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Speaker 1: Ron Anian who went to try and grease the ball

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Speaker 1: joints up her lower It's details in order to repair

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Speaker 1: the kill and the grease.

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Speaker 2: Fitting was just a lance eyelash away from hitting the

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Speaker 2: inside the lip of the wind, so you couldn't possibly

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Speaker 2: get a grease gun on it. You'd have to take

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Speaker 2: the wheel off to grease the front end, which.

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Speaker 3: Is ridiculous, The Car Doctor, you have navigation in this

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Speaker 3: CARDINRM person non navigation?

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Speaker 4: No, no, I don't have navigation.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So this is a base radio. So there's three

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Speaker 2: fuses supplying power to the radio and the CD changer.

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Speaker 2: The CD changer's powered separately from the radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ronanania, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on autumn mode

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

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Speaker 1: pick up.

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Speaker 2: The phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors.

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Speaker 2: Are open, but I am here to take your calls

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Speaker 2: at eighty five five five six ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 5: Running.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, We've got lots of calls this hour,

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Speaker 2: so we're gonna dive right into it. No monologue, Bill,

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Speaker 2: Florida ten Toyota Highlander, Bill, Welcome to the car, doctor, sir,

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Speaker 2: what's going on?

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Speaker 6: Okay, so I've got I've got kind of a funky

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Speaker 6: front steering situation. But but main the main reason I

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Speaker 6: called it, I'm getting like a popping, crackling sound from

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Speaker 6: underknees when I just touched the I don't know if

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Speaker 6: I can use you to hear it on the phone.

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Speaker 6: I'm not in the car right now, but.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you're not in the car, I don't think

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Speaker 2: I could hear it. But you're getting you're getting You're

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Speaker 2: getting what kind of a noise when you do what? Bill?

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Speaker 6: I'm oh, I'm in the no I took it to

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Speaker 6: an empty lot so I could drive it around. I

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Speaker 6: can hear this, but I don't know if you can

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Speaker 7: It's like a.

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Speaker 6: Upping, cracking sort of sound from underneath when I when

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Speaker 6: I hit the accelerator, just even even gently.

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Speaker 2: No, I can't. I can't build Bill. Are the wheels

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Speaker 2: in the straight ahead position when you're doing this?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 6: Any position?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Well, well answer the questions one at a time,

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Speaker 2: so it does it in the straight ahead. Does it

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Speaker 2: does it change tone or frequency if you turn left

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Speaker 2: or right?

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Speaker 6: I I'm experimenting right now. I don't I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Is it is it the same? Is it the same

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Speaker 2: in reverse?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 7: Let me try it.

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Speaker 6: Let me try it reverse.

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Speaker 2: And you got to keep it moving here, Bill, this

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Speaker 2: is radio. We're trying to we're trying to hear that.

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Speaker 6: I hear that pops? Yeah, okay, and when I go forward.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So the vehicle has to be rolling.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 2: If the vehicle was rolling at ten miles an hour

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Speaker 2: and you put it in neutral, do you still hear it?

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Speaker 6: If if it's rolling it I'll try that. I'll try that.

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Speaker 2: Okay. That's the next question. So is it is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it related to? No?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 6: So it happens, yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: So it only happens while your foot's on the gas.

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Speaker 6: Whenever I hit the gas. Yeah, and it'll pop even

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Speaker 6: I hit.

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Speaker 2: It, Bill, Bill, you're breaking up. What did you say?

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Speaker 2: It's only there while you're hitting, while you're stepping on

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, even even gently if I just hit it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean without without hearing it and getting a

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Speaker 2: could be something in the drive line. I'd be curious,

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Speaker 2: can you duplicate it on a lift? If you're drove

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Speaker 2: it at twenty miles an hour, would he hear the

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Speaker 2: noise whatever it is you're hearing, you know? My first

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Speaker 2: my first reaction was, you know, if you didn't hear

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Speaker 2: this in neutral, or if you heard it in neutral

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Speaker 2: while the vehicle is rolling, do you simply have a

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Speaker 2: rock stuck in the tires. So I'm looking for simple here, Bill,

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Speaker 2: don't overcomplicate it. My other question would be how long

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 2: Has this been long term?

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Speaker 6: A few months now? Okay, at least at least three

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Speaker 2: Has it has it changed? Has it changed in consistency

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Speaker 7: I think it changed.

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Speaker 6: I think it got worse, but it doesn't seem it seems.

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Speaker 2: To have like got leveled off, leveled off. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: So get it into your mechanic and get it checked.

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Speaker 2: Only because it could be something in the drive line

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Speaker 2: and whatever you're doing is going to get more expensive

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Speaker 2: the longer you wait. How many miles are on this?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Two and thirteen thousand?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you know two hun thirteen th fifteen years old.

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Speaker 2: No sense waiting. Let's let's get it in and let's

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Speaker 2: fifteen twenty miles an hour, trying to duplicate the speed.

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Speaker 2: Can we catch it up in the air? This could

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Speaker 2: be a clicking drive axle, This could be a drive

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Speaker 2: chaft issue, this could be you know what it could have?

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Speaker 2: Should it?

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Speaker 6: All?

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Speaker 2: Right? But let's not wait any longer. So I appreciate

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Speaker 2: the call. Let's go to Austin in Hawaii and let's

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Speaker 2: see what's going on here. And Austin, you don't anybody

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Speaker 2: come out and do a remote, do you? No, I'm

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Speaker 2: car doctor. Are you there? Yes, sir, yes, sir? So

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Speaker 2: what's going on? Kitto?

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Speaker 8: So I have a nineteen ninety miles of Meademics five

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Speaker 8: and it's after running for a few hours at temperature,

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Speaker 8: it'll start to bog out, almost like it's choking itself. Okay,

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Speaker 8: and the car will cut out and I'll have to

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Speaker 8: put I'll pull off to the side of the road. Now,

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Speaker 8: I noticed that when that starts to happen, the temperature

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Speaker 8: the RPMs in line with the RPM gauge.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know that I'm overly concerned about that.

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Speaker 2: At the point that this is happening, Can I do

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Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, and it's it's I have full voltage.

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Speaker 2: Fuel pressure.

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Speaker 8: Fuel pressure I'm not sure about. But I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 2: Well, let's not be pretty sure, you know, if it was,

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Speaker 2: let's see ninety two, twenty ten. We're talking about a

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Speaker 2: thirty five year old vehicle. So anything's possible, all right,

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Speaker 2: Diagnosises don't begin with I'm pretty sure diagnosis begin with

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Speaker 2: I tested it. So as much of a pain in

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Speaker 2: it would be my first place to go. Does this feel?

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Speaker 2: Does this feel you know, restrictive in the sense that

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Speaker 2: you ever drive a car with clogged exhaust, restricted exhaust

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Speaker 2: it does okay? Or if you were to stop pull

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Speaker 2: over popinga neutral, will the engine rev up on its own?

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Speaker 2: It will, Okay, it just won't accelerate.

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Speaker 8: It just won't accelerate. So yeah, I'll put it in

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Speaker 8: your trill and it'll rev up just fine. And I'll

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Speaker 8: still see that fluctuation in the gauges. You know, it'll

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Speaker 8: still follow those RPMs. But yeah, it'll rev.

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Speaker 2: Up just fine, you know, unless we're having an electrical

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Speaker 2: issue here. But you're you're telling me that you've got

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Speaker 2: failure occurs, right, Yes, okay, you know I wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't really be looking for fault codes here. It's

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Speaker 2: is not as smart as OBD two. Ob D two

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Speaker 2: This is we're back to this. This this is a

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Speaker 2: mass airflow car.

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Speaker 8: Yes, it has a map sensor yet, right, it has it.

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Speaker 2: Has a map sensor, correct, Yes, do you have do

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Speaker 2: you have the ability to read any of the data

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Speaker 2: by scan? Do you have an older scan tool?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 8: I won't got a too OBD two scan Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't get into this system correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Here's here's the argument for if you're going to

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Speaker 2: scan tool on eBay and learning how to use it,

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Speaker 2: because it'll it'll take you into some of the testing

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Speaker 2: it made us, It made us all, It made us

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Speaker 2: all diagnostic deficient because we we tended to depend on

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Speaker 2: the scan tool too much. But let's look at the

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Speaker 2: map sensor. Three wire map sensor. We're gonna have a

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Speaker 2: gonna have a signal wire. You know, can we set

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Speaker 2: up can we set up a test point? You know

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Speaker 2: while we're driving along, what's that's what's that signal wire

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Speaker 2: has that signal line changed showing a possible exhaust restriction.

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Speaker 2: Do we have an exhaust system that's collapsing internally? Do

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Speaker 2: we have a vacuum gauge? Can we put a vacuum

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Speaker 2: drop in manifold vacuum if at the moment when it fails?

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Speaker 2: And I realize some of these things are easier to

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Speaker 2: Can we lower part of the exhaust and you know,

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Speaker 2: drive it without exhaust? Just open up some exhaust access

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Speaker 2: if we think we've got to restricted exhaust somehow causing

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Speaker 2: the point of failure. I mean, listen, it's either we're

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Speaker 2: either dealing with an electronic component that's overheating, that's failing

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Speaker 2: all right. And I'll say that just keeping in mind

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Speaker 2: with your comment about you know, you saw the electrical

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Speaker 2: gauges fluctuating all over the place, all right, So are

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Speaker 2: we losing spark somehow? Is there something electronic beginning to

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Speaker 2: fail all right? Or do we have an exhaust restriction somehow?

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Speaker 2: Or are we losing fuel pressure pressure? Would be the

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Speaker 2: most logical, because you said initially it takes how long

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Speaker 8: Right around the two hour market right when it starts

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Speaker 8: their kicking it, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Two hours, not twenty minutes. It warms up in fifteen, right,

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Speaker 2: So it's not that when it transitions into warm up

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Speaker 2: hours later, something's been heat soaked, is the first thing

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Speaker 2: that comes to my mind. Right, So I'm starting to

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Speaker 2: let me know what you find. Okay, kiddo, you'd be well.

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Speaker 2: I'm running any in the car doctor. We're back right

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to fixing cars, ron has car

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Speaker 2: Here's Ron. Hey, let's go to John and Boston. John.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 5: How can I help over ron hap your Saturday?

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, what's going on?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I was driving my linking town car city streets

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Speaker 5: turned out the servanteae belt snapped. Well, I was trying

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Speaker 2: So let's let's back up a second. John. First of all,

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Speaker 2: Could the power steering pump itself have been bound up?

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Speaker 5: No, the pump shot loud and I didn't even think

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Speaker 2: Right? You know there would be air in the system.

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Speaker 2: You know, listen, I can tell you from experience at

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Speaker 2: else is causing undue duress? You know? Make sure you know,

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Speaker 5: Now, yeah, that's a cass positive. The alternator was see stuff?

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Speaker 2: So you know, now I'm going to tell you and

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Speaker 2: The easy thing is everybody runs out and puts a

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Speaker 2: fluid in it, and obviously eat all the air out. Last,

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Speaker 2: take a look at the steering knuckle, the little you

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Speaker 2: and make sure that's not bound up and rusted as well.

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Speaker 2: A couple of things to look for. Call me back

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Speaker 2: if you need more, John, I'm here for you. Go socks.

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Speaker 2: I'm ronnin Andy and the car doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 2: right after this. And here we are. You know what

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Speaker 2: I want to do? Some emails. Let's get through the pile. Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 2: longtime listener. Appreciate you and the staff and look forward

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Speaker 2: to listening each week. This comes to us from Mark.

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Speaker 2: Mark writes, in two separate unrelated questions, I have a

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen Subaru and I've read suber U tsp's about

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Speaker 2: oil leaks due to using our TV as a guest maker,

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Speaker 2: which impacts all models. I'm curious how prevalent is this

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Speaker 2: across other manufacturers, at least for my super Brew. This

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Speaker 2: has to be pulled to be resealed, should leaks occur. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but what do you care, Mark, I mean, you probably

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Speaker 2: got the pull to do head gaskets anyway, So you know, listen,

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Speaker 2: our TV is the most common or the most prevalent

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Speaker 2: form of gasket sealer in the industry and has been

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Speaker 2: probably for the better part of ten going on twelve years,

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Speaker 2: maybe longer. You know, it's r TV technology has gotten

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Speaker 2: a lot. I think certain manufacturers aren't using it, maybe

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Speaker 2: you know, where again it's it's cheaper to do it

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Speaker 2: how common is it, Yeah, a lot of manufacturers. Everybody's

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Speaker 2: stamped tin covers and the way they stamp oil pans out,

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Speaker 2: and by that I mean cheap and badly, our TV

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Speaker 2: makes up for a lot of you know errors, errors

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Speaker 2: in construction, you know. And it's not just listen, it's

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Speaker 2: not just the manufacturers. When I first put the hot

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Speaker 2: rot together, going on fifteen years ago, now, I'll never forget,

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Speaker 2: the oil pan leaked like a sieve and we pulled

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Speaker 2: it often. It was a cant and oil pan, big

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Speaker 2: race oil pan. Oh yeah, whoopee, right, gold oil pan,

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Speaker 2: nice blue and white sticker. We thought it was the

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Speaker 2: back together to get it to seal. And when I

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Speaker 2: So you know what, our TV is a necessary evil.

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Speaker 2: You'll never convince me otherwise. But it's got to be

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Speaker 2: Second question, last year we built my friend's twenty fifth

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Speaker 2: teen Honda a cord starter, took a do AutoZone and

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Speaker 2: get a tested it works great. Well, we'ren't putting it

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Speaker 2: thirty bucks in parts, it made me wonderhe my mechanics

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Speaker 2: don't do this where it's possible, since this could save

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Speaker 2: cylinder record. I wouldn't want to pull that out twice.

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Speaker 2: Second of all, you know, thirty bucks in parts. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but which thirty bucks in parts do you use? You'd

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00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 2: you'd have to know or test. And then if it's

436
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 2: a higher mileage older vehicle, this one's ten years old.

437
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 2: My concern becomes that at the cost of labor in

438
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 2: a repair shop between one hundred and fifty and two

439
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,880
Speaker 2: hundred dollars an hour, If it's one hundred and fifty

440
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 2: bucks to get the starter in and out, and sometimes

441
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 2: it's more on some of the Hansa's on some of

442
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,959
Speaker 2: the other cars out there, I think that's an issue.

443
00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 2: I think the other problem you're going to be up

444
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,119
Speaker 2: against is you did your friend a favor as a

445
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 2: professional to say, hey, Mark, I changed the starter solinoid.

446
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 2: I can't guarantee the rest of it, but I changed

447
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 2: the starter solinoid. So as long as that doesn't go bad,

448
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 2: you're good. And then next week one of the brushes fails,

449
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 2: and then maybe the commutator, and then maybe the armature,

450
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 2: and then maybe at that point, I'm just going to

451
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 2: put a reman starter in the car. I get where

452
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: you're coming from, Mark, But due to the design of vehicles,

453
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 2: due to the complexity of starters, due to the fragility

454
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,160
Speaker 2: of the parts in other words, i e. Lack of quality,

455
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,959
Speaker 2: I don't think starter rebuilding on newer vehicles is practical

456
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: for all those reasons. And then some I think that

457
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 2: we get, you know, a finite life out of some

458
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 2: of these things, and you know, we get to that

459
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand mile mark, which is typically

460
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 2: where a starter will fail, put another unit in the car,

461
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 2: we get another one hundred and fifty thousand miles out

462
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 2: of it, and at three hundred thousand miles we get

463
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 2: a new car. Just my way of thinking, But I

464
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 2: understand where you're coming from. I just don't think it

465
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 2: works in a professional shop. Let's uh, let's go to

466
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 2: Billy in Colorado with some questions. Billy run and Andy

467
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 2: and at your service, sir, what's going on?

468
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 4: Hey?

469
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 5: How you doing all right?

470
00:22:58,680 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 2: Questions?

471
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 7: So I am. I was packing last night for a

472
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,760
Speaker 7: road trip and trying to figure out which tools to

473
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 7: take along in the car. And You've mentioned your go

474
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 7: bag a couple of times, and I was kind of wondering,

475
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 7: what do you keeping it?

476
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 2: My cell phone, my triple a credit card? Uh? I

477
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: do have a go bag. It has flashlight, Swiss army knife,

478
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 2: electrical tape, you know, a pair of pliers, uh, a

479
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: snap on, a screwdriver with the multi bits in it.

480
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 2: You know, I don't really keep any wrenches, you know,

481
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 2: because I just don't see myself doing that. If I

482
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: had to change something and I've done this, I'll walk

483
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 2: into a wal Mart or some such and buy some

484
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 2: cheap wrenches on the on the fly and fix what

485
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 2: I have to fix at that point.

486
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 7: You know, got like several sets I ended up putting.

487
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 2: You know, other otherwise otherwise you end up, you know,

488
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 2: you disassemble your toolbox and take it with you. You know.

489
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 2: I also I always carry a jump pack, you know,

490
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 2: I always got some form of a jump back with me.

491
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,439
Speaker 2: A micro start, I think, is the one I'm currently

492
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 2: using that I like so much, you know, and that

493
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 2: kind of thing. You know. I don't do the tire

494
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 2: inflate stuff anymore. I probably should, you know, But frankly,

495
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 2: I'm driving. I'm also driving newer vehicles now, and you know,

496
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: I just and I've reached that age in my life

497
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 2: where I just want to get in a car and go.

498
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 2: You know, if I have to go some great distance

499
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 2: in an older vehicle, if I were taking the Monty

500
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 2: Carla somewhere, that's a whole other conversation, you know. And

501
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,719
Speaker 2: the problem there is, and you know, and here I'll

502
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 2: address it like this, Bill, you know, part of the

503
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 2: problem in driving an older classic car. Listen, I went

504
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 2: to college in a seventy two Monty Carlo. All Right,

505
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 2: I broke down in the Garden State Parkway. I'd walk.

506
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 2: I'd climb over the Garden State Parkway wall and walk

507
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: into the town of wherever I was. Walk to the

508
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 2: Oda Park store. Tell that guy I needed an upper

509
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: radiator hose or a fan belt or a set of

510
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 2: points or whatever, and they went to the back room

511
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 2: and they got it. I can't walk on a you know,

512
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 2: it's fifty years now. I can't walk in and get

513
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 2: any of those parts over the counter. First of all,

514
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,959
Speaker 2: you know O'Riley AutoZone Advanced. They're not going to understand

515
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to look up because they're gonna want

516
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 2: to know you're making model before I give them a

517
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: part number. And they're not gonna have points, They're not

518
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 2: gonna have belts and hoses. So driving that Classic a

519
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: distance is a problem. I always think in terms of

520
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: if I'm driving that ten to fifteen year old something Volkswagon, Toyota,

521
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 2: something sporty. You know, I just want to have enough

522
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 2: to get by to get me out of trouble and

523
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 2: hence I get back to the jump pack, you know,

524
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 2: electrical tape, a gallon of coolanth of some kind, even

525
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 2: water just to get me off the road, you know,

526
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 2: things like that. But absolutely the most important thing in

527
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 2: my go big is that I've looked the vehicle over

528
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 2: before I leave, and I know exactly what I've got.

529
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 2: You know, I'll do little goofy things. I'll over inflate

530
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 2: all the tires two pounds, three pounds. It just gives

531
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 2: me a sense of security. Depending upon where I'm going,

532
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 2: I'll throw a tire plug kit in, you know, just

533
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 2: in case I do. I did make up a hose,

534
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 2: And I know this sounds crazy, but I do have

535
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 2: an air hose with two ends on it, and I

536
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 2: can lock it onto the spare and I can run

537
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 2: it to any one of the tires on the car.

538
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: So if I get a flat, I'll fix the flat

539
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: and I'll take that air hose and I'll use it

540
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: to equalize out, and I'll take air from the spare

541
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: and put it into the tire that went flat, if

542
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. The other thing the other yeah, yeah,

543
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 2: just sort of just sort of something I made. The

544
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 2: other option is depending upon where I am in which

545
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: car I'm taking, I also have a portable air compressor

546
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 2: that I'll throw in the car from time to time.

547
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 2: It depends on which one the ranger carries the air hose.

548
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: Everything else gets its own compressor, you know. But just

549
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 2: stuff like that, because I think cars have gotten too complicated.

550
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 2: You know, what all I want to do is get

551
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 2: off the road and get back to the hotel or

552
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 2: wherever I'm going, because beyond that, I'm taking it to

553
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 2: a garage and I'm going to fix it there, you know,

554
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 2: because it's it's the world has gotten to be very

555
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 2: unforgiving everywhere else. Can you imagine being, you know, two

556
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: hundred miles from home, and you know whatever you're driving

557
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: the alternator failed, Where you're going to find an alternator,

558
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 2: Where you're gonna find the tools, where you know an

559
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 2: alternator you might be able to do. You're gonna do

560
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: a water pump in the parking lot.

561
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 4: Right right?

562
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 2: You know it's that stuff is gone. Those days are over,

563
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: and hence back to my question about emails right, answering

564
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 2: Mark's question about just doing starters and parts, right, do

565
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 2: I really want to do things by parts? Or do

566
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 2: I want to consider everything has a finite life. If

567
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 2: I get to one hundred and fifty thousand miles, listen,

568
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 2: I'm doing it Tuesday. I'm sorry, Monday, Monday. I'm putting

569
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 2: a water pump in an O nine Venza. Here, tell

570
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 2: me what to do. Bill. It's an O nine Venza

571
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: with one hundred and five thousand miles on it. Right,

572
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 2: it's leaving New Jersey. It's going to Florida for the

573
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 2: next two years. Florida to get the water pump out,

574
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 2: I've got to pull the alternator. To pull the alternator,

575
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: I've really got to take the radiator and kick it

576
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 2: forward one hundred and ten thousand miles one hundred and

577
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: five thousand miles on an almost fifteen year old Toyota.

578
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: Am I gonna? Am I gonna take the alternator? Is

579
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: going to be in my hand? Am I going to

580
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 2: put an alternator in it? Am I going to put

581
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 2: a radiator in it? Are? And I car's going to

582
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 2: drive eighteen hundred miles from New Jersey to Florida and

583
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: back right, isn't Isn't that preemptive? Don't I want to

584
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 2: think a little proactively and just everything has a finite

585
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: life and be done with it.

586
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 7: I don't know if you want to, you know, suggest

587
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 7: it's the customer.

588
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what I did, And he says, yeah,

589
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 2: you're right, you know, because it's not it's not that

590
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 2: it's not that we're talking about something five years old.

591
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,239
Speaker 2: We're talking about something fifteen years old. And experience has

592
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 2: taught me where do the alternators typically fail in the toyotas, oh,

593
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 2: somewhere between eighty and one hundred and forty thousand, So

594
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: he's kind of in that sweet spot. You know, where

595
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 2: to the radios go plastic radiator, a plastic tanked radiator,

596
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 2: going to Florida. You know, if it gets to one

597
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: hundred and ten on a cold day, we're happy. You know,

598
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 2: it's how much stress is the water pump going to

599
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: be under? So I think the answer to your question

600
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 2: is the essentials, and then beyond that, I'm trying to

601
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 2: do my preemptive maintenance to keep the car going so

602
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: I can deal with it on my terms in my garage.

603
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 2: Fair answer, yeah, okay, col means you'll be well, Billy.

604
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: I always enjoyed talking to you. I'm running Andy and

605
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 2: the car Doctor. We're back right after this, and we

606
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 2: are back real quick. Tom made a comment about, you know,

607
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: his old escape to do an alternator, and his old

608
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 2: escape you'd have to pull the passenger side front axle

609
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: and yet and that's the problem. So you know, to

610
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: answer Billy's question, everybody else, what's in my go bag

611
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: enough to get me back to where I'm safe, and

612
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 2: then I can deal with it either by putting it

613
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: on a flatbed and getting it home. Or I just

614
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: do all my legwork before I leave, and I do

615
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 2: my preemptive maintenance. When I have things apart, start looking

616
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 2: at and considering component and system level repairs, things that

617
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: go together. You got to take an alternator out to

618
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 2: get to a water pump. It's fifteen years old, one

619
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: hundred and ten thousand miles on it. Put an alternator

620
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: in it on next you know, it's the price of

621
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: the part, not the price of the part in the

622
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: labor on the side of the road. Let's go to

623
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: Matt and Virginia. Matt, Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

624
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: how can I help?

625
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for having me.

626
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 2: You welcome. What's going on?

627
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 4: I have this battery, okay that I hooked up. This

628
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 4: is about a decade ago. I hooked up to an

629
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 4: in burner and he's as a survival slash camping device. Okay,

630
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 4: you're able to run a crock pod, a coffee pod,

631
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 4: the toaster, whatever you need, all modern conveniences. I was

632
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,959
Speaker 4: also able to plug an electric drill and make if

633
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 4: you know where a Swedish candle is, sure it's a

634
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 4: just through a bunch of holes in the log and

635
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 4: it just burns one log in it. Anyway, I haven't

636
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 4: touched some years. We've had this snowstorm in Virginia Beach

637
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 4: and I said, hey, might get out of power. Maybe

638
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 4: I'll get this thing work in plug a couple of

639
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 4: electric mindkets if we need to for a couple of days. Okay,

640
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 4: the battery can charge up to twelve dot eight volt

641
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 4: and then you put that load tester on it. The

642
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 4: resist thing says bad.

643
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 2: So this is a this is a deep this is

644
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: a deep this is a deep cycle. This is a

645
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: deep cycle battery, man, Matt. This is a deep cycle.

646
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 4: Battery, deep cycle battery.

647
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: So this is a marine application.

648
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 4: Uh, well, I use it.

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Speaker 2: I use it for woods, right, But I'm just saying

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Speaker 2: this is a marine battery, a deep cycle battery, or

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Speaker 2: a trolling battery. Right, So you've got to use you

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Speaker 2: specifically have to use a deep cycle charger. A conventional

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Speaker 2: battery charger will charge that battery too fast and overheat

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Speaker 2: it and damage. So they they yeah, they make they

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Speaker 2: make now nowadays we call them smart chargers. All right,

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Speaker 2: if you want to get if you want to get

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Speaker 2: an example of it. I'm not saying to go out

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Speaker 2: and buy one. We go out to go out to

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Speaker 2: Associated Equipment dot Com or I think it's Associated Equipped

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Speaker 2: dot Com. Look at their ESS sixty one hundred, all right,

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Speaker 2: or any one of their smart chargers. That battery charger

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Speaker 2: has the ability to read. I always explain it like this.

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Speaker 2: They have the ability to read the internal resistance of

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Speaker 2: the battery and based on whether it's a deep cycle,

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Speaker 2: a regular battery, you know, and so on, it has

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Speaker 2: the ability to make the internal adjustments hence the term

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Speaker 2: smart charger, and adjust and charge that battery accordingly. But

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Speaker 2: that's what you want to do. And you know, desulvation

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Speaker 2: or smart charging a battery can take upwards of a

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Speaker 2: couple of hours, if not longer. So it's not something

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Speaker 2: that's going to happen overnight. But that's the best example

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Speaker 2: I can give you the stuff that Associated Equipment has

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Speaker 2: Associatedequipped dot Com. I'm running any in the car. Doctor.

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Speaker 2: I'll be back right after this. You know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: give you something for free today before I go go

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Speaker 2: out to All Data dot com. Go to the resources

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Speaker 2: tab All Data dot Com, go to the resources tab,

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Speaker 2: all right, and click on the Old Data newsletter. There

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Speaker 2: is a really great article and it kind of ties

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Speaker 2: in with everything we're talking about today. There is a

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Speaker 2: really great article it's called Following the Path to Electrical Enlightenment.

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Speaker 2: I've been reading it by David Brie. I take it

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Speaker 2: as Brie Brie b r y Bree. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to say bree like the cheese. But I don't know, David.

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to pick on you, David. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a phone call for this. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: his article talks about ground paths and how you focus

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Speaker 2: on ground paths and that's the weak link and the

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Speaker 2: often overlooked side of the electrical circuits. And he's absolutely right,

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Speaker 2: he's spot on. Okay, it's a great article. It talks about,

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Speaker 2: you know, why bad grounds occur, some of the things

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Speaker 2: you can look for, and it explains it, you know,

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Speaker 2: follow the electrons all right. It's a very simple article.

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Speaker 2: It breaks things down from the hot side to the

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Speaker 2: ground side, why things get corroded, and it talks about

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Speaker 2: voltage drop and what voltage drop is. It's a good, good, basic,

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Speaker 2: but advanced article, and I think it's musk reading, you know,

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Speaker 2: for all the battery questions we dealt with today. And

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Speaker 2: for all the conversations we dealt with today talking about

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Speaker 2: why things work and don't work. I thought about this

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Speaker 2: article throughout the entire show, So get out to all

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Speaker 2: data dot com, click on the All Data newsletter through

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Speaker 2: resources and you'll find it there. Till the next time,

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Speaker 2: I'm not on any in the card doctor, reminding each

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Speaker 2: and every one of you it's been an absolute pleasure

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Speaker 2: until the next time. Good McCann aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 2: See you