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Speaker 1: old one? Um? Well, no, not the original one. I don't.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Not too much already today? I'm doing well, sir.

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Speaker 1: the throttle valve controls those port openings. It controls when

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00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: the IBM punch card goes through the machine to cause

424
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: it to change from second to third or allow the

425
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: up shift from uh, you know a third to overdrive,

426
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 1: or create the downshift from three to two. It's the

427
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 1: control function. It's the throttle valve, and it's based on

428
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 1: your foot's position or demand being placed on the transmission

429
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 1: from the engine. Makes sense with me so far so

430
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 1: so that cable has to be a fixed point. If

431
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: it's you know, thirty two inches long between the carburetor

432
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,439
Speaker 1: and the valve. They allow you an adjustment for a

433
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: little bit of given leeway if you pull up, if

434
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: you disconnect the throttle valve, off the cable, off the

435
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: end of the carburetor and pull on it, you're gonna

436
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 1: find towards the very end it gets hard and there's

437
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 1: a there's probably a quarter inch, maybe three eighths of

438
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: an inch of pull where it feels like you got

439
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: a fish on the end of the line. All of

440
00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: a sudden, there's resistance. That's the moment, that moment when

441
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,240
Speaker 1: that begins, that's the point when the throttle valve, you're

442
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: you're you're into the spring of the valve. You're into

443
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: the moment when the IBM punch card enters the machine.

444
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,479
Speaker 1: So that's the moment when the ports start to open.

445
00:23:53,840 --> 00:24:00,959
Speaker 1: Makes sense, Okay, so the adjustment becomes are right, you

446
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: open up the throttle. This is the way we did

447
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: in the old days. Now, you know, I'm working with

448
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: a modified vehicle here, so there may be something extenuating

449
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: that I'm not seeing. But the way this is supposed

450
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 1: to work is as you open the throttle, as you

451
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: approach wide open throttle, you should pick up the spring

452
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: of the throttle valve that moment when there's resistance. In theory,

453
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 1: when you're wide open throttle, the throttle valve is wide

454
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: open too, cape Okay, that's the way it's supposed to work. Now,

455
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: you can play with this a little. You can bring

456
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: the throttle valve in a little early, you can bring

457
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: it in a little late. You can, and it'll change

458
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: the point of how hard it shifts and when it shifts.

459
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:53,600
Speaker 1: All right, But if the throttle valve cable isn't adjusted

460
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: and it never moves, it's like running a blank card

461
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: through the IBM machine. It never knows what to do.

462
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: It just sits there and gets at the remember because

463
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: it's it's confused with me. Yes, sir, okay, that's what

464
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: you gotta do. So so basically, I had my daughter

465
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: hop in a truck obviously with it not running, pushed

466
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: the accelerator the gas pedal all the way down. Well,

467
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: let's do it this way. Disconnect the throttle valve the

468
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: cable from the side of the carburetor. Pull on, okay,

469
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: And the reason I tell you to pull on at

470
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,959
Speaker 1: first is make sure it's hooked up at the other end,

471
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: because the other end is inside the trans right all right,

472
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: Just because just because the cable goes into the trans

473
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's sunked up to anything. Somebody else did this.

474
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: We can't trust them. We don't know if they're doing

475
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: their job. If they did their job, you wouldn't be

476
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: talking to me today, right, I mean, I got two

477
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,479
Speaker 1: other questions. Well, but you know it's but you get

478
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: you get the point, right. So let's let's we we

479
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: feel that tension all right. Now, let's open the throttle

480
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: all the way. Now, let's see where where's the dowel

481
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: on the carburetor line up with the chatsky on the

482
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: end of the cable? Are we anywhere close? No? Okay, Now,

483
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: let's open up the adjustment on the cable. Whatever that

484
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: looks like. Sometimes it's a clip that you pop up

485
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: and the spring pulls it back, so you're pulling against

486
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: that or you know whatever. We've got to do and

487
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: try and get the two pieces to line up, all right,

488
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: and then uh and then yeah, then you can sit

489
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 1: in the car and your your your daughter can jump

490
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: in the car, engine off wide open throttle, have her

491
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: bring it up to about the point where you think

492
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 1: the throttle valves started to engage, and at that point

493
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: pull on the cable by hand. Are you into the

494
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: throttle valve? Yeah? Great, let go of it. Have her

495
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: open it up the rest of the way, and by

496
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: the time that's wide open, that throttle valve should be

497
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: open as well. Yeah. It's about a full two and

498
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: a half a much three swing sounds right, So all right,

499
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: let me let me, let me pull, Let me let

500
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: me pull over real quick. Stephen. When we come back,

501
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: we'll finish up. Get your two questions, and then we've

502
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: got a couple other calls we're gonna get to, but

503
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: we'll finish up with you. Don't go away. I'm running

504
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: any of the car doctor, I'll be back right after this.

505
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: He drives that way. But when it comes to fixing cars,

506
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: Ron has card advice done right eight five five five

507
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: zero nine nine zero zero. Here's Ron. Let's get back

508
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: to Steven Texas. Steve, you got two more real quick

509
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: bab what do you got So when I start this uh,

510
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 1: this engine up on this truck, um, I get like,

511
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: um five seconds of blue smoke. Um. Yeah, it could

512
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: have been the Vail Seals Yeah, valve stem seals um

513
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: not uncommon. You know, it's it's you know, that's the

514
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: engine on indicator. We used to say in eighty five

515
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: because they all tended to do that. There have been

516
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: some there have been some changes in modifications to valve

517
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: stem seals. They've gotten better, of course since eighty five.

518
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: That's just more than a few years ago, so they've

519
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,919
Speaker 1: they've they're probably rock hard, and half of them have

520
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: probably fallen off. That is thing. If you're mechanically inclined,

521
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,640
Speaker 1: you could change at home. You would need an air

522
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: compressor and a valve compressor tool. Uh. It's not the

523
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: it's not the hardest job in the whole world. I'm

524
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: sure there's more than a few videos on YouTube. The

525
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: key becomes you want to make sure you do that

526
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: when nobody else is around, because you gotta be thinking

527
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: if you have to, you know, spark plug comes out,

528
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: air goes in the cylinder. Uh, the rock a arm

529
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: comes off. You want to, you know, use the compressing tool,

530
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: compress it down, spring off. Do one spring at a time,

531
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: all right, so you don't mix anything up, you know,

532
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: change the stem. It's like a it's like a little

533
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: black o ring. Or rubber band that sits around the

534
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: top of the valve usually is the style. You know,

535
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:42,959
Speaker 1: do the change, put the spring back, make sure when

536
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: you put the the the keeper. You don't understand it's

537
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: a key keeper. It's not to make sure when you

538
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: put it back it's in. It's seeded into. It's just

539
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: a wedge lock to hold the spring to the valve

540
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: so that it doesn't fall out. Um, and you know

541
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: you should be it's not the hardest job in the world.

542
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: So I can do it with the heads on heads.

543
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: I can get those through O'Reilly's. The O'Reilly Oto parts

544
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: will have all the tools, they'll have the stem seals,

545
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: you know. And like I said, there's more than a

546
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: few videos out there that you can watch and um,

547
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: you know, see the procedure for doing it. But you know,

548
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: and then while you've got it, you know, while you've

549
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: got the valve spring off, you could do this. Put

550
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: a put a good heavy gage rubber band around the valve.

551
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: And then when you do that, think about what I say.

552
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: When you do that, you can then take the air

553
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: out of the cylinder. If the valve falls, the rubber

554
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: band will keep it from falling into the cylinder, do

555
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: you understand? So, so now what you can do is,

556
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: now you can, you know, hold the valve uptight against

557
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: the seat, just crack the valve open just a touch

558
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: and rock the valve side to side. And now you

559
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: can put a dial indicator on it if you want.

560
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: You can measure valve rock to see if the guide

561
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: is badly worn or worn enough that you should replace it.

562
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: And that for that, the head has to come off,

563
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: all right, and then don't forget to take the rubber

564
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: band off before you you know, just you know, it's

565
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: this is a procedural thing, right, This is rubber band on,

566
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: remove the air, put the air on, rubber band off.

567
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: Don't do it out of sequence because you're gonna get

568
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: the big surprise, all right. And then you know, and

569
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: then the head comes off. And make sure there's no

570
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: little kids around so they don't learn new words. Um.

571
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: Third question real quick, Well, you know what I will

572
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: call you back next Saturday. Uh, let you know what

573
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: I do with the trans and we'll go for a

574
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: jacked up jeep and I'll call you about some break

575
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: here absolutely and you know it. Stay on the line,

576
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tom, Steve Tom wants to talk to He's got

577
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: a quick question for you if he can, so stay

578
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 1: on the phone. Let Tom pick that up. Let's get

579
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: over and talk to Alan in Florida. Eighty five Capri Alan,

580
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: how can I help? Sir? What's going on? Well, I'll

581
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: try and make this quick short an eighty five Mercury

582
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: Capri five leader right. Uh. I I had run, had

583
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: run it for several hundred miles after I bought it.

584
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: Everything was I was gonna make a trip, and I

585
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: got talked into putting synthetic oil in it. So I

586
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: did that. I drove it a hundred and fifty miles

587
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: and it started. It was putting out a cloud of

588
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: white smoke like it was like it was snowing so

589
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: hard you couldn't see through it. When I disconnect the

590
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: vacuum line to the distributor vacuum advance vacuum line, it

591
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: stopped smoking. Okay, That means the internal seal inside the

592
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,959
Speaker 1: distributor is bad and you're you're you're pumping oil up

593
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: inside the distributor or. It means that crank crank case

594
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: pressure is too high and it's pushing oil where it

595
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: doesn't belong, and the diaphragme inside the distributor of the

596
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: vacuum advance is bad. You're talking about disconnecting the vacuum

597
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: line from the vacuum advance on the distributor. Correct, And

598
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: there's no there's no oil in that line at all.

599
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: It's dr right. Did you take the distributor cap off? Yeah?

600
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: And the inside of the distributor has no oil in it? Not? What?

601
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: How can that be? Well? That's what I can't figure out.

602
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: What what like? It's a combination. I think the changing

603
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: to the synthetic. I was told that you shouldn't do

604
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: that with his olden engine is stock engine? Yeah, that's

605
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a cup of coffee conversation. I've heard

606
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: the argument both ways. But but anyway, if you're smoking,

607
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: there's got to be a source. There's you know. That's

608
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: what I can't I can't figure out where what? What? What?

609
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: The only change is that when you plug the line,

610
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: it's no different than when it's to the vacuum advance

611
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: because all it's just it's just applying pressure to the

612
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: diaphragm and the diaphragm moves. I don't get any airflow

613
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: through that line. Where is it drawing oil? When you

614
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: change the time. Basically, all you're doing is changing the timing. Right,

615
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: does the car have a PCV val it has to write.

616
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: If you pull the PCV out of the valve covers

617
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: a change the smoke. H that. I don't think I've

618
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: ever tried that specific Try that. Do me a favorite

619
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: plug everything in disconnect the PCV, pull the PCV valve

620
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: out of the valve cover see if that changes anything,

621
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: and call me back next week and we'll talk. Alright, sorry, right,

622
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: all right, take good care of YouTube. I'm running any

623
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: in the car doctor will be back right after this.

624
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: Hey running any of the car doctor? Closing it out?

625
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: Real quick story, what's the rush? Right? I want to

626
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: tell you the story about the broken heater nipples. Real fist.

627
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: It's my yellow post it note of the day. Here.

628
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: I had a two thousand eight Chevy Tahoe, came into

629
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: the shop. The heat or nipple on the right side

630
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: had cracked. It's a plastic nipple over the exhaust manifold.

631
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: You want to talk about white smoke. It was like

632
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: the second coming of the Wizard of Oz right by

633
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: a push. So it's a it's it's it's a speed clip.

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Speaker 1: You have to pinch the two nylon tabs together to

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Speaker 1: pull the nipple off the heater core end. Now you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with plastic underneath the cowl hooked onto a piece

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Speaker 1: of aluminium, which is the heater core. GM tells me

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Speaker 1: that this job can be done in one point one hours.

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Speaker 1: It took me a half hour just to find the

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Speaker 1: other end of it, all right, never mind get it apart.

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Speaker 1: I ended up sitting there with oh, probably an eighteen

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Speaker 1: inch sharpened punch and a ballpeen hammer and just very

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Speaker 1: carefully breaking the plastic tab which brings to light. I

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Speaker 1: bet they sell a lot of these nipples because there's

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Speaker 1: no way to get it apart once it goes together.

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Speaker 1: Carpenter Bob sat there watching me. And Carpenter Bob remember him,

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Speaker 1: we haven't talked about him in a while. In famous

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Speaker 1: Carpenter Bob monologue, he goes, yeah, that's the way I

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Speaker 1: would have designed it. So sat there, broke the two tabs,

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Speaker 1: got it apart, legitimately, legitimately took me an hour and

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Speaker 1: eighteen minutes to get bolt nipples and both hoses apart.

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Speaker 1: It fought me so bad it took me five minutes

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Speaker 1: to put it back together because they're more worried about

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Speaker 1: putting it together and getting it out the door than

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Speaker 1: they are about when it breaks for you and me.

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Speaker 1: So just it's the rush. I don't know. I'm Ronanadian,

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Speaker 1: the car doctor until the next time. Good mechanics aren't expensive,

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Speaker 1: they're priceless. See you