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Speaker 2: Yeah that's right, Halloween's coming and them gee whizz so well,

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Speaker 2: I guess we'll be scared tomorrow. Right, the giants are

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Speaker 2: playing again.

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Speaker 1: I'm the kidding and I you know, I was gonna

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Speaker 1: go with Ron an Indian for Halloween.

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Speaker 2: My wife said no, too scary forgetting That's right, because

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Speaker 2: En Ron Indian shows up. Things happen. So and by

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Speaker 2: the way, Tom, take off your maskets too early. Yet,

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Speaker 2: what do you got for me this hour? Let's see

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Speaker 2: you want to go to Stephen, Virginia. Let's start right there,

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Speaker 2: Steve Virginia ninety nine land cruiser wants to restore it?

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Speaker 2: Steve want to restore a ninety nine land Cruiser?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna do it because I've always wanted one. Okay,

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Speaker 3: And I found the unicorn. It's actually in pretty darn good.

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Speaker 2: Shape, all right. Tell me about it.

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Speaker 3: Well, I actually was a friend's vehicle that they passed

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Speaker 3: away and family used it for intermittent use over the years,

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Speaker 3: and then basically seven years ago it got parked because

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Speaker 3: it was having an intermittent no crank situation. So I

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Speaker 3: got a hold of them and they maybe said, Steve,

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Speaker 3: if you if you really want it your friend, take

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Speaker 3: it and take a look at it. So I brought

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Speaker 3: it home. And what's been done? To keep a long

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Speaker 3: story short, I basically the brakes were bad. All the

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Speaker 3: brakes have been done over. That expensive booster system is

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Speaker 3: all fixed, right. I took all the bad gas out

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Speaker 2: Did you fix the did you fix the intermittent crank condition.

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, well it's really funny. You know what that

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Speaker 3: was is they didn't have a master key.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so they had.

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Speaker 3: A key that would turn the truck over, but the

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Speaker 3: computer wasn't seeing the key.

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Speaker 2: Got it.

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Speaker 3: Once I re keyed it, the thing well back up

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Speaker 3: I had. I did have to replace the fuel pump.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and is that is that a result of

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Speaker 2: you know, sitting But bottom line, it starts every time though.

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Speaker 3: Oh it starts and it runs amazing.

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Speaker 2: How many miles are on it?

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Speaker 3: Two?

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Speaker 2: And how much you think you can it's going to

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Speaker 2: cost you to restore it.

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Speaker 3: I'm figuring.

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Speaker 2: And what's your idea of restoration?

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Speaker 3: My idea, well, my dear restoration history wise, Just to

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Speaker 3: give you an example, bought a two thousand and six

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Speaker 3: f three point fifty turbo diesel. I bulletproofed the whole thing,

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Speaker 3: went through it, front to back. I love the truck.

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Speaker 3: It does everything I want. So basically it'll go up

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Speaker 3: on blocks and every vacuum hose, every here hose, all

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Speaker 3: the fluids, I mean, everything's getting on everything, wet's getting changed.

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Speaker 2: Everything, rubber is getting replaced. Yes, yep, okay, you got

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Speaker 2: to pull the engine.

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Speaker 3: You know, just from reading forums, that's one of the

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Speaker 3: things I wanted to talk to you about because well,

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Speaker 3: actually your introduction basically answered my question, because you can

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Speaker 3: get half a million miles out of a motor, I think,

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Speaker 3: so this particular motor has a history of longevity and

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Speaker 3: there's literally no noise in this engine.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but you know, do you pull, do you

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Speaker 2: pull the engine, do a rearmain seal, do an oil

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Speaker 2: pan gasket, look at look at the bottom of the pan.

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Speaker 2: Is there any sludge, any varnish? Clean the pan, reassemble it,

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Speaker 2: not saying you have to rebuild the engine, but you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe it's that seven years. Maybe you want to look

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Speaker 2: a little bit. And then you know, transmission wise, those

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Speaker 2: transit are fairly bulletproof. But you know, do a complete

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Speaker 2: fluid replacement. Maybe you hook up and do a fluid

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Speaker 2: if it's wet, change it, if it's rubber, breakots, change it.

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Speaker 2: All the belts, hoses, everything, whatever you can get your

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Speaker 2: hands on quite a bit. Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually very very okay to work on once

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Speaker 3: you remove all the plates.

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Speaker 2: On the bottom and right right now, now, just as I.

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Speaker 3: Said, it's a solid truck. I've actually was kind of

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Speaker 3: amazed that it has. It has basically no rush. It

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Speaker 3: has that little bit of surface rush from aging. Right,

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Speaker 3: that's really it now? Is it?

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Speaker 2: Is it an emotional thing? Steve? And I'm asking you

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Speaker 2: friend's truck or you just like ninety nine land cruisers?

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Speaker 3: I've always wanted one, okay, And when this came up,

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Speaker 3: it was you know, I generally, you know, when a

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Speaker 3: car hits one hundred thousand miles is when I get

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Speaker 3: a hold of it, right, and I'll run them. They

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Speaker 3: go to the grave from my house, right, you know.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if it's I don't know

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Speaker 2: where it falls dollar wise, I don't know what your

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Speaker 2: budget's like. But it's funny because I have a customer

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Speaker 2: who's a land cruiser guy too, and he was into

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Speaker 2: it this week and we were looking on eBay there's

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Speaker 2: one out there on eBay for forty five grand that's done,

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Speaker 2: ninety two thousand miles on it, some of the rare options,

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Speaker 2: the tent, some of the different bumpers, some of the

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Speaker 2: different you know, add on features. It's all there. It's

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Speaker 2: a done vehicle. And my point becomes, and I don't know,

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Speaker 2: you know, listen, we all like working on hot rods, right,

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Speaker 2: but just got I got to be devil's advocate and

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Speaker 2: point out that you can probably buy what you're going

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Speaker 2: to do done and not not have the aggravation and

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Speaker 2: spend your time driving rather than fixing. Just something to

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Speaker 2: think about. That would be my only point to bring up.

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Speaker 2: And you know, let it go from there, and you

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Speaker 2: could probably sell this for what you've got in it

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Speaker 2: and recoup your costs. Now, if you tell me, hey, Ron,

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Speaker 2: it was my buddy's truck and I want to drive

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Speaker 2: it because he had it, you know what, there's no

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Speaker 2: argument with that. That's a completely different that's an emotional issue,

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Speaker 2: and that's a completely different reason to own a vehicle.

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Speaker 2: And I never, I never quibble over that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I am faced with the frustration of being

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Speaker 3: sixty eight and actually I enjoy working on the cars.

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Speaker 2: Right, and you know, to the to the other point

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Speaker 2: at sixty eight, do we really want to start spending

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Speaker 2: weekends doing this? Wouldn't we rather be driving than fixing?

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Speaker 3: Well, well, be honest with you with this one, I

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Speaker 3: was sort of pushing for My next point on this

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Speaker 3: was I'm gonna do I've got it running, do I

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Speaker 3: need to get crazy? I Am going to try and

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Speaker 3: change all the stuff over and do a timing service

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Speaker 3: on it. And at that point I was going to

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Speaker 3: drive the thing for a while before any other stuff,

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Speaker 3: just to see how strong the engine ran, how the

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Speaker 3: training felt, all the stuff. I just want to drive it.

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Speaker 3: You know, would that be a reasonable course of action

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Speaker 2: If you're planning to keep it, Because if you're doing

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Speaker 2: a timing belt, you're doing a timing belt, water pump,

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Speaker 2: idler's tension or radiator radiator, right, radiator.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually looking into the heater cores the entire shooting match.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, you start doing heater cores, you're taking

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Speaker 2: the dash out of the truck. You're going a little

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Speaker 2: you know on a vehicle that are you going to

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Speaker 2: keep it or not? You've got to make a decision

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Speaker 2: you're either keeping it and going all the way, or

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Speaker 2: you're going to sell it and stop right where you

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Speaker 2: are and buy something else that's a running vehicle with

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Speaker 2: less mileage, and you'll spend more time driving and less

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Speaker 2: time fixing. And that's the bottom line. Yeah, but you

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Speaker 2: know it's it's the emotional question. You know, it's your

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Speaker 2: buddy's truck, and that's you know, that's where things kind

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Speaker 2: of fall apart. I can listen. I sold Black one.

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Speaker 2: Black one was the first fifty five Chevy ever I

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Speaker 2: had that I brought to you know, completion. Did it

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Speaker 2: when I was a kid, seventeen eighteen years old, and

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Speaker 2: I had that car forever. That car's on Long Island now.

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Speaker 2: Somebody came along offered me ten grand four it when

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Speaker 2: it was in pieces twelve years ago. Gone. I put

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Speaker 2: that money towards Black two, which is I just built

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Speaker 2: Black one all over again. It's identical, and it kind

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Speaker 2: of is. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't cut the

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Speaker 2: wheel wells because Black two, the wheelwheels, defenders are just perfect.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was a perfect car. It was a

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Speaker 2: thirty six thousand mile original car. My point is, and

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Speaker 2: everybody says this to me all the time. You know,

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Speaker 2: if you could get rid of that, I can get

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Speaker 2: rid of mine, right, you can just recreate your childhood memories.

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Speaker 2: So is it that we're hanging onto this because it's

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Speaker 2: we're just emotionally attached and to someone resolved, you know,

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Speaker 2: trauma in our head that we've got to hang on

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Speaker 2: to it because it was so and So's truck.

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Speaker 3: But no, that's the emotional aspect for me is and

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Speaker 3: what I actually want something that I can work on

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Speaker 3: to drive long term.

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Speaker 2: Then by the you know what, so you.

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Speaker 3: Say I'm into it, Yeah, I'm definitely into Yeah it correctly.

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Speaker 2: Then you know what, just just look around at the

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Speaker 2: rest of the market, go out on eBay, see what

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Speaker 2: else is out there. There are some interesting ones with

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Speaker 2: the shower option, with the tent option, some of the

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Speaker 2: rare stuff that land cruisers have had do have and

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Speaker 2: so on, and then decide, Okay, you know what, for

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Speaker 2: me to get to that forty five thousand dollars vehicle,

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Speaker 2: I gotta spend sixty. I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: I'll go buy the forty five. But if I can

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Speaker 2: spend ten and get to the forty five thousand dollars vehicle,

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Speaker 2: then that's probably worth doing forty five thousand dollars vehicle, right, Yeah, So.

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Speaker 3: I was actually, what's your experience with these? You see

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Speaker 3: them as a very reliable, dependable vehicle.

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Speaker 2: They have been. Yeah, they're they're very much in demand.

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Speaker 2: Everybody loves them. They have there's a huge market for

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Speaker 2: them overseas and that's generally where they go. As a

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Speaker 2: matter of fact, it's it's a little difficult to purchase

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Speaker 2: a newer one, and the younger ones all seem to

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Speaker 2: have disappeared. So yeah, there's huge demand, but you've just

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Speaker 2: got to resolve it in your head. You've got to

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Speaker 2: look at it from a cost point of view. And

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Speaker 2: let me tell you, it's a lot more fun to

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Speaker 2: drive them than it is to work on them on

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Speaker 2: a NonStop basis. And it just starts to snowball that

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to do a timing belt and a

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Speaker 2: radiator and oh, a heater core, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: you're a couple of three four thousand dollars in parts

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, sir, You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: Not?

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Speaker 2: Really? Good questions? Great questions. So let's do break fluid first.

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Speaker 2: it's hydraulic ability, right, if we thin it out, it's

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Speaker 2: So it affects break system performance. Number two. Moisture in

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Speaker 2: I will have at this point sucked out as much

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Speaker 2: And I will repeat that process, going around to all

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Speaker 5: And you will impress it.

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Speaker 2: You will. You will find a better brake pedal out

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Speaker 2: show it to the customer and I pour it out

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Speaker 2: to do it. Now. Fuel system cleaning, we do tank additive.

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Speaker 2: We do tank additive at every oil change. Ralph, all right,

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Speaker 2: and you know, tank additive is a vitamin shot. It's

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Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying. Maybe over time a

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Speaker 2: for an actual hook up to the fuel rail. Clean

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Speaker 2: you what, Ralph, stay put, I'll come back and it'll

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Speaker 4: And now, if you're ready his help, I will keep

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Speaker 3: Charlie, guys, don.

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Speaker 2: Bet your rush. Limba didn't have his own rock and

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Speaker 2: So we were talking about GDI and port fuel injection, right.

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Speaker 2: It's all part of what should be done, all right.

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Speaker 2: So they're not wrong for selling you that a typical

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Speaker 4: Right, right, so what so how do you find a

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Speaker 2: You gotta you know, it's it's a process. It's you

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Speaker 4: A couple of places and had to bring it back

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: So you know, when when family members call in and

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Speaker 2: answer your questions? You know? How do you do a

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Speaker 2: Do you do it by how much fluid you get

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Speaker 2: I think it's part of their obligation. But you've got

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Speaker 2: also think there's you know, good independence and bed independence.

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Speaker 2: So just something to be aware of. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 2: You'd be well, let's go over to phil and Delaware.

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Speaker 2: See what's going on here. Phil welcome to the car.

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Speaker 5: Doctor sir, good afternoon. Thanks you for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome. What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Buick Lacrosse. It's got fifty six or fifty seven thousand

431
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 5: miles on it. It was my mother's car. My daughter

432
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 5: now has it. It's got noise apparently in the front wheelbearings,

433
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 5: and both of them, calling both of them Phil. She said,

434
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 5: the driver's side is worse than the passenger side. We

435
00:22:57,119 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 5: had jack the car up and everything, and I a

436
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 5: little bit, but it's it's it's she said. When you're

437
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 5: driving it, you hear it more. Ty rod ends are

438
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,680
Speaker 5: tight all that, and when jack the car up rotates

439
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 5: the tire wheel and you're hearing something. But to me,

440
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 5: it almost sounds like a break issue, not a wheelbarryage.

441
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 5: But she said, Doctor Google said it. Apparently the big

442
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 5: Lacrosse has a history of.

443
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 2: Listen, listen. They all have a history of chewing up.

444
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 2: They all have a history of chewing up wheel bearings.

445
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 2: You can't you can't use the Google Universe to decide

446
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: if a car has a broken part time. You know

447
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 2: you'll you'll spend a lot of money where you don't

448
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 2: have to. So the simple way to do this is

449
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 2: you got to get it up in the air. I

450
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 2: don't know if jack stands are high enough. It's got

451
00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 2: to go on a lift. And you're either going to

452
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: have some sit in the car and run the car

453
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 2: twenty thirty forty miles an hour at varying speeds and

454
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: listen with a twenty dollars mechanic stethoscope, or you're gonna

455
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 2: you're gonna make it high tech and involved and have

456
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 2: analysis paralysis. Use some sort of fancy vibration analysis tool.

457
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 2: Drive down the road and listen to it. Once you

458
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: know wheelbar and you'll know right away. Once you know

459
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,120
Speaker 2: wheel bearings are quiet, then you can go somewhere else.

460
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 2: If the wheel bearings are noisy, you got to fix

461
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 2: those first, and then while it's apart, take a look

462
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,360
Speaker 2: at the brakes and consider it from there. I mean,

463
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,119
Speaker 2: that's the only way you can really approach that.

464
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 5: So, yeah, that's what I told her. I said, I

465
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 5: just doctor Google ain't don't don't you know that's not right?

466
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 3: The trusts.

467
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's handy, it's handy.

468
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 2: You know it's handy. If it's handy if you want

469
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 2: to know a sports score, if you want to know statistics.

470
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 2: As far as what's broken on the car in the driveway,

471
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: it's a calculated guess. It's not that smart.

472
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, check. You know. I'm used to doing a truck.

473
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 2: Uh.

474
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 5: And you know I can I get no motion out

475
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 5: of that wheel other than it's spinning right. There's no

476
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 5: side to side or nobody. And you won't nothing like that.

477
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you won't. You won't, Philip, You won't get any

478
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 2: You won't get any lateral movement and a bad wheelbar

479
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 2: or a noisy wheel bearing out of a lot of

480
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: the cars today. You will if you drive it long enough.

481
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 2: But initially, you know, and I've changed hundreds of wheel bearings,

482
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 2: I could probably say less than five ever had any

483
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 2: real wiggle or movement in them. So just just something

484
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: to be aware of.

485
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 5: It just just just shock maker that you know, Like

486
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 5: I said with with fifty thousandth fifty six seven seven

487
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 5: thousand on, it takes one.

488
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 2: It takes one pothole, brother, you know, it takes one

489
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 2: pothole one. You know, one good curb hit, one good

490
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 2: slide in the wrong direction and bang away you go.

491
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 5: So all right, sure, thank you so much, sir. Oh,

492
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 5: real quick, real quick, yea kiya twenty fifteen optimum. Not

493
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 5: I was looking all over the place for the engine size.

494
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 5: But anyway, the backside of the engine is the manifold

495
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 5: mounted UH two censor, and below that is another sensor

496
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 5: on the exhaust pipe, and there is oil. What looks

497
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 5: to me like the valve cover gasket is leaking right

498
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 5: fifty it's got fifty six thousand on it. Okay, dude,

499
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 5: they have you heard anything about them as far as

500
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 5: dry rot in the casket?

501
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 2: Well, it's eleven. It's eleven years old, kiddo. It's eleven

502
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 2: years old. It's got sixty thousand miles on it. It's

503
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 2: due a valve cover gasket. Not the end of the world, okay,

504
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 2: all right, not.

505
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 5: I just I was just wondering because that's that's where

506
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 5: that's where it looks like it's coming from the cots wet.

507
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: Before we try to outdo Professor Google, the most important

508
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 2: part here is wash it down, add some fluorescent die.

509
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 2: If we were in the shop, proper procedure, wash it down,

510
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 2: add some fluorescent dye. Where do we see the die

511
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 2: valve cover? Great, let's put a gas in it somewhere else.

512
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 2: Let's diagnose that. And the last thing I'm going to

513
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: leave you with, Philip is it's eleven years old, it's

514
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 2: got about sixty thousand miles on it. Make sure whatever

515
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 2: crank case ventilation system the vehicle has is operating properly,

516
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 2: and the orifice tubes, if it has them, are clear

517
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,959
Speaker 2: so that you don't have similar problems. But chances are

518
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 2: this is just an older car with dried out gaskets

519
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: eight five five five six nine nine zero zero. The

520
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 2: car doctor will return right after this, so we are back.

521
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 2: Let's do an email. This is from Sam from a

522
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 2: week ago. Hey Ron, Sam, we've foked on the show

523
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,719
Speaker 2: before York, Pennsylvania. I'm slightly confused again, that's okay, Sam.

524
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 2: This time it's about the proper type of trans fluid

525
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: for a twenty ten Ford Explore AYUR four leader VIN

526
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 2: and he gave me the VIN and I got to

527
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 2: tell you, Sam, the VIN didn't match anything, so something's

528
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: wrong with that. But anyway, trans code is V. I

529
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 2: believe this is an LV or equivalent vehicle. I've seen

530
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 2: some of the online parts stores listed as Mrcon five.

531
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: I'm doing a filter change in solnoid pack replacement and

532
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: had some odds shifting in the codes P zero, seven

533
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: seventy five and seven thirty five solenoid B at a

534
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 2: different home reading than the others. Bravo. Right the fact

535
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 2: that you looked at all the solenoids and realized that

536
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 2: they should all read the same and they don't, so

537
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 2: chances are we've got a bad solnoid.

538
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: Here.

539
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 2: I have the replacement solioid pack and filter, torque specs

540
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 2: and sequence. Any guidance on proper fluid is appreciated. There

541
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,239
Speaker 2: is no dipstick, so it doesn't have the type or

542
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 2: calls for what kind of fluid to put in it.

543
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, Sam, Yeah, a lot of vehicles

544
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: don't have dipsticks today and we don't use We don't

545
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 2: want to use dipsticks to tell us what kind of

546
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 2: fluid the vehicle should have. And here's why, because way

547
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: do you find the vehicle that it tells you to

548
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 2: use XYZ fluid and a bulletin came out six months

549
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: or a year later after the vehicle is in production

550
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 2: and it told you to use different fluid. So we

551
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 2: always want to go to an information source. We really

552
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 2: do it's just that critical. Now that being said, in

553
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 2: your case, if this is a five speed automatic, it's

554
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: a MRK five car. That's how I remember it. If

555
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 2: it's the six speed trans which chances are it's the

556
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 2: six speed, and it's very simple. Just go through the gears.

557
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 2: How many gears does it have? If it's a six speed,

558
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 2: it's an LVY car, all right, And it's important. It's

559
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: very important to have proper fluid because of the additive

560
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 2: packs that's in there. Okay, for whatever shift qualities they're

561
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 2: trying to create, for whatever shift characteristics. I'll tell you

562
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: what if they if they come up with any different

563
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: or any more am I saying that properly? If they

564
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 2: come up with any more different types of trans fluids,

565
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to add a bigger wing to

566
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 2: the shop because I can't store any more fluid that

567
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: I'm storing now. I've got to have seventeen different types

568
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 2: of transmission fluid in house, and we still don't use

569
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 2: it all, and we still order different stuff, and I

570
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 2: don't subscribe to that. You know, one type of trans

571
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 2: fluid works on everything. I think transmissions are way too complicated.

572
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: I think it'll work on coolant. I've had some success

573
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: with some of the coolants, the universal stuff. They work. Well,

574
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: that's a matter of you know, it's a different animal

575
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 2: in one sense. But transfluid, I like using the specific

576
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 2: stuff doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be.

577
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: It does not have to be OE. But it's got

578
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: to be rated for that particular transmission engine combination. So

579
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 2: you know, but that should be. If that's a six

580
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 2: speed SAM, that should be an LV vehicle. And I

581
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: would verify it through some sort of electronic information system

582
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 2: all Data or Mitchell or Identifix something. But don't count

583
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 2: on the dipstick. Counting on the dipstick. That's a no no, because,

584
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: like I said, you'll see cars where the dipstick says

585
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: one thing. And six months a year after the vehicle

586
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: was out on the road, the factory decided to call

587
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 2: for something completely different. Eight five five, five six oh

588
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: nine nine zero zero run an eading of the car

589
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,959
Speaker 2: doctor coming back to wrap it up right after this,

590
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: I want to finish out the hour talking about Steve's coming.

591
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: A couple of calls ago about you know, finding a

592
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: good mechanic and how do you do that. I think

593
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 2: you have to know what you're looking for, all right?

594
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 2: And you know, is it price? Because price is a

595
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: tough one. Order repair gets expensive, it just does. But

596
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 2: you know, there's an old saying that says, you know,

597
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: if you think a good mechanic is expensive, try a

598
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: bad one, and you know see where that gets you,

599
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 2: and you know, what are you looking for? I think

600
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 2: the easiest thing the judge a mechanic on is the

601
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 2: oil change. And I think you have to look at it,

602
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: and you think you have to look at what they're

603
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: doing and how they do it, all right. I don't

604
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: think an oil change is supposed to be cheap. I

605
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: don't see how it can be cheap. A good oil change,

606
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: an oil change done properly, proved me wrong, right, is

607
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,479
Speaker 2: typically somewhere between twenty and thirty minutes. It just is.

608
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: Sometimes they're longer. Change the oil on a twenty nineteen

609
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 2: Ford Ranger four cylinder, the left front tire and the

610
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 2: inner skirt panel has to come down to get to

611
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: the filter. It's the dumbest oil change in the whole world,

612
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: all right. So many cars today have and have lower

613
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 2: body panels that you have to lower and remove to

614
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 2: gain access to anything. So the faster. We make everybody

615
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: work trying to do it cheap. The more mistakes are

616
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: made or the less parts go back on. This ranger

617
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: was the first time customer with us. They'd been going

618
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 2: somewhere else and we got to put the three You know,

619
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 2: there was four four missing clips holding the splash shield

620
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: on the left side that cover the filter that the

621
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 2: factory had there. But the other shop felt like it

622
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: wasn't important to put back. Couldn't do an oil change right,

623
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 2: which is what brought the person or a door in

624
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 2: the first place. So give them something simple to do.

625
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: Let them do it on a repetitive nature. Don't look

626
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 2: at the price, look at how well do they do it,

627
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: And then you know, you'll get to know them, and

628
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 2: you'll get to see what goes on. Look around the shop.

629
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: What's in the shop? Is it filled with dusty old books? Hey,

630
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: I got a pile of dusty old books, But I've

631
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 2: got every electronic information system known to mand. Talk to them.

632
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 2: You'll learn to know and how to pick a mechanic,

633
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 2: just like you pick a doctor, a deli, a pizza maker,

634
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 2: and everything else that you've got in your life that's

635
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 2: important to you. But picking a mechanic is hard. I

636
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 2: understand it, but give them a shot, give them a chance.

637
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 2: If not, move on. There's plenty of places out there.

638
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: Until the next time, I'm ronning Andy in the car doctor,

639
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you,