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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, We've got to be prepared. You know, when

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, I okaid the work, and then later

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Speaker 1: I thought, why did I do that? You know, it

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Speaker 1: far doctor. Yeah, I don't think I agree with them

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Speaker 1: on this LORI welcome to the radio home of ron Andanian,

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: can I repair? Actually take? Hello and welcome Roninny in

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Speaker 1: the card doctor eight five zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: You've welcomed. You've entered the land of the repair of

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Speaker 1: the week. Two thousand and six Accurate m d X

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Speaker 1: come into the shop at Ari Automotive in January with

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Speaker 1: a dead battery. Battery was stone dead. We had replaced

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Speaker 1: it two and a half years earlier, and we ended

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Speaker 1: could it be a bad new battery. Ever since three

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Speaker 1: that car still showed up complaints of low cranking ability

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Speaker 1: the complaints that are reminiscent of a battery that's low

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Speaker 1: bad new batteries. I know what new means, never ever worked,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, come on. I was fortunate though this week

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Speaker 1: of the records, because and we don't talk about that enough.

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Speaker 1: You know, part of the repair process is looking at

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Speaker 1: what's been done, and it generally gives you a direction

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Speaker 1: on where you have to go. I knew from this

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Speaker 1: vehicle's history that starting in two thousand nine it had

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Speaker 1: it with a powerframe grid technology battery because we've all

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Speaker 1: lucky that when I first took up my AM meter,

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Speaker 1: I was reading almost a quarter amp drain. Now understand,

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Speaker 1: it's all about numbers. It's math when it comes to

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Speaker 1: fifty milliams point zero five five hundreds of an amp

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Speaker 1: times when engineers sit down and calculate that, well, not

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Speaker 1: way we've always done it is start pulling fuse as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself when I read the diagram, had

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Speaker 1: how could this happen? Be lying to me, what if

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Speaker 1: monitoring receiver. Oh goody, and the Bluetooth hands Free Control

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Speaker 1: And that's just what it said, b t h c L.

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Speaker 1: I only had to take that down. The interior puddle

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Speaker 1: I fixed one more car with an electrical draw. The

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Speaker 1: Wiring diagrams are so darn critical to this business, whether

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Speaker 1: eight to ten years ago that when you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: So the next time, the next time you pull into

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Speaker 1: anandy in the card doctor zero nine zero zero. Just

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Speaker 1: go away, ye hey, welcome back. Why don't any in

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Speaker 1: from Queens, New York. Tony, welcome back to the car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: I remember your car, sixty nine Mustang. How are you

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Speaker 1: today and what can we do for you? No problem?

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Speaker 1: When shifting from first to second clutch pedals sticks to

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Speaker 1: the floor. Um, I've always managed to get it up.

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Speaker 1: I put my toe underneath it and pop it back up.

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Speaker 1: But I was just wondering what the possible reasons are.

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Speaker 1: And I guess I'm headed for a complete replacement only

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Speaker 1: only when you're shifting first to second, Tony, or in general,

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Speaker 1: in general, when you're you in the clutch at all um, generally,

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Speaker 1: I've only had it happened shifting from first to second.

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Speaker 1: Third's okay to four? It seems to be okay. I mean,

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Speaker 1: a daily driver for a minute. All right, we'll attack

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Speaker 1: it from that angle. If this was a daily driver,

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Speaker 1: ridiculous comment. But just from a general education point of view,

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Speaker 1: very critical. If anything is out of line, if the

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Speaker 1: z bar, if the fork, if anything isn't square like

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be, it can affect clutch release operation

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Speaker 1: and clutch operation in general. So that being said, I

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Speaker 1: The next thing I want to think about is, I've

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Speaker 1: You don't drive it every day, do we have Do

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Speaker 1: we have the beginnings of a pressure plate that's starting

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Speaker 1: to bind? And that's possible. I've seen it where the

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the proper tension on it, it can't throw

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Speaker 1: my curiosity is why only first to second? I still

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Speaker 1: think this is a clutch issue, Tony. But what I

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Speaker 1: what I would ask you to try and do is

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Speaker 1: from first to second, you're driving at a certain rpm

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Speaker 1: a certain load, right agreed. When when you go second

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Speaker 1: bit more of the engine's got less of a load

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Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying, and can you duplicate

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Speaker 1: Is the linkage warrnt? Is the linkage properly lubricated? Is

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Speaker 1: you know, this is a mechanical clutch. There's there's not

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Speaker 1: much else here. It's it's either in the linkage under

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Speaker 1: and at that point I haven't lost my reference because

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Speaker 1: if if, if you follow procedure for it's gonna tell

429
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Speaker 1: you to bring the engine around the top dead center.

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Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, you probably can't see top

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Speaker 1: dead center on that engine. It's so buried in that vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Theyre right, and by now in a two thousand four,

433
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Speaker 1: if there were marks there, they're rusted over and they're gone.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna make our own marks, by the way

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Speaker 1: it does. Yeah, so yeah, let's um. I'd be willing

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Speaker 1: to bet that's it, all right, sir, Well, give us

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Speaker 1: a call back, let us know. If not, we'll keep

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Speaker 1: you going. We'll tell you what else it could be.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Charlie. You take good care. Um. By

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Speaker 1: the way, I just want to do a quick shout

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Speaker 1: out to Bob. Bob stop by the shop yesterday. He's

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Speaker 1: a regular listener to the Car Doctor and he's been

443
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Speaker 1: a customer for many years. We've seen him and enjoyed

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Speaker 1: having conversation and it was with great thrill and pride

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Speaker 1: as he said to me, Hey, Ron, you got time

446
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Speaker 1: to clean my cane in air filter. I haven't had

447
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Speaker 1: time to. He was in for state inspection and took

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Speaker 1: it apart. And it's amazing how much debris a canean

449
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: air filter can hold and still let the engine run. Um.

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00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: It was it was like we just took the Sequoya

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00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: National Forest out of Bob's airbox and shook it out,

452
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: cleaned it out, washed it with the canan filter cleaner,

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Speaker 1: let it soak, then took it over to the sink

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Speaker 1: a little bit of warm water and gently washed it.

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Speaker 1: Nowhere Bob asked me and says, hey, would you do

456
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Speaker 1: this with him now? You don't want to disturb the

457
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: filter element of the filter, washed it, let it soak

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Speaker 1: in some water, cleaned it, oiled it. Within a half hour,

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Speaker 1: everything was put back together, nice and shiny new, freshly oiled,

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Speaker 1: and down the road. So, yeah, you know there's one

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Speaker 1: one abused air filter. And I say that with love.

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Speaker 1: Bob has just been a busy guy the past couple

463
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Speaker 1: of years. And uh, imagine forgetting about your air filter

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Speaker 1: for a couple of years, and you can clean it

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Speaker 1: up and put it together and uh, you know, away

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Speaker 1: you go. So um, just a tip of the hat.

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Speaker 1: The cane in and the folks, if you want to

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Speaker 1: see what they're all about, get out the keyn filters

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Speaker 1: dot com eight five five five six zero nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: I'll run an any in the car doctor. I'll be

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Speaker 1: back right after this, a taban dollar car and working.

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Speaker 1: He's going to welcome back. We're any in the car

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Speaker 1: doctor eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: More information about this radio show at Car Doctor show

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Speaker 1: dot com. Let's get over to Russell's SAE Augustine, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Some kind of a lifter tap two thousand two Chevy

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Speaker 1: Avalanche Russell, Welcome to the Car Doctor Shure. How can

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Speaker 1: I help? Yeah, it doesn't show it's noise until you

479
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: get around sevent two thousand APM. I was wondering why

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00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: it kicks up at that IPM. Okay, let me ask

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00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: you this. Any morning lights on on the dashboard, not

482
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Speaker 1: at all for us like a kid. Oil pressure, yeah,

483
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: beautiful oil pressure at idle. Yeah, I'm falling forty pounds

484
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: according to the gauge. All right, Two things. There is

485
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Speaker 1: a bulletin from General Motors. Have you seen this oh

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Speaker 1: two oh six, oh one oh thirty eight that talks

487
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: about engine lifter noise at various RPMs for air raided oil.

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00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: You probably want to get your hands on this, okay.

489
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: This talks about problems with the O ring seal between

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Speaker 1: the oil pump screen and the oil pump itself. And

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00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: one of the tests, the Bolton kind of walks you

492
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Speaker 1: through it. One of the tests is they want you

493
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: to go through and check oil pressure at a couple

494
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,479
Speaker 1: of different rpm ranges, And the concern is that if

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00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: oil pressure is low, and if it doesn't show correctly

496
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: on a mechanical gauge, not the gauge on the dashboard,

497
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: then there's a reasonable chance that you have a problem

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00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: with that oil pump over ring. Now, we have also

499
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: seen some cases with engine sludge and sludge clogging the

500
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: oil pump are restricting, and it's also about volume, and

501
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: this just could be a plain old fashioned oil starvation

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00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,479
Speaker 1: lifter tap issue. And you know how clean is the

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Speaker 1: inside of the engine. We've got to have that conversation.

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00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: But if I was going to look someplace first, I

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00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: would start this diagnosis with an oil pressure test and

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Speaker 1: if if need be get your hands on this bulleting

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Speaker 1: and take a look and uh follow it and start

508
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: talking about that oil pump over ring. Not an easy job.

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00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: It's a good couple of It's a Saturday afternoon and

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Speaker 1: better um to to uh been there, done that. But

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00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: it's not uncommon. The uh sour sluge. I highly doubt

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Speaker 1: that because it's I've owned it since thirty six on

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Speaker 1: the clock and I've changed the oil every three to

514
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: five on it. Okay, then yeah, that's good. And and

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00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: you're using a good, good brand, a consistent way of

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00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: oil on a regular basis. Sure you're using what GM

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Speaker 1: recommends five Okay, then I would, I would, I would

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Speaker 1: think hard and take a look at that bulletin because

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna think it's more than likely. Um uh, if

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00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: it's a lifter issue. If it's a lifter starvation, the

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Speaker 1: oils foaming, you know, does it? Does it go away

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Speaker 1: above two tho rpm? Russell, I, you're doing going down

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Speaker 1: a highway at seventy at seventy is turning about seventeen

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00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: hundreds to two grand um. And I do have a

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00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: do exhaust on it with a full master on it,

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Speaker 1: so it's sort of drowns it out somewhat, but I

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00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: could still hear it, right. You know what what makes

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Speaker 1: you think? And I'm gonna I'm gonna be Devil's advocate

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00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: here for a second. What makes you think it's engine?

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00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: Because if I sit there, if I sit it in

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00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: neutral park and rev up the motor, I can I

532
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: can hear the motor. I can hear that noise, UM,

533
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: no warning lights of any kind. I know I asked

534
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: you this. I just want to be sure no check

535
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: engine light engine, engine runs dead smooth, no other issues. Uh,

536
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: it's bone stock except for kN n all right. Then.

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00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: The only other comment I would want to make, because

538
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: obviously we're just thinking about rotating masks, is if you

539
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: were to take the belts off, started up, and obviously

540
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: not run it long, but just run it long enough,

541
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: you're gonna bringing up the grand Wherever you hear that noise.

542
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: Now do you still hear that noise? If you do

543
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: hear that noise, then yea, okay, it's it's it's not

544
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: an alternator, it's not water pump, it's not a C compressor,

545
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: and so forth. And you know, start thinking about oil

546
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: pressure and doing an oil pressure test and possibly that

547
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: oil pump over and obviously I don't I'm going by

548
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Speaker 1: the factory gauge. I have not helped mechanical gauge. Did

549
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: you get that bullet to number that I gave you? Yes?

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00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: I did, Okay, yeah, um, get a look at that.

551
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: And if you need any more information Ron at Car

552
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: Doctor Show dot com, shoot me an email. You're very welcome,

553
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: good luck to you, very important. You know, it's it's

554
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: it's always back to the basics. I also had another

555
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: conversation I wanted to bring up here, but you know what,

556
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: let me, let me just tell this quick story. So

557
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Speaker 1: I went to a cruise night last night. I have

558
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Speaker 1: to tell this because this is really starting it. Where

559
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: is it written that? And I couldn't understand this. I

560
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: took the hot rout over to booting up here in

561
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: North Jersey and then we were over there at the

562
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: Walmart park a lot, and I couldn't get over the

563
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: fact that people are fascinated with the fact that the

564
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: car hasn't inspect and sticker on it. It just boggled

565
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: my mind. I had three, four, maybe five questions, why

566
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: do you have an inspection sticker on it? Well, because

567
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: it's registered in New Jersey and it needs an inspection.

568
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: Why don't you put q cs on I don't want

569
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Speaker 1: to put qqs on it? Why not? I don't know,

570
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: it's my car, it's America. I thought this is the

571
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: way I would do it. I'd rather have a vehicle

572
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Speaker 1: that's inspected, and um, you know, to me, that's just

573
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Speaker 1: the way I wanted to do it. What difference does

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00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: it make? What is it with people that it really

575
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: bothers them that you drive and build your car your

576
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: way and not to what they want. I don't understand that.

577
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: And to the guy that came out to me and

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00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: he said, you know, it's a nice car, but if

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Speaker 1: it were mine, I wouldn't put the hood scoop on it,

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00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put the roll bar in it, and I

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00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: changed the wheels and tires. I'm gonna repeat what I

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00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: said to you. Well, then I'm glad it's not yours

583
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Speaker 1: because this is the way I did. Mind let me

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Speaker 1: know when yours comes out. I want to see how

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00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: good that looks. Five zero nine zero zero. Run on

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Speaker 1: any of the car Doctor. I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Just take this in the draft welcome back, or on

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Speaker 1: any of the card doctor. Eight five five zero nine

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Speaker 1: zero zero. By the way, that's the car Doctor seven number.

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Speaker 1: If you call eight five five five zero nine nine

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Speaker 1: zero zero anytime day or night. This radio show is

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Speaker 1: broadcast two to four pm Eastern Time over our network

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Speaker 1: to the affiliates and if they're onto the lay broadcast.

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Speaker 1: If you're in a part of the country that you

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00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: know can't listen to the show live and you're getting

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Speaker 1: it on the lay, you're listening to it on podcast

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Speaker 1: and for those of you in New York, by the

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00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: way I should point back out, I should point out

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Speaker 1: that we are back on in New York live on

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Speaker 1: a m SEV w R c R, so you can

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Speaker 1: tune us in live there Saturdays to four pm. But

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Speaker 1: my point is that eight zero nine zero zero is

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Speaker 1: seven service. You can call that number, leave a message

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00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,959
Speaker 1: in fast Harry, our executive producer, we'll call you back.

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00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: Going back to the cruise, I just want to get

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Speaker 1: this off my chest. So what I want everybody to

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00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: do is next week. Here's the deal. Next week, I

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00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: want everybody to show up and you be the judge.

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Speaker 1: Should the hot rod have an inspection sticker? Yes or no?

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Speaker 1: Should I put q q s on it? Or should

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00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: I leave it the way it is right now? With

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Speaker 1: a legal New Jersey inspection sticker and a regular set

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Speaker 1: of license plates. Let's get I'll explain a q Q

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00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: A q Q plate in New Jersey means it's an

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Speaker 1: antique anything. I think it's twenty five years or older. Um,

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00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: they feel like it's not an everyday driver, so you

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Speaker 1: don't need to go through inspection. And my way of

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Speaker 1: thinking is since the hot rod would pass inspection, I mean,

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Speaker 1: how else can I say this? If you're driving down

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Speaker 1: the road and a black fifty five Chevy with a

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Speaker 1: hood scoop, big tires and loud exhaust, you know, you

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00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: kind of get everybody's attention, and sometimes you get the

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Speaker 1: attention of the boys in blue and some of them

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00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: aren't so understanding. And if that vehicle has an inspection

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00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: sticker on it, it kind of makes everybody happy. So

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00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm just out there trying to keep the peace and uh,

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Speaker 1: stay out of the limelight if that's possible. I guess

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Speaker 1: that's kind of a that's probably not really correct driving

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Speaker 1: a black fifty five with loud exhausting a hood scoop

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00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,280
Speaker 1: and something looks like American graffiti. But beside the point.

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Speaker 1: So coming out to the Sheridan and Mahwah next weekend

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Speaker 1: at the dead Man's Curve Wild hot Rod Party, and

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Speaker 1: you guys be the judge that we park right next

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Speaker 1: to me under the watchful eye of Daniel Son. He'll

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Speaker 1: be with me to uh he's playing security on the

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Speaker 1: car next week. But um, it should be a great

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Speaker 1: and a good time for one and all. Hey there's

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Speaker 1: another hour car doctor and coming up next for those

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Speaker 1: of you that are lucky enough to get it. But

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Speaker 1: I can see, by the hands of the Great Provogue,

641
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Speaker 1: this one has come and gone, until the next time

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Speaker 1: I'm on an any in the car Doctor reminding you

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Speaker 1: the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you, shests down