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Speaker 1: Ron An Aian. We took the heater hoses out because

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Speaker 1: the heater hoses run over the top of the exhaust

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Speaker 1: a mount offold, because that's where I put rubber hoses,

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Speaker 1: because you know what effect could he have on rubber

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Speaker 1: like that?

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Speaker 2: There's a motive on.

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Speaker 1: Head on the highway. The car Doctor, what happens when

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Speaker 1: the transmission fails? Is it just not going to a

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Speaker 1: certain gear or does it stop? Is the car sitting

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Speaker 1: in the garage now I don't have.

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Speaker 3: A garage, It's sitting on my parking catna.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the car will move at the same speed

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Speaker 1: it's moving now, meaning zero.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the radio home of ron Anian the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 2: This is where car owners the world overturned to for

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Speaker 2: their definitive opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving

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Speaker 2: you a busy signal, pick up the phone and call in.

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Speaker 1: The garage doors are open, but I am here to

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Speaker 1: take your calls. At eighty five ninety nine hundred and now.

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Speaker 2: Running.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you about the abs cars we

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Speaker 1: had this week at the shop. Hello, thanks for us

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Speaker 1: stopping by today, ron Inie, and at your service. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's funny how things come in threes. That it didn't

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Speaker 1: maybe I'll get the third ABS car this week coming

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, check back next week. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you that story if it does show up. But

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Speaker 1: they're the same. A twenty ten fod Escape one of

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Speaker 1: the old square bodies that I personally think is a

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Speaker 1: great vehicle. I've seen them go high mileage. Tom My

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Speaker 1: the thumbs up from Tom right now. Just a you know,

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Speaker 1: real solid vehicle, very underrated, very underappreciated. I think it

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Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. And it came in with the

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Speaker 1: customer complaint of engine stolen when I step on the brake.

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Speaker 1: I wrote the ticket some diagnostic time, evaluation time right

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Speaker 1: my rack. I did my thing. I couldn't duplicate a

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Speaker 1: stall no matter what I did, it just it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: I went through my high level indicators. I looked at MAP,

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Speaker 1: three leader. We're good. Couldn't get a stall condition, no bulletins,

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Speaker 1: It was sort of and I know Doug a long time,

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Speaker 1: from that angle, all right. In twenty ten model year,

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Speaker 1: was no rust, there was no physical damage. I owned it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of owning ABS sensors. I've been

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Speaker 1: It's a good first step. And the right side ABS

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Speaker 1: sensor owned about twelve thousand meg omes. It was way

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Speaker 1: that plastic sensor just didn't want to leave that cast

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Speaker 1: pretty soon the guy behind you the next time you're

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Speaker 1: That car's fixed the next day, Tuesday. This must have

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Speaker 1: been I got into the twenty eighteen Honda CRV. Honda's

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Speaker 1: This is the fourth one I've seen now in recent memory,

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Speaker 1: And in this case it's said, oh, you know, I'll

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Speaker 1: did a complete system scan on the Ford the twenty

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Speaker 1: forty four fault codes in this vehicle, and most of

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Speaker 1: safety system on this vehicle was shut down. Vehicle stability control,

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Speaker 1: It said high frequency implausible data received now in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: the tip. It was a magnetic impulse and coder where

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Speaker 1: trying to rebuild the shuttle, so you know it needed

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Speaker 1: This one came up with a question mark. It became

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Speaker 1: obvious because I would got down to my diagnosis clearing codes.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't replicate it. It was intermittent, but I would sit

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Speaker 1: and that's when my code came back and every fault

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Speaker 1: circuit performance test fault. The computer is not looking for

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Speaker 1: wheel speed sensors have a real high rate of failure,

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Speaker 1: the wheel speed sensors. It's one hundred bucks. I got

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Speaker 1: it into the eighty percent tile. I could have swapped

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Speaker 1: the right rear signal to the left by running some

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Speaker 1: jumper wires and back and forth. But in looking at

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Speaker 1: the sensor, I could see that it didn't look well.

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Speaker 1: By that, I mean well, first of all, it was

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Speaker 1: to aluminum? That doesn't make any sense. It didn't make

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Speaker 1: meaning it's built up some crud. You know, the creeping

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Speaker 1: crud got to it, and it's it's created a problem

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Speaker 1: it couldn't move the sensor at all. It was stuck.

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Speaker 1: one hundred bucks. I'm going to play science project because

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Speaker 1: I'm going to bet the odds, which you do sometimes

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Speaker 4: When you get keep Ron's number handy eight five five

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Speaker 1: and Iowa Joe. Welcome back to the Car Doctor, sir.

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Speaker 1: How can we help you today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Hey, thanks, thanks Ron, I got a wiring diagram

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Speaker 1: So you have a scan tool, right, Joe?

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Speaker 4: Not really now I don't, all right, volt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know before I probably shared.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, listen before let me let me change

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Speaker 1: look at fuel trim, all right? Do you understand fuel trim?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what fuel trim is?

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Speaker 1: So zero right? Zero? Zero is your baseline fuel trim.

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Speaker 1: History and short term is what you just ate. Short

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Speaker 1: Doesn't scare me, But tell me what fuel trim is,

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Speaker 1: what's the average? What's the number? All right? I want

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Speaker 1: you to go look at mass I want you to

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Speaker 1: go look at mass airflow. All right. You just cleaned

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Speaker 4: Two point five? All right?

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Speaker 1: see guess how much? Guess guess what you're gonna see

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Speaker 1: Sit tight, Joe, let me pull over. Take this pause,

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Speaker 1: Doctor the phone numbers eight five, five, five six zero

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Speaker 1: I'll be back right after this. Ron's in his own

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the AutoZone studio. Here's Ron. Hey, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We're continuing with Joe and Iowa. Joe, you're still there.

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Speaker 1: So we just talked about fuel trim. We just talked

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Speaker 1: my car doesn't have the code. It can't be this.

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it by scan tool. Let's do it by

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Speaker 1: scan tool. All right, turn the key on go to

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Speaker 1: barometric pressure. All right, you're gonna see two PIDs in

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Speaker 1: they come up with that number? Joe, where do you

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Speaker 1: think that number comes from? Well, but there's got something

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Speaker 1: Very good, Joe, you got it. So what they do

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Speaker 1: I started the car up. I saw the map sensor

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Speaker 1: is what. Twelve from thirty is what, Joe. You gotta

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Speaker 1: Say eighteen eighteen? Joe, say eighteen? Right? Eighteen inches of

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Speaker 1: and barrel. What did that take us? Are we four

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Speaker 4: Pretty quick?

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Speaker 5: Five?

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Speaker 1: Right? Okay? Yeah, so we know what it's not? All right?

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Speaker 1: Then I want you to ask yourself what's the idle quality?

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Speaker 1: Like when this does idle? What is it idle at?

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Speaker 1: Does it idle under one thousand r pm? Does it?

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Speaker 4: I've never never checked it because I don't have a

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Speaker 1: So so so how do you know this is? This is?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can hear it. It was idol was staying up

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Speaker 4: take a while for it to drop down.

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00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: Joe, is it possible the fan clutch is locked on

433
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: and it's got a bad fan clutch Because you're listening

434
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:26,880
Speaker 1: to the roar of the engine.

435
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 4: No, it's it doesn't have a fan clutch on it.

436
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: Does it have a cool does it have a mechanical fan?

437
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 4: Yeah? Just this Direk drive, okay, And.

438
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,119
Speaker 1: There's no fans it. There's no fan clutch on this car.

439
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,359
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised. There's double check that.

440
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no air conditioning on it that you know

441
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,959
Speaker 4: it was you never had air on it.

442
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: So just just do yourself a favor and just just

443
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: take a look, all right, Just just take a pick,

444
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, can you can you turn that? There's no yeah,

445
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: can you You can't? You're telling me you go to

446
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,840
Speaker 1: spin that fan? It's locked, right, It's okay.

447
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no fan clutch on it.

448
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: All right? So what did the RPM used to drop

449
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: down to? Do you know?

450
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 4: You know, it sounds like maybe seven hundreds, seven fifty

451
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 4: or something, but I don't have no way of knowing, right,

452
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 4: So it just when I when I when I drove

453
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,919
Speaker 4: it and shipped in through the gears, I could hear

454
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 4: the idol wasn't dropping down very fast. It was taking

455
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 4: a while for it to drop down well.

456
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 1: And so I, rather rather than guessing poke and hope, Joe,

457
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,200
Speaker 1: don't you think we want to get a scan tool

458
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: and start doing some testing. Wouldn't it be nice if

459
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: we had a scan tool that showed us what RPM was?

460
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it it would be nice.

461
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: Rh.

462
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 4: I just never taken a I just you know, I mean,

463
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 4: I don't work in cars all the time, just occasionally,

464
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 4: you know, working to help my kid or one of

465
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 4: the kids work on the car or something, you know,

466
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 4: a vehicle.

467
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, but you know what, Joe, I'm a mechanic.

468
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: If if I decided to do brain surgery, I'd at

469
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: least go to medical I'd at least go to medical

470
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: school because I don't think anybody would want me opening

471
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: up their head with an axe. Probably be the wrong approach.

472
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: So you know, let's let's let's let's do some basics,

473
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: all right, brother, So did you have another question, Joe,

474
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: real quick, because I gotta go.

475
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 4: I did on that on that you know weiring diagram,

476
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 4: A guy, right, it doesn't I got a I got

477
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 4: a hat spaniel, and it doesn't show anything about a

478
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 4: in dash computer I see on this wiring diagram. It

479
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 4: it has a white and velvet uh look like a

480
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 4: wire going up to the battery junction boxys with the

481
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 4: dash computer and there's a start. I'm not sure what

482
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 4: that is. A start in it.

483
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: Well, that's that diagram. That diagram I sent you has

484
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 1: a powertrain control module in it. That's the computer that

485
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: runs the h anti theft system that will help engage

486
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 1: or disengage. And then the body control module, if I

487
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: remember right, was in the top right corner of that diagram,

488
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: next to the NISI switch.

489
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 4: Yes, it is on the top right side, right. I

490
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,479
Speaker 4: don't think it's got that uh theft thing in it

491
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 4: because when I was looking for the truck man, I

492
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 4: thought I'd seen something like that, and so maybe it

493
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 4: doesn't have any of that stuff on it.

494
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,199
Speaker 1: Well, I'm betting. I'm betting it does, Joe. But like

495
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: I said that day, Like I said that day when

496
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: I talked, do you see the wiring diagram? You got

497
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: the wiring diagram in front of you.

498
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 4: I do.

499
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: I would go to that green red wire at the

500
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 1: ignition switch. Do you have power there?

501
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know, I've checked it. I even changed the

502
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 4: switch out. I just thought I would for the fun

503
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 4: of it. Didn't change the key part of it, but

504
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:41,479
Speaker 4: I changed the switch.

505
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: Did you have power? Did you have Joe? Did you

506
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: have power at the green red wire.

507
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 4: The green red I had power on the blue white

508
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 4: coming out of the switch past.

509
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: The switch, okay, all right, all right.

510
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I took it clear to the you know,

511
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 4: to the batterian Johnson box, and I was getting getting

512
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 4: a single where I'd get twelve twelve point four volts

513
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 4: and it would just dissipate away. Yeah, when the keys

514
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 4: turned in the starting position and the valiage would just

515
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 4: drop away. And I did it numerous times and it

516
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 4: kept doing the same thing.

517
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 1: Well, if you've got power, if you've got power on

518
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: the blue white Joe, that sends signal doubt out to

519
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: the BCM and it sends it down to the PCM

520
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: and then the PCM on signal from the BCM will

521
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: apply power to the starter relay and that engages the starter.

522
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: So if you look at that wiring diagram I gave,

523
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: you go to the starter relay and you see the

524
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: white violet wire. If I recall, right, there's a white

525
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: violet wire there.

526
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 4: There's there at the power control module. There's a white

527
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 4: violet that comes out and it goes to the battery

528
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 4: junction box.

529
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: Right, which goes that inside that battery junction box box

530
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: is the starter relay, right right right? Okay, when you

531
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: see a dotted line on a wiring diagram, that's showing

532
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: you that you're looking at something within a subsystem of

533
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: something else. All right, Go measure voltage on that white violet.

534
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: Go measure voltage on that white violet. Joe, tell me

535
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: if you've got power to it, because if you don't

536
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: have power there, then your problem is before that part

537
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: of the circuit. If you do have power there, then

538
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: your problem is after that leading out of the junction

539
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: box down to the starter. I gotta go call me back.

540
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: Let me know what happens, Joe. Height five five five

541
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: six zero nine nine zero zero. The car Doctor's coming

542
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: back right after this. Welcome back Ron and naming the

543
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: card doctor. Let's cover to Mark in Las Vegas. See

544
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Oh wait, Honda, Mark. Welcome to

545
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: the car Doctor, Sir, How can I help hi?

546
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 3: Ron Fisher again for talking to Melome my pleasure. I'm

547
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 3: having a little problem with my AC again. I called

548
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 3: you a couple of months ago, and I had replaced

549
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 3: all the components in it because it would it wouldn't

550
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 3: run very cold. When I come to a stop anyway,

551
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 3: that that problem was fixed. It turned out it was

552
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 3: my expansion valve. I needed to get a Honda one.

553
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 3: I had put an aftermarket one in, and when I

554
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 3: went back and did the new Honda, I put in

555
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 3: a new Honda condenser.

556
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 5: Anyway.

557
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: That fixed it.

558
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 3: So been running great for a couple of months. Now,

559
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, I've got this intermittent problem where

560
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 3: the air just it stopped blowing cold. And it's just

561
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 3: a total random It runs. It runs fine about ninety

562
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 3: percent of the time, maybe ninety five percent, but now

563
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: occasionally it will just not run. And a couple of

564
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: times that I've caught it not running, I was able

565
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 3: to get out and look to see the compressor was

566
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 3: not engaged. So it sounds like it's some kind of

567
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 3: an electrical thing. Now I'll tell you what I've done.

568
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 3: I tried to keep the expense down, so I just

569
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 3: replaced a relay and I also replace the console deck.

570
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 3: It's just a real simple it's not a two zone.

571
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 3: It's the real basic AC system. Because I was able

572
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 3: to play around with it one time when it wasn't working,

573
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 3: and I got it to work, so I thought, well,

574
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: maybe it's that I found one on eBay for ninety bucks,

575
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 3: so I've spent about one hundred bucks on it so far.

576
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 3: But that didn't fix the problem. Well, I have a feeling.

577
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: You're gonna tell me.

578
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: Go ahead, do you have a scan tool mark? I do? Okay?

579
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: Does it? Is it generic OBD two or we'll go

580
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: into your make model?

581
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 5: Yeah?

582
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: Generic?

583
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 3: It's generic?

584
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So here's an advantage where having ear make

585
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: model would help. All right, but let's let's so let's

586
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: try and get around it. But I'm gonna make your

587
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: work harder, all right, So tell me about the compressor.

588
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: Whose compressor is it after market? Did you replace the compressor?

589
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: Is the original compressor?

590
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 3: It's after market? I think I got it at AutoZone.

591
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: Okay. Matter of fact, Well, if I got it at AutoZone,

592
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: they'll stand behind it, and you know, I'm sure there's

593
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: a warranty and so forth there. Yeah, there is, so

594
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: so let's but let's prove it. Okay. So leading up

595
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: to that compressor, the harness comes down the front of

596
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: the motor. You know, when you're underneath there on your back,

597
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: because you probably don't have a lift and you were

598
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: taking out the fourteen millimeters head bolts that hold the

599
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: compressor in. Right there, there's that singular wire that comes

600
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: down into the junction block which goes into the thermal

601
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: limitter before it goes over to the compressor clutch. Okay, right,

602
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: that single wire, if I remember, right, is red is

603
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: it not?

604
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

605
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a hot red. So

606
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: that's the feed. So that relay that you pulled out, okay,

607
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: which you didn't have to do that, by the way,

608
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that in a minute. That relay.

609
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: When that relay is energized, okay, provided all the commands

610
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: and conditions are there, it just sends a hot down

611
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: to that red and as long as you have ground,

612
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: boom it runs all right. Right, So what if what

613
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: if we disconnect that wire and tap in, Oh you know,

614
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: let's let's tap in and put a side marker, bulb,

615
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: go back to AutoZone.

616
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 3: That yeah, you know, tell me to put a side somewhere.

617
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: I do this because you know what, you know, I'm

618
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: trying to give you the poor man's scan tool if

619
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: your pardon the expression, right, and and you know is

620
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: the bull blit yes or no? All right? It ends

621
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: the conversation, all right, because if you were in the shop,

622
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: you would have you'd have gotten the car back after

623
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: an hour with a one ninety four side marker plugged in.

624
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm going okay, especially when you tell me the compressor

625
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: doesn't run. It's it's it's because it's one of three

626
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: things that are common. Either the command isn't there, power

627
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: is there but there's no ground because the clutch failed,

628
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: all right, or the relays bad. So you know the

629
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: one ninety four. I's solve that. Okay, sit tight, let

630
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: me pull over because I'll tell you what. Sit tight,

631
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,959
Speaker 1: Let me pull over. Take this because I got one

632
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: more thing I want to I want to tell you.

633
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: Then we'll finish up. So don't go anywhere I'm running

634
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: any of the car Doctor. We'll be back with Mark

635
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas right after this.

636
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 5: Don't go away.

637
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: Welcome back running the car Doctor.

638
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:19,479
Speaker 2: Here.

639
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: Mark, you're still there, bib Yes, I am run. So

640
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: let me make it easy for you. Let's just go

641
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: back to the one ninety four bulb again. You know,

642
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 1: when you stop back to AutoZone to talk to them

643
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: about the warranty and such, ask them, you know, you

644
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: get your one ninety four side marker bulb. You know,

645
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: do they have any sort of a wire piercing probe?

646
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: And if you google it you'll see it. There's companies

647
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: out there. If if AutoZone doesn't have it, and they should,

648
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: but companies like Automotive AES AES Wave out in California

649
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: will have it. They have a series of self piercing probes.

650
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: Some of them are a little expensive. You don't need

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Speaker 1: an expensive one you're not doing a lot of testing.

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Speaker 1: Or if you've got a local sewing store, all right,

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Speaker 1: poor here, poor man's poor man's self piercing probe. Go

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Speaker 1: down to the local sewing store. See if they have

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Speaker 1: We called them t pins, tee pins, t pins, all right,

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Speaker 1: they're used to you know, hold up a hem if

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Speaker 1: you're if you're sewing something in a stitch and right,

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Speaker 1: and what you'll do is you'll gently proke it through

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Speaker 1: the wire, attach your alligator clip, tape it up right

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Speaker 1: because you know you're gonna have hot here. You don't

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Speaker 1: want to just bounce around. If it touches ground, you'll

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Speaker 1: blow the fuse, all right, and hook up your boat.

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Speaker 1: Last thing, all right, go to your fuse box, look

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Speaker 1: at the fuse box. Be sure you change the AC relay.

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Speaker 1: Take the relay out that you think it is. See

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Speaker 1: if the AC compressor turns on. If it does, you're right.

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Speaker 1: If it doesn't, you're wrong. But if you look at

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Speaker 1: the relay next to the AC relay, that was probably

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Speaker 1: the same relay it should be on most of the models.

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Speaker 1: You could have swapped that as well. Do those things.

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Speaker 1: Joe call me Mark, I'm sorry, Hold me back and

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Speaker 1: we'll talk some more. I enjoyed it. We'll fix it.

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Speaker 1: I'm on an ding in the car. Doctor. Good mechanics

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Speaker 1: aren't expensive, they're prices.

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Speaker 5: See y