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Speaker 1: line one talk to Jasper in Maine, two thousand three

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Speaker 1: GMC yukon Jasper, Welcome, to the car doctor. How can

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Speaker 1: I help? Thanks for ron appreciate. I'm calling from my

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Speaker 1: what's been happening to it is as he's driving, it

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Speaker 1: Do any anybody do any diagnosis. We did a he

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Speaker 1: took it in and checked it for codes. No codes

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Speaker 1: And all I'll do is I'll just do it a

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Hey? Ron? Um?

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Speaker 1: I've learned so much from your show every week. It's awesome. Um.

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Speaker 1: another Honda battery or is there a particular type of

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Speaker 1: battery that you recommend. Well, we we always talk about

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Speaker 1: Frame Grid Technology batteries right now is at your local

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Speaker 1: Advanced Total Parts and it's their Autocraft Gold series of batteries.

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Speaker 1: They are the power frame Grid technology is the best

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Speaker 1: the warranty on that car? Five years? Four years? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they always make parts to last the warranty period, or

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Speaker 1: and brands and this nine different kinds of anti freeze,

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00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, how would it work? Right? So you know,

428
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 1: up there, I guess you take whatever you can get.

429
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: But you're down here. You can go to the Chrysler dealer.

430
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 1: You can use the Chrysler. You can go go to

431
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,639
Speaker 1: O'Reilly ooto Parts, and you know, you can use some

432
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 1: aftermarket derivative whatever they've got on sale if we want

433
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,400
Speaker 1: to try and save a couple of bucks. The key

434
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 1: is is the coolant you're using rated for the vehicle.

435
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: If it's rated for the vehicle, you're not hurting it

436
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 1: because it is the correct composition and it's made for

437
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 1: that specific application. Bottom line, are they all about the

438
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: same price? So? Oh no, listen some you know the

439
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: price Chrysler some something unusual and prices or my experience

440
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: the Chrysler, I think is if I were to guess,

441
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: I think it's probably in the twelve it's probably a

442
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: little more than that, probably twelve the fifteen bucks a gallon,

443
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 1: and then the aftermarket stuff I've seen it in the

444
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: same range. So you know, it's also a matter of convenience.

445
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 1: What can you reasonably get? But but no stretch of

446
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: the imagination, and for no reason, what I recommend just

447
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: draining out the radiator and either replacing it with standard green,

448
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: which doesn't work anymore, or draining out the radiator and

449
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: refilling it. When you drain a radiator and just do

450
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: a radiator drain and fill. Theoretically, well, yeah, you're really

451
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: only getting about a third of the capacity. You're not

452
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: getting at all, that's number one. So you're contaminating the

453
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 1: new stuff with the old stuff right away. You know,

454
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 1: the other reason, the reason one of the main reasons

455
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 1: you change coolant. Very rarely do I see I'll talk

456
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: from my experience from my seat. Very rarely do I

457
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 1: see coolant not make freeze point protection that the freeze

458
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: point wears out. It just doesn't happen like it once did.

459
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why. I think coolants are made

460
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 1: better and they're more tolerant. The reason I see coolants

461
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: getting changed, number one, they've reached their life cycle. It's

462
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: five years and out. But if I'm doing it early,

463
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: it's usually because the coolant is starting to turn a cidick.

464
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: It's chemical composition is breaking down and turning into an

465
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: acid basis like that high school science place you took

466
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: sophomore year. It was with the pH paper and the

467
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: soft with the acid in the base question. Yeah, I

468
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 1: took that test. I didn't do so good. I became

469
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: a mechanical how smart I am now? But anyway, um,

470
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: you know it's it's it's the acidity level, and you

471
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: don't want the cooling to be acidic because that's when

472
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: it will start to rot the system from the inside

473
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: out and damage the cooling system components, the water pump,

474
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: the seals the metallic portion of it, portion of it,

475
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll you'll have issues there. So it's always

476
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: best to do an exchange. I don't say flush, I

477
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 1: say exchange. Flush denotes pressure in my mind, and exchanges

478
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 1: a one for one with a machine that pushes in,

479
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: pulls out, pushes in, pulls out, and you know, does it.

480
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: And that's the other part of it. Doing a coolant

481
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: exchange versus a drain in fill will remove sediment that's settled.

482
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: So any particulate that's in the heat or core in

483
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: the bottom of the block, in the bottom of the

484
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: radiator places that not flow. Instead of doing a push

485
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: me pull, you doing an exchange, we'll remove that contaminant

486
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: and promote longer cooling system life and vehicle and engine life.

487
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, yeah, they were quoting me rough roughly

488
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: for it. But that's just is that the cool inter,

489
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: that's the whole that's the whole process. That's that's that

490
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: that's just the coolant, that's the whole process. That was

491
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: the whole deal. That's I don't know, I'm assuming it was,

492
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: uh they called it and fell right, so you know,

493
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: how are they doing it? You know, and that's and

494
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: that's the question. And for you and for anybody else listening.

495
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 1: You go in somebody says, hey, it's time for a

496
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: cooling service, ask him how are they doing it. Are

497
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: they hooking up a machine or they draining the radiator.

498
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: If they're draining the radiator, they're stealing your money. It's

499
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: not worth the effort. Now the sad part is, and

500
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna go. The sad part is some cars

501
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: you can't hook a machine up. There are some vehicles

502
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: out there, the the some of the forge with the vulcan,

503
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: with a duel overhead cam motor, the V six, there's

504
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: no way to get a cooling system exchange on that.

505
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: It's very difficult. You have to make up some adapters

506
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work. And those cars we recommend earlier

507
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: than normal cooling flushes because we're constantly trying to remove

508
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: old contaminated coolant that we know won't come out any

509
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: other way. As far as the sediment, not much you

510
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: can do about it in that case, because the price

511
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: to do it will exceed the value of what you're

512
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: trying to work on. Um your particular car, it's easy

513
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: enough to do with the machines will take advantage of it,

514
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: just doing a radiator flush or a radiator drain where

515
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 1: you can otherwise use a machine. Um, they should put

516
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: on a mask, and you know, pretend they haven't. They're

517
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: stealing your money, so you'rege right, I'm talking. I'm talking

518
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 1: exchange versus just to drain and fill. And typically in

519
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: exchange runs, you know, it's typically forty five minutes of

520
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: time plus cooling. So gauge that accordingly based on your

521
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: shops labor rate. Okay, all right, sir, okay, well, thank

522
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: you very much. You're very welcome. Jim. Good luck to you,

523
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: and have a good rest of the weekend. I'm running

524
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: any in the car doctor, I'm back right after this.

525
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: Welcome back, then of the cart Oculist. Go over and

526
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: talk to David Franklin, New Hampshire, n Pontac Monagle. David,

527
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: Welcome to the car doctor, sir. How can I help?

528
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: Thank you? I've written everything down so in proper sequence,

529
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: but won't forget everything? Sure, go ahead, tell me what's

530
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: going on here? Not supers. I had to replace cheat

531
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: up for Laura intake manaphro baskets because water was coming

532
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: out of the on plug hole at the fireloads. I

533
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: did all the work I had, I had great instructions. Uh,

534
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: the job went through it. I didn't really have any

535
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: major problem. And I put a boll new Uh stopped

536
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 1: room taking up boat on that plastic, that black plastic.

537
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: The frank and odor wouldn't stop. Uh wouldn't stop, wouldn't

538
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: that wouldn't st it. So I got out and pulled

539
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: the pull out a couple of plugs. They were ripping

540
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: away with gasoline. So I went back on the internet

541
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: and I found that the fuel pressure regulator had a

542
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: recall in two thousand five. Well well, wait, wait a minute, now,

543
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: before you did all this work, did the car start. Well,

544
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: it started right up until my last street drag race

545
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: against some smart last teenager. But apparently that's what ruptured

546
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: the intake medical gasket. Okay, so what you're saying is

547
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: the car died ring while it was driving, just barely

548
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: made it home. It kept wanting on fewer and fewer flanders,

549
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: and just barely made it in the driveway. All right,

550
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: So pull out the plot and spring it over. And

551
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 1: that's when I saw the water coming out of number

552
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: one hole. All right. I did some of the internet

553
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: research because the first in the old days that would

554
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: have been intake man forecasts head gas one or the other. Yeah,

555
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: well apparently from what I learned on the internet, UH

556
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: made their head gas is bullet group and it was

557
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: most likely the the intake man full of gas. And

558
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's what it was wrong because once

559
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: I get everything put back together and turned it over, No,

560
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: no water came out. Okay, but it doesn't. But it

561
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: doesn't start, wouldn't start float it out, no doubt. It

562
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: flood it out if you pull the plugs out or

563
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: they dry or wet. Oh, they were dripping wet. They're

564
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: dripping and they're dripping wet with gasoline, yes, sir, Okay,

565
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: no water, there's no water any wood. By the way,

566
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: I changed you and filter just to be safe. Um

567
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: So anyway, g M Hading unposed had a recall on

568
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: the few regulator at home. Five. I wanted a two

569
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: fructor games that haven't been in yet, so I replaced

570
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: the replaced a regular go back in the path. Then

571
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: they're over and it detonated inside the intake manifold, and

572
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: I was afraid I'd dropped that's back bar. I took

573
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: the flash. I went over the whole thing one you have.

574
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,959
Speaker 1: There's no cracks. But now, well, how would you know? Well,

575
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you're saying it detonated the intake manifold?

576
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: Did it? Did it in the induction system? Okay? And

577
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: it physically blew the intake manifold off? No, sir, no,

578
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: I thought it. I thought it erupted, but sitting and

579
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: I can't tell. Then I got out and looked in

580
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: the intake manifold of what I thought. Then next, because

581
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: it wouldn't stop, I thought I perhaps had damaged the

582
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: maths are for right, pull that out, and I checked

583
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: resistance of across both coals and two homes were both

584
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: just about this thing. So we thought that I need,

585
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: I need. So what's your what's your what's your question

586
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: to me that? David? Well, well I want to start. Okay,

587
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: Well you know it's let's go back and cover the basics.

588
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: It ran before, it ran poorly, but it ran before

589
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: you took it apart, right, correct? All right? Does it

590
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: have inject or pulse? Doesn't have spark? It has There's

591
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: no doubt expect because now when I turned over, I

592
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: could hear firing. I could hear it's noise is inside

593
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: the exhaustist then where it's apparently pumping round gas and

594
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: they're detonating inside. Okay, do you have the wires on

595
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: right on the coil for the firing word? Yeah? I

596
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: check that three times. Okay, do you have injector pulse?

597
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna tell me yes, But how do you know?

598
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't know how to check that. Mcmab.

599
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: A mechanic stethoscope would be nice to listen to and

600
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: hear it click while somebody's cranking it over. Do you

601
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: have a scan tool? Yes, sir, watch after him. Okay,

602
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: so can you look at that a stream? Uh? Yeah,

603
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: I can look at it, but not rhying? Well, who cares?

604
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: Turn the key on? Look at that a stream? Do

605
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: you get a reading out of the mass airflow sensor?

606
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: Do you get anything? Can you match that spec to

607
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: what it should be? Key on, engine off, off, off? Well,

608
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 1: then it sounds like you know what, it sounds like

609
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: there's a problem in the mass airflow. The mass airflow

610
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: is gonna read something kean and off is gonna show

611
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: some little bit of something across it. All right, Um,

612
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: it should that's always been my experience. But you know,

613
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: next step is I would take a scan tool, look

614
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: at pigs, look for something out of calibration. I would

615
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: go back over everything very carefully, because I think you're

616
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: getting into deep and you're missing something very basic in

617
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: terms of what you've already done. Call me back and

618
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: let me know what you find. I'll be back right

619
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back. We're on then of the car,

620
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: Doctor James and Corning isisle. I got a minute and

621
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: a half, go James, Yes, James, I got a minute

622
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: and a half. What's your what's going on? Uh? Welle

623
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: century Uh? I was driving it out on the flat land.

624
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: I couldn't get it overtur which one sound kind of

625
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: like a jet or something, you know. Wash, got it back,

626
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: got it back home. Talked to the d g R.

627
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: Valve Burnutt. I'm thinking a bad cat. Yeah, restriction in

628
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,879
Speaker 1: the exhaust very possible. Drop the front pipe and see

629
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: what it does. Okay, I mean either that or you know,

630
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: put a manifold vacuum gauge on it and see. You know,

631
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: there's a build back pressure as you're driving down the road,

632
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: and it doesn't take much, you know, a pound or

633
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: two of of back pressure. Old be more than enough

634
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: to completely goof this car up in that way. And

635
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: it's never run real real good when ever since I've

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Speaker 1: had it. But now it is slowly got worse. You know,

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Speaker 1: is it? Is it dragging out the transmission shifts real quick? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Or no? Yeah? Yeah, it's It sounds like restricted exhaust.

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Speaker 1: So I would tell you to drop it down and

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Speaker 1: take it for a ride, or if you want to

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00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: pull out one of the oxygen sensors, if that's easier

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00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: for you, pull out the upstream mode too, obviously not

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Speaker 1: that downstream and see if that helps it? Does that

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Speaker 1: save you from having to pull the whole exhaust down?

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00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: But thumbya, it sounds like you're headed for an exhaust system, James,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you. For everyone else,

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Speaker 1: I'll running any in the car. Doctor. Mechanics aren't expensive, good, priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you