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Speaker 1: Ron Ananian, everyone's in the while eating a second opinion,

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Speaker 1: even me, right, and you've just got in a weird look.

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Speaker 1: I always say, I'm not the smartest mechanic in the world.

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Speaker 1: I just know who to talk to them have the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor? You have which so much fun on this

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Speaker 1: radio show. We really do you know? Somebody said to

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Speaker 1: me last week. You know, I like to listen to

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Speaker 1: you sound like they're having fun and if you joke around,

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Speaker 1: and boy, if they can only see what happens behind

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Speaker 1: the scene. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Nannian the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 1: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and call in. The garage doors are open,

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Speaker 1: but I am here to take your call at eight

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Speaker 1: five five five six, And now he running. Hey, welcome

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Speaker 1: boy running and at your service. And uh, another busy

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Speaker 1: hour of calls lined up, I see, So let's uh,

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Speaker 1: let's um, let's go over and talk to Rick in

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Speaker 1: what's going on here, Rick, Welcome to the car Doctor, Sir.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Uh? H Iran, how are you

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Speaker 1: doing on big fund of your show. I've got a

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Speaker 1: two thousand hand to c r V that chokes out

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Speaker 1: when you turn the air conditioning on. Uh. The tachometer

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Speaker 1: gage reads about four dred and fifty on the RPM.

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Speaker 1: RPMs at about seven thirty three, so there's a split there.

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Speaker 1: I changed out the idle air control valve and it

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Speaker 1: and the scanner doesn't show any fault codes and the

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Speaker 1: real time data looks like it's about normal as far

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Speaker 1: as I can tell. But I'm not an expert on it.

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Speaker 1: I took it to two Honda dealerships in the local

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Speaker 1: area to have them troubleshooting it, and both of them

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Speaker 1: um said that it's it's normal for those to do

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Speaker 1: One of them adjusted the idle the throttle body idle

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Speaker 1: adjustment up to keep it from dying. Installing, but now

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Speaker 1: choosing a lot more fuel, Yeah, no, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to do that, you know, So here I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you how to reset that. Okay, so you don't have

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Speaker 1: to go back to them. I think they're wrong for

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Speaker 1: doing that. Um, you know, basically, And and let's let's

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Speaker 1: body off? Can you? Can you take the throttle body off?

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Speaker 1: You've got mechanical ability, Rick, I just I don't say

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Speaker 1: you take the throttle body off and clean it? If

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Speaker 1: I tell you too? Okay, So let's let's take the

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Speaker 1: throttle body off. Let's just make sure both sides of

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Speaker 1: the plate are clean, all right, and then you want

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Speaker 1: to set that minimum screw so that you know right now, um,

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Speaker 1: they've got a crank too far? Open all right? Back

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Speaker 1: the back that minimum stop off until the plate just

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Speaker 1: touch the housing. The idea is that there's a minimum

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Speaker 1: idel stop, a hard stop, and then the idle air

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Speaker 1: deal with it all right, So let's let's get that

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Speaker 1: back to work in normal. Now, when you say you

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Speaker 1: turn on the air conditioning and the engine almost stalls,

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Speaker 1: is it that the you'll do this at idle, just

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Speaker 1: sitting there. No, So when does this happens? It seems

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Speaker 1: to be idling load. But and then when you turn

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Speaker 1: it's it's doing this while you're sitting at idole. If

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Speaker 1: notice it until now when you if you turn it on.

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Speaker 1: load up again. Exactly right. Okay do you have do

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Speaker 1: you have coolant hoses going to the idle air control valve?

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Speaker 1: clogged if it doesn't circulate coolant. All right, This problem

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Speaker 1: happens when it's warm, right, not when it's cold. Right, yes, right,

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Speaker 1: if those hoses don't flow coolant, it can compromise how

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Speaker 1: that idle valve reacts and works and can cause this condition. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 1: look at fuel trim? Yes? Sir, good boy? Do you

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Speaker 1: remember what it was? I've got the sects for waying

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Speaker 1: me find it here, um long f T I is

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Speaker 1: that one of them long term fuel trim? Yeah? Point

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Speaker 1: eight nine zero? All right? Zo are they giving it

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Speaker 1: So fuel trim is good, all right. I don't I

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Speaker 1: and you're taking those readings where and idle cruising down

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Speaker 1: well you'll typically see an older car like this. Long

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Speaker 1: it's my wife's car and she drives slow and she

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Speaker 1: drives short distances. Right, and we gotta fix this because

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Speaker 1: if Mama ain't happy, then Rick's not going to be happy. Well,

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Speaker 1: Orillyoto parts by you. Yeah, you know if you've got

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Speaker 1: of the Barriman fuel system cleaning kits. Barriman makes a

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Speaker 1: fuel injector cleaner kit. It's don't don't don't take offense

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Speaker 1: Just follow the directions and you're gonna a fuel system

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Speaker 1: decarbonize the valves and clean the intake passage all the

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Speaker 1: way down. I mean, it's just good normal maintenance, especially

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Speaker 1: And it's just a good maintenance thing to do. So

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Speaker 1: look at cooling temperature. Is cooling temperature, it's cool in temperature,

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Speaker 1: for it right now? Down to my list of notes.

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Speaker 1: read them. Um, the second you could be a doctor,

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Speaker 1: number one, number two, I think the Honda dealer is crazy.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe Honda would manufacture a vehicle and leave

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Speaker 1: that the vehicle doesn't work right. How much bad press

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Speaker 1: General Motors made bad fuel injection this year. And I said,

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Speaker 1: And she said, well that's what he told me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: bring it in. I remember this problem. It was a

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Speaker 1: they're all like that, they're not all like that. There's

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Speaker 1: a solution to this. We just haven't found it yet.

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Speaker 1: Go do those things. Go ahead. They just don't know

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Speaker 1: how to fix it, and so they just they tell

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Speaker 1: of it. They just don't want to eat eat either that. Listen, Rick,

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Speaker 1: did you go in there and say, hey, guys, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to spend any money fix my car? You

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Speaker 1: tell them to fix it and drop it off? Right?

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Speaker 1: Is your Is your dollar bill as green as the

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Speaker 1: next guys? I hope? So? Okay, then they should fix

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Speaker 1: for the gravy or the easy stuff, all right, sir?

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Speaker 1: So go do those things? Follow up questions? Yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Do you have time for to follow up real quick questions?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I do, But let me pull

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Speaker 1: to that. You stay put, Rick, I'm running any of

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Speaker 1: advice on how to maintain that classic gt O ron

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Speaker 1: is the guy five five zero zero zero. Here's Ron.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to Rick and Kentucky. Rick, you're still there,

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Speaker 1: All right? So I replaced the had a compressive failure

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Speaker 1: I'm run any in the car, doctor, don't anybody go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: You're still there, sir, I am here. Let's let's let's

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Speaker 1: I think it is a new GM. Okay, all right,

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00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: So I mean that's what I'm kind of I'm kind

424
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: of thinking of the compressor because when I put it in,

425
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: you know, as long as as long as the RPMs,

426
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: we're up and blow at thirty eight to forty degrees.

427
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: But if I was you know, if I'm sitting at

428
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: a lie temperature, it or automatically moved to you know,

429
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: like fifty And that was from the first day after

430
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: the recharge of that way. But as soon as if

431
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: I put it in neutral and I stepped on the

432
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: gas and put the r p ms up, it would

433
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: go right back down to forty you know about forty

434
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: degrees of thirty eight degrees. So I'm I'm kind of

435
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: thinking a week compressor. Don't well, it could be a compressor.

436
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: Do you have have you looked at the cooling fans.

437
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: There's got to be a cooling fan for the condenser.

438
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: Cooling fan runs high speed when it has to. And

439
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: again I'm back to are there any fault codes? Did

440
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: the did the computer command high speed fan on? And

441
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: it didn't see it come on? And it's just not

442
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: telling you because there's no warning line on the dashboard

443
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: right the fan the fans on. I don't know that

444
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: it's on high speed all the time. It would, but

445
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, like I was driving driving down the interstate

446
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: yesterday at seventy and it was blowing. You know, sixty

447
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: sixties not caled enough. It should be sixty is not

448
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: called enough, should be in the forty five range, all right,

449
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: And that would let me put the gages on this

450
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 1: small so Lea's last thought before I go all right, um,

451
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: this car is now nine years old ten years old.

452
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: I've never seen it, so I'm just gonna throw this

453
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: out there. Make sure all the ducting in the front

454
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: of the radiator, in the front of the bumper, all

455
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: the cowling, everything is where it's supposed to be, and

456
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: that it's flowing air across the condenser as as required

457
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: by GM. A lot of the newer vehicles have a

458
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: smaller cowl area, that area in front of the grill.

459
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: And you know, I've had where one shield is out

460
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: of place. I've seen cars overheat missing cowling shielding and

461
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: and valance shielding and so forth. So just be sure

462
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: everything is as designed. So do that, do this, you know,

463
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: do the things we talked about, go through it, and um,

464
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:16,479
Speaker 1: you know, if you need more, just call me back

465
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: next week let me know what you find. We can

466
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: kind of take it from there. Vinny, I appreciate the call.

467
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: I gotta run eight zero. We'll be back right after this.

468
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back Ron, the end of the car doctor, five

469
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: zero zero. Let's go over and talk to Lewis and Iowa.

470
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can I help

471
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, Ron Louis ducom On two thousand and

472
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: eight Nissan rogue. The catalytic converter failed, and I wonder

473
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: if I could change it. I'd since it was bolt

474
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: and bolt on each end, I'd change it myself. But

475
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: I've got a few comments or questions on the procedure.

476
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: I've got a haynes man. You know, they said, removed

477
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: the alternator or no, they said, do not remove it,

478
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: remove the manifold. The alternator had to come off before

479
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 1: you took the manifold off. So so you're talking, you're

480
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: talking about the cat in the manifold. That's correct, one piece.

481
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: I wish it was two pieces, but at least it

482
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: was bolted. The bolts and nuts weren't too hard to

483
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: get off, which helped. But getting the tension off the

484
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: serpentine belt was a pain. You're supposed to take the

485
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: right front wheel off and take off the fender laner.

486
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 1: I did not want to do that. There was hardly

487
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: any clearance to get on a fourteen millimeter head on

488
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: that tension or pulley. Do you have a special wrench

489
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: to take the tension off that belt. There's terribly close

490
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: quarters or room for a wrench, And that's about ice.

491
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: I've got a I've got a bunch of different manufacturers

492
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: make it as a special tool you'll buy. But I've

493
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: got something. It's a serrupbelt tool. That's it's a long,

494
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: flat piece of steel with a shore recessed socket. Variable

495
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: sockets fit in it that will go down in between

496
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: the you know, and it allows you to pull back

497
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: on the tension or to take the belt off. So

498
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: but you know, that's that's that's not uncommon. That's something

499
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: we've had for years. You know, you may find one

500
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: at your local lotoparts store. You know, if you have

501
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: an O'Reilly Orto Parts by you, you may be able

502
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: to go and you may be able to go and

503
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 1: rent the tool. Tell them what you're trying to do.

504
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: And O'Reilly orto Parts does rent tools, so you don't

505
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: have to buy them, right, and you can go and

506
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: rent the tool from them if they have it, and

507
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,719
Speaker 1: they very well might. So um sounds. One more thing.

508
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: When I put the manifold back on your special sequence

509
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: on an exhaust manifold, you had to go over it

510
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: twice one ft pounds. I did that in the afternoon,

511
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: and I thought it would just I did not finish

512
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: the car, so I re checked the torque the next morning,

513
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: it was not thirty one foot pounds. Um, I've got

514
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: be honest with you, Lewis, and it's just me. I've

515
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: never talked an exhaust manifold back on anything in my life.

516
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: But maybe it's just feel. Do you oil your Are

517
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: you oiling the threads of your bolts? I did not

518
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: put any anti sees on the bolt, not not any

519
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: seas I always put it. I always put a drop

520
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: of threads on the oil. I always put a drop

521
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: of oil on the threads of anything i'm tightening. I

522
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: got in that habit I got. I got in that

523
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: habit years ago, and I'll put a little bit. If

524
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: it's a rusty exhaust manifold, I'll put a drop of

525
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: oil under the head of the bolt or the washer. Um.

526
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: And then it's just a matter of feel, you know.

527
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: Remember when we're twerking something, we're accounting for and counting

528
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: on the bolt to stretch. We're counting on the twist

529
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: ability of that bolt. Think of Plato or Clay right,

530
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna twist it and expected to hold that tension

531
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: under load. Um, it's it's great that your hand tworking it.

532
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: I won't say you're doing it wrong. But a lot

533
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: of times something like that is a feel, you know,

534
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: it's it's just a and I guess if you do

535
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: it enough times, maybe that's not what I'm what I'm

536
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: not considering. So um, when you went to second day

537
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: to check it and check the torque, what did you

538
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: think it was? It had gone down? What was I

539
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: think it was even less than that. Some of them

540
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: are all right, and and maybe two or three were

541
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: a little bit. They weren't They weren't tight. So I

542
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: retort them back to foot pounds and I and put

543
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: the thing back together. The heat shroud. You know, it

544
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: has to be over the over the man, it's really

545
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: really a pain in that car. But also after I've

546
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: got her back running ahead of a random misfire, did

547
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: you doetitor nap or a nap and mechanics had replaced

548
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: the boots in the head for the spark plug wires

549
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: off the coil and that took care of it, right, Yeah,

550
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: And that's very possible. The plug wires tend to dry

551
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: out and the boots, the boots tend to get brittle.

552
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 1: Did you use any dielectric grease when you put them back?

553
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: Gone over the spark plugs. Yes I did, he Redden

554
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: Did I use that. I've never done it before. But

555
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: it was a terrible pain getting the plugs out. There's

556
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: seventy thousand miles on the plugs. And but I used

557
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: the anti sees on the plugs. When I put it

558
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: in there, there bosh plugs and I did think they'd

559
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: be such a pain to get out. The boy they

560
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: were tight, Yeah, they were tight, and listen, there's nothing

561
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: wrong with that. Again. I stopped using the anti cs

562
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: truth be told a couple of years back because I

563
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: believe they've changed the formulation. Um. It used to be

564
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: that anti C has had a little bit more lubricity

565
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: to it. Now it seems like they're putting more glass

566
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: in it. And it's got it's got a sharpness and

567
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: a coarseness to it that I haven't. I haven't used

568
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: it but a few exceptional exceptional uh you know applications.

569
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: You know, a drop of oil on the threads, everything

570
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: comes apart. And I haven't had an issue yet, and

571
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: that's just you know, mechanic to mechanics, that all right,

572
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: but things they will. What do you think of a

573
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: Nissan rogue that Andrews got about two hundred fifty three

574
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: thousand miles at two point five. Brother, I think it's

575
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: just broken in. You've got no reason to complain about it, right,

576
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: it's it's it's serving. Yeah, it's coming up. I'm fifteen

577
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: years old. So thank you, Lewis. You'd be well, you

578
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: have a good rest of the weekend. Yes, sir, you're

579
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: welcome to take good care. So very nice man. Hey

580
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: like that. So we're helping everybody today. Um let's pull over,

581
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: take a pause, five five zero zero. We'll be back

582
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: right after this. What'm back? Where? Name the car? Doctor?

583
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: Kind of winding it down this, Sarah, Let's do some email.

584
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: This one from Frank in Pennsylvania. Long time listen to Ron.

585
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: I've got a nine seventy two big block Corvette four speed. Frank,

586
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: I'll give you fifty bucks for it. Do you like

587
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: be of good Rich, Cooper, corbra A t Radios or

588
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: Uni Royal Tiger Is what's the best choice to fifteen

589
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: seventy R fifteen? Um? I gotta tell you, Frank, Um,

590
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: I like all three tires, but just in this application

591
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: on an older car like that, I think there's nothing

592
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: greater than a B F. Good Rich. All Right, there

593
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: was something about b F good Rich radial t a

594
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: s back in the day, and you know still have

595
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: a soft spot form when the Monte Carlo finally hits

596
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: the road, which I hope to do so this fall

597
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna look for a so of B OF good

598
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: Rich radial ts for that. So my choice are the

599
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: good Rich. Um. Not that the other two are bad,

600
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: but I like those better. I like the good Rich

601
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: better as a choice. UM. This comes to us from

602
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: research Kathy. She just found this great article. UM. Down

603
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: in Texas, they're talking about let's see states hitting hybrid

604
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 1: and electric car owns with new taxes. Thirty states are

605
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: hitting hybrid cardinals with additional taxes to pay for highway maintenance,

606
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: and a dozen more have proposals in their legislation. This

607
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: out of Texas, USA, from a John Matta res author.

608
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: State governments everywhere starting the tax owners of hybrid and

609
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: electric cars because they claim their drivers don't pay enough

610
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: in gas leane tax. Well, if they're driving an electric vehicle, Um, well,

611
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: I guess the hybrids would be paying gas lean tax

612
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: to some degree. But if they're driving an electric vehicle,

613
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be paying any road maintenance because they're

614
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: not paying any gas U tax. So yeah, that's something

615
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: to look forward to. I guess they're starting to do that.

616
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: This is a little bit older. It's about a month ago.

617
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: We've just got around to it now. My apologies is

618
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: out of the Wall Street Journal. Summers around the corner

619
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: and they're talking about let's see, we suggest you prepared

620
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: by buying an emergency generator if you can find one

621
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: in stock. Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation

622
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: or NERK, I don't know we had one of those

623
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: a NERK. Gee, what do you work? I work at NERK.

624
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: Is that like chaos and well control gets smart more

625
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: and the two thirds of the U S could experience

626
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: blackouts this summer. Welcome to the green energy transition. We've

627
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: been wanting for years that climate policies would make the

628
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: grid more vulnerable to vacillations and supply and demand than

629
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: here we are. Some of the mainstream press are belatedly

630
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: catching on that blackouts are coming, but they still don't

631
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: grasp the real problem. The force transition to green energy

632
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: is distorting energy markets and destabilizing the grid. Yeah, I

633
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: gotta say that. The it seems like we're headed towards that. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's becoming more and more of an issue. Uh as

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Speaker 1: as time marches on. Right, we're UM, we've got to

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Speaker 1: watch the electric vehicle translation transformation and be aware that

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen overnight, and that UM. A lot

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Speaker 1: of the issues we talked about recently in the last

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Speaker 1: year or two are starting to come to fruition in

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Speaker 1: terms of UH, well the grid infrastructure UM, support for

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Speaker 1: the electric vehicle UM. But in any event, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: don't forget. If you want to be part of the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor Vacation Show, help Ron take a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks off, call in during the week or qual eight

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Speaker 1: five five five zero zero and the Toma ketch up

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Speaker 1: on the air until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. Let see you