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Speaker 1: let's get over to Allen in Maine. Sixty nine sixty

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Speaker 1: nine Chevy Camaro. Hey, Allen, welcome to the car, doctor, dude.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Holly cabret the question, Okay, you have

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just a question of that's why I

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Speaker 1: So you know what you want to know is manifold vacuum.

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Speaker 1: When you open this up, do you have power valves

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Speaker 1: a knowledge viewpoint, you know your numbers, You're fine. I

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Speaker 1: would say you're at the You're at the stage of

424
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: the game where yeah, it's time to you know, you

425
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: want to just go through basics, look for vacuum weeks.

426
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,200
Speaker 1: I want to play with the carve a little, maybe

427
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 1: some mixture adjustments. But something's changing, and uh, something's changing,

428
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: and I think you've got to start. I think you've

429
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,600
Speaker 1: got to start with going through the CARB just to

430
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 1: make sure that it's correct. Yeah. So some cabret to

431
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 1: cleaner and a little bit of air, and I've already

432
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: got new uh meter and block gaskets and stuff. So

433
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 1: when I take it apart, I was hoping I didn't

434
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: have to get a you know, a whole rebuild kit,

435
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: because I do lawn mow is uh you know, Rhodo

436
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 1: till is snowblow is because of the fuel every year.

437
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 1: I have to take those off and clean them out.

438
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: But as far as hollis go, um, you know, I've

439
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: just never dug into a Holly's easy if you have

440
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: if you can listen to me Alan, If you can

441
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: do a lawnmower engine. If you can do a lawnmower engine,

442
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,359
Speaker 1: you know you or or a Rhodo tiller or whatever.

443
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: They're harder, they have they have more little pieces in

444
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: it than a holly. If you can do that and

445
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: have basic common sense for that, you can do a Holly.

446
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,800
Speaker 1: The one thing that's gonna be a pain in the

447
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: neck for you is the metering block gaskets on the holly.

448
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: You're likely to stick to the body or the plate,

449
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 1: and it depends on what gaskets they put into it

450
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: when they built the carb They do make a non

451
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:58,400
Speaker 1: stick version metering block gasket. So f you Yeah, after

452
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: you go through the pain of scraping the old brown ones,

453
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: you'll understand why. I just get yourself the set of

454
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: the nonstick so you don't have to go through this

455
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: seven times. Uh you know it's um Do you think

456
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: I could go with a lower Uh No, No, no,

457
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: not at all, No, not at all. I would. I would,

458
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: I would, I would. I would definitely replace the power valve.

459
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: I would get a rebuild kit. Listen, you're opening up

460
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: the car. I would get a rebuild kit. I look

461
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: at I look at the float, the needle, the seat,

462
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: go through all the old rings, anything to touched fuel

463
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: the past nine years, and you know, just just just

464
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: go through it and just clean it up and and

465
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: take your time. I would also, you know, I'm a

466
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: little bit of a fuss pot when I take the

467
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: mixture screws out. If the mixture screws are tapered and

468
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 1: and they're looking a little gnarled up, I've been known

469
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: to get a piece of real fine sand paper, uh scotch,

470
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: tape the sandpaper or the emery paper to a piece

471
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: of glass and just very gently polished them and uh

472
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, just just because sometimes guys will not saying

473
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: you did, but sometimes guys will jam the mixture screw

474
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: into the point that it actually makes a dent in

475
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: the in the I've fiddled around with him a few

476
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 1: times and uh, but you know they all as soon

477
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: as I sat running them in, it starts bringing the

478
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: idol down. I you know, I took them all the

479
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: way in by hand, very likely seed him and back

480
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: them out to like one and a half that were

481
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: there and my idol speed and you know, try to

482
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: but I haven't done it with the vacuum gauge, you know,

483
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: so as far as trying to get the best idle

484
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: with my vacuum and title highest vacuum. Sure, and you

485
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: know all that stuff counts. What kind of distributor you're

486
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: running with this car? It's a oh, it's a it's

487
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: a it's an electronic breaker lists m um. No, it

488
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: is a XL Great Billet so XL Street Billet module

489
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: and everything is built inside. Yes, the only thing I

490
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: had for the external is I've got an Excel one

491
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 1: of the big super coils. Yeah, okay, you probably don't

492
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: need that, trust me. Probably just there a conventional coil.

493
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: But they look need I get it. What you could

494
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: do is after the car. It's not the big yellow

495
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: lo okay, it's not that. It's you know, all the

496
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 1: all the standard round twelve, all coils worked just great.

497
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: I don't know everybody goes to the other ones. I

498
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,399
Speaker 1: guess I guess someone needs to sell some coils and

499
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: get everybody happy, right. Um, you know it's it's the

500
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: old thing, the old saying goes and I think you're

501
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: I think we're in the same age group. Allen mild

502
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: goes wild and we said that thirty years ago, forty

503
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: years ago. So sometimes the simplest stuff works the best,

504
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 1: all right. So it's a fun car. It's got a

505
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: fuller end and the drumic five speeds, so it's got

506
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: some get up. And I'm I'm gonna call you again

507
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: some other day with another question. I'm running a current

508
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,120
Speaker 1: case evacuation system on it now because we'll just regular breatheres.

509
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,199
Speaker 1: You know, I eventually get oil all over of the

510
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: engine bay would massed. It was the guy built a

511
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: motor for drag race, and I believe from what I

512
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: was told, so I've never had a part. Whenever, whenever

513
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: you're ready talking to Yeah, all right, n all right.

514
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking your time and listening to my tissues.

515
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: That's what I do, Ellen, and I'm glad to be

516
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: here for you and everybody else. You take good care

517
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: and have a good rest of the afternoon. I'm running

518
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. We are back right after this.

519
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Why doctors get over to Steven Morristown, New Jersey.

520
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: Oh three Dodge pick him up trucks, Steve. Welcome to

521
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. Yeah, h yes, at time hearing, but

522
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: we'll give it a shot. Uh yeah, roun, I mean

523
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: call you for a long time. Here we are. Yeah,

524
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: I have my two Dodge hundred full drive at five

525
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: point nine the gas and uh three things air bag

526
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: is on. It's been recalled still you know, stayed on

527
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: check engine light. Uh border to a bunch of mechanics.

528
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: They've changed some that still have it and no cruise

529
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 1: control and what I'm not the mechanic that a lot

530
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: of your guys are. But replace the break light switch

531
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: and uh found out that there's power to the cruise control.

532
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: But what happens you push the button goes on for

533
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: a second and that goes right off. Okay, here's here's

534
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: here's what we want to do first of all. And

535
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: it's a little it's a little hard, you know, and

536
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: and and under understanding everybody calls up and says, hey,

537
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: my my air bag lights on, but it's under it's

538
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: under a recall. Everybody's got an air bag recaill I

539
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: think everybody's gonna have an air bag recall probably for

540
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: the next five years. But you still want to know

541
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: what fault code is there. So if we were standing

542
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: in the shop diagnosed and that, the first thing we're

543
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: gonna do is I'm gonna tell you to go ahead

544
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: and and run a full codes on all all modules,

545
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: all systems. What do we got, all right is the

546
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: air bag fault. And the reason I say this is

547
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: because the air bag fault, Steve, is possibly related to

548
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: the cruise fault is possibly related to the check engine light.

549
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: All right, So yeah, there's a possibility depending upon what

550
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: fault this is. So you you sort of need to know, um,

551
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: the an air bag fault can surely keep the cruise

552
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: from working or being a erratic simply because here, let's

553
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: say the let's say the air bag fault is a

554
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,719
Speaker 1: clock spring. Do you know what the clock spring is Stevie.

555
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: So so you sit behind the wheel, you turn the

556
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: steering wheel, right, Did you ever wonder how the horn stays,

557
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, works in any position because there's a contact

558
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: ring under the steering wheel with a copper brush. You

559
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: ever play with slock cars as a kid? Uh? Well, well,

560
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: or electric motors with with copper brushes and contacts and

561
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: things like that. Yeah, Well, so they've got they've got

562
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: a copper brush on a contact ring that as you

563
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: turn the steering wheel, it's it's it's making contact. Well,

564
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: that's that's the horn contact. They've also got one there

565
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: for the air bag. They've also got one there so

566
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: that if they have to deploy the air bag or

567
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: activate the air big, they can do so. Any steering

568
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: wheel in any position, think about it, in an accident,

569
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily know that the wheel is going to

570
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: be straight ahead. They've got to be able to read

571
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: it in all positions. So for example, and that that

572
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: piece of the clocks or the piece of the air

573
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: bag that we call that, we call that the clock spring.

574
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: It's like the hands of a clock any position, you know,

575
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, twelve, one, two, three, so on. So the

576
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: issue here becomes if the clock spring were bad, and

577
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: I'm theorizing here, if the clock spring we're bad, the

578
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: air bag lights gonna come on and the cruise control

579
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: won't work. Well, yeah, because do you have let me

580
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: ask you this, where's your cruise control switches? It on

581
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: the steering column? Is it is? It? Is it on

582
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: the is it on your hornpad area? Uh? Well, it's

583
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: it's been very close to the right. It's it's not

584
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: on the stalk, it's it's it's you have you have

585
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: buttons on the steering wheel to set cruise, don't you? Yes? Right? Um?

586
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: And the horn is uh uh. I don't think it's

587
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but there's a couple of buttons, right.

588
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: But but my point is, my point is that the

589
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: cruise control sounds like on this vehicle, like a lot

590
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: of them, the cruise control inputs go through the airbed

591
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: clock spring if if if as a guess, until we

592
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: scan it, we don't know if the clock spring we're bad,

593
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: guess what the cruise control isn't gonna work. Does the

594
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: horn work? Yes? It does? Okay, then we then we'd

595
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: have to look to see does the horn input go

596
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: through the clock spring or doesn't have it on, it

597
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: doesn't have its own set of contacts. But my point is,

598
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: my point is some diagnosis has to be made, all right, now,

599
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: changing the brake light switch. Everybody takes that, guess. The

600
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: question I have is down at the brake light switch,

601
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: if you turn the if you turn the cruise button on,

602
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: do you have battery positive at the yellow red wire

603
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: for the brake light switch? Yeah, I have, Chica, here's

604
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: here's the here's the other, and here's and here's the

605
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: last piece of the puzzle. And then I'll let you go.

606
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: All right, this could have a bad PCM. This could

607
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: have a bad engine controller causing a cruise control fault.

608
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: So one of the first things the mechanics should be

609
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: doing is when he has the SCANTL looked up, looking

610
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: at fault codes, he should be pushing the cruise buttons

611
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: on and off. Does he get a response on the

612
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: scan tool If he gets a response of yes, and

613
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: then he goes down to the brake light switch, and

614
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: he has no power on the yellow red wire, and

615
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: you put a jumper to it. Now the cruise works,

616
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: believe it or not, You've probably got a bad PCM.

617
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: And that's where I think this might be headed. Gott

618
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: to do a full code scan, break it down. Are

619
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: they related or are they all separate faults? And then

620
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: start working your way out from there. Call me back

621
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: if you need more infro Stevie, I'm runing ading in

622
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: the car doctor. We are back right after this. This

623
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: car is automatic, it's systematic, it's hard, dramatic. What's breeze lightning? Hey,

624
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: welcome back. We're needing the car doctor. We're winding down

625
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: this hour. Keep in My next hour is the Wicks

626
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: die Cast give away thirty nine for hot rod period

627
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: correct pieces and just a neat looking model. If you

628
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: want to add that to your collection, give us a

629
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: call next hour at zero nine zero zero and Tom

630
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Ray and Mikey will uh um uh you know, give

631
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: us the que and tell us if whatever the whatever,

632
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: their qualification is, decision of the judges as final, as

633
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: I always say, um, just important stuff. I was reading

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