1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. If you're next to a car that has 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: New Jersey plates on, and you look over and that 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: vehicle is inspected as a valid in New Jersey inspection 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: sticker on it, don't believe it, because chances are it 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: may not be valid. Time the car Doctor. If the 6 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: vehicle pulls in, the check engine light's not on, the 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: obdomino works, it's got the right plates, and a couple 8 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: other little nonsensical things that they're worried about. If that 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 1: vehicle doesn't have a windshield, as they told me over 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: the phone, Ron, find a place to put the sticker. 11 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian, the 12 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, since this is where car owners the world 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If 14 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up the 15 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: phone and call in. The garage doors are open, but 16 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: I am here to take your at eight five and 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: now running. I remember the first day walking down the 18 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: hall of w R Radio seven ten of New York City, 19 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: gosh over twenty years ago. And you know the first 20 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: trip into the big radio station. I just come out 21 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: of w f A S White Planes, New York after 22 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: five year run, and now I was I had sort 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: of hit the big time, right, You're on the big stage. 24 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: You're center stage in New York City, or so they 25 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: told me. But it was that persona as a young 26 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 1: as a young man that you're walking down the hall 27 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: and you're walking into legendary radio studios, and you're you're 28 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,919 Speaker 1: seeing the pictures of John Gambling and Bob and Bob 29 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: Grant and Dr Joy Brown and the and and and 30 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: and then the names of people that were at the 31 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: top of their game um in talk radio at that time, 32 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: and you're just you're just trying to hold it together, right. 33 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: It's you can only imagine what it's like for the 34 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: kid who came in after Mickey Mantel and Roger Morrison 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: and Joe DiMaggio and all the other sports grades, and 36 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: just you try to keep from swallowing your tongue and 37 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: you think to yourself, and I remember this very clearly, 38 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: you think to yourself, how do you get to be 39 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: like them? And then you go to work every day 40 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: and you're trying to repair shop in New Jersey, hidden 41 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: in the back roads, and you're just trying to do 42 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: your job and fix cars and help people get through 43 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: the day and and do what they have to do, 44 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: and and you know, just teach people and try and 45 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: educate people and let them, let them enjoy the car 46 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: for what it is, and not expect more or less, 47 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: and not let not not let them get stuck, and 48 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: not let them get bound up and wound up, and 49 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: just sort of try and you know, keep them going. 50 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: And then you realize you say to yourself, you wonder, 51 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: how do you get to the top of that game? 52 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden you find out that 53 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: you have. And it was by the simplest process, because 54 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: you find out what your superpower is. Your superpower is 55 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: being a human being, and it sort of takes you 56 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 1: to the top of the game on both ounce or 57 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: as close to the top of the game as you're 58 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: as you're deemed necessary to be by the order of 59 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: the universe. Because this is what you do. You fix cars, 60 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: and you talk about it on radio, and how lucky 61 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: are you? And that's me and that's what I do. 62 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: Howard came in this week, and Howard a regular customer. 63 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: We see him a couple of times a year. And 64 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: you know, one of the funny things about standing on 65 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: this side of the counter looking at people is you know, 66 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: you get to see people. You see people as they age, 67 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: You see them turn. You know, they go from young 68 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: to middle aged to old if you're lucky, and sometimes 69 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: you see them go from you know, dark hair to 70 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: gray hair to no hair, and sometimes they just disappear. Well, 71 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: I've watched Howard age and Howard has been aging lately, 72 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: and I noticed, I've noticed that something is off, something 73 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: is just not quite right with Howard and the last 74 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: couple of times and he showed up on Thursday this 75 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: past week, I believe it was, and he was having 76 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: a hard time putting sentences together. He you know, I 77 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: would ask him a simple question what was wrong with 78 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: the car Ford Explorer? And he he really couldn't give 79 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: me a direct, clear cut answer, except along the lines 80 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: of that the battery went dead and he just couldn't 81 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: explain what it didn't do. Well, did it not start, Howard? Well, 82 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: I think it didn't. I'm not sure what do you 83 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: mean by not start. Well, you know, you push the 84 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: buttons to push button start, which I think confuses people, 85 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: especially if you're older. Right, you turn the key, Now 86 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna push a button to start the f a 87 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: Team Fighter jet that you got parked out in the driveway. 88 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: And he couldn't really explain it to me, and I said, Howard, 89 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: it's simple. If you sit in the car, you open 90 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: the door. He's sitting in the car and you push 91 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: the button. Does the car make any noise? No? Okay, 92 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: I'm dealing likely with a dead battery. He said, yeah, 93 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: that's what you've got. You've got a dead battery. And 94 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: I didn't want to really prompt him for the answer, 95 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: but you know, sometimes you have to. You're just waiting 96 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: to hope, just waiting and hoping that they give you 97 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: the answer that that you're sort of expecting. But you 98 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: don't want to lead the witness right because you're trying 99 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: to get accurate information. Well, Howard, you know I can 100 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: I can work on this today. I can't have you 101 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: weight because of the COVID thing. I need you to. 102 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: You know, you gotta go home. You gotta get a ride. 103 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: And he doesn't have a ride, and he's getting more frustrated, 104 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: and I can see that there's just something not right. 105 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's if it's dementia or 106 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: early signs of something else, but Howard's getting older, and 107 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: I caught him on the phone with his wife as 108 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: I was moving things around in the parking lot trying 109 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: to get the day going, because Howard walked in about 110 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: eight fift eight thirty in the morning, and I overheard 111 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: the conversation when she was sort of yelling at him, 112 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: you know, like, Howard, you gotta stop driving. I didn't 113 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: know where you were. I didn't know you. You'd gone 114 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: down to see where on and you know, you've got 115 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: to get rid of that car, and you've got to 116 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: stay home. I've got to know where you are. And 117 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: I you know, if they ever tell me I've got 118 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: to stay home that I can't drive my cars anymore, 119 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: Oh my god. I don't know what I would do. 120 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: I feel like I'd lose my superpower and stop being me. 121 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: But then I realized that isn't my superpower. My superpower 122 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: isn't caring for another human being and just using what 123 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: I do to help do that. And it was a 124 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: moment of revelation, like I can't describe to you here 125 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 1: in simple words, I really can't. And I send Howard home. Well, 126 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: actually I didn't send him home. He wanted to go home. 127 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: He was gonna get in an uber, but he didn't 128 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,799 Speaker 1: have the Uber app on his phone, and and good lord, 129 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 1: I couldn't expect him to understand how to use it, 130 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: because I couldn't get a straight answer out of him 131 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: that the car start or not. So I said, Howard, 132 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: go down the end of the block, make a left 133 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: ground the end of that block, Make a left ground 134 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: the end of that block, make a left, take a 135 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: big lap around the block of the shop. It'll take 136 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: him about a half hour, and by then I can 137 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 1: get a battery in the car. And at least I 138 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: know where you are, and you can't really get lost. 139 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: What you've gotta do is make three left turns four. 140 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: I guess at least I thought he couldn't get lost. Well, 141 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: he didn't really get lost, but where he ended up 142 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: as another story. So he said, fine, he left the 143 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: car and off he goes, and I bring the car 144 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: in and I look at it, and sure enough, this 145 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: two year old Explorer's got a battery that's just smoked. 146 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: It's just horrible. And we're seeing a lot of battery 147 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: failures the last month or two because we're coming out 148 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: of the pandemic and here in New Jersey and people 149 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: are starting to drive more now. Batteries that have been 150 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: sitting dormant for thirty days doing nothing, batteries that have 151 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: gone dead, batteries that have been jumped started are all 152 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: of a sudden being called back to life. So it's 153 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: taking its toll. We're probably in some cases pumping out 154 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: four to six batteries a day some weeks at the 155 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: shop and Howard took off and I diagnosed that, yeah, 156 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: it needs a battery, needs a battery. Well, I've got 157 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: to do a draw test. Anytime anybody does an electrical repair, 158 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: such as replacing a battery or a charging system, you've 159 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: got to be You've really got to be a bad 160 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 1: mechanic not to do a draw test. I don't know 161 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: what you're afraid to tell the customer You have got 162 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: a charge a half hour because I'm gonna do a 163 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: draw test. You're afraid to spend their money. You're afraid 164 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: to make sure the car is repaired properly. It's not 165 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: hard to do. It's not a hard test. Whatever you charge, 166 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: you've got to do the test. A draw test. You're 167 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: going to hook up a meter and you're gonna measure 168 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: current current flow from the battery to the vehicles electronics, 169 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: and you're looking for a minimum number, and the number 170 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: is gonna start high, and then it's gonna come down. 171 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: The accepted industry standard on the majority of vehicles on 172 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: the road manufactured today and for the last geez for 173 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: the last ten twelve years, is fifty milliams. Forget the 174 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: technical side. Fifty widgets fifty grains of sand. You want 175 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 1: to see fifty grains of sand to disappear from that battery. 176 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: Less than that fifty or less as your final measurement. 177 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: And I did Howard's draw test, and I watched to 178 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: start at seven twenty two milliams, and then it dropped 179 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: the five hundred, and then it clicked the four hundred, 180 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: and the times clicking by, and Howard's not back yet, 181 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: and a half hour goes by and we're still doing 182 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: the draw test, and it finally gets down to fifty 183 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: three milliams. What did I tell you? I told you 184 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: fifty right. So where do you where do you draw 185 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: the line? Where do you say enough is enough? Is 186 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: fifty three close enough to fifty No? Allt to repair 187 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: as a precise, precise, I scientific process. Fifty three is 188 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: wrong fifty is okay, I want fifty. I want fifty 189 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: or less. That's what I know. And I looked this 190 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: car over and I couldn't see anything left on plugged. 191 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: And I was looking for a battery charger for his 192 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: cell phone in the worst way, but I couldn't find 193 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: one no matter where I looked. And I realized, my 194 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: wife happens to have this same vehicle explorer, that there's 195 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: a little secret compartment hidden under the front console. And 196 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: Howard had a a like a washcloth draped over it 197 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: so you didn't necessarily see it. And that's where he 198 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: was laying his cell phone so he didn't scratch the surface. 199 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: And I said to myself, lay pop the cover. I 200 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: betch it's And I always leave the window open whenever 201 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: I'm doing a drawing test, so I can I can 202 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: lean into the car and you know, look at things 203 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: without opening doors and upsetting the test in the process, 204 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: because it takes time for the for the countdown to 205 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: to go through. And I opened up to take the washcloth, 206 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: and I opened up the little door, and sure enough, 207 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: he's got his Verizon cell phone charger in there with it. 208 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: You know how they have the little led that lights 209 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: up and it was drawing. I unplugged it, and within 210 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: two minutes I saw the count go from fifty three 211 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: the thirty eight million amps and then it took a 212 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: nose dive and went down well under and it was 213 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: It was fine. And I told Howard this story and 214 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: he understood when he finally made it back, which, by 215 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:30,719 Speaker 1: the way, that's a whole another story. The phone rang 216 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: about forty five minutes later. Ron, it's Howard. Yeah, Howard, 217 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: where are you? He goes, well, I'm just up the street. 218 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: I did you know there's a train station down the 219 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: road from the shop. Yeah, Howard, it's been there probably 220 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: a long time. Why, he goes, well, I decided to 221 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: stop and rest, and I'm sitting at the train station 222 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: watching trains go by. I said, all right, it's safe. 223 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: You can come back now. Your car's all sitting ready 224 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: to go. And when he got back, I asked him 225 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,599 Speaker 1: about the cell phone charger and he said, yeah, I 226 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: don't really use it. To tell you the truth, I 227 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: forgot it was there, he said, I really haven't been drawing, 228 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: having the card so long that I guess I just 229 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: didn't realize what I had done and where I had 230 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: left it, and I tell you this story. So I 231 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: fixed Howard's car. What's my superpower? I'm a human being. 232 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: I cared about somebody, and I think it's something, you know, 233 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: it's a message that I guess we could all probably 234 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: stop and think about from time to time and these crazy, 235 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: crazy times that we're having. Um, I guess my superpower 236 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: was also fixing cars, because that's what I'm supposed to do. 237 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: That's what the advertisement on the sign says. But in 238 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: a bigger way, I was able to explain to Howard, 239 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: don't leave. As I explained to you, don't leave a 240 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: cell phone charger plugged in over a period of time 241 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: because if it's if it's like the Verizons or so 242 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: many other brands out there that they have the LED 243 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: built and they will cause a draw and they will 244 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,680 Speaker 1: keep things active for a period of time, and over 245 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: a period of a couple of weeks, you could drain 246 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 1: that battery down to zero and have a bigger problem. So, 247 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: you know, don't be a Howard. And uh, you know 248 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: that's it. That's my story, no fancy ending, no funny 249 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: way of looking at things. Just you know, that's really 250 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: what happened this week at the shop, and um, you know, 251 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: I I think about that story and I said, how 252 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: can I tell it? And I thought, you know, you 253 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: go through life, you want to know how do you 254 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: get to the top of the game, or at least 255 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: closer to the top so that you're you're you're one 256 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: of those people hanging on the wall. Like so many 257 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: years ago when I was at w Arren, I saw 258 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: those people on the side of the walls and the 259 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: kings of talk radio. You know what, I guess you 260 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: just gotta be a human being and sooner or later 261 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: life hands it to you because you deserve it. And UM, 262 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: if that's self serving, I apologize. It's not my intention 263 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: to make it sound that way. It's just, um, just 264 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: a fact. Is something I observed this week, and I 265 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: hope you take it with the intention that I give it. 266 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: My name is Ron and Anny and I am the 267 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: car Doctor of the phone numbers eight five zero nine 268 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: zero zero. That is phone number. We're gonna come back 269 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: and answer the phones right after this. Don't go away. 270 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: What's more fun than listening to Ron Andy in the 271 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: car Doctor and getting that car fixed right zero? Given 272 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: a call? Now back to Ron, Hey, let's get over 273 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: and talk to Curt in Arizona. Kurt, welcome to the 274 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: car doctor, sir, how can I help? Thank you Ron? 275 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: I love your show. Thank you glad to be here 276 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: for two thousand one BMW. And I had to change 277 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: the heater hoses. In order to do that, you have 278 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: to take the intake man fold off. And when I 279 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: did that, the intake uh, it was quite a bit 280 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: of carbon oil build up on that. Should I leave 281 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: that on there? It's got miles I'm afraid if I 282 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: start scraping things off thing, we'll get down the engine 283 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: it will come it up even more? Or should I 284 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: try and clean that up? And if I should, how 285 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: would I do that? Well? Let me let me ask 286 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: this question, Kurt? Are you are you burning any oil? 287 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: Does the car burn oil? Doesn't? Does it consume oil 288 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: at all? Have you have you ever? Have you owned 289 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: the car since new? Do you know service history on it? 290 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: I have had it. I am the second owner. I 291 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: know the first owner did not use the right oil 292 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: and it got gummed up in there quite a bit. 293 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: I actually took off a lot of stuff and cleaned 294 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: up all that jael that had formed and had to 295 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: take the oil pan off three times to clean it 296 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: all out all right, and has anybody service the crank 297 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: ventilation valve what would sometimes it's called a PCV valve. 298 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: BMW calls at a crankcase ventilation valve. It's it's actually 299 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: you know, um, you're you're sort of there. Um, you're 300 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. You've got to go up the air box, 301 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: the air meter, the intake manifold, runner control has to 302 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: come out. Um. Uh, you know, the top of the 303 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: engine intake has to come apart, and you'll see it 304 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 1: down in there, uh nestled in the intake manifold that 305 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: actually unscrews from it. And you know, at this mileage, 306 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: you may just want to consider looking at it, replacing it. 307 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 1: Maybe this isn't venting or breathing properly. And I mean, 308 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: I know it's a lot of miles, but you know, 309 00:14:58,280 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to overlook the 310 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: po susible cause of it either, and say, hey, this 311 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: could have a sticky gum event valve and replace that 312 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: while you're there, and then I would put it back together, 313 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: wipe out the excess without letting anything fall down in 314 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 1: whatever you can get with a rag with some solvent 315 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: on it, and then I would start doing some top 316 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 1: end cleaning. I like a top end cleaning process for 317 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 1: what you're doing for this, because it's less likely to 318 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: put chunks in the engine and create a bigger problem. 319 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: I get your caution. I'm right there with you, and 320 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: you know to do some form of a top end 321 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: cleaning system and let the solvent you know, clean it 322 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: up and burn it through the engine. Does that? Does 323 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: that make sense to you? Yeah? It does. When you 324 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: say top end cleaning, what do you mean exactly? Well, 325 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: you know you've got an O Ralliota Parts near you. Okay, 326 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: go over to O Ralliota Parts. Tell me you want 327 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: to look at a Berryman four step fuel system cleaning kit. 328 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: And the nice thing about the Berryman kit is that 329 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: it will attach to an intake hose, so it will 330 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: you don't have to get into the fuel rail. All right, 331 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: You're gonna put a cleaner in the tank to help 332 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: clean injectors, but you're gonna do it through the intake 333 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: and select a centrally located vacuum port. Don't go don't 334 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: go strictly off of one on one intake runner. Try 335 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: and find something that's more at the beginning of the 336 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: intake manifold, so you're you know, you're you're trying to 337 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 1: shoot water down um six slides or four slides all 338 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: at once. If you know what, if you get my 339 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: drift all right, you don't want to just select one 340 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: intake runner, So you want to start something at the 341 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: top of the intake so that it spreads out throughout 342 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: the intake and let it burn its way through. Their 343 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: fourth step kit does the tank, the throttle body, and 344 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: the top end of the engine, and then there's an 345 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: additive I believe that goes in the tank afterwards when 346 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: all is done, sort of like the Vitamin B twelve 347 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: follow up, but the Berryman beat, the Berryman four step 348 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: kit makes it very simple for you know, Harry homeowner, 349 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to clad categorize your brother, but uh, you 350 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: know it's the guy without the shop. It just makes 351 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: it that much easier for you to do the fuel 352 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: injection cleaning service right there in the driveway, and you 353 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: know they'll be able to help you, other be able 354 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: to point you in the right the direction. And if 355 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: you want more information about the Burriman stuff, get out 356 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 1: to their website Burman Products Dot com and they'll they'll 357 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,239 Speaker 1: talk about the whole thing. Um watch the video on 358 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: their website where they talk about what HEST is high 359 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: energy solving technology here we mentioned from time to time, 360 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: but it really does work and it's it's it's interesting 361 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: when you watch that video how they stack up against 362 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: some of the other fuel system cleaners on the marketplace. 363 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: What their's does that they don't, And that's kind of 364 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: important stuff, you know. But that's how I would do it. 365 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: I would be using a cleaner to do this rather 366 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: than trying to, you know, put chunks down in the 367 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: engine and create a bigger issue. But the vent valve 368 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: is important because the you know, crank case ventilation and 369 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: PCV evails whatever you want to call it, are probably 370 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: one of the most overlooked components for whatever reason. In 371 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. It's you never hear anybody say, well, 372 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: I changed I changed this, this, this, and the PCV 373 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: e vail. It seems like we've forgotten about it where 374 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: it used to be so important Now. Maybe it's because 375 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: oils are better today and vehicles go longer and oil 376 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: stay cleaner for longer periods of time. But in reality, 377 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 1: I just think the car runs until it drops. I 378 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: think what you're seeing is some byproduct of a sticky 379 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: gummy vent valve. Good thing to do, and then do 380 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: a top end cleaning, and I think you would be 381 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: in great shape, Kurt. I appreciate the call, thanks for 382 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: being out there in Arizona, and thanks for calling. And 383 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: I'm run on any in the car Doctor. We're back 384 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. We're on any of the 385 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: car Doctor at eight five zero zero, the car Doctor 386 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: seven number. And I have to explain that real quick 387 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 1: for a second. If you call the aforementioned number, you 388 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: call eight five five five six yo zero. During the 389 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: week Hey, this radio shows on Saturday afternoons two to four, 390 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: and then we're simulcaster picked up later on around the 391 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: network around the country on the weekend, then out on 392 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: the internet and so on. So you know we're live 393 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: broadcasting Saturday afternoons to the four pm East Coast time. 394 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: If you call eight five five zero nine zero, leave 395 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: a message. Here's the rules, folks, all right, this is 396 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: the way it's gotta work. All right. You've got to 397 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: leave a message. You've got to expect that you're gonna 398 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: get a phone call back, and you will get a 399 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: phone call back sometime during the week, stating, Hey, this 400 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: is Tom Ray from the Car Doctor. We're looking to 401 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: do the show with you. We're looking to answer your 402 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 1: question because I want to answer everybody's question, but there's 403 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: no way I could conceivably give everybody back a personal call. 404 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: Once in a blue moon, it happens. It doesn't happen 405 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: a lot lately because we're just overwhelmed by the number 406 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: of responses we're getting from you, which is great. We're 407 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: here for you, We're trying to do this, so please 408 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 1: help us. Help you leave a message, Tom, we'll call 409 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: you back. Be around Saturday afternoons to the four pm. 410 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,719 Speaker 1: Regardless of what time you hear the show in your market, 411 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: Be there Saturday afternoons two to four and we can 412 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: talk to you live. That's the way this game has 413 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: to be played. Otherwise it's just not gonna happen. We 414 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: just can't. You know, I'm not gonna be up at 415 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,479 Speaker 1: three o'clock in the morning when the phone calls come 416 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: in and people go, hey, how come in answer my call? 417 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: And we've had people say that to us. It's it's 418 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: kind of mind boggling. We've got to get off this 419 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 1: entitlement kick. We're here to help each other. That's what 420 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: the name of the game is. Let's go over and 421 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: talk to Jim. Jim, welcome, sir. How can I help? Yes, sir, 422 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: thanks for thanks for being there. I'm trying, baby, what's 423 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: going on. I've been I've been tinkering on two vehicles. 424 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: I've got a sixty six must Hang that're rebuilding, and 425 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: I've got a two thousand one town of Country and 426 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: that's my main issue right now. I bought it two 427 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: years ago. It's been setting. Um. I was told you 428 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: when I bought it that had bad compression, okay, And 429 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: I questioned the guy and I don't know. I tend 430 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: to think that he got some bad information. I drove 431 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: it home and it did skip. You know, it was 432 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: skipping pretty bad. But yeah, it was. It was missing. Yeah, 433 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 1: all right, but I changed the coil pack and it 434 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: runs back o'clock. So I need your professional opinion because 435 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: I can't really check the compression. But I want to 436 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: drive it down to Virginia. And uh, I don't see 437 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: why I can. I just wanted to get your thoughts 438 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, I don't see why you can't either. 439 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: I you know, listen, what what what what you're telling 440 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 1: me is somebody had a car that they sold to you, 441 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: and they didn't really understand what was right or wrong 442 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: about it, and you know, they basically gave you a 443 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: misdiagnosis and bad information. That only happens probably four or 444 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: five thousand times today a day in this country, around 445 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: the world. I wouldn't even want to venture to guess, 446 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: you know, um, the fact that it's been sitting would 447 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: make me want to. You know, if the engines running good, 448 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: the engines running good, if the oil is clean and 449 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: it stays clean, and you've taken it around town and 450 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 1: it's behaving itself, great, But the fact that it's been 451 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: sitting for any length of time, I'd want to get 452 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: it up in the air and look at things like 453 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 1: brake lines. I'd want to look at the water pump 454 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 1: steel tube coming down off the water pump B six 455 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: I I assume here, Jim right, Yeah, I want to 456 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: look at the water pump down tube that comes off 457 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: the pump before the hose that always rusts out over 458 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: on the passenger side. It gets all the splashing and 459 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: smoots up from the road on the on the right side, 460 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: of the vehicle above the subframe. Make sure that tube 461 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: isn't rotted all the way through. That was a common 462 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: failure point. And as long as it's holding up rust wise, 463 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: you know, listen, it's nineteen years old. Anything can go 464 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: wrong with it, all right, regardless of what somebody said, 465 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: regardless of what you've done. By the same token, it 466 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: could be a twenty nineteen vehicle and it could get 467 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: a flat tire two blocks from the house. So you 468 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: know what, some days, some days you're in the hands 469 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: of the universe and you can just take all the 470 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: precautions you can take and it just works out the 471 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: way it's gonna work out, if you get what I'm saying. 472 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: You know, um, so you're saying, I don't need to 473 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: take it to get the compression check. Is the check 474 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: engine light on? Now? Nope? Okay? Does it run good? 475 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: Very good? Have you have you driven it at all? Yes? Yes, yes, 476 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: I've been. I've been driving around, you know, figuring that's 477 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: what I should do because if it drives good around 478 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: town and you know, two hours and then I'm taking 479 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,719 Speaker 1: it to Virginia. Do you have a scan tool? Now? 480 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: Can you get your hands on a scan tool? And 481 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: see if all the monitors have run. Do you know? 482 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: Do you know what a monitor is? And it's okay 483 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 1: if you don't, I'll explain it. So, so you got 484 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 1: up this morning, you showered, you, you showered, you shaved, 485 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: you had breakfast, You ran your self test. Okay, every 486 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 1: day you get up, you run a self test. As 487 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: a human being. Your eyes open, you focus, Oh god, 488 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: here I am right right, let me get the day going. 489 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: Let me shake the dust out of my head and 490 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: get started. You're doing a computerized monitor self test at 491 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: a human being level. All right. Cars do the same thing. 492 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 1: The minute you turn that key on and you see dashlights, 493 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: you've energized all the circuits. You've you you woke up 494 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: the main engine computer. It's talking to all the other computers. 495 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: In the blink of an eye. Right, electrons are flowing, baby, 496 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: and it's testing its circuits. And then as you start 497 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: it up and warm it up and bring the engine 498 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:45,160 Speaker 1: up to operating temperature, it's testing different components. There's anywhere 499 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: from four to eight systems in a modern vehicle. EVAPP 500 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: misfire Comprehensive component O two cents or two centsor heat 501 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: or e g R all these systems are being tested 502 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: every day depending upon where you draw, how much you drive, 503 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: what speed you drive at, and some other characteristics and factors. Okay, 504 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: it runs that test. Every time it runs that test 505 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: to completion, that test inside the computer gets marked complete. 506 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: All right. Now, if you've noticed, I said the test 507 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 1: got marked complete, not pass. All right. We all took 508 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: we all took math in high school. I took every test. 509 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: I completed every test. I didn't pass every test, but 510 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: I completed every test, all right. The test, the test 511 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: that I completed but didn't pass, would turn on a 512 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: check engine light. Okay. Now sometimes my check engine light 513 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: didn't go on right away. Sometimes I you know, how 514 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: to take a second test. It was a two trip 515 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: faull alright, or a two trip code in order to 516 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: set and it still runs the monitor every day. Okay. 517 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: So the reason I want you to go get a 518 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: scan tool and plug it in is I want to 519 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,880 Speaker 1: see no, no, you're not gonna have any hard faults, 520 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: but I want to see no pending codes, nothing in 521 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: the pending category, because pending is you know, Monday you 522 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: sorted in feel good, and Tuesday you felt worse, and 523 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: Wednesday boom you had the sniffles. Your sniffles went from 524 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: sniffles to a to a to a cold. Well, you know, 525 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday the computer ran its monitor self test 526 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,439 Speaker 1: and it wasn't quite sure. And then by Wednesday that 527 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: oh two centsor heater didn't wake up and it said boom, 528 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: it's done P zero one thirty eight and it sets 529 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: a hard fault. So I want you to look in pending. 530 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: I want you to look at monitors. If there's nothing impending, 531 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: and if monitors look good, drive the car, you know, 532 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: look at look at break lines, look at fuel lines, 533 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: look for rust, look at the cooling tube, look at 534 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: the bottom of the radiator, alright, just to make sure 535 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: there's no heavy corrosion there. Just give it a good 536 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: common sense mechanical look over alright. Make make make sure 537 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: you've got a couple of bucks on you. Make sure 538 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: you've got triple A. Make sure you've got a cell 539 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: phone that's fully charged. Make sure you've got some money 540 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: in the bank in case you get stuck somewhere and 541 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: take a road. You know, it's waiting to do a 542 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: compression test. You know. The one thing that those cars 543 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: did have go wrong, which was not uncommon back in 544 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: the day. They did have rock a arm issues, all right, 545 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: but it was a hard mechanical failure, not what you're 546 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: going through. It doesn't it doesn't get fixed by putting 547 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 1: a coil on it, all right, So you know, do 548 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: you do your maintenance? I mean, I'm sure you have. 549 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: You know at this point, spark plugs, wires, you did, 550 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: a coil, a fuel system cleaning. Wouldn't hurt. Changing some 551 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 1: fluids wouldn't hurt. Like I say, if it's at this age, 552 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 1: if it's wet, change it all right and drive the car. 553 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,959 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't be afraid based on somebody else's diagnosis. 554 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: If I if I listened to half the guys tell 555 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: me what's wrong with the car, and I believe them, 556 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't leave the house in the morning. So alright, 557 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: what what scan tool would you recommend? Um? Something affordable? 558 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: You can go look at products from the launch line 559 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: from Autell, either one of those both nice affordable scan tools. 560 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: You'll find things for under five hundred bucks. I think 561 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 1: I have to favor I'll tell a little bit more. 562 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: At this point. I think they've got more going on. 563 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,439 Speaker 1: They've they've got a great website. Get out though I 564 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: believe it's Autel test or autel dot com. Just go 565 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: out and Google search it A U T E L 566 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: and you'll see it come up. Um. They give a 567 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: lot of bang for the buck. The launch stuff. Um, 568 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: the launch stuff they do have a A A D 569 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: I Y version. But I'm coming to the point in 570 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: my mind where I think, if we're gonna have a 571 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: scan tool, let's spend a few bucks and get something nice. 572 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: You know, when we were kids, we all wanted a 573 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: better camera, a better hunting knife, a better you know, 574 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: camping tent, the better sleeping bag. It's time to treat 575 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: ourselves or adults. Now, let's get the better and enjoy 576 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: it while we can. And this way it makes our 577 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: life easier along the way, if that makes sense to you. 578 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: All right, sir, could I ask one question on the Mustang? 579 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: Tell you what? Let me pull over, take a pause 580 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: when we come back zero running the car doctor back 581 00:28:53,600 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: right after this welcome back, weren't any of the car doctor. 582 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: Let's real quick. Good over to Jim. Jim. I got 583 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: I got a minute and then I've got to move on. 584 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: What's what's your last question about the Mustang. Okay, I 585 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: I got two questions, all right, two questions quick. I 586 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: had a rebuilt engine ten years ago on this car. 587 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 1: Is there a proper way of breaking an in? Well? Yeah, 588 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: I would talk to the engine builder and see what 589 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: he has in his mind. As far as the campus concerned. 590 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: Has the engine been sitting ten years? Yes, well, then 591 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: the concern is going to be that everything is have 592 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: you been well, let me ask the question this way. 593 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: Have you been rotating the engine from time to time 594 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: so that valve springs haven't been sitting in the same 595 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: position for ten years? No, they've been sitting. Yeah. See. 596 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: I would probably talk to an engine builder and ask 597 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: him because the fact is that things have taken a 598 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: set and at the at the very least before you 599 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: put it, you know, just start driving it. I would 600 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: take it apart and look at everything, and I would 601 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: measure valve spring tension and just have a little concern 602 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: about that because it's probably fine. But proper engine parts 603 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: for the older cars are getting harder to find, good 604 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: quality stuff made here and so on. I'm sure you're aware, 605 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: and you know the ounce of prevention you take now 606 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: is going to be the bigger cure later on. What's 607 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: your second question, Well, the oils in pretenuous? Should I 608 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: change that? Oh? Absolutely, I that's not that's not even 609 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,120 Speaker 1: a question. And the engine builder will take it apart. Hey, listen, 610 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: you know what the most, the most it's gonna happen 611 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 1: is you're gonna take it to an engine builder. Spend 612 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks. They'll take it apart, put it 613 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: together and measure everything, and you're good to go. If 614 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: they find a problem. They saved your headache. If they didn't, 615 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,960 Speaker 1: they took all the sweat and aggravation out of the mix. 616 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: And at least you know you're starting out well on 617 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: your restoration projects, so it's not another ten years before 618 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: you drive the car. Jimmy, I appreciate the phone call. 619 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: Have fun taking your trip to Virginia. James and Virginia. 620 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: Maybe you'll see Jim from Maine. James and Virginia. Thanks 621 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: for being so patient, buddy. What's going on all right? 622 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: Thank you? I have a twenty sixteen Nissan in front 623 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,800 Speaker 1: tier of V six. I bought it back in October 624 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: UM and they sold it to me. I know they 625 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: knew that the check anything light come on and get 626 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: this message. On the dash, it says, UH, check up 627 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: field cap. So I bought a field cap after market 628 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: didn't work. I went and bought a Nissan fuel cap. 629 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: Didn't didn't work. I took I took it to a dealer. UH. 630 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: The Nissan dealer did a smoke test. I watched them 631 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: from the waiting room. Four guys run around underneath it 632 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 1: there with a flashlight. Finally all ganged up at the 633 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 1: field spot. So I figured that's where the leak was. 634 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: Then he gave me a ticket and says that they 635 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: could Uh, they needed an assembly with canister and sell 636 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,239 Speaker 1: Annoit's nine and fifty dollars. I just want to know 637 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: if there's any other way to fix this less than 638 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: a thousand dollars, or if I need to take it back, 639 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: or where I got how many miles around the card? 640 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: James about okay, so it is out of warranty. I think, well, now, 641 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: let me let me retract that I would want to 642 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: know what submissions warranty on that vehicle, because some things 643 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: are eight eighty eight years, eighty thousand miles and you're 644 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: under the eighty thousand mile mark. And the other question 645 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: I would have is what's what's common to go bad. 646 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: On the Nissans of that generation is number one, the 647 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: fil neck. And you will see the fuel the fill 648 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: neck the fil neck as a leak. But what you 649 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: won't see as a leak is there's a charcoal canister 650 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: mounted above the rear axle, and on that canister is 651 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: a vent control solenoid. The rubber O ring on that 652 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: solenoid leaks, all right, but it doesn't leak on a 653 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: smoke test. Here's the here's the problem. Okay, it doesn't 654 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,479 Speaker 1: leak on a smoke test. It leaks when the vehicle 655 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: is sick, running its off vehicle monitor. I'll tell you what. 656 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: Sit tight, James. I want to give you a little 657 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 1: more time. Let me pull over, take a pause. When 658 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: we come back, i'll finish up. I want you to 659 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 1: understand what I'm talking about before I send you back 660 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: to talk to them, because I got a feeling they're confused. 661 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. I'm running anating in 662 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: the car. Doctor. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back or any 663 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: of the car. Doctor, James, Virginia, you're still there, Sir 664 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: James James. Oh, James James, you're there, brother, Okay, let 665 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: me make you an even Let me make you an 666 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 1: evaporative emissions expert in two minutes. You're ready, all right. 667 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: Take a gas can half filled with gas, put it 668 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 1: in a parking lot, sealed up. What happens to it 669 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: in the sun. Well, it'll expand right from the heat, 670 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: from the pressure. So a car is like that gas can. 671 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: It's it's a guest tank, right, It's got a gas 672 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: tank in it, and the gas is gonna cause expansion. 673 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: So they've got to find a way to vent it safely. Correct, 674 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 1: So they'll put a charcoal canister on it, charcoal like 675 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,240 Speaker 1: a goldfish tank or like a fish tank filter, okay, 676 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,280 Speaker 1: and they'll let fumes vent through the charcoal, be absorbed 677 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 1: through the charcoal, and they safely dispose of it through 678 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: the engine. Well, they've got to have a way to 679 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,880 Speaker 1: vent or get the fumes out of the canister. And 680 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: this is a very rudimentary explanation, but it will make 681 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: the point. So they put an electrical solenoid on that canister, 682 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: and that that canister, that solenoid will open or close 683 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: electronically from a computer based on control, based on command, 684 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,359 Speaker 1: and it will allow airflow through and out and and 685 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: and clean the canister. Well, they seal that solenoid, that 686 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: little plastic solenoid with a rubber O ring, all right, 687 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: that oh ring like like like all rubber O rings 688 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: will expand and contract with temperature. Right when you do it. 689 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 1: When you do a smoke test, you're pressurizing the evaporative 690 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,640 Speaker 1: emission system. You're pressurizing the fuel tank and the canister, 691 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: looking to see can it push smoke out. It's not 692 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: a big pressure, it's about a half a pound, but 693 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: it's still it's it's pressurizing when the vehicle runs itself test, 694 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: and that vehicle should run off vehicle monitoring. It's doing 695 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: it engine off. It's got a little electric pump that 696 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,359 Speaker 1: will create a vacuum and suck in, and that's when 697 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: the old ring is gonna get pulled in the wrong direction. 698 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,879 Speaker 1: Go back to the dealership wherever you were going, ask them, 699 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: can they just replace the valve on the canister and 700 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,759 Speaker 1: when they take it out, put the new one in, 701 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: put a little bit of grease on it to help 702 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: it seal better. See if that solves the problem for you. 703 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: Call me back. I'm run any in the car doctor 704 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,719 Speaker 1: reminding you as always good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. 705 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: See you