1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Oh, ron Anian, we're trying acupuncture and acupunctures working. It 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: really is. It's amazing stuff what it what it does, 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: because it's not the most comfortable thing in the world. 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: You'rely on this table and the jem needles in it. 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: It's kind of like spending a weekend with relatives. Everybody 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: was the car Doctor. I've just wanted to get your 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: take on it, if if I should consider a repair 8 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: or let him replace the heart. And I'm also worried 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: about the more key and fail value. All good concerns. MARKT. 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry for your grief. Welcome to the radio home 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: of Ron Andanian, the Car Doctor. Since this is where 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your call 16 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: at eight five five and now he running. You know 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: what the best part about auto repair is, really and 18 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: truly it's there's something new every day, every day, every week. 19 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: Every day every week, I learned something new, And you 20 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: know what, That's what life's about, right, learn something, to 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: learn something about something you like and maybe something you 22 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: don't know. You don't know what you don't know. And 23 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: it happened again this week. And I can tell you 24 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: this that with the current level of lack of cars, 25 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: we're all gonna have to learn how to do things 26 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 1: a little bit differently in the future. And it's it's 27 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: really becoming evident more and more every day. As a 28 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: matter of fact, Tom, I should point out in defense 29 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: of the acupuncture I went this morning. I got the 30 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: big needle right in the middle of my forehead. Um, 31 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: it was great. I have no more headache until you 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: start talking and and in your head. Another hole in 33 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: my head. And and I think the reason, you know, 34 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: I guess I could tell a story where you know, 35 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: the government sent out a notice that they're looking for mechanics. 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: Did you see the notice about they're looking for mechanics. 37 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the country has realized that there 38 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: is a shortage of trained automobile technicians. And like now, 39 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: you just woke up to this fact. And there's a 40 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: concern because so many people are getting out of the industry. 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: And it's true, right you read it all the time 42 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: that I'm going to acupuncture school. I say let's go 43 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: another twenty years, Tom. They can keep me young, They 44 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: can keep me going. Lots of needles though the pain 45 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 1: I go through, well, better to be jabbed there than 46 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: jabbed at work. It's a whole lot safer. So that 47 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: is what I wanted to talk about. Tom got me 48 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: off subject there. He distracted me. I want to tell 49 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: you about this Toyota that I worked on this week, 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: And this was something I learned something this week, and 51 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: you know, it taught me a different way to look 52 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: at repairing something that you can't repair. We had Toyota 53 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: Sequoia come into the shop this week at Oriota Motive 54 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: and it it was pretty simple and pretty pretty clear cut. 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: It the air conditioning wasn't cooling well, and I looked 56 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: at it and you could see it was a little 57 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: low on charge. But that wasn't the reason. The A 58 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: C compressor had an issue. It wasn't really building enough 59 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: of enough pressure low side high side. They were terrible. 60 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: It was twenty and fifty um didn't work. It made 61 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: a knocking noise. The compressor was really loud, and it 62 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: just you were looking at the clutch, going on, is 63 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: it gonna fall off? It was in bed shape hunter 64 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: fifty thousand mile, twelve year old compressor on this vehicle, 65 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: so you know, put a compressor on it and it 66 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: fixed it. But what I didn't connect with, what what 67 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: really bugged me, was the pressure readings on the high 68 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: side were the same, still read fifty. I hooked my 69 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: gauge is up and I still read fifty. And you know, 70 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: I'm scratching my head. I said, how can I let 71 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: this car go? I mean it was cold, baby, it's 72 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: cold in that car. It's forty two degrees at the duct. 73 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: All right, you can hang meat in this thing. But 74 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: I want to know why. Why is the high side 75 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: pressure reading what it's reading? And I felt the lines 76 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: in the liquid line, you know that it was. It 77 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: was cold on low side, it was hot on high side. 78 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: It was starting to make sense. The pressures were felt 79 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: normal by temperature, old school way, right, But why wasn't 80 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: high side higher? That doesn't make any sense. Every once 81 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: in a while, you need a second opinion, even me, right, 82 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: And you've just got to know where to look. I 83 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: always say I'm not the smartest mechanic in the world. 84 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: They just know who to talk to. Well, the boys 85 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: over at Opus, I v s are just great. You 86 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: get to talk to dealer level dealer smart text, a 87 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: s C master text that you know, you can have 88 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: a really great elevated conversation about certain situations in a car. 89 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: So I've I filled out a hotline complaint and Josh 90 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: called me up. And I've gotten to know Josh. Josh 91 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: knows who I am and he knows what I do. 92 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: And he said, don't talk about me on radio. So 93 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: I said, I won't. I don't tell anybody. And while 94 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 1: I've earned that right, you know, it's sort of like, 95 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: you know, I said that at my daughter's wedding. I said, 96 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you a story about my daughter. She 97 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: told me not to tell. But I can do that 98 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: because I'm the father. Well I can do that. I'm 99 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: the car doctor. I can talk about you on radio. 100 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: And we sat down and talked about it. He said, 101 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: you know, that's really kind of interesting. He said, how 102 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: do you end up with the same pressure? But if 103 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: it's fixed, I said, right, And we kind of went 104 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: through the list and then I said to him, I 105 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: realized I don't know if it was him or me. 106 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: I think it was me, I said, Josh, He said, 107 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: what if your gauge is broken. I said, yeah, but 108 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: I've used it before, and I just used it the 109 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: other day and it read correct. It It all made sense. Now. 110 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: I haven't used that on anything since. And then I 111 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: said to my said, what if the coupling was bad? 112 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: I think it was may I said, what if the 113 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: coupling was bad? What if I'm not getting accurate pressure? 114 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: What if I'm not reading? What if I'm not screwing 115 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: on all the way? What if there's a problem with 116 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: the gauge set? And he said, yeah, exactly, that's what 117 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: I'm thinking. He says, you have another gage, said, I said, yeah, 118 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: of course. I said, oh, we could do that. He said, 119 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: why don't we do this? And this is what I 120 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: love about opus Man, because you learned something new every 121 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: time you use the tool. He said, let me and 122 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: let me go in. We looked. We looked on the 123 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: standard software that comes with the tool, because it's a 124 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: this thing. This thing is multi language, all right, it'll 125 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: speak a bunch of different languages for a mechanic. And 126 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: it didn't have the pit, the piece of data that 127 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 1: we wanted under a C in the tool. So he said, 128 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: let me install the Toyota factory software, and he did. 129 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: He installed Toyota tech Stream, which they can do with 130 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: the tool, right, they can install manufacturer software on the 131 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: tool over the airwaves. And I'm watching this all transpireds 132 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: it's fascinating to say. And sure enough, in Toyota tech Stream, 133 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: you can look at evaporator temperature they call it evaporator 134 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: fin or mister. And you can look at high side pressure, 135 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: which they call regulator pressure sensor. You have to know 136 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: that that's that's Toyota language, okay, but there it is. 137 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: There's your high and low side pressures or high and 138 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 1: low side one temperature once pressure. And you know, thirty 139 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: seven degrees at the at the evapp coil is going 140 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: to register. It makes sense that matches. We had twenty 141 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: eight pounds high low side pressure, so it kind of 142 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: makes sense. It matches what we're seeing. Also mentions what 143 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: we see at the ducks. We saw forty five five 144 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: degrees at the duct. You typically lose. Some were between 145 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: seven and ten degrees off the evaporator, and that's about 146 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: what we had coming out of the ducks. See, I 147 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: couldn't understand why I was getting fifty turns out my gauges. 148 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: My coupling is broken. Um, you know, so I actually 149 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: used my my opus I V scan tool this week 150 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: to do two things. Diagnosed a broken car and to 151 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: diagnose a broken piece of equipment in the shop because 152 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: we proved it looking at it and saying, well, we've 153 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: got a hundred hundred thirty pounds, high said, sitting there 154 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: at idle with the fans running and cold temperature coming 155 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: out of the ducks. And you know what, that's cool, 156 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: that's really neat that you can learn something every day 157 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: every week in the shop. That's old Josh I said, 158 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: thank you very much. I always like talking to these guys. Man. 159 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: I get an education, They get an education. It's an 160 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: equal even exchange. And they leave it. We leave each 161 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: other smiling. Um. You know, it's just nice. It's it's 162 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: and that's the best part about auto repair. By the way, 163 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: if you're a repair shop and you haven't seen it, 164 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: you know, just go google st opus i v s 165 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: opus i vs dot com and'll see what it's all about. 166 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: It's not a scan tool, it's a support system and 167 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: that's what makes them so unique in what they do. Um, 168 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: I know of nothing else like it in the industry 169 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: at this time. So um, and I learned something this week. 170 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: I you know that you have to stop and think, 171 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: could it be an issue with the piece of equipment. 172 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: As I've always said, you know, I've got multiple scan tools. 173 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: I never thought I'd have to have multiple pieces of 174 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: equipment to try everything, because every once in a while 175 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: everything breaks. It just gives you a different perspective of 176 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: looking at something. So let's pull over and take a 177 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: pause early. Let's get going fast, and then we can 178 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: come back and talk to the phones that are lit up. 179 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: Eight five five zero nine zero running nating the Car Doctor. 180 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: Don't go away. We'll be back right after this when 181 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: you get keep Ron's number hand eight five five five 182 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,719 Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero for when you really need 183 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: advice on your car. Hey, Joe and Iowa, Welcome to 184 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir. Let's talk about your ninety Ranger. 185 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: What's going on here? Oh? Well, it just um, it's 186 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: just it's a manual transmission five speed, and it's when 187 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: I bought it new, it shifted stiff. And when I 188 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: test drove and I said, well, okay, you know it's 189 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: a little stiff. It's brand new, it'll probably loosen up 190 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: in time, but it never really has and I got 191 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: six miles on it roughly. Um, So I just, you know, 192 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: I was trying to think of something ask because I 193 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: got how many uh you know, things to ask, but 194 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: I just thought i'd asked about that when in in 195 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: the clutch, you know, you know, appears to be disengaged 196 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 1: and fine. Um, you know, when you put the clutch 197 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: in all the way, you don't feel no drag, or 198 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: when you shift it in gear, you know, it's not 199 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: like it SuDS or anything like it. You know, goes 200 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 1: into gear and you can feel it. So it seems 201 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: to be that the clutches, you know, disengaging all the way. 202 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: It just seems like it's something you just you get 203 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: the feeling you want to stick a grease gun through 204 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: the shift mute and pumping full of grease. Two wheel driver, 205 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: four wheel drive, Joe, it's a two will drive, okay, 206 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: So it's a real real drive truck, five speed truck. 207 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: I have this exact truck by the way, alright, I 208 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: have a seven the shop trucks and seven I've got 209 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: two miles on it. So I've been here, done that. Um. 210 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: I'm just you're a very patient man, Joe, you waited 211 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: twenty four years to complaint to somebody. That's you didn't 212 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 1: go back to the dealer and say anything to him. 213 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 1: You know, it's been so many years. I think I 214 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: probably had a question them, you know, you know, years 215 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: and years ago, but I can't really remember, you know. Now, Um, 216 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: has anybody have you? Have you checked? I have to 217 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: ask silly questions in my job sometimes have you checked? 218 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: Have you checked fluid level? Yeah? I did, Um, it 219 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: seems to be fine, you know, Um, yeah, it's used 220 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: to be. I pulled the plug on it and started 221 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: running out. So and you've checked fluid type your shirts, 222 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: the correct fluid that's in there. Well, you know, I 223 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: picked up some transmission fluid here while back, as I thought, well, 224 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: I'm just going to change you know, I just retired 225 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: not long ago. So I thought, well, you know what, 226 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get some of these things done 227 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: I've always been wanting to do and I just can't, 228 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: you know, don't get it done. So I picked up 229 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: some Um what I got was in valvely a t F. 230 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: I think it originally called for, you know, on a 231 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: t F, and I can't recall what number was number 232 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: you know it was, it was probably it was probably 233 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: Mark five. Back in the day, Ford would do that. 234 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: By mark five, that's what they would call for. And 235 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: you know that would likely be what you know, what 236 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: you're looking or what they would tell you from the factory. 237 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: All right, And you think I was gonna say you 238 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: change the fluid and it made no difference. No, I 239 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: haven't got to. Yeah, okay, I got so many things 240 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: to do, it's it's unreal. Okay, Well, so before you 241 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: go down that path, all right, before you go and 242 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: put the uh the automatic valveoline transfluid back in it. 243 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: I didn't like the way my Ranger shifted either. All right, Yeah, 244 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 1: I started, I started, had the same problem. Now you 245 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: gotta understand, there's no shift linkage external on that trends. 246 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: That's I believe, that's I believe that was a Tremic 247 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: five speed. Uh yeah, that was the I believe that 248 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: was a Tremic or some version or member of the 249 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: Tremic family as a five speed trans and there's no 250 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: external linkage. It's basic. It's a basic five speed trans 251 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: with two shift rails and some forks, and the shifter 252 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: goes in through the top and you know, controls it 253 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: from there all right through the shift rails. So there's 254 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: not a lot there unless something was physically broken from 255 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: the factory from day one. But I can't imagine it 256 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: lasting twenty four years and sixty miles without getting much 257 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: worser change anging its ferocity. What I would do, all right, 258 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: is I took the automatic transmission fluid out of mine. 259 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: And you know, as as as much as this would 260 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: make people cry, sometimes I put in General Motors manual synchromesh. 261 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: I actually use a General Motors GM synchromesh, which is 262 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: what they call for. It's it's a lightweight lubricating manual 263 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: transmission gear oil that they call for for certain GM applications. Listen, 264 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: gears are gears, all right. Bearings are bearings. Uh, you 265 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: know it's it's It's not like it's going to affect it. 266 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, think of this automatic transmission 267 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: fluid isn't really I don't really consider automatic transmission fluid 268 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: of lubricant. There's a bunch of things that it does, 269 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: but lubrication isn't high on the list. You know, when 270 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: you put it between your fingers, you can sense that right, 271 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: it has no it has no lubricity. It has no 272 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: it has no smoothness to it. It's not silky smooth. 273 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: All right. So man, you you get some GM synchro mesh, 274 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: which last time I looked as expensive. Now like everything 275 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: else I think I saw it was. It was over 276 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a cord. I remember back when it 277 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: was six bucks a cord. But you feel GM synchro 278 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: mess between your thumb and four finger, and it's got 279 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: some lubrication quality to it. Okay, so it's called GM synchromesh. 280 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: I've got the part number somewhere. If I don't, if 281 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: I can't, if you can't find it, call me again. 282 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: I'll have the number for you. Uh, there's a there's 283 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: a GM part number that applies to it. If you 284 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: just Google search GM synchromesh fluid. I'm sure it'll pop 285 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: up that way. There is a viscosity Do they have 286 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: only one available? They they only have one available. I 287 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: I know it. I know it to not have a 288 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 1: viscosity rating. It's it's it's no thinner than automatic transmission fluid. 289 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: Uh you know. And it says right on there that, 290 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: um you know, it's a it's a lubricating coding fluid 291 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: designed for manual transmissions. It's been in my Rangers since 292 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: I got it. I got my Ranger at a hundred 293 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand miles. It's got to twenty on it now. Um, 294 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: it's the same. Matter of fact, it's the same fluid. 295 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: I put GM synchromesh in the Tremic five speed for 296 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: the hot rod, and it's not that I drive that easy, 297 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: um shall we say? And that's been in there, that's 298 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: got a matter of fact, the hot rods getting old. 299 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: It's got on it now, um, you know. And GM 300 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: and yeah, so you can try that. I just talking 301 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: to somebody well, and I thought they said they put 302 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: like a Royal purple in their transmission. If if Royal 303 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: Purple makes the equivalent of if Royal Purple makes the 304 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: equivalent of GM synchromesh, and they might, you can go 305 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: to the Royal Purple website and take a look. By 306 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: all means, all right, Tom just texted me. Tom looked 307 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: it up. He said, the part number for the GM 308 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: synchromeshes nine oh. The rest of it three or may 309 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: nine O three nine nine or may come up as 310 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: the Delco number ten dash four oh one four ten 311 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: dash four zero one four. Okay, that's interesting. So um. 312 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: But somebody also was talking to said, there's live up 313 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: in the word the gearshift drops into the transmission. There's 314 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: a bushing could be broken that could maybe need to 315 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: be lubricated up there. Why would it need to be lubricated? 316 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: Yours was the one that came from the factory that 317 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: didn't need to be lubricated, that needed lubrication. I'm not 318 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: saying it doesn't. But if if, if, if that bushing 319 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: is sticky or tight, and it's been that way for 320 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: twenty four years and sixty thousand miles, do you think 321 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: by now it would have broken and gotten worse and 322 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: to be you'd be complaining about slopping us in the 323 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: after Yeah, you would have thought. I just well, you 324 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: know how things get tight. I mean things, you know, 325 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: when lubricants wear off of certain bushings and things. You know, 326 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: you start here in the squeak, you think, but when 327 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: things wear off, when things wear off certain bushings, the 328 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: factory tells you at thirty or sixty or ninety thousand miles, 329 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: go lubricate X, Y and Z nowhere we've nowhere will 330 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: you find the need or the call for that transmission shift? 331 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: Link pushings to be lubricated. They just don't do it. 332 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: You know why, it doesn't need to be if it's 333 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,199 Speaker 1: assembled right. You know, is the trans assembled wrong from 334 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: twenty four years ago? Is the trans made wrong that 335 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't have an oil lubrication hole where it's supposed to. Yeah, 336 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: all great questions, you know, but I wouldn't wait another 337 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: twenty four years. I popped the cover off the top 338 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: of the trans. It's fairly easy. Take the shift boot up, 339 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,479 Speaker 1: lift the knob off. The whole thing comes up through 340 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: the top. You can access it sitting in the truck 341 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: and you'll be looking at the plate. Take the bolts off, 342 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: you're looking straight down at the shift linkage. Is everything 343 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: where it's supposed to be. I'd tell you to get 344 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 1: an exploded parts of so you know what you're looking at, 345 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: and this way you can't hurt anything, but you know basically, 346 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: and don't overcomplicate this, Joe, don't don't don't give it 347 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: too much thinking. I'd get a change of trans fluid, 348 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: like you want to change whatever you want to put 349 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: in it. I've used GM synchromesh with great success. I'd 350 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: get a parts listening. I don't think you're gonna find 351 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: it's a bushing. If it isn't pushing, great, But then 352 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: I know of no time when they tell me I 353 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: have to lubricate that pushing, then I'd be concerned and 354 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: maybe do a trans tear down. That just doesn't make 355 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: any sense. Do what you gotta do. Call me if 356 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: you need more good to talk to you. Zero. We're 357 00:18:34,760 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back right in the car 358 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: doctor here at a five five zero zero. Let's go. 359 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: Let's go over to Chris and Tennessee on nine GMC Chris, 360 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor. How can I help? Yeah? 361 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: I got a oh nine d MCS here four point 362 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 1: three V six order and put the key into the ignition. Uh. 363 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: When I click it over to the on position, UM, 364 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: the engine light comes on, a B S light comes on. Eventually, 365 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 1: the other lights come on. The bottom headlights come on. 366 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: When I try to turn it over, the bottom might 367 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 1: go off and nothing happens, no click, no nothing, no 368 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: rate radio won't come on, like the heater controls and 369 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: stuff will come on. The being in on the door 370 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: don't come on, and the marker light I don't need, 371 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: the gear selector does not show up. I've traced all 372 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: my ledged school as far as twelve votes. Grounds were good, 373 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,880 Speaker 1: hots are good. UM have some diagnostics on it, said, 374 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: The key switch communicates with the B c M b 375 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: C M to the E T M, but the E 376 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: s M is not connecting to the UH to the 377 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: starter relay. What fault code do you have? Chris? Quite 378 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: a few of them? You do you have those in 379 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: front of me? Does use zero one ring of bell um? 380 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: Maybe some of those that if I look them up, 381 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,959 Speaker 1: they was they were saying uh ignition. Mom said, um, 382 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: E C M. A lot of them said et M M. 383 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: He said the one guys, they just didn't seem like 384 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: there's something wrong with dc M is not communicating with 385 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: these certain things. The reason why the A B S 386 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: life soon because it's not getting communication or communication failure. 387 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: What sort of let me let me try and make 388 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: this easy for you, because I can hear the frustration 389 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: in your voice. What sort of SCANTL do you have? 390 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: Do you have one? I don't have one? So if 391 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: you had one, giving your reason to go buy one? 392 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: If if you had one and you had a fairly 393 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: good one, because it sounds like you're you're you're used 394 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: to fixing your own vehicles, and you're just you're just 395 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 1: looking for a path, all right. What we're what we're 396 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: talking about is an intermittent no crank, no start condition, right, 397 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: fair point. Forget about the dash lights and what lights 398 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: come on, and it's you know, if this is a 399 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: sixty three Chevy, that would be valid, all right, but 400 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: now it's not. Do you have a wiring diagram for 401 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: how this start circuit is wired? I don't, but I 402 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,360 Speaker 1: know I can downland one on the internet. Okay, Well 403 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: I can make it even easier for you if you 404 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: send me an email ron at card doctor show dot com. 405 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: I'll email you one, all right, because I think it'll 406 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: I think it will help you out. Um, this is 407 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: not This does not connect or is wired up any 408 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: way that you think it is. The ground control for 409 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: the starter relay actually comes out of the PCM and 410 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: it's it's it's really kind of unique. There is no 411 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: less than four, maybe five modules, depending upon how this 412 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: vehicle is equipped to give the e c M permission 413 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: to crank the vehicle over. Now, this vehicle could have 414 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: a or think it's going into an anti theft event, right, 415 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: It could think that somebody's trying to steal the truck. 416 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: So the problem here could be a theft issue. The 417 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: problem could be something as simple as the trans range switch, 418 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: automatic or stick. I didn't ask that question. Automatic could 419 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: be something as simple as it's not seeing it in 420 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: park or neutral, it's seeing it in reverse and it 421 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: won't let it crank. A bad neutral safety would do this. 422 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: A theft event would do this. Right. The guy said 423 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 1: that because I asked him about the neutral safety as well, 424 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: which is an avalve body on that one, and he 425 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: said it's communicating down marriage shows it's then part right, 426 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: he's what he's saying that when the fault occurs. I 427 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: guess this is a mechanic that's doing this, Yes, sir, Yeah, 428 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: I just wonder. I got when as far as I 429 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: could possibly go, and then I was like, all right, 430 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: I gotta get somebody to put it on diagnostic machine computer. Right? 431 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: And what does he say? The solution is? Has he 432 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: come to a conclusion? He says, em before we do 433 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: an e c M. All right, so this is a 434 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: repair shop where the car where the truck's at right now? Right, Okay, 435 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: So I'm trying to think of how I can explain this. 436 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: What do you do for a living? Chris? Okay, perfect um. 437 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: Do you ever get a scenario where they turned the 438 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: thermostat and the compressor doesn't come on? Y? What do 439 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: you look for? I just start tracking all vote wires, 440 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: make sure all my wires and stuff are connected correctly. 441 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: And you're looking for input commands, right. You're looking to 442 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: make sure that the the compressor is seeing the request 443 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: that the pressor has, it's seeing correct response from the 444 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: pressure switches and so on and so forth. Correct e 445 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: c M is doing the same thing. Now, a good 446 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 1: a good shop with a good scan tool can look 447 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: at those inputs so it doesn't become a guess. All right, 448 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: So if we're if we're able to, we can bring 449 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 1: this up on a scan tool. It's as simple as 450 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: You'll go into a scanner and you'll look for crank 451 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: request yes or no, ignition switch yes or no key 452 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: in ignition switch, yes or no. There'll be a series 453 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: of pigs related to crank enablement. It'll even say crank 454 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: enablement if I'm not mistaken, yes or no. If all 455 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,920 Speaker 1: those things line up and they all make sense, and 456 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 1: you'll you'll he'll be able to or you'll be able 457 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: to see the difference. Key off. What does it say, 458 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: turn the key on? Yeah, it says crank enabled. Yes, 459 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: key in ignition. Yes, is the key in the ignition? 460 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: If the keys in the ignition and it says key 461 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: in ignition. No, Okay, it's missing an input, right, it's 462 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 1: it's it's like you looking at it looking at an 463 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: input for a compressor. Well, I turned the thermostat on. 464 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: I've got every other signal coming in. I don't have 465 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: I don't have a voltage signal coming in off the thermostats, 466 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: which is either a broken wire or a bad stat 467 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: All right, I'm sure you've sat there many a time 468 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: and tricked the compressor into coming on but providing an 469 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: alternate signal, and you go, well, the compressor is good. 470 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: I got no signal. It's this way going backwards, not 471 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: this way going forwards. Right, you're with me, Yeah, And 472 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: that's the way I deal with the starter relaybel got 473 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: that rolling over. Uh. I wasn't seeing no fire, and 474 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: I'm I'm thinking old school, and I'm like, oh, this 475 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: gonna be the cool, and I wasn't thinking no. As Still, 476 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: the computer has to call it cool, that's right, well, 477 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: it does. So do this if you're if you're and 478 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: don't misunderstand the way I'm saying this, because it sounds 479 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: like you're smart enough. If you're smart enough to go 480 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: down to the starter relay in the underhood fuse box, 481 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: go to pin eighty six. Pin eighty six is the 482 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: yellow black ground leg off the PCM. When you put 483 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: this in start and it doesn't start, is that ground 484 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: it does it ground the relay? If if if it 485 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: grounds the relay and the vehicle doesn't start, you've now 486 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: eliminated that back half of the circuit. You're now working 487 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: on starter relay going forward, all right, And that means 488 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: either starter relay, starter, the physical wire between the relay 489 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: and the fuse box, or the fuse box itself. All right. 490 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: Fuse boxes on the GM products are common, but you've 491 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: got to look at all the inputs and outputs before 492 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: you condemn anything, all right. And that's why and that's 493 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 1: why I say using a scan tool. If I'm I 494 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: just went through this. As a matter of fact, if 495 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: you go to my website, all right, go to go 496 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: to car doctor show dot com. There's gonna be a 497 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: video they're talking about a Chevy traverse if I'm not 498 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: mistaken or it might have been a GMC, and it 499 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: will walk you through how I did it, talking about 500 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: fuse box inputs, and it will show you my headlight 501 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: trick to see if the vehicle will crank or not. 502 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: And I think that will help you to understand what 503 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: you're chasing. And that wiring diagram is very similar. Do that. 504 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: Talk to your guy, call me back next week if 505 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: you need more. All right, kiddo, all right, you'd be well, 506 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Hey, Zero, the car doctor is 507 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:41,479 Speaker 1: coming back. Don't go away. Welcome back, Ron and at 508 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: your service, let's get over to Danny in Arizona. Danny, 509 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car Doctor. How can I help? Hello? Well, 510 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: I have a two thousand one diesel um GMC fell 511 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: and I got a notification from on Star, which I'm 512 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: not even signed up for, but it gives me a 513 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: notification every month and it tells me that the diagnostic 514 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: report on your diesel needs to have the death serviced 515 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: as soon as possible. The deaf fluid d E f 516 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: right diesel exhaust fluid. So do you get the warning 517 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: on your dashboard? Okay, so you're getting you're only getting 518 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: it from Monstar, not the vehicle. Correct. How many miles 519 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: are on this about thirty thousand? Has the death system 520 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: been maintained? Have you added fluid and all? And it's 521 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: been serviced recently? Oh? Definitely. Well I've added fluid, that's all. 522 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: I've never done ye, So you know, I don't believe 523 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: the I don't believe the messages I get from on Star. 524 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: I'll believe the messages from the vehicle. And I think 525 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: that's an on Star question. Listen. I've got a twenty 526 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: two Silverado, a gas truck, and I went, I programmed 527 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: two extra keys, and I got a notice from on 528 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: Star that my vehicle was being stolen, you know, And 529 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: I'm going, really, you mean the one I'm sitting in 530 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: in my park a lot um. You know. So I 531 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: don't necessarily believe what on Star tells me. On Star 532 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: is not the deal or on Star is just a 533 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: collection data point and for some reason, you know, they've 534 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: they've got that information. If the vehicle is not reporting it, 535 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: I don't know where on Star would be getting it from, 536 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: so I would question its validity. I would at least 537 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: do a scan, you know, if you don't own a 538 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: scan tool, and I don't mean just O B D two. 539 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: I mean I want you to go in your make, 540 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: model specific and do a complete system scan and just 541 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: report everything as just normal maintenance. And I want to 542 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: encourage everybody you know going forward. As cars getting more complicated, 543 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: I think we've got to you know, it's like every 544 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: time you go to the you go to the eye doctor. Nowadays, 545 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: they just don't want to do your heart rate and 546 00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: blood pressure right. Every time you go to a doctor 547 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: for anything, it's heart rate and blood pressure. I think cars, 548 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: I think cars have gotten to the point now you 549 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: go in for an oil change, they should be doing 550 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: a complete vehicle scan on newer vehicles. Uh. It keeps 551 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: the shop protected. It also makes a shop aware of 552 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: what's going on, and it makes you aware. I don't 553 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: know that you have a problem, Danny, I'm not. I'm 554 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: not convinced. You know, if if there's no warning on 555 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: the dash because your vehicle looking your owner's manual, I'm 556 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: almost certain you're going to see when you look under 557 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: instrument indicators or dashboard indicators, there's going to be a 558 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: service deft diesel exhaust fluid warning lamp and it will 559 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: tell you what to do and if you haven't seen that, 560 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 1: I think on Stars wrong. Proved me, proved me wrong. 561 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: You know, I would tell them, call up on Star 562 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 1: and say, why am I getting this ahead. My other 563 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: problem with it was I was my wife and I 564 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,160 Speaker 1: were camping. We're up in UM I think Williams or whatever, 565 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: and my wife started the vehicle to back it up 566 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: to hook it up to with our fifth wheel, and 567 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: I'm behind it and she said, there's a problem with 568 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: the on the dashboard. It's indicating that the um airbag 569 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 1: could deploy at any time. I'm saying, what what are 570 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: you talking about? So called? It was a new vehicle, 571 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 1: it was only a couple of months old at the time. 572 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 1: So we called the dealership and the dealers said, well, 573 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: first of all, we don't have any parts for the 574 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: stupid thing. Uh, it's probably an error in the computer. 575 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, I have to drive home, 576 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: and if I'm on the seventeen and the airbag goes off, 577 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: that's not a nice, nice feeling. You know, fourteen thousand 578 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: pounds behind it a big If the airbag doesn't go off, 579 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: God forbidden, you're in an accident exactly. But you know 580 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: it wound up. It was a computer. Uh, they upgraded 581 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: the computer. I don't see how they can upgrade a 582 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: two month old vehicle, but they upgreated the computer and 583 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: it went away. But it's something else has happened, which 584 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: I can't recall at this point. But I thank you 585 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: so much, and I will have a scan done, and uh, 586 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: I want my family's faith, and I wouldn't want and 587 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: I would, I would, I would scan it with the dealer. 588 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: I would. I would take that on star report into 589 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: the dealer and show it to them and say, here's 590 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: what generated my complaint because in my mind, that's got 591 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: to mean the vehicles under warranty and you shouldn't have 592 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: to pay for it. You guys instigated this, you guys 593 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: started this. You got me in this mess, brother, Now 594 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: get me out as your attitude right on the warranty. Unfortunately, 595 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,080 Speaker 1: Well that's an emission. This is this, this is technically 596 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: this is an emissions complaint right deaf Fluid as part 597 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: of the emissions program. And I think it runs longer 598 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: than bumper to bumper, so you could enquire. So let's 599 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: see where that goes. All right, call me back. I'm 600 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: curious if you get a good answer with you. Let's 601 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 1: let's let's hear the answer. Let's let's put on star 602 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: on the spot so you'd be well enjoy your truck. 603 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,959 Speaker 1: Thank you, Danny. We you're very welcome, sir, You're very welcome. Hey, 604 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: five five zero zero, Ronaninny and at your service. I'll 605 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: be back right after this. Hang, I guess this is 606 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: the part of the show where I have to say 607 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: something witty and intelligent. The close things out might be 608 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: difficult for me, no pun intended. And I guess I 609 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: want to tell you the story. I went to dinner 610 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: this week Thursday night, this past week with a new 611 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: group of gentlemen. Um. You know, I I am looking 612 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: for stimulating conversation, a little camaraderie, right Who doesn't you 613 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: know who isn't looking for that? In this day and age, 614 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: we're all kind of lonely and beat up at the 615 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: same time, even when we're with people, because the world 616 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: kind of beat you up. And yeah, a mix of people, 617 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: a construction worker, an appliance repair person, uh, an appliance 618 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: store manager, and a gentleman who runs a luxury Lexus 619 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: car dealership here in New Jersey. And then me, what 620 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: do I contribute to this group, but I'll try. And Alex, 621 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,840 Speaker 1: the gentleman from the Lexus dealer told me some interesting 622 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: things and he was really, you know, just a sharp 623 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: cat to listen to. And the biggest part of the 624 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: conversation was that Lexus and I read this also and 625 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: he verified it that Lexus Toyota has now cut off 626 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: dealership allocations. They don't know when their next supply is coming. Um. 627 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: The car shortages just just just terrible. It's off. Um. 628 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: I think we're off by a million and a half 629 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 1: cars total overall production this year. And you know, I 630 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,719 Speaker 1: drive by some dealerships. I've got more cars on the 631 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,959 Speaker 1: lot at the shop. I don't know how they're staying 632 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,239 Speaker 1: in business, the poor guys. It's you wonder what's going 633 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,920 Speaker 1: on here. Um. So if you're thinking of buying a 634 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: new car, you better do it soon. If you're thinking 635 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: of taking care of your old car, you better do 636 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 1: it soon. You better get a relationship with a mechanic. 637 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: You know, there's this guy on the radio. He's always 638 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 1: talking about the value of good mechanics and maintaining your car. Well, 639 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 1: this time like no other time. I can honestly tell 640 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 1: you that when it comes to mechanics. I'm on an 641 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 1: any in the car doctor telling you good mechanics aren't expensive, 642 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: they're priceless. They really are get one while you can 643 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: see you