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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian. I guess the bigger part of this

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Speaker 1: job is to educate people. It's to explain to them

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Speaker 1: what happens and why. The car Doctor. My memory is

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Speaker 1: most of those trucks steered fairly well. They weren't They

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Speaker 1: weren't terrible out of the factory. There were ways to

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Speaker 1: make them better, but they weren't terrible to begin with.

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Speaker 2: So this is my second one. This was my second one,

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Speaker 2: and all.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 3: Since nineteen ninety one, this is where car owners the

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Speaker 3: world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up

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Speaker 3: the phone and call in the garage doors.

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Speaker 1: Are opening, but I am here to take your call

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six ninety nine hundred.

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Speaker 4: And now he running.

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Speaker 1: Are you paying enough for repair? Are you? I mean,

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Speaker 1: are you being fair to yourself? Do you when you

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Speaker 1: look at a bill, is it always gee that was cheap,

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Speaker 1: that's great?

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Speaker 5: Or gee?

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Speaker 1: Did I pay enough to know that they did the

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Speaker 1: job right, that somebody competent was working on it and

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Speaker 1: they put all the parts back and it's gonna work,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna last, and they didn't hurt the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: Weird question, right. We had a new customer in the

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Speaker 1: shop this week. She came to us from another state

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Speaker 1: and just over the line, as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: in New York and Rockland County, and the repair shop

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Speaker 1: she was going to was doing forty two dollars oil changes,

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Speaker 1: not forty two dollars labor and then materials. Forty two

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Speaker 1: dollars oil changes on a twenty thirteen Infinity. How do

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Speaker 1: they make any money? Can they? What are they doing?

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Speaker 1: The oil is the oil and filter? If you're buying

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Speaker 1: something decent, is twenty five thirty bucks for twelve dollars.

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Speaker 1: You're standing there, you're lifting a car, You're you're looking

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Speaker 1: at things, you're road testing it, you're checking brakes, tires,

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Speaker 1: you're doing all the normal due diligence that you do

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Speaker 1: in an oil change. How could you not look at

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Speaker 1: that bill and say I didn't pay enough? Because I do.

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Speaker 1: I look at I go into restaurants and think, gee,

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Speaker 1: they're doing that too cheap. Is what kind of chicken

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Speaker 1: is that really? Or where'd that veel come from? You know?

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Speaker 1: Or what kind of steak. Is that that that right

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Speaker 1: then they put it into the pan three hours later.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what is that?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: So it's just just food for thought as we kick

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Speaker 1: off today, and thanks for joining me. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the answer was, you know, the forty two dollars oil

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Speaker 1: change car. It was time for service and we did

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Speaker 1: our service. We do it. We do a formal checklist.

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Speaker 1: It's an hour shop time, and we go through and

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Speaker 1: we look at everything and we came up with a

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Speaker 1: couple of service items that this vehicle needed at sixty

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Speaker 1: thousand miles and one of them was a cabin filter. Now,

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Speaker 1: a cabin filter most cars is pretty simple. It's a

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Speaker 1: pretty basic thing. It's you know, sometimes it's five minutes,

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's fifteen twenty minutes. It's a little longer in

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Speaker 1: our world because we will go through and look at

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Speaker 1: the base of the windshield, the cawl area, and we'll

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Speaker 1: vacuum out the pine needles and the leaves and the

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Speaker 1: debris and all the stuff that you're breathing that because

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Speaker 1: that's the ear intake for the cabin filter, and that

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Speaker 1: somehow gets you know that not somehow but it gets

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Speaker 1: So we'll go through due diligence and clean everything up.

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Speaker 1: I guess the forty two dollars oil change place just

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Speaker 1: couldn't be bothered putting back all the screws because there

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Speaker 1: was about there was eight, No, there was nine. There

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Speaker 1: was nine screws that were supposed to hold the facea in,

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Speaker 1: to hold the glove box in, to hold the cover

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Speaker 1: over the cabin filter. They got four of them in.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty good. You know, they got

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Speaker 1: most of them. That's almost fifty percent. And then a

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Speaker 1: I guess that sort of counts. It's it worked. What

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Speaker 1: does that forty two dollars oil change get you? Are

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Speaker 1: you paying enough for order repair? I challenge you to

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Speaker 1: ask that question, because it shouldn't be how much, it

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Speaker 1: should be how right? And I've told you this for years,

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Speaker 1: and we've talked about this for a very long time.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's real possible. I'm not saying it happens a lot,

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Speaker 1: but it's real possible that there is incompetence and order repair,

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Speaker 1: and you can hide it, just like an inefficient carpenter

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Speaker 1: or you know all the different things that they do.

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Speaker 1: Are you paying too much for order repair? Are you

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Speaker 1: paying enough for order repair? That's the question today as

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Speaker 1: we kick off this hour by the way, somewhere this

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Speaker 1: hour maybe next Formula one Drive to Survive. We're giving

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Speaker 1: away a book. It's written by Stuart Codling. It's the

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Speaker 1: un official Companion or so it's Slay. It's available on Amazon,

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Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble, Old usual places, Formula one Drive to Survive.

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Speaker 1: We'll be giving away a copy of that today here

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Speaker 1: on the Car Doctor, so you can look forward to that.

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Speaker 1: But right now, let's get to the phones. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to a return call for Mexico City and talk to

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Speaker 1: Danny sixty seven plumbths valiant. How are you, Daniel. Good

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Speaker 1: to hear from you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, good to hear from you again. Ron Hodsonton, I'm good,

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Speaker 6: I'm good.

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Speaker 7: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 6: I was just wondering if I'm supposed to connect the

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Speaker 6: ballast for sister to my car's ignition system, you got

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Speaker 6: a pointless distributor and then an altarnic ignition. I replaced

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Speaker 6: the engine coil because the previous one got burned and

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Speaker 6: I got shortened out because well, I didn't have a

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Speaker 5: But it's supposed to.

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Speaker 6: Be like a reinforced coil, so to speak with the

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Speaker 6: And I was wondering if I'm supposed to, like I

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Speaker 6: still connect a ballast resistor, like you know, from the

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Speaker 6: like would you heard it to connect the ballast resistor

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Speaker 1: It's a great question. You're asking the wrong guy, But

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, all right. So let's talk about

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Speaker 1: what that ballast resistor does or did back in the day,

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Speaker 1: all right, When you went to crank that sixty seven

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Speaker 1: Plymouth Valiant back when it was new, when you were

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Speaker 1: in crank mode as the starter is cranking the engine,

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Speaker 1: that ballast resistor was bypassed, okay, And you apply to

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Speaker 1: full twelve vaults to the coil, and you gave it

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Speaker 1: that momentary hot spark to fire a cold, wet engine

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Speaker 1: or have longevity of ignition points life. They cut down

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Speaker 1: the voltage once the engine was running by then channeling

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Speaker 1: its whole purpose. If you've got electronic ignition, the question

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Speaker 1: becomes whose electronic ignition is it? And how did they

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Speaker 1: voltage reduction as well? And and that's a question for them.

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Speaker 1: Is the coil? Is the coil rated for that electronic

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Speaker 6: Well, it's a generic coil so to speak. What I

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Speaker 6: can tell you is that the ignition module, uh is

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Speaker 1: I would have to say that it's it's I don't

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Speaker 1: to if it's if it's an internal resistance coil, you're

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Speaker 1: going to see a voltage reduction on the negative side,

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Speaker 1: which goes to the electronic control module. All Right, it

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Speaker 1: may not perform as well as it should, and that's

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Speaker 1: that's the next question. So what I would do is

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Speaker 1: if it's when you say Electric Chrysler electronic ignition, you're

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Speaker 1: talking about, it's the square box that was bolted to

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's the mon Yeah, yeah, I got a

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Speaker 1: Okay, then I would I would simply go look up

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Speaker 1: seventy five, seventy six. I would go look up a

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Speaker 1: standard coil for that and see how it's rated. Did

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Speaker 1: they want resistance to it or not? And I would

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Speaker 1: just get a coil for that, and then at least

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Speaker 1: you match the coil to the ignition control module, because

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Speaker 1: that's that's the key, all right. You know, not having

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Speaker 1: that resistance there may overload the ignition control module. They

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Speaker 1: may have it set up, maybe they bypassed the resistance

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Speaker 1: It's been a while since I looked at one of those, truthfully,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it's they still might be looking for

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Speaker 1: they lower voltage to the control module or what to

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Speaker 1: what would have been the points in the condenser. So

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Speaker 1: I would just want to know the answer to that

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Speaker 6: Oh so it's not the engine coil that's as big

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Speaker 1: I would I would, I would believe. So I've seen

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Speaker 1: it where they bypassed and they ran and I don't

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Speaker 1: know how much the the You know, you could run

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Speaker 1: twelve vaults to a coil if the coil is rated

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Speaker 1: great questions, you know it's it's it's got to be

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Speaker 1: geared based around the electronic ignition control module. What's the

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Speaker 1: correct module for that? And I don't think that's I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be that hard to diet to

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Speaker 1: look up. I would think there's applications all over the

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Speaker 1: net talking about you know, if you're using this module,

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Speaker 1: here's the part number for the coil. Do you have

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Speaker 1: a part number on that coil that you're using.

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Speaker 6: Well, actually I have it. I have the you know

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Speaker 6: the bus that that it came in eight one four

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Speaker 6: oh C by Axel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the name, yeah, the number in the name is

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Speaker 1: not familiar. I would is it a current Are they

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Speaker 1: a current company? Are they still in business? Uh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they are actually called up their customer

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Speaker 6: heard is hotline and ask them the same question, and

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Speaker 6: uh they answered that, well, it all depended on the distributor,

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Speaker 6: you know, whether it was a pointless distributor or you know,

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Speaker 6: the one with a point and condenser. Right, And well,

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Speaker 6: I've got I've got the pointless unit. I was to

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Speaker 6: create it because well it originally came out of the

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 1: So they're right there, Well, an electronic cognition. So they're

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Speaker 1: reading the script, all right, we want somebody that doesn't

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Speaker 1: read the script. We want somebody that sits there and says, hey,

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Speaker 1: we did an electronic ignition. Listen, my old office manager,

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Speaker 1: Lou had a sixty three Valiant. I converted it to

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Speaker 6: Be fine, yeah, yeah, but I think just to err

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Speaker 1: You could, but then you're gonna then you're gonna drop

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a resistance uh, embedded into the coil like

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Speaker 6: it's got the field in resistance one pint.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what, Danny. Sit tight, let me

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Speaker 7: Don't go with.

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Speaker 4: God good time.

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Speaker 1: Ride it on the wall so you don't forget to

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Speaker 4: Done right?

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Speaker 1: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero.

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Speaker 1: Now back to raw, Danny. Are you still there in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm still here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what I want you to do. Let's

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Speaker 1: going to tell you, if I remember right, the coil

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Speaker 1: As well, right, put a put a, put a uh

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I have a spare one here.

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Speaker 1: You know, if if they both read the same, then

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Speaker 6: Yeah? What are your thoughts on a possible cause to

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Speaker 1: Okay, is that a is that a tapered style bearing, Danny?

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Speaker 6: I think it was the this that's quare a little type.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So the bearing, the bearing is the bearing is

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Speaker 6: To the second the second scenario, it did the bearing

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Speaker 1: Okay. So if when you say it's overheating, how do

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Speaker 1: you know it's overheating because the wheel doesn't want to turn? Wow?

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Speaker 6: Because it's hot to the touch. It actually burned my

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Speaker 1: Where were you touched Where were you touching?

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Speaker 6: I was actually touching the wheel, and I also touched

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Speaker 1: What if you put the car up on jack stands,

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Speaker 6: Oh? Oh yeah, that sounds smarty. I haven't thought of that.

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Speaker 1: Just let's let's let's break it down. You know, we

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Speaker 1: do we have or do we have a break that's dragging?

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Speaker 1: Do we have a wheel cylinder that's expanding from heat

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Speaker 1: that's somehow applying the parking break, You know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of there's a lot of factors here. But try that.

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Speaker 1: Just obviously make sure you secure and get it up

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Speaker 1: make some noise. And I'm not hearing you say that.

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Speaker 1: So you got some homework to dude, Daniel, you need more.

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Speaker 1: You know where I'm at. I'll be here for you, kiddo,

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Speaker 1: and good luck. Keep me posted eight by five five

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Speaker 1: car Doctor, I'll be back right after this.

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Speaker 7: Don't go away.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back running the car Doctor. Here, let's get over

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Speaker 1: to Gus and Miami twenty one Toyota Highland or Hybrid. Gus,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car Doctor. How can I help?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Ron, how are you.

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 5: I had a question about fuel system cleaning, and I

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Speaker 5: wanted to get your advice on fuel system cleaning for

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Speaker 5: both standard port you know, induction engines and for engines

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Speaker 5: that are direct injection. The twenty twenty one Highlander actually

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Speaker 5: has both systems direct and for infections. So I'd like

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Speaker 5: right questions because I also have another Prius that's regular

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Speaker 5: you know, on not direct induction, and I want to

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Speaker 5: ask the right questions about fuel system cleanings, fessional fuel

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Speaker 5: system cleaning. That uh, I'm a mechanic, gotcha?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, let me let's talk port fuel first. So

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Speaker 1: traditional port fuel injection as defined has the fuel injector

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Speaker 1: all right, the combustion process takes place, so forth and

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Speaker 1: so on, like it's like it has for so many years.

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Speaker 1: The great thing about that style is that you're you're

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Speaker 1: so you're always washing the valve as well as the seat,

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Speaker 1: you're running cleaner through the injector to help cut down

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Speaker 1: then take tract and so on. In recent years, most

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Speaker 1: the style, ball and seat design, they've changed the penttal design.

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Speaker 1: They've put a lot of you know, man hours into

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Speaker 1: changing how it's you know, sprits and fuel such that

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Speaker 1: we're not so worried about that anymore clogging injectors, as

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Speaker 1: we just want to get the cleaner through it. So

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Speaker 1: you could take instead of hooking to the fuel rail,

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Speaker 1: n G. Where you would on a port fuel injected

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Speaker 1: where it will take and it will spread that cleaner

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Speaker 1: the valve and clean. Obviously in that process you're missing

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Speaker 1: the injector. Then they came along with you. Direct injection,

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Speaker 1: all right. Direct injection, just like its name implies, The

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Speaker 1: injector sprays fuel right into the cylinder. It bypasses the

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Speaker 1: and there's a few of them, is they can now

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Speaker 1: control the disadvantage to this is it never hits the

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Speaker 1: on top of the piston because they've extended a studies show,

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Speaker 1: It's it's It's funny. The more we try to escape

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Speaker 1: what's the best way to solve all this? I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell you right off the bat, A good tank

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Speaker 5: And I do. I do that, and I do run

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Speaker 5: certified top tier. You know, I'm just kind of I've

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Speaker 5: heard horror stories of GDI, So I do run you know,

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Speaker 5: tank right added it. But I'd like to, you know,

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Speaker 5: a professional field cleaning, but I just don't want to

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Speaker 5: get railroaded it.

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00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,120
Speaker 2: And you know, tell me right.

437
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,880
Speaker 1: To me if I have the option. It's also it's

438
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 1: also about accessibility. I'll say it like this, And I

439
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 1: went through this, and I developed this on a twenty

440
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: fourteen Escape because it was one of the first vehicles

441
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: in the family direct injection, and I could play with

442
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: it a little bit on my own time. When I

443
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: do a fuel system cleaning on a fourteen Escaper, I

444
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 1: should say on the Escapes because they are GDI direct injection.

445
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 1: It was a two step process. I ran cleaner through

446
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 1: the fuel rail, all right, just to go through the injector,

447
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: even though I'm not convinced I was really helping the

448
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: injector per se, because Ford's one of the one of

449
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,479
Speaker 1: the many that claim, you know, clog free injectors. But

450
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: then I also fog the intake. I would take off

451
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 1: the purge line going down by the throttle body. That's

452
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: a two step process. I figured it out go ahead.

453
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,080
Speaker 5: That would get fogging, would get the back of the vale.

454
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: I guess right, right, yeah, you know, I figured it

455
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: out you know, to do it right at a retail

456
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: level for a customer, it's about five hundred bucks, you know,

457
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: just just time and material because you think about it,

458
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 1: you're using two cans of a detergent cleaner, all right,

459
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: You're using you're using it takes twice as much time,

460
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,959
Speaker 1: if you know, if a typical fuel system retails one

461
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty to two hundred bucks, now you're doing

462
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: it twice. So yeah, you know it's it's but nobody's

463
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: yeah now. So now in your case, I don't know

464
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: because I haven't played with a twenty one with with

465
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: PFI and direct injection yet, right, you know, I'd have

466
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 1: to think about how I would want to do it.

467
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: You know, when I do a fuel system cleaning, the

468
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: other thing I will do is I will hook up

469
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: a scan tool and I will watch cat temperature, and

470
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 1: I will look at some of the other indicators. I

471
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: will look at fuel trim, I will look at some

472
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: of the other items that are going to be affected

473
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: by a more efficient engine to decide, you know, is

474
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 1: what I did working? All right? I just don't want

475
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 1: to take it as a blanket result until I know

476
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: for sure what the effects are. So I would always

477
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: do it that way. I think my concern would be

478
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 1: what I would try to do is to get into

479
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: the port fuel side of your system, not so much

480
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: for cleaning the injectors, but to have direct spray on

481
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 1: the intake valves. And then I know that that would

482
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 1: get to the piston top. And I would also want

483
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: to point out, because we tend to forget this, that

484
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: on modern engines, to make sure the PCB the crank

485
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 1: case ventilation system is working properly, because you know, if

486
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: there's an error, by the time we find that, it's

487
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: fifty thousand miles later and the damage has done, the

488
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: carbon build up is there, and you know we've got

489
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 1: the issue. And for the record, before I before I

490
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: forget gus, you got twenty thousand on this car. I'd

491
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: definitely do a fuel system cleaning by thirty.

492
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Speaker 7: And I wouldn't.

493
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. You wouldn't have to twist my arm. They

494
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: get me to do it at twenty five.

495
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,040
Speaker 5: Okay, So I'll take that overay and let me let

496
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 5: me let me just tag tag back on what frequency

497
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 5: would you use tank additive every tank, every other tank

498
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,439
Speaker 5: once you know ten tanks, and and do you have

499
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 5: a recommendation on brand or you know, if.

500
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: You can find it, if you can find it. I

501
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: really like the stuff from Berryman, all right. Not not

502
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: because they're a sponsor, all right. Listen, we were using

503
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: Berriman before they became a sponsor. You know, it's it's

504
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: and I always say it like this, you know, tank editor,

505
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: fuel system cleaner is you're buying the company's attack and

506
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: current state of technology, what they're prepared to deal with.

507
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: All right, A lot a lot of a lot of

508
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: the companies I think have state status quo over time. Berryman,

509
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: to me is always exploring everything I read. They're always

510
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: trying harder. You can go to their website Berrimanproducts dot

511
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 1: com and they've got this really great video where they

512
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: they line up all the current fuel system cleaners in

513
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: the marketplace and they pour them into a styrofoam cup.

514
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at it in a while. I think

515
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: it's still there and it's kind of funny, right Berryman

516
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: with hest will actually dissolve the styrofoam cup where everybody

517
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: else doesn't. So you know, if it can dissolve styrofoam,

518
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: I think it can dissolve carbon and uh, you know

519
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: you're you're paying for that technology. I have had some

520
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: excess as far as distribution finding Berryman either at an

521
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: Advanced Auto parts or online at Amazon, and both of

522
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: those seem to have a real good distribution. But you know, yeah,

523
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: I like I like Berryman. Berryman is a great product.

524
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 5: I appreciate I appreciate the vice, and I'll definitely, I

525
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 5: definitely will be doing that field system cleaning. You know,

526
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 5: not a huge fan of the g d I and

527
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 5: not a huge fan of having two systems complicating.

528
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: It, but it just it just mean and and you

529
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: know what if you if you can't find Berryman, tech

530
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: Ron is good too. T E C H R O N.

531
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: Tech Ron is a good stand in. I still use

532
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: that when I can't find Berryman. It's a it's a

533
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: good product as well. So yeah, yep, so but you're

534
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: on the right track, Hitter, You're doing the right things,

535
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: You're asking the right questions top tier and how to

536
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: do it. So I think if you follow that advice,

537
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 1: you'll be just fine. If you got more, you can

538
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: give me a call back. I'm on an ady in

539
00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: the car doctor. I'll return right after this. M welcome back.

540
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: Running in the car doctor here. Let's uh, let's go

541
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: over and talk to Steve and Maryland. Steve, welcome back, sir.

542
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: How are you today?

543
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: I'm doing five?

544
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: So what's going on today?

545
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got a a Toyota Tacoma twenty thirteen truck

546
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: that has a four cylinder engine. It's ten years and

547
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 2: seven months old, and the manual says change the anti

548
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: freeze at one hundred thousand miles or ten years. Well,

549
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 2: I've got thirty eight thousand miles on it, but I've

550
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 2: got I've got ten years seven months, so it's time

551
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 2: to change the anti freeze.

552
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: Correct.

553
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 2: My question is I'll probably get the Toyota top of

554
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 2: the line anti freeze to put in, and I guess

555
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: I'll flush it with distilled water. Please tell me after

556
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 2: we're after I describe my situation, please tell me if

557
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 2: you you think I should flush it with distilled water

558
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: or whatever. And the second thing is, I'm thinking I've

559
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 2: got hoses and belts that are ten years old on

560
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 2: the cooling system. Should I also replace those? And I've

561
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 2: squeezed the hoses. They all seem like they're okay, and

562
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: they're all original. I've never had any any trouble with

563
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 2: anything on the truck. But I'm just trying to perform

564
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 2: the PMCs on it like I should. And what do

565
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: you think I should do?

566
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: So let's let's start with the cool on first, Stevie,

567
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: I think that you know what you want to do

568
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: with distilled water and all. You're not going to do

569
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: as effect of a job as someone that's hooking up

570
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: a coolant exchange machine, all right, because well, first of all,

571
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 1: where are're gonna where you're gonna put it all? You're

572
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: gonna take the distilled water out of it and let

573
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: it run down the street, And you can't really put

574
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: coolant out into the environment. It's got to get recycled,

575
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: so that's bad for the environment. Number one.

576
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 2: Okay, well I would capture all the coolant. I have

577
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: no problem with that. And also on in decades past,

578
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: at least on my small block chevalets, there's a drain

579
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 2: plug on each side of the block. I don't know

580
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: if I have a drain plug on a four cylinder.

581
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: You should should, you should, and you could. But the

582
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: advantage of using a machine is it'll push it through

583
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: under moderate pressure and swirl up and pick up the crud.

584
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: Whereas draining it, it's you know, you don't necessarily get

585
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: everything out. Even then, even doing a machine exchange, you're

586
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: never going to get one hundred percent contamin it out,

587
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: but you know you'll get up to ninety eight percent

588
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: or so. The average system does. Uh, the average machine does.

589
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm I mean you could try it your way, as

590
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: long as you're going to capture it. I don't want

591
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: to worry about the stilled water. I think that's a

592
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: little over the top. Frankly. Their concern is they're worried

593
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: about acidity. You know, if we wanted to measure it

594
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: and test it, I would tell you to get down

595
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: to your local Loto Parts store and ask them for

596
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: a coolant dip strip or a coolant acidity test strip,

597
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: which is nothing more than it's going to be three

598
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: little pieces of colored paper on a strip and it'll

599
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: show you the litmus content, or it might be two

600
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: at this point where it'll show you the acidity content

601
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: of the coolant. Because coolant, when it goes bad, it's

602
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: like apple cider. It turns hard, so to speak. So

603
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: you know that's what you're after. You want to try

604
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: and catch it before it turns hard. But the most

605
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: effective way to do it is with a machine. Doing

606
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: it with distilled water and capturing it. You could, but

607
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: you're never going to quite have the same result. But

608
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: it's a good it's a good second step method. I

609
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: want to point out I'm a small block Chevrolet guy

610
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: too from years gone by. You'll ever get it as

611
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: clean as you will with the machine as you're doing

612
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: draining everything. When I do the hot rod, I actually

613
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: hook the machine up and I do it that way,

614
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: which looks kind of weird because it's modern technology hooked

615
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: up to a seventy year old car. So that being set,

616
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: second question, hoses, You know, hoses are a funny thing

617
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: thirty eight thousand miles. You won't see it on the outside,

618
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: it's on the inside. I think the answer to the

619
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: second question comes about how much acidity does the coolant have?

620
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: For the first part, if you show the coolant is clean,

621
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: chances are you can get by another five years with

622
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: the hoses. But the question then becomes in five years,

623
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: eighteen years old, I'm sorry, fifteen years old? Will you

624
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: be able to get hoses from Toyota for that anymore?

625
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: So you know it's a double edged sword. I get

626
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: it ten years. It's not the worst idea to change

627
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: all the belts and hoses. I absolutely agree with you,

628
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: But you know, can you get to it all? And

629
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: what do you have to take a part to do it?

630
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: This is a four cylinder, so it's in the back.

631
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: Tell you what, stay put me. We'll ever take a pause.

632
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll finish up. I'm running aiding

633
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: the car doctor. We'll return right after this. Welcome back, Steve.

634
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: You're still there, Yes, sir, I got another way to

635
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: attack this. Yeah, let's do all the hoses, all right,

636
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: I sat here thinking about it. You know what, Let's

637
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: do all the hoses first. I'll first find out and

638
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: maybe I misunderstood you. You want to combine if the

639
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: Toyota coolant you purchase over the counter is straight and

640
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: you have to mix it, you want to use distilled water.

641
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: Correct, right, But I'll go ahead and get the pre deluded.

642
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: But I wanted to flush the engine with distilled water.

643
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: If you think I should do that or just use regular,

644
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 2: I got a well.

645
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: Because I think it's going to be too hard. You know,

646
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: you want to run it through a hose and run

647
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: some pressure through it. So I think it's going to

648
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: be too hard to get the stilled water to come

649
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: out at the end of a hose. I'm not sure

650
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: how you would do that.

651
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Speaker 2: You know, set up a s at the end of hose.

652
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Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.

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00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: Well, in other words, when you say flush it, how

654
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: are you going to flush it? Right? Put some distilled

655
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: water in the system and run it that. Yeah, that,

656
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: you know what. Open up all the drains, open up

657
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: the heater core, disconnect all the hoses, take a hose,

658
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: set up a tap, and run city water pressure through

659
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: the system and you should be fine. All right, that'll

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00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: work for you. And then and then you know, new hoses,

661
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: fresh cooling. You're good to go, because five years from now, fifteen,

662
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: twenty years from now, right, at least it's done once.

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00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: I'm not an ady in the car doctor reminding you.

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00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: Good mechanics aren't expensive. They're priceless.

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Speaker 7: See you