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Speaker 2: If you were having pizza Knight in America like so

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Speaker 2: many last night, and sitting around saying, hey, how is

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Speaker 2: your week, and everybody's oh, I did this and I

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Speaker 2: did that. If you asked me, you know what I

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Speaker 2: would answer. I would answer one word because it was

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Speaker 2: one of those weeks. I think this is an appropriate

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Speaker 2: story for a radio show about cars, because it's also

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Speaker 2: about what goes on in the repair shop. And you

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Speaker 2: need to know that a lot of what goes on

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Speaker 2: in a repair shop isn't necessarily the problems of fixing

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Speaker 2: the cars. It's the problems of running the shop. It's

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Speaker 2: the front office stuff and the things that go on

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes in the front office. My front office

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Speaker 2: went nuts on Wednesday. I had ordered checks from QuickBooks,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to mention names and you know what

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you. Yeah, Okay, all the companies

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Speaker 2: that I mentioned are free to come on the show

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Speaker 2: and tell me their side of it and tell you

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Speaker 2: their side of it, because I think they were all

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Speaker 2: very badly run. I ordered checks from QuickBooks. We use

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Speaker 2: QuickBooks to help run the shop and write checks, and

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Speaker 2: we order checks from them the week prior. The checks

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Speaker 2: showed up on Tuesday. They were actually a day late,

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Speaker 2: not a crisis. We were ready for that. We had

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Speaker 2: a couple extra checks. Well like we were running out

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Speaker 2: of checks. We just got to the point where we

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Speaker 2: needed three order checks. The box didn't show up on Monday.

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Speaker 2: The box showed up on Tuesday, and what caught my

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Speaker 2: attention was FedEx another company that's welcome to come on

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Speaker 2: the show, because I think there were a bunch of dopes,

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Speaker 2: all right. They You ever noticed you put a shipping

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Speaker 2: label on a cardboard box, and you you know, you

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Speaker 2: stick the label to the box and ship the box. Well,

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Speaker 2: the box came the address. The shipping label was still

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Speaker 2: attested to the original piece of box cardboard that it

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Speaker 2: was attached to, but somebody had taken a razor knife,

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Speaker 2: cut it out and scotch taped it, you know, packing

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Speaker 2: taped it to the top of a new box, and

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Speaker 2: then wrapped about four miles of packing tape around it.

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Speaker 2: It looked like something Luke Costello wrapped up for a

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Speaker 2: birthday present for Bud Right. And it just caught your

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Speaker 2: eye that something's wrong, like this was not how you

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Speaker 2: would think it would come out of a check printing

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Speaker 2: facility wherever that is, and open it up and sure

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Speaker 2: it's the checks. And you know, first comment to quick Books,

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Speaker 2: why are we still shipping checks and clear plastic bags?

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Speaker 2: I don't understand that in a day in and age,

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Speaker 2: we're heightened security, and we're worried about fraud, and we're

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Speaker 2: worried about everybody gathering our personal information. Why are we

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Speaker 2: sending things out in clear plastic bags should As FedEx

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Speaker 2: explained to me, the box burst open at the TRANSFERACIL

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Speaker 2: Of course, of course, it took two phone calls from

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Speaker 2: Needless to say, it would have been nice had they

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Speaker 2: put a sticker. Don't you think they should have put

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Speaker 2: a sticker on the outside of the box that said, hey,

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Speaker 2: was reboxed under a supervised facility, under a supervised condition,

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Speaker 2: so the contents weren't, you know, compromised. I mean, what

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Speaker 2: the gold coins accounted for? So talking to QuickBooks got

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Speaker 2: nowhere because I got the same overseas person telling me, oh,

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Speaker 2: we're so sorry, mister Ananian, and yeah, we're very sorry

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Speaker 2: that that happened, and would you like to order more checks?

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Speaker 2: Because some of the checks were rustled and shuffled and

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Speaker 2: guess that's possible. I guess that's possible. This is a

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Speaker 2: let me get this right. In an age of fraud,

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Speaker 2: the sun. We're shipping checks all across America, not just

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Speaker 2: to order repair shops, but everywhere, unsupervised, in non secure envelopes.

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Speaker 2: Well that was Tuesday, That was stupid Tuesday. Well, insane

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Speaker 2: Wednesday came along, so TD Bank, who's also free to

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Speaker 2: because what the heck I want to get You know,

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Speaker 2: we're not talking about small companies here. These aren't mom

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Speaker 2: and pops. These are all giant companies. Who knows, maybe

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Speaker 2: they'll be off the air next week. You know, they

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Speaker 2: might buy a couple of radio networks and cancel this show.

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Speaker 2: Decided that, well, we're going to freeze the account so

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Speaker 2: I can no longer use my checking account, which was

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Speaker 2: in use for the past forty seven years or whatever

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Speaker 2: it's been, because I've only I've only been here a

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Speaker 2: the amount was, and they would clear it and allow

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Speaker 2: it to process through. And I had thirty days of

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Speaker 2: doing this because then they would just close the account,

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Speaker 2: and in the meantime I needed to go get another

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Speaker 2: bank account. Have you tried to open a new bank

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Speaker 2: account for a business in America lately at all recently

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Speaker 2: in the last couple of years. Well, this was my

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Speaker 2: a long time. Why I've been around for a while.

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Speaker 2: I've been around over forty something years. When I got

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Speaker 2: the TD bank. Vic who's also welcome to come on

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Speaker 2: the show and talk to us about it, was reading

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Speaker 2: from the script book. Well, mister and Adian, we're sorry

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Speaker 2: that this happened, but you know, we'll need to see

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Speaker 2: your new business formation papers to give you the new

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Speaker 2: checking account that you're going to need. Excuse me, Well,

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Speaker 2: I've been a customer here since I don't know, nineteen

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Speaker 2: ninety three, which was a while ago. You can't see

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Speaker 2: that I'm in existing business. Yes, but when you opened it,

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Speaker 2: you opened it with your social and the federal government

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Speaker 2: now requires a tax ID beginning with twenty two. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: here's my scale. You'll see tax return, here's the mortgage

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Speaker 2: that you guys held for so many years. Here's all

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Speaker 2: this information. But no, we're going to read from the

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Speaker 2: script kind of describes my week right now. In the meantime,

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to run a radio show, I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: run a repair shop. I'm trying to keep Danny busy.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep the shop flowing, and I'm dealing

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Speaker 2: with complete insanity. On the financial side of things. A

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Speaker 2: new Chase Manhattan Bank opened in Waldwick, New Jersey in

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Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, and I'm trying to get

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Speaker 2: over there because I kept thinking, you know what, maybe

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Speaker 2: I'll bank a little bit with them, just to see

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Speaker 2: how they are. I've got a couple of Chase credit

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Speaker 2: cards as a personal note. They've always worked well. Anytime

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Speaker 2: there's been an issue, it's always been you know, it

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Speaker 2: always works. I ended up talking to Oliver. I ended up.

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Speaker 2: I talked to Marco, the manager. Marco gave me to Oliver.

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Speaker 2: Oliver asked me. He said, well, I'm going to need

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Speaker 2: your new business formation paperwork. And I'm thinking, oh god,

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Speaker 2: we're going to go through this again. Now. All we

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Speaker 2: the day, right, folks, That's all we're trying to do. Marco.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Oliver, what do you think I need? Well,

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Speaker 2: I need your DBA. You're doing business as okay? I

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Speaker 2: had that, he said, right, And what's the expiration date

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Speaker 2: maybe it's different in New Jersey. But my DBA is

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Speaker 2: from a million years ago, nineteen eighty three, to be exact,

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Speaker 2: and there's no expiration date on it. And he said

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Speaker 2: there has to be. Well, there is, and I'll show

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Speaker 2: you that here it is. The raised seal notar Republic

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Speaker 2: verified from the county seat in Hackensack, New Jersey. No

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Speaker 2: expiration date. Let me make a phone call, which I

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Speaker 2: thought was kind of nice of him, that Oliver was

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Speaker 2: willing to stick his neck out take the time for

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Speaker 2: somebody he didn't know, on account that he didn't have

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Speaker 2: to see if this was possibly the way to do it. Gee,

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Speaker 2: customer service, somebody that doesn't read from the script, what

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Speaker 2: a concept? Call me back, he said. I asked three people. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: what happened, he said. The first guy said no, the

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Speaker 2: second guy said maybe, The third guy said yes. I said,

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Speaker 2: what do you say? He said, come on over, I'll

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Speaker 2: open the account. So I solved the problem sort of

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Speaker 2: maybe kind of. Yes, We're going to now start banking

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Speaker 2: with Chase Bank. No credit desire, no pressure, no no

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Speaker 2: no promotion here intentionally given. And I guess the point

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Speaker 2: running a small business, not just an order repair shop,

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Speaker 2: but the problems in running a small business are are

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Speaker 2: beyond what you can describe, and it can go from

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Speaker 2: in the blink of an eye, and it's difficult. It's difficult.

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Speaker 2: It best to explain to somebody it took three days

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Speaker 2: out of my week for something that was beyond my control,

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Speaker 2: for something I did not create. Because a major corporation,

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Speaker 2: three major corporations don't have scenarios in place to correct this.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand most of all, how FedEx, for all

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Speaker 2: the packages they ship to their credit, they knew the

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Speaker 2: box was damaged on the conveyor belt at the transfer

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Speaker 2: station at Newark Airport. If you know the problem can happen,

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Speaker 2: don't you have a better remedy than it looks like

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Speaker 2: a four year old took cut the box out state

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Speaker 2: on and wrapped so much tape around this thing. It

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Speaker 2: looked like that bad Christmas present you got from Uncle

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Speaker 2: Frank last year that you were afraid to open because

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Speaker 2: of the ribbon being in fourteen different places and tape

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Speaker 2: all over the place. I was surprised the lunch that

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Speaker 2: the guy had that day wasn't kind of wrapped in

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Speaker 2: between the tape as he wrapped his fingers around it

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Speaker 2: and created this. Needless to say, I am like so

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Speaker 2: fired up to just fix cars today because I didn't

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Speaker 2: get to fix any cars on Wednesday and Thursday. So

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Speaker 2: I'm ready eight five five five six nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 2: I'll be back right after this. See you, by the way.

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Speaker 2: For everybody that came in the shop this week and

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Speaker 2: tried to make me laugh with I hear your flashing

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Speaker 2: school buses stop anyway? Let's that was the running joke

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Speaker 2: in the shop all week long. Are you flashing? Are

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Speaker 3: The dealer said the break in gas pedal.

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Speaker 3: Yet it would change on this year's model and they

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Speaker 3: I know it's talking about I don't think so it's

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Speaker 3: But when you step on a brake, the brake pedal

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Speaker 2: Right, but if you're if you're stepping on what I

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not fully over on the right hand side

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Speaker 3: Pedal something like that, or now this this one guy,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a liability, so you know, and that's

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Speaker 2: You know, you can't be the only person in America

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Speaker 2: So did you talk to the handicapped vehicle control people?

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Speaker 2: Well can you take and I'm trying to imagine what

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Speaker 3: I had a door to that, but that that's one reason.

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Speaker 3: One way I haven't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what the device looks like. You know, listen,

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Speaker 2: there's some liability issues, you know, as far as to

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: You can't convince me that you know you're the only

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Speaker 2: you know, handicapped vehicle controls. I have an issue. I

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Speaker 2: Actually he's on mechanical legs. And the sweetheart of a guy,

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: so and we've actually ordered things for him off of Amazon,

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Speaker 2: believe it or not. Go to Amazon, type in vehicle

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Speaker 3: I gotta do that. And I'll also check and see

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Speaker 2: You know, is there a way to modify this? I

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Speaker 2: do that, Frank, I gotta go. You'd be well. Good

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Speaker 2: I'm ronning Andy and the car doctor. We are back

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Speaker 2: right after this next up. Let's go to John and

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Speaker 2: Florida right away. John five Chevy Silverado Diesel and uh,

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Speaker 2: we'll yes, sir, what's going on.

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Speaker 4: I've got a lot of information, but so and I

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Speaker 4: Two thousand and five Silverado twenty five hundred diesel four

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Speaker 2: There is the prime. The pump prime it yep.

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Speaker 4: Like on tractors, and do it ten times and try

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Speaker 4: Where is it?

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Speaker 4: I really don't service this vehicle.

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Speaker 2: All right, so ask your mechanic this all right, let's

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Speaker 2: the ritual. Behind the alternator, there's a vacuum test port

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Speaker 2: It absolutely positively has to build vacuum. I bet it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I bet it doesn't. And it should hold that vacuum indefinitely,

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Speaker 2: all right. You should see two to four inches of

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Speaker 2: And if that vacuum doesn't build or doesn't hold, now

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Speaker 2: fives were the worst. Oh fives had the most pores.

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Speaker 2: Moret there were more porosity problems with fuel lines and

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Speaker 2: I can tell you why it happened. You were great

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Speaker 2: and then it came right, and then it came back.

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Speaker 2: Then it came back to Florida, and it was good

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Speaker 2: for a while until you know, it sort of got activated,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're right on, we're right. Well, we're about thirty

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Speaker 2: So, so you went to the salt belt. You applied

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Speaker 2: And then you brought it back to Florida and you

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Speaker 2: But that is the first thing you want to do.

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Speaker 2: That test port. You can actually find all this as

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Speaker 2: It'll be there. They talk about vacuum testing, pressure gauge

432
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 2: to the test port and what the results of that

433
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 2: has to be.

434
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 4: All right, you know that amazing? That amazes me, Ron,

435
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 4: because I even have I have two case files with Chevrolet.

436
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 4: I tried getting information and they didn't have any clue

437
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 4: what was happening. I even called Duramax in Canada and

438
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 4: they said, well, we don't support the engine we sell

439
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 4: to Chevrolet.

440
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 2: No, there should be there. There absolutely should be a

441
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: test port. This is a six six, right, there's a

442
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 2: six to six diesel six six Duramax. Yeah. Yes, I

443
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 2: remember my instructor in class explaining this to us twenty

444
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 2: years ago that it's got to be there. There's got

445
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 2: to be it, there's got to be a port.

446
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 4: Has to be all right, if a vacuum, should that

447
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 4: hold vacuum.

448
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 2: We typically saw two to four inches, you know, two

449
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 2: to five inches, but it should hold. It should hold

450
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 2: that vacuum. It should it should it should stay above

451
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 2: one to two inches even after the engine stops cranking.

452
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,959
Speaker 2: I mean theoretically they say it should be there indefinitely.

453
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 2: I don't know how true that is. It's I've never

454
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 2: really looked at it longer than you know. Okay, it's there.

455
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 2: But think of it like this. It's it's if this

456
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 2: was a a gasoline engine with a mechanical lift pumph,

457
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 2: a mechanical pump, all right, A mechanical pump does not

458
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 2: pump fuel. Theoretically, a mechanical pump creates a low vacuum condition, right,

459
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 2: and it doesn't suck. It just creates a low vacuum

460
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: condition and atmospheric pressure pushes down on the fuel to

461
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,199
Speaker 2: drive it out of the tank through the lineup to

462
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 2: the That's kind of the physics of how a lift

463
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 2: pump works. That's the theory of how they explain it

464
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 2: to us in class. But it's the idea by which

465
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 2: we diagnose the diesel.

466
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 4: That so the yeah, it makes sense to me. It's

467
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 4: so the under conditions where the vehicle starts, it should

468
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 4: still I mean, whether it starts or it stops. I'm

469
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 4: not going to have the wherewithal to hook up a

470
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 4: vacuum gauge to the port behind the alternator when it

471
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,360
Speaker 4: doesn't start, but when it does start, it should when

472
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 4: it cranks, it should maintain the two to four inches

473
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 4: of that.

474
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 3: Well.

475
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 2: Once, once fuel is flowing, it's flowing right once when

476
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 2: you siphon fuel out of a tank, Once you you know,

477
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: and get the mouthful of fuel or liquid or whatever

478
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 2: it is, it continues to flow. Do you ever think

479
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: about how come that works.

480
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 4: Because there's no cavitation right?

481
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: Well, well, because because atmospheric pressure is pushing down on

482
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 2: the fuel in the tank and pushing it up out

483
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 2: to the point of lowest pressure which you created by

484
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 2: sucking on it. Mm hmm, all right, which is the

485
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 2: whole We can have a conversation about this for about

486
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 2: two hours about how carburetors work, but it all, it all,

487
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 2: all the physics comes back to this. So when that

488
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 2: doesn't start, you're just looking to see can it build

489
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 2: vacuum during a crank? Simple test if you can't find

490
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 2: information on it. You send me the then I'll find

491
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 2: the test procedure. I'll email it to you roniccardoctorshow dot com.

492
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 4: I sure will, all right, So let me get this

493
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 4: right so I can explain it to the mechanic. And

494
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 4: I know I'm not going to be able to get

495
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 4: to the truck to the mechanic when it doesn't start

496
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 4: like this. So will there be any variation in the

497
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 4: vacuum when I drive the vehicle up to the shop

498
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 4: and tell them.

499
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 2: Hey, hook up a vacuum, do this, do this, don't

500
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: look at it when it's bad, run the test when

501
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 2: it's good. So you understand what So if you right,

502
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 2: we always want to look at a good vehicle. He's

503
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 2: got the same vehicle, ask him to do the test

504
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 2: on his vehicle. Right. If we don't test broken cars

505
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: or vehicles, right, John, that's the rule. We don't test

506
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: cars when they're broken. We test cars when they're good,

507
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 2: so we know what they're going to look like when

508
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: they're broken. Oky, All right, simple stuff.

509
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 4: I'll send you the vin and and we'll go from there.

510
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: We'll go from there. A right, but I'm sure that's

511
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 2: going to have a test port but that's the first thing.

512
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: Do we have vacuum because why does the primer work?

513
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 2: If the primer didn't work, then maybe we've got a

514
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 2: fickum problem. Maybe we've got a fuel delivery problem. Maybe

515
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: we've got a glow plug issue, et cetera, et cetera,

516
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: et cetera. But this sounds like fuel's not getting there now.

517
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 2: The question is why vacuum test port? All right, I

518
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 2: gotta go, send me an email.

519
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks you.

520
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: Very welcome, sir. You'll be well eight five five five

521
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,719
Speaker 2: six zero nine nine zero zero. What else could it be?

522
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 2: I'm running any of the card doctor. I'll be back

523
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 2: right after this. Hey, we are rolling along the cellar.

524
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 2: Let's get to Gerald in North Carolina, Gerald Deron with

525
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 2: the card doctor. How can I help?

526
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 3: Hello? Jerod?

527
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: Hello, how you doing, sir?

528
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 2: What's going on?

529
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 5: I've got a twenty ten model for grinder four truck. Okay,

530
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 5: it's four OV six automatic and everything is uh what

531
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 5: it's doing. Whenever I started it in morning, everyone's dying.

532
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 5: I've started back up maybe twice three times sometimes and

533
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 5: then it runs just fine. Maybe drive it seven miles

534
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 5: or something soft, shut it down, get back in its

535
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 5: fires right back up.

536
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 2: Okay.

537
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 5: Yesterday I had a gem of a mechanic's coat of

538
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 5: church where he put a clean the throttle body and

539
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 5: he put a new I tauch you mass airflow sandstro

540
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 5: on truck. And it started this morning, but it kind

541
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 5: of quivered a little bit, but it didn't die. And

542
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 5: I just wonder what the problem, what the real problem

543
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 5: is with this truck?

544
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 2: Well? Is it? Is it fixed? Is the first question?

545
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 2: So is it mass airflow related or is it a

546
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: fuel pressure problem? So if you want to prove, if

547
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: you want to prove, was it I guess are you

548
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 2: questioning is it the mass airflow because it runs different now?

549
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: Or it runs okay? Which is it?

550
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 5: Well, it didn't die whereas it had been dying, you know,

551
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 5: and I haven't started back up, but it didn't start

552
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 5: really smooth and run, you know, just fire off that bucket.

553
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: Should okay, So it acts like a.

554
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 5: Fuel pressure brod and the table wall need to go

555
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 5: to the fix it.

556
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 2: And I was going to suggest did anybody check fuel pressure?

557
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 2: You know, how did we come to the conclusion of

558
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: a mass era?

559
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 5: Was it had that check? I had that check in

560
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 5: a garage maybe a couple of ways ago. The truck

561
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 5: didn't nie on them. They can't it overnight, and it

562
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 5: didn't nye for them, and they couldn't really figure that.

563
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 5: I did a fuel pressures on it, and uh, it

564
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 5: started and then while the gate was on. It holds

565
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 5: great fuel pressure, but it said the ship the truck

566
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 5: off and it wanted nothing. So I didn't have any

567
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 5: residual pressure it.

568
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 2: It should hold some residual But if the condition isn't

569
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 2: there when the you know, if if they start, if

570
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: they turn the key on, fuel pressure goes to spec

571
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: and they turn it off and it holds and then drops,

572
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 2: but the truck fires right up. I'm not so concerned

573
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: about the loss of a residual I want to know

574
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: what fuel pressure's doing when it doesn't start. So here's well,

575
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: I was going to say what my question would be,

576
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 2: all right, if you sat there and if the problem

577
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: was happening, and it sounds like it's not for right now,

578
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 2: and the fact that we've changed the part kind of

579
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 2: convolutes the diagnosis. We've watered down the chicken soup. We

580
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 2: don't know how good it is yet. Is if you

581
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: sat there and turned the key prime the pump shut

582
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 2: it off. Wait a couple of seconds, prime the pump.

583
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 2: Shut it off. You know, if you prime the rail,

584
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: would it have started prior to putting the mass airflow on?

585
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: Of course, there's no rule that says you've only got

586
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 2: one problem. Right. It sounds like the fellow that put

587
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: the mass air on, and I'm not saying he was wrong,

588
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 2: but it sounds like this. I don't hear any diagnosis

589
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 2: being done. It sounds like this was his best guess

590
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 2: and he might have discovered something, or this might be

591
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 2: the moment the truck is running on its own and

592
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: it's not having the problem. Do you still have the

593
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 2: old mass airflow?

594
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 4: I do?

595
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: Was this a Hey, he's my buddy thing, let me

596
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: help him. And we haven't said this is a finished repair?

597
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 5: Was it?

598
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 4: Hey?

599
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: Let me put a mass airflow on and try it

600
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 2: and see what happens.

601
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 4: Okay?

602
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 5: He put wong had you of him? And the truck

603
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 5: didn't like I said, I started truck this morning and

604
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 5: it didn't I like it. Ben died and that restarted right,

605
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 5: but it didn't start running. It was its smooth Is

606
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 5: it really over the kind of quiver little?

607
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 4: Or uh?

608
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: Right?

609
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 3: Well?

610
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 2: Listen, listen, listen, listen to me g and then I

611
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: gotta go all right, there's no diagnosis been done here. Okay,

612
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 2: try it with the mass airflow at this point, can

613
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: you replicate before you change any more parts? Can you

614
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 2: replicate the original problem? If the original problem happens, put

615
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: the old mass airflow back on, catch it with the

616
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 2: problem with fuel pressure. Then we can talk some more.

617
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: I hope that's the best I can do for you

618
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: at the moment, ronn and And and the car doctor. I'll

619
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 2: be back right after this. Hey coming up, I think

620
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: this week or next week. It'll launch up on the

621
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: YouTube channel a video about changing spark plugs on a

622
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen Toyota Highlander. And I realized, gee, that sounds

623
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 2: so simple. What's the specialty or what makes that video

624
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 2: so special? I'm trying something different. It's several videos piece together,

625
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: tied together, and I'm just trying to show you the

626
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: complexity of just put spark plugs in my car. And

627
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 2: you take note when I show you the panning. As

628
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 2: I go around the shop and go what is this piece?

629
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: This piece, this piece, this piece and this piece all

630
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 2: have in common. They're all supposed to go here Because

631
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: we had to take all that apart to get to there,

632
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: because that's what's involved coming up on our YouTube channel

633
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,720
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634
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,239
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635
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,600
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636
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,880
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637
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 2: got up there, and there's more coming.

638
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639
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Speaker 2: We've been working on this one for a while. We're

640
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Speaker 2: trying to change the format a little bit and you know,

641
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Speaker 2: give it, make it a little more interesting, and make

642
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643
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00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,080
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645
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,680
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646
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647
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