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Speaker 1: Was the oil changed recently at all? Yeah, it was

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

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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturn to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: here to take your calls at eight five five five

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Speaker 1: six and now citing running. Hey, welcome, start your engines

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Speaker 1: along and welcome Ronny and the Car Doctor here at

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Speaker 1: a five zero nine zero zero Car Doctors Show dot Com.

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Speaker 1: A nod to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. You

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Speaker 1: know it's funny just to touch on this real quick

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Speaker 1: as we kick off this hour of the Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: and acknowledge her passing and her greatness. Um, really and truly,

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Speaker 1: I remember years and years ago hearing the director of

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Speaker 1: wasn't it John Landis who directed The Lose Brothers? And

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Speaker 1: Was it the car chases? And he said absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: He said it was capturing these pieces of American music

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Speaker 1: And now as I watched them all go right, Areatha

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Speaker 1: But to the late greater areathaetom you just mentioned Ray Charles.

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Speaker 1: I was in the I think it was Washington Dulles

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Speaker 1: Ray Charles was in town and there's roadies and they're

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Speaker 1: And I looked at them and went for the amount

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Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna bust a nut. Uh. He's

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Speaker 1: all ours, folks, Tom Ray, No, Feloni, no, no whatever.

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Speaker 1: So let's go over the phones. I understand Ellis is

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Speaker 1: this is a story and a half. Bring Ellis up,

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Speaker 1: Turn up, Ellis Is, Mike Ellis. Welcome to the car doctor, buddy.

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Speaker 1: How are you today? Yeah, you know, listen, you know

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Speaker 1: we start to know each other. It's gotta be fifteen

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Speaker 1: And you know, we started talking about you, Tony and

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Speaker 1: But what a half? When I've called before, but I

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Speaker 1: That's that's the adominable American spirit, right, never, never give up,

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Speaker 1: and this is the earbag vehicle from last week. Nick,

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Speaker 1: just it just stays on. It just all of a

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Car Doctor. How can I help? Well,

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Speaker 1: Wait what I missed? This is right? Great article in

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Speaker 1: several weeks. I don't understand how how can he fix something?

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Speaker 1: First of all, you know what these guys that come

427
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: out and say Hey, we're gonna open up our own

428
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,239
Speaker 1: body shops and we'll fix it better than anybody. At

429
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,240
Speaker 1: what price? Where's the where's the what's the profitability? Trust

430
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 1: me to be in the body shop business? I had

431
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: defy anybody to jump into the body shop business in

432
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 1: New Jersey with a price of real estate alone, property taxes,

433
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: insurance and everything else before you turn dollar one in

434
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: a repair facility, finding the location is a task gun

435
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: to itself. And you know you're gonna you're gonna turn

436
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: a profit just that quick, and you're gonna get parts

437
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: just that quick. When the certified shops that have spent

438
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: the seventy thou dollars can't get parts that quick? What's

439
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: wrong with this picture? Um? I think Tesla's ego is

440
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: writing checks his body can't cash. Joel Ghoston goes on

441
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: the right. Let me get the page too, Um, where

442
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: are we page two? While these words are certainly ambitious,

443
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: they appear, at least for the moment, to be more

444
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: talk than action. As of mid July, Musk's promised auto

445
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: body facilities were only up and running in Washington, Texas, Florida, Nevada, Georgia, Maryland, Illinois,

446
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: and California, while Tesla owned facilities were not in the

447
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: Garden State at press time. Shops report that they auto

448
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: maker is aggressively advertising for technicians. That's another problem. All

449
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're going to take you're gonna create technicians,

450
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: You're gonna create a shop. Doesn't fall out of the

451
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: sky like that. You know, this reminds me of a

452
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: few years back. Maybe it's ten years back. I kind

453
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: of forget time. But the vehicle manufacturers, I remember the

454
00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: stories about Ford was gonna get into an all makes,

455
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: all models auto repair, and GM had talk of it.

456
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 1: Chrysler head talk of it. They wanted to tap into

457
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,120
Speaker 1: servicing all makes, all models. That didn't work out too well,

458
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: did it? He Naturally, these job opportunities are not for

459
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: entry level repairs. These are high tech roles that must

460
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: be filled by people with the highest level of training possible.

461
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: Who are the people in New Jersey most qualified to

462
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: meet these requirements? Texas certified shops who paid to train

463
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: to text, the certified shops that can't get Tesla on

464
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: the phone. Joel's right, right, So you know, here we go.

465
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: Tesla is gonna just try and level the playing field

466
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,159
Speaker 1: and steal text from the shops that supported him in

467
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: their program to get themselves nowhere but behind the eight ball,

468
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: waiting for parts from a guy that can't deliver, but

469
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 1: he's gonna deliver parts. I you know, once again, I

470
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: think the electric car business, maybe it's the future, and

471
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: maybe it's where we're going, and I can see where

472
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: it will be one day, but I think that, um,

473
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: the price of business along the way is going to

474
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: really create a lot of stress and turmoil in an

475
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: already technologically filled world that we live in. And I

476
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: just can't see it as being a viable choice and

477
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: a viable source. So, um, you can find us online.

478
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 1: I'll try and post the link. Maybe I'll try and

479
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: post a link up on Facebook on car doctor facebook page.

480
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: I'll find it and see if I can get your

481
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: right to it. It's on the starts on page forty

482
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: two of New Jersey Ort to Motive augusteen issue. I

483
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: thought it was a great article about Tesla and some

484
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: of the realities of of of of what it takes

485
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: to fix these cars, these these electronic cars, these electrical cars,

486
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: and um all that that entail. So head tip of

487
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 1: the hat to Joel from New Jersey Auto Motive. I

488
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,439
Speaker 1: thought it was a great article. Eight five zero nine

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Speaker 1: zero zero. Let me pull over, take a pause. When

490
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: I come back, we'll go right to the busy phones.

491
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: Don't go away, Hey, running name the car Doctor. We

492
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: are back. Um. I just posted up on the car

493
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: Doctor Facebook page the article from New Jersey Otto Motive magazine. Um,

494
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: you will have to manually turn the page there there.

495
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't get a direct link, but I brought you

496
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: to the August edition. It begins on page forty two.

497
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 1: Just hit the side arrows and scroll over. Good article,

498
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: worth reading and it it talks about the nightmare of

499
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: what fixing some of these cars, all these cars at

500
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: this present time is gonna be like so another reason

501
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: that we have to question the electric cars and the

502
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: way Tesla is doing it to market. Let's get over

503
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: and talk to John, a return caller from Florida eight

504
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: three Camaro And this is the strolling car from last week.

505
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: And I understand that's fixed. We got something else going on, John,

506
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: Welcome back, sir. How can we help you today? Yeah? Yeah,

507
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: we we figured out what the reason was for the

508
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: stalling the vacuum one of the vacuum lines weren't were

509
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: clouds I guess um clouded or off for it was plugged,

510
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: so we we we just had to unplug it and

511
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: uh and it was fine all right. Which which which

512
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: vacuum line was that, I'm not sure which one it was,

513
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: to be quite honest with you, but something something coming

514
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: into the carburetor, yeah I believe so. Yeah, and it

515
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: was just robbing the the motor of of vacuum, I guess.

516
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: And where's the idle speed? Now? Uh it's it's we

517
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: we brought it down to where you you uh you

518
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: like we're around runs perfect? Yeah, okay, so what you

519
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: got going on today? So the other the other issue,

520
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: you know, but that's really the only the only issue

521
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: I have left is uh so we rebuilt this motor

522
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: from top to bottom about about a year ago, and

523
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: uh we it's now the rear main seal has started leaking.

524
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: It's a very it's a very minor leak. And when

525
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: I when I talked to a mechanic, he's taught me

526
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: that the type of motor that we have in there,

527
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: it's a late seventies three fifty uh motor and they

528
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: typically leaked from the rear main seal uh, and he

529
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: says that it's not something I really need to worry about.

530
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's something I should really

531
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: do or not. So let me ask you this question.

532
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: Or did we have the conversation last week. It's on

533
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: the fringe of my memory about how this motor is vented? Um?

534
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: Does this have a PCD evalvement? It does? Okay? And

535
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: the PCV, I'm gonna ask the stupid questions. The PCV

536
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: is functioning. It's it's um. You know obviously it's working.

537
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: It's not just in there for display pieces purposes. Okay.

538
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: And you've got a breather in one of the valve covers. Okay,

539
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: So you know we've got enough crank case. You know,

540
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: we've got enough venting, so we were not building up

541
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: excess crank case pressure. Um, just for giggles, if you

542
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: want to, if you if you, if we want to

543
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: see if this has anything to do with crank case pressure,

544
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: what you could try doing is, you know, just wash

545
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: down the suspected oil leak area and pop the engine

546
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: oil dipstick out just to touch, just just just enough

547
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: to let it breathe. We're gonna make it. We're gonna

548
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: make another source or another point of pressure relief in

549
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: the crank case drive the car. Chances are it's still

550
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: gonna leave, but we'll feel better knowing that we tried that,

551
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: all right, Um, it just it just you know, I've

552
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: once in a while, I've I've I've alleviated the problem

553
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,479
Speaker 1: just by pointing out, hey, it's too much crankcase pressure.

554
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: Maybe we got to add a breather. Maybe we gotta

555
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: you know, modify the PCV orifice, which we mean, we'd

556
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: have to change some setups in the carb And you know, I,

557
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: I you know, it's it's a never ending process. Man,

558
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: You're always chasing yourself. And I just wanted to I

559
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: just want to be sure that before I take you

560
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: down the next path that we've covered the basis. So

561
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: just just try that. It's it's quick, chip, quick, cheap,

562
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: easy and simple. It's it's kind of like Tom ray. Um,

563
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: then you can once you establish that, are we sure

564
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: it's the rear main seal? And before you answer that,

565
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: all right, is it only from down under? Could it

566
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: be a leak at the rear of the you know,

567
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: top of the intake coming down the sides of the

568
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: motor and dripping off the bottom corner of the pan,

569
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: making it look like a rear main. Well, here's the

570
00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: weir main and he's been around the locked this mechanics. Okay,

571
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: I trust I trust him, the first mechanic that I

572
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: have trusted. Okay, good, good, good good. Then let's fix it.

573
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's well, I understand what's involved in fixing it.

574
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: This should be a two piece rear main alright, Um,

575
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: this should be a two piece rear main seal. So

576
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: in order to fix this, the oil pan has to

577
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: come down and we're gonna work upside down, pulling down

578
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: the main cap, spinning the seal around. You know, do

579
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: you do? You want to do it now? No, it's

580
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: probably a good wintertime project, all right. Um, just to

581
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: see where that goes, and I'll tell you what. Just

582
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: just hang on one second, John, let me let me

583
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: not rush this. Let me pull over and take the pause.

584
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: When I come back, we'll finish up eight zero. The

585
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: car Doctor will return right after this. Don't go away. Hey, Hey,

586
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: we're back, ron On Needing of the Car Doctor, John Florida.

587
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: You're still there, bababy three cameral Yeah, okay, So is

588
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: a two piece of rear main for you know, for

589
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: knowledge sake, the oil pan comes down and the last

590
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: main cap comes down off the crank, oil pump comes out,

591
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: and you know, the seal has to be spun around

592
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: in order to change it out of the upper half

593
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: of the cap. All right, Um, he's not lying. It

594
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: is a little tedious. All right. It really depends on

595
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: how big of a leak this is, you know. But

596
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm kind of one of those guys. I like, I

597
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: like things to not leak. I'm just built that way. Uh,

598
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: I am too, And uh, I definitely am one of

599
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: those people that as soon as I see something wrong,

600
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: I have to fix it immediately. But when he hit

601
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: when I was talking with him, and he said that

602
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: it's one of the things that this type of motor

603
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: tends to do. Um after a little while, and he said,

604
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, I could have plays it, but it's just

605
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: gonna end up leaking sooner or later again. And I don't.

606
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't necessarily buy that. I've got to

607
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: tell you, I I don't remember, and I was there.

608
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: I don't remember the seventies being a you know, an

609
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: age of oil leakers. Um, I'll tell you this, my

610
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: seventy two Monte Carlo that I picked up out of Texas, Uh,

611
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: two years ago. It's got forty one thousand miles on it. Um,

612
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: maybe I got the only one that it didn't happen to.

613
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: But there's a car forty one tho original miles, never

614
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: been touched and it doesn't leak a drop of oil.

615
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: And the cars, the cars, how old, nineteen seventy two.

616
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: It's do the math. It's it's it's not its first

617
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: day at the rodeo. Um, you know, is it a

618
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: tedious job? Yeah? Is it? Is it again? How big

619
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,479
Speaker 1: is the leak? Um? I get what he's saying. Uh,

620
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, it is a performance application. Uh you know,

621
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: I hear there's some performance engine builders all the time,

622
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: which I don't understand. I you know, Um, And truth

623
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: be told, I'm still chasing an oil leak in the

624
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: hot rod that that that comes and goes, and I

625
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: believe that to be remains stealing with me. It's a

626
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: matter of time. Um. I've got to pull the trans

627
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: pull the clutch, pull the bell housing, uh you know,

628
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: pull the scattered shield, et cetera. So it's a lot

629
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: of work, um for something that puts a couple of

630
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: drops on the ground every you know, every two or

631
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: three months. Uh you know. In the answer I got

632
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: from the engine builder was yeah, they all do that.

633
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: It's a hot rod, you know. Um yeah, I don't.

634
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: I don't get it, I you know. So um, one

635
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: of these days, I'm uh, you know, I'm thinking that

636
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Speaker 1: maybe I'll just I'll just I'll replace the rearmains sealed

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00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: by replacing the engine and that solves the whole problem.

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00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that'll do it. So but just just mentioned

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00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: to him if he does do the rear main, and

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00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure he knows this trick, he's and all it

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00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: sounds like he's an old dog like me. You know,

642
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: it's a it's a split rear main, so there's an

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00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: upper half and a lower half, offset the two halves.

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00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: Just just just tell him that. Tell him you read

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00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: it somewhere so you don't insult them, all right, Just

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00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: tell me you read somewhere that you off set the

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00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,919
Speaker 1: two halves so that instead of lining up the half

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00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: the seal with the parting line where the cap sits,

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00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: if it's offset just a little bit, then it gives

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00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: it a better chance it's ceiling and not leaking. Because

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00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: the area that's uncovered is now minutely caught between the

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Speaker 1: two heads looking up online, you'll see what I'm saying. John.

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Speaker 1: Let me know what you end up doing until the

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Speaker 1: next time I'm on anat in the car doctor. God,

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. I'll see you