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Speaker 1: of ron and Anian the Car Doctor, since this is

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Speaker 1: And I see the Kuda evidence in some of your portraits,

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Speaker 1: Let me while I'm holding this up. Let's let's no, no,

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00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: what's up top? There you go, there's your there's your Couda.

427
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: This is my Kuda. This is uh. It has the

428
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: same recall wheels as lowered lowered, just like how the

429
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,719
Speaker 1: GTX is. This is basically from the same series. An

430
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,919
Speaker 1: idea was just do like a mild custom like how

431
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 1: the car Woden built in seventy one or seventy two.

432
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: Right now, you've got on there on boath. I noticed

433
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: you've got the wider tires, You've got the red line

434
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: tire on it. Um, a lot of detail, you know,

435
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: a lot of things. You don't see a rear view

436
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: mirror of the streaks the way it would look. Um, Truly,

437
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: it almost looks like a picture, Jim, not a not

438
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: something you you you painted or or or or or portraited,

439
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: if that's the right word. Well, customers tell me these

440
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: Actually it looks them like a watercolor. Actually, yeah, that's

441
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for. Thank you. Yeah. Um, it's

442
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Turn to page. What's next? Next we got now, Now,

443
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,360
Speaker 1: it's not every day you see a slammed lowered Mercury

444
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: was at Mercury Marauder gym. No, it's actually a Mercury

445
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: Grand Marquis and uh light Prairie Tan metallics to color.

446
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: Actually got a friend of mine that owns one of these.

447
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: So I just said they decided to do my own

448
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: rest of my rest of my version on it. The

449
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: front uh facia is actually off the later two thousand

450
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: seven through two thousand eleven Mercury merirs, so you get

451
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 1: the rectangular fog lamps on it. It has the two

452
00:24:54,520 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: thousand three UH tenth anniversary edition coase over a wheels

453
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: on it. But as the Mercury Center cap say it,

454
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: so it looks like it's, oh, yeah, you're you're a

455
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: detail guy. Yeah, I can, I can, I can see

456
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: that you're you're really a detail guy. Let's take a

457
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: look over here at the here. Let's lower this, let's

458
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: put this down. Let's take a look over here. What

459
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: you've got on this chair? Take a look over here.

460
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: We're just walking around. Tom and Harry are running the

461
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: camera today, folks. So here's Jimmy stand over here, bib um,

462
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: what if you what have you got here? Let me

463
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: get on your other side. Let's do it like this.

464
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 1: What have you got here? This is this is now,

465
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: This is the way somebody would purchase UM if they

466
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,880
Speaker 1: purchased uh drawing from you right, this is all framed

467
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: and UM laid out. This is what. This is a Ferrari. Yeah,

468
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: this is a Ferrari. The Ferrari F twelve UH this

469
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: one is uh, isn't the trademark Ferrari Russo red with

470
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: the cream leather interior in it with the black wheels.

471
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: Now this isn't exactly there's something here? What is this?

472
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: What's what's behind there? Jimmy, I don't you got a

473
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: surprise for me here? I for you? All right, let's

474
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: see what you got. Wow, look at that? Holy can

475
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: we're looking at Tell everybody what we're looking at here, Jim,

476
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: we're looking at your fifty five Chevy Ryan. It's black.

477
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: It's black, it's got the hood scoop, it's got the

478
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: little stubby antenna. Jim, You've got every detail of the car,

479
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: right down to the wheels, the wider tires in the back,

480
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: the the the the the traction bars on the rear axle.

481
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: That's crazy that that looks like that looks like it's

482
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,239
Speaker 1: a picture, not a not a portrait. I haven't got

483
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: your hanging dice from the rearview mirror. Yeah, I saw that.

484
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: That's Um, that's crazy stuff. Jimmy. Well listen, um, I

485
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to come down here to

486
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: the shop. I know you're a busy guy, and um,

487
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: this is what happened. You never know what's gonna happen.

488
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: Who's gonna stop in at the shop, Jim. Is there

489
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 1: a place the listeners can go and the viewers can

490
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: go if they want more information about what it is

491
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: you do or they want you to do something for them. Yeah,

492
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: you can't go to uh ww dot Big Jim's art

493
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: dot com, or look or look me up on Facebook

494
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: at uh big Jim's a Custom concepts, or you can

495
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 1: email me at Big Jim's are at gmail dot com.

496
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: Big Jim's Are at gmail dot com. Cool beans, Hey Jimmy,

497
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: thanks for coming by the shop today. Always a pleasure

498
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: to see us, sir, take good care. I'm Ronny in

499
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:29,720
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. Will be back in a minute. Gonevery

500
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: have welcome back Ronni in the Car Doctor once again.

501
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 1: I want to thanks say thanks to Big Jim, Big

502
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 1: Jim with ship Um. We're gonna have to get his

503
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: what's his website again? Tom? Do you have it off

504
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 1: the top of your head, Big Jim's Custom, Big Jim's

505
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: Art dot com, Big Jim's Art dot com. Also, if

506
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: you get out to the Car Doctor Facebook page, Runninny

507
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor. We've got the video of that audio.

508
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: The video of that audio, right, the video of that audio,

509
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: UM rolling along, because we were actually taping it and videoing,

510
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, taking pictures, so we took it both ways.

511
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: You can actually see the pictures that Jim is describing.

512
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: When you see the pictures of the fifty five, it's

513
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: it's just amazing. He's got some talent. It's just absolutely crazy.

514
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: But um, anyway, let's get back to fixing cars. Let's

515
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: get over and talk to Let's go talk to Steve

516
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: online one two thousand five Dodge Ram Steve. I appreciate

517
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: you waiting there very patiently, sir. How can I help? Hey?

518
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: Car doctor? How are you doing all right? Your show?

519
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. What's going on? I've got a two

520
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: thousand five with a five point seven leader Hammy and UM.

521
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to find out if it would be legal

522
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: to in my state to put UH to take out

523
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: the catalytic converter. I'm gonna say no, because that's tampering

524
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: federal emissions, emissions catalytic converters, things like that. That's done

525
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: at the federal level, regardless of what the state inspection

526
00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: law says. That is federal tampering. All right, and but

527
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: my question would be, why would you want to A

528
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: friend of mine who's worked on my exhaust system is

529
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: telling me that I would gain horse power? How does

530
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: he how does he support that? I don't and I'm

531
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: not saying you wouldn't. But what knowledge is he joined?

532
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: What tests? Has he seen? What you know? Has he

533
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: has he seen vehicles with cats removed run on Dino's

534
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: produced more horsepower? Yeah? For my his experience, I should

535
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: say he told me that he's done this on other

536
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: vehicles and he finds he finds that on a Dino

537
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: and all that kind of thing that it it does

538
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: gain horse power. What are the modifications are they doing

539
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: to the vehicles? Well, headers and and free flow exhaust muffler,

540
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: anything on the intake side. Yeah, the intake cold air intakes.

541
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: And also you gain a lot of fuel economy, he

542
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: tells me. So you know what's the goal here, Steve?

543
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: Are we are we looking for horr power? Are we

544
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: looking for performance? Are we looking for fuel economy? All

545
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: of the above and looking for I'm looking for performance

546
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: and fuel economy and justify it by costs, because you

547
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: know there's a payback on your investment once you you

548
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: know save in fuel. Right, I think if it were

549
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: me and what I've done, I'll take it to a level.

550
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to hear that he's doing it

551
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: on both sides of the engine intake end exhaust. A

552
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: lot of people make the error of they just assume

553
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: a better, better flowing exhaust is all you need to do.

554
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: We've We've said it here a million times and engines

555
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: and air pump. What goes in easy comes out easy,

556
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 1: et cetera. What I would do is I would look

557
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: at a performance intake. I would look at a more

558
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: free flowing exhaust. I would leave the cats in place,

559
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: and I probably consider chipping it. See what sort of

560
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: modifications a chip would do? Chips that go ahead? I'm sorry,

561
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: Where is there a good place to get a good chip? Well,

562
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: you know that's a question of I mean, there's a

563
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: bunch of places online. There's a bunch of people doing chips. Um,

564
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: the folks over at super Chips make a good product.

565
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: What I would do is I would get out online.

566
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: I would look at some of the forums. Fortunately, you're

567
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: not the first guy trying to modify a two thousand

568
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: five DODGS ran with a HEMI and I'm sure there's

569
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: more than a lot of reading material out there is

570
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: the guys that have done it, what works, what doesn't,

571
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: And I would talk to each I would talk to

572
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: each manufacturer that people recommend. And you know, this is

573
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: no different than buying the car, Steve, are they just

574
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: trying to sell you a chip? Or do you really

575
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: believe they're going to stand behind the product? And you

576
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: know that's that's that's important to me. And then what's

577
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: their tech support? Like that's important to me? And if

578
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: I have a problem, are they going to respond to it?

579
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: And are they going to give me the information I

580
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: need in support that I need? You know, yeah, because

581
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: I've heard nightmares about chips. You know, people buy the

582
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: cheapest ones and they put them in their vehicles and

583
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: they just don't work, you know, right, and and and

584
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: that and of itself, that of itself is the problem.

585
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: So let's leave it at you know what. I would

586
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: talk to the chip people first, because the modifications they

587
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: make to the engine are gonna dictate what sort of

588
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: modifications they may or may not want to the exhaust

589
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: and the intake side of the engine. And you know what,

590
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you the on the street reporter. When

591
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: you find out, give us a call back. We want

592
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: to know what you ended up deciding to do, and

593
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: we'll put it up here for everyone else's benefit and

594
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: everyone can gain some knowledge. I appreciate the call, Steve,

595
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you being part of the car Doctor family.

596
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: I'm run on any of the car Doctor. We'll be

597
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: back right after this as hey Ron naming the car

598
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: Doctor here. By the way, I should point out, next

599
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: hour we're going to giving away the Densel Spring tune

600
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: up kit for someone's vehicle, featuring a set of dense

601
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: wore RIDI um T T spark plugs and AAR filter

602
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: and wiper blades. So stick around for that right now,

603
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to DJ online too. I

604
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: believe that is with some questions about suburbans, DJ two

605
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: for Nickel in the last two minutes. What do you got?

606
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: DJ are there? Sir? DJ is DJ there? DJ once? Uh?

607
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: DJ is gone? There you go? Is he there? DJ?

608
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: You there? Yeah? There you go? What do you got? Kid? All?

609
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: We got two minutes? Go? Okay, I've got an old

610
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: three suburban in the rear break on the hard line

611
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: that travels alongest frame row behind the gas tank the

612
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: other day and I purchased a set of prevent lines

613
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: from General Motors from GM, right, I actually wanted the

614
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: dorm and kid okay um. Now, the question is am

615
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: I going to be able to get that hard line

616
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: down the frame roll path the gas tank already? Then

617
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I get any experience. Yeah, And the

618
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: answer is, the answer is in my experience in snow,

619
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: because there's too many obstacles in the way you want

620
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: to get it tucked into the clips. If you want

621
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: to make it nice, the tank really has to come

622
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: out all right. So that's that's number one. And you know,

623
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: I've seen that job done at the dealer level. GM

624
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: actually has a kit now under the Delko line where

625
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: you can buy all prevent lines for that generation of

626
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: vehicles because they're having such problems with them. And I've

627
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: seen that repair B eighteen hundred two thousand dollars. So

628
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: you know, doing it yourself can have some justification. Keep

629
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: track of your receipts because there's stories in the rumor

630
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: mill about GM maybe being pulled on the carpet for

631
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: that and it might become a recall. And if it is,

632
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: if you've paid for repairs, or if you've paid for parts,

633
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: you stand a chance to get it back, although in

634
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: this case the actual labor is is the worst part

635
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: of the bill. So second second question, alright, second question, Well,

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Speaker 1: when that struck went down, I pulled the old one

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Speaker 1: out and realized it's overcooling. It's not coming up to

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Speaker 1: temperature when I drive it. Um and so it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like the stand is stuck engaged. Um and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like I've got any coolant running through the

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Speaker 1: lower radiator hose. Okay, what makes you think it doesn't

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Speaker 1: just have a plain old stuck thermostat or a bad

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Speaker 1: thermostat and open thermostat dad across my mind because I

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Speaker 1: replace it on this vehicle before, um and and so

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if I've got the thermostats opening constantly running.

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Speaker 1: Does it make sense that the top heater hose is

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Speaker 1: basically just warm and the bobbing heater hose I don't

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Speaker 1: feel any heat at all. Yeah, it sounds like you're

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Speaker 1: not coming up to temperature. It sounds like the stats

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Speaker 1: stuck open cooling is flowing through the radiator being cooled,

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Speaker 1: especially this time of year, and it's never building enough heat.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I would do. Let's let's call it maintenance.

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Speaker 1: Let's call it it's been a while since you've done it.

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Speaker 1: Get out to stand dot com to read more, but

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Speaker 1: pick yourself up a stand superstat one of the best

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Speaker 1: stats on the market today. O equality. Put a stant

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Speaker 1: superstat in it. Again, stand dot com and from their

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Speaker 1: top it with coolant. Then take some measure measurement readings

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Speaker 1: with a Scantl'll see what kind of readings you get.

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Speaker 1: Called me back next week. I'm wanting any of the

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Speaker 1: car doctor mechanics aren't expensive, get priceless. See you