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Speaker 1: switch and and everything. Like I said, we were bitched

426
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: tested and we had the same problem. We put it

427
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 1: in the car and it's just it so doesn't cut off.

428
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 1: And and that's my second question is when you bench

429
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: tested it, could you get it to work on the

430
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: bench properly? Uh? No, Uh, Actually, when I've done the

431
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: bench test, uh, I put all three wires and when

432
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 1: you got all three wire is the low speed then

433
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 1: you take one wire off, then he goes into the

434
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: high speed. Take that wire, you put it back, then

435
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: you take the other wire off. And when you do that,

436
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: that's when he goes into the park. It goes into

437
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: slow modes, then it goes into park. Okay, so let

438
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: me ask you this question. What makes you think it's

439
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:42,640
Speaker 1: not a bad wiper motor? Just just for sake of conversation. Well, um, uh, well,

440
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 1: I've asked a few people and stuffing, and I've even

441
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,919
Speaker 1: called the manufacturer that rebuilt it, and they couldn't give

442
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: you no information. Uh. The question I'm I'm kind of asking,

443
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,479
Speaker 1: is is it the switch or is it the motor? Well,

444
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: are you when you've got it on the bench, what

445
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 1: do you You just have it on the bench and

446
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: you're running, you're running two hots in the ground. You're

447
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: running your own power sources using the battery. I'm using

448
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: it right off the battery. Okay. So the fact that

449
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: the motor works the same on the bench as it

450
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: does in the car, I kind of eliminates the switch

451
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: in my mind. I'd have to look at a wiring diagram.

452
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: In all fairness, It's has been a while since I've

453
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 1: looked at the sixty four. But what I'm trying to

454
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: stress to you is, let's let's just take the component

455
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: off the vehicle and make it work. Let's look at

456
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: the wiring diagram and figure out where's the hots, where's

457
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: the grounds? What's it looking for a lot of times

458
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 1: I find on the older vehicles when it doesn't park,

459
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 1: the motor itself is looking for ground. Is the motor

460
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: mounted on rubber bushings? Or is it bolted? Uh? It

461
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 1: has rubber bushes and stuff. But the best I think

462
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 1: of my mechanic he did take a wire and ran

463
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: into the body of the the wipe promoter hand the

464
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: body of the car as an extra ground. Okay, but

465
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: can he get it to park? You know? Can he

466
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: make it work off the car on the bench? Forget

467
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: on the car, because we're getting confused. Let's do this

468
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: one way, in one way only. Let's make it work

469
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: on the bench, then we can make it work in

470
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: the car. Okay, Well, well that's what I'm saying. On

471
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 1: the bench, it goes into the park. When I pulled

472
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: the last wire off for the test, that the little

473
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: mechannisler springs up the little the little park. The mechanic,

474
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: the mechanic goes around, he grabs it, it goes around

475
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: one more time, and he goes into the park, right,

476
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: and it's supposed to grab it and stop, okay, but

477
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't stop. The motor keeps running. So that when

478
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: we've done that, people said the switch. Well there's no

479
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 1: switch involved, right, there's no switch. Well that's my point.

480
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 1: So what makes you think this isn't a bad motor

481
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: because it sounds like you're doing it correctly. Yeah, Well,

482
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: the the the question I had was in that motor,

483
00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: is there some contacts in that motor? That's maybe uh

484
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: it's been sitting on the shelf for years and years. Uh,

485
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: maybe I got corrosion on the context. If there's a

486
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: contaccident at motors, well, there's there's a there's a switch assembly.

487
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: The way I believe that works is you're applying power

488
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 1: for high and low and it has ground. When you

489
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: put the switch in park, that removes the hot but

490
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: the ground is supposed to still be there, and as

491
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: the motor revolves around, the ratchet mechanism then collapses, catches

492
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 1: and holds the motor in place in the park position.

493
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: So the fact that it's not working, you could have

494
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: a bad park switch attached to that motor. So at

495
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: this point that that's what we've been chased for the

496
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: last two weeks. We're trying to figure out is there

497
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,959
Speaker 1: a motor or is it the switch? And then well,

498
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the motor. The motor, the motor

499
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: itself is working. When you say switch, you're talking about

500
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: a switch in the wiper motor assembly, correct, So we're

501
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: both on the same page here. I'm talking about the

502
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: switch it. Yeah, that comes right on the side of

503
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:59,400
Speaker 1: the uh, the motor that there's a little white switch,

504
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: and it has three problems, right if you go one, two,

505
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: and three, it's it's negative power in the middle and

506
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: negative right. The fact that it doesn't work on the bench.

507
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: Forget the car. The car is out of the equation.

508
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: The motor's got to work on the bench before we

509
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: put it in the car. So let's let's let's let's

510
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: let's do this. We want to mount it all up

511
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: and have this problem. Let's do this. Brian take the motor,

512
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: call the manufacturer and say, listen, I want to send

513
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 1: the motor back and have it tested. Ask them to

514
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: test it. Ask them how they're going to test it.

515
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: Tell them your problem. They should stand behind it. They're

516
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, well, it's been a couple of three

517
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: or four years. You're not interested in that. You don't

518
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: necessarily you know what. You just want to get it fixed.

519
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: Pay the freight, send it back, let them bench test it.

520
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: They can test it properly if they tell them. If

521
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 1: it's tested properly and it's good. When it comes back

522
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: and it still doesn't work, call me. But it's got

523
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: to work on the bench before you put it in

524
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: the car. Best piece of advice I can give you

525
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: from my seat here. If you need more, email me

526
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: Ron at Car Doctor show dot com and I'll do

527
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: some more research for you after you get a reply

528
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: from the manufacturer. Zero. The car Doctor is coming back

529
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: right after this. Back doctor. Let's see if Kurt's still

530
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: there in Arizona. Kurt you there, babe? I am Ron.

531
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: How are you all right? Yeah? I got nervous. I

532
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: thought you broke the phone too. Would you break this week?

533
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: Would you do to the cars another week? Another phone

534
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: called to you. This is one of the college kids,

535
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: the two thousand seven Nissan x Terra. And what's happening

536
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: is um he'll go for a couple of days and

537
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, his water will all drain out

538
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: of the radiator. I'll come out the top. It's not overheating,

539
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: but it all just gets blown out. Probably when he

540
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: gets up to running temperatures. My guess as when what's

541
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: happening there. But it's not overheating, just all coming out

542
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: the radiator. He took it to a shade tree mechanic

543
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: friend who says, it looks like you got a blown

544
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: head gas but you didn't do a leakdown test. I

545
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: pulled the three of the six spark plugs out and

546
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: none of them looked bad. I haven't got to the

547
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: other three yet. Um. He put some case in. It

548
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: didn't have any effect on that. Is that a symptom

549
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: of a blown head gasket where it blows all the

550
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: water out of the radiator? Yeah, it's building it's building

551
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: too much pressure. It's positive pressure in the in the

552
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: cylinder and it's or into the cooling system and it's

553
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: it's burping it out the top of the cap. Is

554
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: he is it you're talking about? The cap is still

555
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: on the radiator. It's filling the overflow bottle. Correct? Okay?

556
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: Is there a traditional radiator cap on this radiator. I

557
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: believe there isn't no seven there is, Okay, what makes

558
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: you think you don't have a bad cap. It's fairly

559
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: new one, that's why. But I've been kind of wondering

560
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: about that. By the way, I should mention, there's no

561
00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: oil in the and sometimes sometimes sometimes you won't see

562
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: that all right, So that's not necessarily the be all

563
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: and end all. And then why can't this possibly be

564
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: a stuck thermostat that just doesn't open and it causes

565
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: too much pressure? Is one of the is one of

566
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: the hose is hot and the other one cold? Does

567
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: it show circulation? I don't know. I have to check

568
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: on that. You know, if if one hose is scalding

569
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: hot to the touch and the other one is called

570
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: thermostats not open, or or there's an air bubble behind

571
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: the stat because of a head gasket issue and air

572
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: air will prevent the stat from opening because it doesn't

573
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: react to air, it reacts to liquid. So you know, basics,

574
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: Let's go basics before we start condemning anything. Upper and

575
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: lower hose have to be warm. The one hose is

576
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit warmer than the other but

577
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: they've got to be hot, almost uncomfortable to the touch.

578
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: If you use kcal when he or when he used

579
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: k sal did he use regular KSE seal or did

580
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: he use the k CeAl ultimate the head gasket seal

581
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: or there is a difference. Actually, okay, because there is

582
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: a difference. I mean typically k cell may work by itself,

583
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: but if we're if if we are dealing with if

584
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: you are dealing with a failing or failed head gasket,

585
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: kcal Ultimate is the way to go. It actually keeps

586
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: thirty more or there's thirty three more ceiling material in

587
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: a bottle of kcal Ultimate just fourhead gasket issues and

588
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: it works. Well, all right, you want to We just

589
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: used it last week on something. I have to think

590
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: about what it was, but it solved that problem. Was

591
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: an older vehicle. Um, it'll come to me. I'll talk.

592
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it when I come back from

593
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: the break. But uh, you know it will work. Case'll

594
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: Ultimate does work and it will solve the problem. I

595
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: believe it was a jeep. I have to think. Now

596
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: I'm getting old. They can't remember everything. But anyway, two

597
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: weeks about a BMW I have can ask you if

598
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: follow up questions. I'll tell you what. Let me pull

599
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: over take the pose. When we come back, you can.

600
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: We can finish out with that. I'll run on any

601
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: of the car. Doctor. We'll be back right after this. Wait,

602
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: I like this opening, Tom, Do I have to start

603
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: talking now? I could be like the shaft of fixing cars,

604
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: such a private eye. Okay, I'm ready. So what you

605
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: want to say is you're the mechanic that would give

606
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: people the shaft, right, that could be it? So what

607
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: the heck they always think we do anyway? Uh, just

608
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: playing the game, Tom, Just playing the game. Um, I'm

609
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: ready now, Joe cool, Hey, Kurt, I'm back. You're there. Okay,

610
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: we're just goofing around. Um. By the way, it was

611
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: a Dodge Caravan. I should tell you the story real quick.

612
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: That vehicle had. That vehicle had definitive signs of head gasket.

613
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: It was puffing white smoke out the tailpipe. It wasn't

614
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: quite missing, but it was on the boarder. You could

615
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: tell it was something not right about the way the

616
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: engine ran, and it was burp and cooling out the radiator.

617
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: So it had it had one of the symptoms you're describing.

618
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: So you may be on your way and don't wait

619
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: for the other two to appear. But Casey'll ultimate fixed

620
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: that vehicle. And to my knowledge, that vehicle is still

621
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: running around Connecticut. It's been two weeks and she hasn't

622
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: had a problem with it. So just keep that in mind.

623
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: Second question, Second question, About two weeks ago, I called

624
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: you about my BMW that was overheating. Um. I took

625
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: the little screw off by the expansion tank there and

626
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: there was no water flowing there. Since I had a

627
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: lifetime guarantee on my water pump and pull that out

628
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: in about ten minutes, I just put new one in there. Uh,

629
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: stuck it in and it's still overheating. Would the next

630
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,719
Speaker 1: thing be the thermostat? And by the way, everything on

631
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: this clue system is fairly brand new. Well, you know

632
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: one of those parts is not working. You know, you're

633
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: supposed to be able to pull the radiator cap off,

634
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: not just the bleed but the cap itself. You should

635
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: see circulation in the bottle, So the question becomes, why

636
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: aren't you see in circulation? Was if the old pump

637
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: was good, that the impeller wasn't spinning on the shaft,

638
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: then you went through the exercise of just changing the pump.

639
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: I get it. So why don't we take a look

640
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: at thermostat. You can test the thermostat the old school

641
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: way in a boiling pan of water when it's just

642
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, heat it up and see if it opens up.

643
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: And if it doesn't, you got it. If not, call

644
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Speaker 1: me back next week. We'll talk three weeks in a row.

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00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: All you good to talk to you, Kurt. I'm run

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00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: any in the card doctor, reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

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00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you