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Speaker 2: on the Car Doctor. Thanks for coming by today. Let's

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Speaker 2: get to the phones right away as they're busy and

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Speaker 2: nine zero zero. Ralph, New York State, Yes, sir, how

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Speaker 2: can I help you? Thank you for waiting there so patiently.

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Speaker 2: What's going on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we took a pause. Hey, ron, I got a

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Speaker 3: few issues with my twenty seventeen jeep wrangler. It's a

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Speaker 3: four door. I got intermittent kind of sticky steering. Can

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Speaker 3: you hear me?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yep, sure, great?

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Speaker 3: Uh so, yes, the steering gets hard and then it

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Speaker 3: kind of comes and goes. You know, I had them

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Speaker 3: like lubricate the universal joint that comes off the steering

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Speaker 3: shaft right, and you know, I'm gonna I just my

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Speaker 3: main concern is is it a mode of failure? What

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Speaker 3: I will I lose steering? What is it like on too?

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Speaker 3: Is it total blocks?

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Speaker 2: Is it? Is it when when they lubed it, And

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Speaker 2: before I ask you how they lubed it, did did

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Speaker 2: any of what they did have any effect on it?

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Speaker 2: Did it make it better or it just stayed the same.

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Speaker 3: It did make it better, seemed like it temporarily got better.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna see if they can throw some molly or

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Speaker 3: some Lucas like White Lithian Greece or something like that

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Speaker 3: on it. Well next time.

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Speaker 2: Actually, what I'd like to I'd like to see him

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Speaker 2: do is you know what's going on here then? Because

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Speaker 2: there's a hundred ways to go with this. This is

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Speaker 2: this an electric steering ract, you know this should be

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Speaker 2: there should be electric assist as far as the steering

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Speaker 2: is concerning, probably, right, does it take Did they talk

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Speaker 2: to you about special poa steering fluid, electro hydraulic para

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Speaker 2: steering fluid? Did they say it probably has that? So

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Speaker 2: let's go on that assumption. But but let's back up.

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Speaker 3: Replaced like everything from the cool end to the brake

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Speaker 3: fluid to steering.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, it's not. Yeah no, that's not where I'm

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Speaker 2: going with this. If spraying the steering shaft with the

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Speaker 2: with the flex couplings and it made a difference, all right,

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Speaker 2: If loubing that made a difference, then why don't we

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Speaker 2: just take something in the way of a rust penetrant.

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Speaker 2: If it's rusty, let's break down the rust packing grease

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Speaker 2: in there. Grease is grease. Rust penetrant breaks rust down.

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Speaker 2: So sometimes just something as simple peb let's use let's

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Speaker 2: use peb blaster, right the straw. Make it so that

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Speaker 2: we can get it exact, you know, rotate the wheel,

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Speaker 2: get it into this side of the joints, rotate the wheel,

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Speaker 2: get it into that side of the joints and let

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Speaker 2: the PB sit there and work and soak in. It's

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Speaker 2: basically two little U joints with trunion bearings. So you know,

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Speaker 2: we want to let the PB blaster get in there

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Speaker 2: see if it freeze things up. And if it does,

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Speaker 2: and it may fix it. And if it does fix it,

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Speaker 2: then the next thing I'm going to tell you to use.

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Speaker 2: PB blaster also makes something called multi Max lubricant again

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Speaker 2: with a straw, and I would just start pumping that

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Speaker 2: in there to displace the PB. So now it's got

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Speaker 2: a lubricant in there. You know, if they're putting like

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Speaker 2: a heavy grease on that, it might seem it right,

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Speaker 2: they probably sprayed it with yellow lithium or white grease

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Speaker 2: I would go with this second question.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, so this is like low on the rate. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I've got an appointment I made with a mechanic. It's

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Speaker 3: I think it's a thermostat you know it's sticking open,

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Speaker 3: throwing out good heat. And the check engine light came

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Speaker 3: not a huge deal unless you want to interject, and

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Speaker 2: Seeah back up. So P zero one twenty eight is

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Speaker 2: I always think of it and explain it like this.

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Speaker 2: It's rate of rise. You live in a house, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you turn on the heat, you are you turn on

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Speaker 2: the air conditioning. You're looking for a temperature differential in

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Speaker 2: a set period of time. Otherwise you get Otherwise you

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Speaker 2: get cranky or or you live with cranking. You have

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Speaker 2: to listen to her, and this is about this is

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Speaker 2: about rate of rise. Okay, if we turn the if

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Speaker 2: we start the car, does it come up the temperature

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Speaker 2: within whatever the manufacturer or whatever the software engineer wants

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Speaker 2: three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, et cetera. If if

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Speaker 2: they want to see one hundred and ninety five degrees

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Speaker 2: in three three minutes and it gets to one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety five degrees in three minutes and five seconds,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna set a P zero one twenty eight thermostat

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Speaker 2: rationality rate of rise was incorrect. So it's it's not

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Speaker 2: that the thermostat is stuck open. It's that it doesn't

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Speaker 2: properly control and cycle to help bring the engine up

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Speaker 2: the temperature so well. It could be the sensor, it

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Speaker 2: could be a lot of things, all right. But if

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Speaker 2: this is a seventeen jeep and you've got a you've

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Speaker 2: got a physical low heat condition, I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 2: the likely place to start. I'm gonna look at fluid

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Speaker 2: levels and a few other things, but the likely place

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Speaker 2: to start is a thermostat, and that's gonna be That's

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Speaker 2: gonna be the thermostat end housing. The housing has the

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Speaker 2: bleed on it, right, You're probably or you may find

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Speaker 2: are you dealing with a Chrysler dealer or an independent?

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Speaker 3: Uh, it's a Jeep dealership, Okay, so you.

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Speaker 2: May find they may come back and tell you, hey,

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Speaker 2: the the OE thermostat is on back order. It's I

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Speaker 2: think it's been on back order eighteen months out of

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Speaker 2: my local guy here in New Jersey, and we've been

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Speaker 2: We've been using Motorad all right, and haven't had any issues.

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Speaker 2: The Motorad thermostat works really well. So, and it's built

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Speaker 2: for all I know, Motorad's making it for Chrysler because

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Speaker 2: it looks identical to the Chryslers were taking off the

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Speaker 2: markings and everything, the machining, the whole nine.

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Speaker 3: I had my coolant replaced about two years ago, two

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Speaker 3: years plus. Would I be able to see like like

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Speaker 3: beautifully colored uh coolant, you know? Or is it going

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Speaker 3: to be like muddy like it shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be what? What? What would make you think

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Speaker 2: it would be muddy looking?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, rust and whatnot inside the inside the

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Speaker 3: uh you know, the coolant system. Where would the right

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Speaker 3: I took off the cap just to see the level

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Speaker 3: of the coolant. The radiator's full, but it's kind of like,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of like that uh, that stuff

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Speaker 3: they're trying to sell that, you know, that that coffee stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's it's murky. Yeah, So it needs it needs an exchange,

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Speaker 2: and not just the drain and fill. It needs a

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Speaker 2: physical exchange. And it sounds like if the coolant is

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Speaker 2: contaminated breaking down. I'm going to use the word oxygenated

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Speaker 2: not probably not the right word, but that's how my

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Speaker 2: mind sees it. What makes things rust. You ever think

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Speaker 2: about this? Right, And and I learned this on a

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Speaker 2: trip to Bermuda many years ago. You'd go, you know,

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Speaker 2: you went snorkeling, and you saw some things in the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the ocean that were rusted in, some things

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Speaker 2: that were not. And when I looked at it, like

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Speaker 2: I was curious, I thought everything would rust when it

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Speaker 2: hits water. No, it's the oxygen content of water that

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Speaker 2: makes things rust. So some things can sit in water

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Speaker 2: and never rust. There's no oxygen content. So why do

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Speaker 2: car engines, you know, rot from the inside out because

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Speaker 2: oxygen is getting induced somewhere? And is it a leaky radiator?

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Speaker 2: Most common cause is a leaky or failing radiator cap. Right,

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Speaker 2: the cap doesn't seal properly, and now it allows oxygen

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Speaker 2: to be induced into the system. So where we're going

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Speaker 2: to go here is you know, a barring engine oil contamination,

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Speaker 2: trans oil contamination through the radiator cooler, you know, barring

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Speaker 2: the wide periphery of possibilities. I'm going to say, let's

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Speaker 2: do an exchange. Let's put a fresh radiator cap on it,

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Speaker 2: Let's put a rate, let's put a thermostat in it,

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Speaker 2: and let's watch and see where it goes, right, Okay,

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Speaker 2: so you know that would be my first step. By

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Speaker 2: the way, motorad makes an excellent radiator. Cap to third question, yep.

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Speaker 3: So the last question, you know is you know something

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Speaker 3: you've covered on your show quite a bit, is uh

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Speaker 3: you know? And I just want to kind of get

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Speaker 3: it straight from you. It's like the availability of parts

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Speaker 3: for the you know, the twenty seventeen Geep Wrangler. You know,

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Speaker 3: whether it's a two door or four door. You know

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Speaker 3: a mine's the four door. But you know it's like

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Speaker 3: is that stuff still out there? Like is it yes, ubiquitous?

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Speaker 2: Guess yes, it's it's there. What it is? The question?

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you the question, Ralph, is the question

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Speaker 2: because are you thinking is it time to replace it?

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Speaker 2: Or is it time to keep going? Is that what's

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Speaker 2: rolling around in your head?

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Speaker 3: I'm at that point, like I'm seventy five thousand miles.

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Speaker 3: I don't drive a lot, but you know I like

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Speaker 3: to keep my jeep, you know, like you know pretty

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Speaker 3: you know, well taken care of.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: So okay, so let's let's let's attack it like this.

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Speaker 2: If Ralph had to go out and buy another jeep,

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Speaker 2: could he afford to Yeah, all right, has Ralph just right?

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Speaker 2: Has Ralph driven a new vehicle yet? A new Jeep?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I bought this new and twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no no. Have you have you driven a brand

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Speaker 2: new Have you driven a twenty five Wrangler? Have you

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Speaker 2: driven the new model? Once you go, drive the new

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Speaker 2: model of that, just take it for a road test. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan of keeping things. Listen, you're talking to

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Speaker 2: the wrong guy about getting rid of a vehicle. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get rid of it. You know,

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Speaker 2: my four suburban is still you know. I take great

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Speaker 2: pride in my stash of parts.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: My window regulator is my fuel. I was just looking

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Speaker 2: at the other day. I think I could build another suburban,

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Speaker 2: you know, and I just I just like the vehicle.

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Speaker 2: So you know, this is about commitment, right, There's gonna

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Speaker 2: now eight year old jeep. And are you ready for that?

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Speaker 2: Are you ready mentally for that?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: Are you going to is it going to start to

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Speaker 2: drag you down? If the trans were to fail in

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Speaker 2: grand to put a trans in this, would you do it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, right, well, I look at the trade

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Speaker 2: Right or whatever? If listen, selling a jeep is never

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Speaker 2: that be your deciding barometers. As far as parts, they're

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Speaker 3: But all what about the art about getting stuck with

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Speaker 3: which man would you want that yeah, it's fine.

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Speaker 2: Okay, once you go drive some once you go drive

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Speaker 2: some vehicles, Ralph. Yeah, because you're doing the worst. You're

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Speaker 2: doing the worst thing you could do. You're negotiating with yourself, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: all right, and I say that with love. Do that,

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Speaker 2: But I wouldn't I wouldn't get rid of that for

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Speaker 2: fear of oh my gosh, there's no parts. It might

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Speaker 3: Right, yeah, thanks, I appreciate your on.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome, sir. You'd be well eight five five

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Speaker 2: let's wandered down Virginia Way and talk to Donald Donald.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Oh, what's going on? I got a little two thousand

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Speaker 4: I said, I wanted to futile ef back in then

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Speaker 4: I mean, let me try crank and see what you

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Speaker 2: So so it had a moment of did it did

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Speaker 5: Was?

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Speaker 2: Did it sound different than it normally sounds when you

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Speaker 4: Just when I tried to start it it acts like

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Speaker 4: put it on a computer and dependon find nothing wrong.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not expecting. I'm not expecting to find

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Speaker 4: Does it?

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Speaker 2: Does it run good? Right now? If you can you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah, okay, all right, yeah we do.

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Speaker 2: We have something? You know, I'm spitballing. Do we have

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Speaker 2: look at the belt. Have you owned the car along?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 4: She bought a brand new all.

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Speaker 2: Right, And has anybody any history of a timing belt?

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Speaker 5: Did you?

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Speaker 4: Well? I talked to her. She said they put one

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Speaker 4: in abody a year ago.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I'd still look at it, you know, did theay?

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Speaker 2: Whose day was it? Kia was an independent shop? Is

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Speaker 2: what's bad. If you look at the timing belt and

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Speaker 2: there's no wear marks, there's nothing fraying, there's nothing worn,

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Speaker 2: then I'm gonna say, all right, let's move on to

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Speaker 2: the next thing. But you know, if we've got an issue.

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Speaker 2: How many miles are on this probably a lot?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, by at night drink now, two.

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Speaker 2: Hundred thousand miles. Brother, you know you're about eighteen, you're

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Speaker 2: about fifteen years and let's see, you're probably about one

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Speaker 2: So you're doing good, but it.

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Speaker 4: Don't use or drop all well, you can't knock off?

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Speaker 2: Yeah all yep, yep, yep yep. And and just out

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Speaker 2: could it have been anything related like a bed like

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Speaker 4: Nope, bring new battery. Okay, okay, because because I put

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Speaker 2: Sure right and right now it's running fine?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right now, running fine.

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Speaker 2: that's failing? Although you say, well yeah, click, I'd almost

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Speaker 4: Well, well, no word over you hit like a tight

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Speaker 2: It far up, okay. I would be curious do we

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was kind kind of important towards the

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Speaker 2: Well, why what makes you think it's a bad computer.

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty, that's a pretty, that's a pretty random

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, most a lot of experment as to

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Speaker 4: put make it far where you will go through it

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Speaker 2: Well you got to you got to remember, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's an awful lot of inputs to a PCM and

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Speaker 2: before I before I jump down that hole, i'd want

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Speaker 2: looking at anything else. All right, because here, let's play

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Speaker 2: the game. Okay, it's a computer. How much is that

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Speaker 2: Who's going to put it in? Where you're going to

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Speaker 2: get one from, who's going to do the software update?

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Speaker 2: Because understand, putting a computer in a vehicle that old

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Speaker 2: buying one and plugging it in. On your desktop at home. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know, so all right, kiddo, okay, you'd be well, yes, sir,

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Speaker 2: uh yeah, it's not that easy. Real quick, mister Ray,

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Speaker 2: I notice you're wearing a uh New York Giants sweatshirt today?

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Speaker 5: Yes? I am?

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Speaker 2: Is there a reason for that? You like? Hold? Oh,

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Speaker 2: it just kind of happened to be there.

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Speaker 1: But I don't have to after last week's game, I

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Speaker 2: And what happens if they win tomorrow? All right? Ask

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Speaker 2: questions tomorrow? I should say, what happens when they win tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: Well, when they win tomorrow, there will be no talking

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Speaker 1: to me next week?

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Speaker 2: Oh good lord. And then if they beat Philadelphia the

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine? I think we should end the season?

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Speaker 2: Then I would agree? Yeah, I know? How much better

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Speaker 2: every chance he can get. I'm Ron a nanny and

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Speaker 2: let's go to Shannon to Maryland. Shannon, Welcome to the

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Speaker 2: card Doctor. How can I help them.

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Speaker 6: Hi, I wanted to talk to the lady that had

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Speaker 6: But I want to ask you what I do to

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Speaker 6: I always go to advanced autos. They tell me it's

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Speaker 6: what the problem is. Am I damaging it? Or is

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Speaker 6: it just telling me it's kind of clogged and I

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Speaker 6: can continue. I did put some of the additive in it,

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Speaker 6: and that worked great when I couldn't floor it and

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Speaker 6: clean it out.

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Speaker 2: Well, me ask Let me ask, Let me ask you

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Speaker 2: a couple of questions. What kind of car are we

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Speaker 6: A twenty twelve Honda cr vay. It's the last till

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Speaker 5: Quicker, okay?

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Speaker 2: And what makes you think catalytic converters never go bet.

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Speaker 2: I'm not arguing, I'm just curious where you got that.

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Speaker 6: That's that's what I my brother.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what does your brother do for a living?

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Speaker 6: Oh, he has worked on tons and tons of cars,

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Speaker 6: but actually he's retired at the moment. But you're right,

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Speaker 6: I mean, but I'm managing it. The light goes out

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Speaker 6: after I floor it. And actually I had one mechanic.

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Speaker 6: I was supposed to get my catalytic converter changed. And

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Speaker 6: he said, well, how do you drive? I said, well,

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Speaker 6: many how many?

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Speaker 2: How many miles are on your Honda Shennon?

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Speaker 6: It is one hundred and ninety two thousand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So catalytic converters wear out. It's just it's just

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Speaker 2: a fact the life. You want to get longer life

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Speaker 2: of driving. Yeah, theoretically you'll get longer life out of

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Speaker 2: a cat, but they do fail. Believe me, the catalytic

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Speaker 2: the catalytic converter replacement market is very legitimate and it's

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Speaker 2: a it's a it's a billion dollar business in all

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Speaker 2: likelihood if we sat down and measured it in terms

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Speaker 2: over a ten year timeframe. That being said, all right,

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Speaker 2: what you're doing is well, let me tell you how.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you how catalytic converters get measured to

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Speaker 2: see if they're good or bad. All right, A catalytic

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Speaker 2: at a certain temperature, all right. It has to be efficient, right.

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00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,359
Speaker 2: A cold engine is not efficient, An overheated engine is

435
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 2: not efficient. A cold catalytic converter is not efficient, and

436
00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,240
Speaker 2: overheated catalytic converter is not efficient. It has to run

437
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,359
Speaker 2: a specific temperature range. When it's in that temperature range,

438
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 2: it causes a chemical reaction to reduce pollutants that are

439
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,520
Speaker 2: coming down the exhaust pipe and convert them into carbon

440
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 2: dioxide and other non lethal pollutants to the atmosphere, to

441
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 2: the environment. Right, how do we know? How do we

442
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 2: know what that is? We know it's carbon dioxide and oxygen.

443
00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,199
Speaker 2: We're looking at oxygen sensor activity, all right, But but

444
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 2: an oxygen sensor measures the issues a catalytic converter. Actually,

445
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 2: you know does the reduction. So for the fella to say, oh,

446
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,679
Speaker 2: it's an O two censor, I don't think so. The

447
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:20,119
Speaker 2: system on a modern vehicle gets tested probably six different ways,

448
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 2: each component, over over six different timeframes, so to speak.

449
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 2: It's very complex. You ever notice when you go to

450
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,280
Speaker 2: the doctor, what do they do? They always do the

451
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 2: same thing. They do the same repetitive testing heart rate,

452
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,640
Speaker 2: blood pressure, They ask you the questions, they run you through. Right,

453
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 2: it's the same cars do the same thing every time

454
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 2: you start them. They run through the same repetitive testing

455
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,480
Speaker 2: of every component during some kind of timeframe. What I

456
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,919
Speaker 2: think you're doing is I think you're putting off the

457
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 2: inevitable that the car has a failing catalytic converter, its

458
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 2: efficiency is falling below seventy percent, which is the average number.

459
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 2: At seventy one percent efficiency, it'll work at sixty nine

460
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 2: percent efficiency, it'll set a fault code. And yeah, if

461
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: you're driving the proverbial quote unquote little old lady, the

462
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 2: catalytic converters loaded up, it's it's never getting hot enough,

463
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,680
Speaker 2: it's never getting a good enough run, and you're you're

464
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,399
Speaker 2: putting off the inevitable? Are you are you hurting anything? Well?

465
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 2: How old are you? Can I ask you that question, Shannon?

466
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,119
Speaker 2: Are you over sixty five? Oh?

467
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, sixty eight?

468
00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 2: Okay, So when you were thirty eight, could you jog

469
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 2: and run and accelerate real quick? And it wasn't that

470
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 2: big a strain on you? Right? Right if you wanted

471
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 2: to do it?

472
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 6: Now, how hard is it a little difficult?

473
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 5: Right?

474
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 2: So you're now asking the sixty eight year little old

475
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,400
Speaker 2: lady to go and run as fast as she could

476
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 2: and jog as fast as she could like she was

477
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,719
Speaker 2: thirty eight. You're overstressing her. So you're you're you know,

478
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 2: it's a mechanical thing, it's a it's it's a machine.

479
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 2: But you know, you're you're asking more of it than

480
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 2: it's necessary. Whereas if you put a cat in it

481
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 2: and you could just drive it like the proverbial little

482
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 2: old lady, wouldn't it last longer?

483
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 6: Well that isn't my question, So okay now now.

484
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 2: And let me let me ruin your day further though.

485
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,719
Speaker 2: All right, you know, when you do this catalytic converter,

486
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 2: consider getting one out of Honda. I know the price

487
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 2: point will be huge.

488
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 5: It is different.

489
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's huge, but but you laid down you know,

490
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 2: you know what makes the aftermarket cat so much cheaper? No,

491
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 2: the saws? Well, the size, right, they don't last. You know,

492
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 2: if the original equipment cat is is twenty eight inches

493
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 2: long and the aftermarket cat is twenty inches long, that's

494
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,639
Speaker 2: eight inches of difference. That eight inches is going to

495
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 2: come back to you in terms of longevity, efficiency, and

496
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: just plain and simple, how long that cat lasts? If

497
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 2: you really want to drive this until you don't have

498
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 2: to drive anymore. Well, the first one lasted you two

499
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 2: hundred thousand miles and thirteen years.

500
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's take. It's going to last longer. No,

501
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 6: I mean not necessarily. I mean you say, how many

502
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,439
Speaker 6: miles should I expect on my car? Keeping it up

503
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 6: to date on everything, which I usually did.

504
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 2: I knew, well, you're asking you're asking the wrong guy

505
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 2: that question. I drove a seventy two money Carlo in

506
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 2: college to four hundred thousand miles when cars back then

507
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: we're getting one hundred thousand. I've got a ninety seven

508
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 2: Ranger that's got two hundred and thirty thousand miles on it.

509
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,439
Speaker 2: I've got an O four suburban with ninety seven thousand

510
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 2: miles on it looks like that they rolled off the

511
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 2: assembly line. You know, I always look at replacing parts

512
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 2: and replacing a car as two separate items. If you

513
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 2: went out to date to replace that Honda CRV, emotions aside, right,

514
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 2: let's keep emotions out of this. Oh, I want a

515
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 2: shiny red car once before I die. That's the expression.

516
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 2: That's what goes through our minds. We're human, We're all human.

517
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 2: We all see that same shiny red car coming down

518
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 2: the road. Oh I want one of those. That's an

519
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 2: emotional thing. But the practical side, I want to drive

520
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 2: this until I can't drive it anymore. Well, let's see,

521
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 2: so from an emotional perspective, forty thousand dollars for a

522
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 2: new car or two thousand dollars a year to maintain it.

523
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 2: Start doing the math. Yeah, and that two thousand a

524
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 2: year isn't every year. Where the plan runs into a

525
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 2: glitch is finding parts, finding somebody that's really dedicated to

526
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 2: taking care of it, and you know, having to put

527
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 2: up with the you know, gee, do I have a

528
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 2: big car expense coming up this month? All those things wig.

529
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 6: In good, good point. Thank you, all right, so you're

530
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 6: very welcome.

531
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 5: All right, Kiddle, all.

532
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 6: Right, tell Bill, I'm on my way. He listens to you,

533
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 6: and I'm going to go buy a bicycle, all right.

534
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 2: Go buy a bicycle. You have a great time, Shannon.

535
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 2: So hey, Bill, Shannon's on our way. You've been warned

536
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 2: eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero

537
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 2: run on naming of the car. Doctor. I'll be back

538
00:25:53,720 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 2: maybe right after this and the disco ball. God that

539
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 2: white shit you're telling you you like that? Huh oh No,

540
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 2: I don't don travolt to eat your heart out. So

541
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 2: let's go to Bob in Virginia. Thirteen Silverado. What's going

542
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: on here, Robert?

543
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 4: Yeah?

544
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,719
Speaker 5: Hi, Ron. So it's a twenty thirteen Silverado. It's got

545
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 5: about two hundred and fifty five thousand miles, and about

546
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 5: two months ago started running rough. Check engine light came on,

547
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 5: so it was due for plugs and new wires. So

548
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 5: I did that myself, right, and it didn't It didn't

549
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 5: solve it. It didn't help the problem. So the check engine

550
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 5: light was still long, still running rough. So I took

551
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 5: it in a mechanic and he told me I had low

552
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 5: compression in cylinder number five. Okay, okay, So I picked

553
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 5: the car up, I took it, and I'm deciding on,

554
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 5: you know, what I want to do about that, And

555
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,239
Speaker 5: in the meantime, the problem seems to come and go.

556
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 5: It's like intermittent. So the majority of the time's running

557
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 5: rough and the check engines later on. But there's sometimes

558
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 5: where maybe you know, for so long, it'll go out

559
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 5: and it'll start running smoothly again, and that's not that's

560
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 5: maybe like ten twenty percent of the time. The rest

561
00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 5: of the eighty ninety percent of the time it's rough

562
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 5: and check engine lights on. But there are those periods

563
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 5: of time where to check engine leos out on its

564
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 5: own and the engines running smooth, smoothly. I'm sticking to myself.

565
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 5: I didn't know.

566
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 2: I didn't know you could have an intermittent compression problem.

567
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 5: Now now, one of the last thing I'll tell you.

568
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 5: Sometimes it seems like it's affected by when I put

569
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 5: gas in it, like a new fresh tank of gas,

570
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 5: or I've even put some gasoline additives in there, and

571
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 5: sometimes that seems to affect it. Right, if that's if

572
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 5: that's possible.

573
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 2: So if we work on the theory that the mechanic

574
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: is correct. All right, we're gonna We're gonna beat this

575
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 2: up a couple of different ways. So get ready. If

576
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,199
Speaker 2: we work on if we work on the theory that

577
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,199
Speaker 2: this is a compression loss, that it was really low

578
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: on compression and it's legit and the guy diagnosed it, right,

579
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 2: let's talk about how can we have intermittent low compression

580
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 2: on a cylinder?

581
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 5: Right?

582
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 2: First one is carbon deposits? Right? Do we have excess

583
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 2: carbon deposits on the valves? And are they creating a

584
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 2: problem where the valves aren't ceiling? And that's not uncommon

585
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 2: on these as they age. One of the ways, one

586
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 2: of the ways to try and diagnose it, you know's

587
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: a couple of things. When it's running rough, you know,

588
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 2: put a gauge in there. Do I have? Do I

589
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 2: have physically low cranking mechanical compression?

590
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 5: Yeah?

591
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: All right, Let's let's make up a number. You know,

592
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 2: seven the seven cylinders are one hundred and eighty pounds

593
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 2: and number five is ninety right, so you know I've

594
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: got legitimate low compression. How do I know where it's

595
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 2: coming from? Let's do a cylinder leak down test? All right,

596
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: are you familiar with that term? I know I'm not okay.

597
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 2: So a cylinder leaked down test, A cylinder is a cylinder, right,

598
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 2: It's just an engine. Cylinder is just a sealed container

599
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 2: for an explosion to happen. And if we do a

600
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 2: leaked down test, we're putting an air hose to the

601
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: spark plug hole. We're bringing the cylinder. We're bringing number

602
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: five around onto compression stroke where in theory the valves

603
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 2: are both closed, right, and we're going to put an

604
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: auxiliary air regulator attachment to it, and we're going to

605
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: put one hundred pounds in and see how much air

606
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: it holds. If the cylinder was perfectly sealed and I

607
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: put one hundred pounds in in theory, how much should

608
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: I hold? And a perfect hold one hundred right in

609
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: a perfect world. The only thing I ever saw come

610
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 2: close to hold one hundred, for the record was the

611
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 2: hot rod when it was fresh. It held ninety eight

612
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: because I'd leaked. I leaked all the cylinders myself. But

613
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: you will see this right away. If this is a

614
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 2: true low compression problem on number five, you're going to

615
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: put one hundred in and you're going to see seventy five,

616
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: sixty whatever. Now, what good does that do as well?

617
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: It tells us two things. It verifies the mechanical compression

618
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 2: theory of being low as correct. But number two, where's

619
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: the air going? Do I hear it? Do I hear

620
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: it coming out the intake, which means it's an intake

621
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: valve that's stuck open. If I get underneath and listen

622
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 2: at the tailpipe and I listen with this tethoscope, do

623
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 2: I hear it out the exhaust which means an exhaust valve?

624
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 2: So in either case, now I know I've got to

625
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 2: confirm mechanical condition in the engine. Do I need to

626
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: pull the engine? Because I already know where your mind

627
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: is going, right, you know it's it's you know, do

628
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 2: you put an engine in it? Do you do heads?

629
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 2: Do you you know you want to keep the truck?

630
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 2: I can hear the whole argument in your head going on.

631
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 2: That's what you're calling me? Uh you know? I if

632
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 2: and let me let me back up. If this has

633
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 2: a mechanical fault that it physically needs cylinder heads, you're

634
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: doing an engine. If if if this needs a a

635
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: camshaft for some reason, Let's say this is a cam

636
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: related problem, a lifter problem, something along those lines. Whether

637
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 2: or not you need an engine is going to be

638
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 2: predicated on what the engine looks like when you open

639
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 2: it up. You'll you'll tell me you did all your

640
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 2: oil changes, and I'm going to tell you it doesn't matter.

641
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 2: I want to know what the engine looks like on

642
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 2: the inside. Does it does it look you know, factory

643
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 2: fresh or is it sludgy and gummy? And I'm just

644
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just putting lipstick on a pig, right,

645
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: so you know that all comes into effect. But I

646
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 2: want to know, you know, do I really have a

647
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 2: low cylinder low compression problem? On number four? If I

648
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,479
Speaker 2: were to take a borscope, if we were standing at

649
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Speaker 2: the shop and I was walking through, what do I

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Speaker 2: do At some point? I'm going to take a borscope

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Speaker 2: if I think this is a real low compression issue,

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Speaker 2: and run the borscope, which is just like what the

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Speaker 2: plumber uses to look up the walls of the house.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to run a borscope down the intake and

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Speaker 2: look at the valves. Do I see carbon? If I

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Speaker 2: see carbon, I might try a carbon cleaning, a real

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Speaker 2: true carbon cleaning, because carbon on the valves that comes

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Speaker 2: and goes. Maybe I can get away with doing a

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Speaker 2: fuel system cleaning, and.

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Speaker 5: You know, how's that? How's that done?

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Speaker 2: You got an Advance Auto parts by you? Yeah, go

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Speaker 2: down there and go down there and see if they

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Speaker 2: have a CRCGDI service pack. All right, and I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what. Stay put. When I come back, we'll finish

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Speaker 2: up and I'll tell you exactly how it works. Bob,

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Speaker 2: I'm ronning Andy and the car Doctor. I'll be back

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Speaker 2: right after this. I think that's from Beverly Hills cop.

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Speaker 2: Every time I hear that song, I just wonder. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: Bob Virginia, you're still there, sir. Yeah, So let's talk

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Speaker 2: real quick. Are you a mechanic at all, Bob? Any

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Speaker 2: mechanical ability or.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not a no, no, no professional cap but

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Speaker 5: I've done engines and taking them apart and putting all

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Speaker 5: that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Do you own a vacuum gauge?

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Speaker 5: No? I don't.

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Speaker 2: Okay, go buy a vacuum gauge. Spend twenty bucks, spend

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Speaker 2: forty bucks, get a good one, right, and let's let's

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Speaker 2: learn about you. Do you ever think about what vacuum is?

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Speaker 2: Vacuum is, vacuum is vacuum is the absence of pressure.

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Speaker 2: An engine is a big air pump, all right, and

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Speaker 2: it's in its simplest form squeeze, suck, pop, blow right, intake, compression, power, exhaust,

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Speaker 2: and you know, vacuum is what's produced an engine. A good,

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Speaker 2: healthy engine produces good vacuum. So when the engine is

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Speaker 2: running well, you'll see somewhere between sixteen and twenty inches

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Speaker 2: of manifold vacuum. Better yet, if you have another car

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Speaker 2: in the family, look at that car for a vacuum

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Speaker 2: and see what it does. So you'll understand, yeah, good, good,

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Speaker 2: a good running engine. Disregarding value overlap and valve timing

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Speaker 2: and all that nonsense, you know, learn about vacuum. Vacuum

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Speaker 2: is a cheap thing to learn about, and you can't

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Speaker 2: do it. You know, you can do it really really

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Speaker 2: economically in this day and age. So, but the idea

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Speaker 2: of a fuel system cleaning is that if the intake

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Speaker 2: valve is carbon coded. Right, doing a fuel system cleaning

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Speaker 2: using a CRC kit Vance Auto or it's available online,

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Speaker 2: what you'll do is you'll hook up to the rail.

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Speaker 2: You'll actually spray a chemical through clean out the injectors,

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Speaker 2: you will clean the throttle body, if you see any

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Speaker 2: form of improvement, it tells you that you're going in

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Speaker 2: the right direction. But I'd like you to see you

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Speaker 2: do a vacuum reading before and after it, because you

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Speaker 2: might see a difference in how the engine operates that

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Speaker 2: might help determine which direction to go. Call me back

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Speaker 2: if you need more, Bob, I'm running ady in the car. Doctor.

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Speaker 2: Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See you