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Speaker 1: Connie and old Saybrook, Connecticut. Connie. Welcome to the car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: talk to Walt in Maui, Hawaii. Don't worry, Walt, it's

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Speaker 1: not you. Um, it's not your radio station. How can

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Speaker 1: afternoon there right. Uh. I was on the internet looking

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Speaker 1: It seems like the two choices or one plugs into

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Speaker 1: tool um it's from O t C. You'll you'll find

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Speaker 1: purchase it there. I've seen it there. Um, I think

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Speaker 1: Off the top of my head, um, little blue box.

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Speaker 1: just connecting to back Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Listen on newer vehicles,

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Speaker 1: the modules. And the reason I'll do that before I'm

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Speaker 1: radio station. That was a that a bonehead maneuver and

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Speaker 1: do you see Monday? Oh boy, I need I don't

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Speaker 1: I want to see about this nineteen two tractor. Really,

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Speaker 1: a spark plug tester for this, which will duplicate the

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00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: way the plug has to work to fire itself in

429
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: the cylinder right correct. So they're cheap enough. If you've

430
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 1: got an O'rileyoto Parts in your neck of the woods,

431
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: you'll walk in there. It's probably a twenty dollar tool,

432
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: a twenty five do tool. It's a it's an adjustable

433
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,679
Speaker 1: spark tester, they call it. You can use it on

434
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: a car, you can use it on a tract or

435
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: anything with an ignition system. So it's a good little

436
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: thing to have in the toolbox. You might even be

437
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: able to find it at their website. You know, if

438
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 1: if you get out to o'rileyoto dot com, you can

439
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: find it there. So that being said, um, it sounds

440
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: like you're losing ignition after twenty minutes of running. So

441
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: my question is is the coil the issue here? Do

442
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 1: we have a coil problem? And that's that's one of

443
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: the things that that spark tester should tell us, because

444
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: that spark tester will load the coil. It's like this,

445
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: inside the cylinder, that spark plug is under pounds of

446
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 1: compression more depending upon the vehicle. Right, It's it's harder

447
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 1: for the coil to push electrical energy across a hundred

448
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,160
Speaker 1: p s i gap than it is if you take

449
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: that spark plug with a thirty five thous gap and

450
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: put it out an atmosphere where there's less pressure than

451
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: just for it to do it there. So the idea

452
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: of the adjustable gap is you're gonna increase the size

453
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: of the gap and make the coil work harder and

454
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: duplicate the amount of stress the coil is working under.

455
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 1: When you've got a plug on the cylinder under a

456
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: hunter ps i versus a plug or a screw driver

457
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: handle outside of the cylinder working an atmosphere of about

458
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half fifteen pounds per square inch, does

459
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: that make sense. Okay, So that's why I want you

460
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: to get a spark tester. So you're saying that you

461
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: will re place it works with the coil. The coil

462
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: will fire number three. Somehow it's getting lost going through

463
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: the distributor. Yeah, and I put a new cap arm

464
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: I can say, and no carbon tracks or anything inside

465
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: of it. And it's turned around, you know, and it

466
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: run and when I hooked it direct will run when

467
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: I put the new cap on for like fifteen minuts

468
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: and then just shut down. I'm just out of curiosity.

469
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: Are we sure we've got correct cap and rotor? Well,

470
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: I've tried two different caps and two different rotors for

471
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: that series tractor. It's it's basically it's one or the other.

472
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: It's this and this is a sad discriminant. Do you

473
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: have a cap that you think is bad? No, the

474
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 1: cap stock are just facial looking at him. Well, the

475
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: reason I was asking is I'm just just thinking outside

476
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: the box. I'd be curious to see if you cut

477
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 1: a small window in one of the caps. Obviously you're

478
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 1: destroying the cap at that point. I'm just wondering if

479
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: when you're putting the cap on, are you lining the

480
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,919
Speaker 1: button up with the center of the rotor, because if

481
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: if the if sparks coming out of the wire and

482
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,959
Speaker 1: you plug it into the cap, it's got to hit

483
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: the rotor. If it's not hitting the rotor, where's it

484
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: going Either the rotor is punched and it's shortened down

485
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: to the distributor shaft, or the button isn't lined up

486
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: with the button and the cap isn't lined up with

487
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: the rotor. Right where else can it be? Well, it's

488
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 1: gott got record uh sheel underneath the cap and it

489
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: helps denine everything up and put it into price. So

490
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: it can't it can't possibly be wrong to the side

491
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,719
Speaker 1: or anything cose it just fits together and that's it okay.

492
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: And and the rotor can't be too too low on

493
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: the shaft that it's got to be making contact with

494
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: the center button. Well, it's got like a piece of

495
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: metal on the bottom of the shaft. And I checked

496
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 1: and at piece of metal still under there, and it's

497
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: it tightens up the road or so when you put

498
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: the road and there, it tightens it up to the

499
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: shaft and it can't go down with so far you know,

500
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: it's design built. It should be in price now if

501
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: if you've got voltage on the positive side. Um, if

502
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: you were too. I wonder what you would see if

503
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: you have a timing light. Yes, I wonder what you

504
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: would see if you put a timing light on that

505
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: coil wire with a light blink on thet right on

506
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: the secondary on the secondary wire. I wonder if you

507
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: would see. I wonder if you would see that light blink.

508
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: And if you see the light blink, you know the

509
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: coil is discharging and it's making signal. Now it's now

510
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: you've got to get it through the distributor somehow. There's

511
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,719
Speaker 1: got to be something in that distributor shorting to ground

512
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: creating the issue. But it's got the starter saline oil

513
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: on it, and it's got the four posts four postings,

514
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: got the two small posts and then the two big ones.

515
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: It's got the donation and then the coal. Can you

516
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: can you send me a picture of this distributor, David

517
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: don't have new computers. Um m hmmm, because I'd love

518
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: to see how this cap and rotor lineup. If you've

519
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: got if you've got spark coming out of the coil,

520
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: and tell me again how it doesn't start. We'll have

521
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: to put the cap on and run and when it

522
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: shuts down, But any other time you try, you crank

523
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: it over and the spark that comes out of the

524
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: coal when you check it, it's it's fair. But after

525
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: you put it into the coal, into the descriptor, the

526
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: war is coming out. You can check down and it's

527
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: nothing coming out. It's like it's not making connect. You know,

528
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: spark winning in, but it's not coming out. And my question,

529
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: is a spark really going in? Can we do this?

530
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: Can you check that with the timing light and tell

531
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: me and call me back next week, because that that

532
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: that much you can do. And then if you can

533
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: get your hands on a spark tester, can you tell

534
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: me where? Well, if you put that spark plug, that

535
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: spark tester in the coil wire, you know you want

536
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: to clip the ground and and across the spark tester.

537
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: Can you get correct spark? I would have to think

538
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: that system would have to make volts easy. Um, can

539
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: you get that coil to fire? I'm just wondering, just

540
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: a possible delty. Just try different coal if you have

541
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: one of the same. Right, if you have one, it

542
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt you know if we want to swap something. Um,

543
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, do we have a strong enough coil

544
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: to go through the electrical circuit like that that somebody

545
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: put that system together and never put a resister in

546
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: it and the coal was breaking down. Well, I would

547
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: think if somebody if that system required a resistor of

548
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: ballast resist on the primary side, you'd be burning up

549
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: the points right now, let me ask you this, how

550
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: old is the condenser? Well, it was just change, just recent.

551
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: When did the problems start before or after the condenser changed?

552
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: It was just running and it just shut off like

553
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: he cut the right So so the condenser was replaced

554
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: as part of maybe this is the solution. Right If

555
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: you look at the points to the points, look okay,

556
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: they're wearing evenly, or they put it on more on

557
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: one side than the other, it don't show nowhere. Do

558
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: you have a dwell meter cap off and and rotated

559
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: it the points just open crows like you're supposed to

560
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: and the spark comes out of the coal. Do you

561
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: have a dwell meter, David? Yes? Okay, Um, if you

562
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: if you watch it while it's running, dwell looks steady.

563
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't bounce around. Well, I've never had it running

564
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: long enough to check it. Well, no, you said that

565
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: you can have it running for fifteen minutes, but then

566
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: it won't restart. It only happen one time when I

567
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: was trying to start. I tried different you know, stuff

568
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: like Roger Button, new coal war and and you stime,

569
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: it still wouldn't spark the engine. Back back to square one.

570
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: Let's get a spark tester on this. Let's see what

571
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: that coil has the ability to put out coils? A coil,

572
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: all right, it's gotta put out spark, it's gotta put

573
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: out volts. So let's get a spark tester. Let's get

574
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: over to an O'Reilly Auto Parts and let's see what

575
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: that gets us. And you call me back next week.

576
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: Zero nine zero zero. The car doctors coming back, don't

577
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: go away? Well got her day, star, Hey, welcome back.

578
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: Why aren't any of the car doctor Let's get over

579
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: and talk to Danny Northern Maine and Susu a sender

580
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: and I'll see what's going on here. Hey Danny, let's

581
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: go what's up? Oh, thank you for the opportunity for

582
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: just purchased a two thousand three. Uh, let's send their

583
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: SeeMe as ann Voyage triplaz hundred thousand miles and uh,

584
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: it's this is very intimate. There are two problems. One

585
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: of them there's a slight it doesn't stall whatever. So

586
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: often I have a slight hesitation where it wants to

587
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: stall and it doesn't change the plug. This fuel filter,

588
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: um pretty much. Well, I didn't change the captain rotor,

589
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: but i've that's what I did change and it still

590
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: does that. The other issue is one its titles. It

591
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: has a slight vibration like a diesel and that. But

592
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: I have no codes on the engine, nothing at all.

593
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: And the fuel economy is great, that a card runs great.

594
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: But those are the two little issues and that I

595
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: can't figure them out anymore. Give you call the the

596
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: engine running rough issue. They did have some known issues, um,

597
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, and again speaking from the Trailblazer side and

598
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: the Envoye side, because you know, the asusan has been gone,

599
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean how many years in the country, so the

600
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: pattern failures aren't really there. I haven't seen a SUSO

601
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: in the shop and probably four years. The cars just

602
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,719
Speaker 1: don't seem to exist. But I can tell you from

603
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: the Trailblazer Envoye side of things that we do see

604
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: some issues with motor mounts, particularly when they're cold. Um,

605
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: started up cold and um, you know, put it in

606
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: gear and it's got a little bit of a rough

607
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: final let me ask you this, when when it has

608
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: this vibration problem, if you pop it into neutral, does

609
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,239
Speaker 1: the engine roughness go away? No, it's still there. It's

610
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: still there. So the engine is physically running rough. No,

611
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: it's not the engine, it's it sounds more like a vibration.

612
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: It's no, it's not running rough. It's a vibration, uh,

613
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: similar to a diesel vibration. Okay, I'll tell you what.

614
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: Don't go away. Let me pull over and take a

615
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: pause here, Danny, I'm not on any of the car

616
00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: doctor will be back right after this. Welcome back. We're

617
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: on any of the car doctors. Let me get right

618
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: into this, Danny, you're still there, kay? So this is

619
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: a four point two in line six? Correct? That's that's correct?

620
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: All right? Is this coil on plug? Or this has

621
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: spark plug wires? This is coil on plug. Okay, So

622
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: you did spark plugs. Did you happen to notice any

623
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: signs of water getting into the back to spark plug wells? No? Okay,

624
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: I wasn't looking, but when I took the plugs out,

625
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything. It has no fault codes. How

626
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: have you checked for codes? Used the scanner and I've

627
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: checked in I diding the check in the I didn't

628
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: come on, and of h checked and checked and all right,

629
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: So you're looking at you're looking for codes stored current.

630
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: Have you looked at anything in regards depending things that

631
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: are about to happen? That would be my first My

632
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: second question. My third question is, depending upon what scan

633
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: tool you have, can you look at mode six? Are

634
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: you familiar with the term? Yeah, you are? Can you

635
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: can you look at mode six to see what sort

636
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: of misfire events might be happening? In other words, what

637
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: I'm trying to determine is is this a misfire the

638
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: roughness that you're feeling, or is it something else unrelated?

639
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: So I'd want to know what I'd want to know

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Speaker 1: what mode six is looking like. I'm still not really

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Speaker 1: at the possibility of amount. I've seen more than a

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Speaker 1: few mounts engine mounts be a problem with these. Um

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Speaker 1: there's also a bullet and if I remember right, for

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Speaker 1: the rear transmount, getting rocks in it as crazy as

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Speaker 1: it sounds and creating a vibration like your descro IV.

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Speaker 1: The thing is, though I don't know if that's normal.

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Speaker 1: When I shut it off, it has it appears, and

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Speaker 1: I can't to have like a slight dieseling. You know,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't shut off. It doesn't cut off like it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't cut off clean well right, And that that

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Speaker 1: and of itself could be something else. I wonder how dirty,

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Speaker 1: if at all, is the throttle body. I wonder where

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Speaker 1: fuel trim is. Is fuel trim in the window? Is

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Speaker 1: it encroaching the point where it's gonna set a fault code?

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Speaker 1: And I'd want to just know, you know, I'd want

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Speaker 1: to know what didn't have the latest software updates and

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Speaker 1: calibrations in it. Some things for you to do, Danny,

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Speaker 1: you got your homework cut out for you, and then

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Speaker 1: we can talk again next week to my friends in Rockland.

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Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure, Aloha. I'm not an ad in

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Speaker 1: the car. Doctor. If the mechanics aren't expensive, the priceless

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Speaker 1: seem one