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Speaker 1: well a couple of things. Actually, we're gonna be giving

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Speaker 1: away a Wicks hot rod this week. Um, fellas, where's

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Speaker 1: not Tom, Tom, Tom, what So just tell Tony the

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Speaker 1: the next two hours are going doing that giveaway, folks.

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Speaker 1: I help? Hey? What's up? Ryan? Hey? You know what's cooking?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen this truck, Ronnie? I've seen it in pictures,

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Speaker 1: You know, you're buying a used car, and this is

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Speaker 1: it's systematic, it's hard, dramatic. What's greased? Lightning? Welcome back?

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Speaker 1: Wanted the name of the car doctor. Continuing on this hour.

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Speaker 1: really gets me is because I can go through and

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00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 1: diagnos you know, make sure you know it's not a

425
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,399
Speaker 1: head problem or it's maybe not flowing ride. But really

426
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: what stumps me is whenever I'm going to a stoplight

427
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: and I'm approaching the stoplight, as I apply the brake pressure,

428
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 1: it will surge from a thousand to fifteen hundred. As

429
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: soon as I get to the red light and make

430
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: a complete stop, it doesn't surge. It only does it

431
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: when I approached the red light. Well, which which problem

432
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: are you trying to deal with? The overheat of the surge.

433
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: I think the overheat is causing the surge. What what

434
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: temperature did? It used to run at one seventy eight

435
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 1: six to about one So you've picked up fifteen degrees

436
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: in the last whatever. It is a couple of months

437
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: when this problem started. All right, So then I'm gonna

438
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,720
Speaker 1: go back. So okay, so let's let's talk about what

439
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: what we know is good? All right? Um, the way

440
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 1: I would approach this is a hot rod, we know

441
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: it's not. You know, I don't know if you have

442
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 1: different sized pulleys on on on different components. You know,

443
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: none of that matters. Um. You know from a tuner perspective,

444
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: you know you've got your horsepower set up right. This

445
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 1: is a this is a belt motor, correct timming belt motor,

446
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: so you know water pumps, timing, belt driven. Um, you

447
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: haven't modified anything there, or even if you have, it

448
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: was working for two and a half years. So we

449
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 1: can kind of rule that out all right. Uh, you

450
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: know when you say you've made sure that the head

451
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: gass it is good, what have you done to verify that.

452
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 1: I have got a head check. I have checked from

453
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: the pan side, from the top of the radiator, I've checked.

454
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,959
Speaker 1: I've checked that. I've checked from the top of the

455
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: head itself. I've checked the oil. I've kept it maintained. Um,

456
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: do you want a cooling system pressure tester? That's funny.

457
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: I actually want to to try that and the pressure tester.

458
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: I went up to my local, I went to Old Riley's.

459
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: I got the pressure tester. I went out and I

460
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: hooked up the adapter, and from not the radiator to

461
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: the adapter, but from the adapter to the actual equipment itself,

462
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: it leaked. So I'm gonna I was planning on doing that,

463
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: but I couldn't get there. Well, here's here's what I

464
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,920
Speaker 1: want you to do. I want you to pull the plugs,

465
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: all right. This is this this this was a four

466
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: or six. I forgot what we say, right right? Oh,

467
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: it's thermostats, right, yeah, So let's pull the plugs all right.

468
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: Pressurize the cooling system. Let it sit overnight, all right? Pressurized? Yeah,

469
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: all right, um, leave the plugs out and in the

470
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 1: morning when you before you started, maybe you can slowly

471
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: crank the cylinders over, bring the pistons up top. Look

472
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: at the top of the pistons with a flashlight. If

473
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: you have a board scope, that would be better. Do

474
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: you see any coolant in the cylinders? Right, it's gonna

475
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: go through. It's gonna go through a thermal cool down.

476
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna you know, you're gonna change state

477
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: on the on the gasket itself. It's gonna sit overnight

478
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: under pressure. Hey, you know what if a head gask

479
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: it can go more than eight hours without a change

480
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: of state, especially during a cool down, and not put

481
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 1: any cooling on the cylinders. And I gotta think you

482
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: don't have a cool I don't think you do anyway,

483
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 1: but I want to eliminate that as a possibility. All right,

484
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: but that would be that would be the way to

485
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 1: do it. The other thing you could do, although this

486
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: is in cases of extreme is just keep in mind

487
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: that engine is a big air pump. If you were

488
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: to take the radiator cap off and crank the engine

489
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: over cold in the morning, does it shoot any coolant

490
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: out of the radiator. No, it does not. I've tried that. Okay,

491
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: So you know, like I said, I don't think you've

492
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: got to head guests an issue where I just want

493
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: to eliminate it. So that's out the window. You've probably

494
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 1: changed the thermostat more than a few times already. Right, Yeah,

495
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 1: So that's out the window. All right. Um, you know,

496
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: unless you've got and I've never seen a hon to

497
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: do this, but I want to mention it. Unless you've

498
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: got a water pump where the impeller is loose on

499
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: the shaft or the impeller itself is worn and it's

500
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: not flowing correctly. All right. Uh, you know how old

501
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: is that water pump? It's in there. I'd say the

502
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: whole kit whenever I did the time and built, never

503
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: thinking gates, is probably about six and a half months.

504
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: Well you know that one, That one we won't know

505
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: unless you physically take it apart and look at the impeller.

506
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: And and the way I would get to that is

507
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: we've got to start to eliminate some of the known

508
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: good so we can, you know, figure out what's bad. Um.

509
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 1: I like the idea about flow. I like the way

510
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: you're thinking. All right, So if I'm concerned about flow,

511
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: I've got to think about how's the water pump moving

512
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: coolant and what kind of shapes the radiator in. That's

513
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: what I was coming to a conclusion. I've done the caps,

514
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, I've done the thermostats, you know here recently

515
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 1: done the water pump. So I'm I'm getting to the point.

516
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: My radiator has been in the car since it was

517
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: an original car. So it's it's pretty old. It's the plastic.

518
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: It needs the aluminum, right well, And and look at

519
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: look at this too. Is the plastic you know, that's

520
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 1: a black plastic radiator. What what color is the plastic?

521
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: Is its starting to turn brown? No, it's it's staying

522
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: the black. It's a little faded, right they and you know,

523
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: And the reason I ask is because with these plastic

524
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: radiators on any of the cars today, when you see

525
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: the plastics start to fade, the the the oil has

526
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: comeing out of the plastic and they're getting brittle, it's

527
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: a sign of age and and it it becomes a

528
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: case of, you know, maybe this is the time to

529
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: change it. Regardless, it would be neat and and here's

530
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: a here's a here's a great use of this tool.

531
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: Snap On makes them, I think Fluke makes them. A

532
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: bunch of companies make them now as thermal imagers where

533
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: you you know, get the vehicle off the operating temperature

534
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: and a thermal imager will just show you temperature by

535
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: section and if if there's right, if there's hotspots there

536
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: where you know you're not getting flow or you're you're

537
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: you've got a restriction, it will it will tag it

538
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: one to three. We use a thermal imager in the

539
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: shop now, we've we we purchased one within the last

540
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: year and I've used it on a bunch of different

541
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: applications and it sure makes diagnosed and easier. But I

542
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: think you're down to you're either dealing with radiator or

543
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: a water pump. Something's not giving you flow. I agree

544
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: with that, and um, I think you've got to attack

545
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: it from one of those two angles. Pick your poison, right.

546
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: If I was to, let's say, if I go when

547
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: I get like the Mishimoto and uh aluminum half size

548
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: so I can get a little bit more flow going

549
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: to the headers, what would you say if I was

550
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,479
Speaker 1: to put my span on my radiator as close as

551
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: I can get it I think that would help out

552
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I don't think it's gonna matter,

553
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: and again, you won't know until you try. But here's

554
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: the here's the problem I've got with any of this.

555
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: Anytime I work on the hot rod, all right, I've

556
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: got a fifty five Chevy tudor anytime I work on that,

557
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: all right, if I've got a problem, I never make

558
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: any changes until I fix the original problem, because I

559
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: don't know what known good is until I until I

560
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: get two known good I can kind of walk myself

561
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: down the path because then I start to change this,

562
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: and I changed this, and I change this, and you know,

563
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: I go all the way out on the end of

564
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: the tree limb until I find out I made a

565
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: mistake three steps back, and then I've got to get

566
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: back to that in order to go forward. So fix

567
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: the overheat first, and then start talking about all these

568
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: little changes and tuning and things that you want to

569
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: do to see a kind of important performance improvement. You

570
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: get to it, all right, do that, Joshua. The clock

571
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: is gonna take me. I went way over this segment.

572
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you've got my number. Give me a

573
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: call if you need more information. Listen, know how you

574
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: make out, and we'll be glad to help keep you

575
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: going with this zero. The car doctors coming back right

576
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: after this. Hey, welcome back. Why don't you need the

577
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: car doctor. Let's real quick. Get over to Maui, Hawaiian.

578
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: Talk to Walters on the phone. Walter, you're there, sir.

579
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey? I still trying to get the

580
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: courtesy lights to work on my corvette. Um, this is

581
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: the equivalent of your hot ride to me my corvette

582
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: and I want everything to work on it, but I'm

583
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: at a loss. I thank you for sending this wiring diagram.

584
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: It is so much better than the factory service manual

585
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: one from pro Demand. Is that a service I can get?

586
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: Or is that well, that's that's actually Mitchell. That's Mitchell

587
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: pro Demand. And the nice thing about Mitchell, and there's

588
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: a lot of nice things about Mitchell and Pro Demand,

589
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: is they take the factory diagram and they'll redraw it

590
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: and they kind of put it in English so to speak,

591
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: and they standardize it. This is one of the things

592
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,959
Speaker 1: I love about Mitchell in that they take the complicated

593
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: wiring diagrams and they make them all the same, so

594
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: that they're much easier to understand and relate to. So

595
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: if you can read one, you can read the next,

596
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. Oh yeah, they just

597
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: make it so much easier. Yeah, it's listen if you

598
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: if you really want to see how where they where

599
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: they shine, go look at a Volkswagen wiring diagram and

600
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: from factory and then go look at how Mitchell does it,

601
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: and you go, wow, it makes sense. So but anyway,

602
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: what can I do? I gotta say it ain't that

603
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: much better? Um, what do you The question is that

604
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: it doesn't work? I followed. I could almost redraw this

605
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: wiring diagram by memory. I've looked at it so much,

606
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: both of magnifying glasses and everything. I cannot find work.

607
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: I'm just at a loss. You open the left door,

608
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: they don't work. You open the right door, they do work.

609
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: You turn on the dash switch, they do work. Um.

610
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: And back when I did the original diagnosis, uh, you know,

611
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: and you mentioned when your email that it may have

612
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: been modified, there's no sign whatsoever that either one of

613
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: those door panels had been off since it left the factory. Um,

614
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: so I don't think there's been any modifications. But if

615
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: if memories if memory serves me. Correct, Walton, I've only

616
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: got a minute, um, and I'm sorry. Maybe we can

617
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: talk about this again, uh, you know a little later. Um.

618
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: But doesn't the left side wiring? Isn't it different left

619
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: to right? Isn't there a relay involved in the left

620
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: side versus the right side? The well? According to the

621
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: one the best I can find, there is only one

622
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: relay associated with it and it works. But isn't it

623
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: is it on both sides of the circuit? Yes? Okay,

624
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: have you traced the wires from the door jam switch

625
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: back to the control. In other words, the ground you've

626
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: got You've got power there, right, you had power across

627
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: on the one side. Here. Here's the thing with the switch,

628
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: there's no the switch provides a ground. I'll tell you what, Walter, Walter, Hey, Walter,

629
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,239
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Sit tight. Let me pull over

630
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: and do this now so I don't have to rush

631
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: it later. Um. We'll be right back to you. I'm

632
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: run on any of the car, doctor, don't go away, hey,

633
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: running of the car doctor. We're back. Let's get right

634
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: into it, Walter. You're there, sir, Yes, I got about

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00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: two and a half minute, so let's let's dump right

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00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: jump right into it. Which VIN is this? This is

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00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: a VIN J or NP motor. This is a J. Okay,

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00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: So this is a J. So this has a relay

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00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: because the VNP was the simpler version. All right, So

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00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: this is a J motor. The relay that it shows

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00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: on the thing you know on the wiring diagram is

642
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: after the control module. Okay, And so the switches both

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00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: go directly to the control module. Okay. And does the

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00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: wiring diagram I sent you match the vehicle? Yes, it does,

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00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: all right. If you go to if you go to

646
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: the door jam switch on the left side, test across

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00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: it and do the same thing to the right side.

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00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: Because of the same in the diagram, do you get

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00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: the same result? No? When I do the right I'll

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00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: be I'll be quick when I do the left one.

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00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: When you temporarily ground there's no power to either wire.

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00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: You temporarily ground it. It works according to respects. It

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00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: comes for thirty seconds. Okay. So then I'm thinking, you

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00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not gonna be able to do this

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00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: in the time I got Walter, are gonna have to reconnect?

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00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: How about we do this same badtime, same channel? Uh

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00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: um A little bit after the news at the top

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00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: of the hour, Why don't you stay put where you

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00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 1: are and we'll finish this up, all right, sir, don't

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00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: go away, and we'll kind of go from there. I'm

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00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: monea aating the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: See she was come to temper b