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Speaker 2: Hey, let's not waste any time. Let's get right into it.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Mark and Virginia in ninety eight f

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Speaker 2: one fifty and some cooling system and heating problems. Mark,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir. How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, I got I bought this truck, got a

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Speaker 3: good deal.

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Speaker 4: It's not like a main vehicle or anything anyway, one

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Speaker 4: hundred and one hundred and three thousand miles. Uh, it's

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Speaker 4: just it's just never been an issue. I haven't put

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Speaker 4: a lot of miles on anyway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh what engine isn't mark.

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Speaker 3: It's it's this small V eight four? Is this four six?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: The four six? Okay?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, four six automatic, four wheel drive, you know. And

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Speaker 4: I had a little problem and I he probably did too.

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Speaker 4: It had hadn't been driven quite a while. I mean

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Speaker 4: the gas wasn't sour or nothing. But anyways, uh uh.

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Speaker 4: I tried to mess with it, sat for a while, putting,

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Speaker 4: uh flushed it, uh you know, commercial flush stuff and

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Speaker 4: drain it. Anyway, finally figured it out and it started

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Speaker 4: leaking a little bit to heater core. So I had

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Speaker 4: my mechanic change the heater core in it. Took it

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Speaker 4: on a drive to uh A Hunt Club, about two

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Speaker 4: hour ride, and I noticed about an hour hour and

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Speaker 4: a half into the ride, just had to look down

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Speaker 4: to dash and ship right on up there around edge

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Speaker 4: just where it turns red hot right, and I watched

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Speaker 4: I almost pulled.

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Speaker 3: I was getting ready to pull over.

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Speaker 4: And it dropped right back down well in the process

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Speaker 4: of flushing and everything.

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Speaker 3: The heater core.

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Speaker 4: We had change at Thomber.

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Speaker 3: Staff, which I do h VAC and refrigeration. I know,

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Speaker 3: you know, that doesn't mean it's it's good.

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Speaker 4: Anyways, made it up there, made it back, you know,

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Speaker 4: and it did it just a little bit coming back.

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Speaker 4: It's not continuous. So I get back and you know,

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Speaker 4: Parker taking a mechanic. You know, maybe it's just of course,

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Speaker 4: you know, we say, maybe it's just the censor, the

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Speaker 4: you know, the idiot, the electronic gauges, and that it's

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Speaker 4: I had. I had my mechanic put a mechanical gauge

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Speaker 4: on it and put it down there on the dash

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Speaker 4: when God had driven up down the road right there,

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Speaker 4: right as I left it for the same thing. It's

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Speaker 4: just right perfect right where the Thomber staff. I think

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Speaker 4: it's got a one ninety because I told him to

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Speaker 4: change that again one ninety thermostat and said, right there,

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Speaker 4: right there, all a sudden he goes.

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Speaker 3: Right on up.

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Speaker 4: And I mean this time we was hitting. Probably it

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Speaker 4: wasn't terrible like I said about twenty five. You know,

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Speaker 4: I didn't run it long. So here we go. You know,

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Speaker 4: what what did you do? Next he checked it. He's

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Speaker 4: pretty good, he's been doing a long time. Anyway, he

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Speaker 4: checked it off the I guess the water for CO two,

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Speaker 4: you know, thinking maybe got a head gas or crackhead something. Anyways,

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Speaker 4: that there's no sign of that. So it was since then,

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Speaker 4: I mean, we put a oh my gosh, radiator water pump.

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Speaker 4: And last time I talked to him, it's been I

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Speaker 4: think he's getting tired of it. But last time I

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Speaker 4: talked to him, it's been probably a month ago, and

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Speaker 4: he's he's act thought, he doesn't know and I don't

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Speaker 4: understand these systems. Anyway, They've got that radiator. But then

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Speaker 4: they got the tank off to the side, so let

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Speaker 4: me ask let me just don't have a cap on it.

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Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you a question. Work, so

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Speaker 2: it still runs hot. You've put a pile of parts

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Speaker 2: in it. What testing has he done? I understand he

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Speaker 2: checked he you know, he did a CO two test

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Speaker 2: looking for combustion or compression issues. You know, do we

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Speaker 2: have a do we have a do we have the

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Speaker 2: cooling system superheating?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: So one of the things that was common on those

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Speaker 2: and I know you're gonna tell me he put a

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Speaker 2: water pump in it. Uh before asking that question? Was

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Speaker 2: the cooling system rusty? Was it really dirty?

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Speaker 3: Oh? My god? It was poor. It was.

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Speaker 4: It was you know, I take care of myself. I've

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Speaker 4: got you know, not a lot of vehicles, but you

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Speaker 4: know company vehicles up.

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Speaker 3: It was. It was horrible.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know could it ever been flushed right?

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Speaker 4: And it was just literally it was. It was bad.

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Speaker 3: I flushed it, built it blushed it failed it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, three or four times trying to get

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Speaker 4: it to heat and I finally gave up and had

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Speaker 4: a heater or core.

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Speaker 3: Was it was just did.

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Speaker 2: It Did it ever get to the point where you could,

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Speaker 2: you know, process clean water out of it?

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm not like thoughtless clean. Still had like

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Speaker 4: a tea stain, you know, just a hair of a

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Speaker 4: tea stain, right, But oh yeah, yeah, No, I worked

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Speaker 4: on it now time, believe me and my dives, A

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Speaker 4: couple of dives, a couple.

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Speaker 3: Of slow days.

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Speaker 4: No, dude, I hooked up water hose to it and

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Speaker 4: fluss it out. I mean I worked on a little bit.

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Speaker 2: So my my first question, because you've hit all the

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Speaker 2: You've hit all the things that I would normally look

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Speaker 2: at but you know, I would want to know do

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Speaker 2: I have good flow? So that for six, if you

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Speaker 2: look at it, there's two heater hoses. Yeah, one of

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Speaker 2: them is an outlet. One of them is an inlet.

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Speaker 2: One of those hoses. If you take it off and

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Speaker 2: put it in a bucket and start the truck up,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get really a really healthy stream of water

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Speaker 2: right out of the out of that hose. And I

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Speaker 2: just want to know do I have a good flow?

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Speaker 2: If I don't have a good flow? You know, are

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Speaker 2: you like enough to have a bad new water pump

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Speaker 2: that the impellers?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? And it's crazy because it'll it'll do just fine.

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Speaker 4: You're sitting there looking at the gauge. Then all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden, it'll it'll start creeping up today you know

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Speaker 4: that hasa and it might stay there minitude and it

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Speaker 4: shoots down like just like this therm mistake. You know,

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Speaker 4: I couldn't replaced twice. It just dropped right back down, right,

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Speaker 4: does it?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: Is it is it like a a bad impeller here

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Speaker 2: you're an air conditioning guy, right, is it Is it

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Speaker 2: like that bad fan on the armature scheft coming out

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Speaker 2: of that centrally scene right right good right new means

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Speaker 2: never ever worked in my world. So I've got I've

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Speaker 2: got in yours too, So I've got to come up

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Speaker 2: with a way to test it. So I want to

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Speaker 2: know do I have flow?

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Speaker 4: Okay, do I have flow?

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Speaker 2: And then are we missing any of the undercarriage pieces?

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Speaker 2: And by that I mean, you know, I'm going on

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Speaker 2: the assumption, which is a dangerous word in real life

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Speaker 2: and only radio, but I'm going on the assumption that

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Speaker 2: we have the correct radiator in it, the correct size

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Speaker 2: radiator in it that you you know, you don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: matched what you took out, but you know, if they

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Speaker 2: looked it up by application and it was a clear

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Speaker 2: cut listing, you know, if it's a three row, it's

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Speaker 2: a three row. If it's a two row, it's a

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Speaker 2: two row radiator, and so on.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: And once I get past the radiator issue, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's not much left. It's thermostat, engine, radiator, water pump,

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Speaker 2: there's generally, So then I start to look where else

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Speaker 2: is this and I start to think about do I

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Speaker 2: have Am I missing any of the lower spoilers or

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Speaker 2: anything that directs and guide's air over the radiator, and

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Speaker 2: that kind of matches with the description that it sounds

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Speaker 2: like when you're getting along on speed. You're out on

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Speaker 2: the road for an hour fifty five sixty sixty five

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and I mean it goes up you go, whoa, well,

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Speaker 4: look at air right, and I mean it drops right

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Speaker 4: back down. Was like just like the thermostato and went, ah,

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to what it looks.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember ninety eight mechanical fin or electrical

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Speaker 2: cooling fan.

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Speaker 4: Ah, it's mechanical, Okay, it is that.

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Speaker 2: All right, because I always think about electric cooling fans

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Speaker 2: when I get this kind of a problem. I've had

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Speaker 2: more than a few cars in my lifetime where oh

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Speaker 2: the car was in an accident ten years ago or

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Speaker 2: ten months ago, rather, I'm sorry, and it's been overheating

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Speaker 2: ever since, and somehow it got wired backwards. The fan

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Speaker 2: spins the wrong way.

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Speaker 4: So I, well, I'm gonna check that out, man. And

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Speaker 4: you say, one of the hoses going to the heater core,

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Speaker 4: whether it's engines warm or cold. If I if I

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Speaker 4: take that loose and cut that on, then I should

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Speaker 4: have a good flow.

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Speaker 2: You gotta have a good flow.

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Speaker 4: And what is what does that mean? That's kind of

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Speaker 4: a relative term. You mean it'll splash it, it'll get

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Speaker 4: out pretty quick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll splash out of the bucket.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: You know, now watch where that hose comes from, because

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Speaker 2: if it's on the back side of the thermostat, then

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Speaker 2: the stat's got to be open because the pump's got

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Speaker 2: to get to it. But if it's on the front side,

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Speaker 2: as I recall, I'm trying to remember what ninety eight

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Speaker 2: looks like, so that out all right, But it's gotta

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Speaker 2: have flow. One of those hoses has to have flow.

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Speaker 2: If it doesn't have flow, and you know, maybe this

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Speaker 2: thing is so rusted and rotted internally that there's a

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Speaker 2: restriction inside the block.

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Speaker 4: That's what he's starting to wander. You know, we're worth,

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Speaker 4: that's what he's He's good, he's been doing a long time. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, is clogged up somewhere right.

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Speaker 2: We're looking for something odd because we've covered the bases.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a reason why you got it for

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Speaker 2: a bargain.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Well it wasn't that reason though. My man was hurt

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Speaker 4: for some money.

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Speaker 3: But it's all good.

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Speaker 4: I get you, Yeah, I get you sometimes a good deal,

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Speaker 4: any good right.

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Speaker 2: That's that's the point. Mark, you're a good guy. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate what you do. You'll be well, Yes, sir, Yes,

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Speaker 2: sir eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 2: Run a naming of the car doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 2: right after this. Don't go anywhere. Let's go over to

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Speaker 6: I'm good to say. Alog a long time listener, I

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Speaker 6: Okay, he bought for his first car. He bought a

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Speaker 2: Nice car.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's a beast, no doubt the problem I

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Speaker 2: So appropriate on Father's Day weekend, such a great way

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 6: I do appreciate that I so when he bought the car,

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Speaker 6: You know, thought I had a couple had a vacuum

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Speaker 3: So why we went thrilled?

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Speaker 6: Now what the car has a soft pedal. So I said, okay,

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Speaker 6: well we got to bleed the brakes. Well we were

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Speaker 6: and they're like, well if you tried the gravity bleed.

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Speaker 6: We tried the gravity bleed and we never got the

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Speaker 6: ten seconds on the driver on the passenger retire bled it.

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Speaker 6: There is a bleeder valve on the top of the ABS,

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Speaker 4: A couple bucks.

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Speaker 3: Number one.

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Speaker 6: Number two, my son and I learned the car together,

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Speaker 2: Okay. This car have traction controlled deano.

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Speaker 4: Joel, Yes, sir, it does okay.

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Speaker 2: And this car also has a It's not a traditional breakbooster.

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Speaker 3: I believe so.

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Speaker 6: And one of the things that I didn't mention that

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Speaker 2: Okay, So there are some specific bleed procedures and you

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Speaker 2: Did it? Did the bleed start from the master? All right?

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Speaker 2: Going to say, did did the master run dry at

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Speaker 4: I know I didn't, all right, but you.

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Speaker 2: Still have to bleed from the master. Have you bled

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Speaker 6: With the master, with the new master in the car?

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Speaker 2: Yes, at some point, whether the new masters in the

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Speaker 2: Did you ever start to bleed from the master down?

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Speaker 2: My point where I'm going with this is break it

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Speaker 2: and have good flow. Agreed, Yes, sir, did you ever

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Speaker 6: No? The process I went through and if I'm going

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Speaker 4: No, it's okay.

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Speaker 6: What we would do is we would, you know, obviously,

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Speaker 2: Right well before we go there, why don't we bleed

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Speaker 2: it at the master? Can I do? Can I do this?

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Speaker 2: Can I make this easy for you?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 6: I'm feeling like a failure of a father.

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Speaker 2: Great dad. Listen, this is you know what. I'm proudy

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Speaker 2: you're doing a great job. Send me an email Ron

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Speaker 2: this is Joel from Maine. Send me the VIN of

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Speaker 2: the vehicle, the seventeen digit VIN.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 2: Plug it into all data when I get to the

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Speaker 2: the factory bleed procedure and let's and I'm gonna email

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Speaker 2: it to you. Let's see how much of this you

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Speaker 6: All right, let me get that email one more time.

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Speaker 2: It's Ron at cardoctorshow dot com.

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Speaker 4: Hi doctor Joe dot com.

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Speaker 2: You know you're awesome and easy enough, dude, and listen

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Speaker 2: if you're working on this car on a regular basis,

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Speaker 2: and I'm happy to send you the bleed procedure. But

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Speaker 2: I think, I think for less than fifty bucks a year,

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Speaker 2: you can go out to All Data All Data diy

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Speaker 2: and you'll get the same factory information every other mechanic

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's awesome. I really appreciate your help.

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Speaker 2: They're very welcome.

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Speaker 5: You do that.

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Speaker 2: You do that and I'll send you what I got

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Speaker 2: Joel excellent. Thank you, sir, You're welcome. It's important, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're and you gotta love a guy like that.

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Speaker 2: I can't. I can't talk about that enough to take

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Speaker 2: you know what, that's he's that guy's ward Cleaver of

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Speaker 2: I just have to kind of take a reflection here.

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Speaker 2: but dad, didn't you go to school? And you know,

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Speaker 2: I understand how it's a generational thing and it's probably

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Speaker 2: But you send me, you send me an email request, Joel,

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Speaker 2: and I will be glad to send you a you

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Speaker 2: But let's let's get all the aear out of the

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Speaker 2: right after this. Eight by five five six zero nine

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Speaker 2: Haven't said in Nevada in a one time. I got

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Speaker 3: Hi? Hi?

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Speaker 5: Ron? Hey? I got to tell you, I've got a

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Speaker 2: correctly in state and a mission compliance and performance and

442
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 2: all those other good things.

443
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:16,919
Speaker 5: Okay, this transmission shop that I'm considering down in Las Vegas,

444
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,680
Speaker 5: he claims it will be five thousand dollars to swap

445
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 5: out the transmissions and it'll be a good repair. And

446
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 5: he claims that the harness and everything that's necessary to

447
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,879
Speaker 5: hook it up. And I told him, I said, the

448
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 5: mechanic reports to me that everything's working traction control works,

449
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 5: everything works after all these years. So you know, but

450
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 5: he claims that he's got a harness and that you know,

451
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 5: he works on one hundred thousand dollars cars and it'll it'll

452
00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 5: be perfect.

453
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 2: Get that in writing, Okay, Yeah, you know, listen, every guy,

454
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,440
Speaker 2: every guy that tells me he's worked one hundred thousand

455
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,199
Speaker 2: dollar cars, and that's the reason why working on the

456
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,439
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollar car, I'll be perfect. I always get nervous.

457
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:15,919
Speaker 2: I don't I don't need I don't. I don't need

458
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 2: to be impressed by what you work on, telling me

459
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 2: if that's going to fix my car. But my questions

460
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 2: and then what would the gear ratio have been in

461
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 2: the rear end for an automatic version of that Mustang

462
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 2: versus what's in there for the manual trans Will it

463
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 2: have proper acceleration as anybody thought of that? Because I'd

464
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 2: almost be willing to bet it's a different gear ratio.

465
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 7: Okay, I would.

466
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 2: Want to know that as well.

467
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 5: Those are two very good points, the rear the rear

468
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 5: gear ratio, and what was the other point?

469
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 3: Again?

470
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 2: You know, will he put that in writing?

471
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,800
Speaker 5: Yeah? Put it in writing, yeah.

472
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 2: Because we want that to work. You know, if he's

473
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 2: got a donor car, if he's got a No. One

474
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 2: B six version of this vehicle where he's getting a

475
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 2: wiring harness, body, computers and he's just going to transfer

476
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 2: everything over. Yeah, absolutely that'll work. He's doing he's doing

477
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 2: a donor swap. I understand that, but I need to

478
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,719
Speaker 2: know that. And then as all the harnesses are they

479
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 2: going to be tucked back back into proper position. This

480
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 2: is a big task. I'm more inclined to tell you, Joseph,

481
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 2: sell the car as is. The car is worth more

482
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,359
Speaker 2: money as it sits, and go buy something that fits

483
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 2: more of what you want to drive.

484
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 5: What do you think that car is worth? It's black,

485
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:42,160
Speaker 5: it's all black. It's in perfect shape because I had

486
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 5: it in the garage all these years.

487
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 2: And I mean, I hate to sound like a jerk, Joseph,

488
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 2: but it's worth whatever somebody wants to give you for it. Brother,

489
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: I'd have to because I could tell you it's worth

490
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars. But if the market says it's worth

491
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 2: twenty because it's it's a rare color code combination that

492
00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 2: I'm not aware of, that's a tough question to answer.

493
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 2: You could go to KBB dot com, which is Kelly

494
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 2: Bluebook KBB dot com and just get a ballpark.

495
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 5: But anytime that ready, I did that already, Ron it

496
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 5: came up as like thirty nine dollars right.

497
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 2: Well, and there's the other side of this argument. Why

498
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 2: are you gonna put five thousand dollars into a car

499
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 2: that's worth four that might be a dicey repair at best,

500
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 2: because because the other thing you got to look at

501
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 2: and hear me out. All right, let's say he puts

502
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 2: that repair in. Let's say it's five grand, and that

503
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 2: car is dead nuts on the money, just like the

504
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 2: way it came out of the factory. It's it's still

505
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 2: a twenty three year old car that you're gonna have

506
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 2: difficulty getting quality parts for.

507
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 5: Well, the problem is is that you know I own it,

508
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 5: and you know the new ones are like forty five

509
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 5: thousand dollars sure for the same right, I.

510
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 2: Understand, I understand that. But we're starting to we're starting

511
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 2: to compare oranges to apples. The first problem is how accurate?

512
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 2: What's the quality control of the repair. Have you ever

513
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: used this trans shop before?

514
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 5: No, I haven't, but they've been recommended to me by

515
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 5: two other mechanics that are very good.

516
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 2: Will he put it in writing. Will he put it

517
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: in writing and guarantee you that this car is going

518
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 2: to operate properly. If he does, I have no problem

519
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: with it.

520
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 3: If not.

521
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 2: If not, then I think we're taking a gamble.

522
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 5: All right, So the so the rear gear ratio and

523
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 5: get the repair and writing.

524
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 2: Right, get this repair and writing stating what's going to

525
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 2: be done. And you know, are these I'm assuming this

526
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,959
Speaker 2: is a used wiring harness? Is he prepared to change

527
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 2: any modules and electronics that need to be changed and

528
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 2: updated and matched? And this is a big task. This

529
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: isn't This isn't changing a transmission on a pre computer car.

530
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: This is changing a computerized car, and it changes everything.

531
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 5: He claims that it'll be perfect. He says, oh, you know,

532
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna take this hard, and I'm gonna I'm

533
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 5: gonna make notes on what you told me.

534
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 2: I think you're better off replacing it. But let's see

535
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 2: what happens. You'll be well, Joseph, and let us let

536
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 2: us know what happens. You're welcome, sir, ay five five

537
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 2: five six zero nine nine zero zero. We're back right

538
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 2: after this and let's go over and talk to Oh,

539
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 2: let's go to Connecticut. We haven't been there yet. Today,

540
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 2: let's go talk to George. George, welcome to the car. Doctor, sir,

541
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 2: how can I help?

542
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call, Ron if I find it

543
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 7: a little funny, I just had an oral surgery.

544
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, but you know your sound fine? Go ahead?

545
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 7: Thanks. My mother has a twenty ten Volvo actually sixty okay.

546
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 7: And what's happening is, after a huge rainstorm, I keep

547
00:26:54,359 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 7: on finding water behind do you know the passenger seat?

548
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 7: And what I hear is when you whenever you turn

549
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 7: on let's say, to the frost or air conditioning or

550
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 7: climate control, you'll hear almost like a gurgling of water.

551
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 7: You know that it's it's that pillar where de ventive

552
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 7: between the front seat and the back seat on the

553
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 7: passenger side. So far, this car had the A C

554
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 7: compressor replaced last year and it's still having this issue.

555
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 2: So when you run the air conditioning, does it does

556
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 2: it drain water outside the vehicle?

557
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 3: Yes?

558
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: Okay? And the front carpet you're absolutely certain is bone dry.

559
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 7: Yes. What was happening before and this was like a

560
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 7: year and a half prior I guess these vovals were

561
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 7: prone to having bad windshield seals. Right, So before it

562
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 7: was the front and the rear. So I got that,

563
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 7: you know, the windshield sealed and that never had a

564
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 7: problem with the front carpet again.

565
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 2: Okay, so it had a front water leak, but now

566
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 2: it's on the back correct all right Now they also

567
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 2: had a problem with the sunroof. Are you aware of that? No? Okay,

568
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: there's a reference bulletin from Volvo Thomas Jefferson TJ twenty nine,

569
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 2: six eighteen that talks about the sunroof leaking under high

570
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 2: water pressure. You said in heavy rain, yes, and.

571
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 7: Then you and then you only hear like I said,

572
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 7: it's like a continuous slashing around that you hear when

573
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 7: you're driving around after a heavy rain. Between those two doors.

574
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 2: So oh, between the doors of the in the B pillar.

575
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 7: Yes, in the on the right side, from the you know,

576
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 7: the front and rear door, right where where you vents are,

577
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 7: where the vent is okay, going towards the back seat.

578
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 2: You know it's it sounds like you've got a clogged

579
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: body drain or a sunroof drain problem. Okay, And that's

580
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: where I would be looking but I would also take

581
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 2: a look at that bulletin to see if it's applicable.

582
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: I know they changed seals on the sunroofs on those.

583
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 2: That bulletin came out after that car was about five

584
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: years old. I think it's dated twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen.

585
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: This is the twenty ten you said, correct, Yeah, this

586
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 2: it came out about five years four years later, four

587
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 2: or five years later after the fact, and they talked

588
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: about changing seals on in and around the sunroof itself.

589
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 2: I wonder if, for giggles, if we covered the seams

590
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 2: of the sunroof with something and left it out in

591
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: the rain, would it still leaked. But I'm trying to

592
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: think of what I could cover it with that wouldn't

593
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: hurt the paints. As part of my test, you know,

594
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 2: we could do the and it's ugly and it would

595
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: hurt the paint. You know, you think to yourself, can

596
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: you put duct tape around it? Just as a momentary

597
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: But is there something else? Is there a sheen of

598
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 2: plastic we could cover it with that wouldn't hurt when

599
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 2: we wanted to take it off, Because does that if

600
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: we covered the sunroof and protected that does that keep

601
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: the leak from happening, right? And if it does, at

602
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: least we know the source and then we can go

603
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 2: and attack it from there. But it would be a

604
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: simple enough test if we opened up the sunroof and

605
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 2: started pouring water into the gutter or the channel of

606
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: the sunroof. Does it go down the drain? And does

607
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 2: it go down the drain and leave a gurgle. It's

608
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: all sunroofs drain the same. I don't care how who

609
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: are what the manufacturer of the vehicle is. They all

610
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 2: gurgle when they're going. Well, they want to go down

611
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 2: and you want to see that whirlpool effect. It's got

612
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 2: to move fast. If it doesn't, there's a clog and

613
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 2: a restriction somewhere, and when it gets overloaded and overwhelmed,

614
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: the water's going to come out where it wants to.

615
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 7: Makes sense, all right.

616
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 2: So let's let's look at that. And that's that's something

617
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: you could actually do yourself. Just get a step ladder,

618
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 2: stand next to the car, open the sunroof and take

619
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 2: a paper cup and make it into a sharp point

620
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 2: and just start pouring water and see where does the

621
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: water come out and if the carpet is dry at

622
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: that point or you know how wet it is. Does

623
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: it get wetter from doing that? At least then you're

624
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: onto something.

625
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, that'll definitely put me in the right way

626
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 7: to look when I talk to my mechanic. And can

627
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 7: I add another comment to give you a compliment real

628
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 7: quick when you talk about fleshes, go ahead, okay. So

629
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 7: I also have a two thousand and seven BMW. I

630
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 7: took it to the dealer for an airbag recall. Wala

631
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 7: was there. They told me I should have the power

632
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 7: steering flushed. Now, I never had a German car, so

633
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 7: I thought the steering was heavy because of being a

634
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 7: German car. You know what a difference that made when

635
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 7: they actually flushed the power steering fluid and then changed

636
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 7: the filter in a reservoir. It's like night and it's

637
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 7: like night and day now, right, Just like you always say,

638
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 7: German couldn't believe it.

639
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 2: German cars are a little different. We always treat them

640
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: a little differently. I gotta run, I gotta run. Georgia,

641
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 2: mother for your time. I really appreciate you here very

642
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: well so much, and feel better. Thank you for calling.

643
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 2: I'm on an any in the car. Doctor, We're back

644
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: right after this. All right, let me uh, let me

645
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 2: get this one done real quick. This is an email

646
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 2: comes to us from Matt Lichtenberg is the technology education

647
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: teacher at Mount Iron Buele High School in Mount Iron, Minnesota.

648
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 2: I believe that is Matt Wrights and hey, Ron, I

649
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: was listening to the Saturday Show May thirty. First, you

650
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: talked about testing for spark under real world engine conditions

651
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 2: versus just testing the plug out of the engine. You

652
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: mentioned there were spark testers out there that could approximate

653
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 2: combustion chamber pressures of one hundred and fifty psi. Some

654
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 2: of these may also indicate approximate vultes that the ignition

655
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 2: system was producing. And going around for such a tester.

656
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: Having found one, could you point me in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: Be a great tool to have in the shop. Thanks Matt.

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Speaker 2: I learned a lot from your show.

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Speaker 5: Matt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, go out. You know Matt go makes one. I

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Speaker 2: see Thankston makes one. It's if you want the Matt.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Matt go makes one. I believe the part

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Speaker 2: number is Tea is in Tom seventy one two forty.

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Speaker 2: I've seen that number out there. If you just go

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Speaker 2: Google search spark testers. You will see it. It's just

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Speaker 2: a thin, black, thin piece of black plastic. It's got

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Speaker 2: some graduated numbers on it, thirty thousand volts, twenty thousand

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Speaker 2: volts and so on. And you unscrew the one end

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Speaker 2: and you widen the gap. The wider the gap that

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Speaker 2: the harder is for the spark to jump. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: tell you, hey, this is good for one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy psi, This is good for you know, one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty psi and so on. But the idea is,

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Speaker 2: if the ignition system you're testing on your particular car,

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Speaker 2: you know the spec the speck is it's got to

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Speaker 2: produce voltage of fifty thousand vaults. Set that tester to

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand vaults. If that's one hundred and fifty psi engine,

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Speaker 2: then you've got a rough approximation it has to jump

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Speaker 2: the gap, because the idea is it's harder to jump

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Speaker 2: a bigger gap in atmosphere. I'm sorry, it's duplicating the

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Speaker 2: amount of pressure it takes the jump spark in atmosphere

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Speaker 2: versus higher pressure in the cylinder. Just google it, Matt.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the letter, and I appreciate what you're doing

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Speaker 2: with the young folks. I'm running any in the car

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Speaker 2: doctor till the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 2: See you