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Speaker 1: the usual good stuff that you'll find there and everywhere else. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Car Doctor is just all over the place expanding

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Speaker 1: country of ours. And um, the really good news this

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Speaker 1: do trans cooler lines. The trans cooler lines are connected

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Speaker 1: If you still can't put fuel in it, then there's

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00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: probably a problem with the filler neck itself. The filler

424
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 1: necks on a lot of cars and yours, there's no exception.

425
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: Are there there there two piece. There's an inner and

426
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: outer sleeve on a lot of the cars today. And

427
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 1: what will happen is the inner sleeve has a clamp

428
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 1: where it goes to the neck, and that clamp comes

429
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 1: loose and the inner hose falls off. You can still

430
00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,919
Speaker 1: put fuel in the tank, but this the inner sleeve

431
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: being displaced now creates pressure and it causes the pump

432
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 1: the click off on a repeated basis click click click,

433
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 1: click click click. Uh, you know when it wan't to

434
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,680
Speaker 1: lay it to put fuel in the tank. But it's

435
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: just a simple process. It's not that difficult to really resolve.

436
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 1: You know, they've just got to they've just got to

437
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: understand it. It all comes back to the basics of

438
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 1: you know, pressure in, pressure out. It's got to go somewhere.

439
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: So where is it getting stuck that it's kicking off

440
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 1: the hose like that? Okay? And and would that require

441
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 1: that it would be put up on a lift tour?

442
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 1: Could they do it now? They need to put it,

443
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: They need to put it up on a lift. They

444
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 1: would need to put it up on a lift, and

445
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: then they need some time with it. Obviously, you know,

446
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: I would make an appointment with a mechanic, take it

447
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 1: to him with a quarter tank of fuel for a

448
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: couple of reasons. Number one, he's gonna have to put

449
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: some fuel in it during the process. And number two,

450
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: if if for some reason there's a problem internally in

451
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: the tank, and that could come up if he's got

452
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: to take the tank out obviously easier with less fuel

453
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,720
Speaker 1: in it. Than more so, all right. And if if

454
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: the mechanic wants to reference this conversation, if you want

455
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: to give him, you know, you can tell them that

456
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: you were on the Car Doctor on Saturday whatever it's

457
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: today today on Saturday to seventeen. Uh, this will be

458
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: up on our website on their podcast, you know when

459
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: the live broadcast goes to podcast, and um, you were

460
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: an hour one down around the bottom of the hour,

461
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 1: and they can actually listen to it and take it.

462
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we never thought in all the

463
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: years I'm on radio, I never thought of doing that.

464
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: And lately people are telling me, hey, I took my segment.

465
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: I played it for my mechanic and you knew what

466
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 1: to do. So you know, if that helps, I'm glad

467
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: to do it. All right, all right, And I'm going

468
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,879
Speaker 1: to leave you with a question and I'm going to

469
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: get off the line. Okay. Do you feel that women

470
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: are taking advantage of more than men? Yes? Absolutely, absolutely absolutely, um,

471
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you this now, now, but I'll tell

472
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: you this glory and now wait, I'll tell you this, Um.

473
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: One of the one of the things I found in

474
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 1: my twenty seven years on radio and my forty three

475
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: years of fixing cars. Don't tell the guys this. It's

476
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: easier talking to it's easier talking to women. And I

477
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: don't know why women. Women seem to listen better. I'm

478
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: not sure why. I'm not sure if that's maybe I'm

479
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 1: maybe I'm looking at it wrong. You know, I raised

480
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: three daughters and I'm still married after thirty something years. Um,

481
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: so I've I've learned to, you know, listen to women

482
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 1: and hear what they've got to say. And it's it's

483
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: a better connection. Again, it's the relationship thing. But yeah,

484
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: I think women are intimidated. I think I think women

485
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: have a harder time in the in the doctor's office,

486
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 1: and I think they have a harder time in the

487
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: police station for sure. I think, Um, I think they

488
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: kind of get pushed around a little bit. So you've gotta,

489
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta, you gotta worry about him. You

490
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: gotta take care of them. Mechanic movement. I like that.

491
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: Thank you, Gloria, you have a b bye bye. So

492
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: how sweet right can we do that? We have a

493
00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 1: meet a mechanic movement. My mechanic, my my mechanic. An

494
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: I didn't fix my car, right, boy? You talk about

495
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: sexual harassment. That list would probably go further out down

496
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: the line. Um, I wonder which is more. So let's

497
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: pull over and take a pause real quick. Five zero

498
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: nine zero zero running any of the car doctor coming

499
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: right back? Don't go away? Welcome back? Why don't any

500
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: of the car doctor? Yeah, Tony, listen, you have to

501
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: push that little button. Hey, I'm into folks. I got

502
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: helped Tony. Here. You gotta push that little button so

503
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: the red light lights up. It was an honest mistake.

504
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm human, you know. I knew I could get you

505
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: to talk. You know. Yeah, in a couple of years

506
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: on the self driving cars, you know, things happened. Okay,

507
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: this is human error. Listen, I knew I could get

508
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: you to talk on air today. You know all, I

509
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: can probably figure out how to program it. So you

510
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: better be nice to Tony. Nobody wants to talk to you.

511
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: Get back, and how was your week this weekend? It

512
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: was fine? It was Fine's a pleasure to see it.

513
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: It's good to be seen. Yeah, well that's absolutely true. Yes,

514
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 1: so you're ready to take the next call. Yes, we're

515
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: gonna take Jim from on Virginia. There you go. Well,

516
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: you know, you keep it? Can we get a little more?

517
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: Can you put a little more live innocent? Try that again? Now.

518
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: The next call is online to Jim from from Virginia. Okay,

519
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: there we go. Let's go to Jim from Virginia. I

520
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: like that needs a little work, Jim. Welcome to the

521
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: car doctor, sir, how can I help? Thank you very much.

522
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: I have a nineteen seven Camaro Z. It's a thirtieth

523
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: anniversary edition automatic. UM. And what has happened is I

524
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: don't drive it very much anymore, UM, trying to keep

525
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: the miles off of it. I pulled it out and

526
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: when I went to start at the battery wasn't dead,

527
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: but it was low. But after three or four cranks

528
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: it fired right up. All my dash lights came on.

529
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: I'll pulled it out, let it run. Fifteen minute's turned

530
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: it off, turned it back on. All the lights went off.

531
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: I thought, great, everything's good. I've had it, says two

532
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, never had any problems. The batteries about

533
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: a year and a half of old. UM. So as

534
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: it's out there idling, the temperature starts going up. And

535
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: the temperature has never gone up over a hundred eighty

536
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: year in Virginia in South Carolina. One time it went

537
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: to one is a hundred two degrees outside, So I

538
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: take it to the mechanic. We put a radiator cap,

539
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: new fluid thermostat in it, and a cooling temperature switch. Okay, um,

540
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: cooling temperature. So cooling fan number one which is the

541
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: running fan, and two and three or two air conditioning

542
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: fans which if you turn the air conditioning on, it

543
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: drops straight down to a hundred eighty again and stays there.

544
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: So Chevrolet Dealer and show Relay company cannot tell me

545
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,880
Speaker 1: when the fan is supposed to cut on and off.

546
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: My mechanic puts it on the computer, and it's cutting

547
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: on at two thirty nine and cutting off at two.

548
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: This thing's got aluminum heads from the factory. It's never

549
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: run that hot. I've disconnected the battery for the positive

550
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: for a day, put a little charge on the battery.

551
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 1: Is still doing the same thing. I'm at wits end. Um,

552
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: let me let me ask you this Jim, any any

553
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: signs of air in the cooling system. Um, no, sir,

554
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: we actually checked for that. Uh. We put the we

555
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: cook the radiator tap off and let it run a

556
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: good while. Um. I've also replaced all the relays for

557
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: the fans. So you know, I'm and my mechanic says,

558
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, maybe something's hit your computer when it went down, Jim,

559
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: But I didn't jump started, so he does. He's a

560
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: good mechanic. He doesn't want to throw parts at it. Yeah, no,

561
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: I get that, And I've got to tell you that,

562
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: um uh to thirty nine just sounds way too high.

563
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: The switch that you changed is the switch that you changed?

564
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: Is you changed the switch for the fan itself well

565
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: as a cooling temperature sensor? Is a two is a

566
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: two twopen switch? Um that has like a heat synk

567
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: looking thing we're screwsed down into the engine. I guess

568
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: he did that for me, so I wasn't there when

569
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: he replaced it. Uh, when he was just searching. He thought,

570
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: you know, that was an easy and expensive thing we

571
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: could throw at it. Um. So let me ask you this,

572
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: Do you still have the old one? I do? Why?

573
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm well, because what I'm gonna get to is I

574
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: want to talk about brand the bran and that you got.

575
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: GM doesn't make that part anymore, do they? No? It

576
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: was a Nappa okay, and I'm not picking on NAPA.

577
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: But I'm just two thirty nine is too high, all right?

578
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: That sensor should have well color wires. Does that have

579
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: going to it? A yellow and two blacks? Or no,

580
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: a yellow in a blaket. It'll be a yellow in

581
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: a black. Yeah, I think so. But I'm not here

582
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: at the car right now. It's down in the garage,

583
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: and like I say, I don't even know where this

584
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: cooling sensor was on the car. On the water pump. Possibly. Okay,

585
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: you know it's let's let's do this logically, all right,

586
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's do this as scientifically as we can.

587
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: My wife had this same motor. We had a ninety

588
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,239
Speaker 1: four Chevy Wagon, same thing. Uh, five seven P motor. Uh,

589
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: this should be a P motor. Correct to imports a

590
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: tu import car um whatever is in the nine seven

591
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: to two important injection. This has eight fuel injectors. Yes, yes,

592
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: next year one right there is a tune port car.

593
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: So you know, first thing we want to do is

594
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: make sure we've got nowhere in the system we want

595
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: to bleed it, all right, just just just just to

596
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: have that conversation. Okay, number two when he did the

597
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: thermostat if I'm not mistaken. There should be a pital

598
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: valve on the thermostat. Make sure the pittal valve is

599
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: in the right position just so that it can burp

600
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: any air until the thermostat opens all the way as

601
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: the thermostat opens. Is there a point before the two

602
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: thirty nine? Are we feeling? Radiator hoses? Is one hot?

603
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: One warmer? They both is one really hot and one stone? Call?

604
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: Do you know what the hose temperature is? Uh? But

605
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: we did grand boat the boat the hoses, and I

606
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: believe they were warm. Okay, so we've got circulation. Oh,

607
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,959
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Jim, Sit tight a minute. I've

608
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: got to pull over and take a pause before I

609
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: went into trouble with Tony, and Tony is bigger than me,

610
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: so I have to listen to him today. Um, stay

611
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: right where you are. I'll be right back to here.

612
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: I'm ron adying the car doctor coming back right after this.

613
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: Welcome back on any of the car doctor. Let's be quick, Jim,

614
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: you're still there. Yes, there are how many fans on

615
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: this car? Two or three? Okay? Two of them are

616
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: side by side and one of them is in front

617
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: of the radiator. Okay, the two their side by side,

618
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: because I thought about what you said. The two that

619
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: are side by side, do they come on together? When

620
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: they do come on? Okay, And that's the way it's

621
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: supposed to be. When they're in low speed, they should

622
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: come on together. But two thirty nine is too high, alright,

623
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: if if if I remember correctly, and I'm going back

624
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: a few years, I believe the spec was to to

625
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: eight because I always remember thinking that was too high. Um.

626
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,959
Speaker 1: And it's gonna sound silly, but the reason I remember

627
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: to eight was remember the TV show Room to um

628
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: back a million years ago, and it just I always

629
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: think of it is, oh yeah, it's room to twenty eight.

630
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: It's one of those cars, a little word association. But

631
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: that's how I remember it, I think. Is so for

632
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: some reason, those fans are coming on twelve thirteen degrees

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Speaker 1: higher than what they should be. And and and it's

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Speaker 1: just the fan one is the only one that's not

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Speaker 1: coming on when it should because when I turned to

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Speaker 1: from what I understand, and it will bring it straight

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Speaker 1: down to one again. Right. But but but so well,

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Speaker 1: let me just tell you, let me say it, say

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Speaker 1: it like this, fans one and two should come on

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Speaker 1: low speed somewhere around town. It was room two, seven, whatever, eight,

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Speaker 1: all right. And the fact that they're the fact that

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Speaker 1: now at two thirty nine, are they both coming on? Um?

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Speaker 1: From the way I remember at fan one is the

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Speaker 1: one that's coming on on? Okay, well this until I

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Speaker 1: turned the air conditioning on and then two and three

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Speaker 1: come on. And that's a problem right there. All right?

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Speaker 1: My understanding, my memory is, and I could go through

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Speaker 1: some research and you can email me and I'll be

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Speaker 1: glad to send you what I find. But my memory

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Speaker 1: is two fans one and two run together low speed

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Speaker 1: at two degrees. So if the fans, if the fans

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Speaker 1: aren't coming on until two thirty nine, if that one

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Speaker 1: fan is coming on, that sounds like is that fan

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Speaker 1: really spinning fast at two thirty nine? I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: that fan is coming on at high speed. I think

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Speaker 1: high speed is to thirty nine. I'm wondering if you

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Speaker 1: don't have a low speed control here, I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: your fans aren't operating at low speed, because in low

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Speaker 1: speed they both come on, and high speed the one

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Speaker 1: comes on. If I if I remember this correctly. Jim,

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Speaker 1: you got a pencil real quick. Send me an email

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Speaker 1: ron at Car Doctor Show dot com. Ron at Car

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Speaker 1: Doctor show dot com, give me the vin I'll get

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Speaker 1: you some information. I'm run any Car Doctor become Mechanics

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