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Speaker 1: And we're here to help you solve whatever problem you've

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Speaker 1: to Rodney and Iowa ninety nine ranger and a blower

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Speaker 1: ranger AC and heating issues? If burreny comes out on

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Speaker 1: low and medium, then it's it's a dramatic drop. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like what you're describing is the blower

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Speaker 1: It's you you move it from low to medium high,

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Speaker 1: for this high speed circuit on this bypasses the blower resistor.

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Speaker 1: If you need a wiring diagram, Rodney, let me help

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Speaker 1: you out. If you need a wiring diagram and you

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Speaker 1: Ron at card Doctor Show dot com and I'll look

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Speaker 1: early next week. All right, a tablet filter on A nine.

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Speaker 1: like I said, Simmy, if you can't find one, rondic

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Speaker 1: New Jersey Dodge Chargers. Tom, you're at the car doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey, Ron, long time listeners since

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Speaker 1: regular basis, right, Tom, precisely exactly. And then you know

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Speaker 1: Nowton's It's right. It's right an Africath Road in Monroe Township,

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Speaker 1: post at notetail. So we had a Kia sult come

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Speaker 1: welcome to the car doctor, sir. What's going on? Hey?

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Speaker 1: I'm just rambling. What's going on? Yeah, good man, what's cooking?

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a I'm not an auto mechanic.

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00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. That's okay. Um, you

426
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,640
Speaker 1: know the issue is still gonna come back to so

427
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: you know, tell me some of the things you've worked

428
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:40,119
Speaker 1: on in the marine world. Name it okay. Um, I

429
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: mean we do everything, you know, reverse gears, anything to

430
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 1: do with any engine, you know, mainly everything in the

431
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: marine world is engine wise is a lot bigger, you know,

432
00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,400
Speaker 1: like working on sixteen seventy one detroits. You don't find

433
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: those in trucks too often. Um So, so you're used

434
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,159
Speaker 1: to doing like when you say marine, you mean like

435
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: um pleasure craft, and I worked on like, I worked

436
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,200
Speaker 1: on a hundred hundred and fifty yachts in my whole life.

437
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 1: So you're basically going from working on You're going from

438
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: working on a hundred and fifty ft yacht to the

439
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: enterprise to an aircraft carrier. All right, it's it's it's

440
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: it's it's more complex, and it's not that it's so

441
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: much more complex, but now you've got all this much

442
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 1: more information to deal with, and you've got to deal

443
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: with parts, you've got to deal with a different scan tool.

444
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: You've got it because first of all, this is a

445
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: real truck. This isn't like I have three fifty with

446
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: with with a diesel in it. This is a real truck.

447
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 1: This is a different class of scan tool. This is

448
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: different cost factors over the road in terms of you know,

449
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: depending upon you know, how main taxes their classification of

450
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: you know, GVW classification of commercial vehicle. Okay, so you

451
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: know you've got to look at that. You've also got

452
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 1: to stop and considered. I thought about this when he

453
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: announced it. You know, when when the President I'm not

454
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: saying it's a good or a bad thing, but when

455
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: the President announced tariffs on you know, imports some other countries,

456
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 1: I started thinking to myself, I wonder when that affects

457
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: the cost of parts. If it ever gets down to

458
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: where if a part is made over season brought here,

459
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,959
Speaker 1: will they pay a higher tariff on those replacement parts?

460
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: And does that affect this Mitsubishi? Does that affect the

461
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,400
Speaker 1: toyotas the hunt? You know, you start to wonder where

462
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: does it you got? And I don't want to get

463
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: a political but I'm just saying you start to think

464
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: about the bigger picture. And you know, listen, they're good vehicles.

465
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: I see them all over the place. Every once in

466
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: a while, I get a landscape or stopping in. They

467
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: want me to look at this, look at that. There's

468
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: some little things I can do. But I'm running into

469
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 1: these same problems that I'm describing to you because as

470
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 1: a general repair shop that deals with you know, F

471
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: three fifties are about as high as I want to go.

472
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: Just because of physical size of the building, I can't

473
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: put anything bigger in it. So I'm not gonna buy

474
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: a scan tool to work on a fourteen thousand g

475
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: v W vehicle if I can't fit it inside shop,

476
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 1: you know, And that's gonna be your problem. So if

477
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: the Mitchell Bishy Dealer and Banger is a good dealer, hey,

478
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,400
Speaker 1: this is a great deal. If this is what you want.

479
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: If if the Mitsubishi Dealer and Banger is terrible, then

480
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,320
Speaker 1: you've just bought no pun intended a boat anchor. Yeah, right,

481
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: So you know you've got to stop and think about

482
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: it from that perspective. Um, you know, Listen, I never

483
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 1: tell anybody not to buy a vehicle. I'll tell you

484
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: what I think the pros and cons are, and I

485
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: don't care what it is. I don't care if it's

486
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: afford a Chevy or Ferrari, a Fuso in a Suzu.

487
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: My god, there's still people buying Suzuki's, for crying out

488
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: loud in this country. All right, all good stuff. Tell

489
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: me where we're getting parts, tell me how we're getting

490
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: service information, and tell me where we're getting tools from.

491
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: On a regular consistent economical basis and that's the problem. Yeah,

492
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: all right, Well no, I'm telling you to be happy

493
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: because life's too short. Listen, I'll give you a real

494
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: world story. Guy called me two months ago. He's got

495
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: a Suzu. I forget the model, but it hasn't been

496
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: made in fifteen years. Can I work on his a

497
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: Suzu something or other that stoles the traffic lights every

498
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: once in a while. And I said, yeah, up until

499
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 1: the point where I tell you I need a part.

500
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: And he says, then what happens? I said, well, then

501
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: I parked the car on the side and we wait

502
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: four months for the part to show up. And I said,

503
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 1: you get to drive down to Central Jersey to the

504
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: last knowns Suzu dealer there is. You get to pay

505
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: them for the part, and then we wait another four

506
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: months for the part to show up. Because the way

507
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: it works to get a Susu parts in the country.

508
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: And somebody correct me if I'm wrong, please, I'm not

509
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: trying to be a smart guy, but it's I've been

510
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: told by this dealership that you order the part, you

511
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: paid for it ahead of time. When the parts shows up,

512
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: that's when you get it. If the part shows up

513
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: and it's wrong. It's still your part. There's no returns,

514
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: there's no warranty. It's very difficult to work with. I'm

515
00:26:55,240 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 1: not saying Mitsubishi is like that, but you know, why

516
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 1: would you want to buy something that's more difficult to

517
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: work on, because vehicles today are hard enough to deal

518
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,880
Speaker 1: with as a rule, unless that I kind of thought

519
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: it was more. I thought it was easier to work on.

520
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: You know, the cab over that whole cab flips right forward,

521
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: you can get right to the engine. Um, did you

522
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: ever think they had to make it that way because

523
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: you're gonna be working on the engine more. Well, no,

524
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: I mean that's the beauty of a cab over sure.

525
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: But but I'm just saying you may need that cab

526
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: over designed, is my point. You know, it may it

527
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: may need to be like that. Listen, it's like I said,

528
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: it's it's they're good vehicles. I see them running around

529
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: all over the place. Somebody's got parts, somebody's got a

530
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: source for it. All right, you just got to the side.

531
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: Is that really what you want to do? And are

532
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: you gonna be happy with that source? So you know,

533
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: it's it's not a matter of Is it a good vehicle?

534
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: If if, if driving it fits what you're going to

535
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: do with it, then yes it's a great vehicle provided

536
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: your will link to work with whatever parts, distribution, scan

537
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 1: tool technology, and reference material you need to go through

538
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: in order to service it properly. Because that's not something

539
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna lift a cab over and just start poking around.

540
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that. Alright, very very very different

541
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: kind of vehicle. I need to go talk to people

542
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: who can actually work on these right, that's right, And

543
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: you know I see how I feel about that. Right,

544
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: Bring up, Bring up, Bring stop at Dunkin Donuts, get

545
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: a get a box of Joe and a fifty munchkins,

546
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: and just sit there and talk to him a coffee break. Hey. Now,

547
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: granted they're gonna tell you how wonderful they are. Maybe

548
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: maybe the guys to talk to aren't the ones that

549
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: are servicing them, but the people that you see driving them. Hey,

550
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: where do you get this fixed? Are you happy with them? All? Right?

551
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: And if everybody says, hey, I go to Joe Smith

552
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: up the street and they're great, you know what, that's

553
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: a great vehicle if it's I go to Joe Smith

554
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: the guy couldn't diagnose his way out of a one

555
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: door closet with two boy scouts in a compass. That's

556
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: not a great vehicle. Yeah, all right, so make sense.

557
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Go go do some research, my friend, and you give

558
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: me a call back. He let me know what you did,

559
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: all right, Matthew, alright, I will. I appreciate your time.

560
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir. You take that care you too.

561
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: But by hey, five five zero nine zero zero. The

562
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: car doctors coming right back. Don't go away. Got a

563
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: good time right on the wall, so you don't forget

564
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: to call for car advice. Done right? Eight five five

565
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero. Now back to Ron, Hey,

566
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's let's get over and talk to Tom

567
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: Rockland County real quick levin Chevy Express. Tom, what do

568
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: you got all? I think I got a good one

569
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: UM about a month ago to truck through P one,

570
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: seven one and seven four UM fuel trim was around

571
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: sixteen both sides. Short term around twenty well a long

572
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: long term cruising down the road or at idle That

573
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: just an idle. When you came off idle, it went away. UM.

574
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: I didn't well when I accelerated the trims did go down,

575
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't drive it with the discanto on

576
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: and I just that was just in park. Okay, So

577
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: so here's the here's the catch, all right. Um, you

578
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: know when we see if lean fuel trim one seven

579
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: one one seven four or any fault code, we always

580
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: want to know when does it occur? In the case

581
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: of a lean fuel condition or a rich fueling condition,

582
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: we want to know is it a idle? Is it

583
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: all final? Because it's gonna change the diagnosis immensely. If

584
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: I tell you you've got a lean lean fuel condition

585
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: idle only versus a lean fuel condition at twenty five

586
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: miles an hour, what do you think is different about that?

587
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: That's gonna make you look for it differently. I'm not

588
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: sure which which one? Which one is more like to

589
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: be a vacuum leak, probably under probably under acceleration, at

590
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: idle under excel. Well, think of it like this, right,

591
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: under acceleration, the computer can compensate, all right, it's it's

592
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: got more controls and more parameters. But at idle it's

593
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: it's got less. And a vacuum week is gonna show

594
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: up on a on a larger scale. So it's going

595
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: to become more of an issue. Do you still have

596
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: the problem now? Well, according to the my scanceol, it

597
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: did trip the light at PM, so it must have

598
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: been an idol when it tripped. But what happened since

599
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: was um? I googled it, looked up the possibilities. What

600
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: would do both sides of the same time. I changed

601
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: the mass aflow sense of it was cheap and easy,

602
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: fifty bucks for a brand new Delphi on Amazon. I

603
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: put it in, didn't make any changes, drove it a

604
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: little bit longer. One morning the light went out by itself.

605
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: You may have you may have leaky intake manifold gaskets,

606
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: an idol, especially during warm up. You I would look

607
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: around under the hood. I know it's a van, I

608
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: know it's tough to get to, but you're looking for

609
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: a vacuum leak of a very small amount, something that's

610
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: gonna be common to both sides. If I'm not mistaken. Um, there's,

611
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: like I said, issues with intake gaskets on that particular model.

612
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: Also take a hard look at the intake duct leading

613
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: up to the engine after the mass airflow, just to

614
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: make sure there's no failures there, all right, But I

615
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: would be looking for a vacuum leak at idole. I'd

616
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: be monitoring fuel trim even now when the lights out.

617
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: Just because the lights out doesn't mean the problems fixed.

618
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: It just means that it's not enough to trip the code. Alright, sir,

619
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: So let's do that. I gotta go. I'm up against

620
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: the clock. Tom. You call me back next week if

621
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: you need more information. Zero zero Jerry and Watertown, New York.

622
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: I'm coming to you next. Frotinading the car doctor. We're back.

623
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Jerry and Watertown real quick. Jerry,

624
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: you're there, sir, Yes, I am. Tell me your tale

625
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: thirty seconds or less. What do you got a working on?

626
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: Oh eight Mercury Grand Marquee for six When an intermittent

627
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: UH engine shut off, sometimes difficulty of restarting UH code

628
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: fuel rail censor feature I replaced. The censor of the

629
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: fuel pumps been replaced. We still have a persistent problem.

630
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: We get a code sixteen thirty three keep alive memory

631
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: and UH. It appears to be related to the weight

632
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: of the driver. The more weight that's inside the passenger compartment,

633
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: the more of this problem persists. Okay, so so so

634
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: the problem but the sixteen thirty three is a keep

635
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Speaker 1: alive memory issue? Yes, right, we're in agreement there, Yes, sir, okay,

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Speaker 1: sixty three is keep alive memory in the PCM. Have

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Speaker 1: you tried diagnosing that? Well, I did replace one fuse,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not sure exactly it's supposed to be one

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Speaker 1: need two with pen fifty five and I have the

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Speaker 1: vehicle was on the highway. We were actually the state

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee, and this thing it made it made its

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Speaker 1: way back to New York with a lady driver and

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Speaker 1: no luggage. Uh. It did shut off along the way

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Speaker 1: when my son was in the vehicle. And he's a big,

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Speaker 1: big guy, and when he's not writing in it, it'll

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Speaker 1: it'll perform almost flawlessly. Okay, So so let me ask

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Speaker 1: you this. If you clear this, don't worry about the

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Speaker 1: one nine one for right now. If you clear the

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Speaker 1: sixteen thirty three, how fast before it comes back? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sorry, I can't answer that quite. I

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Speaker 1: do have a scanner. I'm sorry I can't verify, but

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Speaker 1: I'll do my do some homework. I do some homework.

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Speaker 1: Let me know if you clear the sixteen, if you

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Speaker 1: clear all the coaches what comes back first and how soon,

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Speaker 1: because I'm thinking the sixteen thirty three is what you

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Speaker 1: need to diagnose first because that could lead to a

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Speaker 1: possible bad PCM. I'm not saying change it. We need

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Speaker 1: to die ignose it. So let's look at that first

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Speaker 1: and then call me back. I'll Monty in the car. Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you