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Speaker 2: glad to report what we saw on what's happening at SEMA,

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Speaker 2: SEMA and APEX next week out in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Let's go talk to I guess We're talking to Bob

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Speaker 2: in Manhattan, New York with some problems with tooth thousand

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Speaker 2: and eight Honda and some wiring horness issues. Bob, Welcome

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Speaker 3: Hi, thanks a lot for taking my call. Yeah, So,

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Speaker 3: driving along the other day and my check engine light

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Speaker 3: to find out that rodents have been and eating my wiring.

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Speaker 3: And this is the second time this has happened. It's

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Speaker 3: very costly, and I was wondering if there's anything I could.

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Speaker 4: Do about it.

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Speaker 2: Critters and cars, it's a tough deal because they what

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Speaker 2: happens is they they love the plastic, the insulation that's

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Speaker 2: around the wiring. It has a chemical in it, and

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Speaker 2: they're attracted to it and the smell and it's it's

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Speaker 2: nutrition to them. I guess these rats in New York

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Speaker 2: are getting pretty big. Do you park in a parking garage, Bob?

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Speaker 1: Or is it on the street.

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Speaker 3: It's on the streets in different spots every every evening,

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Speaker 3: and you know, not in the same place every time.

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Speaker 3: And actually, my friends with different types of cars don't

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Speaker 3: all they have the same problem, could have the same problem,

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Speaker 3: but they don't. So I was wondering if it's just

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Speaker 3: the Honda that has this problem.

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Speaker 2: Gee, it's interesting. I guess there's something in the manufacture,

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Speaker 2: the smell of the Honda that's that's, you know, getting

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Speaker 2: them to come to you. Either that or everybody loves

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Speaker 2: a Honda Bob. I don't know if that's the safe answer,

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Speaker 2: even the rats. You know, if this was an enclosed garage,

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Speaker 2: and I'll offer this, I'm not sure how this will

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Speaker 2: work because you're out on the street. But if this

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Speaker 2: what has always worked in the past, is a plastic

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Speaker 2: baggie filled with mothballs. You punch some holes in it

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Speaker 2: That's how they entered buildings and dwellings because their their

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Speaker 2: if you put you know, enough there, it will keep

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Speaker 2: them out. Now, what you could do in this case

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Speaker 2: see the harness exposed. So if it's under the hood,

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Speaker 2: throw a couple of bags of mothballs under the hood,

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Speaker 1: It, see if that deters them.

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Speaker 2: The downside to this is if you're driving, especially with

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Speaker 2: you know, a summer camp foot locker, but you know,

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Speaker 2: it's worth a try than trying to have a wiring

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Speaker 3: Right, So A tried peppamine as well, that's sure you yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, well, you know, I mean for that matter

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Speaker 1: Why not some pepper spray?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 3: I read online as well as this tape that's impregnated

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know if you know, you

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Speaker 3: But I did read that. I say, well, you know,

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Speaker 3: you wrap the haunts maybe in this tape.

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Speaker 2: Well wrap the harness or maybe wrap the perimeter. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's all about the trying to get the animal out

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Speaker 2: put the tape in the corners, they'll they'll pick up

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Speaker 2: the smell regardless. You'd probably have to you know, wire

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Speaker 2: or tape quite a bit of it. But you know,

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Speaker 2: between pepper spray or tape or muth balls, just something

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Speaker 2: you know, you wanted to turn them away from you

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Speaker 1: Becomes your neighbors happy with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you know, I didn't tell you that that

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Speaker 2: didn't come for me, but you.

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Speaker 1: Get the idea.

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Speaker 4: All right, Okay, you're.

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Bob. You take good care.

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Speaker 2: Let's get on over and let's go talk to Let's

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Speaker 2: go talk to Bill in Washington State with a two

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Speaker 1: Hey, Bill, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 4: How can I help hi? Ron?

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Speaker 1: How are you good, sir? What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Well? I have a an M I L light that

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you know what? Do you know what exactly

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Speaker 4: No? I I default code was I've got an OBD computer,

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Speaker 4: but I am. But it's got more than one fault. Now,

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Speaker 2: Four two okay, P zero four oh two, P zero

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Speaker 4: I can't it's one of those I think, I really,

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Speaker 4: you know, to be truthful, Ron, I can't give you

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Speaker 4: there's more than one code and all it's picking up

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Speaker 4: now is the last code that's in memory. I can't

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Speaker 1: Okay, So here I'll tell you what. Bill.

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Speaker 2: Let me pull over and take a pause. All right,

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Speaker 2: catch your breath, and when we come back, I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you where I think you have to go to resolve this.

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Speaker 2: All right, deal, all right, you stay put on running

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Speaker 2: ding in the Card Doctor. We'll be back right after this. Hey,

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Speaker 2: welcome back Running in the Card Doctor. Here at a five, five, five, six,

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Speaker 1: Call leave a message.

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to Bill in Washington State. Bill, you're

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Speaker 2: still there, two thousand and three Volkswagon TDI in sufficient airflow.

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Speaker 2: You know, Bill, what I think you've got a fault

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Speaker 4: You yes, okay, so that's what my primary my primary,

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Speaker 2: Sure, what you what you want to do is pull

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Speaker 1: If the intake.

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Speaker 2: Is well, then the next step is the intake's got

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Speaker 4: On, well it has. It has one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 4: it's running leaner than normal in all operating functions, the

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, but you can't drive with the mill light on.

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Speaker 2: You know, I both know that. You know the other

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Speaker 2: And then last step, make sure you've got twenty eight

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Speaker 2: intact and that should solve the problem for you, all right, sir?

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Speaker 2: You're into the e GR area just like I highlighted,

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Speaker 2: and I think you've got some cleaning to do, some inspection.

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Speaker 2: Look at the cooler, look at the intake.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's a carbon build up. Of course, the

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Speaker 4: two thousand and three diesel wasn't had had a little

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Speaker 4: more lubricant. In other words, it didn't burn so so

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Speaker 4: hot so dry. Right, Well, carbon up as much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and a lot of a lot of what you're

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Speaker 2: saying is true because the vehicles, the fuel today and

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Speaker 2: the agent in mileage. But go through do those things. Bill.

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Speaker 1: If you have more problems, give us a call. You

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Speaker 1: know where to find me.

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Speaker 2: Let's go over and talk to Luke and Lewiston, Maine.

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Speaker 2: Ninety nine niss On Ultima. Luke, welcome to the car doctor.

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Speaker 2: How can I help you?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 5: How you doing good?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Well, I've got a ninety nine nists on Ultima. It's

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Speaker 5: a two point four twin cam sixteen valve. Right, it's

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Speaker 5: a five speed and it has two hundred and forty

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Speaker 5: one k on it.

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Speaker 1: So it's just broken in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, actually the car still runs and drive is great,

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Speaker 5: but you know, I live in Maine, so the rust

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Speaker 5: is getting to it no matter what I do. Now,

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Speaker 5: I've always done my own work on the car and everything.

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Speaker 5: But right now, it's not throwing any codes. Now. I

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Speaker 5: spoke to you like the end of last winter, the

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Speaker 5: beginning of spring, okay, and in the cold weather, especially

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Speaker 5: when I would first start the car up and before

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Speaker 5: it reach operating temperature.

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Speaker 1: It has a rough fitle.

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Speaker 4: What's that?

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Speaker 1: It has a rough vital.

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Speaker 5: Right, yeah, but it's in admittant. It'll come out of it,

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Speaker 5: and I'll go back in and it'll come out. You know.

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Speaker 5: Generally I would only notice it when I would push

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Speaker 5: the clutch in, not when I was actually engaged in

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Speaker 5: a year and driving. But like I said, it's throwing

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Speaker 5: no codes. Now.

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Speaker 4: I think you've had me.

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Speaker 5: You wanted me to check the fuel trim when it

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Speaker 5: was acting up, and you wanted me to check my

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Speaker 5: throttle position sensor. So my friend had a very fancy

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Speaker 5: scan tool. We were able to check the TPS and

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Speaker 5: that was working okay okay, But he since sold it

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Speaker 5: and when the weather warmed up, it stopped doing it.

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Speaker 5: So as soon as it started a cool off this year,

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Speaker 5: it acted up once on me, which prompted me to

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, and I think and part of what I

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Speaker 2: wanted to do with regards to the SCANTL was to

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Speaker 2: look at fuel trim. But there's another simpler.

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Speaker 1: Way to do this. If you're working on your own.

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Speaker 2: Cars, do you have access to propane luke like you know,

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Speaker 2: a small plumber's propane bottle?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like a little coman, like a little.

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Speaker 2: Calming like the blue bottles or the green bottles, you know,

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Speaker 2: and you can make your own adapter. You have to

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Speaker 2: be cautious. OTC makes a product tool, a propane enrichment tool.

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Speaker 2: It's under one hundred bucks. It's real handy. It screws

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Speaker 2: on the top of the bottle. And what you do

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Speaker 2: is you put a piece of brake line in the

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Speaker 2: end of the rubber hose, pinch it down so it's

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Speaker 2: a meter to orifice. And now what you've done is

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Speaker 2: you've created a fuel enrichment device that you can go

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Speaker 2: around and hunt for vacuum leaks.

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Speaker 1: And I bet if when this vehicle.

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Speaker 2: Is acting up or even when it's not, if you're

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Speaker 2: looking at it on a scan tool, if you probe

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Speaker 2: around number four intake runner where the manifold meets the

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Speaker 2: head and usually they're worse when they're cold. I bet

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Speaker 2: you this has an intake manifold that's starting to loosen up,

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Speaker 2: and you may find the bolts looser. You may find

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Speaker 2: the gast's just worn away at this point, at this mileage,

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Speaker 2: and that replacing or tightening may solve the problem for you.

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Speaker 5: Replacing a title at this point of brouvy tightening. Like

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Speaker 5: I said, it's the car's rusted out. I don't think

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Speaker 5: it's going to be on the road too much longer.

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Speaker 5: My friend had another one of these cars, and he

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Speaker 5: had what I suspected was an intake manifold leak in his,

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Speaker 5: but his was much worse, and it would cause the

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Speaker 5: car to hesitate. It wanted to stall out. It didn't

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Speaker 5: want to go, you know, and it wasn't automatic, so

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Speaker 5: when he'd come to a star a stop, it would

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Speaker 5: almost stall out. Mine doesn't do anything like this. It's

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Speaker 5: not hesitating right because you're the stick correct. It just

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Speaker 5: drops into a lumpy idol. And it's not like it

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Speaker 5: doesn't sound like a misfire to me. It doesn't sound

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Speaker 5: like it's struggling to get fuel air right, you know.

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Speaker 5: It almost feels to me like it's more in something

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Speaker 5: related to a sensor or the computers.

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Speaker 2: And it could be And here's the here's the rationale.

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Speaker 2: Where if we look at fuel trim when it's happening,

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Speaker 2: where does fuel trim take us if it's beyond the

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Speaker 2: five or ten percent line, if it's showing excessive positive

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Speaker 2: or negative fuel trim. Yeah, we could have a mass

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Speaker 2: airflow in wrecked calibration. We could have an air leak.

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Speaker 2: We could have a vacuum leak down at the intake Manifold.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, but you know, without a scan tool,

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Speaker 2: we're kind of stuck. If you're gonna work on your

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Speaker 2: own cars, I say this to you, Luke and everyone else.

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Speaker 2: You gotta have a couple of small odds and ends

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Speaker 2: and hand tools pro Paine enrichment. You'll be amazed at

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Speaker 2: how much you can do with that to uh ensure

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Speaker 2: good repair in the future. Luke, try those things. I've

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Speaker 2: got to go the the clock is gonna take me here.

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Speaker 2: I gotta pull over and take a pause. I'm running

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Speaker 2: any in the car. Doctor back right after this.

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Speaker 1: On the front of the streets. You're in the back

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Speaker 1: Stack't let your hump and sat.

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Speaker 4: Taking.

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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back. One of the anim in the car.

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Speaker 2: Doctor driver's seat. You know, driver's seat has a new connotation.

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Speaker 2: I want to tell you this quick story. I want

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Speaker 2: to make an argument for why you want to carry

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Speaker 2: a radar detector. I'm not here to sell you anything.

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Speaker 2: This is a true story. This just happened to the

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Speaker 2: Inanian family two weeks ago. The Littlestdananian surprises. She visited

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Speaker 2: from out western eastern Ohio, Western PA. And she drove

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Speaker 2: home two weekends ago or last weekend. I forget which

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Speaker 2: now to surprise us and spend the weekend and kind

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Speaker 2: of pop in and you know, say hey, it's what's

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Speaker 2: her name?

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Speaker 1: Remember me? And you know it was great.

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Speaker 2: We'd love seeing your rage because I know she's out

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Speaker 2: there listening to the show today. And she went home,

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Speaker 2: and she went back, and on her way back, midway

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Speaker 2: through Pennsylvania, she got a ticket. And I said, what

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Speaker 2: did you get the ticket for? Rach She says, you know, Dad,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. She says, I'm telling you I wasn't speeding.

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Speaker 2: State trooper pulled me over and I got a ticket

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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania motor vehicle violation as a motor vehicle infraction, no

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Speaker 2: points and it's one hundred and twenty seven dollars ticket.

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Speaker 2: I said, well, what's the infraction. It's a brand new car.

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Speaker 2: She goes He wouldn't tell me. He just pulled me over,

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Speaker 2: said I was in violation of Pennsylvania code. Blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: and I've got to pay this one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: seven dollars.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I gotta tell you.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna equip her with an Escort next time around.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna do it because she's a speeder.

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Speaker 2: She's a good kid, she's a smart kid. She's trying

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Speaker 2: to keep up with the flow. But you know, Ron

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Speaker 2: jibbten from Escort, just his voice rang the bell in

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Speaker 2: my head and I heard Ron say, you know, Ron,

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Speaker 2: this is where we equip vehicles with radar detectors so

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Speaker 2: that they know where the cops are because of unfair

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Speaker 2: and unjust violation. Nonsense just like this. So Escort radar

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Speaker 2: dot com. If you want more information. Now, I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to tell you sell you something.

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Speaker 1: I'm running ady in the guard doctor. See you in Vegas.

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Speaker 1: For mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you