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Speaker 2: Hey, we got a lot going on this hour. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to board. We're here to answer your car questions. Of course,

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Speaker 2: they play five five six nine nine zero zero. I

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Speaker 2: am Ronani in the Car Doctor here in present, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 2: and I'm ready to go. Let's get over to the phones.

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Speaker 2: Micah up in Maine. How are you, Micah? I got

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Speaker 2: to get the weather report. What's it like in Maine today?

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Speaker 3: Oh, we're in a heat wave right now. It hit

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Speaker 3: twenty degrees. Everything's going great.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, it sounds like a day at the shore.

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Speaker 2: So what's going on, buddyd You have a good new

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Speaker 2: year at all?

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Speaker 3: Had a great new year. Things are going really well.

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Speaker 3: And you know with the cold weather, what do you do?

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Speaker 3: You cook minnestroni soup last week, spagetti sauce this week.

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Speaker 3: You know it's just going great.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's technically it's gravy, right, It's not really true.

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Speaker 2: I get yelled at by all my Italian friends. It's

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Speaker 2: not really sauce. It's gravy. So but in any event,

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Speaker 2: how can I help you today?

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Speaker 3: I'm calling about batteries and I know that one of

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Speaker 3: the things that you say, and you know I follow

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Speaker 3: your advice completely and totally, is that batteries are maintenan

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Speaker 3: inside them and you should replace them about every five years.

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Speaker 3: And I put it on my calendar, and I'm due

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Speaker 3: for a new battery next month, which would be tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: It's been five years since I put in the last battery,

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Speaker 3: and the battery that I have, I got it at

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Speaker 3: Sam's Club Dura Cell. It's got a three year unconditional warranty.

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Speaker 3: It's doing just fine, but I just want to make

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Speaker 3: sure that it's ok to I should be replacing it,

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Speaker 3: that it's okay to replace it with the same thing,

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Speaker 3: because an AGM battery, if I'm going to do that,

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Speaker 3: is going to cost me instead of one hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirty nine dollars, about two hundred and fifty dollars. The

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Speaker 3: one that I has been doing fine. It's a size

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Speaker 3: twenty five. I'm not sure if there's anything else I

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Speaker 3: should be looking at or be concerned about. No, I

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Speaker 2: You hit all the points, Micah. It's like we talked beforehand,

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Speaker 2: which we didn't. You know. I always tell everybody, look

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Speaker 2: at warranty, what's the ease of exchange? How easily can

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Speaker 2: I get a replacement? Should I need it now? Having

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Speaker 2: said that, yes, every five years at a maximum. I

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Speaker 2: like to change batteries. I don't even like to test

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Speaker 2: a battery after it's four four and a half years old.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, what's the point. Hey, hey, you know Michael,

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Speaker 2: listen your battery past it's load test here. It is

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Speaker 2: four years old, it passed the load test. But I'm

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Speaker 2: year five, it's gone. And the reason is obviously because

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Speaker 2: constantly working the battery and as part of the whole

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Speaker 2: not just there to start the car. Obviously, it's its

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Speaker 2: main point. It provides the electrical energy to engage the starter,

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Speaker 2: but it's also there as an electrical reservoir as the

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Speaker 2: alternator is charging and running electrical systems and components, and

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Speaker 2: there's there's any excess. I always tell everybody think of

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Speaker 2: the battery as the spillover tank, right, It's where all

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Speaker 2: the extra electrical energy goes. And you know that's passing

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Speaker 2: through the battery that will shorten the life cycle of

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Speaker 2: the battery. That will have an effect on durability and

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Speaker 2: dependability when a battery goes dead. And you guys have

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Speaker 2: heard me say this now for a while, when a

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Speaker 2: I can walk four hundred miles in my sandals in

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Speaker 2: You know, the fact is though it's a problem, right

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Speaker 2: because it's all kinds of it's all kinds of challenges

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Speaker 2: and death situation. And I say that very seriously, and

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Speaker 2: you every four to five years, I'm thinking batteries man

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Speaker 2: five years at the top. Now, if this was a Honda,

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Speaker 2: a Honda Group fifty one battery, and you know when

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Speaker 2: we say group size, it's the physical dimension of the battery.

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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily an indication of electrical energy. But it

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Speaker 2: seems that Honda Group fifty ones still lead the industry

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Speaker 2: as the most common to fail battery, typically in the

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Speaker 2: three to four year range. And you know, again, everything

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Speaker 2: really kind of comes back to that, what would I

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Speaker 2: do to you in terms of what would I do

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Speaker 2: for your question, Micah, I would do exactly what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: You found somebody that's selling a battery that warranty, no

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Speaker 2: questions asked three years it meets your price point, You've

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Speaker 2: purchased it already, you've got history. I know of no

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Speaker 2: reason not to use that to go and venture with

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Speaker 2: somebody else unless you are moving, you know, unless price Club,

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Speaker 2: Sam's Club, whatever it is closed down and you couldn't

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Speaker 2: get it from there anymore. Because just as important as

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Speaker 2: what you buy, it's who you buy it from, right

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Speaker 2: And you know, will they will, they will, they take

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Speaker 2: care of you. And I know you're like that, You're

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Speaker 2: you're You're just like me in a lot of aspects

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Speaker 2: in the sense that we want a relationship with that

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Speaker 2: get taken care of, but we're not going to take

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Speaker 2: be taking advantage of. And that's really the key. But

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Speaker 2: you're doing and saying and hitting all the right points, Micah,

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Speaker 2: change the battery, get it from Sam's Club. You'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what I plan on doing. And I got

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Speaker 3: another quick question for you, if you have a moment,

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Speaker 3: sure I use you. Last hour you talked about a

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Speaker 3: fuel tank additive and you mentioned one that I don't

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Speaker 3: use because I bought a six pack of Berryman's B twelve,

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Speaker 3: which I use every every four every three months, four

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're still okay with that? I think I think

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Speaker 2: Berryman makes a good product too. I'm seeing some distribution

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Speaker 2: don't think it's as readily available as it once was,

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Speaker 2: so it's a whole lot easier. And that's why we

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Speaker 2: in the shop we switched to c our Seat just

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Speaker 2: because we can't. For whatever reason, in the last eight

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Speaker 2: nine months, we've lost our source for Berryman and we

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Speaker 2: haven't been able to maintain it or find it again.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of that comes down to that, you know,

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Speaker 2: would I use one over the other, I'd have to

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Speaker 2: read the specs on the back of the box, you know,

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Speaker 2: and always remember what I tell you. When it comes

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Speaker 2: to fuel system cleaners, they're only as good as the

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Speaker 2: engineering they put into it yesterday as they got ready

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Speaker 2: for the engine that's coming tomorrow. So they've always got

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Speaker 2: to evolve, they've always got to change, and I'm always

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Speaker 3: I do that a little differently when it comes to

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Speaker 3: fuel system cleaners. I go with the one that ron

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Speaker 3: An Aian.

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Speaker 2: Tells me to you well well, and know that the

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Speaker 2: one ron an Anian tells you to use. I've done

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Speaker 2: the research, so you know it. It's also coming back

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Speaker 2: to that. You know, I'm pretty set in my ways

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Speaker 2: in all honesty, and I think you know that about me,

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Speaker 2: as most of you guys do. I tend to look

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Speaker 2: at certain products and say, it's working, Why change it.

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Speaker 2: If you want me to change it, you've got to

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Speaker 2: give me a reason. I'm like that with products, with

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Speaker 2: parts at the shop, with tools at the shop. I mean, here,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you a story, okay, I'll tell you a

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Speaker 2: quick story before we go to break Then So alternators, right,

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Speaker 2: And I promised I would never tell this story. So

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Speaker 2: I'm breaking a promise. But that's okay. I think it's

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Speaker 2: justified here Denso alternators. In the last two years, we

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Speaker 2: had several problems with Denso alternators, putting them on cars.

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Speaker 2: Start the car up. The first one within five minutes,

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Speaker 2: the alternator locked up, didn't work, belt fell off. Had

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Speaker 2: to put another alternator on, okay. The second one lasted

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Speaker 2: maybe two and a half minutes. The third one started

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Speaker 2: these weren't easy jobs. These were alternators where we had

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Speaker 2: they were a couple of hours of labor. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I've tried not to tell this story on air, but

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Speaker 2: I think it's appropriate here. I switched from denso we're

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Speaker 2: not doing DNSO anymore. It made me, they made me

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Speaker 2: go look for another brand, right, real world decision in

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Speaker 2: the shop, right on the front line. The first time

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Speaker 2: we had the problem, we went with an alternator out

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Speaker 2: of Advance Autoparts, and their car Quest line of rotating

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Speaker 2: electrical has always been good. Right, It isn't as easily available,

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Speaker 2: or wasn't at the time, But I had a heart

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Speaker 2: to heart talk after the third episode with the manager

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Speaker 2: at the local Advance and he's increased the coverage and

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Speaker 2: now he handles all my rotating electrical By that I

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Speaker 2: mean starters and alternators. The car Quest Advanced line of

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Speaker 2: rotating electrical has been great. And you know there's a

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Speaker 2: reason why changed. I changed because I had specific problems

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Speaker 2: that weren't addressed. You're gonna buy that battery from Sam's

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Speaker 2: Club because why, you've had a great experience.

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Speaker 3: There, right, And not only that, you know, it varies

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Speaker 3: from place to place. You know, I bought things a

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Speaker 3: Sam's Club at Costco, Price Clubs, whatever. But I happen

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Speaker 3: to know that the people that work in the auto department,

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Speaker 3: the tires and battery place at this particular SAMs Club,

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Speaker 3: they do good work and so I can trust them

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Speaker 3: to install it appropriately. And you can't always find that

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Speaker 3: at the same at the big right stores like that.

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Speaker 2: You know, real quick, I've got like a minute and

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Speaker 2: to fix a snowblower at the shop and we needed

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Speaker 2: to get the pulse start recoil. We ordered the pull

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Speaker 2: start recoil from a company called RCPW Sohars out of Ohio.

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Speaker 2: I've been dealing with them for the better part of

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Speaker 2: twenty almost twenty five years. They've been nothing short of

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Speaker 2: phenomenal each and every time. Well, this time there was

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Speaker 2: a problem. The part showed up and it was wrong

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Speaker 2: in the box, and they were like, yes, send it

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Speaker 2: have to go through ordering. And one thing led to another.

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Speaker 2: I finally found the right guy, Kurt out in the

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Speaker 2: warehouse Kurt understood what was going on right away. He

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Speaker 2: jumped on it with Jennifer, and between the two of them,

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Speaker 2: they solved my problem. They recognized the value of a

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Speaker 3: So but absolutely you treat people with courtesy and typically

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Speaker 2: You get courtesy back. Michael, you be well, go get

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Speaker 2: How can I.

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Speaker 4: Help question about some of the new technology like CVTs,

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Speaker 2: if anything, you know, synthetic oil, good filter every five

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Speaker 2: five to six months, every five to six thousand miles. Tim,

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Speaker 2: quoted phrase about cars are like kids. When they're young

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Speaker 2: they pop up. They're great when they get to middle

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Speaker 2: That oil change you do now helps you longevity later on.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: CBTs were used back in the seventies. Did you know that?

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Speaker 2: Do you know what they first appeared on? This will

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Speaker 2: Don't ask me why I remember that, But the point

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Speaker 2: do you know, on West Prospect Street. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: I think you can drive a CVET transmission vehicle and

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Speaker 2: are the eighteens, the nineteens are going through head gasket issues.

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Speaker 2: seems to be an abundance of head gasket failures on

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Speaker 2: constant pressure, constant pressure. We've got issues where we get

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Speaker 2: your fluids? Good quality stuff. If enough is good, more

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Speaker 2: is better, and too much is just enough? Fair?

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Speaker 4: Fair enough?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 5: Kid?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, ye have time for just a personal experience.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what if you can. I've got about

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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna hold you. I'll tell you what, start

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, okay, Pennsylvania. We have to get annual inspections,

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Speaker 4: safety inspections. I had a regular mechanic i'd go to

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Speaker 4: about that. Second vehicle needs inspected. I go to a

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Speaker 4: that's too much work for sixty five bucks. So I

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Speaker 2: And you know what, that's a good way to look

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Speaker 2: I always tip more than what's normally expected just because

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Speaker 2: tim And you know what, You're going to build a

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Speaker 2: get value for what you spend. You're doing a great job.

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Speaker 2: I'm ronning eighty in the car. Doctor, I'll be back

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Speaker 2: right after this.

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Speaker 6: The streets of the olden road.

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Speaker 1: He's a right and he's help run keep your.

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Speaker 7: Doctor.

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Speaker 2: They're getting a little Mormon tabernacle choirsh aren't they They

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Speaker 2: really are?

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Speaker 1: But again, well they are, but you know they had

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Speaker 2: I understand that, but you know, it sounds like I

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Speaker 2: expect to see Belushi and Acroyd dancing down the aisle.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Derek and West Virginia.

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Speaker 4: Derek.

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

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Speaker 7: Why you doing?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Sir? Tell me the story.

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Speaker 5: Okay, twenty fusion front one drive, the flex fuel. I

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Speaker 4: Excuse the languish.

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Speaker 5: So what happened was is that the I ripped out

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Speaker 5: So when I left the car overheated and reasonably overheated,

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Speaker 5: it off, so it vapril of overheated car shut down

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Speaker 5: and this winter storm hit and I've been noticing a

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Speaker 5: little I filed it up. I got a little bit

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Speaker 5: and they, I mean, I was a mechanic in the army,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's let's let's let's back up a second.

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Speaker 2: So is this overheating at idle or it has no

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Speaker 5: No heat at idle. It is not overheating. There's nothing

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Speaker 5: wrong with overheating, none of that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it's not that the engine's overheating. You have

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Speaker 2: no heat output at idle.

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Speaker 5: At idle, whenever I stepped on the gas for about

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Speaker 5: twenty five on RPMs for a couple minutes, yes, I'll

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Speaker 5: get screaming hots. Okay, heat, okay, take off, I'll drive.

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Speaker 2: And the cooling and the cooling system is obviously full. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, So in my mind, well, that's what I'm thinking.

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking, I'm thinking it's I'm thinking, I'm thinking you're

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Speaker 5: Here.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's back up a second. All right, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: make some assumptions, which we both know as mechanics is

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: We're going to assume the we're going to assume the

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Speaker 2: got good coolant flow through the system. Right, So, you know,

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Speaker 2: some hoses feel hotter than the other. When you feel

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Speaker 2: those hoses, is at least one of the radiator hoses

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Speaker 2: the vehicle's completely warmed up. Nope, No, you know that's

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Speaker 2: that's that's an issue, all right every car. Laws of

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Speaker 2: physics don't change. It gets up to one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eight one hundred and eighty five degrees and the stat opens,

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Speaker 2: depending upon which way cooling flow goes. Right, logic would

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Speaker 2: kind of uncomfortable to hold. That's that's always been my barometer.

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00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,120
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Did they, by chance put

433
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 2: a thermostat in this car when they did whatever cooling

434
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,679
Speaker 2: system work they did to it?

435
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 4: H No, they didn't.

436
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 2: Okay, could the so here, let's do this. Let's talk

437
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 2: about let's find what's good by chance? Would you have

438
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 2: a basic scan tool?

439
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 4: No?

440
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 5: Okay, I have it ranting yeah oo, night shift, and

441
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 5: I don't have it like a whole lot of time.

442
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 2: Right, I get it. So so I want to look

443
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 2: and see what temperature is the engine running? At first

444
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 2: thought I got I don't think that's all of your problem,

445
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 2: but I just want to make sure the engine is

446
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 2: building proper heat.

447
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 5: Fair right, the dash indicator, that's the temperature gauge. There's

448
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 5: nothing fluctuating there.

449
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 2: Okay? Is it the same? Is it in the same position?

450
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 2: It always is?

451
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 5: It always is even at idle? All right? I as

452
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,719
Speaker 5: opposed to and you know what, it seems kind of

453
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 5: weird that it's kind of low because I have a

454
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,440
Speaker 5: remote start in oswall.

455
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: Well, what's what seems kind of low temperature?

456
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 5: The temperature does like it'll be part and idling for

457
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 5: fifteen minutes, and the temperature is not up there right

458
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 5: until I take off.

459
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 4: The temperature is.

460
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 2: Right because there's more heat load on an engine to

461
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 2: move the vehicle down through the medium of air. Right,

462
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,439
Speaker 2: So I'm back to my original stup. I'm back to

463
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: my well, I'm back to my original statement. I want

464
00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 2: to know that the thermostat is working properly. I want

465
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 2: to know that this is allowing the engine to come

466
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 2: up to minimum temperature. All right. I don't think that's

467
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 2: I don't think that's good. Well, I don't think that

468
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 2: that's causing your cold air problem coming out of the

469
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 2: heater duct, right, But the fact that we've got cooler

470
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 2: than normal heater hoses by feel and the gauge seems

471
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 2: low tells me that is a potential problem, right, Yeah, agreed.

472
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I want.

473
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 2: I want I want to verify temperature. I don't want

474
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 2: to just look for what's bad. I want to look

475
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 2: for what's good, you know my mantra. Okay, if I

476
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: can prove that the thermostat is operating at speck, all right,

477
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: then I'm starting to think I've got the system is

478
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 2: more air bound than not. All right. The fact that

479
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 2: the accident happened back. Well wit the fact that the

480
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 2: accident happened back and you said in the summer, which

481
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 2: seven months ago, and the problem has been continuing all along. Yes,

482
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 2: So now I'm gonna think, am I air bound? Do

483
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 2: you have an incline?

484
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 5: Yah?

485
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 2: Hang a second here, Derek, do you have an incline

486
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 2: around the house?

487
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 5: No?

488
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 2: An uphill? An uphill point? Is there a way you

489
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 2: could park this car? Is there a way you could

490
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 2: park this car someplace? You could park this vehicle uphill

491
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 2: overnight and leave the radiator cap off, the expansion tank

492
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: cap off, fill the bottle, fill the bottle.

493
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 5: You recommend a negative three degrees outside.

494
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's gonna be tough. I mean you're gonna

495
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 2: have to get the vehicle up to temp. Well, seeing

496
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 2: now I'm back to that, is the vehicle up to

497
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: tempt such that the thermostat actually opens and and and

498
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 2: all the components, you know, gain access, because what I'm

499
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 2: trying to do is burp air.

500
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 4: Right.

501
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 5: That's that's now explain to me again where you're setting.

502
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 2: You ever been in a house baseboard heating?

503
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 4: Yes?

504
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: Okay, have you ever had a baseboard heating system where

505
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 2: it's airbound? Either the little either the little pressure bleeders

506
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 2: don't dump off because they're clogged from calcium, or there's

507
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 2: something missing or something wrong. The system gets airbound, then

508
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 2: it doesn't circulate right. So if if by some miracle

509
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 2: your vehicle has been air bound since August or whenever

510
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 2: you hit what you hit, I just want to verify,

511
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 2: can I get air out of this?

512
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 5: All right?

513
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, well, give it, give it a bit

514
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: of an incline doesn't take much an eight ten degrees.

515
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 2: An eight ten degree incline on a warm engine. I'm

516
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 2: careful how I take the radiator cap off, so I

517
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 2: don't get scolded. I'm gonna let it sit twenty minutes,

518
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna let it sit with the cap woff overnight,

519
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna put a magic marker on mark on

520
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 2: the side of the bottle. And if the mark is

521
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 2: here and all of a sudden I come out the

522
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,959
Speaker 2: next morning and it dropped an inch or more, I'm

523
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 2: gonna add more coolant, drive it again, and I'm gonna

524
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 2: goodtinue to do that and see if I can cycle

525
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 2: all of it out. Now there's going to be a

526
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: certain amount of loss or I'm saying, uh, change in

527
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 2: height of the bottle, just because as it goes from

528
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 2: hot to cold, there's a certain amount of expansion and contraction.

529
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I've got air out

530
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 2: of this, because that heater core in that car sits

531
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: down low. If you look where the hoses go, it

532
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 2: kind of goes down low behind the engine. And it's

533
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 2: real easy for these things to get airbound. But I

534
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 2: still want to know. I still want to know that

535
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: that engine comes up to temp. Go ahead real quick.

536
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 5: So here's here's a no thing. Is that whenever I

537
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 5: step whenever I pull off the accelerator, it starts getting cold.

538
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 5: I can be driving all day long, I can be

539
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 5: driving here to California and back, and if I'm stepping

540
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 5: off the gas, if I'm pulling off, the gas starts

541
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 5: getting colder, right.

542
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,479
Speaker 2: Because because well, yeah, that's an indication of airbound. Sure,

543
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: that's an indication of airbound. Because the system's got air

544
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 2: and you're squeezing some coolant where it's not trying to go.

545
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: It's as it's fighting the air pocket. And as you

546
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 2: back off the accelerator, the water pump spins slower, and

547
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you get to the point

548
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 2: where you're back at idle and now it's cold again.

549
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 2: But do those things? Do it like that? You give

550
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 2: me a call back next week. I'm happy to help you, brother,

551
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 2: but let's take this one step at a time. If

552
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: you can get a scan tool on this and give

553
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 2: me an actual temper reading, I'd like to know that

554
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: as well. Eight five five five six nine nine zero zero.

555
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 2: We're back right after this, Keith, Louisiana. Keith, you're still there, sir.

556
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,719
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, right here.

557
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 2: Rolling along this hour. How can I help? What's going on?

558
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 6: Okay? I was speaking to the guy prior that accepted

559
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 6: my call.

560
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 7: I have a two thousand and two is old the car,

561
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 7: but it's a good car. Lexus. Right, let's with the

562
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 7: three year z engine, right, and I've been oning it

563
00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 7: for about eight years now.

564
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 2: Right, this is the this is the eighth cylinder, right, Keith.

565
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 6: Yeah V eight right, yeah, mood smooth engine, right. And I.

566
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 7: Tore it down and I did time and belt water,

567
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 7: pump et cetera, yep, yep, and I put a new

568
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 7: crank seal, I said time where everything came out perfect.

569
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 7: But it had been about six thousand miles and I

570
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 7: noticed I'm seeing a little dampness around the crank chefs,

571
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 7: you know, right behind the harmonic balance sheet there.

572
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the so the question becomes, is it the

573
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: seal or is it the you know that that crank

574
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: seal goes into I'm trying to think. I had to

575
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 2: describe it like an aluminum cover that's part of the

576
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 2: front of the engine. Correct Am I thinking of this correctly?

577
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: There's a there's there's a cover assembly there. Is it

578
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 2: the seal or is it that gasket? How many miles

579
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: are on this? That's young. I would I'll tell you what,

580
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 2: before I tore this down, I would add a I

581
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 2: would add a fluorescent die to the oil. Run it okay,

582
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 2: and you know, wipe away what you've got there. Run

583
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 2: it to the point you're familiar with fluorescent dye method,

584
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 2: using a black light to look to see that you've

585
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 2: got an oil stain or a die stain where your

586
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 2: leak is right, And then I would take it apart

587
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 2: and look to see is it is it the seal?

588
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: Is it the gasket behind in that flange housing when

589
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 2: you pulled the seal? Tell me how you pulled the seal.

590
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 2: I'm not picking on you. I'm just curious how you

591
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 2: did it.

592
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 6: And to be honest with it, I was amazed how

593
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 6: easy to seal came out, you know, right, you know

594
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 6: I didn't have to pry on it or pull on it.

595
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 6: I just basically just a little chap and it came

596
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 6: out in the shield. I use a piece of PVC

597
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 6: SAM sized and inserted the new crank seal o em.

598
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 2: All right, when you when you put that seal in,

599
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: you know the garter spring on the back, right, did

600
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: you pack that seal with wheelbaring grease?

601
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 5: No?

602
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: I did, so you just put it in the guard?

603
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: You know, is it? You know, because you have to

604
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 2: think to yourself, could the garter spring have popped off?

605
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 2: Although although you would think it would leak before six

606
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 2: thousand miles right right, And.

607
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 6: It's not super bad. You know, I'm always checking my vehicle,

608
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 6: you know, I.

609
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 7: Love Yeah, I get it, and you know what, you

610
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 7: know what it is.

611
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 6: I might can go five hundred miles and it'll be

612
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 6: a little damness you know around the crank seel cover, right,

613
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 6: you know the plastic cover. And I just noticed, well

614
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 6: some people may not worry about it, but it's just me.

615
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we want to know it because if

616
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: it's getting on the belt over time, it's going to

617
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: hurt the belt. So you know when you pulled that

618
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: seal out, how did you get the seal out?

619
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 6: Are you from the center of the seal with a

620
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 6: little tool with a hook? And I pulled it up

621
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 6: and it came out real easy, right, and I got

622
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 6: you know, it came on super easy.

623
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 5: All right.

624
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Keith, sit tight, let me pull over.

625
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: Take a pause. When we come back, we'll finish up.

626
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 2: I'm running any and the car doctor. We'll return right

627
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: after this. Let's get back to Keith and Louisiana. Keith,

628
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 2: you're still there, yes, sir, Take your index finger right,

629
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: point it pointed straight up. You're with me. Bend the tip.

630
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: So it's a hook. I got a tool in my toolbox.

631
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: It's like that, but it's very tiny. And what I

632
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 2: would do is I would sneak it under the seal

633
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 2: and that's how I would pull out seals. This is

634
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: when I first started working in the business. And then

635
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 2: every once in a while I always got nervous because

636
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: you started to look at it and you said, is

637
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: that hard metal surface going against the crank or the

638
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: cam or whatever you're pulling the seal out from. Could

639
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 2: you scratch it and put a put a little you know,

640
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 2: scratch mark in it?

641
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 3: Right?

642
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 6: And you know what, I made sure I didn't do that.

643
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, so as a suggestion what you may

644
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 2: want to consider. And this takes a steady hand, but

645
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 2: I've in the last thirty years I've resorted to where

646
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 2: I will take a small drill, drill a tiny hole,

647
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: put a sheet metal screw in there, and that gives

648
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: me a wedge point, and I'll pop the seal out

649
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: by placing the tip of the small pride bar against

650
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Speaker 2: and pop it out. That that being said, just to

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Speaker 2: pass along that tip right, Uh, the fact that the

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00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 2: seal popped out, How did the new seal go in?

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Speaker 2: Was it snug?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know, usually I don't have to I can't

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Speaker 2: recall too many times where I've had to use a

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Speaker 2: piece of PVC or a driver to Usually I can,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of just get the seal up onto

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Speaker 2: the crank or the cam and then just gently massage

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Speaker 2: it in and you know, push it in right, right,

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Speaker 2: And I.

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Speaker 6: Just seen to cut you off just video were guy

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Speaker 6: get it two and three and it sits perfect on

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Speaker 6: the seal. What I'm right, damaging it just kind of slightly.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you think you've got an issue with

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00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: that aluminum housing right where it's it's it's it's stretched

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Speaker 2: or oversized slightly, you know, I wouldn't be a kin

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Speaker 2: to putting a real thin beat him. I mean thin

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Speaker 2: beat a little RTV there to seal it, dry it

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Speaker 2: out real good in the housing and push it on

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Speaker 2: and let it get hard. But first thing I would

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Speaker 2: do before I do anything is I had to die.

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Speaker 2: Where's the leak coming from? And then when you take

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Speaker 2: it apart, you'll know. Keep me posted, Keith till the

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Speaker 2: next time I'm on an ady in the car.

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Speaker 4: Doctor.

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Speaker 2: The mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless, and see a doctor.

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Speaker 2: Cor Advice to the rit