in the yard year round. Holy cow, that's against that's

561
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: against the religion here in New Jersey. Um. You know, well,

562
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: my dad and his whole side of the family is

563
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: from upstate New York, so I'm pretty familiar with what

564
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,959
Speaker 1: you guys got going on. So you're the other end.

565
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: You're the other end of the spectrum. You were the

566
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: good son you got out, Uh, I hear you? Yeah? Well,

567
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: well my mom my mom's from Georgia and once they

568
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: got married, they moved here. So I've been here in

569
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: my whole life. Once again, the rule applies. If mom

570
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:57,719
Speaker 1: is not happy, nobody's happy. Don't tell anybody. How can

571
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: I help you, Tony? What's going on? All? Right? So

572
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: I got a P zero one seven one lean code

573
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: on my two thousand nine Ramifred and I've been chasing

574
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: it for almost a year now. UM. You know, I've

575
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: I've cleaned the injectors. UM. I've checked resistance on injectors.

576
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: I've even rented the little the little lights to make

577
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: sure the power is good to injectors. UM. I had

578
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: a couple broken off exhaust manifold bolts and me and

579
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: my dad welded through a nut and extracted all those

580
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: and all new gaskets. UM. I got a new mopar

581
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: map sensor UM, and of course I ran the injector

582
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: cleaner through it and um and then I even bought

583
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: a smoke machine to UH to test for vacuum leaks

584
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: and tried to multiple different vacuum locations and with a

585
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: big plug tested back through the exhaust clean and throttle body.

586
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: Got new um I ridium spark plugs, all new O

587
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: two sensors and uh my fuel trims are pretty good.

588
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: There you know minus three at idle minus five or so,

589
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: you know when you get moving. Um, I've cleaned the

590
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: p twop and I have a I do have a

591
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: range MBS manager on there to turn off the MDSUM

592
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: but it's in the truck runs great, drives great. It's

593
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: just every now and then when you're sitting there at

594
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: idle boom, you know, being a little checking pot on

595
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: and this is this is the code. Do you do

596
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: you have the ability to look at freeze frame? Do

597
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: you know what freeze frame is? Yes? Well, I'm I'm

598
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: not a professional like you, but I do. I have

599
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: a I have a blue driver scan tool which is

600
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: an awesome, awesome little tool. It does have freeze frame.

601
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it has motion six and it has

602
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: all that. So so get familiar with freeze frame on

603
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: your tool. You want to go look at that, because

604
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: freeze frame is a video snapshot of what the conditions

605
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: were when the code set. I'd like to know. I'd

606
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: like to know what we're chasing. I'd also like to

607
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: know is if if, and typically fuel trim fault codes

608
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: will set or beyond. So if Bank one goes to

609
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: twenty six, but Bank two is at twenty two, you're

610
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: gonna get a fault code for one. Not too but

611
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: to being that high tells us something to Also, I'll

612
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: use the word also instead of two. You get what

613
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying, right, Well, it's it's it's always set the

614
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: code for that Bank one. Um My. You know my

615
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: long term fuel trims. You know our one point six

616
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 1: through thirty point five on bank one, um and you know.

617
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: So it's it's weird. It's like sometimes like it won't

618
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,479
Speaker 1: come on for a few days and then all right,

619
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I'll tell you what. Tony, Sit tight,

620
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: let me pull over. Take this pause. I don't want

621
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: to rush this. We'll be coming right back. Came running

622
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: any of the car, doctor, don't go away, welcome back.

623
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: Run into the car doctor, Tony. You're still there, Tony.

624
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: So here's the deal, all right, we want to look

625
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 1: at freeze frame. Freeze frame is gonna tell us what

626
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: the fuel trim was on Bank one when this happened.

627
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: All right, we want we want to look at short term,

628
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: we want to look at long term. We also want

629
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: to be aware of fuel trim on bank too. Like

630
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: I said, if Bank two is encroaching but it doesn't

631
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: hit the mark, if it's at and Bank one is

632
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: at being the point at which it sets the fault,

633
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: I'd be looking for something common to both banks. If

634
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: it's if it's strictly Bank one, If Bank one is

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Speaker 1: a Bank two is at five, then I've got to

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Speaker 1: look for something that's particular just to Bank one. You

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Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. Okay, that's that's But the only

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Speaker 1: thing I haven't checked. I haven't checked fuel pressure yet.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the fuel pump sounds good when you turned

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Speaker 1: the key on. Do you think that could be something?

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Speaker 1: I could answer that question here. You answer the question

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Speaker 1: real quick. If both banks are showing lean, do you

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Speaker 1: think it could be a fuel pump? Well, only only

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Speaker 1: one bank is showing lean. Okay, If one bank is

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Speaker 1: showing lean, explained to me, And I'm not saying not

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Speaker 1: to check it, but how could it be a fuel

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Speaker 1: pump only on one bank both both banks are fed

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Speaker 1: by the same pump. Doesn't make any sense. So start

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Speaker 1: thinking of how this works. If this was a lawnmower,

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Speaker 1: how would you fix it? And there's this multiplied by

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Speaker 1: eight for the number of cylinders. All right, last thing,

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Speaker 1: just think about could there be a bulletin update for this.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it will be. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be more than that. But look at fuel trim fuse frame,

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Speaker 1: look at bulletins. Think about swapping on two censors side

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Speaker 1: to side. Call me back, I'm on any of the

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Speaker 1: car doctor mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. She was super

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Speaker 1: Dow