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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian or repair is like a great opera. When

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Speaker 1: you're running a repair shop, when you're doing motor repair,

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Speaker 1: you listen to this music in your head and you

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Speaker 1: Right above the sand shroud, there was like greenish blue.

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Speaker 1: Schmoot is the word. I know you like you? I

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Speaker 1: like that's a technical term. Yeah, Welcome to the radio

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Speaker 1: home of Ron Andanian the Car Doctor. Since this is

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

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Speaker 1: opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a

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Speaker 1: garage orders are open, but I am here to take

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Speaker 1: You know, every week I sit there and I think,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I always getting nervous that, g will

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Speaker 1: the shop yesterday and it was Gary. I've never met Gary,

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Speaker 1: because it's insane. He's got a seventeen Chevy Silverado pickup

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Speaker 1: And they took the engine apart under warranty, put it

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Speaker 1: I think when people make comments like that, they're looking

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Speaker 1: and Teaneck, New Jersey Art. Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Good morning? First of all, thanks

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Speaker 1: months ago with the nicest two thousand four Mercury Grand

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Speaker 1: Marquee you ever saw in your life, seventy nine thousand miles.

426
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Speaker 1: She was you know, I mean the floor mats look

427
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Speaker 1: brand new. She was putting towels on the floor. This

428
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: this car was slick. It needed a rear She chewed

429
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: up the rear axle because nobody ever changed the gear oil.

430
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: And it was twenty years old or eighteen years old.

431
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: We couldn't find we couldn't find internal parts to rebuild it.

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Speaker 1: You know my too. I was gonna say, my two

433
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Speaker 1: thousand and two thousand and ten looked immacula. You can't

434
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Speaker 1: tell them apart, same color. Sure, So you know, just

435
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Speaker 1: just I can just tell you from experience, it's tough

436
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: to get parts of these. What's your second question? Aren't okay?

437
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: In follow us? The transmission shifting transmission has been serviced

438
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Speaker 1: as on a normal basis, you know, with the manufacturer.

439
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: And when I shift my lever, shift lever from neutral

440
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: when it's a neutral, bringing up into reverse, it's a

441
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: little more difficult than normal, a little extra force. And

442
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: the other shift positions seemed fine coming down and going up. Uh.

443
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Speaker 1: And I was wondering if it can be adjusted without

444
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Speaker 1: taking the dashboard apart again, Well, what do you mean?

445
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: What do you mean again, because you're talking about now correct? Well,

446
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, because of the blend door, I mean

447
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: that's sorry. I mean in addition to having it done

448
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Speaker 1: for a blend door. Okay, is this is this? Is

449
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: this still the two thousand we're talking about? Yes, okay,

450
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: so the two thousand's a little tight going into reverse. Um, yes,

451
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Speaker 1: coming up into reverse and then into park is okay?

452
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: From reverse to park and it does shift perfectly. I

453
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Speaker 1: don't think I would question if it's an adjustment art

454
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 1: because it's the same motion and the same mechanism going

455
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Speaker 1: from neutral to reverses. It is going from reverse to park.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I could think of is that the

457
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Speaker 1: d tent that it has to roll over to get

458
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Speaker 1: from neutral to reverse would have a sharp spot on it.

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Speaker 1: But I can't imagine it's got any kind of sharp

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Speaker 1: acuity to it. Based on the age, I would think

461
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Speaker 1: it'd be more warn than anything else. Um what I

462
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Speaker 1: would what I would do is I would disconnect the

463
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Speaker 1: cable down at the trans because this should be cable linkage.

464
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Speaker 1: I don't believe this is gonna be mechanical rods. Does

465
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Speaker 1: the trans show any signs of binding or effect? And

466
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Speaker 1: if it's okay the trends that I would follow it

467
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Speaker 1: back up through. How does the cable feel? I have

468
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: seen cases where cables on the cable shift transmission vehicles

469
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Speaker 1: will will where where the the inner cable actually saws

470
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Speaker 1: through the outer casing and it will become stiff and

471
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Speaker 1: tough to operate. But why it only does it from

472
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Speaker 1: neutral to reverse. I'd have to take something apart and

473
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Speaker 1: start looking. But that's that's the steps I would follow

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Speaker 1: to get to the cause of that. And keep in mind,

475
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Speaker 1: if it does need a shift cable, that's probably not

476
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Speaker 1: available either. So before they before they before they take

477
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Speaker 1: something apart, just be mindful. Question is is it likely

478
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Speaker 1: that I would get stuck where cannot back up and

479
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: all of a sudden I can't get it into reverse gear.

480
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: I'd have to feel it to experience an art part

481
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Speaker 1: from what you're saying. It doesn't sound right when you

482
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: when you, when the mechanic looks at it, when he

483
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: sits there and he tries to shift it, this he

484
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,959
Speaker 1: noticed the problem. Yes, so he agrees there's an issue. Yes, okay,

485
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 1: and what's his proposed remedy only because he's felt it.

486
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: Thank you the pot and try and get a new

487
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: part for whatever wherever the uh whatever you know meets

488
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: under the uh, the mechanism itself. It's not it's not

489
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 1: an unreasonable thought. Art you've got Now you've got two

490
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Speaker 1: reasons that they could dash board apart. So it's right. Well,

491
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Speaker 1: you've been wonderful. This gives me a lot of good information.

492
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate. You're very welcome. You're very welcome, sir.

493
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Speaker 1: Well thanks again, you're welcome. Be good bye bye. Um. Yeah,

494
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: older cars are getting tougher and tougher. We had at

495
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Speaker 1: somebody uh this week on they posted up on the

496
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Speaker 1: official you know, it's pretty bad. I've got an official

497
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: ron and Ainey in the Car Doctor facebook page. Good lord, Um,

498
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: I thought my mother was dead. I don't know. She's

499
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: still doing things from behind the scenes. And um uh,

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Speaker 1: somebody up there posted they just purchased an oe to

501
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: Firebird and they asked me the fatal question of what

502
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: kind of parts did I think they should buy in

503
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: order to take good care of the car? Well, the

504
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: list is about two paragraphs long. And um, you know

505
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 1: it's just because it's old. Now it's puny acts Ben

506
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: Gonsince two thousand and eight. You're talking about a twenty

507
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: year old vehicle, and you know, if you're gonna hang

508
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 1: on to it, you've just got to think and buy

509
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: one of everything that's going to become a critical mass thing.

510
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: So um, as cars continue to age and we make

511
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: this transition into the next generation of vehicle eight five

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Speaker 1: five five six zero nine zero zero. That's eight five

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Speaker 1: five five six zero nine zero zero. Ronny in the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor coming back right after this Don't go away. Yeah,

515
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Speaker 1: welcome back Romney and the Car Doctor. Cruising along this sour, busy,

516
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Speaker 1: busy hour. Let's go to Roman Lincoln Park, New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: O six Toyota Sienna Roman. Welcome back, my friend. How

518
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,479
Speaker 1: can I help you today? Hello, Ron, I have a question,

519
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: a couple of questions, actually as possible, uh two thousand

520
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: six Toyota Sienna Man even all wheel drive, hundred seventy

521
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: two thousand miles. Um. I had the transfluid changed. I

522
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: didn't do it myself. I had the trench shop do it,

523
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: and and right away it was leaking transflorid on my

524
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: driveway a little bit, you know, drifts, but it was

525
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: always a wet so um. I checked the fluid on

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00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: a distic to me, it was high, you know, I

527
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: checked it when it was warmed up, and every day

528
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: you look high. After about a couple of months, I

529
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, I tightened the pen. It stopped leaking, but

530
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: it's still high, and it shifts weird from second to

531
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: dirt like a jerky ship. I went to the trans shop.

532
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: I hadn't second. He says to me, if it's high,

533
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: it's only by half the cup. That doesn't make any difference.

534
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: Is that true or could that be the reason why

535
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: it's shifting? With a half a cup wouldn't upset me.

536
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: But you know when you say apistic, it's about half

537
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: an into Maybe yes, I think, I mean, I think

538
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: that's too high. I don't, I don't, but I agree

539
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: with him. I don't know that that's going to affect

540
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: shift quality generally. That does not all? Right, that all

541
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: creates some other issues, maybe some fluid foaming. You might

542
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: notice some erratic trans operation on the highway to high

543
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,719
Speaker 1: a level. Uh, you've got you know, it's like an

544
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: engine oil overfilled with oil. It's gonna start the froth

545
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 1: the fluid and do some different things as far as

546
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 1: pressure is concerned. My my question would be, um, and

547
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: this is a transmission that did not have any leaks

548
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: before it was dry, even though it had a hundred

549
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: seventy two thousand miles on it. Okay, my question would

550
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: be and trans shops getting getting getting insulted when I

551
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: whenever you ask them this question, did they use the

552
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: right fluid? Because it seems like, you know, every trans

553
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: shop I ever talked to, they say, oh, they're all

554
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: the same, put an additive package in. I you know,

555
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I you know what, It's

556
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: easy enough just to get the right fluid from it

557
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: from a good local supply house or the manufacturer. It

558
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,719
Speaker 1: seems like these additive packages guys are trying to, you know,

559
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: play around with things. I will tell you, back in

560
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: the day, i'd seem more than a few before people

561
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: accepted the fact that there were so many different trans

562
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: fluids out there. We fixed an awful lot of cars

563
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: by taking out the newly installed correct fluid and putting

564
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: in from the manufacturer or a manufacturer equivalent, and the

565
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: car resolved itself so well that that might be it too,

566
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: because the only way to find out what fluid dot

567
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: car has at the dealer might have the number. They

568
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: don't even know there's two types of fluid. Well, there's

569
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: two types out and on a diptic it tells you

570
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: which it's a Toyota. I forget that this should be

571
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: WUS fluid. In oh six, that should be a WS car.

572
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: They did type four. Type four fluid went away somewhere

573
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: around those three oh four dependent on the model year

574
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: or it dependent on the model. So but it will

575
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: say it will say on the dipstick um or you

576
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: can look it up, or you can look it up

577
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: on the owner's manual, or I'll tell you what here

578
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: you want to you wanna, I bet you I know

579
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: I bet you I know where you can find it.

580
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: Go out to O'Reilly ooto parts, out to a rillyoto

581
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: dot com and on their website you can plug in

582
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: two thousand six Toyota Sienna and then go look up

583
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: fluid for it and they will reference you to the

584
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: correct trans fluid by application. Okay, So so you don't

585
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: think you don't think it by being high it would

586
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: make a shift difference only from a second What would

587
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: that shift? That like hard shift? What would cause if

588
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: that's not if that's not a reaction to fluid composition,

589
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: and if that's not a reaction to it being high,

590
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: which I don't think it is. I'd like to know

591
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: how high that really is. I I think it's more

592
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: than a cup. Um, I bet you it's more like

593
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: half a quarter more. But and listen, it's a simple

594
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: enough solution. Let's just drain a little bit out and

595
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: put the correct level in because you know, keep in mind,

596
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: and I'll answer your question a second. That mark on

597
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: the dipstick, that high mark, that's that's the expansion line

598
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,719
Speaker 1: that that fluid should really be in the middle of

599
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: those marks. Right, there's two marks on the stick and

600
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: a cross hatched area, correct, right, yeah, so it should

601
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: be in the middle of that cross hatched area. So

602
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: in reality, this isn't just this isn't just a half

603
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: inch above the line. It's an inch above the mark.

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00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: If you understand what you that's why it was leaking

605
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: maybe in the beginning. Now it can be because there's

606
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: a vent in that transmission that's going to allow fluid

607
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: to come out. And you know, it could be that

608
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: it was froth and you know that's one of the

609
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: reasons why going too highest, too much. I'll tell you what.

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00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: Stay right we are, Roman, let me pull over, take

611
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: a pause, and I come back. We'll finish up with you.

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00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: I'm run on any in the car doctor. We'll return

613
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. Let's get back to the

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00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: phone's real quick run on any and at your service, Roman, Roman,

615
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: you're still there, so so let me let me be quick.

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00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: So it sounds like we've got a transit is clearly overfilled,

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00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: all right, So let's get the level down to prop

618
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: or you know, the proper mark and and and get

619
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: that solved. That'll answer that question if it still has

620
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: the hard shift second to third. I think you said

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Speaker 1: that it is there Um, you know, is that fluid composition?

622
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: It could be. I would want to verify that we

623
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: have correct fluid in it. And if we do have

624
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: correct fluid in it, then I've got to think we've

625
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: got an internal trans fault. And that's a hard question

626
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: to answer without you know, taking the trans apart to

627
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: see what's going on. I would do a code scan

628
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: just to see if there's anything pending, anything about to happen, um,

629
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: and not to rock your world. Was this the first

630
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: time the trans fluid was ever changed in the miles?

631
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: You know? Then it could just be from general age,

632
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: but you won't know what direction to go until a

633
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: you get fluid leveled down to the mark, be confirmed

634
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: correct fluid in the vehicle, and you know, then let

635
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: him take a look at it. Okay, why does it

636
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Speaker 1: bang in second gear? I'm sorry? Why is it such

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Speaker 1: a hard shift second to third gear like that? And

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Speaker 1: then you can diagnose it from there? Okay, And good

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Speaker 1: question I had tois in coils? Within the last six months,

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Speaker 1: I already changed to one at a time. The last

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Speaker 1: one was three zero four three D or two. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So the ones in the front are you easy to change,

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Speaker 1: but the ones in the back. You got to take

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Speaker 1: the intake manifold off. If this happens again, should I

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Speaker 1: just replaced all three in the back apps, Absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: just make sure you're using a good quality brand, no

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Speaker 1: cheap stuff on the internet. Um. You know, my experience

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Speaker 1: has been I have to do the back. Anytime we

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Speaker 1: do plugs on those cars. It becomes six plugs and

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Speaker 1: a minimum of three coils because you have to take

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Speaker 1: the plenum off. To get the plenum off, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: take out that cowl at the base of the windshield.

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Speaker 1: The cowl's coming out, The wiper motor linkage is coming

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Speaker 1: out that that cowl played above, it's coming out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot that comes out. You gotta take out

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Speaker 1: the two top studs on the struts on each side.

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Speaker 1: That strut braced bar has to come out. Um. There

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Speaker 1: is a twelve millimeter nut over on the driver's side

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna get with a flat ratchet or real

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Speaker 1: thin flat ratchet wrench. There's a twelve and a fourteen

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Speaker 1: on the left side that's a little tough to get to.

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Speaker 1: There's a twelve nut and a fourteen bolt that's a

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Speaker 1: little tough to deal with you've got to have some

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Speaker 1: real skinny fingers, but you don't want to do it twice,

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Speaker 1: so make sure when you do it, you do it

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Speaker 1: once and you do it right. Good luck to you.

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Speaker 1: Let me know what happens. I'm not in any of

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Speaker 1: the card doctor Quick Hour until the next time. Good

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