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Speaker 1: Ron an Adian reasons for replacing an automotive battery natural

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Speaker 1: wear and tear. Most batteries last three to five years.

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Speaker 1: They point out performance declines due to aging and chemical depletion.

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Speaker 1: And I think that the reason that we're seeing is

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Speaker 2: Battery?

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor, the whole car just say so.

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Speaker 3: I would think somebody thinks something's funny going on if

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Speaker 3: I had.

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Speaker 1: Like a van, So why can't it be that we've

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Speaker 3: I've had them taken care of before and that wasn't

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Speaker 3: the problem. It feels like it's something engine wise to me.

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Speaker 4: Really, Okay, Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian,

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Speaker 4: the Car Doctor. Since nineteen ninety one, this is where

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Speaker 4: car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion

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Speaker 4: on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you busy signal,

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are opening, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your calls at eight five five five six ninety

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Speaker 1: so just be prepared to hear dead sound. But and

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Speaker 1: and the folly that that is. Well, not if it's

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Speaker 1: Did anybody look at the news today? Did anybody see?

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Speaker 1: And I kept I kept telling you guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not right that often. Well, no, actually I'm right

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Speaker 1: a lot so. But in any event, the federal government

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Speaker 1: because it can't be done. The laws of physics don't work.

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Speaker 1: Not anti EV folks, just not in the capacity they

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Speaker 1: interesting article to lead off the hour with probably annoy

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Speaker 1: Carr questions, which is okay too. Let's go to Billy.

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Speaker 1: Look at that. I talk about Billy in Colorado and bang,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just you know what, I'm always glad to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So my friend's four focus two point three liter

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Speaker 5: I look at a freeze frame from the from the code,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what Amazon, If you go on Amazon

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Speaker 1: You know what, you want to check? Fuel pressure? Known good.

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Speaker 1: Did Bill go? I think Bill disappeared? Look at that.

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Speaker 1: Are you there up? Billy's gone, look at that phone technology.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, Bill's a tested kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's wander over and go talk to Sam and Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Sam oh three Toyota Tacoma. How are you Sam?

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Speaker 6: Welcome, sir, I'm good, Thanks for having taking my call.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: I have I have a three Tacoma four x four

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Speaker 6: V six and uh it has a problem with the ECM.

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Speaker 6: And here's the situation. I got to doing a little research.

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Speaker 6: The VEN number corresponds to a five speed one hundred

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Speaker 6: and the SRS light is on. The problem is that

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Speaker 6: I have the truck in South America and they have

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Speaker 6: a uh you got to have a tested routinely whatever

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Speaker 1: Right, it's broken?

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Speaker 6: So right the ECM. Right, So my question is how

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Speaker 6: VEN number that corresponds with the engine that was in

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Speaker 6: there before, because that's the infrastructure that the wiring harness,

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Speaker 6: or do I look for the ECM that's the engine

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Speaker 6: that's in here now, which is the V six.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so all right, so back back up. We've talked

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Speaker 1: about this truck. I kind of remember this truck, so

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Speaker 1: refresh my memory. This has this has an engine different

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Speaker 6: The five five f F E V six three point

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Speaker 1: Right, and it's from what year is it from? No,

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Speaker 1: it's not from an O three. They didn't put three

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Speaker 1: fours in the O three's did they did that? I'm

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Speaker 6: I don't know you have?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: So this is so this is a V six? Well,

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Speaker 1: what fault code's in there? Sam? It's got to have

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Speaker 6: If the light's on, nothing nothing comes out of the ob.

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Speaker 3: D two zero?

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Speaker 1: Where was the vehicle produced.

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Speaker 6: Us?

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Speaker 1: All right? And how long has it been in cus?

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Speaker 1: How long has it been in South America?

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Speaker 3: Probably a while?

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Speaker 5: And this is where I picked it up?

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Speaker 1: And where's the you know? And and the light's been on?

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Speaker 1: How long? A while?

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Speaker 3: Right? Yes?

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Speaker 6: The car the truck runs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I get it, I get it. I'm just

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Speaker 1: trying to I'm just you know, so what would happen

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Speaker 1: if we just went to Here's what I want to know?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's let me let me regroup and think

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Speaker 1: about this. You know, is this the correct engine. Forget transmission?

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Speaker 1: Is this a correct engine for the vehicle? All right?

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Speaker 1: Did they put a three point four?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, they make it in yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: So it's just that it's a it's a five speed,

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Speaker 6: No, it's the other way around. It's an automatic. Now

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Speaker 6: it was a five speed.

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Speaker 5: Before, but it wasn't.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't a V six. That It's all I know.

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Speaker 6: It's one hundred and fifty horse pow. That's all I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, forget the computer that's in there. What was the

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Speaker 1: What does that decode to?

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Speaker 6: A five speed? One hundred and fifty horse Okay? That's

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Speaker 6: all I can find.

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Speaker 1: I mean, well, you should be able to go into

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Speaker 1: just say here's the VIN, and they could decode and

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Speaker 1: tell you what it was. Chances are it was a

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Speaker 1: V six. Okay, you know what, Email me the VIN.

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Speaker 1: Ronic cardoctorshow dot com? All right, okay, Ronic card doctorshow

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Speaker 1: dot Com? I want the VIN of the vehicle. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's what we're just just so recruiter. I want the

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Speaker 1: VIN of the vehicle, all right, and then you've got

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Speaker 1: but you've got an e CM that is what for what?

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Speaker 1: It's got a different VIN in it?

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Speaker 6: Well, it's all it's scratched off, so I don't I

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Speaker 6: have no idea who who it belongs to.

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Speaker 1: So you've got to you're looking, you're looking at the

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Speaker 1: not there. It's scratched off, right, What if you look?

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Speaker 1: What if you look? What if you look at it

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Speaker 6: I haven't done that yet.

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Speaker 5: I will.

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Speaker 1: Well that would be my next step, you know, forget

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Speaker 1: the part number. Okay, does you know in O three?

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Speaker 6: I don't.

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Speaker 1: No, it has to be in the vehicle, has to

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Speaker 1: I'm getting at is. But I don't think by three.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we were that yet. That's twenty two

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Speaker 1: and match all the other computers in the sense. Right,

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Speaker 1: So if the vent on every other computer in the

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Speaker 1: has to be capable of being written as abc D.

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Speaker 1: All right. So the problem you may run into is

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Speaker 1: to as new and then allow you to write the chip.

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Speaker 1: The problem you're getting into, you're in a gray air

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Speaker 1: here is the reason they don't allow a lot of

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Speaker 1: of odometers were stored and kept in PCMs, so you

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Speaker 1: it would display, you know, that two hundred thousand mile

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Speaker 1: vehicle would display is eighty five thousand miles. Right, So

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Speaker 1: you're you're you're into does this have an electronic odometer readout?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, see that's that's why you're running into a PCM issue.

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Speaker 1: There's the glitch there. But let's take the vin let's

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Speaker 1: let's decode it and then I can tell you what

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. And then I would just wonder

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Speaker 1: if you went to Toyota, can you still buy an

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Speaker 1: OE original Toyota computer. The wiring harness wasn't changed, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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Speaker 6: So if you know, I mean, you know, I would

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Speaker 6: well go.

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Speaker 1: If it's just the engine that was changed, then a

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Speaker 1: factory UH computers should bolt in. The problem is you

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Speaker 1: have to find somebody in South America that can code

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Speaker 1: it to North American software as the vehicle was built.

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Speaker 1: So send me the vent first, Sam. Let me help

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Speaker 1: you that way, and then we can talk further. I'm

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Speaker 1: runnin eighty in the car doctor. I'll be back right

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Speaker 1: after this another hour, just kind of flying by a

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Speaker 1: five five, five, six zero nine nine zero zero, run

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Speaker 1: eighty in the card doctor. Let's go over to Ben

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, nineteen ninety seven. Oldsmobile boy, it's a old

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Speaker 1: card day here on the car doctor. That's cool. What's

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Speaker 3: Ben? We have a ninety seven olds eighty eight and

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Speaker 3: the car does not want to shift into gear, it

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Speaker 3: will start. You can take the shift the cable off

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Speaker 3: underneath the hood, you know, the part going right to

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Speaker 3: the transmission itself. Right, and of course somebody steps on

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Speaker 3: show move forward. We can't get that shift cable to release.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you have brake lights? Yes, sir, you have

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Speaker 1: brake lights, do you Does the car have cruise control?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: If you were to drive it and try the cruise control,

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Speaker 1: if you tap the brake pedal, does the yes, you

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Speaker 1: could you could try that. So so there's two connectors

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Speaker 1: at the brake pedal switch, all right, there's C one

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Speaker 1: the outputs from the switch are correct, all right, right,

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Speaker 1: you know so because there's there's actually two sides of

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Speaker 1: that of that which all right, see one connector one connector.

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Speaker 1: One feeds out to a dark green it's a it's

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Speaker 1: Does a car have a console or is it? Is

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Speaker 1: so that means that the shift interlocks solenoise at the

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Speaker 1: green white and it just goes to ground. Now ground

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Speaker 1: two hundred, which is a G two hundred. Yeah, G

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Speaker 1: two hundred was the ground if I remember, right bottom

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Speaker 3: Well, the customer did say the windshield was leaking, so

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Speaker 3: you know that's what it came in here before we

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Speaker 3: sealed it up. Yeah, and you have to be determined

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Speaker 3: has been in the building since. I believe that's taken

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Speaker 3: care of, but nonetheless, you know that could be there's

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Speaker 3: no telltale signs of moisture, right or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: I get what you're saying. Yeah, I'm not by the

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Speaker 3: you know, you might be calling the gentleman set this up.

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Speaker 3: Much appreciated at her and by the way, so you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm just going off with memory now, no, you know,

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Speaker 3: because I spent about a half an hour or so

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00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 3: an hour whatever looking at this and then I was

438
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 3: going to kind of get back to it a little

439
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 3: bit over the weekend as I did some more reading

440
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 3: on the wirings from addicts, and you know, also.

441
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,880
Speaker 1: I think go ahead, no, go ahead, I'm sorry we did.

442
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,679
Speaker 3: We did put a different break light switch in just

443
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 3: you know, to try it start doing the same thing.

444
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 3: And then I was looking for a shift locks selenoid

445
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,919
Speaker 3: the parts house that we dealt with on that. You know,

446
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 3: maybe somebody reboxed who knows, you know, there's a bunch

447
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,680
Speaker 3: of stuff that goes on sometimes, but that that selenoid

448
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 3: is not correct. The part number shows it should be

449
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 3: it according to the person. But anyways, nonetheless they've not

450
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 3: got that part to try another one, you know, just

451
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,679
Speaker 3: kind of doing trial and error thing on that end

452
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 3: without getting but to leave. We looked at the wires

453
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 3: and you know, all the all the everything was doing

454
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 3: what was supposed to do as far as which ones

455
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,959
Speaker 3: are getting voltage and which ones are getting ground.

456
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,679
Speaker 1: You know, well, how about this, how about how about this,

457
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: ben What if we just take a you got any

458
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: one ninety four side marker bulbs and sockets in the

459
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 1: shop floating around? Yes, sir, why don't we disconnect the

460
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 1: shift interlock solenoid okay, and plug, you know, just just

461
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 1: you know, strip to wire ends off stick those in

462
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 1: each end of the shift solenoid, hit the brake pedal.

463
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 1: The light bulb's got a light, right, If the light

464
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: bulb don't light then and we've got power there, which

465
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: is easy enough to figure out, then we right the

466
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,680
Speaker 1: ground's bed. You know, if it wasn't leak, was it

467
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: leaking water out of the windshield by the eight pillar

468
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 1: on the driver's side.

469
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 3: I never saw it, but according to the customer, yes.

470
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it kind of makes sense, right it ran

471
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: down into the kick panel area. The other thing is

472
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: that's probably a typical as you as you well know,

473
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: that's probably a typical you know, eighteen to twenty homes solenoid.

474
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: So if it omes correctly, you know, you got a

475
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: power probe in the shop.

476
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got pretty much all that stuff.

477
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, so why don't we just you know, hook hook

478
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: up the power probe, ground and power and the solenoids

479
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: got a click. If it clicks and you don't hear

480
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: a click in the car, then you know it's it's

481
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: it sure sounds like it's those shifts soloids. They get

482
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: lazy as you will again I'm telling you something you

483
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: already know. I didn't realize you were a shot. My apologies,

484
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's, you know, maybe a little shot

485
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: at w D. If the thing's been how old is

486
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,760
Speaker 1: it ninety seven? Let's do the math. Ninety seven oh seven, seventeen,

487
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: it's coming up on? Is that forty years ago? It's

488
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: thirty five if it's a day, well.

489
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah graduated. I have graduated ninety three and they

490
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 3: just have my thirtieth night longo. So yeah, this is

491
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 3: going on. Wow this time fly Yeah.

492
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: Thirty years Yeah, it's thirty something years ago. So uh yeah,

493
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: this this this is old baby. Um uh so let's

494
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: start looking at it from that perspective. But I bet

495
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: you it's the ground. It was G two hundred or

496
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: G two oh one if I remember, I think it

497
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: was G two hundred. But you can look at a

498
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: wiring diagram, break out your copy of all Dad, and

499
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: it'll tell you I don't keep everything in my head. Yeah,

500
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,360
Speaker 1: so all right, sir.

501
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 3: Oh that's that's amazing man.

502
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 2: You got all that.

503
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 3: Just you guys know what you're doing over there? Where

504
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 3: are you out of New York.

505
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: New Jersey? Don't tell it that's okay. Don't tell anybody,

506
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's uh. I had somebody come into the

507
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 1: shop the other day and they explained to me how

508
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: they listened to the show and they love the show

509
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah blah blah, they'd know me anywhere.

510
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: And I went, really, uh so sometimes it's fun to

511
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: hunt anyway. All right, I gotta go, Ben, all right,

512
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: good luck to you, kiddo. Let me know if you.

513
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,160
Speaker 3: Shirt huh and your time. I appreciate everything, I say.

514
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 3: I value your knowledge and your time. I really appreciate everything.

515
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: And listen, I say, I say this in all humility

516
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: and honesty. I appreciate you and you guys out there

517
00:24:59,200 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: in the field.

518
00:24:59,640 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 3: You know what.

519
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: I'm always happy to talk to anybody because we're all

520
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: sharing knowledge and we're all just trying to learn and

521
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: fixed cars, and I appreciate it.

522
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 3: So I appreciate that.

523
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir. You'd be well thanks for carrying

524
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: on the cause. Yeah, listen, it's hard, you know, I

525
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 1: can't tell you. Uh, you know, I wonder. My wife says,

526
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 1: I talk in my sleep a lot, and it's probably

527
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 1: you know. Ground two hundred dark green white wire goes

528
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: to the Solinoyd twenty Holmes resistance. What'd you say? Nothing?

529
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: You know, go back to sleep. So, uh, you know

530
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: I have nightmares about wiring. Everybody else has normal nightmares. Anyway,

531
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: let's pull over and take a pause. Eight five five

532
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: five six zero Not well, I do nine nine zero zero.

533
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm running any in the car doctor. I'll be back

534
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: right after this second. Oh yeah, it's a beach boy.

535
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: Remember one Honda was just a groovy little motorbike, Tom

536
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: does I'm not that old. Let's go over and talk

537
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: to Steve in South Carolina. Steve, Welcome to the car doctor, sir,

538
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: how can I help?

539
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: Hey? Ron? How are you talking about the Beats boys?

540
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 2: Remember to four o nine?

541
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: So right, she's real fine my four Yeah. Nobody's ever

542
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: gonna say she's real fine. My Toyota Prius so trust me, nobody, nobody,

543
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna care. So what's going on? Brother?

544
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 2: I had an I got a nineteen ninety three Chevrolet

545
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 2: Silverado and the fan motor was not working. So bought

546
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 2: a brand new and put it in and you turned

547
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 2: the key and something that's tapping up under where the

548
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,439
Speaker 2: Fano motory is. Great truck up driving around the noise,

549
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 2: the noise goes away. Okay, fan motor works great, partner truck,

550
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 2: turn the key off, the tapping starts with no With

551
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 2: the key totally off, the tapping still goes okay.

552
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: So if you if you were to do you disconnect

553
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: the fan motor. I don't think it's a fan motor.

554
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: I just want to backtrack a little bit. If you

555
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: were to disconnect the fan motor, the noise is still there, right,

556
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure yes, Okay, let's assume it is. You know,

557
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: try that after the call, but let's assume it is. So,

558
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: you know, the only other thing that comes to mind

559
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: is were you near or did you somehow throw out

560
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 1: of adjustment one of the temp doors or the air

561
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: door reserc motors to the doors need to be calibrated.

562
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: It sounds like because everything here is you know, there's

563
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: no more cables under the dish, even in ninety three,

564
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: so everything was done by little servo motors. So it

565
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: sounds like one of the servos has lost its direction.

566
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's lost its base setting. Think

567
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: of the front door to your house, all right, how

568
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: do you know your front door is closed when it's closed.

569
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:53,919
Speaker 1: That's a question.

570
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 2: Well, well you see that it's closed right right.

571
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: So when you go from hot to cold in a car,

572
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: how does the computer know where hot is and how

573
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: does it know where cold is? It can't feel temperature,

574
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: right right, So so zero the front door is closed,

575
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: all right. It does it by binary counting. A zero

576
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: position on the motor is closed one hundred and fifty

577
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: five for example. If that's what this is a zero

578
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: to one to fifty five motor. Zero is closed, one

579
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: fifty five is open. So it's programming tells it when

580
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: Steve wants to go mid temperature, it puts it to

581
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: seventy seven degrees, all right. But if it loses count,

582
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: if it doesn't know where zero is, or it doesn't

583
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: know where you know, one fifty five where top is,

584
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: it'll run it up against one way or the other

585
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: and just bang bang bang bang bang bang bang, and

586
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: it's looking for that final stop. It's lost. It's confused.

587
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: So you would have to go in simplest thing would

588
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: be go take a scan tool, and I believe there

589
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: will be in ninety three a blend door actuation or

590
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: a temp control door calibration where everything will get reset

591
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: to zero ninety three is a little early. You know, again,

592
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with a lot of old cars today, but

593
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: I think it was still there. If not, then the

594
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: door itself, the motor itself has an issue. We've just

595
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: got to figure out which one it is. And it'll

596
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: be simply a matter of you know, if you go

597
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: back and look at where the blower is, was there

598
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: a blend door or a recirc door motor calibration I'm sorry,

599
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: a recerc door actuator close by the blower that maybe

600
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: somehow you brushed up against it, pushed on a changed position,

601
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: or did you have to take it out to do

602
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: the blower.

603
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the way that you do this one is you

604
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 2: actually have to take a right kick panel out and

605
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: the silver box that's in the glove box to get

606
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 2: to the top boat and it slides through the bottom

607
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: and the only thing you pull out is just.

608
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: A motive that silver box. What was that silver box?

609
00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: Was that the BCM?

610
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 2: It is? It is?

611
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I bet the BCM lost its calibration. I'd

612
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: be I'd be looking at it. I'd be looking at

613
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: a calibration. But you get my point. If you don't

614
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: know where you're front. If you don't know where the

615
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: front door in your house is supposed to close, you know,

616
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: try closing your front Try try opening and closing your

617
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: front door in the dark.

618
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 3: You know, you as it's.

619
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 2: Got to be that because I pulled the motor back out,

620
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 2: turn power to it. Uh, it works fine on all

621
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 2: the different speeds right, highow, medium, Yeah, I don't think

622
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: it's that. It's the motor. It's not the motor.

623
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's that. By the way, when

624
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: you did the motor was anything that anything looked melted

625
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: or like it was getting hot. Just be aware. They

626
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: have blower motor resistor problems too, so the you know,

627
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: what will happen is the blower motor will draw too

628
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: high and the blower motor goes bad, but it'll melt

629
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: the resistor. So just while you're down there doing all this,

630
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: if you have a clamp on AMK, you might as

631
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: well just you know, do current draw. You know, if

632
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: the blower motor typical blower motors on a thirty AM fuse,

633
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: you'll see a typical blower on high pull somewhere between

634
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 1: twelve and fifteen amps. It shouldn't pull higher than fifteen

635
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: good rule of thumb. Most automotive circuits, if the fuse

636
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: is a thirty, the max's expecting to see is half

637
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: that fifteen. You know, just it's and even a third

638
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: I've seen. I've seen the third rule, the third between

639
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: a third and a half. I've never seen a blower

640
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: go higher than fifteen amps on a high amp pull.

641
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: If I do, I usually have a problem with either

642
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: either the circuit or the motor itself. So just just

643
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: be aware. You may also need a resistor which will

644
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: shorten the life of that of that motor. All right, kiddo,

645
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: but go look at that, Go look at go look

646
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: at blend or calibration, Go look at the BCM. You'll

647
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: need not an OBD two scan tool but a year

648
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: making model version to do that, and I think that

649
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: will solve your problem, sir. And by the way, if

650
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: depending on the scan tool you're using, Stevie, you can

651
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: go in and look at the step or the position

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Speaker 1: of that app sctuator zero ten, twenty thirty forty so

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Speaker 1: on up and down the scale. You might find the

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Speaker 1: one that's sticking by looking at the steps that it's

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Speaker 1: on as well. Thanks, I appreciate the call I'm running ending,

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Speaker 1: and the car doctor coming back to finish it up.

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Speaker 1: Right after this, I'll know you much better and got

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Speaker 1: done and welcome back. I can't believe how fast an

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Speaker 1: hour two hours is the second hour. I can't believe

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Speaker 1: how fast two hours of talking about cars goes by

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Speaker 1: on a weekend. It's like, Holy cow, light speed man,

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00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: light speed. Our last call today, it's actually not a call.

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Speaker 1: It's an email from Ray down in South Carolina. Ray writes,

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Speaker 1: and hey, Royn, can you help me with a problem.

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00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: I've inherited my dad's ninety nine Chevy trail Blazer. I

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00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: love my dad to death. He's still around, but he

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00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: makes me crazy because he bought this truck new in

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00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: ninety nine. He was sixty five years old. It was

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Speaker 1: the car of his dreams. Now I've got it twenty

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Speaker 1: some odd years later, and he wasn't really good about

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Speaker 1: oil changes and it's developed an engine tap. What can

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Speaker 1: you tell me to solve it? I want to keep

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Speaker 1: it going in his memory, even though we still here.

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that he enjoys it

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Speaker 1: more in his later years. Ray, you know what, Ray?

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Speaker 1: This sounds like my ninety seven Ranger. All right, this

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Speaker 1: has an engine tap. My ninety seven Ranger, which just

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Speaker 1: turned two hundred and twenty eight thousand miles I think

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Speaker 1: it was, has had a valve tap a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a tick in it for for quite a while.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, probably the better part of twelve

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Speaker 1: or fifteen years, and we can never get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: We tried transfluid, we tried every sludging agent, removable, blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah that we could think of. We've recently run

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Speaker 1: into Hotshot Secret, all right. Not to make this sound

686
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Speaker 1: like an ad, it's not. I'm telling you something that

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Speaker 1: really worked in the shop, and we came across hot

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Speaker 1: Shot Secret and their sticktion eliminator. All right. You can

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Speaker 1: get out to their website and read about it hotshotsecret

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Speaker 1: dot com. Now there's something in this stuff. Because I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right now, you come by the shop, I'll

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Speaker 1: let you drive the truck. Not only is it quiet,

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Speaker 1: it got rid of a valve tap that on a

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Speaker 1: scale of one to ten, wasn't eleven. All Right, it's

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Speaker 1: got a little bit of a tick to it. It's

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Speaker 1: probably down around to two now where it sounds sort

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Speaker 1: of like an exhaust leak, and it's not it's not

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Speaker 1: a leaking manifold. It's an actual valve tap. But Sticktion

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Speaker 1: eliminator did what it was supposed to do. It it

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Speaker 1: actually runs better. The valve tap is. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: eighty five ninety percent gone. The truck never ran so good.

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Speaker 1: And the truck ran good before, it runs better now.

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Speaker 1: So Ray, I'm gonna tell you to get yourself a

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Speaker 1: bottle of that stition eliminator. It's a big green bottle.

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Speaker 1: It's really kind of a it's a funky green you know,

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Speaker 1: it looks weird, and you know what, it works. Just

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Speaker 1: follow the directions on the bottle and I bet that

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Speaker 1: solves your valvetop problem. It's solved ours. Danny and I

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Speaker 1: are looking at each other like, well, like if you

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Speaker 1: can't go buy a new truck yet, We're just gonna

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Speaker 1: keep driving this one another two hundred thousand miles because

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Speaker 1: it just runs that good. Hotshotsecret dot com till the

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Speaker 1: next time. Been a pleasure, an absolute pleasure. It flew by.

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Speaker 1: It's an honor to be here for each and every

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Speaker 1: one of you every weekend and on the podcast and stream.

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Speaker 1: However you're listening to this radio show. We haveppreciate your

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Speaker 1: love and support until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See yup