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And this is Ronan the

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and now he running.

1:00

I almost didn't know where to start today. Thanks

1:03

for stopping by. You know it's

1:05

funny during the course of the week, and happy

1:07

Fourth of July by the way to everybody. During

1:09

the course of the week. You know, I can write the show in

1:11

my head as the week goes by at the shop, and

1:14

there's always something I want to talk

1:17

about. Come to weekend and

1:21

there's a lot of things I actually want to talk about

1:23

today but you know, in

1:25

radio they want you to you know, it's first words

1:28

out of mouth. It's something that's going to catch your attention

1:30

and to be of interest. And I said, you

1:32

know, you always think to yourself, what do you have to say that's

1:34

interesting to these people? You know, what do you want

1:36

to say? What can you say that they haven't heard before

1:39

from some other guy on radio? What's gonna

1:41

make them remember what it is you say so that

1:43

they come back and listen more and you can

1:45

continue to educate. And

1:47

I had nothing. I really had nothing.

1:50

I just I was sort of in, you

1:52

know, writer's block. I had radio block

1:55

until I went to the bank this morning. I had to

1:57

go to the bank this morning, and I'm

2:00

driving along thinking about it, saying, do

2:03

you what am I gonna talk about? And

2:05

I get to the corner and I'm making a left

2:08

down at the end of the one street and

2:10

there's a lug nut sitting in the middle of the road.

2:14

And don't ask me why I tend to do that. I

2:16

I look in the road. I'm the guy that walks through the parking

2:18

lot and you know, I'll tell you this

2:21

car is over due inspection. This car's got ball tires.

2:23

This car is leaking something. That's just my nature,

2:25

right, That's what I do, That's who I am.

2:28

And I'm

2:31

looking at this lug nuts sitting in the road, waiting,

2:34

waiting to make my turn, and I'm thinking the

2:36

impact of that lug nut,

2:38

what that represents besides

2:41

oh okay. And

2:44

I started to think about this radio show and I said,

2:46

gee, you know this, it triggers something.

2:49

Right, We're human, we're emotional. It it it

2:51

takes us back. Little things trigger us. And that's

2:53

what makes the journey through life so interesting, because you

2:55

never know when you're gonna get hit with something. I

2:58

remember two thousands seven and two

3:00

thousand seven, I was on I was

3:02

I was on a major station in New York. The show

3:05

was syndicated as it is now, but our

3:07

our major station in New York was making some

3:09

lineup changes and I remember the general

3:11

manager at the time, Bob Bruno, who I consider a

3:13

friend that I know. He was just doing his job and it wasn't

3:15

comfortable for me. Had to call me up and say, Ron, we're

3:18

taking you out of the New York market and

3:20

if you want to continue to do the show, you can. And

3:23

I thought to myself. Yeah,

3:25

let's continue to do the show. I remember this

3:28

like it was yesterday. This was two

3:30

thousand seven. And he said, all right,

3:32

he says, here's what we'll do. He says, we'll leave you on the network.

3:34

It's a radio thing. We'll leave you on the network, will still

3:36

syndicate it, but you know, we're gonna play you

3:38

back in New York at three o'clock in the morning.

3:41

And I don't know, you know, was

3:43

it a sales move where they trying to get rid of me, where

3:45

they trying to make me say, yeah, don't worry about it, I'll go

3:47

away, but play the show anytime you want. I don't

3:49

care a day or night, it doesn't matter to me because I think. I just

3:52

think there's a message. And you try not to

3:54

fly blind, right, you're trying to let your emotions

3:56

take over, and you know, you just do you believe

3:58

in what you're doing? Yeah, I believe in what I'm doing. All

4:02

this from a lug nut. A

4:05

couple of months went by, that was in

4:07

That was in the spring, early summer

4:09

of two thousand seven, and October

4:11

of two thousand seven came along, and I

4:13

remember this like it was yesterday. I

4:15

had my young I had my middle daughter Kate in the

4:17

car with me. She was coming home from the shop.

4:19

It was about eight thirty nine o'clock at night.

4:22

It was goosey night here in New Jersey. Goosey

4:24

night, cabbage night, mischief night, whatever. It's

4:26

the night before Halloween when you go out and you

4:28

think it's intelligent to roll toilet paper. And I shouldn't

4:30

say it like that. That it as a kid myself, right, we all

4:33

went through it and shaving cream and eggs

4:35

in the whole nine yards. And

4:37

I'm coming up on a car the next

4:39

town over from the shop, allen Dale, New Jersey,

4:42

and it's a police car and he's got his head down. He's

4:44

sitting there with the dome light on like

4:46

it's yesterday. I see this, and the back

4:48

seat of the police car is stacked

4:51

high with toilet paper. And

4:54

I pulled up next to him, and I couldn't help but

4:56

to say hello. I felt bad for him. Here he is cabbage

4:59

night. He's got a car full of toilet paper, which you

5:01

could probably sell for a pretty penny right now in the

5:03

pandemic. And and you

5:06

know I pulled up next to him. He's writing,

5:08

I just pulled up, rolled down my window. I said, evening

5:11

officer, looked like you've been busy. He

5:13

didn't blink, he didn't hesitate, he

5:16

just went ron Andanien. And

5:18

he looked up and I went,

5:21

oh, I'm in trouble because

5:23

right away I go back to I guess

5:25

my days as a kid driving a black fifty five Chevy

5:28

around Bergen County, New Jersey. Haven't haven't

5:30

gone away yet, right And

5:32

I looked. He looked at me and he said you're the car

5:34

doctor. And I went, yeah, how do you know that? And

5:37

he said, well, he said, because, frankly,

5:39

he goes all of all the police

5:42

officers in most of northern Bergen

5:44

County listened to you at this point. He says, really

5:46

all over, because you're the only thing

5:48

on at three o'clock in the morning worth listening to. And

5:50

I had a laugh, right he said, Jesus

5:52

says, I know who you were right away. I could tell by your voice.

5:57

And about seven or eight months went by,

6:00

in the spring of two thousand eight,

6:03

my friend Bob Bruno called

6:05

me back up and he said, okay, I give We're gonna put

6:07

you on at two o'clock in the afternoon. On Saturdays, and

6:10

that's how the show got moved to Saturdays, by the way,

6:12

uh two to four pm. It originally started out

6:14

as a Sunday tender Noon thing, and it's

6:16

still Sunday's Tender Noon, and that's Saturdays

6:18

two to four. Now it's all over the place because I've

6:21

got a stack of affiliate welcomes we're gonna do today

6:23

and talk about. But I

6:26

remember when they moved me back. I said, I

6:28

guess that's proof that there's a need for this show.

6:31

You know, it's just people want it, People

6:33

are demanding it, And I haven't

6:35

had too many signs lately, although you could take the

6:37

stupidity of some people fixing cars that there's

6:41

there's a need for this show. But that lug nut

6:44

on the road this morning said everything to

6:46

me. That's a mechanic's

6:48

worst nightmare. That's a problem

6:51

because my first thought was, is that the

6:53

first lug nut? Or is that the fourth

6:56

log nut and there's one left on a five log

6:58

wheel? Is

7:00

that the first of many that are gonna

7:02

fall off? Or is that the only one that's gonna fall

7:04

off? Or didn't fall out of

7:06

somebody's pocket that was walking down the road, But I don't

7:08

think so, because it was kind of in the middle of the road where

7:11

you would expect that the fall if it was sitting at the traffic

7:13

light and just just kind of vibrated and fell off.

7:16

So who's gonna have the accident because

7:18

the wheel falls off? Who's going to be in the car

7:21

next to that person that has the accident when

7:23

the wheel falls off because some mechanic

7:25

couldn't tighten the lug nut, or

7:27

maybe Harry homeowner couldn't tighten that lug nut.

7:31

Auto repair is about procedure. Auto

7:33

repair is about following a designated

7:35

path in the shop. And

7:38

for the longest time, I've always taught new mechanics

7:40

and I expect that out of everybody. We

7:42

have two methods of tightening lug nuts, and you have to

7:44

do both. It's required or

7:46

Ron will kill you. All

7:49

right. Ron will pounce on you like your worst

7:51

nightmare. It's the first step is you're gonna use a torque

7:54

stick. A torque stick is a calibrated

7:57

socket so to speak, that

7:59

matches your car type and lug nut type

8:01

so that you can only tighten the lug nut to a specific

8:04

torque or tightness value and

8:06

then after you torque stick it, you're gonna go around

8:08

with a lug with a torque wrench, an expensive

8:11

torque wrench, a very nice three

8:13

fifty dollar snap on dial, not a click

8:15

click, but a dial by number torque

8:18

wrench so that it doesn't have to be turned down so you

8:20

lose calibration. It's just sitting there. Bucks.

8:23

We spent on this, and I expect

8:25

you to use it because I don't never want to see

8:27

a lug nut from my shop laying in the middle of the road,

8:30

not just for the reputation, but for the grief it will

8:32

cause, for the damage it will cause. And

8:35

it was there and

8:37

it tells me, yeah, you know what,

8:40

there's a need for this radio show, and there's a need for

8:42

what you're doing. You

8:44

never know when the universe is going to speak up, and every

8:46

once in a while it clears its throat and it

8:48

shows you the simplest of things, and

8:51

there's that lug nut, and that's

8:53

what this radio show is all about. This radio

8:55

show is about We've got to get rid of the

8:57

lug nuts. And maybe that's, you

9:00

know, a metaphor for the mechanics that are out there

9:02

that aren't doing the job writer for the people working on

9:04

cars that aren't doing the job right. Maybe

9:06

that's why you know this week like so

9:08

many others, we're gonna start news talk sports

9:10

seven AM and ninety seven point

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Texas. And we're gonna start

9:17

this weekend in w a U B A M

9:19

and FM, Auburn, New York and w g V

9:21

A A M and FM, Geneva, New York

9:24

the Finger Lakes from News Radio Station Group.

9:26

And we've got others. You know, this radio station

9:29

continues to grow. And you know what that luck

9:31

Nutt taught me, why and

9:33

how there's a need. And I'm gonna come

9:35

back and fulfill that need. Right after we

9:37

take this pause. I'm Rondalandi. In the car doctor. Don't

9:40

you go anywhere. I'll be right back. Whether

9:52

it's a little red Corvette or you

9:54

go. You've come to the right place to get that

9:56

car fixed. Ronny in the car Doctor,

9:59

five F five zero zero

10:02

zero. Now back to ron Hey,

10:05

let's get over to Jim in Virginia, Ranger

10:07

four leader. Jim. Welcome to the car doctor, sir, How can

10:09

I help? Are you doing? Ron last?

10:12

You two brother? What's going on ninety

10:14

seven ranger rough idol at

10:16

cold Start emails you earlier in

10:19

the week. I put a lot of

10:21

parts on it and also done routine maintenance

10:23

and hasn't helped any Okay, and refresh

10:26

my memory, Jim, what what kind of parts have you

10:28

hung on this? Hold on a second,

10:30

it's the list of the list? Is that big? That's not

10:33

a good sign? Now you getting

10:35

me nervous? Yeah?

10:40

Oh. The new parts are an I

10:42

belt, air control, cool

10:45

and tempt censor and sender air

10:48

filter, fuel filter, thermostat, new

10:51

spark plugs, uh,

10:54

a new DPF E sensor, and

10:57

I cleaned the math sensor and also did a

10:59

car cleaning. Okay,

11:02

so have you looked

11:05

at any data as far as

11:07

by by scan tool. So you're you're headed

11:10

in the shop and they're the ones to

11:12

put the DPFP since you're

11:14

in, and did

11:16

they have a reason? Did they have a reason why they wanted

11:18

to do that? They're just reason

11:20

is it's a common failure on those trucks, all

11:23

right, So there, since everybody else

11:25

took one, this is what yours is gonna take? Kind of guys,

11:28

Yeah, ask them if they're missing a lug Note off a

11:30

vehicle this morning. I think

11:32

I found it in New Jersey, So,

11:35

you know, and part

11:37

of why I wanted you to come on here and talk about this, Jim,

11:39

is because a lot of times in diagnosis

11:42

such as this and others, it's

11:44

not necessarily trying to find a bad part.

11:46

It's tell me what's good, tell me what's working. So

11:50

just like when you go to the doctor, all right,

11:52

if you go to the doctor and you know, Doc, I'm feeling kind

11:54

of sluggish, I I

11:57

you know, I I don't

11:59

feel good. I've got aches and pains, They're

12:01

gonna run through the same battery of tests. You ever

12:03

notice every time you go in there, they do the same thing, heart

12:05

rate, blood pressure, probe, your ears,

12:07

your eyes, your nose, your mouth, the whole nine yards, Right,

12:09

They always look at the same stuff. They're

12:12

trying to see what's good so they can figure out

12:14

what's bad because they can't find anything obvious. Right,

12:16

you've been in that situation. Everybody has.

12:19

So you got a pencil and paper,

12:23

all right. So I want to know what fuel

12:25

trim is hot, all

12:27

right. I want to know what warm fuel trim is. I

12:30

want to see how it's reacting, all

12:32

right, I want to see a normal fuel trim.

12:34

Now you know the reason I look at

12:37

things like that, all right, And if

12:39

you're a long time listener to the show and you've heard me tell

12:41

you the story before, I apologize, but let me say it

12:43

for the new guys. Um you

12:45

ever get sick in your life?

12:48

Right, Monday you sort of got the sniffles.

12:50

Tuesday you getting the eggs. By Wednesday you're

12:52

sick. Right, So

12:55

you know Wednesday your check engine light came on,

12:57

boing, Hey take me to the doctor. I don't feel

13:00

it. All right, Monday

13:02

you start the car. If fuel

13:04

trim the measurement of how the

13:06

computer is controlling fuel

13:08

delivery inside the engine for a correct mix.

13:11

Let's say SPEC calls for zero

13:13

plus or minus ten percent, but

13:16

it allows a tolerance all the way up to twenty

13:18

five before it sets a fault. If

13:22

is the point at which the widget tells it, Hey, turn

13:24

on the light. If fuel trim was twenty

13:27

and SPEC normal rangees zero plus

13:29

or minus ten, do

13:32

you think the engine is gonna be running efficiently? No?

13:35

Is it gonna turn on the check engine light? No

13:39

it can't. Spec says,

13:43

that's it. It's got to hit twenty

13:45

four and a half. It's not turn it on twenty

13:47

four point nine. Maybe

13:50

depends upon the electrical tolerance of the computer

13:53

making the decision. All right, My

13:55

point is changing apart because

13:58

the last six cars before it got this, there

14:00

is no reason. That's not a diagnosis, that's a guess.

14:03

You know. Um, you might as well just give him a dartboard

14:05

with a selection of parts on its seven darts and say

14:07

here, whoever gets the dart in the middle.

14:09

That's the partial change that week. So I

14:11

want to know what fuel trim is. I

14:14

want to know what cool attempt and intake

14:16

air temper before you start

14:18

the car, turn the key

14:20

on. How a scantal hooked up? Right?

14:23

If that, if that vehicle has been sitting for an eight

14:25

hour soak, we should be

14:27

able to turn the key on. Cool intemp

14:30

and intake air temp should be

14:32

within ten fifteen degrees of each other. They

14:35

should actually be pretty much the same, but there's

14:37

always a little bit of a difference if

14:39

we see something that's thirty degrees apart.

14:42

Now I get it. You change the sensor. Was

14:44

it a new sensor from Ford? Was it an

14:46

aftermarket sensor? What brand was it?

14:48

Is? The wiring. Okay, can the computer interpret

14:51

it correctly? There's like a half a dozen questions just

14:53

in changing a part that hasn't been tested

14:55

that you changed. Alright, fair

14:58

statement, All right again,

15:00

doctor said, you know, heart rate, blood

15:02

pressure, eyes, ears, nose, throat probe

15:05

everything, all right. Carbon

15:07

cleaning is good. How do you know you got carbon

15:10

deposits? I mean you probably do. It's a

15:12

it's a it's a ninety seven with carbon

15:14

on the intake valves, all right. Not the

15:16

most impossible scenario, and carbon

15:18

is a big concern. Carbon

15:21

on valves acts like a sponge

15:23

and it tends to it'll it'll suck

15:26

up the fuel as it's being drawn

15:28

in, and it will cause that engine to

15:30

run unevenly or almost to the point

15:32

of lean and incomplete combustion, and all sorts

15:34

of things go on. All right. So

15:37

if they have a bor scope, the ability to look

15:39

down an intake planar or pull a spark plug out,

15:41

crank the engine around, open the intake valve and

15:43

look at the back side of the valve, do

15:46

we have carbon deposits? All right?

15:49

If if we take some propane. You've

15:51

heard me talk about propane before, you

15:54

know, if we took some propane and fed

15:56

propane to that cold engine. Does

15:58

it make a difference? Does

16:01

it change the way that engine runs? If

16:03

it doesn't, it's not a fuel delivery issue.

16:07

If it does, Hey, you know what, this

16:09

engine running lean? Why now

16:11

we've got to go looking. We gotta

16:13

go look for that vacuum leak they haven't found yet, or

16:16

you've got to go look for that reason? Why does it run lean?

16:19

And last? All right? And

16:21

I realized it's a long list. All right.

16:24

Last, you know

16:26

they change the DPF E, which is for the e g

16:28

R valve. How do they know the e g R

16:30

val is not leaking? E

16:33

g R VAL's leak an engine

16:36

by design, I don't care who made it,

16:38

Ford, Chevy, Volvo, Toyota,

16:40

Honda, Ferrari, you know, you

16:43

go, it doesn't matter. An internal combustion

16:45

engine can't have e g R

16:47

exhaust gats recirculated back through

16:50

it until the engine is a proper operating

16:52

temper to to compensate and allow for

16:54

it. So could

16:56

the e g R valve be leaking?

16:59

Could there be a carbon deposit on the e g

17:01

R valve, Because if there's carbon on the intake valves,

17:03

there's carbon in the engine. Could a carbon

17:06

deposit issue because the e g

17:08

R valve to leak, It could develop be mechanically

17:10

failing where it can't see. It's

17:12

like the toilet in your bathroom that runs all night

17:14

and you can't figure it out and you gotta go in and jiggle to handle

17:17

right. Because the water keeps running past

17:19

the seal. Is exhaust gas leaking

17:22

past the e g R when it's not supposed

17:24

to, causing it to leak and

17:26

create a problem. Feed

17:28

an engine the wrong thing, it'll tell

17:30

you it'll be cranky, just like a two year old,

17:33

all right, And that's that's basically what

17:35

you're trying to do. And of

17:37

course, if the shop is competent

17:39

enough, and I'm questioning whether or not they are that,

17:43

you know, let's do it basic. How's

17:45

cranking compression, How's mechanical

17:47

compression, how's running compression? You

17:50

know? How's I mean? I could ask you have

17:52

they scoped anything? Have they looked at ignition

17:55

on a on a scope? If they looked at crank

17:57

sensor signal on a scope? Do they have they interpreted

17:59

an intern incoming patterns

18:01

into the PCM using

18:03

a diagnostic piece of equipment, but they're

18:06

swapping parts. Brother, go

18:08

back, talk to them, find another shop,

18:11

go through my list, tell me what's good,

18:13

and I'll be able to tell you what's bad that much faster.

18:16

I appreciate the call, Jim. I appreciate you taking

18:18

the time you called me back. We'll fix this car

18:21

and we'll talk maybe next week. I'm running

18:23

ani in the car doctor, reminding you good mechanics

18:25

aren't expensive, they're priceless. Seeing a little

18:27

bit. I'm

18:48

Casey Cason, debuting all the

18:50

way up at number one, Ron

18:52

and Adien. Hey,

18:54

welcome back, and you thought I was going away, ha, fooled

18:57

you. Let's get over to Stephen Wiskons

18:59

Silver and some questions. Steve's

19:01

moving, Steve, where you going? Hey?

19:04

Um, I'm heading out west to the mountains

19:07

of Arizona. But before we get

19:09

to my question, if I should tell you a little story

19:11

that I think you'll get a kick out of it and the way it to your

19:13

lug nuts. Story About

19:16

ten years ago I went to an Askar Races

19:18

my two sons and in Bristol, Tennessee,

19:21

and we got really good seats and we're able to

19:23

get down into the pits after the race,

19:26

and my son set to watch around and

19:28

picking up lug nuts and picking up lug nuts.

19:30

And I had a bag

19:33

just filled with probably two

19:35

hundred lug nuts and probably wait twenty pounds.

19:38

And we got back to the truck and we put in the

19:40

back of the truck and we took off back to Wisconsin.

19:43

The bag popped open somehow

19:46

and between Tennessee

19:48

and Wisconsin, we lost all but two of the lug

19:51

nuts. So just saying that could

19:53

be where that lugnut came from, well maybe

19:55

you never know, it could have rolled the soil all the way to New

19:57

Jersey. It would take a while, but I guess in ten years

19:59

ago it could make it this way. But you

20:02

know, listen, I'm more I'm more excited to

20:04

hear you say you took your two sons to a NASCAR raised

20:06

because I think that's a great father son thing to do, right,

20:08

just to spend some time with him. Yeah,

20:11

we had a ball, and you still talk

20:13

about this day. We've been working on my I've

20:16

been working on my vehicle since I was well. When

20:18

I grew up on the farm, we've worked on tractors, but all

20:20

the way up until I got this new truck to two thousand

20:23

eighteen, Uh, Chevy pickup,

20:25

and and I just I don't even feel

20:27

comfortable working on it. I

20:30

do the basic things that I can, but it's

20:32

just everything is computer operated

20:34

and computer monitored, and so it's just

20:36

like I'm at that point now where

20:38

I'm done working on vehicles

20:40

to to the point where I used to. But I

20:43

still love listening to your show because I learned

20:45

something every week. Thank you. Yeah.

20:47

Absolutely, Where you going in Arizona? What part

20:50

near Phoenix? Black Staff? Okay,

20:53

we're on in Phoenix. I know we're on in Phoenix

20:55

Money Radio fifteen ten am and one or five

20:57

point three FM in Phoenix, Arizona

20:59

where they're Setay night at ten o'clock. And

21:01

you can actually you can actually stream it online

21:03

if you look it up, but or you can podcast it too.

21:06

You can take the car doctor anyway you want, but we'll

21:08

be there for you. So what's your question? Well,

21:11

you know, I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life.

21:14

I'm heading out there now. Head Hunter grabbed

21:16

me and convince me to leave the

21:18

the Midwest, and uh,

21:20

you know, I've got this troubotic new In two

21:23

thousand and eighteen, my question to you is,

21:25

Okay, I'm heading up to the flagstaff,

21:27

which is over a mile high, and I'll

21:30

be growing up in the mountains a lot. Is

21:32

there anything that i you know, I'm gonna

21:34

take some my mechanic next month and say,

21:36

hey, I'm going on a long trip. Give give it a

21:38

once over, make sure everything's hunky dory

21:41

um. Is there anything he should tweak

21:43

before I head out to the mountains, you know, change

21:46

some some jetting

21:49

or anything. No, there's really nothing

21:51

you can do on a modern vehicle. And I'll and I'll

21:53

tell you why. It's a great question. Think

21:55

of it like this, though, GM

21:57

sells that truck in fifty

22:00

states, right, and

22:03

at what point? They don't know where everybody's

22:05

going to be. They don't know when you leave New Jersey

22:07

and drive through Colorado to get the California

22:09

and or California to get through to

22:12

Florida or Florida to get you know, they

22:14

don't know where everybody is altitude wise

22:16

or or or climate wise. So they have to make

22:18

everything multi climate, multi altitude

22:21

self adjusting to a large degree. Twenty

22:24

years ago, it was a different story. There was different

22:26

ways of doing enrichment and even

22:29

then things were card things were injected.

22:31

It it wasn't until they got rid of carburetors that the problems

22:33

really started to go away, and carburetors are gons nine.

22:37

The one thing I want you to take a peek at,

22:39

though, is do you have a pencil? Is

22:42

take take a look at bulletin

22:44

fifteen dash n A dash

22:47

oh one oh. It talks

22:50

about new vehicles going through

22:52

smog inspection in California

22:54

and certain other states. It came

22:56

out in January of this year, and

22:59

it talks about out issues that certain

23:01

vehicles may react to certain environments

23:04

such as high altitude and

23:06

not be able to pass motor vehicle

23:08

inspection in that state. And

23:11

I believe Colorado's mentioned. I don't think

23:13

Arizona is. But I just want you to read it and have a copy

23:15

of it just in case, because it's one of those things

23:17

you'll never find if you don't know to go looking for it. And

23:20

it talks about the ways that the states

23:22

are aware of the problem and they're

23:24

providing exemptions. So it's not so

23:27

much what do you gotta do to get the vehicle ready for the trip

23:29

or to be there, but you know, motor vehicle

23:31

inspection may cause

23:33

that vehicle to skew its numbers

23:36

and affect whether or not it can get to be inspected.

23:39

And then of course it wouldn't

23:41

hurt for your mechanic if he has the ability to log

23:43

onto the GM website and just look to see

23:45

her there is this vehicle updated to the latest,

23:48

greatest software. And actually that's

23:50

something the GM dealers should probably do

23:53

under warranty. It's it's an eighteen how

23:55

many miles are on it?

23:58

Yeah, so it's it should be covered under warranty.

24:01

It might be a conversation to have with

24:03

GM and say, hey, I'm moving to Arizona. Is

24:05

there is there any software updates that

24:07

need to be done to my vehicle? Here's the ven you know, go

24:09

back to the dealer where you bought it. And then,

24:11

of course, you know, when you get out to Arizona, you're

24:13

gonna have the experience of now you gotta find another mechanic

24:16

unless you plan on coming back. Yeah,

24:19

that's you're going in the wrong

24:21

direction. If you came east, that's a different

24:24

conversation. Brother, Um, well,

24:30

I know I don't want to go to Arizona, I can.

24:32

You know, it's not that it's just that it's so hot there. Um.

24:34

A friend of mine recently moved to recently

24:37

moved to Arizona and he called up

24:39

a couple of weeks ago and we were talking about I said, how is

24:41

it? He said, well, hot comes under a

24:43

new definition. Um, he

24:45

said, it's just you know, it's a hundred and fifteen degrees

24:47

and they think that's a cool day there. And I went,

24:49

oh boy, so, uh

24:52

you know, I'm great place, dry climate, dry

24:54

heat. But as he said, yeah, dry heat or not, it's

24:56

still hot. So um, just

24:59

Wh'm heading up are the Arizona because it's

25:01

it's the climbing up there. Five up

25:03

in the mountains is a little bit more right

25:07

that way. Yeah, But beautiful country. I've

25:09

been there once or twice now

25:11

and beautiful part of the country is as

25:14

is so much of this great country of ours. And

25:16

uh, thank you so much.

25:19

You're very welcome, sir. Good luck on your trip, and God

25:21

bless you have a good fourthy you

25:24

take good care. Eight five zero

25:26

nine zero zero run eating the car doctor. We

25:28

are back right after this. Welcome

25:43

back any of the car doctor. The numbers eight five

25:45

five five six zero nine zero zero.

25:48

Thanks for tuning into the fourth of July edition of The

25:50

Car Doctor. Let's get over to Gary in New Hampshire.

25:52

Gary, welcome aboard, sir. What's going on? Hey?

25:55

I gotta

25:58

as soon as the engine heats up, it um

26:01

it loses power. It'll sit

26:03

there an idle, but you can't drive it

26:06

has no no power.

26:08

We changed all the or

26:10

most of the electronics that I know. There's

26:13

a there's a heat sensor on the

26:15

top of the engine that we changed, and

26:17

we changed the

26:19

the electronic um I wannestly VACU

26:22

in advance. I know it's not called the vacuman advance,

26:24

right? Which which which engine? Is this? Gary?

26:29

Eight? Um

26:32

and automatic or stick automatic?

26:35

All right? And it's just is it? As soon as it warms

26:38

up, it's just loss of power, that's

26:41

it. And how long has this been going on? I

26:44

started gradually and it moved

26:47

over, you know, when the winter wasn't too bad, and then as

26:49

soon as springtime came, we can't drive

26:51

it anymore. And is it?

26:53

You know? You put your foot on the on

26:56

the pedal and it just that's it. It just dies. It

26:58

won't go anywhere. It'll just sit there an idol all

27:00

day long. But I just want to accelerate. No,

27:02

it actually stalls right out. Okay, what's

27:05

fuel pressure? Uh?

27:08

I don't know. Um,

27:11

has anybody scanned it for any kind of codes? No?

27:14

Codes? All right, So I guess what you

27:16

have to do? Yeah,

27:21

yeah, we've got to check fuel pressure. We're gonna have

27:23

to get out of fuel pressure gauge. Um,

27:27

you sound like you don't want to do that. You're disappointed.

27:29

No, I just I

27:31

was hoping it would be electronic thing that I

27:33

didn't know because I had a couple of mechanics. Look at

27:35

it. Um, we did change

27:37

the fuel pump. Okay,

27:40

now I know it has a secondary fuel pump

27:42

on it, a pickup pump, right,

27:45

you know, so I had two pumps. I don't know why,

27:47

but it does have two pumps on it. And when they change

27:50

the pump, did they put a fuel filter in it? Yep,

27:53

we've changed the fuel filter. Did they happen

27:55

to cut the old fuel filter open to see if there's

27:57

any credit it? I'm

28:00

just a nosy guy. No, I

28:02

don't know if. I don't know if they did.

28:06

And here's the problem, all right,

28:09

And you know, and I'm gonna pick on my industry for a little

28:11

bit. I'm kind of in the mood to pick on my industry today.

28:14

All Right, you had a couple of mechanics look at

28:16

it. Somebody's got to explain to me the definition

28:18

of I've got a mechanic looking at it. What does

28:21

that mean, I've got a mechanic diagnosing

28:23

it? Sounds better? All right? In

28:27

in in in the hour it would

28:29

take the average diagnosis. And this

28:31

is this is the industry talking the

28:33

reports I read and from my own experiences

28:35

in the shop, all right, in the hour

28:37

it takes to do an average diagnosis. There's

28:39

so much information to be gained. What's fuel

28:41

pressure, any fault codes, what's

28:44

basic engine mechanical capability.

28:46

I don't care how you find out. You know you can. You

28:49

can do a cylinder power balance, Forward's easy. Ford

28:51

does all sorts of self diagnostic tests right

28:53

through the scan tool. Um. You

28:56

know, there's just so much information you can gather

28:58

short of you

29:00

know, we're we're trying to, you

29:02

know, diagnose something without diagnosing

29:05

it. It's an automatic. Do

29:07

you know if it accelerates better in reverse or or

29:09

than in drivers that do the same thing if you put it in

29:11

reverse, does it fall on its face. Yeah,

29:15

so when that happens,

29:18

all right, I want to know fuel pressure even

29:21

though they put a new pump in, all

29:23

right, because as you say, there is a secondary

29:25

pump. All right. Um,

29:29

remember what new stands for, all

29:31

right? You know what news stands for. I

29:33

have no idea. Never ever worked, all

29:36

right, So there's no rule that says

29:38

that new pump out of the box is

29:40

gonna work. Right, all right,

29:43

happens all the time. It happens all the time.

29:45

It shops all across America. It happened twice at

29:47

my shop this week. New means never

29:50

ever worked. Sometimes he used parts a better

29:52

part. You know why. It's field tested.

29:55

We take off a good running car and you store

29:57

it on the shelf because it's an oddball part that you can't get

29:59

a lot of, and at least you know it's

30:01

there, all right. I mean, listen,

30:03

I can run you through a myriad

30:06

of the what ifs, all right,

30:09

But somebody's still got to be willing to hook

30:11

up and do a diagnosis. Maybe we've

30:13

got a bad throttle position censor, okay,

30:18

well right now, and and

30:20

the throttle position censor is so easy to get

30:22

to on that truck, right you gotta take

30:24

the throttle botty off. It's at the bottom. Yeah,

30:27

yeah, all right, how to take everything

30:29

apart? And then did you get

30:31

a four piece? Did you buy the best thing you could find

30:34

on Amazon? Was it something out of a normal part store?

30:36

What's the quality of that part? And what's

30:39

the quality of that part? And then you

30:41

know, So now we've got

30:44

this truck that I'd be afraid to open the hood because

30:46

it sounds like the amount of shining parts is gonna blind

30:48

me. I have to wear sunglasses. And

30:50

I still I still have right, am

30:52

I right? And we

30:55

still haven't hooked up a fuel pump, a fuel

30:57

pressure gage. Rather, because we're all

30:59

going on. I think it

31:01

feels it might be I

31:04

can't do it. I can't do it. What

31:06

do you do for a living? Gary? A

31:09

farmer? Okay? So you

31:11

know what do you grow? What kind of crops?

31:15

All right? See you grow pigs? I don't like that. Thank you

31:17

for the bacon, by the way, brother, Um, when

31:20

when? When? When? When? What? Who

31:22

doesn't like bacon? You know it's like you know that I take about my pet

31:24

pig. Who cares where's my bacon? Um?

31:27

You know, when the pigs aren't aren't growing,

31:30

or when the pigs aren't doing whatever pigs are supposed

31:32

to do to make them bigger and healthier to get more form

31:34

at market, do you guess or do

31:36

you use some kind of scientific approach to it?

31:38

Although maybe farm and it's intuitive. Um

31:43

yeah, it's right,

31:45

but but it's but it's lessons learned, and

31:47

those lessons don't very much. Right, how long you've

31:49

been pig farming? Yeah?

31:53

Yeah, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years,

31:57

Okay, it doesn't change that much, right, It's

32:00

it's it's you know, if you

32:02

feed them, they poop, You put them to sleep, you wake him up

32:04

the next morning, you go through the whole thing all over again.

32:07

In the four and a half minutes of you and me talking

32:09

on radio, or to repair changed about a thousand

32:12

times because of technology,

32:14

so the procedures are all different. All

32:17

right, Um, is this

32:19

a farm vehicle? It is?

32:21

Okay, So then is it kind

32:24

of looking at the last ditch effort because I'm

32:26

thinking either neither needs

32:29

right, Okay, So farm vehicle,

32:32

it's it's exposed to all kinds of weather, right,

32:35

yeah, all right, how are the grounds?

32:39

Has anybody done any voltag drop? Well, why should

32:41

I ask that question. Has anybody done voltage

32:43

drop testing at the negative battery post?

32:46

You know the negative battery post on that vehicle.

32:49

If you follow it, there's a negative

32:51

cable that leads down to the block. Is

32:53

that good? Clean and tight on both ends. There's

32:56

a pigtail that comes no pun intended. There's

32:58

a pigtail that comes off the negative battery

33:00

post that leads to the chassis. And

33:03

there's an auxiliary negative

33:05

ground connection for the

33:07

PCM for the main engine computer. If

33:10

any of that's corroded, loose, missing,

33:13

not plugged in, it's going

33:15

to create all kinds of havoc. So

33:19

you know, I get it, I really do.

33:21

I'm not trying to beat you up, but let's

33:23

get somebody to take a look at that and do some diagnosis.

33:26

Call me back and again thanks for the bacon.

33:28

Gary zero zero.

33:31

The car Doctor is coming back right after this welcome

33:44

back. We're on Needing the car Doctor. I want

33:46

to talk to you about psio electricity,

33:49

real quick, pezo electric

33:51

The pasio electric effect is the ability

33:53

of certain materials and this is as per Wikipedia.

33:55

Pecio electric effect is the ability of certain materials

33:58

to generate an electrical charge and response

34:00

to apply mechanical stress. Why am

34:02

I telling you this? I want to talk to you about ecal.

34:05

ECAL is a procedure that hunter

34:07

hunter wheel alignment hunter balancers use

34:10

in order to calibrate their their balancers.

34:12

ECAL, by their definitions, an electronic

34:14

recalibration tool used to compensate

34:17

for changes in transducers and temperature.

34:19

Each force transducer this is

34:21

inside the wheel balancer has two Pezo

34:24

electric devices. ECOUNT works by using

34:26

an electronic signal to vibrate

34:28

one p c O sensor and then read

34:31

the response of the other p z O to

34:33

determine how the pair's characteristics have changed

34:35

since the last three spin calibration.

34:38

ECAL is automatically performed at regular

34:40

internivals. What does that mean to you and me? That

34:42

means that we're dealing in a

34:44

a a subject of auto repair

34:47

that is so technical. We're using

34:49

pezo electric sensors to help

34:51

make sure wheel balancers are in calibration

34:53

so the car goes down the road straight and

34:55

half you guys don't want to put fuel pressure gages on

34:57

cars to check fuel pressure. You'd rather check

34:59

part? Are you vy? I'm running any

35:01

in the card? Doctor reminding you till the next time,

35:03

each time, for the best time, every time.

35:06

Good mechanics aren't expensive, they're

35:08

priceless. See you