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Speaker 1: Have you ever changed the fluid? I got it around

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Speaker 1: we do a fluid change. Welcome to the radio home

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Speaker 1: of Ron Ananian, the Car Doctor. Since this is where

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Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion

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

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Speaker 1: at eight and now running. I wonder how many of

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Speaker 1: He said, Ron, I've got four hundred and forty two

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Speaker 1: A truer statement never was made, So can you expect

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Speaker 1: If they're charging you less than an hour, they're doing

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Speaker 1: Is it called there, Georgia. Is it's snow end cold?

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Speaker 1: If the oil is spotless clean, but the stick itself

427
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 1: has got grime and varnish on it, that means the

428
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: guy never changed the oil and he just changed it

429
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: now because he's selling it, so he wants to make

430
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: it look like it has clean oil in it. All right.

431
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: If if he really did good oil changes, the dipstick

432
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 1: will be reasonably clean with low varnish, especially on a

433
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: less than twenty thousand mile vehicle. All right, you know, So,

434
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: so look at that, you know, ask him why why

435
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: is he selling it? Why are why are you selling this?

436
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: All right? What's the reason. Maybe he's got a good reason,

437
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: and maybe it's not so good. Watch his body language

438
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: when he gives you the answer, all right? Does he

439
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: shift his weight? Does he look away from you? What

440
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: are the indicators? All right? Look at the radio stations?

441
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 1: What radio stations are set on this vehicle? All right?

442
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: If it's heavy, if it's heavy metal, death rock, you

443
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: know his kid was driving it. If it's classical or mozart,

444
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: you know he was driving it. You know, radio stations

445
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 1: are the giveaway. All right. Open up the trunk and

446
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: look in the spare tire. Well, is there any water

447
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: in the spare tire? Well? Any signs of moisture, any

448
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: signs of you know, it doesn't look like when it rains.

449
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: Maybe water is collecting in the trunk, and you know

450
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: the water drains out, but it collects. You know, he

451
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 1: always looks for a water leak in the trunk. That way,

452
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 1: that'll tell you something, all right, and you know, just

453
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: drive it. You'll get a fuel for it. Look at

454
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: the brake pedal, look at the pads to that. You know,

455
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: the does the brake pedal look like it has a

456
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: reasonable amount of where for nineteen thousand miles. At nineteen

457
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 1: thousand miles, I'm expecting not to see much. You know,

458
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: it should be in pretty good shape. And uh, you know,

459
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: kind of take it from there and ask for receipts

460
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: on maintenance, any maintenance and repairs. At this point, he

461
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: should have done well, in my mind, a minimum of

462
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 1: one wheel change a year. I would like to hopefully

463
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,720
Speaker 1: it had two oil changes a year, regardless of mileage.

464
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: So but you know, it's you'll know, you know, and um,

465
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: obviously you know, make sure you know you're pricing before

466
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: you get there. What kind of money is he asking

467
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: for it? Um, he's asking for ten nine, but I'm

468
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: I'm putting a two grain down payment right and ask him,

469
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, is it is? It was it his cars?

470
00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: He you know, is he doing this for a friend?

471
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: It's listen, you're a sharp you're a sharp guy. You

472
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: know what to do. I'm just you know, I'm just

473
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 1: being a mother hen um, but you know, just just

474
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: just watch yourself. You know, it's uh private person, cast

475
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: change his hands. Um. And last thing, and I always

476
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: say this on a private sale, take the title. Take

477
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: the title, match the title to the vent on the car.

478
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: I've seen that that. I've seen it in my career

479
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: more than a few times. Um, And sometimes it's innocent.

480
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: I've had people. I've seen cases where I'll use the

481
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: example of this car for whatever reason, there's two sixteen

482
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 1: Chevy Cruises in the family, and the guy gets the

483
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: cars mixed up which one he's selling and he gives

484
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: you the wrong title, and boy does that create a mess.

485
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: And then there's the one where it's then there's the

486
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,959
Speaker 1: one where it's not the right title because it's not

487
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 1: his car to sell. And that's all. That's a whole

488
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: another conversation. So, um, you know, but some things to

489
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: look for, all right, kiddo. Yeah, so you're very welcome.

490
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: Good luck with it, enjoy it, take good care. Zero. Hey,

491
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: I got the phone number right, I'll do that again.

492
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: I try calling the other number. You're gay before Bubble

493
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 1: says high, Yeah, well that's you know, that's Tom. I

494
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: was zoning out on Zeros. We should tell everybody real quick.

495
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: We got we have a minute. Sure, Okay, So we've

496
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: doing this radio show together nine years now, about seven

497
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: seven years seven, and gee, why does it seem longer

498
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: with you? And yes, yeah, the fielding is mutual. Uh.

499
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: But we've we've been doing this show and we've been

500
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: actually sitting there looking at each other for seven years, right,

501
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: and then COVID came along, the coronavirus, right, and we

502
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's we have the social distance for

503
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons, family reasons, we can't we can't

504
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: be around each other. So you tell the story. So

505
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm telling tell everybody what we created. Well, you know,

506
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: we're used to sitting in the studio with you on

507
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: one side of the glass, me on the other. And

508
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: and normally when I'm in the studio, I've got to

509
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: I've got a control console in front of me. I've

510
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: got a computer that does the commercial breaks and such.

511
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: I've got another computer that controls the phone system and

512
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: does various other things. Well, COVID came along. Now you're

513
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: sitting there in the bat cave in in the wilds

514
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 1: of New Jersey, and I'm sitting up here in orange

515
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: out in New York doing the show this way. And

516
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,239
Speaker 1: we've got one two digital link, three digital links for

517
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: audio going. One that brings the audio from you to

518
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: me and the telephone audio one where I can answer

519
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: the phones in the studio in Jersey, another one so

520
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: you can hear what I'm up to. Um, I've got

521
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: a computer link in so I can look at the

522
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: various computers at the studio. Uh. The only thing I

523
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: don't have control of is the console. And we had

524
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: an issue last week where I went to bring you

525
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: out a break. The automation system fired the music bed.

526
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: We call that a bumper. When the bumper hit, all

527
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I lost the screen. I was like,

528
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: I can't tell Ron to come back. I think I

529
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: better pick up the mic and talk. And and you know,

530
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is, it seems like when something goes wrong,

531
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: I can hear you thinking, and I I know where

532
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: to go. And with it's Tom, it's just like you're

533
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: here because we're still used. And the weird thing is

534
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: I can tell by your voice when you're gonna go

535
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: to break. Uh, while I can't. While I can't stare

536
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: at you right now and give you the look that

537
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: means you're going too long. We need to go to break.

538
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: I I send you notes on the computer. Yeah, by

539
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: the way, Tom, can I tell you something? Sure? We

540
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: went long? We have to go to break a zero

541
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: running anting. The car Doctor and Tom Rag's acutive producer

542
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: will both be back right after this. Let's big welcome back.

543
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: Wanted any of the car doctor. Let's get over to Kenna, Missouri. Ken.

544
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: How can I help you today? What's going on? Sir?

545
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: I just I just wanted to comment on that guy

546
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: there last week about Dolph desultiating a battery. It sounds

547
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: kind of complicated to me. I don't know where you're

548
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: hand on, but I got too bad raies that guy today.

549
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: He's right on the right track, you know. Okay, it's

550
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: what he's got hooked up to his keeps his desul faded.

551
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: And I got to over nine years old and all

552
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: I use is a one and a half amp automatic

553
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: charger because I have mine and stories. But I bring

554
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: my batteries home and you know, having hooked up all

555
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: winter and they're still running, and what are you start

556
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: and find? What? What are the batteries for? Can aaron

557
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: my vehicles? Okay, yeah, they're they're five years batteries and

558
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: they're over nine years old. I got have a one

559
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: and half amp charger hooked up to him. When when

560
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: they're in storage you know, it's it's an interesting idea that,

561
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: like I said prior you know this hour, that the

562
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: industry is starting to take notice of it. Because as

563
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: I thought about it, I thought about it last week

564
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: to this week, I said, why aren't we doing worth

565
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: battery desalt faits? You know obviously the answer is what

566
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: we won't sell batteries. But you know the other side

567
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: of it is we don't have hazardous waste to get

568
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: rid of in a landfill. And you know that that's true.

569
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: I worked in places for a little bit. I mean,

570
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: it's has this job and it's has this for the environment, right,

571
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: so you would think that if they could get away

572
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: with the soul fitting batteries, you know, as it were,

573
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: it would it would work. Um, you know, it seemed

574
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: to make sense. Well, we'll see. Listen, maybe we're on

575
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: the camp. What go ahead, tell one half amp or

576
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: we'll save you. Okay, Well, automatic automatic charger and what

577
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: brand charger is that? Ken? I got shoemakers. Okay, So

578
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: it's just a basic battery charger, just automatic automatic one

579
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: half ALP and they'll take care of your battery twice

580
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: as long as what they're rated for. Because I've proved

581
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: it on two batteries already, and I got come holder

582
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: and then my mercury because I got to have a

583
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: I got had to have a new one from a

584
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: show truck motorcraft. It's it's in my mercury right now,

585
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: starting like a new one. Interesting. Interesting, Hey, Ken, we

586
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: gotta go, but I appreciate the call, sir, you take

587
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: good care. Nine zero running at the car Doctor and Company.

588
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Hey, welcome back running into

589
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: the car doctor. Let's real quick go over Roman in

590
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Oh six Dodge Ram Roman. We got about

591
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes, Babe, what's going on? Okay?

592
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: I got a two thousand six Dodge Ram five point

593
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: seven Hammy. And for maybe two years it's been it's

594
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: been losing some coolant and a radiator. So you would add,

595
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, a gallant would last be six months, you know,

596
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: I would add a little bit. Then I added the

597
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: stop leave. I'm kind of a stop leak uh stuff

598
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: into you know, thinking maybe that's got a I couldn't

599
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: see any leak any where. It was just losing it,

600
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: so that that works pretty good. But what happened for

601
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: the last maybe for the last six months, it does

602
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: not suck up the cooling back from the from the

603
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: side reservoir. Then I have to add to the radiator,

604
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: you know, every week, and then the other one ends

605
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: up being full. So does the side reservoir get over full?

606
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: It goes all the way up, you know, like maybe

607
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: an ant or two from the top. But does it go?

608
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: But I think it does go. I think it eventually does,

609
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: because I could see some as you do, a fluid,

610
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: Like today was very hot and I could see a

611
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: little bit of fluid on top, but it's maybe a

612
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: two inches from the top. Are you still adding cooling? Well,

613
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: today the temperature started going hotter than normal, so I

614
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: know later on tonight I'll have to add some into

615
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: the radiator. Okay, but I have to wait till it's cool.

616
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: How many miles on this truck Roman? Uh? Four hundred

617
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: six six thousand miles? Yeah? Okay, but it runs beautiful.

618
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: You didn't you didn't see me jump? All right? I

619
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: just want to know what I'm dealing with. My My

620
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: thought is that originally the last two years while you

621
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 1: were driving it, the reason you're adding coolant is because

622
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: it's got a seeping head gasket. Yeah, That's what I'm thinking, right,

623
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: so you know where is it going? And now the

624
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: problem is you added a stop league. Uh do you do?

625
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: You remember the brand? What it was? I no, but

626
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: I you talked about it. So that's the one I got.

627
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: All right, So you put case, you put K Seal

628
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: in it. Yes, that's right, that's right. But I took

629
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: the bigger one, the one that says truck that maybe

630
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: it was too much, but just recently I drained all

631
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: the fluid just I toold maybe there was too much

632
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: of that ANYM rained it all out. And what I

633
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: would want to know is, well, once K Seal goes

634
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: in place, it's in place. What I'd want to know

635
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: is how hots the truck run? And listen to me,

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Speaker 1: how hots the truck running? Does the radiator seem like

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Speaker 1: it's got any restrictions to it? Does it seem like

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Speaker 1: it's got any hot spots? A little cooling system diagnosis

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Speaker 1: is in order here, because eventually you're gonna hurt something

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Speaker 1: more than you might have already by running it this

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Speaker 1: many miles low on cool and I'm running any of

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Speaker 1: the car. Doctor mechanics aren't expensive, they're pricelessness