1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Ronnian or to repairs a process. It's not something that's 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: just automatic that you can just they can't have a 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: life of its own. The Car Doctor bought a week ago. 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: I third at her off and you're like him on 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: at third shaking a little bit, not bad, but a 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: little bit iling, kind of rough. This sounds like that. 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: This sounds like that scene from Airplane. She's starting to shake, right, 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: She's she's starting to shimmy, starting to shake. She's starting 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: to shimmy. She's starting to shut her she started to 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: shut it's not doing but at least she's not beginning 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: to crack up. Welcome to the radio home of ron 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: Andanian the Car Doctor, since this is where car owners 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair. 14 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: If you're a mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick 15 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: up the phone and call in the garage doors are open, 16 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: but I am here to take your calls at eight 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: five and now running. Did you ever think that maybe 18 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: you're buying used cars the wrong way? It's possible because 19 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: maybe you're looking at it wrong running any of the 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: car Doctor, thanks for stopping by. I had a conversation 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: with someone the other day in the shop and I 22 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: realized that, you know, part of the problem with cars 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: is I don't think we know how to buy them. 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: I think it becomes an emotional thing. And that's okay. 25 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: You know what, there are certain moments in life where 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: emotion are are very important, right first date, first kiss, 27 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: first wedding, Um, you know the whole. You know, as 28 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: my mechanic Danny, he can tell you all kinds of stories, 29 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: but you know, there's those first moments of buying a 30 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: car where you've got to take a motion out of 31 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: it and it has to be put over on the side. 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: And when I was talking to this person this week 33 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: and is you as a young driver and new driver, 34 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: she needed a car, her car was falling apart. She said, 35 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: you know, I just I don't know how to go 36 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: out and and and buy a car. She said, I've 37 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: never had to do this. My dad used to help 38 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: me do this and he passed and now I have nobody. 39 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: You know, she how do I do this? And I said, 40 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: you've got to identify this. I think on on on 41 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: four points. I think need in terms of what do 42 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: you need? How much car do you need? And I 43 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: guess This applies to new cars too, but it was 44 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: a used car that we were talking about. You know 45 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: what specifically are you looking for that used car to do? 46 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: Are you looking for an suv? Are you're looking for 47 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: a sedan, or you're looking for a pickup truck? What 48 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: exactly do you want? Because then once you decide, hey, 49 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: I need this all right, then we can talk about price, 50 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: how much money do you have to get that need? 51 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: And then we then we can talk about okay, in 52 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: the ten thousand dollar range in a Subaru family of vehicle. 53 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: You know, here's what we can get in this condition, 54 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: that condition, And then we can look at warranty, in 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 1: the features and doesn't have heated cup holders and air 56 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: conditioned seats and whatever other trivial nonsense that you need 57 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: beyond an engine and four wheels on a tire. Right, 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: you know that's the emotional stuff, right, That's where it's emotion. 59 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: You know you want the red one, you want heated seats, uh, 60 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: you know you need a rear view camera. But I 61 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: think we have to decide. I think it's neat. I 62 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: think need is really where you've got to begin the 63 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: process of car selection. What do you need now? If 64 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna have more than one car, then it's that's 65 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: that that is another story unto itself too. Um. But 66 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: you've always got to go by need I um, and 67 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: that's where emotion comes in. You know, I need a 68 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: fifty five Chevvy black big tires, makes a lot of noise. 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: That's sort of a balance, you know, that's a that 70 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: that fills a lot of other gaps. So, um, this 71 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: is the car doctor. I am Ron and and we 72 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: are here to take your questions. And uh calls it 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: a five zero zero this hour, this hour because Tom 74 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: forgot to last hour. It's Tom's fault. We're gonna be 75 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: to giving away two copies of Steve Cook's book, Steve 76 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: Cook O b D. Two Diagnostics Made Easy. So you've 77 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: got you've got a two for chance. All right. You 78 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: gotta be nice to Tom when you call. You gotta 79 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: say something nice about him, which is hard. And um, 80 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: you know, if it was up to Mikey, Mikey would 81 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: give a book out to everybody. But that we've got 82 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: to to this hour just in time for the holiday. 83 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: So give us a shout and uh, let's see what 84 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: we get. Let's go and talk to bread in Pennsylvania, 85 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: Ram Brad, what is it you want to do to 86 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: this pick up up truck? Hey? Roy, how are you good? Sir? 87 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: What's going on? I have a question, Ram with a 88 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: five point seven the merits of running uh pure gasoline 89 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: versus running E tennis? It's worth the extra cost in 90 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: your opinion? Probably not? First of all, where would you 91 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: do you have access to pure gas? No? No ethanol 92 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: in it? Actually do? There's a several of the WALLAF 93 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: stations up here actually say ethanol free eight nine octane UM. 94 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: You know what's the truck tuned for? If you look, 95 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: if you open the gas door where you put the 96 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: gas in, is there? Because some of them will say 97 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: they'll have like the E ten symbol with UM, you know, 98 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: maybe the international no sign, or they'll say only or 99 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: something like that. They have limitations because some of this 100 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: comes back to what's the vehicle tuned for? All right? 101 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: If the vehicles says, in't the owner of the manual 102 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: no more than ethanol eight nine octane recommended seven is acceptable? 103 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: All right? But so it sounds like they're saying, you know, 104 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: it's got to be this octane, but it can be pure, 105 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: pure gasoline then yeah, put pure gasoline, and I think 106 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,119 Speaker 1: you'll find that fuel system components will have a longer life. 107 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: I can't give you that as an absolution. I don't 108 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: think anybody's ever done it on a pure basis from 109 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,679 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, and this is. You know, maybe 110 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: this is sort of along those lines. So my little snowblower, UM, 111 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: things don't wear out in my house, you know, I 112 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: just I tend to keep things forever, because that's what 113 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. You just go buy a new car, 114 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: you don't get rid of the old one. Well, it 115 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: sort of works that way with snowblowers, right, So my 116 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: my little two cycle Toro snow thrower, snowblower whatever it is, 117 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: UM finally needs a carburetor. So I took the old 118 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: one apart. It's it's kind of a molten mess. It's 119 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: it lasted me. Let's see, I bought it in two 120 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: thousand three, So do the math where we sixteen seventeen 121 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: years old. So I figured I got my life out 122 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: of it. I went and got another. I got ordered 123 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: a carburetor. Naturally, the carburetor comes. You can't buy one 124 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: from Toro anymore. They don't make it because it's too old, 125 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: throw it away by a new snowblower, which I don't 126 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: want to do because this one I can lift in 127 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: and out of the truck. And I bought one online 128 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: from a company I've been dealing with for a long time. 129 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: Good company, so Hairs out in Ohio as sten As 130 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: t e N I think is the is the name 131 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: of the carburetor company of Aftermarke, made in China. But 132 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: you take it out and it says not good for 133 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: more then ethanol, And I'm thinking, but everything around here, 134 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: everything around here is eighty five, which is ethanol. So 135 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: that means I can't run pump gas on my snowblower. Yeah, 136 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: I have the same snowblower that was bought in seven 137 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: runs like a top, especially on the pure gasoline um 138 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons why I've been using. 139 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: I've been using, and snowblowers are a little easier. Obviously, 140 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: you buy the expensive can of pure pure gasoline from 141 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: the from the small parts house or the hardware store, 142 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: and it works when I guess even carburetors do wear 143 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: out over time. But I think ethanol, I'm not a 144 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: fan of it. I think it's just in this unnecessary evil. 145 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: It's gonna be here no matter what we try and 146 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: say or do. So if you can do it and 147 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: you can afford it, yeah, um, or at least maybe 148 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: every third or fourth tank fuller as often as you 149 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: can get to those pumps, because then the problem becomes 150 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: if you travel with the truck, then what happens? Yeah? True, 151 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: you know, so it's it's it's kind of like going 152 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: to church. Brother. We all start out with the best 153 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: of intentions, and sooner or later we have that come 154 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: to Jesus moment where well, I'll talk to God while 155 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: I'm driving. I'm sure he'll get the message. The same idea. 156 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: Second question, one more question. Yeah, the only thing I 157 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: do not like about this truck is changing the oil filter. 158 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: It is an absolute nightmare. You get an oil bass. 159 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: What would your thought the run a wix XP of 160 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: changing the oil Let's say every three thousand, They're only 161 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: changing the solver every other time every six thousand, running 162 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: Penn's oil Ultra Platinum synthetic. Um. I think we're self defeating. 163 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: I don't know that. You know, I've got no scientific 164 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: data to back it up either way, bread and and 165 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: I understand what you're trying to do. You're using a 166 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: good oil, You're you are diluting down um, you know 167 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: the oil obviously with that quarter of dirty after three 168 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: thousand aisles, I would probably you know, sneak my oil 169 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: change interval out to the five thousand mile mark, all right, 170 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: and still use the Wicks XPT filter and just changing 171 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: every five thousand miles. And this way you you only 172 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: go through the pain. I'd rather see the oil stay 173 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: in there. I do, in all honesty, run my synthetic 174 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: to five thousand. You know, if um if um. If 175 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: the vehicles up in the air and I'm doing something 176 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: else and it's got miles on it, yeah, I'm probably 177 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: gonna drop the oil just because I can. If it's 178 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: been four or five months. But you know, the oils 179 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: have gotten so much better over time. Uh. The oil 180 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: companies are really taking a hard look at this, and 181 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: they've come up with some really creative editive packages. Um Kendall. 182 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I was reading an article 183 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: Kendall Motor Oil, and there's a name that's been around forever. Right. 184 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: They've actually come out with an additive package. I believe 185 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: they call it liquid titanium. Um uh uh something along 186 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: those lines. You can read more about it at Kendall 187 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: motor oil dot com I believe is the website. But 188 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: you know they they're doing some interesting things with oil 189 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: now too. But the point is, you know a lot 190 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: of them, and oil is only as good as the 191 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: company behind it and the engineering right, and a lot 192 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: of them are, you know, getting really creative about extending 193 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: the life of of oil. And I think you can 194 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: go to the five thousand mile mark and not have 195 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: to do it, you know, every three I think that's 196 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,719 Speaker 1: a little bit of overkill. Plus you wear out the 197 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: train pan, threads on the oil pan, um, and that'll 198 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: be yeah. So, but just just just things to think about. 199 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: But I like I like the way you're thinking. I 200 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: like the way you're thinking. So, um hey, Brad, stay 201 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: on the line, hang on, stay tight. Tom is gonna 202 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: get your information. We're gonna we're gonna be sending you 203 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: out a copy of Steve Cooks book O B D 204 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: two Diagnostics Made Easy. Stand the line. It's great reading. 205 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: We'll send you out the book and then we'll call 206 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: you up in three months. They'll be a test on 207 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: chapter two. Um h, make sure make sure you're reading 208 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: it so, but some good winter reading materials stand on 209 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: the line. Tom will be right with you. I'm run 210 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: on any of the car doctor eight five five zero 211 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: nine nine zero zero. We're back right after this. I 212 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: got the number time right it on the wall, so 213 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: you don't forget to call for car advice. Done right? 214 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: Eight five five five six zero nine nine zero zero. 215 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: Now back to row. Let's get over to Dave in 216 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,679 Speaker 1: Maryland eighty five l Comino and an overheating problem. Dave, 217 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to the car, doctor, sir, how can I help hi? 218 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Good sir? What's going on? 219 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: Let there's your questions? I'm mate, please Adam eighty five 220 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: Chevy helchemey now three oh five V eight absolutely Christine 221 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: condition gotcha heat? If I would start the car in 222 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: the morning and then run, the temperature gauge would go 223 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: to the extreme. It would peg if if I would 224 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: allow it to do that. If I turned the heater on, 225 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: the gauge would go back to normal. I could drive 226 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 1: the car the rest of the day with no problem. 227 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: So here's what I did. I flushed the system. I 228 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: put in three new thermostats, took it to the radiator shop. 229 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: He said, I needed a radiator for the radiator and 230 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: a cap on it, new hoses. I replaced the thermostatic fan, 231 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: and I finally wound up removing the cylinder heads to 232 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: take them to a machine shop to have a magniflux 233 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: to check for cracks. And the heads were bad gaskets, 234 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: and it had neither of those problems. None of those 235 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: things corrected it. The very last thing that I did 236 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: was replaced the water pump, and that corrected it. But 237 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: the water pump did not leak, It did not have 238 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: a bearing noise. And when I took the old pump apart, 239 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: the impeller seemed fine and it turned fine as it should. 240 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: No signs of cavitation, nothing that I could see. But 241 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: I say the water pump finally solved the problem after 242 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: all that work and all that expense. And if you've 243 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: ever worked on that air of a three or five 244 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,599 Speaker 1: E eight, they are not the easiest thing to work on. 245 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: But but I'm just amazed. But that I thought, if 246 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: a water pump was bad, you either had bearing noise 247 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: or he had leakage. And I didn't have any of that. No, 248 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: you can also have it. You can have an impeller slipping. 249 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: You can have a pump causing cavitation. I've seen in 250 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: some extreme cases the way the castings were formed, it 251 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: creates turbulence and it will affect water flow through the engine. 252 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: I can't say that I've seen it through that extreme, 253 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: but you know, listen, you're living proof of it. I 254 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: think what I would have been curious to try, not 255 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: the second guess this buzz the tempt sender is was 256 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: the tempt sender on the cylinder head between one and 257 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: three or was it up on the intake manifold. I 258 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: believe it was between the cylinders one and three. I'd 259 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: be I'd be curious to see what you know and 260 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: did you do this recently, Dave? Or was this a 261 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: while ago? And this question has been bothering you for 262 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: a couple of years? Correct? After all that work? I 263 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: would want to see. I'd be curious to see if 264 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: you know using a thermal gun. Was that side of 265 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: the block hotter than the other? Was there an issue? 266 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: And was there an issue the way the water was 267 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: exiting or you know, being pulled through the being pulled 268 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: through the block or pushed through the pump. You know, 269 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: where was the hotspot? And then maybe when I took 270 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: it apart, could I have could I have actually seen 271 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: the problem knowing where to look. And sometimes it's real subtle, 272 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: real subtle differences. Um, I'll tell you the story this way. 273 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: Maybe this will maybe this will alleviate your pain. Brother. 274 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: So we had a we had an overheating, not an overheating. 275 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: We had a heat problem in the shop recently. The 276 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: heat wasn't working well. It worked okay, And you know, 277 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: our heating guy is excellent. He's a rocket scientist in 278 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: his own right. And there's something in the heating world. 279 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: You know, rate to rise, how fast it will build heat, 280 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: and how quick it builds to the extreme. But we 281 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: were having an airflow. We were having a distribution problem, 282 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: and what we had found was what we ended up 283 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: doing to solve it. When they designed the heating system, 284 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: they didn't put a filter on the return hide before 285 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: the How can I explain that the furnace or the 286 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: manifold assembly. So it was building up all this soot 287 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: and in particulate and it was affecting air flow as 288 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: it came up through the diverter manifold, as it approached 289 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: the blower motor before it was sent back out on 290 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: the leg to heat the shop. Do you know that 291 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: little bit of it was probably just a half inch 292 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: of caked up crud. We clean that and it increased 293 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: airflow across the blower, across the manifold, out the leg, 294 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: down the trunk that feeds the shop. The shop heats 295 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: up better now and it's all fixed. So you know, 296 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: sometimes it's that little thing that you don't see or 297 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: you just take for granted. And we found it by 298 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: using a thermal gun. We we sat there because you know, 299 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: that's what I gotta help my I get involved with 300 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: my heat guy. We're buddies and you know, we're up 301 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 1: on the roof and we're looking at this and look 302 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: at that. One of sudden we realized, why is it 303 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: a different temper here than it is here, Like this 304 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: should be the same thing. There's nothing there, And then 305 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: we realized it was after after the manifold, the way 306 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: it was split and it wasn't dispersing the air properly. 307 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: And we went in cleaned it up and it's all fixed. 308 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: So you know, sometimes sometimes that's just the way it is, 309 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 1: and you know it's it's it's allowsy answer, but it's 310 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: the truth. You you case where um, you know, look 311 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 1: look at look at how it's flowing. With a thermal gun. 312 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: Maybe you would have and maybe you know, I listen, 313 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: I admire you, you know, to take off the heads 314 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: and go through all that. I probably would have pulled 315 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: the pump as maybe my second or third. But you 316 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: know what, trial and error, and I give you credit. 317 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: You you you actually went through and did your due diligence, 318 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: and you know you're you're to be to you're to 319 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: be commended for that, all right. Um, well you know 320 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: you had the patience for it, so you're very well. 321 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: Thank you. I should have gone to the water pump 322 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: probably the first or second nightem but since I didn't 323 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: hear noise and and see leakye, I figured I was 324 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: good to go. Yeah, now you always got it, you know. 325 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 1: It's it's what's that rate to rise? Right? What's the 326 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: rate to rise of the cooling? What was the rate 327 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: to rise of the heat in the shop. You always 328 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: think about how it's gonna get there and how long 329 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: it takes and what affects it, and that's part of it. 330 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: So listen, thank you for a call, Dave. I appreciate it. 331 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: And uh, you know nice car. By the way, I 332 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: like they'll Camino still do eight five five zero zero. 333 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: The car Doctor is coming back right after this, of course, 334 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: right my Chevrolet. I'm the car Doctor, Rondinian. Let's get 335 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: it over and talk to Phil and Vermont with his 336 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: Chevy Malibu. Phil, how can I help, sir, Let's see 337 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: what we can do to get this car back on 338 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: the road. Hi, Ron, thanks for taking my car. You're 339 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: very welcome. Um Well, what I was wondering is it's 340 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: I got a little scanner scanner tool and it says 341 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: it's the um camshat position actually a selenoid valve, and 342 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: I was wondering if it would be worth taken because 343 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: I saw on YouTube that you can clean them. And 344 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: the other question is, well, I got to the parrot, 345 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: if I should change the intake, which is the one 346 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: I got to change, But should I change the exhaust one? Also, 347 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: we we tend to do them in Parisville. We've seen 348 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: we've seen more than a few of them fail, as 349 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: you know, first one then the other. I mean, they're 350 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: not the hardest thing in the world to change. It's 351 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: it's really a question of what's in the budget. Can 352 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: you afford to do both. I will I will caution 353 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: you and just say that make sure you're using a 354 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: good quality part. I would I prefer and I try 355 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: to get GM o WE parts in this application simply 356 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: because they work the best. I've had the least amount 357 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: of problems. I mean, General Motors had their issues with these. 358 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: And truth is, I think I think many of the 359 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: aftermarket pieces, many of these actuators in the aftermarket are 360 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: simply rebox GM parts because GM went through a retooling 361 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: and basically did a whole another design and created a 362 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: better component for the mistake for the folly that they made. 363 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: I can tell you electrically that you're gonna look at 364 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: resistance across that actuator and you typically see five to 365 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: ten homes of resistance at room temperature. Um uh, you know, 366 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: in the exhaust, the exhaust actuators should be the same. 367 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: Even though they are different. You can't physically swap them. UM. 368 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: As far as cleaning, my experience has been that this 369 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: is not a this is not a um A performance issue, 370 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: you know, meaning that the internal screens are clogged or restricted. 371 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: More so, that this is an electrical issue. And uh, 372 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: you know, generally these are electrical failures that I've come across. 373 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 1: I have seen sludged up issues, you know, engines don't 374 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: get proper oil changes or lack of oil changes, et cetera, 375 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: things along those lines. But generally that will set um 376 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: this code. And I believe it um uh the fault 377 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: for the um the the solenoid itself. There's a different code. 378 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: I think it's a These are tens and elevens, and 379 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: then I think you get thirteen and fourteens or twelve 380 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 1: and thirteens. I don't have the chart right in front 381 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: of me, but they do test this a bunch of 382 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: different ways, and I think the one you're looking at 383 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: is for the actuator itself. Well, the reason I asked 384 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: that question is because when I went to change the oil, 385 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: my wife had picked up the wrong I'm used to 386 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: use an O'Reilly's, you know, basic synthetic if you picked 387 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: up the regular oil. So we lived quite a ways 388 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: away from the store, so I said, well, I'll just 389 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: change the oil quicker next time. So I put it 390 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: in anyway, and that was like eighteen hundred miles ago. 391 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: So I was just wond enough that changing back to 392 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 1: conventional might have caused something like that. Now, and you 393 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: know the the the oil that she used. Was it 394 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: was the right viscosity or the same viscosity is what 395 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: you're normally using? Yes? And was it dexos rated yes, okay, 396 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: if it's dexos rated and convey ensinal. I don't see 397 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: you know, that whole thing about switching from conventional to 398 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: athetic and back again. I think that's a wise tale. 399 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: I think that's something created on the internet from those 400 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: that don't know. It just gives them something else to 401 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: talk about and uh, you know, flap their gums and 402 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: show how how smart they really aren't. Um, I don't 403 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: see an issue there, except as you correctly state from 404 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: a longevity point of view. So uh, you know, I 405 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: would I would change the actuators and move on and 406 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: call it a day. Okay. And if you can, and 407 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: I think you can get that right out of O'Reilly's 408 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: Auto Parts. As a matter of fact, if you'd go 409 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: into o'reileyoto dot com, you can probably look it up 410 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: there or and and I'll and I'll say the statement 411 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: like this, if O'Reilly Otto says, if Orellota Parts says, hey, 412 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: here's an actuator, we know works. Here's a brand that 413 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: we haven't had any issues with. I would go with that. 414 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: My concern and where my my line of thinking is 415 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: my biggest concern right now is people are buying parts 416 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: online from sources unknown. They look pretty on paper, They've 417 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: got this beautiful website. You don't know where those parts 418 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: are really coming from unless there's a brand name on it. 419 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: You know, there are issues with counterfeit parts of Listen. 420 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 1: There's counterfeit Delco, there's counterfeit move, there's counterfeit of of 421 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: of Dorman. Well, I don't know if anybody's counterfeiting Dorman yet, 422 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: but um because all the Dorman stuff seems to be 423 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,719 Speaker 1: cheap enough anyway. But you know, you just you've got 424 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: to be careful. And or I see on the on 425 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: the web when I was scrolling through Oriilly, some of 426 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: them came and there's are like fifty sixty bucks and 427 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: some of them you can get on Amazon for two 428 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: of them for bucks, right, So where those right? Where? 429 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: And where do they come from? You know, there's there's 430 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,399 Speaker 1: value in having somebody to go back and talk to. 431 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: There's value in customer service, and that's what buying from 432 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: an o'riilly otos dot com orillyoto dot com we'll give you. 433 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: And I think that's you know, that's that's think of 434 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: it as you know, are there things that you don't 435 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: do around the house phill or don't do anymore you 436 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: hire somebody? Uh no, not really everything. You're doing everything 437 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: thinking how nice it would be if you didn't have 438 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,880 Speaker 1: to cut the lawn or paint the house or put 439 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: the roof on. And right, you know, you're buying yourself 440 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: the luxury of having somebody to talk to, and sometimes 441 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: that's a lifestyle issue. And but one other things I 442 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: question just popped in my head. I kind of understand 443 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: what the intake um solenoid does, but what does the 444 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 1: exhaust one do? Same thing. They're just they're varying cam 445 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: timing based on engine demand in order to accommodate either emissions, 446 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: power or fuel economy. They're both. They're they're moving both sprockets. 447 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: And some of them websites call it instead of the actuator, 448 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: they call it a variable timing or is that something different? Well, 449 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: I think what some of the websites are referring to 450 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: is the actuator is the horse and the control device 451 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: inside the engine or what I call sometimes as a 452 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: phase or the phaser is the device doing the work, 453 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: so the actual or I'm sorry I say that backwards. 454 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: The actuator is the brains of the operation, and the 455 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: phaser is the horse actually pulling the load. Thing. Well, 456 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,360 Speaker 1: the one's one is limiting the oil flow and it's 457 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: limiting the oil flow to the phaser, which is changing 458 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: the position of the cam timing, which is actually what 459 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: the end goal is. And then it all gets checked 460 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: and then it all gets checked through the camp censor 461 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 1: so that the computer can see, hey, we told the 462 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: cam to go here, did it actually go to the 463 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: right position? All right? And not every and let me 464 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 1: just preface that, Phil, not every engine has both pieces. 465 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: You know, when we look at cam timing and the 466 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: way the manufacturers do it, Some have just an actuator, 467 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: some have an actuator and a phaser, but they always 468 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: will have a response way to look at when the 469 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: when it when it commands hey go go to degrees 470 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: advanced on cam timing. On the intake side, they've always 471 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: got a censor there to look at how did that happen? 472 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: Or did that happen? And um, you know, will that work? 473 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: Does that make sense. Oh did you give away all 474 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: the know As a matter of fact, I just did. 475 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: You got the last one, brother, That was the last 476 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: thing I wanted to tell. All right, stay on the line. 477 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,520 Speaker 1: Tom is gonna get your information. Steve Cook's book O 478 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: b D two O b D two can't say that 479 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: today O B D two diagnostics made easy coming your way. 480 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: Stay on the line of Tom, get your information. I'm 481 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: run on. Any of the car doctor will be back 482 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back. Where don't any of the 483 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: car doctor rolling along as we uh get back to 484 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 1: the busy phones. Let's go over to Michael in New 485 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: Jersey wants to talk about eton gasoline. A lot of 486 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,959 Speaker 1: conversation about eaton gasoline today, Michael, Welcome to the Car Doctor, Sir. 487 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: How can I help hi? Hi? Ron? Okay, I heard 488 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: you talking about the issue with your touro. Uh let 489 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: me try to lower the sounds here with your toro. 490 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: And I just wanted you to know that I was 491 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: informed that shell gasoline has as little as three ethanol 492 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: in it. Interesting, okay, Yeah. When I found this out 493 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 1: as I started talking to a driver who was delivering 494 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: a tanker full of shell to a shell station, and uh, 495 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: very he was very nice. And he actually showed me 496 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,479 Speaker 1: the paperwork on a clipboard and where he picked it up, 497 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: which was in Newark. And he said when he goes 498 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: back now, as he said, the next tanker full will 499 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: be four BP. Uh And he said, I said, how 500 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: much ethanol is in that one? He said, that's that's 501 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: probably ten percent. He said, Shell is the only one 502 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: that has a real low content of ethanol. Okay, I 503 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: wonder what the determination is for that. And I don't 504 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: dispute what you're saying. You know, I was surprised to 505 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: find out years ago that all the gasoline they basically 506 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: blend the gasoline at the refinery where where it's picked up. 507 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: The they put a card in and it says, hey 508 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: we're Shell, and then they you know, they blended it 509 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: this way, and hey we're BP, and we blend it 510 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: that way. And and you know, you wonder what the 511 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 1: rationale is. It's it's and you know what I smell 512 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: government taxes and um all the regulations involved as to 513 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 1: who gets that what fuel. Uh. Well, another little another 514 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: little endorsement from Shell Chamber. By the way, he said 515 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: he picks up a different tanker to deliver it to VP. 516 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: It's not the same. They don't refield the same tanker. Okay, 517 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 1: so it's a different tanker. Uh. There's there's a mechanic 518 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 1: owner uh that I've known for years. Uh and uh 519 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: he said he uses only shell. He told me this 520 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: a few years ago, and I said why, And you know, 521 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: he gave me some reasons. And he works on high 522 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: a lot of high end cars, a lot of German 523 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: cars and uh and and Lexis and whatnot. He has 524 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: a thriving business. Um. And he said he owns three 525 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: gas stations of another. Well, I won't use his own gasoline, 526 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: you know. Uh. Yeah, And I bet it's because he 527 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: sees the valve deposits that form on the engines of 528 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: of some of those exotic German cars and those high 529 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: end German cars. And and that's why I've heard this conversation. 530 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: I know exactly where you're going. But and I will 531 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: say this, okay, for the listener, there is hope, you know, 532 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: I'll use And I'm a I'm not so much I'm 533 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: a brand, but I'm also a location gas buyer. You know, 534 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: I'll buy from this XX on this Sinocco. This shell 535 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: shell is actually the hardest for me to find where 536 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: I am. So Exxon is easy, Sinocco is easy. The 537 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: hot rod only gets Snocco and only gets it from 538 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: the same pump at the same place, from the same guy. Um, 539 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: a little little silly, but that's just my superstition. So, 540 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: but a lot of the problems with with the blending 541 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: of fuel and how fuel is blended. Uh, you know, 542 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: just use some form of a fuel tank cleaner, whether 543 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: it's you know, whether it's a berryman, you know, uh, 544 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: fuel system cleaner to go in the tank, something that 545 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: will help beat up carbon, because carbon is still a problem, 546 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: and it's it's even in this day and age, even 547 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: with what we're trying to do. But the ethanol thing 548 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: is is just is just horrible. There's just no good 549 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: way around. Yeah, let's hope that Shell could run your 550 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: tour ros blower. Well yeah, and then but you know 551 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: what the problem with that is, Michael, and I appreciate 552 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: the thought. Then I've got to get myself down to 553 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: the one Shell station, which is, you know, twenty minutes 554 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: that way. So now what I've done to alleviate the 555 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: problem is I've just I've and I've kind of done 556 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: this all along, but every once in a while you 557 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 1: get lazy. Once in a while you can't get up 558 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: and go to church that day, and you're a bad boy. 559 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: Um is I try to run the pure, the pure 560 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: ethanol free stuff in the can from the hardware store, 561 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: and that that seems to give you know, that seems 562 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: to solve the problem as well. So yeah, very good, 563 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: I think I think the important thing. And by the way, 564 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: is speaking of that is it's I've been listening to 565 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: for about twenty years from when you were on radio 566 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: and you you talked about Chevron tech run back then, 567 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: and I'm still using it. Do you still think it's 568 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: worth while? Yeah? I think I think tech Ron is 569 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: a great fuel editive as well. I think there's a 570 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: lot of things out there that work. It depends upon 571 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: what's available in your neck of the woods. Um, I've seen, 572 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: I've seen now I will say this will use tech 573 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: Roun in the shop, We'll use Berryman's in the shop. 574 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: And it depends. It seems that, um, I'll see different 575 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: results with different editives and different cleaners. But but I'll 576 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,479 Speaker 1: tell you this, it seems like the be all end 577 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: all is Berryman's. It's just harder to get. Distribution seems 578 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 1: to be a problem, um, but they've got they've got 579 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: some interesting approaches. As a matter of fact, this week 580 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: we did a fuel system cleaning using the Berryman fuel 581 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: Injection Kit, which is a little aerosol spray nozzle in 582 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: the air in tech duct and where we positioned it, 583 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: Amhanda had actually cleaned the throttle body, ended a top 584 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: end carbon cleaning and and solved quite a few problems 585 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: in the way that car ran. You can read more 586 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: about Briman by the way Briman Products dot com. Michael, 587 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Thanks and have yourself a merry Christmas. 588 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,719 Speaker 1: I'm runing any of the car Doctor. We're back right 589 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back, run the end of the car 590 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: after Let's go and talk to Mike and Delaware real quick. Mike, 591 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: we got about two and a half minutes. What's going on? Hey, 592 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: r Hey got a two thousand nine forward Escape which 593 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: I bought it back in the end of April, and 594 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks after I got it, I got 595 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: it from a car dealership to check engine like come 596 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: on and then and they replaced the purge valve in it. 597 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: Now now it's staying on the dash and checked fuel inlet. 598 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: So I checked fuel inlet valve. So I got the 599 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: book out and said clean around it and then and 600 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: it did say if you clean around in and then 601 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 1: check in and like coming back on. You know, I 602 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: have taken to guess a dealer wouldn't be that perche 603 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: valve messing up again. The note it's the note cat, 604 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: it's the two point five. It's a to five note 605 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: cap system. I'm guessing, right, Okay, So let me let 606 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: me explain it to you in terms like this, Mike, 607 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: take a take a gas can and fill it up 608 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: with you know, fill it up halfway with fuel and 609 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: stick it out in the middle of your front yard 610 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 1: in the sun. If you don't have that vented, what's 611 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 1: it gonna do. It's gonna it's gonna expand, right, So 612 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: so we've got to vent it. So that's where the 613 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: charcoal canister comes in on a car's gas tank. We 614 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: vented through the canister because the the canister charcoal will 615 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 1: will filter the fumes to keep pollution from entering the atmosphere. 616 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: But it has to exit after the after the charcoal 617 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: through a vent valve that sends it out into the atmosphere. 618 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: Consequently on the other side. Sometimes the charcoal canister gets 619 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: loaded with fumes. So we put a purge valve. We're 620 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: gonna purge. It's kind of like it Burp's right, you 621 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: have a burp after helping me. Same thing. So that 622 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 1: purge valve is tied electronically to a computer that when 623 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 1: the computer wants to it opens the purge electrically, and 624 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: there a vacuum hose that leads off the other side 625 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 1: that leads to the engine. It then applies engine vacuum 626 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: to the canister and it pulls fresh air through the 627 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: vent through the canister and vacuums out the fumes. When 628 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 1: we want to test the system to make sure it's 629 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: got integrity, that it's not leaking fumes at the wrong time, 630 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: the wrong place, to atmosphere or anywhere else, we close 631 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: the purge. We close the vent, will will will likely 632 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, open the purge, apply vacuum 633 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 1: against a sealed against a sealed vent, apply vacuum for 634 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 1: a set period of time. We look for a change 635 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: on the fuel tank pressure sensor. Closed the purge, and 636 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: then watch the tank pressure sensor. How long does it 637 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: hold vacuum to what level, to what the Greek ctera um. 638 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: So yes, it's possible that that purge is not holding. 639 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 1: It's possible that it's sticking. If it wasn't a good quality, 640 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: that's obviously a concern. If there is a leak anywhere 641 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: else in the system, so the next step would be 642 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: to smoke test this, look for leaks, and then work 643 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 1: your diagnosis from there. But you're on the right track. 644 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm not any of the car doctor. Good mechanics aren't expensive, 645 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you