1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Ron and Nannian. We are live in studio today. Tom 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: changed his mind and didn't take me out of my date. 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: We're not at the drive in. I'm real disappointed because 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: I was hoping to go see you know, closed for 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: the season and see you next summer the Car Doctor. 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: So the suburban broke this week. I guess it's bad 7 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: when the left front wheel rocks side to side. Uh, 8 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: you know, probably three quarters of an inch in every 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 1: direction because the ball bearings for the wheel bearing have 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: fallen out. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: Nian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 13 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up 14 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: the phone and call in. The garage doors are open, 15 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: but I am here to take your call at eight 16 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: five five five six and now he runny, Hey, it's 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: time to start your engines. Hello way, Welcome Ron and 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: any in the Car Doctor here at eight five five 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: five six zero nine nine zero zero, here to take 20 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: your calls and answer your questions. Eight five five five 21 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero Car Doctor Show dot 22 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: Com and getting out to the car Doctor Facebook page 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: and all the other things that we got going on there. 24 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: Don't forget podcasting at car Doctor show dot com as well, 25 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: uh vis a vis Spreaker and um all the places 26 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: that you can pick us up and take us with you. O. 27 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: Goody afternoon, Mr Ay, it's a pleasure to see you 28 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: once again. Yeah. I could say the same about you, 29 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: but I won't. Well, it's because that's because you're upset 30 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: because the Jets won last week and the Giants lost. 31 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: But that's okay, Yeah, well I got if you got 32 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: a feeling the Giants are gonna win this week because 33 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: the Jets showed them up. Yeah, well it's you know, 34 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: is that why Tony's not here this week? Is he 35 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: upset because the Giants lost. Well, the last time we 36 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: did talk to him, he was sobbing. But I think, um, 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: you remember how he had to get on the train 38 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: last week to go all the way back to New 39 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: York City from Orange County, New York. He missed the stop. No, 40 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: the train broke down. I think he's walking and it's 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: a long way. He's still walking. He probably got lost. Oh, 42 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: by the way, I got a memo from Tony. That's 43 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: I know. What I'm supposed to tell you. Tony won't 44 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: be here today. I noticed that it does have something 45 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: to do with the train. Actually, yeah, Tony got in 46 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: the train in Brooklyn this morning. You know, I knew 47 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: there was something I was supposed to tell you at 48 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,119 Speaker 1: the beginning of the show before we went on air. 49 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: Tony got on the train in Brooklyn. Hang on him in, folks, 50 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: Tony got on the train in Brooklyn, and honest to God, 51 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: only well not only in New York, some crazy guy 52 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: was walking the tracks, challenging the train to a bullfight. Yeah, well, 53 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: next time, put your clothes on when you do that. 54 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: Would I hope anybody didn't recognize me. But that's really 55 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: God's honest truth. That'll be in the paper tomorrow. I 56 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: love it. And and that's why Tony's not here, because 57 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: they couldn't predict when the train would move, and just 58 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: what a disaster. You never know what you're gonna find 59 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: in the subway in New York City. I mean, I 60 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: mean literally, there was a guy walking the tracks and 61 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: they were trying to convince him to get back up there. 62 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: And of course when they do that, they have to 63 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,519 Speaker 1: de energize the system and everything else and want a pain. Well, 64 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: I can tell you it's it must be something in 65 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: the air. When I went to the chiropractor this morning. 66 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: And raise your hand if you think everybody was driving 67 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: like a nut today, I mean everybody had. It was weird. 68 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: Everybody had their arm out the window and they were 69 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: lolligagg uh you know, dude, do do? Dude do? Just 70 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: kind of staring around, looking around, and everybody's doing twenty 71 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: two miles an hour, uh, you know, in the forties zone. 72 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, and it just it's 73 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: it seems to be a repetitive thing driving styles. And 74 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: I guess maybe maybe I'll look it up and see 75 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: if there's any anomalies that that that described that or 76 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: make that go together. Well, then there's the other extreme 77 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: worth the guy who almost killed me and three other 78 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: people on the New York through it this morning, where 79 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: he's just cruising along at about ninety miles an hour 80 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: and just cut right in front of us and there 81 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: was no room. Yeah. Well, you know, and I've got 82 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: to tell you that that. I was talking to a 83 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: police officer the other day and we were talking some 84 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: of we got on the subject of how fast cars 85 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: go now, Um, the difference between cars today and cars 86 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: you know, classic muscle cars fifty years ago, sixty years ago, 87 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: you know how long long it wasn't um the car 88 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: today that that that new Corvett will do you know, 89 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: zero a hundred miles an hour and three seconds or 90 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: four seconds, whatever the number is. And and it's it's 91 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: it's effortless. It's just and you're there. And you know, 92 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: even the little cars, a little suber Us and the 93 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: w r x is and and the Hondas, you know, 94 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: even consumer cars. You look at you look at the 95 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: way people are driving and the and the speed limits 96 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: they're not obeying. And I feel, you know, I feel 97 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: like I've got to do seventy just so I don't 98 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: get run over. And you know you have to. You 99 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: have to think about it for a minute. If the 100 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: cops are gonna start chasing everybody who's doing that, and 101 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: you're going that's going to create an even more dangerous 102 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: situation with the people who are actually obeying the law. 103 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: So we had a we had a situation talking about 104 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: cars in the way people drive. Just Thursday this week, 105 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: I came out of a left turn a little side 106 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: street on the way to the shop from the house 107 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: and here's a young kid on on a Harley UM 108 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: behind us. And he pulled up and he's, you know, 109 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: he's having fun. It's Thursday, late in the day and he's, 110 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: you know, going out for an early evening rod and 111 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: he's you know, he tries to pull around me and he's, 112 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: you know, a loud of pipes. Great, I don't care. 113 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: But he's pulling wheelies driving down the main drag of town. UH. 114 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 1: So I let him go. I pulled over to the 115 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 1: right and I let him go and just let him 116 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: keep on going. And he's just pulling wheelies and he's 117 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: swerving and he's all over the road. And I'm thinking, 118 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: you know, UM, it's you gotta respect the machine. You 119 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: gotta respect what's there. UM, especially in a situation now 120 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: in an urban area where it's getting more and more crowded. Uh, 121 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: it becomes it becomes a mandatory thing because otherwise you 122 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: end up you have, UM, you have just far too 123 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: many issues. I want to talk about this suber before 124 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: we UH kick off the hour of the show. We 125 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: had an oh three UH Subaru Legacy UH come into 126 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: the shop as we could Ori Automotive and it was 127 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: pretty simple stuff. It was a fuel leak, and it 128 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: needed exhaust work. And the exhaust work was cutting forward 129 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: to cut and dry. It was, uh, the muffler and 130 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: the tailpipe, we're bad, and we you know, put some 131 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: exhaust on it. But the fuel leak was a little 132 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: different and a little expensive. It needed a fuel filler neck. Um, 133 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: the tube that actually went down into the gas tank. Well, 134 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: the way Subaru designs it, it's everything is all a 135 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: cart and we, you know, a fifteen sixteen year old 136 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: Subaru rusted out here in the Northeast. It you know, 137 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: we ordered one of everything that the little plastic shield, 138 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: the fuel filler neck, all four of the self tapping screws, 139 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: the stainless steel clamp, everything, just because you you know, 140 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: what is it gonna take? Um, And you know that's 141 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: one of those jobs. You don't want to get it 142 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: apart and find out you needed this or that as 143 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: as part of the UH solution, because then you're you're 144 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: tying up the job, you're tying up the bay. It 145 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,799 Speaker 1: was close to three just in parts for this fuel filler, 146 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: and I thought, my gosh, are these cars there. They 147 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: can get to be expensive to repair it. Um uh, 148 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: it seems to be a little bit way over the top. 149 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: Um uh. And I wonder, I wonder what the future 150 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: of this will all look like and what this will 151 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: come down to. Um So just you know, things to 152 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: think about. You always got to think about, you know, 153 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: costs to repair and how to repair and and what's 154 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: involved as far as you'll go now, uh, probably one 155 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: of the other jobs. It was interesting this week we 156 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: had an O four Silverado that developed a trans cooler leak, 157 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: and General Motors, in their lack of infinite wisdom, decided 158 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: back and well, I guess I've been doing it for 159 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: a long time now. They don't cote the trans cooler lines. Yeah, 160 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: and they brought out especially on this vehicle. The's a 161 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: plow vehicle sixteen years old, and you know, otherwise a 162 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: good truck. Just you know, it's it's just it's it's 163 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: rotted and there's a little it's a clip style fastener. 164 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: So it's a little Bobby Pins style clip that she's 165 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: into a retaining nut and it has that clicking place 166 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: and lock in place. Well, sixteen years later and all 167 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: the road salt, crime, grit, crud and and and and 168 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: junk that gets up in there. Um. Uh, we'll go 169 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: up and and work its way into the clip and 170 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: you know, boy wasn't tough to get out and it's 171 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: not in an easy spot. I'm starting to think that 172 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: when we purchase a vehicle new maybe somebody should offer 173 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: a service of you know, an undercoating service, um, something 174 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: to keep the road salt off. You know, maybe instead 175 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: of taking a car to a car wash uh in 176 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: in the months of November, December, January, February, we take 177 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: it through a um like a fluid film. Right, You've 178 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: heard me talk about fluid fluid film, uh, the spray 179 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,719 Speaker 1: that we put on the plow truck to help keep 180 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: it from rusting and corroding. UM where you'll give the 181 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: undercarriage a bath and a protective and and a protective 182 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: liquid just to make sure that it doesn't rust and rot. 183 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: Because I really think the cars are made to go 184 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: longer and better today. It's just that rust never sleeps, 185 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: like the song says, and it will eventually catch up 186 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: to them and um, you know, cause them to rot 187 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: out and do just that becomes it becomes a a big, 188 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: big problem. Had a jeep this week before I go 189 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: front pull over and take the pause. Uh, same thing, 190 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: a Jeep Rubicon Unlimited Rubicon, which there's a story in 191 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: there too. It was this is a twenty anniversary Rubicon 192 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: that has red shock absorbers. That's what was put on 193 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: the Anniversary special edition Jeeps. Right, great vehicle, Too bad 194 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: you can't get the shocks because Chrysler doesn't make them. Um, 195 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: the owner was a little upset that he couldn't get 196 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 1: red shocks back, so we had to put yellow bill 197 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: stains on it. Um, he'll get over it, and UM, 198 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: you know, talk to Chrysler, and Chrysler's answer was, well, 199 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: we're we've got zero requests for these shocks. Nobody's asking 200 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: for them. We put a few of these vehicles out there, 201 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: which means we're not likely to ask the vendor to 202 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: build them. So you know, you've got to keep in mind. 203 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: I think the point of this is when you're ordering 204 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: a car, all these little tricky options are great, and 205 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: you know it's a it's a it's a it's a 206 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: twenty five this, or it's a rare of that. If 207 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: you want to get a replacement part, you've got to think, 208 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: you know, enjoy it while you can. And that's that's 209 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: really what it's it's it's it's more or less all 210 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 1: about so just be mindful of that as well. I 211 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: often think that, um, you know, it's ordering that rare 212 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: strange vehicle can be more costly in the long run, 213 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, enjoy it, don't stick it in 214 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: a garage. Eight five five five six zero zero, Ron 215 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: enating the car doctor. We're coming back right after this. 216 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: Don't go away for the best in car advice. Give 217 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: Ron a call eight by five five six zero nine 218 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: nine zero zero. Now back to Ron. Hey, let's um, 219 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: let's take a trip across the Great Pond and go 220 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: talk to Richard in England. That's right, that England. How 221 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,599 Speaker 1: are you today, Richard? What's going on? Terrific? Great to 222 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: all good? What's what's we're gonna do for today? Well, 223 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: I'd like you to consider this probably helped me with 224 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: so many cars over the years. But this is a 225 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: jag Earry type four point two straight six with triple 226 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: s us. It's a nine, so not quite as old 227 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: as you and me, but still getting on a bit. Yeah, yeah, 228 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: hundred and twelve thousand miles, but had a big rebuild, 229 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: including the motor vice and experts so about six thousand 230 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 1: miles ago. So it's still nice. When it's heart it 231 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:31,359 Speaker 1: runs perfectly, pulls like a train, idols nicely at seven fifty. 232 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: But when it's cold, I leave my home and I 233 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: run through a thirty mile hour zone. So I'm doing 234 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: about fifteen hundred dreads in third gear, light throttle, and 235 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: there's a very slight misfire if you open the throttles 236 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: and give it some gases gone, there's maybe a slight 237 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: tapp it noise. But I don't know whether this is right. 238 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: But my father, I'm sure he used to tell me 239 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: when I was a kid that he'd rather hear tap 240 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: it's a little bit numb, too quiet, because that might 241 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: mean they're too tight. I think that's what he said. 242 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: I was young. I didn't payful attention. Unfortunately, we didn't 243 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: pay attention to dad when he talked. Right, Yeah, yeah, 244 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: right exactly. So I put some new HT leads on 245 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 1: the wires you call them. Yeah, I put a new 246 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 1: distributed cap on, and I put a new rotor arm. 247 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 1: There's a good jagger parts, not Chinese stuff, no improvement 248 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: at all. It's contact less um ignition, which is another right. 249 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: Yeah then, um so no points on there. Then today 250 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: I thought, well, we'll put a new set of plugs 251 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: in it in case one was slightly faulty. For a 252 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: perfect color one and four, we're a tiny bit sooty. 253 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: If I'm being very picky. It wasn't really it was. 254 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: I don't really understand that wrong because obviously number one 255 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 1: and number four are fed by two different carbs, so 256 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: they're they're pairs by those carbs and plugs two and three, 257 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: and they were perfect. Anyway, I put new plugs that 258 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: ran exactly the same. She'll cruise at any speed you like. 259 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: Hundred class of factory figures are the same because the 260 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: standing court are better than the factory. So I know 261 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: I'm being a bit stupid. I'm picking one fault with 262 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: a forty nine year old car. But I'm sure you 263 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: get it when I say that. It's just the sort 264 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: of thing that bugs me. Yeah, you just want it 265 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: to be there. You wanted to you wanted to run 266 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 1: like you wanted to run like a watch percent of 267 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: the time, not of the time. That's what makes you 268 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: a car guy, exactly. I get it. So So here's 269 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: you know, here's the rule when you're when you're trying 270 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: to tune something. The rule is there are no rules, 271 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: all right, So you know you've got to think of it. 272 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: It's an air pump. What's it missing? Is it is it? 273 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: Is it strictly temperature related? If it's strictly temperature related, 274 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: then I'm gonna think about those two cylinders with the 275 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: sooty plugs. Is compression a little bit different in those 276 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: two cylinders such that pressure and heat isn't equal to 277 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: the other four? All right? So you know, do I 278 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: have a valve adjustment issue? There? Can? Can? Can? Can 279 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: those be my ticky tap valves? You know, where does 280 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: it come from? If you think of a fireplace, right, 281 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: why do you get sit in the fireplace? When do 282 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: you see a lot of black smoke and and and 283 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: you know heavy? Soit it's it's when the fire is cold, 284 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: right and cooling down, or or it's or it's wet wood, 285 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: it's incomplete combustion. Same thing with an engine, no difference, 286 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: all right, So you know do we have you know, 287 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: not enough to matter when it's hot, but when it's cold. 288 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: You know, when an engine is cold, it's like a 289 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: cranky teenager. I don't want to get out of bed. 290 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: Let me alone. You know, it just it just has 291 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: all these objections and then you know, okay, I'm warmed up, 292 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: all right, I stretched, mom, I'm ready to go. Let's 293 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: go to school. Give me my getting my cup of 294 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: orange juice in a way, I go. Um uh. You know, 295 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: so you've got to think about that. I'm sure you've 296 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: got timing set to spec Yeah. Yeah, what if he 297 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: gave it a little more timing? Does it change anything? 298 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: You know why? You know, just just because it says 299 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: we have to do it. Listen, I had a I 300 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: had an older Ford eek four oh in the shop, 301 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 1: must have been last month or the month before where 302 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: I had to I had to put a what did 303 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: I have to change? I had to change the um 304 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: oh gosh, I had to put a thermistead in it. 305 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: Um an old Lincoln three or two Lincoln in a 306 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: town car, and I had to put a thermostad in it. 307 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: And you always had to loosen to the distributor kick 308 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: it to the side, put the thermostead in with your 309 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: special bent wrench that you bent on your own, and 310 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: you know, put it back together. And then when you 311 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: go to put the timing back, you know, the distributor back. Gee. Ways, 312 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: you can't see the timing work anymore because everything's rusty. 313 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: And I took the car out and this thing, this 314 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: thing ran like a whale. You know. I was like, 315 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: oh boy, and gee, it's where I remember I marked it. 316 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: I put exactly where it was. So I went back 317 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: to the shop. I got the wrench. I just you know, 318 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: gave it a tap, drove it, tap, drove it, tap over, tap, 319 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: draw it, you know, just just just to touch until 320 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: it ran good. I tuned it by ear and down 321 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: the road. Haven't seen the car since I've talked to 322 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: the customer. It's coming in for some other stuff. So 323 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's there are no rules, man, it's 324 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: it's doing what you gotta do. Um how I used 325 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: to say the D tay pop the D type jacket, 326 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: just how you said, yeah, yeah, just just just play 327 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: with it. I mean, you're not gonna break it. It's 328 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: already broken. You can't break it anymore. And then and then, 329 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: you know, the other thing to think about is and 330 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: I don't remember what a sixty nine three su set 331 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: up looked like on the JAG. It's been a couple 332 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: of years. It wasn't last week? Can you can you 333 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: swap carbs? Oh no, no, no, you can't write because 334 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: because the linkage is different. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Um, 335 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: you know, because yeah, could I you know, or you know, 336 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: let's go all out. Let's just go get another three 337 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: set of s us and see if it runs any different. 338 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: Um about five thousand dollars? Yeah, what at what could 339 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: that cost? Uh? Um? You know what, driving that car 340 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: will teach you. Driving that car will teach you that. 341 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: The reason we went to the level of sophistication on 342 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: cars with fuel injection and electronic controls, it's because the 343 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: cars like that. Okay, because because back then, mechanics were 344 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: real some of the smartest people I've ever met in 345 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: my life. And I think that's why I became a mechanic, 346 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: because I was so impressed with how smart these guys were. Uh, 347 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: you know, we're mechanics, man. They could they would take 348 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: you know, they would take a mechanical situation and translated 349 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: into day to day, everyday life and you know, life 350 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 1: lessons and and and life objectives and uh you know. Um, 351 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: I had a thermal imager about a thermal imager gun 352 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 1: last year. The year before. And one of the first 353 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: things I fixed was my dryer at home because it 354 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: wouldn't dry the close properly. I shot it at the 355 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: dryer and I found I found where it was leaking 356 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: because of a bad door gasket. And somebody said, had 357 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: you do that? Had you know to do that? I said, well, 358 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: I was. I was reading online another mechanic was talking 359 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: about and I said, gee, it's not a bad idea. 360 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: We can used to find heat leaks. Sure enough, bead drawer, Um, 361 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: so do those things. Remember when you're tuning, Richard, there 362 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: are no rules. That's the rule. And um you give 363 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: me a call or drop me an email, let me 364 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 1: know what's going on. And by the way, thanks for 365 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: the book. We're gonna be talking about that a little 366 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: bit later on one of these days. You take good care. 367 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: You take good care. I'm martinding the car doctor. We're 368 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 1: back right after this. When the family car needs some fixing, 369 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: there's only two things that really matter, getting the right 370 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: part and getting some good advice. It's a pretty safe 371 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: bet that, with over a million parts in stock, pet 372 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: Boys has the right part right now. The pet Boys 373 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: pros are extensively trained to find the right part for 374 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: just about any car truck better. Yet, these pros can 375 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: also handle the entire installation or service needed. It's always 376 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: good to have options and know the Pep Boys pros 377 00:18:54,680 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: have it covered. Either way, Hey, welcome back. We aren't 378 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 1: any of the Car Doctor. Always good to hear from 379 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: Richard McCann. That's Dr Richard mccainn. By the way, I 380 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: should actually clear and that's that's doctor Richard McCann. He's 381 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: from England. That's a legit listener. Um. He picks us 382 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: up on the stream of the podcast and whatever means necessary. Yet, Tom, 383 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: I was gonna say if people don't believe it. When 384 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: I called him, he was listening to the live stream 385 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: and as soon as I said this is he went 386 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: Tom Ray from the Car Doctor show and I went 387 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: excuse me because he had you know, he had sent 388 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: us an email describing the problem with the car and 389 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: I said, you know, this would make a great call. 390 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: I'd rather talk about it on air. But the part 391 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: we didn't get to, which I wanted to, we just 392 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: ran out of time is um. Richard McCann has written 393 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: a book, Class of Car Adventures, and it's it's as 394 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 1: as the cover says, featuring old car tales from enthusiasts 395 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: Anglias Bentley's Buggott, Bugatti's Bugatti, Buggatti's ugattis how do you 396 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: say that? Ugotti? That's close enough. You know, we're English, 397 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: separated by a common language. And Cortinas the dots and 398 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: ferraris mgs in Morris and I I've been reading it 399 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: um things like this. He talks about there's an author 400 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: in here, and it's it's taken from various people their 401 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: adventures with cars. And one fellow here had a Nash, 402 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: and he says, well, the old Nash could forget any 403 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: chance of a major investment in an engine rebuild. Instead, 404 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: I resigned myself to a weekly stripped down. See that's 405 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: the other problem with this book, Not that it's a problem, 406 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: but it's just different. Right. It's English, so but it's 407 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: that English, not this English. UM to a weekly stripped down, 408 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 1: fitting a new head gasket and reinstallation every week. I 409 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 1: didn't even bother gapping the tapp. Its gamping the tamp. 410 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: It's to get the valclears is right each time, Since 411 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 1: that normally twice yearly toure would only last for a week, 412 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: so I just bolted down the head and near enough 413 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: was deemed to be in good enough condition. But it's 414 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: worth knowing that the wall, a job like that would 415 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 1: see the car out of commission, a dealer service pay 416 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: for a week. I was already soon able to do 417 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: the whole job in fifteen minutes. Such was my familiarity. 418 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: And it's just it's just stories like this and things 419 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,959 Speaker 1: that he talks about, you know, incidents with Dad and 420 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: the fellows who went out drinking one night and decided 421 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 1: to play hands. He's over the eyes with the driver 422 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: and they discovered that you can get a telephone. Paul. Well, 423 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: over there, it's a they don't call it a telephone, Paul. Wait, 424 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,479 Speaker 1: let me see what they turned the page. I think 425 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: over there they called it a telegraph pole. Right, So 426 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's just different stuff. But it is 427 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: available on Amazon here in the States. Richard McCann Classic 428 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: Car Adventures. Good book, fun to read. I I I 429 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: sit down in a chair every night and um getting 430 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: my way through the book, and I'm looking forward to 431 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: it each and every night. It's like fifteen twenty minutes 432 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 1: of just me time. So just a good book. Thanks 433 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: dr Let's go and talk to Mike and Denell in 434 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,959 Speaker 1: Chevy Cruz. Here's a guy who could probably write a book. Mike, 435 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: what are you gonna write your own book? I'll tell 436 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: you what when I can see my way to doing it. Yeah, well, um, 437 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: that's a that's a blind joke. Yeah, I get it. Um, 438 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. They'll run. Hearing that story about 439 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: the Jack broke got back a lot of good memories 440 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: for me because that's the first car I learned to 441 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: work on. It was a three point for UH nineteen 442 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: fifty nine x K one fifty and Um, I learned 443 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: how to sink the carburetors because they had fuel and 444 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: air mixtures. Screws separate, and um, you stick a piece 445 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: of hose and the throw to the carburetor and think 446 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: them that way. And then nobody could get the car 447 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: to run smooth. It always popped. I was the only 448 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 1: one that could get it run. And you know what, Mike, 449 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: And unfortunately it would take some time. But if if 450 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: if we ever said, hey, we have to bring back carburetors, 451 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: the amount of knowledge, the learning curve, the skill set, 452 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: it just wouldn't happen overnight. It's it's and and I 453 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: often think we were better than because it wasn't this life. 454 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: Wasn't this instant on. I want it now, snap your 455 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: fingers and it appears digitally or electronically. You had to 456 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: work for it. You had to think your way through it. 457 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 1: You had to create it, you had to build it, 458 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: manufacturer bend it. It was just you know, you wanted 459 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: that car to work, you had to work at that car. 460 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: And um, it was the only thing. The only thing 461 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: I'll say about that Jack, if spent more time either 462 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 1: under it or on top of it than in it, 463 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: well that's but that was the beauty of it, all right. 464 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: And and you know what, when you finished tuning something 465 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: like that and you took it out on the road, 466 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: you had satisfaction absolutely. I mean you could feel the timing, 467 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: you could feel power. And it's not like you just 468 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: computerized everything. You don't have to touch anything every week. 469 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: You had to jiggle something or maneuver something. But but 470 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: I have a couple of things that I wanted to 471 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: bring up real quick. Yeah, let's on a tangent, Go ahead, 472 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: what do you got? The Chevrolet Cruise has now forty 473 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: three thousand miles on it. It was bought with thirty already, 474 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: the coil pack had to be replaced. All four spark 475 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: plugs are replaced. And I can't get over the fact 476 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: that that happened and it was under warranty, So that's 477 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: a good thing. Otherwise it would have been big bucks. 478 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: Did they have to do the plastic thermostatic housing yet? 479 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: Uh no, but that's probably coming. Yeah, that's coming. Trust me. 480 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: Take a look, um, have heard, you know, lift the 481 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: hood and have the mechanic take a look at the 482 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: thermostat housing or the cooling Yeah, um, um, you know, 483 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: but have somebody look at the cool and housing, the 484 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: thermostat housing between the engine and the transmission. More towards 485 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: the driver's side, there's that black housing where the upper 486 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: radiator host comes in. It warps, it leaks, the plastic 487 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 1: just falls apart. I it boggles my mind how they 488 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: build this thing out of plastic and just such total 489 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: disregard for such a critical component. I just never get 490 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: an answer to that fellow that had to a Ford 491 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: focus with the transmission problems. Um the the twelve that yeah, 492 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: the last guy had heard was there was that? And 493 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: I think you were aware of this. You had sent 494 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: me an email telling me this and um we transmission 495 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: and it was electronically controlled and it wasn't a good one. 496 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: That was the last guy heard that they were replacing 497 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: the trans and reprogramming it. Um uh. And that's and 498 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: that's become a huge part of it. I mean, it's 499 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: it's very different between plastic and software flashes and the electronics. 500 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: We had a I'll tell you a quick story before 501 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: we go. Um uh. We had a two thousand thirteen 502 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: jeep this week for an oil change. And you take 503 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: the oil filter out, the cartridge sits up top. You 504 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: take the oil filter out, and Danna and I are 505 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: standing there and he's changing the filter around in the 506 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: house and we wash out the cup and put a 507 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: new O ring on and all of a sudden, something 508 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: false from the sky literally just lang like what the 509 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: ceiling that we're looking up like, well the shop that 510 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: something fell from the ceiling, like what fell out of 511 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: the roof. And we look around and here's why you 512 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: want to clean shop floor. Right. We're looking around and 513 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: we find a silver spring probably three times the size 514 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: of a spring that was out of a fountain pen 515 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: and a piece of black plastic next to it. We're like, 516 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: what the heck is this, and we you know, find 517 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: the two pieces, don't see anything else, and we go 518 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: back to the jeep. And if you ever take one 519 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: of these housings apart, it was actually the bypass valve 520 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: and the spring goes down the center tube of the 521 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: filter housing and then the black plastic piece is supposed 522 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 1: to clip in well a hundred twenty five thousand miles. 523 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: The last guy doing the oil change wasn't careful, and 524 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: I guess over time the last couple of guys that 525 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: just fatigued the plastic it got brittle and playing the 526 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: spring pushed it out. We had to get a new 527 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: a new bypass valve. But the real funny thing is 528 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: the couple of times we started this up to move 529 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: it in and out of the shop. We were doing 530 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: some shock work to it and some other things. It 531 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: always had a valve rattle. You know, you started up 532 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:48,960 Speaker 1: and we'll hear a valve tap. We put the back right, well, 533 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: we put the bypass valve in, it fired it up. 534 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: No more valve rattle. So that means that vehicle was 535 00:26:54,680 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: running around in bypass mode or poor lubrication um for 536 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: you know, put pressure issues for you know who knows 537 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: how long. And when I when I asked, the customer goes, yeah, 538 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: I've been here in that for a while, but nobody 539 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: can tell me why. I know. You have one more question, 540 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: I think, Mike, or one more comment, Yeah, one more comment. 541 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: I read a lot of magazines and a lot of 542 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: stuff online, and MotorWeek did a test on the CT 543 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,679 Speaker 1: six Caddy with the new cruise control, and I found 544 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: it very interesting that there is a camera in the 545 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: mirror that when you're driving the car on autopilot, then 546 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: if you take your eyes off of the uh steering 547 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: wheel and the road for too many seconds, the camera 548 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: will give give you a nod and shut off the 549 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: autopilot so you don't crash. And I think that's a 550 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: great thing. All right, Yeah, I think it's a great thing. 551 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: To the thing I question is, so who's driving? Who 552 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: are we are? Do we own the car? Does the 553 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: car on us? You know? Either tell me either tell 554 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: me I've got to drive the are or do the 555 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: driving for me one or the other. Listen, if I'm 556 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: if I'm going to get my license, run I want 557 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: something that that has some I wanna stick. I want 558 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: something decent. Yeah you know, yeah, that's what I understanding. 559 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: I understand, but I always enjoy your show, and I 560 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: just brought back some good memories when that fellow called 561 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: up about the jag. Yeah, well, I'm glad, Mike. You 562 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: know what I think. One of the things I've learned 563 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: over the twenty seven years of doing this radio show 564 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:31,719 Speaker 1: is that cars evoke memories. Everybody's got a car story, 565 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: you know. It's it's I can still see myself rolling 566 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: down Roots seventeen in Ramsey, New Jersey and my friend's 567 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: girlfriends sixty four Chevy and Pala when I first got 568 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: my license at sixteen and a half and they took 569 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: me out driving, getting me ready for my my my, 570 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: my learners permit, getting me ready for my license. I 571 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: can still have that sensation of floating down the highway. 572 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: It's um kind of a neat time, Mike. I gotta go. 573 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: I'm up against the clock. Has always, sir, a great 574 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: pleasure to talk to you. You take good care and 575 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of the weekend. 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And please, however, your subscribe 580 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: or podcast us UM, if you're not listening to the 581 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: live broadcast on one of the many many eight affiliates 582 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: across the country, make sure you click favorite or subscribe 583 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: or however it automatically delivers back to your device on 584 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: whatever that might be, because it helps drive the numbers, 585 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: and driving the numbers is what drives the show. Um. 586 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: We're talking a little bit this hour. I guess the 587 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: theme that's come up is, you know, old school technology, 588 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: new car technology and how we deal with it, tuning 589 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: carburetors versus electronics and so forth. And I was thinking 590 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: during the break about the O eight GMC Acadia that 591 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: I repaired this week. It had a problem with the 592 00:29:54,800 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: passengers side airbag such that if you sat in the seat, 593 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 1: there are sensors in the seat. It's called a PPM 594 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: Passenger Presence Module to tell the vehicle computer how big 595 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: you are, which kind of isn't very flattering, right. It's 596 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: it's you know, if if if you're a big person, UM, 597 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: and you're looking at it on a scan tool when 598 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: it sits down, it says large. If you're a little person, 599 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: it says small, and and and so forth. Of course 600 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to get in there and program it and say, 601 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: you know, if you're like a really big person, go 602 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: oh boy, you know something like but you know, let's 603 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: keep it straight. So Tom's laughing because he knows that 604 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: he I can imagine what Tom's mind would say, you know, like, 605 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: you know, you get in there and you're the really 606 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: big person. Hey, you need to get to the gym. Um. 607 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: So the PPM, the pad that's underneath the leather seat 608 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: cover was bad, and we start thinking about how much 609 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: we love our cars and isn't this great? And look 610 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: at all this technology. It's really a pile of junk. 611 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: All right. I took the passenger seat apart, and you 612 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: know it's still had hog rings. Who remembers what hog ring? No, 613 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: it wasn't something you gave, never mind. Um, but a 614 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: hog ring is that clamp that goes under the seat 615 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: cover to adhere it to the seat frame or cushion 616 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: so that it doesn't slide around. It's an interior clip, 617 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: so to speak. Um, it's still had hog rings. And 618 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: these hog rings held the seat cover to the to 619 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: the cushion and between the cushion and the leather cover 620 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: is this flat membrane with little circuit boards built in 621 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 1: that you know, measure the weight of the person sitting 622 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: in it. And the reason they need to know how 623 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: much you weigh is it determines how they deploy the 624 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: airbag with what speed. Um, there's also a pretension or 625 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: which is like a shotgun shot on the seat belts, 626 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: and the event of an accident, it's it's they deploy 627 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: the air bag and the seat belt is pulled tight 628 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,479 Speaker 1: at a certain speed or rate, depending upon you know, 629 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: how heavy you are. The PPM was bad, so I 630 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: had to take it apart, take the seat out of 631 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: the car, split the seat in half, take the bottom 632 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,280 Speaker 1: seat phone off, take the cover off the phone, and 633 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: replace this big piece of phone with the PPM module 634 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: on it. The piece, the piece of foam and the 635 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,960 Speaker 1: module was six hundred and twenty eight dollars. Yeah, that's yeah. 636 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: It was like six hundred and thirty bucks a couple hours, 637 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: like a thousand dollars to fix this air bag. Because 638 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: then after I put it together, I had to calibrate it, 639 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 1: you know, Um, I had to tell it that, okay, 640 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: here's this new PPM. You have to go through a 641 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: calibration process, which is not that hard, but it's it's 642 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: just very technical and complicated, and you look at it 643 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: and you say, maybe setting up those three issues on 644 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: the Jaguar wasn't such a bad deal back in nineteen 645 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: seventy two when the car was three or four years old. Um, yeah, Tom, 646 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: I got thirty seconds. When you get finished with it, 647 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: when you get finished calibrating and everything, how do you 648 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: know if it's actually going to work. You can't set 649 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: it off? Well, you need two people, all right. So 650 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: because what I had to do was I had to 651 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: hook up the scan tool. I had Danny drive, and 652 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: I had to sit in the car. And you know, 653 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: I had a feel bad because when I sat down 654 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: and said large person, and then if I stood up, 655 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: it said zero. Um. You know, so it's just it 656 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: just doesn't make you feel any better. You know, It's like, yeah, 657 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: at least you know, listen to some wise guy was 658 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: programming the scan too. If I was programming the scan tool, 659 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 1: I'd make it so there'd be small medium and oh wow, 660 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,360 Speaker 1: you know, but you know that's just me. Five zero 661 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 1: nine zero zero Technology marches on. I'm Rondanini in the car. 662 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: Doctor I'll be back right after this. Welcome back the 663 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 1: Car Doctor. What a great hour, right, I just it's 664 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: always fun to talk to Richard and Michael regular listeners, 665 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: and um, you know, hear what's going on their minds. 666 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: And um, I love the comments about the older cars, 667 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: the Jaguars, Jaguar by saying that, right, hope they don't 668 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: kick me out of the club. Um. I always think 669 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: of every time we start talking about British cars like that, 670 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: I always think of Dirty Arnie. Dirty Arnie was my 671 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: best friend in high school, all right, and surprised because well, 672 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: you know what, we called them dirty or you don't 673 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: want to go dirtier and I can't say it here 674 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: in family Radio. And Dirty Ernie was like six ft 675 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: three and he weighed ninety pounds, dripping wet, all right, 676 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: but you know he had a Triumph GT six plus. 677 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 1: All right. I don't know what you know. Everybody, this 678 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: is the early seventies. Everybody's into Camaros and Corvettes and 679 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: Chivell's and Mo pars. Ernie shows up with this little 680 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: six cylinder GT six plus Triumph, right, and we started 681 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: laughing at him, like, you know, look at this little 682 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: dinky you know, like really, you know, what's this thing 683 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: to be? When it grows up? We have to pour 684 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,320 Speaker 1: water on it to see if it grows. I remember 685 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: the conversation like yesterday. But that's where I learned to 686 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: tune carburetors all right, because we were we were in 687 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: high school autoshop class up in Mahwa and I was 688 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,879 Speaker 1: supposed to be in his print class and I ended 689 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 1: up in autoshop. Somehow I went out for a hall 690 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,239 Speaker 1: pass and I just, you know, enter across campus. I 691 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: don't know how that happened, sorry, mom. And you know 692 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: there I am an auto shop with Mr Stillman, who 693 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 1: I think just recently retired, and um, there haven't you? 694 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,320 Speaker 1: And I helped Ernie set up the car bridge. Well 695 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,080 Speaker 1: listen to it, you know, like listen to it like I, 696 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,080 Speaker 1: like I told Richard back then, I knew the rule, right, 697 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: there are no rules, just do what you gotta do. 698 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,439 Speaker 1: Make a run right. When the cop pulled us over 699 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,800 Speaker 1: on seventeen South, we were doing a hundred and thirty 700 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,359 Speaker 1: seven miles an hour or something. Um, and ARENI points 701 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,799 Speaker 1: at me and he goes, it's his fault. He just 702 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: worked on it. And I'll never forget that that was 703 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: That was the best. But the really best was when 704 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: Ernie would make that car zin through the s turns, 705 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,280 Speaker 1: and all the guys in the Chavells and the Corvettes, 706 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: we would just lose them because they would plow through 707 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: the turns, not nearly good at not handling nearly as 708 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 1: well as that trumpet. But why those were the days, 709 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 1: mom ran Ay and the car doctor. Mechanics aren't expensive, 710 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you