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Speaker 1: Ron and Anan, You're coming out of a fifteen year

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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome Ronny and the Car Doctor here at five five

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Speaker 1: Yes for you to um. I started to listen to

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Speaker 1: quote from another dealer to do all of that I mentioned,

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00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,959
Speaker 1: except for the water pump. And it's it's right around

429
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred bucks. So a should I do it somewhere

430
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 1: and be that's a little high if he asked me,

431
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,120
Speaker 1: So there's my questions. Well, and I think I'd add

432
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: one more component to that, Stephen. I think I'd add

433
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: a rate. I think I'd add an a C condenser

434
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 1: to it because here's here's well, here's what I here's

435
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: what I think about. You know, radiators and condensers and

436
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: the age of the car. What's the frontmost part of

437
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,199
Speaker 1: the vehicle? Radiator and the condenser? What's taken all the

438
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 1: brunt of all the slop and the bad weather and

439
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: that truck that you were stuck behind on the snowstorm

440
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 1: and it's kicking all that salt and corrosion up the bumper,

441
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: the radiator and the condenser, the bumper gets this color.

442
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: We don't care if the condenser and the radiator have

443
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: an issue. We do when you're in the proximity of

444
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: that radiator. A lot of times today you're you're you're

445
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: so close to the condenser or you have to remove

446
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: the condenser to replace the radiator. It's the price of

447
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 1: a part. So if we're gonna do this, why not

448
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: you know, what is it? What's a what's what's a condenser?

449
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: Another two bucks? Now? Would I do it? Um? I

450
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: think you're a tad early, But I think you're only

451
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: a tad early by a little bit. Because I know

452
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: you you're gonna Stephen, we and a full disclosure, right,

453
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: Stephen has been to the shop a couple of times.

454
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: I've known Stephen over the years working on his cars,

455
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: and here on radio. I know him, you know, through

456
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: radio working for him. This way, Um, you're gonna drive

457
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: that car until it stops, right, Steve? Three hundred thousand miles? No,

458
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: I think it's more weak, and I'm not go to

459
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: maybe quit it too, and and I'm gonna make sure

460
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: the next one doesn't have that start stop technology, which

461
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,439
Speaker 1: I don't care for. Well, if you're gonna drive this

462
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: to two, yeah, are you driving a long distance with it? Steve?

463
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: I sure I am. I just did a thirty mile trip. Uh,

464
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 1: you know when you guys call it the first time,

465
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: I was a hundred eighty miles from how then? Yeah,

466
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: you know what, for peace of mind, I say, put

467
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,959
Speaker 1: a radiator hoses in, a radiator cap, and a thermostaton

468
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: and a water pump. By all means now is the

469
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: moment all right? And obviously fresh coolant and just have

470
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: them take a real good look at the condenser. I

471
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: like the idea. Um, as far as parts pricing, you've

472
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: got to think there's somewhere between half and three quarters

473
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: of a day's labor there, So off the shops. Yeah,

474
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 1: if the shop is, you know, a hundred and five

475
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: an hour, there's gotta be eight nine in labor. Uh.

476
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: If I'm doing my math writer or eight hundred bucks

477
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 1: and labor, and you've got to have a eights got

478
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: to be to to fifty and then the rest of

479
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: the stuff there's gotta be five material. So four doesn't

480
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: sound that far off. Uh. Like I said, just for giggles,

481
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: add the price of the A C convincer to it

482
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 1: and see what that number does to that and go

483
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 1: from there. Stephen, if you're in the area. Stuff and

484
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: but as always, sorry, I appreciate the call. Let's go

485
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,719
Speaker 1: over to Joshua and Wisconsin and see what's going on here. Joshua,

486
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,479
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor ser Hey you Ron, how

487
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 1: are you doing? Okay? What's going on? Hey? I got

488
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: a question. I'll always have questions. But I've heard the

489
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: term it's it's it sounds like it's poured to me.

490
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 1: But I gotta imagine it's an issue in other brands.

491
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: But stiction, yes, so yeah, so there's uh, I think

492
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: it's arch Archer Oil makes a product and they claim

493
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: aim that in forts there is a knocking or ticking

494
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: noise that comes about it certain mileage and UH, put

495
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: the product in it takes care of the problem. And

496
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: I'm on this are we talking about? Are they talking

497
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: about a lifter tap that that very well sounds correct,

498
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: that very well could be, but I'm not sure the term.

499
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: But I don't know exactly yeah, because I'm not familiar

500
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: with the term stiction if if that's the correct pronunciation.

501
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: But I think what you're referencing is either lift or

502
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: tap lifter noise or possibly timing chain noise, which some

503
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: of the forge get depending upon your making model. As

504
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: they get older, they get over the hundred fifty thousand

505
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: mile Market's not uncommon that they get to a hundred

506
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: miles UM. One of the downsides on a lot of

507
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: the cars today is as manufactus rs have touted there

508
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: go longer and longer on oil changes and this will

509
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: generate a bunch of email today. So UM is I

510
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: I see the problem with varnish and sludge and low

511
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: tension oil rings getting sticky, stuck doing all sorts of

512
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: strange things that um create the problem. And uh it's

513
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: traced back to oil and and and as well as

514
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: lift noise, lift or tap lifters tick Uh and so on.

515
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: We had a point of reference. We had a two

516
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: thousand twelve Honda Odyssey in the shop on Thursday with

517
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: eighty two thou miles on it. It was fouling out

518
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: number three spark plug and the bolton that came out

519
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: June of this year specifically talked about problems with the

520
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: rings lining up, getting stuck in their grooves and creating

521
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: a fouling condition and an oil consumption issue. So now

522
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: he's headed over the Honda dealer to get it done

523
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: under extended warranty, which Honda has had their problems, and um,

524
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's all back to oil consumption

525
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: or oil chain intervals as the root cause, and a

526
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: lot of people just don't want to acknowledge that, so um,

527
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: you know, but that's just as an a side story.

528
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 1: But as far as what stiction is, you know, you'd

529
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: have to give me a better pronunciation or an actual

530
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: spelling of the word. Um. But any event, Joshua, I

531
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: hope that did it for you, and I hope I

532
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: answered your question. Zero nine zero. The car doctor is

533
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: coming back right after this welcome back run any of

534
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: the car Doctor, let's get over and talk to Dan

535
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Dan, Welcome to the car doctor, Sir, what's

536
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: going on? Hello? Can you hear me? Okay? Yes, sure,

537
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: what's going on? All right? Yeah, I've got a twenty

538
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: pin for it, Pipsky eight five fuels in it, and

539
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: no matter what do I put in it, seems like

540
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: it thinks of Scott e eighty five. The way I'm

541
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: determining that because I use a scan tool on it

542
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: is so one of those century ran from basically local

543
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: cheap tool supply host. But it, uh, it thinks it's

544
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: got eighty five. It's telling me seventy percent alcohol in

545
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: the fuel, no matter what fuel I put put in it. Okay,

546
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: is it got any got any check engine light on? Damn?

547
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: Got any? Got any trouble codes for everything? No check

548
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: engine lights. Sparks are good, they're they're new. Um, I've

549
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: kind of gotten the gamut on it. Trying to figure

550
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: this one out. Well, Well, I was gonna say, does

551
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: the vehicle run normal? Runs great, but it uses a

552
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: lot of gas. Okay, so let's let's just one one

553
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: step at a time. Brother, Um, so it runs normal,

554
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: no check engine light, no trouble codes? Correct? Have you

555
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: plugged in another scan tool. Uh you know what, I

556
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: haven't tried a different scan tool, because how do you

557
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: know there's not a problem in that scan tool software

558
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: in the way it's interpreting it. That's that's a good point. Okay.

559
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: Do other thing I want you to go look for

560
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: is on that scan tool? Um is this an O

561
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: B D two tool or is this your make model? Uh? No,

562
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: it's an O B D two M scan tool. See

563
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: if it has a Ventury brand, See if it has

564
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: a pit a data piece called f F space I

565
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: n F flex fuel inferred value, and see what that

566
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: number is. Okay, Well, if it's a flex if it's

567
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: a flex fuel vehicle and it's got it's got D

568
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: eight five and it flex fuel, will generate a uh

569
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: an f F I n F UM, It'll change a

570
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: different value, and it will show you a difference in

571
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: value when you can actually look at the f F

572
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: with different brands and blends of fuel, et cetera. And

573
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 1: and you know, is it reading correctly or do we

574
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: have a problem. The thing I'm trying to get to

575
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: is I don't know that it matters because if I

576
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: tell you to fix this problem, and it is to

577
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: put up seven d Allar fuel pump in the truck.

578
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: Are you gonna do it? Probably not because the truck

579
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: runs fine. So it's you know, it's it's you know, listen,

580
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: you're you're, you're okay, So I wouldn't get crazy. Second question,

581
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: I'm running out of time. The second question, Uh, Chrysler

582
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: three hundred see by point seven. Um, she was in

583
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: an accident. Uh, my wife, I hit it deer bunch

584
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: the grill. There's a sensor behind the grill that they

585
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: call it a multi function sensor basically used for cruise

586
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: control active cruise control. It's that it's probably obsolete or

587
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: it's real expensive. Which is it? Um? Yeah, it's well,

588
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: the thing is an insurance company can't seem to get

589
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: a replacement. They didn't find one. They put it in,

590
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: but somehow they botched the installation and they're saying they

591
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: can't clear the settings on it or something that needs

592
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: to have the program to the bin for the car

593
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work. Yeah, well then you know what,

594
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: then they've got to either go back to Chrysler and say, hey,

595
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: what's the story, or they've got to find a way

596
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: to do a reset. There's no there's no miracle shortcuts

597
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,959
Speaker 1: when it comes to programming, and sometimes is programming as

598
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: a trial and error process. You'll you'll follow the book

599
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: and you'll go through this. And I've been through this

600
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: more than a few times in all the programming I've done.

601
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: And then sometimes you get to the end and you say, okay,

602
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 1: let's start over. What do I have to do? And

603
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: I just try something to see if it works. Unfortunately,

604
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: it sounds like maybe somebody made a programming error. And

605
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: if they did, you know, if that module doesn't allow

606
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: it to be reset, that's the price of a part

607
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: and somebody's gonna have to pay for it and start

608
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: over again. Uh. Listen. Part of that conversation is, and

609
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: I mean this, Dan, be glad they could find the

610
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: module in the first place, because a lot of Chrysler

611
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: stuff fifteen years old, that vehicle is a lot of

612
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: Chrysler stuff is going obsolete after seven or eight years. So, um,

613
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: you know, go back and talk to the insurance company.

614
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: Your concern is, Hey, I want a fixed car. I

615
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: don't care how I get it, so, um, you know,

616
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: take it from there, zero nine zero the car doctors

617
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: back right after this, welcome back. We're on any of

618
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. I love you for everything you've got, baby, Stephen,

619
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: Long Island. You're out with the car doctor. Oh three

620
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: Ford escape. What's going on? Baby? He yestern ron Uh

621
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: I've been listening for a long time on the way

622
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: back to w all Are with Karen Q and Oh

623
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: my god million yeah. Yeah, and we actually met here

624
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: at a tool tool show out in uh plane you

625
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: Long Island, back in the nineties. I'll tell you what.

626
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: The radio has been a long time, A long time. Yeah,

627
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: because you would you. I mentioned the park lay You

628
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: was just pulled up and the pick up just waking

629
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: up from taking a long right down here. That sounds

630
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: like me sleeping while I'm driving that. Yeah, that's the

631
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: way I make it work. I love to love the

632
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: show man. It's great. Um. I picked up a two

633
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: thousand and three for the Escape from a Neighbor a

634
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: month ago, you know, especially because of your recommendation of

635
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: getting one for your daughter and talking Hilley of it.

636
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: It's the XLS model with a sixth oldar full wheel

637
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: drive the I mean pristine condition. The only problem I

638
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: got is got a slight leak on the oil pan,

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00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: and I mean slightly, meaning one month they tripped the

640
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: core of a cord of oil. And but the problem

641
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: is the way they have that exhaust wrapping around the

642
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 1: back of the pan when you drive, and it will

643
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: drip and it'll hit that and you'll get that, you know,

644
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: oil drining odor. So I want to replease to gask it.

645
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: Can I do that? Is it possible without tinkering with

646
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: the exhausts not dropping around the back to mine? To

647
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: my knowledge, that front pipe has to come down. I

648
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: don't know when because because the pipe goes around and

649
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: underneath the pan. Correct, yes, yeah, and there is you

650
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: know yeah, let me tell you how the engineer designed that.

651
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: The original pipe called for it to miss the oil pan.

652
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: Then they went to lunch, they had a few, and

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00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: then they came back and said, you know what, how

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00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: can we fool around with these people and driving MutS

655
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:50,919
Speaker 1: in the case the oil pan ever has to come down.

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00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm only kidding, No, sir, the pipe has to come down.

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00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: Take a careful look at the studs. If you're going

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00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: to attempt this yourself, you want to try soaking those

659
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: uds or bolts, whichever the case might be, on this car.

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00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: Try tightening before you loosen, just to see if that

661
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: cracks anything loose and see what that does for you.

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00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: And just be aware that may not be a gaske

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00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: if that may be our TV stealer holding the pan

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Speaker 1: to the block itself. Good luck to you and let

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00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: us know how it works out. I'm run any of

666
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Speaker 1: the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive their places