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Speaker 1: around with tires. Please 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: show at car Doctor show dot com. Before I get started, Tom,

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Speaker 1: where was that clip from? Boy? Why don't I recognize that?

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Speaker 1: It's it's a story of its story where society has

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Speaker 1: throw that at it and that didn't fix it. Was Tom,

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Speaker 1: The problem is putting on a new part. Ergo a

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Speaker 1: And that's what made me just remember it. Putting on

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Speaker 1: a new part doesn't mean it's going to work. New

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Speaker 1: Throwing parts is throwing parts. Throwing parts makes the diagnosis

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Speaker 1: if it's an actual component, how does it work? What

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota, nine Chevy Silverado Jeff. Welcome back, sir. What's

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Speaker 1: to really resolve. You know, they've just got to they've

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00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: just got to understand it. It all comes back to

427
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,960
Speaker 1: the basics of you know, pressure in, pressure out. It's

428
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: got to go somewhere. So where is it getting stuck

429
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: that it's kicking off the hose like that? Okay? And

430
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: and would that require that it be put up on

431
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 1: a lift or could they do it now? They need

432
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 1: to put it they need to put it up on

433
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: a lift. They would need to put it up on

434
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: a lift, and then they need some time with it. Obviously.

435
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: You know, I would make an appointment with a mechanic,

436
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: take it to him with a quarter tank of fuel

437
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. Number one, he's gonna have

438
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,439
Speaker 1: to put some fuel in it during the process. And

439
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,159
Speaker 1: number two, if if for some reason there's a problem

440
00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,440
Speaker 1: internally in the tank, and that would come up if

441
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: he's got to take the tank out. Obviously easier with

442
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: less fuel in it than more so, all right, And

443
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: if if the mechanic wants to reference this conversation, if

444
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: you want to give him, you know, you can tell

445
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: them that you were on the Car Doctor on Saturday

446
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: whatever it's today today on Saturday to seventeen. Uh. This

447
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: will be up on our website under podcasts, you know

448
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: when the live broadcast goes to podcast and um, you

449
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 1: were an hour one down around the bottom of the

450
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: hour and they could actually listen to it and take it.

451
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we never in all the years

452
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm on radio, I never thought of doing that. And

453
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: lately people are telling me, hey, I took my segment.

454
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: I played it for my mechanic and he knew what

455
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 1: to do, so you know, if that helps him, glad

456
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: to do it. All right? All right, And I'm going

457
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: to leave you with a question and I'm going to

458
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: get off the line. Okay, do you feel that women

459
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: are taking advantage of more than men? Yes? Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, Um,

460
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you this. We now now, but I'll

461
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: tell you this now. Wait, I'll tell you this. UM.

462
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: One of the one of the things I found in

463
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,479
Speaker 1: my twenty seven years on radio and my forty three

464
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 1: years of fixing cars. Don't tell the guys this. It's

465
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: easier talking to it's easier talking to women. And I

466
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 1: don't know why women. Women seem to listen better. I'm

467
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: not sure why. I'm not sure if that's maybe I'm

468
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: maybe I'm looking at it wrong. You know, I raised

469
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: three daughters and I'm still married after thirty something years. Um,

470
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: so I've I've learned to, you know, listen to women

471
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: and hear what they've got to say, and it's it's

472
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: a better connection again again, it's the relationship thing. But yeah,

473
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: I think women are intimidated. I think I think women

474
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: have a harder time in the in the doctor's office,

475
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: and I think they have a harder time in the

476
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: police station. For sure. I think, Um, I think they

477
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: kind of get pushed around a little bit. So you've gotta,

478
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta, you gotta worry about him. You

479
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 1: gotta take care of them. Okay, mechanic movement. I like that.

480
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: Thank you, Gloria, you have a bad bye bye. So

481
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: how sweet right can we do that? We haven't meat

482
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: to a mechanic movement, my mechanic. My mechanic didn't fix

483
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: my car. Right boy, you talk about sexual harassment, that

484
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: list would probably go further out down the line. Um,

485
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: I wonder which is more? So Let's pull over and

486
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,439
Speaker 1: take a pause real quick, A five, five zero nine

487
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: zero zero running any of the car doctor, coming right back,

488
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: don't go away, and the card goes hand. The card

489
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: goes gonna travel name in five going riding in a car. Ron,

490
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: It's time to get back to do the show. I

491
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:45,120
Speaker 1: don't want to. The song's not over yet right now? Okay,

492
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: then why was that? Let's uh want any in the

493
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: car doctor here? Let's get over and talk to Steve

494
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: and me. No two buick won't start, No crank Steve.

495
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How can I help? Yes, Ron,

496
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you you're a You're a rock star

497
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 1: up here in main Well. I I wish we could

498
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: duplicate you. Everybody everybody keeps saying that I wish we could. Um,

499
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: I wish we could duplicate me and I could get

500
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: the sleep part of the time, so well maybe, but

501
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: if I was in your neighborhood, I'd walk list to

502
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 1: buick O to buick UM. I got a couple of issues,

503
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: but the first that came up was that it's got

504
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty miles on on it three point eight auto. UM.

505
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: It would start, no problem, and then all of a

506
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: sudden it started not starting. Lights on the dash will

507
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 1: go out, and then I'd leave it alone, come back

508
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: hour a day later, fire right up. No real rhyme

509
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 1: or reason. Um. Somebody had told me that was a

510
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: neutral safety switch and the transmission and UM, I wasn't sure,

511
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't sure. So I left it with

512
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: one garage for a week. All they did is go

513
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: out and try and start it, which is what I

514
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: could do, and they said every time I tried to

515
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: start it it was fine. It started. Left it another

516
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,959
Speaker 1: week at another garage local and the same thing, and

517
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, can you guys diagnose this?

518
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: Called up for some moto pots. Um. Somebody had told

519
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 1: me that it may be the ignition switch or um

520
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: the electronic UM, either the key and the tumbler or

521
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: the electronic. I got prices for that and then they said,

522
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: we'll hold on. It may be that they're not um

523
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: the computer is not reading the chip in your key.

524
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: So I decided that I'd call you and talk to

525
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: you for us before I bothered taking it somewhere else. Again,

526
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: do you ever break a leg? No, you ever go

527
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: to the doctor and you've got a complaint or a

528
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: symptom and it's not necessarily something. You think they're gonna

529
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: check your heart rate and blood pressure, but they do anyway. Yeah,

530
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, let's just get an idea, how Steve,

531
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: you know, let's see what we find. Right. So, here's

532
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: a case where you bring this O to Buick and

533
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: in none of the conversation you had, did I hear

534
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: you say? Now, maybe they did more para to them.

535
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: If they did, did anybody scan anything for codes here? No? Okay,

536
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: because if they had, if they had chosen to take

537
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: your heart rate and blood pressure on a on a

538
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: on a symptom that doesn't indicate the need for it,

539
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: they likely would find a PACE sixteen thirty one A

540
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: piece sixteen thirty one shows an issue with the theft module.

541
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: Whether it be that the theft modules not communicating properly

542
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: with the engine computer or whether the key somebody was close,

543
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,479
Speaker 1: somebody was getting in the neighborhood of what I think

544
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: is wrong with this car. It was, you know, not

545
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: communicating properly with the key because this has a chip

546
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: key in it. All right, but at least it would

547
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: give them an indication. Didn't have a friend, I'm sorry.

548
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: I did have a friend or neighbor that had a

549
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: son that came over with a little twenty dollar diagnostic

550
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: walmat jule and that won't do it. Didn't show anything. Yeah,

551
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: that won't do it. A piece sixty one is going

552
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: to be in the body module or it's it's it's

553
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: not it's going to be outside the realm of generic

554
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: O B D two. How many languages do you speak, Steve?

555
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: Just well Bailey? This one? Okay? Well, so you speak

556
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: you speak you speak English? Right, All cars made since

557
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: n speak two languages. They speak English and they speak Swahili,

558
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: all right. Swahili is the equivalent of O B D two.

559
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: So oh so the the conversation now is there are

560
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: certain things that don't translate from English into Swahili and

561
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: from Swahili into English. They're close, but not necessarily right

562
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,719
Speaker 1: on the mark. If you follow what I'm saying. So,

563
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: you know, here's a case where this car would get

564
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: a full module scan. And this is an old car, right,

565
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: this is fifteen years old. Sixteen years old. Uh oh yeah, no, no, no,

566
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, but that's the approach of diagnosis. So

567
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: I'd be curious if there's a sixteen thirty one here,

568
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: If there's a sixteen thirty one that's telling me there's

569
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: a problem in the anti theft and if that's the case,

570
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: then we can talk about you know, we don't necessarily

571
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: have to start changing lock cylinders and keys and tumblers.

572
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: We can go down at the base of the steering column,

573
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: find the signal line that goes up to the anti

574
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: theft module as it feeds the PCM. We can measure

575
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: the resistance of the key. Go to well what used

576
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: to be radio shack. No, that would have to be

577
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: somewhere else, and uh, get a resistor that matches the

578
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: key and just put it across those two wires and

579
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: you'll be able to start the car no problem because

580
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: it will always see that resistance value. So there's there's yeah,

581
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: there's ways to bypass, and there's a bunch of YouTube

582
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: videos out there to talk about bypassing. And I don't

583
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: think anybody's gonna steal an Otu Buik with a hundred

584
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles on it, so but I don't know.

585
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: It could be a nice ride for you for the

586
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,959
Speaker 1: next five years too. They last a long time. But

587
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: let's just yeah, let's just let's just get you through this,

588
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: um and if if this doesn't work, just remember the

589
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: rear window. The froster works really well, and that's important

590
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: up in Maine if you're pushing the car through a

591
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: lot of snow. So uh, you know, but let's do this.

592
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: Let's get it to a repair shop. Ask somebody to

593
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: scan all the modules mentioned p. Sixteen thirty one to them.

594
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: If they don't understand it, tell them to go to

595
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: their information system and look up at P. Sixteen thirty

596
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: one and what it means. This could be anything from

597
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: a bad key to just needing a thirty minute relearned.

598
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: What you talk about time as an element is making

599
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: the car sotal crank again, which makes me think this

600
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: is anti theft related somehow, And then we can get

601
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: into a deeper diagnosis. Next week, you call me again

602
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: and I'll give you a little bit more information. We'll

603
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: get you further down the road, but get somebody to

604
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: diagnose it a little deeper. Look for a piece sixteen

605
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: thirty one somewhere inside that vehicle. And Steve, as always,

606
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate your call. Zero zero running any of the

607
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: car doctor coming back right after this. Hey, welcome back

608
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: on any of the car doctor. Let's real quick. It

609
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: over to George and West Hartford, Connecticut, Georgia. I got

610
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: just under two minutes ago. Thank you for taking my call.

611
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: It's UM two thousand two Civic two hundred seventy thousand miles.

612
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: It had a misfire code. UM also at two compression

613
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: tests that there's low compression in UM cylinder four. UM

614
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: two mechanics have told me that UM there's a burnt

615
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: valve in cylinder four. My question is to you, would

616
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: you want to repair this head and replaced the valve

617
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: or would you want to look at a junk yard

618
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: for a lower mileage head to put on this engine?

619
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: Is there a third choice? Uh? Well, and here's why

620
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: I say that. Yeah, here's and here's why I say that, George,

621
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: I wouldn't just want to do the valves. And I

622
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: don't think I want to use a Junkyard head. I

623
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: use a Junkyard head if this one was cracked or

624
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: damaged beyond use, and I had to take it out

625
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: and send it out to a machine shop and get repaired.

626
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: But whatever you do here has to go to a

627
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: machine shop to get you know, the head has to

628
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: be checked for square and cracks, and you know, get

629
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: a proper valve job done, stem seals and so on.

630
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: Here's the danger, all right, You've got two hundred seventy

631
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: thousand miles on it, and you are now going to

632
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: rebuild the top half of the engine, and you know,

633
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: everything's gonna be tighter up top, as they say. So

634
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: if there's anywhere indicated in the bottom end, if there

635
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: are any ring issues, now we has stand the chance

636
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: of pushing a little oil and maybe burning a little

637
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: bit of oil and so on. Was there oil consumption

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00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: prior to this failure, yes, there was, So now the

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00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,959
Speaker 1: question becomes where where was the oil? Was the oil

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00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: from the head, was the oil from the rings at

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00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: two or seventy thousand miles? Maybe the answer is if

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00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: the car warrants it, maybe it warrants a replacement engine,

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00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: and and and looking at it from that perspective. There's

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00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: no simple way to band aid something like this because

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00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: of the mileage. And you can try this and try that,

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00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: and it's it's a gamble at best. So you can

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00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: just try doing valves. I understand dollars are gonna be tight. Fine,

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00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: you might win. You can stand doing just you know,

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00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: junk yard head. You might win, but you might lose too.

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00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: You got to decide what's the car worth. And again,

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00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,479
Speaker 1: if you put an engine in it, what if something

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00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: else major fails with that? Just dash all your hopes

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00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: and dreams. Those are the things you got to think about.

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00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: I'm rondining in the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. She st