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Speaker 1: Ronan, I think about building a mechanic. Can you build

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Speaker 1: man with parts made in the past. That I am

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Speaker 1: the technology, just who's going to physically and mentally be

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Speaker 1: up to the challenge. Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: Ronanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage. Orders are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your fault at eight

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Speaker 1: I thank you for doing that and taking time out

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Speaker 1: a conference. We can conference together and talk together about

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Speaker 1: your automotive problem, whatever it might be. And keep in mind.

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Speaker 1: More information about this show is always Car Doctor Show

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Speaker 1: places to take podcasts and find out more information, as

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Speaker 1: well as at the Car Doctor Show dot com. You

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Speaker 1: in mind if you need me during the week, Ron

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Speaker 1: at Car Doctor Show dot com. I've got a couple

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Speaker 1: of emails from me in the past week that well, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting to see what's going on out there, and

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Speaker 1: that's probably one of the main reasons I've enjoyed doing

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Speaker 1: the show for the past twenty five years, just to

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Speaker 1: always a little different from your perspective, from your side

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Speaker 1: of the counter. Do you like eating in a good restaurant?

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Speaker 1: Do you ever eating a good restaurant? Ever? Go to

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Speaker 1: a good steakhouse, Tony ever go to a good steakhouse?

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Speaker 1: And and you know, yes, I have. And the one

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Speaker 1: of them, and it was a good meal, right, And

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Speaker 1: Like you enjoyed that. I'm not an Emerald Agassi, so

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Speaker 1: I I know my limits, right, But if you were

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Speaker 1: going to duplicate that at home, you would really have

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Speaker 1: And that's I was thinking about this this week that

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking that what holds back regular repairs from

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help hi?

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Speaker 1: Long time listener, me and my dad, great show, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: I have a Mercury Mariner three point oh leader V

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Speaker 1: It stands for ethylene propylene dean monumor belts and and

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Speaker 1: A right, So you know I love technology. Look, look

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Speaker 1: In a regular basis. What does it? What do most

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Speaker 1: belts and I'm thinking this small belt is water pump.

429
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this is the three leader a Mercury Mariner.

430
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm trying to picture a Mariner. Okay, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

431
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So right, so you have you have okay,

432
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: so my engineer's head is going to explode in about

433
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: two seconds. You have the belt that sits on the

434
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: passenger or the driver's side of the engine that has

435
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: no adjustment. It is a it is a non adjustable

436
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: belt and off, well there's a special tool involved for that,

437
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: all right. And you know that belt never ever, ever, ever, ever,

438
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 1: ever ever goes bad until it does. Okay, so you know,

439
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: change that belt changed the belt on the other side,

440
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: put an upper and lower radiator hose in it, pap

441
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,639
Speaker 1: a thermostat into this thing, put a radiator cap on it.

442
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: Absolutely time for some maintenance and driving another hundred thousand miles.

443
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: And that's exactly and that's exactly what I did to

444
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Speaker 1: Tom rays Escape and his daughter's I don't know where

445
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: she is with it now, she's somewhere in upstate New

446
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: York or now she she's home. But it went up

447
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: to Upstate New York, it went through college, it went

448
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: Tom's gonna jump on the mic. Here where is that

449
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: car now? No, she lives at home and she drives

450
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: back and forth to work every day with it. And

451
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: she's planning on going back to Canton for a continuing education.

452
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: She's a text and how many miles around that now?

453
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: So it's got almost two miles on it. So maintenance

454
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: does pay off. UM. Maintenance does pay also, but by

455
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: all means, and obviously you know good quality parts, UM.

456
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: And now here's a case. We're using a stant thermostat

457
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: and a stant radiator cap. Absolutely positively, UM, A stand

458
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: superstat would be wonderful in a car like this. That's

459
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: what I put Tom's and it works well. I'll get

460
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Speaker 1: out the stand dot com for more information. Alright, Carl,

461
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, you're very welcome. Thanks for being

462
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: a long term listener to the Car Doctor. Zero zero.

463
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: Let's pull over, take the pause, and when we come back,

464
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Speaker 1: we'll go talk to Maury with some questions about Hansa

465
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Speaker 1: CVT transmissions and telling um, I'm sure this will be

466
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Speaker 1: a good time. Stay put, I'm on ending the card Doctor.

467
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. You get flcome back run the

468
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Speaker 1: Car Doctor at five zero nine zero zero. Car Doctor

469
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Speaker 1: seven phone number eight five zero zero. Call leave a

470
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: message if we're not on the ear and we'll call

471
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Speaker 1: you back. Let's go and talk to Maury, who's winning

472
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: the very patiently in glenn Burn. Made some questions about

473
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Speaker 1: a Honda CVT trans and other stuff. Marie, welcome to

474
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Thank you

475
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: very much. I have two questions for you. For first,

476
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm planning along crip okay, and the oil. The computer

477
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: will tell me when I need to change the oil,

478
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: and I'm concerned what's going about ten thousand miles? Should

479
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: I change the oil before that? Yes? Zero? And the

480
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: mobile one filter yeah, and you know, well, my first

481
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: question is, then, what's the Mobile one filter rated for?

482
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 1: What does Mobile one say it's rated at. I don't

483
00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. It's the extended performance oil gas. Okay,

484
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,640
Speaker 1: so the oil will make it. The question is will

485
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: the filter and you know, if the if the filter

486
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: is only good for five then it doesn't matter what

487
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: the oil does. And that's that's always been my art,

488
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: right That's always been my argument for it. Right now,

489
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: it just doesn't necessarily mean it's an extended range filter.

490
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: You know, um, you know, I used to go I

491
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: used to go into the local radio shack here. It

492
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it was corporate headquarters. Uh, you know, just

493
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: just because it's got the name over the door. So

494
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: it's just a fair question to ask them, Hey, what's

495
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: the I'm sure it's it's an extended range filter. I

496
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: would hope it's an extended range filter. But if it's not,

497
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,479
Speaker 1: let's find out before we do any damage, all right,

498
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: If they're going to rate the filter, if well, if

499
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna rate the filter ten thousand miles, it says

500
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: on the box, what I just say, it is a

501
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,239
Speaker 1: higher capacity than the other filters. Okay, higher capacity of

502
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: what endurance? Or higher capacity to filter more particulate? Um?

503
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: You know, So what do they mean? And keep in

504
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: mind what you're reading on the box is marketing. I

505
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: want to know, down and dirty what the answer is.

506
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,239
Speaker 1: Will it work or won't it? Will it go? If

507
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: the oil is rated for fifteen thousand, will it go

508
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand? Now, if you on that on that point,

509
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: if you have a fifteen thousand mile filter and fifteen

510
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: thousand mile oil, where would I change it? Is that?

511
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: Because if that's going to be your next question, I

512
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,439
Speaker 1: don't know. I probably still change it at town because

513
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: you know I'm not I'm not one to let it

514
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: go the distance, and after five thousand miles I would

515
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: be checking the oil every thousand just to see what

516
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: sort of issues I might be having with burnoff and

517
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: what the condition of the oil is and what does

518
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: it look like? Okay, right, thank you on that one.

519
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: All right? UM. The other question I have is to

520
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: deal it tells me you do not tow with this

521
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: two thousand fifty hundres Civic LX. It's got to one

522
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: point leader engine with a CVT. But the owners man

523
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: that says, I can talk a town some pounds. Could

524
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: I tell a four or five hundred pounds trailer being

525
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: a very light toss of aluminum boat and a small trailer,

526
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: I don't see why not if if, if the manufacturer

527
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: is telling you, you know, the vehicles rated for it,

528
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: then I'm not sure why the dealer is saying it's not.

529
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: And that's a question for the dealer. They're the one

530
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: saying you can't do it. You know, what's on what

531
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: grounds are they saying you can't do it? Here? It

532
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: is in the book. The book says I can do it.

533
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: Why do you guys say no? Right? Thank you? You know? Um,

534
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: I would I would take that up with them. But

535
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: if if one says you can and the other says

536
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: you can't, you got to find out. I would tend

537
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: to I would tend to question the dealer because perhaps

538
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: they're misinformed or they're just not understanding the question. Better. Sure. Yeah,

539
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: it's not like I'm going to tell a camper trailer.

540
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm simply going to tell a small lightweight boat. You

541
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: know that towns and whatever the trailer ways. So you know,

542
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: like I said, if the manufacturers saying yeah, go ahead,

543
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: and the dealers saying no, all right, I would tend

544
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: to believe the manufacturer. They designed and built the car,

545
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: so I would I would have to give it. Right,

546
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: they wouldn't put it in the book if you couldn't, right, Yeah,

547
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: they wouldn't put it in the book. Right, they wouldn't

548
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: put it in the book. We live in a litigious society.

549
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: People love to sue people. So I'm holding me, I'm

550
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: holding me, those are box in my hand. And it

551
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,719
Speaker 1: just says three times capacity. It does not say anything

552
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: about capity times more capacity, right, So what's you know

553
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: if it's three times and and and think of it

554
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: like this, let's say three times more capacity. Maybe what

555
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: they're saying is three times the mileage, three times the

556
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: mileage from what from a three thousand mile filter, a

557
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: five thousand mile filter, a ten thousand mile filter, right,

558
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: you know, marketing, maybe I should change, you know, I

559
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: should not run that ten thousand miles. We got three

560
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: point nine. Well, and then there's that, and and then

561
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: I would read the owner's manual and see if it

562
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: says anything about checking the oil after so many miles.

563
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: Because their concern is about burnoff, which does occur in cars.

564
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: I'll never forget and I haven't seen that guy. Actually,

565
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this guy in about two and a

566
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: half years now since I told him about his out.

567
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: He didn't like my answer, but uh, we had an

568
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: out he to change the oil on and I thought

569
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: it was kind of ridiculous that they wanted fifteen thousand

570
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: mile oil change generval and he was going to ten.

571
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: We checked it at we checked it before we changed it.

572
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: The oil had nine thousand miles on it. It It was

573
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: down two and a half, almost three quarts. And you know,

574
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: he was asking me why, and I showed him in

575
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: the owner's manual because I knew where it was. I

576
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: think it's page forty nine of a two thousand ten

577
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: OUTI A six sort of rings a bell um after

578
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: four thousand miles? How do he wants you to check

579
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: the oil once a month? And I'm sure everybody is

580
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: pulling into the gas station saying, hey, can you fill

581
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: it up and check the oil? Because we live in

582
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: a society it's more concerned about their cars than getting

583
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee from Starbucks. So you know, it's um,

584
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: it's it's an issue. I think you're I think you're

585
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: on the right track more I really do. I don't

586
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: think there's a free lunch. I've been fixing cars a

587
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: long time. UM, I tend to be more cautious than not,

588
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: and I've learned that that ounce of prevention goes a

589
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: long way to preventing a problem. All right, sir, you're

590
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: very welcome, Very good luck to you. Zero. I'm running

591
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: eating of the car doctor. I'll be back right after this.

592
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: Welcome back on an of the card oculus to a

593
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: quick piece of email. UM, you know this came. We

594
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: were talking about this last week and I thought I

595
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: would point this out. We're talking about engine oil and

596
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: what it does and what it's all about, and it's

597
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: so so beyond just lubrication. Now we were talking about

598
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: this piece of tech information came to us from Matt Ericson,

599
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: he's the technical product manager in the passenger car side,

600
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: from the folks over at amaz Oil and amas oils

601
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: messages all about engine protection and it's it's providing engine

602
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: protection against worst powerless and ware and and their thought processes.

603
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: It's not just lubrication, it's everything oil does within the engine.

604
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: Matt wrote an article about the different things that oil does.

605
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: Variable valve timing province as another complexity for motor oils

606
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: to overcome, and in this article he talks about Toyota's VVT,

607
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: or variable valve timing system how it varies the valve

608
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: motion by adjusting the timing of the cam shaft and

609
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: relation to engine speed oil pressure. Actuated devices commonly called

610
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: cam phasers are used to control that motion. Look at

611
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They took us whole thing as a

612
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: cam shaft, as simple as that is, and made it

613
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: so much more complex by now giving the computer the

614
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: ability to just position in relation to the crankshaft and

615
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: change the way the engine runs. Look at the demands

616
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: and the stress that oil is put under, and you

617
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: have to stop and say to yourself that oil is

618
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: not just oil anymore. Just tumps us from the folks

619
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 1: over at Amazoil. I'm sure you get out of their website,

620
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: amazoil dot com or whatever it might be, and you'll

621
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: find more there. But very ill. Valve timing is a

622
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: big deal, and the folks at amaz Oil are recognizing that.

623
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: Kudos to them. Let's get over and talk to Mike

624
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: East Hartford, Connecticut. Some questions about any nine GMC. Mike,

625
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: I got two minutes. What's going on, Yes, sir, yeah,

626
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,959
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. You're welcome. What do you got?

627
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: I got an old but good shape five on the

628
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: floor right and uh uh two wheel drive and uh

629
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: dave they have bad h transmission. So what happened was

630
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: hired a transmission mechanic and we did it. We took

631
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:13,880
Speaker 1: the the old the clutch, um m hmm, excuse me.

632
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: The clutch was no good, so uh dropped the training,

633
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: took the old clutch out, put the new clutch in

634
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: and brand new clutch. And you know, this guy's an expert.

635
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm a mechanic too, but submiss is enough

636
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: my fortaste. This sounds like this sounds like an ever

637
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: since quickly, I'm sorry, this sounds like something you're gonna

638
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: stay here ever since? Go ahead quick because we're of time,

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Speaker 1: all right. So the and then we put the clutch

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Speaker 1: slave cylinder on the outside of it, and then inside

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Speaker 1: if you took the case out the case, um, inside

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Speaker 1: the case there's a pivot exactly. So that broke. Kay,

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Speaker 1: and put the new trans and put the news clutch

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Speaker 1: in there and it won't go. Okay, Well did you

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Speaker 1: did you replace that? I get that clutch? Ley I

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Speaker 1: mean the cylinder. I would think any GM dealer is

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Speaker 1: still gonna make it. I'm sure there's sources for drive

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Speaker 1: training around the country. I can't think that's the hardest

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Speaker 1: thing in the world. Don't you Just google eighty nine

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Speaker 1: g m C two speed and you'll find it from there.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go to the clocks against me. Good mechanics

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Speaker 1: are expensive, that places to see it