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Hello,

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and welcome to car talk on NASH couple

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of radio with us clicking back to Tapper Brothers. And

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we're broadcasting this week from the Valentine

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analysis sending you a hard talk to Plaza.

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Back So what did you get your lovely wife of Valentine's

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Day? You gotta get her an eighty two AMC contract.

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She loves it. Oh, you didn't get her the lifetime

0:32

supply of vacuum cleaner bags? Exactly. a minute.

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What Valentine and Elsa said there, it should be

0:36

back. Yeah. You didn't. I didn't. What'd you get

0:38

your wife? Well, IIII it's

0:40

coming in from the cult. Actually,

0:43

III got her a replica of the

0:45

Alamo. That's important.

0:47

Yes, it is. You know, they moved the

0:49

Alamo? Well, I'm

0:52

glad you mentioned that. III have a

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few letters here. Oh, you do. Even

0:56

you get mail too, Well, for

0:58

those who no. I I don't have to say,

1:00

those who've never heard this show before because no one

1:02

has ever heard this show before. No one has his

1:05

or her right mind would listen twice. But

1:07

a few weeks ago, My dear brother

1:09

opened his big yapper. And in

1:11

the context of San Antonio, he

1:13

said something about Did you know

1:15

he said to a caller from San Antonio? that

1:18

the Alamo has

1:20

been was moved from its original

1:22

location to its current location, and

1:24

she said, I didn't know that. And we

1:26

must have got five hundred letters from San Antonio

1:29

saying, what is he talking about? Where we're

1:31

getting letters from Pago, Pago. People typing

1:33

down there. Pango Pango.

1:36

I'll just briefly read through this

1:38

one. I mean, I don't often read letters, but I

1:40

I was compelled to read at

1:42

least a sampling of the five hundred that

1:44

came in. Yes. I was a guess as I listened

1:47

to your program, You

1:50

discussed our animal. our Alamo

1:52

and its rather unique location in downtown San

1:54

Antonio mentioning a little known fact

1:56

that the Alamo had been moved to

1:58

this present site from another spot twenty

2:01

miles away. You didn't specify

2:03

the twenty miles. I remember there's a twenty somewhat

2:06

miles. Somewhat. Yeah. Fine. so that it would

2:08

be more convenient for tourists to see.

2:10

How could anyone go

2:12

so far wrong? The

2:14

animal I can assure you has never

2:16

moved an inch some guy named

2:18

Crocken. I don't know. It has been in the exact

2:21

same spots since seventeen twenty four when

2:23

it was founded as Mission San Antonio

2:25

de Valero. one of five missions

2:27

built along the San Antonio River. Wait

2:30

a minute now. There's a disclaimer here. There's a there's an outrage. Yeah.

2:32

There's an outrage. Yeah. I can perhaps

2:35

forgive you because you may have misread your history.

2:38

But I do see history rather. Yes.

2:40

III you may have read that the mission was

2:42

moved, which it was.

2:44

It was originally organized in East Texas

2:46

well over one hundred miles east of

2:48

here in seventeen eighteen, shortly

2:51

thereafter relocated to San Antonio.

2:53

So it was moved, except not

2:55

ten years ago, like I thought it was. Anyway, it was

2:57

one or two years ago. Picky. Picky. And

2:59

it was a hundred miles instead of twenty. Right. hundred

3:02

miles east of San Antonio, you're in the

3:04

Gulf of Mexico? No. That's south.

3:06

Hundred miles east, you're like You're in Louisiana.

3:09

No. No.

3:11

You're you're on the way to Corpus Christi.

3:13

You are. Yeah. It's Texas. Texas is

3:15

big. It is. Isn't it? Yeah. You you

3:17

have You you know, I have the East

3:19

Coast Irish. I looked here to three hundred miles

3:21

and you've gone to four states in the Northeast.

3:24

Well, anyway, one eight hundred 3329287

3:28

Hello? You're on CarTalk. Well,

3:29

hi. My name is Sherry Asha

3:31

Patel. and I'm from Stateline,

3:33

Nevada. Wait

3:34

a minute now. Slow down. Sherry. Sherry?

3:38

Sherry. Sherry. -- as in CHERI

3:39

No. As an SHEREE

3:43

gravely accent.

3:45

Got it.

3:45

Okay. Excellent job. III

3:48

have it. Okay. And and

3:50

and y'all from where? State line, Nevada.

3:53

State line. Is that it's right in the middle

3:55

of the state, I think.

3:57

Yeah. There she is. It's it's on

3:59

the the line

3:59

between California and Nevada.

4:01

Yeah. Oh, it's gonna be the

4:04

California and Nevada. It's gonna be, like,

4:06

near Lake Tahoe. is Mako.

4:08

It is Mako. Yeah.

4:10

But we're not to call it Mako. We have

4:12

to call it Stateline. Well, that's

4:15

good. Now we know we're all interested.

4:17

Geographically fixed.

4:19

We know who you are and where you are. Okay.

4:22

Now it's important, you know, because the answers

4:24

are not the same. comes on

4:26

premise. If you were Sherry from,

4:28

like, the Bronx, the answers

4:30

would be entirely different than they would

4:32

be in stateline Nevada. Right.

4:34

So And you'll see, we'll give you we'll give you

4:36

both answers. Okay. Right?

4:39

So -- Yeah. -- shoot.

4:40

Okay. I own a three twenty

4:43

i BMW -- Mhmm. -- nineteen

4:45

eighty three. And every morning,

4:47

regardless of the outside temperature,

4:49

can be sub freezing, freezing above temp above

4:52

freezing. My car is really difficult

4:54

to start. I

4:56

can the ignition will turn it over

4:58

but

4:58

then it wants to immediately die. But

5:00

if I keep my foot on the accelerator

5:03

between, like, fifteen hundred two thousand

5:06

RPMs for about three to five minutes.

5:08

It

5:08

warms up sufficiently where

5:10

I can go, but I have to keep the RPMs

5:13

pretty high.

5:14

Yeah.

5:15

And and then it'll it'll go away.

5:17

Yeah. Because it warms up. But

5:19

why is it taking so long?

5:21

because one of the things that makes it

5:23

run richer when it's when it's in the warm

5:25

up mode is not working. Oh. But

5:27

I'm trying to figure out which kind of

5:29

injection you have, but it probably doesn't make any difference

5:31

because I'm gonna give you the wrong answer anyway. I'm

5:33

gonna give you the I'm gonna give you the wrong answer.

5:35

I'm gonna give you the wrong answer first. The

5:37

Bronx is having stolen. Leave

5:41

the key in the ignition for five minutes

5:43

and go have a couple coffee and Well, this

5:45

actually, this is a great anti theft device. They'd

5:47

never steal this car. Right?

5:49

It is actually And it would be a pain.

5:51

It is a pain. It is a pain. A pain at

5:53

six thousand feet too. And it's a

5:55

contracting thief. If you lived in the

5:57

Bronx -- Yeah. -- would probably recommend

5:59

that you're not

5:59

fix it.

6:00

Right. Right. But in Stateline, Nevada listen

6:03

to you on the radio on my car. Right. In crime

6:05

free Stateline, Nevada. Right.

6:07

You you you do wanna fix it. And what's wrong

6:09

with this thing something called the idle

6:11

air control probably isn't working because what

6:13

that does is it creates a vacuum leak

6:15

-- Okay. -- a controlled vacuum

6:17

leak that fools the fuel injection into

6:19

thinking of Toronto is open when in fact it

6:21

really isn't, and the fuel injection

6:23

puts in more fuel. When you turn the

6:25

key to start it, the first thing that happens is it

6:27

cranks and the cold starter injector squirts

6:29

in some fuel so it starts right

6:31

away. Okay. And it starts. And if you didn't

6:33

touch the gas, it would run for a few seconds and

6:35

then peter out. Yes. That's exactly what it

6:37

does because you've used up that little charge

6:40

from the cold starting injector. At

6:42

that point, the rest of the system is supposed

6:44

to kick in. This idle air control

6:46

is supposed to kick in, and it's

6:48

supposed to make the thing fast

6:50

idle -- Uh-huh. -- by sending

6:52

in more air and more gasoline

6:54

Okay. But it's not doing that because

6:56

it's broken. Okay. So

6:59

you have to take it to your I mean, it could be

7:01

this that's broken or it could be part of the

7:03

electronics that's broken. this has nothing

7:05

to do with the nine hundred dollar gold job?

7:08

No. Maybe not, but they who knows? They

7:10

maybe left a hose off or forgot to hook

7:12

up something. They wanna save it in an hour. Oh, they

7:14

wanna settle it with nine hundred dollars. Oh, you may need

7:16

that tool. Oh, they want they want

7:18

to to fix this problem with

7:20

a valve job. No. Well, let us

7:22

pursue that avenue for a moment.

7:24

Okay. Well, once it starts

7:26

up -- Yeah. -- does it run perfectly

7:28

smoothly once it has warmed up for these

7:30

five minutes? No. When it's crummy?

7:33

It will go if I let it order

7:35

for for five minutes, but it

7:37

takes an increasingly

7:38

longer idle time before it will

7:40

die throughout the day. How many

7:42

miles do you have on slid. This this

7:44

kid.

7:44

One thirty

7:47

six.

7:47

Oh, well, I think what they what

7:49

they may have discovered is you have worn

7:51

intake valve guides, and that may be the reason

7:53

that it runs lousy when it's cold. Okay.

7:56

Yeah. You might ask them that. Okay.

7:58

But you may need a valve job and something

8:01

else. Nine hundred bucks.

8:03

Yeah. But this is a nice car, don't you

8:05

like it? No. Oh. Like,

8:07

four wheel drive are more appropriate for

8:09

this area.

8:09

Sure. But this car has served you well for

8:12

the years that you owned it. I mean, haven't you

8:14

found it? It looks nice. It's the

8:16

it's crummy in the snow though, isn't it?

8:18

It's the worst. It is the

8:20

worst car in the snow I've

8:21

ever had. No. Well, whereas you are in

8:23

the Volvo. It's a it's a

8:26

Volvo. Yeah. It's

8:28

been well, actually, no. It may

8:30

not be safe. You're right. BMW is

8:32

really a stinko in the snow.

8:34

No. Yeah. So could

8:35

this also be explaining all my gas

8:37

mileage is kind of All

8:38

the gas mileage is lousy too.

8:40

It's getting worse, progressively. Yeah.

8:43

Yeah. Yeah. Ninety It might be time to junk

8:45

this thing. Yeah. Dumb it. My

8:47

b. Oh, I've read your book, and you say,

8:49

don't do that. Oh, that book's outdated. Yes.

8:51

But we all did you read about the

8:53

critical year the year ago. Oh,

8:55

yeah. Correct. Reread

8:57

that section.

8:58

I'm determined to learn about Kohl's. Unfortunately,

9:00

your book isn't really

9:01

helping me. Alright.

9:04

Well, what's time to say goodbye, Sherry?

9:08

Thanks for your call. Good luck. Bye

9:10

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10:16

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10:18

and Gurdy. Furdy? Is that even

10:21

Furdy? Yeah. It was

10:22

Furdy. Furdy and married couple.

10:24

They're driving along the highway when Furdy looks down

10:26

and notices that he's about to run out of gas.

10:28

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10:30

road, and he remembered that he passed

10:32

an exit a few miles back, and he

10:34

decides to jog back and get

10:36

gas And he tells me, look, lock all

10:38

the doors on the highway and never know what's gonna happen.

10:40

Never know what's dangerous. Don't let anyone

10:42

in until I get back. And

10:44

she says, I will,

10:46

Furti. Don't worry. Don't worry, Furti. So he

10:48

takes off and she dutifully locks all the doors

10:50

and does not let anyone in while he's

10:52

gone. And by the way, No

10:54

windows were open. There were no hatchback.

10:56

No sunroof, no rustles big enough for a

10:58

person to climb through. Like, oh, like, bro,

11:01

this diverge. or any such thing.

11:03

No loopholes, so to speak.

11:05

Anyway, ferdy comes jogging back to the car like an

11:07

hour later and he's got these four, six

11:09

gallon jug of gasoline

11:11

with them. As he approaches, a

11:13

police car also approaches, you know, at the

11:15

same time, sees the car broken down by the side of

11:17

the road, I guess, and says, what's up? And

11:19

simultaneously, they look into the

11:21

the windows of the car and there

11:23

they see gurdy lying on the back

11:25

seat, apparently unconscious. We

11:28

suspect foul play right away. Right? I

11:30

would. I want a car next to her is

11:32

a stranger. No.

11:35

Yes. No. The

11:37

doors are still locked and there's no evidence

11:40

whatsoever that anyone has broken in. In

11:42

fact, we can assure you, price

11:44

waterhouse was there. No one has

11:46

broken in. Anyway, Fruity takes his key,

11:48

he unlocks the door, The police

11:50

officer sees this whole thing now,

11:52

he doesn't ask any questions of

11:54

anyone, including the stranger. He

11:57

knew exactly what happened. I was like a Boston

12:00

police officer who asked me any questions about anything.

12:02

The questions are, what happened to

12:04

Gertie? That's a who was a stranger.

12:06

Who And, roaming the world three,

12:08

how did the stranger get in?

12:11

Wow. Well, there was no foul

12:13

play. No. Gurdy, passed

12:15

out in the throes of childbirth.

12:18

The stranger was

12:20

their child, and that's why no one asked

12:22

any questions. and that's why no one had to

12:24

break in. And where did the stranger come from?

12:26

We all know that. We all know that wasn't a

12:28

jerk. How did the store get in the car? Do we

12:30

have a winner? Yes. We haven't winner.

12:32

His name is Steven Bayer, and Steven

12:34

Bayer is from Mars.

12:36

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12:38

in PR has? This is

12:40

a good Now, actually, Steven is from Mars,

12:42

Pennsylvania. Yeah. It's like north of

12:44

Pittsburgh. I knew they'd wanna know that. I've all I've

12:46

been there many times. And for being

12:48

selected as our winner all Steven, you

12:50

will get either a contact combination

12:53

oil rag blobs the bib or

12:55

an autograph copy of our mediocre

12:57

book car talk. We have a new

12:59

puzzle coming up in the second half of today's show.

13:01

It's a challenging new puzzle.

13:05

Yes. Having to do with intergalactic space.

13:08

So that one. Yeah. So stay

13:10

tuned for that. In the meantime, we'll take a call. The

13:12

number is one eight hundred 3329287

13:15

Hello. You're on Cartock. This is Rob

13:17

Adamsson calling from Su Savory, Ontario,

13:20

Canada. How are you doing? How are you

13:22

doing? Doing

13:22

good.

13:23

Ontario. Ontario? Yeah.

13:26

That's right. So

13:28

what's up? What kind of a Pugeot do

13:30

you own? I don't have a Puyano. They don't You

13:32

know, everyone in Canada owns an American

13:34

car. No. I've got well, the car I drive

13:36

right now is nineteen eighty six, Renault

13:38

La Car. I was close.

13:40

Wasn't I Puzhou? Yes. Sure. I

13:42

mean, there's still that love of the mother

13:44

country there. Wrong province. but

13:46

that's alright. It doesn't matter.

13:49

Anyway, an eighty six look

13:51

hard. Right? Right. Right. But that's not what I wanna talk

13:53

about. Okay. Good. I I wanna

13:55

tell you a little story. Yeah. Good.

13:57

Let's see. A year ago, I stumbled

13:59

across a a

13:59

guy here in two savory who has

14:02

got a nineteen eighty two checker

14:04

cab. Stay

14:08

awake. Eighty two checker.

14:10

Eighty two checker. Yeah.

14:12

Okay. Okay. Now

14:14

I love this car. I love this car. I

14:16

love it. I love the shape. I love the size.

14:18

It's huge. It's got a it's got a propane

14:20

engine in it. And, you know, I'm I'm

14:22

an environmentally conscious young

14:24

man. Yeah. Good. Good. The propane

14:26

aspect. You're my kind of guy, Rob.

14:28

Alright. Yeah. Alright. That's cool.

14:30

Yeah. So anyway, he was headed for

14:32

sale. For us, he was asking a thousand dollars

14:34

Canadian. Now there's a bit of difference between

14:36

Canada and U. S. And nonetheless,

14:38

bear with me. I scrounched

14:41

up and scrounched up, couldn't come up with thousand

14:43

dollars. Like, I'm just young and

14:45

couldn't come up with a grand, so

14:47

I forgot about it. Now over the last year,

14:49

I've got myself into a position where

14:51

I'm the manager of a fairly

14:53

large band. Actually,

14:57

there's eight members and we got a lot of stuff

14:59

and we need a big

15:01

car. My Renault doesn't cut it. And

15:04

I guess the Lekars out of the picture now.

15:07

The Lekars is right out. Yeah. So I

15:09

went back to this guy. and

15:11

I managed to get a thousand dollars this

15:13

time. It was still for sale.

15:15

I offered him the money and he said, give me

15:17

a day. I guess he looked

15:19

into it or something. And he calls him back and

15:21

he says, I won't take anything less than four

15:23

thousand dollars because he knew that's what it was

15:25

worth. What do you think guys? Oh,

15:30

Jesus. Isn't that interesting? Well, I'll tell you

15:32

the mistake he made. Okay.

15:33

It's giving him the day. Yeah.

15:36

Yeah. Under no circumstances, if you

15:38

really wanted it, you should have said

15:40

no, right now or

15:42

forget it. Right. and you would have forced them

15:44

to make a decision. This is a lesson for you,

15:46

Rob. Look

15:49

before you leap. No. No one who

15:51

hesitates is lost. Is that

15:53

it? No. I don't know what the what do they

15:55

call that the algorithm is.

15:57

Yeah. Yeah. But it it it's not it's neither

15:59

of those. I don't think of something

16:01

clever. Well, that's too bad. I mean, that's

16:03

that's water over the bridge as they say.

16:05

That's when do they say

16:08

that. But the equipment for an

16:10

eight member band wouldn't fit in this

16:12

checker anyway. No. No. We we'd have to

16:14

get a trailer for it. You see it? Oh,

16:16

I see. heavyweight. Oh, I see

16:18

you guys wanted to pile into the

16:20

car and drag the drums

16:22

and the oh, the sound

16:24

cyst tie the rest of the stuff to

16:26

the roof. Yeah. I mean, wouldn't you be much happier in,

16:28

like, a big Ford Club

16:30

wagon? Yeah. But they're not

16:32

stylen like the checkered cats. Alright.

16:34

I'm sorry. We fell in love

16:36

with the checkered. I mean, have you looked in the

16:38

newspaper? Are there others for sale? No.

16:40

I've never seen one in this area. Yeah.

16:43

So he must have checked the book and found

16:45

out that the real value was for I'm

16:47

surprised that it's worth that much. Well, you didn't want

16:50

that anyway because it ran on propane.

16:52

Yeah. Those little canisters of

16:54

propane. You would've gone broke on

16:56

those. Yeah.

16:58

That that I I don't know what refueling is

17:00

like in Canada, but it's it's not, you know,

17:02

not every corner station has a propane

17:05

refueling station. Actually, I looked into it,

17:07

and it's not bad. Up

17:09

here in Canada, propane is quite a lot cheaper

17:11

up here. I don't know if it is down there. And

17:14

Quite a lot cheaper for what? Pardon

17:16

me? Per gallon. Yes. Per Yeah. I know, but it'll gallon

17:18

get you full blocks.

17:21

It's dollars per mile.

17:23

Anyway, you don't want that. No.

17:25

No. If you want a checker and I can't for the

17:27

life of me figure out why you want that either. No. No. I

17:29

can understand why he would want a checker. A checker

17:31

is a wonderful view. Well, that's why you did say

17:33

that Rob was your kind of guy. You're you're

17:35

saying that hand, and I can

17:37

understand that now. Tank, that thing must

17:39

wait ten, twelve thousand pounds.

17:41

It's huge. It's huge. It's beautiful.

17:43

It's old. It's Stylen. Yeah. No. I can

17:46

understand the shape. Well, a couple of the things you said

17:48

were. Right? It's huge and

17:50

it's old. The other I don't

17:52

know. So if you

17:54

wanna have a vehicle that you had to depend on

17:56

to get you from one gig to another,

17:58

This wouldn't be it. No. Look around for

18:00

a van. I'm telling you, that's what you really want.

18:03

You want a Ford van or a Chevy van,

18:05

something that you can pull it to any

18:07

gas station in North America and say,

18:09

I need to radiator hose or

18:11

a thermostat and they'll be able to put it

18:13

in for you. I mean,

18:15

eight guys in this band, eight people. Plus

18:19

you. That's nine. How are you

18:21

gonna fit them checker? So you

18:23

need a club wagon on a bunch of

18:25

motorcycles. You they

18:27

follow along this side. You

18:29

put the little flags. No. You need a you need a club wagon.

18:31

Yeah. You don't want to check or trust me in

18:33

this. Okay. You know, I mean, sometimes you have to

18:35

take these incidents in life as a as

18:38

a message. A sign. That's a

18:40

sign that you didn't you you shouldn't

18:42

have had it. Because if if if

18:44

someone had wanted you to have it,

18:46

then you'd have it. And

18:48

if he waited an entire year

18:50

without selling it and then changed

18:52

his mind to the last moment. There's

18:54

good reason for that. Well, part of it was the fact

18:56

that Rob was while he was making the offer.

18:58

I'm sure that was one of the things. But next time,

19:00

try to be a little more cool. Good

19:02

luck, Rob. Okay. Thanks, guys. See you. Bye bye.

19:05

one eight hundred 3329287

19:07

Hello. You're on Kartock. Hello.

19:09

I'm Bernice from Brooklyn with

19:11

a nineteen seventy four

19:13

Oldsmobile Delta

19:14

Royal that's got me very puzzled.

19:18

Bernice, wasn't

19:18

that Fish's wife's name?

19:21

Bernice. I don't know. Remember

19:25

fish -- Sure. --

19:27

played by Abe Vigoda --

19:29

Vigoda. -- the last name of that show. I

19:31

would at for Barney Miller and his wife was named Bernice,

19:33

of course. No. You're not that Bernice. I'm

19:35

not that

19:35

Bernice. Okay. I like to be that Bernice because

19:38

I he's a very good act He

19:40

is great. He is. Anyway, what's

19:42

wrong with your seventy four

19:44

delta royale? Okay.

19:46

When I take my car out on

19:49

and go above forty miles an

19:51

hour. It has a high

19:53

pitched whine. Sound

19:55

something like the old

19:58

fashioned air raid service.

19:59

Oh, Bernice.

20:03

It's only the police are

20:05

behind you. Right? They'll be whining. It

20:07

didn't

20:07

sound like a police side, but it sounded

20:09

like an air raid.

20:10

Air raid. I remember that during

20:12

the blackouts. That's right. Back in London.

20:14

Were you there No. I was. Did you

20:16

find yourself pulling over, putting your head

20:18

down between your knees? Not

20:21

quite

20:21

that.

20:22

But I I bet you, when you hear the

20:24

noise, if you take your foot off the gas pedal,

20:26

the noise goes away or diminish your speed.

20:28

Slow down the noise goes

20:30

away. Yeah. But it

20:32

this is the this is a classic

20:35

sign. Yeah. And and you how

20:37

long has it been doing it? I'll tell you how much it's

20:39

gonna cost you to years. Well, it's been

20:40

doing it for the past four months.

20:43

Four months. Four months. Good. It's not gonna

20:45

cost you anything to fix was

20:49

the onset of this very sudden

20:51

or was it subtle and and then

20:53

grew in the for my sort of

20:55

girl. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.

20:57

You have you know, you have

20:59

to blame for this -- Oh. -- the place that

21:01

you take your car to have

21:04

tune up and lube jobs done.

21:05

Yeah. Well, I had a tune up and a lube

21:07

job. Yeah. Well, what they didn't check

21:10

was the differential. differential. Yeah.

21:12

The rear end. There's oil in the differential, which

21:15

is the the final round thing which

21:17

you know, when you look when you drive behind trucks

21:20

or cars, you see a big round thing

21:22

in the middle between the two rear wheels.

21:24

Uh-huh. That's the rear that's the rear

21:26

axle assembly. Right. That's the thing. And

21:28

there are a bunch of gears in there and bearings.

21:31

And supposedly, at least, it's

21:33

supposed to be oil in

21:35

there. Very thick high

21:37

point oil and yours

21:39

probably doesn't have any anymore. Maybe no

21:41

one has ever checked it and pretty

21:43

soon you're down and there's no oil in there. And

21:46

now if if it's only been happening

21:48

for four months and you haven't driven too too

21:50

much during those four months, you may not

21:52

have damaged things too badly. Right.

21:55

So that if you replace the

21:57

oil, the the

21:59

sound might go away. Right. Usually

22:01

putting new oil in and the careful

22:03

introduction of one and a half to

22:05

two ripe bananas. is

22:07

usually enough to diminish this at the point where you

22:09

won't hear it. Yeah. It isn't

22:11

dangerous, Bernice. Well, it is it's potentially

22:13

dangerous. It it's dangerous if you don't

22:15

put the oil because eventually the gears

22:17

will seize up and it'll be like

22:19

not be like. In fact, what will happen is the

22:21

rear wheels will lock up. Oh, it's dangerous if

22:23

you don't put the you've gotta go back

22:25

and have them check it. They'll find out it's low or empty,

22:27

and they will fill it up. Check the

22:29

rear end differential and put in

22:31

put in put in oil. What they discover,

22:34

in fact, that that there is oil in there,

22:36

but that doesn't mean that the rear end couldn't

22:38

be gone. The bearings or the gears could

22:40

be worn out even if there were oil

22:42

in there. If if they put the oil in and the noise

22:44

doesn't go away, get done

22:46

for it. You can still drive. No. You can drive,

22:48

but you can also have them for a few hundred

22:50

bucks, find one at a junkyard. and

22:52

put one in for you. Oh. It's relatively

22:55

easy. Yeah. Because the noise will drive you

22:57

kukul. My brother had a

22:59

a or they call it?

23:01

GMC Suburban. Yes.

23:03

GMC Suburban. Well, I remember it. Yes. That

23:05

was that was in the pre Roger

23:07

Smith days. Yeah. And that

23:09

thing howled, like, like,

23:11

the Fedderallies were behind

23:13

you. And it drove him. Cool.

23:14

Look what's happening. Yeah.

23:17

It'll

23:17

drive you nuts. Get it fixed

23:19

as soon as possible. Oh,

23:20

I will, I will, and I thank you. Thanks. Good

23:22

luck, Denise.

23:22

Pleasure talking to you, Bernice. See

23:25

you. Bye bye. Pay a lot of fish.

23:27

After these messages, hear more calls and a new

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25:56

Yes. Time for the new pause. A

25:59

new challenging plus all that Power listeners

26:01

will be They'll be the judge of that. All judges

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of that. What is it? Which one is it? Here you

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are in outer space.

26:07

And you are buck naked.

26:09

Now I know it

26:11

hurts. Not as much as jumping on

26:14

a bicycle see missing butter. It's a

26:16

bit tough being out of space without a space

26:18

suit. Yeah. It's tough. I mean, I

26:20

personally haven't been there, but I could

26:22

imagine, but Does this fall into the category

26:24

of a good Dunkin' experiment? No. No.

26:26

No. No. No. No. Put I should really go out into

26:28

space buck naked. Fine. I'll do

26:30

that. Okay. You're an artist based

26:32

buck naked. You'll see you'll see why this is

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we always have good reason. Yes. Of

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me that takes the butt of it, so to

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speak. You have

26:44

two pieces of iron bar. In

26:46

other words, two pieces of iron that are, you

26:48

know, let's let's say for the six or

26:51

seven inches long, and an

26:54

inch square. Sure. Okay.

26:56

And cross section. Fine. Okay? Or

26:58

maybe a square inch. A square inch or

27:00

an inch. It doesn't matter. Okay.

27:02

You got it six or seven inches long by an

27:04

inch. Got it. And they're they look

27:07

identical, smell, feel,

27:09

everything is identical. And of

27:11

course, you're Buck naked in

27:13

outer space. You said that. Naked.

27:15

I mean, nothing man. No shoes

27:18

or anything. Yeah. One of

27:20

these is a magnet. Oh,

27:23

and the other one is not a

27:25

magnet. I didn't have to

27:27

say that. which is fishy

27:29

to say, one of these is a

27:31

magnet. Yeah. Alright. One of them is a

27:33

magnet, and the other one is not a

27:35

magnet, but is iron. Oh,

27:37

yeah. Iron. They're both ironed. They're both

27:39

ironed. And they way to say, you can't tell

27:41

by little. can't tell. Right.

27:43

Right? And that's about all you can do out there

27:45

and out spaces look at. Especially if

27:47

you're on what? But the

27:49

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27:51

how do you determine which one is

27:53

the magnet? That's part a. And how

27:55

do you determine which one isn't?

27:57

That's part two. And part

27:59

Roman numeral three. Why

28:01

fuck? What's

28:03

fuck? got to do it. I don't know. It's It

28:06

sounds good. Naked needed to modify. It

28:08

did. Yeah. That's stark naked.

28:10

But that's been That's the same hack.

28:12

But naked, I like. So how would

28:14

you determine which of the which one

28:16

of these two iron bars is the

28:19

magnet and which one is the

28:21

imposter? Is the imposter. You'll take

28:23

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28:25

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28:27

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28:29

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28:31

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28:33

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28:39

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If you would like to call us the numbers one eight

29:31

hundred 3329287

29:33

Hello. You're on CarTalk. Hi.

29:35

My name is Scott, and I'm calling you from Millerfield, Georgia.

29:38

Hi, Scott. having trouble with my nineteen

29:40

eighty four Nissan Sentra diesel.

29:43

diesel.

29:43

Yeah. See, you know, in all the years that

29:45

I've worked on cars, which

29:47

is up

29:47

on three or four now. Yeah.

29:50

Wait. I have only seen one central diesel. Oh,

29:53

yeah. Yeah. And I've only heard of

29:55

one. You you Osaka was the

29:57

only other one in captivity. unless

29:59

you bought it from the guys who used to be

30:01

our customers. Okay. Maybe so because

30:03

we can buy it either. Yeah. So

30:05

what's it doing, Scott? Okay. When in

30:07

in the cold weather, in the wintertime, when it's

30:10

forty degrees or below approximately --

30:12

Uh-huh. -- it won't start. Yeah. I

30:14

can just turn it over and turn it over and it

30:16

just gurgles and gurgles and it just kinda

30:18

catches on. Yeah. You know,

30:19

just gurgle and spit and spatter and for

30:21

about five or ten minutes, And

30:23

then all of a sudden, it'll start cat it'll it'll just kinda start

30:25

up that and it'll get going. And is it

30:27

run real lousy for the first minute or

30:30

so? It

30:30

won't even run. Like I said,

30:32

when I'm starting up, it just kinda it's barely

30:35

catching, like, that that that But it's not

30:37

it's not really starting. It sounds

30:39

like it might on one cylinder at a time. It runs on

30:41

one cylinder and then the next

30:43

cylinder kicks in and then maybe the next

30:45

one and then finally Yes.

30:47

Well, my card does. I've often wondered what that is.

30:50

It poo poo. But whoo. On

30:52

the days on the days when it

30:56

when it's when it's warmer -- Yeah. -- it starts and runs

30:58

great. In the summertime, it starts right up

31:00

and it's ready to go. Right. Do you know

31:02

that you have blow plugs? Are you aware of this?

31:05

And and when you when you go to start it, you have to

31:07

hold turn the key on and leave it there until the

31:09

glow plug light comes on or goes off or

31:11

does whatever it does. Yeah. We do that. Yeah.

31:13

Do that. You do that. Yeah. It it

31:15

still it still won't start. Well, it there's

31:17

a possibility. I'm not III say I've only worked

31:19

on one of these. I'm not intimately familiar

31:21

with them. it may be that even though the glow plug light is working,

31:23

the glow plugs aren't. Oh, okay.

31:25

So you need to and that would make a big difference

31:27

in cold weather. I mean, that's the classic

31:29

symptom of of of globe

31:31

plugs which have failed. Okay. And as a matter of

31:33

fact, there's an experiment the next day it's

31:35

very warm.

31:36

Uh-huh. Don't

31:36

even wait for the glow plug light to

31:39

to go on or off, whatever it does. Just turn the key and start it up.

31:41

It'll start right up. Yeah. That's okay. And it you

31:43

probably know that already. Yeah. You don't need the glove

31:45

plugs on a warm day.

31:47

because your the the air is warm enough. So it's if

31:49

it's a cold day, you need the glow plugs. But if they're

31:52

not there, then it makes it difficult or

31:54

maybe even impossible to start. So

31:56

that's one possibility, and that would be cheap.

31:59

Yeah. The more likely possibility, however,

32:01

is that you have crummy compression.

32:04

What does that hurt? That that sounds that sound

32:06

good. Yeah. Yeah. How many miles on this

32:08

beast? Minu. Last, I looked a hundred and

32:10

fifty three thousand. Well,

32:13

then this becomes a real possibility.

32:15

How's the power? Is

32:18

that a joke? Yeah. Well,

32:21

compared to what it used to be like when it had only

32:23

a ninety five thousand on it. It it's

32:25

it's pretty good still. It's still it's a good

32:27

strong running car when it runs. when

32:29

it starts up. Are there any hills in

32:32

Georgia? No. It's it's just inter just

32:34

regular kinda ground. But you can get

32:36

up to speed. You can get up to, like, highway

32:38

speed, like, forty five, fifty. Sure. Yeah. I've

32:40

been I've been on vacation to Florida, and

32:42

it and it honks right along.

32:44

Yeah. I'll try to launch. Doesn't that vibration get to

32:46

you after a while, though? in the fumes?

32:48

Yeah. Yeah. Well, maybe it's time to

32:50

dump it. No. No. No. I

32:52

would I would have your mechanic investigate the

32:54

blow plugs. I think I I'm I'm

32:56

hopeful for you because you sound like a good guy,

32:58

Scott. Okay. I'm hopeful that you'll

33:00

find out the globe plugs aren't working and maybe you'll

33:02

have to replace a few of them.

33:04

and that will fix it. And and if the globe

33:07

plugs look like they're okay, then let let

33:09

them do a compression test and give you the bad

33:11

news. Okay. Well, that sounds really good.

33:13

Good luck. Okay. Thank you very much. You might

33:15

need it. Thanks for your call. Okay. Bye

33:17

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