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Speaker 1: Hey here we are. Let's let's do another hour car

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Speaker 1: Let's get over to Susan and Virginia at Grand Prix. Susan,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, How can I help hi?

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Speaker 1: N Um, Yes, I had the water pump changed a

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Speaker 1: And then you had taken it, did you had Was

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Speaker 1: You'd you'd be the first one with a car this age.

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Speaker 1: to Jason in Colorado wants to talk about one day

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Speaker 1: Tim in Tennessee. Tim, welcome to the car Doctor. How

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Speaker 1: can I help? Hey? Thanks for having me on. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: you're welcome. Thank It's I've got a no crank, no

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Speaker 1: looking at the wiring diagram showing you, guys, hey, you know,

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00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,200
Speaker 1: do this, do this, do this, do this. That being said,

426
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 1: all right, let's go to the underhead fuse block on

427
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:06,120
Speaker 1: this car. All right. Let's go look at there's there's

428
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: an X fifty fuse block under the hood they identified

429
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 1: on the wiring diagrams as X fifty or X fifty A.

430
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: Let's look at f thirty four. Do we have power

431
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: on both sides? All right? And then let's go to

432
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: the there's there's the fuse block in the left side

433
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 1: instrument panel. Do we have power on fuse thirty two?

434
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: All right? And then let's go look at fuse thirty

435
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: three in that left instrument panel. Do we have if

436
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 1: we've got power on those two? Go to fuse thirty three.

437
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: Do we have power there? That tells us that we've

438
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 1: got we've got voltage in the circuit where we're supposed

439
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,920
Speaker 1: to be. And if you could just cross reference those

440
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,679
Speaker 1: fuse numbers to a wiring diagram, make sure it matches

441
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 1: your vehicle. It should. I just want to be exact.

442
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm not there looking at the wiring diagram. I don't

443
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: want to mislead you, but I always try to. You know,

444
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 1: let's let's match those let's that's those three fuses to

445
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: a wiring diagram. It's easy enough. Okay, if that works,

446
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,119
Speaker 1: all right, if that has all, if that all has power,

447
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 1: try and find try and find Splice. What was it?

448
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 1: It was Splice J three O eight, which there's a

449
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: document there's actually a bolting from GM that that that

450
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: it's uh. It talks about a no crank and then

451
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: sometimes the stall um. It's a preliminary tech information bollet

452
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: in Edward and they talk about that particular splice getting

453
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: corroded and having internal issues causing what you're describing. Okay,

454
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: great leads, All right, do all that that doesn't work,

455
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 1: call me back next week and I can give you more.

456
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: All right, but let's get let's go ahead. That might.

457
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: So I've noticed that when the fuel pump when I

458
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: opened the door and try and put insert the key,

459
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: when the fuel pump turns on, or I can hear

460
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: it before the engine ever arts on this vehicle, if

461
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: the fuel pump activates, it's going to start every time.

462
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: It's it's when I opened the door and put the

463
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 1: key in the Yeah, So I guess they're probably, yeah,

464
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 1: you've got you've got a wiring issue. Those those fuses

465
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: are all going to be good, and then you're gonna

466
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 1: go look at this. You're gonna go look at this splice.

467
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: What I would do is in a situation like this,

468
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: I would get my hands on a copy of the

469
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 1: starter circuit, the starter enabled circuit, and start breaking it out.

470
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: I talk about this in the video where I proved

471
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: power coming into the fuse block underhood, power coming out

472
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: of the fuse block underhood, and then I went down

473
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: to the starter. I had power at the starter. I

474
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: put that one. That one was a bad starter. But

475
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: the point is, you know, sometimes you've got to jump

476
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 1: around the circuit. Improved power here, power there. Try not

477
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: to use a meter. A meter is good. A meter

478
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: will show you voltage it won't prove current. All right,

479
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a I'm a firm believer and have

480
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: been for a long time. I still got a seven

481
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: dollar round headlamp from a an old Chevelle or something

482
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: that's still been kicking around the shop all these ars um.

483
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: It'll pull anywhere from seven to eight amps of current,

484
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: maybe a little more, and I will set it up

485
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: so that it lights so And I show you that

486
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,879
Speaker 1: in the video where if you turn the key, the

487
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: headlight lights. I knew if if I had enough power

488
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: to light the headlight and it was bright, I've got

489
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: enough power to turn the starter song and right on.

490
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: Whereas a meter will show me voltage, but it may

491
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: not show me current that it's actual. You know, think

492
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: of it like this, a sixteen strand wire. If I

493
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: had fifteen broken strands, is it gonna show me twelve vaults? Yeah?

494
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: Is it gonna have enough current to flow across that

495
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: one broken that one left last strand to turn the

496
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: headlight on bright? No? So I I like a headlight

497
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: in this situation. You know, I like a headlight in

498
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: this situation because it shows me that you know, I've

499
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: got current and I've got voltage. So all right, it

500
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,920
Speaker 1: should be on YouTube. If not, we're gonna I know

501
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 1: they're in the process of transferring it over to the website.

502
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: We're trying to set up a website video library for

503
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: everybody to you know, I'm gonna try and produce more

504
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: videos because a lot of people are asking for specific

505
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: things and see what that does for you. But go

506
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: check those things, Tim, call me back and we can

507
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: talk some more after that. All right, thank you, You're

508
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: very welcome, sir. Good luck to you. Take good care. Yeah,

509
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: good old Tennessee. Nothing like Tennessee Tennessee. Ribs. Oh baby,

510
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: five zero zero. I'll be back right after this. Pocome

511
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 1: back or in the other car. Doctor. By the way,

512
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,400
Speaker 1: went and saw the new Top Gun Maverick movie. Um,

513
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: the other day a couple of days ago. Absolutely stunning

514
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: a work of art. Gotta see it, I must say, Um,

515
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: it's got pretty good music in it. Two so I

516
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: kind of enjoyed the whole thing. Let's go over Bred

517
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: in California, seventeen Mercedes Sprinter Brad. Welcome to the car, doctor, sir,

518
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: how can I help? Hey, Ron, love your show, Thanks

519
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: for taking my call. You're welcome. So a month ago,

520
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: my wife and I drove down to southern California, bought

521
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: the van, and drove it back home. Had zero problems

522
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: on the road. Um, So the following week I drove

523
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: it to work every day because I have a thirty

524
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 1: minute commute and if there was going to be any problems,

525
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: I wanted them to become present because the following week

526
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 1: we were going on a road trip to the Pacific

527
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: Northwest up to Washington. So last week we went on

528
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: our trip, had a great time, drove two thousand, forty

529
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: nine miles, and then we had five on our way home.

530
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: We had five miles to go from home. I was

531
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 1: climbing a hill. I got three quarters away up the hill,

532
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: check enginet came on us power From that point on

533
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: all the way home, I believe it went into lint

534
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: mode because the rest of the way home we just

535
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: took our time getting home, and every incline and every

536
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: hill I just had no power. I had to drop

537
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: it down into like second or third and climb every

538
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: hill at like thirty on a flat land it does good.

539
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: So then when I got home the following day, took

540
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: up diagnostic tool. I had code P zero zero eight seven.

541
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,959
Speaker 1: We was a low fuel rail slash pressure or slash

542
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: fuel system low pressure. UM. So the guy I bought

543
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: it from, I had asked him, have you had any

544
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: problems with the van? He said, the only problem you

545
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: ever had was he was on a trip and the

546
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: exact same thing happened to him. He popped the hood.

547
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: He showed me that he took it in. He said,

548
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: he took it to the dealer and they replaced the

549
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: high pressure fuel pump. So he showed it to me.

550
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: Looks brand new on the top of the engine there. UM.

551
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: So I cleared the codes out. I uh all the

552
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: freeze frame data IO pictures with my cell phone in

553
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: case I needed to go back and look at any

554
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: of that. Cleared the codes out, took it for a drive.

555
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: It's back to normal. UM. I drove it to work

556
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: the next couple of couple of days after that. Following

557
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: days I've been driving it. Haven't had any issue. UM.

558
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: I haven't hood the diagnostic tool back up. UM. Once

559
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: I cleared the code and did the initial road chest,

560
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: I did hook it back up. The codes were cleared,

561
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: but it told me that that code was in a

562
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: permanently UM. Since I've been driving in the past few days,

563
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: I haven't hooked back up to see if it still

564
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: shows that that that code will stay in there on

565
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: a permanent basis until the vehicle runs monitors enough times

566
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: to satisfy itself that it's really cleared. What they're trying

567
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: to do is prevent the loss of diagnostic data, so

568
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: they leave it in there until the vehicle says, hey,

569
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: I really am fixed. It's kind of like when you're

570
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: you were sick and your mom said stay home, and

571
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: you three days later like, Mom, I want to go out. No,

572
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: you're still sick. It wants to know that you're not

573
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: sick anymore. So it's it's just trying to prove the case.

574
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: So that makes sense. Yeah, that's what that's going on.

575
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: So I'm a mechanic, so I'm trying to figure this

576
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: thing out myself and stake it myself. And what I

577
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: think is happening is in my research, I found that

578
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: I have a pressure fuel pump in the tank, and

579
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: then I have a high pressure pump on the engine,

580
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: and then I have a low fuel pressure sensor, and

581
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: I think the low fuel pressure sensor might be faulty,

582
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: sending bad data of the e CU throwing it in

583
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: the limp mode. UM, what's your thoughts on that? Well,

584
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, what kind of scan tool

585
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: are you use them? I'm using an in nova. It's

586
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: kind of a cheap scancel that I picked up at O'Reilly's.

587
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: Can you can you read the pressure control valve readings

588
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: on that tool? Do they give you that pit? There's

589
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: a generic O B D two. It does show live

590
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: stream data. Um, and there there's quite have been a

591
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: live stream data on there. I'm not sure that it's

592
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: that particular data that you're requesting. UM, I'll have to

593
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: go back and check that. Go go back and look

594
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: at that because and they might reference it as Y

595
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: seventy four or why ninety four depending upon the tool.

596
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: But it's the pressure control valve which helps maintain pressure

597
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: across the high pressure nozzles, and you're you know, you're

598
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: looking for specific values. It's sort of like reading your mechanic.

599
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: You ever read fuel trim you're on a gas engine vehicle,

600
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: you know you're looking at the fuel trim, so you

601
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: can read percentage and duty cycle off of this valve

602
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: to see what it's doing. So okay, So on the

603
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: frees frame datage that it did hold whenever the code occurred.

604
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: It did show the fuel pressure percentage was like, is

605
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: what it was showing? I'm not sure the exactly it was.

606
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: I believe it was fuel pressure. All right, Well was

607
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: it fuel pressure or was it pressure control valve? Because

608
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: that's that's that's two different things. So do that. See

609
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: if you can find that, and also take my email,

610
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: all right, send me in you know, Ron at card

611
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: Doctor show dot com and if you want, I've got specs.

612
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: I want that pressure control valve is supposed to read

613
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: like an email until you if that helps, but you're

614
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: gonna need You're gonna you're gonna need a tool to

615
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: be able to read that. Um okay, you know, so

616
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: it just doesn't fall out of the sky. Obviously. The

617
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: way to really approach this is hook a fuel pressure

618
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: gage up to the to the vehicle and go for

619
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: a rod and try and duplicate it. Go find the

620
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: biggest type that too. But the problem is I've been

621
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: driving it on my thirty minute commute back and forth

622
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: to work and I haven't had the issue. You know

623
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: what happened? Again? Well, you probably I do have a

624
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: fuel pressure gage and all that I can ye you

625
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: probably you probably won't have it until the vehicle until

626
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: you hit a big hill again, because it's gonna be

627
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: hill or incline related. There's all kinds of known issues

628
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: with these vehicles with this particular problem, and that's in

629
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: that situation. So that's why I say having the having

630
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: the gate hooked up to pin it down may help you,

631
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: you know, narrowed down. What's what? Let me ask you

632
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: a question first ahead, let me ask you. At first

633
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: I thought I asked my turbo, you know, then after

634
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: I pulled the code out, like whoa, it's a fuel

635
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: system like he had said, happened to him. Yeah, let

636
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: me ask you a quick question if I can. I

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Speaker 1: got a minute. Um, how much how much is diesel

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Speaker 1: out in California? Now? Oh my god? So right here

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Speaker 1: in Town Beach, it's a tourist town. So it's seven

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Speaker 1: dollars a gallon for diesel? And before Memorial weekend a

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Speaker 1: week before when we left, because we left the weekend

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Speaker 1: before Memorial weekend. We left on that Sunday and then

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Speaker 1: we got home on the Sunday of Memorial weekend. When

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Speaker 1: we left here there this weekend, it was like six

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Speaker 1: and then for the holiday weekend, it jumped twenty since

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Speaker 1: and then when we got on Sunday night, the day

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Speaker 1: we left, we arrived in Crescent City, California, up just

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Speaker 1: twenty miles from the border of Oregon, and it was

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Speaker 1: seven oh one a gallon. And then when we went

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Speaker 1: up to of course through Oregon, it was it was

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Speaker 1: a lot cheaper. And then Washington. After we left Washington

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Speaker 1: came back down to Crescent City the following weekend, Crescent

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Speaker 1: City was already up to seven What's what? What are gas?

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Speaker 1: What are gas prices? Bred? Gas prices here where I

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Speaker 1: live are Let's see the other day I filled up

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Speaker 1: on my truck and I believe I paid like six

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Speaker 1: forty a gallon, and it just keeps going up. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: three weeks ago I was paying five eight. Alright, brother,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go. The clock's gonna take me. You call me,

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Speaker 1: you write me, whatever we need to do. Figure this out,

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Speaker 1: all right, one more question, I'll tell you what. Stay

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Speaker 1: put and I'll take you on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the break. Hang on, don't go away, I'm running any

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Speaker 1: of the car. Doctor will return right after this. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back running in the car Doctor, rolling along, finishing up

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Speaker 1: this hour. Let's get back to bread in California. Bread.

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Speaker 1: We got about a minute. You had a quick question. Okay,

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Speaker 1: can I get to if we can get him in

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Speaker 1: before the clock drops? Go ahead? Okay. The first one

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Speaker 1: is that permanent code in there is there after a

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Speaker 1: certain amount of miles that he races itself. And then

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Speaker 1: the second question is, I see there's an electrical connector

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Speaker 1: on the fuel filter, and I was curious if that

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Speaker 1: could be causing some of the issues with the pressure system.

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Speaker 1: I don't feel I don't see what the electrical connector is.

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Speaker 1: It's a diagnostic port, is my understanding. If we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the same thing. Uh Now, listen, this could be

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Speaker 1: as simple as a restricted fuel filter. Uh. You know.

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Speaker 1: So obviously we've got to go through some basics. But

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Speaker 1: that's what a fuel pressure test is gonna tell us,

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Speaker 1: right if we go look at fuel pressure and at

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Speaker 1: least we you know, tell me what's good, and I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what's bad. Remember that you know that you're

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Speaker 1: a mechanical um. The first question was the permanent code.

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Speaker 1: Permanent codes will clear and they vary. It seems that

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Speaker 1: they vary by your make model a vehicle. But The

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Speaker 1: idea is it's somewhere between thirty and fifty turns of

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Speaker 1: the key, and it depends upon how many times it

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Speaker 1: runs the monitor in the self test as to whether

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Speaker 1: or not on the side to clear the permanent code.

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Speaker 1: I've had some Chevrolet products I've driven miles before I

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Speaker 1: got rid of the permanent code, and then I've had

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Speaker 1: something that you know, they're gone and they're gone in

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Speaker 1: eight So it just seems to vary so um. But anyway, listen,

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Speaker 1: a pleasure, Brad, good luck to you. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: you need me, you know where to find me, send

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Speaker 1: me your request. I'll picly have to get you some

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Speaker 1: more information. We'll figure it out, and good luck out there.

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Speaker 1: California Way seven dollars a gallon. I'm running any in

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