1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: My Pebby said, Son, you're gonna drive me to drinking 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: if you don't stop driving that hot rod. Lin Ronan 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: cars were a lot simpler years ago. I don't know 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: where they're gonna be fifty years from now. I can 5 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: only imagine. My point is everybody me the guy fixing it, 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: you the guy driving it. Everybody has to learn to 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: think of cars differently, the car Doctor. So we've got 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: no signal out of the rear A B S. I 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: guess it would be right now and now whenever I 10 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: put the brake on, it makes sense. I suppose it's 11 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: at a BS pomp kicking hand or something. You know 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: that the pedal vibrates. Welcome to the radio home of 13 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: ron Andanian the Car Doctor, since this is where car 14 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on 15 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, 16 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage doors 17 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: are open. Son, you're gonna drive into drinking if you 18 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: don't stop driving that hot rod. But I am here 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: to take your call at eight five five one nine. 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: And now he running man. If the old man is 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: worried about the kid driving the car, you have to 22 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: think about the guy trying to fix the car. Hold on, 23 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 1: welcome on on any of the car Doctor. It's time 24 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: to start your engines and get going because we got 25 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: a lot of cars to fix this hour. That's what 26 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: we're here for, to solve your car problem at zero 27 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: nine zero, taking your calls, answering your questions. More information 28 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: about us at Car Doctor show dot com. There's a 29 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: car Doctor Facebook page. If I can never get the 30 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: Facebook page to load, I don't know. There's something going 31 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: on with the Facebook. Facebook in general has been goofy 32 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: the last couple of three four days. And look, I 33 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: survived three whole days without going on Facebook. How could 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: that happen? Please? So don't get me started. Where are 35 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: we going here, mikey one, Let's go over to talk 36 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: to Andrew Bakersfield, California, nWo Honda Civic. Andrew, Welcome to 37 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help God? What's 38 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: going on? Okay? So, I'm having an issue with my 39 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: reverse lights on my nine to you Homa Civic. Um. 40 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: So I'm trying to pass a break in tell light inspection. 41 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: My issue is when the car is in reverse if 42 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: there's no headlights or no running lights on. They work properly, 43 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: but the second that you slipped them onto the the 44 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: running lights or the headlights, they turn off, and the 45 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: middle lights in the nactual telegate the break lights, they 46 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: glow bright. Okay, So what you're telling me is if 47 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: you've got parking lights on and you go to put 48 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: it in reverse backup lights, the backup lights will go 49 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: out and the brake lights go brighter than normal? Am 50 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: I hearing this correctly? Okay? So what have you done 51 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: to try and diagnose it up to this point? Um? 52 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: I mean, I've I've tried to change the bulbs out 53 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: with different bulbs. I've tried I'm plugging one side and 54 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: switching the what the harness from one side to the 55 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: other since those on harghnest issue, but not nothing seemed 56 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: to change. So does this happen in every time? I mean, 57 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: this is consistent? The car is broken right now as 58 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: we speak. Yes, that's correct. Good. Like I said, it 59 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: works fine if the daylights are not on. The reverse 60 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: lights works as they're supposed to. In the cars in gear, 61 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: the brake lights work as they're supposed to. When uh, 62 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,839 Speaker 1: the cars in gear just the thing as you cook 63 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: that switches that everything. Don't say, why are you familiar 64 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: with the term voltage drop? Andrew? Uh yes, Okay, explain 65 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: voltage drop to me. You don't think I was gonna 66 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: make you do that? Did you? No? I didn't go ahead? 67 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: Do you do? You know? And it's okay if you 68 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: don't want to explain it, and I'll explain it to 69 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: you and for everybody else. But tell me, tell me 70 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: what you think voltage drop is. Uh So, when I 71 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: put the switch on and the volt is supposed to 72 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: go to the circuit, topic drops out right. It's it's 73 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: basically it takes the path at least resistance, right. I 74 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: always think here in New Jersey, we have a place 75 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: on the Garden State park Way. We have the wood 76 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: Bridge Bridge that goes over the Pertha Boy River the 77 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: Raritan River, and there's there's a bridge on the Garden 78 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: State Parkway and there's an other bridge next to it 79 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: on roots one and nine. If I believe that's what 80 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: it is, and I always think of voltage drop as 81 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: those two bridges. Okay, when the traffic's too heavy going 82 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: over the wood Bridge bridge, everybody goes over at one 83 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: and nine that's the drop. Everybody try and takes the 84 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: easier path to get down to the shore. Voltage drop 85 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: is the same way. If it can't, if it can't 86 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: make it through the ground for the backup lights, or 87 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: if the ground for the backup lights is so overloaded, 88 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: it's gonna backfeed and go go up. It's gonna go 89 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: up the other bridge. It's just trying to get to 90 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: the shore. Follow the electrons, follow the bouncing ball. So 91 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, is this a stick or an automatic? It's 92 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: a stick, Okay, good choice. Um, So there's there's something 93 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: to keep in mind. And here there's there's two grounds 94 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: that I recall G seven seventy one in G five 95 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 1: fifty three. There's also a third ground leg that you 96 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: have to trace out because if I remember right, they 97 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: don't show it too easily in a in a in 98 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: a in a wiring diagram. I've been down this road. 99 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: But what I was gonna suggest was, why can't we 100 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: take an auxiliary ground right off the negative post of 101 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: the battery tap tap into the ground leg of the 102 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,559 Speaker 1: backup lights. Listen, take the ball out of the car. 103 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: Let's pretend it's the bulb andrew proof. I mean it's 104 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: not the ball, right, What do you need? You need hot, 105 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: you need ground? Right, You take that ball, if you 106 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: brought it up to the battery and put it across 107 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: the battery, the bulb is gonna light bright, right light, 108 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: same thing. Okay, So now we're trying to see when 109 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: we add something else to the circuit, do we still 110 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: have a good ground. Do we still have the capacity 111 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: for the electrons to flow? Is everybody trying to jump 112 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: the bridge and take the least path of least resistance 113 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: to get down the shore here in New Jersey? I'm 114 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: sure you got it in California though, So you know 115 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: it's let's go look at the grounds. Let's let's go 116 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: look at the grounds. Let's come up with an auxiliary ground. 117 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: If we add an auxiliary ground and the problem goes away, well, 118 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: ground is ground. We know that then that if we 119 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: did a voltage drop test at those grounds, once we 120 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: find them, all right, I'm not gonna profess to remember 121 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: where they are there somewhere back in that in that 122 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: rear tailgate area if I remember, right, but exactly where 123 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: I can't say, um uh. If If if we go 124 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: and trace out those grounds and we find that they're dirty, rusted, corroded, 125 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: Tighten them up, clean them up. What we gotta do. 126 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: And you know, maybe it's as simple as that, all right, um, 127 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: but you know what you're experiencing is the reason you're 128 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: seeing a change when you apply the breaks or the 129 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: parking lights is because you're seeing a vaultage drop. It's 130 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: taking the path at least resistance because there's too much 131 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: resistance in the circuit that it's in. Supply an auxiliary ground, 132 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: which in the case after the backup lights, there should 133 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 1: be a green black coming in. That's the hot and 134 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: the black which is the ground. If if you supply 135 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: an auxiliary ground to that black, the lights will probably 136 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: work fine and then at least you know where you're going. 137 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: If they don't, then the fault has to be on 138 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: the feed side, and we're gonna have to talk about 139 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: if we supply auxiliary power to that green black. All right, 140 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: we can do this both ways. Supply a fused power 141 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: feed to that green black, which is the hot leg, 142 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: and then the circuit has to work. I mean, just 143 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: for giggles, you can kind of build your own circuits. 144 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: Supply on auxiliary ground, supply on auxiliary hot turn your 145 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: parking lights on. Everything works as normal. Good. It's either 146 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: a hot or a ground Now take off one wire. 147 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: Which one makes it work, which one doesn't? Right? Makes sense? Yes, 148 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: definitely give it a shot. Give it that a shot, 149 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: and call me back next week. Let me know what happens. Well, 150 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: thank you, You're welcome. Bye bye. Um. Yeah, it's just 151 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: let's let's back in the old days when I was teaching. Well, 152 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,679 Speaker 1: I guess, I guess I'm still teaching. That's right. So, 153 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: you know, take it out of vehicle. How would you 154 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: separate it from the vehicle? How would you make it 155 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: so that it's a completely separate standalon's got nothing to 156 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: do with the car? Is this component good bad? Or 157 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: is it a potential problem? And that's from a bulb 158 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: to a starter to whatever we're trying to fix. That's 159 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: you know what. Sometimes it's just process of elimination. How 160 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: would you test it? Brian in Pennsylvania, seventeen Ford Fusion. 161 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: How can I help you? Sir? Hey, Ryan, good to 162 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: talk to you. Yes, sir, what's going on? I've question 163 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: there's no specific problem with my car right now, but 164 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: it's more of a general question. Um, some cars I 165 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: know and they recommend a UM. The manual says to 166 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: use a fuel injector cleaner. Mine does not specifically say so, 167 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: but I designed it to try one. It was one 168 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: of the Lucas oil products. UM do you recommend this? 169 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: Do you think there's actually a benefit from using you know, 170 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: one of these in the gas tank? You know, add 171 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: it every so often? Do you think there's a benefit 172 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: to it? I see benefits from it. Um. I. You know, 173 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: what you have to remember is carbon carbons sort of 174 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: like uh, carbon's like your relatives at the holidays. It 175 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: can be annoying and then it will sleep sometimes, all right, 176 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: you know, and they just they just never want to stop, 177 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: and they're just going all the time. And you're gonna 178 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: find you're gonna find as it gets older, it's going 179 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: to become a more prevalent problem. The issue with carbon. 180 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: People will say, well, the car is new, I don't 181 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: need to use a carbon cleaner, any type of fuel 182 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: system cleaner because the car is no. Well that's not 183 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: really correct. It's kind of like smoking cigarettes. You know, 184 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: you get to smoke cigarettes for thirty or forty years 185 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 1: and then God forbid, something bad happens to you. Guess 186 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: what it took a while to build up. So you 187 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: know you want to try and not smoke cigarettes, or 188 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: you want to try and you know, do your preventative maintenance, 189 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: take care of yourself while you're young. The same thing 190 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: goes for the car as as far as fuel system cleaners, 191 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: No lie, no doubt about it. I still love my Berriman. 192 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: I think. I think when you're buying a fuel system cleaner, 193 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: and I've said this a hundred times in the past, 194 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: and I'll probably continue to say it for the next 195 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,359 Speaker 1: hundred times going forward, you know you're buying the engineering 196 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: that's behind the company, all right, You're buying what's put 197 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: in it. Right now, for my money, Berryman's got the 198 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: best thing on the market because their hest their high 199 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: energy solving technology really does work. We've had a lot 200 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: of positive reports for it. And you know it's it's 201 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: you're buying the engineering more so than the product. Can 202 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: I tell you blindly to just dump a fuel system 203 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: cleaner in your car and just hope for the best. No, 204 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: I would expect you to see some sort of result, 205 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: either in the way the car wrung, or fuel economy, 206 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: or power or idle quality or just general overall feel. 207 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: But I'm also gonna tell you you know, you're seventeen four. 208 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: It has how many how many miles on it now? 209 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: Thirty eight thousands. So you're you're kind of like right 210 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: at that cusp of you've been married for five or 211 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: six years and you're just starting to say why did 212 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: I do this to myself? And you know, you're just 213 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: you're just yeah, You're just you know, you're just kind 214 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: of like, Okay, I guess I'm in it for the 215 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: long haul. I better, you know, I better get to 216 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: the gym, I better stay at quit staying out late 217 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: with the boys, and I better start, uh, I better 218 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:35,719 Speaker 1: start taking care of better care of myself. And you know, 219 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: while here we go. Um So, while Berryman may not 220 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: solve your marital woes if you have any, and I 221 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: don't wish that upon your brother, um, the point becomes 222 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 1: that it's just maintenance. It's just like anything else. You 223 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: gotta water the law and keep the grass green, and 224 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: you just gotta keep moving it forward because you're wait 225 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: until you know, if you wait until it's I want 226 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: a divorce time. Either way, whether it's a car that's 227 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: broken or an ex wife, either one's gonna cost you 228 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: a whole lot of money. Makes sensing. I found two products, 229 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: one with Lucas oil. The other one I used was 230 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: something called Royal Purple, and UM, I figured it couldn't hurt. 231 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: But somebody else talked about a little bit different. They 232 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: talked about using top tier gas, which I know nothing about. Well. 233 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: Top tier top tier gasoline is. Top tier gasoline has 234 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: been around probably every bit of twelve fifteen years, if 235 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: not longer. Top tier gasoline is a mandate. The federal 236 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: government came out with it's They said to the gasoline companies. Look, 237 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: you know it's it's there. There's there's there's cheap places 238 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: to get cheeseburgers, and then there's high end places to 239 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: get cheeseburgers. The high end place is less likely to 240 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: give you gas, no pun intended, whereas the low level 241 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: place as well. You figure it out right, um, top 242 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: tier gas is designed with specific formulation to help fight 243 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: carbon deposits on its own. Now the idea is, though 244 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: that top tier gas alone still can't do it. We 245 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: still need to use carbon cleaners, We still need to 246 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: use some sort of maintenance and on an annual basis. 247 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: Thirty sixty nine miles. You know part of the old 248 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: rotor router. Listen. You you work out at the gym, 249 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: you try to eat right, you try to exercise, you 250 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: try to take care of yourself. But you still go 251 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: in at sixty you know for either well you're going 252 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: at sixty four one end or the other, either the 253 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: finger or the you know whatever, and you still get 254 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: looked at poked product and and and and so on 255 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: and UM, You're still trying to do your due diligence. 256 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: And sometimes maintenance comes in higher forms than just a 257 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: bottle you pour in the tank, is what I'm trying 258 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: to say. So you know, it's it's good to stay 259 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: on top of it, and it's it's something you've got 260 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: to find and you can, you know, you can play 261 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: with it. You can try using different products to see 262 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,280 Speaker 1: what works and what doesn't. UM. But I've got my 263 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: opinion is I think you're gonna find if you try 264 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: some barriment. You can get it at your local O'Riley 265 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: ooto parts or get out to o rileyoto dot com. 266 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: You can grab it there. I think you'll find that, UM, 267 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: you'll see some results in the positive. And that's been 268 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: my experience and That's what I've heard a lot of 269 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: people say. I appreciate the call, Brian. Good luck ty 270 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: out there in p A. I'm running ending the car doctor. 271 00:12:54,640 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: We are back right after this when you get keep 272 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: Ron's number hand eight five five five zero nine zero 273 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: zero for when you really need advice on your car. 274 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: Here's robbing. Okay, let's uh, you know, we're in the 275 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: studio today with Lucy the Wonder Dog. Lucy lou That 276 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: was Alexa. Now we don't want to talk to her. 277 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: We want to talk to Lucy the Wonder Dog. Lucy 278 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: sleeping at my feet. She's like, uh, yeah, Lucy went 279 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: to the vet yesterday. We put her in the car 280 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: and off we went, and poor things. She was a 281 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: nervous for actually came home plopped down. She's like, oh, 282 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: it's good to be home. So we've got to hear 283 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: at the studio today. Let's go and talk. I guess 284 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: we'll go talk to Jason in Colorado one Chevy suburban. 285 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: Don't mind me, Jason, I'm getting delirious. That's towards the 286 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: end of the hour, almost sort of kind of what 287 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: can I help you with today? Sir? How can I help? Yeah? 288 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,199 Speaker 1: I had a question about preventive maintenance on that truck. UM. 289 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: I listened to one of your previous episodes and you 290 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: were talking about how when those radiators start to break down, 291 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,679 Speaker 1: they'll dump junk through the trans cooler lines into the 292 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: training and then you lose your transmission. So I think 293 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: next year we're going to have the radiator and the 294 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: water pump replaced. Um, it's all original. This truck's got 295 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: like a hundred and sixty thousand miles on it, and UM, 296 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: my question was, when we do the radiator and the 297 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: water pump, is there anything else I should do? This 298 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: will have you know, like the front of the motor 299 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: taken apart. Essentially, this is the five three L S motor. 300 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: I think it's a six point oh okay, but but 301 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: it's an LS oh right right, right right? Yes, So 302 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: you know, And a lot of the answer to this 303 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: is it depends on what maintenance has been done to 304 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: it up to this point. Have you owned it since no? 305 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: Uh no. We bought it in two thousand seven, and 306 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: I think it had eighty thousand miles on it. And 307 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: as far as I know, everything, the previous owner kept 308 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: up with everything. As far as I know, and you've 309 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: been you've good on oil changes. Yeah. Okay, So if 310 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: I was doing a radiator on this generation suburban this 311 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: is around no suburban correct as we as we like 312 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: to call it. Um, So it's gonna become it's gonna 313 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,359 Speaker 1: become a radiator. This is this vehicle is now seventeen 314 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: going on eighteen years old. I agree with the water pump, 315 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: so it would be a radiator. Water pump, upper and 316 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: lower hoses, assuming their original I would spend my time 317 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: now and do the heater hoses because the heater hoses. Uh. 318 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: Does it have rear A C and heat? Um? I 319 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: don't know. I like when you turn on the A C, 320 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: it kicks on all over the truck. I don't know 321 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: if that has a separate unit for the back or not. Well, 322 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: it'll have a separate evaporator. But if it's got a 323 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: knob if you look, if you look up from the 324 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: driver's seat between the driver and the passenger seat up 325 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: on the roof, is there are separate three separate knobs 326 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: for heat blood position. Yeah, so you have rear you 327 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: have rear A C and heat. So what that means 328 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: is if you look under the hood and follow the 329 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: heater hoses out from the firewall. You're gonna see a t, 330 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: a plastic t where it branches off and feeds the 331 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: rear heater core. So you want to replace those heater hoses, 332 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: the plastic t s because all this stuff is old. 333 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: Now it's all it's it's old and brittle, and it's 334 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: been you know, whether it's in New Jersey or Colorado 335 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: or Florida or Texas, it's been exposed to the elements 336 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: for so long. And part of the issue will be 337 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: that you're going to find that trying to replace just 338 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: the heater hoses and the nipples that to go into 339 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: the hose is a little bit of a chore. You're 340 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: better off trying to replace it at your leisure than 341 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: on the side of the road somewhere at two o'clock 342 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: in the morning. So you know, so it's heater hoses. 343 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: If you look under the throttle body, there's a little well, 344 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: it's probably a quarter inch i D short hose about 345 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: five inches long with two push style clamps squeeze clamps. 346 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: They provide coolant that provides coolant coming out of the 347 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: one corner of the head uh to the other corner 348 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: of the head change that rubber hose. And that hose 349 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: is tough to find. You're gonna have to You're gonna 350 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: have to hit the dealer to find that. It took 351 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: me forever to have my guy find it, but I 352 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: did find it eventually. Uh, you want to look at 353 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: obviously I'm trying to get you to do all the 354 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: cooling system hoses. If the coolant bottle, and I doubt 355 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: it looks perfect. If if the coolant bottle is still available, 356 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: change the coolant bottle, the plastic bottle on the right 357 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: side fender. Well, because you know you're gonna spend all 358 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: this money on parts, you might as well put a 359 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: bottle in it, because that's that's gonna be the source 360 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: of any contamination eighteen years later down the line. So 361 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: get that done, and then you know, I agree with 362 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: the water pump, a thermostat obviously, look at belts, obviously, 363 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: look at tension or if any of that stuff's original 364 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: hundred sixty miles Yeah, why not now in the old day? Yeah, 365 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: so you want to you want to look at all 366 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: that in the old days and take a look at 367 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: the A C compressor clutch. Just make sure it's not 368 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: too beat up looking. The compressors on those cars sit 369 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: down low, and they tend to get oil drainback issues 370 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: and lock up the shoes as well. In the old 371 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: days we would talk about doing timing chains, but the 372 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: l S motors have a pretty good chain set up, 373 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: and I don't know that it's necessary. You can judge 374 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: what the inside of the motor looks like. Maybe you 375 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: look around inside the oil field capital to dipstick out 376 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: and judge it from there, But other than that, I'd 377 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: probably leave the motor alone. Do those cooling system things, 378 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: and maybe just maybe in a C condenser and if 379 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: it's equipped any oil coolers out in front of the engine, 380 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: out in front of the condenser as well. I'm run 381 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,479 Speaker 1: an any in the car doctor. I'll be back right 382 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: after this. Let's get on down and talk to Mike 383 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: and Maryland and Mike, you're around with any of the 384 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: card doctor eight five five five zero zero, the car 385 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:51,199 Speaker 1: doctor seven phone number? How can I help? Michael? Yes, sir, Yes, hey, 386 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: you doing good. Listen. I got a question here about 387 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: it's cut two things I bought a used today nine 388 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: thousand miles on it, and I've been told to put 389 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 1: that additive in and I have. Uh I had a 390 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: Chrysler before that that I never did put anything in? 391 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: Which which which? Which you told to put in? Michael 392 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: at hun Day. They're special formulated brand. They call it 393 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: for added in the gas tank, in the oil and 394 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: the radiator gas in the gas tank. Gotcha? Okay? Okay? 395 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: Well anyway, Uh, I was riding down the road and 396 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: this thing has a drive mode setting on it where 397 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: you have spot eco normal. I had her an Eco mode, 398 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: and I want to push down on the gas. Nothing 399 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: was happening. Pushed a little hard, a little hard or harder, 400 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: and finally she took off. I guess she dropped into 401 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: a lower gear and uh I looked at the back 402 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: and I saw a bloom of white smoke. Was scared 403 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: the daylights out of me. I didn't get any anything 404 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: up on the dash any lights. Took her there and 405 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: to the dealership, and eight told me that there's nothing wrong, 406 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: that that could have been some carbon build up. Uh 407 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: is that the case? Do you think that would be 408 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 1: the case? Yeah? I would, I would think so. I mean, 409 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 1: we're talking about a one or two year old car 410 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: that uh low miles? I forget how many miles? Did 411 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: you say? We're on this car. Well, when I got 412 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: it had nine. When this happened, it was about seventeen 413 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: thousand miles. So maybe you have to drive a little 414 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: Maybe you gotta push down the pedal a little harder. Michael, 415 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna have to get you to I probably do because, uh, 416 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: it give us an average driving speed up there in 417 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: My average driving speed is twenty three miles an hour 418 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: in New Jersey. In New Jersey, Michael, you would be 419 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: getting run over, all right. You can't do twenty three. 420 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: They do twenty three miles an hour. And your driveways 421 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: in New Jersey, so you on the highway, forget it. 422 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: You would just you'd have a problem. But in all seriousness, 423 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: carbon that's a little harder. Well, carbon cleaning is not 424 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: a bad thing to do, but it's also you know, 425 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: there are byproducts, there are things that build up in 426 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: the exhausts them. I still believe, and people will give 427 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: me the argument that taking a car out for a 428 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: good long ride is still probably one of the better 429 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,640 Speaker 1: things to do with it. Uh. You know the car 430 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: that we see, we see it all the time. We 431 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: had a two thousand, nine f one fifty. We have 432 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: a father's son at the shop. Randy and Mike. Randy's 433 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: the son. Uh. They purchased two identical two thousand nine 434 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: f one fifties back in two thousand nine, brand new. 435 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: One's got serial number that ends in four eight two. 436 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: The other one's got serial numbers in four eight three. 437 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: They're identical trucks right after each other on the assembly line. Okay, 438 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: Michael drives his truck everywhere, the father Michael's. The father's 439 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: truck has got probably a hundred and ten thousand miles 440 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: on it. We've put more money in Randy's, all right, 441 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: because Randy's only got forty nine. He just turned fifty 442 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: thousand miles on the truck. We put more money in 443 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: Randy's probably one and a half times because it just 444 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: never goes anywhere, and you know, sitting, lack of use, 445 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: lack of mileage. All that stuff caused is build up. 446 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: All that stuff causes issues. So if perhaps your question 447 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: is how can you get the longest life out of 448 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: your hunday? Is that really what you're asking me? Yeah? 449 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: And that kind of scared me too, because I never 450 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 1: noticed that in my Chrysler, and I had that plume 451 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: come out of the hun day and Uh, sometimes I'll 452 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: let her idle for five or ten minutes, you know, 453 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: in a parking lot somewhere. Son, I didn't know if 454 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: that hurt it or not. No, I don't think so. 455 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: I think I still think it comes back to It's 456 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: where I started the show today this week, that it 457 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: still comes back to quality of the oil being used, 458 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,199 Speaker 1: a good oil change on a regular basis, regular fluids 459 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: and maintenance. I think for the person like you that's 460 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: doing low speed driving and not a lot of driving 461 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: beyond doing a fuel system editive in the tank on 462 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: a regular basis, I think you're gonna find that if 463 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: your local mechanic or dealership, if they do any sort 464 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 1: of fuel system cleaning at mileage intervals, and thirty thousand 465 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 1: would be a typical place to start for you. I'd 466 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: probably I'd probably start doing you at twenty or twenty five, 467 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: just because you just don't you just don't go far. Uh. 468 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: You know, my next question would be, you know the 469 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: nearest place you go? Are you three minutes this way, 470 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: five minutes that way, ten minutes this way and then home? 471 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: And yeah pretty much? Okay, Well, in the summer, warm 472 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: up is not going to be a problem. It gets 473 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: kind of cold in Maryland in the winter, right January 474 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: and Maryland. It's not exactly, it's not exactly. Yeah, So 475 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: you know, you're three minutes that way, five minutes this way, 476 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: ten minutes that way, and then home. The engine probably 477 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: never warms up. Therefore, the oil never comes up to temperature, 478 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: the oil never boils off any of the impurities. The 479 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: oil starts to break down, and the oil actually causes 480 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: some lubrication problems and helps create carbon issius, which leads 481 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: us back to doing regular maintenance. Is still the best 482 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: thing you can do for that car, you know, as 483 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,960 Speaker 1: as good as cars are, and good lord, they've gotten better, 484 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: all right. I never thought in my forty three years 485 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: of fixing cars, maybe forty four years of fixing cars. 486 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: Now I'm forget. I'm getting old, so you forget how 487 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: long you've been doing it. Um, I never thought i'd 488 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: see some of the things I'm seeing in terms of 489 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: how well cars run and what kind of abuse they 490 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: can take. But it's still an internal combustion engine. It 491 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,159 Speaker 1: still requires basics, it's still requires some common sense, and 492 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: you know, we we we can't get away from that. 493 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: And that's kind of the crux of all this. All right, 494 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You're welcome, Michael. You take good care. Um, 495 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how long it's been. I gotta tell 496 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: you this funny story, Mikey. So I got the sixty 497 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: six Cadillac in the shop. There's a carburetor on it. 498 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: I remember what a carburetor was. Well, wow, look at that. 499 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: Oh look, mixing pot. Trying to explain to Danny my 500 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: tenure been with me ten years, my technio or don't 501 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: you know carburetor? Well this does this, and Danny knows carburetors. 502 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: Danny is not, you know, but like we're laughing about 503 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: all the things you forget over the years. So it's 504 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: been so long. I took out my timing light to 505 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: check the timing the car. It's got a running issue. 506 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: My timing light doesn't work. So now so now, and 507 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 1: you know it's funny how snap on tools break, right, 508 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: They always break the day the guy is coming because 509 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: they know. All right. So I'm going, well, let's see. 510 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: I think it was a this timing light back and 511 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: stay coded. So the timing lights I've had the timing 512 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: lights nine. Let's let's think about that for a minute. Okay, 513 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:33,239 Speaker 1: eighty nine nine timing lights thirty years old? How can 514 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: it be broken? I'm telling them it's only thirty years old. 515 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 1: But snap on quality. Quality comes at the price. And 516 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: it didn't work. So hopefully next week I got my 517 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: new timing lighter, this one rebuilt for a hundred seventy 518 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: five bucks. As we priced out the replacement timing light, 519 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: a new timing light and all you guys think old 520 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: cars are so easy to work on, right, A new 521 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: timing light is four and eighty six dollars And I went, yeah, no, 522 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: I don't think so. Um, you know, I just know 523 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: I don't think so, because it's got a built and 524 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: dwell eater and tech and you know, toilet flush and 525 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: stereo balance and a woofer and a tweeter and it 526 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: does everything you want it not not just fix the 527 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: old Layton, but you know, it's the life and times 528 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: of an auto mechanic. I'm going to write a book, 529 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: so why you can't get your car fixed? By Ron 530 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: and Ainty and the car Doctor. That'll be retirement eight 531 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine zero zero, because there's 532 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: all kinds of reasons and I'll be back right after 533 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:28,439 Speaker 1: this Welcome back. We're on a need of the Car 534 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 1: Doctor five five zero zero, the Car Doctor seven phone number. 535 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: Give us a call, leave a message. If we're not 536 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: on the air. We're live Saturday afternoons to the four 537 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: pm on the network where East Coast Boys. You can 538 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: leave a message and executive producer and chief cook and 539 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: bottle washer Thomas Ray. We'll give you a call back 540 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: and put you in the live que for the next 541 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: live broadcast. Sam in Illinois, how can I help you today, sir? 542 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: To for Nicol? What's going on right? Thanks? I take 543 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: my call, appreciate your show. Thank you, sir. I appreciate 544 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: what what I'm on. I got a two point question 545 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: of two different cars. They're both Toyotas. The first one 546 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: is an Avalon and I want to change that the 547 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: transmission fluid, and the way I was thinking about doing 548 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: it is this. So I'd leave it sitting there throughout 549 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: the night, let it cool down, and in the morning 550 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: I would drain the oil, I mean drain the fluid. 551 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: And I know there's a six millimeter um another not 552 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: within the drain club of that unit, so I would 553 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 1: take that out as well and drain, drain that fluid 554 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: and then I would measure that fluid um all the 555 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: way exactly what it is, and then I would put 556 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,159 Speaker 1: in exactly what I what I measured back into the 557 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: the new fluid. Here's the here's the fault in that plan. Okay, 558 00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,719 Speaker 1: what if the trans is low? Okay, well, and I'm 559 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: not never been changed, right, Well, but trans fluid does evaporate. 560 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: Trans fluid is a very trans fluid can evaporated, can lose. 561 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's gonna lose great abundance. But and 562 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: then we can't we can't make the assumption that it 563 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: was filled right from the factory. I can tell you 564 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 1: stories it would be that, you know, but I like 565 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: the way you're thinking. I really like the way you're thinking. 566 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: You're probably going to find that it takes somewhere between 567 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: three and four quarts if it's the trends I'm thinking of, 568 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: and it's wus fluid. But I got a suspicion you 569 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 1: already do that, all right, um, and then you know, 570 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: why not why not drain it out, do what you're saying. 571 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: Do what you're saying, drain it out, measure it. Okay, 572 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: you'll probably find out it's like three or three and 573 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: a half courts something like that. All right, and then 574 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: take the There should be a site plug on the 575 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: driver's side of the case. All right, have you looked 576 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 1: at the procedure for this I've been reading. Yeah, there 577 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: should mean a Phil bill plug. Well yeah, the well 578 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: is it a Phil plug or yeah, it's on the 579 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: on the on the on the driver's side wheel. You 580 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: take that off right there, right right, correct, right, and 581 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: you take that out and you're gonna take out the um, 582 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,239 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's the pill. And then the piece at 583 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: the bottom is the is the spill over um, it's 584 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: it's it's the it's the damn as we like that. 585 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: It's the Ford style, you know. It's splashes over the 586 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: top like a bird bath kind of a um uh Phil. 587 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: So you'll you'll see it come out as a trickle. 588 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: And when it comes out as a trickle, there you're full. 589 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: Why not just do it that way? Did you get 590 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: I lost you? I lost you? Yes, when you're talking, 591 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: you're talking about the Phil plug. Right, Well, there's right, 592 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: there's gotta be there's a drain plug. And then there's 593 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,479 Speaker 1: a little tiny allen in the center of it. Right, yes, okay, Right, 594 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: if you take that little tiny six millimeter out of 595 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: the center of the drain plug. I believe, I believe 596 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: that's the that's where they want to to measure drops from. Right, 597 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: isn't that this trans am? I thinking of something else? Right, Okay, 598 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: so that's the you know, we want. They want three 599 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: drops per ten seconds or some ridiculous you know. Um, 600 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: uh yeah, you know it's it's it's you know, I 601 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 1: don't know who invents these things, but uh, you know, 602 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 1: I was talking with somebody this morning in Hawaii and 603 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: he says, why do engineers put these things here and there? 604 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, I gave up trying 605 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: to figure out engineers about twenty five years ago. I 606 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: just it doesn't make any sense to me. And then 607 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: just fill it in through the through the fill plug 608 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: on the side of the case, you know, bring it 609 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: up the moderate temperature, all right, I wouldn't. I'm not 610 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: too I'm not too nuts about you know, what exact 611 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: temperature I'll hook up as scantable. Yeah, I'll look at 612 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: I'll look at temp on a on a scan tool 613 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: and look at trans fluid temperature. But you know, it's 614 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: it's sometimes a smidge Moore is always better. Um has 615 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: been my experience. So but you know, it's it's if 616 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: it's if it's if it's four drops per second versus three, 617 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have an aneurysm over it. So I 618 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think that second question it was, 619 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: it's on a ninety and it's gotta have in ten 620 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: thousand on it. This is this is my baby, so, um, 621 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: this is the one I'm married to forever. Um. The 622 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: problem I have is my my rear end. It Uh, 623 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: it has a um what do you call it? I 624 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: can't remember now. No, it's that the opinion bearing opinion 625 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: bearing during deceleration, it starts to hum. What's yeah, it's 626 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: got wine to it exactly. It's only in deceleration. But 627 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: my my question is I know that there's other cars. 628 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, but I'm asking if there's 629 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: other cars that the rear end is adaptable to that vehicle, 630 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: any any other cars? Nothing off the top of my head, 631 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: because getting parts for that might be tough. It's hard. Yeah, yeah, 632 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: that's why I know. I mean in lotuses they use 633 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: you know, for brakes, they used to have a break 634 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But I just wondering if you 635 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: came across you haven't that differential? Have you tried getting 636 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: new components, new parts out of Toyota? I do, I 637 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: buy components. But what's happening is every time I see something, 638 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: I snag it because I know they're gonna be discontinued. 639 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: So and the only thing I've been able to find 640 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: is uh uh these spider gears and um, there is 641 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: a there is a opinion bearing kit about eight hundred 642 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: fifty bucks. Well, money is no object. You said you 643 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: want to stay married to this forever. So yeah, you know, 644 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: you know, you know what, you know what. Sam, Sit tight, 645 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: Let me pull over, let me let me get this, 646 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,479 Speaker 1: Let me get this last break out of the way. 647 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: When I come back, I got some ideas for you. 648 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: I don't want to rush ship and just push you 649 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: off the zero zero. We're coming back. Don't go away resisting. Hey, 650 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: running into the car doctor on the front with Sam 651 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: from Illinois. Sam, you're still there. We're talking about Sam's 652 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: rear and his preview and um about parts for the 653 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: real differential and opinion bearings and such. Sam. If you 654 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: know what, I'll say it like this, are you are 655 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,400 Speaker 1: you trying to find parts that you're gonna do this yourself. 656 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: You're trying to find parts to have somebody else do it. Okay, 657 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. Do you have a Do you 658 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: have a good trans rebuilder in town? A good trans shop? 659 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: Um that there's a couple of them, which I have 660 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: no idea. I mean, I have to check on anything. 661 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,479 Speaker 1: But I thought, you know, i'd do my homework, get 662 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: everything ready, and the least I got everything, and then 663 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: you know, whatever the parts they would need, I would have. Right. Well, 664 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: the issue becomes that if you you know trans shops, 665 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: you know you've got to give a lot of credit 666 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: to transmission shops. Right they see a customer how often 667 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: once every five years or once every ten years, and 668 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,399 Speaker 1: they got to build a relationship real quick. And they've 669 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: got to be smart and they've got to they've got 670 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 1: to deal with some complexities of vehicles today that you know, 671 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,720 Speaker 1: an independent mechanics sees that car in a regular basis, 672 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: he gets to know the car. Trans guys are really smart, 673 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: the good ones, and I would I would pick one. 674 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: I would pick one of the ones in town, go 675 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 1: up talk to him, say hey, here's here's what I'm 676 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: looking to do you know do you have a source 677 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: before you go and find your own parts? You know 678 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: he may be you know, sometimes some chefs don't want 679 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: don't want somebody bringing him the bacon and eggs. Sometimes 680 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:41,919 Speaker 1: they want to use their own bacon and eggs because 681 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: they know they've got a better source for it than 682 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: you might have. And they feel better about warranteeing a 683 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,919 Speaker 1: repair that's done with their parts versus yours. So pick 684 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: a good trans shop, go talk to him. Hey, listen, um, 685 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: you know, here's the deal. I've got this, I've got 686 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: this preview. It needs a rear and rebuild. Is that 687 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: something you can do? And you give me an idea 688 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: on cost? Can you give me an idea on what 689 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: the warranty is? And if you can't find parts, can 690 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,399 Speaker 1: you find parts? Do you mind if I bring you parts? 691 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: If we can have a conversation about quality of parts, 692 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 1: and I'll do my best to catch to something either 693 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: original equipment or close to it. Try it before you 694 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:17,839 Speaker 1: spend a lot of time doing it the other way. 695 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,759 Speaker 1: Let's see where you go. I'm not an Indian the 696 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 1: car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive. Their places