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Speaker 1: Ron at card Doctor show dot com. If you can't

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Speaker 1: Good luck. Let me know if you know anything else.

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five zero zero zero, Give Ron a call?

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Speaker 1: welo to the car, doctor, sir, what's going on? Thank

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Speaker 1: one's working. So let's let's watch both upstream. O two's

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Speaker 1: all right, and let's let's give it a test. Let's

426
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Speaker 1: get them good and hot. Let's take the car for

427
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Speaker 1: a ride. Let's come back. Let's watch what they do.

428
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: If we don't see them fail, or we don't see

429
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: the one make its mistake, let's let's let's test it.

430
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: Let's create a vacuum leak. What is what do they do?

431
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: They should both nose dive. Let's feed him a little

432
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Speaker 1: artificial fuel. Let's throw a little propane down the throat

433
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 1: of the car. Both O two should pay at nine

434
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Speaker 1: tenths of a alter more. If they don't, you've got

435
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: a lazy oh to change it. All right? I agree.

436
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,360
Speaker 1: I agree with the Barryman stuff. I agree with doing

437
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: fuel system cleaning, carbon cleaning, older car, higher mileage, I

438
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,440
Speaker 1: get it, but this is kind of cut and dry

439
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 1: to change or to test now last thing and then

440
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: I gotta go. I got a lot of calls. Um,

441
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: you know. The other thing to think about is could

442
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: we have a wiring issue. Could we have a PCM

443
00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: issue meaning the computer can't interpret properly. But that's you know,

444
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: that's nine steps down the road. Let's go through some

445
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Speaker 1: basic go to testing and diagnostics like I described, call

446
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Speaker 1: me back if you got a problem. Will go from

447
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 1: there on the sensors scant tool on the sensors. Let's watch.

448
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: Let's watch both upstream censors. Let's watch both downstream sensors.

449
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: They should reasonably mirror each other. And if one's showing

450
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Speaker 1: an extreme difference, in particular the upstream bank one censor

451
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Speaker 1: when it sets the code, well, we know, maybe we've

452
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Speaker 1: got a sensor issue. Maybe the censor's dying of slow death. Alright, sir,

453
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: you can be caught back. I'll mention this in the mechanics. Yeah,

454
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: and listen. He can also listen to this podcast. He

455
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: can get up and uh, he can get up and

456
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: pick it up on radio. Get out if he wants

457
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: to podcast. This is a live broadcast, but he can

458
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: the podcast go up visa v our website car Doctor

459
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: Show dot com, and he can listen to the second

460
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Speaker 1: hour on whatever day. This is the fourth of May.

461
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: I forget sometimes I'm not sure where I am. But yeah,

462
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: by all means, Charles, thank you. Let's go over to

463
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Speaker 1: Jim Minnesota. Oh four jeep wrangler tailgate latch issue. Yes, Jim,

464
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: how can I help you? Sir? Yes, my oh four wrangler. Uh.

465
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: When you have the back open, that means the lift

466
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: gate is up, the back tail is swung open. You

467
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: shut down your top glass lift gate, you shut your

468
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: back uh hinged gate with a spare tire on it,

469
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: and you go, well. Uh, if it's a bit of

470
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 1: a bumpy road or whatever, and you get to where

471
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 1: you're going and you don't notice it in the reins, well,

472
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: the carpet gets wet in the back and you look

473
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 1: and you can see the window kind of pop. Actually

474
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Speaker 1: open the it on the bottom. Now you go ahead

475
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: and open up again. Shut it seals it up. Uh.

476
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: If you take both doors, meaning there's two people in

477
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: the vehicle and you're getting out and you slam both doors,

478
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 1: sometimes the pressure actually pops that a little bit. Um.

479
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: As long as you don't as long as you're on

480
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: a smooth road, it doesn't open. Let me ask you this,

481
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: How come this just can't be a bad latch? I

482
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 1: there is no latch. As soon as you dropped down

483
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: that tailgate is just on those two rods. And you

484
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: drop the tailgate down, it just sits there. And then

485
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: you shut the door latch on the bottom and it's tight.

486
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: The doorlatch is still tight, but the window so I'm

487
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: not sure where the latch. Something has to lock the

488
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: glass to the body though. The only thing that locks

489
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: it is that right, is the swinging gate, and that's

490
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Speaker 1: nice and tight. I looked at that. I checked all

491
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Speaker 1: the bolts, mat and the chunk of rubber that comes down.

492
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: Could it be that the rubber Could it be that

493
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: the rubber is collapsed and it's not creating a tight

494
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: body seal anymore. It's it's possible. Boy, it doesn't look

495
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't look bad because I keep it clean all

496
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,120
Speaker 1: the time. Laper down, good with arm or all. Okay,

497
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: So let me ask you. Let me ask you this.

498
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: What if you put a small wedge of cardboard, not

499
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: a lot, a small wedge of cardboard in the bottom

500
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 1: corner of each area where the glass makes contact where

501
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: the rubber hits the body, and then close it. Now

502
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. You don't want to put so

503
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: much cardboard you distort the glass and break it. But

504
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: you want to just put enough. You know, a thin

505
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: sliver and a finch are less, just enough to take

506
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: up the slack. At least you'll know if closing the

507
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: door and latching the bottom half locks the top. At

508
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: least you know you've got a a a glass fit

509
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: to the bottom issue. There's no guide pins that there's

510
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: no guide pins that come down off the glass and

511
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: lock it into the body. No. No, as soon as

512
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: you open that tailgate, it lifts up. The only thing

513
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: holding it are the two or the rods and then

514
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: a little piston rods and two hinges to just standard

515
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: metal hinges that go through the glass and then through

516
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: the top. Right, this is a wrangler, right, So this

517
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: is a hard This this is a hard top version.

518
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: This is on the hard top. Yeah, okay, this is

519
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 1: a hard top version. Try shimming it with cardboard. I've

520
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: seen I've seen the wrangler hardtops do a bunch of

521
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: weird things. And it may be that the rubber has collapsed,

522
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: even though it doesn't look at um. It may be

523
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: the fit of the of the glass itself to the

524
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: body channel where it supports it and that we can

525
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 1: talk about that next week. But try the cardboard trick.

526
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Speaker 1: Call me back next week, all right, I will do that,

527
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 1: all right, sir, you take good care. Let's go over

528
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: and let's pull over and take a pause. I'm on

529
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: any of the card doctor. We're back right after this.

530
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: Welcome back, I mean the car doctor rolling along zero,

531
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Speaker 1: the car doctor phone number. Let's go over to Hope

532
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: in Boston. How are you today, Hope? Are you doing wrong? Sure? Hey,

533
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: I'd like to thank you for your advice about that

534
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: whop sense. I believe about three or four months ago. Okay,

535
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: you did advised me of where to Luke, and I

536
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: think I was looking the wrong places of all things.

537
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: And uh, of course that course saved me a lot,

538
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: and it's working fine, and thank you very much. You're

539
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: very welcome, sir. You know that's that's what we're here for.

540
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: I also did the steering rock on this baby. But

541
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it takes two days to do

542
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: these things these days. I mean, you have to make

543
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: sure the clock spring is you know, straight, and the

544
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: rockies whatever and aligned the rack? Why is it so

545
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: complicated because people will continue to buy complicated cars. I

546
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: always I always say that, you know, it's it's listen.

547
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: In night six, General Motors came out with the Buick

548
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: Riviera with touch screen technology. Did you know that we

549
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: had we had touch screen We had touch screen technology

550
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: in six where the radio and the temperature controls were

551
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: all right in the center of the dashboard, and that

552
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the big seller. Okay, Buick Riviera

553
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: is an old Toronados. I think it was the Trefeos

554
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: And when the model year was done, dealers had rows

555
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: upon rows of those cars sitting on their back lots

556
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: that they couldn't sell because what what what General Motors

557
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: found out was the one flaw on the plan is

558
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: that touchscreen technology the way it was designed, in order

559
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: to use it, you have to take your eyes off

560
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: the road. So you know, so many people got into

561
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: accidents looking down to change the radio station and like

562
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: oh and you know, you know, so it just proves

563
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: the point people will stop buying, they'll stop taking the

564
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: cars that are so complicated. If we stop buying the

565
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: cars that are so complicated, you know, it's it's we

566
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: have a lot of a lot of power. You could

567
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: change an alternator in the to bake a champion in

568
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or fifteen not today, not today. Well, you know,

569
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: and the fact is, and then I've got to go

570
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: that the technology is there, we want the technology. We're

571
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,479
Speaker 1: also trying to clean the environment. It's you know, it's

572
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: a very complicated situation these days, with with the world

573
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: the way it is and the fuel resources and electric gas,

574
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: diesel and so on and so forth. But suffice it

575
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: to say that if you think it's complicated now, the

576
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: model years of the last of what I consider the

577
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: good cars, the sixteens, the seventeen, the eighteens, the nineteens

578
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: and beyond, you're gonna see higher labor costs. You're gonna

579
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: see more expensive repairs, You're going to see more technology,

580
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see people pushed into those cars because

581
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: the older cars, the parts aren't gonna be available and

582
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: there's no way to fix them at that point. You know,

583
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: I pity the guy that went out and bought a Corvette,

584
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: and I think about it all the time. Corvettes come

585
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: out with some really great cars, tens, the nines, the eights,

586
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: Because in twenty years where you gonna get the parts

587
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: to make that car run in terms of the body,

588
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: computer and everything else. I don't think you're gonna see it.

589
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: It's not like a pre seventies Corvette. So but anyway, UM,

590
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, sir. You have a good rest

591
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: of the afternoon. I'm running any of the Car Doctor.

592
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: We're back right after this talking about shaft. Yeah, running

593
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. Here, let's go and talk

594
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: to Bill and Iowa Bill thirty eight Chevy Coope. Welcome back, sir.

595
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey? Great, it's a super day. I'm

596
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: getting ready for Scoop to loop tonight. And it made

597
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: me think I got caught in the dark years ago,

598
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: and I didn't have bright light on that coop. Okay, okay,

599
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: so I bought me new how unger bulbs. They fit

600
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: right in. I'm in my car garage putting a man

601
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: setting the dimmer switch and everything, and I still had

602
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: no bright lights. My problem was the ground was rusty. Yeah,

603
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: I would, I would think, so sure do you have

604
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: two wires coming from the dimmer switch? And they were good?

605
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: And then bingo, I took Emory cloth cleaned up the

606
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: ground wire. I got perfect lights today. Yeah, that's the problem.

607
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: But the problem is that car was never designed with

608
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: a dimmer indicator whether you're on high beam or low beam.

609
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: So how would I go about wiring something in there? Well,

610
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: you'd have to tap into the high beam circuit, so

611
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: that way, when you power the high beam circuit on,

612
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: an indicator comes up somewhere. So you've got to get creative.

613
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: Look at the dash cluster, you know, do you have

614
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: do you have an auxiliary oil pressure gauge on this?

615
00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: Do you have a gauge? Do you have a repair

616
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: did gauge in an idiot light somewhere? Yes? I have

617
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: Stewart Warner gauges for oil pressure and uh electrical charge.

618
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: So so why can't we make it that if we

619
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: tap into one of the two spinometer icons? You know what,

620
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: do you have a little red dot for overheat or

621
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Speaker 1: low oil pressure or something. I got movable gauges for

622
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: oil pressure, movable gauge for temperature, and I got a

623
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: movable gauge for electricity. Right, But is there is there

624
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: is there um an idiot light display For lack of

625
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: a better term, let's say if um it had no

626
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: oil pressure factory, a red light come on, No, nope, nope, stock.

627
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: You gotta remember I got a stock well. Yeah, but

628
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: let's put to my point. You know what, what what

629
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: did a thirty eight Chevy instrument cluster have in the

630
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: way of an idiot light? Did it have anything? Nothing? Nothing?

631
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 1: Then we've got to come up with an exili re

632
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: light somewhere just just but you would, you know, mount

633
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: an auxiliary light and auxiliary l ed something somewhere out

634
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 1: of it. You can even put it on the floor

635
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: for all you care, uh, just anywhere, um you could.

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Speaker 1: You could mount it outside external of the body, as

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Speaker 1: long as it's waterproof and sealed and and you know,

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Speaker 1: just when you put the high beams on, you'll know, um,

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Speaker 1: easy enough. I mean I would also think that you

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Speaker 1: would know by what's bright, what's what's what's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's kind of a common sense. The

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Speaker 1: next question is the fuel gauge is the stock field

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Speaker 1: gauge in the conto and it works, and the gauge

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Speaker 1: works in the tank. But then the signal. But when

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Speaker 1: I turned neck nation on, I always read maximum on

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Speaker 1: my field gage. So I've got to have a short

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Speaker 1: ground short or something. Well, you have a ground short. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to go through It's a simple circuit, right,

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Speaker 1: It's just the resistance value variable in the tank. You'd

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Speaker 1: have to go through that. Look at the wiring to

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Speaker 1: the gauge. It's self. Call me back next week. I'm

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Speaker 1: running any of the car Doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive

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Speaker 1: their prices