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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: You know what's new? What can I explain? What can

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Speaker 1: And I have to admit that. You know, one of

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Speaker 1: can you hear me? Okay, sure, Ken, can you hear me? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: are working, UM, but I can't I can't adjust it manually.

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00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 1: Now the mirrors work. UM changed the fuse out anyway.

425
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:06,439
Speaker 1: The fuse under the hood still nothing. My passenger side works.

426
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: I just can't figure. I took a cursory look underneath

427
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,439
Speaker 1: UM to check the plugs, but I didn't really see anything.

428
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 1: I suppose I go back and unplug them and plug

429
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:17,880
Speaker 1: them back in, but I can't think of anything else

430
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: to do. Well, and the yeah, you know and and

431
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 1: and understand fred, UM, that driver's seat in that truck,

432
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 1: because you've got that's a ten weight power seat, right right. Yeah,

433
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:30,679
Speaker 1: So you've got more technology in that seat than they

434
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 1: had an Apollo eleven that went to the moon. So

435
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 1: you know that things a spaceship all by itself. UM.

436
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,400
Speaker 1: The honest answer is believe it or not. The first

437
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 1: place I would go is i'd scan for codes. Can

438
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: a computer talk to the driver's seat module. There's a

439
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 1: module under that seat that runs the computer that or

440
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: that is the computer that runs the seat. Can a

441
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 1: scan tool talk to that seat? Can it? And this

442
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: isn't on This isn't on the O B D two bus.

443
00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: This is on the vehicle you make model manufacturer side

444
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: of life. And can a scan tool talk to that,

445
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 1: to that d s M. And then if if it can,

446
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: can you bring up the d s M and what

447
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: sort of data is there? Chances are a good you know,

448
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: if you're using something factory level scan tool, you'll be

449
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: able to see, you know, push the switch. Do you

450
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: see a change of state on? Off? Yes? No, you

451
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: know that's what scan tools do today. It's not just

452
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 1: for pulling engine codes. We use them for fixing power seats. Now,

453
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to just you know, have

454
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 1: a and I'm not saying there's a bad thing, but

455
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 1: if you want to try this just as a little

456
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: bit of a you know, knee jerk reaction, find the

457
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: driver's seat module. It's down under the seat on the

458
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: left side, more to the left side. You could identify

459
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,640
Speaker 1: it through wiring color and unplugged the driver's seat module.

460
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: Unplugged the module, count to ten, all right, and plug

461
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: it back in. See if rebooting it makes a difference.

462
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 1: I don't think it will, because you said it works

463
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: from the auto adjust position. But you know it would

464
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: probably be my last non technical way to do this,

465
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: short of, you know, putting a scan tool on it.

466
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: I have had some success on certain cars, Ford and

467
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: Chrysler among them. We're doing a dead boot, as we

468
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 1: call it. Will you know now I could also be

469
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: a racing information but uh, you know it's I can't

470
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: tell you how many times we see problems with with

471
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: computers where the dead boot fixes it um or at

472
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: least gets us in a direction. So we have added information.

473
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,959
Speaker 1: Just prior to about fifteen minutes prior to this happening,

474
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: I disconnected both of the positives on the batteries to

475
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 1: reset my UH radio Bluetooth did did get stuck about

476
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: every six months, and the only way to reset it

477
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: is to to r Yeah, you've gotten scratch and I

478
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: you know when you listen, if if you can get

479
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: that to happen again when you take it to the

480
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: Ford dealer for diagnosis mentioned that to them because this

481
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: could very well need what we call UH that could

482
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: have This probably has sinc one sinc one or two

483
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: sinc one, So sinc one is um. It's about as

484
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: high tech as uh comparing a flashlight to a candle.

485
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: It's just not what I would call really um. You know,

486
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: it's it. It probably has more than a few software

487
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: updates that could help it. And to that point, the

488
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: driver's seat could have a software update as well, but

489
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: it could also need something along the lines of maybe

490
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: an APIM Accessory Protocol Interface module UM, you know, which

491
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: is when you touch the screen, the screen taps get

492
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: reported to the APIM. The APIM decides what is it

493
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: that Fred wants me to do, and then it does it.

494
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: So the APIM is the workhorse to the the screen,

495
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: you know. The the APIM is the computer that the

496
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: monitor screen you see as being displayed upon. So you know,

497
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: it's technology. Man, I will say this, stop unplugging things,

498
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: because you're gonna make things worse in terms of losing information,

499
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: losing data, right yeah, and and you know wait wait

500
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: wait yeah, end up spiking a computer and then that's

501
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: a whole horse of another color. So um, but take

502
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: those steps. Let me know what happens. I'm here for

503
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: you if you need me. Let's get over to Earl

504
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: oh two caravan and some issues here real quick with

505
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: a battery Earl Welcome aboard, sir. How can I help you? Yes,

506
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: R and I hope you're doing well. I'm doing will sir?

507
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: Thank you. I have a two thousand two Dodge caravan

508
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,719
Speaker 1: and you had a car battery expert on your one

509
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: of your shows a couple of weeks ago, and he

510
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: recommended topping off your battery with a charge every once

511
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: in a while. I have a I've been told by

512
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 1: a Chrysler training mechanic not to disconnect the battery if

513
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: you can help it, because it was bad for the

514
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: transmission brainbox. What is the proper way to charge or

515
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: top off the battery? Well, and it's the right answer

516
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: is both ways. But in all fairness, you know the

517
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: issue is with battery charge or do the cables? Do

518
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: you have a good enough set of clamps on the

519
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: charger that it can get over the mouth of the

520
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: top of the terminal and get a good grip if

521
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 1: it can, then leave it connected. A slow charge is

522
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: better than a fast charge. You know. One of the

523
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: nice things, one of one of the nicest pieces of

524
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 1: equipment I've acquired over the last year is from Associated Equipment.

525
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: They've got some battery charges on the marketplace now that

526
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: are just outright amazing. And the latest model and I

527
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: don't recall the I don't recall the model number, but

528
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: it's actually a liquid crystal display screen. Hook it up,

529
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: turn it on, call up the battery you're charging, telling

530
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: how many amps, and it will charge the battery based

531
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: on the electrical state of the battery. So sometimes it

532
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: charges fast, sometimes it charges slow. It's really amazing stuff.

533
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: If you're using what I suspect is a an older UM,

534
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: you know, garage style, do it yourself for kind of

535
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: battery charger, a slow trickle charge or a slow low

536
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: amperage charge in the five to eight damp range UM

537
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: you know, over a forty five minute hour period. If

538
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: you've got vent caps, take the vent caps off would

539
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: be the proper way to do it. Terminals connected, Yes,

540
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: Disconnecting the battery will create memory loss issue on the

541
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: trans and the adaptive and then it has to be relearned.

542
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: So doing it connected is a much better way to

543
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: do it early. I appreciate the call. Good luck to

544
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: you and yours, and I hope you survived the snow

545
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: up their upstate New York. And we'll talk to you

546
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: again real soon. I'm Ron Any in the car doctor.

547
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Than heyy, welcome back to

548
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: running short. Ron and any and at your service. Let's

549
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: get to Nick and Virginia. Nick, welcome aboard, sir. What

550
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: are we working on. We're working on a two thousand

551
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: and nine Chevy Astro cargo van. They didn't make an

552
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: Astro van in two thousand nine, Are you sure about

553
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: the year? I think the last year for an Astro

554
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: was oh five, oh five or oh six? Oh no,

555
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: it was a Chevy Astro. You have a two thousand

556
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: nine Chevy Astro, Yes, okay, I don't think they made

557
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: that the cargo van and uh anyway, uh, it broke

558
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: down a couple of years ago. It's been setting. I

559
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: was told by the UH driver that it needed a

560
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: fuel pump. It seemed like it's since I had replaced

561
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: that fuel pump a year before. It was the same symptom,

562
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: so I assume that it needs a fuel pump. And

563
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: I was just wondering how hard of a job would

564
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: that be to do that job? And can you do

565
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: it without dropping the tank? Now, to my knowledge, the

566
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: tank has to come down. But now that's not to

567
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: say have you have you diagnosed this at all? Are

568
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: you just going on the driver's word? Well, I, um,

569
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: the problem is it's been setting. So uh it was

570
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: the driver's word. But like I said, I had gone

571
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: through the same problem a year before. I had it

572
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: replaced the year on a trip and and I don't

573
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: notice they rebuilt it or they just got a new

574
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: and they charged me for a new one. Well, there's

575
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as rebuilding. It would be that

576
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: they might have replaced just the electrical portion of the

577
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: pump assembly, because it's all modular. It would be a

578
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: pump on a on a pickup tube with a fuel

579
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: level sender as a complete They call that a module. Now,

580
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: maybe they're pump went bad, but maybe this is electrical.

581
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: There should be a gray wire leading up to that

582
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: fuel pump, which is the power signal, and I would

583
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: surely want to diagnose it. It's a simple diagnosis. Find

584
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: the fuel pump relay in the underhood fuse box and

585
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: make sure. Make sure when you turn the key on

586
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: without cranking, that fuel pump relay clicks. And then if

587
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: you have voltage at that gray wire leading down to

588
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: the pump, do you have ground you know, this could

589
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: also be and I'm not I'm not disbelieving you that

590
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: this is an astro. I don't. I just they didn't

591
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: make an astro on online. I know this, Um, this

592
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: has to be in. This has to be an express van.

593
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: We've got to be talking about an express And if

594
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: it's an express van and it's an O nine, take

595
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: a look under the driver's door where the frame rail sits,

596
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: there should be a ground strap there. Those ground straps

597
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: got corroded over time because they were exposed, they were

598
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: in a bad spot. They got corroded over time, and

599
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: they would um, they would fall apart. Literally you'd see

600
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: high resistance. You would see them start to fail and

601
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it would give the symptom of

602
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: a bad it would see the symptom of a bad

603
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: um uh fuel pump. And in reality it was it

604
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: was just a bad ground strap. So um, you know,

605
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: take a look at that, and that's a that's a

606
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: visual um diagnosis that has to be done with a no,

607
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: that's a visual. That's a visual for that for that matter,

608
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: provide an alternate ground take a long ground lead. Go

609
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: from the gas tank out a good connection, or from

610
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: the ground leg of the fuel pump, um off the ground,

611
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: off the fuel pump module and ground right to the

612
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: negative battery post. Do you have a good connection? And

613
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: if you do, then you know, I'm gonna say that

614
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: you're okay. And uh, you know you can, uh, you

615
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: know you can, you can avoid having to put a

616
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: fuel pump in it. But first thing, no, no, no,

617
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: wise guy intended. Let's just make sure that this really

618
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: is an astro or the year, because I got a

619
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: feeling this isn't I got a feeling this is an

620
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: express or it's an O six astro van or oh five,

621
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: I think that was the last year. Good luck to you, Nick,

622
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: I'm here if you need more information. Ron and Aiding

623
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: the car doctor coming back right after this. I'll tell

624
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: you what. This song is killing me too. Tom, you

625
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: gotta cut this out. Let's go to Benito in Louisiana

626
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: help me. Uh how can I help? At your service? Sir? Good?

627
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: What's going on? How about two seven? Commander seven with

628
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: seven hit me. They had a little moment in it,

629
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: And after I bought it, I got to listening to

630
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: sound more like a knock. I've tried to rebuilt a

631
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to mess with because I

632
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: say it takes special tools. So I've been looking at

633
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: motors and motors starting away from three thousand to seven thousand, Brandon.

634
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: You know, so let's let's forget what Let's forget about

635
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: the replacement engine for a second. All right, just for

636
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: a second. What kind of shape is the rest of

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Speaker 1: the vehicle in excellent? No? No, nothing? How many? How

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Speaker 1: many miles on it? So? Original trans yes? All right?

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Speaker 1: And the question you have to ask yourself whether you

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Speaker 1: pay three thousand, seven thousand, ten thousand, or any point

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Speaker 1: in between, if and when the trans fails, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: stick a transient. I got a buddy will rebuilds trans

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Speaker 1: mission hill I rebuild it if I just buy the parts,

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00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: all right? Then, knowing that there there are some complications,

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00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: there are some very unique things about that hemmy, particularly

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Speaker 1: in the valve train area, that make rebuilding them very

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00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: specific and a little bit more on the complicated side.

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00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: Have you talked to the local Chrysler dealer to see

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00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: what a Chrysler over the counter crate motor would run,

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Speaker 1: and what kind of warranty comes with it, Like a

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00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: three year warranty, right, I think it's three years. And

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Speaker 1: is it three years fifty or three years a hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand miles? Right? You know, because there's only there's there's

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Speaker 1: three choices here, Benito, all right, it's the local engine

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Speaker 1: builder in your hometown who can do it, who's got

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00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,320
Speaker 1: a good reputation, who's going to stand behind it and

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Speaker 1: be there if and when there's a problem. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be a company that does nationwide service, like like Jasper,

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Speaker 1: a Jasper engine for it, or the dealer the manuf Actually,

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Speaker 1: and you know, if you find out that the difference

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00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: between Jasper and Chrysler is two grand, two grands, not

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Speaker 1: a lot of money because there are some complications to that. Um,

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Speaker 1: if you're in it for the long haul, I say

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Speaker 1: put the Chrysler in it. At least you know what

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Speaker 1: you're getting and you've got a great warranty in the

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Speaker 1: event should you need one, because that's the big question,

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Speaker 1: let me know what you end up doing. I'm on

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Speaker 1: an aiding in the car doctor, reminding you the mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you