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Speaker 1: home of Ron and Anian the Car Doctor, since this

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Speaker 1: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If hair mechanics giving you

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Speaker 1: I keep forgetting that. So Fia Chrysler just just know

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Speaker 1: how can I help? Yes, good afternoon, How are you good?

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Speaker 1: touching my transmission. So because the truck, let me let

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Speaker 1: me let me tell you this story. I had a

426
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Speaker 1: Chevy Suburban came into the shop this week Thursday, as

427
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, and the customers complaint was the

428
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: air conditioning didn't work. It had it had just been

429
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Speaker 1: to the dealer. The dealer did a recall to it

430
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: and it came out the air conditioning didn't work. So

431
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, where would you go, how do you fix this?

432
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 1: You're you're thinking, there's so many possibilities and so many

433
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Speaker 1: what ifs. First thing I did, like I do on

434
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: everything now, is I I did a system skin. I

435
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,919
Speaker 1: looked at all the modules I read for fault codes,

436
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 1: and there weren't any. But then I went into data

437
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Speaker 1: stream and I started looking at a C pressures, pressure switches. Um.

438
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 1: You ever you noticed before you go to bed at night, Dave,

439
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Speaker 1: you you checked the front door and make sure the

440
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,639
Speaker 1: front door is locked? Right? Well? You you know, so

441
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: what do you do? You you you walk over to the door,

442
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: you wiggle the door knob and yeah, it's locked. Okay, honey,

443
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:02,239
Speaker 1: let's go to bed, right. Um, you kind of have

444
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: to get in the habit with cars today of checking

445
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 1: the front door using a scan tool, all right, because

446
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of things you can see that

447
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: go beyond just wiggling the knob, and you know, sometimes

448
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: it's you know, like if this is a bad uh

449
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: shift motor, it's you typically see a p is in

450
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: PTER eighteen sixty seven. That's the fall code usually comes

451
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: up in the powertrain control module. But you can also

452
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 1: go and look to see what is the state of

453
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Speaker 1: the control module. In other words, through a good scan tool,

454
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,199
Speaker 1: not O B D two manufacturer specific software. You'd have

455
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Speaker 1: to be a little bit further up the food chain.

456
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Speaker 1: In terms of a scan tool, you can go and

457
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Speaker 1: look to see, you know, where's the control switch for

458
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Speaker 1: the motor, where's the contact plates? What are they reading?

459
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 1: All right? You can you can diagnose this. Now. You

460
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: can do this with a volt meter too. You can,

461
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, get out a wiring diagram and go wire

462
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: for wire, white, violet, yellow, light, blue, orange, et cetera,

463
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: and start pinning out wire colors and you know, where's

464
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: it reading? Um? And then you can also go back

465
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Speaker 1: to you know, the switch and you know, do I

466
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Speaker 1: have power and ground at the switch? UM? I would sure,

467
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: I would surely go through fuses and see, you know,

468
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: And just for giggles, I always ask is there anything

469
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: else in the truck not working? Any accessory? Is you know,

470
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 1: a cigarette lighter? Um? Um, any interior light? Is there

471
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: something else electrically not working that might ultimately lead me

472
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: to well, you know, the fluse, the fuse for the

473
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: cigarette lighter blue, and I don't know this for effect

474
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,160
Speaker 1: on your truck, I have to look at a diagram.

475
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: But you know how many times I find well, the

476
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: cigarette lighter fuse blue, and you know the cruise control

477
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,479
Speaker 1: stopped working and nobody can make the connection. Um, you know,

478
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: and all because of the twelve dollar Hoizon you know

479
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: cell phone charger or a T and T cell phone

480
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,280
Speaker 1: charger that you know shorted out. Um. So where I

481
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: would begin this diagnosis is if if if I were

482
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Speaker 1: looking this up on my own wire R diagram, I

483
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 1: always look at the circuit. Um. I want to look

484
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: at power distribution to see what fuse feeds that component

485
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: and then how does it get to that component? And

486
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Speaker 1: you know, is that fuse working? Once I've established fuses

487
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Speaker 1: are good because there could be more than one fuse

488
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: for any component today. Yeah, there is on that truck

489
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Speaker 1: up for that forward drive. I actually checked some fuses up. Um.

490
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Speaker 1: I'm an aviation guys, so it kind of like falls

491
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Speaker 1: into your kind of yeah yeah, I got you know, um,

492
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: but they all seem they all did seem to be fine.

493
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 1: You know, there's certain um, I guess relay fuses where

494
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: it goes right? Does the switch light up? No? No,

495
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Speaker 1: I don't know. The dishboard doesn't engage the light four

496
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Speaker 1: wheel drive, I mean without when I turned the keyty on.

497
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: You see what the lights dishboard, the four wheel drive

498
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: is showing it. You know that the light is active.

499
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Speaker 1: But when engaging, nothing happens. Usually hear a clicking sound,

500
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: you know. I guess on that motor under need to

501
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: you don't hear nothing coming right, it sounds like there's

502
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: no power probably to it, I guess, because that's well.

503
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: But before before we go there, all right, before we

504
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: go there? All right? If you're are you an aviation mechanic,

505
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: a pilot and engineer? Okay, so we're getting the plane

506
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: ready for takeoff? Dave, Um, what's what's easier? The pilot says,

507
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: the flaps don't work. We're gonna plug in the scan

508
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 1: tool and look to see can we read the servo

509
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: motors for the flaps or we're gonna crawl out inside

510
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: the wing at ten thousand feet and see if we

511
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: can wiggle it. Right, you gotta go right, you got

512
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: you gotta go with the equipment first, I understand. So

513
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: that's where you are. Um, you know you can't you know,

514
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 1: we gotta call it like it is, right. We can't

515
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: count the trans guy that went well. We gotta take

516
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: all this apart because we really don't stand how to

517
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: read the scan tool. That's not really a diagnosis. Um

518
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,120
Speaker 1: that is you know, hopefully he didn't charge you for that.

519
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: Uh you know that that you know, quest you any money.

520
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: That was just a lesson in Okay, this is not

521
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: how we're gonna do it. So you know, I want

522
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: to go like I should bring it to Ford and

523
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: have him do it complete scanning on this thing to

524
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: see what's going on. Ford or somebody qualified. I you

525
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: know what, there's there's good and bed and old repair shops.

526
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be you know, I've said it for years.

527
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,239
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten thrown up the are yet because of it.

528
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: But you know, just because there's a Ford MM over

529
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: the Ford Guy's store or the Chevy and when with

530
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: the Chevy guys store, all that means is he went

531
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: out with the factory, ripped the night before, got him

532
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: liquor it up, they signed the contract, that made a deal.

533
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,239
Speaker 1: Hey you're you're the dealer now. Doesn't mean he's you know,

534
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's good or bad. It's just that's it

535
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: is what it is. That's the way business is. Um.

536
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: It's it's it's somebody's got a diagnosis. And and the

537
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: easiest way around this is beyond codes. What does data

538
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: stream show? If data stream shows that you know the

539
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: motors there, but it's in an open position, well wait

540
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: a minute, now, it's supposed to be closed that you know.

541
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: We're are we what are we doing? We can do

542
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: a lot of testing with a scan tool and that's

543
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: the point of this conversation without having to get our

544
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: fingers dirty and without having to really lift the hood

545
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: at this point, um, you know, between that and wiring

546
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: diagram is where I would start this diagnosis. Alright, sir,

547
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: and hope hopefully you kept the old motor because you

548
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: may find out that that wasn't it and um yeah

549
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: you probably so alright, do that and give me a

550
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: shot back next week and we can talk some more.

551
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate, Thank you very much. You're very welcome. Dave.

552
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: You take good care of five zero nine zero zero,

553
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: run in any of the car doctor coming back right

554
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: after this. I've got time right it on the wall,

555
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: so you don't forget to call for car advice. Done right?

556
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: Eight five five five zero zero zero. Now back to row. Hey,

557
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: let's um, let's see if we can do this right.

558
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: You know, we've been talking about Mitchell one and sure Track.

559
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: Sure Track is the folks at Mitchell one mitchell one

560
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: dot com. It's their database of known fixes. And this

561
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: is kind of neat and this is free. You can

562
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: go out there and read all this stuff for free. UM.

563
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: I've been pulling these off the web and we're we're

564
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: setting something up with them where we're gonna do this

565
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: every week because I think it's good, solid, timely information.

566
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: Here's one that talks about, let's say, real fixes from

567
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: Mitchell one shure Track. Um, what are you doing? Your

568
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: A B S light comes on? If you had a

569
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: code reader, you might use it to see what's going on.

570
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: In this case, you need to seek professional help. Um,

571
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: you hear that, Tony. You need professional help. Follow this

572
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: real fix to see how code for the park Assist

573
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: system and this F one fifty effected the A B

574
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: S two thousand four pick up F one five four.

575
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: It had a code seventeen forty two replaced the park

576
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: Assist control module and then the the The complaint was

577
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: the customers stated the A B S lights on, they

578
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: connected to scan tool and found a code C as

579
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: in Charlie seventeen forty two. Rear sounder circuit failure at

580
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: IDLE shifted the transmitted transmission into reverse while looking at

581
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: scan tooled data, and so the rear park assist censor

582
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: parameter wasn't present with the ignition on on the engine off.

583
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: They use the multimeter. They checked for the presence of

584
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: voltage in grounds. You see how we get in the testing.

585
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: You know, nobody just changes things right at the Park

586
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: Assist Center connector and found signal voltage was not present.

587
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: Performed the inspection of the sensor wiring and detected no

588
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: obvious faults with the ignition on the engine off. We

589
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: then went and looked at the Park Assist Control Module connector,

590
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: inspected the connector terminals and found no faults with the

591
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: cognition on an engine off. Used the multimeter check for

592
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: the president of voltaging ground at the Park Assist Control module,

593
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: found both were president. The results of the test verified

594
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: the park as Assist Control module's faulty replaced cleared codes,

595
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: performed the road test and verified the vehicle operating property.

596
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: The abous light did not illuminate. The nice thing about this,

597
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: all right, and Mitchell comes up with these all the time,

598
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: and these are real world fixes. You know where they

599
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: get the sure track real fix fixes from is they've

600
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: got a mechanics community. So you log into work on,

601
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: you know, a two thousand four f one fifty, and

602
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: they will record that repair as as the conversation around

603
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: the mechanical community the forums grows and is discussed and

604
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: they will then you know that's a unique story or

605
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: something that somebody else they feel. You know, there's enough

606
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: vehicles out there they're seeing a common pattern failure, so

607
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: on and so forth. Because Mitchell Mitchell works with snap

608
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: On actually building common pattern failures are Common Pattern Failure Database.

609
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: It's part of the pattern failure database that snap On

610
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: builds into their scan tools, which is a whole another story.

611
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: And you know it helps us as professionals. They canna

612
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: help you too to repair the car. The nice thing

613
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: about this, and there's a lot of nice things about this.

614
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: You got to Mitchell one dot com, forward slash shop connections,

615
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: forward slash short track real Fix and I think anybody

616
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: can read these, so you can go and take a

617
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: look at these and see what the benefit is of

618
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: using the short track repair method, and um, you know,

619
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: get some good solid information. I want it takes to

620
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: fix the car because listen, it's it's like the conversation

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Speaker 1: we had. What I remember it was this hour, the

622
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: previous hour where I talked to you about the oh

623
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: three Chevy Tahoe that had the lean fault code. And

624
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: it turns out number five spark plug wire shorted created

625
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: a backfire, blew out the PCV and the mass airflow

626
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,959
Speaker 1: sensor and the spark plug wire itself went bad because

627
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: of animal damage and animal had shoot up wire the

628
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: spark plug wire itself. Something like that would probably make

629
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: sure track repair because you know, it's a little different

630
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: and it's it's more than just this broke and we

631
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: put it in and we fixed it. Um. And they

632
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: also give you some testing that you might want to

633
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: consider doing so you can find more, like I said,

634
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: out at Mitchell one dot com and you can kind

635
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: of take it from there. So let's do that real quick.

636
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: But I got a couple of I'm trying to do

637
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Speaker 1: some housekeeping. UM, I want to bring this up. This

638
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: is from the Car Care Council. I'm trying to get

639
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: to this for a week now out of Bethesda, Maryland,

640
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: and it talks about you know this is that, don't

641
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: forget the pre trip car here, check up before you

642
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: begin to journey to Memorial Day weekend. Um, hopefully if

643
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: anybody's getting ready to take a ride for Memorial Day

644
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: or at least at the very least while we're you know,

645
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: doing the the you know, getting ready for the summer

646
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: cruise kind of a thing. Um, let's talk about the

647
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: car fluids, filters, oil. When was it lass service, wash,

648
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: your fluid break transmission? You know, cars still need maintenance,

649
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: they still need fluids and um, you want to get

650
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: all that done before you hit the road. And obviously

651
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: check the brakes, check the battery, and take a look

652
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: at the tires because they're what's keeping you safe out

653
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 1: on the road. More information available. I think it's Car

654
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Speaker 1: Council dot Car Care Council dot org. When we come

655
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: back from the break, I'll have Tom Ray look it

656
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: up in the health pass it along to me. I'm

657
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,719
Speaker 1: running anating the car doctor. We'll be back. We're right

658
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: after this. Don't go away. Hey, welcome back running in

659
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: the car doctor, real quick? John in Alabama? John, How

660
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: can I help you, sir? Run in any at your service? Yes, sir,

661
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: I will think about buying it late months, maybe a

662
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: transit exit are the dodge Potmaster, But I can't find

663
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: much information about the how reliable are usually cars? You

664
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: can go to to some reports, but there's not much

665
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: information that I can find all those types of vehicles.

666
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: What are you trying to achieve? John? You know what's

667
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: what's your end used for the vehicle? Oh? I was

668
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: gonna try to do a conversion to an r V. Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: first of all, vans in general, my experience as a

670
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: mechanic forty three years of doing this are a nightmare

671
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: to maintain. All right, Let's let's have that conversation right

672
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: up front. Um, if if vans were easier to maintain,

673
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: to do anything beyond oil changes in basic breaks and tires,

674
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: I would have owned one twenty years ago. But you know,

675
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: doing any kind of service is just tedious in time consuming.

676
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: So make sure if you're gonna buy one, you've got

677
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: a real purpose for it. All right. That's number one.

678
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: Number two, if you're going to convert a van into

679
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: an r V, I'm not sure who I would talk to.

680
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: I would probably you know, my first question would be

681
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: have you seen any transit vans or Dodge vans, like

682
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: you're considering buying that, you know R and R V.

683
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: So is there a manufacturer out there that's that's that's

684
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: converting them already? And if you know so, that's that's

685
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: the first question. Have you seen anybody driving? You know? Why?

686
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Speaker 1: Why did you pick those two just because they happened

687
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: to be probably the only two left. Well, there's a

688
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: there's the sprainer, but they're all diesel. And what look

689
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Speaker 1: I can understand is that there is the age these

690
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Speaker 1: So I would stay away from that with just because

691
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: of the diesel engine. And yes, it's the pro master,

692
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Speaker 1: the extent to that use quite a bit and the

693
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,919
Speaker 1: chance I've seen, um good enough people use them. So

694
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Speaker 1: then the next question is why would you just why

695
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Speaker 1: would you go through the you know, just talking right,

696
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: We're just two guys talking. Why would you go through

697
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: the pain of converting one when you can just go

698
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: out and buy one? Um, well, I'm retired and I

699
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: like projects. Well, I would talk to the manufacturer of

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Speaker 1: that van. I would go look at that van and

701
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: you know, can I buy a set up prints from you? Yeah?

702
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: Why not? Right? Um? But but you may also find

703
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: that you know, when you go look at one of those. Um,

704
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Speaker 1: let me let me ask you like this, John, and

705
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: you know I just met we're now we're good buddies. Right,

706
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: I can ask you this, how old? How old are you?

707
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: All right? Do you want to go cruising in this van? Um?

708
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: You want to go take a ride in this RV? Right? So, so,

709
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: you know, it's nice to have a project. But maybe

710
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: you buy an RV that's you know, and you're always

711
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: gonna be working on it. It's always gonna be a

712
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: little bit of a project. There's always something to do

713
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: to an RV, all right. But you know it's seventy one,

714
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: you know, I don't we want to get out on

715
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Speaker 1: the road and and and and not spent three years

716
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: in the driveway. If you follow what I'm saying, I

717
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: want to want to start driving it. And that's probably

718
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: where I would go. So try that. Talk to the manufacturer.

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Speaker 1: We'll go from there. I'm want any of the car

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Speaker 1: doctor equip mechanics on expensively place. Listen,