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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, the cars get more complicated they are. You know,

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Speaker 1: they can't afford to maintain all the electronics and inventory.

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Speaker 1: There's too many choices, too many possibilities, and I think

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Speaker 1: The Car Doctor, I get so just wondering if you

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Speaker 1: could give me a few hints, you know, on how

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Speaker 1: to bet take care of a Turbo char direct injected Injine.

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Speaker 1: Every time I think Turbo's Jeremy, I think about heat.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Aanian, the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If

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

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Speaker 1: phone and call in the garage orders are open, but

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Speaker 1: I am here to take their calls at eight five

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Speaker 1: five six and now he running. My father was an

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Speaker 1: airline mechanic during the war. He uh He worked out

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Speaker 1: at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. UM. He was

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Speaker 1: superintendent of maintenance for uh UM LaGuardia American Airlines. He

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Speaker 1: had direct UM he was superintendent of maintenance and he

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Speaker 1: had direct authority over President Roosevelt's DC three. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about this before. You and I Welcome to the car doctor,

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Speaker 1: by the way. And I remember Dad was very serious

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Speaker 1: when came to talking about aircraft maintenance. And you know,

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Speaker 1: he always explained to me that, you know, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be that moment when you're working on something mechanical where

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Speaker 1: you gotta be sure you're right, because you know, people's

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Speaker 1: lives are in your hands. And he always used to

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Speaker 1: kid me, and you know, as a little kid, I

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Speaker 1: eleven years old he passed. Uh. You know, he always

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Speaker 1: would say, you know, be sure you're right and then

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Speaker 1: go ahead. And you know you can't step out out

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Speaker 1: of cloud at ten thousand feet and adjust anything. You've

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Speaker 1: got to be sure when that when that vehicle leaves

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Speaker 1: the barn, as you would put it, that um, you

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Speaker 1: know it's ready to go. I never forgot that. I

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Speaker 1: I carry that with me every day. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the things, you know, as we all do right as

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Speaker 1: human beings, we all carry that in our subconscious in

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Speaker 1: the back of our mind. Be sure it's right and

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Speaker 1: let it go, you know, but you've got to be

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Speaker 1: sure you're doing the right thing. You've got to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing. You can't go wrong down right street.

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Speaker 1: Another expression I've lived by. We had to know five

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Speaker 1: Toyota wrap four that came into the shop this week,

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Speaker 1: and it came out of a body shop. Um, and

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Speaker 1: a regular customer of ours. She had been in an

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Speaker 1: accident and she needed to have it repaired. And you know,

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Speaker 1: after the body repairs, it came to us for maintenance

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Speaker 1: oil change and and you know, a superfluous look over

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Speaker 1: uh you know to uh, you know, did they do

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Speaker 1: it right? And is the vehicle in good shape? And

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Speaker 1: so on and so forth. It kind of looked like

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Speaker 1: it was assembled by a four year old. For lack

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Speaker 1: got all the parts back, but you know, goofy little things.

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Speaker 1: The radiator was leaking because the overflow tube didn't have

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Speaker 1: a clamp on it. Had they had put a radiator

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Speaker 1: to put a clamp on that overflow tube, so it

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Speaker 1: And the the you know, um, the the engine oil

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Speaker 1: dipstick wasn't all the way in the hall because for

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Speaker 1: some reason they had taken off I don't understand this,

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Speaker 1: but they had taken off the O ring that was

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Speaker 1: had to take the engine. They actually had to take

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Speaker 1: these repairs. It was shows you where they used car market,

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Speaker 1: is right. They didn't totally. They didn't totally oh five

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Speaker 1: when she aret it there was a belt squeal. She

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Speaker 1: all fairness to them, they had it for three going

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Speaker 1: You had no kidden and she had to she had,

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Speaker 1: Danny and I couldn't put our finger on it. But

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Speaker 1: and she said, no, no, it's going back. For that.

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Speaker 1: They had to get me some parts and I said, okay,

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Speaker 1: that looked like it was put together by somebody's feet

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Speaker 1: You could see the belt was really starting to track badly.

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Speaker 1: It was starting to fray and and beat up and

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Speaker 1: and the backside of the belt was actually starting to fail.

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Speaker 1: You could see it was breaking through the outer layer

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Speaker 1: of rubber, and the belt was about to just self destruct. Well,

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Speaker 1: had I guess it seased while it was sitting there

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Speaker 1: waiting those three months for parts. And you know, now

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Speaker 1: it needed a belt tensioner, and this is where the

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Speaker 1: real problem began. You know, too bad they didn't do

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Speaker 1: you're you're looking right at the two bolts that that

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Speaker 1: hold the belt tensioner in place. Well, unfortunately, you know,

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Speaker 1: you need to take off the rubber insulator. And they

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Speaker 1: get the rubber insulator out, you need to take out

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Speaker 1: the A B S controller, undo all the brake lines,

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Speaker 1: exactly in a great spot, but they were also you know,

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Speaker 1: my mother would say the word would be for schnoker,

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Speaker 1: all right. They were just a little beat up. And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's not gonna come out too easy,

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Speaker 1: get the A B S controller out, if we can't

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Speaker 1: the motor maunt, we're gonna have to disconnect it rebleed

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Speaker 1: old ABS controller and I'm thinking about sediment, and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking about when we get it to bleed properly, and

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Speaker 1: what are we gonna stir up in the brakes that

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Speaker 1: you know, it was it was a funny week like that.

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Speaker 1: I thought of my dad. He he you know, he

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Speaker 1: would have said to me, Ronnie, you know what, he

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Speaker 1: would say, sit down, use your head, think your way

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Speaker 1: didn't tell you this part because to get up the bolt,

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Speaker 1: right side, uh, front cradle support. There's a there's a

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Speaker 1: beam there. It's about I don't know about thirty inches wide. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's part of the breakaway for the front

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Speaker 1: where they where they designed the front end of the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: And you know, too bad Toyota didn't put this a

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Speaker 1: You want to think anything apart. And as I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: why can't you? You know, I don't like drilling into frames.

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Speaker 1: I don't like drilling into structure. But you think to yourself, gee,

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Speaker 1: it's only a three quarter inch hole. It's not gonna

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Speaker 1: do anything. It's not going to create an issue. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna, you know, make a problem anywhere down the line.

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Speaker 1: So I said to Danny, I said, let's get a

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Speaker 1: we've got I've got plastic cups. You know, we we save.

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Speaker 1: We're like rat packs are certain things we'll save. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get a hose assembly and there's a plastic cup

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Speaker 1: benches in the shop, and I pull it out every

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Speaker 1: once in a while, and they come in handy. So

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Speaker 1: three quarters inches a good size. It's a standard size.

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Speaker 1: We drilled a three quarter in sheet metal hole right

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Speaker 1: through the right through the side of this of this member,

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Speaker 1: and it was well. The way we did it was.

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Speaker 1: The way we did it was actually kind of neat

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Speaker 1: because we we've done this before for other applications building

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Speaker 1: hot rods and stuff. We eye bowled it where we

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Speaker 1: wanted it to be. It's got to be about here,

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Speaker 1: and drilled a very small pilot hole first, and then

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Speaker 1: we took a flashlight and shine the flashlight, held it

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Speaker 1: where the beam of light was coming out, and we

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Speaker 1: were we were like spot on. Somehow we managed to

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Speaker 1: look at we were spot on. We were right on

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Speaker 1: top of the bolt. But the reason you do that

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Speaker 1: is because if you're wrong, you can take that pilot

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Speaker 1: be accordingly, and then line it up and and always

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Speaker 1: remember the flashlight tricks. Shine that flashlight through the pilot

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Speaker 1: and are you Are you lined up with the head

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Speaker 1: of the bolt. Now, I think the universe was on

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Speaker 1: guiding me from the great beyond, because I also realized

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Speaker 1: as I was drilling through, I kind of felt somebody

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Speaker 1: And I saw there's a small gusset panel where they

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Speaker 1: the right of that, so we missed it completely. Drill

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Speaker 1: the nice three quarter inch hole, pop the bolt out,

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Speaker 1: What's what's the population? Five thousand, ten thousand? Oh no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: uh or something? Okay, So you know, you got to

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Speaker 1: kind of wonder, what's what's the cost per point to

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Speaker 1: bring e V to that part of the that part

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Speaker 1: of the world as well as the surrounding area. And

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Speaker 1: and this is part of the issue, right building out

432
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Speaker 1: the infrastructure. What's it going to cost? Um? You know,

433
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's it gets, it gets costly, just like

434
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Speaker 1: pepsi having e V vehicles and you know what are

435
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Speaker 1: those trucks gonna cost? I guess we have to watch

436
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Speaker 1: now to see if our favorite two lead bottle of

437
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Speaker 1: Pepsi is going to go up in price. Somebody's gonna

438
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Speaker 1: pay for it, and I don't think it's gonna be them.

439
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Speaker 1: During this event, they didn't make mention of the price.

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Speaker 1: What's the musk? Musk didn't make put mention of the

441
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Speaker 1: price of it. But oh yeah, it's a wonder. Well,

442
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 1: we know that we need ahead, and I'll let you

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Speaker 1: finish your point. I was I was gonna say, we

444
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Speaker 1: we know that the school buses that we're running in Alaska.

445
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Speaker 1: Last year, the state of Alaska bought a school bus.

446
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Speaker 1: And if a school bus was a hundred fifty dollars,

447
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Speaker 1: hundred eighty thousand dollars I think was the number from

448
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Speaker 1: the article. If I remember right, the electric school bus

449
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Speaker 1: was close to a half a million dollars. So you

450
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Speaker 1: know that was a school bus. I can imagine the

451
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Speaker 1: pepsi truck is somewhere on par with that. So we

452
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Speaker 1: can only imagine. You know, we've doubled the price of

453
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Speaker 1: the truck. That means somebody's got to pay for it,

454
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Speaker 1: either the government, the taxpayers, or the guy who's drinking

455
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Speaker 1: the pepsi. So um, you know, I know, I know

456
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Speaker 1: our our government here in Quebec gives a subsidy for

457
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Speaker 1: if you buy If you buy an electric car, a

458
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Speaker 1: certain one has to be fully electric. It can't be

459
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Speaker 1: a hybrid. It has to be completely electric. And there's

460
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Speaker 1: a few other it's not it can't be used, it

461
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Speaker 1: has to be brand new. There's a bunch of conditions.

462
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Speaker 1: I guess you. You must have heard that our Canadian

463
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Speaker 1: airline Air Canada but put place in order for electric planes. Yeah,

464
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Speaker 1: not mad, Yeah I heard about that. But I can't

465
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Speaker 1: I can't see that as they can they can fly, right,

466
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Speaker 1: you know, I just I can't see that, not with

467
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Speaker 1: the reliability of it. You know, it's becoming a great

468
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: social experiment, it really is. Um There was a chilling

469
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Speaker 1: comment by Musk a couple of months back and one

470
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Speaker 1: of his articles that he understands why the big three

471
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Speaker 1: want to jump into e V manufacturing because there's a

472
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Speaker 1: lot of money to be made. His words, not mine.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the more I look at this, I'm

474
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Speaker 1: gonna make a statement here and probably take flak fourth

475
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Speaker 1: But who cares, um is I don't think it's about

476
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: cleaning up the environment. I think evs are about making money,

477
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: because it sure doesn't make a lot of sense. So

478
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Speaker 1: and Uh, we'll leave it there, Peter. Thank you for

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00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: the call, sir. Go ahead, comment Peter. You had a

480
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,919
Speaker 1: quick comment, quick quick, well it's just about reminded me

481
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: talking about making money to solar panels from a previous

482
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: president at US president. Yeah. Yeah, well we'll leave it there,

483
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 1: and you know, but but it is it is about

484
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: making money, right. I don't think it's about clean because

485
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: it was about environmental impact. We will be looking at

486
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Speaker 1: this differently. We'll say, you know what, Peter, to be continued.

487
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Speaker 1: We'll leave it there. I appreciate your comments, and I

488
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Speaker 1: appreciate you listening all the way up there from Canada.

489
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Speaker 1: Are a great neighbor to the north. You're very welcome, sir.

490
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: You'd be well, um, it's about making money. It's not

491
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Speaker 1: about clean air. It's not you know, it isn't it isn't.

492
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Speaker 1: So but in any event, let's uh, let's pull over,

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Speaker 1: take a pause real quick, and then we'll go to

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Speaker 1: Jerry and Washington State. When we come back zero running

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Speaker 1: any of the car, doctor, I'll be at your service

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Speaker 1: on my return. Don't go away. Welcome back the car

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Speaker 1: door at eight five zero zero. Give us a call,

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Speaker 1: leave a message. We're here for you. Saturday's Live on

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Speaker 1: the network two to four pm East Coast time. But

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Speaker 1: that zero phone number takes a message and the executive producer,

501
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Speaker 1: Chief Cocombottle Washer Thomas Ray the Third, we'll call you

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00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: back and uh get you in the qu for the

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Speaker 1: next live broadcast. Let's go over to Jerry Washington State. Jerry,

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Speaker 1: what's going on, babe? How can I help? At your service? Well,

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Speaker 1: I've got a Ford Bronco prio to a O D transmission. Hi,

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Speaker 1: my league, I've had I've had a few misses with

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Speaker 1: it on a poll on a good hill. So, as

508
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: the story goes, I can't get it started now. But

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Speaker 1: if I over rev did getting me in and out

510
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Speaker 1: one day as what was I and I shouldn't have

511
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: done that, I got it, but from then on it

512
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: dart ran very poorly. But I did go about ten

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Speaker 1: miles I got back home. The next day I fired

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Speaker 1: it up. I went about two miles. It's missing, but

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00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: halfway through that it started running perfectly good pole Um,

516
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: no missus anything parked in the driveway. Next day I

517
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: went out to start it and it fired for a millisecond.

518
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Speaker 1: And that's the last time. It's fired. I replaced a

519
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: lot of different things with known good parts. Like I

520
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: took parts off of my must Stang three st engine

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Speaker 1: and stuff and just started swapping him back and forth. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't have no luck. I've checked for spark with

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00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: the spark tester. It does not have like a blue spark,

524
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: but it's got a good spark. And in the process

525
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: of that, I got ahold of the coil lead and

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00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: it hit me so hard to paralyze my arm. Now, Jerry,

527
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: did you say, Jerry, let me back up a second.

528
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: Did you say a Mustang? My ninety one Mustang? And

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00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: I swapped parts back and forth to the eighties six

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Speaker 1: And when I took I took parts off of the

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Speaker 1: eighties the Bronco, put them on the Mustang, started up

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00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: the Mustang. It's still run perfectly. What kind of doing

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00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: a process of elimination? What kind of parts did you swamp?

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00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: What kind of parts did you swamp? Okay, we t

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Speaker 1: f I module the I'm going through a list here.

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Speaker 1: The coil um I've got. Well, I did not swap

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00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: the distributor um, spark plug, leads um, the coil lead.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's do this, Okay, Jerry, let's do this.

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00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: You got a pencil and paper, I certainly do. Okay.

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00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's go to basics, all right, and only

541
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: because I'm not there and I can't see the vehicle,

542
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go from square one. Al right.

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Speaker 1: You have a vault, own a voltmeter? Yes, all right?

544
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: Just just tell me what's good. Put the voltmeter across

545
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: the battery. We've got twelve and a half volts at

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00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: the battery, alright, at the league and right off the terminal,

547
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: all right, coming off the negative battery terminal. Somewhere coming

548
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: off the negative battery terminal, there's gonna be one or

549
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: two auxiliary grounds. Are they there? And are they clean

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00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: and tight? Yes? Okay. And then there's gonna be a

551
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a set can dary ground coming out

552
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: of an engine harness near the battery, alright, which is

553
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: PCM ground. Just make sure that wire isn't broken. That's yes, okay.

554
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: Now let's back up. Let me back up a little bit.

555
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: PCM ground. Okay. I checked through that. According to my

556
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: Haynes manual and the Internet. I think I have those

557
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: things right, okay, And I think you do too, it's

558
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: it's the fact that it fired, the fact that it

559
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: makes spark. But again, I'm gonna take you through basics.

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00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: Do you want a vacuum doon, a vacuum gauge? Of course,

561
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: if you do, if you do cranking vacuum. What do

562
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: you have cranking vacuum? I have not that down? All right,

563
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: we want to we want to see somewhere between three

564
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: and five inches of cranking vacuum. Making sure, making sure

565
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: we're at a manifold port. You know we're on the

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Speaker 1: back side of the throttled plate, not in front of it, right, Yes,

567
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: do you have a timing Let me check my let

568
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: me check my note here for a second. Do you

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Speaker 1: have Yes, I've checked. I've checked that off of pork

570
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: off of the intake manifest. Okay, do you have a

571
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: timing light? Jerry? Yes? All right? Heok a timing light

572
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: up to number one, yes, and crank it? Yes, all right?

573
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: What is the timing read at the balancer? Does it

574
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: read ten degrees? I said it, yes, I said it

575
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Speaker 1: at twelve. Well, it doesn't matter. But do you read it?

576
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: Do you see that flash? Can you well? Can you

577
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: can you read timing at the balancer? While cranking the engine. Yes, sir, okay,

578
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: so it's got it's got enough spark to drive a

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Speaker 1: timing light. It will fire the truck, all right. That's

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Speaker 1: that's that's my point. What I'm what I'm. The other

581
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: thing I want to think about is do you own

582
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: a scan tool? Yeah, but it's old d D one.

583
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Speaker 1: My scan do a little, doesn't do one. So we've

584
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: taken the uh the reading off of the flashes gives

585
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: me some fliches and I look that up on the chart. Okay,

586
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: what i'd what I'd like to know is you know,

587
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: if you had a scan tool, if we had a way,

588
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: I guess we could do it by voltmeter UM. I

589
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: would like to compare the intake air temp sensor and

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00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: the cool intemp censor to see if they read within

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00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: ten degrees of each other on a cold engine. That's

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Speaker 1: I might not down. That's interesting, No, because the only

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00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: um indication off of the scan I guess you will

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00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: call that. I mean with the blinking lights I got

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00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: was low coolant and I added cooling to bring it

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00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: up to did you have a code? Odd dang right,

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00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: I'll write that down. I sixty seven last question and

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00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna let you go because you've got some

599
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: homework to do, and then we'll talk next week. You

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00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: know where the map sensor is, right, Okay? The map

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00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: sensor's got a signal wire on it. I believe it's

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00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: red with a green stripe, or it's green. I think

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00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: it's green with a red stripe. The red stripe with

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00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: signal return, you're gonna have a power, You're gonna have

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00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: a ground. You're gonna have a signal return. Key on

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00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: engine off. Okay, um, keyon engine off. At sea level,

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00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: if you had to, if you have a digital vault domemeter,

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00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: that signal line will read between a hundred and fifty

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00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: three and a hundred and fifty nine hurts. Alright, alright,

610
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: what does yours read? And then compensate accordingly for sea level.

611
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: You can go to the US National Weather Service site

612
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: and look at you know, barometric pressure readings and then

613
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: correspond to where you are in relation to sea level.

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00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: At sea level, the map sensor on that Ford product,

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00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: the barometric center in the map sensor were one and

616
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: the same. It'll read a hundred fifty three hundred fifty

617
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: nine hurts. You could have it. You could have a

618
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: map sensor issue. Take the red there's a red ported

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00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: vacuum line. There's a red striped vacuum line coming off

620
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: that map sensor. Unplug it. Look inside the vacuum line,

621
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: Look inside the nipple that the line came off of.

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00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: Do you see any gelatinous material? Kind of like Mom's

623
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: chicken soup, right, Mom always had chicken fat coming out

624
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: of the pot. Is there any is there any? Is

625
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: there any gelatinous material coming out of it? That was

626
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: the baco light inside the map sensor that broke up

627
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: when they got real old. And this one's old, baby

628
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: that this one's old. If if if, if it's broken

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00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: up and it's starting to clog the hose or the port,

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00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna do just what you're describing. Do those things. Obviously,

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00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: check fuel pressure, make sure fuel pressure is good. Provide

632
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: an alternate fuel source, maybe with a bottle of propane,

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00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: and um see what that does for you. And stay

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Speaker 1: on the line. We're gonna be sending you out the

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Speaker 1: Let Tom get your information and we'll try and help

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Speaker 1: you out here because it sounds like you're gonna need

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Speaker 1: some parts at some point in the game. But give

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Speaker 1: us a call back, Jerry, let us know what else

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Speaker 1: we can do for you. I'm ronan any in. The

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Speaker 1: hard Doctor will return right after this. Welcome back Rannie

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Speaker 1: and the car doctor from Kathy who writes in from Virginia. Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 1: I was listening to the caller from Quebec that stated

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Speaker 1: about the Pepsi trucks and the batteries, and her question

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Speaker 1: and comment is I wonder how that's going to affect

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Speaker 1: the waiter. How does she write the weight of the

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Speaker 1: on when they cross bridges and go through tunnels. You know,

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Speaker 1: I never thought of that. That's um, that's interesting, right.

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Speaker 1: If the battery is that much bigger to move the

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Speaker 1: bigger truck, then it's a heavier gross weight. It's got

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Speaker 1: to have an effect on the roadways and bridges and everything.

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Speaker 1: You'll have to compensate for that. So, yeah, Kathy, thank

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Speaker 1: you keeping coming. So let's do this one. Ron picked

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Speaker 1: up this transit to fifty brand new in June of one.

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Speaker 1: It's my work truck. I do all the service work myself.

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Speaker 1: Do you know cap states five thirty the owners Manuel

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Speaker 1: says zero twenty or five twenty. I've been using five

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Speaker 1: thirty all along. I'm not sure what's going on over

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Speaker 1: for it. I wanted to share that with you from Dave.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Dave, I would verify that through an

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Speaker 1: information system such as all Data is to verify you're

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Speaker 1: using the right oil. It sounds like it's got the

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Speaker 1: wrong oil cap on it, and you might be doing

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Speaker 1: damage doing what you're doing, So get it verified. Until

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Speaker 1: the next time I'm running eating in the car doctor

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