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Speaker 1: What is new? What does new stand for? Right? Never? Ever? Um,

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Speaker 1: It can't be broken again. Air conditioning is air conditioning.

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Speaker 1: there on Facebook that Maria wrote in. She said, Ron,

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Speaker 1: there's an advertisement in my local newspaper turning in any

426
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: for an oil change. And she recognizes the fact. She says,

427
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: I can't even buy the oil and filter and do

428
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: it for that price. So I wrote back, I said,

429
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: and you have to our Marie. I'm sorry, Marie, you

430
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: have to ask yourself what corner are they cutting, what

431
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: part of taking proper care they're compromising to do it

432
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: for that price, and how much of an upsell are

433
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: they doing to make it worthwhile for them. So my

434
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: suggestion was, and now you know, I think we should

435
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 1: all do this, even though you have to watch because

436
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: some of the twentil change places say up to a

437
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 1: certain amount of quarts of oil. But if they don't,

438
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: let's take him a new corvette. I think new corvettes,

439
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: they are they eleven or sixteen quarts of oil or

440
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: so it's some crazy number. Let's just take them the

441
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: most exotic thing we can and say, hey, change the

442
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: oil on this for and they can't do it. So Um,

443
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: evidently the twentil change comment has really got everybody talking.

444
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: Uh so just um, just just be mindful of what

445
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 1: you got going on. Jeez, I don't know what do

446
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: we want to do next. I've got more here, he's

447
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: got it. I got an email from Maury. I've got

448
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: a Mitchell one Shure track fix. I want to talk

449
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: about Cummings as an art well, about the combustion engine

450
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: that could run any fuel. Um, there's an awful lot

451
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: going on. I'll tell you what. We've got the phones

452
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: backed up, I've got lay pull over and take a

453
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Speaker 1: pause and do that, and then we'll come back and

454
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Speaker 1: we'll kick off the next segment. I'm Ronny in the

455
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Speaker 1: Car Doctor at eight five five five zero nine zero zero.

456
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back,

457
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: ron Name the car Doctor here at five five zero zero.

458
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Speaker 1: Let's get on over to Sean in Maine with a

459
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: fifteen gmc savannah. Sean, welcome to the Car Doctor, sir.

460
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey, Ron, thanks for taking my call.

461
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: I got a two thousand, fifteen gmc savannah, and I

462
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: get a bit of a bit of noise in the morning,

463
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: in particular when I started out, And my biggest worry

464
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: is a hundred and ten I was a mile. Should

465
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: I be changing that belt as well as any idol

466
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: of Pulley or whatever. Well, you know that if the

467
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: noise is from that, well let me let me answer

468
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: the question this way. If it's the original belt, in

469
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: my mind, it's due all right. The belts do last longer.

470
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: The rubber today is very different than what it was

471
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: ten and fifteen years ago. We don't look at the

472
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: belts for cracking anymore. We actually can measure There are

473
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: gauges out there that we can use that a repair

474
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: shop could use to measure how much the belt has

475
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: warned wears like a tire. Now it's a completely different,

476
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 1: greater level of rubber. But at seven years old, going

477
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: on eight years old, all those all those main winters,

478
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 1: you know, that's going to have some effect on the

479
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: longevity of the belt. And I think it's probably a

480
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Speaker 1: good safe idea to replace it. And while it's while

481
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 1: it's off spin the pulleys, listen, does anything sound dry

482
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 1: tension or I'd learned so on? Is that your noise?

483
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,199
Speaker 1: That's that's the second question, al right, because I can

484
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: recommend maintenance to you, but will that's solve your problem?

485
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: So what I would like to see you do is

486
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: and I'm very cautious about what I will spray on

487
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: a belt. Belt noise if it's truly belt noise happens

488
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 1: for uh, you know a few reasons. Okay, it could

489
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: be that the belt is drying up. It doesn't have

490
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: that um the word I always like to think about

491
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: is lubricity. It doesn't have that that softness or that suppleness.

492
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: To it anymore. It's just getting hard, like a rock

493
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: or something is contaminating the belt. Something has leaked onto

494
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 1: the belt, and it's making the belt surface gummy or noisy.

495
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: Belts are very susceptible to incorrect fluid on there. Or

496
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 1: Heaven forbid, you sprayed some kind of belt dressing on

497
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: trying to solve the problem, and now you've made it worse.

498
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: All right. So the only thing I like to spray

499
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Speaker 1: on a belt, and I don't do a lot of it,

500
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Speaker 1: is I'll get a little atomizer bottle, you know, a

501
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: little fush push, just a little, you know, hand spray bottle,

502
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: and I'll fill it with tap water. And when I

503
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Speaker 1: catch the vehicle in the act it's making that noise,

504
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: I'll put a little water on it. Just spray it

505
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: right on the belt. Does the noise change, pitch go away,

506
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: and so on. If it does, then I know it's

507
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: the belt. If it doesn't, I've got a problem somewhere else,

508
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: and I'll go looking for that. Now. Obviously, you've got

509
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: to be careful. You've got to gain access to the belt.

510
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: You gotta keep your hand away from the fan um.

511
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to spray water on the

512
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: belt while the fan is spinning and blowing the water

513
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: back in your face. So it's kind of an exciting time.

514
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: You haven't taken a shower that day, You're gonna get

515
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: one if you're not careful. Um, you know, you could

516
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: try shutting it off. If it's making noise, shut it off,

517
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 1: spray the water on the belt, try not to get

518
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: it anywhere else so that you're exact, you know, try

519
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: to put it in more of a solid stream and

520
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: then started up and sometimes that works too. But you know, yeah,

521
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta look at it. Why is it there?

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00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: It didn't do it when it was new. And if

523
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: the noise isn't belt related, all right, then you know

524
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: you've got to go looking for that source. Do you

525
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: have a water pump starting to fail? Do you have

526
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: a different pulley that's starting to fill l But you know,

527
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: now is a good time. Hundred and five thousand miles,

528
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: that truck is young. That truck will go another five

529
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: five to seven years easy with proper care and maintenance. Yeah,

530
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: that's that's my plan. Um. Yeah, another question, not having

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Speaker 1: to do exactly with this, but vehicles that have automatic

532
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: transmissions and don't have the dipstick. Is there a warning

533
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: light typically if you were to go low on transmission fluid?

534
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: Not on most vehicles, and I'm aware of some of

535
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 1: the higher end stuff General Motors does not. The warning

536
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: is when the truck stops. Great system, right, so you

537
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: know it's it's and you know, let me let me

538
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 1: say here and now let me let me let me,

539
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: you know, bring the conversation to a point here. As

540
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: far as you know what I change transmission fluid, I

541
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: would have changed the transmission fluid on that at sixty

542
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: That is gonna be a that's gonna be a deck

543
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: six vehicle. The the brand name for fluid that GM

544
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: wants you to use, it's a it's a semisynthetic or synthetic,

545
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: depending one whose book you want to read, UH type

546
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: of trans fluid. You know what I think changing trans

547
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: fluid on a regular basis for a vehicle you're planning

548
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: to keep is still the best way to ensure you

549
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: don't have to put a trans into it early on.

550
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: UM and I say that, here's a guy. As I've

551
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: said before in the past couple of shows. You know

552
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: my old four suburban fifty five thousand, miles. Puked the

553
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: trans at fifty five thousand miles and I changed the

554
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: trans fluid at thirty and I was about to change

555
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: it at sixty. Um. I think that was a case

556
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: of just something mechanical was on its way and nothing

557
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: I would do or was gonna do, would correct it.

558
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: But I think the odds, you know, the the you

559
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: change trans fluid, it puts the odds in your favor

560
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: of it puts the odds in your favor of longevity

561
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: for that vehicle. And I think that's what you want

562
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: to do, um, from a long term point of view.

563
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: So UM, just my perspective, appreciate the call shown. You'll

564
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: be well, let's go over to Jonathan and Mississippi and

565
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: see what's going on here. A fifty two was at

566
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Speaker 1: a Ford V eight Jonathan. Yeah, my friend has a

567
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: with the flathead V eight pretty much stock. We were

568
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: changing the oil a few days ago and we noticed

569
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: after we took the drain plug out and everything drained

570
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: out of the pan, when we moved the filter there,

571
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: it was still half full of oil in the housing.

572
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: Is that normal? I can't say I've changed oil in

573
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: a fifty for it anytime soon. Were you draining the

574
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: canister itself is located. We're in relation to the drain

575
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: plug of the pan. I'm trying to remember what this

576
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: set up looks like. Is the filter housing up top

577
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: or is it down low on the side. Yeah, it's

578
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: all There's a there's a separate housing up high, um,

579
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: sort of behind the eric cleaner high and it sort

580
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: of sits on top of where it attaches to the

581
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: cylinder head on the driver's side. And the entry and

582
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: exit point is where at the top of the canister

583
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: or at midpoint. I'm trying to remember what it looked like.

584
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: There's a metal line going to the top up high,

585
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: and then there's another line the bottom of the the

586
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: bottom of the house and it sort of shaped like

587
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: a cone. And there's another line coming out the bottom

588
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: that goes down and enters the block right above the

589
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: top of the oil pan on the driver's side. Is

590
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: your concern is that bottom line or what we'll call

591
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: the drain line restricted? Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

592
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: Because we had had the blug off a good half

593
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: an hour and all the so we went to change

594
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: the filter, there was all this dirty world in the housing.

595
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: I would I'm trying to recall how sophisticated they were

596
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: in fifty two. My concern is, or my thought is,

597
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: is there a check valve of some type to prevent

598
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: oil drain back? Because think about it. If you shut

599
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: the engine off when it was you know, at the

600
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 1: end of the day, and you went to start it

601
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: in the morning, if that drain line let everything drain out,

602
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: it's going to require the filter to be filled up

603
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: before it had adequate lubrication protection for the rest of

604
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: the engine. Sit tight a second. Let me pull over.

605
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: Take this pause, Jonathan. We'll finish this up when I

606
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: get back. I'm running any in the car. Doctor. Don't

607
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: go away, Hey, welcome back, Jonathan. You're still there running

608
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: antying the car. Doctor, don't go away there. Good. So

609
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: take that oil filter housing apart. I recalled this as

610
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: I was sitting here. Um, it's deceiving. That return line

611
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: looks like it's down at the bottom of the canister,

612
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: but it's not. They can't train oil all the oil

613
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: out of the oil filter housing because then every time

614
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: you would go to start it, you'd have to fill

615
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: the housing before you had oil flow through the system. Right,

616
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: So you'd start the engine for oil. If you if

617
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: you take that housing apart and look at how it's made.

618
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: If I remember, right, about two inches down or three

619
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: inches down from the top, there's a little tiny d

620
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: rain hole that's going to feed oil down through the

621
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: canister or through and down to that return line that

622
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: feeds the bottom of the engine block. All right, all that,

623
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: all that steel line is coming out of the canister.

624
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's a solid steel line, right. It

625
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: just looks like a piece of brake line. Right, Yeah,

626
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: that's all that is. I mean, you could take it

627
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: apart and blow through it, and you know, to your

628
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: heart's content, it's not that complicated. They didn't have a

629
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: check valve in fifty two, but that's where the idea

630
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: of oil filter drain back valves sort of evolved from.

631
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: Back in the fifties. They were worried about things such

632
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: as this, and so they put the return line. If

633
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: you look at it actually gets oil fed to it

634
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: from a very small hole in the side of the canister. Um,

635
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: so the canister only empties half to two thirds of

636
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: the way down, is my memory, and that's why it

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Speaker 1: doesn't do that. So then you have to wash the

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Speaker 1: canister out and all the sludge, so on and so forth. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you're doing it right, You're doing it right. We ended

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Speaker 1: up sighting all the old oil and wipe it down right,

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Speaker 1: and then when we put there, we put the new

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Speaker 1: pilter and we build it about halfway full of castro, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's the right way to do it. That's the

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Speaker 1: absolute right way to do it. So uh, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: might be, you know, I would you know, every time

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Speaker 1: we talk about oil and older cars, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a much longer conversation that we can have here. I

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Speaker 1: think that's fine if you want to give me a

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Speaker 1: call back next time and we can talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit more in detail, because I've got my own thoughts

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Speaker 1: about old, old car engines in the royal versus today's oils.

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Speaker 1: But you're doing fine and you're thinking, which is a

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Speaker 1: real good sign. So keep it up, Jonathan, enjoy the car.

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Speaker 1: I'm rounding Ady in the car doctor, reminding you until

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Speaker 1: the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. To

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Speaker 1: see you. She was star super