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Speaker 1: Ron an Aian. You know, order repair is a funny thing,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it's just the way my mind works, But

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Speaker 1: I have these memories of when I was a kid, right,

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Speaker 1: how I learned the business, how I learned to fix cars,

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 2: When I shift the knop sometimes out here like a

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Speaker 2: chime and it will say shift err or something. You've

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Speaker 2: dean in a.

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Speaker 1: Car, Well, understand what you're looking at. You know you

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Speaker 1: think that's a mechanical device.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananian, The Car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 3: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 3: the phone and call in. The garage doors are open.

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls at eight five, five, five,

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Speaker 1: six nine.

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Speaker 4: Hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: Running, Hey, how are you? I am? I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you this weekend about a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: I got a couple of things on my mind. So

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Speaker 1: over the course of the next two hours, depending on

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Speaker 1: how you take this show, whether it's broadcast or podcast,

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Speaker 1: and you take it an hour to clip or you

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Speaker 1: get all two hours every week or whatever. I want

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Speaker 1: to make sure I talk to you about leasing and

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Speaker 1: well changing your oil on a lease vehicle. I had

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Speaker 1: an interesting conversation with someone this morning about changing oil

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Speaker 1: on her leased vehicle. And I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about when mechanics don't fix the car the first

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Speaker 1: time and what that's all about. And I think I'm

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Speaker 1: going to start there because that's that's probably the most

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Speaker 1: on my mind at the at the moment. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had this Dodge Durrango. I think I told you

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Speaker 1: engine light was on, and the fault with it was

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Speaker 1: and if I didn't all recap the fault with it was,

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Speaker 1: it said a P zero four to forty, okay in English?

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Speaker 1: In English, a P zero four to forty on that vehicle,

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Speaker 1: as well as a lot of other vehicles, means the

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Speaker 1: evaporative emission system, the part of the emission control system

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Speaker 1: the atmosphere into the environment, was broken. But it didn't

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Speaker 1: know what was wrong with itself. It just knew that

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Speaker 1: it couldn't operate and respond correctly. It couldn't test itself.

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Speaker 1: It had a malfunction, It saw a failure of some sort,

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Speaker 1: turned on the check engine light and bang, it's now

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Speaker 1: telling you, hey, I'm broken. Now, that's not a fault

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Speaker 1: of the system. That's the fault of or that's the

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Speaker 1: way the programmer, the guy who designed the software, the

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Speaker 1: guy who designed the computer module, the guy who designed

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Speaker 1: the components, decided to test itself at that moment. This

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Speaker 1: was the latest and greatest in twenty fifteen. Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: going to do it this way. For whatever reason. You

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Speaker 1: don't know why, you don't care, Why just deal with

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Speaker 1: the fault that's in front of you. P zero four

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Speaker 1: to forty Evaporative emission's faults are pretty consistent, all right,

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Speaker 1: in terms of what goes bad. Is it a leak?

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Speaker 1: Is it a mechanical fault? Is it a performance issue?

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Speaker 1: Is it that everything's working but something's not working as

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Speaker 1: good as it could. Is it that something stopped working altogether?

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Speaker 1: Or is there a physical leak in the system. That

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Speaker 1: pretty much is it's one of the three areas most

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Speaker 1: of the time. In the case of this, As I

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Speaker 1: in Chrysler language, the esum or the leak detection pump,

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Speaker 1: depending upon what level of software repair manual and what

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Speaker 1: I did tell you about this because we talked about

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Speaker 1: the guy at the carnival who it's the thing with

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Speaker 1: about that. That's the way an esom works. The way

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Speaker 1: the leaked detection pump works is when there is enough

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Speaker 1: the christ of the computer. Hey, the switch was open.

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Speaker 1: Now the switch is closed. Think light switch on the wall,

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Speaker 1: It just didn't. It never saw the guy ring the bellet.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they don't say they don't come

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they can't get more specific than

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Speaker 1: a P zero four to forty. All I can tell

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Speaker 1: as a result of the failed UM, the failed leak

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Speaker 1: detection pump, the failed valve. And I proved it right

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Speaker 1: because when I tested the system beforehand, I watched and

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Speaker 1: Never saw the the ESUM change state. And then when

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Speaker 1: I saw the change of state. I saw the switch

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Speaker 1: change state from open to closed. Bang, it's fixed. The

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Speaker 1: testing itself. I think that's a success. I do I

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Speaker 1: have to say that, you know, if I if I

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this car is fixed or not yet,

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Speaker 1: because I assumed it was fixed. I assumed dangerous word.

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Speaker 1: All right, I mean, how many cars are you supposed

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Speaker 1: to say? Well, I don't know if it's fixed. I

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Speaker 1: found something legitimately bad. You can guess what happened. Four

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Speaker 1: The check engine light was back on. Okay, I get it,

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Speaker 1: bring it by, took it that day, looked at it. Now,

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Speaker 1: all right, think of the thickness of a gauge. Think

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Speaker 1: If your spinometer needle moved twenty thousands of an inch,

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Speaker 1: Opus Opus IVS, the scan tool people, and we sat

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Speaker 1: looking for this leak. Couldn't find a leak. No leak

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Speaker 1: It's got a leak. Took some soapy water, tire soap

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Speaker 1: looking for a leak. I'm looking for something that defies

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Speaker 1: at you ever see a nylon push together, you know,

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Speaker 1: Wow, look at that. The smoke machine says, there's no leaks.

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Speaker 1: Smoke machines, right. Was it was such a small leak

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Speaker 1: You know, it was putting pressure on the system about

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Speaker 1: a half a pound. I don't know if it does

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Speaker 1: a erroneous setting of P zero four fifty six as

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Speaker 1: is it's all of it. It's you have to fix

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Speaker 1: what's broken. You have to fix what's in front of you,

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Speaker 1: because there is no guarantee that what you found is

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Speaker 1: is is that's what's broken at this moment, and that's

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Speaker 1: I'm not up here ranting and talking about this just

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Speaker 1: and I get that because I get a lot of

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Speaker 1: mail saying that. You know, it's hard being a mechanic.

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Speaker 1: It really is. There's a lot that can go wrong

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Speaker 1: because you're dealing with such a complicated device on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis. The hardest thing to deal with, though, is

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Speaker 1: the broken customer. And you're slowly seeing a change in

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Speaker 1: broken customer. And you've got to have a positive attitude.

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Speaker 1: You've got to get positive attitude, and you've got to

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Speaker 1: find them because a lot of mechanics go through what

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Speaker 1: we went through this week. In the end, I did

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Speaker 1: Customer came picked it up. What I ow you right now? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: Take the car, drive it. Come back in two weeks.

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Speaker 1: When the monitor has run in two weeks, when the

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Speaker 1: and it's done it a few times and we know

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many mechanics would do that, Probably

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Speaker 1: really all about. Eight five five five six oho nine

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Speaker 1: I'm here to fix your problem. Give me a call

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Speaker 1: He drives that way.

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Speaker 3: But when it comes to fixing cars, Ron has car

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five six zero nine to nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: Here's Ron. Hey, let's get down to Don and Virginia

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Speaker 4: Don.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 5: How can I help?

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Speaker 4: Hey? Ron?

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Speaker 6: Thanks very much. You never led me astray. So here's

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Speaker 6: got a problem that occurs only in hot weather. Started

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Speaker 6: RPMs about about one hundred. And it does idle at

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Speaker 6: I'm taking a harmonic balancer. I'm thinking, how can I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to do that because it's probably good.

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Speaker 1: let me just let me just clarify it for myself

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Speaker 6: That's an half it in winter.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't happen in winter. Is the air conditioning running

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Speaker 6: During the winter. Sometimes we do run it when it's

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, so it's broken right now, which will make

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Speaker 1: it easier to fix, right, correct? Yeah, So if you

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Speaker 1: I guess you can't do that, right because you can't

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Speaker 6: You couldrect I just changed the belt. I just changed

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Speaker 1: Well, no, I was thinking. I was thinking along the

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Speaker 6: Correct, that's correct, it's a five point four windsor Okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about a harmonic balancer issue. Okay, And I

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Speaker 1: wonder if the look at the balancer. If you look

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Speaker 1: separated by rubber, correct, right, Yes, what if you put

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Speaker 1: the chalk marks walk away from each.

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Speaker 6: Other, okay, sort of like Tommy marks used to be

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Speaker 1: What I'm thinking is, is the outer ring and inner ring.

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Speaker 6: Okay, right, And maybe it's maybe.

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Speaker 1: It's just that simple. So I want to think about that.

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Speaker 1: Have you done any work with motor mounts. Motor mounts

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Speaker 6: Yeah, change those about a year ago, and those were

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Speaker 6: changed with motocraft mounts, so factory mounts, and those are

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Speaker 1: Okay, And you did this, You did this. You did

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Speaker 6: Correct. And I'd had sort of the motor mount vibration

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Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty thousand miles ago when I changed them,

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Speaker 1: Okay. What if we loosen the mounts in the sense

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Speaker 1: I think it's nuts, right, the studs go through from

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Speaker 1: Loosen the nuts that the mounts were physically loose, not

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Speaker 1: What if we loosen the nuts that the mounts will

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Speaker 1: Do the mounts need to find their own home, so

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Speaker 1: So that's on my mind. What does the trans mount

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Speaker 6: So that was changed at the same time I did

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Speaker 1: So you know, of course I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 6: Tail it's it's a tail mount basically, you know, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all the way in the back. So I'm

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Speaker 1: You know, we got to start checking boxes, don that's

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Speaker 1: of you know, we did this, we did this, we

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Speaker 1: The shirt belt tension or I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: going to be it, but the sirt belt tensioner has

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Speaker 6: I changed that a month ago. That's some cand new

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So you know when you get a vibration and it

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Speaker 1: for something that's under duress. Just for giggles, if you

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Speaker 1: pulling on the frame somehow, because is the duress or

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Speaker 1: I'm running aading in the car doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back, ron Anading the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: The phone number here, by the way, is eight five

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Speaker 1: in mind that numbers twenty four to seven you can

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Speaker 1: it'll actually be me. A few people were like, who's

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Speaker 1: this really? Yeah, let's see Rush Limbaugh do that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well then let's uh, let's wander over the phones. But

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Speaker 1: Robert in Michigan. Robert, Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: How can I help?

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Speaker 4: I have a problem with my two thousand and three

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Speaker 4: Chevy Silverado. I got out for work Friday night, or

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Speaker 4: went out, humped in the truck, and all it would

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Speaker 4: do would crank. It wouldn't do anything else. We'll start diesel,

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Speaker 4: or guess diesel.

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Speaker 1: Okay, had you gotten fuel prior to stopping the vehicle?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so same fuel, the same fuel that you went

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Speaker 1: where's the where's the truck now stuck in the park?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: I had a toad home and it's sitting right in

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Speaker 1: Okay. You know, diesels can be a little persnickety. It's

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Speaker 1: been a while since you put fuel in it a

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Speaker 4: I put fuel in it about ten days ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you know, our biggest concern is or let

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Speaker 1: me ask let me ask this question. When you crank it,

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Speaker 1: do you see any smoke at all coming out the tailpipe?

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Speaker 1: No black smoke, nothing clean?

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Speaker 4: Uh, no black smoke to that's all coming out of

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Speaker 4: it at all?

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Speaker 1: All right, So I would have a couple of questions

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Speaker 1: at fuel pressure while cranking. All right, it's not something

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Speaker 1: you're going to do by hand. You're going to do

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Speaker 1: it by skin, and you know you're going to see

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Speaker 1: a data pit there, actual and desired. You don't have

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Speaker 1: a scan tool by chance?

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Speaker 4: To you, Robert, I do not. A friend of mine

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Speaker 4: had given me your number and he told me, he said,

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Speaker 4: wait until he calls, you know, talks to you, and

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Speaker 4: tool you really need or I tell you to get.

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Speaker 4: And he said, then you can go get your scan

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Speaker 1: Well, the only problem, listen, I'm honored that someone thinks

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Speaker 1: to try and fix a truck that's broken, because to

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Speaker 1: learn on a tool on a broken vehicle is three

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Speaker 1: so that you can just learn the tool and not

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Speaker 1: you follow what I'm saying, so you know, if we

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Speaker 1: would go to see, hey, what's actual fuel pressure? What's

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just is it fuel isn't mechanical as

436
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 1: it spark a diesel, theres is no spark. It's self combusting.

437
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 1: So it's you know, my primary focus becomes fuel distribution.

438
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: However they're going to do it in your particular case.

439
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 1: In three, i'd want to scan for codes. Do I

440
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: have any fault? Codes? Do I have specifically a U

441
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred, which is a communication fault, and this could

442
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: be the fuel injection control module, the fight them as

443
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: GM called it back then, the FY like THEMS would fail.

444
00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 1: I don't think this is leaky injectors. Leaky injectors, you'd

445
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: be sitting here telling me you're seeing puffs of black

446
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: smoke on occasion because it's putting some fuel out, just

447
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: not enough. This sounds like a failure of the fuel

448
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,199
Speaker 1: system or a failure in the fuel system that's not

449
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 1: allowing the vehicle to start and run. So I think

450
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 1: this is going to have to go to a mechanic.

451
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,159
Speaker 1: But he's going to have to start looking at this

452
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: from a perspective of fuel pressure fault codes. There are

453
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: some very specific fuses. If I remember writ ignition e

454
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: Ignition zero ECM one, it's very critical they have more

455
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: than ten vaults at them while the engine's cranking, and

456
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: those fuses can either fail or they can have low

457
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 1: voltage for corrosion and the connectors ahead of them. You know,

458
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: I'm going to assume dangerous word, but just to put

459
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: some thoughts in your head that you have good cranking speed. Right,

460
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 1: The battery sound normal, It makes all the normal sounds.

461
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 4: Yes, Okay. Initially two years ago I had the same problem.

462
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 4: It wouldn't start. I took it in to as Lodge

463
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 4: and they said it where it's the like trying to

464
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 4: fuel control module right, And it was like, uh, at

465
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 4: that time, had I known what it was, there was

466
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 4: a place that you could send it to and they

467
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 4: would recalibrate it and you put it back on. They're

468
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 4: all back up and you could crank that the truck up.

469
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 4: They had replaced that. I thought it was the fuel pump.

470
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 4: And then I have what you what it's called a

471
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 4: primer pump. I replaced the primer pump, replace the fuel pump.

472
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 4: That wasn't it. As it turned out, it was the

473
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 4: electronic fuel pump. And the guy said that he likes

474
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 4: to only put it in ac Delco, but ac Delco doesn't

475
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 4: make them anymore. Nobody makes them. They're all they're all

476
00:24:54,880 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 4: after market, out of the country and almost impossible to

477
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 4: get anything that will well. And he said it's a

478
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 4: gamble at this point whether or not how long it'll last.

479
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 1: Well. So here, dude, here's the other thing I want

480
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: you to think about. If this has the primer button,

481
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: you can push the primer right, if you push the

482
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: primer within three hits, does it get firm.

483
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 4: It starts to get firm. Okay after that.

484
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: So that's telling me there's fuel there. So it's it's

485
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: it's not likely the fuel pump itself. And now I'm

486
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: going to come back to somebody's got to test that

487
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: fight them and I could, I could walk you through

488
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 1: how to do it, but if you're not familiar with

489
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: wiring in a vault meter, teaching you the wrong thing.

490
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: Now I would go back to the shop that did

491
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: the fight them because you found somebody that'll work on

492
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: a diesel if you haven't already and asked the guy, hey,

493
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 1: what's the warranty number one? Number two? Where did you

494
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: get this from? Is it an aftermarket off short part?

495
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: Because perhaps it failed again? How many miles have you

496
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: gone into two years since the part was replaced.

497
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it probably got maybe thirty thousand miles

498
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 4: and then.

499
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 1: Guy right, and you know what that's But Robert, that's

500
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: far enough, all right. You don't want to talk to

501
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk to me. Listen, I'm glad

502
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: to talk to you. You want to talk to the

503
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: shop that foks at the last time and say, hey,

504
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: it's probably out of warranty but where'd you get the part?

505
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: And can you diagnose it and look at it again?

506
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: You don't want to go buy a scan to them,

507
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: my friend, You're going to spend You're going to spend

508
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,719
Speaker 1: upwards a two grand to get something decent, and then

509
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to learn and go through the whole

510
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: process and get back down to repair a part that

511
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: where you're going to get it from the first place. First,

512
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: get it diagnosed. Think about the things I'm saying to

513
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: you as far as fuel delivery, fuel system, looking at fuses,

514
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: considering the small points, all right, and then perhaps it's

515
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: not an aftermarket part. Perhaps there is a diesel rebuilder,

516
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: you know, diesels are a unique club, and there are

517
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: rebuilders out there that you have to find. Thank God

518
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: for the power of the internet, and perhaps you can

519
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: find something sitting on a shelf. But I feel your

520
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: pain finding parts is becoming a major problem for a

521
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: lot of vehicles. Good luck to you, Robert. I appreciate

522
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: the call. You let me know what happens. I'm kind

523
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: of curious, but I think you're gonna find something in

524
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: that fuel system is at fault. I'm running any in

525
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: the car, doctor, I'll be back right after this.

526
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 5: Don't go away.

527
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back. We'ren nay of the card doctor. Let's

528
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: go over to Let's go to Dan in Washington State,

529
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: seventy mustang and some electrical problems. Dan. Welcome to the

530
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: card doctor, sir.

531
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 5: How can I help.

532
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 2: Ron. We've been working on this card. It's been sitting

533
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 2: for a while, okay, and we had to go through

534
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: the protocol to you know, not screw up the motor right,

535
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: and then we put it all back together. And we

536
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 2: tried to turn it over last night and the headlights

537
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: don't work and there's twelve vows to the battery. So

538
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 2: we're trying to you know, trigger out what the next

539
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:11,360
Speaker 2: step is.

540
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. I'm going to tell you to

541
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 1: focus primarily on the starter relay up on the fender. Well, right,

542
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: this this this, this has this has the starter solenoid

543
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: mounted right on the relay driver's side, our password passenger side,

544
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: by the battery. Correct, right, You've got you've got the

545
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: positive battery cable goes to one side of that's one

546
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: side of that solenoid. You've got the heavy cable going

547
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: down to the starter on the other side of that solenoid.

548
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you.

549
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Should have if memory serves, there's going to be a

550
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: red blue that I think came in from the ignition switch.

551
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: Then there's going to be black, red, red brown. They

552
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: they are the fusible links. There's a couple of fusible

553
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: links that come off that one stud Are they all

554
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: connected there? Uh?

555
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 2: We He crows them into the car and checked and

556
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: it's not.

557
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: Under the It's not it's not under the car, bubby,

558
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: it's right up on the fender.

559
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 2: Oh well, we looked and I think they were all

560
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: there as far.

561
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 4: As I know.

562
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, don't think you gotta know. You got a

563
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: wiring diagram. You gotta want, you gotta win, Okay, send

564
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: me an email, Dan, We're on at cardoctorshow dot com

565
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: and I will you know, over the course of the

566
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: next day or two, I will dig you up a

567
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: wiring diagram. But you've got to follow a wiring diagram.

568
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: Starter relay, you know, the starter relay. I'm talking about

569
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: the infamous Ford starter relay. Up on the passenger side,

570
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: up on the it's right next to the battery, the

571
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: batteries on what side passenger side or driver's side.

572
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: The batteries on the okay, and.

573
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: The starter relay should be next to it, mounted to

574
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: the inner fender. Well, is it there okay? And is

575
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: there a bunch of little wires connected to it?

576
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bunch of wires, and then one plugs

577
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: into one threaded thing and the other end right plugs

578
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: into the other threaded.

579
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: Well, that's because that's that's the stut of engagement. Everything

580
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: is going to go through that, all right, and then

581
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: obviously the battery itself is going to ground. You've got

582
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: a good ground connection.

583
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, we checked the ground and the ground was good.

584
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: Okay. How much of this car did you take apart?

585
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: Did you just pull the engine out to rebuild it

586
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: or what did.

587
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 5: You do to it?

588
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 2: No? No, no, the engine hasn't been pulled out to

589
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: rebuild it.

590
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: Okay, what did you What did you do to the engine?

591
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: What work did you do to the engine? That it

592
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: because you took something apart from the sounds of it

593
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: that it worked before it it doesn't work out.

594
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 2: We took the radiator out and the fan so we

595
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 2: could hand crank the motor to make sure everything was okay.

596
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: All right.

597
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: We didn't want to damage all the distance and lifters

598
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 2: and everything else in the motor.

599
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: Did the engine crank prior to you taking the radiator out?

600
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 4: Yeah?

601
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: It did, han crank? Can get it? It turned over

602
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: really good?

603
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: No? No, no, did the engine? Did you have electrical

604
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: before you took the radiator out?

605
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: We didn't. I don't think we checked for that as

606
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 2: where as they know.

607
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: Okay, And that's sort of a key thing, right, because

608
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: did you have the problem before? Did you create the problem?

609
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I'm wondering. Maybe it got created by

610
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 2: working on it.

611
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, So, you know, now I'm now

612
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: I'm starting to look around. Is there something left off?

613
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: Is there an innocuous islet somewhere that's disconnected? And I'm

614
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: going to and I'm going to start to wonder. So

615
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: then I'm going to go back to you know, can

616
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: I make the starter engage on its own? You've got

617
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: a heavy lug that goes down to the starter itself,

618
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: right right, you know that's the battery cable. If I

619
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: were to put twelve volts to that starter motor, will

620
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: the starter motor turn the engine over?

621
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 6: Yeah?

622
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: That's another important thing too.

623
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: So if you if you take that one side of

624
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: the starter relay that feeds power to the starter and

625
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: use a battery jumper cable and just make a jumper

626
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: and go from there. From to the other side of

627
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: the starter relay bypassed the starter relay by going across

628
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: it does the starter motor engage.

629
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 2: We took some jumper cables last night and use the

630
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 2: selenoid to turn the car over and it turned over.

631
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,239
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's got the capability. So now you've got

632
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: to figure out where are you missing signal. That starter

633
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: solenoid is your first step because from the starter solenoid

634
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: it goes to the fuse box, it goes internal and

635
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: it feeds off of the ignition switch. But you've got

636
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: to verify connections at that starter relay are correct. As

637
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 1: a first step, you could have a bad starter relay.

638
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: That relay itself could just be bad, but you've got

639
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: to go through wiring to make sure everything is connected properly.

640
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: Shoot me in email run at cardoctorshow dot com. I'll

641
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: send you what I can find. I'm run an Indy

642
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor. We're back right after this. Run

643
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: an Indie in the Card Doctor. Here's what I want

644
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: you to think about when you're working on something electrical,

645
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: take out a roadmap and just you know what the

646
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: end of your finger and close your eyes and think

647
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: and find a town without looking at the roadmap. Do

648
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: you know how to get there? No, If you're working

649
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: on electrical, you don't know where those wires go. That's

650
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: a roadmap that's going to lead you somewhere. You need

651
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: a wiring diagram. If you're doing electrical, you've got to

652
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: have a wiring diagram. You've got to have the information

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00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,239
Speaker 1: on where you're going, because that's what's going to tell

654
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: you how you got to get there. It's just that simple.

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00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reference sources out there. There's a

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00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: lot of ways to do it. An electrical wiring diagram

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00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: is going to be key. And you watch how fast

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00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: we'll fix that Mustang once he gets a wiring diagram

659
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: in his hands. I want to talk to you real

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00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: quick too about break fluid A. We had a twenty

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00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: nineteen Volkswagen GTI this week in the shop and let

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00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: me take you in the shop courtesy of AutoZone, and

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00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: we were doing some simple maintenance, just a normal break

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00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: fluid and flush. Volkswagen calls for it every two years

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00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: and we were following procedure, doing the maintenance and thank

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00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: god for AutoZone right because here we go. I needed

667
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: information once again. I need a roadmap. I need information.

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00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: I need to know what break fluid that vehicle takes.

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00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: You think break fluid's all the same, No, it's not

670
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: all the same. This vehicle takes DOT for low viscosity

671
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: synthetic break fluid. I was able to look it up

672
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: on the AutoZone website and they ran it over to

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00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: us because it's something new and something a little different

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00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: than normal. So you need information, you need the right parts.

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00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: Autozones got it all. I'm not an ady in the

676
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: car doctor, reminding you once again until the next time.

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00:34:53,760 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you.

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Speaker 6: She