1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Ron and Anian. They're putting regular tires with no spare, 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: absolutely no spare in the trunk. So I ask you 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: what's in your trunk? The car Doctor. She kept saying, 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: you have new tires when three years ago, then they're 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: not new. Trust me after they go down the road 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: once they're not new. Welcome to the radio home of 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: ron and Anian The Car Doctor, since this is where 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage doors 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: at eight five and now he running. Hey, Ronny in 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, if thanks for stopping by the show 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,480 Speaker 1: today and sitting down with me as we talk about 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: car problems. Hopefully it's one of yours, and hopefully we've 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: got a solution for me. And I'm sure we do. 17 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: Because you have the forty three years of fixing cars, 18 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: I found that there's always a way around it, even 19 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: if you have to think outside the box. 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Sometimes I just pick up the phone and 34 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: I answered the question at the end of the day, 35 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: just to if say, somebody's in trouble and an emergency. 36 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a cabebba and I'd rather just, 37 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: you know, put it to bed and get it over with. 38 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: Sometimes I want Harry to call them and say, hey, 39 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: can you come on up here on air? But a 40 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: phone number does help us, So please, by all means included. 41 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: Do you ever have a car that has an air 42 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: conditioning problem that you've done everything to it but it's 43 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: still not quite right. Two thousand and eight Mercury Grand 44 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: Marky came in the shop at our Automotive this week 45 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: and it was one of those cars it's sort of 46 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,399 Speaker 1: had that particular problem that it just wasn't quite right. 47 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: It wasn't what it was supposed to be. The air 48 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: conditioning had been charged, they had done a condens or, 49 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: they've done an orifice tube. That bunch of work had 50 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: been done and replaced on it, but nothing really made 51 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: that car right. And it's interesting to note because going 52 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 1: through the diagnosis I've learned on air conditioning, you just 53 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: you've got to go back to basics. You've got to 54 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: go back and look at you got to look at 55 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: the simple stuff, and you've got to sort of separate it, 56 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: and you know, is it electronic, is it mechanical? Is 57 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: it the air conditioning system itself? Just what exactly is it? 58 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: And above all else you're dealing with air conditioning, you 59 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: want to get pressures. Pressure and temperature have a direct relationship, 60 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: and it's very very important. I went through my drill, 61 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: which includes code scanning. I scanned for codes. There were none. 62 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: The gem or the body module, whichever flavor of car 63 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: you want to talk about, was okay. And this really 64 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: applies to a lot of vehicles. The this particular car 65 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: had split air conditioning left and right, you know, you could, 66 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: which I never really understood that. Can someone explain that 67 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: to me? Why you design a car? You know, like 68 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: I'll be driving in the car. I'm here, my wife 69 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: is there. I've got it set at sixty and you know, 70 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: d C damn colder, and she's trying to make it 71 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: to you know, you know something other than that. She's 72 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 1: always got the temperature nob up. I've never figured that out. 73 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: And I keep looking. There's no magic wall between us 74 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: that you know, I get to make it colder and 75 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: she gets to make it warmer. That it's it's actually 76 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: gonna work. The the ear mixes. So my point is, 77 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: this is particular merk had split air conditioning lift and right. 78 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: And I noticed that when I started out first thing 79 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: in the morning, the air conditioning was always better take 80 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: it down the road forty degrees thirty eight degrees. It 81 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: was always a lot colder. And I had no code, 82 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: and I knew the refrigerant charge was right, and I 83 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: knew system pressure is red normal or did they? I 84 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: noticed that the low side charging pressure or low side 85 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: running pressure was typically lower when I first started out, 86 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: and I said, okay, I kind of get that, that's 87 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: that's temperature of the day, and you know it's it's 88 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: it's temperature of the refrigerant gases in the system. And 89 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: I understand all that high sight was typically on s 90 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: I but then I noticed that as I drove the 91 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: car longer, the temperature out of the ducks would creep 92 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: up up, and sometimes it would be fifty degrees and 93 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: just not enough on a ninety degree day. It just 94 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: didn't give you that Christmas or that coldness. And I 95 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: also noticed that the low side pressure went up, not 96 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: high side. Low side pressure went up. Gee, what can 97 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: change low side pressure? What's changing here? What's making this happen? 98 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: But not that. The next day I got out of 99 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: I got out a pair of I gotta put heema stature, 100 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: you know, long those long like needle nose like locking flyers, 101 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: And I lifted the hood and I pinched off the 102 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: heater core inlet where they're put in hot water through 103 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: the heater core, pinched it off, took the car for 104 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: a ride. That car maintained thirty eight forty degrees the 105 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 1: entire day. So that told me. And in the old days, 106 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: if the car had a water valve, that it would 107 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: be as if the hot water valve leaking, letting hot 108 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: water into the heater core. But they don't do that 109 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: anymore because technology is taken over, and instead they do 110 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: it all with blend doors. And they they and on 111 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: this particular car because it was a left and or 112 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 1: right I noticed that the problem was stronger on the 113 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: right side vents than it was on the left side vents. 114 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: I kept thinking my wife was here somewhere because she 115 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: likes it warmer on the right side than I do 116 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: when I'm sitting on the left where I want to 117 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: call her. I took a look at the Blend door actuator. 118 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: You always let me talking about Blend doors and actuators. 119 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: They actually split the doors on this particular car so 120 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: that the way they get the left person called and 121 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: the right person hot is they change the position of 122 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: the door over the heater core so that it will 123 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: have a direct effect on air tamp outlet or in 124 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: this case a CEA evaporator over over air tamp outlet 125 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: coming out. Turns out, the right side actuator every once 126 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: in a while would stick. It just didn't really allow 127 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: it to slam shut all the way there by blocking 128 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: off the airflow against that warm heater core. And it 129 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: doesn't take much, you know, a tenth of of an 130 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: opening if it's not a good seal, is just enough 131 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: to superheat that super cold air into warmer air. Took 132 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: the blend or actually waiter out, put a new one 133 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: in it afterre's some other tests just to verify the 134 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: sweep and the functionality of it. And yeah, that's what 135 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: fixed the car. You know, it's funny. I thought on 136 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: my daughter this week. My my youngest always tells me. 137 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: She says, you know that one of the things I've 138 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: learned growing up with you is that you always think 139 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: outside the box and you always try to look at 140 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: it as well. If this doesn't do it, where will 141 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: you go next? And she says, I've always applied that 142 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: in life lessons and those are some of the life 143 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: lessons you've taught me. And you know it's funny, right you. 144 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: You you don't expect it from your kids, but sometimes 145 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,559 Speaker 1: your kids are your best guides and they tell you 146 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: what you're good at without you even realizing it. Because 147 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: I started thinking outside the box, I thought of Rachel. 148 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: I knew what I had to do when I went 149 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: after the heater core and the hoses and realize it 150 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: would ultimately draw me to the actual wator, which is 151 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: not a common failure. But my point is sometimes thinking 152 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: outside the box gets you a win, and a win 153 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: of any kind, especially when it comes to fixing cars, 154 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: is always a good win. So keep that one in 155 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: mind to put that one in your diagnostic arsenal. Sometimes 156 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: the A C system is mechanically correct. In this case 157 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 1: it was. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it. People 158 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: were changing parts for at random for no reason whatsoever. 159 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: The problem was in the way the heater core was 160 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: warming up the air and at the wrong time and 161 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: creating the issue that um that it saw. So just 162 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: one for the books and I learned something from it. 163 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: And Rachel, if you ever hear this, thanks kid, oh, 164 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: I appreciate that thought. He help Pop fix a car 165 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero on morn Any of the car 166 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: doctor when we get back, We're gonna kick the garage 167 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: doors open, stay tuned. Nothing can catcher nothing a phone. Hey, 168 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: welcome back, any of the car doculists. Kick the garage 169 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: doors open and go over and talk to Mike in 170 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Some questions and comments. Mike, Welcome to the 171 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: Car Doctor, Sir. How can I help? Hey? Ron, I 172 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: love your show. You always intrigued by what you have 173 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: to say. Um, I wanted to pick your brain about 174 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 1: a unique Japanese car. Um, what's your take on the 175 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: monster rotary engine? I like the rotaries, and you know rotaries. 176 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: When we talk about rotaries, it gives me the chance 177 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: to tell one of my favorite stories about automobiles and repairs. 178 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,200 Speaker 1: You're ready back in the yearly seventies. Now I'm dating 179 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: myself here, all right, When the rotaries first came out, 180 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: they were amazing. The first year maths that came out 181 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: with rotaries, if memory serves me correct, I believe was 182 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two or seventy three, so it was a 183 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: while ago. I was a kid in high school, and 184 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: I remember one of the teachers showed up with one 185 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: of those funny little and it made that sound, and 186 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: we just went, wow, that's the that's the weirdest thing. 187 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: Was like your English teacher was driving it, like how 188 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: how one cool is that? That just didn't make any 189 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: sense to us. And then one day he wounded out 190 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: so hard he actually blew the rotary up. But he 191 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: wasn't unlike a lot of people in that a lot 192 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: of people the first year rotaries would blow up because 193 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: they reaped so high, they made so much power. MASDA 194 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: never put tax in them, and they actually had a 195 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: retro fit that first year seventy two and I think 196 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: seventy threes. It was one year there they actually had 197 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: a retrofit. They had to come out with retro fit 198 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: kits to put techometers and cars. And that's when I 199 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: first learned about factory recalls and the power of them, 200 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: as I watched everybody get factory techometers to a friend 201 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: of mine that worked at the mass the deal at 202 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: part time through work study, and I learned about rotaries 203 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: that way. The rotaries, I'll tell you what, it's pretty 204 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: tough to do. They are there are much more bulletproof 205 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: today and they've come a long way. And if you 206 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: can get your hands on one and you enjoy the 207 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: car and you understand the incortruces of it and what's involved, um, 208 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be afraid of it by any stretch of 209 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: the imagination. I think they're real solid motors. Yeah, I 210 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: would have to agree. Yeah, I, UM, you know, are 211 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: you looking to purchase it in anything particular. What in 212 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: r X A. I actually previously owned an r R UM, 213 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: but it has some wiring issues and I ultimately traded 214 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: it in for uh SV. How happy are you? You 215 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: don't sound happy now. Listen, they're solid. As a matter 216 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: of fact. Back in the mid to late eighties d 217 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: r X sevens, if you set him, if you set 218 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: them up right, you could power shift that thing first 219 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: a second, get it the chirp to tires, and you 220 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: could do a one two two three power shift to 221 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: get at the chirp to tires each time. Um, they 222 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: made lots of power. And the really neat thing is 223 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: the r X sevens didn't get a lot of respect. 224 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: So you can creep up on some fact guy in 225 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: an old corvette and kind of blow his doors off 226 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,599 Speaker 1: a little bit. If he was in one of the 227 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: smag motors, if he was in an early seventies Smogger 228 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: or a late seventies smogger GM corvette, you know that 229 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: was choking out. Um, it was just absolutely amazing. So 230 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: I have no fear about him. Just stay on top 231 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: of the oil changes, stay on top of the maintenance, 232 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 1: and you'll be just fine, alright, sir. I hope you 233 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: get another one, Michael, and good luck to you and 234 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: you get out of that hun day. Um. Like I 235 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: always say, buy something you like because if you don't, 236 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: if you don't like it, you don't want to fix it, 237 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: And sooner or later, whatever you drive is gonna break 238 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:00,959 Speaker 1: and it's gonna need to be. Let's go over to 239 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: William Waterloo. Iowack and some questions about engine and transmission repair. William. 240 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir. What's going on? How 241 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: you doing round? All right? I got a ninety buick 242 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: and I lost all oil pressure. I pulled the oil 243 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: pan off and I found shavings in there up on 244 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: the pickup screen and by niches sludge on the bottom. 245 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: And so what I did was I stuck my finger 246 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: up there on a connecting rod, and I can move 247 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: it side to side with no pressure. Well, you know, 248 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: side to side to side is you know it's it's 249 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: gonna have lateral movement side to side. That's you know, 250 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: that's end gap play between the rods? Is it is it? 251 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: Is it clunking? Does it exceed the value? You know? 252 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: You should really check it with a feeler gate to 253 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: see what the inspect is. Oh, all right, I never 254 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: did that. Here's the rest of the story. So I 255 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: put a new gasket on a new pickup screen and 256 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: I tried it and I had the same result and uh, 257 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: no oil pressure and it was starting to tap. So 258 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: I turned the engine off and I figured since there 259 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: was metal in there, it would be a probably an 260 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: engine change. Yeah, I would agree with that. And uh, 261 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: I've never done a transact before, and I was just 262 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: wondering what is involved versus like the usual conventional VA 263 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: where it sits in there and it's just rare wheel drive. 264 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: And I've done a few of those before, but but 265 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: I've never done a transaction, and I'm kind of you know, 266 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's above my Uh yeah, how 267 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: old are you, William? I'm fifty five, but I'm an 268 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: aircraft mechanic by trade. So I was gonna asking that 269 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: was my next question, what do you do for a living? 270 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: So what what kind of what kind of airplanes do 271 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: you work on? Well? I worked on DC down and 272 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: uh seven, five seven's and three twenties, and my dad 273 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: worked on d C three's back in the war. Oh no, 274 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: tens Um went back in the war. They were tens, big, 275 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: big airy feelers. Uh. I did the Desert Storm in Afghanistan. 276 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: I just retired. Yeah, but I worked at United Airlines 277 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: on heavy maintenance. And yeah, my dad was American Airlines 278 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: during the Second World War, so it was it was 279 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: a while ago. But here's my here's my question. Here's 280 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: my question to you if if if somebody brought you 281 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: something other than that you were used to working on, 282 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: would you still take it apart? Probably don't. Don't. Don't 283 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: fear it. Man, all right, it's just an engine into transmission. 284 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: It's just listen. Here's what you gotta think about. You're 285 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: just you're just pulling the engine and transmission out of 286 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: something that the engineer put in there the wrong way. 287 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: So it's not your fault. It's not your fault he 288 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: turned at ninety degrees um. But it's still got all 289 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: the same things. It's still got the mounts, it's still 290 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: got you know, I would tell you to disconnect the 291 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: axles and just go slow, one piece at a time. 292 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: The real question is does the is the car going 293 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: to justify the expense of doing an engine in the transmission, 294 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: because theoretically, you know, between an engine and the trans 295 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: You've probably got thirty thousand dollars in in componentry and 296 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 1: you've got to figure five in hard parts and tune 297 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: up parts and filters and things like that. You'll probably 298 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: spend five grand material. Is it really worth it on 299 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: a night on a what kind of shape is the 300 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: rest of the car? And well, I uh, I checked 301 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: with Junkyard, and I was looking at a used engine 302 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: and it was like four fifty and and uh probably 303 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: a hundred dollars for oil and and freeze and stuff 304 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: like that. And I wasn't gonna go new rebuilt engine. 305 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: And the car is actually in rule nice shade. And 306 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: then what about? What about? I was gonna say, what 307 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: out the transmission trans operating? Okay, Well, transmission is real good. Yea, 308 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: then it's been really maintained, real good. I'm just kind 309 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: of dumbfounded that bearing went out. So yeah, Well, the 310 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 1: only thing I want, the only thing I want to 311 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: caution you to take a look at before you do this, 312 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,479 Speaker 1: and maybe you know already, is take a look at 313 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: the break and the fuel lines running down the driver's 314 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: side of the floor pan, and take a look at 315 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: the brake line that comes over from the master cylinder 316 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 1: or the A B S controller. It runs against the 317 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: firewall and it controls the right front break. Just just 318 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: make sure all those lines are in good condition. Oh alright, alright, uh, 319 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: you know. And the reason I say that is is 320 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: because A they're no longer available from General motors. All right. 321 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: As an assembly, it's got to be something that's got 322 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: to be bent by hand. And B, if you decide 323 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: to go ahead with this, doing it while the end 324 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: is out of the car is a whole lot easier, 325 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: particularly the one that runs to the right front against 326 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: the firewall. You'll have access to everything. Oh all right, okay, 327 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: and then you know, take it slow, listen, you know what, 328 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: it's a project. Just do it one step at a time, 329 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: take pictures, treat it like a hot rod. I'm sure 330 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 1: you've done a few hot rods in your lifetime, and um, yeah, 331 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: I've done. I've done transmissions and I've done funches, I've 332 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 1: done struts on that, I've done up bearings, I've done 333 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: the intaking force you know. Oh sure. Yeah. And at 334 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: that point, like I said, just just take some pictures 335 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: of what you take apart and treat it like a 336 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: hot rod. Bag and tag and you'll have everything ready 337 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: for reassembly. But yeah, if you're not listen, the engineer 338 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: put it back the wrong way, you'll put it back 339 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: the wrong way. But at least you'll get it in 340 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: and out. Good luck to William. I'm running any in 341 00:18:49,720 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: the Car Doctor, and I'm back right after this. She's 342 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:08,360 Speaker 1: real find my phone. Nice, she's real find my phone, 343 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: my fault? Hey, welcome back. Weren't leading of the Car 344 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 1: Doctor here? You know? It's it's a little bit of 345 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: a commentary here in that we're gonna talk about how 346 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: some of the senior drivers are facing issues with with technology. 347 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: It's becoming a real issue for them. A recent article 348 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,239 Speaker 1: in the Chicago Tribune pointed out that a lot of 349 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: people are having issues with technology, and it starts off 350 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 1: with a Cynthia manths and how she was resisting sales 351 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: pressure removing trim level. She was looking fotage and she 352 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 1: liked the lower grade s E Edge simply because she 353 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: really wanted to CD player for her books, and a 354 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 1: navigation system and a remote start, but she didn't want 355 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: all of the other bells and whistles. And as she 356 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: pointed out, she said, I think when you have too 357 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: much stuff like automatic breaking and lane departure warning and 358 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 1: all that. You begin to rely on it too much 359 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: and you'll lose your focus, said Manson, seventy of former 360 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: bus drivers for the Chicago Transit Authority. Trust me, if 361 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: anybody knows about driving, I'm sure it's her driving a 362 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: bus for the city of Chicago. And it's an interesting 363 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: article to read because it talks about how cars are 364 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: making us dumber, and to a large degree they are. 365 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: You start to become dependent upon the car to do 366 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: far too much, and it it weakens us in terms 367 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: of how we make decisions and what our capabilities of it. Well, 368 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,120 Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk about this a little bit later. 369 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phone. Let's go over and 370 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: talk to Spencer and Lansing, Michigan. Spencer, Welcome to the 371 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: car doctice, sir. How can I help? Hey? How's going good? 372 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: What's going on? Uh? So? I have a Ford Edge okay, 373 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: and it's one of the eco boosts, and so basically 374 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: I've been kind of uh, um, how would you say, uh, 375 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: church around by the by the mechanics. Um. So, basically 376 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: what happens is my brake system went out. Uh and 377 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: it basically my mechanics said, as if it is. I'm 378 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: driving on ice at all times, and so when I 379 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: go into reverse it it moves forward, it jerks forward, 380 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: and when I go into park, it jerks backwards really fast. 381 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: So I kinda trying to figure out what's going on. Yeah, 382 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get it around my head. Are you 383 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: Are you describing a break problem to me? Are you 384 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: describing a trans problem to me? Are you? I guess 385 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: it's a break problem according to I'm looking at the 386 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: sheet right now. Um, my mechanic in a sense said 387 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: that the break booster is definitely bad, right, very common. Um, okay, yeah, 388 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: very very common on those I'm not saying it is 389 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: in your case, but it wouldn't be the first time 390 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: that I've heard this as an issue. As a matter 391 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: of fact, I thought there were, um uh, several bulletins out. 392 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there are several bulletins out to talk 393 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: about it. So it's it's, it's it's it's not completely unusual, 394 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: But I don't understand the connection between that and you're 395 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: putting it in drive and it's going back. Yeah, And 396 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: that's and That's what I'm trying to figure out too. 397 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: I think there's two different problems. So I'm I'm looking 398 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: at the sheet as we speak right now, and it 399 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: says my mechanic basically came to the conclusion getting propper 400 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 1: vacuum does not start upon startup. I don't. I don't 401 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: know if that has anything to do with you know, 402 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: when I when I put it in reverse and it 403 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: drifts forward. If that's the brake system as well, I'm 404 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: I don't know cars. Well, let me no, no, I 405 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: get it. Let me. Let me ask you this spencer. 406 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 1: Is this the fourth cylinder or is this the six cylinder? 407 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: This is the four cylinder. Okay, Well, here's the deal. 408 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: The four cylinder uses a cam driven vacuum pump to 409 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: supply vacuum, so that changes a little bit. What I 410 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: would tell your mechanic to do is verify that the 411 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: vacuum pump is is working properly, that it's it's it's 412 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: it's working to spec Did you ever have tropical fish? 413 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: You ever have fish as a kid? Yeah? Okay? And 414 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,880 Speaker 1: if if the water got dirty, if the water was dirty, 415 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 1: woke up the next morning, went mother, there's allergy all 416 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 1: over the tank. Right, what you do the first you 417 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: didn't just replace the water. You always check the pump 418 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: to make sure that it was working properly. Right, So 419 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 1: the same thing before we change the booster, which isn't 420 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: working properly, Let's make sure that the thing that feeds it, 421 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: like the pump and the fish tank, the vacuum pump 422 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: on the engine, Let's make sure that that's working properly 423 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: and it's doing what it's supposed to do. All right. 424 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 1: That makes me feel a lot better hearing that from you. Okay, 425 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: but yeah, I think let me ask you this last question. 426 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: Then I'll let you go. Your mechanic that you're going to. 427 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: He's your regularly even going to him for a while. Yeah, 428 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: I've been with him for about a year and a 429 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: half now. Um. And and the thing is the car 430 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: dealership I bought the car from gave me a warranty 431 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: at another dealership at another garage. That's the that's the 432 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: gage that's been jerking me around. Um. You know they 433 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: want to charge me so much money to look at 434 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: the car when I have my mechanic, you know, I 435 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: have it on paper and such. You know, let me 436 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: let me well, let me ask you this question. Did 437 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: your mechanic diagnosed it, or he's going by the seat 438 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: of his pants, he diagnosed it. You know it's it's 439 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: you know, Spencer and I understand why people are hesitant 440 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 1: to come to mechanics. Had a couple of just in 441 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: the last week. Can you give me a price on 442 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: exhaust for my Honda Civic. I can give you an approximation, um, 443 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,119 Speaker 1: But you know it's hard to really without really looking 444 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: at it, to sit there and say, you know, you 445 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: need exhaust from the cat back. It's gonna be five 446 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: or six hundred dollars or whatever it is. And time 447 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: is money. And you know a lot of times mechanics 448 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: are hesitant to even mention the fact that time is money. 449 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: I'll tell you right up front. Time is money. Uh, 450 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: you know it's that. But it's also true that answers 451 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: just don't fly off the shells like parts don't jump 452 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,360 Speaker 1: into ours. Your mechanics should charge you for some kind 453 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: of a diagnosis something, and you know you and I 454 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: only I'm not just saying this to you, I'm saying 455 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: this to everybody. You know, it's important to pay the 456 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: mechanic for a diagnosis simply because it allows him to 457 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: research and be accurate. In his diagnosis. Not that I'm 458 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: encouraging anybody to give him mechanic money. Um, but think 459 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: of it like this. If you went to a doctor 460 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: and you said, Doc, my elbow hurts. Would you pay 461 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: him to run tests? And then when he comes up 462 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: and he tells you you need a new elbow, would 463 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: you pay him for the elbow for as much as 464 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: I can get? Yeah? Right, yeah, So it's like, what's 465 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: the difference, Um, you know, it's it's in the mechanics. 466 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: Got a tougher because he's got to know a whole 467 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: lot more than just two models. So I'm glad that 468 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: you're able. You open my eyes up a lot more 469 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 1: help me out. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. Spencer. 470 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: Good luck to and listen if you need me during 471 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: the week. If if this doesn't work out for you, 472 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: Ron at Car Doctor Show dot Com, drop me a line. 473 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: All right, you take good care. Well, you know it's 474 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 1: it's important. Now. I didn't ask him how old he was. 475 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,919 Speaker 1: Spencer sounded like, you know, a young fellow. It's important 476 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 1: to get people on the right track. It blows my mind. 477 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: People will walk into the shop they're in their mid forties. 478 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: I've been able to find a good mechanic because they're 479 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: all crooks. Really, you tell me you've been driving let's 480 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: see forty five, somebody's forty five tony. How old are 481 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: you when you drive? Eighteen? Right? So are you thirty 482 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: six years? Thirty seven years? You haven't found a good 483 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: mechanic in thirty six years and they're all crooks. Um, 484 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: we're not talking about politicians. We're talking about car mechanics. 485 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: If we're talking about politicians, that's another story. But I 486 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,199 Speaker 1: gotta take my shot where I can. Um. My point 487 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: is that you know there's gotta be a question there, 488 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: So find a mechanic, talk to him, have a relationship. 489 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: All right. They should talk to you, and they should 490 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 1: treat you courteously, and they should give you answers. They 491 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: should give you an estimate. And you know what, you 492 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: shouldn't ever have to walk in and say, hey, Ron, 493 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: how much is it to put exhaust on my civic? 494 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: If you're a regular with Ron, Ron knows the car, 495 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: and he should be able to quote your ballpark numbers 496 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: off the top of his head. That's not completely unreasonable too. 497 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: In a lot of cases eight five zero nine zero zero, 498 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: the car doctors coming back. Hang onto your hats, Hey, 499 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: welcome back. Why don't you need the car doctor? You know, 500 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: we're living life in the fast lane. We're answering your 501 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: car questions here on the card doctor at five zero 502 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. I just real quick before we 503 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: get to the next call. I you know, I think 504 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: about it during the week. I have such a unique 505 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 1: life and such a great life, and that I'm able 506 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: to do this and I was the lucky guy that 507 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: got on radio to sit here and talk about something 508 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: I've been doing for such a long time that it 509 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: really touches me. With your letters and your emails, and 510 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: it's just the conversations those local around us when they 511 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: bump into me and they figure out what it is 512 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: I do and who I am, and not that it's 513 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: that big a deal, but it's just it's it's interesting 514 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: and all your all your responses are very heartfelt, and um, 515 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: I appreciate each and every one of them. And I 516 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you for all the years of 517 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: putting up with me, as it were so too many more. 518 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: Let's get over to the phone. Let's gonna talk to 519 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: rich and is this right? Embarrassed Minnesota? Ah Yeah, that's correct, 520 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: extreme northeastern Minnesota. I've never heard of that. Embarrassed Minnesota. 521 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: That's kind of a unique name. Um yeah, I have 522 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: to explain it to people sometimes, Yeah, is there a reason? 523 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: Like how did that come to be? Like I believe 524 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:02,239 Speaker 1: the origin is from a French word, um having this 525 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: is this is a logging area at one time and 526 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: has something to do with log jams or something like that. 527 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: Or maybe maybe you know, maybe back when the French 528 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: were doing lumber, it was it was an expression for 529 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: being caught peeing outside with your pants down or something. 530 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: You were embarrassed. Embarrassed Minnesota. Well, that's a possibility, it's 531 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: possibility anyway. What's going on here, Richard? Well, I have 532 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: uh F one. It's uh two thousand six that I 533 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: purchased knew. It currently has almost two fifty miles on it, 534 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,239 Speaker 1: and I know that the time is coming that I'm 535 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: gonna have to make a decision um as to what 536 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: I need to do. And I figure I've got three 537 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,719 Speaker 1: different options. One would be to purchase an older vehicle 538 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: that's in good shape, invest money into it, and get 539 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,800 Speaker 1: it up to uh you know, basically a brand new vehicle. 540 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: Uh second would be to get a crate engine and 541 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: probably a new transmission and slap it into the vehicle 542 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: that I've currently got. Or the third option, obviously is 543 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: a new vehicle. UM not now, based on some of 544 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: the conversations you've had in the last few months about 545 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: the direction and uh where where the automotive industry is 546 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: going with all the electronics, that's kind of at the 547 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: bottom of my new vehicles, kind of at the bottom 548 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: of my list. And I understood, because I understand that. 549 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: And let me tell you that that new truck, if 550 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: you buy a new F one fifty, you'll you'll spend 551 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: forty grand without even breaking a sweat. Yeah, I know, 552 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: I've looked into it. Yeah, you can spend You can 553 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: spend on a on a on a King ranch. Blah 554 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: blah blah, crazy numbers. UM. Let me ask you this question. 555 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: Do you do you have mechanical ability? Do you like 556 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: the tinker? I do? UM, But you know with some 557 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: of these new vehicles, I don't have the skill sets. 558 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: You know, I'm seventy years old. So then let's go backwards. 559 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: Let's go back and you know, if you found a 560 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: sixty five Ford pickup truck, you know, very mechanical, basic 561 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: engine and transmission, you know. Um, I like that idea. 562 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: And then that's kind of fun, you know. And and 563 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: and in reality, that six pick up, if you buy 564 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: the right one, or that fifty Ford pickup or whatever 565 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: it is, Um, if you buy the right one, it's 566 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna maintain or go up in value. Whereas 567 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: that that newer fifty dollar vehicle, you know, you lose, 568 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: you lose driving it off the lot. Yeah, yeah, I agree. 569 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,040 Speaker 1: And I'd like the idea of being able to do 570 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: some of the work myself. I have that skill set 571 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: and I've got two tools. Plus, if they ever figure 572 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: out a way to jam electronic signals and the government 573 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: shuts off cars, you'll be the only guy driving around. 574 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes you think about what at the neutron 575 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: bomb that they could come up with that would wipe 576 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: out or electro static discharge. I can't think of the 577 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: name of it. I remember after I'm off fair But anyway, listen, 578 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: the clock's gonna grab me Richard. But what I would 579 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: tell you is I would tell you to consider the 580 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: first and the second choices. The second choice about putting 581 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 1: the engine in the trans in is Okay, as long 582 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: as you're willing to go the distance. This is like rocket. 583 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: You gotta go to distance. Man. You gotta do the engine, 584 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: you gotta do the trens. You gotta be ready to 585 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: do exhaust, catalytic converters, fuel pump, the whole nine yards. 586 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: And when you start to end up what that's gonna cost, 587 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 1: then you've got to look at the rust and the 588 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: general condition of the vehicle. Is it worth replacing the 589 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 1: roof on the house. Just be careful. The basement isn't 590 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: taking on water and the plumbing is still gonna be 591 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: there when you're done. When you when you're done evaluating that, 592 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: then start to look at Okay, set a budget. You've 593 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: got twenty five dollars to play with. What can you 594 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: buy for twenty five grand in an older vehicle, a 595 00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: basic vehicle, Get the same creature comforts you have and 596 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: still maintain Will it be worth more? Listen, I'm still 597 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: looking for that seventy two Chevy Monte Carlo. And when 598 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: I find it, it's gonna be my everyday ride. And 599 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: I'll probably get rid of THEO for suburban with all 600 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: the electronics. And that's seventy two monty Carlo. Once I 601 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,719 Speaker 1: find the right one, you know what, it's just all 602 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: mechanical nuts and bolts, and it's a whole lot easier 603 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: to deal with, and it will always be worth at 604 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: least what I paid for it as long as I 605 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 1: take care of it. Rich. I gotta go. The clock's 606 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: gonna grab me. I enjoyed the conversation. If you need 607 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: any more information, shoot me an email Ron at Car 608 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: Doctor show dot com. We'll be back right after this 609 00:33:46,200 --> 00:34:02,120 Speaker 1: bad cream. Welcome back on any of the Car Doctor. 610 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: Let's real quick. Go over to Jeff Lewistown, Pennsylvania, two 611 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Chevy Equinox. Jeff, Welcome to the Car Doctor. 612 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,359 Speaker 1: I got about three minutes. Okay, I got a new 613 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 1: eight h Chevy Equinox and having trouble with the temperature 614 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 1: gauge pegging out after except for eight hours or so, uh, 615 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,480 Speaker 1: and it just pigs out. The motor is cold, so 616 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: it can't the the it can't be hot. So what 617 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: you're saying is, you know, you shut it off Tuesday night, 618 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: you wake up Wednesday morning, you go out there to 619 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: start it, and you're starting a cold engine. It's sat 620 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 1: for eight hours or longer. And the temp gage goes 621 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: right to hot. It just pins it hot and then 622 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,479 Speaker 1: that's correct. Does it sweep back or it's always it hot? 623 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: Now it's it's always it hot, always okay? Any any 624 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: diagnostic attempts made here? Yes, I want uh. Three different dealerships. 625 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: One said, uh, head gasket right away, another one said 626 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,880 Speaker 1: instrument cluster, and another one put ah, I'm updated on 627 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:11,240 Speaker 1: the computer into the motor that I guess the stepper motor. 628 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 1: Um you ever played with slot cars as a kid, Jeff? 629 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,399 Speaker 1: All right, So these these things are like slock car 630 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: motors are just little electronic you know, stepper motors there 631 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,600 Speaker 1: that basically react and you know, move the brusher around 632 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: and make the position. The guys, the guys who said 633 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,319 Speaker 1: head gasket, I think they're out the lunch. I don't 634 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,399 Speaker 1: see how it can be my my, that's the way 635 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: I felt too, that, you know. And my argument would be, 636 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: if you started that cold one morning, not started, but 637 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: just turn the key on, does it pin right to 638 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: hot then as well? So you know what, it knows 639 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,359 Speaker 1: it's gonna overheat, so it goes to that position automatically. 640 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 1: We have cars that are that smart. Smart cars. Look 641 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: at that they know when they're gonna be bad, so 642 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,280 Speaker 1: they break themselves, you know, So that doesn't make any sense. 643 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: I was really gonna put it more towards an instrument cluster, 644 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 1: which is not uncommon, and the red flash which is 645 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,000 Speaker 1: part of it. So do this. Take it to a mechanic, 646 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: have him plug a scan tool in, all right, and 647 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 1: just look at the temperature. I'm sure the temperature is 648 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: gonna read and being temperature when it's cold when you 649 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: first go look at it in the morning, all right, 650 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,720 Speaker 1: And then have them just look for codes, any fault 651 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: codes in it. And then at that point do a 652 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 1: functional sweep test of the temp gage using the scan tool. 653 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 1: Can they get it to move? And if they can't, 654 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: and you've gotta fault in the instrument cluster and it's 655 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 1: gonna have to be diagnosed and repaired. They did have 656 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:41,320 Speaker 1: problems with put its circuit boards. See it