1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Ron an Aian. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: But I got the truck to move it on Tuesday 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 2: and the check engine light was on and Danny saw 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 2: it and I saw it with both looked at the 5 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: children and we said, wasn't this the We have no complaints. 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 2: It's just just an oil change truck. And yes, yes, 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: Saturdays card you have. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 3: It takes a TV. 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: The Car Doctor. 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 4: When I get it out in the bring it down 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 4: a cord of oil. 12 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 5: It leaked out a quarter of an automatic radiation flu. 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 2: Right converter job because the problem is the converter drains. 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: The converter drains down in the burbs. 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anania the Car Doctor. 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 18 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 19 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: the phone and call in. The garage doors. 20 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 2: Are opening, but I am here to take your call 21 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: at eight five five five six ninety nine. 22 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 5: Hundred and now pe. 23 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 2: Running by the way, we we called ed. I think 24 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: it's Wisconsin, Eden, Wisconsin with the fifty seven Chevy that 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: we talked about last week about how to vent the 26 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: transmission or what to do with the transmission so it 27 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: doesn't train back and you know, put fluid all over 28 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 2: the floor. And the problem is that I don't think 29 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: we got a chance to get into it during the call. 30 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 2: But the problem was that the way that transmission works 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,959 Speaker 2: a power glide in a Tri five Chevy, there's no 32 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: deep pan like there was in later models, and all 33 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: the fluid was up around the converter and it would 34 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,479 Speaker 2: develop an air pocket and it would eventually that air 35 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 2: would burp and go up the dipstick to it and 36 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 2: spill over. And I asked, I asked that, I said, 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: you know, are you seeing it coming out the dipstick 38 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: to me? He was going to check. I said, but 39 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 2: you know the fix, because that's probably what it is. 40 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: The fix is pull the tail shaft off and drill 41 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: a small hall. Put an eighth inch tap in there, 42 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: an eighth inch pipe plug with a You can put 43 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: a little piece of thin copper tubing on the end. 44 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 2: Make it a curly cue pigtail six eight inches long, 45 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: something like that. Make a little quarkscrew or a little 46 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: corkscrew piece of copper like you would see on a still. Right. 47 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 2: The only thing I can think of is a still 48 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 2: like you'd see on TV when they're making illegal bootleg 49 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: and it would just create a burplne and just as 50 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: long as it's you know, up a little bit and 51 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 2: it works. And that's the fix. All this thing about 52 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: check valves and everything else, if you're not having that 53 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 2: be successful, that will work because all you're doing is 54 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 2: just burping the ear out of the trans so it 55 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 2: doesn't get up the dipstick tube and make you a nuts. 56 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: So in the event anybody else has a try five 57 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: Chevy original power Glides is having that problem, that's the 58 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 2: fix that'll work. How are you this week? I hope 59 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: you had a great week. We had a great week 60 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: in the shop. We had a bunch of crazy cars. 61 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 2: I'm noticing the car count is down, but the size 62 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 2: of the repair is way up, and it's climbing every 63 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: day every week. You know, we're seeing sicker cars if 64 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: it's cars that just need more And it's interesting because 65 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: a lot of people are you know, it just needs 66 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: an oil change. Let me drop it off one of them. 67 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: Doug dropped off his son's car. It needed an oil 68 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 2: change and no other known conditions. Okay, we looked at 69 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: it and the first the first problem, which wasn't it's 70 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: not so I guess it is a problem because it's 71 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 2: just lack of care. You know, it was nine thousand 72 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: miles overdue for a toil change. So, you know, so 73 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 2: we're getting a car that it's been road hard, put away, wet, 74 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 2: and now you've got to look at everything, and you do, 75 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: and and some of the stuff was just obvious. Some 76 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 2: of it. You know, I wanted to know the age 77 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 2: of the battery. 78 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: We hadn't. 79 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 2: We had no record of ever putting a battery in 80 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: this vehicle. It's now eleven years old. I could see 81 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: that it had been replaced. I just didn't know when. 82 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 2: And my hunch was right because when we pulled the 83 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: battery out to get to the date code, the battery 84 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: was a little over four years old. Well, five years 85 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 2: is where we kind of draw the line on batteries, 86 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: sometimes less on certain models. And so we agreed, let's 87 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: put a battery in the car. Clearcut stuff, right, Let's 88 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: change the oil. Obviously, let's change the oil. But the 89 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: deeper we got into Humpty dumpty, because that became the 90 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: name of the car. After a while, Danny and I 91 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: just kept calling it, calling it humpty dumpty. Is you 92 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 2: know the right front strut was blown. It wasn't just blown, 93 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: it was demolished. It was it was leaking so much 94 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 2: oil out the right front, which is what started us. 95 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 2: We were looking for an oil leak. We couldn't figure 96 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 2: out how was the inside of the fender painted in oil. 97 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: We're thinking it's engine oil. No, it was strut oil. 98 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 2: That's how bad the strut failed. So we had to 99 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: put struts in the car. And looking at struts, gee, look, 100 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 2: the left sway bar link is broken eye. We got 101 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: to put swage bar links in it, and then it 102 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: got ugly right, and remember this is just an oil change. Okay, 103 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 2: Both rear bushings on the lower control arms. The lower 104 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 2: control arm is the pivot point where the steering and 105 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 2: suspension tied together at the bottom of the inside of 106 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: the steering knuckle, and the rear bushing, the main support 107 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: bushing was cracked and falling apart on the right side. 108 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: The left side wasn't far behind, but the right side 109 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: was clearly much worse. So whatever took out the strut 110 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 2: took out the bushing, and you know it just one 111 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 2: thing became the next became the next, and then we 112 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: had to do an alignment on it, and the car 113 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: was so rusty we couldn't get the jam nuts loose 114 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 2: on the tyrods, so we ran out. We actually ran 115 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 2: out of weak right, this is this is you know 116 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 2: you ever hear that? You know we ran out of 117 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 2: time working on this car for three and a half 118 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 2: days and just all the little obstacles that came up. 119 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: So it's coming back next week. We had to give 120 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 2: it back to the customer. He needed it for a 121 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: couple of things. Running around in the alignment's not off crazy, 122 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: it's just off. You can see the wheels down a 123 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: little bit on the left side, so you know, the 124 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,239 Speaker 2: alignment so off. At any time you do control arms 125 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: and suspension work like that, you want to do an alignment. 126 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: Obviously that's a no brainer. But some cars are like that, 127 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 2: and you know, that's one of the examples we saw 128 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 2: this week in that. I think, and maybe the moral 129 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 2: to the story is I think that you know, the 130 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 2: more you wait, the worse it gets because you don't know, 131 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: you don't know what, you don't know, you don't know 132 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: what what's going to fail, you don't know what it's 133 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: going to take to bring that car back to some 134 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 2: level of respectability and to keep it safe and to 135 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 2: keep it to keep it reliable. It's hard. Cars catch 136 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 2: up to you, I think is the moral to the story. 137 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 2: And in this day and age when we're all thinking 138 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 2: about tariffs and the price of cars and the price 139 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 2: of everything, I get it. You know what you got 140 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: to take better carry your car. It's going to come 141 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 2: back to help you. I wrote a little five point 142 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 2: bullet point if my little five bullet point piece talking 143 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 2: about five things vehicle owners can do to take proper 144 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 2: care of their cars. As a matter of fact, for 145 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 2: my listeners in New York will be doing. I think 146 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 2: we're on the Morning SHOWLMS got me scheduled on the 147 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 2: morning show this week coming at nine forty WR seven ten. 148 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about this. But one of 149 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 2: the things I talk about in that five bullet point 150 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 2: piece is trying to empower you, trying to get you 151 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: to take better care of your car. You know, you 152 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 2: can simply put look at your service records, and this 153 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 2: is this is easy. Look at the odometer. How many 154 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: miles do you have on the car? Sixty two thousand, miles. 155 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: See you've got sixty two thousand miles on your car. 156 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 2: That means you've done a bunch of oil changes, a 157 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: couple of tire rotations. You should have done a thirty 158 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 2: thousand mile service, which was air and cabin filters, a 159 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 2: fuel system cleaning, a tire rotation. Certain vehicles are going 160 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 2: to be specific fluids and some other things, probably a 161 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 2: set of wiper blades at least once, if not twice. 162 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: If it's a four wheel drive vehicle, at sixty you 163 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 2: would have been doing drive line fluids. Depending upon how 164 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: the vehicle has been operated. You know, it does vary, 165 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: all right, there's no there's no set pad answer. But 166 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 2: these are the things you can look at. Have you 167 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: done any of that? You know? Are you driving? We 168 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: had a jeep come in this week that had the 169 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: original battery in it. The car was eight years old, 170 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 2: and it was just it's yeah, I get it. Some 171 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 2: batteries do go long, right, But you know, to me, 172 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: it's a problem waiting to happen because the majority of 173 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 2: things fail at the five year mark. So take power, 174 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 2: take charge of your vehicle. What can you do to 175 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: keep your vehicle running longer, more reliable, and safe, so 176 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 2: that you're not stuck somewhere late at night or early 177 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 2: morning or trying to you know, you've got an appointment 178 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 2: and all of a sudden you go out and the 179 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 2: vehicle doesn't start. Look at your service history. You can 180 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 2: do that. We're going to talk about that, like I 181 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 2: said in depth on Monday on or but just some 182 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 2: of the things you can do. Don't be the person 183 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 2: that goes fifteen thousand miles over on an oil change, 184 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 2: and then you can't be surprised when the bills a 185 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 2: couple of grand more than a couple of grand because 186 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 2: the car had to be put back together. We're heading 187 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 2: into a time period and I noticed car sales must 188 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 2: be down because lease deals seem to be back. I 189 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 2: was watching TV the other day and there was a 190 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 2: commercial for Kia, and Kia here in the Northeast was 191 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 2: advertising a three hundred dollars a month lease and I went, wow, 192 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 2: three hundred bucks and you're driving a new car. I 193 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: don't know what the down payment was, but whenever I 194 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: see leasing get better, so to speak, or more affordable, 195 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 2: that tells me they're overstocked on cars. For some reason, 196 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: They're not selling it because people have no credit, no cash, 197 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 2: no funds, or they just they have too much product 198 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 2: and they want to get rid of it. They want 199 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 2: to clean house. But if you want to keep your car, 200 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 2: you've got to be aware of what kind of shape 201 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 2: it's in before you decide. 202 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 3: To do that. 203 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 2: You know it's it's it's just a real big piece 204 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 2: of the puzzle. So let's pull over, take a pause. 205 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. 206 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: Run any of the car Doctor. I'll be back right 207 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 2: after this. 208 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 3: Don't go away. 209 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 5: You have. 210 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 6: What's more fun than listening to Ron and any in 211 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 6: the car doctor and getting that car fixed? Right? 212 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. 213 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 2: Give Ron a call. Now back to Ron. Let's let's 214 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: go over to Ann in Arizona and welcome to the 215 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: Car Doctor. You're on at eight five five five six 216 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 2: zero nine nine zero zero. How can I help? 217 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 7: I have a well. I bought a blue Eddy charger 218 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 7: one d C D d C charger, poked it up 219 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 7: to my van. 220 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 5: I love it. 221 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 7: Excited that I don't have to sit in the sun 222 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 7: for seven hours and bake. Will my solar panels work? 223 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 7: But I'm hearing rumblings from not reliable sources that if 224 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,439 Speaker 7: I sit and idle my vehicle only and not drive it, 225 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 7: that it will burn up or ruin the alternator. But 226 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 7: that made no sense to me. 227 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 2: Well tell me again, what years this vehicle that we're 228 00:10:58,320 --> 00:10:59,319 Speaker 2: that you're driving. 229 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 7: Twenty twenty three pro Master fifteen hundred cargo van. 230 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 2: Okay, and you're trying to power what. 231 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 7: My power station and your power van. 232 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 2: And your power station runs what. 233 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 7: It's all kinds of things. I can make coffee, I 234 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 7: can run my pressure cooker, I can you know, charge 235 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 7: my case press all that. 236 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 2: So, so is this is this a convert This is 237 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 2: a converted van? 238 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 7: Well not really just converted. I converted it, but yeah, 239 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 7: I live in it. I travel, I vacation in it. 240 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 2: Yeah okay. So so in other words, you took a 241 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 2: you took a standard twenty three Ram van and you 242 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 2: made it into a into a van conversion so you 243 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 2: can live in it. Yes, Okay. What I'm getting at 244 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 2: is and and we'll back up a second, and to 245 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 2: use this d C to d C converter, which a 246 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 2: d C to DC converter is basically taking electrical energy 247 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 2: from the charging system and using it to Usually it's 248 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 2: it's it's done to charge on Billy battery or some 249 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 2: other you know device, but you're using it as a 250 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 2: central power point in the vehicle. 251 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 7: I am not what I am doing. So I hooked 252 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 7: it up really easy. And when you turn on the 253 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 7: you turn on your vehicle, it waits like thirty seconds, 254 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 7: so it doesn't take any kind of charge from your 255 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 7: battery to start your vehicle. Then it kicks in. It's 256 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 7: hooked the DC chargers hooked only to my power station 257 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 7: other than the positive and negative that you hook up 258 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 7: to your battery. 259 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 2: Okay, and what the and your So what is going 260 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 2: to come down to is, first of all, what's what 261 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 2: would be the maximum draw of the chart of the 262 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 2: power station under under any condition? How much? How much 263 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 2: will it actually require to operate everything you've got going on. 264 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 7: I'll tell you one thing that you cannot run your charger. One. 265 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 7: You cannot be charging your power station and have anything 266 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 7: plugged into it. You have to charge it and then 267 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 7: turn it off or it goes off naturally with and 268 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 7: then you can plug your things in. So there's no 269 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 7: crossover there. 270 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: So why can't you just charge your power station using 271 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: a cigarette lighter? 272 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 7: It's not strong enough. It's actually burnt it out within 273 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 7: a few months. And it's only a twelve book, So 274 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 7: I think it was a cheap Japanese you know, cigarette 275 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 7: lighter thing, right. 276 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: But so so, this power station is just a portable 277 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 2: power supply. 278 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 7: Correct. It is a video man fifteen hundred watt portable. 279 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 7: I can take it. 280 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 5: Anywhere, okay. 281 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 2: And in order to charge it, you've got to leave 282 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 2: the vehicle running. 283 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 7: Obviously, either you leave the vehicle running or you charge 284 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 7: it with solar panels. 285 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 2: And how long does the power station survive? How long 286 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 2: will it last? 287 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 7: I guess it depends on what you're number of years? 288 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, no, no? How long before? How 289 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 2: long before it has to be recharged? 290 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 3: Oh? 291 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 7: It depends on what you're running? 292 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 5: Right. 293 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 7: For example, this morning, I was using my instant pot 294 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 7: and it took twenty percent of the you know, no 295 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 7: big deal. 296 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 2: Right, And so your question revolves around whenever that power 297 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: station runs down, can you sit in the woods idling 298 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 2: for extended periods of time without damaging anything? 299 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 5: Correct? 300 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 7: And I hadn't even the Blue Eddy people and the 301 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 7: Dodge people I talked to say it's not going to 302 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 7: but they were real iffy about it. So the question 303 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 7: that my friends are saying, no, you can't just idle 304 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 7: your vehicle. You have to drive it otherwise it's going 305 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 7: to affect the alternator. But that made no sense. 306 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: Well okay, so and let me say this. If we're 307 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: going to have excess of idling on this vehicle, because 308 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 2: there's a couple of concerns here in Now, I got 309 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: what we're trying to do. 310 00:14:59,320 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 7: Okay. 311 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 2: If there's excessive idling, all right, you've got to be 312 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 2: very diligent about your other maintenance, oil changes, making sure 313 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 2: the cooling system is working properly as the vehicle ages, 314 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 2: and you know several other factors. Just stay on top 315 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 2: of your maintenance. Extended idling. You know, there's a reason 316 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 2: on emergency vehicles, police cars, ambulances, firefighting equipment. If you 317 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 2: looked around under the hood, the cooling system hoses, for example, 318 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 2: are a different color. They're green or they're red, depending 319 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 2: upon the manufacturer. You know, that's because of the high 320 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 2: heat conditions that idling under the hood creates. So you know, 321 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 2: not not just not just the alternator, but everything else 322 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 2: has to be taken into account. Okay, So that being said, 323 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 2: what I would do is take it to your well. 324 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: I guess you don't have a local, trusted mechanic because 325 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: you're traveling all around the country. I would take it 326 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 2: to a shop that understands electricity, and I say it 327 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: like that, because not all of them do. And I 328 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 2: would plug in your power station, leave the vehicle at idle, 329 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 2: and do a draw test. Yeah, how much? How much 330 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 2: current is being pulled out of the alternator while you're 331 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 2: sitting there idling for an extended period of time? And 332 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: they could They can do that test using either a 333 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 2: clamp on amp meter an inline meter. Let's find out 334 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 2: what's and and that's that's where I come back to 335 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 2: what's the maximum this unit's gonna draw? All right? And 336 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 2: then we can sit and say, all right, if it's drawing. 337 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 2: If it's a fifty amp unit and it's drawing forty 338 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: four amps, but it's pulling a smaller portion of that 339 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 2: out of the alternator, but the alternator is one hundred 340 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 2: amps and it's only pulling thirty that's a third. I'm 341 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 2: not overly concerned about that. If it's If it's one 342 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 2: hundred amp unit and the alternator is rated at one 343 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 2: hundred ams and it's pulling ninety five. Yeah, you're going 344 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: to shorten the life of your alternator because you're you're 345 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 2: you're you're ninety five percent peak power most of the 346 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 2: time sitting there at idle, and then you've got to 347 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 2: worry about how hot that alternator is gonna get. The 348 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 2: other thing that comes into play here is modern vehicles 349 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 2: have smart charging systems. They react to electrical load, so 350 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 2: the computer turns the alternator on and off based on demand. 351 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 2: So that's a plus in your favor. It's got very precise, 352 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 2: very good control. But until we know how much is 353 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 2: being extracted out of the alternator, until we measure it 354 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 2: against what's the alternator's rated output, it's a hard question 355 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 2: to answer safely. Does that make sense? 356 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 7: Total sense? And thank you so much. I think I'll 357 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 7: err on the side of caution and only do the 358 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 7: charge you when I'm driving. 359 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and there I don't see an issue. And maybe 360 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 2: when you get it serviced one day, it wouldn't hurt 361 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 2: to know, Hey, how much does this unit actually draw? 362 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: And then at least you know what you're up against 363 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: and maybe you can change things around. Enjoy your adventures 364 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 2: on the road and have a great time and be safe. 365 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 2: I'm run an aid in the guard. 366 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 3: Doctor. 367 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 2: I'll be back right after this. 368 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 3: Don't go away. You love me, s love lot of mob. 369 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's go over and talk to Fred and 370 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 2: Tennessee Fred. Welcome to the car doctor, sir? How can 371 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 2: I help? 372 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 5: Yes? How are you doing today? 373 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 2: Good sir? What's going on? 374 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,120 Speaker 5: We've got a three point seven overhead can't a double 375 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 5: overhead cam engine? Okay, it's in the air form fifty 376 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 5: and well it's been hard to crank and that doesn't 377 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 5: crank at always getting gaze and fire. 378 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 2: Well wait, wait, back back up a minute. It's it's 379 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 2: it's getting hard to crank. When you're when you say crank, 380 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 2: you mean you you hit the key or the button 381 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 2: and the engine does not turn over or it doesn't 382 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 2: turn it doesn't catch. 383 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 5: It just just doesn't know. It just doesn't want crank. 384 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 5: I mean, everything's operating properly, I mean the starter and uh, 385 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,959 Speaker 5: but it just doesn't it doesn't it doesn't start. It 386 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 5: doesn't start at all. 387 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 2: Got it? Okay, so it cranks it's a crank no start? Yes, okay, 388 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 2: does man? I just go ahead? 389 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 5: Excuse me, excuse me, No. 390 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,360 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, and you have spark. 391 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 5: You've got spark, and we got fuel. 392 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 2: How do you know? 393 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 6: Just out of curiosity, a friend of mine drove it 394 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 6: to the nearby mechanic here and they're not much better 395 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 6: mechanics than we are. 396 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, but you 397 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 2: said it doesn't it doesn't run, or this is in 398 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 2: every once in a while, it doesn't run. 399 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 5: He drove it there. It's been hard to crank, so 400 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 5: he took a chance. He drove it to the shop, right, 401 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 5: and they assumed that it was a fuel pump, But 402 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 5: which is in the tank? I'm pretty sure anyway, they 403 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 5: they they established that it wasn't a fuel pump because 404 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 5: as it's cranking, it's getting fueled. They must they must 405 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 5: have taken the line loose and saw that it was 406 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,479 Speaker 5: getting fueled, you know, okay, And and they said it 407 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 5: was getting fire. But it it still doesn't crank. And 408 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 5: and I'm just wondered if it they said they feared 409 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 5: it jump time, okay, which is a timing belt? Of course, 410 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 5: I guess. 411 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,239 Speaker 2: Chain should be a chain on a three seven. Well, 412 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 2: it's got a chain, yes, sir, yes, sir. 413 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 5: It said double overhead came on the on. 414 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: The well, yeah, it is. They run an auxiliary chain 415 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 2: off the they feed the uh, the intake Sprocket feeds 416 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 2: the exhaust sprocket. 417 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 3: Uh. 418 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 2: There's actually there's actually three chains or three chains or 419 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 2: three ways to rotate the cams on those. But back 420 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 2: up a second, Fred, you know, do you own a lawnmower. 421 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 2: Do you own a lawnmower or something with a small engine? Okay, 422 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: if that doesn't start, how do you fix it? You 423 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 2: check for spark, right, You're gonna make sure it's got fuel. 424 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 2: A lawnmower engines kind of hard these days. In the 425 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 2: old days of automobiles, we would check for fuel by, 426 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 2: you know, taking the air cleaner off and looking down 427 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 2: the throat of the carburetor and hitting the throttle and 428 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 2: just seeing a shot of fuel, so we knew it 429 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 2: had fuel. The point that I'm trying to make is 430 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 2: small engine, big engine. The diagnostic doesn't change a whole 431 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 2: heck of a lot. So where I've got a problem 432 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 2: with this is, you know, nobody, I haven't heard anybody. 433 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 2: I haven't heard you say anybody scanned anything for fault 434 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 2: codes here, even though the check you're gonna tell me 435 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 2: the check engine light's not on. Right. 436 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 5: Yes, they they claimed that they checked it excuse me 437 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 5: with the computer right, and they assumed that it had 438 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 5: damaged the valves. I mean that's what they I just 439 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 5: wondered if it could have done something major. 440 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 2: I mean, well, you back up a second. Let's let's 441 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 2: so we've got this fourteen f one fifty with a 442 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 2: three seven in it, and it's got an intermittent hard 443 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 2: start condition. Fair statement, yes okay, And you were able 444 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 2: to get it started and it ran, and you drove 445 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 2: it down to the local garage. In your words, it's 446 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 2: not any better than you guys. Fair statement, Yes, okay. 447 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 2: And they decided to try a fuel pump, but then 448 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 2: realize it's not the fuel pump because they've got it 449 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 2: has fuel pressure. They found that out by disconnecting the 450 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,679 Speaker 2: line and fuel came out. Yes, do they own a 451 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: fuel pressure gauge? 452 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 7: Like? 453 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 5: I don't know. 454 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 2: If this is a painful conversation, Fred, I'm not trying 455 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 2: to beat you up. You're not the mechanic. You're just 456 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 2: trying to get it fixed. 457 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 5: I don't know if they checked the pressure or not. 458 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 2: Well, right, so you know, listen, My point is, hey 459 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: think of it like this. You ever have a You 460 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 2: ever have a car that had a good fuel pump 461 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 2: but a clog fuel filter? 462 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 7: Oh? 463 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,959 Speaker 2: Well, yes, sure, so it had fuel pressure. Right if 464 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 2: you were to check that car for fuel pressure, would 465 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:46,360 Speaker 2: it have pressure? 466 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 5: Well? Yes, I see what you're saying. If the fuel pump, 467 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 5: if the fuel filter was stopped up. I see what 468 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 5: you're saying. 469 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 2: Right now, I'm not saying yours is stopped up. What 470 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: I'm saying is just because it has fuel pressure doesn't 471 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 2: mean it's getting to the engine. And what I'm thinking about. 472 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 2: What I want to know is as you're cranking it 473 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 2: to the injector's fire, the computer does two things. It 474 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 2: fires spark and it fires the injectors. So I want 475 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 2: to hear somebody tell me, hey, we've got fuel pressure. 476 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 2: It's fifty two pounds and the speck is fifty We're good. 477 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 2: And then I want to hear, hey, we simple stuff. 478 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 2: We can get out of labscope and go crazy off 479 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 2: the deep end. But I want to hear somebody say 480 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: whether they use the long screwdriver and listened to the handle, 481 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 2: or they took a mechanic stethoscope and they listened and 482 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 2: they heard the injector's click. If the injectors are firing 483 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 2: driving click click click, click click, and I've got pressure 484 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 2: at the engine. I've got fuel. Technically, if you were 485 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 2: my mechanic and you were explaining this to me, fred, 486 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: I tell you haven't tested it right. It may not 487 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 2: be your problem, but you still haven't tested it right, 488 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 2: and there's a danger in that. Do you understand what 489 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 2: I'm saying. 490 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 5: I understand that, all right? 491 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: So number one. Number two, Let's say, for the sake 492 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 2: of conversation, that I try and give you some useful information. 493 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 2: Let's say it has good spark and it has good fuel. 494 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 2: All right. The next thing I want to do is 495 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 2: I want to take that scan tool. I want to 496 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 2: plug it in, hook it up, turn it on, the 497 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 2: key on engine off on a cold engine, because the 498 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 2: problem happens cold, right, it happens when you first go 499 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 2: to start it. 500 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 5: What e's a way cold a woman. 501 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 2: I want to look at some critical sensors. I want 502 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 2: to look at cool and temp. I want to look 503 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 2: at ambient air temp. I want to make sure the 504 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 2: computer realizes how hot or cold it is. If it's 505 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 2: if it's fifty five degrees in Tennessee today and you 506 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: plug in a scan tool and the computers the scanner 507 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 2: is saying it's twenty below. That's a problem, isn't it. 508 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yes, I see what you mean. 509 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 2: Right, So I want to I want to look at 510 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: baseline fuel. I want to look at once I get 511 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 2: it to start, I want to look at mass airflow. 512 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 2: This has a mass airflow sensor on it. If this 513 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 2: is a three point seven leader warmed up running at idle, okay, 514 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 2: I should see somewhere between three and a half and 515 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 2: four grams of airflow across that mass airflow sensor and 516 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 2: a scan tool will tell me that. Okay, you when 517 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 2: you go to start this, you hit the key in 518 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 2: the engine cranks over, and you've probably heard this truck 519 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 2: run more than a few times in its lifetime, right. 520 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 5: Well, it was a recently bolt truck in it. 521 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 2: Okay, And so. 522 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,959 Speaker 5: Actually myself I heard it run very much at all. 523 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 2: All Right, But what I want to know is you've 524 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: heard enough engines crank and go to run. Does it 525 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 2: sound funny? Does it sound like it's cranking slower fast? 526 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 5: No, it sounds it sounds normal. 527 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 3: Right. 528 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 2: How many miles are on this it's good, okay, not 529 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 2: a lot. If it jumped time, it should be setting misfirefault. 530 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 2: If it jumped time, we should see a low vacuum 531 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 2: reading or an incorrect vacuum reading at the manifold. This this, 532 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 2: this doesn't sound like a hard vehicle to diagnose. But 533 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 2: nobody's diagnosed anything. This is a case of I think, 534 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 2: I feel I assume. Maybe I'm not beating you up. Fred, 535 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 2: don't don't miss, don't misunderstand me. 536 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 5: No, no, I'm I'm I'm absorbing all this. 537 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 2: Am I making sense? If you were my mechanic, we 538 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 2: would be having a long talk. I wouldn't fire you, 539 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 2: but I would take you by the hand and I'd 540 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 2: walk you through each step so that you understood it. 541 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 5: Go ahead, Fred, just well, we had them, we had 542 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 5: it towed out to my place here, it's out here now, 543 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 5: and so we didn't know what I was wanted. If 544 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 5: if it could be something major, We're just going to 545 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 5: try to maybe. 546 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 2: Fred, it could it could It could absolutely be something major. 547 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 2: But but the problem is, nobody's done any diagnosis. Everything's 548 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 2: been would it could have should have Felly, touchy, assume 549 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 2: get it to a real shop, Get somebody to diagnose. 550 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 2: It could be a timing chain, but if they were 551 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 2: going to guess at a fuel pump, I'd want to 552 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,679 Speaker 2: know if it needs a timing chain, because that's major. 553 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 2: And before you spend that money, let's find out for sure. 554 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 2: Call me back when you know more. Fred I'll be 555 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,239 Speaker 2: here for you eight five five five six zero nine 556 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: nine zero zero running any of the car doctor, I'll 557 00:28:46,400 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 2: be back right after this. Hey, let's continue onward today. 558 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: Let's go to John and Oregon twenty Chevy Silverado. John. Welcome, sir, 559 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 2: How can I help? 560 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 4: Is there twenty twenty Silverado five to three engine? I 561 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 4: can hear it. It's got fifty thousand miles five years old, right, 562 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 4: I can hear it, kind of cranking, kind. 563 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 5: Of slow yep. 564 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 4: Check engine comes on, control module, power circuit, low voltage 565 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 4: on a bunch of them. Ready for a new battery, Okay, 566 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 4: I think. Okay. So now I went to YouTube University 567 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 4: and I've seen four people anyway that replaced the battery. 568 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 4: Just took the clamps off it and pulled the positive 569 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 4: a negative, pulled it out, put the new AGM battery 570 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 4: in it, ecked it back up. No nothing, no, no 571 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 4: test code or anything like that. No, no scan tool, 572 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 4: And I was wondering any particular specific procedure for doing that. 573 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: No, you pretty much summed it up. The only thing 574 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 2: I've would add if we were in the shop, we 575 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: would plug the memory saver into the OBD two port 576 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 2: and try and save memory. And it's just it's just 577 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 2: a good habit to be into because cars have such 578 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 2: you know, they have learned characteristics of operation. I don't 579 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 2: think it's a deal breaker if you don't. If you 580 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: have an auxiliary twelve vault battery and you want to 581 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 2: run two jumpers to the cables so as you disconnect them, 582 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 2: you're powering, it's a little awkward to do, you know. 583 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 2: It's it's a lot cleaner to do it from inside 584 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 2: the vehicle. You know, there are some there are some, 585 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 2: you know, fairly inexpensive memory savers out there. There's one 586 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 2: from the guys who make power Probe. We actually use 587 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 2: that one in the shop now. I think it's like 588 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty bucks, which isn't terrible. It will 589 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 2: also give you some draw test readings and does some 590 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 2: other things, which is always fun to have if you're 591 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: working on your own cars. Uh, you know, and then 592 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 2: and then yeah, you know, listen, if you have a 593 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 2: scan tool, I'm gonna plug it in and tell you 594 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: to go look for a battery, a BMI reset, you know, 595 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 2: a reset. I you know, I gave up a long 596 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 2: time ago trying to remember which ones having which ones don't. 597 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: So it becomes a part of the process. Now you're 598 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 2: just going to look to see does it have a reset? 599 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 2: And yeah, it's something you can physically do. Uh, you know. 600 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 2: Just know it's a heavy battery. You're going to be 601 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: leaning over the fender. It's in a tough spot. It's 602 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 2: in the right rear corner of the passenger side, right stuff. 603 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 4: It's an engine compartment up front on the. 604 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, on the right right, on the right 605 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 2: fender back towards the passenger side. Yep, it's it's it's 606 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 2: not in a great spot as easy as it looked. 607 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 2: It's a little heavy and hard to pick up. You 608 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 2: probably have to take the air box out of the way. 609 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 2: But yeah, it can be done. It can be done. 610 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 2: So yeah, so what's a good brand. What's what's my budget? 611 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 2: I'll recommend a brand. I'll tell you what I. 612 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 5: Use to budget. 613 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 2: Uh bucks, If you can spend another one hundred. You 614 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 2: can get an optimum. 615 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 4: I know, yeah, the warrant store. 616 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'll tell you what that that optimum battery 617 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 2: will last longer. 618 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 3: They do. 619 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 2: And they they are built, they are built better. They've 620 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 2: got better vibration resistance, because vibration is what kills batteries. 621 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 2: And it's it's it's more. It's more, it will handle, 622 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 2: it's more, it's less susceptible to vibration damage and old age. 623 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 2: It just it just they do last longer. They take 624 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 2: a beat. And is what I'm trying to say. So 625 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 2: there's a reason for that. Yeah, I think the red 626 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 2: top for what you're trying to do. If it was 627 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 2: a yellow top, maybe we get into it. If we're 628 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: in a hot rod, maybe we'll put a yellow top 629 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 2: in it. 630 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:34,479 Speaker 5: Uh. You know. 631 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 2: The other thing is I'm leary of the of the 632 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 2: big box store batteries because I want to know where 633 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 2: they came from. Let me put it to you this way. 634 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 2: You know, we sell a bunch of different brands out 635 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 2: of the shop, and some of our other brands, like Delco, 636 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 2: for example, when we when the battery guy comes around 637 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 2: and he rotates our Delco stock. I asked him one day, 638 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 2: where's this go? He says, well, we just kind of 639 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 2: sell it off and it goes to surplus and somebody 640 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 2: else gets it. They charge it, put their label on it, 641 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,840 Speaker 2: and a where you go, so you know it's it's 642 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 2: beliery of beliery of where you're buying a battery from 643 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 2: if you want a fresh one. Just just saying, John, 644 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 2: I'm not saying it happens all the time or that 645 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: your big box store does it, but I like an optima. 646 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 2: Put an optima in it. I'm ronning ay and the 647 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 2: car doctor. I'll be back right after this. 648 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 3: You know, jeez. 649 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 2: That was a quick hour, right for Anne who called 650 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 2: in at the beginning of the hour talking about idling 651 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 2: time in her ram Master Van I failed to mention. 652 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 2: I want to mention it now. You know, if she's 653 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,479 Speaker 2: gonna be and if you're gonna be doing extensive idling, 654 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 2: and if you know, things don't work out charging your 655 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 2: battery the way you want to and you're gonna be 656 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,240 Speaker 2: doing extensive idling, you could consider changing some of the 657 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,479 Speaker 2: cooling system hoses. And you know, there is probably an 658 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 2: emergency vehicle version of that vehicle of that UH program van. 659 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 2: And what you could do is take a look at 660 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 2: daycohoses I believe it's Daco Aftermarket dot Com and look 661 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 2: to see do they have a heavy duty version of 662 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 2: cooling system hoses for that vehicle? And you know that's 663 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 2: the same stuff that's going to be on the oees 664 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 2: because Daco makes a lot of the OE hoses. You know, 665 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 2: the manufacturer may not be aware of it, but somebody 666 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 2: will have heavy duty versions of those cooling system hoses. 667 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,280 Speaker 2: You know, have to protect that vehicle when it's idling. 668 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 2: So Daco Aftermarket dot Com would be a good place 669 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 2: to start the search. So for one at all, it's 670 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 2: been another scintillating, tintillating it's been a great hour. What 671 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 2: can I say, It's got to be one of the 672 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,839 Speaker 2: other I'm on an any of the car doctor. I'll 673 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 2: see you guys the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, 674 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 2: they're placeless.