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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, and you know, is it in park? You

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Speaker 1: If you have low voltage going into the relay, all right,

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Speaker 1: so instead of just replacing it, let's test. Let's see

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Ananian, the Car

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Speaker 2: Doctor since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners

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Speaker 1: a fifteen Jaguar and some questions here about the way

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Speaker 1: it runs. Ron, Welcome to the car doctor, sir, what's

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you. I have bought a twenty fifteen Jaguar

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Speaker 4: from It came from Georgia, very clean car and it

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Speaker 4: Very good person.

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Speaker 4: So I took it there and they replaced a timing

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Speaker 4: When I start out with it, it box some on

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Speaker 1: It had a noise. It set a fault code for

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Speaker 4: No, I haven't yet. He told me to run the

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Speaker 1: I don't, Iron, I'm sorry, I don't know that. That's

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Speaker 1: It runs different than it did before he took it

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Speaker 4: and it runs smooth. Just when I take off a box.

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Speaker 4: Back and forth, all right, so until I get going

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Speaker 1: All right. So we've got to eliminate the possibilities. We're

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Speaker 1: test called volumetric efficiency. It involves a scan tool and

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Speaker 1: Leave it is and the test will be there that

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Speaker 1: at is this has a mass airflow censor? This this

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Speaker 1: three liter engine? Correct? This is the three leader V

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Speaker 4: No, no, it's a two zero.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is a two zero. There's the four cylinder.

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Speaker 1: we've got a breathing problem. If we fail ve, maybe

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Speaker 1: we've got a breathing problem. All right, and then last

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Speaker 1: at is where's fuel trim? John? Iron, I keep calling

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Speaker 1: you John. I'm sorry, you know it sounds like you've

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Speaker 4: I can tell was I had big motors. I've always

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Speaker 1: But I can take you back to the days of carburetors, right,

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Speaker 1: what you had a right? Okay? So so what you're

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Speaker 1: describing to me sounds like an accelerator pump with a

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Speaker 1: dead spot. Is that a fair way to say it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, a dead spot and a carburetor. That's why

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Speaker 4: it works right, and your flutter or step on it

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Speaker 4: and it'll go and it'll be right.

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Speaker 1: Right. It sounds like you've got a lean spot. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is lean. I'm not saying this

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Speaker 4: Yes, just have the means. The repair means nothing to me, right.

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Speaker 4: I was thought maybe it was a transmission going bad.

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Speaker 1: You know, I got to tell you the the used

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Speaker 1: I don't think it can be. There's there's too much

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Speaker 1: always say, if you think you're the only person having

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Speaker 1: that problem, you're not that special. Trust me. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys out there that are having that issue.

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Speaker 1: And using the sure track form, they found out that

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Speaker 1: the pump and fuel filter were at fault, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the new engine, and by swapping things around they

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Speaker 1: were able to get the engine to run and operate properly. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it's the simple things that may go

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Speaker 1: to repair. So exciting. Let's go to the phones. Let's go,

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Speaker 1: who's this Brendan in Connecticut, oh seven Corolla with some

459
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Speaker 1: questions on a clunk. Brendan your own with the car doctor, Sir,

460
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Speaker 1: how can I help?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I got a Corolla in two thousand and seven, right,

462
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Speaker 3: and and having a click noise right when it started

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Speaker 3: to accelerate. It doesn't matter matter whether I'm in reverse

464
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Speaker 3: or going forward, single bitty still going. Then it stops.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't keep clicking clunking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, broke up a little bit there, Brendan. Were you

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Speaker 1: saying that you're hearing a clicker clunking on acceleration or

468
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Speaker 1: in forward or reverse? Was that the gist of that? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, and and.

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Speaker 1: Uh I'm going I was gonna say if you were

471
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Speaker 1: to as anybody looked at this up in the air,

472
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Speaker 1: verified the basic suspension is solid there.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: Let's I'll tell you what. Let's pull over. Let's pull over.

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Speaker 1: Take a pause. Maybe Tom can get Brendan on a

476
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Speaker 1: better line, and this way we can hear him on

477
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Speaker 1: the on the other side of it. So let me

478
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Speaker 1: pull over. Take the pause. I'm running ENnie and the

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Speaker 1: car Doctor. We'll be back right after this. Hey, welcome

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Speaker 1: back running in the car Doctor. Here at a five five,

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Speaker 1: message Tom Ray. We'll call you back and get you

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Speaker 1: in the q F the next live broadcast. I see

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Speaker 1: Brendan's back. Brendan, you're there, sir, Yes, I'm here, much much,

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Speaker 1: much much better. Let's start over. Hi, It's Brendan from

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Speaker 1: Connecticut with an OH seven Corolla. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I have a clunk noise and it's basically

495
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Speaker 3: just when I accelerate, whether it doesn't matter where it's

496
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Speaker 3: reverse or forward. It's a single clunk and it's coming

497
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Speaker 3: from like the transmission where the axle shaft goes in. Okay,

498
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Speaker 3: So I'm wondering if that can be that is it?

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Speaker 3: Can it be that the axle shaft replacement? Or how

500
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Speaker 3: do I go about finding out whether it's the transmission

501
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Speaker 3: or do I to find out the hard way?

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Speaker 1: So well, yeah, no, we don't want to find anything

503
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Speaker 1: out the hard way. You know, are you saying the

504
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Speaker 1: shaft was replaced or it's not. It hasn't been replaced yet.

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Speaker 3: No, it has not been replaced.

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Speaker 1: Okay, higher mileage.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, two fifteen? Yeah, all right.

508
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Speaker 1: So if you drive this up in the air, do

509
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Speaker 1: you hear the clunk?

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Speaker 3: So I just did the front brakes and I had

511
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Speaker 3: one tire off the ground, and when I when I

512
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Speaker 3: turned the tire back and forth, there's a little bit

513
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Speaker 3: of play. So I can hear the click each time

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Speaker 3: I turn it. Either way I turn the.

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Speaker 1: Tire, Okay, so if you can you So what you're

516
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Speaker 1: saying is you can duplicate the noise by spinning the

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Speaker 1: driver's side or the passenger side or either one.

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Speaker 3: It's either one, okay.

519
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Speaker 1: So if it's either one, you know, are you watching

520
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Speaker 1: the axle as your concern is the axle rotationally got

521
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Speaker 1: slop in it. For lack of a better way to

522
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Speaker 1: put it.

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Speaker 3: What I mean, everything looks good, The boots are no

524
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Speaker 3: leaks or anything like that, and the leaks coming from it.

525
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not Yeah, that doesn't you know. I'm not

526
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Speaker 1: worried about that. I'm thinking more in terms of the

527
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Speaker 1: is the inside of the joint is the outer joint, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, moving against the plunge because it's it's got

529
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Speaker 1: to be tight. You know, if if if if In

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Speaker 1: other words, if you were to if you had the

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Speaker 1: axle out on the bench and you had it in

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Speaker 1: your two hands, if you grabbed the outer casing of

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Speaker 1: the joint and grab the shaft, can you rotate them

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Speaker 1: against each other such that there's play? There can't be

535
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Speaker 1: any play there. It has to be. It has to

536
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Speaker 1: have you know, one to one contact. There can't be

537
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: a yeah, there can't. There can't be any slop. So

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00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: you know, at two hundred and fifteen thousand miles, you know,

539
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Speaker 1: is it possible that the inside joint is starting to

540
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Speaker 1: tulip er or starting to wear, giving it a you know,

541
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Speaker 1: a dead spot? Does it polar drag under heart acceleration

542
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: to the left or the right?

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00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you know, if it did, then I'd be

545
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: more I'd be more convinced that it's an axle. But

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Speaker 1: if the axle itself is tight, there's no rotational slop

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Speaker 1: against each other, and then I'm going to say, chances

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00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: are the axle itself is okay, and you're looking at

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Speaker 1: where in the final drive of the transmission, because that's

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Speaker 1: basically the rear end of the vehicle where that axle

551
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: goes in. That's that's just there's just side gears in

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Speaker 1: there in a carrier with a ring and opinion of

553
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Speaker 1: of of some sort of setup and uh, you know,

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00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: that's basically all you're looking at.

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Speaker 3: You know. I was thinking about maybe changing the axles

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Speaker 3: and seeing if it's still made the noise, but I

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Speaker 3: don't want to go.

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Speaker 2: Through all that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want Yeah, I don't want to spend

560
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: the money either if we don't have to, uh, you know,

561
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 1: and then depending upon what you buy for it, you know,

562
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: it may or may not be a great axle. You know,

563
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: if you do have to put axles in it, do

564
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: you have a local AutoZone? Yeah, go over there and

565
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: look and see if door List and I believe door

566
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Speaker 1: List will make a drive axle for that. The door

567
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Speaker 1: List axles are made very well and we use them

568
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Speaker 1: all the time and they're not an issue. So you know,

569
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Speaker 1: you could do that if it comes to that, But

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00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: you've got to verify, you know, which is at first?

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00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: Is it is it axle or is it transmission? You know,

572
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: when you say it's it's sloppy. If you if you

573
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: get it up in the air and you got it,

574
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: you have it in neutral. This is an automatic correct

575
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Speaker 1: or is this a stick?

576
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 4: Yes?

577
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, automatic automatic?

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00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: Okay. If you put this in neutral, you know, and

579
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 1: you rotate the axle, you know, can you rotate the

580
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: axle without the other side turning so both sides are

581
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: up in you know, it's up in the air. Both

582
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: sides are off the ground in neutral. If you rotate

583
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Speaker 1: the left side, does the left side move and the

584
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: right side doesn't?

585
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 4: Right?

586
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: And we don't want that, well, we don't want that right.

587
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: Think about it? You ever look at you ever look

588
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: at how the inside of a differential works. Brendan, No,

589
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: I have not. Go go go go google differential gear

590
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: set up? All right. There's two side gears, we call

591
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: them side gears. The side gears are splind to the

592
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: drive axle, all right. And then there are spiders or

593
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: there's the other set of gears generally referred to as

594
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: spiders that evolve around those. That's how the differential, or

595
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: the cause the ratio changes. As a vehicle goes around

596
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: a corner, the inside tire moves at a different speed

597
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: or ratio than the outside tire. Right. So that's what

598
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: a differential does. It takes up the difference or the

599
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: differential in wheel speed, and it does that by allowing

600
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: the gears to revolve onto themselves. So look at how

601
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: a differential works. So if you've got it to the

602
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: point where the one side and it'll it makes sense

603
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: if you look at a picture if it. If you've

604
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: got it where the one side holding the axle steady

605
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: on the right side, if the left side actually moves

606
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: and the right side doesn't, you don't feel any drag there,

607
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: then what you're experiencing is you know and it will.

608
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: You have to be careful how you do this in

609
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: the sense of you can over you can over diagnose

610
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: yourself into a corner. But just understand you shouldn't. You

611
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: shouldn't feel slop all right, There shouldn't be excessive movement.

612
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: If there is, then it sounds like the differential in

613
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: that transmission has got somewhere to it. Are we gonna

614
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: Are we gonna do it? Are we gonna do anything

615
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: about it? At two hundred and fifteen thousand miles? No,

616
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: Because you're gonna put a trans in the car and

617
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, at that point, do you really want to

618
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: do that? You know, it's it's it's it's that's not

619
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: the purpose here. We're trying to drive. I know what

620
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: you're thinking. You're trying to drive this car to three

621
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: hundred thousand.

622
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I might have to keep it. I might

623
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 3: put a transmission in it then right.

624
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and that's and listen and that's okay too.

625
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: But at least you'll know what it is, So all right,

626
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,479
Speaker 1: do that. That's that's how I want you to approach it.

627
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: And you're sure it's from the front, let me just

628
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: stop finish here. Your sure it's from the front of

629
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: the vehicle.

630
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. I put my head right under the transmission

631
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 3: and quick the tire back and forth. While my head

632
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 3: was right there, I could hear it.

633
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, and you can hear this. You hear this

634
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: in the car while you're driving.

635
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, that single pop when I first accelerate.

636
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, okay, yeah, And that's not that's not normal.

637
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: I can tell you that for certain. It sounds like

638
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: it's sounds like it's going to be in the final drive.

639
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: Have you looked at trans fluid color or final drive

640
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: fluid color.

641
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 3: I don't.

642
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: I don't remember if this is a separate sump or not.

643
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: I think it's lubricated by the trans fluid. I'm be

644
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: honest with you.

645
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 3: My chance is good. I had to change like six.

646
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: Months ago, okay, and the fluid came out clean. Yeah,

647
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: all right, just double double check. Make sure the final

648
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: drive is lubricated by the trans fluid itself. All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't remember at the top of my head.

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Speaker 1: And as long as it is and the fluid was clean,

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Speaker 1: then I'm okay. But if the fluid was dirty, or

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Speaker 1: if it's a separate fill and you're driving around with

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Speaker 1: low fluid or dirty fluid, then maybe that contributed to

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Speaker 1: the demise of the differential that much sooner makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So all right, kiddo, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. You'd be well. I'm running any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor. We'll be back right after this. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: Roy name the car doctor, Brendan. If you're still listening,

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Speaker 1: the whole idea there is. I was thinking about the

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Speaker 1: way I explained it. It may not have done it right.

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Speaker 1: We want to load the one side axle so that

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Speaker 1: it's tight against the side gear, it's tight against the spiders.

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Speaker 1: And then can you rotate the other side before it

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Speaker 1: engages before the side gear, well, before the accident engages

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Speaker 1: the side gear, and before the side gear engages the spiders,

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Speaker 1: if you can rotate it all right? And there's slop there,

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Speaker 1: and that shows you that the clunk is coming from

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Speaker 1: the differential and that's the issue, or is the slop

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Speaker 1: once it locks up the spider in the side gear

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Speaker 1: in the ring and the pinion in the final drive there?

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Speaker 1: But it sounds like this is going to be in

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Speaker 1: final drive. If it's not in the axle, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be in the final drive, which is the same

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Speaker 1: thing as a differential on a rear wheel drive car.

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Speaker 1: Email from Danny in Mexico City. I always like hearing

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Speaker 1: from Danny. Hey, Ron, you remember me as Danny from

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Speaker 1: Mexico City. Well that's how I remember you, since I

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Speaker 1: called you several times. You see, air quality is so

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Speaker 1: poured down here in Mexico away from hig ozone levels

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Speaker 1: that the environmental authorities have put in place a system

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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety one. I got to tell you, that's

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Speaker 1: when I started on radio where cars are banned from

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Speaker 1: being driven on certain weekdays depending on their license plate numbers,

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Speaker 1: and if cars are relatively decent, they are barely banned

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Speaker 1: only on atmospheric high pollution contingencies. There's a phrase. My

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Speaker 1: newest car, a two thousand and four Pontiac Grand Prix,

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Speaker 1: has the potential of being exempt from the harshest restrictions,

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Speaker 1: just like any brand new internal combustion engine car is

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Speaker 1: if I have its catalytic converter replaced only with the

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Speaker 1: government certified brand, which is called Pirak. Obviously non oem

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Speaker 1: so that begs the question by putting my car's fuel

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Speaker 1: injection system and operating quality in general at risk by

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Speaker 1: swapping its current factory cat with one of the aftermarket ones.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a million, Danny, you know, Danny. In the way

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Speaker 1: I answered Danny's question was, you know, it's interesting. I've

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Speaker 1: never seen a scenario where the government is mandating the

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Speaker 1: use of a particular brand of an emission component. All right,

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Speaker 1: I guess things are obviously different down Mexico Way than

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Speaker 1: they are here in the States. My one concern is

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Speaker 1: because an aftermarket CAT, generally, if we're speaking in terms

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Speaker 1: of the United States, will meet federal emissions levels. It

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Speaker 1: just will not last as long as that OEM CAT,

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Speaker 1: even though the warranty is in place so that it should.

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Speaker 1: I usually find the aftermarket cats won't last as long,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes that's okay. You know, maybe we'll get five

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Speaker 1: years out of the aftermarket cat. Well, we want to

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Speaker 1: get ten out of that OE or eight out of

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Speaker 1: that OE. There's a huge cost savings. So my advice

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Speaker 1: to Danny was to research PUREC and see what sort

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Speaker 1: of a company they are. I have not heard of them,

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Speaker 1: but I would be cautious before I just put that

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Speaker 1: cat on blindly. I'm running eighty in the car, doctor,

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Speaker 1: reminding you till the next time. The mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you