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Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it's you've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: books Bag and Robert. How are you today? Fine, We're

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, uh here at home with the sixty

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Speaker 1: When you say it doesn't run right? And idols beautiful.

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Speaker 1: that's when the cart's getting Um you got a dwell meter?

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Speaker 1: if you drive it it blows up, it's gonna cost

428
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: you more. But maybe it's not worth repairing. With less

429
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: than seventy tho miles on, it is clearly worth repairing.

430
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 1: And in the case of you, if it is a planetary,

431
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: if it takes the planetary gear set out, or something

432
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: does implode, failed, fall apart, explode, et cetera, it could

433
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 1: damage the aluminum case of the transmission. And if if

434
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:32,120
Speaker 1: it does that, then that's more that that easily adds

435
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 1: five to the repair, if not more, And that's being conservative.

436
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: So I say, I say, let's let's let's um let's

437
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: let's replace it, let's get it rebuilt. So uh, let's

438
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 1: do that. You're very welcome. Hey, Kathleen, stand the line

439
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 1: is fast, Harry around cause somebody grab fast Harry. Kathleen,

440
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: stay on the line. I want to send you out

441
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 1: a car doctor T shirt kind of ease your pain

442
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think, uh, I think I think

443
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 1: you're this way you can tell your husband. Listen, I

444
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: got a second opinion. It was the car doctor look

445
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: and he gave me a T shirt for it too. Sot,

446
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,959
Speaker 1: stay in the line Fastarry, I'll get your information. We'll

447
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: get a car doctor T shirt out to you this week. Um,

448
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 1: and that'll help. You have to hate to see somebody

449
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: getting beat up like this. You have a good rest

450
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: of the day, Kathleen, Take good care. Thank you, You're

451
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: very welcome. By bye. Let's go and talk to Bob Lacrosse,

452
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Chevy Corsica and some questions about chugging, chugging, chugging, chugging, Bob,

453
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,320
Speaker 1: how are you running? Eating of the car doctorate your service?

454
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you for taking my Yeah, thank

455
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: you for taking my call. It's a of course, three

456
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: point one hundred miles and uh. I was going along

457
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: on the high sixteen a short period of time and

458
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: traffic backed up. Uh and uh it was warm rather

459
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: and so far and to start chucking along and then

460
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: I finally the engine killed and I was able to

461
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: restart it and get a I mean it was missing

462
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: all the way over to the local Garadgual I deal

463
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: with and they checked the spark plug layers, spark blugs,

464
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: guess U and the filter and so forth. And they

465
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: finally put they put it on a horse and horse

466
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: down the clean off the bottom and they found it

467
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: was a crank shaft sensor that was bad. Uh, that's

468
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 1: a regular or not a regular account failure? Is it

469
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: with that vehicle or is it happened with that many

470
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: miles or what's going on? It's it's been it's been

471
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,959
Speaker 1: known to fail on those. The crank sensor on that

472
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: is the one. This is the one that's in the

473
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: back of the engine above the transmission Bob. Or is

474
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: this the one that's on the front of transmission, Yeah,

475
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: above it's it's it's basically in the back of the engine. Uh,

476
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: facing the back leg of the transits between the engine

477
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: and the transmission, so to speak, in the rear of

478
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: the engine. Well to the firewall side. Let me get

479
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: my nomenclature right. It's to the firewall side of the engine.

480
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: Or is this the crank sensor that's on the front

481
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: of the engine on the passenger side area? Where is

482
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: it located? Yeah, they're hard to get at. Yeah, if

483
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: either one is not great. The one that's in the

484
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: back on the firewall side of the engine is real

485
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: tough to get back. It's real tough to get at.

486
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: Is that what I got? You're gonna have one or

487
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: the other. That's why I'm asked. I think he determined

488
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: which one it is. But they delivered was rather late

489
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: to day, and they delivered the part a local parts dealer,

490
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: and uh, they said, I have to leave it there

491
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,439
Speaker 1: because they delivered the wrong part. Right, Well, maybe they

492
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: went the mechanic order that on the computer, right, Maybe

493
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: that's why. So now the other thing to be aware

494
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: of is in case this turns into g it's not

495
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: the crank sensor. Before I let you go, I just

496
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: want to plant this seed before this happened. Had it

497
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: been a while since you've driven out on the highway? No?

498
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: Not really, Okay, all right, I'm just I just in

499
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: the back of my mind when I hear I would say,

500
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: I would say it thoughbtatly a week a week and

501
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,239
Speaker 1: a half is all. Okay. You do a lot of

502
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: the city driving, but I get out on the highway occasionally,

503
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: and the last time was about a couple of weeks ago. Okay,

504
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,439
Speaker 1: let's listen to me a second, Bob, the the My

505
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: concern is this generation General Motors product when it gets

506
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: this age in this milege and I hear conversation about

507
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: it's it's chugging. I start to think about an issue

508
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: in the transmission torqu converter that it's it's gone into

509
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,959
Speaker 1: lock up and it hasn't released. It's a problem with

510
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: the clutch portion of the transmission tork converter. I know

511
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: it's an automatic. We used to call it lock up clutch.

512
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: And if you get this back and the problem persists,

513
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: and they go, gee, it's not the crank sensor, because

514
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: I'm betting what's wrong with the crank censor. What they

515
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: saw is that the internal connector is soaked in oil,

516
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: meaning the censor's bed. It may or may not be

517
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: causing this problem. If you find me let me the

518
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: delfcover gaskets have been leaking, but they don't link that much.

519
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: And then maybe the oil you said, the now the oil.

520
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: Now the oil I'm thinking of is because internally the

521
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 1: sensor fails and allows oil to leak up through the censor,

522
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,719
Speaker 1: which saturates the field the coils of wire inside the sensor,

523
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: and then it comes out the connector plug. So it's

524
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: an internal failure of the censor. If it's the one

525
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: in the engine block that goes down into the crank case,

526
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: then then that's common and I can understand them changing that.

527
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: But if this problem persists, then before they throw their

528
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: hands up, mentioned to them torque converter clutch. Could the

529
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: torque t t O r T isn't tom t O

530
00:28:54,080 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: r q u e q q is in Quincy torque

531
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: converter clutch. It's my jersey accent throws everybody off, okay,

532
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: torq converter clutch? Could that be staying on causing the

533
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: car to chug? And if you get out on the

534
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 1: highway and the next time it happens, pop the car

535
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: and neutral. Does the engine start to run normal, slow down,

536
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: come to a stop sign and then pop the car

537
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: and neutral just as you're approaching the stop sign. And

538
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: if it runs normal and does install, I bet more

539
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: on a transmission issue than an engine issue, not to

540
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: say that it didn't need a crank sensor. Maybe more

541
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: than one problem or one other one issue. I'm old

542
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: to car like this, and good talking to you, Bob.

543
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: I appreciated eight five zero nine zero zero. I'm on

544
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: an ending of the Car Doctor. I'll return right after

545
00:29:44,760 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: this felt Hi, it's ride Hey, welcome back on Nading

546
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. And the phone number here is zero

547
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero Car Doctor Show dot com for

548
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: podcast and all that kind of good stuff. And I

549
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: think we're at the good part of the show where

550
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: Tom Ray is standing up and he's got the Facebook

551
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: card Doctor T shirt winner of the week of this hour,

552
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: and just for everyone's information, we are giving away a

553
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: car Doctor T shirt every hour every week from now

554
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: to the end of the year. Get out to Facebook.

555
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: Like the page. You have to like the page ron

556
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: and nating in the Car Doctor. Ask a question. If

557
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: we pull your question off the Facebook page and somebody

558
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: reads it for you here and I get to answer it,

559
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: then wallah, falla wallah. Of course it's a good part

560
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: of the show. I'm on their instead of you. There

561
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: you go. Everybody wants to get into the act, folks,

562
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,959
Speaker 1: that's the way this is. So I'm just having too

563
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: much fun on this side of the glass. I'm glad

564
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: we locked you in today. Yeah glad, I'm glad. I'm

565
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: glad there's a door between me. So but um, anyway,

566
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: how can I help you what's going on here? Well,

567
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: this is from Kevin uh Crosos. I believe is how

568
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: we pronounce it. And he says, hey, Ron, I got

569
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: a question for you about oil monitoring systems. I have

570
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: Civic that has an oil monitoring system, and I change

571
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: oil when the oil monitoring system tells me I have

572
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: oil life left, which equates to about miles. What's your

573
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: thoughts on oil monitoring systems and cars today? And do

574
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: you think I'm going too long between oil changes? I

575
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: think you're going too long between oil changes, Kevin. Oil

576
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: monitoring systems are good for the masses that just want

577
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: to be a sheep and just follow the routine that

578
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: the manufacturer sets down. And then when they get to

579
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: a hund thousand miles that they've got engine issues, consumption

580
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: of oil leaks, engines that don't run right, problems like that,

581
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: they're not worried about it. They're gonna go out and

582
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: buy another car. I think if you want to take

583
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: care of a car, you've got to be more on

584
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: top of it than that. And I think it starts

585
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: with an oil change, and it's always been that way

586
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: as far as an oil change. Had a great conversation

587
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: to the week with someone from WIS Filters and we

588
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 1: were talking about the fact that oil filters are being

589
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: asked to go longer, which is the other problem with

590
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: the extended oil drain intervals that the manufacturers are calling for.

591
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: And he assured me that the Wicks premium oil filters

592
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: will go the distance, they will hold up. And it

593
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: was an interesting conversation in that the oil filter manufacturers

594
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: are aware of it, and Wis not only does WIS

595
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: filters that you'll see in the aftermarket, they do a

596
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: lot of original equipment manufacturing for ow filters. But it

597
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: was interesting to note that they are so aware of

598
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: it and they are creating more and more filters every

599
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: day that will go longer and longer, built to a

600
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: manufacturer specification. But as Donald said to me, and he's

601
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: a car guy too, he said, but why wouldn't you

602
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: just change the oil on a regular basis and get

603
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: the maintenance involved, Because he brought up the point that

604
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: I'm always making with regard to you're going to run

605
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: out of oil. You know, oils has to be checked

606
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, and people don't do that, and

607
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: they've fallen into and they've been lulled to sleep by

608
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: the maintenance lights. So don't do the maintenance. Do the maintenance.

609
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: Do the maintenance as per the light. You might be

610
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: doing an engine at some point if you forget to

611
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: check oil, don't do that and check it on a

612
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: change it on a regular basis, and use a good

613
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: filter like a WIS. You'll um, you'll see what's going on.

614
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: So it's important. Hey, let's pull over and take the cause.

615
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: By the way. If any more information, it's WIS filters

616
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: dot com. Let me get that in there too, so

617
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: everybody says, where can I find good Wicks filters wix

618
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: filters dot com. Eight zero zero. The car Doctor is

619
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: coming back right after this, just taking this. Hey, welcome

620
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: back on any of the car Doctor rolling along as

621
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: we kind of top things out here at the top

622
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: of the hour. Let's get over and talk to Tim

623
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: Flint Michigan, Oh seven Chevy and Pallett. Tim, Welcome to

624
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Great? Thank

625
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: you Ron of your should thank you, thank you. What's

626
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: going on? I I bought this old seven in Palla,

627
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: just just a great car, you know, and and nobody

628
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: I have one problem. Nobody can fix this. This squeak.

629
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: All right, I love a challenge. Tell me what's going on?

630
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: All right? Uh, it's steers perfect as far as smooth

631
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: um what it's doing on a low turn? Am I

632
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: still with you? Yeah? You're here? Okay? Uh. You know,

633
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: like like backing into a garage or pulling to a

634
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: parking space, or going through a drive through a slow

635
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 1: slight turn, it will make a squeak like I guess

636
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: I can compare it to a basketball to you on

637
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: a court like everything like a basketball, like a basketball

638
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: what like like she was on a basketball like Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I but it's just the different I've been on cars

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Speaker 1: on my life that I'm a maintenance Greek, so I've

641
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Speaker 1: never heard this, and until now my neighbor's intel it

642
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Speaker 1: does this name thing. So I guess, long story short,

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Speaker 1: I've played the game of it. The power steering pomp,

644
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: it's the belt, it's this, it's that, and I've replaced

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00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: everything and it's still there, maybe worse. Okay, let me

646
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: ask you this. When you change the power steering pump,

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Speaker 1: did you bleed the system? Yes? Twice? That actually okay,

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00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: so you bled the system when you change the belt?

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Speaker 1: Did you replace the tension or yes, um, does it

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Speaker 1: matter or change in frequency or noise if the A

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Speaker 1: C compressor is on? Huh, you know what, I didn't

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Speaker 1: go that far, all right, you know, because if it's

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Speaker 1: a belt issue, let's let's let's think it out in

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Speaker 1: our head. If the belt is loaded all right, in

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Speaker 1: that it's just under such extreme pressure and you're in

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Speaker 1: a parking lot maneuver, you're backing up, you're going forward, whatever,

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Speaker 1: cranking the wheel, high prop high demand. You gotta think

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00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 1: about the situation. What's the car setting up. It's setting

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00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: up a high power, steering demand, high effort issue. So

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Speaker 1: if you turn on the A C and try to

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Speaker 1: do it, does that change anything? If it does, then

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Speaker 1: we've got to have the conversation whose belt intention or

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Speaker 1: is it? Is it up to the task or do

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Speaker 1: we have one of the other pulleys causing the problem

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Speaker 1: possibly binding or not spinning. As true as it does,

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Speaker 1: do that and give me a call back next week. Tim,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna send your car doctor T shirt for your effort.

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Speaker 1: See you