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Speaker 1: Ron and Anan. You know the cars in trouble when

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Speaker 1: to the point of tank design and construction. Up. Welcome

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

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world over return

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Speaker 1: to for their definitive opinion no automotive repair. If your

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Speaker 1: you're here to talk about cars. If you're new to

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Speaker 1: well I must be doing something right. Tom and I

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Speaker 1: and Mike and we're all standing here saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: you and uh in a fun way to talk about

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Speaker 1: the automobile. Yes, Tom, the one thing you didn't do

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Speaker 1: right forgot to buy the tomato plants. Why because today's

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Speaker 1: about Michael. So may the Fourth be with you. May

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Speaker 1: the Fourth be with you is absolutely right. Um. We

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Speaker 1: one of those weeks that that you know, like, wow,

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, we we set the mouse trap

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Speaker 1: what failed. And two of the pistons had oil laying

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Speaker 1: the way that vehicle cools on a regular basis. So um,

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Speaker 1: is an oxygen sensor, right, And I got to take

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Speaker 1: it's the it's the electrical device with the cattle prod

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Speaker 1: Never a good sign. So now I've got to lower

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Speaker 1: the pipe. We don't drop anything in order repair. We

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Speaker 1: repair inside because it's the catalytic converter. What do younna

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Speaker 1: front of you. You've changed the upstream air fuel sensor.

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Speaker 1: Do you change the downstream oh two censor on the

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Speaker 1: And I'm serious? Oh, it was dropped down like twenty

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Speaker 1: I like I delivered the garages. I deliver engines and transmissions.

428
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 1: So I've been asking everybody in the I know, like

429
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,640
Speaker 1: the all filler has a gooseneck in in the wintertime,

430
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: I'll park it in the garage. It's not heated. But

431
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: even when I take it to work, when I park it,

432
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: I'll pull the oil stopper off and you can see

433
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: the water condensating on the goose neck and roll them

434
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: back into the engine. When it's running. It doesn't do

435
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: it just when you ship it off. You'll see the

436
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: steam building up coming out of the engine and it

437
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: condensates on that Gooseneck rolls back into the engine. How

438
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,479
Speaker 1: at a curiosity? How many miles are on this? Uh

439
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: had a hundred nine team I bought it. I got

440
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty seven on it now. And how

441
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 1: long have you had it? I've had it three years

442
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 1: and it's set. It's set for four years without running

443
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,879
Speaker 1: before I bought it. But you're driving, you're driving at

444
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: a decent amount. Yeah, yeah, you know, um, other than

445
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: that episode of the clear water has the last couple

446
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: of times been contaminated oil? Um? When I let it set,

447
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: if I drive it every day and the temperatures right

448
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: in the middle of summer, the hotter the better, no problem.

449
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: When a time if the stays below freezing, no, I

450
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: get a little cond station in the goose Neck. But

451
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: it's just it seems like it's just in the spring

452
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: and the fall when you get the cycle of freesta

453
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: cycle you know what if you have Yeah, it's just

454
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: I'd really love to see, you know, for condensation to

455
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: condensate two quarts of water out of the air. What

456
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: have you said? And what have you said? A metal

457
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: can next to it, a closed metal can next to

458
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: the vehicle in the weather, how much water accumulates there, Oh,

459
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: just a measure of the air the motion or in

460
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 1: the air, and wouldn't be that much. So there's there's

461
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 1: gotta be a reason why that car is condensating two quarts,

462
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: which is such an excessive amount. I've seen oil contaminated,

463
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: I've seen sludge build up, I've seen yellow paste, but

464
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: not a physical two quarts of water on on on

465
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: top of you know, the next time you parked this

466
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 1: thing and you shut it off and you let it

467
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: sit before you start, are you checking the dipstick? Yeah?

468
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: And so are you saying it's two quarts up because

469
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: it's up high on the dips or well? No, When

470
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: I the first time I started and was letting it

471
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: run because it was a big block of ice and

472
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: it was running fine, then the motor started knocking, so

473
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: I gotta looked at it lost the oil pressure. Um,

474
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: the dip stick was actually frozen in a block of

475
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 1: ice and the old pants I couldn't get it out.

476
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: And this this spring when I checked it after I

477
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: changed oil, didn't even drive the car. I changed oil

478
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: backed it out in the yard. Uh, it was milky white,

479
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: and it was halfway up to dip stick. So I

480
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: knew something was wrong. But I when I drained it

481
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: in that time, I took out two and a half

482
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: gallons of fluid out of it. Oil and water mixed.

483
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: You you've measured the time with the clear water. You

484
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: measured that as two quarts exactly, it was two quarts.

485
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,719
Speaker 1: I took the oil out then dumped it in two

486
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: gallon jugs and let it settle out so I could

487
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: measure it. Wow, and you haven't added cool into this

488
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 1: car in three years. No, it runs. It runs right

489
00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: on the button that runs right at one. Even the

490
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: oil pressures right up around ninety pounds and the oil

491
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: level and the oil level hasn't changed. I mean, the

492
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: cooler level hasn't changed. No, No, okay, it's got to

493
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 1: be environment. I change it and put it in a

494
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 1: heated garage or a garage of some type, get it

495
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: out of the weather, and then you know, if the

496
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: problem goes away, at least you know its environment. And

497
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: now we've got to figure out why the car is

498
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: attracting so much moisture. Button forty something years of auto repair,

499
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: I've never seen that. Yeah, there's not a lot of

500
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: these cars up. I know the oil pain only sits

501
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: like six inches six eight inches off the ground really,

502
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: but that doesn't make it that that's not gonna You

503
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: know what, if you think that's the case, put put

504
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: some sort of a barrier down to keep to keep

505
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: it dryer under the vehicle if you're laying it, if

506
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: you're doing it on a gravel driveway or or or

507
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: an earthen driveway, how about a barrier of plastic or

508
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: a barrier of plywood or something something to break um,

509
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: you know it's proximity to the ground in that sense. Yeah,

510
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. I put a put a sheet

511
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 1: of that bubble insulation, a foil faced and uh now

512
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if it helped or if

513
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: it was the weather conditions, but it wasn't as bad

514
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: when I did that. So well, like I've been I've

515
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: been asking everybody and dry I've getting gets pretty expensive

516
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: change in oil every week. Well, yeah, that's that's like

517
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: I said, there's something odd there. I would I would

518
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: have a garage. I have a garage. It's not heated,

519
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: but when I parked in there, if the weather changes,

520
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: the entire car gets soaked underneath it, just water hanging

521
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: off the motor, and all my tool and my toolboxes,

522
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: water beads all over it, and just it's a messeng

523
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: are when in the temperatures right, So your toolbox in

524
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,959
Speaker 1: the car, your toolbox in the garage, in the garage,

525
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: if I put the car in there, everything's wet. The

526
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: other changes. So you're saying, if the if the car

527
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: is outside of the garage and it gets wet, the

528
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: toolbox in the garage does not know when when the uh?

529
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: If I I put the car in the garage the

530
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: middle of it. If it's cold, it's all right, But

531
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: when and if the temperature changes, I popped the hood

532
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: on the car. The entire motor soaked underneath the car.

533
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: So all my tools, my enniting metal in my garage

534
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: is also wet. So it's so it's environment. Yeah, I

535
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: just I just can't understand how that much to order

536
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: is collecting in the engine. Neither can I. Brother, I

537
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, and let me ask you this question.

538
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: Do you have another vehicle you drive? I have five.

539
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: I have five vehicles. I like the old ones. I

540
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: got a ninety one Dodge Ram. I got an O

541
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: two Saturn and I have my fire burden is the

542
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: only one that collects water. Yeah yeah, wow, all right, listen,

543
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: let me let me ponder that. But do some of

544
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: the changes I told you about. Let's see what happens.

545
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: Let's talk again in a couple of months. I'm running

546
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: any of the car Doctor. We're back right after this.

547
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back on the name of the car Doctor. Is good? Ever?

548
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: Talk to Mike and Delaware thirteen Nissan. Mike, what's going on? Hey, Ron,

549
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: I've got a two and thirteen niece on Ultima two

550
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: point five UM having trouble with the alarm going off

551
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night, particularly although I have

552
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: an O B D reader that I have from Verizon,

553
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: and I was just looking at it while I was waiting.

554
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: I've got about twenty indications. Started October and I thought, okay,

555
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: battery probably beat went in, got a new battery. Everything

556
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: was quiet for a while, and then in March had

557
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: started going off from the all night and it is

558
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: I will say it is a salvage car that was

559
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: donated to my disabled veteran son that I sort of

560
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: traded him for. And uh works fine. Otherwise. And the

561
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: things that I've noticed are the the remote is erratic

562
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: and trying to set it. The battery did get replaced

563
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: again by the the auto park store. They said it

564
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: was something wrong with it. It was quiet until last,

565
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: you know, two nights ago, about one fifteen am. Of course,

566
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: most of the time it's in the middle of the night.

567
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: Your UM, oh yeah, and it's it's it's awesome. I mean,

568
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: I run out there in the middle of the night,

569
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes I'm not even not even here

570
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: during the day when it goes off. But so let's

571
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: do this, um. And the trunk release is not working

572
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: radically too. I'm not sure what that is. So let's

573
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: let's do this all right, UM. Salvage title asside, because

574
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: salvage title means the car wasn't an accident and it

575
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: was repaired and the insurance company said, hey, it's it's

576
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: it's it's junk, but we'll fix it, etcetera, etcetera. So

577
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: salvage title possibilities aside, which I could talk for the

578
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: next three years on what could what could go wrong

579
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: with that? Um? Two key areas at the at on

580
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: the driver's side, at your feet, where your left foot

581
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: sits in that area, there's a service junction. There's a

582
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: main harness service junction, all right. If you peel back

583
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: the carpet and that kick panel area, you'll see a

584
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: main harness plug. You'll see a series of main harness

585
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: plugs in there. Key off in your hands, so it's

586
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: not gonna start the car, et cetera. If you want

587
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: this connect the battery cable. Look at that junction box.

588
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: Unplug those connectors, all right? Are they spotlessly clean? Does

589
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: something look like it's grown cauliflower and broccoli? Is a

590
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: corroded in there? Because typically what happens, moisture gets in there,

591
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: and that is the main junction block for the vehicle. Great, great,

592
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: great place to put it down. Lower moisture collects right. Um,

593
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: at least you're not like the previous caller with the

594
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: ninety nine Firebird. This car wouldn't even run at this point,

595
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: So you know to do that. Take a look at

596
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: the service junction blocked down on the left side. The

597
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: other possibility is that the door switches. There's a switch

598
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: in each door for setting the alarm. You know, it

599
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: tells it open, close, et cetera. Those breakdown they get

600
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: they get moisture on them and they'll short to ground.

601
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: And when it shorts to ground, the path the ground

602
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: is completed, it's sets off the alarm. But the fact

603
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: that you have and I mean it could be either or,

604
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: and it's a matter of looking at the switches and

605
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: the doors and so on. The driver's door is probably

606
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: the most common, but it's it's a matter of look

607
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: at the service junction module first, because you're telling me

608
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: the trunk release doesn't work, and the fact that the

609
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: trunk release doesn't work tells me it's a multi tiered issue.

610
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: And I would look very carefully at that. It's got

611
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: to be clean connections, no moisture, no corrosion. And at

612
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: that point, unfortunately, I'm sorry, it would need a wiring harness.

613
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: Typically that's what happens unless you can painstakingly clean everything

614
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: and prevent the short circuit. So take a look at that,

615
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: call me back and I'll do my best to continue

616
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: to you know, we'll fix this thing. Five zero zero,

617
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: We're back right after this, Hey, ban any of the car,

618
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: docul Let's get right into a Jason, beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Jason,

619
00:32:54,080 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Bib Jason Jason going once, Jason

620
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: going twice, and the poison the control room scratching their heads.

621
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: Is Jason there, Jason, you're there. Jason, here we go.

622
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: We know you're there somewhere. So we had a misfire.

623
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: We had a misfire in the control room. What's going

624
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: on with this car? Hey? Sorry about that? Right that

625
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: the ninety six Lectus four point five later in six

626
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: and I am having a difficulty. Uh the chickensloy play

627
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: come ons the po three hundreds, which is random miss far,

628
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: but it only comes on after the vehicle has been

629
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,959
Speaker 1: running for about thirty forty minutes and when you come

630
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: to a stop, and it was usually come on then

631
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: or when you start going again. And um, no hesitation,

632
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: Uh I it's doesn't there's no miss in it really.

633
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: And I've been trying to track this down now for

634
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: a year and I've been changing parts um and made

635
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: actually I've changed multiple parts in it seems run a

636
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: lot better. But still bringing on that code. How I'm

637
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: going back to square one? How many miles? How many

638
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: miles on this car? Jason? Okay, So do you have

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Speaker 1: a scan tool? I that's okay? O B D two

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Speaker 1: fixes A lot of cars go into OBI is what

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Speaker 1: I want you to do. I want you to go

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Speaker 1: into O, B D two. Do you understand fuel trim? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I do understand it. Just do not operate off my

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Speaker 1: scanful but I can come sure there's a YouTube video.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, go to go to listen. Bring it up

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Speaker 1: on your scan tool. You're gonna look for long term

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Speaker 1: fuel trim and short term fuel trim. They're probably the

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Speaker 1: most important PIDs in this case. What I'd like to

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Speaker 1: see is, as you know, when you start out, fuel

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Speaker 1: trim is gonna be one thing is the vehicle warms

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Speaker 1: up and goes into closed loop operation, It's gonna level

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Speaker 1: off and be what it's be what it is. When

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Speaker 1: the misfire occurs, how does the fuel trim change? What

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Speaker 1: does it become? A more attention to the short term

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Speaker 1: fuel trim. That's the reaction of the moment. Long term

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Speaker 1: fuel trim is history. Long term is what you had

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Speaker 1: for dinner last night. Short term is what you're eating

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Speaker 1: right now. Think of it like that. Once you understand that,

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Speaker 1: write some numbers down, call me back, and we'll kind

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Speaker 1: of go from there. I'm running dying the card doctor

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Speaker 1: Good Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you