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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. You know the value of a car is

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Speaker 1: only measured by what sort of service. He kids you,

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor. So it's when it's uh in warm

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Speaker 1: upload right, it's only going to run off of wide

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Speaker 1: open um or open little b. I'm sorry, and it's dotinna.

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Speaker 1: Let the two centers influence it until they heat OpEd.

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Speaker 1: That correct. Correct. Welcome to the radio home of Ron

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Speaker 1: and Nian 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 orders

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Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six nine and now he running. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's time to start your engines. Run in the car

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Speaker 1: Doctor here at eight five five five six zero nine

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Speaker 1: nine zero zero. That number again, eight five five five

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Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero The Car Doctor hot

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Speaker 1: line always they're always working, just like the Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: always is fixing cars. But that phone number is there

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Speaker 1: for you if you wish to call zero nine zero

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Speaker 1: toll free anytime, day or night. It's seven. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: you can leave a message and Tom Ray, our executive producer,

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Speaker 1: will call you up and get you in the queue

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Speaker 1: for the next live broadcast. We are live out on

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Speaker 1: the network Saturday afternoons two to four pm, and we

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Speaker 1: go across this great country of ours and around the world.

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Speaker 1: I guess we actually appear in some very different places.

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Speaker 1: We were just talking about it, referencing that somewhere in London, Um,

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Speaker 1: there is a pub that is downloading podcast of The

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor and I guess that's sort of legal. We'll

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Speaker 1: let him get away with it. And it's a warm

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Speaker 1: beer in the Car Doctor on Friday night or Monday night,

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Speaker 1: whatever the heck it is, um uh something along those lines.

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Speaker 1: And we appreciate that. And I guess the British were

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Speaker 1: really starved for talent, so they decided to listen to

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Speaker 1: this show instead. Uh. Can I get the warm beer

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Speaker 1: without the Car Doctor show? You probably could? Um, excellent.

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Speaker 1: You know why the British drink warm beer because I

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Speaker 1: listened to the Car Show now? Because Lucas, the guys

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Speaker 1: who make electrical systems for Jagua, also make refrigerators. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they don't they don't, they don't. Nothing they do

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Speaker 1: works works. Yeah, it's just it's just just just just yeah,

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't work. Um. But anyway, that's something that's

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Speaker 1: that story. And but again you can call that phone

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Speaker 1: number and Tom and uh our our our young producer

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Speaker 1: in training motor had met there will be soon manning

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Speaker 1: the phones and taking charge as we continue to move

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Speaker 1: this radio show forward. I want to do this because

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Speaker 1: I didn't get to do it last hour. And actually

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Speaker 1: I want to do two things now before I go

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Speaker 1: into the Repair of the week conversation, because nobody can

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Speaker 1: answer this question last hour either. Here's the trivia question

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Speaker 1: from last hour in nine oh seven. So, like I

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Speaker 1: said before, when Tom was in grade school, Percy Douglas

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Speaker 1: Hamilton's applied for a patent US patent number nine one

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Speaker 1: to eight three one for what device. I'll even give

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Speaker 1: chill wipers, disc breaks, convertible roofs, break lights or turn

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Speaker 1: and signals? Which one was? In nine seven Percy Douglas

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Speaker 1: Hamilton apply for a patent for what device? When child wipers,

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Speaker 1: disc brakes, convertible roofs, break lights or turn signals. And

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Speaker 1: as before, as I said, we will give away, we

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Speaker 1: will send out a car Doctor T shirt. UM to

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Speaker 1: the lucky winner. UM, no guarantee on size because we

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Speaker 1: are getting down to the bottom of the barrel. We've

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Speaker 1: Doctor T shirt coming out, which I've just been busy, folks,

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Speaker 1: been fixing a lot of cars. It's um, it's been

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Speaker 1: you know, I think half of them ended up on

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Speaker 1: eBay and the former illustrious producer not to be named, UM,

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Speaker 1: Takata airbag recalled bankrupt at Takata. Here we go again, USA.

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Speaker 1: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began investigating parts made by

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Speaker 1: German supplier Continental Automotive GmbH after the company filed recall

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Speaker 1: the fuel pump and other items. How can the auto industry?

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Speaker 1: How can we keep making things bad? I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: It's not like cars were just invented yesterday. Cars as

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Speaker 1: Chevrolet Malibu check engine light on P zero fifteen as

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Speaker 1: back when O two censors first came out, we just

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Speaker 1: year old to sixteen Equinox Terrain, Verano, Cadillac, a TS, Chevrolet, Malibu, Chevrolet,

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Speaker 1: Of oil levels found to be overfilled, readjust to correct level,

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Speaker 1: and reevaluate. If they don't lead to a resolution. Ready

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Speaker 1: the technology from? Here's a car that needs a software update.

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Speaker 1: How many shops can do software? I had a conversation

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Speaker 1: computer flashing. And I said, well, that's why he's your

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Speaker 1: that once again. Um, it serves a very great purpose.

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Speaker 1: But more importantly, when you're picking a mechanic. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how many people had those, right, Um you

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Speaker 1: you could do is reference to local Chrysler store and

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Speaker 1: tell them you've got it. You know you've got They're

427
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Speaker 1: gonna ask for the vent, and you know if that

428
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Speaker 1: other engine still has a vehicle attached to it, you

429
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Speaker 1: can get the vent off of that and reference both

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Speaker 1: of them if they tell you, if you, if if

431
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Speaker 1: they you a replacement head would fit either vehicle, then

432
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,400
Speaker 1: in theory they should both be the same. And then

433
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: but you don't want to do the head. You want

434
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: to do the whole engine, that's what you're saying. Well, yeah,

435
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 1: I want to get by fixing this is inexpensively as possible.

436
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,880
Speaker 1: I can get valve guide seals from you know, NAP

437
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: or somebody for well, but chances to Chrysler they want

438
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: six bucks apiece. Right. Well, but the problem is is

439
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 1: it is it valve guide seals or is the guide

440
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Speaker 1: itself worn out? My my understanding is these tend to

441
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Speaker 1: wear These tend to wear the guide, all right, So

442
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Speaker 1: these tend to wear out the guide. Uh. And then

443
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Speaker 1: the other thing you I just want to caution you

444
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Speaker 1: against is how long has this been smoking blue? How

445
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Speaker 1: many miles? How many months? I just bought it. I

446
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: bought it as a work band, knowing that the engine

447
00:23:54,640 --> 00:24:00,040
Speaker 1: is bad, going bad. Um, the guy he bought it

448
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: add a hundred and fifty thousand and it was not

449
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Speaker 1: smoking then. And then I just start, you know, he's

450
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Speaker 1: put six seven thousand miles on it, six or seven

451
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Speaker 1: thousand in a year and a half. Because here's the

452
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Speaker 1: here's the concern I've got when a when a newer

453
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Speaker 1: vehicle starts to show blue smoke. All right, Um, it

454
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Speaker 1: tells me that it's reached a point where the catalytic

455
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Speaker 1: converter can no longer mask the condition. I gotta remember

456
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 1: cats are very efficient, and it will it will mask

457
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Speaker 1: a an oil burner by actually creating a chemical change

458
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Speaker 1: inside the cat and reducing the volume of smoke, if

459
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Speaker 1: any at all, when it finally gets to the point

460
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Speaker 1: where it's coming out the tailpipe, it's pretty bad. I

461
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 1: bet you. You've got to have an oil consumption issue,

462
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Speaker 1: right Well, according to Chrysler everything I've read online that

463
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Speaker 1: if you use a court of oil every thousand miles, yeah,

464
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Speaker 1: they consider that acceptable. Right, Yeah, another example of we

465
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Speaker 1: had we we we made engines for a during seven years,

466
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Speaker 1: and now we can't make anything last longer than you know,

467
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: because this is the way it is. I've got two

468
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: Chevyes that I change oil and every five miles and

469
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Speaker 1: they don't take a drop, right right, Yeah, a thousand

470
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, a quarter every thousand miles is okay. I've

471
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Speaker 1: got I've got a Ranger with two thousand miles on it.

472
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Speaker 1: It doesn't burn early, could drop oil in between changes,

473
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Speaker 1: and yeah, I get it, you know. I I found

474
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Speaker 1: an engine at a Junkyard. They want to eat under

475
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Speaker 1: fifty bucks. Sports got fifty miles on it. But you know,

476
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: well you get the same thing. You've got an hour

477
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,439
Speaker 1: and that's the problem, you see, And and the problem

478
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: becomes that you know, when does this have a cat problem?

479
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: You don't know. When does this wear out the other head?

480
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Speaker 1: You don't know? So you know, you you could do

481
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: this as cheap as possible. Maybe it's a weekend of

482
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Speaker 1: of elbow grease and a head gas gets set and

483
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Speaker 1: just swap out the head with something else. Um, there

484
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: are a bunch of places online you can buy Reman heads.

485
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: Just be wary of what you're getting. I still like

486
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Speaker 1: to buy engine parts from the local guy because I've

487
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: got somebody to go back and talk to when there's

488
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Speaker 1: a problem, you know, whenever there's an issue. But you know,

489
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Speaker 1: by by all means you're you're you're kind of headed

490
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Speaker 1: in the right direction, all right. If it's easy enough

491
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Speaker 1: to get to, what I would probably do to help

492
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Speaker 1: move the conversation along is I would get, Yeah, you've

493
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Speaker 1: got the ability to air the cylinder, dan, you know,

494
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: fill the cylinder up with they are, Yeah, I've got

495
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: a compressor. I just have to get the adapter. You know,

496
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: if you've got an O'raileyoto Parts by you get out

497
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: to get out to your local Oraileyoto Parts will have

498
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Speaker 1: the adapters you need. And you know, you can just

499
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: air the cylinder closed the valve, air the cylinder and um,

500
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: take the valve spring off. You'll need to buy some

501
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: tools for that. But take the valve spring off and

502
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: wrap a rubber band around the valve stem. Remember this

503
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: from high school auto shop where you would wrap the

504
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: rubber rand around the valve stem and then you can

505
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: lift the valve safely off the seat without having it

506
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: all into the head into the cylinder. And then you

507
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: can just you know, open it up ten thousands and

508
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: just rock the valve, rock the valve stem against the

509
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: guy and see what you're wearing is you might want

510
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Speaker 1: to put an indicator on it. Maybe they're so badly

511
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: wiped out you won't even you know, you'll just know

512
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: that oh yeah, a quarter of an inch is and good, um,

513
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: you know that's the top you know it does or nothing? Hey, listen,

514
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: I got an engine code that says the cat converted

515
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: on that side of the engine is bad. Right, yeah right,

516
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: and the reason so that tells me for a head

517
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: and three fifty for a manifold again. Well, yeah, and

518
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: that tells me that this leak has been going on

519
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 1: for a while, because you're probably also going to find

520
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: that at some point you'll put a couple of oxygen

521
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: sensors in this as well, because if the cat has

522
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: been coated with oil, so's the O two. So you

523
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: know it's listen. You can do this as inexpensively as

524
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: you like. It just depends. You gotta have a high

525
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: tolerance for doing it again when something doesn't go right.

526
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: So I would tell you, you know, measure how much

527
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: play the guide has in it, make sure it's in

528
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: that head there's nothing else strange going on. Then you know, yeah,

529
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 1: you can use an aftermarket cat. It won't last as

530
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: long as an OI, but who cares. It's a hundred

531
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: sixty thousand mile five year old work fan. Be prepared

532
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: to put out two centers in it, and you know

533
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: you can kind of take it from there. But never

534
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: underestimate how much oil can pump through a guid when

535
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: it's worn like that, because you you you'll be surprised. Um,

536
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, with the rest of that exhaust system and

537
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: catalytic converter look like al right, sir, very good, damn

538
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: good luck to you and yours and uh get that

539
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: road runner beat and send us pictures when you do

540
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: zero zero run a nading the car doctor coming back

541
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: right after this shut out and stop talking that to me.

542
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting, hey, running nating the guard to here at

543
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: eight zero nine zero zero seven phone number. Keep that

544
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Speaker 1: in mind during the week eight five five five zero

545
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 1: nine zero zero call, leave a message and our executive producer,

546
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Speaker 1: whoever that might be, at the rotation of the dial there,

547
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: we'll give you a call. I got a feeling it's

548
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: gonna be motorhead Matt as Tom Ray is stepping aside

549
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: so he can resort to his real talents, that of

550
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: sweeping the floors and the cleaning the head um answers

551
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: to the trivia question for the last two hours. I'm amazed,

552
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: no what he got this. In nineteen o seven, Percy

553
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: Douglas Hamilton's applied for a patent US number nine one

554
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: two eight three one for what device turn signals? And

555
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: the answer the correct answer is turn signals were a

556
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: big advancement for them. We'd be safety, but they would

557
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: not blink until nineteen twenty. Now, I always thought turned

558
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: signals were like the three Stooges, which we were just

559
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, paying tribute to where it was. Um, you

560
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: know you stuck your hand out smacked the cop in

561
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: the face as you were approaching the intersection. That was

562
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: way you know which way to turn the car. But

563
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: I guess that's me slightingly. Um, but yeah, nineteen eleven

564
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: and um, I'm sorry that was a nine seven Percy

565
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: Douglas Hamilton's and turn signals. So we've all got that. Hey,

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00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of a car doctor. Um, well, I

567
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: don't know what you want to call this, Call it what,

568
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: call it whatever you want. John stab Mueller j S.

569
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Speaker 1: I know him as Mustang aficionado Ford guy. He's up

570
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: been laid up in the hospital for the past week

571
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: or so and I just read on Facebook that um,

572
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: he's being released today and I just want to take

573
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: the money here to wish him godspeed and healthy recovery

574
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: and a quick recovery. JS. Glad to see your out

575
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: of the hospital and my noise podcast. He might be

576
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: listening right now, um, but let him hear his name

577
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: on radio and get better soon. Buddy. We missed it

578
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: down at the shop. Um, we were talking last week. Also,

579
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Speaker 1: I want to comment on this about plugging into the future.

580
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: Anthony Melio sent us the Chicago Tribune article about electric

581
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: cars and the way the electric car thing is gonna change,

582
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: and it's it's growing. Electric cars are cheaper operating all that.

583
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: Did anybody catch the article this week about Volvo in

584
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: the news by twenty Volvo will not make an internal

585
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: combustion engine Let's let's let's have a pregnant pause there.

586
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: I saw the one that said they were the cars

587
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: coming out recently, you're going to be all hybrid and

588
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: or just electric. But I didn't see that one. By

589
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: I think it's um they're they're shooting for clearly by

590
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: Volvo will not make an internal combustion engine vehicle. Wow,

591
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: what is that going to do? Does that mean all

592
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: those guys in the Middle East are sitting there going, now,

593
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do with all this oil? Nobody's

594
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: gonna want it? Now We're gonna see gas a quarter

595
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: a gallon? Uh, I mean it could happen, all right.

596
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: Somebody also told me and I have not found this yet,

597
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: but in France this week, Not that it matters what

598
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: France says, but in France, this week, there was talking

599
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: conversation about they will no longer be producing internal combustion

600
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: engines in the French car companies. Whatever is left um

601
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: after twenty as well, everything is clearly going electric or hybrid,

602
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: and you have to say to yourself, you know, to

603
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: what level and how will this impact future economies? Because

604
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now you may not believe me,

605
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: but the automobile is such a huge part of the

606
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: world economy. As electric vehicles growing, dominance less, gasoline less repairs,

607
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: less problems, You're going to see the economies of the

608
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: world shift. It's it's going to get to be very,

609
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: very interesting. So just something to be aware of, you know. Um,

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00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: just like wow again, let's do a quick piece of email. Um,

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00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: I want to get this one out while I can. Uh.

612
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: This one comes to us from Richard to the south

613
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: with corner of Lansing, Michigan. You'd like to know what

614
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: percentage of regular synthetic constitutes a synthetic blend. Um. You

615
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: know what, Richard, I'm not sure about that, to be

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Speaker 1: blunt and honest, and I've never really paid much attention

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00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: to synthetic blend. Synthetic blend oil is not one of

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00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: my favorites. I personally think that if you're going to

619
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: the expense of synthetic blend, you might as well go

620
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: to a synthetic. It's a few pennies more, it's better protection,

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Speaker 1: the car can run longer in between drain intervals, and

622
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: you'll be much better off in the long run, um

623
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: doing it that way. So just stay with the synthetic

624
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: over the synthetic blend. UM. Just be aware that. UM.

625
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: You know, I've got to think that the percentage of

626
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: blend ratio varies by manufacturers. You can get out the

627
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: Pen's Oil Synthetics dot com and read more about it

628
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: as far as how they make their synthetic and their

629
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Speaker 1: synthetic blends zero zero. The car doctors coming back right

630
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Speaker 1: after this, Hey, welcome back. Why don't they in the

631
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Speaker 1: car doctor? I got two minutes. Let's go over Joseph

632
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Speaker 1: and Kansas. Yoseph. Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How

633
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: can I help real quick? Uh? My question is can

634
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Speaker 1: you convert and board wind Star transmission to an OH

635
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: three wind starr at all? Or is there? My My

636
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: initial reaction is no, it can't be done, and I'll

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00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: tell you why. All right? In cars things were much

638
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 1: more mechanical, much more solemnoid operated, much less electronic OH

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Speaker 1: three and it's nothing compared to the cars of today,

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Speaker 1: But in OH three they were headed towards more electronic

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Speaker 1: driven componentry to give us the cars that we have today. Um,

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Speaker 1: if they could take one component out of the trans

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Speaker 1: and moved its job into the powertrain control modules so

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Speaker 1: that it was now done electronically with software updates instead

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Speaker 1: of having to maintain a part, the cost savings is huge.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you always have to think about. The

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Speaker 1: ability for them to not have to store that part,

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Speaker 1: make that part, assemble that part, and stole that part,

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Speaker 1: warranty that part. Now they can fix whatever that part

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Speaker 1: did by a by a software update. Now think about that. Well,

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Speaker 1: the way I would approach this is I would get

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Speaker 1: down to a salvage yard and see does the do

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Speaker 1: they have Back in the day it was a Hollander

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Speaker 1: interchange guard and they would look up. Now, if that

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Speaker 1: says is the same, yeah, then you can do it.

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Speaker 1: But if it doesn't, I don't believe there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: any way you could economically make that change and fabricate

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Speaker 1: it and make it fit and make it work and

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Speaker 1: make it do everything it's supposed to do. You'd be

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Speaker 1: better off finding something closer to or an exact fit

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Speaker 1: for a No. Three win star. I'm on any in

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Speaker 1: the car Doctor. Mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you