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Speaker 1: Ron Anian. If you want to go on a time

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Speaker 1: travel and you own a repair shop, I challenge you

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Speaker 1: to clean out your back room because the things you're

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Speaker 1: gonna find are absolutely staggering.

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Speaker 2: I'm listening.

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Speaker 1: The Car Doctor and he still has no drive. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's reverse golden birth. Okay, then it's got an internal

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Speaker 1: transmission problem and it's teared down to inspect.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of Ron Ananian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 3: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up.

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Speaker 1: The phone and call in. The garage doors are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your call at A

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Speaker 1: five five.

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Speaker 3: Hundred and now hes running Sometimes Mondays just just don't

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Speaker 3: start off like you expect them to.

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Speaker 1: And that's all part of the process, right, That's all

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Speaker 1: part of order repair. That's what it's all about. We

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Speaker 1: had this and you can't make it up, you know

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Speaker 1: it just and you look at it and you say,

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Speaker 1: what are the odds? Right? We had this well, like

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Speaker 1: I wanted to work on Monday morning, I'll start the

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Speaker 1: story there. And it was supposed to be a pretty simple,

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Speaker 1: straightforward kind of day, as much as Mondays can be.

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Speaker 1: And I noticed when I got to the shop about

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, three four car lengths away

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Speaker 1: from the driveway of the shop, there's this Honday parked

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Speaker 1: on the side of the road with the hood up,

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Speaker 1: and I'm don't know, look somebody broke down. At least

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Speaker 1: they're in the right spot. And I pulled in and

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Speaker 1: I got into the office. You know, Bob was there.

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Speaker 1: Hea the office opened up and him and Danny were yacking,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I said, hey, does anybody know anything

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Speaker 1: about the Honday And they said, oh, yeah, that's the

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Speaker 1: customer who's dropping off. And then I remembered, right, we

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Speaker 1: had a we had a Honday that was supposed to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, and I'm like, why is it on

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Speaker 1: the street. So I, you know, we went out there

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Speaker 1: and I told Danny, I said, you know, is the

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Speaker 1: key somewhere? We couldn't find the key. The key wasn't

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Speaker 1: in the dropbox, it was nowhere to be found. It

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Speaker 1: was in the ignition. I said, well, that's kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: You know. We verified it by license plate. We had

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Speaker 1: never seen the car before. First time customer. We had

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Speaker 1: never seen the car before, verified the plate, looked in

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Speaker 1: the glove box, found the registration. Yeah, that's it's his car,

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Speaker 1: as per the information he gave us. But why is

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Speaker 1: it here? You know, are we supposed to? Okay, here

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Speaker 1: it is. I even opened the hood for you so

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Speaker 1: you could fix it. I'm not sure what he was thinking, Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I understand making it easier for us, but

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Speaker 1: you know, this is a little crazy. So I I

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Speaker 1: texted him, I called him, and as I'm doing all that,

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Speaker 1: Sean happens to pull up. What happened, well, he said,

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Speaker 1: I you know, I had my wife follow me over here.

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Speaker 1: And what did he say? Oh, yeah, his wife followed

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Speaker 1: him over here. And then he was going to take

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Speaker 1: his wife's car home after he dropped her off at

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Speaker 1: the train because the train's a block in the other direction,

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Speaker 1: so they left the Hyundai where he parked it. For

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Speaker 1: some reason, he didn't want to park it in the

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Speaker 1: I think for space, but there was plenty of space.

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Speaker 1: I never got that part of the conversation, and he

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Speaker 1: the Hundai wouldn't start, so he had gone home to

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Speaker 1: get himself jumper cables. He was going to come back

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Speaker 1: and try and jump it, and that's when we sort

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Speaker 1: of met him out there. So we pushed it in,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's just easier. It was just it

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Speaker 1: was easier to push the car backwards then even try

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Speaker 1: and you know, did our paperwork, wrote everything up, and

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Speaker 1: what could you expect to find. I'm thinking, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: I've got to have a bad alternator, right, And there's

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Speaker 1: that dirty word again, right. What I always tell you guys,

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Speaker 1: never assume, you know, assume it's just a tough word

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Speaker 1: in order repair. You assume you're gonna get beat up.

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Speaker 1: But I ran through my usual due diligence. I you know,

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Speaker 1: I went through first thing, checked the battery. Batteries got

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Speaker 1: a standing voltage of twelve point three vaults. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: got twelve and a half folts. You know, the battery

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Speaker 1: voltage is changing by the second. As I'm watching it

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Speaker 1: to be because you're not right. The battery had failed

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Speaker 1: in such a manner that when you turn the key,

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Speaker 1: nothing happened, and it needed a battery. It's just and

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Speaker 1: what are the odds? Right? I mean he just shut

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Speaker 1: it off right at that moment in proximity of the shop,

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Speaker 1: You know, we ended up. I swapped, I put a

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Speaker 1: it for charging system output, and you know, everything was fine.

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Speaker 1: It needed a battery. And sometimes the complicated becomes simple

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Speaker 1: because we don't assume, or we're not supposed to assume.

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Speaker 1: Because I still ran my battery of tests, because I

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Speaker 1: still ran and you know did what I normally would do,

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Speaker 1: even simple battery replacements. And I think this is the

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Speaker 1: takeaway point of this conversation. Even simple battery replacements of

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Speaker 1: will still do it right. It's you know, check standing voltage,

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Speaker 1: write it down, check load voltage, write it down, perform

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Speaker 1: the load test, write it down, you know, and you

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Speaker 1: start to pick away at things and you start to

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Speaker 1: go in some sort of logical sequential order to help

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Speaker 1: the term because you can't assume, you can't believe that

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Speaker 1: it's it's going to be simple, and you better not

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Speaker 1: because we're seeing far too many vehicles where batteries and

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Speaker 1: battery replacement is getting to be complicated. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's you've got to be certain of what you're doing

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Speaker 1: on something newer, for sure, And there are issues where

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Speaker 1: you know, a memory saver is important, doing fuel trum

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Speaker 1: resets are important, doing you know, adaptives are important. It's

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Speaker 1: it's really become part of battery replacement. You know, if

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Speaker 1: you get a I don't know, two thousand and five

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Speaker 1: dropped off. The car had a slow crank in his description,

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Speaker 1: they're communicating and how you can communicate better with them,

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Speaker 1: but just to get their thoughts. And he said, well,

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Speaker 1: he says, now I have to step on the gas

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Speaker 1: Stepping on the gas on a modern day fuel injected

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Speaker 1: It cranked slow, and sure enough it needed a battery.

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Speaker 1: What size battery was it? Group fifty one. As a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, Tom was there. Tom saw this. That

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Speaker 1: was Friday morning. Tom was in for his oil change,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we ended up, you know, putting a

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Speaker 1: battery in it. That battery, because we can assume right

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Speaker 1: that battery was two and a half years old, just

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Speaker 1: just a little over two and a half years old,

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Speaker 1: maybe closer to three. Group fifty one batteries on Hondas

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Speaker 1: just don't seem to last. And my point becomes, some

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Speaker 1: They they vary in they're they're they're very different, you know,

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Speaker 1: on a very high scale. You know, we're going back

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Speaker 1: to the going back to the Hyundai. We put a

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Speaker 1: you know, absolutely no problem, no issues, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: away we went, you know, fixed, and it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: aren't going to get any easier in terms of batteries,

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Speaker 1: their connections, their components, and the resets and battery resets

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Speaker 1: are going to become a very big part of the

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Speaker 1: business on newer vehicles going forward. So you know, just

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Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Can be done. You need to

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Speaker 1: scan tool, you need to follow a procedure, So don't

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Speaker 1: be afraid of it. But just don't don't assume that

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Speaker 1: it's just a simple cables and clamps in a way

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Speaker 1: you go, you know, it's there's probably a little bit

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Speaker 1: more to it than that follow the book. Eight five

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Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zero Again eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Ronin

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Speaker 1: Ani in the Car Doctor. I'm back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away. You have done.

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Speaker 3: What's more fun than listening to Ron and any in

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Speaker 3: the Car Doctor and getting that car fixed?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: Give Ron a call. Now back to Ron. Hey, let's

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Speaker 1: go over and talk to Brian from Pennsylvania. Brian, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? We've

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Speaker 1: talked about this car before, haven't we? This ninety eight Mercedes?

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Speaker 2: I don't believe so I just got this this car.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there must be two of them. Good, what do

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Speaker 2: It's a ninety eight Mercedes SLK. And what happened was

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Speaker 2: it was given to me and I use it as

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Speaker 2: a summertime car my place up in the Pocados, and

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Speaker 2: I loaned it to somebody and then when I got

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Speaker 2: it back it was running. It was running hard. So

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Speaker 2: I took it this shop. They said it was missfire

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Speaker 2: on cylinder to said they replaced I said, just replace

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Speaker 2: all the coil packs. They replaced the coil PACs. Then

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Speaker 2: it came back as another misfire on cylinder too, and

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Speaker 2: it was an injector. They said, no power to the injector. Well,

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Speaker 2: here what we ended up finding out. We find out

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Speaker 2: my friend that borrowed the car jumped his wife's car

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Speaker 2: and he crossed them. He hooked up the jumper cables

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Speaker 2: the wrong way. Boy, And we say, we assumed defried

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Speaker 2: the computer. So what my shop did was they were

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Speaker 2: the guy. They had this young kid from a tech school,

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Speaker 2: and he went into the computer and he was able

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Speaker 2: to solder a couple of things and he messed around

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Speaker 2: with it and he got where the car would run fine.

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Speaker 2: I would drive the car. We put two thousand miles

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Speaker 2: on the car and we were able to drive it. Now,

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden it's acting up again and the

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Speaker 2: only thing we possibly could think is it needs a computer.

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Speaker 2: So my question is I have a used I have

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Speaker 2: a parts car, a complete parts car with a computer

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Speaker 2: in it. Because I don't want I called Mercedes. My

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Speaker 2: shop called Mercedes, and Mercedes wants four thousand dollars for

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Speaker 2: a computer and to reprogram it.

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Speaker 1: Right, Your question to me is how how can you

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Speaker 1: Well, it don't work the plug and play places are

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Speaker 1: It's if they're saying they can do it, all right,

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Speaker 1: other way I know that it could be done. And frankly,

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Speaker 1: I have a tool called an Opus all right, Opus IVS.

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Speaker 2: What you're saying because I got friends of mine that

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Speaker 2: To Mercedes, he says, well, why can I buy this

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Speaker 2: And he said, oh well, and they were both of them.

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Speaker 1: Well, oh so you're saying, Oh, so you're saying, Mercedes

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Speaker 1: I swear we talked about this car. I wonder if

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, well I wish I know that, because they

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Speaker 2: I wonder if it's got to do it when I

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Speaker 2: borrowed it, I said, why didn't you tell me that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: There is because the oops.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's the oops. I can tell you if it

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Speaker 1: can't be flashed, I can tell you why. All right,

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Speaker 1: because the late the late nineties early two thousands was

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Speaker 1: If that's the case with this, if this truly can't

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Speaker 1: a you make a good point, and I feel your pain.

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to have to go down the

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the help. Thank you very much, and I

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. You're very welcome to let us know

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Speaker 1: what happens. I'm telling you, I've we talked about this.

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Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. What

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Speaker 6: I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: And let's see where do we want to go Now,

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Speaker 1: f one fifty. Paul. Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Hello, Ron, Yes, sir, yep, got this truck. I'm

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Speaker 5: I think the third owner of it, and it it

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Speaker 5: I was, I was assuming because I know a bad word.

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Speaker 5: That night and I was, I was in the in

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Speaker 5: eighty ninety eight synthetic full synthetic.

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Speaker 1: Wait, eighty ninety eight synthetic for what? Oh wait, is

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Speaker 5: Yeah? It's a stick.

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Speaker 1: Okay, ye, different world.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand some miles the unit. Anyway, I was

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Speaker 5: and uh, the devellowed the calendar. He's he's the manager.

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Speaker 5: Uh he he's thinking it might be at yes, and yeah,

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Speaker 5: it looks like in my owner's manual that's what it's got.

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Speaker 5: So anyway, on a previous vehicle years ago, another five speed,

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Speaker 5: So I took it in that was about one hundred

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Speaker 5: and it was also leaking. It was obviously used ATF.

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Speaker 5: And I called and I said, why does this have

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Speaker 5: They said, Well it had eighty to ninety weight when

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Speaker 1: All right, well here, before we go, before we go

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Speaker 1: I've got a ninety seven Ranger, two wheel drive, three

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Speaker 1: Motors Synchromesh manual trans fluid, it has roughly the same

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Speaker 1: Okay, then fluid A fluid change is your first step.

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Speaker 1: And when you drain out what's in there, I would

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Speaker 1: then at that point, you know, at that point, you know,

432
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: we can talk about if there's metal, well, then it's

433
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: got to come out and get rebuilt, and you know,

434
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: make that decision how many miles are on this unit?

435
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: Because if you notice, I haven't asked you that up till.

436
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 5: Now, oh around three d.

437
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and I kind of figured as much, you know.

438
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: Three hundred thousand, three hundred thousand. Obviously you like the truck,

439
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: you bought it, you're still driving it, right, three.

440
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 5: Hundred you don't use a drop.

441
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: Of oil, right, three hundred thousand. If you can find

442
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 1: parts for a thirty one year old vehicle, all right,

443
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 1: if you can find proper parts and rebuild it thirty

444
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: one thousand, uh thirty one miles thirty one years later,

445
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand miles. You know, if it's three thousand

446
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 1: dollars or four thousand dollars to rebuild this, trends, that's

447
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: still cheaper than buying a new truck, which is you know,

448
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: going to begin at sixty sixty five, right, so three

449
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: four grand is nothing. And then while you got it apart,

450
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: you put a clutch in it and get it over

451
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: with al together. Other just make sure good quality clutch,

452
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: you know. The other argument for rebuilding this or repairing

453
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: this now, if it does need it, I'm not saying

454
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: to do it, you know if it doesn't. But a

455
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: good argument for doing it now is if you're planning

456
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: to drive the truck any length of time. Parts are

457
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: on a time bomb or on a timeline. They're a

458
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,120
Speaker 1: ticking time bomb. You know. Every minute that goes by

459
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 1: is one more minute less likely to be able to

460
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: get something. So don't put off rebuilding next year, which

461
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: you can rebuild now, because if you can find parts now,

462
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: you may not be able to find it six months

463
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: a year from now. And that's that's really how I

464
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: try and encourage people to think. You know, even if

465
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: you even if you purchase an overhaul kit now and

466
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: let it sit on the shelf for a year or two,

467
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: at least you've got it. And that's that's the problem,

468
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's it's that's the only that's the

469
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: only problem with an older vehicle, you know. So just

470
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 1: just just be aware if all that makes sense to you, right,

471
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: all right, you know, it's it's funny we use all

472
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: drive older vehicles. Thirty years ago, that truck was brand

473
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 1: new and we drove it everywhere. The problem is you

474
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: take it somewhere now and if it breaks down, can't

475
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,320
Speaker 1: find parts for it. So it's a it's an issue,

476
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: and it's a lot simpler vehicle to fix it, isn't

477
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: it isn't the knowledge to fix it. It's the parts

478
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: that are a problem. So just just be aware. But

479
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,440
Speaker 1: you can find just go if you want to try

480
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: fluid first verify is it an ATF and I believe

481
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: it is. You know, before you go, put eighty ninety

482
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: eight in it, because that's really going to take you

483
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: in the other direction. That's going to make the sliders

484
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: and the syncros work harder because it's going to be thicker. Right,

485
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: what would I would take a spin at putting GM

486
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 1: manual trans fluid in it. You know it's still out there.

487
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: Obviously GM hasn't well, they still make some manual transit,

488
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: but not like for what the application was really designed.

489
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: But I would try GM manual trans fluid if you

490
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: can still find it and see what that does for you.

491
00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: It might make your life easier. All right, kiddo, all right,

492
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: you're ay, welcome sir. You'd be well eight five five

493
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero on a nady

494
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:20,239
Speaker 1: of the car doctor coming back right after this? You know,

495
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: what are the odds? Next? Up? Jerry in uh where's

496
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: Jerry from? I can tell you it's not on my screen,

497
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: but Jerry's in Rehobo Delaware, because I've got Jerry's email

498
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 1: two pages right in front of me. I was going

499
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: to talk about this this weekend. Jerry, you're there, my friend.

500
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm here.

501
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: Brother, you got guts. Let me tell you. Let me

502
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: see eight nine steps of trying to repair this vehicle.

503
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: A wiring harness. Jerry, you put a wiring harness in

504
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: this car? Yeah, oh my god, God bless you. And

505
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't even for the vehicle. You put an O

506
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: three wiring harness in an oh seven Chrysler Town and Country.

507
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 5: Yeah.

508
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 4: I didn't do it. Thechanic, my local mechanic did that

509
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 4: as the last resort kind of a thing. They couldn't

510
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 4: get a two thousand and seven because existed.

511
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:00,959
Speaker 5: Right.

512
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, brother, you got guts. You must love this vehicle.

513
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: Let me let me tell you where I am. And

514
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: you know, for everybody out there, I've got Jerry's email

515
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: in front of you. Jerry's got a vehicle, and correct

516
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: me where I'm wrong here, Jerry, if I'm not reading

517
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: it right. It started out running rough and backfiring, and

518
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 1: the check engine light came on. He did spark plugs,

519
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: he did injectors, He did a couple of engine computers.

520
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: He put a wiring harness in it, he put a

521
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: new battery in it, he put a uh, he replaced

522
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: the fan relay, the gas cap, fuel pump, He did

523
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: a bunch of pile aparts here right, Jerry, Right, you

524
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: know what sort of diagnosis was done before we fired

525
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: the shot the parts cannon here.

526
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 4: Well, they diagnosed it and it came back to fifth

527
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 4: cylinder was a problem. That's what initially happened, I guess.

528
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 4: And they replaced the spark plug and then the fuel injector,

529
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 4: and then it went off, you know, momentarily back and

530
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 4: forth kind of right and right.

531
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: Now it's in a it'll start but then die.

532
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 4: Now it starts perfectly. It runs. I can run fifty

533
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 4: miles sixty miles when I stop it after about if

534
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 4: I leave it sid for about five minutes, it won't restart. Okay,

535
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 4: Then about twenty minutes or so, starts up perfect I

536
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 4: can run it again for another fifty miles or more?

537
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: Can it? Can it be easily duplicated?

538
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 4: What do you mean easily do?

539
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:20,479
Speaker 5: Well?

540
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 1: If you dropped it off your mechanic and he were

541
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: to tap in some test equipment and take it for

542
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: a ride if he made it the donut car that week,

543
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, went out for ten o'clock donuts.

544
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 4: He's driven it all around, he's tested it and done whatever.

545
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 4: And he's a longtime guy too, and he's talked to

546
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 4: a lot of local people and nobody can get a

547
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 4: handle on. But what would cause this? And then the

548
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 4: engine light doesn't come on, the check engine light doesn't

549
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 4: come on.

550
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: Okay, So so here follow me a second, right, can

551
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: he duplicate the problem? Can he make if he drives

552
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: it long enough, will it die on him one day

553
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: during the course of the work week?

554
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 5: Yeah?

555
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, what happens for him too?

556
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: Okay? So first thing I want to do is I mean, listen,

557
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: you want to you want to know what I would do? Right,

558
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: I'd strap a fuel pressure gage to the windshield. I

559
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: don't care what you've replaced, I don't care what you've

560
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: tested up to this point. I want to walk up

561
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: to this like it's a fresh vehicle. Too many hands

562
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: in the pot, too many things have been done to it.

563
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: I want to know that it's got fuel pressure when

564
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: it does all right? Can we do that?

565
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 4: Okay? I guess I can get him to do that.

566
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: All right, number one. Number two. If he's an old

567
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: guy like me, he's probably labscope competent. I'd like to know,

568
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: all right, can he can he put a lab scope

569
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: on the crank sensor? These had labs scope, these had

570
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: These had crank sensor problems if we because let's face it,

571
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: this started out as a as a as a cylinder five.

572
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: I think you said misfire right once a one cylinder

573
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: misfire is not going to prevent a vehicle from running right.

574
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: It's going to run badly, but it'll run.

575
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 6: Right.

576
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: So either either something misdiagnosed I'm not accusing anybody of anything,

577
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: or somebody missed the mark, or you know, it's I

578
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: always think about that episode. I love Lucy who put

579
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: the east in the bread, and that bread fourteen feet

580
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: long comes out of the oven, right, so you know

581
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: who touched what last and who went down the wrong path.

582
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: I want to go back to basics. I want to

583
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: see fuel pressure. I want to see I want I

584
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: want an experiment, pluging a scan tool, crank the engine

585
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: over all, right, disable fuel, crank the engine over will

586
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: the crank sensor trigger the computer and show me cranking rpm? Yes? Good,

587
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: that's good plug fuel pressure back in, now, catch it

588
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: when it's dead. When it's dead, do I see cranking

589
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: rpm signal on my scan tool?

590
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 5: No?

591
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: Maybe I got a crank censor problem. Maybe it's as

592
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: simple as that. Either that or I'm going to say,

593
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: can we get a labscope out and start to monitor,

594
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, signals and sensors. When I read your email initially, Jerry,

595
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: I said, this is a signal and sensor car. You're

596
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: gonna have to go through this wire by wire. This

597
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: is no more assumption.

598
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 5: Way.

599
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: That word came up three times this week, all right,

600
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: And I want to know fuel pressure. I want to

601
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: know does it have spark when it doesn't start? And

602
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: there's an easy test spark tester out under the hood,

603
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: all right? And does it have cranking rpm? What is

604
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: it missing?

605
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 4: If it's missing, it's said when you when it won't start,

606
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 4: it sounds like it wants to turn over, and it's

607
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 4: got fire and everything, but it.

608
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: Just right, Well, you're like it's.

609
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 4: Not getting gas even even bypassed the uh the fuel

610
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 4: pump and put the gas in directly. Okay, and that

611
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 4: didn't do anything either, right.

612
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: But we're assuming I want to know what fuel pressure

613
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: is all right? Humor me, all right, humor me. If

614
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: that was a one cylinder lawnmarwer engine, how would you

615
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: diagnose it? Does it have fuel? Does it have spark?

616
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: And does it mechanically sound? Same thing, bigger engine. I

617
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: don't want to. I also don't want to get sidetracked.

618
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: I know it's not the answer your looking looking for.

619
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: You're looking for a silver bullet. I don't have one, brother,

620
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: nobody does. All right, Right, well, well I've seen plenty

621
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: like this, and I fixed everything the Good Lord has

622
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: thrown my way. The only things I haven't fixed are

623
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: with somebody backs down and they realize the expense involved.

624
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: All right, but everything I've ever fixed, I've fixed it

625
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: the same way. Fuel pressure, cranking, RPM, spark? Do I

626
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: have injector pulse? You know? I read in your email?

627
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: How the the the ASD relay is shut down? Sure,

628
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: because it's missing one of those signals. This is a

629
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: censor and signal vehicle. Now you've changed too much. You've

630
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: changed the parameters of the test you played, Captain Kirk.

631
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: This is the Kobyashi Maru. You changed the parameters to

632
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: the point that now you've made it so no service

633
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: manual no previous experience, Nothing anybody's worked on up till

634
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: this point is going to apply. So now it's a

635
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 1: matter of and I got to go. But now it's

636
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: a matter of you've got to break this card down

637
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: into its simplest form, spark fuel distribution mechanical. Call me

638
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: back when you know. I'll be here for you, Jerry,

639
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car. Doctor. I'll be back

640
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: here for everybody else right after this, you know, And

641
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna hold calls online there. We'll hold you guys

642
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: till the next hour when you get a car like Jerry's.

643
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: Jerry's car can be fixed, but the problem's going to

644
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: be is it justifiable? And an awful lot's been done

645
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: to it to modify a wiring harness between from an

646
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: seven vehicle to make an O three harness fit in seven.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the changes were, but God bless them.

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Speaker 1: That takes guts, and I think that's I think that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a that's a great call to try. If

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Speaker 1: it works. Did it work? But if you notice his

651
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Speaker 1: problem changed. He originally started out with a running rough

652
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: under five misfire and now it's a dies after fifty

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Speaker 1: miles on the road, and it's been over some period

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Speaker 1: of time. So have they been fixing problems along the way.

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Speaker 1: Did they solve one problem only to have it rear

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Speaker 1: its head again a short time later in some other

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Speaker 1: form or some other problem. You don't know. You've got

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Speaker 1: a signal and sensor car. Now you've got to go

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00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: through that pin for pin, wire for wire, sensor for sensor.

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Speaker 1: You've modified enough and it still comes back to basics.

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Speaker 1: It really does. I don't think it's impossible to fix.

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Speaker 1: Look if I sounded short, I'm going through the change,

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Speaker 1: I'm going through manopause. I don't have time for goof

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Speaker 1: and off. I want to get things done. So let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the scope. Let's look at signals, let's

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Speaker 1: look at scan tools, let's look at basics, and that

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Speaker 1: car can be fixed. Jerry, you called me back. I'm

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Speaker 1: run an ady in the car. Doctor till the next time.

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Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 5: See you

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Speaker 6: The d