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Speaker 1: Ronanian, there's a shortage of semiconductor chips, so you know,

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Speaker 1: computer chip bottleneck might raise used car price as well.

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Speaker 1: It actually is raising used car prices. Right, brand new

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Speaker 1: car to drive, the car Doctor. But this goes to

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Speaker 1: what you and a lot of our other followers have said,

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Speaker 1: not to a recent past, why kids don't really get

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Speaker 1: into cars. I was a high school kid Gonna Afford

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Speaker 1: called the fifteen grand for a beater, right, and that's

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Speaker 1: what it is. Welcome to the radio home of Ron Andanian,

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

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Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in the garage doors are open,

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

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Speaker 1: five and now running. I've got a scarky hour off

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Speaker 1: real quick, because I know we got a lot of calls.

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Speaker 1: And the Hello everybody by the way from Kathy writes

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Speaker 1: in nine to oh area code. Hey, Ron, I've got

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Speaker 1: the idea for electric cars running out of battery power.

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Speaker 1: My husband suggests towing a trailer with a gas power generator.

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Speaker 1: Big smiles. Now what would that look like everybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: have a generator on the back of their electric vehicle

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Speaker 1: to step charge. Yeah, but Kath, you'd still need gas

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Speaker 1: stations for that, and they don't want that. So which

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Speaker 1: brings to the question everybody that's got a generator in

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Speaker 1: the Northeast that I know of. Everybody in my neighborhood

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Speaker 1: is running a that's an internal combustion engine. It's running

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Speaker 1: putting out pollution. I don't know. Listen, somewhere, somebody's got

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Speaker 1: the answer. I'm just not sure who that is, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's not even me. Let's get over to Bob

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Speaker 1: and Wisconsin on nine Dodge Caleber. Let's get the garage

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Speaker 1: doors open early. We've got a lot of calls this

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Speaker 1: so I got a lot of work to do. Bob,

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Speaker 1: welcome up board, sir, running any and at your service.

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Speaker 1: How can I help you in your caliber? Hey, Ron,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Here my daughter's oh nine caliber.

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Speaker 1: She got about eighty six thousand miles on it. UH

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Speaker 1: last September we replaced the alternator. It was done by

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Speaker 1: a local shop here. They've been in business for the years.

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Speaker 1: About a month ago, she told me she's getting an

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Speaker 1: intermittent battery light when she starts the car. I drove

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Speaker 1: it for a week and as she said, it's intermittent.

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Speaker 1: Sometime it's there, sometime it's not. When the lights on

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Speaker 1: the charging system is not charging. And if we go

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Speaker 1: to I think they call it her key resets, you

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Speaker 1: go run off, run off, runoff three times a resets

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Speaker 1: that starts to run. Fine, battery was low. I replaced

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Speaker 1: the battery. I cleaned any grounds I could find, as

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Speaker 1: I understand the voltage is regulated through the pc M

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Speaker 1: and anything else I can check other or can I

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Speaker 1: check that piece CM? Next? What kind of scan tool

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Speaker 1: do you have? Uh Boss two or whatever? Okay, can

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Speaker 1: you get into your Make model? Can you speak? Can

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Speaker 1: you speak? Can you speak Dodge Caliber language? Perfect? The

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Speaker 1: next time the lights on, plug in your scan tool,

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Speaker 1: go in your Make model. Can you communicate with all

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Speaker 1: the modules? And do you have any fault codes? And

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Speaker 1: while you're there, look look look well, while you're there,

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Speaker 1: look at the charge rate and see what the scan

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Speaker 1: what's broke when the cars broke, I'd rather get it

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Speaker 1: from a scan tool. Okay, I don't think I can

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Speaker 1: but if you know if does your scan tool displayed

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Speaker 1: see you need something. Because what we're going after here

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Speaker 1: that vehicle could easily have thirty different electronic modules on it.

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Speaker 1: And do we have do we have somebody not talking

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Speaker 1: You don't know if somebody's not talking or talking to

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Speaker 1: it like that. Maybe I think maybe let's go over

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Speaker 1: to Rainy and Maine. Oh five gmc canyon and some

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Speaker 1: problems with four wheel drive. Rainy, you don't need you

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Speaker 1: don't need four wheel drive. It stops snowing up there

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Speaker 1: What's going on with this thing? Um? I'm about the

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Speaker 1: It's got a protect a hundred and thousand miles on

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Speaker 1: it in Um. Yeah, the there's a snapping when it's

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Speaker 1: in full wall drive. Doesn't matter whether you're driving straight,

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Speaker 1: hear the motor rotates wanting to engage. All right when

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Speaker 1: sort of like something's physically broken. Is it like splines

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Speaker 1: I have taken the front cover off the front pumpkin,

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Speaker 1: no warn or chip teeth. Okay. Have you you know

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Speaker 1: of the transfer case what we call it encoder motor.

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Speaker 1: Have you have you taken that off the side of

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Speaker 1: And does the transfer case go into four wheel all right?

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Speaker 1: Does it doesn't? At least lock the transfer case? And

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Speaker 1: then where's the knocking or this this clunking snapping sound

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Speaker 1: probably there's a there's a slide fork, there's a shift

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Speaker 1: Oh five, yeah, that should be an electric activation. There's

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Speaker 1: wheel drive operation. So you actually you actually locked that

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Speaker 1: You can manually put it into four wheel. Just overcome that.

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Speaker 1: Just watch when you take the transfer case motor. If

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Speaker 1: you've gotta index it right so it goes back on

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Speaker 1: then you've got to focus on what's what's wrong up front.

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Speaker 1: I bet if you took that and that it's probably

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Speaker 1: it's um sort of a yellow and black screw in

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Speaker 1: I'm sure if you took that out, you should be

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Speaker 1: able to take that out. That's just a plunger the

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Speaker 1: computer applies ground. There's always a hot it pushes the

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Speaker 1: plunger out, that pushes the button into the shift fork,

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Speaker 1: that slides it over and makes contact internally with the axle.

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Speaker 1: I bet that's not either it's stuck or it's not

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Speaker 1: got an issue. Okay, alright, I have replaced the actuator.

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Speaker 1: But like you were telling the previous caller, electronic devices

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Speaker 1: you should be able to push in and then spin

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Speaker 1: then something's got to come apart. That axle tube what

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Speaker 1: is it? Four bolts? Five bolts holding it on the

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Speaker 1: All right. Do you have a scan tool by chance?

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Speaker 1: Any kind of a scan tool? Okay, because even though

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Speaker 1: I wonder where oh five technology is, like fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: and does it slide over? And but probably not. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't that advanced. Take a look at that thing mechanically,

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Speaker 1: and I bet you're gonna find it up front. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, Ranny, good luck, let me know. Stay in touch.

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Speaker 1: All right, kiddo, I'm running any of the car. Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Welcome aboard, sir. How can I help Well, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: We have some suspicions. Tell me tell me about well

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Speaker 1: the car will sit in a garass for a couple

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Speaker 1: opportunity here Dan, Welcome aboard, sir, How can I help? Hey? Ron? Hey,

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Speaker 1: Thank ye? All right? You let me know you very welcome.

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Speaker 1: You take good care of your more information at alltel

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Thanks for Ron for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: still good. You gotta street up screw in the tire.

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00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: He took the screw out and he plugged it. I

427
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: really didn't want that. I wanted to patch, but he

428
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: plugged it and I went on my way. Um came

429
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: back two days later. The tire lights on. Went back

430
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: to him and he spent a half hour on the tire.

431
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 1: Couldn't find anything. Sold it up again. Two days later.

432
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: Tire lights on, but it too a tire chain. I

433
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,479
Speaker 1: don't want to mention the name. It doesn't matter. I'm

434
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: an equal guy. I'm an equal opportunity offender. Go ahead.

435
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: Well he uh, he pulled the tire. He said to me, Yeah,

436
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: I got a slight dent in the rim um. Start

437
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: in the room. He says, you definitely needed to need

438
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 1: a new tire, because he says, it's coming from the

439
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: plug and I can't replug it. I can't replug it.

440
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: Can you patch it? He says no? And could you

441
00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 1: replug or repatch? Uh? Defect if it's leaking? Yeah, I

442
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: mean if it's not, it's it's how big is the whole? So? Right?

443
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: Wasn't a big screw? It was? Well? Okay, So in

444
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: Ron's world, all right, I don't care what the industry says.

445
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: In Ron's world, all right, Ron's world is pretty stringent

446
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Um yeah, I have a high opinion

447
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 1: on myself. What can I tell you? So I don't

448
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: plug anymore. I haven't plugged tires and years. I plug patch.

449
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 1: I use something. It's got a physical plug and a patch.

450
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: It looks like a TI it's and it comes from

451
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: the inside out and it gets sealed inside the tire

452
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: and it works. Have I pulled plugs out of tires

453
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: and re plug patch them? Absolutely? The key will be

454
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: what's the angle? Of the screw. How big is the

455
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: whole did they did they make the whole any bigger

456
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 1: when they you know, did they ream it to make

457
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: the plug fit? And did they ream it too far?

458
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: And that's why it's not ceiling? All right? You know

459
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: what sort of damages does the tire have? Then? The

460
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: last question is where is the plug? The outer three

461
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: eighths of an inch of the tire, that first shoulder

462
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: of tread is off limits for any kind of tire repair.

463
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: You know, it was right in the middle, right in

464
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: the middle that that tire should be able to be

465
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: plug patched from from what you're described want the answer, yeah,

466
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: go ahead, okay, Yeah, there's just because I work in

467
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: the city. There's a small in Chinatown who does flats only.

468
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: I voted to him. I've been using this guy on

469
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: it all for years. He took the tire off, He

470
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: looked at the tyrant, said, gets your rim. He took

471
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: the tire off, the rim, he pounded it out, put

472
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,479
Speaker 1: it back on, rebalanced the wheel. And how I had

473
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: a week since and and nobody could figure that out. No,

474
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: can't you wait to give these guys an electric vehicle?

475
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: Boy that you'll be there for years. Oh, I pray

476
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 1: to God that doesn't happen. But can you imagine? Yeah,

477
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: I know, listen, I think I've got I think I've

478
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: got a fairly high tech shop in sense of equipment, right,

479
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: I've got you know, I've got three of everything, and

480
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: I've got enough information there to launch missiles. I still

481
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: have next to the building. I still have the dollar

482
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 1: tire tank that you know. I don't care what it is.

483
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: It goes in the tank. We think it's got a

484
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: leak and and bubble the tire. How hard is that?

485
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: And you guys won't guys won't do it. They just

486
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: won't do it. I don't know why. It's two out

487
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: of three, two out of three guys. Once one was

488
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: what was s timey one was sure it was the tire, uh,

489
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: and the third one just sitting now. Lance, When you

490
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: hear me say the problem with auto repair is so

491
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: many shops can't spell O, B D two, Now you

492
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. It's just I kind of

493
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, It's just it's and you know what

494
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: it's when the government says everybody's going on electric vehicles,

495
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: and the industry says everybody's going on electric vehicles. Boy,

496
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm thinking of starting a horse farm.

497
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: I decided that this week I'm gonna bring back the

498
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: horse and buggy because I think that's the next evolution.

499
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: And I think that's where this is going to end

500
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: up in a very short period of time, because there's

501
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: just no way we're gonna be able to fix these things. Lance.

502
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate the phone call you. You hang in there, brother,

503
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: and good luck to you. I'm Ron and ading in

504
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: the car. Doctor. I'll be back right after this. Ye

505
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: card doctor, Let's uh, we're back. Let's get over and

506
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: talk to Let's go to David Oregon. Let's take him

507
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: in order. Let's get this hour done. OH four Silverado Dave,

508
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: how can I help you today? Hey? Ron, longtime listener,

509
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: first time caller. Thank you, sir. Yeah, I love your show.

510
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: Thank you. And I working on his oh for Silverado

511
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: four World drive with a five point three and he

512
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: experienced am reduced digit power light yeah, and then also

513
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: a fifteen sixteen ye yep, yep. What have you done?

514
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: What have you done to repair it? So far? We've

515
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: done nothing but read the codes and do a little

516
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: bit of uh YouTube research. So the common things. What

517
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: what it's telling you is it's telling you that the

518
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: intermittently it's going into limp in because the PCM is

519
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: seeing erroneous data from the throttle body as it compares

520
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: to the accelerator pedal position. All right, okay, so common failures,

521
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: throttle body connector dirty grounds one oh four, one oh three,

522
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: and you know all of it. It's just it's all junk,

523
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: all right. For lack of a better way to put it,

524
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: What I what I what I tell people to do

525
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: is take a look at the wiring at the rear

526
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: of the intake manifold. It's almost easier up in the year.

527
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: There's a ground islet going to the top bolt of

528
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: the transmission. On the right side that's ground one oh four.

529
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: That's G one oh four. And then there's one on

530
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: the left side that's I'm sorry, right sides G one

531
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: oh three, Left sides G one oh four. I got

532
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: that backwards. Uh. Those two grounds, if you're read a

533
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: wiring diagram, have direct input to the PCM and this

534
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: particular circuit. Make sure they're good, clean and tight. Make

535
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: sure they're there all right. For some reason on these trucks,

536
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: I'll see it where that wire is hanging on by

537
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: a thread. It's a sixteen strand wire and it's got

538
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: it's down to one strand whoops. Um, yeah, that's that's

539
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: like a real great time. So if this is a

540
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: this is an older truck, a lot of miles on

541
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: this truck, dave just broken and still got still got

542
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: miles to go. Um, but take a look at those

543
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: after that, look at the Look at the um throttle

544
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: body assembly. All right, come about four inches out of

545
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: the throttle body connector. Look at each wire very very carefully.

546
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: Make sure there was a problem with the way they

547
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 1: taped the harness at the factory. Make sure the wire

548
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: isn't folded over such that it broke. The wire finally,

549
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: after all these years and it's broken internally under the insulation,

550
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: all right, And then you know you could and probably

551
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 1: where I would start. If if the ground is good,

552
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna put a throttle body on it. But

553
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: if you wanted to do something intelligent, what I would

554
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: normally do is I would just get a connector and

555
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: solder in a connector piece by piece, and I would

556
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: solder it in. You know, it's amazing. General motors gives

557
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: you these butt connectors they want you to use. And

558
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: I look and I look at this and I laugh

559
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: and I'm like, really, So you know you've got an

560
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: Oreillyoto Parts near you. Get out to your local Oraileyoto

561
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Parts or oreillyoto dot com. Tell them what you're looking for.

562
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: You're looking for the throttle body connector. Delco will have

563
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: it all right. It will be available through them under

564
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: the Delko line. And um, you know that'll do it

565
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: for you. At least get a throttle body connector on it.

566
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: Look at those two grounds and then call me back.

567
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: We can talk some more. But I think that's gonna

568
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: get you on the right path. If you're gonna do something,

569
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: do that. Make sure you solder it and this way

570
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: you'll have a good clean connection. More info to Orileyoto

571
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: dot com. I'm running any in the car doctor, I'll

572
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: be back right after this. Who's going brought any in

573
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: the car doctors? Well, he's gonna try real quick before

574
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: I take the cold Tom real quick. On Facebook, Helen

575
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: Folly writes in run when you get your oil change

576
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: before the warning light comes on? Is the mechanics supposed

577
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: to reset the oil light reminder if it hasn't come

578
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: on yet. Yes, the answer is yes, reset the oil light.

579
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: That's part of a normal oil change. One. I love

580
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: the basic questions. They're great. Just keep them coming and

581
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: be safe. Let's go over to Frank and Delaware sixteen

582
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: Silverado crew cab and some issues maybe with the transmission

583
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: or otherwise. Frank, Welcome aboard, sir. How can I help? Hello? Hello? Ron? Yes,

584
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: have a good easter quickly? Uh? Thank you? That that

585
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: that um, what do you call the rumble struck feeling?

586
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: The vibration of getting that you may have misunderstood me.

587
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: I'm getting it on the when I let up on

588
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: the accelerator. Uh, it's not driving forward going through the gears.

589
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: It's it's happening when I let up at any speed. Okay,

590
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: if you if you pop it a neutral, does it

591
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: go away? Yes? Isn't this the truck that they had

592
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: the transmission out of a couple of times? No? No,

593
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: this is the one that I've taken it for the

594
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: second time, and they did. They removed the pan, change

595
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: the fluid again. They found no metal shavings on the

596
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: on the on the magnet and uh so that was

597
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: last month, so I'm waiting this month I'll probably take

598
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: it to them once it gets warmer here and take

599
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: a tech with me and let them feel it. And

600
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty much on every every time I

601
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: let off on the accelerator. If you put it, if

602
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: you put it in neutral, Frank, does it go away?

603
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: I think so yes. Okay, So it's it's when the

604
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 1: drive line is not under load. So show them, you know, listen,

605
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: it's it's there. It's there when it's in gear. As

606
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: soon as I as soon as I, you know, unload

607
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: to take the load off the drive train, it goes away.

608
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: Because it's it sounds to me. I don't I don't

609
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: think that's I don't think that's converter. I don't even

610
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: know if that's I don't even know if that's trans

611
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: from the description. I would want to know what does

612
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: the drive shaft feel like? Is this a two piece shaft?

613
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: Is there a center bearing? Could we have a problem

614
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: with a real differential? You know, I think that somebody's

615
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: got to spend some time narrowing this down. First, we

616
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: got to determine is this actually a problem? Which I

617
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: realized that's step one. So if do you take the

618
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: ride with the tech see what he says. Call me back.

619
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I'm running, aiding the car doctor until the

620
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you