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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. You ever go into a house from the

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Speaker 1: forties and look at the windows, It's a pulley and

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Speaker 1: break bleaders because you can teach them the one to count.

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Speaker 1: It's if somebody's got musical inclination, they make better break bleaders.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: phone and call in the garage to orders 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 five six and now running. There's always something new

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Speaker 1: to learn in order to repair or mechanical things or

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Speaker 1: what not to do. And don't do this because you'll

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Speaker 1: get yourself in trouble. And it doesn't have to necessarily

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Speaker 1: be about cars, but just operating things mechanically. I mowed

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Speaker 1: I went out there. It was a bright sunny day

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Speaker 1: and I looked, and it's a fairly new lawn more

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Speaker 1: it's just this year. And you know, I looked at

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Speaker 1: the gas tank and they have a little they have

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Speaker 1: I looked at it and it was full. It was

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Speaker 1: it was dark, and you know, I said, okay, good,

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Speaker 1: and I started mowing the lawn and then it started

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Speaker 1: then it was okay. And then it started the cut

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Speaker 1: the things acting like it's out of gas. I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm not ashamed to admit it. I took my sunglasses off.

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Speaker 1: I looked at it again. Yep, we're out of gas,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, low and behold, put gas in it.

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Speaker 1: Mechanical things, internal combustion engines always work really well with

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Speaker 1: gasoline in them. So rule number one, always check the

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Speaker 1: gas in the lawnmower. Not wearing your sunglasses. So I

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Speaker 1: love it, don't be Tom, and right, And I'm not ashamed.

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Speaker 1: I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'm going, how could

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Speaker 1: this be? How can I be running out of gas?

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Speaker 1: It was full. I get a lot of dust in

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Speaker 1: my yard and the little cyc glass on mine gets

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Speaker 1: all dusty and you look at it and go gas

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Speaker 1: and it Yeah, I you know so, but um, you

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Speaker 1: know it. Just you gotta be sure what you're looking

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll listen, Tom, let me do this too.

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Speaker 1: While we're on the subject mechanical maintenance. For Frank and Colorado.

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Speaker 1: Frank brought up an interesting point. We were talking to

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Speaker 1: and uh, he's telling us about the wildfires out in

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Speaker 1: colar Otto, out west right California and Portland's Washington and

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Speaker 1: all that up and around the Northwest, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the ash problem is really severe, and our our thoughts

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Speaker 1: when the dust settles, no pun intended, and you take

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Speaker 1: don't hurt the exterior. I realize you've got bigger things

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Speaker 1: It's it's cars. Cars have a spirit in a sense,

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Speaker 1: So let's kick the garage doors open. Let's get over

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Speaker 1: to ben in Virginia. Oh one, Lexus and some problems

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Speaker 1: I don't know, three months ago, and they looked at

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Speaker 1: it again. They claimed they changed the coil, moved it

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Speaker 1: compression reading on number two cylinder. Okay, So they moved

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Speaker 1: it's got fifty pounds of compression, yeah, in that cylinder? Correct?

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Speaker 1: But why is it intermittent? What what I'm what I'm

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Speaker 1: a definitive answer. I don't want Well, it's got fifty

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Speaker 1: You're gonna tell me. They said you need an engine, Yeah, right, Um,

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Speaker 1: when you can't, when you can't diagnose it, just replaced

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Speaker 1: the whole fun it's easier. So, you know, did they

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Speaker 1: it's a ring issue. If it didn't, it's in the head.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's got a it's got a valve problem.

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Speaker 1: But it just doesn't sound like they were very thorough

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Speaker 1: we changed this. All the coils, wires, and plugs have

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Speaker 1: initially I change them, but I put aftermarket stuff in.

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Speaker 1: Lexus always said you can't use aftermarket stuff with a

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Speaker 1: Lexus engine. Well right, well, and guess it sounds like

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Speaker 1: they changed it again. Correct. Who's who's diagnosing this? The

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Speaker 1: cats and Jammer kids. So you know, let's let's make

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Speaker 1: were them somebody between you can figure out it's not ignition. Right,

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Speaker 1: Let's assume it's not ignition. We're down. We're down. We're

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Speaker 1: down to fuel, and we're down to mechanical if we

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Speaker 1: eliminate fuel, if we want to say it's not fuel, Okay, um,

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Speaker 1: you know we're we're down to it's a mechanical issue.

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Speaker 1: And I think you'd have to approach this that I

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Speaker 1: don't know. This is the answer I gave you seven

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Speaker 1: I think you'd have to approach it that. If you

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Speaker 1: prove it's it's mechanical, then you know it's not fuel,

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Speaker 1: disprove mechanical. So compression test, wet dry cylinder, leakdown test,

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Speaker 1: Do we see heavy carbon deposits on that cylinder? How

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Speaker 1: many miles were on this? Yeah, it's not a lot

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Speaker 1: remember right, right? Yeah? And then how do we know

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Speaker 1: issue causing the misfire? Um? How do we know it

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Speaker 1: why this is so difficult. Well, I'm not a mechanic

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Speaker 1: But my thought was a broken valve spraying or something

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta. I think I think you gotta find,

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Speaker 1: you know, for your own self satisfaction. Ben, I think

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Speaker 1: that will really diagnose it. Pull the valve cover. It's

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Speaker 1: common sense. What do the valve springs look like? All right?

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Speaker 1: What does the cam look like? You know? Do a

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Speaker 1: cylinder leak test? Do you know what the cylinder leakdown

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Speaker 1: Let's close off the valves, you know, either crank the

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Speaker 1: hold there and engines a big air pump. That's all

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Speaker 1: the engine change anyway that it runs. It's always possible.

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Speaker 1: I don't like to do that because I'm gonna alter

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Speaker 1: the I'm gonna alter the test patient, if you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and I would I would prefer that you,

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Speaker 1: you know, I would prefer that you, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: get somebody to diagnose it. But you know, at that point,

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Speaker 1: let's go look at valves, Let's go do leakdown testing.

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Speaker 1: Let's pull the valve cover. Then you know you see

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Speaker 1: carbon deposits on the valves. You want to try some

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Speaker 1: Barriman fuel system cleaner. You can read about them Barryman

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Speaker 1: Products dot com and go through that process. But short

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Speaker 1: Then you'll find out the injector driver's not right and

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Speaker 1: it's a PCM. But um, let's go through the engine

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Speaker 1: To find them more out online at o'rileyoto dot com.

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Speaker 1: Any more questions, Bill, give me a shout. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go over to Sean in Iowa. Three Chevy and

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Speaker 1: some comments and questions about trans flush and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, sir. How how can I help? Hello?

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Speaker 1: Run quick one for you here? Uh Chevy four L

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Speaker 1: put another five in, another five out, put another five

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Speaker 1: there's no way to do an exchange. We're gonna do

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Speaker 1: You know, it's sometimes parts are in issue, sometimes rust

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Speaker 1: You'll be well, thank you, Sean. Let's get over and

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Speaker 1: in the fifty ron. Welcome to the car, doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: this will get confusing. Go ahead, Hi, how are you to? Um?

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Speaker 1: The serpentine belt was pretty well shredded and uh so

423
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: it was down for the count. So I've been trying

424
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,679
Speaker 1: to get parts and pieces. Uh it's a has uh

425
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: just over five and fourteen thousand miles just broken in. Brother,

426
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 1: keep going yeah, yeah, it's about halfway there, right, yep, ye,

427
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 1: So so what's the issue? You can't find parts or

428
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: why did it happen? As the question, I've been accumulating

429
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: parts and I don't know why it has failed. I

430
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: haven't taken the part yet. And somebody says, well, maybe

431
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,880
Speaker 1: I should let the experts do another nine bolts hold

432
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: it in, and he said, what if you share went off,

433
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: then you have all kinds of problems. So um, I

434
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: booked it into a local garage, and uh uh, he

435
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 1: seemed to think that it wouldn't be too much trouble.

436
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: I did look online at YouTube and see how some

437
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,479
Speaker 1: of the guys do it. But then some of the uh,

438
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: you know you need special tools to get that clutch

439
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: assembly on the fan off, Well you either need you

440
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: either need special tools and you didn't and you didn't

441
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: hear from this from me. So you have to get

442
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:44,880
Speaker 1: close to the to the phones, right, so I can

443
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: just whisper to you somebody else. Here's if you take

444
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: an air chisel, about an eighteen inch air chisel with

445
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: adult with a dull end, and just kiss the nut

446
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 1: in the right direction, which is opposite rotation. You can

447
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: get the you can get the fan blade to come off,

448
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: all right. The air chisel is your friend. Don't tell anybody,

449
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 1: all right. Um, I've tried, I've got I've got all

450
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: the special tools. I actually have the factory tool. It's

451
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: this big, giant, I don't know, thirty six millimeter ranch

452
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 1: with a bend in it to clear the pulley in it.

453
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: You know, you know what those things are on there?

454
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,439
Speaker 1: So tight um. You know, people will say to me,

455
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 1: my god, you're putting an air chisel against the water

456
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: pump against the fan. Not yeah, the water pumps bad. Anyway,

457
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: we're changing it. Who cares? I want to get it apart. Uh,

458
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,479
Speaker 1: you know. So an air chisel, and even if it's

459
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: got a little bit of a point in the chisel,

460
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 1: I don't sit there and hammer on it. I just

461
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: use it to kind of shock the nut loose and

462
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: get it to wake up to the point where I

463
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: can loosen it up and you know, at least get

464
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: it off the vehicle. Uh you know. And and that's

465
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: from the guy who's got the special tool hanging on

466
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: the wall. And I can tell you it doesn't always work,

467
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, probably more often than not, it doesn't work, so, um,

468
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: you know out of the block to replace the assembly. Um,

469
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: they're sort of like a number eight hardened steel or

470
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,479
Speaker 1: they might what type of steel are the bolts at

471
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: held at the end of the block, you know, Ron,

472
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never had one break. I can

473
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: tell you that it's it's you know, I've I've never

474
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: had one snap or break. I would tell you to

475
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: maybe get them started. Shoot a little rust penetrant, grab

476
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: yourself some PB blaster and get it under the head

477
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: of the bolt and let it creep down there and

478
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: sit for a while and let it do its job.

479
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: And you know, by all means, especially on something this age,

480
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: this mileage, and you know, let it do its thing.

481
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: But I've never had one break. I've never had an issue.

482
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 1: Usually the pumps just come right apart. I'm sure you've

483
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: been doing cooling system maintenance to this on a regular basis.

484
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: Most diesel owners are smart enough. Um, you know this

485
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: is seven three power stroke, right, I'm a I'm a

486
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: first timer with this one, okay, Um, your first time

487
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,640
Speaker 1: of what you I do maintain it myself. I change

488
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: the oil every three thousand miles and felt that sort

489
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: of thing. Just you've owned the truck since new though,

490
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: you're saying, right roun. My brother bought it second hand

491
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: and I inherited it from him when he passed away.

492
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: He was a Vietnam Vet and he developed a l

493
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: S from being exposed to agent orange about eight years ago.

494
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: I got his two trucks. His other truck was four

495
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: fifty that has eight hundred and sixty four thousand miles

496
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: on it. But I guess it kind of I guess

497
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: it kind of runs in the family iron that things

498
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 1: seem to go a good long time there. So, Um,

499
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: but I'd like to get our money's worth out of

500
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: the vehicles. Well you you definitely do, my friend, you

501
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: definitely do so. But um, like I said, you know,

502
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: take it apart, take the fan apart, like the way

503
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: I told you. If you have any other questions, you

504
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: give me a shout back. Let me move along here.

505
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Um. I want to try and

506
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: get to everybody today. Thanks, Ron, and Uh, I appreciate

507
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: you tuning in. Let's get over to Kurt with a

508
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: third teena escape and some questions about a transistione. Kurt,

509
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car, Doctor, sir, how can I help? Yes, uh,

510
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: I was going up a hill one thing, and I

511
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: lost all momentum acceleration right, and it jumped out of gear.

512
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: So I pulled on the side and shut it off.

513
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: And when I started to back up, there was a

514
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: humming noise like coming from underneath. And now when you

515
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: put it in drive should have road from my two

516
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 1: or three minutes. I mean, you feel the car start jumping,

517
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: and then she won't she won't do anything. You won't

518
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: even moving. All right, I'll tell you what. I'll tell

519
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: you what. Kurt, Sit tight. Let me pull over and

520
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: take a pause because we're gonna get into this a

521
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: little deeper. When I returned, the car doctor will be

522
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: back right after this, the car doctor, Kurt from me,

523
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: And you're still there, sir. Yes, sorry, we had to

524
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: pull over and take a pause, so let's refresh our

525
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: memory again. You were traveling uphill and the trains started

526
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: to do what Yes, I lost all acceleration and the

527
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: car as I accelerated, the car didn't rev up or

528
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: it wasn't pulling a mething and on the Sutton, I

529
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: just like it jumped out of gear. So I let

530
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: I let off the accelerated and jumped back in gear,

531
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: and I put over to the side and I shut

532
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: it off. And when I started it back up, there

533
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: was a honey noise like underneath and like underne by

534
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: the oil pan, by the transmission oil plans somewhere as

535
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: in that region and that And now when you started

536
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: and put it in gear, and how many noises there?

537
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: And then you know going drive, you know, going reverse,

538
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: and they'll go in sport and they will only roll

539
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: for probably five or ten seconds, and then you feel

540
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: it started jerking like and then it jumps out of gear.

541
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: Has anybody have you taken it too a shop as

542
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: this home? How did you get how did you get

543
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: off the hill? Were you toad? Well? I was. I

544
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: was able to get it to move down the hill,

545
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: and I coasted it down because I live a couple

546
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: of driveways down from the hill, so I was it

547
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: was in my favor to go down the hill. And

548
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: then it rule. So you got it home? I got

549
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: it home. Said, okay, you know this could be as

550
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: simple as it's low on fluid, because the thirteen won't

551
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: have a conventional dipstick. How many miles are on this Yeah,

552
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: you know this could be this could be low on fluid.

553
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: Then the argument could be made where all the fluid go?

554
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: Two have you ever serviced the trans have you ever

555
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: changed trans fluid? Never? I got the car at a

556
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: hundred and five thousand, and I don't know if anyone

557
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: did anything before that. I've never I've never do anything

558
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 1: to the transmissition. No, no dashboard warning lights on at

559
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: this point. Nope. Nothing in the day before, we row

560
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: it all day in town. Never gave any trouble, never

561
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: did anything. Just yeah, and that's you know, that's what happens.

562
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's it's a bad analogy, but

563
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: it's the old story of my dead dog that isn't

564
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: dead yesterday, died this morning. UM sooner, sooner, sooner or later.

565
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: It has to so you know, basic diagnosis. I would

566
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: start with a code scan even though there's no lights

567
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: on in the dash and a fluid check and what

568
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: does the fluid look like? You know, that's that should

569
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: be LV style trans fluid. And I don't want to

570
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: tell I don't want to tell you that has a

571
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: finite life of around fifty or sixty thousand miles is

572
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: what Ford normally changes it at Uh. Some dealers will

573
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: tell you it's lifetime. I don't buy it. The ones

574
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: that make more sense to me or telling me the

575
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: truth and that they're they're seeing at fifty sixty, they're

576
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: seeing characteristics of driving habits. Um, you know, not being

577
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: the greatest. The trans starts to act up. Now you

578
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: don't know if at a hundred and five do you

579
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: know the service history prior to that, so you know,

580
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: it could have been serviced at fifty and then somehow

581
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: you got another hundred thousand miles out of it. It

582
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: could have been serviced at eighty and you've got you know,

583
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: eighty thousand miles out of it. So it's it's you know,

584
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: it could be this could be um, this could just

585
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: be a fluid issue. But UM, I wouldn't hold a

586
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: lot of hope. Start off with some basic diagnosis and um,

587
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: you know, get fluid level checked and get code scanned

588
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: and then you can kind of make a decision from there.

589
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: I wish you luck eight five zero the car doctors

590
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: back right after this, Hey, welcome back in the car doctor.

591
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to Douglas in Virginia and

592
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: know what's going on with the ZO two Audie Douglas, welcome, sir.

593
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: How can I help? Hellotle Ron, I love your show.

594
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: I've listened to it for a while. Now I hope

595
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: you and maybe some other car gods can help me

596
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: figure this out. I've got a two thousand two Audi,

597
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: a four quadrobe with the four cylinder turbo engine. You

598
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: know you know what out he stands for it, don't you, Douglas?

599
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to ask. It stands for a lot of things.

600
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: What do you think it stands for? Well, it depends

601
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: what this electrical problem turns out to be. But you'll

602
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: you'll understand it from right because, um it can it

603
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: can stand for another underpowered demonic invention. But go ahead,

604
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, um wow. And I think they're great cars.

605
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: They just do some great cars. They just do some

606
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: really crazy things. So, um, you know, But anyway, what's

607
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: this thing doing? It runs great, and it's so fun

608
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: to drive. It's got a manual transmission in the turbo

609
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: and all will drive. But but there's always a butt

610
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: when you start out that way, you know, I know,

611
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: the darn hazard lights the minute I turned the car

612
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: on will come on and stay on for approximately fifteen

613
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: to twenty minutes, no matter how it's driven, no matter

614
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: where it's driven, no matter what I do. I mean,

615
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: I've disconnected uses, disconnected, the battery reconnected it. No mechanic

616
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: can figure this out. The only thing that hurts me

617
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: about the car mainly is the hazard lights stay on

618
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: for like the first twenty minutes, uh, you know, running time,

619
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: and then once I'm on the freeway that they will

620
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: go off. Okay, I'll take it to work and I'll

621
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: get back in the car. They'll come on again and

622
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: go off in about fifteen to twenty minutes. At the

623
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: same time, the radio and the heater and the A

624
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: C don't work, and I've taken to the two people.

625
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: They can't figure it out. So that that demonic convention

626
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: part really starting to look pretty good now, isn't it. Actually? Yeah? Yeah,

627
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: um so listen, there's there's three components in the vehicle

628
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: that actually will control the turn signal bulbs in the

629
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 1: and and make it appear like the hazards are on. Okay,

630
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: the hazard switch, the hazard switch flasher assembly, the turn

631
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: signal switch, and the module that they put down under

632
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: your feet on the driver's side of the floor. All right, Now,

633
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Speaker 1: what I've seen on some of these, depending upon Have

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Speaker 1: you owned the Carson's New Douglas No, I have it.

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Speaker 1: I bought it used. I bought it. Honestly, I've only

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Speaker 1: had it for about seven or eight months. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: you know, depending upon condition and care. I've seen water

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Speaker 1: get into that. They call it a comfort control module

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Speaker 1: on the driver's side of the floorpan. I've seen moisture

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Speaker 1: invasion there and that causes all kinds of chaos, particularly

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Speaker 1: what you're describing to me. I've also seen bad hazard switches.

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Speaker 1: What you can do is get it out to your

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Speaker 1: local mechanic, have them start to unplug the hazard switch.

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Speaker 1: Does the problem go away? The turn signal switch? Does

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Speaker 1: the problem go away? The comfort control module? Does that

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Speaker 1: have any effect on it? At least that's the starting point.

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Speaker 1: Call me back. I'm on any of the card doctor

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Speaker 1: mechanicuring expensive than prices