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Speaker 1: Ron Anian, I wonder if the measurement of a good

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Speaker 1: But more so, how many torquerenches do they have here?

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Speaker 1: I wonder, well, you know, we kind of get together,

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Speaker 1: He walks into the shop and he wants to talk

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Speaker 1: the rest of the country and the influence, al right,

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Speaker 1: and how it will affect us. That's an awful lot

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Speaker 1: had tires, brakes, engines, gas, oil, transmissions, same stuff. Electronics

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Speaker 1: We're talking about in a highly highly complicated piece of

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Speaker 1: a really bad cup of coffee, um, and then you'll

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Speaker 1: understand what it's like to be a mechanic every morning,

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Speaker 1: just something to think about. There is no emotion involved

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Speaker 1: in order to repair. There's always a logical, clear cut

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Speaker 1: what we were talking about. Fox News. California could ban

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Speaker 1: on cars powered by internal combustion engines, echoing similar proposals

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Speaker 1: bunch of economic powerhouses. The chair of the California Air

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Speaker 1: administers a zero emissions vehicle program that allow auto makers

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Speaker 1: to do? Several have built electric cars that are only

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Speaker 1: California accounts for approximately half of the electric cars sold

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Speaker 1: Estimates on the percentage of new cars sold in order

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Speaker 1: a t N dot net the Mechanics forum. You can

427
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Speaker 1: you can sign up and join. It's a couple of

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Speaker 1: bucks a year. It's dues, so in the eyes of

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Speaker 1: the government it's a tax deduction, which it is. It's

430
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Speaker 1: it's part of your process of being in the trade

431
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Speaker 1: and you know it's it's you know, it'll give you information. Uh.

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Speaker 1: One thing I can say about I A t N.

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Speaker 1: If you think you're facing a problem that you've never

434
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Speaker 1: seen before, where do you go out there and start

435
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 1: reading what everybody else is talking about? Um? You know,

436
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Speaker 1: so it's it's it's it's a very worthwhile place to

437
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Speaker 1: go and get information. But I'd be reviewing things that

438
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be uh be like fixing the cars you heard

439
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Speaker 1: me talking about. You don't want to be emotional fixing

440
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Speaker 1: the car. You don't want to be emotional trying to

441
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Speaker 1: purchase the new tool either. Um. You know snap Ons

442
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Speaker 1: come out with a zeus. Have you seen the new

443
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Speaker 1: zoos scan tool. I've heard about it. I heard your

444
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Speaker 1: broadcast last week on it. Yeah, and you know, all

445
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Speaker 1: the snap On guy wants to do is sell me

446
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Speaker 1: one for sixteen thousand dollars. And you know, the argument

447
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 1: kind of comes back to, yeah, but what makes it

448
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Speaker 1: so different? What makes it so much better? And you

449
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: know there's a there's a lot of little holes there,

450
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Speaker 1: and he wants to make it emotional, and I want

451
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Speaker 1: to make it a calculated decision. And that's what if

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Speaker 1: I was starting over, I'd be very calculating about what

453
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Speaker 1: I'm buying and do do my research. It's a process, alright, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I think the Launch stuff is a lot

455
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Speaker 1: of bang for the buck. And I you know what

456
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Speaker 1: I I that's what you're after, You're after diversity. You know.

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Speaker 1: I was just looking around again. I finally got the

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Speaker 1: pile of nineteen scan tools down to her. I'm actively

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Speaker 1: using seven and you know, I'm trying to whittle that

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Speaker 1: pile down to three. And I'm trying to figure out

461
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Speaker 1: what what's better than that and who does this and

462
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Speaker 1: how does that work? And you know, but the Launch

463
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Speaker 1: scan tool, the little what is it the Launch It's

464
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Speaker 1: a little red tablet. It's about fifteen or eighteen hundred

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Speaker 1: bucks retail on the street. Um, is it the X

466
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Speaker 1: four one? Yeah, the little tablet. It's like a ten

467
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Speaker 1: inch tablet. Um, you can grip it right or left handed.

468
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Speaker 1: It's it's got that ergonomically handled grip. It's in a

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Speaker 1: red case scan. Yeah, there it is. And that's our

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Speaker 1: own Barry Barry a k A Tony Atwood White. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know that that's that's a lot of bang for

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Speaker 1: the buck. There are holes. There are things that tool

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Speaker 1: doesn't do. But that's okay because it wasn't ten thousand dollars,

474
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Speaker 1: it wasn't sixteen thousand dollars. But if you're gonna be

475
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Speaker 1: in a repair shop and you know you need a

476
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Speaker 1: good functioning, everyday scan tool, yeah, that's it. Um it graphs,

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Speaker 1: it prints, you can email the information to yourself. You

478
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Speaker 1: want to get yourself. I think it's Google print or

479
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Speaker 1: cloud print. Install it on it's an Android, you want

480
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Speaker 1: to install it on the Android device and you're good

481
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Speaker 1: to go. But you know the problem. The problem is

482
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Speaker 1: you need you need a hundred thousand dollars worth the

483
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Speaker 1: tools to walk in the door day one. And you know,

484
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: on top of that, you get to pay off your

485
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Speaker 1: loans and you have to be smart enough to know

486
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Speaker 1: that you're smart enough to go do something else. And

487
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Speaker 1: you wonder why we can't get mechanics in the country,

488
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Speaker 1: And that's a whole another conversation. Never put me on

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Speaker 1: that boarder review. So all right, Amory, alright, alright, very much,

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Good luck to you kid. I'll have

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Speaker 1: a great time. Um yeah, that's you know what, And

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Speaker 1: he's gonna he's got a heck of a career in

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Speaker 1: front of him. He's gonna really see some changes. He'll

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Speaker 1: be there when California bands the internal combustion engine and

495
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Speaker 1: everything changes and we go to electric cars and the

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Speaker 1: things that the kids are gonna see, the kids that

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Speaker 1: graduate from U t I and other places like that,

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Speaker 1: you know what, to a degree, I'm jealous. I wish

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Speaker 1: I could be there with them as they go through

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Speaker 1: the changes, because it's gonna be very, very interesting. Let's

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Speaker 1: pull over and take a pause. Eight five five zero zero.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna get it right to

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Speaker 1: Kevin with the two thousand three Yukon Hank tight, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: I'm coming for you, Ronn any of the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: We're back right after this. Welcome back on any of

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor. Let's go over and talk to Kevin

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Speaker 1: and Maine two thousand three Yukon Excel and some error

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Speaker 1: coachs Kevin, welcome to the Car Doctor. How can I help? Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? I've got a m I've got a

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Speaker 1: Yukon Xcel two thousand three three quarter ton um. They

511
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Speaker 1: use it for tone camper and keep getting a p

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Speaker 1: O one oh one mass their sensor. Uh, code okay,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes that any other full codes Kevin? Or is

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Speaker 1: it just that one? Yes? Well, sometimes that code comes

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Speaker 1: up all by itself, but but a lot of times

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Speaker 1: it comes up with the seven oh one, and I

517
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Speaker 1: believe oh seven oh four as well. UM, it comes

518
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Speaker 1: up almost every time I toe, UM, when the truck's unloaded,

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Speaker 1: it fairly comes up. It still does come up. Who's

520
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: doing the diagnosis? You already have a you have a

521
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Speaker 1: repair shop pulling the codes. Just me. I've got a

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Speaker 1: bully dog tuner with a gauge display on it that

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Speaker 1: that shows me the codes. Do you have the ability

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Speaker 1: to do at freeze frame? No? No, you're gonna say

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Speaker 1: something else. Uh. What I've done so far with it

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Speaker 1: is UM. I used. I swapped the mass air sensor

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Speaker 1: from another truck. UM, another truck that I knew it

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Speaker 1: was good. Did we didn't have any codes? UM, and

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Speaker 1: that didn't make any change to it. UM. There was

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Speaker 1: a technical service bullet and I found and that some

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Speaker 1: of my other symptoms, which was a rough idal on

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Speaker 1: a cold startup talked about correct. I changed to the

533
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Speaker 1: newer teal green gaskets and that's solved the rough cold

534
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Speaker 1: idle issue. But I still have the the the mass

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Speaker 1: air sensor. Okay. So so are you still getting all

536
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Speaker 1: the codes or just the one oh one? Uh? Well,

537
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Speaker 1: like like I said, sometimes it's just the oh one

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Speaker 1: on one, but that other other times the other seven

539
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 1: oh one and seven or four. Okay, so you're still

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Speaker 1: getting pretty much You're still getting pretty much the same

541
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Speaker 1: fault codes. Ye. All right, I gotta buy a scan tool.

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Speaker 1: All right. You're gonna have to get you everything. Get

543
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be expensive, just something that will

544
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: read data stream. And you're gonna have to start to

545
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Speaker 1: look at fuel trim. You want to know what fuel

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Speaker 1: trim is. All right? Were you a boy scout? Were

547
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: you were you boy scout? Kevin? Okay, so you know,

548
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, remember when they taught us about building a

549
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Speaker 1: fire using wetwood, dry wood and leaves and you know,

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Speaker 1: hot flame, cold flame and all that stuff. So we

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Speaker 1: want to look at fuel trim. We want to look

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Speaker 1: at you know, hot flame, cold flame. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we want to look to see you know, enough oxygen,

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00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: too much oxygen, not enough oxygen. And you know that's

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Speaker 1: what fuel trim is all about. If zero is a

556
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Speaker 1: perfect fire, then if we if we take away oxygen

557
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: or if we add oxygen to it, we've got to

558
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: add more fuel to maintain that balance. So you're gonna

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00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: see fuel trim go on the increase. If it's the

560
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: other way, you're gonna see fuel trim go negative, trying

561
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: to take fuel away. If it's running too rich. You

562
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: want to see a fuel trim is all right, it's

563
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: you're you're typically going to see zero plus or minus

564
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Speaker 1: eight percent. But then again, depending upon where you are

565
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Speaker 1: and what part of the country hot mountains, you know,

566
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: flat lands below sea level, all that stuff comes into effect.

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00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: You know what's the barometric pressure that day. But general

568
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: rule of thumb, zero plus or minus eight is a

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Speaker 1: good is a good number. Um. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: have another vehicle that's similar to it, which it sounds

571
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Speaker 1: like you do because you swapped it in from another

572
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: mass airflow, I would tell you to grab that one,

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Speaker 1: and I would tell you to grab that one, and

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00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: you know, drive to drive the known good and compare

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Speaker 1: that to the known bad. My suspicion is that if

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Speaker 1: you get this to set codes, take a look at

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Speaker 1: freeze frame. Alright, when does it happen? Most of the

578
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: problems with the intake gaskets happened when the vehicle was

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Speaker 1: during vehicle warmup. It happened between a hundred degrees. I'd

580
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: be curious to see if you're still having that problem.

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Speaker 1: Changing the gaskets was a great thing because you have

582
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: the orange to the teal green does make a difference.

583
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Speaker 1: But there can be other vacuum weeks there that are occurring,

584
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Speaker 1: and you sort of need to track those down because

585
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: one oh one means that the mass airflow it's it

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00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: thinks the mass airflow is under reporting air volume because

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00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: it's it's possibly sourcing air from another source. And now

588
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: we've got to track down that other source and the

589
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: other way we know this for sure as we've got

590
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Speaker 1: to take a look at fuel trim, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: fuel trim. Fuel trim becomes very important. Of course, then

592
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: there's always the possibility that the other one you had,

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Speaker 1: that the other vehicle you've got has appending one on

594
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: one that you haven't seen yet, because that mass air

595
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: flows out of calibration too. So that's why swapping parts

596
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: is okay, but you've gotta have a scan tool to

597
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: back it up. Fuel trim is bible on a lot

598
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Speaker 1: of these cars today, you've got to know that they're

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00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: good to go, and you've got to take a look

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Speaker 1: at that, get a look at fuel trim. If you

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Speaker 1: need more information, you want me to help you understand

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00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: it better, I'm glad to do it. Send me an

603
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: email Ron at Car Doctor show dot com. And if

604
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: you want to talk about scan tools, I can help

605
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: guide you accordingly, there too, eight zero zero. We're coming

606
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: back right after this welcome back, weren't reating the car Doctor.

607
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Speaker 1: Let's get over and talk to Lisa in Minnesota buick

608
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: and some heater issues. Lisa, Welcome to the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: How can I help? Hi? Ron Um, I've got a

610
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Speaker 1: problem with a ninety eight Bullock lest Saver. Before I

611
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: ask you about the problem, though, I'd also like to

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00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: mention that I'm one of those economic factors the industry

613
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: forgot about years ago. They As I tried to buy

614
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: a newer car, I can't find anything with a bench seat.

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: I'm a rural mail carrier. Yeah, I require a right

616
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: hand drive or a bench seat. I alwas I got

617
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: to drive with some kind of a conversion, and I

618
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: hate the conversion. Yeah. Um, anyway, that's why I drive

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00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: a N I d if you look with Saber. I

620
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: just bought this one and it's the first one I've

621
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: ever had that has a digital heater in it. And

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00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: according to the manual, if there's anything wrong with the unit,

623
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: it's supposed to flash, and it doesn't flash, and it

624
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: gives a normal readout for the temperature outside of that

625
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: part works. Um, what it does is it won't blow

626
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: any air through the mid vents. My first reaction to

627
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: this was maybe air flow blockage mice. But my mechanic

628
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: tells me there's no air flow block that she checked.

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00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: He says I should probably replace the unit, but he's

630
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: also not an electronics person. He told me that too,

631
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: so I thought i'd get a second opinion on this.

632
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: It blows air out the top on the windshield all

633
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: the time. Even when you put it on floor, there'll

634
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: still be a stream coming through the middle on the top.

635
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what could be. It could be

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00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: something internally electronic, or do I need to replace the unit. Well,

637
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: it could also be just a stuck blend or this

638
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Speaker 1: was This was around the generation when we went to electronic.

639
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Speaker 1: Everything was electronic. We went to blend or controls and

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Speaker 1: you know, there are ways to verify, um, you know,

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00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: output from that control head is it Is it doing

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00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: what it's supposed to do? If memory serves me right,

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00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,719
Speaker 1: I thought there was a way to hit some buttons

644
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: on the control head and you could get feedback codes

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00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: through the control head itself. Looking at a series of

646
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: blinking lights. Is that this particular model? If you read

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Speaker 1: anything on that. I have the research. There's been a

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00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: since I've seen um, but there there there are some

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00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: ways to you know, check for codes. If you can't

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00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: do it through the control head, a dealer level scan

651
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: tool and I'll say it like that, or a dealer

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Speaker 1: level equal scan tool should be able to pull codes too,

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00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: because there is a way to pull codes out of

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00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: that system and look for a response. You know, so

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00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: you want to talk to your mechanic about that, if

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00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: memory serves me correct. There was also a functional test.

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00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: We're using a good scan tool. You could tell it

658
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: move this door, move that door, give me this, give

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00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: me that, and actually wait for the response. Because this

660
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: is back in the generation of you know, we were

661
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: just all learning how to work on cars with computers,

662
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: and they had to give us the ability for functionality.

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00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: Go back and talk to your mechanic passing what sort

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00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: of scan total he has. This isn't about O B

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00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: D two. This is about manufacturer specific information. Um, this

666
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: could be a bad controller and we can have that

667
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 1: conversation next week. But this could also be a bad

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00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: blend or and I wanted to understand the difference. So

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Speaker 1: go back, get to me some more information, and call

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Speaker 1: me back next week. I'm on anading the car doctor

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Speaker 1: and mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. Let's see you