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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, nude does not mean good, but it's new.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be good. What does new mean? Ron

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Speaker 1: never ever worked that car doctor. This is my theory.

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Speaker 1: By the time air flour gets to it, that cool

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Speaker 1: to dissipate enough heat. Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: Ron and Anian the Car Doctor. It's this is where

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Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion

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Speaker 1: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six and now he running

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Speaker 1: and I feel good? Is right? Hi? Ran any in

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor here at eight five five five six

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Speaker 1: question in Saul of your Car Problem. More information at

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Speaker 1: thought this, being fourth of July, the fourth of July weekend,

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Speaker 1: be appropriate time to talk about, well that junk in

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Speaker 1: you expect to find should you unfortunately get a flat

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Speaker 1: tire this weekend or any other time. Ford Mustang came

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Speaker 1: and it was a conversation about Ron, can I show

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Speaker 1: you my spare tire? Sure, Henry, what do you got?

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Speaker 1: And you know, we we've never really talked about this

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Speaker 1: here on Aaron's It's sort of a little humorous. Ford's

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Speaker 1: Not many of you, as I found from the Facebook

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Speaker 1: it's not a case that the tires on the car

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Speaker 1: That What Ford is doing is they're putting regular tires.

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Speaker 1: This Mustang had nineteen inch rims on it, nineteen inch

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Speaker 1: So I ask you, what's in your trunk. What Henry's

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Speaker 1: a fancy can of something, no less, none other than

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Speaker 1: I get it. Further research. The reason a lot of

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Speaker 1: doing it. The reason they're doing it is they're chasing

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Speaker 1: So Henry looked at me, and I actually showed him

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Speaker 1: here's the ugly part. There's no place to put a

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Speaker 1: What's in your trunk? Are you ready for this? Henry

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Speaker 1: car doctor. As I've mentioned before here at zero nine

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Speaker 1: whorls are gonna be talking to Mason. Mason owns a

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Speaker 1: beach Blonde Champ and she's probably getting welcome Hello, Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: ran at any in the car Doctor here celebrating freedom

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Speaker 1: with you today on this fourth a lie weekend at

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Speaker 1: as well as many other freedoms that we have here

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Speaker 1: So it's just just one thought. Let's go and talk

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Speaker 1: to Phil Omahana Braska. Phil welcome to the car doctor, Sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help you? Hi? Ron, Thank thanks sure

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Speaker 1: very welcome. My question is regarding a Chevy S ten Blazer.

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Speaker 1: We need to replace the glendor actuator. Is there any

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Speaker 1: do this. Well, you can try going in through the

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Speaker 1: glove box. I'm trying to think of where this one is.

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Speaker 1: Is this the one on top of the case. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it is. But you can't go through the

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Speaker 1: there's just no way. Well, what I would do, what

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Speaker 1: part of the instrument panel. I've done this on their models. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't really I don't believe you can. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: think I don't think you can in either. The mid

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Speaker 1: New York, Noney one, Fleetwood Broom. Yes, Bob, how can

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Speaker 1: neither of the left directionals come on, is what you're saying, right? Okay? Um,

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, Bob, you take good care. Um. Always interesting, right,

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Speaker 1: quickly for me up here. Are you seeing change down

427
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: there in terms of the age of cars you're working

428
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 1: on what people will repair? Oh yeah, uh we talked

429
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: about it all the time, you know, doing inventory yesterday

430
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 1: and I had bust things for Ford intake one of

431
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: us that we haven't used in Yales. But you know

432
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: five years ago that was all the thing you had

433
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: to do them on never Ford. Um yeah, I mean

434
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: as a cause getting newer. I mean just seeing a

435
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: lot of the only nineties O B D one cause

436
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: going away, which is a good thing. Um, but we

437
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: still get a lot of cause you know, only two

438
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: only two thousands of Now what's getting given to all

439
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: the kids now? So we're seeing them a lot that

440
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: we're walking on with, you know, some late nineties and

441
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: some you know later two thousands. What was the what

442
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: was the newest car you worked on this week? Oh,

443
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: I've had h actually just had a had a couple

444
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: of two thousand fourteens in here today actually foil changes. Okay.

445
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: And what's the oldest car you worked on this week? Uh?

446
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: I put a couple of times on it. It was

447
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,719
Speaker 1: in here for suspension issues and just toned out, had

448
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: bad tiles. And how many miles are on that do

449
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: you remember? And they're still driving it right? See? Yeah,

450
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: they actually they bought it. We did a bunch of

451
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: suspension walk on a few months ago and they bought

452
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: it back. They just drove it down to Florida and

453
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: back and they noticed it was a little loosen the highway.

454
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: See up here in Jersey, if someone had a see

455
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: two thousand one, two thousand eleven, that vehicles twenty five

456
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: years old appear, Uh that vehicle, if it needed tires,

457
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: they throw it away and go buy a new one.

458
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: Absolutely positively, they wouldn't drive anything at old. That's just

459
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing to me. Yeah, I mean Louisville. I mean,

460
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: we got some upper class but Louisville was a large

461
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: middle class community. I would say, I mean we got

462
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: a lot of forward walks, a lot of ups walk course,

463
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: let me so. Yeah, you got people buying a lot

464
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: of new cars, but we got a lot of use

465
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: stuff going amount also, so real quick before I let

466
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: you go, Mason cost the living. You know, we we

467
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: talked about it. They say that certain parts of the

468
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: country are cheaper than others. But I've always maintained the

469
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: point that the repair shop in Louisville, Kentucky has to

470
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: buy the same scan tool that the shop in Waldwick,

471
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: New Jersey has to buy. That the shop in Dallas,

472
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: Texas has to buy that five thousand dollar scan tool

473
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: is still five thousand dollars. Yeah, is it is it

474
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: tough for you guys to keep up on tooling? How

475
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: many scan tools do you have in the shop. I

476
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: have two good ones, um and yeah, I mean we

477
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: My family used to live in Connecticut, so I know

478
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: about the difference in cost of living. The reason we

479
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: live in Louisville. Now, um yeah, I mean the equipment

480
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: is still the same, the parts are still the same. Yeah,

481
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: it's a little bit cheaper, and you know land down

482
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 1: here has a little bit cheaper, so we can buy

483
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: a building cheapole um. Yeah we can pay you know,

484
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: guys get probably make a little bit less just because

485
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: the cost of living down here was a little bit less,

486
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: but the majority of the cost is the same, right,

487
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: So it's it's got to be offer for you than

488
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: the shop and the affluent area because you're trying to

489
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: keep up with the technology which costs the same but

490
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: at a lower labor rate, at a lower profit point,

491
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: a lower income level. Correct. Um, I you know, honestly,

492
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think out award is good. We I mean,

493
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: we probace ourselves callingly to what we think what services worst.

494
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: And I found if you provide the service to the customers,

495
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: they they will pay. You know, you provide good service,

496
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: you know they will pay that. You know, I said,

497
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: people want to do experience. They might not want to

498
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: pay for it, but that's what they want, and we

499
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: try to provide that as much as we can. Now,

500
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: how many people down there do you think are leasing?

501
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: You brought up dealers? Is leasing big in Louisville? You know,

502
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: I honestly could not tell you. I don't have too

503
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: many customers and myself that that that I know LEAs

504
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: isn't that interesting? Yeah? I know they post it down here.

505
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: The dealerships are constantly wanting adge, trying to get people

506
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: to lease, But I don't really know how poperable it is,

507
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: to be honest, see now up here, I can tell

508
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: you from experience leasing, leasing is a way of life

509
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: up here. It's a lifestyle. Mason. I'm afraid we gotta

510
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: cut it short. Listen if there's is there a website

511
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: the listeners? Maybe there's listeners in Louisville that want to

512
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: go and learn more about you and your service? Is

513
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: there a website for you guys at all? Yeah, well

514
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: we have a website at seal Silvas dot net. We'll

515
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: also on Facebook, Google all them places. Hey, listen, we're

516
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna talk again. And thanks for taking care

517
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: of Harry when he's down there. Yeah, no, no, no,

518
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: pom all right. You take good care of Mason, have

519
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: a good rest of the day. Thank you. I'm running

520
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: any in the Car Doctor. We are back right after this.

521
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back on any of the Car Doctor here at

522
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: nine nine zero. That was a fun interview. UM. I

523
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: have to once again say thank you to Mason shield

524
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: Shield Service in Louisville, Kentucky for taking the time out.

525
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: And I'm just a different perspective because I've always said

526
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: this and I believe this with all my heart, that

527
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: ought to repair as a national phenomena with regional issues,

528
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: that what's important to me in Bergen County is different

529
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: to the guy in Kentucky is different to the guy

530
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: in Florida and so on. And UM, it's just by

531
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: the location of the business and the climate the environment

532
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: that cars are operated, and that makes things different and

533
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: more difficult. Quick piece of email, Hey Ron, just a

534
00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: suggestion about mice and I know my chief engineer Ray

535
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: is gonna love this one. We've used them in our

536
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: campers and in terms of dryer sheets when we store

537
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: them for the offseason. I used them around the home too.

538
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: Might work for the gentleman with his problems. Is from

539
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: Janine Uh. This is from a bit ago, a couple

540
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: of months back, they sent us this email. I'm just

541
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: getting around to it now. I'm sorry we found it

542
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the pile. I know that. And

543
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: I've said this on air here about mouth balls. And

544
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: I always thought moth balls would the tear would the

545
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: tear mice until one day Tom Ray, my chief engineer,

546
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: was up working on a radio transmitter site for another

547
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: radio station, and UM one of the radio stations he services,

548
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: and uh mr mouse the next morning when I walked in,

549
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: not only uh apparently liked the mothballs, but decided to

550
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: make his bed out of them. Right, So it was like, hello,

551
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: so you found the mouse that was you know, anti

552
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: mouthball proof, either that or he you know, it was

553
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: all the radio signal he's been eating, you know. I

554
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, but oh my god.

555
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: But dryer sheets. Now that's interesting too, about using dryer

556
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: sheets to determine mice and UM, I think that's an

557
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: interesting idea too. And if they don't like moth balls, well,

558
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: dryer sheets might be the blanket keep nice and warm.

559
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: So but it's worth worth a shot that. Let me

560
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: just do this other little piece of maintenance last week

561
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: we were talking about g d I gasoline direct injection,

562
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: and there was a little bit of confusion, and I

563
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: want to try and clear this up. Gasoline direct injection

564
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: puts the fuel directly into the cylinder, puts it so basically,

565
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: all right, it's not like a conventional intake system in

566
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: terms of how it's cleaned, and that's an issue, and

567
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: I want to point that out that they're still feeling

568
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: their way in my opinion with regards to gasoline direct

569
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: injection and how it cleans the intake chambers and the

570
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,479
Speaker 1: exhaust valves and so forth. But gasoline direct injection does

571
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: not spray on the intake valves. It will spray in

572
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: the area of the intake valves, making in tank cleaning

573
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: solutions work. But g d I is completely different than

574
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: fuel injection as you may know it, so keep that

575
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: in mind when turn of servicing it. You cannot properly

576
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: service g d I in the high pressure pump area

577
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: of the fuel rail like you would a regular port

578
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: fuel or regular fuel rail injection system. So I'm just

579
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: something else to talk about, something else to make you aware.

580
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: Zero zero, I'll be back right after this. Don't go away,

581
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,239
Speaker 1: Pay said son, You're gonna drive me to drinking if

582
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: you don't stop driving that hot rod Lincoln. Have you

583
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: heard the story of the hot rod race with the

584
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: boards and lincolas was set in the face set stories true.

585
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: I'm here to say I was driving that model a

586
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: welcome back. We're on naming of the car. Doctor here

587
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: real quick, I just want to touch on this interesting

588
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: story from the shop. This week. We had a two

589
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: thousand eight Honda ridge line that came in. The owner

590
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: had been traveling. He'd been away, had been in South

591
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: Africa for a while and he was uh gone, probably

592
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: the better part of six weeks. And when he came back,

593
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: the vehicle developed a power steering leak, and we went

594
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: through looked at it and we could see where it

595
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: was leaking. It didn't have like a real hose clamp

596
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: on it and had one of those cheesy pinch clamps

597
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: that you take with a pair of pliers and you

598
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: squeeze it open to get it off. And it was

599
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: a very low pressure hose. It was actually the power

600
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: steering return hose on the left lower side of the

601
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: engine compartment. Rubber hose came out of the rack, went

602
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: to a steel line put a regular host clamp on it,

603
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: looked at it. It was dry. Everything was fine for

604
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: a couple of days. Three days later the leak returned.

605
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: Brought it back in and the host clamp was tight.

606
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: Everything was in place, but it was leaking the exact

607
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: same spot. Took it apart. I had never seen this before,

608
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: and I thought I would pass it on. Took it apart.

609
00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: The steel line had actually corroded and it was leaking

610
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: from the inside out before the clamp, or actually after

611
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: the clamp, so that it was in an area of

612
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: the line that was exposed, creating the issue. Always look

613
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: at the steel line. I'm run any in the car, doctor.

614
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: The mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you are. All

615
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: things were gone work for all my life and I

616
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:28,760
Speaker 1: had to start again, just my children again, my wife,

617
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: Thank my lucky stars to the big living here today

618
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: because the flag still stands for freedom and they can't

619
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: take that away. And I'm about to be an American.

620
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 1: Were in the kandal and free that I won't forget

621
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: the men who died who gave that right to me,

622
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: and that he stad up. That's to you and defend

623
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: her still today because there ain't no doubt I love

624
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,760
Speaker 1: this life. God bless dog