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Speaker 1: Ron, And you know, repair shops are in business to

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Speaker 1: All mechanics are crooks, and I've decided to come back

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Speaker 1: want to jump right in with both feet. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the radio home of Ron and Nian with the Car Doctor.

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

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Speaker 1: and now he running. Hey, welcome morning, a car doctor

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Speaker 1: saying the same? I guess I do. It's here at

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Speaker 1: saund just like everybody else and not really anyway, this

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Speaker 1: So we make it easy for you to transport the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor around with you, sort of like a mechanic

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Speaker 1: that Google Play also offers the Car Doctor on podcast,

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Speaker 1: If you need me during the week Ron at Car

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Speaker 1: Doctor Show dot com. If you're new to this radio

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Speaker 1: show and we've got a couple of new affiliates in

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Speaker 1: this week, I understand. Um, let me just point out.

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Speaker 1: something I think Harry explains it best, my producer, when

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Speaker 1: he tells people they say, so, what's the Car Doctor like?

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Speaker 1: And I hear, I'll use his story. He says, you know,

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Speaker 1: Wanted me to correct you. It's not Harry is fast Harry? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Harry explains it, he says, you know, one of the

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Speaker 1: calling him fast Harry. So but I'm here to answer

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Speaker 1: your questions, and that's what this radio show is all about.

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Speaker 1: Bottom line. I see cars each and every week in

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Speaker 1: auto repairs a tough business. It really is, and I

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Speaker 1: get it. You guys think it's expensive, and I understand

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Speaker 1: get a rebuilt or remanufactured alternator out of motorcraft. All

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Speaker 1: building back and he says, yeah, Ron, it's why you're right.

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Speaker 1: All right? Then perhaps how long ago was the recall done? Recently? Uh?

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00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: All right? Then I would take it back to the

426
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 1: dealer and pointed out to them, and this is the

427
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 1: way I want you to say it. All right, do

428
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 1: you do you go to the dealer on a regular basis?

429
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 1: Are they your repair facility? Do they take care of

430
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: the vehicle? Okay? See, you kind of got a relationship

431
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 1: with this guy, right, Okay, so you're gonna go up

432
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: to him and give him the old you know. I

433
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: know you hate to hear this, and I hate to

434
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: say it's speech, but ever since okay, um, you know,

435
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: and that's a that's a tough road to hoe in

436
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: a repair shop ever since. That's like that's like that

437
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: mysterious kid in the house. You know, I don't know,

438
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: you know, who drank the milk. I don't know, you know,

439
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: it's um. Ever since they all moved out, we now know,

440
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't live here anymore, so you

441
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: know it's I would go to the back to them

442
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: and say, I know this is hard for you to understand,

443
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: but ever since, is there a chance this is related

444
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: to the work that was done? At least they can

445
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: scan it for codes and come back to you. It's

446
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 1: got to be in the seat obviously, if wiggling it

447
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 1: clear cut turns the light out. There's not too many

448
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: components there. There's the side air bag, there's a sensor,

449
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: and there's some connectors. It's they gotta, they gotta. They

450
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: got a two out of three chance that it's them

451
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: and a one out of three chance that it's not.

452
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: So I say, the odds are in your favorite it's them,

453
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: not you. It seems like every time I go to

454
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: take the right well and keep in mind, there should

455
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 1: be something in history, all right, So I would by

456
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: all means make them aware of it, and you know

457
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: I would put it back on them. You know, listen,

458
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: the liability is here, guys. You fixed my air bag.

459
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: If I get into an accident, if if if if

460
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: there's a Mrs Liebert. If she gets into an accident

461
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: and something happens to her, do you want to assume

462
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 1: that reliability? Don't you think it's worth taking a look?

463
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: All right? Thank you? All right, sir, all right, you

464
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: let me know what happens. I'm here for you. But alright,

465
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: you're welcome. Bye bye. Let's get over and talk to

466
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: Franklin up and Hadley Mass two thousand three, Pontiac Vibe.

467
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: Franklin ronanading in the car. Doctorate your service or how

468
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: can I help hi? Run? Yeah? I just picked up

469
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: a two thousand three and uh soon after the check

470
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: engine light came on, got it inspected and it's failed emissions,

471
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: of course. And the guy who inspected it, he said, well,

472
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,719
Speaker 1: you got two choices. You can either get it fixed

473
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: or you can do this thing. You unplug the battery overnight,

474
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: keep the tankful running for two in a miles, and

475
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: bring it back at your pass. And he kind of

476
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 1: rolled his eyes. It's not gonna cause it any more

477
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: global warming and won't hurt your car. It's just a

478
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: little bit of a hassle. And I wasn't so sure

479
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: about that, so I took it to a state registered

480
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: emissions specialist here, and they said, yeah, it's the charcoal

481
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: canister that needs to be replaced. And wondering who listened

482
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: to you here? I like, I like mechanic B. I

483
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: like the second guy, And I'll tell you why, all right.

484
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: It's not that I want to spend your money or

485
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: anybody else's. First of all, driving a car with a

486
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: check engine light on, so you know right now today,

487
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: on this particular day in time, that it's got a

488
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: P zero four right two weeks from today when it

489
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: sets another fault code and you won't know if it

490
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,159
Speaker 1: did or didn't. How will you? How will you know

491
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: if another fault occurs the lights already on? Yeah, unless

492
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: they get it, I guess right. And and the other

493
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: thing we're teaching you to do, um, let me explain

494
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: it to you this way. Do you have any kids,

495
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 1: Hadley Franklin, I'm sorry, do you have any you know

496
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: or or nieces? Would you teach somebody to drive and

497
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: tell him, hey, the temperature gage doesn't work. It says overheat,

498
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 1: Just keep driving the car, don't worry about it. Would you?

499
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: Would you? Would you encourage them to drive a vehicle

500
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 1: like that? Would because when it overheats. How would you

501
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: know when this car, when this car gets another problem?

502
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: How will you know? And all you're doing is creating

503
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: a bigger issue. I gotta tell you. The first guy

504
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: that said that, I don't like to say this word

505
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 1: on radio, So my engineers is gonna wins. But he's

506
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: an idiot, all right. He's looking at this thing completely wrong.

507
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: Either let's fix it right and and get it on

508
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: the road, or let's not fix it. It's not a

509
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: matter of global warming. It's more a matter of your

510
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: safety and the reliability of the vehicle, right, you know,

511
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: And that's really what it's all about. So I would say,

512
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: let's go with mechanic B. It sounds reasonable that it

513
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: could be a canister. They were very, very common, probably

514
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: the number one repair on those vehicles. And then at

515
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 1: least you've got some confidence as to what's going on.

516
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: There's nothing better in my mind than getting in a

517
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: car on a snowy day, blizzard, bad road conditions, Driving

518
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: in a car that's got good tires, good pressure, no dashboard,

519
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: lights on, runs, good feels, good heat works. It gives

520
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: you a sense of confidence. YEA. Sometimes yeah, you know,

521
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 1: well that's here's your opportunity, bibe. You know it's it's

522
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: it's how I started the hour today. Courage, conviction, responsibility,

523
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: that's all part of order repair. That first guy didn't

524
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: have any of it, alright, So yeah, interesting thing. I

525
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: was pricing out the parts and notice that the all

526
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: wheel drive canisters are cheaper than the front wheel drive

527
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: probably probably because they produced more of them and they're

528
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: and they're in greater numbers. That's like, that's like, do

529
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: you know it costs the tire company's more money to

530
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: make a black wall tire than a white wall tire. Yeah,

531
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: because all tires are white walls. They put a black

532
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: coating over the white wall to hide it, to make

533
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: it a black wall. If that tire is available in

534
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: two models, if there's a white wall version of whatever

535
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: the tire is that we're talking about. For conversation sake,

536
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: it's always it always costs them more money to make

537
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: it as a black wall than a white wall. That's

538
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: the way my tire guy explains it to me. Franklin

539
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: and murderin late I gotta go, but listen, you get

540
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: that fixed, and I appreciate the call, So good luck

541
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: to you and yours. I'm running any of the car doctor.

542
00:29:36,520 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: We'll be back right after this. Hey, welcome back. Why

543
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 1: don't eat of the car doctor. Let's see what's going

544
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: on with Michael out in Wisconsin with a two thousand

545
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: two on the c RV. Michael, welcome to the car doctor, sir.

546
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: How can I help? Hey? How you doing? What's going on? Well?

547
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: I I took my two thousand two CRV and to

548
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: my mechanic um because I had a left rear break

549
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: hanging out, and uh, I noticed it when I got

550
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: to the golf course. I stepped out of the baseball

551
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: and watch the smoke that distinctive brake smell. Took it

552
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: into my mechanic. He replaced the rear brake pads, calipers,

553
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: brake hoses, led the system. I took the took the

554
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: vehicle home and got to a top sign. Just notice

555
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: that when I when I put down the brake just

556
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: south kind of mushy. Okay, put a little bit more

557
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: and it went all away to the floor. Next morning,

558
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: I took it back to the mechanic and he said, well,

559
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: I to you try to figure it out. Put a

560
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: new masses cylinder on lead the system. Same thing if

561
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: you pushed a little hard. It went all away to

562
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: the floor. So but it stops great. It's not like

563
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: it's a you know, it's a stopping problem. But if

564
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: you're at a stop sign or stop late and you

565
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: know you're stops, you're fine. It doesn't creep forward unless

566
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: you put some more moderate pressure on the pedal goes

567
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: all the way down, all right. Well, if you can

568
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: wiggle the master down, you know, let me say, like,

569
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: if you can wiggle the master down at a stop sign, Michael, Yeah,

570
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: I would just want to be sure we don't have

571
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: a leak somewhere because it's your sounds like it all right,

572
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: It shouldn't. You shouldn't be able to push it to

573
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: the floor. You know you're physically on the floor or

574
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: is it that you're overriding And this is a field thing,

575
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: it's a non it's a non technical term. I call

576
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: it the gush of the booster um. Booster gush is

577
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: the wrong term. Where booster gush is that moment where

578
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: you can override the spring and the diaphragm of the

579
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: break booster and physically overcompensate and push the pedal down

580
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: further than you normally would. So you know, you'd have

581
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: to say that to your mechanic. Could this be the booster?

582
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 1: Is that what I'm feeling? But let me back up

583
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: a second. The car had a stuck caliper, all right.

584
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: Usually that doesn't happen overnight. Usually that comes on for

585
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: a while. So the typical scenario becomes, this is a

586
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: four wheel disc brake car. Correct, you said calipers in

587
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: the back. So the caliper gets stuck and it doesn't

588
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: adjust as quick as it should, and it alters the

589
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: pedal feel. So now that you've got two calipers on

590
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: that actually move, it changes the way the pedal feels,

591
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: all right, It's a different perceived where the pedal actually

592
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: compensates and hits. Now, in reality, a stuck caliper should

593
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: produce a worse pedal, all right, because you'd have to

594
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: if the caliper is stuck in a fixed position and

595
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: you step on the brake, the piston comes out. You've

596
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: got to hit the pedal twice to get it to

597
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: take up the distance that normally it would have to

598
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: take up if the caliper was in the proper position.

599
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: But I have had occasion where moderately stuck calipers don't

600
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: respond as well, and they give an impression of a

601
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: better than actual or normal pedal. That being said, I

602
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: just want to explain why it may be different. That

603
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: being said, I want to tell you how I think

604
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna fix it, all right? Number one, I want

605
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: to be absolutely certain there's no leaks in this car.

606
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: Absolutely certain? Okay? Uh? Number one? Number two, I want

607
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: to be sure the Master is bled properly. I wonder

608
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: if he bench bled the Master or did he bleed

609
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: it on the car? All right? My next question would

610
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: be if he can come up with a plug that

611
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: would go into place of where the brake lines go.

612
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: Plug off the master. Just put the Master on the

613
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: car without any break lines connected, but put plugs in

614
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: the ports, step off the pedal. Does he still have

615
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: the same gushy pedal that he's got now? If he does,

616
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: he's still got a bad Master. I'll tell you what, Michael,

617
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: Sit tight. Let me pull over and take this pause.

618
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to rush this. When I come back,

619
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: we'll finish up running any of the car. Doctor, don't

620
00:34:38,560 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: go away, smoke. Hey the product. Let's got back from

621
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: Michael Wisconsin real quick. Michael, we were talking about your

622
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: two thousand two hunds to CRV with a mushy brake pedal.

623
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: So what I'd like him to do is, you know,

624
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 1: find a set of plugs and plug the master, take

625
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: the lines out, plug the master, leave it in the car,

626
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: bleed it, put it in the car, treat it standalone system.

627
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: Just the master by itself. Does he have a guscy pedal,

628
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: plain and simple. That pedal should be. That pedal should

629
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: pop and be absolutely fine. All right, So once we

630
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: work once, once we work our way past the master,

631
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: then at that point the only other thing I want

632
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: him to consider is because of the mileage. And I've

633
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: seen this for whatever reason, I can't give you a

634
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: scientific reason, but it's one of the things in my

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Speaker 1: bag of tricks is look at the push rod going

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Speaker 1: into the booster from the brake pedal. I've I've run

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Speaker 1: into this a half a dozen times. I swear It's

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Speaker 1: like I was listening to a customer at the counter.

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Speaker 1: Before we'll break car. We put calipers on at the

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Speaker 1: petals kind of crumby what happened the push rod that

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Speaker 1: you never ever, ever ever ever have to adjust. There's

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Speaker 1: you know, the linkage has some slopping it it's not

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Speaker 1: factory fresh anymore. You get under there, there's a thirteen

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Speaker 1: or a fifteen nut that a jam nut that holds

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Speaker 1: it in place. Loosen that nut. Make sure you take

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Speaker 1: out the slop of the push rod going into the booster.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't take much, just so, no words. It's right

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Speaker 1: on the booster. So when you step on the break

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Speaker 1: you're getting instant response. You don't want to overdo it.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to push it past because then you'll

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Speaker 1: always have the break applied. There is a there is

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Speaker 1: a spec there for that. But try taking a look

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Speaker 1: at the push rod adjustment if you verify the master

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Speaker 1: and that might help solve your problem for you. I'm

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Speaker 1: here if you name me Michael, I'm Gonne in the

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Speaker 1: car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you