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Speaker 1: since this is where car owners the world overturned to

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Speaker 1: very welcome. I need to cry on your shoulder for

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Speaker 1: Was guns that Carol? Welcome to the car doctor. How

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Speaker 1: I have I have a well, Actually, my son has

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Speaker 1: How often and how far do I need to do that? Well?

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Speaker 1: want them breaks to melt off once you put it

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00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 1: back on the road and stuff like that. So you know,

427
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the minimum is of

428
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,159
Speaker 1: driving time or how often I need to do that

429
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,639
Speaker 1: to keep it main hand for him? Is it inside storage, Carol?

430
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it in a barn or a shed

431
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: or something. Is it heated? No, it's not heated. We

432
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 1: have it in our garage in the summer, and then

433
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 1: in the winter we take it to someone else's garage

434
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 1: who isn't you know they have room to just put

435
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: it there for the winter. Um, you know, can you

436
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 1: drive it? Could you drive it twice a month? Could

437
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 1: you drive it, you know, every other week and still

438
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 1: fall on the guidelines of insurance? Well technically technically not,

439
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,440
Speaker 1: but um, you know, it just depends on where I'm

440
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: going and what I'm doing. If I'm just going to

441
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,639
Speaker 1: take a trip to your town or something, run it

442
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 1: to the grocery store and come back. Not a big deal,

443
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,199
Speaker 1: you know, But um, I'm thinking if we drove it

444
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 1: every two weeks for a thirty minute activity period, I

445
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 1: think would be great. You know, short tripping starting the car,

446
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: just starting the car in the in the driveway is

447
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,879
Speaker 1: obviously where everybody starts. The problem is starting it and

448
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 1: just running it and letting it idle for twenty minutes. Yeah,

449
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 1: lubric It moves the oil around, It lubricates the engine parts.

450
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: It brings the cooling up to temperature in theory, but

451
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: it does nothing for the tires, the breaks, the transmission,

452
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: the suspension, and you know, cars are like houses. You

453
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 1: let him sit empty, or you let him sit you know, dormant,

454
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 1: no activity for a period of time. Things happen, things

455
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: start to go bump in the night. And you know,

456
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,719
Speaker 1: I would tell you to take a car like this.

457
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I sort of have a problem like this myself.

458
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: I've got I'm not breaking just fact I have three vehicles.

459
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,639
Speaker 1: I have a I have a little Forward Ranger and

460
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 1: ninety seven Ranger with two hundred eighteen thousand miles on it.

461
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: It's the shop beater, as I call it. And tell

462
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 1: you the truth. I think I like that better than anything.

463
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 1: I drive that to death. Um. I've got an O

464
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,199
Speaker 1: for suburban I've had forever. It's got seventy two tho

465
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 1: miles on it because I never go anywhere with it.

466
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: And I've got this, you know, twenty nineteen Silverado Chevy pickup.

467
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: That's the plow truck. That's the you know, heavy utility vehicle.

468
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: It's got a whopping miles on it. It's a year

469
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 1: and a half old. So you can tell where do

470
00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 1: I go? Right? Um? You know, I I try to

471
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: drive each vehicle at the at the at the very

472
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,119
Speaker 1: least every two weeks. I try to make sure I

473
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: rotate things around, you know, for a variety of reasons.

474
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 1: At least they kind of get a feel and you know,

475
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: even a fifteen minute rod would help, you know. But

476
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: I guess you're sort of limited by the bounds of

477
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: of what insurance says is a legit case or cause.

478
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, do they know the mileage on

479
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: the car they're clocking the odometer? No they're not. But

480
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: their thing is if I call them and I tell

481
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: them that I'm taking it out of storage, then they

482
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: pro rate me for however long I take it out

483
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: of storage and they charge me a minimum of a

484
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 1: month premium for a one day youth. It's that seems silly, Yeah,

485
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: that that seems kind of silly. H Yeah. Then no,

486
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: you're saying, I said drive it, have it actually on

487
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: the road no less than fifteen minutes? Yeah, Because I mean, listen,

488
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: there's no you know, I can't sit here in all

489
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 1: good conscience. Let's let's let's let's let me tell you

490
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,640
Speaker 1: what you can't do. All right, Maybe that's the way

491
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: to attack this. I can't say, hey, Carol, drive this

492
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 1: car once every two months or three months. I think

493
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: that's too long of a span, all right. You know,

494
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: I think the rotors are gonna rust up. I think,

495
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: you know, perhaps you'll have battery issues. You know, the

496
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: batteril sulfate and start to discharge, and you know, over time,

497
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 1: it's not doing the car any sort of justice. I

498
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: think obviously, i'd i'd avoid driving the car in real

499
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: bad weather, you know, winter, snow, high salt, to remove

500
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 1: all the all all the schmitz from the road, um

501
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: schmitz being a technical term. But you know, like I'd

502
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,400
Speaker 1: like to see the car get out at least once

503
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: a month, if not every two to three weeks. And

504
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think you can do that from

505
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: what you're saying. So then you're faced with do you

506
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: just start to drive it? Um? Does this become Carol's car?

507
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: And then when your son comes back in a year? Uh?

508
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: You know, you you make arrangements or you know, how

509
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 1: many cars do you have in the family? Is there

510
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 1: somebody that needs to drive a car? Is there a

511
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: car that you can get of I have? I have

512
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,719
Speaker 1: a to six five and my husband has a uh

513
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: sixteen Chevy Sea Brain. So it's just the two of

514
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: us here now all the kids are grown and gone.

515
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: But I didn't want to leave him sit this in

516
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: storage out in California for three months and when he

517
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: gets back he's probably going to be on the East

518
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: coast anyway. So we just thought bring it here and

519
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 1: that way we can take it out once in a

520
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: while and drive it. Yeah. I think posed to taking

521
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: it out every month. I just wasn't sure if it

522
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: needed to be more than that. Now, if you can

523
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: get it out and let's let's let's do it like that.

524
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: You know what, maybe this is a game of let's

525
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: see how it works. Try taking it out every three weeks.

526
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: How does the how does the how does the car

527
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: fit and feel? I've talked to you for all of

528
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: six minutes. We've never met, and I could already tell

529
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: you're as sharp as attack. You'll know right from wrong.

530
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: You'll know how the car feels. You know it's it's

531
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: It'll be a matter of as a developing creeks moans, groans, shakes,

532
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: and you know, if you feel like three weeks is

533
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: too long, you know, then you're gonna start doing it

534
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 1: every two weeks. Two weeks should be more than sufficient, uh,

535
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,439
Speaker 1: you know. And and at least fifteen twenty minutes let

536
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: it come up to temperature, charge the battery. If you

537
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: can do thirty minutes, great. Maybe there's a routine you

538
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: you drive to the recycling center you you know, on

539
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 1: the way to the mall for whatever reason, wherever we're

540
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: getting to drive these days. Uh, you know, it would

541
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: it would make all the difference in the world for it. Well,

542
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 1: I'm thinking my mom lives an hour from here, so

543
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: that's the car I used when I go see Mom

544
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: once and Mom perfect. The only problem you're gonna have

545
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: is when she sees it that she's gonna say, oh

546
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: my god, that's those stories away and you'll remind you

547
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: and she'll get more upset than you will because that's

548
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: her grand baby. Um, well no, because my youngest baby

549
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,119
Speaker 1: brother was a marine too, so she knows all about

550
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: how all that works. I get it, I get it,

551
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: But just start driving it. You know you're gonna have

552
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: to pay the premium and just take the car out

553
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: of storage and at least look at it this way.

554
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 1: At least it's not sitting in California for three months

555
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: in dry storage and you're paying a storage when you

556
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: don't have to. So maybe that's the Maybe that's maybe

557
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: that's the philosophy. Better to pay the insurance, drive it

558
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: a little bit, rotate the gasolene through it. You know,

559
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: gasoline loses its pop after forty five days, they say

560
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: it starts to lose some of its fiz. So rotating

561
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: the gasolene through wouldn't be the worst idea in the world.

562
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: And just stay up on top of the fluids. And

563
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: I would change the oil every six months, regardless of

564
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 1: how many miles it's gone. He'll be back in a year.

565
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 1: And you know, two extra oil changes are two oil changes. Well,

566
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: he's gone. It'll do the car world a good. He'll

567
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: be driving it for another five years once he's home.

568
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: So do you think in the wintertime it's okay to

569
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: let it and start for three months? But I still

570
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 1: go get it out. I might forgive you for that.

571
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: I might tell you can get away with that, but

572
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: I would. I would set it up. I would at

573
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: the very least if you're if you're, if you're doing that,

574
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 1: if you can either get it up on jack stands

575
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: or over inflate the tires. Bring the tires up about

576
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: ten pounds when you park it, so you know they're overinflated.

577
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: So if they lose their all right, you're you're you know,

578
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: you're not necessarily going to lose that much air in

579
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: the three months, and either disconnect the battery or put

580
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: the battery on some form of a trickle charger if

581
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 1: it's parked outside, if there's just some way to keep

582
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: the battery active three months, I'll let it go once alright,

583
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: that that wouldn't completely be like January, December, January February

584
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: when he did this last year, and then come March,

585
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: we're okay, all right, So that works. That works all right?

586
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much for that. I appreciate it.

587
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Carolyn again, tell you son thank you

588
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: for his service. We'll put a flag up for him

589
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: and to keep him in our thoughts. God bless You're

590
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: very welcome. I'm running any in the car doctor. We

591
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: are back right after this. Welcome back on any of

592
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: the car doctor. Let's get over to David and san

593
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: Diego to Chevy Silverado. David, Welcome to the car doctor. Yes, David,

594
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: can I help you? Yes? Uh? I was telling the

595
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: other gentleman that I'm having a problem with that Chevy

596
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: to Silverado. It's a six point over what kind of problems?

597
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: But all it does is back by a really bad Okay,

598
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: did you did you buy it that way? Or did

599
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: you get up one day and that's what started happening?

600
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: Did it? I wanted that way? The guy he told

601
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: me that he overhauled the engine about a year ago. Okay,

602
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: but I had to talk it home from when I

603
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: got it, all right, I won't hand it about four

604
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: months three months? Okay. What sort of diagnosis have you

605
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: done to it to this point? What sort of tests? Well?

606
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: We put the thing on it, but it says no code,

607
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: all right, and and that's it. Yeah, But then somebody

608
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: told me something about the con censor, right, So could

609
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,959
Speaker 1: that be the cause of it? Sure? Could also be

610
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: could also be anything between the headlights and the tail lights.

611
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: So before we start guessing and throwing parts at this,

612
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: you know, we've got to start to think of I

613
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: know you're well, I well, I know you, and I

614
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: know you have I know you have spark, and I

615
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: know you have fuel. At this point, because it's backfiring,

616
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: it wouldn't do either if it if it didn't have

617
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: one or the other, you know, but you know, tell

618
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: me what you have. You know, sometimes you're looking for

619
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: a silver bullet, David, and I get that, But you know,

620
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: tell me, tell me what's good. Sometimes it's easier to

621
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: tell somebody what's good on a vehicle than what's bad.

622
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: So you have spark and fuel? Do you have enough fuel?

623
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: Do you know what fuel pressure is? Did you check

624
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: fuel pressure? Fifty almost sounds low. I thought to spec

625
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: on that with sixty two. Just double check the fuel

626
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: the fuel pressure between fifty and sixty. Okay, all right,

627
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: So so somebody else is working on this, then it

628
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: is somebody else working on this or you or you

629
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: were No, no, just looked at it. Okay, So I

630
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: have a venom money be very specific about fuel pressure

631
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: and just to ask him to double check it, because

632
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: those engines that generation were very sensitive. Three pounds to

633
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: keep that engine from running. If spec is a minimum

634
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: of fifty five, it won't start at fifty four. It's

635
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: literally that that sensitive. So enough about fuel pressure. Okay,

636
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: so it's almost sixties called them this morning. Well, like

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Speaker 1: I said, whatever spec is it spec is fifty nine

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Speaker 1: and it's got sixty. Yes, if spec is fifty nine

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Speaker 1: and it's fifty eight, it won't start. My point is

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Speaker 1: fuel pressure is critical. All right? Could this be crank sensor? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: When you hook up a scan tool and you crank it,

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Speaker 1: do you see cranking rpm displayed on the scan tool? No,

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Speaker 1: it didn't do that, you know without sunking. Well, we're

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Speaker 1: not interested in codes at this point. We're looking for

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Speaker 1: data stream. Try taking a look and see if you

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Speaker 1: get a reading for cranking rpm. If you don't, then

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do some testing at the crank censor.

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Speaker 1: But to do that you're either going to need a

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Speaker 1: lab scope at at at the highest end, or you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need some form of a digital voltomemeter to check

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Speaker 1: for power ground. You won't be able to measure signal

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Speaker 1: just using a vault meter, but at least don't know

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Speaker 1: if the censor has has power. Now, how do you know?

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Speaker 1: How do you know if if he rebuilt the engine,

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Speaker 1: how do you know the engine is mechanically timed? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is what I run. Okay, then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I wanted to know. That's why I said,

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Speaker 1: did you get it that way? Tell you what? David?

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Speaker 1: Sit tight, let me pull take let me pull over,

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Speaker 1: take a pause. When I come back, we'll finish. I'm

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Speaker 1: running any in the car, doctor, don't go away, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Aren't any of the car doctor, David san diego? You're

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Speaker 1: still there? Okay, So let's let's let's let's start with

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Speaker 1: let's David David. Are you there? David? David? Tom pull

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Speaker 1: his mic down so David's not listening. So you know

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Speaker 1: what part of the show is. If you call in

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Speaker 1: and you're looking for advice, you have to listen. It's

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Speaker 1: a two way conversation. That's why they call it talk

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Speaker 1: radio for everybody else that's interested. Where my mind was

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Speaker 1: and what I was going to explain to David was

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Speaker 1: very simply that start from the beginning. You've inherited a

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Speaker 1: vehicle from another person that it died, and I guarantee

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Speaker 1: you everything's been changed and fooled around with on this vehicle.

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Speaker 1: And he got frustrated to the point that he couldn't

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Speaker 1: figure it out, so it was easier to sell it

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Speaker 1: and pass it on to the next guy. Enter David,

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Speaker 1: don't be a David. Do your diagnostic routine. What I

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Speaker 1: was going to explain to him was start with show

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Speaker 1: me what you know. What can you prove is the

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Speaker 1: engine mechanically time, are the cam in the crank line up,

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Speaker 1: bring the crank around the top dead center, Pop off

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Speaker 1: the driver's side valve cover, look at the valves, follow

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Speaker 1: it as you crank it through. Does it go through intake, compression, power,

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Speaker 1: exhaust on top? Dead center? On number one? Are the

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Speaker 1: number one cylinder? Are the rockers in the neutral states

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Speaker 1: that you know it's mechanically time. That'll be close enough,

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Speaker 1: all right, you'll be able to tell that's a good

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Speaker 1: starting point. And then after that, go through and look

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Speaker 1: at the obvious. Are there any wires out of place?

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Speaker 1: Is there anything visually wrong? One of the key things

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Speaker 1: that I see fail on these, particular this particular generation Chevy,

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Speaker 1: the Silverados, is the fact that it's it loses the grounds.

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Speaker 1: There's two grounds on the back of the engine and

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Speaker 1: a ground down under the chassis on the driver's side

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Speaker 1: by the frame Reil grounds one oh three, one oh two,

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Speaker 1: and I believe it's one oh four or one oh six,

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Speaker 1: all right, losing the two at the back of the engine,

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Speaker 1: or if the one at the back of the engine

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Speaker 1: g one oh two on the right side, back behind

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Speaker 1: the valve cover above the bell housing bolt. I've had

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Speaker 1: those where they start to break the strands of wire

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Speaker 1: and if it loses, I've had it down to I

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Speaker 1: believe there's like twelve strands of wire and the gauge

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Speaker 1: wire that it is. It gets down to the last one,

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Speaker 1: it'll either go into a no start or a crank

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Speaker 1: and a backfire and either sound familiar, David, if you're

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Speaker 1: still listening, and it becomes a real problem and a

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Speaker 1: real headache over one strand of wire, or eventually that

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Speaker 1: one strand breaks and the truck is stuck doing just

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Speaker 1: what this does, and you sell it. David, I wish

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Speaker 1: you had heard all that until the next time I'm

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Speaker 1: ruing any in the car. Doctor, good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you