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Speaker 1: Ronanian, Because you are the car Doctor. If you do

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Speaker 1: know everything about cars, I'm gonna give you a pop quiz.

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Speaker 1: You're ready. When is a car not a car? When

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Speaker 1: it's a truck, no one, it turns into a driveway,

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor, the car Doctor. One of the things

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Speaker 1: that amazes me is we still make cars with theft

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Speaker 1: proof radios. Why you know, it's who's gonna steal it?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of ron and Nanian the

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: phone and call in the garage doors are open, but

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Speaker 1: I am here to take your calls at eight five,

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Speaker 1: five six and now he running. Do you know the

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Speaker 1: first problem you're gonna have with your car when things

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Speaker 1: get back to normal and you're gonna start driving it again.

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Speaker 1: I do. I figured it out this week. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be I'm gonna get a rash of rusty break rotors

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Speaker 1: and dead batteries. Have you been driving your car? You know? Listen,

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Speaker 1: you have to drive your car or your vehicle with

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Speaker 1: your truck whatever you gotta get out on the road.

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Speaker 1: I you know, I know they're saying quarantine and and

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Speaker 1: out for a ride by yourself, and and and maybe

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Speaker 1: will um promote marital harmony this way to um, get

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Speaker 1: out for a ride by yourself and take a ride.

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Speaker 1: I had to go to East Brunswick, New Jersey, UH

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Speaker 1: this week to pick up some car parts, and it

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Speaker 1: was it was an absolute joy. What's normally an hour

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Speaker 1: and fifteen minute ride from North Jersey took all of

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Speaker 1: forty five forty seven minutes. And I wasn't even speeding.

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Speaker 1: I was just you know, trala and you have a

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Speaker 1: trala while you drive, you know, trial la la la la,

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Speaker 1: It was it was great. It was just the roads

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Speaker 1: are empty. But here's what I've noticed, Okay, besides the

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Speaker 1: fact that there's nobody on the roads and the parking

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Speaker 1: lots are all empty, and the malls are all empty

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Speaker 1: and so on, is the cars that are parked, look

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Speaker 1: in between the spokes of the wheel if you can.

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Speaker 1: If you're driving a late model anything, usually they've got

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Speaker 1: wide open wheels. Now and you'll see the brake rotor

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Speaker 1: it's starting to rust. I mean, we're into this three

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Speaker 1: going on four weeks of being of being parked and sitting,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's an issue. It's only going to get

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Speaker 1: worse in time, and the easy way around that. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course if you don't drive the car for you know,

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Speaker 1: they say three weeks is the sweet spot for a battery,

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Speaker 1: especially on a modern electronic vehicle. Uh such as you're

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Speaker 1: all driving that. You know it's it's it's really a problem.

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Speaker 1: So you know it's three weeks the car doctors right

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Speaker 1: in your prescription. Get out and go for a rod,

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Speaker 1: all right. If if it's okay to be with family,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's okay to be with family if

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Speaker 1: you're quarantined with them at this point, you just don't

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Speaker 1: want to be around new people. I think that's the

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Speaker 1: way the concept of the quarantine has written. Then go

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Speaker 1: out for a family ride, take the road trip to

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Speaker 1: nowhere that I always talk about, and just enjoy the sites.

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Speaker 1: But if you can get away by yourself, boy, that's

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Speaker 1: even better, all right, and just see what's out there

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Speaker 1: and you'll be cleaning up your brakes. You'll be cleaning

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Speaker 1: up your rotors, you'll be charging the battery, and you'll

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Speaker 1: be you know, juicing the fluids in the vehicle, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, you'll you'll end up with you don't have

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Speaker 1: to call your mechanic when this is done because this

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Speaker 1: And um, just something I observed them. Just you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here thinking what can I tell these

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Speaker 1: it breaks today four rotors on a vehicle you could

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Speaker 1: spend so you know, here's a way to save some bucks.

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, get get a get out on

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Speaker 1: nine Toyota George. Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How

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Speaker 1: can I help hi? Ron, Thanks for taking the call.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome. Yeah, as you said, I've got a two

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Speaker 1: are awesome. But after this stabulous New Hampshire winter that

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Speaker 1: we always get, i'd do some funt end work that

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Speaker 1: was do. I put new struts on, new califers, new roaders,

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Speaker 1: new pads, stabilizer bushings and end links. And after I

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Speaker 1: got it all back together, all that is fine. But

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Speaker 1: I have a howl in the fun end. It's not

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Speaker 1: causing any vibration in the wheel or in the pedals,

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Speaker 1: and it seems to be in a range of between

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Speaker 1: thirty five and fifty coming down a slight grade. If

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Speaker 1: I pushing the collection, let the engine, you know, just

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Speaker 1: go to idle. I can hear it, but I can't

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Speaker 1: feel it. I got underneath the truck and I've checked

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Speaker 1: the CV shaft on both sides, and the passengers side

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Speaker 1: seems fine, no play at all. The only play I

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Speaker 1: have in the driver's side is right where the CV

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Speaker 1: shaft goes into the differential, and I've done some reading

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Speaker 1: and looking at that, and I guess there's a metal

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Speaker 1: bearing in there that has been a problem with Toyota.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if that's the problem, or if

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Speaker 1: I'm troubleshooting this wrong, or if I should take a

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Speaker 1: different approach. Well, let's let's just back up a sec.

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Speaker 1: This This didn't happen until after the front end work. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm thinking. But I had things rattling around

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Speaker 1: you know, the stabilizer bushings were bad. And after everything

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Speaker 1: get it to the sweet spot George, where it's you know,

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Speaker 1: So if you do forty five miles an hour, get

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Speaker 1: the ground. Uh? Good question. I do have access to

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Speaker 1: a lift, and I could do that, okay, because because

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Speaker 1: that works on stuff, we do it. We do it

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Speaker 1: doing that for forty years. As long as you're secure

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Speaker 1: You know, you're, you're, you're whatever lift you're gonna borrow,

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Speaker 1: hopefully they're going to explain it to you too. You've

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Speaker 1: your head. If you're not careful, that drive shaft will

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Speaker 1: virus is gonna get your way to see what a

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Speaker 1: drive shaft does to you. Um, you know so uh

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Speaker 1: but you know, if you're careful and you're aware, and

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Speaker 1: us that if the suspension, if the noise is gone,

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Speaker 1: then it's it's somehow it's tied to strain and stress

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Speaker 1: shields on exhaust systems. Okay, but if you can pin

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Speaker 1: it wind rushing through something? Well, you know, I thought

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Speaker 1: of that. I don't have any accessory of boltons other

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Speaker 1: really to me, it seems like it's coming from the

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Speaker 1: I've I've done through the motions of getting it up

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Speaker 1: wheel to the right, the noise goes away. When I

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Speaker 1: go back straight, it comes back. Okay, maybe we've got

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Speaker 1: a bad wheel bearing. Okay, maybe we've got a bad

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Speaker 1: wheel bearing on this truck. Okay, uh, you know, just

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Speaker 1: dirt was invented and God was a teenager, that you

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Speaker 1: could you could always say that a bad wheel bearing

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Speaker 1: if you turned the left, it was the right front.

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Speaker 1: If you turned right, it was the left front. Things

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Speaker 1: past twenty years. So the easiest thing is up in

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Speaker 1: the air, and you won't have to drive it at

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Speaker 1: forty or forty five. Uh you know, have somebody in

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Speaker 1: and I'll pick it out with a slow acceleration, just

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Speaker 1: zero to fifteen or twenty miles an hour. And put

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Speaker 1: put the tip of your mechanic stethoscope either on the

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Speaker 1: from the from the actual boot side, and listen. Listen

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Speaker 1: to the left front, Listen to the right front. How

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Speaker 1: should they sound if it's not a wheel bearing, how

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Speaker 1: should they sound the same? Right? Unless you happen to

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Speaker 1: be the lucky guy that's got two bad wheel bearings.

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Speaker 1: But you know a wheel bearing is you know what

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Speaker 1: it sounds like. It sounds like this. That's a good

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Speaker 1: wheel bearing. A bad wheel bearing sounds like it's gargling

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Speaker 1: with sand and gravel, all right, And I think you

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Speaker 1: respecting other people's properties. It's just a great skill set

426
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,400
Speaker 1: like that, you know. Yeah, absolutely, So what's what's next

427
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: for you too? What are you gonna work on next? Well,

428
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: he's actually doing some some cub Scouts stuff. He's actually

429
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: in the middle of doing a bunch of projects there

430
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:13,160
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know. Oh, yeah, okay, do they

431
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: do that? What was it the pine with Derby? They

432
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: do the pine with Derby? They still do the pine

433
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: with Derby. Yeah, maybe you could build a point with

434
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,240
Speaker 1: Derby car and teach him about can you lubricate the wheels?

435
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: Did you lubricate the wheels? Well, lubricate put something on

436
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: him to make them slippery? Right, So at the wheel

437
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: spin fist? Are you allowed to do that? You? You

438
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: are that? In in our particular pack? You can? Oh,

439
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: you can use powdered graphite. Well, I have to tell

440
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: you when I was a cub Scout. I don't know

441
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: how legal this was, but nobody said to me otherwise.

442
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: But when I was, when I was a cub Scout,

443
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about Well. I don't think we were

444
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: able to lubricate back in those days, but we we

445
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: we were. We were able to, for lack of a

446
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: better way to put it, to um, spit on the

447
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: axle and it was a little wet with the metal

448
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: against the wood, and it's spun a little bit faster,

449
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: and so you'd see kids up on the axle and

450
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: you know who whose car? Who had better spit? But

451
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: I guess I guess they changed the rules because maybe

452
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: back thirty forty years ago where my kid in fifty

453
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: years ago? Uh, you know, it wasn't the most sanitary

454
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: thing in the world to see kids spitting on their

455
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: pine with derby car. But you still aren't allowed to

456
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: use jets. No, there's no gas right now, but it's

457
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: all it's all gravy. But you can put weight in it,

458
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: right right, Mason? Yeah, but you're limited how much weight

459
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: you can put on. What color is your car red?

460
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: How did I know that? So? Do you think the

461
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: color makes it go faster. It could though, it could

462
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: psych out the other a guy and scare him. It could.

463
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: What was your car shaped like? Did it look like

464
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: what kind of like a spear with a little yeah,

465
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: two gaps in the middle. Maybe we can get a

466
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: picture of it up on the Car Doctor Facebook page.

467
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys take a picture of it and we'll

468
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: send it over to good Gosh, does he realize where

469
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: he is? Rob? You think? Does he know this is

470
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 1: a national show? He has? It's just not it doesn't

471
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: register well, he knows radio. I actually have some pictures

472
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: of him in a studio here, but I don't. I

473
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: don't know if he's fully aware of everything that happens

474
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: with it. It's okay, you know what, it's it's great,

475
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 1: and you know, part of my reason to do this

476
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: was it's great to see a father and on together,

477
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: especially in these times, and to see a kid taking

478
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: interest in cars. And I don't care if he grows

479
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: up to be a scientist, a fireman, a policeman, uh,

480
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I know a lot of people that

481
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: worked on cars as kids, and it lays a great foundation.

482
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 1: So I think it's something we should encourage. Working with

483
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: your hands and your mind together like that. So you're

484
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: doing a great thing. You really are. Well, thank you.

485
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: Now we we have a lot of fun man. Uh

486
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: you know, as he gets older, my old man always

487
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,239
Speaker 1: involved me in all kinds of projects and that's uh,

488
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: that's my game plan as well. Well. And you know

489
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: what that does. As he gets older, when he has

490
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: questions and when he has problems, he won't be afraid

491
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: to come and talk to you because you'll have that bond.

492
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 1: So you're really you're really building a big deal here.

493
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, it's a good thing. And I also

494
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: have to have to come up with some task comparable

495
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: to cleaning things out in the parks, washing stations. Yeah,

496
00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 1: well I did that. Well. Teach him, get him, get

497
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: him to wash the car first, show him how to

498
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: armor all tires and uh you know, clean the bottom

499
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: half and a little plastic trim and just polished the

500
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: car by the corner. And um, I think he'll do

501
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: just fine. He sounds like a really sharp kid and

502
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: he's really inquisitive. So uh, you guys will do just great. Alright, kiddo,

503
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: So you have a good rest of the day, and

504
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: thanks for being part of the car doctor family this weekend. Okay, thanks,

505
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: you're very welcome by Mason. I guess he's gone. Okay,

506
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: all right, Ron and any the card doctor. We'll we'll

507
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: be back right after this. Don't go away, hang doctor,

508
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's get over too, great Britain and talk

509
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: to Dr Richard McCann. Richard, how are you today, sir?

510
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling and what's going on? Hello? Great to

511
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: hear from you again. Can I just say, um say

512
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: love and best wishes to all the car guys in

513
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: the UK the US to stay safe and well at

514
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: this difficult time. You know, we Brits, we maybe a

515
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: few miles away from you, but we're very close in spirit. Rong.

516
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: We're separated by a common language, isn't it something like that?

517
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: As the saying goes, that's that's what they say. Yeah,

518
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: that's what they say. So how how are things in

519
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 1: your neck of the woods, Richard? Well, merry Old England

520
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: isn't quite so merry right now. We're all in locked

521
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: we're all in lockdown. Reserved occupations are allowed out. Everyone

522
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: else's is staying in and we have we're allowed to

523
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: go and get food. We have a six and a

524
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: half feet distancing thing, so that we could only be

525
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,719
Speaker 1: that close to anybody else in queues and so on.

526
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: So we're getting we're getting by, getting by. How are

527
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: the roads good with you? Yeah, it's you know, it's um,

528
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: it's it's we just were listen, we've we've been through worse.

529
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: We'll we'll we'll get through it and we'll be done. Uh.

530
00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: You know. One of the one of the things I

531
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: was taught think about in the opening comments which you'll

532
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: hear later, I'm sure it's just that it's it is

533
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: a great time to get out on the road by

534
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: yourself and go for a ride, because there's there's nobody

535
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: on the road road at all, nothing on the road

536
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: at all, nothing on the roads. So be a good

537
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: time to take one of your cars out for a ride.

538
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: And I'm doing it wrong. Yeah, clear the head. So

539
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: what are you working on today? What can I help

540
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: you with? Um? I've got a two thousand and six

541
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: Bentley Continental GT. You how did a few years? It's

542
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: the W twelve six twin turbo. Don't I use it?

543
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: Don't use it every day, but I use it regularly.

544
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: It's done about. I keep it well, have its service regularly.

545
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: I'll put a can of bear through it every now

546
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: and then keep it clean. Um, and it's a it's

547
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: a very good card, being hugely reliable. But when I

548
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: started from cold Ron, the first say hundred and fifty

549
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: yards or so from my house to a junction, um

550
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: is a thirty mile and hour zone. And um, it

551
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: has a I don't know whether you'd call it a

552
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: misfire or a bit of a pulse it has yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

553
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: like a flutter, just like a flutter. Now I've I've

554
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: tried increasing the revs. It still does it. It's more

555
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: it's more engine and REVS related than it is speed related.

556
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: I don't think it's coming from the tires. I'm sure

557
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: it's coming from the motor. I dropped it into the

558
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: deal as it went in for a four thousand oil

559
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: change and service. They said there are no codes on

560
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: it at all. Um, so they're not sure what it

561
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: might be. One of them mentioned fuel filter. But if

562
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: it was, if it was a fuel filter, then why

563
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: does it why does it go away warm? Thank you Ron?

564
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: That's what I thought, you know, that would be my logic.

565
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: It's it's got to be so extreme unless well, now,

566
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: one of the things I would look for is you know,

567
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: I would go back and look at fuel trim. I

568
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: don't think it matters whether it's in Great Britain or

569
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: the States. But fuel trim is fuel trim. However, scan

570
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: tool is going to read it that car should have

571
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: O B D two on it or some level of it.

572
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: And right and to look at fulture. My my question

573
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: is you come out of the house, you get in

574
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: the car, do you warm it up at all? Or

575
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: is it just put it in gear and go. I

576
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: give it a minute, but I don't. I don't leave

577
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: it idling for a long time. It soon comes up

578
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: to temperature, comes up very fast, that car. But if

579
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: I do, if I do warm it up, ron it

580
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: still does it still does the same Does it do

581
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: the same thing? I think it still does the same

582
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: thing for about first hundred and fifty yards and then

583
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: it then it clears in it's a way, so it's

584
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: it's it seems like it's if you if you run

585
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: the car for for ten minutes and leave or two

586
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: minutes and leave, it still does it. It still does it,

587
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: and it does the first start of the day, and

588
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: that we'll not do it again for the rest of

589
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: the day. I can leave it, get into it again,

590
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: and it doesn't do it again. It's that first run

591
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: of the day. Okay, let me pull over and take

592
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: a pause, Richard, before I run out of time. I

593
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to. I don't want

594
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: to rush through this. We'll finish it up when I

595
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: come back. I'm run on any of the car doctor.

596
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. Welcome back, meaning the

597
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: car doctor. Richard, you're still there, sir, I would still here.

598
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to give you any misinformation wrong. I

599
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: think it's definitely worse when it's cold. So here's here's

600
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: what's going on in my mind. My first question is

601
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: how long has it been since you filled it up?

602
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: Is there any chance that that stale fuel? Okay, so

603
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: you drive this enough? You you drive this on a

604
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: on a pretty consistent basis. Yes, okay, so fuels out

605
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: of the way, you know. Ask ask the mechanic what

606
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: makes him think it's a fuel filter? Is it a

607
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: blind guess? And see how smart he is? You know,

608
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: ask him say listen, you know, wouldn't it show me

609
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: some sort of a stumble or starving for fuel sensation

610
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: when it's warm? Wouldn't it be worse with more power,

611
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: would you think the right? Right? And and and let's

612
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: look beyond codes. All right, So there's no codes. Okay, um,

613
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: as you've heard me say a dozen times before, you

614
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: ever been sick, and you know, but you didn't feel

615
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: great on Monday, you didn't feel great on Tuesday, and

616
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: Wednesday you finally got the sore throat. So why can't

617
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: why can't right? Why is there something impending? Why can't

618
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: we go look at fuel trim? When this is happening?

619
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: If this is enclosed loop, meaning that it's running the

620
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: driveway for a minute, the computer seemed warm up. The

621
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: O two censor came online, and then it happened. What

622
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: if we drive, first of all, and then it happens,

623
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: where's fuel trim? Is fuel trim out of range? Okay?

624
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two? What if we unplug one

625
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: of the O two sensors that would keep the car

626
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: in open loop? Does the problem not happen because it's

627
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: running a fixed program? Does that change your skew things?

628
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: Last thought? Okay, last thought? Just because there's no fault code,

629
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: how accurate's the cooling sensor? When I see cars that

630
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: do funny things? When they're cold, and you know, I

631
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: gotta start to get really judgmental, and obviously I want

632
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: you to go through. How dirty is the throttle play?

633
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: You know, could the mass airflow be dirty? Could we

634
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: have an issue there? But how accurates the cooling sensor?

635
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: Does it seem like it's spot on. Ten degrees will

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