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Speaker 1: We've I've learned a lot about doing my own maintenance

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Speaker 1: from listening to you. Well, thank you, sir. And I

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Speaker 1: a reason here and and and that's what I'm trying

428
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 1: to point out to you that you know you can

429
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: do it. You can do it at your own peril.

430
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: You can be the science project. But to me, you know,

431
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: unless I see proof in the pudding results, and you

432
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 1: know what we live in. We live in a technology age.

433
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to beat you up, Jason. I'm

434
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: just trying to keep your eyes wide open. If if

435
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: we were at the shop, we'd be having this exact

436
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: same conversation, and I would tell you, jump on the internet.

437
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: Show me somebody that's done it, explained to me how

438
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: they did it and got away with it, show me

439
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: that they've been doing it longer than six months, that

440
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: they haven't had the issues, and I'd say, Okay, then

441
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 1: maybe you can. You can go on YouTube and and

442
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: find you know, find many people that do it. My

443
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: question for you is how many vehicles have you service

444
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:24,360
Speaker 1: that have damage from ethanol um damage from ethanol? A handful,

445
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 1: not really a lot. But you know, I don't see

446
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: We don't see a lot of flex few vehicles in

447
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: the shop to begin with. And I'm not saying they're

448
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 1: the only ones with ethanol, but we don't see. And

449
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: and keep in mind, I think ethanol. I think ethanol

450
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 1: and ethanol damage is a result of I think it's

451
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,120
Speaker 1: a regional issue around the country. I think certain parts

452
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: of the country are on different blends of fuel, and

453
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,679
Speaker 1: I think certain parts of the country are more susceptible

454
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: to ethanol issues. Sure, just just just from just from

455
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: my seat here, but you know, you can't. You can't

456
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: look at one parent shop and say, hey, what are

457
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: you're seeing because you know in Bergen County, you know,

458
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: it's it's a totally different world than Central Jersey, the

459
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: South Jersey, then Pennsylvania, then New York, and you know,

460
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: the variety changes and and the issues and the problems change. Uh,

461
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 1: you know. And let me just one last comment. YouTube

462
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: is a guideline. It's not an authority. Yeah, I just

463
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: right take it at your own discretion and just be careful,

464
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: like I said, unless somebody could come up to me

465
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: and say, General Motors came out with that bulleton because

466
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: the engineer said we have to do it for liability,

467
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: or maybe we have to do it for emissions. Maybe

468
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: we're trying to meet an ep A mandate. I'm not sure,

469
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't want to go fooling around. I wouldn't

470
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: want to pump the wrong fuel or the incorrect fuel

471
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: into my thirty dollar vehicle when the manufacturer tells me

472
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: not to, and then if there's a problem, expect to

473
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: get some kind of warranteer service or satisfaction. Doesn't make

474
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: any sense, all right, sir, So good luck to you.

475
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: You let us know what happens, you'll be the you'll

476
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: be the science project and uh we'll look forward to it.

477
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: All right, you're welcome. Jason, Well you know what do

478
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: you do with that? By the way, let me just

479
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: jump in here real quick, hey Ton, Can I just

480
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: ask you real quick? Well, just you know, let me

481
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: just my thought. You know that that I get what

482
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: Jason is trying to do. But you you know, you

483
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: you what, what's that expression? You can't put You can't

484
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: put a silk out on a on a pig and

485
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: make it look any better something like that. You can't

486
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: dress up a pig. It's still a pig. Um. The

487
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: Giants are two and three. I notice. Yeah, well no,

488
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: you know, every time every time I talk about the Giants,

489
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 1: they seem to lose, and when I don't talk about them,

490
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: they seem to lose. It's like, it's just not our year.

491
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: It's just not your year. No, it's not so. But

492
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: at least you're not the Jets fans. It could be worse,

493
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,200
Speaker 1: it could be worse or better. Yet, at least East

494
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: you're not Mets fans exactly exactly. So look at it

495
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: this way. The season's five games old. What do you

496
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: got another seven eight games, it'll be over. So eight

497
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: zero zero zero run on any of the car Doctor.

498
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Hey, welcome back n of

499
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: the card Doctor. Let's get over and talk to Bernie

500
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: from Florida two one Explorer Sports Truck. Bernie, Welcome to

501
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, sir, How can I help? UM? I

502
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: had a weird problem I was. I listened to a

503
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: faithfully up in Maine. Uh just interesting to see the

504
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: types of questions people come up with some time to time.

505
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: So I got one for you here. I'm not in Florida,

506
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 1: driving around on this flat land that's around here. Um I,

507
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: I have a severe slippage in third gear, so I

508
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: get it to second and put it in second and

509
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: get above m then it slides into the higher gears

510
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: and it gets by. Didn't have enough money to go

511
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: put a new transmission in it three thousand bucks. But

512
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: uh so I got by, and you know, hopefully seeing

513
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: how things go in the country here, it looks like

514
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: when you get my dog and my good and my

515
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: bodyble and live in a cave. But uh that that

516
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: that being said, Um I was thinking of Australia, and

517
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: then I found out Australia doesn't take people over fifty,

518
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: so I'm seventy five. I'm depending on all the things

519
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: that are going down the tubes. So life is going

520
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: to go down the tubes. I'm mesmerized because I drive

521
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: this truck in the last for the summer. I growing

522
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: up the main well in Maine, riding around on the

523
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: hills and all that stuff. Didn't slope a bit. I

524
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: just came down through the Alleghany Mountains. Uh places Daniel

525
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: Boone couldn't walk and uh nothing, no problems whatsoever. Uh,

526
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: I'm stumped. I had to put on a scope down here.

527
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: I got some sort of a seven hundred cold that

528
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: said it was a mechanical fair and I get three

529
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: options to get a junk transmission all the way up

530
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: to when it was rebuilt, with all the things they

531
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: should have done when they built the truck. Um. Well,

532
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: so yeah, I don't know what to do with it.

533
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: Get rid of this truck before it dash completely, or

534
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Uh, I'm confused.

535
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: So hang on a second, Bernie. So up in Maine,

536
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: it road fine. Down here wherever you are, you're in

537
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: the Alleghany Mountains, all of a sudden it's acting up

538
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: the transit and I'm down in Florida and with flat

539
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,479
Speaker 1: land down here where there's no hills, and it backs up.

540
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: I get up in the mountains. It's not a problem. Okay.

541
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: Have you been back to the mountains yet to know that?

542
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: For effect? Well, I drove all the way to me

543
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: and spent all some along driving around, and you know,

544
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: it's it's hilly where I am spell summer driving around,

545
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: and then drove back down here to Florida for the winter,

546
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: down to the Allegheny Mountains. And you would think if

547
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: it was, you know, to put torque on a transmission,

548
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: would be the time it slept. That was right, And

549
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I agree with that statement. Happened?

550
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: Do you do you remember what? Do you remember what

551
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: fault code? They said seven thirty three seven uh, Only

552
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: that it was a component failure, not a not a

553
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: relay or something electrical. It could be um, you know,

554
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: because there's two possibilities, as it would explain to me,

555
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: it could be electrical thing that that could be corrected

556
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: relatively easy, or it was internal mechanical and that's what

557
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: the code said. It was internally mechanical. You know, to me,

558
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: mechanical is always mechanical. Mechanically it works mechanically, it doesn't.

559
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: Confused me. I've seen very few mechanics failures in my career.

560
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: A right that you know, we're intermittent like that. Either

561
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: they work or they don't. So you know what I

562
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: would say, right, it's it's you know, it's either your

563
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: arm is broken or it's not. It's mechanical. It's it's

564
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: it's connected or it's not. It's one or the other.

565
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: I've never seen the transmission fix itself, so I would

566
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: tend to rule out the mechanical side of it as

567
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: a probably as a probability, and think more about the

568
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: electrical and why it's affected. The difference between Maine and

569
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: Florida high you know, mountains to flat land. You know,

570
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: we can we can have conjecture from now until the

571
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: time we took it apart and fixed it. But right,

572
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: I would I would think more and etle stuff. I

573
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: know what uh you know superfluous uh factors are involved

574
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: here versus something inside the transmission. Well you don't now,

575
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: let me, but let me ask the question this way.

576
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: How many miles are on this You probably owe it

577
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: a trans because as you say, there's more than it.

578
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: There's more than a half a dozen or more updates

579
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: for that particular unit that you know. I know when

580
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: the rebuilders go through them, there's there's so many updates

581
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: and so many replacements and upgrades for No. One Exploder,

582
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: which is their nickname. And it's because of the transmission

583
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: that we call it that. Uh you know that that's

584
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: that's what that gets. So I would tell you, you know,

585
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 1: either you're gonna live with it or be prepared. At

586
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: least if you're gonna do it, pull it apart, put

587
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: the trans in it, get it over with, let him

588
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: go through a top the bottom, make sure it's got

589
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: nationwide coverage. That way, whatever cave you end up in,

590
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: you'll be okay and protected. Bernie. I appreciate the call,

591
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: Zoe zero up against the clock. I gotta go. I'll

592
00:32:37,320 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: be right back and welcome back. We're needing of the

593
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: car to doctor zero nine zero zero number. Keep in

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00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: mind that if we are not in the air, we're

595
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: not live in your neighborhood. We're live on the network

596
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: Saturdays two to four pm Eastern time that you can

597
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: call eight five zero zero leave a message and we

598
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: will call you back and put you up here on

599
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: here and talk to you about your problem, because that's

600
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: what this radio shows about. Hey, real quick before I

601
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: go this hour. We started out at the top of

602
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Speaker 1: this hour talking a little bit about some unique repairs

603
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: and making comments about parts and training in the education

604
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: process and how the industry is changing. Well, a tip

605
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: of the hat to the folks over at dens So.

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00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: Dens So, who are an o E supplier a right,

607
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: they supply parts to the manufacturers as well as the aftermarket,

608
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: have partnered with Parts Authority, a major parts warehouse here

609
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: in the continental United States, Parts Authority dot com and

610
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: put it and they have put together a series of

611
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: training classes making them available to repair shops and technicians

612
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: just like you or right from my from my brothers

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00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: and wrenches out there that are listening to the show

614
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: today and following the show, so you can get out

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00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: the Parts Authority dot Com and look and see what

616
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: it is they have in terms of parts and developer

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00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 1: relationship with them. And I say that because that helps

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00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: support the industry that's supporting us. We have to take

619
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: care of our own in this case. But as I

620
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: look through the dense OH guide their technical training Guide.

621
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: There's more than a few classes here and everything from

622
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: Chrysler Engine Performance, Forward Engine Performance, General Motors. I went

623
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: to the class recently here in Paramus, New Jersey on

624
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: General Motors ignition systems, and um, we had a great time.

625
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: Uh a matter of fact, the instructor, Chris Lewis, is

626
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: a former employee. I know Chris is on a personal

627
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: basis a real good guy and um, just down to earth,

628
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: real solid technical information. And UM, I just want to

629
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: say thank you to them, you know here on radio

630
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: and just let you know that it's it's not so bleak, uh.

631
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: For all the repair shops out there are thinking like gee,

632
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do and how are we gonna

633
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: do it? You know, there are manufacturers out there like then,

634
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: so there are parts houses out there like Parts Authority,

635
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: Parts Authority dot Com that are trying to make it

636
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: possible for the independent repair shops to survive and thrive

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00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,399
Speaker 1: and grow. And UM, you know we've got to look

638
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 1: at that. And you know, and we've been talking about

639
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: parts here as well, and you know I've heard your

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