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Speaker 1: Ron and Nannian don't be afraid to come on live radio.

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Speaker 1: It's it's you know. We still hear that quite often.

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Speaker 1: We kind of make it easy. We're not here to

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Speaker 1: pet you up. We're here to just help educate you

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Speaker 1: and everybody else. And we learned to the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Now one of the nice things about Volkswagen. Let me

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Speaker 1: check it hasn't frozen over yet. I'm saying something nice

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Speaker 1: to trust you Volkswagen. After all, you invited the b

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Speaker 1: W Bug, the car whose very appearance makes people punch

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Speaker 1: their friends. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls at eight

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Speaker 1: on in, sit down, Ronal ending in the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping by. Phone number here is eight five

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Speaker 1: five zero nine zero zero. As always, you can find

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Speaker 1: us out online. Car Doctor show dot com. You'll find

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Speaker 1: links there to tune in dot com, i heeart dot com,

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Speaker 1: iTunes dot com, and if you need me during the

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Speaker 1: week Ron at Car Doctor Show dot com. What do

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Speaker 1: you do when you have to fix the unfixable? It

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Speaker 1: happens a lot, and you know, it seems like lately

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Speaker 1: do the hardcore diagnostics and truth be told, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're not thrilled with it, and sometimes it's easier,

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Speaker 1: And it's definitely easier, I shouldn't say sometimes when you

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Speaker 1: This expedition had a misfire, had a misfire on cylinder four.

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Speaker 1: And the problem was that the quote unquote regular mechanic

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Speaker 1: It was simple enough to me. It had a P

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Speaker 1: What a really neat tool about a year ago. In

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Speaker 1: But it's got a very small pad. It reminded me

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Speaker 1: We had a misfire on cylinder four. Scope the coils

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Speaker 1: I need this depth socket, this depth extension, this size ratchet.

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Speaker 1: the truck ran on all eight cylinders. And why didn't

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Speaker 1: you know it? The customers shows to pick it up.

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Speaker 1: Put my hand over the tail pipe. It wasn't blah

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Speaker 1: about that? How about that? Hello? And welcome Ron and

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Speaker 1: any in the car doctor. The things I have to

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Speaker 1: take your calls and answer your questions. Zero. The point

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Speaker 1: every time. Did I check fuel pressure on that expedition, No,

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Speaker 1: did scan it for codes. I did look at fuel trim.

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Speaker 1: telling me that oxygen was in excess and that yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: the miss was there, whether it was mechanical fuel or ignition.

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Speaker 1: I did listen with a stethoscope. I could hear the

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Speaker 1: injector that sounded the same on number four, the same

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Speaker 1: At zero zero. Let's sub pull, overtake the pause. When

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Hey, welcome back. Why don't any of the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. Let's kick open the garage doors this hour, Harry,

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Speaker 1: Who do you have for me today this hour? By

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Speaker 1: the way, looking um, looking a little dapper. I understand

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Speaker 1: your ladies coming up to visit in two weeks. Uh

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Speaker 1: uhh yeah, Well, what what's the what's the shake of

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Speaker 1: the head? No, and it's yes or no, Harry. It

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Speaker 1: was a surprise, but it was a surprise. Why who

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Speaker 1: are we trying to surprise that? Never? You mind? So? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine. Yeah, yeah, How many girlfriends do you

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Speaker 1: have this week? How many girlfriends do you have this?

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Speaker 1: We only have one to love in my life. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's you know. Uncle Steve used to say that you

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Speaker 1: ever learn how Uncle Steve, let me tell you about

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Speaker 1: let me tell you. It's like I've had volkswagons all

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Speaker 1: these years. I was praying for a Ford and God

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Speaker 1: gave me a Lamborghini. That's all you have to say. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's get onto business here, shall we? Oh? Yes, let's

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Speaker 1: is that? Yeah? Sure? When did I lose control of

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Speaker 1: the show today? Go ahead, Harry? What do you got?

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Speaker 1: All right? Tom is calling from Mount Salon, Virginia. He's

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Speaker 1: got a Jetta, a Frontier, Anemiata and the little meeces

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Speaker 1: to pieces, remember Mr Jinks, the cats, those meeces to pieces.

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Speaker 1: They're tearing up all the wires under the hood, the insulation,

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Speaker 1: everything else. I hey, that's a good question. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. And as the stomach turns,

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Speaker 1: A couple of things, A couple of things I can try.

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Speaker 1: Um do you do you do you have any any

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Speaker 1: get them out there. What I'll do you the mothballs

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Speaker 1: But one of the things you can try. Honda actually

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Speaker 1: You can just google search Honda mouse or Honda rodent

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Speaker 1: tape and it'll come up. It's somewhere between thirty and

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Speaker 1: because I personally I'm not a cauliflower kind of guy. Um. No,

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Speaker 1: New Year. Let's go and talk to Bob Phillisburg, New Jersey. Robert.

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Speaker 1: I bet we got I bet you got a Volkswagen question.

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Speaker 1: right after this start. Zero zero is the phone number seven.

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. Robert, you're still there, sir. You know the

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Speaker 1: Always always a great time and Bob is a long

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Speaker 1: there and bangor? Okay, okay, how can I help you today? Sir? Well,

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Speaker 1: I haven't automatic and I can't keep the fuel pressure up.

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00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: You know when you just turn the key on and

427
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: cycle it and it should say it pounds right and

428
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: it drops right down. Okay, as soon as the pump stops,

429
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: it drops down to almost zero. Right, and let me

430
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: you can keep that pressure up. Okay, that's running. It

431
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 1: runs good. Okay, let me and let me say that

432
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: that the pump turning off is correct. If you if

433
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: you sit there, key on, engine off, it will prime

434
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: for two to three seconds and then stop the pump,

435
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: but it should hold pressure. So so the question here

436
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: is where is it losing the residual? Where is it

437
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: bleeding off? This is a port fuel injected engine in

438
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: eighty six, okay, individual injectors. There should be a return

439
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: line in six. We didn't have returnless fuel systems back then.

440
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: We're going to have to one. One of the things

441
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: we would normally do is find a rubber section of

442
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: hose and pinch it off. Does does it does it

443
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:34,640
Speaker 1: maintain pressure? If it maintains okay, if it maintains pressure,

444
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 1: then we've got to start to look up the line.

445
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,360
Speaker 1: The pressure regulator should be upwind of where we pinch

446
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: it off. I would be considering a pressure regulator as

447
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 1: a possible source if it can. Okay, okay, did you

448
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:54,119
Speaker 1: pinch off the line yet? Though? Yeah, that's the next step,

449
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: because I was gonna say if if it doesn't hold pressure,

450
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: going back the other way or there should be a

451
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: check valve in the pump itself as well, and if

452
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: the system drops pressure, then I would say that we've

453
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: got a problem with the check valve in the pump,

454
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: and you need a pump assembly or a pump well,

455
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: I pump in it, okay, a pump assembly, just pump it, okay,

456
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: because you know, looking at and I would if you

457
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,479
Speaker 1: go through, if you're going through this back and forth,

458
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: you've got to stop to consider do we have a

459
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 1: pinhole leak somewhere, especially on something so old in terms

460
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: of the tubing inside the tank that the pump is

461
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: attached to, and and consider that if you take that

462
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: pump assembly out and just look at it closely, is

463
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: there a way to put liquid through it? Block the

464
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: one end and look to see if you see see

465
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: page anywhere, you're looking for a needle in a haystack.

466
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: Ralph is what it is. What it comes down to

467
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: say again, I've I've run the truck. I've done it

468
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 1: for it doesn't matter right, it's it's you know, it's

469
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: it's it's twenty and that's thirty years old. And is

470
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: it thirty years old? It is thirty years old. So

471
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: we've got to be mindful of rust. You know, you're

472
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: going about it the right way. You've got the skill

473
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: in the will my friend. Um, you've just got to

474
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: look a little deeper. There's there's got to be a

475
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: pinhole somewhere letting the fuel bleed off, and the fact

476
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: that it's not you're not smelling fuel, then I would

477
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: say that we've probably got something dumping back in the tank,

478
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: or last possibility, we've got an injector that's just hanging

479
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: open a little bit and it's allowing the fuel to

480
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: leak out that way. Yeah, I was thinking that very

481
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: it seems well, yeah, and I understand that, but it doesn't.

482
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: It doesn't take much for it to bleed off. The

483
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: only way you're gonna know that, though, is to pull

484
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: the fuel rail out of the engine with the injectors

485
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: hooked up and prime the pumping sea Does anybody leak

486
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: fuel out of the bottom of the injector or do

487
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: an inject or bleed down test one at a time

488
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: watching fuel pressure. Does anybody make a difference here? Yes

489
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: or no? You know. Sometimes, back when there were more

490
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: of these, we would hook up adapters and provide a

491
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: separate fuel source and a separate fuel pump depending upon

492
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: the vehicle. We would get very creative and just do

493
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: it on vehicle pressure test using fuel pressure to see

494
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: does one injector flow better than the others and diagnose

495
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: it from there. So there's only three possibilities regulator, pump

496
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: lines actually four, and injectors. It's it's got to be

497
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: somewhere between the four of them. So, and of course,

498
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: keeping in mind you've done a new pumping a new regulator.

499
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 1: New doesn't mean good, New means never ever worked, So

500
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: I always consider that. Don't just assume because you've changed it.

501
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: Tell me the part where you tested it, and then

502
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: I'll say, all right, let's move on to the next possibility.

503
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: Eight five five zero nine zero zero. Run on any

504
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: in the car doctor. We'll be back right after this. Hey,

505
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: welcome back, ning of the car doctor. Eight five zero

506
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: zero zero. Let's get some phone calls going. Let's go

507
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: over and talk to Stu Springfield, Illinois. Line to Stu,

508
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: welcome to the car doc. For sure. How can I help?

509
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: Thank you? I got an O five up Lander purchased used,

510
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: got about add on it? Um, I got a transmission

511
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: service question. I don't know. It's a shifting fine and

512
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: operates fine everything. I don't know if it's ever any

513
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: service done on it, and says service and now the

514
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: independent mechanics says leaveing a loan service and now would

515
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: lead to problems. Well, the question is when do you

516
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: want to find out that it's a problem now or

517
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: when you've got your family loaded in at three o'clock

518
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: in the morning going off on a fishing trip. That's

519
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: an easy one, right. So it's if it were me,

520
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: I would change it now, all right, And I want

521
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: to know when there's going to be a problem, and

522
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: and changing the fluid is gonna tell me that, Um

523
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: it may it may not. I mean, obviously you're not

524
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: afraid of buying something older and driving something older because

525
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: you just bought this and if it needed a trans

526
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: and it was another two grand or at dollars, whatever

527
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: it is, it's not gonna tell you I don't want

528
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: the car you've if you've already got it. Um But

529
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: you know, I tend to look at cars as component level,

530
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: all right, And you know, at a hundred thousand miles,

531
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: I feel like I owe the car. Trans It seems

532
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: like we've made it. We've made engines to go three

533
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: hundred thousand miles, Transmissions not so much. I expect the

534
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: trends between a hundred and a hundred and fifty, and

535
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: if I get more than that out of it, I

536
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: can count you know. I'm lucky. I did my maintenance,

537
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: my due diligence worked out, and yeah, I get it.

538
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: Some transs go two hundred thousand miles, you know what,

539
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: they still have to have fluid changed in the majority

540
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: of cases, or the filter and all that this should

541
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: be that this should be the smaller GM trans with

542
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: the pan and no dip stick, and you're gonna pull

543
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: the ten millimeter the eleven millimeter out the side and

544
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna drip out through the side. I'm gonna say

545
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: I would start with a fluid change, just change fluid

546
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: and filter and then come back in ten thousand miles,

547
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: drop the pan and change that fluid and into an exchange.

548
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: Doing an exchange on that's a little involved, So if

549
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: he can't get into it, I would just change the

550
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: fluid again in ten thousand miles and monitor it that way.

551
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: One one last thought, this particular trans has, if it's

552
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: the one I'm thinking of, and I'm pretty sure it is,

553
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: has the propensity that the there's tubes inside the pan area.

554
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: When they lower the pan down, there are some hydraulic

555
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: tubes that are gonna be up in the area where

556
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: the valve body once was just above the filter. Just

557
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: tell them to look very carefully at those tubes where

558
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: they braise the bracket, the support bracket to it. They're

559
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: known for pinholes as they get older, and if there's

560
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: any signs of wearer damage or fatigue, they will change

561
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: those tubes as well. It will cause a shift problem

562
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: and be an issue for you somewhere down the line.

563
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: All right, sir, you're very welcome. Still, you take good

564
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: care of a good rest of the weekend. Let's get

565
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: over and talk to Trevor up and said, oh wait,

566
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 1: buick on clave. Trevor. Welcome to the car, doctor, sir,

567
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: how can I help? Thanks for taking my call. You're welcome. Yeah,

568
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: it's a two thousand eight un clave. Uh. We purchased

569
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: it used, it's got a hundred and twenty eight thousand

570
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: miles on it, and last week it developed an issue

571
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: where it will not shift into second gears. Okay, And

572
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: your question is why or your question is next step? Well,

573
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 1: the first I guess the first question would be, um,

574
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: why we we were looking into some of the possible issues.

575
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: The transmission that's in that car has some known issues.

576
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: But I guess more specifically, the question that we had

577
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: was I could recommend a particular scanner for a code

578
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: reader that would uh, that would be able to home

579
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: in on what might be happening. Well, And keep in mind,

580
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: a scanner is gonna give you, you know, and a scanners.

581
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: You've definitely got a scanner. If you're gonna try and

582
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: work on this yourself, you've got to have a scan toil.

583
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: You've got to have the ability to get in there

584
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: and and see what's going on. But it's it's going

585
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: to give you a third of the picture before you

586
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: start having to do some other testing. And you know

587
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: that becomes an issue. I'll tell you what, Trevor. Let

588
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: me pull over and take the pause, and I don't

589
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: want to rush this. Just sit tight. Let me do

590
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: this quick pull off to the side, and we'll be

591
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: back right afterwards. I'm runing any in the car, doctor,

592
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: don't go away, welcome back. Why don't they need in

593
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: the card octa her wine and things down this hour, Trevor,

594
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: you're still there, sir oh eight buick enclaves some transmission

595
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: issues not shifting into second gear. So does it shift

596
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 1: one to three? No? It uh? It basically right there

597
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 1: uh at first and it won't shift right. It won't pist,

598
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: it won't shift past, it won't shift past first gear,

599
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: and it just hangs and flares the engine. Okay, first things,

600
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: first scan tool. I like Launch, uh you know, and

601
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: this is all hands on stuff. I'm using it in

602
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: the shop. I like the Launch any of the Launch stuff,

603
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: the X four thirty one, which is their older platform,

604
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: the Pad two which is their newer platform. They make

605
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: some really neat stuff to CRP two nine, really good

606
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: scan tools. Will they fit and do everything you wanted

607
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: to do? You've got to look at it because there's

608
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: a price point at at at where things are in

609
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: the tool and where things are not. We just had

610
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: more than a couple of listeners have gotten back to us.

611
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: They've gone out and they've purchased the X four thirty one,

612
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 1: the older version Windows XP platform. So you might find

613
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: something used online. You might find it cheaper from one

614
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: of the supply houses to make it more price point comfortable,

615
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: because obviously a full fledged scan tool you'll be five

616
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars. And I don't think you want to

617
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: do that yet. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Um,

618
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: but we like right, we like the Launch stuff. Um,

619
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: you know, you can also find some scan tools out

620
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: online other manufacturers. Uh, the OTC Genesis, was it not

621
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: the Yeah, the Genesis, I'm sorry. The Genesis and the

622
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: Genesis EVO was a good scan tool for its day,

623
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: and this is older technology. You might find some of

624
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 1: those because a lot of repair shops now are upgrading.

625
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: They're they're realizing they've got to get into this part

626
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: of the century and use use computer PC based diagnostics

627
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: because that's the future. That's where it's going. Um. As

628
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: far as what could be wrong with this, this could

629
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: be anything from a problem with the trans control module

630
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: inside the trans self to a problem with the control

631
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: solenoid for first or second gear. Uh. There is one

632
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: bulletin if you want to know about where components already

633
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: have a pencil, handy, get a get to take a

634
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: look at GM bulletin Oh seven dash O seven DASH

635
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: thirty DASH O twenty five, and it's just general information

636
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: on how that transmission transaction is constructed. That's the four

637
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: TT or the four forty five, whichever one you've got,

638
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: and I think you're the forty UM that'll talk about

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Speaker 1: solenoid location and component location and some of the things

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Speaker 1: that can go wrong. But first things first, get a

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Speaker 1: scan tool. I think you're probably gonna find yourself, uh

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Speaker 1: in terms of codes with a seven fifty two. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like it from the fact that it doesn't

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Speaker 1: shift into second or maybe in eight seventy two, and

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Speaker 1: that bulleton will help you tell you where you gotta

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Speaker 1: go next. After that, Trevor, the clock is gonna take me.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. I'll run any of the car

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Speaker 1: Doctor mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you seven