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Speaker 1: Ron Anian. Sometimes it's the little things that lead to

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Speaker 1: the bigger things that lead to the moments of the

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Speaker 1: car Doctor. At the top of the coil would just

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Speaker 1: sparking everywhere. I took an old plastic pop bottle, cut

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Speaker 1: I went, yeah, and I remember those days, and I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you doing that. Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 1: ron and Anian, the Car Doctor, since this is where

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

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Speaker 1: on 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 five and now he running. It started

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Speaker 1: out like a simple problem. It was an O nine

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Speaker 1: Honda Pilot that came into the shop this week. That

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Speaker 1: was a victim of coronavirus. No, no kidden it. It

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Speaker 1: had sat too long. It was two and a half

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Speaker 1: months in quarantine. The brake rotors had rusted. Gee, where

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Speaker 1: did you hear that before that that was gonna happen

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Speaker 1: and it needed breaks. The rear calipers were frozen and

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Speaker 1: it needed four wheel brakes, four wheel brakes, pads, rotors.

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Speaker 1: The rear calipers were shot, so we overhauled the brake system.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't really drive the vehicle. That's how bad the things

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Speaker 1: were grinding away and the top. It all off to

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Speaker 1: d insult to injury. The owner had a jump started

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Speaker 1: because what else was bad? The battery wented. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: battery for them. You figure out that the battery will survive.

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Speaker 1: It just needed a good charge. We put a charge in.

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Speaker 1: It got to use that new associated battery charge of

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Speaker 1: the latest one. They just sent us with the calculated load,

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Speaker 1: and A calculated that that thing is sexy for a

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Speaker 1: battery charger, and had a good time. I'm starting to

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Speaker 1: it needs. It needs inspection. It's due for inspection in May.

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Speaker 1: This is May. Hey, you know what it's got a

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Speaker 1: week ago, let's inspect it for them. That's when the

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Speaker 1: problem started. Now this truck ran normal, This this little suv,

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Speaker 1: this pilot ran normally. To look at it, you would

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Speaker 1: because of the dead battery, we had to run monitors.

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Speaker 1: Monitors are the self tests that cars go through. It's

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Speaker 1: it's the act of the computer testing itself to verify

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Speaker 1: and it's running monitors to completion and as long as

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Speaker 1: vehicle will then pass state inspection. In New Jersey, New

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Speaker 1: York and most other states that have O b D

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Speaker 1: two level inspections, there were seven monitors that had a run.

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Speaker 1: Five of them clicked right off boom, boom, boom and boom,

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Speaker 1: got down to the cat monitor and the evaporative emissions monitor.

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Speaker 1: Evaporative emissions is kind of like the bastard step child

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Speaker 1: at a at a father's day reunion. It's the one

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Speaker 1: In New Jersey. I can't speak for other states, although

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Speaker 1: I imagine it's similar. A two thousand non vehicle two

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Speaker 1: It's it's, it's it's in my head. I've been doing

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Speaker 1: it for thirty years. From this location. Put it on

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Speaker 1: And I went through this procedure twice. Were the first time.

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Speaker 1: What's keeping this CAT monitor from running well? Cat monitors

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Speaker 1: are a measurement of efficiency, how well does it oxidize

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Speaker 1: magic number, it's rule. This car's total fuel trim was

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Speaker 1: some other extenuating factors. It's it's calculating out based on

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Speaker 1: Now I've got to go and diagnose that. Now, some

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Speaker 1: It's it's we're gonna call it educated guessing. It's theory.

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Speaker 1: I said, something happened to the mass air I wonder,

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Speaker 1: don't know what it is. My spider's chipmunks. I got

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Speaker 1: the mass air, the numbers changed. I saw my fuel

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Speaker 1: the gut call. I still couldn't get monitors to run.

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, fuel trims are still too high.

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Speaker 1: Something contaminated this mass air. It's it's eleven years old,

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Speaker 1: the car. It's time. There's no other way to test

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Speaker 1: this calculated load. All the other numbers were good, but

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Speaker 1: the vehicle, and it was amazing how you could watch

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Speaker 1: the fuel trim numbers come down sixteen, fifteen, twelve, ten,

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Speaker 1: eight three. It hit five percent, it hit eight percent

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Speaker 1: total fuel trim, five percent, short term, three percent long term.

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Speaker 1: The cat monitor ran four minutes later out on the highway.

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Speaker 1: The power of deductive reasoning can never be overruled. You know,

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Speaker 1: the car. Hey, I've got no code, there's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: a physical or an exam right heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory.

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Speaker 1: They start to go through that physical visual inventory, what

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Speaker 1: ready to flag yet. Had this carbon driven another week?

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was easier for me because I kind of

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Speaker 1: So I always think about animals and cars on a

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Speaker 1: look at fuel, trim, look for a problem. I found it,

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Speaker 1: that that animals do some funny things to automobiles. Let's

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Speaker 1: go over to Alan, Maryland and get one in before

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Speaker 1: we go to the break and welcome to the car doctor, sir,

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Speaker 1: How can I help hi? Ron? Long time listener? I

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Speaker 1: learned stuffing from you every week. Thanks for five Nissan Sentra.

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Speaker 1: Went to crank, get to started this week, cracked for

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Speaker 1: a few seconds, and then all I got was this loud,

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Speaker 1: spinning sound, like the armature was spinning. What opinion wasn't

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Speaker 1: engaging the ring here? I've had starters failed before, but

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Speaker 1: it's usually the starter's dead. You just get the clicking sonoid?

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Speaker 1: Is that a common failure with opinion quits and the

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Speaker 1: armature just spins it? Can I can't say that I

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Speaker 1: know it's it's common on CenTra is al, but I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't read too much into it. I would I would

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Speaker 1: pull the starter out. I would crank the motor by hand,

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Speaker 1: look at the teeth of the flywheel, just to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you know you don't have a chipped spot

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Speaker 1: or a missing spot. You know. There's an article somewhere

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Speaker 1: an automotive history. If you google it you might find it.

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Speaker 1: The talks about how an engine, depending upon the number

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Speaker 1: every time when you shut it off. It was an

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Speaker 1: interesting theory about revolutions of the crank and the last

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Speaker 1: you take away the ignition source, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: shut the engine off. So the article then we're not

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Speaker 1: to talk about how flywheels tend to always break in

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Speaker 1: similar places, which is why you have to look at

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Speaker 1: it's okay. But what I did do? Um I put

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Speaker 1: to change entire sizes with that for with or height

426
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,120
Speaker 1: that didn't have a whole lot of electronics on board

427
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: back then it's no five right, yeah, I mean yeah,

428
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,119
Speaker 1: compared to today, because today the cars are just rocket ships.

429
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 1: I just had this conversation with someone yesterday. He had

430
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: he has an O four GMC Envoy with thousand miles

431
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: on and he's made the decision to keep it because

432
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's a good running vehicle. It's just got miles.

433
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,640
Speaker 1: He's gonna put some money in it. We're gonna change

434
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: some you know, you know, wheel bearings and other things,

435
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: rotating electrical that we know that. You know, it's got

436
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: a hundred forty and fifteen years old. It's time. And

437
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I'd rather I'd rather put money

438
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: into this. If I spend ten grand to put this

439
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: together versus sixty to get a replacement vehicle that's still

440
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,879
Speaker 1: fifty grand, and it's less electronics and the electronics or

441
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 1: what goes bad, we can we can build a heck

442
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: of an engine and transmission. In the automotive industry today,

443
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: it's the electronics that sit on top of it that

444
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: that seems to be the bigger problem that they're still

445
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: trying to solve. So so the answer to the question is, yes,

446
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 1: you can do it, only if things can be programmed

447
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: in the event that you need to, so go to

448
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: the dealer first and ask questions. Has anybody because you're

449
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: not the first guy to think of this, and you

450
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: know you you definitely won't be the last, and the

451
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: dealer is gonna have that answer. Can it be programmed?

452
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: For example, I Chevy plow truck that, uh, you know,

453
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: my old one, even my new one. I can go

454
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: in and I can reprogram tire size. I can reprogram

455
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: tire pressure for sensors. I can reprogram if I change

456
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: the rear axle for gear ratio. So there are programmable

457
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: parameters using the correct scan tool in all vehicles. It

458
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be you know, it doesn't have to

459
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: be exotic German. You know it's there, but it's just

460
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: it's the capability of what the engineer allows when they

461
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 1: release the car, when they build the software, when they

462
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: put it together before it rolls out of the factory door.

463
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, you're very welcome, very welcome, Scott.

464
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: You take good care. By way, Let's get out over

465
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Ron and New Hampshire. Ron, welcome to

466
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: the car doctor, sir, How can I help? How are

467
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: you run? I'm good? An overheating job. Okay, what are

468
00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: we trying to fix the I have a four leader

469
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: that's overheating. What kind of what? Well, it's a Bronco too,

470
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: but I have a forward four leader in it overhead

471
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: balt all right. So anyway, going down the highway at

472
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: seventy plus miles an hour, and yesterday it was like

473
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: eighty two degrees here it started. The temper just started climbing.

474
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 1: I can't put the A C on or I'll pin

475
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: the the temperature gauge. All right, So let's back up

476
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: a second. This is a ninety this is this is

477
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: a what year Bronco nine? This is a ninety Bronco

478
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: with a ninety four engine in it? Correct? Alright? What

479
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: engine was in the ninety originally two point nine d

480
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,080
Speaker 1: V six all right, so it was a smaller engine,

481
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: less coolant capacity. I have a dual core aluminum radiator.

482
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: I put in this to help cool it down. I

483
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: do a lot of operating with it, so I needed

484
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: something a little bit beefier to handle the Uh. You know,

485
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: there's and I have an electric san on it now,

486
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: high capacity electric fan. Um. When did you put the

487
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: electric fan on? Uh? When I put it in. That

488
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 1: was about five years ago, all right, so it's been

489
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: running good for a while. This isn't something new that

490
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: just occurred. No, it's I guess I started last year. Dad, Suddenly,

491
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: I when I had especially what I did, put the

492
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: A C on, it would start overheat. Right, what thermostat

493
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: is in this run? It's all right? So let me ask,

494
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: let me, let me just lay this out so I

495
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: get it clear in my head. You've got a Bronco

496
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: too with a nine four leader that's been running good

497
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: for whatever combination of parts you've got for about three

498
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: three and a half years. In the last summer it

499
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: started to overheat. That's when I really started to notice that. Yeah,

500
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: all right, So if you're sitting at idle with the

501
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: air conditioning on, does the car overheat? No? All right,

502
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: so I can't. I I'd have to rule out of

503
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: stat all right. I mean, I still want to look

504
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: at things with a heat gun upper hose, lower hose hot, cold,

505
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: you know, equal temperature and so on. Is it is

506
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: it possible we've got a water pumping peller slipping? It

507
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: could be? Um. I was thinking about that. I was

508
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: thinking about cavitation, and I was thinking thinking about eating

509
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: up the piller on the on the water pump, right,

510
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: and is it I have another good heead? No, I

511
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: do have another. I'm doing uh some work to it

512
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: later on this summer. I'm gonna poly engine and put

513
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: a new water pump in it, put a high capacity

514
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: uh oil pump in it, and putting new head gaskets

515
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: in it because I use the old bolts and the

516
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: heads and I shouldn't know, so I just wanted to

517
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: change that over uh sence, gonna hold the gasket down harder.

518
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: Why are you going to change the oil pump? My

519
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: old practice around five on a good day on a

520
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: cold day, but it goes down to go around thirty

521
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: seven on a hawk day. Do you know what determines

522
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: oil pressure? Yeah, if your bearings are seated properly. So

523
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that a higher pressure pump is really

524
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: gonna I mean, listen, brother, do whatever you want. Um

525
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: you know, but I don't know that. And and the

526
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: reason I'm hesitant to change the oil pump is because

527
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: you're taking it out. You're gonna do head gas gets

528
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: a water pump and an oil pump, and then when

529
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: you call me back in six months and have two

530
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: different problems for the three parts that you changed. We

531
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: haven't solved the first one yet, you know, are you.

532
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: Let's let's click right, let's let's let's let's let's not

533
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: unravel the Let's not unravel the problem any deeper than

534
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: we have to. I would do two things. I would

535
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: consider taking the radiator out and having it checked for flow.

536
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: Could I have a restriction in the radiator unless you

537
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: can do it, unless you have a thermal imager or

538
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: some sort of a heat gun that's accurate that will

539
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: show restriction. Because I'm thinking about the speed you're traveling at,

540
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: you know, highway speed, and it's starting to boil over.

541
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: Do you do you have an issue with circulation? And

542
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: then once you've established yes, the pump is good, the

543
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: the hoses aren't collapsing for some reason, radiator caps good,

544
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: the basics, I'd have to pull the pump off and

545
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: take a look. Do I have a Do I have

546
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: a cavitation or an impeller issue? And then we can

547
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: talk about right, and then we can then we can

548
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: talk about head gas gets and oil pumps and all

549
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: the things that you know make ron giggle in the

550
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: middle of the night. I can leave anything along run.

551
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: I'm probably allowed. Like you, brother, I get it, I

552
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: get it. But you know what, remember this. I learned

553
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: this when I was sixteen. Billy taught it to me

554
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: in the gas station. Mild goes wild. I never forgot that,

555
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: and you know, keep it simple, mild goes Wild. Go

556
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,479
Speaker 1: take a look at the pump of the radiator. Call

557
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: me back, let me know what you find. We'll talk

558
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: later this summer. All right, you take good care. I'm

559
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: not any in the car doctor. We're back right after

560
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: this second. Welcome back. Why don't any of the car doctor,

561
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: Let's get down Louisiana Way talk to Kenny about his

562
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: thirteen gmc kenny. Welcome to the car doctor, sir, how

563
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: can I help hi? Ron? Thank you very much for

564
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 1: my truck has a hundred seventy thousand miles on it's transmission.

565
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: It's never been service. So my question is at this point,

566
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: can I still have it flushed down? Or I would

567
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: change it. I would change the fluid a hundred and

568
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: seven thousand miles, you said, Kenny, seventy, So let's think

569
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,959
Speaker 1: of it like this. At a buck seventy chances are

570
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: you gonna put a trans in it anyway, agreed, okay,

571
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: exhibiting any signs, any operating conditions, anything that makes you

572
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: be concerned, No, nothing at all. Truck is really great,

573
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: then much take everything out of the way. And it

574
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: was just like, okay, you know, you keep putting it

575
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: off because you don't have the money. Got the money,

576
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: I got the time, and I'm trying to make up

577
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: for okay, So you know, think of it like this,

578
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: And this is just one mechanics perspective. And also a

579
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: father of three, whenever we went on vacation, I kind

580
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: of wanted to know when the problem was going to

581
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: happen before it happened. So I would always certain not

582
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: that I well, there was probably a couple of times

583
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: I serviced the car late with my Kiden, right, and

584
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: I always tell I always tell everybody listen, at least

585
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: if you service the trans now you're watching for it

586
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: and you're prepared for it. So what I would do

587
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: is I would have somebody service it. Um as far

588
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: as if you've got a local trans shop, if he

589
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: is going to rebuild the trans, A get a price

590
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: on rebuilding the trans. Hey, Kenny, it's gonna be three

591
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: grand to put a trans in this truck, and it's

592
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: gonna be three services. Okay, let's start with the service.

593
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: If that doesn't work, we'll put a trans in it.

594
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: At least he knows the vehicle at that point, he

595
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 1: knows what he's dealing with, and you kind of get

596
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: a feel for him if you've never gone to him before.

597
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: How does he handle this? You know, does he does?

598
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: He seem like he's willing to try the service before

599
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: he rebuilds the trans. A lot of guys look at

600
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: me when I like I'm crazy whenever I say this.

601
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: But the fact is, automatic transmissions work on hydraulic principle,

602
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: all right, very small orifices, very tiny ports. Transmission fluid

603
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: leads varnish and sentiment behind. The problem with changing fluid

604
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: on an older unit is lots of varnished, lots of crud.

605
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: That's why doing a fluid exchange, if he can find

606
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: the shop that's got a fluid trans machine where will

607
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: get everything out all right, is sometimes the way to go.

608
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: The danger is fresh trans fluid has a very high

609
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: detergency action. Will it wash all the crud off the wall?

610
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: But you know there's a there's a decent chance of survival.

611
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: Everyone I've ever serviced. I've never had a problem with

612
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: no not not to say, ten thousand miles later, it

613
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: doesn't fail, but it was due anyway. The question becomes,

614
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: can you afford it now or can you afford it

615
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: better in a year. And that's the question you gotta

616
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: ask the trans rebuilder. Go talk to him, Come back,

617
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: talk to me. I'm running nading. The car doctor will

618
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: be back right after this. Hey, welcome back. Aren't any

619
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: of the car doctor? Um, if your car smells, Tom

620
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: Ray might be in norm only kid um recent reports. Sorry, Tom,

621
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: I had to jump in there with that one. Um,

622
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: there was a good there was a good segue for that. UM.

623
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of you know actually the

624
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 1: way it's a press release actually from the Car Care

625
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: Counsel and it says you're a nose NOS six warning

626
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: vehicle signs you can smell. And I thought, you know,

627
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: what if Tom's in the car and he just but

628
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: that was a bad jokes that I control your microphone.

629
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I know pretty soon they'll hear nothing, but and that

630
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: could happen. So UM, but it's an interesting point. You know,

631
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: I never really thought about it. The Car Care Council

632
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: recommends a sniff test to your vehicle to identify any

633
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: unusual smells, including the following six warning signs. The smell

634
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 1: of burnt rubber could be slipping belts or misplaced hoses

635
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: that might be rubbing against the rotating accessories. The smell

636
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: of hot oil can be in oils leaking onto the

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Speaker 1: exhaust system, which actually is true. We actually had a

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Speaker 1: problem with a customer car this week where he picked

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Speaker 1: out the fact that the right side valve cover was

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Speaker 1: leaking because it had this tiny little drip of oil

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Speaker 1: getting onto the exhaust amount of fold we solved that.

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Speaker 1: The smell of gasoline, I think everybody's probably familiar with

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Speaker 1: this is the one that made me want to talk

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Speaker 1: about this. The smell of syrup. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: get that maple syrup kind of smells. We're getting into

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Speaker 1: the summer driving season. The engine may be leaking coolant.

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Speaker 1: And I've said this, I've said this story a hundred

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Speaker 1: times on the air. Never lift the hood when it's hot.

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Speaker 1: If you smell coolant or that sweet smell under the hood,

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Speaker 1: or if there's steam, listen if there's a smell, if

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Speaker 1: there's steam, if there's signs of coolant. You know what's

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Speaker 1: got a leak? What are you gonna do? Lift the

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Speaker 1: hood and risk exposing yourself to to something bad, something worse.

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Speaker 1: Did I ever tell you the story about the second

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Speaker 1: almost third degree burns I got as a kid lifting

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Speaker 1: the hood of a hot car, and I never forgot

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Speaker 1: it when the host burst. So it doesn't pay And

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Speaker 1: then the smell of rotten eggs is never a good one.

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Speaker 1: It may be a problem the catalytic converter is not

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Speaker 1: doing its job, or maybe it's overworking a problem, so

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Speaker 1: get a mechanic to check it out. Stay safe. More

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Speaker 1: information at carcare dot org. I'm not on any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor, reminding you until the next time. Good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you