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Speaker 1: of Ron Andanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where

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

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

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six and now he's running. Hey, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Here at the helm is always Car Doctors Show dot Com,

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Speaker 1: tune in, i heart iTunes, all places you can take podcasting,

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Speaker 1: All good places to go for podcasting ron at Car

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Speaker 1: Doctor show dot com if you need me during the week.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked from time to time you and I

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Speaker 1: about your car and its problems and what's going on here,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know this is the gig folks, this

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Speaker 1: So you know we're on different affiliates, different times, different places.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I was just one more thing around. A

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Speaker 1: Why not? I mean, listen, the oil conversation is simple,

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Speaker 1: All right, we talked about Penn's oil here all the time.

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Speaker 1: Chuck in Texas, Oh nine f one fifty and some

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Yes, Ryan, thank

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Speaker 1: now you're in Katie, Texas. Correct, Yes, sir, that's West Houston.

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Speaker 1: YouTube is my second education source. I watched this guy

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Speaker 1: I like doing them cool. I won't do them. I

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Speaker 1: with the two piece plug or a regular odditional one piece? Yeah? See,

424
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Speaker 1: I've never done it that way. I'll make sure. I'll

425
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: make sure that the well is clean. I'll make make

426
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 1: sure the well is clean. I'll tell you what what

427
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: I would probably do is not break clean. Actually, and

428
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: I correct myself. What I what I will do? I

429
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: just realized, right we're talking about the longer thread. I

430
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: will do this room temperature. I will clean out the well,

431
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 1: blow it out with a blowgun, and I will spray

432
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: a little liquid wrench or w D just some sort

433
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: of penetrum all right, and I'll let it soak for

434
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes and then I'll just I'll tighten

435
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 1: it just to touch. Just try to crack it in

436
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: the tight position, and then see if it walks out.

437
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: Try that on one of the easier ones to get

438
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: out first. Don't start with the one in the back

439
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: and any special and you know, I don't know, I

440
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: want to change you absolutely. A motocraft. I would I

441
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: would put a motocraft back in this. It's a forward truck.

442
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: I would put a motocraft back in it. I put

443
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,879
Speaker 1: a drop of engine oil on the threads and and

444
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: tork him to spec as best you can, and you

445
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: should be good to go. All right, listen, I'll tell

446
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: you what, chuck, don't run away. You know what we're

447
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're giving away from one of our sponsors,

448
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Speaker 1: Super Chips, is allowing us to give away one of

449
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Speaker 1: their new dash pack in cabin controllers. I think you're

450
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: the guy that's going to appreciate this. This will give

451
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: question Well, this is this is gonna be sort of

452
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Speaker 1: like you're gonna have Ron and Ainy and on your dashboard.

453
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: You'll be able to sit there and tune the truck

454
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Speaker 1: this way that way and do what you want with it.

455
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 1: You can find more information out at their website and

456
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: if you stay on the line, Tom is going to

457
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: get your information. We'll send that out to you and

458
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: um naturally it's uh, it's courtesy the folks over at

459
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Speaker 1: super Chips. So you're very welcome, sir. You stay putting,

460
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: I'll say hey and do me a favor. Run please,

461
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: I will, and you by all means you give us

462
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: some feedback, let us know how it works. All right,

463
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: all right, you take good care. Zero nine zero zero

464
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Speaker 1: Ronny and the Car Doctor. We're gonna pull over and

465
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Speaker 1: take a pause. We'll be back right after this. Dot

466
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Speaker 1: Care welcome back on any Car Doctor. Help us here

467
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Speaker 1: at eight five zero nine nine zero zero. Car Doctor

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469
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470
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Speaker 1: leave a message our executive producer Thomas Ray. We'll call

471
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Speaker 1: you back and get your Q for the next live broadcast.

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Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to Dave banger Main eleven

473
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Speaker 1: two thousand, eleven Mercury, Graham Marquee. See what's going on here, Dave.

474
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor sir, how can I help? Well?

475
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: Thanks taking my call on the Marquis. As you said, UM,

476
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 1: when I first started, UM in the morning, I get

477
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: a smell of fuel inside the car and can smell

478
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,479
Speaker 1: it outside the car. Okay, dissipates within a couple of minutes,

479
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 1: but I can't fire out where it's coming from. Do

480
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: you think it's I mean, it's not from inside the car.

481
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 1: I think it's being pulled in from outside the vehicle.

482
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: I know of no scenario where it would physically be

483
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: in the passenger compartment it do you you know, have

484
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: you tried starting to having somebody else start the car

485
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: and you stand front or back to see where the

486
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: smell is the strongest? All right? That would be number one?

487
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: Is it? You know? Is it a is it an

488
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: exhaust type of a smell? You know, like it's it's

489
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 1: it's it's a fuel rich condition or is it a

490
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: raw fuel condition? You know, like it's leaking somewhere. It

491
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: smells it's like a it's burning rich. Okay, Okay, so

492
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: it smells like it's running rich. So what I would

493
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: want to do? One of the common I mean, you know,

494
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, the conversation here has to involve a little

495
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: bit about charcoal canister and a saturated canister, too much

496
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: fuel in it, and it's creating a rich running condition,

497
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: et cetera. But what's what's most common with with these

498
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: vehicles or what is common on this generation Ford product

499
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: is up on the fuel rail. There is a fuel

500
00:26:54,640 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: rail pressure sensor f r P, and you know it

501
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: is it is known. It actually set a fault code.

502
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: It'll actually set a P zero three. And maybe you

503
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: don't have a check engine light yet, maybe you're about to.

504
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a case of looking and pending fault codes

505
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: to see if there's anything there. But this may have

506
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: a sensor that's starting to leak and create that rich

507
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: running condition. Is your fuel economy changed at all? Do

508
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: you notice any difference in performance on the vehicle? I

509
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: was gonna ask you about that. Um, I noticed the

510
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: gas the gas mallages is down compared to what it

511
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: was when I got it in January. Right, so I'm

512
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: only getting like fourteen around town? Okay, so you know

513
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: maybe this is related to it's it's you know, cars

514
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: are cars are just they they'll they'll draw fuel from

515
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: wherever they want. Um And if that sensor is leaking

516
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 1: and it's not being accounted for. It's now going to

517
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: create a rich running condition. And you know, we've got

518
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: to start to look for places where additional fuel other

519
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: than the injectors, you know, via the fuel pump fuel

520
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: line will come in and that that fuel real pressure

521
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: sensor on the rail will have a vacuum line pulling

522
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: against it, and it just starts putting fuel up the

523
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: vacuum line and you're done. So, um, let's let's get

524
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: a look at that and verify that. And then, like

525
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,160
Speaker 1: I said, let's also take a look at canister and

526
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: you know, is the EVAPP system operating as intended? If

527
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: both of those check out, then the next thing I'm

528
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: gonna want to do is a does the vehicle come

529
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: up to proper operating temperature? All right? Does it? Does it?

530
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: You know, is it right on the ragged edge of

531
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: of cooling attempt? Does it come up to spec I'm

532
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: guessing off the top of my head a hun degrees

533
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: drive around town. But I would verify that, and then

534
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: where is long and short term fuel trim? We can

535
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: we can learn an awful lot from long and short

536
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: term fuel trim. I would I would have to say

537
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: fuel trim is probably the barometer for uh, you know,

538
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: the automotive industry. What heart rate and blood pressure is

539
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: when you go to the emergency room. Okay, you know

540
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's one of the critical things that we

541
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: want to look at, you know. And then last as

542
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: long as I said the word, probably one of the

543
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: easiest things to do that a lot of mechanics don't

544
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: do is you know, you know what's interesting, and I'll

545
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 1: tell it to you like like this, David Um on

546
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: the desktop on on one of my diagnostics on my

547
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: third Bay computer, I've got a link to the weather channel.

548
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: All right. You know, I go in every morning and

549
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: I look at the weather channel and I see what

550
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: the barometric pressure is for Waldwick, New Jersey. All right.

551
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: Do you know why? Uh? Well, because when I plug

552
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: in my scan tool on whatever the first car is,

553
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: barometric pressure is one of the first things I look at,

554
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: depending on the problem. But I get in the habit

555
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: of looking at it, so I I get to learn

556
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: what known good is. And if barometric pressure is twenty

557
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: nine point nine five and the scan tool says barometric

558
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: pressure is twenty six point two, somebody's lying and Um

559
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: it's either the scan tool of the car, and it

560
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: may be related to the problem I've got and that

561
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: literally takes me all of you know, two minutes to

562
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: do so, um, you know, and if I've got a

563
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: rich running condition, you know, it's um. I don't know

564
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: if I'm paying you a compliment or not. But you

565
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: don't sound old enough to remember carburetors. Do you remember

566
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: carburetors driving carbureted cars? Barely? So I kind of I

567
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: can kind of tell I remember carbureted cars, all right,

568
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: And when you went from sea level to the mountains

569
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: and vice versa, boy did that car change. And that's

570
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: where that barometric pressure thing came in. And uh, you know,

571
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: as well as in weather conditions, it played a big

572
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: part of it. So barometric pressure is a big, big look. See,

573
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: so let's do those couple of things. See what that

574
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: gets us, and then we'll kind of go from there.

575
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: All right, kid, appreciate it. You're very welcome. You have

576
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: a good rest of the day, Take good care. Nine zero.

577
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: The car doctors coming back right after this kind of

578
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: first resisting then it's in the biggest was the summer

579
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: six Hey, welcome back. Why don't they the card octorate

580
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: by five five zero nine nine zero zero as we

581
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: bring it in for the Checkered flag. Let's get over

582
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: and talk to Paul and Stanton, Virginia and anyone Bronco. Paul,

583
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: welcome to the car, doctor, Sir, how can I help? Yes, sir, oh,

584
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: First of all, I want to thank your uncle. But

585
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: what he did that was amazing. You know, people want

586
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: to know about it. They can't go online, but he's

587
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: shot down Nazi jet. Yeah, you know, you gotta get

588
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: not to get off the subject, but you gotta get

589
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: Uncle Steve to talk about that one day, and one

590
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: day I will. And you know, the modesty and the humility.

591
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: It's like, Uncle Steve, how did you shoot down a

592
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: jet with a with a propeller airplane? He'll tell you

593
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: I was just lucky to dopey you you know what

594
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: SLB flew in front of me and I pulled the trigger.

595
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: He makes it sound like it was nothing. Um. But

596
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: yet he was one of the first to do that

597
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: and uh um. You know he's actually written up in

598
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: the New York Time Times for it, and uh you know,

599
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: but yeah, I appreciate that, I really do. Uncle Stevens

600
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: specially two hero Thank you sir. Anyway, Bronco, you're going down,

601
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: you know, cruise control on uh and uh really fine,

602
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: and then you get a momentary reduction of power. It's

603
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's not like a miss Uh. It's it's

604
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: more like like you're suddenly just towing something. And it's

605
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: a smooth kind of reduction of power that lasts just

606
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: share a few seconds. And at that same time, the

607
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: RPMs drop off from like two thousand, it drops off

608
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: about fifty RPMs And does it does it stay fifty

609
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: RPMs lower? Uh? Well, four of those just a couple

610
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: of seconds, and then it goes back to normal with

611
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: no need reset to cruise control of anything. I mean,

612
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: how you know my first question in my mind is

613
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: and I realized we're treading on such a minute rpm

614
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: drop here, you know, is this is this the trands

615
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: going into overdrive and you're just experiencing that drop as

616
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: it settles on its winds so to speak. Oh, No,

617
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: it's it's not. It's pretty much level, you know, it's

618
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: not it's not like it's not like there was a shift.

619
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: So it almost seems like it's transmission, but it isn't.

620
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: Then and if it, if it came out of overdrive,

621
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: the RPMs would have gone up. Well, no, is it is? It?

622
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: Is it going into overdrive? And overdrive won't necessarily give

623
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: you a sensation of shift. The converter will just lock

624
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: on and you'll feel that, you know, because the engine

625
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: is starting to lug. What comes first the loss of

626
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: power or the fifty rpm dropped by the tack or

627
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: does it both happen at once? Uh? Yeah, it seems

628
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: to be. It's the same at the same time, and

629
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, uh at and three thousand RPMs. It is

630
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: an overdrive, okay, so if it, if it weren't, it

631
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: would be like another you know, m yeah. Well, and

632
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: that's the other thing. Fifty doesn't sound like enough for overdrive.

633
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: Have you tried while you're cruising along at seventy five

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Speaker 1: to tap the brake pedal to see if it has

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Speaker 1: any effect on it and change the way the trans

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Speaker 1: is operating? No, so I just well, if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: lose the cruise, yeah, that work. So you'd actually have

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Speaker 1: to hold it with your foot and tap the brake

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Speaker 1: pedal to see if that takes it out of If

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Speaker 1: it is an overdrive trans related problem. The only other

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Speaker 1: thing I could think of is to see if this

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Speaker 1: is a real condition being created by the engine. Is

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Speaker 1: can you hook up a vacuum gauge manifold vacuum, strap

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Speaker 1: it to the windshield, watch it while you're cruising nice

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Speaker 1: and steady, watch it go through the paces. Does vacuum

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Speaker 1: drop poll off? And a vacuum does drop off significantly?

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Speaker 1: And we have to start to talk about what could

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Speaker 1: create a momentary vacuum losses e g. R Opening up

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Speaker 1: or do we have another issue going on? So let's

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Speaker 1: um let's try it like that, Paul, and then give

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Speaker 1: me a call back next week. I'm running any of

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Speaker 1: the car doctor. The mechanics aren't expensive, get priceless. See

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Speaker 1: you