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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian. Every once in a while you need your

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Speaker 1: second opinion, even me, right, and you've just got in

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Speaker 1: to them. You have done in that Car Doctor. You

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Speaker 1: have which so much fun on this radio show. We

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Speaker 1: You know, I like to listen to you guys, because

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Speaker 1: especially when you guys talk together, because you sound like

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Speaker 1: they're having fun and you joke around, and boy, if

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Speaker 1: they can only see what happens behind the scene. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the radio home of Ron and Nanian 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: for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics

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Speaker 1: giving you a busy signal, pick up the phone and

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Speaker 1: call in the garage to orders are open. But I

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Speaker 1: five six, and now he running. Hey, welcome board and

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Speaker 1: Indy and at your service, and uh, another busy hour

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Speaker 1: of calls lined up, I see, So let's uh, let's um,

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Speaker 1: let's go over and talk to Rick in Kentucky two

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Speaker 1: on here. Rick, Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How

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Speaker 1: can I help? Uh? How Iran? How are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm big finding your show. I've got a two thousand

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Speaker 1: hand to see r V that chokes out when you

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Speaker 1: turn the air conditioning on. Uh. The tachometer gage reads

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Speaker 1: about four hundred and fifty on the RPM. I put

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Speaker 1: changed out the idle air control valve and it didn't

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Speaker 1: the scanner doesn't show any fault codes and the real

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Speaker 1: time data looks like it's about normal as far as

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Speaker 1: I can tell, but I'm not an expert on it.

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Speaker 1: I took it to two Honda dealerships in the local

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Speaker 1: One of them adjusted the idle the throttle body idle

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Speaker 1: adjustment up to keep it from dying installing, But now

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Speaker 1: to do that, you know. So here I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you how to reset that, okay, so you don't have

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Speaker 1: to go back to them. I think they're wrong for

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Speaker 1: doing that. Um, you know, basically, And and let's let's

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Speaker 1: of if you've got mechanical ability, Rick, I just I

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Speaker 1: you want to set that minimum screw so that you

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Speaker 1: know right now, um, they've got to crank too far?

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Speaker 1: Open all right, back the back that minimum stop off

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Speaker 1: let's let's get that back to work in normal. Now,

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Speaker 1: this at idle, just sitting there? No, So when does

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Speaker 1: but but it's it's doing this while you're sitting at idle.

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Speaker 1: to chug and load up again. Exactly right. Okay, do

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Speaker 1: Can this disconnect? Disconnect the hoses and disconnect the hoses

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Speaker 1: Make sure those hoses aren't clogged if it doesn't circulate coolant.

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Speaker 1: a faster idle. Correct. So if those hoses don't flow coolant,

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Speaker 1: It's about one percent long term fuel trim. What's short term? Six? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well you'll typically see an older car like this long

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Speaker 1: end carbonization needed that kind of thing, all right? Now,

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Speaker 1: I cleaned what I could access without disassembling it. So

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Speaker 1: she drives short distances, right, and we gotta fix this

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Speaker 1: be happy. Well, the gas mileg is it used to

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Speaker 1: about a week per tank. So, yeah, you have a

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Speaker 1: to rallyota dot com see if you can get yourself

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Speaker 1: one of the Barriman fuel system cleaning kits. Barriman makes

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Speaker 1: a fuel injector cleaner kit. It's don't don't don't take

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Speaker 1: Just follow the directions and you're gonna a fuel system

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Speaker 1: help decarbonize the valves and clean the intake passage all

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Speaker 1: know Mama, Mama takes short trips all the place, all right.

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Speaker 1: And while it may not solve all of this problem

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Speaker 1: So second point of contention, take your scan tool. Take

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Speaker 1: a look at cooling temperature. Is cool and tem it's

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for it right now? Down to my list

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Speaker 1: of notes. You know, I write my own notes and

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Speaker 1: I can't read them. Um, the second you could be

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Speaker 1: a doctor. Temperature was about Yeah, you're in the game. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think the thermostats a seventy nine degrees on that car,

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Speaker 1: number one. Number two, I think the Honda dealer is crazy.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe Honda would manufacture a vehicle and leave

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Speaker 1: that the vehicle doesn't work right. How much bad press

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Speaker 1: do you think they would get? Right? So I would

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Speaker 1: never forget about two years ago, we have a customer

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Speaker 1: you know, the car was hesitating. And the guy told

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Speaker 1: her that, well, General Motors made bad fuel injection this year.

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Speaker 1: And I said, so you're telling me General Motors, a

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Speaker 1: live with hesitation installing. And she said, well that's what

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Speaker 1: he told me. Okay, bring it in. I remember this problem.

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Speaker 1: It was a ds V one, wasn't with the delay valve.

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Speaker 1: opening up by a second and a half solved the problem.

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Speaker 1: She looked at me like I was crazy. You know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta think in terms of the manufacturer when somebody says, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're all like that, They're not all like that. There's

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Speaker 1: a solution to this, we just haven't found it yet.

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Speaker 1: Go do those things. Go ahead. They just don't know

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Speaker 1: either that. Listen, Rick, did you go in there and say, hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to spend any money fix my car?

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Speaker 1: Is your tell them to fix it and drop it off? Right?

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Speaker 1: next guys? I hope? So? Okay, then they should fix

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Speaker 1: for the gravy or the easy stuff, all right, sir?

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Speaker 1: So go do those things? Follow up questions? Yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Do you have time for to follow up? Real quick question?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I do, But let me pull

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Speaker 1: over and take a pause and then we'll come back

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Speaker 1: to that. You stay put, Rick, I'm running any of

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor will be back right after this. Need

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Speaker 1: advice on how to maintain that classic gt O Ron

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Speaker 1: is the guy zero zero. Here's Ron. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to Rick and Kentucky. Rick, you're still there, sir um.

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Speaker 1: All right? So I replaced the had a compressive failure.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have that pit, then it's not a

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Speaker 1: do they list an evaporator fin temperature pit? All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I think it is a

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Speaker 1: new GM. Okay, alright, not so, I mean that's what

425
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm kind of thinking of the compressor

426
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: because when I put it in, you know, as long

427
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: as as long as the RPMs were up and blow

428
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: at thirty eight to forty degrees. But if I was

429
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm sitting at a light temperature, it

430
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: or automatically moved to you know, like fifty And that

431
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: was from the first day after the recharge of a way.

432
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: But as soon as But if I put it in

433
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: neutral and I stepped on the gas and put the

434
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,680
Speaker 1: r p M S up, it would go right back

435
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: down to forty you know about forty degrees a thirty

436
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: eight degrees. So I'm I'm kind of thinking a week compressor.

437
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: I don't, well, it could be a compressor. Do you

438
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: have have you looked at the cooling fans. There's got

439
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: to be a cooling fan for the condenser. Cooling fan

440
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: runs high speed when it has to. And again I'm

441
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: back to are there any fault codes? Did the did

442
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,880
Speaker 1: the computer command high speed fan on? And it didn't

443
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: see it come on? And it's just not telling you

444
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: because there's no warning line on the dashboard right the

445
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: fan the fans on. I don't know that it's on

446
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: high speed all the time. It would but you know,

447
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: like I was driving driving down Interstate yesterday at seventy

448
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: and it was blowing, you know, sixty sixties not caled enough.

449
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: It should be sixties, not called enough, should be in

450
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: the forty five range. All right, I would let me

451
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: put the gages on this more so, lea'st last thought

452
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,719
Speaker 1: before I go all right, Um, this car is now

453
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: nine years old ten years old. I've never seen it,

454
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna throw this out there. Make sure

455
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 1: all the ducting in the front of the radiator, in

456
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: the front of the bumper, all the cowling, everything is

457
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: where it's supposed to be, and that it's flowing air

458
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: across the condenser as as required by GM. A lot

459
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: of the newer vehicles have a smaller cowl area, that

460
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 1: area in front of the grill. And you know, I've

461
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: had it where one shield is out of place. I've

462
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: seen cars overheat missing cowling, shielding and balance shielding and

463
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: so forth. So just be sure everything is as designed.

464
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: So do that, do this, you know, do the things

465
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: we talked about, go through it, and um, you know,

466
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: if you need more, just call me back next week,

467
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: let me know what you find. We can kind of

468
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: take it from there. Vinny, I appreciate the call. I

469
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: gotta run, Zo zero, we'll be back right after this.

470
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 1: Welcome back Ron, the end of the car doctor five

471
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: zero zero. Let's go over and talk to Lewis and Iowa.

472
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car, doctor, sir, How can I help?

473
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, Ron Louis ducom On two thousand and eight,

474
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: Nissan rogue. The catalytic converter failed, and I wonder if

475
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: I could change it. I'd since it was bolt and

476
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: bolt on each end, I'd change it myself. But I've

477
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: got a few comments or questions on the procedure. I've

478
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: got a haynes man. You know, they said remove the

479
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: alternator or no, they said, do not remove it, remove

480
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: the manifold. The alternator had to come off before you

481
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: took the manifold off. So so you're talking, you're talking

482
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: about the cat in the manifold. That's correct. One piece.

483
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: I wish it was two pieces, but at least it

484
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: was bolts. And the bolts and nuts weren't too hard

485
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: to get off, which helped. But getting the tension off

486
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: the serpentine belt was a pain. You're supposed to take

487
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: the right front wheel off and take off the fender laner.

488
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: I did not want to do that. There was hardly

489
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: any clearance to get on a fourteen millimeter head on

490
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: that tension or pulley. Do you have a special ranch

491
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: to take the tension off that belt. There's terribly close

492
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: quarters or room for a rich and that's about it.

493
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: I've got a I've got a bunch of different manufacturers

494
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: make it as a special tool you'll buy. But I've

495
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 1: got something. It's a surrup belt tool. It's it's a long,

496
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: flat piece of steel with a short recessed socket. Variable

497
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: sockets fit in it that will go down in between

498
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: the you know, and it allows you to pull back

499
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: on the tension or to take the belt off. So

500
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: but you know, that's that's not uncommon. That's something we've

501
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: had for years. You know. You may find one at

502
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: your local lotoparts store. You know, if you have an

503
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: O'Reilly oto Parts by you, you may be able to go.

504
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: You may be able to go and rent the tool.

505
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 1: Tell them what you're trying to do. And O'Reilly Oorto

506
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: Parts does rent tools, so you don't have to buy them, right,

507
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: and you could go and rent the tool from them

508
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: if they have it, and they very well might. So

509
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: um sounds. One more thing. When I put the manifold

510
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: back on your special sequence on an exhaust manifold, you

511
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: had to go over it twice one ft pounds. I

512
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: did that in the afternoon, and I thought it would

513
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: just I did not finish the car, so I rechecked

514
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: the torque the next morning. It was not thirty one

515
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: foot pounds. Um, I've got to be honest with you, Lewis,

516
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: and it's just me. I've never talked an exhaust manifold

517
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: back on anything in my life. But maybe it's just feel.

518
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: Do you oil your Are you oiling the threads of

519
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: your bolts? I did not put any anti sees on

520
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: the bolt, not not any seas I always put it.

521
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: I always put a drop of threads on the oil.

522
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: I always put a drop of oil on the threads

523
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: of anything i'm tightening. I got in that habit I got.

524
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: I got in that habit years ago, and I'll put

525
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: a little bit. If it's a rusty exhaust manifold, I'll

526
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: put a drop of oil under the head of the

527
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: bolt or the washer. Um, and then it's just a

528
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: matter of feeld. You know. Remember when we're twerking something,

529
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: we're accounting for and counting on the bolt to stretch.

530
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: We're counting on the twist ability of that bolt. Think

531
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: of Plato or Clay right, We're gonna twist it and

532
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: expected to hold that tension under load. Um, it's it's

533
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: great that your hand tworking it. I won't say you're

534
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: doing it wrong, but a lot of times. Something like

535
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: that is a feel, you know, it's it's just a

536
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: and I guess if you do it enough times, maybe

537
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm what I'm not considering. So um,

538
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: when you went to second day to check it and

539
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: check the tour, what did you think it was? It

540
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: had gone down? What was I think it was even

541
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: less than that. Some of them are all right, and

542
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: maybe two or three were a little bit. They weren't

543
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: They weren't tight. So I retort them back to foot

544
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: pounds and I and put the thing back together the

545
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: heat shroud. You know, it has to be over the

546
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: over the man fold. It's really really a pain that car.

547
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: But also after I've got her back running ahead of

548
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: a random misfire, did you do petitor nap or nap

549
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: and mechanics had replaced the boots in the head for

550
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: the spark plug wires off the coil and that took

551
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: care of it, right, Yeah, And that's very possible. The

552
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: plug wires tend to dry out and the boots, the

553
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: boots tend to get brittle. Did you use any dielectric

554
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: crease when you put them back on over the spark plugs? Yes?

555
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: I did. He read Meca Redden. Did I use that?

556
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: I've never done it before, so I think. But it

557
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: was a turrible pain getting the plugs out. There's seventy

558
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: thousand miles on the plug ugs and but I used

559
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: the anti sees on the plugs. When I put it

560
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: in there, there bosh plugs, and I did think you'd

561
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: be such a pain to get out. The boy they

562
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: were tight, Yeah, they were tight, and listen, there's nothing

563
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: wrong with that. Again. I stopped using the anti cs

564
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: truth be told a couple of years back because I

565
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: believe they've changed the formulation. Um. It used to be

566
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: that antcs had a little bit more lubricity to it.

567
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: Now it seems like they're putting more glass in it.

568
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: And it's got it's got a sharpness and a coarseness

569
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: to it that I haven't. I haven't used it but

570
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: a few exceptional exceptional uh you know applications. You know,

571
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: a drop of oil on the threads, everything comes apart.

572
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: And I haven't had an issue yet, and that's just

573
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, mechanic to mechanics, all right, but they will.

574
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: What do you think of a Nissan rogue that Andrews

575
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: got about two hundred fifty three thousand miles at two

576
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 1: point five leader, brother, I think it's just broken in.

577
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: You've got no reason to complain about it, right, it's

578
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: it's it's serving well. Yeah, it's coming up on fifteen

579
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: years old. So thank you, Lewis. You'd be well, you

580
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: have a good rest of the weekend. Yes, sir, you're

581
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: welcome to take good care. So very nice man. Hey

582
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: like that. So we're helping everybody today. Um, let's pull over,

583
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: take a pause, five five zero zero. We'll be back

584
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back in the car. Doctor kind

585
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: of winding it down this, Sarah, let's do some email.

586
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: This one from Frank in Pennsylvania. Long time listening to Ron.

587
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: I've got an nineteen seventy two big block Corvette four speed. Frank,

588
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: I'll give you fifty bucks for it. Do you like

589
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: b F. Good Rich, Cooper, corbra A t Radios or

590
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: un Royal Tiger Ports. What's the best choice to fifteen

591
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: seventy R fifteen? Um? I gotta tell you, Frank, Um,

592
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 1: I like all three tires, but just in this application

593
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: on an older car like that, I think there's nothing

594
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,120
Speaker 1: greater than a B. F. Good Rich. All right, there,

595
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: was something about BF good Rich radial TIA's back in

596
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: the day, and you know still have a soft spot

597
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: form when the Monte Carlo finally hits the road, which

598
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: I hope to do so this fall we're gonna look

599
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: for so to be of good rich radial tias for that.

600
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: So my choice are the good Rich. Um. Not that

601
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: the other two are bad, but I like those better.

602
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: I like the good Rich better as a choice. UM.

603
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: This comes to us from research Kathy. She just found

604
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: this great article. UM. Down in Texas, they're talking about

605
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: let's see states hitting hybrid and electric car rowns with

606
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: new taxes. Thirty states are hitting hybrid cardinals with additional

607
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: taxes to pay for highway maintenance, and a dozen more

608
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: have proposals in their legislation. This out of Texas, USA,

609
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: from a John Matta res author. State governments everywhere starting

610
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: the tax owners of hybrid and electric cars because they

611
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: claim their drivers don't pay enough in gas leane tax. Well,

612
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: if they're driving an electric vehicle, Um, well, I guess

613
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: the hybrids would be paying gas lean tax to some degree.

614
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: But if they're driving an electric vehicle, they're not gonna

615
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: be paying any road maintenance because they're not paying any

616
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: gas uh tax. So yeah, that's something to look forward to.

617
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: I guess they're starting to do that. This is a

618
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: little bit older. It's about a month ago. We're just

619
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: gonna round to it now. My apologies is out of

620
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. Summers around the corner, and they're

621
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: talking about let's see what we suggest you prepared by

622
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: buying an emergency generator if you can find one in stock.

623
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation or NERK,

624
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: I don't know we had one of those a NERK. Gee,

625
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: what do you work? I work at NERK. Is that

626
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: like chaos and well control gets smart more and the

627
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: two thirds of the U S could experience blackouts this summer.

628
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: Welcome to the green energy transition. We've been wanting for

629
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: years that climate policies would make the grid more vulnerable

630
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: to vacillations and supply and demand than here we are.

631
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: Some of the mainstream press are belatedly catching on that

632
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: blackouts are coming, but they still don't grasp the real problem.

633
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: The force transition to green energy is distorting energy markets

634
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Speaker 1: and destabilizing the grid. Yeah, I gotta say that. The

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Speaker 1: it seems like we're headed towards that. Right, that's becoming

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Speaker 1: more and more of an issue. Uh as as time

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Speaker 1: electric vehicle translation transformation and be aware that it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen overnight, and that UM. A lot of the

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Speaker 1: two are starting to come to fruition in terms of UH, well,

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Speaker 1: the grid infrastructure UM, support for the electric vehicle UM.

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Speaker 1: But in any event, hey, listen, don't forget. If you

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Speaker 1: want to be part of the Car Doctor Vacation Show,

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Speaker 1: help Ron take a couple of weeks off, call in

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Speaker 1: until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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