1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, it's scrubbing that tire sideways as it's rolling forward. 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: Of course, the tire's going to wear out faster. You 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: know what. Look at the details, never assume, and let 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: me tell you what's good. I'll tell you what's bad. 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: The car doctor. 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: So my mechanic come over and he said that it's 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 2: the intake gast. Well, another guy looked at and he 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: said it's the ted gasket. 9 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, Why the difference? Why because we're two completely 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: different areas. That's what I thought. 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of Ronananian, the Car Doctor. 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners the 13 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 3: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 3: the phone and call in the garage doors. 16 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: Are open, but I am here to take your call 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: at eight five, five, five six or ninety nine hundred 18 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: and now he. 19 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 4: Running, do you have a. 20 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: Ten thousand dollars connection with your mechanic? I just I 21 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: don't know. These ideas go through my head, you know, 22 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: when I'm driving around, or just when my eyes are 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: open and I'm thinking I had a story this week 24 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: someone I know they were taking their Cadillac Escalade to 25 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: the dealer for service over a long period of time, 26 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: so you would think that there's a trust factor that's 27 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: built up, you would think. And one day they came back, 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: just recently and they were told that the vehicle needs 29 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: almost eleven thousand dollars worth of repairs. You know, it 30 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: needed front breaks, it needed a radiator, it needed had 31 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: oil leaks, it needed tires, it needed and it did 32 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: because it ended up on my doorstep. They said, you know, 33 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: we don't know if they're telling us the truth, which 34 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: part of my question in the back of my head 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: is then you know you don't have that connection. You know, 36 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: why are you going there? You know, there are other choices, 37 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: there are other places to go, there's ways so that 38 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: you don't have to get a second opinion. And I 39 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: understand that most people would, but then again I don't 40 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: because usually when I tell somebody it needs X number 41 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: of dollars, they go, you know what, I'm either going 42 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: to fix it or they're going to go buy another car. 43 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: It's rare when it's you know, I got to go 44 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: get a second opinion. I think that that that ten 45 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Connection is important. I think that's what you're 46 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: looking for. And if you haven't found it yet, then 47 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: I'm I understand, and I know why you're here because 48 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: you're looking for information. But you know, just as important 49 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: it's it's it's got to be. You know, cars aren't 50 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: going to get any easier to fix, not by any 51 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. It's going so fast in the 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 1: other direction that you know, the days of well, the 53 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: days of guessing are over, but the days of even 54 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: trying to you know, take a shot are over. You've 55 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: got to have some reasonable idea. You've got to have 56 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: some direction because there's just a lot of ways you 57 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: can get fooled working on a car today. And if 58 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: you're not going to school, if you're not taking the training, 59 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: if you're not keeping your equipment updated, you're lying. There's 60 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: no there's no simple way to say it that you know, 61 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: the technology is just it it's just pushing us further 62 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: and further down the road to the point where, yeah, 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: you know, we we we need to have that relationship. 64 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: It's just it's just important. So I don't know, I 65 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: just thought I would start here today. You know, do 66 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: you do you have that ten thousand dollars connection. You 67 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: walk in, your mechanic who's been working on all this time, 68 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: tells you, Hey, the car, these ten thousand dollars worth 69 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: of work. Do you believe them? Of course, my question was, 70 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: and I had said this to this person, I said, 71 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: but if you trust them, cars don't develop ten thousand 72 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: dollars worth of work overnight. So and I looked at 73 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: the car, and most of what they said was true. 74 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: So does that mean that in all the previous repairs 75 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: and oil changes and services, nobody ever looked at the car. 76 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: Nobody ever caught tires going ball, the oil leaks, the 77 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: front breaks which were just about metal on metal, and 78 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: all the other problems that were legitimately there. So are 79 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: they inept, dishonest, or or something else. It's just it's 80 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: there's no consistency. And that's my point. There's got to 81 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: be consistency in order to repair. Also, you know, most 82 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: things can be predicted three, six, eight, ten months in advance. Hey, 83 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: we know you're going to need tires next year. We 84 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: know you're gonna need breaks next year. You know the 85 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: alternator that drops that on Tuesday. Yeah, nobody could predict that. 86 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: But you know, that's the unexpected, you know, but there's 87 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: the service and maintenance. That's part of why you're going 88 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 1: in for an oil change. You're going in for an 89 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 1: oil change to maintain the Hey, where will I be 90 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: in six months? What will this car need so that 91 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: I can budget or prepare to replace it, or prepare 92 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: to be inconvenience because they'll be disabled for a while. 93 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: That's you know, it's all part of that conversation at 94 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: a much higher level. So just my two cents. Let's 95 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: go over to the phone. Let's go to Jim and Maryland. Jim. 96 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: Welcome aboard, sir, Welcome to the car doctor at eight 97 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. How 98 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: can I help? 99 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 2: Hey, Ron, thanks for taking my car? Two thousand and two. 100 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: Hello, Yes, sir you there, Yes, sir, Yes. 101 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 2: Sir, two thousand and two GMC fifteen hundred four wheel drive. Okay, 102 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: bought brand new, has three hundred and fifty thousand miles. 103 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: On it now, just broken in. 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, go baby, yeah man. And it's uh we 105 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 2: used it during the snow. She used it so that 106 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: she could be safer and kicked it into four wheel drive. 107 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: Of course, fans and snow this year, you know, Well 108 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 2: we got in about two weeks after you know, the 109 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 2: weather broke a little bit and no more snow than 110 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: need a four wheel drive. I was riding down the 111 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: road in it, and I noticed the tack armor would 112 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 2: speed up, slow down, spat up, and just and just 113 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: you know, and it got progressively worse to where he 114 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 2: could help as a transmission slipping. So having said that, 115 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 2: I thought, well, I better change the transmission to it's 116 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 2: been free, aren't some thousand miles? So did it. And 117 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 2: it was really black and not a lot of metal, 118 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 2: but they were so fine, of fine of mass, if 119 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: you will, I mean, they were way smaller than a 120 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: thing of salt. And and I'm just just wondering, could 121 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 2: it be a TTC shift cable. I mean, I'm just 122 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 2: that within now I should have put place to the 123 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 2: shift's Illinois as while I've been there, I guess. But 124 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 2: you got any suggestions on that thing. It's got the 125 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 2: L four sixty, I. 126 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: Think, right, So so you serve you change the transfluid 127 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: and it's still doing the same thing. 128 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: Yes, And I did notice first year, well and on 129 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: these things after that many miles, the shift selector lever 130 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 2: gets a little worn, you know, she gets a little sloppy. 131 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 2: But when she's all the way down in drive, if 132 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 2: I can pull it all the way down the low 133 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: I don't get any more than just drive. I don't 134 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 2: get to you know, keep it in low gear. I 135 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: want it to do. 136 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: What makes you think that the clutches and bands in 137 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: the trans aren't worn out? 138 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 2: Uh? Nothing makes me think as or not? 139 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: Because it could be right, Well, that's kind of where 140 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: I'm going, because you're describing particulate. Would that be a 141 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: good word? You're seeing grit in the fluid? 142 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: Not? Yeah, it's a metal Yeah, it's a drum in 143 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: the back, the one that rings all from right. 144 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: Well, it's coming from somewhere. And you know, at three 145 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand miles and twenty three years old, 146 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: how old is this truck? Right? Yeah, it seems like 147 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: a reasonable conclusion. So let's look at it like this. 148 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: Let's attack it like this. This is about reliability, right, 149 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: and this is about not chasing your tail that. Okay, 150 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: let's put it. Let's put a pressure on solenoid in it. 151 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: Let's do this. Let's do that. We could take a 152 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: scan tool and we could look at him, put cheff 153 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: speed and now put chefs speed and start playing around 154 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: with diagnostics and see what we see. But at some 155 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: point this is going to turn on a check engine 156 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: light because it's going to show it's going to show 157 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: transmission shift there, all right, but we want to kind 158 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: of headed off before it gets there. So my first 159 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: question would be, if you were going to put a 160 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: trans in this, what would you do. Would you take 161 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: it to a local builder or would you try and 162 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: get a reman unit out of General Motors. 163 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 2: Well, and ironically, I just had a Chevy too fifty 164 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 2: Express band that we took to MCO and rebuilt the 165 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 2: transmission entirely. It was to the effect of thirty two 166 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 2: thirty eight hundred something to that effect, right, and it 167 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: seems to be doing well. 168 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: Now now you can't buy a vehicle for that, right. 169 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Yeah, I'm yeah, I kind of answer 170 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 2: my own question there. 171 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 4: Now. 172 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: Listen, sometimes sometimes sometimes you just got to walk the 173 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: path with somebody. I get it, brother, you know it's 174 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: it's look. You know what older vehicles spoil us, right 175 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: they do? You know, we get used to no car payment, 176 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: we get used to one vehicle we get used to 177 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: the lack of technology. It's so simple, right, you know, 178 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: I was I was driving my Ta Bird the other 179 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: day and there's nothing in that car. It's just no touchscreen. No, 180 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: there isn't even an outside thermometer in that car. It's 181 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: just it's just a car. 182 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 5: Uh. 183 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 1: You know, you get spoiled by it. 184 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 2: And I got it nineteen twenty five model teth Right. 185 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it's just it's just like transportation, you know. 186 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: So here you are with an O two, Here you 187 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: are with an O two pickup truck, and you're going, well, 188 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: you know, so what I would be thinking is, you 189 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: know what, I'd swing a trans I'd swing a trans 190 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: while you still have a shop that can build it 191 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 1: and they can still get parts for it. 192 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 2: Right, And I'm even telling about doing it myself. It 193 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 2: didn't look that complicated. I mean a few specialty tools, 194 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 2: but other than that. 195 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: What do you what do you? 196 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 6: What do you? 197 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: What do you do for a living? 198 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 2: Jimmy, I do mechanical work. H A. Plumbing are done. 199 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 2: I've done mechanic work automobiles home. 200 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: I like, how much how much time do you have 201 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: so you can lay this truck up? 202 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 5: Yes? Sir, Well, you. 203 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: Know what, no time like the president to get an education. 204 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: Well that's it. 205 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 5: You know. 206 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: If it were me and I'm in the business, I'm 207 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: just going to put a Reman unit in it. But 208 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: I don't have the time. I don't have. 209 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 2: Charge. 210 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: Yeah you know, I don't have the time, and I'm 211 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: not that curious. But if I was going to do it, 212 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: I would want a GM Reman unit right out of 213 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: the factory. Yeah, you know, I have faith. I have 214 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: more faith in those than anything else right now. But 215 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: if you've if you've got a good local shop, a 216 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: good builder somewhere that you can go back to and 217 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: talk to if there's an issue. So let me ask 218 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: you this. If you're going to rebuild the trends in 219 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: this truck, why didn't you build the trands in the 220 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: other one. 221 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 2: Well, the other one was a worktop. 222 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: So and you've you've got you've got to lift. You 223 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: can get this, you can get this vehicle up in 224 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: the air. 225 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: And oh yeah, So I just wonder if could it 226 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 2: be uh, I guess it could be. I didn't see 227 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 2: any codes come up on the. 228 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: Not yet not yet. Listen, there's a lot, there's a lot. 229 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: This could be this, This could be a lot of 230 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: individual component repair. But what is your I don't care. 231 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: I don't care how much free time you have. You're 232 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: a working guy. You're you're doing h VAC and all 233 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: these other things and you're working with your hands. And 234 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: time is money, brother, right, you know, start start thinking 235 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: about your work day and tell me what the cost 236 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 1: of doing business is for you as an h v 237 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: a C tech. Right, yeah, right, it's what is your 238 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: time worth? I can tell you to the minute what 239 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: a minute of time in my shop is worth. But 240 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: you know, I've looked at it. I figured it out, 241 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: so I know when somebody comes in and I talk 242 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: to him for three minutes, I know what I'm giving away. 243 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: You don't want to know, right, right, It's it's so 244 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: what is your time worth? Uh? 245 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 4: You know? 246 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Do you know your lawn. 247 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 2: Did not used to? Right? But I do now why 248 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 2: it was easier not to mess with the four plugs 249 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: in the gas and not starting to pay the gun. 250 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 2: And I'm going to my pool and enjoy it right 251 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 2: right on the weekend. 252 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: Well, and that's my point here. You know what, maybe 253 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: you take it down to the trans shop. Say here, 254 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: fix my truck. Here's your three thousand dollars. You can 255 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: sit by the pool in three weeks when the weather 256 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 1: gets warm, and you know, you know, there's a lot 257 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: to be said for that. 258 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: Jim It is it is, It is. 259 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 5: Right. 260 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: You know what. Maybe you're buying yourself a transmission, but 261 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 1: you're not. You're putting a trans in the truck and 262 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: you're buying yourself two weeks of no aggravation, right, right, 263 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: So with some warranty, with some warranty so forth, and 264 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: somebody else to go and speak with. If they're a 265 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,359 Speaker 1: reliable shop, why. 266 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 2: Not yep, green paper with numbers only, right, you know what? 267 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: You know what, I have a lawnmower sitting in the 268 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: shed at the house and I still have I have 269 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: a lawn service. You know why, because I come around 270 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: the bend on Friday afternoon, I go, doesn't that look nice? 271 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: And I don't have to do it. I'm done. I 272 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: want to enjoy the weekend. I gotta go, Jimmy, be well, brother, 273 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: keep the faith. You're welcome. Bye bye eight five five 274 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero. I'm running Indian 275 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: in the car. Doctor. I'll be back after this. For 276 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: the best in car Advice. 277 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 6: Give Ron a call eight five five five six zero 278 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 6: nine nine zero zero. Now back to Ron. 279 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: Hey, let's go over and talk to Let's go back 280 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: to Wisconsin. Let's talk to Steve O six Chevy Silverado. Steve, 281 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car Doctor. Sure, how can I help? 282 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 4: Hi? Ron. 283 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,599 Speaker 6: I'll start with the problem first, in the symptoms, and 284 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 6: then I'm gonna tell you just kind of some things 285 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 6: that I've been experimenting with. I currently have my truck 286 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 6: up on ramps in my driveway right now, and I'm 287 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 6: in the middle of an experiment to remedy this problem. 288 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 6: But I'm not going to go any further with the 289 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 6: experiment until we get done talking about So the problem 290 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 6: with my truck when you engage the four wheel drive 291 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 6: and you get on slippery surfaces. I have to drive 292 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 6: during snowstorms for my job, and while the truck is 293 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 6: in four wheel drive on snow covered roads, it is 294 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 6: unbelievably hard to control. It is so wacky out of 295 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 6: control that the maximum speed is about twenty five miles 296 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 6: an hour any faster than that, and you are constantly 297 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 6: fighting the front end wants to go left and right, 298 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 6: and it's just it's acting like it's got a mind 299 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 6: of its own. You're you're constantly with this general fighting 300 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 6: and over correcting, you know. And this is my third 301 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 6: silver Atto. I had ninety four two thousand and two, 302 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 6: and then now this two thousand and six, And this 303 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 6: is the first one I've had where you always know 304 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 6: when it's in four wheel drive. You can't forget about 305 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 6: it like I did with my old trucks, where sometimes 306 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 6: you might have spaced it off until you get into 307 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 6: a drive parking lot. This is not with this truck. 308 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: So it feels like it's binding and hopping and bouncing. 309 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 6: Uh yes, yes, you know what I mean. When it's 310 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 6: on drive pavements, it's kind of moaning and groaning, and 311 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 6: the slightest turn will make it start to bind. And 312 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 6: then when you want to disengage four wheld drive, it 313 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 6: takes a while. You have to like go and reverse 314 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 6: and maybe drive it a little while, maybe a couple 315 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 6: of hundred feet or one hundred seat and then kind 316 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 6: of jerk it and reverse a few times and then 317 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 6: it'll click out a four wheel drive. 318 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: Okay, so this is this This is a typical Silverado 319 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: set up. There's a shift motor on the transfer case. 320 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: And then there's an actuator motor on the front diff correct, right. 321 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 6: And this is a work truck, so it has the 322 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 6: floor shifter. 323 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: It's not a button, right, this is this is a 324 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: mechanical shifter. This is mechanical of this is mechanical linkage. 325 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: So this doesn't have a shift motor. 326 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 6: Probably not. Okay, you know, there's a there's an actuator 327 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 6: on the on the front on the front disp. 328 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: Right on the front axle. 329 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 4: Right. 330 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: So what happens is when you put it in four 331 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: wheel let's say four wheel high. You put it in a 332 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: four wheel high and the circuit gets completed on the 333 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: transfer case. The transfer case actually goes into four wheel high. 334 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: There's a little there's a little there's a little d 335 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: tent or switch that sits on the transfer case that 336 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: then closes a path to complete the circuit to turn 337 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,119 Speaker 1: on the actuator on the front diff. 338 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 6: Right, and the light even comes on on the dash. Okay, 339 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 6: you know. 340 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: So if you've got this up on on on ramps 341 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: or jackstands, you're up on jackstands now, so all four 342 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: wheels are in the air. 343 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 6: I am not I'm on ramps because I'm going a 344 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 6: different direction with trying something before I go to I 345 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 6: went to several mechanics. I've gotten this response that was 346 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 6: the truck in an accident, and then there's mismatched g 347 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 6: Rachel where the axles don't match. I went to another mechanic. 348 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 6: He said, I got a test for that. We put 349 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 6: it in four wheel drives. We drove through the parking 350 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 6: lot of his shop. He said, when I click this 351 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 6: in the neutral on the column and take my foot 352 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 6: of the gas, the truck should sort of slow down, 353 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 6: like as if you're putting the brakes on. If what 354 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 6: you're telling me that truck, if the truck has yeah, 355 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 6: you know what. 356 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: Tell you what, Stevie, Sit tight. Let me pull over 357 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: and take a pause. I want I want to hang 358 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: on to you over the break. There's there's more here 359 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: than meets the eye. Let's talk about it. Don't go away. 360 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: I'm ronning any in the car. Doctor. We'll be back 361 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: right after this. 362 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 7: Every haighway, let me slip away. Every highway. You've seen 363 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 7: that it is the lone and alfter. 364 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: So Stevie, you're still there. Steve, okay, so this is 365 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: a work This is a work truck, you said, Okay, 366 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: is it your truck or it is the company you 367 00:18:59,320 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: work for? 368 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:02,239 Speaker 6: No, it's it's my truck, all right? 369 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: So you would know if it was in an accident, right. 370 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 6: I would it? Just that I noticed that there's a 371 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 6: replacement bumper on the rear, and then there's there's some 372 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 6: body lines with help the distance between the bumper and 373 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 6: the rear, you know, the box where as the fender 374 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 6: curls are on the right. There's a gap there on 375 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 6: one side and one side that's really tight. Plus the 376 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 6: tailgate doesn't really shut. 377 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so let's let's eliminate the wrong rear, the 378 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: wrong gear ratio. I don't see how that's going to 379 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: cause this. I don't think it's going to care. But 380 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: let's let's just eliminate it. You know what I always 381 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: tell you, guys, tell me what's good, I'll tell you 382 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: what's bad. Right, So you know, do you know what 383 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: the r p O codes? Do you know where the 384 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: r p O codes are for the truck? Are they there? 385 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: They're usually on the glove box store and I don't 386 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: know six Uh, there'll be a list of r PO codes, 387 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: all right, is okay? 388 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 6: I see I see the details on that I would 389 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 6: have to get a slashlight and get my head. 390 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and that's fine. And then just if you 391 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: just google search GM RPO codes, it'll take it to RPO. 392 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 1: I believe it's decoder decoder dcode r p O or 393 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: decoder RPO dot com something like that. And you can 394 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: actually look up all your RPO codes regular production option 395 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: that's what RPO stands for, and and find out. Now 396 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: you could also if you have, if you have a 397 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: guy at the dealership that you can talk to, give 398 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: him your VIN and ask him, hey, you know my 399 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: truck has what rear? He'll be able to tell you 400 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: your truck has this rear. With an RPO code, you 401 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: can verify it by you know, what's on your decal. 402 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: And then let's figure out what what gear ratio doesn't 403 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: have in the front. And it's real simple. Up in 404 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: the air, neutral spin the front tire spin, The front 405 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: tire goes around once. How many times does the dry 406 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: shift spin around? Right? If now you may have to 407 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: take the actuator out and push in on the plunger 408 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: to lock the diff all right, so that you know 409 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 1: the dip is actually going to spend the drive shaft 410 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: it's not the hardest thing in the world to do. 411 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you're doing all this. I'm sure you're capable 412 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: of doing that, all right, but it's it's just that's 413 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: the gear ratio. I don't think it's going to come 414 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: to that, but you want to eliminate it. Sure, What 415 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: was the last time the rear axle was changed in 416 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: terms of fluid? 417 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,679 Speaker 6: Oh, I'm on the truck for about four years and 418 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 6: that's never. 419 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you've got a problem with the rear 420 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: differential that's emulating up front, and the RPO code will 421 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: tell you what this has, all right. If this has 422 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: a GM locker with the ratchets set up, I've seen 423 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 1: those have fluid problems where the truck will shutter and 424 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: jerk and bind and you you'll be like, what's falling 425 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: off the truck? It's fighting itself. Is that the sensation 426 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: you're getting? 427 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 6: And sometimes yes, it is, and it's there. They're every 428 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 6: once in a while when I just when I leave 429 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 6: my driveway and the trucks that are at an angle, 430 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 6: I hear like a thump in the rear and it 431 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 6: almost acts like like the truck went over a bump 432 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 6: and then the axle was. 433 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: It's a it's a bang and a release, right. 434 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, like one wheel was catching up with the other. 435 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 6: It was in positve traction, and then it came off attraction. 436 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: All of a sudden. All of a sudden, you feel 437 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 1: like a shot in your You feel like a shot 438 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: in the rear, right, like like somebody hit the truck 439 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: and you look and there's nobody there. 440 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 6: Okay, right. 441 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: I want you to verify what rear this has, and 442 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: then I want you to find out what specific fluid 443 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: it calls for. GM has there. I believe it's going 444 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: to be seventy five ninety something, but GM is going 445 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: to have based on RPO, it's going to have a 446 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: correct application of fluid. And I want you to service 447 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: the diff. If we do nothing else, we're going to 448 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: eliminate it. I want you to open the cover up. 449 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: I want you to look inside. Do we see you? 450 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: Do any parts fall out? 451 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 6: Right? 452 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: How dirty is the fluid? 453 00:22:59,640 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 6: Okay? 454 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,719 Speaker 1: Okay? Save save a sample of the fluid and put 455 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: it in a paper cup, put it in a microwave 456 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 1: for twenty seconds. Does does the fluid sparkle like there's 457 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: metal in it? 458 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:10,879 Speaker 6: Okay? 459 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 1: Right? 460 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 6: That that brings me to where I am today with 461 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,479 Speaker 6: a different what the front right? Okay, So I'll tell 462 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 6: you what I've done so far. 463 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: Right well, and then I want you to look at 464 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: fluid in the front too, because my other question is, 465 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: if the front is starting to bind and lock up, 466 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: you know, something should be giving up metal. Either we've 467 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 1: got a fluid problem or we've got a component failing 468 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 1: one end or the other has to have metal in. 469 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: It would be it would be the logical explanation. Now 470 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: tell me what you did, Okay. 471 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 6: I dreamed the front fluid just about a half an 472 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 6: hour ago, okay. And the plug at the dream plug 473 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 6: which has that magnet at the end, was really I mean, 474 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 6: there was a lot of material on this. 475 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 5: Yeah. 476 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: They always had the fuzzies, right. It looks like it 477 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: looks like Chili Willy or Fuzzy Wuzzy or whatever his 478 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: name was, that that kids came with the magnet, you know, 479 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 1: it always looks like that. 480 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 6: Okay. And then I just went online and I just 481 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 6: tried to read up and do a little bit of research. 482 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 6: I heard this rumor that that they came with eighty 483 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 6: ninety you know, from the factory. But there was some 484 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 6: some performance issue that GM suggested seventy five ninety. It's 485 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 6: synthetic to remedy a cold a cold weather performance issue. Okay, 486 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 6: So I went and bought that seventy five ninety. I 487 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 6: got two quarts of it here. But here's the part 488 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 6: where you're going to think I'm crazy. Okay, you are 489 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 6: going to think I'm not. Said try I tell you 490 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 6: what I just did, and I have, but I haven't 491 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 6: driven the vehicle yet, so I can I can stop 492 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 6: before I have a disaster? No, go ahead, tell me, okay, Okay, 493 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 6: I filled up the front differential with diesel fuel. Why, Okay, 494 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 6: because I am. I'm just wanting to flush the inside 495 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 6: of the of the differential to see if they're some 496 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 6: Is there is there any way that the thing the 497 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 6: front end could be stuck in some sort of positive 498 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 6: traction just because of dirty No. 499 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: No, Because because that that's a that's a standard GM 500 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: locker that's only actuated by the motor. I would tell 501 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: you to drain the diesel fuel out and fill it 502 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: with the correct fluid. As far as the difference between 503 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: seventy five ninety and eighty ninety, okay, it's a pimple 504 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 1: on a fly's butt. Brother. All right, I've never seen 505 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: five points of viscosity make a difference in that they're 506 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: talking longevity. Stop reading the internet, Stop reading the rumors. Okay. 507 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: I don't think you're nuts. I think you're just looking 508 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: for information, which is why you're here. And you're not 509 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: gonna you're not gonna hear me yell at you, and 510 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: you're not gonna hear me make fun of you. I 511 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 1: think you're trying a kudos to you. Uh, let's get 512 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: the diesel fluid out. Let's get let's get the correct 513 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: fluid in the front. Diff Let's get a fluid change 514 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: in the rear. 515 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 6: All right, the way the bolts the bolts on the rear, 516 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 6: Can I do that? Let's all to torque crunch on 517 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 6: the cover? 518 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, just it's it's gonna be air gunna off. You'll 519 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: have a problem with a brake line with the bracket. 520 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: That'll be a pain in the neck. And then when 521 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: you go to put the cover back on, there's there 522 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: may be a gasket there. The gas gets usually reusable, 523 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: if not, get down to the autoparts store. You want 524 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: to get the right stuff, all right, that's what it's called. 525 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: You want to tube of the right stuff. Clean the 526 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: cover real good, clean the dift housing real good, and 527 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: you know, let the stuff, put it on the cover, 528 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 1: let attack up for fifteen minutes or five minutes I 529 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: think it's five minutes, really, and then just squish it together. 530 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, squish it together, bolt it up, and then 531 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: let it wait. We wait about an hour in the 532 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,120 Speaker 1: shop before we fill it with fluid. Before you take 533 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: the rear dift cover off, make sure you can get 534 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: the fill plug out. Obviously a problem if you can't. Okay, 535 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: all right, where I think this is going? If fluid 536 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: doesn't solve it, fluid it either end doesn't solve it. 537 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: Disconnect the actuator. Put the truck in four wheel drive. Okay, 538 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: you really have to be up in the air on 539 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: all four for this and run it at twenty miles 540 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: an hour. Does the front drive shaft lock? In other words, 541 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: does the transfer case go into four wheel drive? Do 542 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: you hear any odd noises emanating out of the transfer case? 543 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: What I'm curious is is the transfer case causing the binding? 544 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Do I have a chain slapping 545 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 1: the transfer case itself? All right, then let's put the 546 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: actuator back together. Does the front diff run and sound? Okay? 547 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: Listen with a mechanic stethoscope. Do we hear any bearing noise? 548 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: Do we hear anything absurd? Now, you got to be 549 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: up in the air for this. You got to be 550 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: on a lift. It's got to be safe. It's got 551 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: to be secure, all right. But I don't want you 552 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: to go too far in any one direction or the 553 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: other until we establish the basics. And I think the 554 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: basics here is correct. Fluid both ends, metal content both ends, 555 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: if any do we go into four wheel drive? Yes 556 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: or no? All right? And then what your ratio do 557 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: we have? And you can find that out by looking 558 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: at the RPO codes. That's your homework this week. You 559 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: call me back next week. 560 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 6: All right, all right, thanks Ron. 561 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir. You'd be well eight five five 562 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero. The Caroductor's coming 563 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 1: back right after this. Always a fun time to kind 564 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 1: of wind the hour down. Not yet, but we're getting close. 565 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: Talking about hot rods. Let's go to Mark and Georgia 566 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty Ford. Mark, Welcome to the car doctor, sir. 567 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: How can I help? 568 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:31,959 Speaker 4: Thank you? Here's here's my car problem. I have nineteen 569 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 4: forty four convertible. It's got a five liter Ford automatic transmission, 570 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 4: air conditioning. Everything's working great, except for it's got a 571 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 4: new gas tank in it and a new radiatory and 572 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 4: the my on my dashboard, my temperature gauge is pegged 573 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 4: at two hundred and fifty degrees. My gas gauge is 574 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,479 Speaker 4: pegged at full. And either of those things are correct 575 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 4: because I've run right. 576 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:04,959 Speaker 1: So is it? 577 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 5: Is it? 578 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: Is it an after You know who's whose gauges are they? 579 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: Is it some aftermarket kit? Is it original stuff? Is 580 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: it rebuilt stuff? 581 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 4: It's after after market, expensive after market gauges. A dashboard 582 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 4: panel with the speedometer and oil and electronics. They the 583 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 4: oil works fine, and the the uh amp seems to 584 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 4: work fine. 585 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: Dakota, Dakota Digital Mark. 586 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 4: No, they're needles, okay, But is it? 587 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: Is it from Dakota? Do you know the manufacturer? 588 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 5: Oh? 589 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 4: I have to I have to really research that because 590 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't buy them or install them. But 591 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 4: I've talked up my hot rod buddies tell me that 592 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 4: the sending units at the gas tank and the sending 593 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 4: unit at the at the radiator are not the right 594 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 4: omes or something and right so so. 595 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: Well, it's either that it's either that or something's not 596 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: wired correctly. All right. If this is traditional, I'll say 597 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: a couple of terms here, old school technology and the 598 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: way things are wired. It's using Ohm's law. Are you 599 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: familiar with Ohm's law? 600 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 4: I'm not an electronics guy. 601 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 6: That's right. 602 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: You don't have to be an electronic guy. And you 603 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: can actually you know if you know that when you 604 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: get when you get off the call, go google research 605 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: omes law. It's about electrical resistance. All electrical circuits have 606 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: some things in common. 607 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:32,479 Speaker 6: Right. 608 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: They all have voltage, They all have to have a 609 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: ground path follow the electrons, right, and they all have 610 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: internal resistance. Right. It's it's it's like a garden hose, right, 611 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: the garden hose attached to your house. If it flows, 612 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: if it flows twelve gallons of water per minute, that's 613 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: the voltage, that's your electricity. If it flows one one 614 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: quart of water per minute in that twelve I'm sorry, 615 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: twelve pounds of pressure one quart of water. Right, the 616 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 1: court is current, all right, and the one inch in 617 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: side diameter of the hose is the resistance, all right, 618 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: Just like an electrical circuit. They all have to have resistance, 619 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: they all have to have voltage, and they all have 620 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: to have a ground. So you know where I would 621 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: go with this is, you know, are they wired correctly? 622 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: You can test at the sensor? All right? You know 623 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: who works on your who works on your household cars, 624 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: your day to day stuff. Do you have a regular mechanic? 625 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 4: Yes? Pretty good? Pretty good, guys. 626 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: Yes, you know he could. He could take the hot rot, 627 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: unplug that the cool intempt sensor, right and just measure 628 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: resistance to ground and see where it is. But before 629 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: you even and you know, do the same thing, test 630 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: the gas tank unit. Most gas tank units of the 631 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 1: old car era, I'll say it like that run somewhere 632 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:51,719 Speaker 1: between five and ninety ohms of resistance. All right. If 633 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: your mechanic is old school, I'm old school, brother. I've 634 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: got what we call a variable resistor or a variable 635 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: potentiometer in the shop, and we would use it on 636 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: older cars like this, where we could actually unplug the 637 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: gas gauge and first we would measure, you know, what's 638 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: in the tank? What resistance value do we see there? 639 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: Do we see? 640 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,120 Speaker 6: You know? 641 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: I think I've got a half a tank. Do I 642 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: see fifty oms? Yep? Okay, good, you know what the 643 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: gauge and the sending unit's probably right. It's either in 644 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: the wiring going forward or the cluster how it's wired. 645 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: All right, But before before I do any of this, 646 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: I want to know who'se cluster that is. And then 647 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: I want to call them up and talk to customer 648 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: support and say, hey, these two gauges are reading cock guide. 649 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: Do they share a common leg on that circuit? He 650 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: may go, oh, yeah, you got the black and the 651 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: green wire backwards. Let's go simple. First, find out who 652 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: makes it. Get a wiring diagram. If you don't understand it, 653 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: email it to me Ron at cardoctorshow dot com and 654 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: I'll be glad to help you interpret it. But let's 655 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: find out whose gauge set this is before we jump 656 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: into the deep end of the pool and we'll go 657 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: from there. Good luck to you, Mark, keep me posted. 658 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car, doctor, I'm back right after. 659 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 5: This the. 660 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 6: Way. 661 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: So, I had the pleasure of being on a local 662 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: radio station here in New York this week on Monday, 663 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: and the question the host asked me was about maintenance, 664 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: and talking about maintenance on your cars. And unfortunately, I 665 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: think he found out that I can talk, because I 666 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: think that was the last time he talked in that segment. 667 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: My apologies to Larry, but never asked me a question 668 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: about car maintenance because it kind of, you know, it's 669 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: it kind of gets my juices flowing, if you know 670 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and what I told him is what 671 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you. You know, it's it's you've 672 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: got to look at the you own. Release the car. 673 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: If you lease the car and it's three years, do 674 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: the three oil changes, do the one tire rotation, hand 675 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: them back the car and the keys, and say, here 676 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: it is, it's yours. Who cares. If you're leasing it 677 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: and you've got the intend to buy, you know what, 678 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: do an oil change, maybe every do the oil change 679 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: every seven eight months, stretch it a little bit, do 680 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,359 Speaker 1: a couple of rotates, and by the time it's got 681 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,279 Speaker 1: thirty thirty five thousand miles on it, you're about to 682 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 1: trade it in or keep it. You know what, you 683 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: still have time to service it without doing, you know, 684 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 1: any kind of damage to it. You've just taken a 685 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: little bit better care of it. If you own the vehicle, 686 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 1: and the importance of this with the world the way 687 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: it is today with I'm not trying to get political, 688 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: but you know there's there's a lot right the economy 689 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 1: is a little cock eyed, and you know things are 690 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: up and down in tarras and auto parts and everything 691 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: is going to go up. I've already seen, you know, 692 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: we we saw a particular line. We saw tricho wiper 693 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: blades go up eighteen percent in the last two weeks. 694 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing a lot of changes in parts prices. 695 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: Good time to get in, get some maintenance done, get 696 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: your car taken care of. But if you're owning the 697 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: card and you're going to keep the car, you probably are. 698 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: With the price of new cars going up and up 699 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 1: and up, good time to sit down and talk to 700 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 1: your mechanic and you know what do I need? When 701 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: was a lit time we did a checklist? Who's some 702 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 1: things in your head? How old is the battery? You know, 703 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 1: how old are the tires? Find the date code, when 704 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: were they put on, When were they last rotated. It's 705 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,760 Speaker 1: a good time to take care of your car because 706 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: it can take care of you when you can avoid 707 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: having to buy one. Tariffs and all until the next time. 708 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.