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Speaker 1: know where everybody's going to be. They don't know when

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Speaker 1: you leave New Jersey and drive through Colorado to get

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Speaker 1: the California and or California to get through to Florida

427
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,880
Speaker 1: or Florida to get you know, they don't know where

428
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,199
Speaker 1: everybody is altitude wise or or or climate wise. So

429
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 1: they have to make everything multi climate, multi altitude self

430
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 1: adjusting to a large degree. Twenty years ago, it was

431
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: a different story. There was different ways of doing enrichment

432
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 1: and even then things were card things were injected. It

433
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't until they got rid of carburetors that the

434
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 1: problems really started to go away, and carburetors are gons nine.

435
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: The one thing I want you to take a peek at, though,

436
00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 1: is do you have a pencil? Is take take a

437
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:49,360
Speaker 1: look at bulletin fifteen dash n A dash oh one oh.

438
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,479
Speaker 1: It talks about new vehicles going through smog inspection in

439
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: California and certain other states. It came out in January

440
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,239
Speaker 1: of this year, and it talks about out issues that

441
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: certain vehicles may react to certain environments such as high

442
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: altitude and not be able to pass motor vehicle inspection

443
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: in that state. And I believe Colorado's mentioned. I don't

444
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: think Arizona is. But I just want you to read

445
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: it and have a copy of it just in case,

446
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: because it's one of those things you'll never find if

447
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 1: you don't know to go looking for it. And it

448
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 1: talks about the ways that the states are aware of

449
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: the problem and they're providing exemptions. So it's not so

450
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: much what do you gotta do to get the vehicle

451
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: ready for the trip or to be there, but you know,

452
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: motor vehicle inspection may cause that vehicle to skew its

453
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 1: numbers and affect whether or not it can get to

454
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 1: be inspected. And then of course it wouldn't hurt for

455
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: your mechanic if he has the ability to log onto

456
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: the GM website and just look to see her there

457
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,479
Speaker 1: is this vehicle updated to the latest, greatest software. And

458
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: actually that's something the GM dealers should probably do under warranty.

459
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: It's it's an eighteen how many miles are on it? Yeah,

460
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: so it's it should be covered under warranty. It might

461
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 1: be a conversation to have with GM and say, hey,

462
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm moving to Arizona. Is there is there any software

463
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: updates that need to be done to my vehicle? Here's

464
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: the ven you know, go back to the dealer where

465
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: you bought it. And then, of course, you know, when

466
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: you get out to Arizona, you're gonna have the experience

467
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: of now you gotta find another mechanic unless you plan

468
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 1: on coming back. Yeah, that's you're going in the wrong direction.

469
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: If you came east, that's a different conversation. Brother, Um, well,

470
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: I know I don't want to go to Arizona, I can.

471
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's not that it's just that it's so

472
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 1: hot there. Um. A friend of mine recently moved to

473
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 1: recently moved to Arizona and he called up a couple

474
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 1: of weeks ago and we were talking about I said,

475
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 1: how is it? He said, well, hot comes under a

476
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 1: new definition. Um, he said, it's just you know, it's

477
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifteen degrees and they think that's a

478
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: cool day there. And I went, oh boy, so, uh

479
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: you know, I'm great place, dry climate, dry heat. But

480
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: as he said, yeah, dry heat or not, it's still hot.

481
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 1: So um, just Wh'm heading up are the Arizona because

482
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: it's it's the climbing up there. Five up in the

483
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: mountains is a little bit more right that way. Yeah,

484
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: But beautiful country. I've been there once or twice now

485
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: and beautiful part of the country is as is so

486
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: much of this great country of ours. And uh, thank

487
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: you so much. You're very welcome, sir. Good luck on

488
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: your trip, and God bless you have a good fourthy

489
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: you take good care. Eight five zero nine zero zero

490
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,959
Speaker 1: run eating the car doctor. We are back right after this.

491
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Speaker 1: Welcome back any of the car doctor. The numbers eight

492
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Speaker 1: five five five six zero nine zero zero. Thanks for

493
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Speaker 1: tuning into the fourth of July edition of The Car Doctor.

494
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Speaker 1: Let's get over to Gary in New Hampshire. Gary, welcome aboard, sir.

495
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey? I gotta as soon as the

496
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: engine heats up, it um it loses power. It'll sit

497
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: there an idle, but you can't drive it has no

498
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: no power. We changed all the or most of the

499
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: electronics that I know. There's a there's a heat sensor

500
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 1: on the top of the engine that we changed, and

501
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: we changed the the electronic um I wannestly VACU in advance.

502
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: I know it's not called the vacuman advance, right? Which

503
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 1: which which engine? Is this? Gary? Eight? Um and automatic

504
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: or stick automatic? All right? And it's just is it?

505
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: As soon as it warms up, it's just loss of power,

506
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,479
Speaker 1: that's it. And how long has this been going on?

507
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: I started gradually and it moved over, you know, when

508
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: the winter wasn't too bad, and then as soon as

509
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: springtime came, we can't drive it anymore. And is it?

510
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: You know? You put your foot on the on the

511
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: pedal and it just that's it. It just dies. It

512
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: won't go anywhere. It'll just sit there an idol all

513
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 1: day long. But I just want to accelerate. No, it

514
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: actually stalls right out. Okay, what's fuel pressure? Uh? I

515
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, has anybody scanned it for any kind

516
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: of codes? No? Codes? All right, So I guess what

517
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 1: you have to do? Yeah, yeah, we've got to check

518
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: fuel pressure. We're gonna have to get out of fuel

519
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: pressure gauge. Um, you sound like you don't want to

520
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: do that. You're disappointed. No, I just I was hoping

521
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 1: it would be electronic thing that I didn't know because

522
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: I had a couple of mechanics. Look at it. Um,

523
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: we did change the fuel pump. Okay, now I know

524
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: it has a secondary fuel pump on it, a pickup pump, right,

525
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, so I had two pumps. I don't know why,

526
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: but it does have two pumps on it. And when

527
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: they change the pump, did they put a fuel filter

528
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: in it? Yep, we've changed the fuel filter. Did they

529
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: happen to cut the old fuel filter open to see

530
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: if there's any credit it? I'm just a nosy guy. No,

531
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if. I don't know if they did.

532
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: And here's the problem, all right, And you know, and

533
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick on my industry for a little bit.

534
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm kind of in the mood to pick on my

535
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: industry today. All Right, you had a couple of mechanics

536
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 1: look at it. Somebody's got to explain to me the

537
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,719
Speaker 1: definition of I've got a mechanic looking at it. What

538
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: does that mean, I've got a mechanic diagnosing it? Sounds better?

539
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: All right? In in in in the hour it would

540
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: take the average diagnosis. And this is this is the

541
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: industry talking the reports I read and from my own

542
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: experiences in the shop, all right, in the hour it

543
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: takes to do an average diagnosis. There's so much information

544
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: to be gained. What's fuel pressure, any fault codes, what's

545
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: basic engine mechanical capability. I don't care how you find out.

546
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: You know you can. You can do a cylinder power balance,

547
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: Forward's easy. Ford does all sorts of self diagnostic tests

548
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: right through the scan tool. Um. You know, there's just

549
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: so much information you can gather short of you know,

550
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: we're we're trying to, you know, diagnose something without diagnosing it.

551
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: It's an automatic. Do you know if it accelerates better

552
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: in reverse or or than in drivers that do the

553
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: same thing if you put it in reverse, does it

554
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: fall on its face. Yeah, so when that happens, all right,

555
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: I want to know fuel pressure even though they put

556
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: a new pump in, all right, because as you say,

557
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: there is a secondary pump. All right. Um, remember what

558
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: new stands for, all right? You know what news stands for.

559
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Never ever worked, all right, So

560
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: there's no rule that says that new pump out of

561
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: the box is gonna work. Right, all right, happens all

562
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: the time. It happens all the time. It shops all

563
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: across America. It happened twice at my shop this week.

564
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: New means never ever worked. Sometimes he used parts a

565
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: better part. You know why. It's field tested. We take

566
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: off a good running car and you store it on

567
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: the shelf because it's an oddball part that you can't

568
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: get a lot of, and at least you know it's there,

569
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: all right. I mean, listen, I can run you through

570
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: a myriad of the what ifs, all right, But somebody's

571
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: still got to be willing to hook up and do

572
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: a diagnosis. Maybe we've got a bad throttle position censor, okay,

573
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: well right now, and and the throttle position censor is

574
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: so easy to get to on that truck, right you

575
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: gotta take the throttle botty off. It's at the bottom. Yeah, yeah,

576
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: all right, how to take everything apart? And then did

577
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: you get a four piece? Did you buy the best

578
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: thing you could find on Amazon? Was it something out

579
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: of a normal part store? What's the quality of that part?

580
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: And what's the quality of that part? And then you know,

581
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: So now we've got this truck that I'd be afraid

582
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: to open the hood because it sounds like the amount

583
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: of shining parts is gonna blind me. I have to

584
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: wear sunglasses. And I still I still have right, am

585
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: I right? And we still haven't hooked up a fuel pump,

586
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 1: a fuel pressure gage. Rather, because we're all going on.

587
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: I think it feels it might be I can't do it.

588
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: I can't do it. What do you do for a living? Gary?

589
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: A farmer? Okay? So you know what do you grow?

590
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: What kind of crops? All right? See you grow pigs?

591
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: I don't like that. Thank you for the bacon, by

592
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: the way, brother, Um, when when? When? When? When? What?

593
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like bacon? You know it's like you know

594
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: that I take about my pet pig. Who cares where's

595
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: my bacon? Um? You know, when the pigs aren't aren't growing,

596
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: or when the pigs aren't doing whatever pigs are supposed

597
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: to do to make them bigger and healthier to get

598
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: more form at market, do you guess or do you

599
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: use some kind of scientific approach to it? Although maybe

600
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: farm and it's intuitive. Um yeah, it's right, but but

601
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: it's but it's lessons learned, and those lessons don't very much. Right,

602
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: how long you've been pig farming? Yeah? Yeah, ten years,

603
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: fifteen years, twenty years, Okay, it doesn't change that much, right,

604
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: It's it's it's you know, if you feed them, they poop,

605
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: You put them to sleep, you wake him up the

606
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: next morning, you go through the whole thing all over again.

607
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: In the four and a half minutes of you and

608
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: me talking on radio, or to repair changed about a

609
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: thousand times because of technology, so the procedures are all different.

610
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: All right, Um, is this a farm vehicle? It is? Okay,

611
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: So then is it kind of looking at the last

612
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: ditch effort because I'm thinking either neither needs right, Okay,

613
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: So farm vehicle, it's it's exposed to all kinds of weather, right, yeah,

614
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: all right, how are the grounds? Has anybody done any

615
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: voltag drop? Well, why should I ask that question. Has

616
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: anybody done voltage drop testing at the negative battery post?

617
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: You know the negative battery post on that vehicle. If

618
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: you follow it, there's a negative cable that leads down

619
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: to the block. Is that good? Clean and tight on

620
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: both ends. There's a pigtail that comes no pun intended.

621
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: There's a pigtail that comes off the negative battery post

622
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: that leads to the chassis. And there's an auxiliary negative

623
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: ground connection for the PCM for the main engine computer.

624
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: If any of that's corroded, loose, missing, not plugged in,

625
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: it's going to create all kinds of havoc. So you know,

626
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: I get it, I really do. I'm not trying to

627
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: beat you up, but let's get somebody to take a

628
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: look at that and do some diagnosis. Call me back

629
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: and again thanks for the bacon. Gary zero zero. The

630
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: car Doctor is coming back right after this welcome back.

631
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: We're on Needing the car Doctor. I want to talk

632
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: to you about psio electricity, real quick, pezo electric The

633
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: pasio electric effect is the ability of certain materials and

634
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: this is as per Wikipedia. Pecio electric effect is the

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Speaker 1: ability of certain materials to generate an electrical charge and

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Speaker 1: response to apply mechanical stress. Why am I telling you this?

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about ecal. ECAL is

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Speaker 1: a procedure that hunter hunter wheel alignment hunter balancers use

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Speaker 1: in order to calibrate their their balancers. ECAL, by their definitions,

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Speaker 1: an electronic recalibration tool used to compensate for changes in

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Speaker 1: transducers and temperature. Each force transducer this is inside the

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Speaker 1: wheel balancer has two Pezo electric devices. ECOUNT works by

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Speaker 1: using an electronic signal to vibrate one p c O

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Speaker 1: sensor and then read the response of the other p

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Speaker 1: z O to determine how the pair's characteristics have changed

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Speaker 1: since the last three spin calibration. ECAL is automatically performed

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Speaker 1: at regular internivals. What does that mean to you and me?

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Speaker 1: That means that we're dealing in a a a subject

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Speaker 1: of auto repair that is so technical. We're using pezo

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Speaker 1: electric sensors to help make sure wheel balancers are in

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Speaker 1: calibration so the car goes down the road straight and

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Speaker 1: half you guys don't want to put fuel pressure gages

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Speaker 1: on cars to check fuel pressure. You'd rather check part?

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Speaker 1: Are you vy? I'm running any in the card? Doctor

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Speaker 1: reminding you till the next time, each time, for the

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Speaker 1: best time, every time. Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you