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Speaker 1: The website here is Yes, sir, what's your name again? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: Ron Tilton, Tintinton, Tinton Falls, New Jersey, one four tourist Ron.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. Sure, how can I help?

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Tell a little problem. Basically, what

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Speaker 1: just hear the starter chatter. Essentially it wouldn't turn over.

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Speaker 1: more times all of a sudden, the fuel pump pressurizes,

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Speaker 1: A pad system issue will put the car into a

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Speaker 1: you know, dirty battery cables connections, something that changed during

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Speaker 1: If it was fine prior to you you know, parking

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Speaker 1: and you know, and and it's okay to think about that,

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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't want to put too much stock in

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Speaker 1: then go through some tests. So at this point, yeah,

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Speaker 1: If you had the battery terminals off, since you had

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Speaker 1: I did I did check that before and there was

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Speaker 1: as much information as we possibly can. If it's if

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Speaker 1: You know, anything's possible. You know, the only thing I

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Speaker 1: but it won't pressurize the fuel pump. That's exactly right. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So now you want to go over to the easiest

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Speaker 1: it's a pink, black pink with a black trace, pink

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Speaker 1: other side. One's gonna be feed from the box. Deal.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be feed down to the pump. You have

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Speaker 1: to the opposition do you get a check engine light? Yeah, yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I wish you luck. If you need more, you know

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Speaker 1: morning train here at zero nine zero zero. Let's go

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Speaker 1: Homer Louisiana. Oh wait, Nissan Sentra. Eric, Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: car doctor, sir, how can I help? Thanks for run? Um?

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Speaker 1: Aren't two quick questions? If if I use a Wicks

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Speaker 1: Synthetic synthetic oil, Yeah, the uh your favorite oil. I

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Speaker 1: I change the oil? So let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 1: What are you using now? And how often are you

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Speaker 1: changing oil? Well, I was using pins are all but

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Speaker 1: So I'm using mixed mixed premium filter and the pins

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Speaker 1: are all synthetic. You know, a lot of this depends

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Speaker 1: on your driving style. Eric, you know, are you are

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Speaker 1: you a short trip? Are you around town? Are you

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Speaker 1: of it depends on driving style. But you know, around

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Speaker 1: p soil synthetic and a good Wits filter. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you six thousand miles is a good interval. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're wasting anything if you wanted to

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Speaker 1: stretch it to seven. Okay, I think beyond that, I

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Speaker 1: don't see the need. Number one and number two, this

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Speaker 1: here's the disadvantage with with extended range oil changes. All right,

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Speaker 1: you know you start getting beyond six seven thousand miles

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Speaker 1: unless you tell me that, Hey, Ron, once a month,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get under the hood and check fluid levels

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Speaker 1: an eight nine year old vehicle. I think you're setting

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Speaker 1: I think you miss understand my question. I don't I

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Speaker 1: I want to change oil sooner, but I don't want

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Speaker 1: I've got synthetic, I've got I've got this. I'm running

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Speaker 1: the same setup in the ranger, alright, the little shop

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Speaker 1: all right, you know. But I do get under the

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Speaker 1: and just looking at things and making sure that now

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Speaker 1: twenty year old vehicle with two hundred ten thousand miles

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00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 1: on it has got everything it needs to keep going. So,

428
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, not that I misunderstood it. I'm just

429
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 1: trying to also give you a balance here. Five thousand's fine,

430
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,439
Speaker 1: six thousand's fine, to go beyond that. I'm just not

431
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 1: a fan of it, all right, I I you know,

432
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 1: But again, a lot of it depends on your driving style.

433
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 1: But from what you're telling me, five thousand miles, which

434
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: will come out to be every and we should talk

435
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: about time every how fast you're gonna do five thousand

436
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 1: miles Eric, four months, five months, three months? Okay? Yeah,

437
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: then three months five thousand miles you're gonna do five

438
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: thousand miles and three months you're doing a lot of driving. Brother,

439
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: So you know what, I put you on a I

440
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,439
Speaker 1: put you on a D twenty days schedule at the

441
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 1: shop time wise, and I put you on at five

442
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: thousand mile interval. And you'll be just fine, absolutely And

443
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 1: you're using and you're using Pen's oil synthetic. You said, yeah, yeah, yeah,

444
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. All right, You'll be absolutely fine, all right, sir.

445
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 1: The other question I had was, and I don't have

446
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: the paperwork confirmed me, but I got it dignosed that

447
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: I needed to place the right side catalytic converters P

448
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 1: zero four thirty or P zero Uh, it's that sounds

449
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: like it. But I don't have the paperworking for me.

450
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: So I got the I got the catalytic converters changed.

451
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: Three days later, the check engine light came on again

452
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 1: and the same codes popped up. I went, I went

453
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: back over there. He cleared the codes and he told

454
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 1: me get back with him if they pop up again,

455
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,160
Speaker 1: And sure enough, I got the check engine light on again.

456
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: What should you be looking for? Okay, so let me

457
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 1: ask the hard question. Who's who's catalytic converters did he use?

458
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 1: I'm not sure? After market, I'm sure right probably, so okay,

459
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: so let me tell you. Let me tell you why

460
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: a vehicle sets a catalytic converter efficiency code. All right,

461
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: there are there are two censors involved in this. Let's

462
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 1: you know, bank per bank, so bank one. You've got

463
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 1: an oxygen censer, and simplest terms, you've got an oxygen

464
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 1: censor in front of the cat. You've got an oxygen

465
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: sensor after the cat. The oxygen sensor in front of

466
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: the cat is going to produce a mixed signal. It's

467
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: reacting to oxygen content as dictated by where fuel trim

468
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: is on the engine. So if the engines running lean

469
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,719
Speaker 1: less fuel, it's gonna see a higher oxygen concentrate. If

470
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: it's running rich more fuel, it's gonna see a lower

471
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: oxygen concentrate. And the two sensor is gonna show that

472
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 1: high voltage low voltage. A catalytic converter is designed by

473
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: what it's supposed to do. It will store oxygen up

474
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: to a certain level. So while the front sensor is

475
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: bouncing all over the place, the sensor after the cat

476
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: is going to be at a steady fixed voltage. Generally

477
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: high is considered good and then at the right time

478
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: when it wants to when the catalytic converter goes into

479
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: its process, and the computer knows this. It will see

480
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: a change of state in the rear sensor, and it's

481
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: it's looking at the difference between the two. If your

482
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: mechanic goes in and looks at what it's O sensors

483
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: d O two sensors are doing, it's called an oxygen

484
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 1: storage capacity or osc oxygen storage capacity test. And if

485
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: he sees both sensors roughly the same, or if he

486
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: sees activity on the rear sensor along with the front sensor,

487
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: maybe not at the same level, what that tells me

488
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: is either the new cat is bad because new doesn't

489
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: mean good, or it tells me that the uh, there's

490
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: there's a bigger problem here, there's something else going on. Now.

491
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: A catalytic converter code can also be caused by engine temperature,

492
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,120
Speaker 1: a thermostatic problem. It can also be caused by other

493
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: fuel trim issues. It's not always a CAT. Nowhere in

494
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: that float chart does it say P zero four twenty

495
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: change catalytic converter. It'll say P zero four zero four

496
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: thirty diagnosed as per manufacturer. And sometimes that's you know,

497
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 1: takes a little bit of work. Everybody throws cats at

498
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: them because nobody wants to diagnose it. But you can

499
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: do an oxygen storage capacity test. There are several tests

500
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: to determine is it cat? Is its sensor? Is it

501
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: engine related? That being said, here's my argument against the

502
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: aftermarket cats and a lot of vehicles. And I know

503
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: the price is attractive. What did you pay for the repair? Eric?

504
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 1: Do you remember? I'm sure you do? Okay, for both cats? Right? Yeah, yeah,

505
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would venture to guess those

506
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: cats out of Nissan are probably a thousand apiece. Are

507
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: you pretty close? Yeah? Okay? And and and and the reason.

508
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 1: And here's my argument. All right, I always think of

509
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: a shoebox. I always think of women's shoes and men's shoes. Right,

510
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: the women's shoes, the shoe boxes a little smaller. The

511
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: men's shoebox. The shoebox is a little bigger, right, the

512
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: men's shoe boxes, the oe cat, the women's shoeboxes, the

513
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: aftermarket cat. All right, typically it's a third smaller. How

514
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: much longer? You know? How's that gonna last? And I

515
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: get it, it's a nine year old vehicle. How long

516
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 1: do we want it? To last. But the problem is,

517
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: depending upon what brand of cat it was, does it

518
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: even have the ability to meet minimum specification? And on

519
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: an older vehicle, how many miles are on this Okay,

520
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: not a lot. That's really not a lot for the

521
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: age of this truck. But you know, just breaking in baby,

522
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: all right, this thing will go two on a thousand.

523
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: You know what, I can tell you what's gonna go

524
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: wrong with this thing. It's gonna need timing chains at

525
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 1: a buck forty if it doesn't need them already. It's

526
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: gonna go through a trans and maybe a lower radiator

527
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: cooler at some point, and catalytic converters. Other than that,

528
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: the truck will run forever. Parts will fall off it

529
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: because of rust, but the truck will run forever. Um,

530
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: you know. But my argument is after market cats versus Oh,

531
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 1: I just don't see the capacity and sometimes I don't

532
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: think they're up to doing the job. Have your mechanic

533
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,239
Speaker 1: go back, run some more of those tests. If you've

534
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: got any more questions, give me a call back. We'll

535
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: go from there, all right, sir, Very welcome Eric eight

536
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: five five zero zero, run on any of the doctor

537
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:06,679
Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back, weren't any of the

538
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: car doctor. Let's roll it along here, we're getting backed up.

539
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 1: Let's go talk to Nick in Texas ninety six jeep

540
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: Cherokee and some problems with the way it's running on injectors. Nick,

541
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help? Yes, sir, Well,

542
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: I've checked all the injectors, and I've checked all the

543
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: wiring and stuff, you know, and uh what I got is, uh,

544
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: I have and six on the injector wires. They'll turn

545
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: the key on and you get a little power coming out.

546
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: But uh with the tester uh uh whatever it's called

547
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: the own and not to own district. I've owned it too,

548
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: and I'll get power all the way over to one. Alright,

549
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: well here, let me let me Nick, let's start here.

550
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: What's actually what's actually wrong with the vehicle? What's it

551
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: doing that's that's generating this one? Call? Well that uh

552
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: five and six injector wires are not whole sating. Okay,

553
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: so you've got no So you've got no signal on

554
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: the two injector wires which on that cars. On five

555
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: it's gray and on six it's the um uh it's six,

556
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: it's the brown. Um. So in other words, you've got

557
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: power on the orange on each injector, but you've got

558
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: no pulse. You're using a little nooid light and you

559
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: get no blink blinks here. Okay, So and obviously you've

560
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: got two dead holes now right, So it's running on

561
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: four cylinders? Is a four oh I assume obviously it's

562
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: a six cylinder engine, so there's a four leader. So

563
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: you know, did this happen overnight? Did this just you know,

564
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: gra I just now got it to that. Whenever I

565
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: got it, uh, it had a short on the ignition

566
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: wires coming out of the ignition going through the by

567
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: the frame or by the steering column. They were they

568
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: were short and out right there. So I changed the

569
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: ignition out. I've changed the the computer out, I've changed

570
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: the uh uh crank centers the the um because safety

571
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: switch did he uh, let's let's let's let's look. I

572
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: got I got the power going because they couldn't even

573
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: get a spark on it whenever I got it from

574
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: these other people. And uh then uh uh so I

575
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,959
Speaker 1: figured out what was stopping a spark. But now the

576
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: injectors want fire off, all right, So let me ask

577
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: you this nick um. Just let's just cover the basics.

578
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: Have you owned all the injectors to be sure that

579
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: they're all roughly the same? Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I've

580
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: changed them out from one to the other and stuff

581
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: like that. And only the four work. The first four work,

582
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: the last six, the last two won't want work. So

583
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: just just humor me, so I make a diagnostician out

584
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: of you. Just just just own all the injectors, if

585
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: you would, just I just I just want to hear

586
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 1: a number. I want to know six point eight ms,

587
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: eighteen olms, whatever it is, all right, And I don't

588
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: think it's gonna solve this car, and I'm not looking

589
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: to it, but I'm just trying to get you in

590
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: the habit of doing something, because once you start to

591
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: do it, you know, if I teach you how to

592
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: diagnose this one, you'll diagnose everyone the same and you'll

593
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: end up with a good running vehicle. So just just

594
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: omored for the sake of owming. If that's number one.

595
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: Number two, you know, if you've got power on the

596
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: orange but you've got no signal on the gray or

597
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: the brown, then you know my next step is can

598
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: we can we own going back from the you know

599
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: the gray on number five. If we if we own

600
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: that wire back to the PCM, do we have continuity? Yes,

601
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: we did well if if you and that's what I

602
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: was wondering. That's what the mechanic asked me too. He says,

603
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: you might get a power surge right there and uh,

604
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, a power on when you turn the key on,

605
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: but you won't get the pulse because it might have

606
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: a slight break in the wire and uh, you get

607
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: good at OLMS reading and then uh, it might be

608
00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: not enough connection right there to uh in the pulse. Listen,

609
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: I think I think this is simpler than that. I

610
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: think you've got continuity on the brown, you've got continuity

611
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: on the gray. And as long as you're on the

612
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: right wires, if nothing's shorted to each other, and you

613
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: should you should you should alm across them to see

614
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: could you have a possible short at harness because you're

615
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: you're describing a harness issue with this harness, because you're

616
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: kind of down to the point where if you've got

617
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: continuity in the harness and nothing's rubbing or touching that

618
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: PCM you put in is no good. That's the only

619
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: logical thing. That's the only logical thing left, you know,

620
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: is the driver shorted and you know that's um I'll

621
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: tell you what. Just stand the line one quick second

622
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: and um Nick, let me just go pull over and

623
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: take this poise. When we come back, I'll finish up

624
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: with zero. We're coming right back. Don't go away. Welcome

625
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: back of the card ocurated by five zero zero, Nick, Texas,

626
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: you're still there, sir. Correct. Here's what I want you

627
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: to do, all right, listen to me. I want you

628
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: to unplug number five injector. All right. You're gonna have

629
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: hot on the orange and you're gonna have nothing on

630
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: that gray correct. All right, So think about that gray wire,

631
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: all right. I want you to insert. I want you

632
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: to get a headlight. I want to do a loaded

633
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: I want to do a loaded circuit test, all right.

634
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: I want you to get a headlight. Put the hot

635
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: leg of the headlight into the gray wire. Put the

636
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 1: other leg of the headlight to ground. Okay. I want

637
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: you to find that wire that you believe is correct,

638
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: that gray wire at the PCM disconnected. Put twelve vaults

639
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: on that wire. Use it, use it, use a fused source. Okay.

640
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: So there's a short, We're gonna blow the fuse and

641
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: not fry something. All right, If that circuit's good, the

642
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: headlight's got a light. Correct, If the headlight, if that

643
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: circuit can handle the load of the headlight, what's left

644
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: the driver in the PCM right, got you, and I

645
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: want you to do the same thing to number six, Yeah,

646
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: to the gray right, all right? No, the number six

647
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: is yet to the brown. Number six is the brown, right, yeah, yeah,

648
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: number six is the brown rights. Yeah, my, my, you know,

649
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: my mind tells me bad, PCM. But you know, I'm

650
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: not there seeing the vehicle, and I've got this picture

651
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: in my head of a vehicle thinking before I unwrapped

652
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: all the the wire, the the whatever it's called, all

653
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: the wire on the underneath a dash, I mean underneath

654
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: a hood right there, and traced all those wires back,

655
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: made sure whatn't any shorts? There was one short on

656
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: the air circuit on the in fake on the air

657
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: and uh, there was one short right there and that

658
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: goes to the same spot right back where the uh,

659
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: all the wires from the injectory. Yeah, I think, and Nick,

660
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: the clock is gonna take me. I'm sorry, babe, but

661
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: I think you've got a harness issue here, and I

662
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: want you to make sure of it before you go

663
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: put PCMs and to try a loaded circuit test. See

664
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 1: where that goes. I'm nominating the card doctor if the

665
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, good, placeless