Join us for an engaging episode of Drive Radio as host John Rush welcomes Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive. Together, they delve into essential tips for maintaining your car’s battery life and explain the use of Digital Volt Ohm Meters (DVOMs) to gauge battery health. With their expert insights, you’re sure to learn something new about keeping your vehicle in peak condition, especially during the tricky transitions surrounding daylight saving time.
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And it is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for tuning in today. We appreciate it. Pat Schneidt with me from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath is on his way. Should be here from Genos here fairly quickly. But good morning, Pat. Hey, good morning, John. How was your trick-or-treating last night? We don’t have any. Oh, my gosh. We don’t have trick-or-treaters. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don’t know if you say that’s in a good way or a bad way, but no. I was telling Charlie when I got here, last two homes, just because of where they were located and so on. Yeah, I don’t know that I’ve handed out candy in 20 years.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, gotcha. Well, we’re in a similar situation, but we did spend the night with grandkids and I fell asleep on the couch. Too much chocolate. Oh, yeah. Well, that’s good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good for you. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Somebody texted a moment ago. I was talking in Fix It Radio about daylight saving time and doing some of the changeover and so on. And somebody reminded us. Good reminder, by the way, to also check your battery, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide testers, those sorts of things as well. And by the way, that’s true for those of you that have homes and or businesses. It’s that time of the year where, again, we have a shorter – it’s not really – it used to be six months kind of roughly apart where the time change happened. It’s not anymore because we changed now November. And then I believe we changed second week in March now. So it’s not as long as it used to be to run on standard time. We’re on daylight saving time longer. And until they make a permanent change along either line, that is what it is. I wish they would, but at this point it is what it is. But it’s a good reminder. Thank you for that tip. And those of you that have, you know, whatever’s operated off batteries, yes, great time to actually check those. Now, some would say just replace them. You know, I’m getting the point anymore to where the way the batteries are so much better and the fact that we’re not that six-month window anymore, it’s not hard. And this is something Pat and I can explain. Digital volt ohm meter testers are so inexpensive now. You can literally pick them up from almost anywhere. Napa’s got cheap ones. You can buy them off Amazon. They’re really inexpensive. In fact, it’s something I think everybody should have, period, anyway. So my point with this is I would check them. If they don’t need replaced, don’t spend the money on the battery because you literally can check a 9-volt battery. And if it’s – most of them, by the way, will be like – 8-7-8-8-9-9-1. They’ll be somewhere in that range. And as long as they’re kind of within what I just said and you’re using your tester for it, you know what? Leave it in there and don’t worry about it. You start falling below that, yeah, go ahead and replace it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. We’re the same way when our kids were growing up. They all had the handheld video games. I had to have a digital voltometer because I would be going through batteries like none other.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and thank you for that, Pat. For some of you that have remotes and things like that where there’s packs, believe it or not, a lot of batteries get replaced that aren’t necessarily needed. What I mean by that is you have an item that takes four batteries, for example. Well, you know, maybe just one of those went bad and it’s dropped the voltage enough to where that particular item is not functioning like it should. The other three batteries still have enough voltage where you could continue to use those and just put the one battery in. Now, I know they’ll all tell you if you do one, do them all. I’m not a believer in that anymore because a battery is a battery and there’s voltage in it and I’m testing it and it’s there. Why throw it out and put, you know, why go through the expense? Yep. And I know you’re not even supposed to throw them in the trash, but you guys know what I mean by that. You’re technically not even supposed to throw your alkaline batteries in the trash and all that, but everybody does.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, me neither. So, again, at the end of the day, do whatever you need to, but just a handy device to have. I don’t know. I mean… pat with me anymore i use that goofy dvom i mean almost weekly for something where you’re testing something to figure out what’s the voltage or is there ohms here do i have continuity is it dc is it ac i mean a good dvom will do everything i just mentioned and really help you in a lot of areas and i mean they’re probably what 25 bucks maybe that some of them are yeah some of them you can buy for 15 to 20 bucks they’re just not You can get better ones. If you want to get super fancy and go buy a fluke or something like that, you can get really fancy with things. And some of them have – I was watching a guy the other day working on something that had the nice fluke, and it had the ability to even light up the screen, which a lot of them do. And this one, he could hit a button, and it would memorize – it would hold what that reading was. So if it’s in a spot where you really couldn’t read the meter very well, he hits a button, he can pull it out, and there’s what he’s reading. I mean, it’s like – I’m like, that’s pretty nice. Tool nut that I am. I’m like, I could have one of those pretty easily.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely. I think probably the worst day now is when you pull out your DVR and its batteries are dead because you forgot to switch it off.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, because they are battery powered because that’s what lights the screen and all that up there. Yeah. Well, I’ve got an older Fluke that takes a nine volt. Oh, nice. So just again, you guys know this, know what you have. But yeah, to Pat’s point, make sure you know a lot of the newer ones. On the DVOMs, I didn’t know we were going to go down this path, but since we’re here, let’s do it. A lot of them will have an auto off now. So if you buy one of the newer units, even the cheaper ones that I’m just mentioning, a lot of them, even if you leave, even if it’s got a dial on it, it will, after a while, even shut off if there’s no usage on it, even though you didn’t turn the dial back to zero. Now, the old ones… I’ve got an old fluke that, yeah, I wish it did that, Pat. But if you left the dial on and came back to it, you know, a day or two later. It’ll be dead. Yeah, it was liable to be dead. And as much as I love that meter, that was one thing about it I hated.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. Well, and, you know, so you just keep a supply of 9-volt batteries. And at the shop now, we’ve gone to this little plastic carry case that keeps everything organized. You and I both. Best things ever, by the way. Yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, for those of you that don’t know what we’re talking about, they make either a tray you can put in a cabinet or they make like a little lunchbox way of doing the battery. Now, some of those will have their own little testers built into them as well, by the way. They’re kind of cheesy, but they actually do function and work. They’re fairly accurate, believe it or not. I’ve tested them against a digital voltmeter, and they actually are pretty accurate. But, man alive, I went to the little tray thing that Pat’s talking about because I got so tired of having batteries strung all over. Yeah. And these little pack things, you can put everything from 9 volts to Cs to Ds to AAAs to AAs to pretty much anything you want, minus the kind of the bigger watch batteries. There’s still no real compartment for those in mine. There’s not, but in some others there might be. But man alive, that’s one of the best storage devices, Pat, I think I’ve ever bought.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, like you say, they’re all in one place, and you can see at a glance, hey, I’m getting low on AAAs. Next time, put that on the grocery list, whatever.
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct. Yeah, so for those of you that struggle to always have the right battery in the right place, do that. All right, let’s save some time here for John when we come back on his plow truck. Got a couple lines open, by the way, 303-477-5600. Myself, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. We’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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all right we are back again patch night with me from all tech automotive question of the day today by the way pat came up with this one scariest vehicle you ever owned and scariest could mean all sorts of things so doesn’t you know you you decide what you mean by scary but that’s our question of the day scariest vehicle that you’ve ever owned let’s get to john next john go ahead sir
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I’ll just say my 80 Chevy plow truck. Hey, it’s older than my kid, so.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. So, good morning.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good morning. Good morning, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
It was just so easy to go. No, that’s easy.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, that works.
SPEAKER 07 :
I got a question for Pat real quick before I go to the other question. Pat, where exactly are you located in Fort Collins?
SPEAKER 12 :
We have two locations. Easiest one from Cheyenne is on Industrial Drive. So if you’re rolling down I-25, you take the Mulberry exit, we’re about a mile and a half to your west.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay. So I actually live 20 miles west of Cheyenne, so sometimes I come down 287. So same thing?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, yep, same thing. 450 Industrial Drive is the address.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, good. And I’ll probably have to give you a call next week on my wife’s truck. Fantastic. We’ll deal with that when the time comes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Awesome. You bet. Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
John.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
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Last step, I’m pulling that front hub off to get the axle out. I’ve got everything apart. I have the old Hanes manual on this truck, so I had it open to the pages. Plus, I found a video on YouTube showing exactly how to do it because it’s been years since I did it. Last thing, I can’t get the – I took the bolts out, took the hub plate, everything off. There’s nothing holding it on except probably rust. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
What brand of hub? Is yours a three-quarter ton, one ton? I don’t remember, John. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s a three-quarter ton, and I sent you the picture, and it’s the standard GM. So it’s got six bolts that hold, like, the cover plate on. Yep. You know, the cover plate. I got all that off. There’s nothing else holding it on.
SPEAKER 14 :
So put the really, so the easiest way to do it, make sure your outer snap ring is off, of course, and the inner snap ring, of course. So the one that’s on the axle, most of them had, you know, two snap rings, the outer round snap ring that holds the hub body in. And then, of course, the axle gets held out with a snap ring on the end of the axle. So make sure both of those are out. And then if you ever had any that were tough, what I always did is I took the bolts that hold the hub cover on, screw those back into the hub body, and use that to pull them out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. No, I’m already past there. I guess it’s where the actual part that holds the axle into the steering knuckle.
SPEAKER 14 :
So you’ve got the wheel, or you’ve got the rotor and the hub and everything off?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it’s all off. Everything’s off. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
So you’re trying to take the spindle off? Yeah. So you’ve got the six bolts that are 9-16ths. You’ve got the six bolts that are the six nuts that are there to actually hold the spindle on, is what you’re saying?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they’re off.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, so you’ve got all that off. You’ve got a big dead blow or a big soft hammer?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Just beat the end of it, and it’ll start to come apart.
SPEAKER 07 :
Beat the end of it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, beat the end. Where the splines, you know, where the threads are at the end of the spindle, take a big soft hammer, a dead blow, and hit that from one side to the other, up, down, back, forth, and it’ll start to loosen up and come apart.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I see what you’re saying. I see what you’re saying. Yeah, because… That’s where I’m stuck, and last night I sprayed a little PB Blaster right around to see if maybe that would work.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and it’ll help, but, again, the only way to ever do those was you need about a, I don’t know, I used to have about a five-pound dead blow just for that reason alone. And, I mean, you use dead blows for all sorts of things, but in that particular case, that’s what you use to. Okay. If you don’t have a dead blow, take a piece of wood and a nice-sized hammer, a small sledgehammer even, if you’ve got something that big, a big ball-peen hammer, take a piece of wood, and you can use it that way as well if you don’t have a dead blow.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I’ve got a—actually, it came with the pneumatic nailer for putting down wood flooring, hardwood flooring.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That would work. Yeah, that’d be perfect.
SPEAKER 07 :
And it’s got a big rubber end on it. Yeah, that would work.
SPEAKER 14 :
The biggest thing on the rubber is make sure that some of the rubber-ended hammers will bounce, so make sure that it doesn’t have that much flex. If it does, it may not do much for you, and then you’re back to using a piece of wood and a ball-peen hammer or something like that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I have a piece of wood.
SPEAKER 14 :
The worse comes to worse, you can always do that because the wood, as you know, the wood’s soft. It won’t mess up the threads. That’s the biggest thing, just trying not to mess up the threads. And I’ve seen guys, you know, it’s funny because of what I did for all those years. You’d hire a new tech, and maybe it was the first time they ever pulled one of those apart because not everybody worked on four-wheel drives back then. I’ve seen guys try to take a chisel and a putty knife and all sorts of things to try to get into the back, and it’s like, back up. Let me show you how this is done really quick, and within about three seconds, it’s off.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice. Okay. So that last question, I’m on eBay to order the replacement. Because I got underneath it finally, and the ear joint’s gone, and ears on both ends of the axle shafts are, you know, the whole thing’s got to be replaced, the whole assembly.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
So I went on eBay to find it because that’s the only place I got it. Jegs High Performance has it. Are they the same Jegs that used to be around for like the same 40 years they’re just selling on eBay? Yes. I think so.
SPEAKER 14 :
Jegs. Used to be their ads. Jegs. Same company.
SPEAKER 07 :
So then you tell me, brand new, whole assembly, inner outer, U-joint, $500. About a decent price?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that’s probably what it used to be back in the day, but in today’s world, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Yeah, because I found, like, one part for 270, the other part for, like, one something, and I’m like, if this is going to come all in one piece, why am I going to mess around with mounting a U-joint and everything when it will all come together?
SPEAKER 14 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I hear you.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and the U-joint will be, you know, that axle joint’s probably $40 or so by itself, plus then you’ve got the stub axle on top of that. So, yeah, you know, by the time it’s all said and done, you’re not that far off on just buying an assembly.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
The biggest thing on those is making sure it’s the right length and the right spline, because in that year, they weren’t all the same. So count your splines coming out to make sure they’re equal. say 1980.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that’s the thing, the listing for JEGS, for the item, has the splines and the lengths and everything. There you go.
SPEAKER 14 :
And the lengths, and you probably already know this, but the way they measure the lengths on those is from the tip of the end of the spline up to the middle of the U-joint. That’s the length.
SPEAKER 07 :
The middle, so probably right where it broke off.
SPEAKER 14 :
Probably, yeah, exactly. Great way to say it. Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. All right. Well, I’m going to go probably do outside work today because it’s pretty nice and then beat on this later on.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. All right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let me know if you need any other help. Good talking to you.
SPEAKER 14 :
Appreciate you very much. Yep, and that’s going back a ways. I haven’t done any of those for a long time, but did a lot back in the day. Bill and Lakewood, go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, the scariest car was a 74 Vega. Oh, yeah. You never knew if you were going to be strong or not.
SPEAKER 14 :
Really quick, along those lines, I saw this last week somebody had time-capsuled a Vega and had just unearthed it, I guess you could say, and pristine, never driven. I’m like, why would you time-capsule that thing?
SPEAKER 04 :
That was my first question. But they had. Well, the one that I had, if you drive around North Glen and you see a brown one, that’s it because it’s still running. We put a new engine in it and stuff, but I gave it to a guy at work. I go, you want a deal? And he was going, he was waiting for it. You know how I was going to try to screw him. I told him, you could have it for free if you come get it. And it needed a clutch. And so he came and got it. Because he was into race cars and all that stuff.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s still driving around North Glen.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 04 :
To this day. But anyway, to the question, oil change, mileage, time, or what the computer says on the car?
SPEAKER 14 :
Not what the computer says. It’s based on time and mileage, yes. And Pat, you can speak to this as well as I can.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, yep. Typically, we pick one or the other time or mileage. At our shop, we recommend, if you’re using full synthetic and good quality stuff, about a 5,000-mile oil change.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, see, because it’s on my truck, you know, my Colorado, I’ve only got 2,000 miles on it. This would be my third oil change, and I’m just getting nervous, you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I think if you run it, Colorado has a lot of weather, and so cold, hot, you’ll get the additives and sometimes the, what am I trying to say, not detergents, but will build up in the oil. So if you’ve got a lot of time where you drive it and then it sits, you might want to change the oil too just to get some of the chemicals out of the oil so it doesn’t sit in your cylinders in your oil pan.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. This may be the last car I buy. I don’t know. Gotcha. It’ll die or I’ll die.
SPEAKER 12 :
You said it’s a Chevy Colorado?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is that the inline five cylinder or what’s the engine? It’s a 6. 3-6.
SPEAKER 14 :
6, 3-6. Okay, good.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s late enough. That’s a 3-6. It’s a 21.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re on an annual oil change on that one, Bill, still, I believe, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Once a year, yeah. Yours, the computer’s going to be way off because you’re only going to do a once-a-year deal. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’d rather change it than be sorry for it.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, no. In your case, you need to do it annually. Do it once a year and you’re fine. That’s a good idea.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thanks a lot. No, Bill, I appreciate it. Yeah, and for those of you listening, yes, I know Bill. I know his mileage, and he’s not doing even probably 1,000 miles a year. So for him, a once-a-year change is more than adequate. He doesn’t drive enough anymore to really bother with it. Mike and Aurora, go ahead. Hey, guys. Love your show. Thanks, Mike.
SPEAKER 09 :
You guys talked earlier about batteries. Yes. What’s the best thing for storage? I’ve stored mine in the refrigerator for a long time, but I know heat kills them and cold kills them.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, room temperature if you can. Yeah, I wouldn’t store them in the fridge. There’s no advantage to doing that. In fact, room temperature, you don’t want to get super hot. You don’t want to get super cold. So, you know, for most people, the closet in home or the pantry or even the garage shelf or whatever, Mike, I mean, as long as you don’t have a garage where it’s getting down to, you know, the freezing level, if you’ve got an area where it’s more consistent temperature, that’s where I would store them. They’ll last longer.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the nice thing about… One more comment here. The guy that was doing the work on his 80 Chevy. Yes. Oh, yeah. AeroCroil worked the absolute best for, like, he was talking about PB Blaster. Oh, yeah. My money’s on AeroCroil. That stuff is phenomenal.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m not familiar.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, never heard of it. Never used it. It’s a penetrating spray? Oh, well, okay. We’re talking to a senior aircraft technician, retired Air Force guy. We’ve used AeroCroil. It’s an orange can. Oh, no, no, no. Okay, you know, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep, no, I know. Yep, I have that. I know exactly what you’re talking about. Yes, sorry. I wasn’t recognizing the name a moment ago, the orange can. Now I hear you. Yes, I have the same stuff, and yes, it works fantastic. You are correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. PB Blaster, it’s worth the garbage.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, no, that orange can stuff, I don’t know what they put in that stuff, Mike. It is the bomb, literally. It’s a penetrating oil? Yeah, it works like no tomorrow. Nice.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, fantastic stuff. All right, guys, thanks a lot. No, thank you, and thanks for bringing that up.
SPEAKER 14 :
I appreciate that. I’ve had so many cans for so long that I’m not even sure I’ve ever bought any, to be honest with you, Pat. I’ll send Pat a picture of that later because, yeah, the stuff is awesome. Jerry and Greeley, go ahead.
SPEAKER 17 :
A few days ago, I had to take my F-150 to the dealer for a recall on the brake master cylinder. They said that there was a risk that it would leak into the booster unit. Anyway, when I got it back, I noticed there was brake fluid dripping off the driver’s side lower A-arm. So I assume that spilled when they took the old unit off. Most likely, yeah. I just rinsed it off real good with a garden hose, but then I got to thinking, would it have hurt anything if I’d just taken brake clean and sprayed all around down there? No. Is there anything I could hurt with the brake clean?
SPEAKER 12 :
No. No, I don’t think so. It wouldn’t be a bad idea just to rinse it off with clean water after that, but brake clean is a solvent, so it shouldn’t hurt anything.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. The other question I had was… I had expected that as part of the bleeding process after changing the master cylinder that they would have to go to each of the four slave cylinders. and bleed those out, but I could tell that those hadn’t been disturbed.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, not necessarily. Depending upon who’s doing it, how good they are at getting the cylinder bled on the front side and so on, they may have only even maybe gone down to the ABS unit, just did a little bit of bleeding there and may not have had to do much else, Jerry. It just depends on, you know, if the technician’s really good, no, you would not have to go to every wheel.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. That’s what I was wondering, if they did that at the junction block for the ABS.
SPEAKER 14 :
They could have, yes. That’s probably what they did, most likely.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Well, that answers my questions.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you, gentlemen. Great questions. No, Jerry, appreciate you as always. Thank you very much. Steve Horvath joining us now from Genos. Good morning, Steve. Can you turn his – what mic’s he on?
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m on one.
SPEAKER 14 :
Mic one. Is it one? I think it is one. Yeah, now you’re up. Good. Good to see you. Good to see you. Glad you’re here. All right, we’ll take a break, guys. We’ll come right back. And Pat found the penetrating oil. We’ll talk about that in a moment as well. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 14 :
All right, we are back. Again, myself, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in the Fort Collins area. Steve Horvath from Geno’s down south here. Bowles and Platt Canyon and myself. And then, Mike, hang tight. We’re going to get to you in just one second. Pat, we did look up that particular product that our last caller, Mike. No, not Mike. Shoot. I don’t have it written down. Anyways, our last caller was talking about their particular product. I’m sorry. I normally write all those down. I did not today. That particular penetrating lubricant.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. Yep. We found it online. For those that are interested, it is named AeroKroil. So A-E-R-O-K-R-O-I-L. And it’s available multiple places online. It looks like it’s at Home Depot. It’s at Grainger. Napa. Yeah, Napa, I’m sure. It’s pretty powerful stuff. And it looks like anywhere between $20 and $40 a can. So not inexpensive, but it works great.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, man. Yeah. And let me tell you what, folks. It is more money per can, but you’re going to use less of it than you would in other products. So at the end of the day… It’s most likely going to save you money. I mean, I can have one can around and literally use it for months upon months. So you can buy a couple of cans and stick it out in your garage and be set for quite some time. Really, it’s that good of a product. Mike in Highlands Ranch, you’re next.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hi, John. Hi, Larry.
SPEAKER 14 :
Larry’s not with us today, Mike. Oh, my goodness. He’s got bronchitis today. He’s probably listening, but he’s not here.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, Steve at Gino’s, hello. Hello. How are you? Good. What are you guys recommending for putting in the fuel tank for storing a car for the winter? I use Seafoam, and that’s, I think, you used to talk about. Is there anything else out there that you could recommend for…
SPEAKER 14 :
store in the car over the winter for the next six months the bg supercharge i’ve used now for years and i’ve given testimonials mike where this is not an exaggeration so my old 68 buick grand sport which is a vented system meaning it’s not you know closed meaning it’s got more air coming into it than what you would typically have meaning it’s going to be more susceptible for having you know fuel that tarnish you know varnishes and goes bad and so on and this is not an exaggeration i had not driven that car for over two years earlier this summer and i thought you know i really need to get that thing down off i store it up above on on a rack and i’m like you really need to get that thing down and do a few things to it and fire it up and drive it and make sure the fuel’s still good because i was really worried at two years that this stuff is you know going to be really bad so i lower it down i pull the cap i smell it to begin with i’m like you know what it doesn’t smell yeah half bad i’m like i don’t even smell any varnish or anything in it and so sure shooting mike i uh i did nothing but spray just a little bit of starting fluid in i hadn’t started that car in two years so sprayed a little bit of starting fluid in and made sure the battery was up fired it right up which it fired right up and drove it around the block put a little fresh fuel in it put some supercharged back in it put it back up on the rack and that’s all i use given that because it lasts longer than any other product i’ve ever used
SPEAKER 08 :
Outstanding. Okay, that’s good. GeoGS, what a nice car.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that’s my car I had in high school, actually, that I had sold. I had it all the way up until Richard, who you guys hear on the air periodically. I had kids, and he had come along, and I had a family to raise and all sorts of things going on and needed money and had a business and the routine. There’s times where… Some things are just more important than keeping that car that I did want to keep. So I sold it to a friend of mine, and then this has been about a decade ago or so, because I sold it when Richard was really little. The kids were little, I should say, all of them. Richard, JJ, all my kids. So anyways, long story short, sold it to a friend of mine, and then I’m on Craigslist. This was back when Craigslist was still popular. I don’t know, Mike, probably, I don’t know how long ago it’s been now. Ten years ago, roughly. and I’m perusing Craigslist on a Sunday night. And I don’t know why, but I was just kind of perusing Craigslist, and I see this car come up, and I’m like, Buick GS, Buick GS. I’m like, that’s my old car. And I’m looking at the pictures, and I knew it was my old car, because when I was a kid, I used to go to high school drags in it, and I’d put a set of cutouts on it where I could open it up, you know, straight exhaust, and the way I had done it, no one else was doing. I mean, I custom did everything, you know, back in the day. I actually used a set of header collectors that I reversed and put, and I’d made caps to go on top of the header collector, and that’s what used to take three bolts off each side, uncap it, and it had open exhaust at that point, and so, and I knew that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know exactly what
SPEAKER 14 :
you’re talking about and most guys you know never did them that way and even in today’s world and and so when i saw the exhaust i’m like that’s got to be my car so i sent a message off and sure enough it was my car and the guy that i had sold it to had gotten ill and wasn’t able to do things on his own and otherwise probably would have reached out back to me because that was kind of the deal that we had but he had gotten to where he wasn’t able to do that so the neighbor was helping and luckily i had seen it and i put a deal together and bought it back fantastic
SPEAKER 08 :
That is a great story, and I remember those days. I remember the three bolts in the headers, and you dropped, you spun them down, and then I didn’t put the cutouts in. But kudos to you for being able to find your old car.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I bought it back, Mike. Get this. You’ll appreciate this. I bought it back with him doing a really solid paint job on the car. Not that it needed it, but it kind of did. I mean, it was kind of at that stage where you could or couldn’t, but he had done it. Put a really nice set of American Racing wheels on it that were… 15-inch instead of 14-inch. I still got all the original stuff for the car that it had come with, and then he had done a couple of other small things to the car. Bottom line, I did the math on if I’d have kept it, insured it, maintained it, and so on, I saved money selling it and buying it back.
SPEAKER 08 :
That, by the way, is a great story.
SPEAKER 14 :
That doesn’t happen very often, by the way.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I get it. Well, thanks, fellas. Appreciate the show.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, and that product, again, Mike, works extremely well, so use it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, Mike, appreciate you very much. Yeah, for those of you that, and let me repeat that, some of you may have even some lawn equipment, things like that, where you’re not able to drain all of the fuel out for whatever reason. Some of you might have riding mowers and things like that, and you just don’t want to go through the hassle of, draining everything out. You don’t have to, you know, put the right amount of BG supercharge in. And if you’ve even got, you know, a five gallon can, you’re going to store through the winter, go ahead and just, I think one bottle treats 15 gallons. So just kind of do the math on how many ounces per gallon you need. And I’m not exaggerating on what I talked about with that old car of mine. And I know, and I, I had been, but I use that pretty much in every single vehicle that I own, modern vehicles, the old vehicles, whatever. Um, And I’ve seen fuel go two-plus years using BG Supercharge, which is really unheard of because most other products, if you get a year out of it, you’re doing really well. And, folks, believe me, I’m not exaggerating. My wife can give you the testament as to when we drove that car last, when I put it away, and when I got it back out, it was two full years of that fuel being in the tank. So I’m not worried about the fuel. I’m just wondering why you don’t drive that fun car a little more often. the last two with far too many others and it is packed away that’s part of it and then you know and you guys all know my story the last couple of years with you know my folks and my mom passed and then my dad just recently passed and going through all of their stuff and trying to get things organized and so on i’ll be honest the last two summers i really didn’t have time to take much of anything out and do anything and drive anything because i was working on Let’s just say my dad had a lot of stuff. Loved him dearly, but he had a lot of stuff to go through. Let’s just say that I spent pretty much every weekend and even this past summer a lot of evenings organizing and going through stuff and trying to figure out what to sell and part with and all of that. Any of you that are going through some of that, Yeah, my heart goes out to you because it’s a very hard thing to do. And even determining what to keep, what to get rid of is what’s what has value and so on. It’s extremely difficult. So, yes, my heart goes out to any of you that are working through that. Now, one last thing before I go to break, if you’re that person, Please go through that stuff before something happens to you. And I mean that sincerely. So if you’re that person, mainly a guy, because most of it involves us guys, and you’ve got a lot of stuff, parts and tools and different things, and you’re getting to that point where you’re just not using them anymore, don’t leave that to your family to take care of. Some of your kids and heirs might have the ability to deal with it. Others may not have any ability to deal with it, and some of that stuff might get thrown away when it’s all said and done. So if you really want what’s best for you and your family, go through that stuff when you’re still alive and you’ve got all of your senses and your faculties and so on, and do it then. Don’t wait and leave that for your family, and I mean that in all sincerity. Don’t leave that for your family because all you’re doing is leaving them a bunch of work. Yep, that’s correct. Sorry to say it that way, but that’s the reality of it. All right, we’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, question of the day, scariest car you’ve ever owned. Here’s one that came in on the text line. 1953 four-door Plymouth bought in Buffalo for $20 as a winner beater. 1968 had so much rust that all the floor pans were squares of half-inch plywood covered with cheap rubber mats from J.C. Whitney. The snow and slush would build up underneath and freeze the clutch and shift linkage, hit a bump, and the entire right side headlight bucket fell out due to the rust. Scariest car ever owned by that particular texter. So, yeah, I’d say that one’s right up there. That’s pretty borderline. Yeah. And, again, that is the question of the day. Oh, somebody also sent me that right now because we were talking earlier during Fix It Radio and even kind of started off Drive Radio today talking about this. And those are the portable… Compressors. I talked about these in the past. By the way, these make great gifts around the Christmas time. So those of you that are trying to figure out, hey, what do I get so-and-so for Christmas? Right now, there’s a deal on the 18-volt Milwaukee compressor. It comes with two batteries and the charger. And by the way, the batteries are what’s expensive. And this whole kit and caboodle is $200. Wow. which it’s normally $576 because, again, the two batteries and the charger aren’t cheap. That particular compressor is normally $150, I want to say, just all by itself. So you’re buying it for the $150 and literally getting two batteries and a charger for $40. That’s a great deal. $49, I should say. Yeah, you cannot buy batteries in the charger for the $49. Those batteries typically for a pair pack will be about $120 a pair. Right. So they’re about $80 a pop. So that is a really great deal. Thank you for sending that. So those of you that are looking, and I think… I don’t know if that’s an online only. You can do a ship to store, it says. So that is an online deal, but you can either have it delivered or ship it to your store, which most of you, maybe you don’t know this, but if you’re buying something like that and there’s other things that you can buy from some of the big box stores, in the case of Home Depot, they’ll deliver right to your door. Just do the online order and delivery and they’ll deliver it right to your door, no problem. And it’s no different than ordering from Amazon or anybody else for that matter. Nice.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know what? You could probably do the same thing through your Napa. You probably could. Oh, yeah. Because we’re buying tons. If they’ve got the same deal. Yeah, that’s true. Double check. But we’re buying tons of Milwaukee through Napa. Yes. Milwaukee has really, I mean, it’s kind of become a pretty cool thing.
SPEAKER 14 :
It’s become the snap-on of those types of tools anymore. It really has. And I’m not exaggerating. Is that the best bang for your buck with battery power?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that’s a nice one. The smaller one is not as good.
SPEAKER 14 :
The small one’s great if you’re just kind of traveling around. You’ve got smaller tires and you need something extra and you want to throw it in the backseat of the truck or whatever. Yeah, that one works great. But if you’re really doing a lot of filling up or you’ve got the larger tires that a lot of the trucks and stuff have, use the 18-volt unit.
SPEAKER 06 :
It works much better. The cool thing about that. You can set it and forget it. You can just set it over on the tire and walk away and do something else. That’s our technicians when they lower the air in the tires to get better access. They’re just putting it on, and it’s filling it up while they’re doing something else.
SPEAKER 14 :
Nice. Yeah, no, they work great. Somebody asked also, have I or Pat or Steve ever ordered from Summit or Jegs? Both of those are out of Ohio. Yeah, I mean, I haven’t bought a lot of stuff from them. But, yeah, over the years, of course, especially back when I was racing, yeah, I mean, that was very common. Now, keep in mind that in the world I lived in and had a business in and so on, I could buy from a lot of the same sources that Summit and Jegs could buy from. So I was able to buy at a better price not buying from them. But, yeah, there were times where, you know, if nobody else had it and that’s what you had to do, that’s exactly what you did. Jeff in Western Montana, you’re next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, good morning again, guys. I just had a quick comment on those handheld compressors. I have three different sizes of batteries. They’re all batteries at 2 amp hour, 5 amp hour, and 8 amp hour. And I had started out putting a 2 on there because it’s smaller, and I just thought it would work better. It has a hard time doing all four tires, even if you’re just bringing them up to pressure. So just a note of caution to use at least a 5-amp hour or anything bigger if you’ve got it, because otherwise you’re going to be swapping batteries.
SPEAKER 14 :
Great point. Great point. Yeah, and again, this particular deal, I should look and see what batteries it’s coming with. Let me see if I can determine that. Hang on one second.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s right. They have those really big ones. Probably just the regular M18 ones.
SPEAKER 14 :
right thing yeah um i i can’t i’m sorry i get so many text messages saying hang on it takes me a minute to roll back through and and find all of these uh i i’m sorry it’ll take me a minute might have to even do this at the top of the hour um the i’m i’m thinking they’re five amp like what jeff you’re talking about but don’t quote me on that you need to look that up yourself on the home depot website okay yeah that was it i just uh
SPEAKER 11 :
Bitter experience. Well, not bitter. I mean, it’s one of those, oh, crap, I’ve got to go get another battery now. So, yeah, the little 2-amp-hour batteries are good for, like, handheld drills and things. But if you’re pushing a motor that’s got a lot of resistance there, like in those compressors, they don’t last long.
SPEAKER 14 :
It looks like at the Home Depot they are 6 amp hours. 6 amp. Thank you. Thank you for that, Pat. Appreciate that very much. Thank you for looking that up for me. You bet.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. And something I’ve never heard you talk about, too, and I broached this topic with a bit of trepidation, but you can buy batteries that are compatible with tools that are not the name brand for the tools.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 11 :
And for the DeWalt ones, I did a little bit of research, and I found a pack of 8-amp-hour batteries for $80 for four. And I looked at those and go, I wonder how long they’ll last, whether the whole charges go bad. I figured even if two of them went bad, it would be a good – Honestly, we ended up throwing them away at the end of the day. Do you?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. I don’t know about the DeWalt, but the Milwaukees that I bought that were like that – You know, maybe two or three months. The charger wouldn’t charge them is mostly what it would come up with. So the charger freaked out. And I don’t know if the charger has enough sensitivity. No, it’s not a Milwaukee for some reason.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m a little bit old school on that, too. I typically like to go with the name brand. It didn’t happen to me, but it did happen to a close friend that he left… non-name brand battery on a charger overnight and started a fire. And so I think the name brand, you typically have a little bit better quality, not always, but then maybe the safety side of it would be just when you’re not in the building, just unplug the charger or turn it off, you know, something like that.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the trepidation did go around that. The cells themselves, I’m sure, are identical. I mean, there’s just a factory that’s pumping out cells for lithium-ion lithium batteries, it’s how they’re connected, the quality of the connection.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I bought a, along those same lines, just for grins, because I wanted to do some testing to see, and it’s something that, yeah, I haven’t shared yet, Jeff, because I haven’t really got that far, but I bought what I would call a quote-unquote knock-off Milwaukee battery that was extremely inexpensive. I mean, a third of the price of what it would be, and I can tell you just in picking it up, it is not the same battery.
SPEAKER 11 :
at all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, it says it’s the same amp battery, but I can guarantee you when I start using it, it will not be when it’s all said and done. And that is not a battery to Pat’s point that I will leave on a charger or do anything along those lines because I’m sorry to say. And again, I did it more of a test for all of you in kind of this topic we’re talking about, Jeff. I’ll do some testing on it and let you all know, but I would venture to guess it will not have the same capacity or longevity that an actual Milwaukee has.
SPEAKER 06 :
The thing I have a question about is like Why is the batteries in our shop, my batteries end up being the oldest ones, the most worn out ones? It seems to be traded back to me. I go to mine, I’m like, why is my old battery?
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re the only one responsible enough to charge the batteries, and when your technician’s battery runs empty, I know I can get a full one.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ll grab my brand new one and keep it. Yeah, exactly. Because Napa makes us a pretty heck of a good deal for buying batteries and things. That’s funny. That’s hilarious.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, well, I noticed, too, that the chargers, I had three different kinds of DeWalt chargers, and they had evolved over the years. This one has two lights. It lets me know when it’s on full charge and then when it’s topping it off. So I just use that for all the batteries now. But thanks for the hint about weighing them. I never thought about that. Mm-hmm. Weigh the batteries one against the other, see how much.
SPEAKER 14 :
I can tell you in that case of mine, it’s half of what a regular Milwaukee is, and I’m not exaggerating. I’ll weigh them exactly, but it’s half.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, well, thanks a lot, guys.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, you’re very welcome, Jeff. I appreciate it. And he brings up a great point. One, again, we haven’t really spent a lot of time covering on this program. Again, I bought one to really kind of do more of the testing and kind of get back to all of you on because these things are advertised in a lot of places. I mean, you see advertisements from… Even, by the way, some of the Amazon stuff, you’ve got to really look closely because it may not actually be a genuine XYZ battery. DeWalt, Milwaukee, Makita, whatever.
SPEAKER 06 :
Amazon is bad for that. Even like the printer cartridges. That’s right. You go to buy the HP printer cartridge, and you can get a picture.
SPEAKER 14 :
It really throws us because I don’t read.
SPEAKER 06 :
I look at the picture.
SPEAKER 14 :
HP branded or something along those lines or lookalikes or whatever. But the batteries. Oh, man. And they do a good job of making these things look about as legit as they can. But they are not. So my point is, it’s that same old saying, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. So we’ll do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
To your point, the clones are getting better, and the manufacturers are getting finickier. So like the HP printers, if they used to be able to be workarounds to get them to work with remanufactured cartridges, not anymore. So now they’ll stop that. That’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
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