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Speaker 1: Ron and Anian. There are times I do give out

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Speaker 1: How much is it to do this engine? Give me

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Speaker 1: From what you're telling me, Ray it it sounds like

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Speaker 1: you were overcharged something. Something doesn't make sense. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the radio home of Ron and Anian, the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If you're a

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Speaker 1: now he running. Hey, it's time to start your engines

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Speaker 1: at five five zero zero zero. Here here to take

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Speaker 1: As uh we motor run down the road. I'm in

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Speaker 1: a company this hour. By Lucy the Wonder Dog. Let me.

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Speaker 1: Look down here. She's in studio with me today. She's

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Speaker 1: of the glass with Big Tom Ray, executive producer, and

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Speaker 1: they're both waiting for your calls at eight five five

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Speaker 1: because we're sleeping too. Well you could be um, uh

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Speaker 1: are you done now? Okay? Good? So anything else Tomm

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Speaker 1: loved your step and Mississippi were coming. Um. I loved

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Speaker 1: your comment in the in the in the middle of

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Speaker 1: second hour about the connected car. Uh. You know, we

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Speaker 1: had an answer for him. I'm not telling him nothing. Well, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: have Ford tell me when I need something? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, and that's part of it, Tom, But I

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Speaker 1: think the bigger factor is that we're so bombarded by information.

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Speaker 1: let me see. Facebook sends me a notice. Google sends

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Speaker 1: Oh you know what? You know what you're looking at.

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Speaker 1: so do this? Are you into that? Are you in

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Speaker 1: So here's here's the problem, all right, and God bless

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Speaker 1: it takes guts to do this, right. Um, you're you're

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Speaker 1: And before you get out of here, make model on this.

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Speaker 1: Go into special functions. See if that vehicle has an

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Speaker 1: idle relearn. See if there is a throttle angle reset

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, they're actually were procedures there for relearn,

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Speaker 1: My experience has been if it has a cable relearns

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Speaker 1: How do I know you were gonna do that? Stevie.

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Speaker 1: nothing like a hot rod. It's just so you gotta

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Speaker 1: I would want to know is if you if you

424
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 1: have the ability to pull codes on this you know what,

425
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: what what fault code is there? And I'm gonna take

426
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: a bet and go out on a limb, and I

427
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: think that there's gonna be a code six in this

428
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,919
Speaker 1: car because what you're just what you're describing to me

429
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: are the classic symptoms of what these cars went through

430
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,119
Speaker 1: with distributor issues and a lot of you tell me

431
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna tell me you put a distributor in it, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

432
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: after market or no um right, And that's and that's

433
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,200
Speaker 1: part of the problem. There was there's two signals involved here.

434
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: There's a signal out of the igniter all right, that

435
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: goes to the p CM that tells it, hey, here's

436
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: what I'm at. And then there's a signal from the

437
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 1: distributor to the e C. M. So you know, we

438
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: have a signal from we have a signal from module

439
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 1: and a signal from the distributor, and the e c

440
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: M compares those and says, is everybody on board? And

441
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 1: is everybody telling me the truth? And then it does

442
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: what it wants to do with timing appropriately. So there's

443
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: they actually monitor in two places. Can you imagine this?

444
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: Look at look at how our k this is right?

445
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: You know, this is today today. There's a processor that

446
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: does this, you know, a bazillion times the amount of

447
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: time it took me to explain it to you. So

448
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: the bigger problem with this, all right, ignitiors were bad

449
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: on these cars. I remember ignitors failing all the time.

450
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: Every time we scope it, we'll see a bed signal

451
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: out of the ignitor. But there was also issues out

452
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: of the wiring harness between the e c M and

453
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: the distributor. They were oil soaked, they got dry, they

454
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 1: got brittle, they cracked they you know, and a lot

455
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: of distributors got replaced for bad wiring harnesses. So step one,

456
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: well step two. Step two is you gotta scan it

457
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: for codes. Step one is you go home tonight, you

458
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: tell your wife we're moving to Florida. And when she says, why,

459
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 1: you say, because I want to drive my m R

460
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: two And she's when she says, just when she says,

461
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: just drive it. Just build another garage and buy another car.

462
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: You got her brother, It'll be great, all right. And

463
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 1: then if that doesn't work, so he stepped to get

464
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: the codes and then start if it is a Code

465
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,959
Speaker 1: six distributor and stuff, you can start looking at all

466
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: this nonsense. But think about the wiring harness between Yeah,

467
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 1: the wiring harns. It's probably oil soaked by now and

468
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: brittle and brittle as hell. All right, all right, good

469
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: luck to You're very welcome, Kidd'll take good care. Um, Yeah,

470
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: there's nothing I'm telling you. Danny. Danny was so normal

471
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 1: the rest of the week. He was just he just

472
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, grinning ear to ear, and he said, and

473
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: he was like this. He comes over, he goes, smell

474
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: my T shirt. I go, why, he goes, Oh, it

475
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: smells like exhaust. Isn't that great? You know, it's like

476
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: an aphrodisiac. It's not to me, but I mean to

477
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: you know, to a car guy, it's like, oh, you know,

478
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: I smell like a car now, or you know, oh,

479
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,640
Speaker 1: my god, the way it was. How did I survive? Um? Anyway?

480
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: Eight five five five zero zero zero. The car Doctor's

481
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: cruising back right after this. Welcome back. Want to name

482
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: the car doctor? Right? Your services? It over to Frank

483
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 1: in New Mexico. Frank, how's things out in New Mexico?

484
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: Way today? I got big ring yesterday point seven five inches,

485
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: which is a lot for us. Yeah, it sounds like

486
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot for you. But we're drying out, you know,

487
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. I obtained this seven eight

488
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: propine and Richmond tool, and I've got my little brake

489
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: lanes stuck in there, you know, with my peans down

490
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: to the opening of a to paper clip wires pin

491
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: in the shape of the eye. And as far as

492
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: using it, I'm when should I turn that mean propin?

493
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: Valve all the way on a little bit on? Know

494
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: what I do is so you know, if i'm if

495
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: I'm sniffing around, then I'm looking for a vacuum. Week

496
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: I'll start small, so you know, I may I may

497
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: turn that the black knob, oh, you know, an eighth

498
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: of a turn, just give it, just crack it off

499
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: of you know, if we're looking at the face of

500
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: a clock. Just crack it like an hour and an

501
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: hour and a half open and then the button, the

502
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: button on the top is the go no go right,

503
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: that's the flow. So that's you know, that maximum wide open.

504
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: There's no way to adjust that. There's no regulation there.

505
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: So the black is you're fine tune. So I hold

506
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: the top breast button down and I, you know, slowly

507
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 1: open and close the black trying to find my flow.

508
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: Now you know, the issue becomes and you know you

509
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: can you can turn it all the way open and

510
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 1: and and and listen to it. You'll hear how much

511
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: comes out. It doesn't take much. Propane is very precise,

512
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: and you know as you get to use it, you'll

513
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 1: get more comfortable with it. Um One thing you know

514
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: to to realize is if you were if you were

515
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: trying to get a car or run on propane because

516
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: you're you're you're lazy like Ronn and you don't like

517
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: pushing cars. You're gonna crank that black valve wide open flow.

518
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: You're trying to get as much volume of fuel into

519
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: the duct into the engine as possible. I know your

520
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: your old mobile is carbureted and it's not necessarily affected

521
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: by that um, but you know that's that's I've been

522
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: I've been experimenting with it and getting it to where

523
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: just a little puff comes out, you know, right right

524
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: time I hit that button. But I just didn't want

525
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: to go overboard. Now I don't I don't know if

526
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: it's possible to go overboard, because the worst that happens

527
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: is the car stalls. Right. It's you know, but it's

528
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: it's think of it as a if it was if

529
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: it was smoke that you were letting out of that

530
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 1: wand all right, and you were you were smoking the

531
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: intake to look to see where the smoke got sucked in,

532
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: For lack of a better way to put it, how

533
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: much smoke do you want coming out the end of

534
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: that brake line? And you know that's that's sort of

535
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,239
Speaker 1: how you're looking at it, all right. Uh, you know,

536
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: it's just that it's just another fuel source. It's wherever

537
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: there's a vacuum week it's going to draw it in.

538
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: Now on a carbureted car, it's a little primitive via

539
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: scan tool because if you were watching this on a

540
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: scan tool, it's such a slow processor that you won't

541
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: see a real fast reaction rate. What I would do is.

542
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: I would go down to the oxygen sensor, and you've

543
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: probably only got one on the driver's side. I'm gonna

544
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: guess there's probably a purple or green wire leading down

545
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: to the O two and the black wire. The the

546
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: other side of that is just a single black wire

547
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: going down to the sensor. I would tap into the

548
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: body harness, into the main vehicle harness there and put

549
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: a voltmeter on it zero one vault You ever, you

550
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: ever play with a two centsor frank to see how

551
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: it works? Uh? Once, long time ago out talking about

552
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: and an oxygen center is like a thermostat, right, It's

553
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: it's a voltage producing device that as the voltage goes up,

554
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: the computer sees the increase in voltage and it says, hey,

555
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: the vehicle is running rich, let's cut back on the fuel.

556
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: And then as it drops down low low as lean,

557
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: it says, hey, the vehicle is lean, let's add more

558
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: fuel to the mixture and so on. So it's sort

559
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: of like the thermostat in your house. You said it

560
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: at sixty eight, the heat comes up, comes up to

561
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: sixty eight, the furnace shuts down and you know, runs

562
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: Then as it cools off, it brings it back up.

563
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: It's an on off cycling type of process. Well, you

564
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: can look at that signal on a voltmeter, all right,

565
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: especially on an older simple car like this now works

566
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: really well if you have a real old school analog

567
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: vaultmeter with a sweeping needle. You know, there you go.

568
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: How did I know you would have one of those? Um?

569
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: Actually I actually have one of those two, and I

570
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: kind of I still like using it. Um. But you know,

571
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's high low. Now for your purposes,

572
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,959
Speaker 1: you can look to see where it's going. It's it's

573
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: gonna be very slow, and it's just gonna ditherer a lot,

574
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: and think about it a lot. They weren't really fast

575
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: and responsive. And and the best example of this I

576
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: can give you is if you want to see a

577
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: real fast one, once you get comfortable with it on

578
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: an old car, put it up to a newer car

579
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: that needles bouncing so fast. You'll understand why everything went digital.

580
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: And it's it's sort of the best example of and

581
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: the best look of at something digital versus analog. Now,

582
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: get it on a vault meter and then feed a

583
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: little propane to the motor and watch what the O

584
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: two censor does. It's gonna be instantaneous that it's gonna

585
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: go rich and you're you're, you're gonna see a rich

586
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:04,239
Speaker 1: condition because that fuel is displacing oxygen. And yeah, I'm

587
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: the reason I'm gonna do this is because a problem developed.

588
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: Is the oldest sounds I could have. It's really like

589
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: it has a miss. Okay, this happened a couple of

590
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: years ago. I swore it was electronics pledge or something.

591
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: Everything checked out. I couldn't find the miss that I

592
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: thought it was. Took it to the shop half hour

593
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: shop time later, they said, oh, there's a vacuum league.

594
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: Everything else is fine. I neglected to say, where does

595
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: that league show me? But anyway, it's happening again. All

596
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: the plugs are firing. Was that sounds like it's a miss?

597
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do the vacuum league snooper thing now? Yeah,

598
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: check check check around the base gas. Get very carefully

599
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: of the carburetor. They tended to rot and fall away,

600
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: and a lot of the vacuum lindes coming off the

601
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: back of the intake manifold, and any of the vacuum

602
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: lines anywhere on those I had a tendency to collapse inwards,

603
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: so you would only see it while the vehicle is running.

604
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: But you know that's what that tool is good for.

605
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: And then get in the habit of using that tool

606
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: on a good car, and you'll see the result. And

607
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: then you'll understand what it's like when you get a

608
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: sick car. And then you'll understand when you've got a

609
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: large vacuum leak on something and it runs really rough

610
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: and terrible and reggy, how the propane smooths it out.

611
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: You know that you're looking for a vacuum leak because

612
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: fuel will fix a vacuum weak. I've never seen fuel

613
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: fix and ignition miss or a mechanical problem. So you

614
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: can use it that way to keep going. Frank, You're

615
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: you're getting their, babe, and um, keep doing what you're doing.

616
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm running any of the car doctor, I'll be back

617
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: right after this. Looking back the car doctor Michael in Massachusetts,

618
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: Go babe, BO three Honda Cord. This is the A

619
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: C car from last week. Right, Yes, exactly, I did everything.

620
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: Let's see. We took the I think was another sery

621
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: dish under dish fuse NBER twelve under the hood. We

622
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: checked those they were checked out, all right, okay, um,

623
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: I tapped the chapter Snowflake three day no change HIGNE

624
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: and with it with you see on no change. The

625
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: only thing I did not do was take a reading

626
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: of the of the voltage. And you can't. I haven't

627
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: seen anywhile, so I could not get I could not

628
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: get to reading on the compressor. Okay, that's um. If

629
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: I can get a reading on the compressor and that

630
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: checks out what anything else. Well, you're looking to see

631
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: do you have voltage in ground at the compressor, and

632
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: if you do, you've got a bad clutch coil. It's

633
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: you're at that point, all right. That's that's the last

634
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: step and probably the most critical step. All right, If

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Speaker 1: you don't have voltage at the compressor, then we've got

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Speaker 1: to back trace it up. Possibly a bad pressure switch

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Speaker 1: or a bad climate control head. Not impossible, but clutch

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Speaker 1: coils are the bigger failure, and generally at this age

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Speaker 1: and mileage, clutch coils become compressor and clutch coils. How

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Speaker 1: many males were on this car, I don't recall. I

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Speaker 1: have how many? Yeah, So it's you know, the the

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Speaker 1: issue is to take it apart and just do a

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Speaker 1: compressor clutch. Uh, you know it's got a fair amount

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Speaker 1: of miles on it, and the price difference is going

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Speaker 1: to be such to justify the labor that it probably

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Speaker 1: pays just to put a good compressor assembly in it

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Speaker 1: and be done with it. If that's what it turns

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Speaker 1: out to be. So have your mechanic check for voltage

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Speaker 1: at the compressor clutch coil. You know you should be

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Speaker 1: able to turn it on and off if he has

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Speaker 1: any doubt. Um, here's an example where let's put a

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Speaker 1: remember old school round style headlights. Okay, let's use a

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Speaker 1: Let's use a round style headlight. That's about that'll put

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Speaker 1: up That will require about seven amp load on the

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Speaker 1: circuit if the a C. If the a C control

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Speaker 1: can turn on that headlight in place of the compressor clutch.

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Speaker 1: We now know the circuit will support electrical current, it

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Speaker 1: will support the load, and that you've got a bad compressor.

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Speaker 1: We're using the headlight as a load substitute, so we

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Speaker 1: can try it that where we can just do it

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Speaker 1: with a voltmeter. The headlights are nice. Touch though that

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Speaker 1: you may want to do it because it will it

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Speaker 1: will put oat and duplicate load on the system. Try

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Speaker 1: that this week, calling back next and we can kind

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Speaker 1: of take it from there. But I think you're getting closer, Michael.

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Speaker 1: Good job. Hey, another hour just flew by till the

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Speaker 1: next time. I'm rondinating in the car doctor reminding each

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Speaker 1: and every one of you good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you