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Speaker 1: The car Doctor, why did you replace the engine? What

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Speaker 2: Blew blew out A Welcome to the radio home of

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Speaker 2: ron Anian the Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one. This

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Speaker 2: is where car owners the world overturned to for their

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Speaker 2: definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you

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Speaker 5: And now, Ronnie, So, smoke is the topic of the

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Speaker 1: And once again we're joined by Chuck Kincaid of Red

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Speaker 3: Hey, Ron, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Well, we make diagnostic product, but it's red line detection, right,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, so you'll correct me about seven times today

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Speaker 3: Well, it is a requirement in that in summer these

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Speaker 1: I recently had an experience working with an insurance adjuster

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Speaker 1: So hey, listen, Chuck. You know what you guys are doing,

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Speaker 1: a great job. You keep up the fight. You know

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Speaker 1: Real quick, the listeners, it's Redline Deetection dot com.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, redline Detection dot com. And you can find

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Speaker 1: Perfect, Chuck, you'd be well. You have a good rest

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Speaker 7: Ron's in the own the AutoZone studio and tell me

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Speaker 7: Here's Ron. Welcome back to listeners.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about diagnostics and a

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Speaker 1: it narrowed down to, I said, you know, it's between

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Speaker 1: here and here. I unplugged connector three thirty nine, cleared

435
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Speaker 1: the code, turned the key back off, unplugged it codes cleared,

436
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: unplugged the connector, turned the key on. It set the

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00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 1: same fault that connector was having no bearing on the circuit.

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00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: You know, turned the key off, cleared the code or

439
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, turned the key off, plug the connector back in,

440
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Speaker 1: turned the key on, cleared the code, turned it back off,

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Speaker 1: code's gone, turned it back on. Set the same fold

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Speaker 1: code that connector was having no bearing. So I set

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Speaker 1: myself up. I looked at the wiring and I couldn't

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Speaker 1: see it right away, so I set myself up with

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Speaker 1: a jumper lead. I jumpered across the yellow red and

446
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: the purple white that were in connector three thirty nine

447
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: and fixed it. It wouldn't set the fault code. So

448
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: I knew somewhere between this section of wire, in this

449
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: section of wire, I had a fault, pulled the seat

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Speaker 1: out of the car, turned it upside down, sat down

451
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: with a magnifying glass, and started looking at the at

452
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Speaker 1: the wire as it ran, and I found the brake

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00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,239
Speaker 1: where there was just one strand holding it, and I

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Speaker 1: was able to obtain the correct connector, solder it in

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Speaker 1: and repair it. And my point is that not all

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Speaker 1: diagnosis is a parts replacement. It's you know, it's a

457
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 1: thinking person's game. You got to sit there and you know, understand,

458
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 1: understand the fault, understand the code. What are you chasing?

459
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: You know, this was a circuit fault. This was a

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Speaker 1: connectivity issue. This was a problem with how the circuit

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Speaker 1: was operating. And I could prove it by you know,

462
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Speaker 1: doing this step of clear the code, turn the key on.

463
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Speaker 1: The fault comes back right away, you know, without even

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Speaker 1: running the vehicle. So just just a tip, just be

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Speaker 1: aware that you know, and there's an awful lot of well,

466
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Speaker 1: there's more fault codes coming, I should say it like that.

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00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: There are more fault codes coming than ever before, than

468
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: I think you've ever seen, and you know some of them.

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Speaker 1: We had an interesting one with a Toyota this week,

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Speaker 1: a nineteen Highlander P eleven EA, which talked about air

471
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: fuel distribution between cylinders and imbalance of air fuel mixture.

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00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: And we're still waiting to see where that one goes.

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00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: It's it's, it's it went to the dealer because it

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00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: was under warranty, and we're waiting to see what the

475
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: answer becomes there. We may end having to take a

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00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: crack at it to fix it because they may not

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Speaker 1: be able to or want to. That's a whole nother conversation.

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00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: But diagnostic codes are interesting. They don't always mean a

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Speaker 1: part replacement. They you know, in a lot of cases,

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00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: you know, in a lot of cases it's wiring, its connections,

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00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: it's the abuse of environment. In this case, it was

482
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: the clean xbox under the seat that costs this person

483
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: quite a few dollars between diagnostic time and repair of time.

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00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: So keeping the car clean does pay off in the

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00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: long run. So just something to be aware of. All right,

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Speaker 1: let me pull over and take a pause. I'm running

487
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Speaker 1: any in the car. Doctor, I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Don't go away, but I'll know you once better.

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Speaker 5: And you've got doner I saw.

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Speaker 1: Twos. Welcome back to listeners. Just back up a second.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about diagnosing that twenty seventeen explore when I

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00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: say I used a jumper, going back here a minute,

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00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: when I say I used the jumper around Connector three

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00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: thirty nine, I did it in an area that I

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00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: had very high confidence that I was going to replacing

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00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: that section of harness. And what I use is either

497
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: I have two ways of piercing or probing wire so

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00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: that you understand, so you're not just jabbing holes in

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00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: a wiring harness. I will either use an industry approved probe,

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00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: which is from various places that provide a very small

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00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: pin into you know, through a guided piece of plastic,

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00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: an actual wire tap it's designed to do that to

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00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: tap into the meter, or in some cases we will

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00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: use go down to your local sewing store and get

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00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: what we used to call teapins. It's what they used

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00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: to hem a skirt or a pant length, you know,

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00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: a length of pants. It's just a T shaped pin.

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00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: They provide a very fine point and a great place

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00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: to grab with your you know, meters clips. So you know,

510
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: but we are very careful when it comes to wiring

511
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,239
Speaker 1: harness and if you do punctural harness and you're not

512
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: repairing that section of it. You should seal it. We

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00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: still use to this day clear nail polish. Clear nail

514
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: polish works.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: There's a couple of other things we can do that

517
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: we will use. But you want to make sure that

518
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: you don't leave a wiring harness open so the corrosion

519
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: doesn't get in there and you know, create a problem

520
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: two years from now when you least expect it. So

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00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: just just be aware. Got to let it take from

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Speaker 1: doctor McCann Richard McCann or in England. Hello, Ron, Good

523
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: to hear that you guys are still at the gym

524
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: and keeping fiting well. Particularly interesting comments from this past

525
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: weekend about spares, spare parts. I imagine he's talking about

526
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: we were talking about. I was amazed recently how hard

527
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: it was to find a new break booster from my

528
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: friend's nineteen nineties four. Finally got one in a breaker's yard.

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00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: I guess it's a scrapyard there, which involved an unpleasant

530
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: half hour with my head in the foot well full

531
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: of broken glass, with petals kicking me in the face

532
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: while I was removing the securing nuts. As you often say,

533
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: trying to get computer parts for a modern car in

534
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: ten years time, It'll be interesting to see how that

535
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: works for us. On the other hand, following up on

536
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: a great point, you made parts for seventies and eighties

537
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: cars can be great because they are it's easier to

538
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: get parts for older mechanical vehicles. You know, there's no

539
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: electronics involved. He goes on to say, I can buy

540
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: a whole MGB, or I can build a whole MGB

541
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: from new parts if I want to. I recently bought

542
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: a new water pump, thermostat, housing hoses, guess gets and

543
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: beltal for one hundred bucks the other day, including next

544
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: day delivery charge, and an mgtail and for six bucks.

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00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: That's right, six dollars. One of my son's moderns VW

546
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: tail lamps is more like two hundred dollars. You know,

547
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: it's interesting, And when I replied to him, I'll tell

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00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: you what I said. I was talking about. It's funny

549
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: how older cars, which are less in supply. Obviously, it

550
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: seems that the parts for them are getting cheaper, and

551
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: the parts for the cars that there are more of

552
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: are getting more expensive. And you would think if they're

553
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: producing more like new parts, they're producing parts for new

554
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: you would think supply and demand it would be able

555
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: to drive down the price, which makes the whole argument

556
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: about electric vehicle batteries getting cheaper as they become more

557
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: proficient kind of makes you scratch your head, like, well

558
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: that really happened. Incidentally, any listeners, I had to get

559
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: that in there. Incidentally, any listeners with old European cars

560
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: might find it useful to know that the same parts

561
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: were used on a massive variety of cars. So if

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00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: you can't find a part for say a Triumph, get

563
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: a part number and you'll probably find that it is

564
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: also used on anything from a Jaguar to a land Rover,

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00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Risk and Martin in one case from last month, also Maseratia,

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00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: Jensen and Lamborghini. The only difference will be the price.

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00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: I just bought a door mirror for a British Exotic

568
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: that was quoted six hundred. The part and number corresponded

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00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: to a seventy Mercedes, which I bought for ninety dollars.

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00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: Keep well and happy Christmas and peaceful twenty twenty four

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00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: to you in the car doctor family. Richard, you know

572
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: it will be interesting finding parts for cars going forward,

573
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: and will that be the turning stone? We had a

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00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: two thousand and two Cadillac Sts in the shop this

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00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: past week. It came in for a diagnosis of a

576
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: jingling noise and I went over the car and it

577
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: was really obvious. It was a really hardcore jingling noise.

578
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: You'd hear it going down the road. It just sounded

579
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: terrible like it was falling apart. And one of the

580
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: cradle bolts. There are four cradle bolts in the rear

581
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: of the engine, two body cradle that holds the engine

582
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: in the transit on the front subcradle there, you know too,

583
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: on this Cadillac Siville Sts, and the one of the

584
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: rear cradle bolts had actually come loose. It was about

585
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: a good three turns out, you know, And you didn't

586
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: realize it until you looked up and you saw that

587
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: the bolt head was sticking out further than the other one,

588
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: and you you tap the retainer's GM calls it, which

589
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: is the big washer that goes underneath the mount, and

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00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: it jingled. So I, you know, we tightened it up,

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00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: and you know, that solved that problem. When I looked

592
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: at the other side, the bolt that would have been

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00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: on the other side of the driver's side was completely gone.

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00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: It wasn't even in the car forty thousand mile car

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00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: forty one thousand mile car, A nice car. But I

596
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: went to buy a replacement bolt and a replacement retainer.

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00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,959
Speaker 1: The bolt is still available, it's about twenty bucks. The

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00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: retainer is thirty two. But I had to buy a

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00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: package of five, and manufacturers do that sometimes. So I

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00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: sent the customer off on a you know, I don't know,

601
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 1: wild goose chase. Let's see what he comes up with.

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00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,239
Speaker 1: I think I think he's found it. But you know

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00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: it's You're gonna have to be a little creative if

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00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: you want to keep the older cars on the road.

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00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: It's interesting. So eight five five five six zeros nine

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00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: zero zeros the phone number. We did again. Eight five

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00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: five five six zero nine nine zero zeros the phone number.

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00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: If you want to talk to us, call, leave a message.

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00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: We'll get back to you for next week's show. I'm

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00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: Ronning any in the Car Doctor. I'll be back right

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Speaker 1: after this to finish things up.

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Speaker 8: Don't go away.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for sticking with us this hour. We hope you

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00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: learned something. I know we did. We always enjoy these

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00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: get togethers each and every weekend. Here ron An Anie

616
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor and we just have a great time.

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Speaker 1: I want to leave you with this. We had a

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00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: you know, order repair sometimes about it's the surprise, it's

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00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: the when you least expect it kind of problem that

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00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: crops up from time to time. We had a twenty

621
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: ten Ford edge in the shop this week. That started

622
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: out innocently enough. We were replacing the right front steering

623
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: knuckle to do a wheelbaring and there's a lot of

624
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: pre made knuckles on the market today and they work well,

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00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: they really do. They do a great job. It's a

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00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: lot easier than having to press a wheelbaring hub assembly

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00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: against rust on a fifteen year old vehicle. Well, what

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00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: I didn't count on, because like I said, you're always

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00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: waiting for the surprise. What I didn't count on was

630
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: when the axle nut was taken off. I very easily.

631
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: I applied some lubricant to the axle nut thread so

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00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: that they would be lubricated, and started to spin the

633
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: nut off. But rust ground into the nut and started

634
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: to chew it up. Eventually just it got to the

635
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: point where there was nothing I could do. The axle trash,

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00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: The axle shaft was trash. So I ended up having

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00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: to get an axle again on a Friday at three o'clock.

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00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: Of course, I went to dural Ast. I looked up

639
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: my parts on at autozonepro dot com, and I went

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00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: right to the doural Ast line and got a duralst

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00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: axle for it, right side out or axle, and it

642
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: worked great. And that's just what doural Aast does. It

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00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,719
Speaker 1: helps us in the shop, and I'll help you in

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00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: the shop too, So keep it in mind. I know

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00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: there are surprises in auto repair, you know, it's when

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00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: we at least expect it and things are rolling along

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