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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Does your scan tool read data stream? Eric? No,

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Speaker 1: here's a good reason to go buy a better scan tool.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the radio home of Ron and Anian the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners the world

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Speaker 1: overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If

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Speaker 1: But I am here to take your calls. At eight

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Speaker 1: five and now running, Tom asked me, as we were

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Speaker 1: And I, you know, I thought about it. I said,

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Speaker 1: to comment, Tom, You're wearing a T shirt I can

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Speaker 1: So that's okay. Um, I'm always being self serving a lot.

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Speaker 1: I understand that you know I'm hot. Who do you

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Speaker 1: You know, you always make me want to go. I

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Speaker 1: Running in at your service? Yes, sir Rod, how are

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Speaker 1: if we have to pull the trans, let's pull the trans. Yeah,

428
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,399
Speaker 1: you know, why not? And then we'll see the splatter marks.

429
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: Because nothing, nothing is more frustrating than oil leaks. You know,

430
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 1: in my mind, it's it's I'm getting my driveway done

431
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: this fall. So I've actually ordered a new canyon because

432
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty much done with this. I'm either gonna

433
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,439
Speaker 1: have to park it in somebody's dirt driveway or on

434
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: the grass right right now. One thing I want to

435
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 1: comment on if you do pull the trans and you

436
00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: find out it's not a galley plug and it's still

437
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: the rear main seal leaking, one thing I would ask

438
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: is when they do the rear main that should be

439
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: a two piece split rear main seal. Do you recall

440
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 1: did he did he show it to you at all? No,

441
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 1: he has show it to me, but I bring it

442
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 1: to the dealer. I gotta assumption that's what he use, right,

443
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: and that's why you can use Yeah, I'm sure, No,

444
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I just you know, I just want to

445
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: mention because I don't like leave any stone unturned. But

446
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 1: you know what I'll do when I've I've done that

447
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: job dozens of times, I will offset the seal so

448
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,679
Speaker 1: I won't I won't put it flushed to the bottom

449
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 1: of the crank or the top of the cap. I'll

450
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 1: offset it a little bit so that the parting line

451
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 1: and I'll put a little just the tiniest little dab

452
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: of our TV. I don't want it to get on

453
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: the crank journal, but just the tiniest little bit of

454
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: our TV to fill that gap. And then you know,

455
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: the simple, the the the easiest thing to do wrong.

456
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: And I just want to mention this too, is just

457
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 1: make sure they're putting the seal in right. You know,

458
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,119
Speaker 1: there's a there's a forward side to the seal, and

459
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: I've seen guys put it in backwards and then the

460
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: problem just gets perpetuated. Hey, it can happen, you know what.

461
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 1: We all make mistakes. Well, yeah, that's you know, after

462
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: the second time, I think I would have pulled the

463
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: trans at that point and I checked it. I agree

464
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: with you, though, I don't like the well it's old,

465
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna leak oil concept, I you know, unless it's

466
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: burning oil as it's got excessive crank case pressure, you know,

467
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: and then there is no PCV valve in that engine.

468
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: There is an orifice tube. Are you familiar with that? Oh? Yeah, yeah,

469
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,360
Speaker 1: I've already replaced it because it was you know, it's

470
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: deteriorated right right, you know, the second the second grumment

471
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: and the valve cover is just a metered orifice and

472
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 1: you know, just make sure that's working and doing what

473
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: it's supposed to do. And to tell you the truth,

474
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: if crank case pressure is so great, you're gonna be

475
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: able to take the oil fill cap and leave it

476
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 1: loose or take it off and run the engine and

477
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: that'll it'll just be pushing smoke and you know, crank

478
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: case fumes and it'll you'll you'll know right away. Let

479
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 1: me ask you this the crank case breeder tube that

480
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: goes from the valve cover to the air box, is

481
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 1: that filled? Is that filled with oil? I would say no,

482
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: because I replaced it. Probably not wanted to ago either.

483
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been through this whole truck, that every

484
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: single piece of truck, and I have replaced all those

485
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: all those rubber parts. Okay, But my point is what

486
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to is if that crank case

487
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: tube isn't you know, as you're running an excessive crank

488
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: case pressure, it's gonna go to the weakest, lowest point.

489
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: It will push oil down that breeder tube, and the

490
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: air box is actually gonna start to have oil in it,

491
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: and the air the air filter is going to be contaminated.

492
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: If you're not having that problem, then then I don't

493
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: see how this is. Well, it's you've got an old truck.

494
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: Something's not being repaired here, somebody missed something somewhere. Uh

495
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: you know, So I say, let's get it to a

496
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 1: competent mechanic. Let's look at the die. If they have to,

497
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: let them pull the trans and then you'll know exactly

498
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: what the driving whatnot. Is that easier to pull the

499
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: training and pulling the engine to look at it. Um,

500
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: neither one of them are probably neither one of them

501
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 1: are probably a great idea that the nice thing is though,

502
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: if you set it up right and you've got the

503
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: right jack, you can pull the trans and the transfer

504
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: case as one piece. JEP did make an adapt or

505
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: where they bolted the transjack directly to the transmission. You

506
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: support the trans you pulled a cross member out of

507
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: the way. You bolted the transjack right to the cross member,

508
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, right to the transmount. You take the

509
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: transmount down, and you would bolt the transjack right to

510
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: where the transmount bolted, and you pull the whole thing

511
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,479
Speaker 1: down as one unit. Makes life a whole lot easier.

512
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: You don't even have to disconnect the front drive shaft

513
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: from the transfer case. You'll pull it off the frontiff,

514
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: collapse it forward, you pull a rear drive shaft out,

515
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: disconnect your linkage, which, by the way, after twenty two

516
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: years is probably good and rusty anyway, and that probably

517
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: needs to all be rebuilt. Well, that's true too, it's been.

518
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: It's been. It's been a rustproof for the past couple

519
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: of years. So but um and then last but not least.

520
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: I just want to mention sometimes guys missed this. You know,

521
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: have they verified the oil filter adapter or rings are

522
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 1: not leaking? Oh yeah, I've been there myself. Okay, all right, Botles,

523
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. The truck is in beautiful condition. If

524
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the oil league. If I could never

525
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: fix the oil league, I think the thing would run forever. Yeah,

526
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: I probably would every piece. You know why they got

527
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: rid of the You know why they got rid of

528
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,479
Speaker 1: the four leader, don't you? Uh well, I know they

529
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: had a problem with the head, but I replaced the head. Yeah,

530
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: they got rid of them because they did run forever. Um,

531
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 1: they were just good solid motors. Yeah, no new cars hills. Yeah,

532
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 1: so they had a bad casting for for a couple

533
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: of years there for I did get that replaced. So

534
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: all right, let me know, let me know if let

535
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 1: me know if you end up fixing it. Erne, I'm curious.

536
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: I'm always curious. All right, you take good care. Thank

537
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 1: you very much for the call. Five zero zero, run

538
00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: in any of the car doctor. We are back right

539
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: if for this, let's get over and talk to Jack

540
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. Jack Ranaldading and the car Doctor rate your service, sir,

541
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: how can I help? Hey, Ron, thanks for taking my call. Yeah,

542
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: I've got a sixty nine Jaguar E type and it starts,

543
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: it looks great, runs great for about twenty minutes, and

544
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: then it starts to misfire and then it just dies

545
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: and you can't restart it. You gotta let it sit

546
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: for about a half an hour till it cools down

547
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: and it'll start up again and run okay when it

548
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: when it doesn't start when it goes into that no

549
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: start condition. What what sort of testing have you done?

550
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: What is it missing? Do you know? Is it missing fuel?

551
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: Is it missing spark? Uh? It's usually held on the

552
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: highway somewhere. And I opened it up and you look

553
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: at the It's got clear fuel lines going to the

554
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: two Zena Stromberg carburetors and the fuel looks like there's

555
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: fuel in there, and uh, I spent. I hate the tuddy.

556
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: I had the carburetors tuned up. It only costs me

557
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars only. So so let me ask you this.

558
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: You know, and I'm trying to remember what sixty nine

559
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: looked like, but I don't care a car as a car,

560
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: old or new. Um, you got access to the secondary

561
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: ignition cables. Can you post spark plug wire off if

562
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: you had to? You're right up on top, right, Yeah,

563
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: it's yeah, yeah, okay, now yeah, it's coming back. I

564
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: think number one is located next to the firewall on

565
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: this car. Um it's backwards. Um. So what if you

566
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: had a spark tester? Would you have the ability to

567
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: put a spark tester on a wire and crank it

568
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: over and see if you're missing spark or not. Yeah,

569
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: that'd be a good I that'd be something to try. Right,

570
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: do you have a do you have an o'reillyotor parts

571
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,479
Speaker 1: near you go down there and tell them you're looking

572
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: for an ignition spark tester and what you're looking for.

573
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: It's pretty cheap and simple. Uh, It's basically gonna be

574
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: something that either looks like a spark plug with an

575
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: alligator clip attached to it. Is this the one you

576
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: plug onto the spark plug and you plug the ignition

577
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: wire on and you can look inside and see the spark. No,

578
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: because you can't do that, probably because the it's down

579
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,959
Speaker 1: in the well. It's right up on top. Oh, if

580
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: you can do that, if you can get one of

581
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: those on there, then do that. I was gonna tell

582
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: you to just get something that gives you the ability to,

583
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: you know, just test spark. So you know, either a

584
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: spark plug, either a spark tester where it's got an

585
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: alligator clip bond it you connect one to ground and

586
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: one to the wire. Or they make an adjustable one.

587
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: There's an adjustable one out there from various tool manufacturers.

588
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: Tell them, ask them, can they get you the one.

589
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: It's it's probably three inches long by about three it's

590
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: of an inch wall. It it's black, it's plastic, and

591
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: it's got increments marked on it. You know, ten thousand vaults,

592
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: two vaults and so on, with a thumb wheel, a

593
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: thumb knob that you turned to open the gap and

594
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: you would hook one side to the spark plug wire

595
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: on one side to the ground. And then you've got

596
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: a rough idea of you know, how strong is the

597
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: ignition system? Bottom line? Let me let me tell you

598
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: one of the things rock ahead. I got so frustrated. Well,

599
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: the other thing is that can't find any mechanics around

600
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: here that can work on a sixty nine. And the

601
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: last time I took it in, the car wouldn't start,

602
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: and they kept it for a couple of days, and

603
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: I ended up towing it home. And what had happened

604
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: was they put in a new set of points and

605
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: they grounded the wire, and so I wasn't getting the coil.

606
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: It wasn't collapsing, the field wasn't collapsing. So I gave up.

607
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: I gave up on that, and I replaced the whole

608
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: distributor with a uh pertronics I think it's called an

609
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: electronic distributor, and so it doesn't have points anymore. It's

610
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: got electronic ignition, but I hadn't checked. Just do a

611
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,719
Speaker 1: head spark. I just assume that, you know, assume as

612
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: a dangerous word. Do this, do this, Jack, all right,

613
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: Go get a spark tester. Let's just find out for

614
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: sure is it spark or is it not? Then by

615
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: yourself a vaultmeter, go to the ignition coil when it

616
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: doesn't start. Do you have twelve vaults at the coil?

617
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: Or do you have eight volts if there's a ballast

618
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: resistor involved? All right, and then you know, check it

619
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: when it's good, and then what do you have when

620
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: it's dead? If you don't have power to the coil,

621
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna start to think about an ignition switcher

622
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: at a wiring problem leading back to the switch between

623
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: the coil and it some basics. Man, I don't care

624
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: if it's a Jaguar or Ferrari or a rocket ship.

625
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: It still needs basics to operate. Do those things called

626
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: me back and don't forget oriley oto parts ron and

627
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: naming the car doctor. I'll be back right after this.

628
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: Rover back name of the car doctor real quick before

629
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: we go. So, I'm noticing a new trend in um

630
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: in oil changes. I call it the pandemic oil change. Um.

631
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: It seems that a lot of you are going really longer.

632
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: And um, I mean some of the oil changes this

633
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: week at the shop were crazy. We had a twelve

634
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: Chrysler two hundred that hadn't had the oil changed in

635
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: two years. And in that two year time period, and

636
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: she said to me, as a result of the pandemic,

637
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: the car had gone a total of sixty miles. So

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Speaker 1: it went long on time, It went long on mileage

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Speaker 1: and ended up on my doorstep with about sixty thousand

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Speaker 1: miles on it. And you know you can tell you

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Speaker 1: can you know I'm one of those mechanics that believes

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Speaker 1: you can tell by looking at oil that something's up.

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Speaker 1: And surely in this case, the oil that came out

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Speaker 1: of this, I mean it was it was dead tired,

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Speaker 1: but it also had a lot of the google the

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Speaker 1: yellow sludge had built up in it because it was

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Speaker 1: all short trips. She you know, went from home to

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Speaker 1: to the to the corner market and then to church

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Speaker 1: and wherever she was going. She just the engine never

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Speaker 1: really got up to temperature. So we did the oil change,

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Speaker 1: which and I explained to her, and I'm explaining to

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Speaker 1: you that I think it's important that you get back

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Speaker 1: on schedule because the pandemic, you know, did enough damage

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Speaker 1: we don't want to have any other issues. But also

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Speaker 1: consider as I did in her case, is we didn't

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Speaker 1: edit it. We did a ken of liquial molly hydraulic

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Speaker 1: lifter or edited um, because it has the ability to

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Speaker 1: clean out sludge and reactivate things and get rid of varnish.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's a conditioner for the crank case

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Speaker 1: for the engine. So if you're going along, think about

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Speaker 1: some of those things. You can find more information at

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Speaker 1: liquid desh Molley dot com. Until the next time I'm

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Speaker 1: on any of the car doctor reminding you good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you. She was stand