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Speaker 1: go right ahead. Welcome to the radio home of ron

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Speaker 1: and Anian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car

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Speaker 1: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in. The garage doors

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Speaker 1: at eight five five and now, Ronnie, I want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about Mr Kelly's Lincoln because it's a

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Speaker 1: good story. I also want to talk to you about

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Speaker 1: you know, on Facebook, belonged to the first Generation Monty

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Speaker 1: Carlos Forum, and I was reading something about wheel alignance.

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Speaker 1: Let me think, where should we start Mr Kelly's Lincoln.

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Speaker 1: They will start Mr Kelly's twenty Lincoln. Will be be

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Speaker 1: a good show. Um. So Mr Kelly's a regular customer.

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Speaker 1: I've been working for Charles for years and his car

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Speaker 1: the problem he had as a classic example of the

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Speaker 1: then start the car. Does the voltage go up? This

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00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: is a sixty four UM. It's it's the old school,

425
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: old style GM alternator with the rectangular plug in the back.

426
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, in sixty four, it's gonna have

427
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 1: a low charge rate because there wasn't a lot of

428
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: electrical demand on that car in terms of you know,

429
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: options and what it needed. But you'll see it go

430
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: from standing voltage twelve three, twelve five. You'll see it

431
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: sneak up thirteen two thirteen five, maybe thirteen eight, fourteen

432
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 1: volts something like that. I wouldn't expect to see fourteen

433
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: and a half fifteen volts like I see on newer vehicles.

434
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: But I've got to see about a vault of volt

435
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 1: and a half differential from standing voltage to charge rate.

436
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: That tells me the alternators charging d you haven't, do

437
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: you have? You don't happen to have a clamp on

438
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 1: amp probe by chance, do you? I do not some

439
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: way to measure to know what amperagees just because voltage

440
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: is good. Voltages like water pressure. Right, we know water

441
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 1: pressure city water at the house is about fifteen pounds,

442
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: But it doesn't tell us how many gallons per minute

443
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: a're gonna flow out of that hose when I opened

444
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: this pigot. So I could have I could have fourteen

445
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,000
Speaker 1: vaults at the alternator, and the regulator could kick open, open,

446
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: open the field and turn on the demand, and I

447
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: could get fifteen amps where I need fifty. And that's

448
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: not going to allow it to charge properly. So a

449
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 1: real thorough charging system test is going to tell the tale.

450
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: All right, Uh you know one of them? Have you?

451
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 1: Well you should have. You know you've got to look

452
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: up the speck for this and see what it falls under.

453
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: It may only be forty two amps. If this is

454
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: a really true stock G T O S air conditioning

455
00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,679
Speaker 1: on this car, Okay, it doesn't have any right. If

456
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: this is a real basic car, it's probably forty two

457
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: to sixty three AM and sixty three I think was

458
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: a high output option. The point is it's got to

459
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: have at least two thirds of what rated capacity is.

460
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the nitty grittys of

461
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 1: well it says it's got to be forty two and

462
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: it's only got thirty eight. Is that a bad alternator? No,

463
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: it's just it's the low end of the scale. All right, Uh,

464
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 1: you know we're we're looking for a drastic difference, of

465
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: drastic change, something that's gonna prevent that battery from charging.

466
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: That being said, all right, then I want to voltage

467
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: drop test all my powers and grounds. I want to

468
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: make sure I've got good clean connections at the battery,

469
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: at the ground end, at the starter. All right. If

470
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: you think that, you start to get to the point

471
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: where you have a wiring harness issue older car high resistance,

472
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: you don't look around. Has the wiring harness been cut

473
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: into modified? Is anything taped up? Does anything look like

474
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: it's fallen out of and away from what the factory

475
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: and tended it to be a lot of things can

476
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: happen since sixty four, And pay careful attention to the

477
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: junction block connector where the harness comes through the firewall

478
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: on the driver's side. A lot of people forget about

479
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: that there's a weather seal there. There always was from

480
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: all the manufacturers that weather seal, whatever rubber, foam, sponge,

481
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: whatever they were using. Guess what it could have dried

482
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: up and moisture could be getting in there. So all

483
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: all sorts of nightmares can occur there if you can

484
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,399
Speaker 1: even get it apart without breaking anything, because all the

485
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: plastic is brittle. So just just things to consider. All right,

486
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about the smoking on the one side.

487
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: The issue here is is it a ring problem? Is

488
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: it one cylinder? Is at all cylinders? So it's got

489
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: to start with pulling plugs on that bank? Which plug

490
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: looks like it's burning oil? All right? If it's If

491
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: it's one cylinder, maybe I'm gonna pull the valve cover

492
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: off and take a look at stem seals. And what

493
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: we call it airing up the cylinder. We put air

494
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: in the cylinder, hold pressure on it, take the valve

495
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: springs off with the head on the car, keeping the

496
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: cylinder aired up. The ideas air in the cylinder keeps

497
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 1: the valve seated right. And you know at that point

498
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 1: what I would do is I put a rubber band

499
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: around the valve stem. The rubber band keeps the valve

500
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: from falling into the cylinder, and I could rock the

501
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: valve on its seat, take the air away, and now

502
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: the valve is going to be loose on the guide.

503
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: You can look and measure guide wear with the head

504
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: stole on the car. I think, think, think about what

505
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: I said. They're very carefully because you don't want to

506
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: make a mistake here if you were, if you were

507
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: a heart surgeon, this is not the moment to go oops,

508
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: all right, because it's gonna cost you, all right. But

509
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 1: the idea is the heavy rubber band will keep the

510
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: valve from falling into the head, and we'll give the

511
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: ability to check. For God, here's your problem, all right.

512
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: If it needs one guide, you're gonna just pull one

513
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: head off and do one side A. You're gonna do both.

514
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm right, yeah, And I'm thinking you're gonna find

515
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: some pretty heavy duty where there's gonna be something really obvious.

516
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: If this thing is puff and blue smoke like like

517
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: uh you know, um, like a factory, like a like

518
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: a locomotive, there's gonna be something really obvious here. You

519
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 1: could you could hide the battleships. Right, Yeah, so there's

520
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: gonna be something really obvious obviously. Also, before I go

521
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: check the pcv VL, make sure the crank case ventilation

522
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: systems working properly. It should have had one in sixty four, alright,

523
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: make sure it's not plug make sure that's working. That's

524
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: not overloading the system and that's creating an issue. So

525
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: last very just replace that. Except you know, I I

526
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: thought about that, and when I looked at it, it

527
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it has one. I mean, it's got

528
00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: two oil cover you know, on each valve over but

529
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: nothing I thought I thought in sixty four they did.

530
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, it's been a while. But if it

531
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: has one, make sure it works. Last thing, if you

532
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: need an alternator and you have to replace it, take

533
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: a look at power Master dot com. Power I'm sorry, power.

534
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: I believe it's power Master Motorsports dot Com. Great website.

535
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: I use their stuff on the hot rod no complaints,

536
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: works well and they get it for hot rods. Uh.

537
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: They make it work. So go take a look at

538
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: that stuff. Good luck to you. Let me know what happens.

539
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: I'm running any and the car Doctor. We're back right

540
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: after this second welcome back. Why don't need the car doctor?

541
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: Look at us? A piece of email from Arizona, Phoenix

542
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: way from KFNN. This rights this, gentleman rights in Dave.

543
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: Dave says, Hey, Ron, I've got a late model Chevy

544
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: pickup and I'm getting it ready for the summer, which

545
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: never seems to end out here in Arizona. And I

546
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: want to know what your thoughts are on thermostat replacement.

547
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: The truck is now eight years old, and I'm considering

548
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: using something I found on the motor Rad website regarding

549
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: their fail safe thermostats. I want to know what you

550
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: think of them. Yeah, Dave, listen failsafe thermostats for motor Rad,

551
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,719
Speaker 1: and I believe they invented the category. It's the idea

552
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: that a failsafe thermostat will, in the event of failure,

553
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: lock in the open position, not the closed position. And

554
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: I get it. The rest of your email talks about

555
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: you're concerned about overheating because in Arizona it's it's it's

556
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: sort of a brutal environment. As you put it, that

557
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: there's no margin of error, and there's not all right,

558
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: there's no margin of error in any situation where an

559
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: engines overheating, but in a high tempt climate area, that's

560
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: got to be something you've really got to take care

561
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: with and make sure that the vehicle's cooling system is

562
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: up to speed. So yeah, motor rad dot com is

563
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: where you want to go for everybody else, But Dave,

564
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: what you're talking about is their failsafe thermostats that when

565
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: they fail, they fail in the open position. And the

566
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: interesting thing to keep in mind is the majority of

567
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: automotive thermostats in the therm stats in the marketplace today

568
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: fail in the closed position. They don't open, and that's

569
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: why the engine overheats and you get that thump thump

570
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: thump is the waters expanding and boiling inside the cooling,

571
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: or the cooling is expanding and boiling inside the radiator

572
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: and the hoses and so forth. So the failsafe thermostat

573
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: idea is something that prevents that overheat. You'll end up

574
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: with an engine that won't build heat, but it won't

575
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,959
Speaker 1: put you on the side of the road, and worse,

576
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: it won't cause the engine to fail, which adds up

577
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: to be a very expensive, very hard learned lesson in

578
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: a very quick and short period of time. So I

579
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: appreciate the letter, and I hope, I hope it all

580
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: works out for you. David. While you're out there, take

581
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: a look at the rest of the motor rad line.

582
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: They make their thermostats, their radiator caps, and they've got

583
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,719
Speaker 1: a line of ignition and emission components as well. So

584
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: all good stuff, all built to I s O. Nine

585
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: thousand one standards eight zero nine zero. The car doctors

586
00:31:52,160 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: coming back right after this flock, Why don't any of

587
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: the car doc Let's do a quick piece of email.

588
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Gene and New Jersey

589
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: bmw X three transmission shiftings erratic. He's got a bunch

590
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: of codes at two d C eight and a two

591
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: d C nine. He's got some components not talking to

592
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: each other. He's changed a bunch of parts, and he's

593
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: looking for my input. Jane, I think part of the

594
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: conversation here has to be centered around, Um, you're using

595
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: one particular scan tool for code reading. I did some

596
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: research on two d C nine and eight and I

597
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: don't find them, and I'm questioning whether or not that

598
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: tool is looking the codes up properly or I've got

599
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: misinformation in front of me. So just for giggles. If

600
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: you can get a different tool on it to see

601
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: if you get the same codes and the same response.

602
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: The second is and I think the codes are close.

603
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: I just question whether or not they're absolutely accurate. But

604
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not let that bother me. Take a look

605
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: at the crank sensor. Do you have the ability to

606
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: scope that crank sensor something like a beamer. They're very

607
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: fussy on signal that they say quality of signal is

608
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: very very important. They accept no garbage there whatsoever. If

609
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: someone could scope the cry sense or just changing it

610
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: isn't enough. If the engine is not running right, it's

611
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: gonna affect transshifting operation as well as generate fold codes

612
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: like you're describing. So before you go and put any

613
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: more parts into it, fuel, pump, filter, regulator, check valves

614
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: a lot of money in this car, and we're still

615
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: not diagnosing it. Let's go do a formal diagnosis. Remember,

616
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: tell me what's good and I can tell you what's bad.

617
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: Start looking at it from that, And what is fuel

618
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: pressure if you put a pump in it? What made

619
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: you think to put a pump in it? Did you

620
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: check pressure before and after? And did you look at

621
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: volume and have you ever looked at cleanliness of the

622
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: fuel coming out of the tank, although by now you

623
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: know cleanliness of fuel coming out of the tank because

624
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: you put a pump in it. So just some things

625
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: to think about, and then give us a shout back

626
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: next week or drop us another email and we can

627
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: talk about it further. I want to also talk real

628
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: quick about Mala Mala air conditioning. UM. Got my new

629
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: Mala air conditioning machine this week. UM, And I've got

630
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: to tell you, you know, I've gotten a lot of

631
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: equipment over the years in my forty plus years of

632
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: doing order repair. And it's the first time I've ever

633
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: had something shipped to make came FedEx. I've had that before.

634
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: But the mission the box had a breakage valve. And

635
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: I know this is a small point and it's not

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