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Speaker 1: Ron Andanian. You know, running a repair shop has its challenges,

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Speaker 1: and you sometimes have to pick a little outside the box,

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Speaker 1: and you've got to be prepaired for what's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: outside the box, the Car Doctor, the mounting bracket that

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Speaker 1: came in the first set of calipers doesn't match the

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Speaker 1: mounting holes on the vehicle. There's something different. The calipers

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Speaker 1: the same, the brackets run. Welcome to the radio home

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Speaker 1: of Ron and Nanian the Car Doctor, since this is

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Speaker 1: where car owners the world overturned to for their definitive

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Speaker 1: opinion on automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a

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Speaker 1: busy signal, pick up the phone and call in. The garage.

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Speaker 1: Doors are open, but I am here to take your

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Speaker 1: calls at eight five five six, and now he is running.

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Speaker 1: Would you recognize excellence in order to repair if you

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Speaker 1: saw it? Would you really? Hello and thanks for stopping

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Speaker 1: by the garage today. I'm ronan any in the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: You know, recent conversations with people, events in and out

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Speaker 1: of the shop, just make me ask that question of

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Speaker 1: myself about you. Would you case in point at the

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Speaker 1: counter in the shop three or four days ago, customer

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Speaker 1: came in and we had just replaced front sway bar links.

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Speaker 1: Now previously, the week before we had changed oil on

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Speaker 1: her Honda CRV, her two thousand nine Honda CRV, and

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Speaker 1: we noted that it needed sway bar links and they

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Speaker 1: were rusty and clunking and falling apart, and they have

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Speaker 1: to be replaced their part of suspension. It's it's a necessity, right,

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Speaker 1: And did the oil change and gave her a bill

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Speaker 1: for that obviously, and you know, look the car over

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Speaker 1: didn't see anything else. And when we do an oil change,

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Speaker 1: we're rather a complete oil change, because I don't think

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Speaker 1: Oil changes are meant to be efficient. Oil changes are

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Speaker 1: meant to be you know, not necessarily a repair, but

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Speaker 1: a look over of the vehicle, a small stick out

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Speaker 1: your tongue and say, ah, all right. There's there's different

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Speaker 1: levels of that, there's different levels of looking a vehicle over,

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Speaker 1: but an oil change is clearly part of that process.

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Speaker 1: It has to be. It's too much is riding on

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Speaker 1: And that's that's a big responsibility. So an oil change

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Speaker 1: is not just drain and a filter and go. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: once in a while you can do that, but you

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Speaker 1: that needs to be done and considered. So anyway, we

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Speaker 1: changed Tina's oil and she came back the following week

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Speaker 1: for the sway bar links, and the sway bar links

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Speaker 1: told her roughly off the top of my head two

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Speaker 1: at two UM. I presented the bill and I thought

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Speaker 1: Um of course. The comment was, you know, why couldn't

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Speaker 1: But I guess that's human nature, right, that's what we

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Speaker 1: all do. We're all looking for something a little less.

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Speaker 1: And then she wanted to know about the oil change.

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Speaker 1: We went back to the oil change conversation and I said,

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Speaker 1: oil change? And you're not get upset? I won't get upset.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get upset. I I explain it.

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Speaker 1: It's this is what it is. Well, why is an

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Speaker 1: what it was. Uh. First of all, an oil change

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Speaker 1: with us, on most vehicles is a half hour half

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Speaker 1: hour shop time. That's what it takes to run the shop.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a business decision. We're not there to do,

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Speaker 1: you know. Cheap oil changes, cheap oil changes aren't aren't

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Speaker 1: And and here's a case where it's it's a single

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Speaker 1: that's a half hour. There's fifty seven dollars and change.

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Speaker 1: It needed four and a half quarts of synthetic oil.

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Speaker 1: There's another forty five bucks. Or you were taking an

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Speaker 1: oil filter. Uh, six seven dollars is fifty dollars in material.

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Speaker 1: Here's a hundred bucks. There was a bottle of fuel

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Speaker 1: system cleaner added to the tank, plus tax. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: why do you have to use such expensive oil? It's

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Speaker 1: Let that bake for a minute. There, Let's just let's

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Speaker 1: just think about that. Couldn't you let that bake? Or

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Speaker 1: couldn't you let that? Couldn't you just use cheaper oil?

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Speaker 1: It confuses me just thinking about it. She said it.

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't believe it, and I said, why why

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Speaker 1: the ability to take care of your car to the

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Speaker 1: cheap oil. And I answered her, I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: had to contact me through the shop text email system

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Speaker 1: thought about it. She said no. I said, has it

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Speaker 1: That's why you're here. There's a reason why everybody is

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Speaker 1: every place that everybody leaves is a bad place. Again,

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Speaker 1: back to that first question, would you recognize excellence in

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Speaker 1: looking for a good mechanic, every mechanic they left can't

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Speaker 1: be a bad mechanic. It's impossible because eventually people leave

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Speaker 1: us and say, I'm looking for a better mechanic. What

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Speaker 1: are you looking for? Do you know? Would you recognize excellence?

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Speaker 1: And as we begin this year, that's what I want

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Speaker 1: you to think about. As you know, we all talk

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Speaker 1: It's so goshed aren't important because it can't be just

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Speaker 1: about price. It can't. That's not what order repair is

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Speaker 1: not because if it is, if you think it is,

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Speaker 1: then you're just never gonna get it. You're always gonna

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Speaker 1: be out chasing the next cheapest repair, because that's the

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Speaker 1: way it works. Are there bad mechanics, yes, but there's

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Speaker 1: also bad customers, and there's problematic jobs, and there's minimal

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Speaker 1: You're the cheapest mechanic out there, you're the fastest mechanic

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Speaker 1: out there. Recognizing excellence in order repair was this conversation.

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Speaker 1: Had a conversation with a semi new customer. I've seen

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Speaker 1: Steve twice now second time, and he's got a two

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Speaker 1: thousand eleven Dodge ramp that has a cooling was an

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Speaker 1: It was eight quarts down on cooling, which we're still

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Speaker 1: able to determine that the fault by cycling the fan,

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Speaker 1: So all the all the schmutz and crud and all

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Speaker 1: It's not even weather proofed. It's just out there in

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Speaker 1: I took the fan. I took the relay out of

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Speaker 1: had I had to get a new socket and solder

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Speaker 1: it in, and fortunately Chrysler I was able to do that.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not the excellence part. It's not could I

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Speaker 1: fix the car? Yeah, I can fix the car. That's

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Speaker 1: not the issue. This was the issue you. I explained

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Speaker 1: this all to Steve and I went through it all,

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Speaker 1: I've got to tell you that I'm really sorry that

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Speaker 1: wasn't my intention. And I felt bad that you guys

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Speaker 1: but you had to clear the snow off the car.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the car, doctor, sir. What engines in this ranger?

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Speaker 1: Good sir? What's going on? What? What? What? Engine is

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Speaker 1: you tell him about these aches and pains, and all

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00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden he figures it out by looking at

426
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: test results by by by parameters. Hey listen, God bless,

427
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that I've got such a healthy audience. Um.

428
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: I recently, and maybe this is a timely point to

429
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: talk about my daughter's escape. So my daughter's escape, her

430
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 1: fourteen escape, came in. Um. You know, we were out

431
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 1: there in the middle of October and I drove the

432
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: car as part of the family visit, and there were

433
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,200
Speaker 1: some things about it that I observed that I said,

434
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 1: you know, this car has to come back to New

435
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 1: Jersey so I can work on it. And we left

436
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 1: her mom's car, and I brought it back and I

437
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 1: put it differential in it. I put a wheel bearing

438
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 1: in and changed the oil service did. And the last

439
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: thing I always do before I let a car go

440
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 1: is I'll just I'll just look at its vital sign.

441
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: I'll look at its heart rate and blood pressure. I

442
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: looked at fuel trim. Fuel trim is the world to me.

443
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 1: Fuel trim on this car was a good car, long

444
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: and short term combined, will run anywhere from six to ten,

445
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:33,479
Speaker 1: all right, So why is this almost double long term

446
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: fuel trim? Ran it through some observational databases, talked to

447
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 1: a few people, a lot of people's comments, where why

448
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: are you looking for a problem? You don't have a

449
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: fault code. It sets a check engine light at all right,

450
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: So I'm four points away from a car that's about

451
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: to be fifty three miles away from home base. I

452
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,719
Speaker 1: pursued it. I had the time. It took me two

453
00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: months because I picked at it when the shop was slow,

454
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 1: and as you can imagine, we're not slow that often.

455
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: And it finally came down to be a resolution of

456
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: a combination of things one was the PCV val was

457
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: out of calibration. But the biggest change that achieved the

458
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: proper fuel trim on that escape, and it brought it

459
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: down to ten percent, and it's dropping the more she drives.

460
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: It is running fuel system cleaner through it, and I'm

461
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 1: not gonna lie barren Man. Fuel system cleaner with hest

462
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: the high energy solving technology stuff knocked the carbon out

463
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: of that engine and is dropping it more and more

464
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 1: every day. We're down from twenty one and a half

465
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: points to ten percent. We're gonna probably approach the five

466
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 1: percent resolution by the time I get out there in February,

467
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: when I make a visit. The point becomes there were

468
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: things for me to look at without a fault code.

469
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: I looked at vital numbers. There's things for them to

470
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 1: look at without a fault code. Don't wait for a

471
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: fault code. You know, before when cars didn't have check

472
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 1: engine lights and they still had computers, we diagnosed by

473
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: looking at you know, information, and and that's why they've

474
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 1: got to do that. My first comment to you would be,

475
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: since there are no codes, how good is you're hearing?

476
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: And at this age you're telling me you're in good shape.

477
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: So you should be able to hear pretty good, right.

478
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: Do you recognize if you turn the key on but

479
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: don't crank the engine, do you recognize Can you hear

480
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: the fuel pump run from the driver's seat? Yes, I

481
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: can if I just barely over the bell of the

482
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: ignition right right. So when it goes into this crank

483
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:34,440
Speaker 1: no start condition, do you hear the fuel pump run? Um? Not? Well,

484
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm turning it right. So if you if you release

485
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: the key when it's in this no start and you

486
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: really have to give it a five to eight second

487
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: pregnant pause and just sit there and then turn the

488
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 1: key on and listen, do you hear the pump run? Yes?

489
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: You do? Yes? Okay, So then my next question would

490
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 1: be what's losing? It's losing fuel or spark? When you

491
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: sit there with the key on. Does the check engine

492
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: light come on with the engine off? Uh? All the

493
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: all the dash lights are lit. I just want to know.

494
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: I want you to pay particular attention to the check

495
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: engine light. I want to know that the PCM, the

496
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,880
Speaker 1: engine controller is awake all right, and if you see

497
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: a check engine light on, you'll know it's awake. It

498
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: may not be working properly, but at least it's alive

499
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: all right now. Now, the third comment I want to

500
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: make is just because the fuel pump runs doesn't mean

501
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: that it's actually producing correct pressure. All right. They said

502
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: they checked they had good fuel pressure, right, but it

503
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: also was starting at that moment, right, yeah, probably, okay,

504
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: so checking it when it's good. You know, I've had

505
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: floods in my basement. I would have asked you this question,

506
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: but I know you're gonna tell me you've never had it.

507
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: I've had floods in my basement when the sump pumps

508
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: don't work right. But they work right most of the time,

509
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: and then every once in a while, the sun pump

510
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: doesn't pump what it should in the water level rises

511
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: and the buzzer goes off. You know what I want

512
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: to I want to see what the pump is doing

513
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: when the problem occurs, not when everything is good. That

514
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: doesn't tell me anything, right, And then and then, you know,

515
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: can they catch this in the act. Is it getting

516
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: to the point where it where it won't start or

517
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: it's got this long extended crank? And when they do

518
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: put a fuel pressure gauge on it, have they pulled

519
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: a fuel sample yet right, well, and it's it's it's

520
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: easy enough to do. If you've got a fuel pressure

521
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: gauge hooked up, you know you should start to. You

522
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: should start to. You know, if you've got a fuel

523
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: pressure gauge hooked up, you should start to. You know.

524
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: When you release it, just hit the release button, dump

525
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: the fuel out the excess hole, put it into a

526
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: clear glass bottle. We use Snapple bottles. We still have

527
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: some Snapple bottles left over. That's my fuel sample. If

528
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: it can fill that bottle in thirty seconds while cranking.

529
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: If I get a clear, good clean sample, I know

530
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: I've got good fuel in the tank, and then I

531
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: can move on. Sometimes doing diagnosis, Actually, let me correct myself.

532
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: Always doing diagnosis is not waiting for the problem to happen.

533
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: It's eliminating known good, to narrow it down to bed

534
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: and you will see that ultimately the more they pursue it.

535
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is gonna be simple and easy.

536
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's things they can do. It doesn't

537
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: have to be wait for the check engine light to

538
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: come on. Think about that, Jeff, let me go look

539
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: at some of those things. Call me back, you know,

540
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: where to find the five five zero running eating the

541
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: car doctor. I'll be here, thanks by just take your doctor.

542
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Craig in Wisconsin. ATI two pace

543
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: car Chevy Camaro Craig. Welcome to the car Doctor, sir.

544
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: How can I help? Thanks for taking my call today?

545
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: You here, you two, sir? What's going on? I have

546
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: this uh eighty two indie pace car replica Carimaril have

547
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: been sitting in the garage approximately thirty thou original miles.

548
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: I bought it ninety one for my dad and drove

549
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: a little bit and basically sits in the garage a

550
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: lot and uh four years ago it just parked and

551
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: haven't driven it since. And since then it's leaked, you know,

552
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff all over the floor. I

553
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: think that next year might be the year I try

554
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: to get it run and get it started or do

555
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: something with it. I'm not really sure where to started again.

556
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: It's pretty much all original, and I'm not really sure

557
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: where he begin with it. Well, you know it's it's

558
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: do we have a dollar limit here? And I guess

559
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: we really can't write. You know, there's when you approach

560
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: something like this, there is no dollar limit, because you've

561
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: got to do what you gotta do to get it running,

562
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: especially the fact that it's a pace Car. It's a

563
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: pretty rare piece. You know, if it's an original pace

564
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: Car replica from Chevrolet, it's it's it's a little bit

565
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: of a notch above a regular eighty two Camaro, right agreed? Okay,

566
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: So you know it's and and I and I bring

567
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,959
Speaker 1: up budget right away because depending upon where you are

568
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 1: in life, you know, is are we about to restore

569
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: the eighty two pace car and put the kids through college? Um?

570
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: Are we about to restore the pace car and celebrate

571
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: our twenty fifth wedding anniversary and not get the wife

572
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: anything because we spent all the money on the pace

573
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: car and your will be the divorce? Are we about to?

574
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's life. Life gets in the way. That's

575
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: the problem with hot rods. So you've got to kind of,

576
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,239
Speaker 1: you know, have balance, right What did what did? What did? Mr?

577
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: Miyagi always tell Daniel Son balance is the key to life,

578
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: and it applies to hot rods as well. You know,

579
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: My theory here is you've got to look at dry

580
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: and wet, all right. If it's wet, it's a fluid,

581
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: it's got to be replaced, and then how good is

582
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: the system that that fluid was in? So obviously break

583
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: fluid needs to be exchanged. You know, you've got to

584
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 1: go through the fuel system. You've got to be concerned

585
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: earned with fuel in the tank. Is it contaminated? I

586
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't second guess this. I would pull the tank and

587
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: not even try to start it on whatever is in

588
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: the tank and open the tank up. Is it? How

589
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: cruddy looking is it? Is the tank usable? Hopefully it is?

590
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: Because you know, replacements aren't going to be great unless

591
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: you can find an original GM tank. And you don't

592
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: want to start replacing parts on this if you don't

593
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: have to, because it sort of ruins the authenticity of it.

594
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: It's a pace car, right, so you know, can you

595
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: can you pull the tank and get it boiled. When

596
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: the tank is down. Look at the rubber hoses at

597
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: both ends of the fuel lines going going from the

598
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: tank to the steel lines going from the steel lines

599
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: to the pump going up to the This should have

600
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: a carburetor on at eight two. Correct cross fire injection.

601
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: Oh this is crossed as a cross fire car. Okay,

602
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: So wherever there's rubber hoses. They're gonna be high pressure,

603
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: and what kind of shape or they are? Right? There's

604
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: a right, there's a there's a port fuel car. Pardon me, um,

605
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: So you've got to take a look at that. Then,

606
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: you know, once I get good clean fuel, then I'm

607
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: gonna feel comfortable trying to start it. Drain the oil,

608
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: fill it up fresh. It's only been four years. Go

609
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: through the cooling system, Try to start it. How does

610
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: it run? Maybe I'd run it, you know, high idole

611
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: for you know, an hour in the driveway. Change the

612
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: oil again. What does the oil come out like? Is

613
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: the engine quiet? Doesn't have any tapping to it? You know,

614
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: it's some of this is gonna be a work in progress.

615
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be a hey. Let's do it all

616
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: in one shot and then and then see where we go,

617
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: you know. So tell you what, Craig, stay put let me.

618
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to rush this. Let me pull over

619
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: and take a pause. When I come back, we'll finish up.

620
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm running aiding the car doctor, and we'll be back

621
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back, car doctor, Craig.

622
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: You're still there, sir. Let me let me finish with

623
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: this real quick before the hour takes us. So once

624
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: we get the tank down and you're right, you know,

625
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: I completely forgot eight two was was port fuel, and

626
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: there's some exotic stuff here, especially the fuel pump in

627
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: the tank. When the tank is down, you can then

628
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: look at the fuel pump. What I change a thirty

629
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: thousand mile original fuel pump for something else? I don't know.

630
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: I'd have to really, it really depends on what sort

631
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: of muck is in the tank. You know, how good

632
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: does the tank look. Is the fuel just yellowed but

633
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: still consistent and clean and clear, then I'd probably reuse

634
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: what you have. But I'll tell you this knowing that

635
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: the car sat thirty years that's I'm sorry, forty years

636
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: or it's well four years, but it's forty years old.

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Speaker 1: Right now is the moment where I would reach out

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Speaker 1: through my local repair shop if they've got a connection

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Speaker 1: at a C Delco. Like I'm an a C Delco

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Speaker 1: repair shop, I can get access to a C Delco

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Speaker 1: parts like a lot of other things. But what I

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Speaker 1: can do is I can have my A C Delco

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Speaker 1: distributor re each out to a C Delco at the

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Speaker 1: regional and national level. I can search a c Delco

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Speaker 1: warehouses four parts that aren't necessarily sitting on the local

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Speaker 1: vendor's shelf and like like. For example, I found an

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Speaker 1: original alternator from my Monte Carlo, a Delco alternator at

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Speaker 1: Delco National, at the national depot. I think there was

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Speaker 1: thirty two of them left in the country. I bought one,

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Speaker 1: all right, so you know, I got a real I

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Speaker 1: got a real Delko g M piece for the car

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Speaker 1: that's what fifty years old, So you know there's stuff

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Speaker 1: still out there. Now is the time to start thinking

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Speaker 1: about it because uh, you know, the cars forty years old,

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Speaker 1: and the parts problem for the older cars is only

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Speaker 1: gonna get worse. It's just continuing to get worse the

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Speaker 1: more we the more we go through this with older cars.

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Speaker 1: So you know, do you want to put a fuel

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Speaker 1: pump in it? Um injectors? You know there's non issues

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Speaker 1: with the injectors after the vehicle is sad a length

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Speaker 1: of time maybe at least to purchase a set. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying change them, but the purchase a set because

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Speaker 1: if one fails, it's going to be the back one

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Speaker 1: on number five on the left side. You're gonna do

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Speaker 1: the set and then obviously go through the breaks, go

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Speaker 1: through all the belts and hoses, all the you know,

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Speaker 1: normal maintenance stuff, and then drive the car. If it's wet,

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Speaker 1: change it if it's dry, look at it is a

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Speaker 1: dried out and cracked, and then drive the car and

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Speaker 1: enjoy it, because letting it sit is only gonna make

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Speaker 1: more problems until the next time I'm run a nading

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Speaker 1: the car doc reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See you