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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, I guess what I'm kind of thinking about

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Speaker 1: my head is you're probably better off doing the most

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Speaker 1: that you can with what you got, because the replacement vehicle,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is that you're gonna buy, is just risen dramatically.

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Speaker 1: Back at look at that Cadillac. Then I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get me a catalect the Car Doctor. It will tell you, Hey,

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Speaker 1: the TPMs sensors are stored in the body module. Now

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Speaker 1: you can just go into the body module and look

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Speaker 1: for data pits and start to compare and take notes.

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Speaker 1: So thank you. Welcome to the radio home of Ron Ananian,

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

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Speaker 1: 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 stores are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at and

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Speaker 1: now running somewhere in the twilight zone, I just know this.

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Speaker 1: I know that there's a place and they've got it designated,

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Speaker 1: you know, the rock and the hard place. And in

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Speaker 1: the middle of that expression in the twilight zone there's

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Speaker 1: the word order repair. I just know it's there because

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Speaker 1: and You never know when you're gonna go to the

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Speaker 1: twilight zone. That's the scary part about this business. Tuesday

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Speaker 1: was a great day at the shop. We just rolled

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Speaker 1: right along and you know, humming and singing and tralon

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Speaker 1: and everything was just kind of fallen in place. And

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Speaker 1: about four thirty the twilight zone came along. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a game of inches. You know, a half inch

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Speaker 1: want to be. Danny's last job of the day on

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and he's done this job. God, he's done

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Speaker 1: this job a hundred times. If he's done it once

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Speaker 1: is to change trans fluid as a trans service on

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Speaker 1: Jeep Wrangler. Now, jeep Wranglers still had the influence in

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Speaker 1: fifteen of Mercedes. When Mercedes ran Jeep in Chrysler back

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Speaker 1: attached the bolt to hold the pan to the transmission itself,

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Speaker 1: and you know, a transmission pan. It's a pan. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it contains, it's where the fluid sits. It's like

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Speaker 1: the engine oil pan on an engine. It's got to

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Speaker 1: be attached to the body of the trans that's the

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Speaker 1: oil supplier, the fluid supply. They put six bolts and

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Speaker 1: those six bolts come in their upside down and they

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Speaker 1: go into the perimeter of the train, ends around the edge.

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Speaker 1: There's only six of them, and they go through this

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Speaker 1: chunk of aluminium that's got like take your index finger

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Speaker 1: and if you curl it and then put that up,

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Speaker 1: that kind of catches under the lip of the transpan.

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Speaker 1: And then you put a bolt through the block of

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Speaker 1: the aluminum and that screws into the They put a

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Speaker 1: that screws into it, and that's what holds the whole

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Speaker 1: thing together. Now, they used aluminum block so it wouldn't corrode.

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Speaker 1: But the flaw on the plan was this where that

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Speaker 1: hook is. You know, take that, make your index finger

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Speaker 1: into a hook and look at it. You see how

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Speaker 1: there's like a little you know, it's it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like a craw there just that that that gully, well

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Speaker 1: that gully then allows water to collect there and it

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Speaker 1: pours right down onto the bolt that's upside down, and

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Speaker 1: a washer in it, so the water can't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: So now, after seven years of weather, that water has

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Speaker 1: caused that what's posed to be probably a corrosion treated bolts,

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Speaker 1: so it won't corrode to corrode. Great. So you you know,

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Speaker 1: you're you're very careful, and you're cautious like you always

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Speaker 1: as I would be, as as you would be if

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Speaker 1: you had done this job a hundred times before. You're

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Speaker 1: always looking for that snake in the woodpile. You're always

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Speaker 1: looking to stay out of the twilight zone because you

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Speaker 1: And the first five bolts go click click click click

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Speaker 1: sixth bolt, hm, that just doesn't want to go. Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 1: If that wasn't bad enough, I had ford edge that

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Speaker 1: I had brought in that afternoon. I got to Wednesday's

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Speaker 1: I had two headlights that were out on this thirteen edge.

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Speaker 1: And to make it a little more complicated, it's an

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter me a year. I'm still gonna follow

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes. And I always started step point and

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Speaker 1: It struck me like something was overheating. And for Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: I you know, how am I going to get this out?

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Speaker 1: Because you have to understand you're upside down, you're dealing

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Speaker 1: morning and and Tricia, we've worked for her for a

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Speaker 1: while now and we're building a great relationship with her.

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Speaker 1: I think and explain the whole thing, and she understood perfectly.

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Speaker 1: to say it. I said, is here's my options. I

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Speaker 1: and sooner or later that's gonna loosen up my engine

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Speaker 1: And I said, you know, it'll make a great fire

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Speaker 1: device that holds the pan to the block or to

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Speaker 1: the trans is on back order, Chrysler has a thousand,

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Speaker 1: forty nine of them. It's amazing how much I'm knowing

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Speaker 1: about vehicles that don't have parts available. Chrysler has a thousand,

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Speaker 1: forty nine of those aluminum blocks on back order, none

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Speaker 1: and then I figured I'd loosen up the rust and

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Speaker 1: you know, could cost this lady a transmission, a seven

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar transmission, a transmission that two is on back

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Speaker 1: Don't touch them. So I went to the draw and

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Speaker 1: I got out Ron's drill set. As we like to

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Speaker 1: could with some p B blaster. Um. I've got to

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Speaker 1: But I've got to tell you, when you actually use it,

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Speaker 1: it's intense. It works so well the little knob you

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Speaker 1: dial it down. So I could just put a drop

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Speaker 1: then I started to drill a little bit, and I

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Speaker 1: peen hammer and I tapped the aluminum, tapped it this way,

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Speaker 1: tapped it that way, drilled a little bit more. And

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Speaker 1: after drilling, oh, I don't think I drilled more than

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Speaker 1: three sixteens of an inch off the shank of that bolt.

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Speaker 1: I actually drilled my way past the rust blister that

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Speaker 1: take a pair of vice gripts and twist the clamp

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Speaker 1: right now, I've got to get this. I've got to

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Speaker 1: get this, this six millimeter stud because there's no head

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Speaker 1: on the bolt anymore. Out of the aluminum case. That's

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Speaker 1: just amazing. I used an electric heat gun. Um. I

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Speaker 1: next to a transpan, there's all sorts of internal switches

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Speaker 1: electric heat the inductive electric heat guns. You know, you

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Speaker 1: less than that hot, angry blue flame of a torch.

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Speaker 1: And I was able to apply some heat and work it,

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Speaker 1: I've explained to Danny and I'll explain to you is

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Speaker 1: It looks like a socket. It's got three swedges in

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. Canna help Hi, Ron, Great

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Speaker 1: censor is, I believe the upstream and downstream OH two's

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00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: are both contained within that front pipe, depending upon which

429
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: version out back catalytic converter setup. This is that downstream

430
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: CAT is an unmonitored cat for knocks, and they don't

431
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: put any sensors in it to verify integrity or functionality.

432
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: It's just there so you know, the only way you

433
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: would know it's fails if somehow it it clogged, failed,

434
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,640
Speaker 1: broke apart, you know, but then you'll have a performance issue.

435
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 1: The engine won't build any power, et cetera. But I

436
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 1: think at this point in the game, um, you know,

437
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 1: just changing the oil. I might tell you to just

438
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 1: change the oil at thirty miles because oil is still

439
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: cheaper than an engine on a on a on an

440
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: eight year old car. And you know, Heaven forbid, Heaven

441
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: forbid one month it goes the oil light comes on

442
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: at three thousand miles. When that light comes on, you're

443
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: still running the oil down too low. You know, it's

444
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: it's too thin for your wife to be out and about.

445
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: And my concern would also be that you know she's

446
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 1: she's out and about on the road all hours of

447
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: the day and she doesn't need to have an engine

448
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: failure trying to emerge in the traffic on a highway somewhere,

449
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: and you know, possibly have a bigger issue. So, you know,

450
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: change the oil at three thousand or thirty miles. You know,

451
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: if you do that for the next two years, what

452
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: are you gonna do to extra oil changes a year? Um,

453
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: her life is worth more than that, and and the

454
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: overall safety in a car. Um, the tragedy human Let

455
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: me go ahead, go ahead, let me ask you this thing.

456
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: Is there wisdom than since the front cat failed. Is

457
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,640
Speaker 1: their wisdom than and just replacing the rear cat now,

458
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: um for that failure, you could, But if it's like

459
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: the we had a I'm trying to think of what

460
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: year that was, we had a Subaru in the shop

461
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: this week, um or was it last week? And I

462
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: think it was around this generation. It was a twelve

463
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: or thirteen. No, it was an O nine. It was

464
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: a nine. Holy cow Subaru parts. That catalytic converter from

465
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 1: Subaru was four grand. Almost fell over just the cat.

466
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: You know, I think that I don't think it's ever

467
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 1: gonna get restricted enough. You changed the front cat because

468
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: you've got a fault code right right, And what's gonna

469
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: happen is is you're just going to beat up the

470
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: front cat again. I've got to think you're gonna beat

471
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Speaker 1: up the front cat before the rear cat fails, because

472
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: the front cats still going to catch any oil that's

473
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 1: going out. It's not that putting the new cat on

474
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: now allows the oil to bypass it and go to

475
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: the second cat. The front cat is still going to

476
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: take the brunt. You know, do you wanna drop the

477
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: front you want to lower that the front of that

478
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: rear cat down and look inside with a flash light

479
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: and see what sort of crut is over the face

480
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: of it. Sure, you could surely do that, and it's

481
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: probably gonna be fairly easy to do, since you just

482
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: had the front cat out and the bolts will come apart.

483
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: Easiest pie. But to spend four grand on a on

484
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: an eight year old car with a hundred and sixty

485
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it, I'd just be cautious. You know

486
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: that the tragedy here is that, and you can take

487
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: a look at it. Suber Bu has got more than

488
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: a few bulletins on it. They just revised one of

489
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Speaker 1: them our rs and Ron again, oh two dish one

490
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: fifty seven dish fourteen rs and Ron and it talks

491
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: about the oil consumption issues on a variety of their

492
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: vehicles and how they extended the warranty to eight year,

493
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand miles. So what I don't understand is

494
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: why if at sixty thou miles this thing was having

495
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: oil consumption. Well, no, actually I do know why, because

496
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,439
Speaker 1: if you read that bullets and from memory, if memory

497
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: serves me right, supers interpretation is that if the vehicle

498
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 1: super considers it oil consumption, if it's consuming more than

499
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: a third of a quart of oil in twelve hundred miles.

500
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: So that's about right. You're right on the money. So

501
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: you're doing a quart of oil in thirty six hundred miles,

502
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: four thousand miles. Guess what? And I don't understand this.

503
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, Bruce, I'm gonna get on

504
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: the soapbox for a second real quick before I go,

505
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: and that I don't understand this because I've got vehicles.

506
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: I mean, my little Ford Ranger Ranger three lead two

507
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: twenty one thousand miles doesn't burn, it leak a drop

508
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: of oil. You know, my old four suburban eighty thousand

509
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: miles doesn't leak or burn a drop of oil. Um,

510
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's to me a quart of oil. This

511
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: this nonsense that the industry is is feeding everybody that

512
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, a third of a quart of oil is acceptable? Yeah?

513
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: On what planet? Look what it did to you. It

514
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: wiped out the catalytic converter in the first hundred and

515
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: sixty thousand miles. Um. You know, maybe it was sooner.

516
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: I don't know when we changed the cat So what what?

517
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: How are we not? How are we being cost effective

518
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: and helping the environment. But you know, we're we're we're

519
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: we're we accept this right, we accept this as fact. Bruce,

520
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Um, you know I've got to go, brother,

521
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: So if you need more, call me back. But we'll

522
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: talk again. I'm sure. But that's how I would approach that.

523
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 1: And I want to thank you for the call. Good

524
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: luck to you. Be well. I'm Ron any in the car. Doctor.

525
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. Don't go away, welcome back.

526
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: We're on any of the car. Like, let's go over

527
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: to Chris in Colorado. Chris, did you fix this explore yet? Oh? Well,

528
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: let's fix and affix it. Ron. It's it's a bad case.

529
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: So like you said, it's mechanical issue. I pulled the

530
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: intake upper intake, pulled the front cam cover and yeah,

531
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: I looked down intake. Watch the valves have the life

532
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: crank it and uh valves. The intake vowels weren't closing

533
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: all the way. So pulled the cam cover and the

534
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: front camshaft is broken in half. Wow, yep, broken in half.

535
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: Pulled the back cam cover and the back god cam

536
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: caps three of them are broke clean in half. So

537
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: you've got to think is that a lubrication problem? Did? Yeah?

538
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: I mean everything looks nice and shiny an seeing hotspots,

539
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, something you know what happened? Did did did something?

540
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: What was the original Let's back up? Why did you?

541
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: Oh you you did the timing chain because the water

542
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: pump went bad? Correct, Yes, sir, yep, but I've done that.

543
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: I've done that twelve thousand miles prior to this failure.

544
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: So this is this is just a if this exonerates

545
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: you with the missus, you can tell our twelve tho

546
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: miles later. I don't think it's anything you did. I

547
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: think it just the look of the draft. Yeah, and

548
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: that's kind of that's kind of where we were at

549
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: with it too, right, Like, Man, it doesn't seem like

550
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: it's something I did wrong because it would have failed

551
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: rather than the first crank and start right, well, listen

552
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: and and and some of the engines today are pretty

553
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: strong and durable. They'll they'll they'll take abuse for two

554
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: thousand miles and then something goes ka boom um. You

555
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: know that the two thousand mile rules something I I

556
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: sort of you have grown to live by. But at

557
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: this point this vehicle has how many miles on it.

558
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know that just repairing the

559
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: cam shift is the way to go if you're going

560
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: to fix this, because I know you want to get

561
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: rid of it. Uh you know, I I think this

562
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: is a used engine candidate. Um. Yes, I've already purchased

563
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: that's actually waiting for me at my workplace to pick

564
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: it up. I purchased that two engine on it, but

565
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: came out of the Yeah. And it should it should.

566
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: Everything should be the same. Just look at all the

567
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: connectors and componentry. Um. You know what I'll do is

568
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: whenever I'm doing a Junkyard swap, and I haven't done

569
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: one in a while, but back in the day. Uh,

570
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: you know what I will do is I will spend

571
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: an hour and just go through the parts catalog. Um.

572
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: You know, our injectors the same, Our mass airflow sensor

573
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: is the same, although in this case you're gonna swap

574
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 1: the mass airflow you're gonna use the original one. Uh

575
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, But our sensors on the engine the same,

576
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: crank sensor, um you know, and everything else, etcetera, etcetera.

577
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: Just go through the list. What's different? You know, maybe

578
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: it's a different vendor, but if it's the same part number.

579
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: And I would, I would, I would try to look

580
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: up in a O WEE catalog somewhere, you know, direct

581
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: with four just to see what they've got listed. And

582
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: then this way at least, you know, because you don't

583
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: want to find out after you put it in you've

584
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: got to change the tone ring or the crank sensor

585
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: on the back of the engine. You know. Um, then

586
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: your wife's gonna yell at you again. You don't want

587
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: to do that? Yeah, yeah, I want to. I don't

588
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: want to do this again. Did she get did she

589
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: get a new car yet? Okay? Yeah, yeah, we weren't.

590
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: We weren't real impressedly or that's every time you talked

591
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: about your wife's what eighteen Explorer made me cram just

592
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 1: because I'm like, we've got fourteen and I'm a forward

593
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: guy through and through and love my forwards, but not

594
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: so much anymore. And so yeah, she's got a brand

595
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: new palaceased for you know why I wouldn't you know what?

596
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm not thrilled about the New Explorers, Chris is real

597
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: quick before I go, is I've noticed that like on

598
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: the New Explorers, the only choices it's either a turbo

599
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: charged four or a turbo charge six, you know, and

600
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: I'm not a I just think the turbo charger places

601
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: additional stress. And I know they're chasing fuel economy, especially

602
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: after this week the White House things we're gonna get

603
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: forty nine or forty miles to the gallon in three years.

604
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: But listen, that's a different conversation, Chris. I'm glad we

605
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: found out. I'm glad you got to the root cause

606
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: of it. And uh, you know it's it's it's now

607
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: you get the way. You don't. You don't have to

608
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: because you know you already know she's gonna tell you

609
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: what color. You already know what color is she's driving

610
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: that car. As always, Chris, I appreciate the information, and

611
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: thanks for getting back to us. You'd be well, and

612
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: I hope you make up better on your next car.

613
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: I'm rounding any in the card. We'll return right after this.

614
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Welcome back the car Doctor. Another quick

615
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: hour flew by. By the way. Phone numbers eight five, five,

616
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: five zero zero For future shows, call leave a message

617
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: and Tom Ray will get you in the broadcast. For

618
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: the next live show. We can put you in queue.

619
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: Just leave a message at the eight five five zero

620
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: zero phone number. Quick piece of email. Hey Ron, In general,

621
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: what do you recommend to apply to rubber components to

622
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: preserve keep them soft and pliable, prevent squeaking, and lastly

623
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: to lengthen the life of anything rubber under the car?

624
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: I know it's not a common question, so I appreciate

625
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: you taking the time look at my question. Warm regards,

626
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: Richard Handel, m D. I don't think that's Maryland. I

627
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: think he's a doctor, a fellow doctor looking at UM. Well,

628
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what and I'll answer the question this way, Richard.

629
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: First of all, rubber under the car is exposed to

630
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: the elements you know, road, salt, corrosion, crud, everything that

631
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, Mother nature can throw at us when we're

632
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: driving the v coal out and weather. So you know,

633
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: when we're talking about rubber under the car, I will

634
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: use some sort of a UM spray lubricant uh P

635
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: B Blaster for example, makes a wonderful lubricant PP Blaster

636
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: MultiMAX synthetic lubricant and synthetic and I like that all right.

637
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: It's got some real good cling factor to it. You know,

638
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: if you spray it and you watch it, you know,

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Speaker 1: Spray it on a on a vertical or I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: on a horizontal surface and just watch it kind of

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Speaker 1: has some drip to it, and uh, you know that

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Speaker 1: drip is cling and it it'll it'll, it'll get drawn

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Speaker 1: into the rubber. I've I've been using it for a

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Speaker 1: while now, and I'll notice when those cars come back

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Speaker 1: in that the rubber bushings still have that I won't

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Speaker 1: say oily, but you can tell that they have a

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Speaker 1: a look about them, that they're still wet, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: They're not dried out and cracked. And what I will

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Speaker 1: do is I will mix up a batch of silicone spray,

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Speaker 1: uh something else PV Blaster mixed by the way, and

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Speaker 1: some p B Blaster MultiMAX synthetic lubricant. Mix it up,

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Speaker 1: and I will even brush it on in certain applications,

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Speaker 1: or I will put it in a fush fish bottle,

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Speaker 1: you know, a handheld atomizer bottle and sprayed on that way.

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Speaker 1: And that stuff works really well if it's rubber above

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Speaker 1: the car, above the belt line. What I will do

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Speaker 1: is I will just use pp blast or silicone spray

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Speaker 1: very lightly, put it on a towel, wipe the rubber

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Speaker 1: just enough to get some silicon on there to address

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Speaker 1: the rubber, and that makes the rubber last on top

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Speaker 1: of the car as well. I'm running any in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor until the next time, reminding you good mechanics

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