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Speaker 1: and Anian the Car Doctor, since this is where car

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Speaker 1: to go a hundred percent electric by by this date,

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Speaker 1: it's it's impossible. And you've brought up a very good point.

427
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 1: My my niece lives in Arizona. They the grid can't

428
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: keep up with the hot weather and all the air

429
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: conditioning and things like that. How are we going to

430
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: set up an infrastructure on the west, on the Western

431
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,360
Speaker 1: United States If we can't even manage to keep air

432
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: conditionings going this is a pipe dream. Well, you know what,

433
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: I hope it never gets this. You know that one

434
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 1: of the issues is and I had I had lunch

435
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: with a very dear dinner with a very dear friend

436
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 1: this week. Tony and I went to the diner. We

437
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: were talking and it wasn't an argument. I've never had

438
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 1: an argument with Tony in all the years that I've

439
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,600
Speaker 1: known him. But he's like, Ron, you gotta get behind

440
00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: the electric vehicles. You gotta brace it for what it is.

441
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: And and what I had said to him is what

442
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to say to all of you. I've yet

443
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,959
Speaker 1: to see how this technology is going to work. And

444
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: Tony made the argument that you know, the blacksmith back

445
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 1: at the turn of the previous century that was shooting

446
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: horses was being told or tolling everybody, you know what

447
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: they're They're never gonna get gasoline combustion vehicles off the ground.

448
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:24,959
Speaker 1: Where we're gonna get guess from where we're gonna get

449
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: the supply from? Where is it all gonna happen? But

450
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: the world was very different than in my mind. It

451
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: wasn't as connected, and it wasn't as global as it

452
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 1: is today, and it wasn't a question of air pollution

453
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: as their argument for getting rid of electric vehicles is.

454
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: Now they want, you know, they want electric vehicles to

455
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: help clean up the air. Which we could have that

456
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: conversation about where's the electricity going to come from. But

457
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,439
Speaker 1: one of the things I took away from my conversation

458
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 1: with Tony is we have to be open minded. But

459
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: you've got to show me something, you know, I want.

460
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: I keep thinking about this all week after dinner. I

461
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,719
Speaker 1: want the Star Trek effect, all right, I want I

462
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: want somebody to show me the phaser, the transporter, you know,

463
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: I want to say, the next level of technology. It's

464
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: it's not that it's not that we're anti electric vehicle,

465
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: it's were anti stupidity. And I think that I just

466
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: I just think people don't want stupid. We're done with that.

467
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: And if you can't produce a product that's gonna actually work, right, Tony,

468
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: If if they could come out I'm sorry, Tony Brian.

469
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,439
Speaker 1: If they could come out with an electric vehicle was

470
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: a easily easy to be extinguished, easy to recharge, easy

471
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 1: to recycle, and affordable and more reliable, and you know

472
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,399
Speaker 1: that it was it was a practical more practical is

473
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 1: well broken in as a gas car, wouldn't you be

474
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: more open to the idea? I absolutely would, But you

475
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: know I'd be more comfortable too if it was maybe

476
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: a plug in with and it had maybe if it

477
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: also like if if you needed it run on gasoline

478
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: to run on that, and there are cars like that.

479
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: You know, there's hybrids that can also grown full plug

480
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: in and a friend of mine has one. But at

481
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 1: least you if if the electric you can get off

482
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: the electric, you can you have the gas back up.

483
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be fine for partial electric, but I

484
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: want internal combustion. I don't care if it's hybrid. I

485
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: want internal combustion. And you know, even there's they're coming

486
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: out with, um what do you call the electric tractor

487
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: trailers where Ups and uh Walmart bought them. I used

488
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: to drive tractor trailers. I've driven diesel, and I've driven

489
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: natural gas because you know, natural gas, we don't have

490
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: an infrastructure, but they run fine. As a truck driver, nobody, nobody,

491
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: you know, nobody expects it to be any good. You know,

492
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: we can't shift, you know, we don't have any any

493
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: mechan you know, because you have to have a mechanism

494
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: of shifting up shift, down shift. I think these are

495
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: all pipe dream might think Elon Musk everything he's you know,

496
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: it's over optimism. It's over optimism by the Big Three.

497
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: They're making it sound like a rosy picture like this

498
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 1: is easy to happen. Look fifty four. I think I'll

499
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: be long dead when they perfect this right. Well, and

500
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: I'll leave it here. I'll tell you what, Brian, let

501
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: me let me leave it here is my last thought,

502
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: because we could we could go on all our you know,

503
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: somebody made a comment to me this week that the

504
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: reason Tesla is doing so well, and I haven't verified this,

505
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: but I think it's a valid point to consider is

506
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: because he's also receiving a lot of government rebate and

507
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: funding and tax credits and allowances. That the US government

508
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: is kind of behind Tesla at some level, trying to

509
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: push this product along because they wanted to happen. You

510
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen when all that government financing, so

511
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: to speak, goes away. I always think about that caller

512
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: we had from Mexico a few months back, and we've

513
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: actually got you know, we've got callers all over the

514
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: world with podcasting and streaming, not just terrestrial radio stations.

515
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: And he called in and he was kind of laughing

516
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: at us. He said, you know, not laughing at us,

517
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: but he said, you know what's interesting about America is

518
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: you guys are all gonna go electric, and Mexico is

519
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: not going to go electric anytime sooner. We're not even

520
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,959
Speaker 1: predicting it because we don't have the structure in Mexico

521
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: is a poor country. Mexico can't afford to do what

522
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: America is going to do, as they claim they're gonna

523
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: put electric charges all up and down every highway. He says,

524
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: it's never gonna happen here. And I keep thinking about,

525
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: you know, somebody must know something I don't know, because

526
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the air blows all around, it doesn't

527
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: get to Mexico and stop, and we keep the clean

528
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: air on our side in the dirty air on their side.

529
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: So I just look at all this and I scratched

530
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: my head. And that's my comment. You know, I want

531
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: I'm anti stupid. I'm not anti electric car. I'm just

532
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: anti stupid. You gotta show me something common sense. You

533
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: gotta show me Star Trek, show me how this is

534
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: gonna work. Don't tell me we're gonna do it and

535
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: expect me to wait fifteen years for the answer. Appreciate

536
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: the call, Brian, Keep them coming Zo zero running an

537
00:28:46,240 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: in the Car Doctor, coming back right after this, colcome

538
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: back ran the Car Doctor. Isn't it great? When you

539
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: look at you know it's it's Uh. You get into

540
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: some of the YouTube videos with the older songs, you know,

541
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: watching the car songs being done live on Ed Sullivan

542
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: from the sixties. I watched The Beach Boys do four

543
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: oh nine the other day on Ed Sullivan out on

544
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: YouTube and it was just and I'm dating myself Ed Sullivan, right, Um,

545
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: you know Sunday nights Ed Sullivan, right, it was you

546
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: always knew when it was time for bed at um

547
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock when Ed Sullivan was over. But um,

548
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: just what what great car songs went with the great

549
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: cars of the sixties and the seventies, the eighties not

550
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: so much, and the nineties nobody's writing car songs about

551
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: Preuss trust me. So let's get over to Uh. Let's

552
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: go over to Sam in Arizona with three bubic less saber. Sam?

553
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: What's going on here? How can I help all? I? Thanks? Uh?

554
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: So try to start my car coming out from work

555
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: when it's really hot here in tucsons hundred five and

556
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: a couple of times, so it's intermittent. It won't start.

557
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: But if I wait, wait, wait a minute, it's wait,

558
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's how hot. Hundred and five dry heat?

559
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: You know, I keep hearing that argument. It's a dry heat.

560
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: Let me tell you A hundred and five is a

561
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: hundred and five? All right, it's it's it's still hot.

562
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: God bless you. Um anyway, go ahead, started trying to start.

563
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: It starts okay, cold though I don't it doesn't have

564
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: this problem typically especially so it won't start. And if

565
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,959
Speaker 1: I gas it, it will start and stay started as

566
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: long as I keep my foot on the pedal. But

567
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: as soon as I left my foot off the pedal,

568
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: it'll die. The RPMs come down. But so to get home,

569
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: I like started a neutral and then we'll keep the

570
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: game out on a little bit. Put in reverse and

571
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: backed out and then try to put it in drive.

572
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: And it kept on dying until I figured out barely

573
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: just touching the pedal without messing up the gears of transmission,

574
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: shifting it and getting going forward and once I got

575
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: on the highway, it was okay, and I got home

576
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: and it was okay. A couple days later, it did

577
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: it again in the morning. I'm sorry. Late morning was

578
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: hig outside like a hundred five still, and I hadn't

579
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: used the pedal to keep it going for a little bit.

580
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: So I checked the throttle position censer with a scan

581
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: tool with just the key on, not the anxition on.

582
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: And when I step on the pedal and you can

583
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: see the throwup position censor goes from zero perfectly. I

584
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: don't think it's a throttle. I don't think it could be.

585
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: I don't think so either. I'll tell you what. Let

586
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: me pull over and take a pause, and when we

587
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: come back, I'll have an answer for you, because I

588
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: think I know what's wrong with your car. Sam. I'll

589
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: be back right after this. I'm running any of the

590
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: car doctor, everybody else. Don't go away, every hail me,

591
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: slip away, every car doctor. Let's get back to Let's

592
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: get back to Sam in Arizona. Sam, you're there, sir,

593
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: So you know when you go to start this, after

594
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,239
Speaker 1: it's sitting and it's hot, it's it's a long crank time, right.

595
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: You have to hold your foot to the floor. No,

596
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: I just give it a little gas and we'll start. Okay,

597
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: what's a little quarter throttle? Yeah? Okay, So and he

598
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: worked done to this, any repair, any diagnostic attempts done

599
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: to this, any repair attempts anything. Uh, just me looking

600
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: at just looking for vacuum leaks or any Do you

601
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: know what the fuel pressure? Do you know where the

602
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: fuel pressure regulator is? Yeah, I took that off. There's

603
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: no there's no feeling there the line. Okay, Well, what

604
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: I want you to do is take the vacuum line

605
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: off and when the when the car is hot, I

606
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: want you to take the vacuum line off and let

607
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: it sit with the line off. Put a little tissue

608
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: paper in the vacuum nipple, you know, toilet paper. Just

609
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: put a little bowl of toilet you know. I don't

610
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: want you to get it stuck in there. What I

611
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: want to see is, as the vehicle gets hot, does

612
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: it start to out fuel? You know, sprits out fuel

613
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: onto the tissue paper. If you take the tissue paper

614
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: out of that little vacuum nipple, you know, two hours later,

615
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: does it have gasoline on it? Yeah? Just when it's sitting,

616
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, just just when it's sitting. The idea is

617
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: that because it's so hot, the heat is building pressure

618
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: in the fuel rail, all right, and it's pushing fuel

619
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: out past the rubber diaphragm, and you're gonna find you're

620
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: gonna find fuel or the odor of fuel on that tissue.

621
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: Makes sense. Yeah, So so if that's the case, it's

622
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: the regulator, then it's the regulator needs to be replaced.

623
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 1: The regulators went poorer so all the time sometimes and

624
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: they are per snickty that is the word, because I'm

625
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: telling you, if you ever have a bad one that

626
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: drives you crazy, you're gonna go that was persnickety. That

627
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 1: was a wrong word, all right. We would actually we

628
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: would actually go down to the small engine lawnmower shop

629
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: and get you know, clear plastic fuel line and put

630
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: the clear plastic fuel line on the nipple and then

631
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: put the rubber vacuum hose on the other end of

632
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: the clear plastic fuel line and we would actually see

633
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: fuel while the engine was running up the vacuum line. Um,

634
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: you know, you would see it start there. In some cases,

635
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: we saw some bad ones where we'd see bubbles. Well,

636
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: if you see bubbles, that means the rest of its fuel.

637
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: It's drawing fuel out the regulator and that was the

638
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: reason the car ran so bad. Double check that fuel

639
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: pressure regulator be as exact as you can. Call me back,

640
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: let me know what happens. Till then, I'm ronading the

641
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 1: car doctor, reminding all of you good mechanics aren't expensive,

642
00:34:52,960 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you she was She cost sp