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Speaker 1: Ron Anien. You see the way it works, folks, is

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Speaker 1: if you're not going to change the oil, you should

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Speaker 1: really check it every couple of months. I mean common

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Speaker 1: sense the car Doctor. The conversation was also about why

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Speaker 1: for that. Okay, Welcome to the radio home of ron

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Speaker 1: and Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car

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

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

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage. Orders

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Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your call.

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Speaker 1: At eight five six and now running. It's a full

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Speaker 1: moon on Monday this week coming, and I kind of

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Speaker 1: knew it on Friday, so I got up, you know

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Speaker 1: full of fire and ready to go and like, gee,

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Speaker 1: it's Friday, Yeah, Friday, Yeah, at the end of the week,

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Speaker 1: and it was a pretty good week at the shop.

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Speaker 1: We kind of rolled along and got all our cars done,

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Speaker 1: and I said to Danny. When I walked in the door,

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Speaker 1: I said, let's like really put our heads down and like,

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Speaker 1: you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans.

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Speaker 1: And so the first car that we had to deal with,

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Speaker 1: it was like Subaru Day at RNA, as I like

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Speaker 1: to say. We had done four wheel breaks and four

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Speaker 1: Friday morning. We started Thursday afternoon, we did all the work.

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Speaker 1: We you know, stayed a little late, and that's one

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Speaker 1: and the hey, let's get the Subaru out, super us

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Speaker 1: all done, dannyone out in the bay one, put the

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Speaker 1: and there's there's a distinctive sound and engine makes when

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Speaker 1: It has that that brewer, do do do do? Do that?

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Speaker 1: That sound of compression to it, and it did, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, when do do do do?

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Speaker 1: Like just it just lost it and it just started

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Speaker 1: to spin much faster. You could hear the increase in

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Speaker 1: the car sit inside overnight, scanned it for codes. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I gotta start somewhere. We you know, like, what happened?

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Speaker 1: So we sat there for five minutes kicking it around,

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Speaker 1: the first thought I had because I've seen Hondas do this.

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Speaker 1: I've seen Hondas do this. I've seen Toyotas do this. Oh,

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Speaker 1: now I can add Subaru to the list. Because sure

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Speaker 1: But what would you tell the customer? I mean, what

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Speaker 1: and let's get let's let's let's just do something simple.

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Speaker 1: What is it that the universe lines up like that again?

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Speaker 1: You know, tell it your plans, watch it left. So

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Speaker 1: we looked up Aaron cabin filters for it. It's supposed

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Speaker 1: both wrong. So the mistake comes from Subaru, right because

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Speaker 1: older car. They're willing to pay the freight. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta take apart all the plastic covers because everything's brittle, right,

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Speaker 1: a prior failure the customer reminded me about. And on Monday,

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Speaker 1: what I believe is a faulty ignisance switch. I know,

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Speaker 1: you know what, partly on me because I should have

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Speaker 1: with the highest hopes, you can go in with you know,

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Speaker 1: of that scene in that movie The Replacements with Keanu

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Speaker 1: of and they the spiders scene. Remember they're talking about

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Speaker 1: the spiders and let's get past the bugs, and Keanu

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Speaker 1: Reeves says, Quicksand because you make one plane, it goes bad,

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Speaker 1: and you make a second plane, it goes bad, and

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Speaker 1: in quicksand and that's what yesterday was like. Yesterday was

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Speaker 1: like quicksand it doesn't matter what you did. Everything went wrong,

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Speaker 1: even with the best of intentions. And it's one of

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Speaker 1: I know that it's it's just one of the hardest

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Speaker 1: because everybody's got per perfection expectations and it doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: even with the best intentions, which is one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons I've always said to any of the guys I've hired,

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Speaker 1: on each other. Whatever floats your boat. But when you're there,

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Speaker 1: just trying to do the job day to day, and um,

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Speaker 1: that's just a day in the life of I knew

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what Monday turns out like. I

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Speaker 1: hope it's better than Friday zero zero. By the way,

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Speaker 1: is the weekend. We're giving away our mid engine Corvette book.

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Speaker 1: Gorgeous book. We got a picture of it up on

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Speaker 1: Facebook all about the mid engine Corvette. Brand new book

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Speaker 1: just coming. Just came out in the press. Just came

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Speaker 1: copy either this hour or next hour. It's a decision

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Speaker 1: of the judge. Mr Tom Ray is is final. So

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Speaker 1: good guy. So tell somebody. Somebody should tell Tom that

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Speaker 1: they like his haircut. Uh hey, it's easy to maintain.

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Speaker 1: And in the midst of this, you know, and I

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Speaker 1: was kind of like confused. Tom calls me up. Tom,

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Speaker 1: I can do it now. I called. I called up

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Speaker 1: How can I help? First run? Thank you and listen.

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Speaker 1: You know, because the valve it's an aluminum head, so

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Speaker 1: the valve is hardened and it has to push against

427
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: a hardened seat like a like a door sill all

428
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Speaker 1: right where you would step on it with your foot.

429
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: And you wonder if the seat is loosening the head

430
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: and it's causing the problem. You know, when you if

431
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Speaker 1: you were to, did you take the upper intake plentum off? Yes,

432
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Speaker 1: when you did your compression test. Yes, I did. You know,

433
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Speaker 1: I'd be curious if you you know, if you wanted

434
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Speaker 1: to really see is it that cylinder? You know, if

435
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: you took the planum back off and hand cranked the engine,

436
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: do you see the valve opening close? You know, does

437
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Speaker 1: it have correct cam action in that sense? I mean,

438
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it probably does, But I would just

439
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: be you know, like, huh, like why um? What went bad? Um?

440
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Speaker 1: And what I'm what I'm thinking about is is it

441
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: possible there's something they're a carbon chip or chunk that's stuck.

442
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: But you would think it would wash off when it

443
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Speaker 1: you know, as you operated the vehicle like it's it's

444
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, something's wedged in there. You would think it

445
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: would eventually fall into the cylinder in a sense. And

446
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm over dramatizing this because it happened so fast

447
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: the speeds inside the cylinder. So what about I know,

448
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: exhaust valves are under a lot of heat and intake

449
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: valves less, So what about the valve fracturing? But why

450
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: only one? And if that's if that's the case, then

451
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: where did the metal fragments go? You know, here's a

452
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: great here's another example. Of if someone has access to

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Speaker 1: a board scope, if you can get a board scope

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Speaker 1: down in this cylinder, if you pulled the plenum off

455
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Speaker 1: and looked at the back of the valve, which cylinder

456
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: was it? Uh? It was five. It's on the back

457
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: bank end cylinder three five. So you know you could

458
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: get a clear shot of it with the plenum off,

459
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: just to look to see. But at that point doesn't

460
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: matter if you have legitimately lost compression, and if you

461
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: don't see anything, even with a boar scope, your next

462
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: step bis you've got to pull the head. But zero

463
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: was a heck of a loss. Zero is a valve

464
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: is stuck open, or a valve has fractured, or the

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00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: seat is out of the head And I'm sorry, run ahead.

466
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Speaker 1: Can the variable valve timing? Uh? Can that keep a

467
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: valve open if it malfunctions? Why only one cylinder? I agree?

468
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: You know? Um, so you know, if if you told

469
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: me that bank had issues, then you know, maybe maybe

470
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: the sprocket, you know, jumped the tooth or or was

471
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: stuck in an advanced or retarded position and it was

472
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: affecting timing. Although I don't know you'd have zero compression,

473
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: you still have compression of pumps a pump for you

474
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: to have zero compression, you know, And you did it right.

475
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: You said you leak tested it to have zero compression.

476
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: You know. Um, listen, if you're curious. Tomorrow, it's going

477
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 1: to reign in the northeast. Take the intake, cutting back

478
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: off and uh put air in the cylinder and pour

479
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: a little fluid in there. You should see bubbles coming

480
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: out of the intake when the valve's closed. At least

481
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, at least you'll know your test is right. Right. Okay,

482
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: do you mind if I just ask one or two

483
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: more questions? Well, I'll tell you what. Let me pull over,

484
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: take a pause, and when we come back, we'll finish

485
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: up and go from there. Stand by Tom, I'm running

486
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. We're back right after this.

487
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: Welcome back. We're on any of the Car Doctor. Let's

488
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: get back to Tom in Connecticut. Tom quickly, sir, what's

489
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: what's your last two questions? Just the last thing? Run

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00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: when I bring the head to the machine shop. Any

491
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: thoughts about what to ask the machinists. Well, explain the

492
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: whole scenario the way explain it to me. And you

493
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: were great in explaining it and um, you know what

494
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: does he say? It's it's It's just really that simple. Now,

495
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: the fact that this only has fifty four thousand miles

496
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: on it, you know, I would trust his judgment if

497
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: he wants to do. You know, sometimes somebody brings you

498
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: a head, it's going to be a complete reconfiguration, a

499
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: complete rebuild, et cetera. But less than sixty thousand miles.

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00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: It's going to be you know, look at and decide

501
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: what needs to be done. Maybe it doesn't need a

502
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: complete overhaul. Maybe it's just a component repair. But you know,

503
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: keep in mind that maybe because you're pulling off the backhead,

504
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: maybe you want to take him the real the front

505
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: head and have him look at both. Because if it

506
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: is a loose valve seat, who's to say the front

507
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: doesn't go through it shortly? Too? You want the mall

508
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: checked and look that and verified. Okay, thank you so

509
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: much for your time. I really appreciate You're welcome, Tom,

510
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: you'd be well. I enjoyed the show again, Thank you, sir.

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00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Let's go over to Van and may oh

512
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: seven Mini Cooper and see what's going on here? Hi?

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00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: How can I help? Yes? Hello, Ron time caller, long

514
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: time listener, Thank you. How can I help? Yes, Well,

515
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: I have a weird behavior on the clock on this

516
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: Mini Cooper that I have, and the clock is tied

517
00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: in with my average speed and miles per gallon. And

518
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: what's happening is that several times, um, not every time

519
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: I started the car up, but when I start the

520
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: car up, my clock for some reason resets to uh

521
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 1: like dashes like um, meaning that I have to uh

522
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: like as if you unplugged the battery and you plugged

523
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: it back in, you have to set the clock. And

524
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: so thing is I'm having to set up uh several times.

525
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: And I looked in the forum um, and somebody mentioned

526
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: something about a week battery and I find out hard

527
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: to believe because my car started up and cracks really well,

528
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: So I don't understand what's going on. Why my clock

529
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: is just behavior and resetting itself. Well, you know, it's

530
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: a simple thing of is it losing power, is it

531
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: losing ground? Or is it a defective clock? Right, I

532
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: mean it's really only one of three possibilities, all right, Now,

533
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: the clock does have the clock on that vehicle does

534
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: have an input that comes all of the instrument cluster

535
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 1: and we've got to consider that into the mix. But

536
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: I think the instrument cluster tie in, if I remember correctly,

537
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: is it's just supplying data to the instrument cluster UM

538
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: for reasons of you know, it wants to be involved

539
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: in the UM calculation of time to get somewhere, etcetera, etcetera.

540
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: It's sort of the timekeeper for the system. UM. So

541
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: I would go find the hot I would go find

542
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: the ground. The ground for that is, I believe under

543
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: the back seat, all right, and go find the actual

544
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: ground itself. Verify that the ground is there. You probably

545
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: want to break out a wiring diagram and just verify.

546
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: If I remember right, the clock is on its own

547
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: fuse UM in the fuse holder behind the left wheelhouse

548
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: or the left kick panel, all right, I think it's

549
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: fuse three or four. Uh F three or F four.

550
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: I think it's three UM small fuse. It's only five amps,

551
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: so there's not a lot on that circuit. And you know,

552
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: take a look at the fuse. Does the fuse have

553
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: any deterioration. I'm not saying it's a bad fuse in

554
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: that it's got an intermittent to it, but I've seen

555
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: cases of certain electrical components not working a hundred percent

556
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: where the fuse has a burn mark on the blades

557
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: or corrosion on the blades, and it will affect the

558
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: ability for it to power the circuit. So you know, yeah,

559
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: right it could you know, it's listen for it had

560
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: a problem with fuel pumps on their trucks, where the

561
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: trucks were going through everybody's putting fuel pumps in them,

562
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: and that wasn't the case. F twenty one in the

563
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: underhood fuse block had to be moved. They gave you

564
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: the ability to create their own fuse box or the

565
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: own a separate fuse in the box um and replace

566
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: the fuse with a different style or a newer style,

567
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: higher amperage fuse. So let's verify the fuse, let's verify ground,

568
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: and then if you want, we can call me back

569
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: next week. We can talk about ways to make sure

570
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: it's getting to it at the clock. And then after that,

571
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: it's just got to be a clock. That's all that

572
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: you really have their van. There's not much else, So

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00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: I look forward to the next conversation. Brother it five

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00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 1: five zero. The car doctors coming back right after this.

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00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: Don't go away Welcome back, Ronde of the Car Doctor.

576
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: Thanks for sticking with me this hours. We kind of

577
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: had some ups and downs and we're all over the

578
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: place on the automotive map. Hey, Tom, listen, I know, uh,

579
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: I know what I want to do next. You're ready?

580
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: Do we really have to tell the people? Yeah? Can

581
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: you get me a new Corvette to drive? I think

582
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: I should be a test driver. So I'm reading, and

583
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: here's why. Here's why I'm reading. I'm reading from our

584
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: book that we're gonna give away, um, the Corvette sting Ray,

585
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: the mid Engine Revolution, courtesy of Motor Books, and they

586
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: we'll have to give it away the next hour. Somebody

587
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: asks for it. Let's make it to the first person

588
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: that asks for it. Tom, Um, the article is I'm

589
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: on page where I'm a page one. They're talking about

590
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: the design and it's a it's got a removable roof,

591
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: all right. The roof comes off this so because naturally

592
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: you gotta have a convertible, but it's designed that you

593
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: can have a removable roof. The roof stores in the

594
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: trunk along with your two golf bags. So yeah, so

595
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: it's actually the trunk is actually designed around storing two

596
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: golf bags. I mean, that was the whole and they

597
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: make a point of saying the car has more utility

598
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: in it than anything else that's comparable in the segment. Now,

599
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: this is a hundred thousand dollar car. I think it's

600
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: it's well if I think it's sixty to seventy. But

601
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: I've I've seen stories where they're a hundred grand. A

602
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I stole one in a parking lot

603
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: this morning. It is pretty hot, it's a pretty neat car.

604
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: Of course, I look at it and I go see

605
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: who's gonna fix it. I can tell you who's gonna

606
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: fix it good mechanics, because I'll run an anting of

607
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: the car doctor, reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

608
00:34:44,960 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: Great segue, huh see you. We'll be back soon. She

609
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: has a simple bar