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Speaker 1: talk to scott Omaha, Nebraska. Some questions about a head

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Speaker 1: gasket problem on a two thousand and twenty four towards Scott.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help?

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Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, thanks for taking the call. Well, initially I

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Speaker 3: thought my issue was a head gasket failure, and it

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Speaker 3: still maybe, but I'm also leaning towards the potential of

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Speaker 3: an issue with being an aftermarket any freeze reservoir installed

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Speaker 3: last year?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was on the road for about four hours.

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Speaker 3: It break for gas when I came out of the stage,

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Speaker 3: and I noticed that fluid was dripping from the front

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Speaker 3: of the car on the passenger side. When I popped

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Speaker 3: the hood, I couldn't see where it was leaking, but

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Speaker 3: the reservoir was full and the coolant was churning and

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Speaker 3: it looked brown. So I was initially thinking black pressure,

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Speaker 3: brown coolant, maybe a head gasket issue. But I don't

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Speaker 3: think so anymore because I don't have any white smoke.

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Speaker 3: It's not overheating. I pulled the spark plugs last night.

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Speaker 3: They're dry and the oil is clean.

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Speaker 1: All right, how about this with the plugs out. As

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Speaker 1: long as the plugs are out, Scott, do you have

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Speaker 1: a cooling system pressure tester?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't.

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Speaker 1: If you did, if you pressurized the cooling system and

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Speaker 2: That's another way to do it.

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Speaker 1: You know. White smoke out of the tailpipe will work

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Speaker 1: it's something that's you know, not really a huge leak,

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Speaker 1: until it gets to be a real problem. So don't

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Speaker 1: judge it by white smoke. Now, you know, let's go

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Speaker 2: It was overheating. It was boiling over.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it wasn't overheating. It was just boiling over out

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Speaker 1: of the radiator into the bottle.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I don't and I don't know if when

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Speaker 3: you say boiled, I don't know if it's pressure or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But when I stopped for gas, not when I was

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Speaker 3: it was beautiful. It's when I stopped for gas, about

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Speaker 1: Came out, okay, and that was you had shut the

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Speaker 3: Well, I basically I was walking out from the station,

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, did you give any thoughts of the possibility that

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Speaker 1: could be a radiator cap?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I was talking about the aftermarket any

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Speaker 3: theing that it didn't go very high high end. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, the reservoir is just a

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Speaker 2: Remember all right, and maybe it might be a review

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Speaker 2: for you, Scott, but just for everyone else.

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Speaker 1: You know, a pressure cap maintains the and pushes the

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Speaker 1: boiling point of the coolant. Actually it raises the boiling

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Speaker 1: just what you're experiencing. If it's a fifteen pound cap.

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Speaker 1: If the system calls for a fifteen pound cap, but

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Speaker 1: the spring itself is weakened and it now only has

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Speaker 1: the boiling point is compromised and the system will boil over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was wondering if I crossed threadity because

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Speaker 3: I kepp. I topped off the Lewis before I left

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Speaker 3: threaded that cap. Is that if I stopped, would that

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Speaker 3: have allowed the liquids to get out?

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Speaker 1: Well, if the cap wasn't sealing the system? Yes, because

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Speaker 1: now the boiling point is effectively whatever you were wherever

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Speaker 2: But the pressure cap can't do its job anymore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Because what I was wondering is when I finally

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Speaker 3: Though the liquid looked brown from the outside, when I

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Speaker 3: flashed a light in there, it was just a darker green.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if that got churned up from inside the Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Well could be. Let me ask you this, how old

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Speaker 2: is the radiator? Scott?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's original?

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Speaker 1: Okay, an original radiator twelve or fourth a thirteen years old,

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Speaker 1: hundred and how many miles and four? Okay, it's it's

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Speaker 1: probably outlived its lifespan, it really has. I'm surprised. But

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Speaker 1: I guess in your part of the country, if it's

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Speaker 3: Right, Okay those years in California?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then so in easy ten years, I would

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Speaker 1: the tourists typically failed was on the seam of the

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Speaker 1: something you'll see at the top. It'll be down below

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Speaker 1: and you'll start to see stains of green and little

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Speaker 1: about preventative, okay. And it's hard for me to tell

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Speaker 1: somebody that's gotten a radiator that's gone from a twenty

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Speaker 1: i'd probably change it, but i'd probably change it. I

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Speaker 1: probably gotten to the point now that with the coolant

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Speaker 1: that's in the system, regardless of how often you've flushed it,

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Speaker 1: the capacity for that system to pass coolant properly has

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Speaker 1: to have been compromised. And I've gotten to the point

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Speaker 1: now on newer vehicles, personal family vehicles, maybe not something

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Speaker 2: Request it five six years.

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Speaker 1: I'm putting radiators in cars because I don't want the

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Speaker 2: I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Get to the point where the engine starts to run

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Speaker 1: marginally hotter, because typically what happens is the radiator starts

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Speaker 1: gradual increase in temperature, and it's usually something that happens

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Speaker 1: The car's not new anymore, or is it that the

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Speaker 1: radiator is making it run hotter? So fourteen years on

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Speaker 1: look at the cooling system and possibly replace the radiator.

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Speaker 2: Take a look at the radiator cap.

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Speaker 1: You can find more information about caps and boiling point

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Speaker 1: and what they're supposed to do. Get out the stamp

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Speaker 1: dot com and they make an excellent radiator cap. They're

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Speaker 2: But I would start to.

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Speaker 1: Think that you've got some basic cooling system issues going

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Speaker 1: head gasket. Three leaders generally don't go through head gaskets.

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Speaker 1: Eight manifold gaskets are not uncommon, but you won't see

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Speaker 2: You will tend to see.

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Speaker 1: Coolant loss, so you could pressure test the cooling system

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Speaker 1: since you got the plugs out anyway, it can hurt

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Speaker 1: how's the thermostat? And that's something else you can also

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Speaker 1: find at stand dot com and take a look at

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Speaker 1: that pressure cap as well. And I think somewhere in

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Speaker 1: that mix on this old one hundred and forty thousand

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. Scott,

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Speaker 1: by the way, thanks for the call. I'm ronnin Ady

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Speaker 1: and talk to Dennis in Clearmont, Florida, some issues with

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Speaker 1: a ninety seven Dodge twenty five hundred panel van.

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Speaker 2: Dennis. Welcome to the car, doctor, sir. How can I help?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Thank you, doctor Ron.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome. Call You're welcome, sir. What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I purchased a used vehicle several months ago

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Speaker 4: and it rode like a top for a couple of months,

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Speaker 4: and on my way to work on the turnpike, the

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Speaker 4: I said, oh boy, I got to give you another

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Speaker 2: Can they duplicate the problem?

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Speaker 4: They didn't duplicate the problem exactly, couldn't They could not

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Speaker 2: Did they take it out for a rod?

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Speaker 4: They said, they took it out for a ride?

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Speaker 1: All right, next time, next time, check your old dominancy

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Speaker 2: But go ahead, yeah, you know, you know? Okay. So anyway, so.

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Speaker 1: We're at the point now where the car's got an

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Speaker 4: Right. Took it to the mechanic again and he said,

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Speaker 1: Okay, any theory or any reason why he thinks that?

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Speaker 4: Or do I think it might be the best guess, because.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's overstocked on he's overstocked on crank sensors

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Speaker 4: I don't know about that, sir, But the engine couldn't start,

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Speaker 4: and you know, because I just don't know what happened.

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Speaker 2: Okay, has it ever gone into has it ever gone

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: Start, Dennis, Not.

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Speaker 4: That I know of. I'm not a mechanic. I don't

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Speaker 4: It doesn't start right now.

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Speaker 2: Any any fault codes in this vehicle?

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Speaker 4: No, all right, it's not. He didn't mention any fault code.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.

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Speaker 1: And you see no dash warning lights when the problem happens.

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Speaker 4: Right, No, all right.

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Speaker 1: There's two ways to approach this. There's a couple of

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Speaker 2: That is it? Is it setting a fault code?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 1: And I see this all the time because people don't,

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Speaker 2: In bulb check? That's my first question. You know, bulb check.

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Speaker 1: In other words, any car, any car in the last

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Speaker 2: And that was the moment of bulb check. It was

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Speaker 1: And you know because if it doesn't light then you're

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Speaker 1: responsible to tell them mechanic, Hey, my coolant light's burnt out.

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Speaker 1: Put a bulb in it. But the fact that you

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Speaker 1: bought this used, I'm wondering. I just want to cover

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Speaker 1: I've seen bulbs mysteriously disappear and fall out in somebody's pocket.

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Speaker 2: Working or not.

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Speaker 1: And I just wanted to mention that is, scan it

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Speaker 1: then we've got to attack those codes. So first things first,

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Speaker 1: can I ask you to do that for me this

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Speaker 4: When I when I got the vehicle, the check engine

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Speaker 2: Okay, is it on now?

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Speaker 4: But but then I had that replace that that problem

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Speaker 1: Right, So then then the question becomes, Dennis, what fault

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Speaker 1: codes are there?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: So here's what I want you to do. I want

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Speaker 1: you to go back, because the clock's gonna take me.

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Speaker 1: I want you to go back to the mechanic. I

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Speaker 1: want you to get a print out of what fault

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Speaker 1: codes are in this vehicle right here, and now call

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Speaker 1: I'll solve it for you. But first things first, we've

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Speaker 1: got to go with basic diagnostics.

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Speaker 2: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 2: I'm running a and the car doctor. We're back right after.

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Speaker 5: This real lit yellow Latti stand out on it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, We're on any of the car doctor rolling

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Speaker 1: before I do that, I want to just mention tell

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Speaker 1: Dennis in Clarmont, Florida is still listening, and I believe

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Speaker 1: he is. Dennis, We're gonna be sending you the LMC

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Speaker 2: So they're your guys. You're there guy, You're their.

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Speaker 1: Kind of guy, and we're gonna be sending that twenty

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Speaker 1: next week. Let's talk about the trouble codes you get

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Speaker 1: out of your mechanic. This week, let's get over and

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Speaker 1: talk to Don Shelton, Connecticut, two thousand and two. Concord, Don,

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Speaker 1: I'm I got about a minute and a half.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I have.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a week tomorrow. I've been getting an older

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Speaker 1: it's not dripping.

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Speaker 2: It's just just just a smell. Okay, have you have

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Speaker 2: you put it up in the year as anybody put.

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Speaker 1: It on a left to look, I took the left

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Speaker 4: Okay, with the tank is I think.

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Speaker 2: Is that where the odors the heaviest.

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Speaker 4: Don Yeah, right under that wheel wall basically.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you know, maybe it's not a drip yet.

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Speaker 2: Would be cautious.

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Speaker 1: I would get it up in the air and I

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Speaker 2: Whole nother conversation, something dangerous. I'm ronnin Ady in the car.

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Speaker 1: Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Till the next time, give me Kennick on expensive their prices.

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Speaker 3: See you