Join the team as they tackle real-world automotive challenges faced by listeners. From fixing heating issues in newer cars to understanding the importance of regular maintenance, the hosts cover it all. The show also takes a humorous turn as listeners share their bizarre experiences on the road. Whether you own a classic vehicle or the latest model, there’s something for every car enthusiast in this engaging episode.
SPEAKER 19 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 20 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. The Chevy didn’t make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn’t come out till 62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 24 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it’s time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hour 2, Drive Radio. My bad. Say that too often during the week. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Ken Rackley, Toontech Automotive. Again, Larry Unger answering phones. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Felipe, I told you we’d get right to you as soon as we came back. You are next. Go ahead, Felipe. Hi, John. Are you enjoying this weather? I am loving this weather. Absolutely. Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
I am, too. Anyway, my Chevy Bolt. Yes. C-O-L-T. Yep. Stopped giving me heat. And so the way it works, the way I understand it is they have a reservoir with antifreeze in it, and they heat up the antifreeze and circulate the antifreeze.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sounds right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Is that your understanding?
SPEAKER 06 :
That sounds right.
SPEAKER 11 :
So anyway, I wanted to check the reservoir, see if it was low. Okay. Because it looked a little low, and I couldn’t get the cap off the reservoir. What’s the trick?
SPEAKER 06 :
Hmm. That one I don’t, and I don’t have my bolt anymore, so that one I can’t even go look at.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, when you turn it, there’s a clicking sound like there’s an anti-locking mechanism in there. You know, like the medicine caps.
SPEAKER 06 :
So are you, and I’m assuming, I mean, here’s the deal. Unless you’ve seen a leak or something, I don’t think your coolant would have gone anywhere. Right. The question is, is the heating element still working properly?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, well, I found out why it didn’t heat.
SPEAKER 06 :
And?
SPEAKER 11 :
I didn’t have it turned on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Ah, well, there you go.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, there’s two buttons. You’ve got the power button. So I push the power button, and I think, well, the heat’s on now, but there’s another button for heat. You’ve got to turn that on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. And like John was saying… Yeah, I mean, unless you’ve seen a leak, then that should be still full.
SPEAKER 06 :
Shouldn’t be an issue. Yeah, shouldn’t be an issue. I don’t think I’d even bother checking it.
SPEAKER 07 :
And if it’s clicking, more than likely you need to push down or squeeze around it, you know, something along those lines if it’s clicking. But, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
I tried that. I thought maybe it was left-handed, and I turned it the other way, but it wouldn’t work either. Hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, weird.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’m going to pop in at the Chevy dealer and ask them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, but now that you’ve got it turned on, it’s working.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it is working.
SPEAKER 06 :
Perfect. Perfect. Good.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and now keep in mind, as you know, Felipe, that system for anybody that has EVs and so on, same thing as a regular car. That system still will need a coolant flush swap and so on as time goes by. I don’t know exactly on that car what that mileage is. Yeah, but at some point it will need to be serviced.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I asked a dealer about that. He said that we don’t need it for a couple of years.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Well, then there you go. Good. So you’re in good shape. Five- or ten-year coolant or something.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, but I don’t know why they would do that. Why don’t they just have an electric heater in the passenger compartment?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, that would take a lot more power from the battery. As we talked, Felipe, in the first hour, On fix-it radio and even home heating, so you look at home heating where there’s hot water and it goes through registers or floor heat or whatever, that system is far more efficient than even the air handlers that push hot air out of the furnace itself. Hot water heat is always more efficient because the BTUs contained in water is much higher than anything else. That’s why they do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you’re generating the heat from the batteries anyway. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
In this case, you’re heating the water instead of just heating the air with the element. They’re heating the water with that element, therefore getting much better transfer of heat back into the vehicle.
SPEAKER 07 :
More consistent and a lot more efficient.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, that’s why they do that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, I’m not an engineer, but that’s, to me, common sense-wise, that’s why they’re doing it. Right, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Okay. Well, I’m going to pop in the dealer and ask him how you get those caps off.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, good. Yeah, not a bad thing to know. Sure, I’m sure they’ll tell you.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’ll let you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, awesome. Felipe, thank you very much. I appreciate the phone call. And it looks like Mike is next. Mike, go ahead. Hey, John. Hey, Mike. Good morning.
SPEAKER 10 :
As usual.
SPEAKER 06 :
Always, sir.
SPEAKER 10 :
I thought I’d make a comment on the strangest things I’ve seen on the road. But prior to that… Thank you for bringing up the motor, the engine issues that is happening, the recalls. And it bodes, one of the things that occurs to me is, We’re not going to change what the manufacturers are doing. So maintenance, maintenance, and maintenance.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, good point.
SPEAKER 10 :
Great point, Mike. You know, what’s the old real estate? Location, location, location.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Three keys of business. That’s right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Anyway, I was driving back from Golden on 470, and there’s a car in the left lane doing about 50 miles. And I went, okay. And I got beside it and I looked over and the young lady has got a bowl of something in her left hand and a spoon in her right hand and she’s having lunch or whatever. Driving with her knee?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. My word.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I just sat there and I just went, you must be joking.
SPEAKER 06 :
And she’s not.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Yeah, no, no, that’s right. Now, I got to tell you, this is the evil part of this. There was a part of me that said, well, I need to pull around in front of her and then brake check her.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s the evil side speaking. Right, yeah. It’s like, yeah, meaning that bowl will be everywhere but where it’s supposed to be. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
I mean, there was that thought. You know, I got to admit it. Oh, that’s funny.
SPEAKER 07 :
At least you’ll admit it because most people won’t. And then there’s that chance of meeting her on accident. Yeah. Exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
Anyway, thanks very much for another good show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thanks, Mike. Appreciate you very much, and good story. John and Cheyenne, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Sorry, Mike had me laughing.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s a good one. That’s hilarious.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, Christian in you doesn’t want to do that, but the other part of you wants to do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
That little guy on your shoulder says, do it, do it, do it.
SPEAKER 14 :
But the thing is, It’s all over, and then she wrecks.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Yeah. Yeah, you know, in all seriousness, it’s like, yeah, people don’t do that. No offense, pull over, eat your rice bowl or whatever it is. Right, or eat before you leave home. Yeah, don’t be doing that going down there. I mean, you want to eat a hamburger or something. But even then, it’s like, okay, can you really pay attention while you’re doing that?
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s hard to eat in a car. Not really.
SPEAKER 06 :
Furthermore, you get crumbs and crap all over. That’s my biggest pet peeve. Yeah, that’s it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep. Well, John, you’re a little OCD clean when it comes to your car.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, I am.
SPEAKER 14 :
We’ve known you a long time, John. We know your idiosyncrasies.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ll admit it. I am.
SPEAKER 14 :
So the tractor trailer driver with the iPad cropped on the dash watching a movie, I see that on a regular basis on i8. Wow. Okay. Okay. And then the person who has a car that’s less than five years old holding the phone.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Not doing hands-free.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that one anymore. Well, I don’t think in Colorado you’re not allowed to do that now. You’re not. I thought it was against the law now.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re supposed to be hands-free now in Colorado.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I think we lost him.
SPEAKER 06 :
Did we lose you, John? Well, I think we did. That’s probably him. If he’s calling back, we’ll jump over to him. So let me put one on hold for Larry. I’ll tell you what, we’re up against a break anyways. Hang tight, guys. Those of you that are on the line, Larry will get right to you. Hang tight. We’ll come right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 23 :
About dumb things seen while driving, I’ve seen an awful lot of mistakes as far as signage alongside the roads. I don’t know why, but over and over I’ve seen an ongoing road project where when they get done, they forget to pick up the very first ones you’ll encounter.
SPEAKER 18 :
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 23 :
um so people are slowing down and there’s no need for it and there’s absolutely no construction left but they left the sign up right right and um one time i was on i-25 coming home at night and there was a sign that said left lane ends with the merge diagram but it was backwards it was really the right lane that ended up ahead so they they got that flipped and um And then one time I was driving beside some construction, and they had one of the large, like, four-foot square signs, roadwork ahead, that on a very windy day wasn’t weighted down, and it blew over, and the sign popped out of a bracket and blew into the side of my truck. So that was annoying. But a lot of problems with signage sometimes.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 23 :
But I wanted to ask about a Prius. A friend of mine just recently bought a 2012 Prius, and he’s never had an electric vehicle before, and I don’t know anything about him. I just wondered if there were any general recommendations for things he needs to be aware of.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope. drive it yeah um yeah they’re real reliable real very yeah good vehicles yeah we have a couple uh or we have a fleet that has two of them and they’re 300 plus thousand miles on the original battery still so and they’re 2012s also so yeah
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, so nothing special.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, other than, you know, the regular recommended maintenance and things like that, yeah, it’s, you know, the brakes, the, you know, the fluids for sure, and then oil, of course, on that one too.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay, well, I’ll pass that along.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Appreciate it, gentlemen. Likewise, Jerry. Always appreciate you calling in. Appreciate you very much. Mark in Denver. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
How are you doing today, gentlemen?
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m good, Mark. How are you? Great, thanks.
SPEAKER 15 :
So last week’s problems are solved. It was engine control relay and fuel pump relay. Nice. Boom, done. On to the next challenge.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
I’m looking for somebody that will build me a stainless steel shock tower brace that goes in the engine compartment to give me more stability side to side. Okay. Any idea?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t. A machine shop, job shop would probably be interested in doing something along those lines.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fabrication, something in custom fabrication, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, come to mind, just because I’ve talked to him multiple times, they do some car stuff here and there, would be it’s Phoenix Weaponry up in Berthoud, and they do some job shop stuff in that mark. And even though it’s Phoenix Weaponry and they do a lot of gun stuff, they do some car stuff as well. Talk to Aaron. He might be willing to do something for you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, if not, maybe know somebody that maybe.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, yeah, exactly. At least in his world, he’d know who to go to. Right, yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Probably a good idea because I’m looking for a 304 stainless dairy quality.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, they could do that. And, of course, he’s got all the access to all of the metals and all that, so that’s not the biggest thing is whether he can build it or not, or if not, who does he know that can?
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. That’s a good idea. I didn’t consider a gunsmith to make me a part like that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and he does a lot of stuff for the aerospace industry, hospital, medical industry, and so on. So, you know, he’s not just on the gun side. He does a lot of different things. That’s why he’s got access to, and he’s got all the machinery to do it, of course, Mark.
SPEAKER 15 :
So he’s a fabricator. That’s what I’m looking for, somebody that knows how to weld.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Aaron’s also a car guy, so that helps, too, because not that you need to be a car guy in the machine shop world to do what you’re looking at, but it helps when you’re a car guy and understand what you’re looking for and then can go build it. Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Well, I’ll give him a call not today because I’m sure he’s waiting.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, he won’t be there today, but call him Monday. Just tell him you were listening to the show, and I advise you to call him. And, again, he’ll either help you or tell you who you can go to to get some help.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Well, thank you very much.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re very welcome, Mark. Appreciate you very much. Merry Christmas, sir.
SPEAKER 15 :
Merry Christmas to you, too. Thank you.
SPEAKER 06 :
You bet. And Soren, we’ll squeeze you in here before the bottom of the hour. Go ahead, Soren.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. One of the stupidest things I’ve seen while driving is driving the semi this summer, and I had my left turn signal on, and somebody passed me on the left, When I was just about to turn.
SPEAKER 06 :
Dumb. That’s about as dumb as it gets. Yep.
SPEAKER 16 :
And it happened three times in one day with three different people.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not very smart.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not very smart.
SPEAKER 16 :
So you got to pretty much think that that’s going to happen every time you drive the truck. But also people who pass farm equipment have no clue what they’re doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nope. And there’s been a lot of accidents, sometimes even deaths, from people that will pass farm equipment, things like that, on the left while that person is turning left and that they want to pass around the left, and then accidents happen and everybody wonders why. Well, I can tell you why, because they shouldn’t be doing that. As we all know, you should not be doing that, period.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and then there’s also the people who… When you’re turning left, they’ll come around you on the right and go by it 60 miles an hour when it’s at a four-way intersection and somebody might be turning there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not a good idea.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. At all, as you know. There’s a lot of stupid drivers who don’t know what they’re doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, we talk about this quite a bit on this program and my others. I’m dead serious. There are times, Soren, where I just wonder, how do people get from A to B every day? I mean, literally, how do they make it happen? If it wasn’t for the other people around them watching them, they wouldn’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Literally, I watch how they drive. There’s no way they get from A to B without everybody else helping them.
SPEAKER 16 :
They could all improve their driving if they just bought a Tesla and used autopilot.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, there’s that as well, but… Some are doing good, I think, to get behind the wheel sometimes, Soren. Really quick, the other thing that cracks me up, I saw this this week, so sorry, but this goes along with the question of the day. So I saw a guy where I’m thinking, okay, and he’s zipping around traffic. He comes around me, and I’m like, okay, buddy, cut me off, whatever. But he’s driving a little, like, Toyota Corolla that’s probably 10 years old. Paint’s kind of coming off of it. Happy tags were expired back in March. He’s still driving it, and on top of all of that, he’s doing about 80 with a mini spare on the left rear.
SPEAKER 1 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I’m like, this is just an accident waiting to happen. So when he cuts me off, I’m like, okay, you do whatever because I’m not going to be near you because you’re just an accident waiting to happen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go around you when I come up on them.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re on a minispare doing 80 when it should be top speed of 45.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. Do those minispares do better in snow than the… No, because they’re like slicks.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s hardly any tread on them. Yeah, right. No, they don’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
They might repel a little water.
SPEAKER 06 :
They are meant to get you to the next stop to take that off, get the other tire fixed, and get it back. They are not meant to be daily drivers.
SPEAKER 07 :
What? What? Temporary? Does that mean permanent?
SPEAKER 06 :
Temporary, yes. Thank you. And most people drive them permanently. Oh, gee. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s only temporary until it fails.
SPEAKER 06 :
There you go, Soren.
SPEAKER 07 :
There you go. They were practically giving them away at the salvage yard, so I bought a whole set.
SPEAKER 06 :
Unreal.
SPEAKER 16 :
The problem is that you are joking, but there’s probably people who do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Uh-huh. You are right. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
So, it’s ridiculous. People need to have to go through and take a full driving test.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I think they should, too. Yeah, I’m not going to argue on that one. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
Because, you know, a lot of drivers need to probably get their driver’s license taken away with the way they drive.
SPEAKER 06 :
Like I said, I am surprised that some have the ability to go from A to B by themselves.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. My one friend who’s a police officer, he said that some 14-year-olds drive a whole lot better than old people just because they’re following the law. He pulls them over sometimes, and it’s a $50 fine if you’re caught driving without a license, so not too bad.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, not worth doing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Soren, as always, man, appreciate you. Have a great one, man.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right, you bet. Albert, hang tight. We’ll come right back to you. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, let me answer a couple of text messages really quick. Albert, Jeff, hang tight. Somebody asked, Dave and Golden, a little downtime, so I’ve got a chance to tune in. Have a question about oil storage. How long can I store oil in my crawl space, which has a constant temp of 50 to 55 all year long? Unopened, full synthetic, sitting on the shelf. As long as you want, Dave.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. It’ll be good for them.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, it’ll outlast you. Yeah, right. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. It will outlast you. Because if it’s stored and it’s not opened, it’s in a nice constant temperature like you have, it’s not going bad.
SPEAKER 07 :
There’s no contaminants.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s nothing there to go bad. Additives and oil don’t degrade until they’re in the engine being exposed to the heat and doing the things it’s meant to do inside of the engine. On a shelf, in the can, can or jug or whatever, knock – It’ll outlast you literally. So whatever you want to do with it, not a problem at all. So if you’re listening, let me know, because by the way, great question. Cause I get that question periodically, even on text line or email. And yeah, as long as it’s in a nice consistent, you know, it doesn’t have huge temperature swings and so on, which the only thing issue there is it just builds condensation. So if it’s in a nice temperature controlled setting, like you’re in knock your socks off, store it as long as you want to. So Albert, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 25 :
How are you doing, John? Enjoy your show again, as usual. Thank you, Albert. Enjoy the questions that people call in. It’s good info. But this is one of the funny instances that happened to me about, it’s been a while, 25, 30 years ago. I drive down from Sheridan on 285 or Hampton, all the way to I-25, pretty regular. And one day, we were coming down, a lot of traffic, and it was all of a sudden, it just It came to almost a halt. It was, you know, just moving very, very slow. I couldn’t figure out what would happen. So as I got up closer and closer, there was this older gentleman, probably, I’m saying close to 90, driving a Coupe de Ville. It was from the 80s. Remember the old Coupe de Ville, Cadillac Coupe de Ville? And anyway, he’s driving, doing about 20 miles an hour on his cell phone. And he’s just in the middle lane with a speed limit of 55. He’s doing 20. And it was warm and people were going by. They were not saying nice things to him as they went by. Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 25 :
He did not pay attention. He was just one hand glued on the wheel, the other hand on the cell phone.
SPEAKER 07 :
In his own world. In his own world.
SPEAKER 25 :
Yeah, in his own world. Wow. I’ll just give you one more. I used to drive out at the airport at DIA doing snow removal on Pena. Let me tell you, folks, listen to what I got to say. That is one dangerous road. Yes, it is. These people do not pay attention to anybody. You know, it’s sad to say that. I’ve seen so many accidents, people get hurt. I’ve seen people with bowls of cereal in their hand while they’re driving, trying to read a newspaper, trying to read, you know, watch movies or whatever on their tablets. I’ve seen a lot of dangerous things there. I’m sure. I’ve talked to cops, you know, off and on. They hate to stop people because it’s so dangerous.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, yeah, right.
SPEAKER 25 :
You know, they’re just very afraid, you know, to get out of their vehicles. Can’t blame them. That’s what they do. They’re constantly looking over their shoulder. I cannot blame them. You know, but anyway, some of the things I’ve seen, when we drive snow, we go like two or three at a time, you know, to try to clear the opinion, you know.
SPEAKER 18 :
Sure, sure.
SPEAKER 25 :
And cars were trying to get in between us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my word. Yeah, don’t do that.
SPEAKER 25 :
We’re doing 30, 40 miles an hour, trying to do them a favor, and they were trying to get between us because they got to get there, you know. I mean, it’s just one stone fiasco after another.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right.
SPEAKER 25 :
But anyway, just a public service warning to people that go out to the airport. Peña is one dangerous road. Keep your eyes open.
SPEAKER 08 :
Definitely.
SPEAKER 25 :
You know, from somebody who’s been there and done that. But anyway, I just thought I’d pass that on, John. Anyway.
SPEAKER 06 :
I appreciate it, Albert. No, absolutely. Enjoy your show. Thank you, man. Appreciate you listening very much. I mean that sincerely. Thank you. Jeff in Steamboat, you’re next.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, how are you guys today?
SPEAKER 06 :
Good, Jeff. How are you?
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m well. It’s really pretty up here today. Getting a little chilly, but it’ll be nice. About 48, but I just had a story when you said what was the worst thing you’ve seen on the road. This could have been bad. I was driving. I was a manufacturer’s rep right out of college, and they gave me a company van to drive around the state, and I’d be going to Oh, either north or south to different dealers. And one day in Colorado Springs, I was on I-25, and I’m in the right lane, and I’m following a dump truck with a trailer behind it and a piece of equipment. I think it was like a compactor or whatever they use on asphalt to make it sit hard. Yeah. Fell off the trailer right in front of me. Oh, no. And I don’t even know if I looked to the left in my mirror, but I took a swerve to the left, and I missed it. And I just kept going. I didn’t even stop. And I don’t even know. Wow. That guy knew that he’d lost the equipment.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, my word.
SPEAKER 09 :
That woke me up pretty fast.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, somebody wasn’t a happy camper. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, no. That thing was heavy, and it took one or two bounces. Wow. Yeah, that was about it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that was it. yeah so anyway wow that will get you know a just goes to show you always have to be you know johnny on the spot never know what’s going to happen next and good for you to be able to get around that yeah you know if i’d have been looking down or look at someplace like in someplace else um you know it would have been bad yeah exactly so uh that was one one escape that i’ve made and uh um So I wanted to call. I don’t know how many more Saturdays are going to be on before Christmas.
SPEAKER 06 :
One more. One more next week.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, we’re going to be in Australia by then.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, nice. Good for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, we’re going back for the holidays.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Her twin brother is going with us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Go down under where it’s hot.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mid-summer. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Middle of summer.
SPEAKER 09 :
Or I guess beginning of summer.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, actually, it’s the end of spring getting into summer, right? Am I thinking correctly? Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, because we were there in July, and it was their winter, and we were pretty lucky. We had nice weather.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
But this is supposed to be, you know, my daughter’s saying, yeah, we’ll get sunblock over there because they have a special one. They have a special for down there because the sun is so direct.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
But I looked at the weather out until two days after Christmas. Okay. And the hottest day there, well, we’re not in Sydney proper those days, but the hottest day during that week is going to be 83, and otherwise in the 70s. So hopefully we don’t get the 100 and some degrees. Well, that sounds really nice.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
The only downside is the plane ride.
SPEAKER 09 :
Travel to get there. Yeah, we talked about that the last time. And I said, yeah, I need a cruise ship, but actually what I need is one of those high-speed hydrofoils. Uh-huh. And, yeah, those flights are kind of— That’s a long hike. Yeah. Yeah, we’re breaking it up by going through Honolulu again. Nice.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nice. Good for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s been a couple of nights.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good deal.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Have a Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 06 :
Merry Christmas to you, too, Jeff. Have a safe flight and enjoy. One place I’ve always wanted to go. That’s a hike to get there.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
A long way to go. Question of the day, again, what is one of the craziest things that you’ve seen done while driving? We’ve had a lot of you call in today giving us examples, which thank you, by the way. I appreciate that. Text line 307. And our oil person, Dave, did hear our answer. So thanks, Dave. And by the way, thank you for the text messages. All of you that text in on a routine basis, I get text messages all the time. All the time, late at night, early morning, weekends, whatever, and never bother me a bit and keep sending and ask questions and appreciate it very much. And again, on just the oil storage, and this is true even in your garage. If you’ve got a nice constant temperature, you don’t have huge temperature swings. I mean, reality is how long can oil last? I mean, I’ve seen oil, guys, and I’m not exaggerating. I think I still have a can that’s in the cardboard oil cans that we used to have back in the day. And truthfully, as long as the problem is that oil, unless it’s in something really old, doesn’t meet the API specs for a new. It’s more of that than anything else. So the biggest risk you have on the storing of the oil is the oil itself won’t go bad. But as you start buying newer and newer vehicles as time goes by, what happens is that oil becomes – it’s not that it’s not good anymore. It’s obsolete. It’s only going to fit a lawnmower or something along those lines maybe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Something you don’t care about.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, because the newer vehicles are going to require different API specs than what is on that particular bottle or that particular product right now. So it’s really more of – The product ages out in regards to its usefulness, not that it’s aging out because it’s gone bad.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. It still works good for lube and door hinges.
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. The oil itself is still good, but what its application is, what it fits anymore, continues to diminish, I guess is the way for me to say that. Makes sense. Totally. As time goes by, it just becomes less effective in the marketplace as far as all of that. So my advice is if you’ve got oil and you’re storing it, great. But really, if you’ve got the ability to use that and keep it as current as you possibly can, in other words, unless you’re a shopper, you’re somebody that’s got a lot of vehicles, don’t overstock. Because even diesel engines, as time goes by, they come up with new specs for diesel oil and so on. So again, it’s more along those lines than it is. Now, those of you that have… you know, farms and have older vehicles and so on. And you’re going to keep those vehicles. Well, you know, knock your socks off. If you get a chance to buy extra and it’s cheap and you want to store it for a while, you know, knock your socks off. Be my guest.
SPEAKER 07 :
You’re not going to hurt a thing doing so. Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you guys in shops, you’re using it quickly enough that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
On issue there as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
For sure. Yeah. You know, and as weights change and things like that get thinner, I mean, we just have to add more of stuff that we carry on a lighter basis.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s getting harder and harder to have really the bulk oil that we used to have in shops.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Joe in Denver, you’re next. Go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, great show. Listen to you every Saturday.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I’ve got to turn off the radio. Why in the world would manufacturers on the older injected cars gangwire the injectors?
SPEAKER 06 :
What do you mean?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, they put two together. Like on the four-bagger, you know, the two that fire next to each other, they gang-wire. You have one wire, one hot wire going to two injectors.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, the sequential.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it depends on whether you’re doing – make sure I say this correctly. Either there’s sequential and there’s – what was the other one? What was the other name? Sequential versus – I can’t remember.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I can’t think of it right offhand, but – Yeah, so, yeah, I think what they’re doing there is they’re loading up that other intake valve with a little fuel, and then when it opens, they add a little bit more. and then that gets them their good charge in there and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think it’s sequential versus port injection. Port, yeah. Or sequential is a type of port, but I’m still multi-point. So it’s either sequential or multi-point. Sorry, that’s what I was looking for.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sequential versus multi-point. Depends on which system it is, Joe. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, they don’t do that. That was on the older. That’s right. I got it at 86 and 85.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s all individual now. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, so they’re all sequential.
SPEAKER 06 :
So the sequential meant, no, so sequential is those injectors are firing into the intake valve a certain amount all the way through. The intake valve opens. That fuel’s already there. It sucks in, and away you go. On multipoint, it’s individual. That’s the difference.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 06 :
So the sequential is what you’re talking about being ganged together versus multipoint being individual.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right, right. Okay, I just, when they gangwired him, I couldn’t figure out how it would run so, you know, it would run fine, but Like you said, they just load up the intake valve early.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly. And the problem with that in a lot of cases was if one injector short out, especially with the GMs, one injector shorts out, you lose that whole bank.
SPEAKER 06 :
And to your point, that tying those together is, yeah, that hasn’t been around now, Joe, for probably two decades. Yeah, probably 20 years ago is when that ended. It might even be longer than that now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Probably.
SPEAKER 06 :
If it was 20 years ago, it would have been 2005. I don’t think we even had much of that type of injection in 2005. Everything was port by then. I think by 1998, they pretty much… Yeah, we pretty… Yeah, there weren’t too many of those left at that point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Too much control needed.
SPEAKER 06 :
Everything’s individual, has been for a number of years now. Yeah.
SPEAKER 1 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. And the only one I ever heard advertised sequential was VW. They said TSI, TSI engines, you know, turbo sequential injection. Nobody else ever mentioned it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that’s where…
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s just probably like a gimmick, advertising something or another, really, because it’s like, ooh, it’s sequential.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I need to correct myself. I’m backwards. Sequential is every cylinder’s firing individually as needed. The multipoint, they were firing different injectors, loading up the valves, and as the valve opened, the fuel would go in. So, sorry, I said that backwards. Sequential is individual cylinders, where multipoint is they’re firing multi-injectors at the same time. Sorry, I didn’t say that correctly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, instead of calling it gang wire, you call it multi-point.
SPEAKER 06 :
Multi-point, correct, because it’s multiple injectors at one time firing.
SPEAKER 17 :
Makes sense, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sorry, I had that backwards. My bad.
SPEAKER 17 :
I guess they didn’t know how to do it sequential, so they did it that way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, you know, keep in mind, in the early days, all they were doing with injection was trying to, you know, take over what the carburetion had done prior, which was doing exactly what we’re talking about because fuel in a carburetor was always on the intake valve. And so, really, all they were doing was replacing carburetion. And remember, too, everybody listening, we didn’t have the computer processing power yet. to do some of what they wanted to do with the injection. I think, truthfully, they would have loved to have done more of a sequential injection early on, but the advancement of the computer just wasn’t there. The chips weren’t there to be able to do what they needed to do. And as that became more powerful, so did the injection systems.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I think the domestic kind of drug their feet for as long as they felt they could, you know, before they went with fuel injection.
SPEAKER 06 :
But even, you know, the foreign guys and so on, I mean, the chip industry. Yeah, the processing ability. That’s right, the processing ability. Actually, Ross Perot, that was his company back in the day. That’s what he did to make all of his money is exactly what we’re talking about. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Great, I know. Okay, next question is CVT. Can you flush a CVT trans?
SPEAKER 07 :
Normally it’s drain and fill. Yeah, usually it’s drain and fill.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, there’s not… Some you can, but most it’s drain and fill.
SPEAKER 17 :
They don’t have a lot of… Well, they have to have cooler lines to do it. Is that right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Yeah. And most don’t. And they don’t have coolers. Right. Yeah, there’s no pump. No. There’s no pump to develop pressure. So it’s, yeah, just soaking in the fluid.
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s just a splash, huh?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. Yeah. Because the belt’s doing all the work. Yeah. The steel belt.
SPEAKER 17 :
And so when you do get… Say your car’s flushable… Do you get new fluid or just cleaned old fluid?
SPEAKER 06 :
New fluid.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, so you basically fill, the way our machine works anyway, you fill a bladder, basically, in the machine.
SPEAKER 06 :
The top of it. The top of the machine.
SPEAKER 07 :
The top of it’s new. Yep. The old is the bottom. Yep, exactly. And it pushes the new in. You hook it up, and it pumps the old in on the opposite side of the bladder, pushing new in. Pushes the bladder up, pushes the new in. It’s an exact swap. It’s real simple technology. Simple technology, sometimes not so simple to do on the vehicle.
SPEAKER 06 :
But the technology in the machine is simple.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And some transmissions run thermostats, so you have to get them hot enough in order to start flowing. Yeah, things like that.
SPEAKER 06 :
But that’s the principle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right. And it works very well.
SPEAKER 06 :
But on a CVT drain and fill. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that fluid, you know, every 30,000 miles or so.
SPEAKER 06 :
On a CVT, 25,000, 30,000. If you do that regularly, you’ll make a CVT last much longer.
SPEAKER 07 :
Last as long as it can. Yes. Exactly. And the fluid, for the most part, doesn’t come out dirty, but it gets.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because that belt’s wearing all the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
The belt and pulleys, I should say. The combination of those two are wearing all the time.
SPEAKER 17 :
There’s so many CVTs, everybody’s got them. And the Koreans, they guarantee them for 100,000 miles. So if you’re going to get one, I guess get it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Jatco Nissan was the first CVT, and they really took some heat because they had a lot of issues early on, and they did have issues early on. As time went by, they developed that, and it got better and better and better. And to this day, they’re fairly reliable, although they’re not a 200,000-mile transmission. No CVT. They just don’t last that long. They’re not meant to go that far. Right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So I heard you can’t repair them or rebuild them. You just throw them away.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, toss them, put a new one in. There’s companies that rebuild them just because they can and seem to have a pretty decent product. But, yeah, there’s no private company around here.
SPEAKER 06 :
Most cases you’re putting a new one in. Yeah, exactly. They take the old one and swap.
SPEAKER 17 :
Like a big manufacturer can do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, yeah, because of the special – I mean, parts aren’t available.
SPEAKER 06 :
No individuals are doing them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. I mean, the dealer can’t even sell you parts because they don’t do it. No. So –
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, they just remove and replace. That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
They either put a new unit in or a remanufactured unit in.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, there’s a lot of SUVs I’d like, but they all have CVTs.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I’m still to this day not a CVT fan. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I’m not either, but they make so much metal, huh?
SPEAKER 18 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 07 :
They do. Yeah, the heat that they build and the wear and things along those lines and the odd shift. I mean, they don’t shift. I mean, they just vary. And the diameter of the pulley. Correct. Change ratios on both ends, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, okay. Next question I have. Oh, no. My funny thing I see, I lived in Florida for a while. And this guy had an old station wagon, and he knocked out the back side glass and put an AC air conditioner in there. And then on the roof, he had a Honda generator running it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, man, that’s funny. They probably stayed nice and cool. That’s funny.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s good, actually. I couldn’t believe it.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s funny.
SPEAKER 06 :
Whatever it takes.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s good. Funny.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, thanks a lot.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re very welcome, Joe. Appreciate it. All right, let’s get Kent in before we close out this hour. Kent, what’s going on? John, how are you this morning? Good to hear from you. Kent Novus up in Sterling. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 08 :
Very good. Cold. Cold and frosty. Say, I had a story about a dumb driver.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let’s hear it.
SPEAKER 08 :
We were out of state visiting my daughter, and we were Black Friday shopping, which is a different crowd anyway. And we were going down the interstate, and out comes this full-size pickup beside us, pulled on the interstate. He had both back doors open and a big TV sitting in the back seat. He must have bought on Black Friday. He was going 70 miles an hour down the interstate with the doors open and a TV in the back seat. And we were so in shock, we didn’t take pictures of it. We should have. You should have, actually. Dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. And he pulled up about two more exits and got off. He was going home with his TV. That’s hilarious. That is hilarious. And his box on the pickup was empty. He could have put the TV back there, but chose not to.
SPEAKER 06 :
Huh. Yeah, why use that pickup anyways? Well, they don’t buy them for pickups. Let’s use the backseat. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 08 :
He must have forgot he had his pickup.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
It was amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is hilarious.
SPEAKER 08 :
Everyone on the interstate around us is slowing down and just watching.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is hilarious.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
I wonder what the methodology was behind that.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’ll bet you you can search YouTube and find that.
SPEAKER 08 :
There’s got to be videos out there. There was people taking pictures. We just didn’t do it. It was funny. About two or three years ago in a different state. That’s hilarious. Funny. Good show today. Thanks, Kent.
SPEAKER 06 :
all I had no I appreciate you very much nope appreciate you that’s Ken he joins us periodically Sterling Novus he’s my my glass expert so if you guys ever have any needs questions even on hey you know I need to do this or I need to do that some of you that have even some oddball stuff where it’s like hey I need a windshield for such and such Ken’s your guy he’ll Ken’s your guy should say he’ll take care of you just give him a call up and Nova Sterling their their phone number by the way listed on our website drive-radio.com just look Nova Sterling up and you’ll see him there and give him a call they’ll be happy to take care of you Dan, we’ve got about a minute before we go to break. I’ll try to get at least one of these questions in. Let’s go.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. So I called a couple weeks ago about the catalytic converters on a Duramax.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I’ll probably get it taken care of next year because I’m not driving the vehicle, but I had to drive it this week.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
I kept getting the code on the panel that says cleaning, exhaust, filter, keep driving. Does that sound familiar?
SPEAKER 18 :
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. So what is that process? And I got a couple questions. So if you need to go to break, go to break, and I can wait.
SPEAKER 07 :
Get on the highway and just maintain 55 or over.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s actually adding fuel to the exhaust, heating things up, trying to burn out the DPF. That’s, in essence, what it’s doing. I’m simplifying it, but that’s essentially what it’s doing.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it keeps doing it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
So it’ll go off. And then if I, you know, after it goes off, if I stop and then I… It’s called regen.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s probably trying to do that because those cats are bad.
SPEAKER 12 :
Probably. Okay, so that’s my guess. And then I got another question, but if you need to go to break.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, let’s do that. No, that’s fine. Let me put you on hold. We’ll come right back. Dan, don’t go anywhere. Again, those of you that have questions, lines are full, but as soon as somebody drops off, give us a call. We’ll get you right on 303-477-5600. Again, 303-477-5600. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tune Tech Automotive. We’ll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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