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Speaker 1: You're telling me the cooling fan doesn't come on. Yes,

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Speaker 1: That will close the relay. Okay. So if I take

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Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Welcome back? Why any of

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Speaker 1: you today? Jeremy, Welcome aboard, Hey Ron, thanks for taking

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's mine. Every vehicle I've had, every week

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Speaker 1: for a second here, Jeremy, I'm sorry. And and well,

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Speaker 1: what's the point And the same thing can be said,

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00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: The same thing can be said about what you're talking about.

425
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why. You don't know how many

426
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 1: times I look up at the shop and at the

427
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,199
Speaker 1: ceiling and go, why, all right, why? Why why do

428
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 1: we create this? You go through all the trouble to

429
00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: reproduce the part, and you can't get it that last

430
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: three or four and it's just very frustrated because you

431
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: then you're thinking, well, it can't be these because they're

432
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 1: brand new. But I thought there's nothing else left. Let

433
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: me just try the O E UM lines. But they

434
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: fit like a freaking glove. What does new stand? What

435
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: does new stand? What does new stand for Jeremy. Well

436
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: there were there we go exactly quick side note the

437
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: same vehicle. Um, I guess. A few months ago I

438
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 1: took the bed off the back to pop a new

439
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: fuel pumping this thing, um and that worked fine. But

440
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: when I was putting the bed back on, I got

441
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: a little over zealous with my cordless impact and one

442
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:50,439
Speaker 1: of the eight bed bolts got stripped out. What do

443
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: you think the best I've got a couple of options.

444
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: One of them is just to ignore it and go

445
00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: with the seven that are still working. Yeah, but you

446
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: won't be able to sleep at night. Yeah, that's just

447
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: the kind of person I am. Sad Like, could I

448
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: just get an you know what I mean? You'll be haunted? Yeah,

449
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: it'll just be like I'm gonna have a load of

450
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: mulch in the back and then the bed's gonna break off.

451
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: You can I just get an oversized bolt? Would that

452
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: be the way to go? And try sticking it up

453
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: through there? I'm trying to think of what it looks like,

454
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 1: you know, is it threaded into is it a blind

455
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: nut threaded into the frame? Correct? It goes up, It

456
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,679
Speaker 1: goes through the frame and into the box. So the

457
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: boxes on top of the frame. Bolt goes up and

458
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: there and there's no nut or anything. It just is

459
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: threaded into the box. Okay, So is there is there

460
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: a way it is it threaded into the box or

461
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: it's threaded into the frame. It's threaded it into the

462
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: They go from the top to the box. No, it's

463
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: bottom up, bottom up. Another goes through the frame into box.

464
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: And I guess that's where i've you know, metal must

465
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: know a little too soft. Cheesy door, just cheesy brother.

466
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: So so so why can't we get a different bolt

467
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: instead of using a hex head bolt? What if you know,

468
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: like my Ford Ranger, the bolts go the other way.

469
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: They come from the top down, and it is it

470
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: is a shoulderless, rounded radius bolt head with a torque

471
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: fitting in the middle. And what if I went from

472
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: the top down and put a nut down on the

473
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: frame side. Well, you know, sillier things have been done.

474
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: I kind of hate to chop a drill a hole

475
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: in the bed, but like you said, I mean, dumber

476
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: things have been done before. Well you know, if you

477
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: if you did that, okay, because if I understand you right,

478
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: the nut is in the body of the bed, um

479
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: the nut. You can't even see it in the bed.

480
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: It's like these little uh the squared rectangular tribe. Well

481
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, right, yeah, So if we

482
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: metal thread and since this is a since this is

483
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: a work vehicle right as a work truck, it's not

484
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: a trailer queen. Uh you know, if we if we

485
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: did it from the top down and then painted the

486
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: head of that bolt, go go and I shouldn't even

487
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: tell you about this stuff because you'll be painting the

488
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: truck all night long. Go find a court of Benjamin

489
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: more low luster alkalid that you're always gonna be talking about.

490
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: It's a rust inhibitor, and just paint the top of

491
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: the bolt and then you could just get some rattle

492
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: can paint the match the color of the bed and

493
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,239
Speaker 1: you're done. Um, you call it a day, and just

494
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: you know you'll sleep better. I mean that's that's and

495
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,479
Speaker 1: and you know there again, why did GM do it

496
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: that way? How cheesy is that to be bolts going

497
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: into sheet metal? Right right? Right? Here's just you know,

498
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: I love the L S engine and I liked that

499
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: just four I have the four L sixt transmission. Man,

500
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: if you just if you really take care of them.

501
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: They do you right, but it's just stupid little Here's

502
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: here's the takeaway, all right, and then I'm gonna go.

503
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: I I said to myself twenty two years ago. I

504
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: still remember the day and date I said it, that

505
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 1: the industry is changing. I was a young mechanic. I

506
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: was just about to enter into the new building on

507
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: Prospect Street, and I said to myself, the industry is changing,

508
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: and we're going to see a way in which the

509
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 1: aftermarket comes to do business, and in that the manufacturers

510
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: are going to be using the same manufacturers. The vehicle

511
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: manufacturer are gonna be using the same parts manufacturers that

512
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: NAPA and everybody else is using. Okay, so I really

513
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: believe those power steering hoses from NAPA and everybody else

514
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: are made on the same assembly line as GM four

515
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: because there's only so much manufacturing capacity in the world,

516
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: and it's it's just the way they're built to spec. Now,

517
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's not to say GM spec is any

518
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: better than NAPAs. NAPAs don't fit in GM's leak. I

519
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: don't know what the answer is, um, but but there

520
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: are there are some cases where the aftermarket outshines the

521
00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: oe manufacturer. By four. Right, That's why I decided to

522
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: give him a chance because guaranteed. And then there's some cases,

523
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: there's some kids, listen, I wouldn't give a hoot for

524
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: a Delco break pad and rotors set up because Delco

525
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: is one of the most watered down parts lines I've

526
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: ever seen. In some cases in terms of breaks, they're

527
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: just there. There's there's too many choices. You gotta know

528
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: what you're buying. But then again, there's some after market

529
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: break companies PTC and Dura great pads and rotors. I

530
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: use them all day long, like like a one percent problem.

531
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: That's that's something that's unheard of. So anyway, I gotta go.

532
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking against the clock, Jeremy, as always, sir, I

533
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: enjoyed the time you. You stay safe down there Washington

534
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: d C Way, and you call back any time, brother,

535
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: you take good care. I'm running any of the car Doctor.

536
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Welcome back right on any

537
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: of the car Doctor, real quick from the Car Care Council.

538
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: I want to tell a little bit about well, the

539
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: fact that vehicles have been sitting for a length of time. Now,

540
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: they've been uh um right with everybody in quarantine. The

541
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: Car Care Council is issue to press release and they

542
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: talk about cleaning the car, and you know what, I

543
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: couldn't agree with them more the fact that you know,

544
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: it's before we start driving our vehicles again. How clean

545
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 1: are they? You know, we want to make sure that

546
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: the exterior is clean. Wash it, wax it, make sure

547
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: you get all the schmutz off the windshield, all the

548
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: dead bugs, all the whatever that's been collected. You may

549
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: want to think about scraping and cleaning the glass, uh,

550
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: you know, using a razor blade, a single edge razor

551
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: blade and some good heavy ammonia based cleaner. Make sure

552
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: that way you're not scraping dirt into the rubber of

553
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: the wiper blades, and it will help that vehicles be

554
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: safer when you travel on down the road and deep clutter.

555
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: All right, You want to make sure that you know,

556
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, maybe you've been sort of

557
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: throwing things in the car. I gotta take this here

558
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: and that there and this over to Mom's when I

559
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: get a chance to get out of the house. And

560
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: maybe the inside of the car has more stuff in

561
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: it than the inside of your house. So you want

562
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: to make sure that you know, the car sort of

563
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: looks like a car. Clean the interior all right, as

564
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: the Car Care Council says, make sure you're thoroughly clean

565
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: the interior, wash the windows and cleaning. Put the floor

566
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: mats back in place. Make sure you secure the floor

567
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: mats where they're supposed to go so nothing gets jammed

568
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: under any pedals or people don't trip getting in and

569
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: out of the car. You want to obviously give the

570
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: interior a good cleaning, and you want to wax it.

571
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: You know, you should be waxing your car twice a

572
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: year and take a look. You know, this is for

573
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: overall vehicle condition. You want to take a look at,

574
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, any minor pain damage, anything that might have

575
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: happened during quarantine, anything that might you know, overall reflect

576
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: the the the value of the vehicle as as things

577
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: go down the road in this thing's age, because you're

578
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: gonna probably hang onto this car for a while. You know,

579
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: the country is going through that moment of if you've

580
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: got a decent car now more than ever, you want

581
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: to take care of it. And these are some of

582
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: the things that they're trying to get to. And obviously

583
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: there's more information out there online at their website car

584
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: here dot org. But be aware that driving a clean car,

585
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 1: and I can tell you this from personal experience, driving

586
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: a clean car just feels better. There's something about it

587
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: that's psychologically. You're just in a better car. You really are,

588
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: so they seem to run better. And some good sound

589
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: advice from the folks over there at the Car Care Council. Hey,

590
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: when we come back to close the show today, I

591
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: want to sum up the past two hours and talk

592
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: a little bit about diagnostics. I'm gonna tell you the

593
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: story about the O two Chevy Silverado that acted like

594
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: a bad transmission that nobody was able to fix and

595
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: how the Car Doctor fixed it in about twenty two minutes.

596
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: So come on back, we'll talk about it. We'll close

597
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: out right there. I'm running any of the Car Doctor.

598
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: I'll see on the other side, welcome back. We're in

599
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. I want to talk a

600
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: little bit about diagnostics. Alright, we we big theme on

601
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: this show today, especially where a lot of phone calls.

602
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: I've tested this, I've tested that looking for the bad part.

603
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: First of all, if you don't have a scam t

604
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: you're you're really trying to fix the car. The modern car. Okay,

605
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: you know something O B D two something mad sance.

606
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: You're really putting yourself out of disadvantage. All right, If

607
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: you've got any intention of trying to repair your car,

608
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: go online Autel dot com a U T. E. L.

609
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: Take a look at their website. They've got so many

610
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: choices of scan tools. You've got to be able to

611
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: find something there that fits your budget. Know what you

612
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: wanna do, Know what you're looking for in terms of features,

613
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: maybe something specific to your vehicle, but understand what capabilities

614
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: you're looking for. But Autel will have it for you.

615
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: Take a look. That being said, you've got a scan tool,

616
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: you've got a digital voltometer, you've got some of the

617
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: basics in terms of hand tools you're trying to diagnose

618
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: and repair something. I had a two thousand two Chevy

619
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: Silverado this week that had been to a couple of

620
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: shops and they weren't able to repair it. Every once

621
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: in a while this vehicle would go into limp in.

622
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: This was an O two Silverado with a big block

623
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: eight leader Alison transmission. Allison transmissions as a rule, never fail,

624
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: they're pretty bulletproof. This one only had sixty miles on

625
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: the vehicle. And you know, while that's not something that guarantees,

626
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: in my mind the trans is always good. I do.

627
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: I do weigh that I'm not gonna lie. That's the

628
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: human side, right, That's that's the emotion of it. You

629
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: get into that. I did my research. Every once in

630
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: a while this truck went into limping. From the customer's description.

631
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: I experienced it once where you're driving down the road

632
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it would lose gears. It

633
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: would be stuck. It would downshift and go into second

634
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: and stay in second. Then it wouldn't up shift, and

635
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: with all sorts of crazy transmission related things, and then

636
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Speaker 1: it had no reverse and then the dask gages went out,

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Speaker 1: and then the prindle, the park reverse drive neutral lights

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00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: would go out and they would get tim and by

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Speaker 1: the time I got back to the shop, it would

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Speaker 1: correct itself. Wow, like magic set some fault codes for

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00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: low voltage to the trans control module and GM has

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00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: had some problems with this particular trans control module. I

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Speaker 1: did do about forty five minutes of research. I interviewed

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Speaker 1: a couple of people from e M to talk to

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Speaker 1: them about it. Because it's such an intermittent problem. I

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Speaker 1: learned the high failure rate of the trans control modules.

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Speaker 1: Trans control module which is on intergalactic outer space back

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Speaker 1: order for another three weeks, and I had to deal

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Speaker 1: with what I had to deal with. I waited for

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Speaker 1: it to happen again, and it was stuck with that

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: problem where it wouldn't shift. It was doing what it

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Speaker 1: was supposed to do. Powers and grounds. It all comes

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00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: down to that. On this particular truck, I checked powers

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00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: and grounds pins one through five. I had ground on one.

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Speaker 1: In five, I was able to light up a headlight

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Speaker 1: using the pink in the middle or the orange in

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Speaker 1: the middle. On three is my battery voltage source? I

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Speaker 1: had no switch dignition on two and four. Went to

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Speaker 1: the fuse, wiggled the fuse had power. Found out the

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Speaker 1: fuse terminals were spread. Found out that the problem was

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Speaker 1: in the fuse box. Twenty two minutes later fixed. That's

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Speaker 1: a diagnosis this time until the next time I'm running

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Speaker 1: anading in the car. Doctor reminding you each time. Good

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Speaker 1: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. To see you, she was stoned.

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