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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, I don't think they're going in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: Car manufacturers. I think they're going in the wrong direction.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor, have they offered you any sort of uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, quiet campaign, quiet resolution. Are they telling you

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Speaker 1: haven't offered anything. Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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Speaker 1: and Anian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors

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Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls

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Speaker 1: at eight five six and now running. Oh is it

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Speaker 1: my turn to talk now? Thanks Karen. I appreciate the

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Speaker 1: ability to jump in here. Hello, welcome Ron in any

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Speaker 1: of the car doctors. Karen's so well informed you. Let's

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Speaker 1: go right to Frank and Delaware a sixteen Silverado and

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Speaker 1: an Oto Ranger. Frank, you're on, sir, How can I

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Speaker 1: help aw you? Good afternoon? Run uh I I just

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Speaker 1: get that service bulletin on the torque converter that you right,

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Speaker 1: this is the car that this is the truck that

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Speaker 1: chattered it had the rumble staff. Yes, sir, yes, and

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to thank you. I've got to print

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Speaker 1: it out and I'm looking at it now. That the

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Speaker 1: question on the two thousand two Ranger. Uh, some of

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Speaker 1: last week I talked about an intermittent running on their

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Speaker 1: their ranger, and I have that same problem my mechanic

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Speaker 1: who it's taken care of his wife right now, but

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid to drive the truck because it uh, it

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Speaker 1: The uh it'll I can run and run with it

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Speaker 1: just prank and pranking like it's not getting fired to

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Speaker 1: an hour it's fires right up. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: well does it ever does it ever happen when he's

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Speaker 1: ever happen when he's looking at it? Now? Now I

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Speaker 1: um you got you got light switches in your house? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right? If if the light bulb, it's really hard

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Speaker 1: the ceiling down to change it. All right? Would you

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Speaker 1: just would you just change the bulb or would you

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Speaker 1: try to diagnose it? I first try to get up.

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Speaker 1: Would you see? I try to diagnose it, But that's

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Speaker 1: just my nature. What engine is this three leader for leader? Um?

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Speaker 1: It's the I knew you were gonna ask me that.

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Speaker 1: It's the smaller six. It's the smaller six, So it's

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Speaker 1: the three leader. Okay, yeah. Are you familiar with the

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Speaker 1: sound when your truck um uh starts If you just

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Speaker 1: turn the key on, you know, the fuel pump all

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Speaker 1: buzz from the back. It'll it'll buzz for five seconds

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Speaker 1: until it see his attack signal. If it doesn't see

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Speaker 1: Are you familiar with that? Sound. No, no, I never

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Speaker 1: it's important, even if you have to have somebody turn

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Speaker 1: US vehicle owners are praying, Um, you know you're listening

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Speaker 1: so gosh darn important is if the fuel pump relays

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Speaker 1: fuel pump relays working. And the pump. Now, your problem

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Speaker 1: off next Umm alhad you're gonna say something, Well, that's

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Speaker 1: check engine light. Once that ek relay cycles off, because

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Speaker 1: Point is if the vehicles sitting their key on after

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Speaker 1: because there's a time out sequence and every car is different.

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Speaker 1: Crank crank, crank, crank, crank, crank crank crank crank, car

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Speaker 1: not let Maybe the IGNITIONCE which is bad not turning

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Speaker 1: very welcome. You're very welcome. Frank, you'd be well down there, Delaware. Way. Uh.

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Speaker 1: That's our job, folks, that's what we have to do

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Speaker 1: as diagnosticians. And I consider all of you diagnosticians. If

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Speaker 1: you're listening to this show, you have an interest in

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Speaker 1: how things work. From a logical approach. There's no silver bullet,

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Speaker 1: there's no magic fairy dust. Math doesn't lie. I love

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Speaker 1: that line from Hidden Figures, right, Math doesn't lie. There's

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Speaker 1: it doesn't pay to prove it. Sometimes do you take

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Speaker 1: do that. You're not gonna spend three hours diagnosing a part,

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Speaker 1: And that's the difference. And that's how you gotta look

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Speaker 1: have a ball peen hammer. We call them transmit or

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Speaker 1: adjustment tools. Yeah, that's what they are. Actually there their field,

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Speaker 1: their field, their field, sobriety testers, um and and you

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Speaker 1: know what, they also double as air talent adjustment tools. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank god your on remote. By the way, by the way,

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Speaker 1: to Tom, you're ready, It's it's just you. It's just

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Speaker 1: you and me listening, right, Yeah, maybe okay, Happy birthday

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Speaker 1: to Tom. Happy birthday to Tom. How old are you now?

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Speaker 1: I'm Jack Benny's age. Really yes? Uh? Rumor has it

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Speaker 1: that you're now sixty one? Is that possible? It's entirely possible.

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Speaker 1: up to you. Yeah, well you might, so let me

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Speaker 1: ask you this. If you were forty and in love

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Speaker 1: You can't do that because it's right that you're three

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Speaker 1: she's fifteen. Now you're three times as old as that

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Speaker 1: little girl. Right, she waited another fifteen years. You're sixty,

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Speaker 1: she's thirty. Now you're twice as old as that little girl.

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Speaker 1: When we go to break, I want you to think,

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Speaker 1: So there's a there's a there is it? So there

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah on the scan tool. Yes, on the scan tool, yes, yes, No,

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Speaker 1: put put five gallons of E eighty five back in it.

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Speaker 1: Does this scan tool change its reading? All right? If

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Speaker 1: you know. And for Tom so Tom, if you wait

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Speaker 1: Edge Rich. Welcome to the car doctress, sir, How can

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Speaker 1: I help? My daughter has an O seven and she

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Speaker 1: or how can I help? Hey, Ron, I got a

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Speaker 1: You shut it off? Well, I just go back to

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Speaker 1: the wipers are at the bottom where they normally parked,

424
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: that test lights should go out. Okay, If that test

425
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 1: light continues to stay lit, it probably has a bad

426
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 1: parks which inside the motor, and that's how you would

427
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: determine it. Alright, um right, it's you know. Now if

428
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 1: if the park switches working, then you've got to get

429
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 1: over to the wiper relay in the battery junction box

430
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: and then I I've actually got a series of tests

431
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: you can run through that if you know, if you

432
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: want do this, Tom, do this. Let's let's make this

433
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: quick and simple. Send me an email Ron at card

434
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: doctor show dot com. I know exactly where I said

435
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 1: I went through this once got a test procedure UM

436
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 1: out of one of the information sources that I saved

437
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: because I went through this and you just sit there

438
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: and you go through wire pin by pin and it'll

439
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: it'll just save you a whole bunch of steps. It's

440
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: it's too detailed. If I give it to you here,

441
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: I'm just wasting airspace. UM. Send me an email Rontic

442
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: Car Doctors Show dot com and I'll be glad to

443
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: print it and send it to you. I'll pdf it

444
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: to you, all right, sir. Thanks, you're very welcome. Take

445
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: good care. You're very welcome. Let's let's pull over and

446
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: take a pause. Ron on any of the car Doctor.

447
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Welcome back, We're on any

448
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,440
Speaker 1: of the Car Doctor. Let's wander over to Robert in Kentucky.

449
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 1: See what's going on here, Hey Robert, Welcome aboard, sir.

450
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: How can I help? Yeah, I got this pick up

451
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: and I'm replacing the water pump and right now, first

452
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 1: into the good it's as if it was cemented. Your

453
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: gasket shredded, apartners, it's really strongly adhering to the block.

454
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: I'm having a really different time. It's getting that cleaned

455
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: off or put on the new gasket. Do you have

456
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: any techniques? Right, I've got Um. I was out there

457
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: for about two hours with paint dinner, and then I

458
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: had some silic crawl and an abrasive plastics carb. Yeah.

459
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: You don't want to you don't want to hit it

460
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: too hard. It's what I'll try to do, is I

461
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: will try I'll take a straight edged razor blade and

462
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: try to cut right into the gasket because it's sort

463
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: of become hard and shell act right to that, right

464
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: to the cover. Um, and I will I will take

465
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: I will take a straight edged razor blade, being mindful

466
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: not to cut into the into the base metal. But

467
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: just can I get a razor blade under it? You know,

468
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of like flicking off kind of a gross

469
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: thing to say on radio. It's kind of like flicking

470
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: off a fingernail. You want to catch it just right

471
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,479
Speaker 1: it pops off. Um. You know, although it's really going

472
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: to be on their hard Uh, you don't. You don't

473
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: want to use like the brown disks, the rotary disks

474
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: that guys will sit there and try to wiz it

475
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: off because you'll just you'll just chew it up. Uh.

476
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: You know. The other thing you could try is if

477
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: you've got a way to hit it, maybe with a

478
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: heat gun, and you know, just if you get it

479
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: a little on the warmer side, depending on how warm

480
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: it is where you're doing it, and then pick at

481
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: it with the straight razor blade. You know, that might

482
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: help as well. You know. I've also yeah, and that's

483
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: like I kind of figured this time of year, it's

484
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: probably cold. If you're working on it out in the garage.

485
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: You know, that doesn't help. It's you've got to get that.

486
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to warm it up. Probably it's

487
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: best doing something like that fifty or sixty degrees at

488
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: a base and if it's snow and it's pretty cold,

489
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, but that that heat difference will

490
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: maybe shock the system too and cause it to pop

491
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: up and separate. I have tried carb cleaner. You know,

492
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: carve cleaner is pretty caustic. If you can get something

493
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: really old and probably illegal at this point that you're

494
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: not supposed to have in the first I've got from

495
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: from my I think from my grant. Well, I got

496
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: starting fluid. I'm not sure what's in starting fluid. I

497
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: would I would prefer carb cleaner because it's got more

498
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: of a cleaning agent to it. Um. You know, it's

499
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: got more of a deep cleaning action, and it's not

500
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: going to fall and make a real bloody mess all

501
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: over the place. You know, carb clean we used to

502
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: you know, soak and dip carbs in the solution or

503
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: carb dip solution. Just something to break down the gasket

504
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: material is what you're chasing, you know, access to that surface.

505
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: It would be easier if I could remove that eiler

506
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: pulley and there's two bolts that I was able to

507
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: get off without too much half, But then there's one

508
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: back hidden behind that primary polly, and I can't even

509
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: get enough leverage with just the standard open ended get

510
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: you got any thoughts on getting additional torque? I guess

511
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: you've probably got some kind of open it. It's just

512
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: a there's a really narrow space to get a wrench

513
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: back in behind there, behind that polly. Can I can

514
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember what it looks like. It's been

515
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: a while since I've on one, but you know, can

516
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: I put an extension on that socket and pull it

517
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: out on a ratchet further away from the block, moving

518
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,719
Speaker 1: moving it away or is there no room coming out.

519
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 1: I can't even get a socket in there just using

520
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: like an old traditional open ended Why why can't Why

521
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: can't you get a socket in their depth or access

522
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: to it? What's what's what's from front to back? What's

523
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: what's in the way? Roberts the front, in the front,

524
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: there's that pulley, and then there's just there's just enough

525
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: to get like a basic simple open ended wrench. I can't,

526
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: you know, I can't. Can you You can't even get

527
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: like a regular socket wrench around it? Can you get

528
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: a can you You can't get a box wrench on

529
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: it has it's like an open end and there's not

530
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: a space to come in from the front of it. Okay,

531
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: so let me ask you this question. What if you

532
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: were changing that idler pulley bracket, how would you change it?

533
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: And my my my point becomes, forget you're doing a

534
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: water pump. I always approach it how to the factory.

535
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: The factory has to have a way for that part

536
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: to come apart. Yeah, exactly, which I don't have. Well,

537
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything special here. I think we're

538
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: missing something. Uh you know I'm missing Yeah. Well, but

539
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: so I'm looking to take the leverage point further away

540
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: from where you're at all right, Um, could you get

541
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: you can't get a box wrench on that you don't

542
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: have the access point? Yeah, it's just not enough space

543
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: to get fighted in front of there and then back

544
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: it in an Would you would use in quarter in

545
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: sockets help instead of using three aids? They don't have

546
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: enough space. It's really tight. It's a good engine to

547
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: work on, but you know you run into these ye

548
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: issues that hamper that. Just I'm just I'm just learning

549
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: as I go. I don't have a full Yeah, No,

550
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: I just find it. I kind of find it hard

551
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: to believe that the only thing I can get on

552
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: there is an open end. Can you send me a

553
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: picture of it? Nope, I don't have the technology where

554
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: I am. But let's see once I Yeah, I've got

555
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: a few other questions. I don't know if we want

556
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: to move on from that one, or you've got any

557
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: whatever you want to whatever you want to do. I

558
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: was gonna say, if you wanted to send me a

559
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: picture of it, I could I could maybe get a

560
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: better sense of it. Ask me your other questions. Okay,

561
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: I've got I'm working from the Haynes manual and from

562
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: the Toyota O E M and O E M manual

563
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: doesn't have any Torku specs. There's when I go to

564
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: put this water pumped back on, there's eight ten millimeter

565
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: bolts and bolt in the center. And then the Haynes

566
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: manual has the specs for the V six which are thirteen.

567
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: They're saying thirteen. Now they do have the specs for

568
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: the thermostat which are fourteen on the V six as well,

569
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: and those correlate with my O E M does give

570
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: to you thermostat footpounds. But do you have any idea

571
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: about do you think that that would apply this for

572
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: the bolts or bolts? All right? You know, torque is

573
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: all about your applying a certain amount of twist to

574
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: maintain tension to the bolt. You know, it's not going

575
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: to take a lot, alright. What I would do is

576
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: I would bring it up to you know, on a

577
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: ten millimeter bolt like that's something that's small. I'd be

578
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: very careful not to overtighten it because I don't want

579
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: to break something. So you know, I would have to

580
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: think that a water pump mounting bolt is probably going

581
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: to be somewhere between ten and twelve foot pounds at best,

582
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: maybe fourteen um, right, so you're in the range. You know,

583
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: it's also a matter of feel. You know how how

584
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: old and tired is the base metal. You don't wanna

585
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: you don't want to pull on it so hard that

586
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: you create an issue either. You know, I would creep

587
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: up on it, um, snug it up a little bit,

588
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: smaller ratchets, smaller tools, and uh, you know, if it's

589
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: not leak and leave it alone. But I want to

590
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: see a pick you if you can send me a

591
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: picture of Ron at Car Doctor show dot com. If

592
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: you have that ability at some point, Robert, I'd like

593
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: to see what that other bolt looks like. Keep me posted.

594
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: Good luck to you, and I appreciate the call. I'm

595
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 1: Ron any and I'll be back right after this. Welcome

596
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: back or of the Car Doctor. Let's get over to

597
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: Ken in Connecticut. Ken, I got two minutes. What's going on? Uh?

598
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: This is wrong with the seven seven mere comment? Okay,

599
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: I just wanted to you are truly the car Doctor.

600
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. I haven't answered the question yet,

601
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: so let's see. Let's see if I can maintain that title. No,

602
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: I just need I just need a diagnosis. I think

603
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm an old mechanic. But okay, the

604
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: signal lights said the signal lights were good. The right

605
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: one is a little dull, but it works good. At night,

606
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: you're pull the headlights switched on and the left signals

607
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: don't work. Okay, so it's Robin from somewhere. Now I'm

608
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: thinking it's the steering of the signal lights switch. I

609
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I would I would, I would grab a

610
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: wiring diagram and take a look at you want to

611
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: prove it's the switch or not to disconnect the headlights?

612
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: Disconnect the headlights? Does the problem go away? If you

613
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: take the electrical load out of the circuit, then the

614
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: actuation of the headlights switch turning on is causing a

615
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: short circuit. If not, if the problem goes away with

616
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: the headlights in neon position, then I've got to believe

617
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: that we're losing ground somewhere. We've got we've got a

618
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: ground that's got a poor connection. Are the headlights bright

619
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: when they were on without turning on the two signals? Yeah,

620
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: and it's just the left signal to work when the

621
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,439
Speaker 1: headlights are on the right so have your voltage drop

622
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: tested the negative side of the battery from chassis to

623
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: engine and from engine, Yeah, I would. I would go

624
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: through and look at that. It's it's you know, back

625
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: in the day, Kenny, that was a prime example when

626
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: a vehicle was steel in ground for one circuit to

627
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: use it on another. Remember, you know, electron electrons always

628
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: follow the easiest path. So if there's if there's a

629
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: rusty corroded ground connection, uh, you know, it's it's the

630
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: simplest way to go. I would think, jeez, how many

631
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: how many wirings and how many wires can be in

632
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: that circuit for uh, it's gonna be pretty cut and

633
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: dry to figure out. Uh. And when I put the

634
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: switch on the signal light switch, you have to sometimes

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Speaker 1: play with a little to get a go. Well. And

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Speaker 1: that's not to say we don't have a bad switch,

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Speaker 1: but you know, until we started voltage drop testing and looking.

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Speaker 1: But just keep in mind, once you get through all this,

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Speaker 1: a ground is where I would go, especially on an

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Speaker 1: older vehicle, as the first step, and then work my

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Speaker 1: way out. Don't start throwing parts at it, because I

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Speaker 1: know you don't want to do that, all right, Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. I'm running any of the car DOC,

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Speaker 1: reminding each and every one of you this time till

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Speaker 1: the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See

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