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Speaker 1: Ron and Anian. This is why you know I should

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Speaker 1: be a mechanic. I was working in the shed this morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting the garden ready and I never saw that

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Speaker 1: and went right at me. That's bad as the stays

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Speaker 1: to love me, lack of on to be loved by you,

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor. Well, trying to be a farmer, but

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Speaker 1: it's not really working today. Well you see, that's just

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Speaker 1: God in the universe showing you that you're a really

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Speaker 1: gotta learn how to deal with snakes and mice. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor,

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in. The garage doors are open, but I am

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at eight five five, live

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Speaker 1: six and now running. You know, pity the poor spark plug.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you think about your plugs often enough,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's part of the problem with cars today.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the story like this, because I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: a rash of this and I sort of expected that

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Speaker 1: we were going to go here as cars started to

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Speaker 1: roll again, and we're clearly cars are rolling along and

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Speaker 1: we're we're slowly starting to you know, the shops picking

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Speaker 1: go places. So we had an O eight ssion that

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Speaker 1: came into the shop this week hundred forty six thousand

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Speaker 1: We pulled codes has a P zero three oh three.

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Speaker 1: It's got a you know, a misfire fault on one cylinder.

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Speaker 1: And you know that could be that could be mechanical,

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Speaker 1: that could be fuel, that could be ignition, that could

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Speaker 1: be a couple of things. Right, eliminated McCann uncle right

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Speaker 1: off the bat. We're using the new A T S

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Speaker 1: H E SCAM Plus from the folks over at A T. S.

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Speaker 1: Bernie Thompson and Company. And we're doing a cranking compression

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Speaker 1: test through the O B D two port now on cars,

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Speaker 1: floor to put the car in wide open flood mode.

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Speaker 1: You set up the I'm using a little uh surface

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Speaker 1: pro tablet and just you know, crank the car and

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Speaker 1: it will record. It knows the firing order off the vent,

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Speaker 1: and it records the voltage drop as each cylinder comes

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Speaker 1: it can tell you you have a bad cylinder. Low cylinder.

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Speaker 1: You know, the starter voltage vary as it approaches. As

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Speaker 1: that cylinder approaches compression will pick out a bad cylinder.

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Speaker 1: And I knew it wasn't mechanically, that wasn't the issue.

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Speaker 1: I knew I had an ignition or fuel system fault.

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Speaker 1: At this point, That's where my my head was going.

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Speaker 1: As I looked at old trims, they were all over

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Speaker 1: the place. They kind of indicated to me ignition. So

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Speaker 1: let's go tackle ignition. Hunter forty six thousand miles. I've

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Speaker 1: never put spark plugs in this car. I've only been

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Speaker 1: working on it, you know, a little while, not really

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Speaker 1: number three, Number three, the cylinder that was being reported

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Speaker 1: plug came out. The plug was clearly tired. These plugs

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Speaker 1: are normally gapped at forty two thousand's. The edge of

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we're dealing with ignition. That was the

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Speaker 1: cylinders one and two. Four came out, no problem. But

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Speaker 1: one and two. Right, this has direct and ignition coils

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Speaker 1: that sit right on top of the plugs. And the

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Speaker 1: last genius that that did spark plugs, if they were

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Speaker 1: fix it. So we'll just to drive the car still

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Speaker 1: are obsolutely they should have been obsoletely ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: I think they were good. Somebody's listening and I go

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Speaker 1: to pick the boot out, and you can't get the

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Speaker 1: cranberry ash, potatoes and gravy on Thanksgiving. It's just not

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Speaker 1: gonna let go. Hey, behave yourself. And what do you do.

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Speaker 1: You can't pick it out, all right, You can't pull

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Speaker 1: And what do I have in the arsenal? What what

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Speaker 1: that I have because I probably bought it when Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll take that because I'll need it someday. I must

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Speaker 1: have something. Companied by the name of Steelman Pro makes these.

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Speaker 1: They're the size of traditional spark plug sockets five eighths

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Speaker 1: and you just merely pull it up. First problem solved.

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Speaker 1: I got through the two cylinders one to three that

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Speaker 1: I shot down there with a little air just to

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Speaker 1: sure there's no bits and pieces. Plug came out of two.

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Speaker 1: It was a dense ol. Plug came out of one

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Speaker 1: it was a bosch. The plug finally came out of four.

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Speaker 1: rease on the plugs. That isn't the lack of respect part.

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Speaker 1: That isn't the bad part. Well, the whole thing is

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Speaker 1: a lack of respect part. You gotta think about spark

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Speaker 1: plugs once in a while. So I went to put

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Speaker 1: I sat there and I thought about it for a minute.

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Speaker 1: I said, gee, it's a tiny little piece of rubber

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Speaker 1: I wonder. I have a device in the shop called

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Speaker 1: That type of thing. It's a boor scope, like a

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Speaker 1: Sometimes there's stretches, and sure enough there's this little tiny

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Speaker 1: come on, now, I can't get a pick tool in there.

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Speaker 1: I tried everything. I put a little dumb dumb on

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Speaker 1: Couldn't get it out, couldn't get the grips down there,

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Speaker 1: stab it and try and nothing. I thought about it.

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Speaker 1: things about order repaired. It's what gives me the rush

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you sort of got

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Speaker 1: we did this and I put the rest of it together.

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Speaker 1: I put, you know, three plugs, three coils, put it

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Speaker 1: on number one. Sure made a racket. Well you gotta

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Speaker 1: hear that, Poppeta, popeta, popeta pop But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: It blew the rubber out. And after I shut it off,

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Speaker 1: after I let it run for about a minute, and I,

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Speaker 1: this too if you try this, disabled the injector. I

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Speaker 1: sure enough, the piece of rubber was gone. Put it together,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the little things that lead to the bigger

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Speaker 1: doing this radio show. I don't do to one I

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Speaker 1: don't do two hours of radio every weekend. I do

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Speaker 1: for a vehicle solely on parts all right and and

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00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: and available replacement pieces um number one, number two. Chrysler

429
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: makes it. Out of the three car companies we're talking about,

430
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 1: Chrysler makes it the most difficult and the most expensive

431
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 1: for an independent repair shop to gain access to their

432
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 1: software to scan and properly diagnosed and repair the vehicle.

433
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: Now what does this mean. This means that you know,

434
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: if you take it to an independent repair shop or

435
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: an independent truck shop, you know, are they going to

436
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: have the same capability as the dealer. It depends on

437
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: their level of tool, and they're gonna have to invest

438
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: more in a Chrysler than they would in the Ford

439
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 1: in the GM in order to have that capacity, and

440
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: they may need to. Not a repair requires it, but

441
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,959
Speaker 1: they may need to. And I can't. I can't support

442
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: a car company that things like that. Comparison Christler Factory

443
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: scan tool, buying the tool and the yearly software update

444
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: last time I looked was about six grand. The four

445
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: tool was the yearly update is nine. The GM tool

446
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: is about four the yearly update is about fifteen. So,

447
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 1: you know, cost comparison, I think if you're going to

448
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: an independent shop that does heavy truck, I think your

449
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: chances of getting it repaired when a time comes. You know,

450
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 1: the Chevy and the Ford is probably gonna level the

451
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: level the table for you. So that being said, I

452
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of experience with the four fifties.

453
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: I can say this. A friend of mine has purchased

454
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: a F two fifty nothing but problems. And I've been

455
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 1: reading about this and we haven't really talked about it

456
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 1: here on the show because I haven't had the question yet.

457
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: But the new f two fifties, the new body style,

458
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: the new design, they're having issues. People are recalling what

459
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: the Jeeps did years and years ago, the death wobble

460
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: where you're driving down the road and the steering wheel

461
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 1: starts to shake and the truck doesn't handle correctly. Ford

462
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: has come out with a a bulletin that talks about

463
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: changing and resetting front end alignment and ending a steering stabilizer.

464
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,200
Speaker 1: My friend went through that. He's I asked him, what's

465
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: it like? He goes, it's better. It's still not right,

466
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: but this is as good as they're gonna be able

467
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: to make it. So that bothers me. Their engines are okay,

468
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: but I still have to give the nod the GM.

469
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: I think the GM big block engine is better the

470
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: current generation, the seven three. I don't know if I

471
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,080
Speaker 1: want to buy anything the first year it's out ed.

472
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 1: I really don't, you know. I I don't know if

473
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: I want to be the any pig. I think I

474
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: want to wait and see what I would do. Is.

475
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: And then the other conversation you have to have is

476
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: with your mechanic. You know, can he work on a

477
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: four or fifty or forty because you're not gonna find

478
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: many independent shops that can do that. The size of

479
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: the vehicle, the caliber or class of tools, the floor jacks,

480
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: the jack stands, the way they take tires on and off.

481
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: Two simple things are going to get to be tedious

482
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: in time consuming. So whatever you're doing, whether it's construction

483
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: or farming or you know, scrap removal, whatever it is

484
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: you're doing, you may want to consider one of two

485
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: different things. Smaller loads with a smaller trailer so that

486
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: or thirty GM product can handle it. If you went

487
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: GM way, or if you have two trucks, maybe you

488
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Speaker 1: buy a second trailer and run two and and run

489
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: two crews. Because the other thing you've got to think

490
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: about is like I always like I always say, you're

491
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: not just buying the vehicle. Now you've earned the right

492
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 1: to maintain it. And what is that going to cost?

493
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: Over the over a ten year life cycle or a

494
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 1: fifteen year life cycle, a truck tends to run a

495
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: little longer, and you know, maybe you don't necessarily need

496
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: that I agree there was a learning curve. It's it's

497
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: definitely too light duty of a vehicle for heavy towing.

498
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: But I think what I would tell you to try

499
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: and do is either rent or borrow, are or thirty

500
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 1: g m h D and toe with it. Give it

501
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: a shot, try it one weekend and you know, see

502
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: if that works. And if that works, then you know

503
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: what to buy. But I think I have to give

504
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 1: the edge the GM, especially if it's like I have

505
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: a nine and it's a very in today's language, in

506
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: today's world, it's a very basic truck. Not as much electronics.

507
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't have multiple so multiple similar cylinder

508
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: displacement where they're shutting cylinders on and off. It's a

509
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: very basic version of a truck as trucks should be.

510
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: And you know, not a lot of bells and whistles,

511
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: no heated seats, no heated cup holders. But it does

512
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 1: the job. It's the plow truck, and it does its work.

513
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,679
Speaker 1: And that's all I want from it at the end

514
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: of the day. Makes sense, makes sense. Thank you very much.

515
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: You very welcome. Mayte. You stay safe out there. Five

516
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Speaker 1: zero nine zero zero running any of the car doctor

517
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Speaker 1: coming back right after this. Welcome back right. Name of

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor eight five five five zero nine zero

519
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: zero the Car Doctor phone number. Give us a call,

520
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,479
Speaker 1: leave a message. If we're not on the ear, Tom Ray,

521
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: I'll get back to you and get you in the

522
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: next live broadcast. Let's go over to Bob and Nebraska

523
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: eighty five for Ranger. Bob, Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

524
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: How can I help? Well help. It's a story that

525
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: a few weeks back one of your fellows called any

526
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: having problems with a Ford Ranger was missing every time

527
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: it rained, and it kind of brought back an old

528
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: memory of my few years back, and uh, I had

529
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 1: the same problem at time of rain. That thing went

530
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: just jump and jerk and go crazy. I changed the wires,

531
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: I changed the stribbitter cap. It was not a model

532
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: Ford Ranger, and it got crazy. So one time I

533
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: was doing it in the middle of the night and

534
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: I pulled over and I lifted up the hood and

535
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: looked like the fourth of July into there, and I

536
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: couldn't believe what I've seen. My own eyes at the

537
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: top of the coil was just sparking everywhere. I took

538
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,239
Speaker 1: what and I went, how am I going to fix this.

539
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: I'm sixty miles away from home. So you know what

540
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: I did. I took an old plastic pop bottle, cut

541
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: the top on it, put it over the top of

542
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: that coil, and it quit sparking, and down the road

543
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: I went. But it looks like some of that ford

544
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: shot that problem. But I worked. I've done everything to

545
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: it just like that. Yeah, and I remember those days,

546
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you doing that. You know, sometimes too

547
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: back in the day is now you know, if the

548
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: plug has to work harder. Electricity is like water. It

549
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: takes the path of least resistance. So if it if

550
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: it can find an alternate path to seek ground. The

551
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: electrons are just trying to go home, right. It's just

552
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: like us, right, we always want to go home. It's

553
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: the electrons are just trying to go back to ground,

554
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: and they'll just take the path of least resistance. A

555
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: lot of times we would take a piece of rubber,

556
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: a piece of a hose and something to insulate to

557
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: keep it away from returning to ground. But the other

558
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: side of it is, you know, you'd want to know

559
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: how old were the plugs. The plugs gap properly? Uh,

560
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: you know, is there higher than normal? And maybe not

561
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: in the case of the Ranger, but you know, is

562
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: there is there higher than normal compression in the cylinder

563
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. I've seen cases on high performance engines,

564
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: and the reason they have higher output coils is because

565
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: they have to bush the electrical energy across the gap

566
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: of the plug under a higher compression, a higher cylinder pressure,

567
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: in order to jump the gap to ignite the fuel

568
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: charge and make a flame front. So but yeah, it's

569
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,479
Speaker 1: you know, electricity is interesting. Ignition systems are interesting, and

570
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: it's always, uh, it's always a curious case to sit

571
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: and watch and and and see what's going on. How

572
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: many miles did you get out of your Ranger, Bob?

573
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: I think well, I retired at four hundred thousand, and

574
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: my son was in the militant be it to him.

575
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: He put probably another hundred hundred fifty. Then a deer

576
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: decided he wanted to walk out in front of it,

577
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: and uh destroyed the front end heavy equipment in the army,

578
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: and he took that engine out and a buddy his

579
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: uh put it in one of his and prend of me.

580
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: So how many miles on this thing? Oh, there's probably

581
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: five thousand, so I gotta redo it. He was a

582
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: mechanic in the art in the army, and he said,

583
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: he said, you're not gonna have to do what I

584
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: think this border. You're going to find out it's just

585
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: in great shape and the kids of the ash or

586
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: five thousand. Sure, he said, well when you open it

587
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: up and go to find out that all the mains

588
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: looked good at all the rings. They never used any oil,

589
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: never leaked any oil, and it was a a secret was

590
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should tell you the brand oil?

591
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: What was that, sir? Go ahead? Sure, absolutely, Okay, Well

592
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: it's Castro full synthetics and I used it to this day.

593
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: I've been using it for all about forty five years.

594
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: And uh, but the synthetics they're not all equal either.

595
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of the oils taken in kind

596
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: of analyze with ABC, and I wouldn't tell anything what

597
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: it was, you know, and I'd find out the best oils.

598
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: But there was Synthetics are a good thing. But like

599
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: I said, synthetics all are not all created equals. So

600
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: you really got to be picky. Yeah, you do, especially,

601
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: I think just as much being picky as the brand

602
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: of oil because it's important, but it's also changing it

603
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, which I can't tell you how

604
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: many people today are still telling me, well, we've sent

605
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: out notices for oil changes, and everybody's like, well, the

606
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: car hasn't gone anywhere in two months. You know what

607
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: time counts two And as a matter of fact, the

608
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: vehicles sitting there for the past two months, and you know,

609
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: the short trip to run the warm up, to shut

610
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: it off, to not go anywhere. That's harder on oil

611
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: than it is on the actual driving in some cases.

612
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: So but um, yeah, I get it. I get it. Hey, Bob,

613
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: thank you for thanks for calling in, and we appreciate

614
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: you being part of the car doctor family. You have

615
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: a good rest of the afternoon. You take good care.

616
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: Zero the car Doctors back right after this. Welcome back

617
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: on any of the car Doctor You know, I under

618
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: the heading if I hate it when I'm right kind

619
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: of a thing. Um, different experiences in the shop the

620
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: last two weeks as far as parts go. If you

621
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: remember the top of this hour, I talked about the

622
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: psion with the spark plugs and the coils. I never

623
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,959
Speaker 1: had a harder time getting four plugs and four coils

624
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: of the same brand together at the shop in the

625
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: same day, much less the same week as I did

626
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: this week. With this particular car parts are becoming a

627
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: problem and it clearly has to do with the current

628
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: pandemic and COVID nineteen. You know, they're not really talking

629
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: about this, but believe it for me on the inside

630
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: looking out that we're seeing shortages of basics, spark plugs,

631
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: ignition coils, batteries, my battery part. My part's house is

632
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: one of the biggest in the state of New Jersey,

633
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: all right, They've got five main warehouses sprinkled throughout the state.

634
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: They don't have a single Delco battery in stock right now.

635
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: They've sold out of everything. There's a problem. And the

636
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: bigger issue is I looked at my secondary supplier and

637
00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: he still has some And when I called up, it

638
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: turns out that the date codes on the batteries are older,

639
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: which means his inventory is older. And let's face it,

640
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: on a battery age age counts, right, you know how

641
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: old is the battery, So you want to be sure

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Speaker 1: you're buying something fresh, all right, and that it's not,

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Speaker 1: you know, a year old. As I found some of

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Speaker 1: my suppliers did have it. Same thing for tires. Tires

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Speaker 1: are an issue. We're seeing shortages of tire and you

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Speaker 1: know you've got to look to see when you're buying tires,

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Speaker 1: look at the date code. I'm not gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: how to do it. I'm gonna send you out to

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Speaker 1: the internet Google tire date code and they'll show you

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Speaker 1: the inscription to read. But you know you don't want

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Speaker 1: tires that are I'm seeing tires come in the shop

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Speaker 1: that we refuse that are three years old because they're

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Speaker 1: starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. It's becoming

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Speaker 1: a real issue. So you want to think about tires.

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Speaker 1: Tires are a problem. If you're going to get tires.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of good deals out there right now,

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Speaker 1: but now is the time to think about tires. As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, somebody handed me this note before

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Speaker 1: the show today. Yokohama Yokohama has a summer tire debate

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Speaker 1: going on right now through July five. More information at Yokohia,

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Speaker 1: Yokohama Tire dot com, Yokohama tire dot com. That's it

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Speaker 1: for me today. I'm running any of the Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: until the next time reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you