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Speaker 1: a Honda? Yea? And is that Honda fifteen to twenty grand? End?

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Speaker 1: to Ron. Let's get over and talk to Marianne Vermont. Marianne,

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Speaker 1: will pin down what circuit the fault is. In the

428
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: other way that somebody could do it is using something

429
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: called a thermal imager. A thermal imager is basically a

430
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 1: heat camera. And what we'll do is keys out of

431
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,120
Speaker 1: the vehicle. You're not leaving the key in the ignition,

432
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 1: are you? By chance? Yes? We are? Okay, all right,

433
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: take the key out of the ignition and see if

434
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: the problem goes away. All right, all right? Um, you know,

435
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 1: because it can be the cars are very susceptible today.

436
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,679
Speaker 1: You leave the key in the ignition, it may always

437
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: be active and armed. You shouldn't leave keys and cars anymore,

438
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: but might be, might be, But you know, to finish

439
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 1: the thoughts so the person listening gets it. A thermal

440
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,919
Speaker 1: imager will show a device temperature differential. All right, um,

441
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example real quick, and then I'm

442
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: gonna go. The drawer at home wasn't working well. I

443
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,360
Speaker 1: brought my thermal imager home. I was looking for heat

444
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: escape and heat efficiency. The door gasket around the drawer

445
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: had dried out. Heat was escaping. Not anything I could feel,

446
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: but I could see the heat leak using the thermal imager.

447
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: I put a door gasket in the dryer's fixed. My

448
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: wife was so happy. Um um. You know, in your case,

449
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: a thermal imager displayed on a fuse box might show

450
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: a relay still glowing red or warm as compared to

451
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: the one next to it that's black or cold. So

452
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: it's the idea of a thermal image. What's hot, what's not? Okay?

453
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: So three methods, three different ways to attack it, and

454
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure one of those will do it. But as

455
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: I said, if you're leaving the key in the ignition,

456
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: pull the key out, leaving inside the house until you're

457
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: ready to use it, and if in a week the

458
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: car starts now, in all fairness to the battery, make

459
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: sure that vehicle has had a good forty five minute

460
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: run alright, with minimal electrical loads. When you put it away,

461
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 1: the batteries as charged as you can make it, unless,

462
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: by chance, your husband happens to have a battery charger

463
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: kicking around the garage. Mary Anne, I appreciate the call.

464
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 1: Good luck to you and yours. I'm here if you

465
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: need more five five zero zero. The car doctors coming

466
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: back right after this welcome back? Aren't any of the

467
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: card doc Let's get over to David and Iowa. David,

468
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: two thousand five Silverado? What's going on here? Hey? You

469
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: know right now you can go. You're doing out there?

470
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: We're doing well, sir. How are you well? I'm pretty good.

471
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: I'll get I want to give me a little bit

472
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: of information to ask my question. Uh. I got a

473
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: I bought a two thousand five Sado uh and uh

474
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: from a guy from getting an old road mail crux.

475
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 1: You know he was used for mail truck out and

476
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: the boon he's out here and I bought it for

477
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: two hundred bucks. After it took about three to get

478
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: the dirt and the mud off of it. But I

479
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: got it's never been wrecked. Uh. I checked the oil first,

480
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: and it had it was absolutely clean. It only had

481
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: about a hundred and twenty thousand miles on it. And

482
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: I bought it for two other bucks, and uh, it

483
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: didn't have a battery, and I got a battery from

484
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: over here to your favorite uh store. Well, let's see

485
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: where's that at? And I put it in it and

486
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: started right up my girling home and anyway, we went

487
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: about one hundred miles and I noticed that the brake

488
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: pedal was kind of spugy about halfway down and putting

489
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: fluid in it. It wasn't completely empty, but I still

490
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: haven't trouvel with it. I just wondered, Uh, what causes

491
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: that to go halfway down? Because power brakes, you know,

492
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: But I don't know whether it's an adjustment or uh

493
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: maybe air or something in the line or what color

494
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: is that? So well, you know, David, I can't envision

495
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: a two d dollar vehicle having being in the greatest

496
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: shape as far as brakes are concerned. You know, my

497
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: my one, my one issue, especially a vehicle, it sounds

498
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: like it's been real hard put away wet is. When

499
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: we're talking about quality of break is, let's cover the basics.

500
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: You know, how well, how well are there this? Is

501
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: this a four wheel disc or a front disc rear

502
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: drum vehicle? It's just rear drive, so well, no, not drive,

503
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: not drive, David drum? Is it drums on the back

504
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: or discs on the back. I'm not sure. I haven't

505
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: taken the tires off. Okay, So if it's if it's

506
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: a four wheel disc vehicle, how free and easy to

507
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: calip or slides move and allow themselves to self compensate

508
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: and adjust is going to be paramount to a good

509
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: basic brake system. So what somebody really needs to do, Well,

510
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: it's been sitting for two years, David, everything's rusted. What

511
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: somebody really needs to do is pull four wheels, go

512
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: through each corner of the brake system. Make sure the

513
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: calipers move. Make sure you know, I can't imagine the

514
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: amount of rust on the rotors, all right, And and

515
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: then and once you verify you've got good calipers, the

516
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: slides move, good pads, good rotors, bleed the system thoroughly, alright.

517
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: If it's if it's been sitting for two years, then

518
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: your mechanic is likely going to have to find a

519
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: scan tool and do what we call an a BS

520
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: bleed on the vehicle itself, where it will actually excite

521
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: and move all the pistons inside the APS accumulator assembly

522
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: or a b S body assembly and free up any

523
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: sludge crud and and bleed any ear out of that.

524
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: Then we can talk about but by then we've exceeded

525
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: the value of the car. Yeah, okay, well that's that's

526
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. I'll go ahead, and dude, I just figured

527
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: I'm going to give it a regular, complete break system.

528
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: But I don't want to drive it while it's like that,

529
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: of course not you know what, breaks, breaks and tires

530
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: breaks tires in front end are still the three most

531
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: important safety systems on the car. I got two minutes.

532
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: I got two minutes, David, What was your question to

533
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: me or comment? Okay, what I was gonna tell you

534
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: that people out here in Iowa, uh very I'm at

535
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: Walmart right now and I don't see but maybe one

536
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: or two people out of probably two hundred out here

537
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: that's wearing a mask. And the other day I stopped

538
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: in the station, I talked to a guy from India

539
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: and I Pakistan, and I said, hey, what's the word

540
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: for stupid? You know? And you looked at me started laughing,

541
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: and he said, well, I'll tell you what he said.

542
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: Stupid is stupid. And no matter what language you talk,

543
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: well you know what true words never spoken, David. I

544
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: appreciate the thought as always, brother, you stay safe. Let

545
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: me let me keep going. I gotta get over to

546
00:29:54,440 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: Walton Mauley real quick. Walter, are you there, Walter? I'm here.

547
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: Are you there? Run? I'm here, Walter? How are you, sir?

548
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: What what full? Full? Well? Yeah, it's you know, it's

549
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a regional issue. Listen, we're driving around

550
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: New Jersey. People are and aren't wearing masks. It's amazing.

551
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: But anyway, we got I got two segments in six minutes.

552
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: How can I help you with this? Oh for Siena. Okay,

553
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: it's got a three eleven and twenty one twelve withdraw

554
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: throttle bodies to them. One of them says it sticks open,

555
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: one of them says it sticks closed, and the other

556
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: one just says it's broke. Okay. And if throttle body

557
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: is so clean you could eat off. Yeah, okay, I

558
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: get that. If if if you clear the code, would

559
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: you say twenty one, three and twelve and eleven? And

560
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: if you if you clear the faults, does does it

561
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: come back? Yes? All three, all three of them. Okay, well,

562
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: let me rephrase that generally all three them once or twice.

563
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: Only two of them came back. Okay, um, just for giggles.

564
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: On the on the back side of the engine, all right,

565
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: make sure all the ground straps. There should be one

566
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: to three ground straps, one over on the driver's side

567
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, starting from the driver's side, there's gonna

568
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: be one to the throttle, one to the throttle body,

569
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: one to the bracket next to it, and one at

570
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: the far end on the passenger side going to the

571
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: bracelets in the back of the intake. Make sure all

572
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: the ground straps are there, all right. I've seen screwy things,

573
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: good clean and tight. All right. We want to we

574
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: want to make sure that's there. Are you doing any

575
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: kind of a throttle body relearner reset? Well, only by

576
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, leaving it. The battery are disconnected for you know,

577
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: links of time and hooking it back up. Are you

578
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: able to do all right when you're doing it? Are

579
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: you disconnecting both positive and negative cables. Yeah, I've done

580
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: that and touched them together. Okay, does this car move?

581
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: Does it accelerate? Uh? Not very well? Okay, so it's

582
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: stuck in limp mode. We've got a failure of the

583
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: throttle body and or the circuit correct from the sounds

584
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: of it, right, that's what you're telling me. Yeah, okay,

585
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: tell you what, Walt. Let me pull over and take

586
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: the pause. When I come back, we'll finish up. I'll

587
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: running anating the car doctor. We'll be back with Walt

588
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: from Hawaii right after this. Welcome back, n any of

589
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: the car doctor. Let's get back to Walter. Walter, you're there, sir, Yes,

590
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: I am. So the fault code you're getting generally indicate

591
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: obviously a fault in the throttle control system, which is

592
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: why the vehicle goes into limping. But it also indicates

593
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: a potentially sticking throttle body assembly. But there's wires, there's

594
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: a computer involved, there's the grounds. I talked about. Cleanliness

595
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: at the battery is important. I'm sure you know it.

596
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: Being you, I'm sure the terminals have been cleaned, and

597
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure everything is nice and tight. But I just

598
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: I want to mention that for everybody's benefit. All right,

599
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: I'll let me interruption second on you. Your first guest

600
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: was right when I was doing the rescanning it, I

601
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: had not hooked those straps back up that you talked about,

602
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: because I had had to plank them off in the

603
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: intake man fall off, and once it were back on

604
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: and downtight, I never thought of him as being a ground.

605
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: I thought they were just braces. They're ground and it

606
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: went away. It works fine. Now what do you mean

607
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: guess that's that's that's knowledge, Walter. But I get it.

608
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: You're welcome, um. But let me tell you what. Let

609
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: me I'll tell you what. Let me let me finish

610
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: the thought. Let me let me tell you where I

611
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: was going. So my, my, my, my thought was, okay

612
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: that what I would tell someone in this case is

613
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: clear the code, turn the key on, but don't start it.

614
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: Does the code come back? If the code comes back,

615
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: what does that tell us? That's the question to you,

616
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: I'd say, to be electronic, right, it's a circuit fault,

617
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: not a performance fault. All right. If you have to

618
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: drive the car to get the faull to occur, it's

619
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: a performance fault. And that's boy, Let me tell you

620
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: that splits the diagnosis right in half every time. That's

621
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: fifty of it right there, all right. Now, One of

622
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: the things you want to do, if you you know,

623
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: you had to planum off, you probably did plugs or

624
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: coils or what have you. Did you do coils with

625
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: your spark plugs, Walter, I didn't do the coils. They

626
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: always do the coils, always try and I wanted to,

627
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: but you know, it was this person didn't have any money.

628
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 1: I know, it's the price thing. It's just it's it's

629
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: it's you know, for there, hundred twenty bucks apiece whatever.

630
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: But it's just car probably right, and I get and

631
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: I get that too, but it's just just be aware.

632
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: But anyway, uh, you know what you want to do

633
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: to reset that throttle body is I like to disconnect

634
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: both cables and then put a tent. You know, do

635
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: you have your resistor wire made up that I always

636
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: talked about. Do you have a tent on there? You

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00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: go and put that between you know, disconnect both battery

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Speaker 1: cables and put that between the two cables, all right,

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Speaker 1: and let it bleed out for give it five minutes,

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Speaker 1: then hook it up. You know, it's it's funny. I

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Speaker 1: don't understand why. But I'll take the plenum's off, I'll

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Speaker 1: disconnect things. I'll wipe out throttle bodies that are really clean,

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Speaker 1: but I still wipe them out. I'll see a hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty two rpm difference from when I put it together.

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Speaker 1: Resetting it like that fixes the car until the next

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Speaker 1: time I'm running. Anting of the car DOT reminding you

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you