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Speaker 1: You know what it could be that damn starter motor.

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Speaker 1: You're getting good compression.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what's wrong with it.

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Speaker 3: It's a Ford.

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Speaker 4: You know what they say.

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Speaker 1: Ford stands for don't you stands for?

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Speaker 4: Fix it again?

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Speaker 2: Tony, you're thinking of a fiu. Ron An Indian.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what it is, but there was a

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Speaker 3: sign on the shop front door this week that said,

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Speaker 3: if you don't drive your car and you have a

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Speaker 3: dead battery, then stop.

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Speaker 2: Your the car doctor.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for a pub wire.

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Speaker 2: I can't find them for an old mc rambler in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty one America.

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Speaker 3: And why can't you make them?

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Speaker 5: Welcome to the radio home of ron An Aian, the

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Speaker 5: Car Doctor since nineteen ninety one. This is where car

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Speaker 5: owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 5: Automo to repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy

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Speaker 5: signal to pick up the phone and call in the

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Speaker 5: garage doors are opening.

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Speaker 3: But I am here to take your calls at eighty

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Speaker 3: five five five six ninety nine hundred and now pee.

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Speaker 1: Running.

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Speaker 3: I have proof that God exists, that there's higher intelligence

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Speaker 3: in the universe somewhere, and they're they're running the show,

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Speaker 3: you know, and I sort of say this asn't aside

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Speaker 3: because we're here doing this nationally syndicated radio show every week,

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Speaker 3: and you know, you guys think this is a big operation.

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Speaker 3: It's about four people and we kind of produce this

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Speaker 3: every week. This is this is a lot of blood,

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Speaker 3: sweat and tears. At about three weeks ago, we had

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Speaker 3: you know, if you if you're in the studio, we

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Speaker 3: had two computer We have two main computers, an editor

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Speaker 3: and an automation machine, and the editor the hard drive

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Speaker 3: it back up, and you know, we kind of live

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Speaker 3: along the last two weekends. And Tom and I talked

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Speaker 3: It's just I said, do you think we could get

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Speaker 3: he says, I'll be down Friday. Tom was here Friday,

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Speaker 3: first Friday, so the shop was closed. I was here

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Speaker 3: course was good. I had to go get Tom's favorite sandwich,

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Speaker 3: I hope nobody's eating lunch. Tom's favorite sandwich of a

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Speaker 3: tuner rap chedd or blue cheese dressing and mayo all together.

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Speaker 3: we got all done. So the studio's up. Studios once again,

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Speaker 3: died last night, the old editor. We left it plugged in.

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Speaker 3: that Tom Ray missed something and I doubt it. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure we'll be here for two hours. I want to

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Speaker 3: talk to you about the shop. But in all seriousness

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Speaker 3: Because Tom's not as young as you used to be. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So although I keep saying getting old beats the alternative

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Speaker 3: You know, details count, they really do, and you have

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Speaker 3: The whole car starts to shimmy and shake. And as

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Speaker 3: What did I prove? It's not a tire, it's not

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Speaker 3: something bent. Put it back in gear. Still didn't have

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Speaker 3: It started to do the hula hoop. Well, guess what

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Speaker 3: I've got. I've got a loaded drive train problem. Went

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Speaker 3: What I've done now is I've taken the electronics out

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Speaker 3: The crazy thing is it's been in and out of

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Speaker 3: And they've been working this thing for a while and nobody.

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Speaker 3: I'm shocked. I'm shocked that they let this car out

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Speaker 3: and then it has a plunge joint. A plunge joint

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Speaker 3: all right. That that your fist, your closed fist, has

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Speaker 3: ninety percent of the grease is gone. But here's the

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Speaker 3: undercarriage of the vehicle. Nope, not a drop, not a bit.

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Speaker 3: The real crazy part is this vehicle had a supercharger replaced,

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Speaker 3: you're standing on the passenger side. When you lift that

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Speaker 3: from the top where it's easy to see. You know,

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Speaker 3: you know the history of this vehicle. You know that

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Speaker 3: aren't you you know? Bottom line? All right? I talked

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Speaker 3: This car has a bad right front axle. You can

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Speaker 3: You can see here's the real kicker. Because I kept

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Speaker 3: The right front tire, the right front tire is worn

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Speaker 3: eighty percent more than the other three. And I'm looking

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Speaker 3: at that, and I'm saying, why is that tire worn

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Speaker 3: like that? Now, I know tires rotate, they go straight

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Speaker 3: Here's Rob. Hey, let's let's go to Camden in Pennsylvania

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Speaker 7: So? I've noticed that my front uh front driver's side

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Speaker 7: Okay, I have a leak coming from somewhere and I

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Speaker 7: Actually I watched the drain out of both sides of

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Speaker 3: So where these leak? If this is putting water into

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So a couple of things open the trunk lid.

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Speaker 7: All right, all right, perfect, thank you.

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Speaker 3: You're very welcome, sir. You need more, you know where

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Speaker 3: I see I see Tom as appropriately addressed today. Tom.

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Speaker 3: And you know it's funny, right I start talking about

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Speaker 4: Thank you? When you first accelerate it, it feels like

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Speaker 3: This is an automatic pall?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you've got to you've got a light chatter?

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Speaker 3: Is it on acceleration from a rolling starter, is it

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know the shutter cold? Doing a fuel system cleaning,

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Speaker 3: I think we're trying to just sell some maintenance. How

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Speaker 4: How many it's low mile? It just maybe twenty five thousand.

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Speaker 4: Oh? Every time? Yeah? Just does it every time?

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Speaker 4: All so warm? Well, so it's worse when it's cold.

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Speaker 3: Paul goes to the doctor and he has high cholesterol

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Speaker 3: and the doc says, hey, Paul, you know, all that

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Speaker 3: same thing. It's it's it's it's sort of like the

434
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 3: mechanical version of the doctor telling you, uh huh. So

435
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 3: they can look at that, but they've got to want to.

436
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 3: All right, Let's take a look at a couple of

437
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 3: these things. Let's see what fuel trim is. Let's see

438
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 3: what the vitals are, and let's try a manual shift.

439
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 3: If we hold it in first gear? Is it there?

440
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 3: I'd also be curious at a ten mile an hour

441
00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 3: kick at ten to fifteen miles an hour, if I

442
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: accelerate from a role, does it do it? Is that

443
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 3: the difference? And last thought, is it different in reverse

444
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 3: from a dead stop versus going forward from a dead stop.

445
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say no, but I'm not sure about that. Okay,

446
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 4: does that car is it a CBT transmission?

447
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 3: I believe so, yes, all right.

448
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,680
Speaker 4: My first thought is that belt could be slipping pertly.

449
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yep.

450
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 4: Is that common on that car?

451
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 3: Not at this mileage. But we're not gonna let We're

452
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 3: not gonna let mileage, you know, diagnose it for us. Right,

453
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 3: We're gonna approach diagnosis. Now. The other thing they could do,

454
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 3: all right, or someone could do, is there's an input

455
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 3: speed sensor. There's an output speed sensor. All all modern transmissions,

456
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 3: just about all modern transmissions have that. They need to

457
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 3: know how fast the input shaft is going because it

458
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 3: helps to dictate what gear had to shift and operate

459
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 3: the transmission. So they can look at input shaft speed,

460
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 3: output shaft speed and make a determination is the trand slipping,

461
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,959
Speaker 3: all right, So that's another calculation that can be done.

462
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think enough was done here. Did

463
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 3: they charge her for a diagnosis?

464
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 4: That I will ask all so that you know if.

465
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 3: They charge her for a diagnosis, they did, or they

466
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,120
Speaker 3: either didn't do something complete, or they wanted to try

467
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 3: something simple first. I understand simple. I understand first steps,

468
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 3: but I would definitely be upset if they sold her

469
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 3: a fuel system clean and didn't charge a diagnosis. I'm

470
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 3: a firm believer the hour or two hours, I don't

471
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 3: charge somebody I'm doing. I'm doing them at disservice because

472
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 3: at that point, I'm guessing, and we don't like the guests.

473
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 3: All right, you got some things to do, Paul, I'll

474
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 3: be here next week. You can make all back. You're

475
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 3: very welcome, sir, You're very welcome. Yep. You know, yeah,

476
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 3: you have to. You know, I can't tell you the

477
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 3: number of cars. We had three or four backbreakers this week,

478
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 3: just real tough cars, tough cars to deal with and

479
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 3: talk about and look at. And I thought about it,

480
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 3: you know, I me, I probably did more diagnostics this

481
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 3: week than physical break jobs, water pumps that kind of

482
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 3: stuff working on cars. It was more brain work this week.

483
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 3: If you don't charge for that diagnosis, number one, you

484
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 3: go out of business because you can't. You can't give

485
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,400
Speaker 3: away your time. But more importantly, or just as important,

486
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 3: not diagnosing something, not taking the time to do your research,

487
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 3: to look up bulletins, to look up you know, here's

488
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 3: what the numbers are, here's what they should be, you know,

489
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 3: not to take that approach of going through due diligence.

490
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 3: Tell me what's good, I'll tell you what's bad. You're

491
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 3: doing the customer at disservice, you're not. You're just you're guessing.

492
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 3: And I don't think anybody in this business to be successful.

493
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody can afford to guess. I think

494
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 3: that's a that's a bigger problem than I and I'd

495
00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 3: like to admit. So let me pull over and take

496
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 3: a pull us and when the car doctor comes back,

497
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 3: we'll get right back to the phones. Eight five five

498
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 3: five six zero nine nine zero zero. Im running any

499
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 3: of the car doctor. I'll be back right after this.

500
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 8: Don't go away, and we are back again.

501
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 3: Let's go over and talk to Let's go to Linda

502
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 3: in Iowa, Oh eight. I'm sorry, oh eight Lincoln MKX

503
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 3: And let's see what's going on here, Linda. Welcome to

504
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 3: the car doctor. How can I help?

505
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 7: Having me on? Yeah, well, it's been using some Anna

506
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 7: freeze and I didn't really notice anything wrong because it wasn't,

507
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 7: you know, real fast or anything. And I checked my fluids.

508
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 7: But then one day I went to go and it

509
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 7: just it got hot. It ran a little bit and

510
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 7: got hot and it wouldn't go anywhere.

511
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: Right.

512
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 7: So my mechanic come over and he said that it's

513
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 7: the intake gasket, while another guy looked at and he said,

514
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 7: it's the head gasket.

515
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 3: Why why?

516
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: Yeah?

517
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 3: Why the difference?

518
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 4: What?

519
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 3: Because we're we're in two completely different areas.

520
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 7: That's what I thought, you know, I didn't know, you know,

521
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 7: advice from you?

522
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, is it is it that

523
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: the you know, is the mechanic is the one mechanic

524
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 3: to see with the intake? Is he seeing it leaking

525
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 3: from the intake? Is it obvious? I mean, listen, there's

526
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,239
Speaker 3: no rule that says it. It can't be both. But

527
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 3: you know, why are we you know, we're a opposite

528
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 3: ends here, so you know, what's what's been done? You

529
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 3: know the water pump. Is is does he see it

530
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 3: leaking coolant out behind the timing cover right, you know?

531
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 3: Is what's making one say it versus the other. Now,

532
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 3: my comment would be, and are you seeing this coolant

533
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 3: drip while the engine's running or is it something that

534
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 3: you find a puddle underneath the tru It drips all

535
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 3: the time.

536
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 7: Okay, and it's coming from the back of the engine

537
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 7: like towards you know, the firewall or whatever.

538
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 3: Okay, So it's either intake that it's running out that way,

539
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 3: or does it have a leaky freeze out plug, a

540
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 3: core plug, A freeze out plug is designed so it's

541
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 3: just it's just a stamp steel plug, oh, I don't know,

542
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: two inches in diameter, and they'll place them around the

543
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 3: engine block. The idea being that if the vehicle had

544
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 3: low coolant protection instead of because when things freeze they expand, right,

545
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 3: so instead of expanding and cracking the block, in theory,

546
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 3: it's supposed to push the freeze out plug hence the

547
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 3: name freeze out or core plug out of the ballance.

548
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 3: Right now, now, my question would be, all right, since

549
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 3: I'm seeing this, you know, on a constant drip, you know,

550
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 3: can I take a mirror and look down around the

551
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: back edge of the head gasket? Do I see any

552
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 3: external leaks? If I don't see any external leaks, then

553
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 3: I've got to rule that out, all right, you know,

554
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 3: and then I'm going to start to look where else

555
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 3: where do I see this? Okay? This might be an

556
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 3: example where if we were to add a fluoresce and

557
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 3: die to the cooling system, you know, kind of like

558
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 3: going to the when they when they put you in

559
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 3: front of the machine to get a you know, to

560
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 3: get the scan and they want to see where the

561
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 3: blood flows going. We can do that with an automobile too.

562
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 3: We put we had a fluorescent die to the cooling

563
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 3: system and we can let it circulate and then lights

564
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 3: out with a black light and some yellow glasses, and

565
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 3: we look kind of funky, but we could we can.

566
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 3: We can kind of pinpoint where the leak is coming from. Now,

567
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: if I don't see anything doing the dye method, I

568
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 3: don't see anything at the intake, I don't see anything

569
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 3: at the head gasket, But I still got a leak.

570
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 3: Then I've got Then I've got to believe it's behind

571
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 3: the engine, it's behind the flywheel, unless I can get

572
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 3: a borescope up there. I don't know how advanced your

573
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 3: mechanic is, but would they do make yeahs if he's

574
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 3: got ask him, could it be the could it be

575
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 3: a freeze out plug behind the engine? Where where where

576
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 3: if he took the starter out or wherever he wants

577
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 3: to gain access to the bell housing area? Could he

578
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 3: take a you know, take a poke up there and

579
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 3: look to see, uh you know, uh, but do the

580
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 3: dye test first? Last thought? Yeah, well, last thought, just

581
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 3: to make sure. I don't think it's gonna come to this.

582
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 3: But if they think it's an internal head gasket, because

583
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 3: you also said oil's coolant's getting in the oil, well

584
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 3: I think so, yeah.

585
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 7: It was. It didn't smell like coolant.

586
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 3: That it was just thick, well, engine oil. If engine

587
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 3: oil is coolant contaminated, it's gonna look like a chocolate milkshake.

588
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 7: It kind of looked like, yeah, all right, So if.

589
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 3: It looks like a chocolate milkshake, do you have two problems?

590
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 3: Do you have an engine oil cooler in the radiator?

591
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 3: Is that leaking?

592
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 7: Oh?

593
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 3: Okay, you know there's no rule it there's no rule

594
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 3: that says a car only has one problem I don't

595
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 3: know if you caught it at the top of the

596
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 3: hour when I when I came on and I was

597
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 3: talking about the Volvo in the shop this week with

598
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 3: the torn in your axle boot. Well, you know, part

599
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 3: of that conversation is, I don't know if that's the

600
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 3: only problem with the car, but that's that's got to

601
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 3: get fixed first chance. Chances are it is, but you know,

602
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 3: fix what you know is bad. In your case, let's

603
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 3: try and test around it. If we were to pressurize

604
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 3: the cooling system, put a cooling system pressure tester on

605
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 3: that engine, pull the six spark plugs out and let

606
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 3: it sit overnight. If I came in in the morning

607
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,959
Speaker 3: using either a borescope or looking down with a flashlight

608
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 3: and a mirror, however I'm going to do it. Do

609
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 3: I see any coolant collected on tops of the pistons? Right?

610
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: Basic stuff?

611
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: Uh?

612
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 3: You know? Do I see coolant coming out elsewhere in

613
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 3: the engine? Does the die show me any tracking as

614
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 3: far as where it's coming from? So there's things we

615
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 3: can do. My concern is I've got two mechanics and

616
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 3: they're telling me opposite ends of the engine and and

617
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 3: A are we testing this or are we sitting against

618
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 3: the fender having a couple of coffee, going, well, I

619
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 3: think it's this because the last three ones were this.

620
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: You know, we can right, that's what you want, you know.

621
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 3: Otherwise we're diagnosing by color.

622
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 7: You know.

623
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 3: The last three Blue Lincolns had bad head gaskets. That

624
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 3: must be it, you know, I love those guys.

625
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 7: Power put when he was with me, we put anna

626
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 7: freeze in it, you know, and it had power and

627
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 7: it rang fine.

628
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 3: Well, you know, unless it's an external head gasket leak,

629
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 3: and it could be, but again, you know, if it

630
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 3: was an internal head gasket leak. Again, I don't think

631
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 3: it is an internal head gas get leak, because if

632
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: it did, you'd be telling me, hey, Ron, I've got

633
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 3: all this white smoke coming out the tailpipe and I've

634
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:32,959
Speaker 3: got a power loss, and I don't. I don't think

635
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 3: you've got that. I think you've got some other things

636
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 3: going on.

637
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 7: All right, Okay, thank you very much.

638
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: You're very welcome, Dere you'd be well, you know, and

639
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 3: the other side of that conversation for everybody else's it's

640
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 3: in no wait and I'm sure Linda's aware, but getting

641
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 3: parts for that is not easy, right. That vehicle is

642
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 3: going on seventeen years old. Now I've got a few

643
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 3: of those still running around with customers, and it's said,

644
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 3: I remember when those cars were new, we could get

645
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: all kinds of parts. Not anymore. All that stuff's going away.

646
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 3: A five five, five, six zero nine nine zero zero

647
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 3: the car Doctor's twenty four to seven number. We'll be

648
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Speaker 3: back right after this.

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Speaker 2: She's real.

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Speaker 3: Find my four nine, she's real, find.

651
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Speaker 9: My fall nine my phone, and Brian writes in, Hey Ron,

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Speaker 9: I was just and Brian just wrote in you know

653
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 9: the beauty of this radio show?

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Speaker 3: You right, you can. You can write in it Ron

655
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 3: atcardoctorshow dot com. Hey Ron, I was just listening to

656
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 3: Linda on the phone talk about her owait Lincoln. Is

657
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: it possible case seal could have solved her problem? You

658
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 3: know what, Brian, It's possible. But I don't want to

659
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 3: mention that. I will mention that here because you brought

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00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 3: it up. K CAL we know is a great cooling system.

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00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 3: You know it will stop leaks and you know it

662
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: will solve problems. But I wanted to get diagnosed first.

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00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 3: I don't want to just blindly dump k CeAl in

664
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Speaker 3: until I know what it is, and I'm trying to repair.

665
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 3: At least, then you know, I know what to keep

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Speaker 3: an eye on should I have a future occurrence, which

667
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 3: with case I probably won't. But I just I want

668
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 3: to know what it is I'm trying to fix, you know,

669
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 3: like like you just want to know what it is

670
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: you're up against before you just you know, solve it

671
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 3: right away. So but yes, very good point. More information

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00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 3: at caseal dot com. We had a we had a

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen Accura this week. I just want to point

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Speaker 3: this one out. This was a quickie that had a

675
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 3: random no start. You'd get in the car, that get

676
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 3: in the car, they turned the key and nothing would happen,

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: and then they'd cycle it park neutral and things would

678
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 3: start to work again. But it just didn't make any sense.

679
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 3: They brought the car to us and we couldn't duplicate

680
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 3: the problem. We couldn't get it to act up. So

681
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Speaker 3: what do we do? Well, tell me what's good. I'll

682
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Speaker 3: tell you what's bad, I said, Danny, give me a

683
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 3: give me a draw test, you know, let's see, do

684
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 3: we have any electrical drain. I want you to load

685
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 3: test the battery, and I want you to take a

686
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: look at cables connections. Accuras Hondas have a ground strap

687
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 3: that goes from the transmission to the frame because they

688
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 3: run an alternate ground to the body. I want you

689
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Speaker 3: to go through and voltage drop tests that we went

690
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 3: through these various systems and components. You know, just see

691
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 3: what's good. And everything was great, well, everything sort of.

692
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 3: When Danny put the clamp for the battery load tester

693
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 3: on the positive cable, it kind of twisted and fell off.

694
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 3: It was a loose connection. Now, the funny part was

695
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 3: you could see that the cable had about I'm gonna

696
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 3: say about a sixteenth of an inch gap before it

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00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: would have bottomed out against the top case of the battery.

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00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 3: And it was a matter of loosening the bolt. They

699
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 3: have a ten millimeter on a six milimeter cross bolt. There.

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Speaker 3: We loosened it up, We reshaped the clamp, we cleaned

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Speaker 3: the terminal, and you know, little tap tap tap with

702
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 3: my two ounced ball pink got its seat of nice

703
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 3: and snug tightened it up. Problem solved. Because sometimes it's

704
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 3: the little things. Tell me what's good. I'll tell you

705
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 3: what's bad till the next time. I'm Ron Ananian good

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Speaker 3: mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you, She st