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Speaker 1: Ron and you can never assume and diagnosis. That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: You've got to do things step by step. It's painstaking

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Speaker 1: the time, the Car Doctor, I have a full three

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Speaker 1: Lincoln cound car that making a grumbling noise. One it's

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Speaker 1: about forty five miles goes the shift up. If you

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Speaker 1: Love the Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Ana the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your palls at eight

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Speaker 1: new car in the dry way. Do you do you

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Speaker 1: like it? Do you enjoy driving it? Is? It? Is

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Speaker 1: it everything to you? You know? Is it? Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: I love it so much. I'm really going to keep

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Speaker 1: this one a long time. Ain't not gonna happen. So

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Speaker 1: if you recall over the years I've been talking to

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Speaker 1: And if you recall over the summer, I was at

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Speaker 1: the local deli here in town at Wilkes and somebody

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Speaker 1: I said, hey, it's very nice. What are you gonna

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Speaker 1: you need some sort of something electronic that they don't

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Speaker 1: with maybe a little dramatic. El Dorado came into the

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Speaker 1: Eldo forty one thousand miles on it, just about jet black,

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Speaker 1: you know, sharp as as sharp as attack. Just a

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Speaker 1: nice car, but it's got this issue where you're driving

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Speaker 1: it and all of a sudden, the service stability Traction

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Speaker 1: The customer originally took it to the dealer, his local

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Speaker 1: what he was doing, because nothing I saw give me

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Speaker 1: codes being said, no mention of codes being retrieved, no

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Speaker 1: diagnostic steps being indicated. What was done? It was just

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Speaker 1: that found corroded connector, left rear wheel speed sensor, dielectric

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Speaker 1: and left rear wheel hub. Okay, well, the left rear

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Speaker 1: confidence in him. He said, he just didn't get that warm,

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Speaker 1: You know. Now, I don't always say, hey, this is

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Speaker 1: surely could have scoped it. I could have gone down

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Speaker 1: keeps whacking away against this computer control module, because that

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Speaker 1: be worried more about accurate connections. And I could have

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Speaker 1: right rear sensor. To prove that I was wired correctly,

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Speaker 1: And the beauty of this was I wasn't in any darrest.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about wires hanging and dangling and running

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Speaker 1: rear sensor and circuit up to connector four twelve, my

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Speaker 1: problem is not in the back of the car. The

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Speaker 1: really does. So now I've got to go forward. Now

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Speaker 1: module assembly itself, or the connector at the A B

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Speaker 1: S control module. It could be one of those three,

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Speaker 1: likely the A B S control module. They were common

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Speaker 1: to fail in this manner. Here's the problem. Before I

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Speaker 1: the research, and I said, I've done the research. This

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Speaker 1: part does not exist. And it's a shame because it's

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Speaker 1: a nice forty mile example of a nine El Dorado.

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Speaker 1: There's no reman, there's no autoparts available, there's there's used

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Speaker 1: other thing that made it a problem was when Joe's

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Speaker 1: So this has you know, there was one of two

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Speaker 1: right turn, all the good stuff doesn't exist anywhere. What

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Speaker 1: You know, Joe went to a repair shop and they

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Speaker 1: They lied to him. You know. I even had his cousin, Mike,

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Speaker 1: pack it to ron Ronald fix it. And I showed

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Speaker 1: Mike the connector for the left rear wheel speed censor

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Speaker 1: that was supposedly dielectric, greased and corroded, and it looks

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Speaker 1: the left ear, I showed him the right rear. I

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Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. He goes, it's not the sensors, No,

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Speaker 1: do you do? You know? I'm not saying get rid

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Speaker 1: that all these things now have finite value. The older

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Speaker 1: because they're very mechanical, they're very rebuildable. And you're going

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Speaker 1: One step, all right, The fuel pumps about the same.

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Speaker 1: procedure on removing that instrument cluster. That'll that'll pay for

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Speaker 1: that means one of the other two pieces are broken

428
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 1: or not working. So you know that's that's that's not

429
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,639
Speaker 1: for the faint of right controlled handle. You know, when

430
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 1: you push the different buttons, the LED lights up there

431
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: right because electrically, electrically everything is working. It's just a

432
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: question or a matter of it's electrically working. Mechanically, it's not,

433
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 1: and that's preventing it from, you know, moving the door

434
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: and doing what it's supposed to do. So go look

435
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 1: at those things. And like I said, if you even

436
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: information about the F two fifty, send me an email.

437
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,120
Speaker 1: I'll be glad to shoot you some of what I've

438
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: got so you'd be well. Joe and I appreciate the

439
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: call Alan Maryland hanging on their ninety nine Nie on CenTra.

440
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,560
Speaker 1: How can I help you today? He'll hi, Ron, thanks

441
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: for taking my call. And automotive education every week. Welcome

442
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 1: Buddy Center A two hundred sixty thousand miles. As you

443
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: would say, just broken in runs well, but it's developed

444
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: a weird issue. It's a distributor ignition and the little

445
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: bolt that holds the rotor onto the distributor shaft keeps

446
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 1: coming loose, and of course when that happens, the rotor

447
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: starts flopping around and the cards eyes. This has happened

448
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: to me twice. It's left me by the side of

449
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: the road. I take off the distributor cap and the

450
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: little boat falls down onto the floor. I don't know

451
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: what's causing this. Thing to come loose. The boat looks fine,

452
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: the treads aren't worn. There's a little split washer on it.

453
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,359
Speaker 1: The split washer looks fine. You know one edge is

454
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: higher than the other. The treads on the distributor shamp

455
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: look okay. When you tighten it, it seems fine. But

456
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 1: this has now happened twice, and um, have you ever

457
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: seen something like this? No, But what I would think

458
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: about doing is and not not to do lock tight.

459
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: I wouldn't use lock tight in this case because I

460
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. That'll that'll put it on

461
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: there permanently forever, and we don't want to do that.

462
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: Won't do that. But how about a dab of liquid teflon?

463
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,479
Speaker 1: White white, white, liquid teflon. It's gotta be liquid teflon.

464
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: If you read the contents of perma text liquid teflon,

465
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: Somewhere in there it mentions it's got a certain portion

466
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: of a lock tight lock like compound, and it will

467
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: it's not going to permanently lock it. But when I

468
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: want to keep something in place that I suspect is

469
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: loosening up for a reason that I don't know yet,

470
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: lock tight lock, I'm not lock tight. I'm sorry. Look

471
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: with teflon is my go to. And yeah, and white

472
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: or actual grease or something thick grease wouldn't be a

473
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: good idea. Well, thick grease has got no lock in compound.

474
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: Liquid teflon is actually gonna dry and become chalk like,

475
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: and it will provide substance if the threads are worn't

476
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: even though you may not be able to see it,

477
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 1: or if there's if there's something striking it. The other

478
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: thing I would do is I would take a little

479
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 1: bit of that liquid teflon, put it, I mean a

480
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: tiny drop on the threads, and I would put a

481
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: little dab around the head of the screw and let

482
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: it set. When you see, when you see the properties

483
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: of liquid teflon, you'll understand what I'm saying. Um. Once it,

484
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: once it drives in contact, it becomes I don't want

485
00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: to say rubbery like, and I don't want to say

486
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: gooey it. It just forms a solid lock of the

487
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: device to the other. It's really designed to seal threads.

488
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: We use it on drain plugs, on oil pans sometimes,

489
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: or transplants, things like that, but it's got a certain

490
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: locking element to it. We use it all the time

491
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: on water pump bolts that go into water jackets, and

492
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: it helps it helps lock up and provide a seal,

493
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: but it allows removal because it's not really a thread

494
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: locking compound. All right, it's it's it's it's more like

495
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: a glue, but it is. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

496
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,479
Speaker 1: Any other parts store should have it absolutely all right.

497
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: If you can't find it, you shoot me an email

498
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 1: rohnic Card Doctor show dot com and I'll send you

499
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: the part number. Um as a matter of fact, yeah,

500
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, let me just tell you this.

501
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: I know I've purchased it on Amazon, so I would

502
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: go on Amazon and just type in liquid teflon and

503
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: it'll come up under three m or perman text. I

504
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: think perma text, perma text liquid teflon. So ye, second question,

505
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: second question, Yes, okay, another Nissan centery. This one's the

506
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: two thousand and five. I've had it about two years.

507
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: This one's only got dred and ten thousand miles on.

508
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: It runs great. When you started up cold in the morning,

509
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: it starts up fine, idle, run side and it comes

510
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: down to normal. Everything's okay. You drive around fifteen twenty minutes,

511
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: everything's running fine. You stop at the store, turn it off,

512
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: go do whatever you gotta do. Come out. Fifteen or

513
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: twenty minutes later, you try to start it. You get cranked,

514
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: no start, and you can crank forever and it won't start.

515
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: You stop, You turn up the key off, try to

516
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: start it again. It starts right up. It does this

517
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: like at a time, always starts on the on the

518
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:46,239
Speaker 1: second shot. But uh doesn't want to start on the

519
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: first shot. After it's been you know, sitting for fifteen

520
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: or twenty minutes. You try to start it after it's

521
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: only been running, you know, like if you turn it off,

522
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: it's so if it's warm, you come back in five

523
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: or ten minutes, then it will start right up until

524
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: It's like the e c M has the right program

525
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: for a cold start, it's got the right program for

526
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 1: a hot start, but it doesn't have the right program

527
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: for a warm start. Okay, And this is starts on

528
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: the second shot, so I'm not too worried about it,

529
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: but it's kind of weird. This is this is an

530
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: O five with a one eight. Okay, sit tight, let

531
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: me get let me get this pulled over, and when

532
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: we come back from the break we'll talk about it.

533
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm run any in the car, doctor, don't go away? Yeah,

534
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: welcome back. Run name the car doctor, Al Maryland, you're

535
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: still there, sir. So. So when this goes into this

536
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: crank no start condition, do you recall does the security

537
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: light on the dashboard go out? Um blue lights on

538
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: a dashboard to find when you say the security light?

539
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: This should have this should have an anti theft system

540
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: if it does, think it does. Okay, So this is

541
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: a very base model, center. This is the base model.

542
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: Al right, So this is the x C absolute base model. Right,

543
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: just check it just to be sure because if it

544
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: does have if it does have security and it's going

545
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: into a security event, I don't want to miss something simple,

546
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: all right. Second thing, do you have a scan tool? Yes? Okay,

547
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: if you plug your scan tool and I know you've

548
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: checked for COD and you're gonna tell me there's none, correct,

549
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: all right. When it goes into this crank no start condition,

550
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: does it show cranking rpm? Yeah? Occasionally. That's a good

551
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: point because occasionally during this crank no start maybe only

552
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: five percent of the time, it will start, but it's

553
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: sort of bouncing, you know, it's like it's really low rpm. No, no, no,

554
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: not that for a few seconds, and then all of

555
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: a sudden, the RPM will come back to idle and

556
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: it will run right now. Don't want to happen maybe

557
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 1: five of the time. Well, I don't want to look

558
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: at the tack on the car. I want to I

559
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: want to know by scan tool. I don't want I want.

560
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: I want to know by scan tool. Do you have

561
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: cranking RPM? If you don't have If you don't have

562
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: cranking RPM, then the next thing I want you to

563
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: do is carry a spark tester in your pocket. And

564
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: you know, I believe we can access at least one

565
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: plug wire on this car, yes, to be able to

566
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's the plugs are embedded inside

567
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: the you know the heads. There's gotta be a way,

568
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: maybe carry a spare wire or something, and you know,

569
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,959
Speaker 1: some way, somehow check for spark. I need to know

570
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: do I have spark AM I missing sparker injector pulse?

571
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: All right? I thought about connecting the scan tool, driving around,

572
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: looking at everything before I turn it off, and then

573
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: looking at it while it's doing the cranking. No store

574
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: to see if you know, if the fuel sprims going nuts,

575
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: So the spark advance is going nuts and I haven't

576
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: done that. I think it's gonna be. I think it's

577
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: gonna be something simpler. L I think that you're going

578
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: to find this is likely either a cam or crank

579
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: sense or signal fault, and it's just it's just reacting.

580
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: They were, They were prone for this, you know, the

581
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: real Yeah, the snake in the woodpile, that could be there,

582
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: But I don't think so. Is every once in a

583
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: while you find one of these doing this, And if

584
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: the car is acting like it's flooded and it starts

585
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: with a whizz and a bang and a puff of smoke,

586
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna find. You're gonna find it's a cphead gasket

587
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: because that's what they did too, they pushed coolant into

588
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: the combustion chamber. But okay, then then I think you're

589
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: more along the lines of, you know, go back to basics.

590
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: Why doesn't it start? You know, if you have if

591
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: you happen to have propane and you're do it yourself

592
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: garage by now, or if you're listening to me all

593
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: these years and you can feed it some propane, you know, uh,

594
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: you know, can does it start? Does it start on propane?

595
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: If it fires up on propane. It's fuel. It's basic stuff, man,

596
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: fuel and ignition. That's all it's gonna be. So go

597
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: chase that. We'll go from there if you need more.

598
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: All right, kid, you're very welcome. You're very welcome, Sir,

599
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: you'd be Yeah, Let's let's keep it simple. It's not overcomplicated.

600
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: Oh and I forgot to tell al Al if you're

601
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: still listening, Tom looked it up for me. Perma text

602
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: makes the liquid teflon you're looking for. It's part number

603
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: fifty to fourteen, a little white tube and you can

604
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: kind of go from there. I'm run any in the

605
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: car doctor. I'll be back right after this. Don't go

606
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: away back or welcome back running the car doctor at

607
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: eight five five zero nine zero zero. I should point

608
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: that we haven't. I haven't said that this hour. I

609
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: like to do it once an hour. Is the five

610
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: zero zero phone number is seven, and obviously it's toll free.

611
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: You can call leave a message. If we're not on

612
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: the year, we're out on the airways Saturday afternoons to

613
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: to four pm East Coast time, but leave a message

614
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: and Tom Ray we'll call you back and get you

615
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: in the queue for the next live broadcast. I want

616
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: to finish this hour by telling you about the plow truck.

617
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: You know, my my new Chevy plow truck that I

618
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: went and had the plow and stall that um, they

619
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: kind of didn't do right. And the issue was that

620
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: they had used too wide of a spade terminal to

621
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: fit the small micro computer terminal that the vehicle had,

622
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: and they jumped across two pins at once and back

623
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: fed power up through the other leg and turn my

624
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: brake lights on for three weeks or two weeks, whatever

625
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: it was. And the issue I had was trying to

626
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: find a terminal small enough for a spade terminal that

627
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: was thin enough, that would have a grip, that would

628
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: stay where it was supposed to stay and do the

629
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: job it was supposed to do without you know, falling off.

630
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: You want to make sure it's gonna work. It's a

631
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: snow play, you're out there in bad weather, and uh,

632
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, it's an issue. The the concern became that

633
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: unless I was going to tap into the harness or

634
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: go down to the fuse box, which I don't like

635
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: to disturb things at a fuse box because while their

636
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: fuses and you know, the best you can do is

637
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: come up with those little hook arounds and the self

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Speaker 1: taps and and they're okay, but you know what, I

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00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: don't like the disturb connections like that. You find out

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Speaker 1: as the vehicle ages, all of a sudden, terminals get

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Speaker 1: spread and there's an issue. So what they had done

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Speaker 1: was they correctly. They did that much right. They found

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Speaker 1: an open junction block that wasn't used for accessories, and

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00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: they found switched ignition um which when I traced the

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Speaker 1: wire that they were on was the white purple led

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Speaker 1: back to the ignition swhich it was correct switched accessory.

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Speaker 1: They just used the wrong spade terminal. So what do

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Speaker 1: I do. Well, I went in the back room and

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Speaker 1: I've got I've got a wide assortment of what I

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Speaker 1: call micro terminals or small computer terminals that I would

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00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: use to repair various computer connectors on a bunch of

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Speaker 1: different vehicles GM, Ford, Chrysler, et cetera. And I found

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Speaker 1: one that actually fit the terminal just it just had

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Speaker 1: a nice drag to it. You could put it on

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Speaker 1: there and it went on it. It had nice tactle strength.

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Speaker 1: It just it wasn't going to fall off. It was

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Speaker 1: a good solid grip. The issue was. It was uninsulated.

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Speaker 1: So how do you insulate a non insulated terminal? I

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Speaker 1: crimped it, I soldered it, and then I went in

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Speaker 1: the back room and I found a piece of heat shrink.

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Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with it, maybe you are. Heat

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Speaker 1: shrink is a material that we put over open are

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Speaker 1: connections to insulate them from the weather. I found one

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Speaker 1: that just went over nice snug heat shrinked it heated it,

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Speaker 1: it formed right around, wrapped it like an envelope. Right

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Speaker 1: around that micro terminal went up and on in the connector.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be there forever and nothing bad is ever

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Speaker 1: gonna happen to it. So if you ever have to

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Speaker 1: make a connector and you've got to make it heat

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Speaker 1: insulated or insulated in heat proof heat shrink, it works

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Speaker 1: really well until the next time. I'm ron any in

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Speaker 1: the car doctor thanking you to be here until the

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Speaker 1: next time. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you