Join us this week on Drive Radio as we explore the intricacies of automotive performance and emissions. Hosted by Ken Rackley from Tunetech Automotive, the episode dives into listener questions regarding catalytic converters, DEF systems, and the reasons behind vehicle modifications. We discuss the pros and cons of removing emission control systems and the impact it has on performance and legality.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, and we are Back Drive Radio. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. Dan, let’s continue on. So what’s your next question, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so I get, of course, the catalytic converters on that Duramax probably need to be replaced, is my guess.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I can’t remember, what year was it, Dan? I don’t remember, I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s a 2019. 2019, okay. It’s got a six-speed Allison transmission on it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Gotcha, okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
It has 195,000. So it was a work truck that my dad bought.
SPEAKER 16 :
So one ton.
SPEAKER 07 :
Anyways, so people – and I know your Colorado Select shops wouldn’t do this, but people keep saying, well, eliminate the deaf system and then you won’t have those problems.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, delete it. Delete it is what they’re saying. Yeah, I wouldn’t do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, delete it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Not if you’re still in Colorado.
SPEAKER 07 :
My question is – Why do people want to do that? I mean, you don’t get any advantage. Yeah, you do, actually.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, you do, actually. So the advantage is you can take all that stuff off. You can free flow the exhaust. Your fuel economy actually goes up. You’re not re-injecting fuel back down into the DPF to light it up. So at the end of the day, that’s where the fuel economy gain comes and power increases. So at the end of the day, that’s why guys do it. So really, there is an advantage, although you won’t pass emissions going forward if you do that. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, and I live in a county and I work in a county that I’m not required to do emissions. Not that I would do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because… You want that system, they designed that system to run as efficiently as possible.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, hang on, not really. Let me back up. No. They designed the system to pass all of the nonsense EPA regs that previous administrations put in, especially on the low-knocks end of things, and no, it’s not more efficient. It’s actually less efficient than they were prior, but to get knocks down, that’s what they had to do. Again, that’s why a lot of guys do the deletes is because at the end of the day, things perform better and more efficiently and have better longevity, and that’s why they delete them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so that’s why I don’t have problems with my 2001. Correct. Because it doesn’t have all that. Exactly, 100%. There you go. It doesn’t have all that stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
And that’s why that truck continues to go up in value is because guys are looking for those because it doesn’t have anything on it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
But if you do delete that, it’s no longer legal for sale in Colorado.
SPEAKER 16 :
Nope. You have a hard time getting rid of it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And then I told somebody, you know what, like you said, the government regulations, if they would just establish a standard and not say you have to have the certain, like the death system or whatever, just meet the NOx requirements. Don’t you think the manufacturers could come up with a way to make them more?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and unfortunately, that’s what they did. The problem is they had the NOx level so low that every manufacturer for a while even struggled to meet those demands and had all sorts of apparatuses. That’s where EGR came into play on a diesel and so on. And they added so many things to a diesel that literally increased the cost, increased maintenance, and actually made them less reliable when it was all said and done. So the EPA did not help the consumer out at all in the end.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it’s because they, I hate to say it, you get activists in there that don’t have a clue about what happens. My thought is if an engine burns more efficiently and more effectively, your emissions are automatically going to go down because you’re burning more of that fuel.
SPEAKER 16 :
On diesel, though, the difference on diesel is it creates NOx automatically because of the high temperature the combustion chamber is. It creates NOx in and of itself. And so even a really clean running, super tuned, if you would, quote unquote, diesel engine will still have high NOx because the combustion temperatures are so high.
SPEAKER 03 :
So high and at such high pressure.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s why Knox comes out of it. That’s why they did things. Now, when it came to the particulate filter and so on, my complaint, which is two different things, particulates versus Knox are two different things. They did the particulate filter because everybody complained about it. the diesel, the smoke, and so on. You can’t see it in that case. The thing most people don’t realize is, you know, diesel fumes and so on, you know, they travel so close to the ground at the end of the day, it’s really not bothering much of anything anyways. But to the activists, to Ken’s point a moment ago, or your point, Dan, yeah, the activists got in charge, and that’s why we have some of the standards that we have. Those are loosening underneath this administration, but not quickly enough, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, the black smoke that you see is a hydrocarbon solid. It goes to the ground. Correct.
SPEAKER 16 :
It does not go up in the air. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
And it probably recycles through the earth.
SPEAKER 16 :
It does. Correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s a carbon. Is that right? Yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. It does.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I got a friend who jokes about it. He’s like, well, we’ve eliminated all the particulates in the atmosphere, so there’s nothing for the moisture to attach to, so that’s why we’re not getting the rain. I mean, he’s being kind of facetious.
SPEAKER 16 :
He’s probably somewhat, he’s probably not totally wrong in that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. So if we clean up the air so much, there won’t be any particulates for the moisture to attach to.
SPEAKER 16 :
And to your point, something that, again, probably for my daily show, but things that some people forget is we’ve had particulates in the air since the Dust Bowl clear back in the teens and earlier, before even all the Industrial Revolution happened. So the reality is there’s been particulates in the air forever.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And then, you know, because you grew up in the state, I don’t know if you, is it Ken?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Who’s with you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. So did you, did you live in the city in the 80s? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. I grew up, I grew up in the state. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. So we’re all, all three of us are aware of the brown cloud, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and we don’t seem to have as many brown cloud days as we did back in the day.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, it’s crystal clear today as I’m looking out to the west. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
As a kid, you didn’t see that very often. No, right. You could even smell it. That’s right. In Denver, yeah, as a kid.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. So anyways, okay, well, that’s interesting to know. There’s your answers. Okay, I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, you’re welcome, Dan. By the way, great questions because there’s a lot of misconception on that end of things. So that was a great series of questions. Thank you. Chris and Centennial, you’re next.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, John. Hey, Chris. How are you, sir? Hey, Chris. Great. Got a follow-up with the three-liter Chevy diesel engine. Yeah, great. I went to the dealership and was asking about, you know, would they advise or the service writer, you know, would you be okay if I put 5W30 in this? He said, well, I’ve never been asked that before.
SPEAKER 16 :
Of course not.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I said, well… um i’m pressing it um and he basically said yes i would do that but i can’t tell you that i would do that there you go so then so then i started looking you know for the oil the product you know because i like to use mobile one and mobile one it does have a 020 dextrose diesel you know oil they do have a 5w 30 esp right but on the bottle it does not designate it as a dextrose so i did further research and found and i i just texted it to you um In the label through Mobile 1, it does say Dextrose 2.
SPEAKER 16 :
That oil there, that 530, is the same oil, and I still have some left over from my Colorado diesel that I had. That was the same oil I used to put in my Colorado diesel, same exact oil. I still have a couple cases of it left from that because they sold that truck but still have the oil.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Because, yeah, it does not designate it on the bottle.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, but it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I know I’ll be fine using it then, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, you would be fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, perfect.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, because I was just following up on… No, and again, I’ve used that oil, and I think I still have a case or two of it left from days I owned my Colorado with the diesel.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, okay. I just wanted to be sure… No, you’re fine. You’re on the right track, Chris.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’ll be putting the 530 in. Okay, good stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thanks, Chris. All right, guys.
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Jeff, hang tight. We’ll come right back to you. Lines open, by the way, 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, good afternoon, guys.
SPEAKER 16 :
How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I am better than I deserve. It was the… uh silly things that you’ve seen done or done yourself i’m going to do things i’ve seen before i get something okay that i did myself all right um and that was uh when i was in egypt i saw five people on a motorcycle five all righty then yeah yeah it was not a a world war year either it was a little plus so it’s probably like a vespa or something wow
SPEAKER 15 :
Five of them on there.
SPEAKER 10 :
Bigger than a basketball, but not much.
SPEAKER 15 :
Not much bigger than that? Wow.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Funny.
SPEAKER 10 :
And only Mama was wearing the helmet. I guess Dad gave it to her to protect her. All right. My grandson wants to put a – he has an old Beater Chevy, and he’s in the Texas Army National Guard now. And I tried to talk him out of this, but he wants to put an air conditioner in his back window with a generator.
SPEAKER 16 :
So there we go.
SPEAKER 10 :
I may have one of those in my family. That’s hilarious.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’ll cool it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s funny.
SPEAKER 10 :
My own faux pas was we used to live in Colorado, as you know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
We would move between back and forth to households and had a trailer and stuff would go back and forth and Coming back from Montana to Colorado one time, I had a few things on a trailer that I used to haul stuff up. And one of it was a little mini fridge. And I had put a strap on it. My wife said, don’t you think you need another strap? And of course I go, no.
SPEAKER 15 :
No, that’s good.
SPEAKER 10 :
One strap is fine. So one of the things I hadn’t calculated was putting the trailer on there. and my reduced fuel efficiency. So I was used to going from Sheridan to Casper, no problem. But I was getting closer to Casper, and that gas gauge was very, very close to zero, and I was getting – I got to zero, and I knew I had a little bit left, so I was hoping I would make it to Casper and just hit that downhill slope and coast into a gas station. But about five miles outside of Casper, I ran out.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, no. Oh, no.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, yeah, so I called AAA. I mean, I had to wait. Meanwhile, I go back to my trailer, and there is no mini fridge because that’s traffic.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I had lost it somewhere between Sheridan and Casper. So I hope I didn’t cause anybody an accident. Right, right. But if anybody recalls maybe 10 years ago, that’s good road up there on 25. Yeah, that was me.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So you don’t know when it happens, but it’s like, well, we don’t have that anymore. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And I, of course, my wife didn’t say I told you so.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that’s probably better because you know it yourself anyway.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I did hear about it. That was a little bit tongue-in-cheek. Before I get to my question, too, you talk about having donut spares on. My dream is to someday see somebody going down the road with four donut spares on.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
The absolute and oblivious, you know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Well, you know, some of the way fads go, it’s like, oh, we want smaller, you know, less profile tires. And it’s like, well, that’s the easiest way to do it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or somebody goes to a junkyard and says, oh, I can just take out all the spares, donut spares, and put them on my car. Exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good luck with that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 10 :
Exactly. In Fix-It Radio, you were talking a little bit about changing standards, and last week you talked about CAFE standards changing. But it was larger than that. I thought it was the EPA is looking to reduce a lot of the regulations around everything.
SPEAKER 16 :
They are.
SPEAKER 10 :
Like refrigerators and dishwashers and different things.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s true. You’re correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. So I’m just wondering what that would do, if anybody has thought about what that would do to Colorado unique or even California unique requirements.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s a great question. I think my prediction would be you’d see some lawsuits and battles over that because you’d have the states’ rights issue versus what the feds want. although the feds would come back and say, well, yeah, but you guys are dictating things that manufacturers have to do now individually for you as a state versus building things on a nationwide basis. So you could get arguments on both sides of it, and that’s one of those, Jeff, that I could see easily going to some sort of a Supreme Court-type ruling because is it states’ rights or is it consumer protection at the end of the day?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, and I’m just thinking that in the meantime folks would – do the smart thing and just go out of state, get their appliances, and bring them back in.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, in some cases you may see that. Now when it comes to, like, furnaces and things we were talking about during Fix-It Radio, that’s a whole other issue.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And one other thing, too, is that I heard somebody, I can’t remember where it was. I think I might have read it, actually. You talk about with the reduction or elimination of the CAFE standards. You know how all cars tend to look alike now? They’re all aerodynamic and you have to try to squeeze the last ounce of fuel out of the economy. I’m wondering what the reduced CAFE standards and the Less emphasis on efficiency. I wonder what that’s going to do to styling. I wonder how that will affect.
SPEAKER 16 :
It may change it because if that, you know, if people become more interested in how the car looks versus how many miles per gallon it gets. In other words, if one gets, you know, 28 and the other gets 25, but the 25 looks better than the one that gets 28, chances are they’re going to buy the one that gets 25 miles a gallon but looks better.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. That’s what I’m thinking is that, yeah. I could see that, yes. I would go that route.
SPEAKER 16 :
I would, too. Personally, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so I just think it’s one of those, it’s an unforeseen consequence that the designers or the implementers of the regulations, well, they probably didn’t care.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, they didn’t care. Jeff, the implementers of the last policy at 50 miles a gallon would like us all to stop driving. That’s why that was there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because they don’t drive. Yeah, they don’t care.
SPEAKER 16 :
They don’t want us driving.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that was something I looked up, a question from our state attorney general. He comes on a radio station that I listen to here about every month or two months or so and had an opportunity to talk to him, Austin Knutson. He was just elected the president of the Republican Attorneys General group. So great guy, great guy. But that was a question I was going to ask him was about that. So…
SPEAKER 16 :
Good question.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right. Jeff, appreciate you, man, as always. Thanks, sir. You betcha. Have a good one. Let’s get John squeezed in here before the next break. John, go ahead. Real quick, John.
SPEAKER 05 :
I had zone when you lost me. That’s all right. Go ahead. I just waited until I got home. Did you—I don’t remember if you talked about it on Drive Radio or on Rush to Reason, the Wyoming mechanic who the EPA sent to jail for a year.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, I talked about that during the weekly show. I haven’t mentioned it. I mentioned it a little bit earlier here today. Didn’t get him—you know, didn’t mention it by name. But, yeah, that was a gentleman that was—I believe some of these guys were singled out. He was one of them, and Trump pardoned him.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, okay. So that was a year in jail and a $50,000 fine, so— I would recommend that people think twice before you do that because it’s just, you know, we’re two and a half years away from the next election, and, you know, you don’t know who’s going to be in charge. But the other thing I wanted to get to when I was talking to you and I lost you, I don’t know if you saw the ad. It was from the Wyoming Highway Patrol between Tuesday morning and Thursday midnight when we had that wind event up here.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 05 :
39 tractor trailers rolled over in the wind. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
I did not see that.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s I-25 up to Casper and halfway across the state from Cheyenne. Wow. They had it set that it was 60,000 GWRW. Yeah. Anybody under that was on a closed road, and the trooper was saying that… If you flip over and you’re under the weight that we told you the road was closed, that’s considered under Wyoming law driving on a closed road, and that’s an $1,100 fine, plus you have to pay for all the damage you did to the road. And I watched it because I had a drive in it. They don’t understand, and maybe it’s because they’re not raised in this part of the country, that you can’t do 70 miles an hour when the winds are that bad because it’s harder to control the vehicle. And some of these guys just refused to slow down. And that’s what was flipping them over. I did see one on 80 where it looked like the rear end was starting to come up and he went back down. And I probably violated the speed limit getting around him as fast as I could. But, yeah, I just wanted to point that out, John, maybe something to talk about, you know, next week or something about how to be careful driving in these crosswinds because it was bad. Here’s how bad it was. It was too windy for the wind farm to run.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. It means it’s blowing really hard. Yeah, they had to shut them down.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, really hard. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, but. The point is they say the old windmills are going to replace everything, but it’s too windy.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’ll blow them off.
SPEAKER 05 :
Blow the blades off.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s going too fast. They can’t slow them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Actually, what happens is if they go too fast, they catch on fire. Have you seen those videos?
SPEAKER 03 :
I have. Well, you figure they have to limit it somehow, so they have to put friction in the deal to slow it down, and then it smokes the brake. Yep. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the fire chief that’s on our fire department, he says if they get one and catch us on fire, there’s no way to put it out. All they do is put a crew out there to make sure that anything that hits the ground is put out and not create like a grass fire. But, you know, that’s going to save the environment. John, have a great weekend.
SPEAKER 16 :
Hey, you do the same, John. I appreciate it very much. Thanks for the update. All right, we’ll take a break. We’ll come back. Line’s open. We’ve got a half hour left. 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for tuning in. Betsy in Aurora, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hi, Larry. This is Betsy, and I have a 2005 Silverado. It’s a 5.3 automatic 4×4. And we were up hunting, and all of a sudden the blower motor would not turn off. You shut the car off, and it’s still running. So we looked and ended up having to pull a fuse. out in the fuse block, a 40-amp fuse, and that turned the blower motor off, but then we didn’t have any heat, per se. Question is, I understand there’s a TSB on that. Is that an easy fix, and is it expensive, or what?
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s not a real easy one because you have to replace the, I believe it’s because you have automatic climate control, I take it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So with that, there’s a module that has to be replaced and then the harnesses that have to be soldered in and stuff like that. It’s not the easiest thing to do. I mean, it’s a function that would need to be done. In some cases, the blower motor needs to be done too because of the extra power that it’s pulling to make that harness melt and things. Okay. Yeah. But it’s definitely doable. It’s not… And cost-wise, I don’t remember. It’s been a while since we’ve done one. But, you know, I don’t think that’s super expensive or anything like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Are we talking?
SPEAKER 03 :
What’s that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Three figures or two figures?
SPEAKER 03 :
Three figures for sure. Yeah, probably under $500. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And are the parts readily available for something that old?
SPEAKER 16 :
On that truck, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
I would say so, yeah. We haven’t done one in a while.
SPEAKER 16 :
There’s so many of those around that, yeah, you’d be fine on that one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. You’re very welcome, Betsy.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you so much. I appreciate the phone call. Kyle in Dallas, you’re next. Go ahead, Kyle.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, John, how are you doing today?
SPEAKER 16 :
I’m good. How are you, Kyle?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m well, thanks.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good. How’s your weather in Dallas?
SPEAKER 08 :
You had mentioned variable valve timing. I guess it’s one of the features that manufacturers have put on cars to meet mileage standards. Is that right?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. Performance. Well, yeah, performance. Boost performance. Yeah, because I was talking earlier in the program, kind of opened up talking about compression and compression ratios and all the different things that they’ve done with engines. The way they’ve been able to also control detonation and even vary the compression ratio to a degree is with variable valve timing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, is that monitored by sensors? Is that electronic?
SPEAKER 03 :
Both? Yeah, they control it by usually adding oil on an eccentric type thing that changes.
SPEAKER 16 :
Like a solenoid, or like a plunger. Think of it as a plunger kind of a device, I guess you could say.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they use pulse width and stuff like that.
SPEAKER 16 :
And there’s sensors on the crank and the cam to know exactly what the different phasing is and do they need to advance or retard, and that’s what the computer controls and does instantaneously. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, I see. So over time, as you get a lot of miles on your vehicle, does that start to get out of sync, or does it wear like anything else?
SPEAKER 16 :
It can, and this is why we’re so big on making sure you do oil changes like you should. If you’ll do oil changes every 4,000 miles and run full synthetic, which it should have, and not run over, run a high-quality filter and so on, honestly, Kyle, they’ll run hundreds of thousands of miles. Right. If you don’t, then yes, you can have problems, and a lot of people do because they don’t do what I just said.
SPEAKER 03 :
Expensive repairs along those lines. Right. And usually we see more issues with the timing chains because of, you know, improper maintenance and stuff like that, where the timing chains will stretch or wear or whatever. And then, yeah, then they don’t know where to, you know, the variable valve timing doesn’t know, doesn’t have the right specs to apply what it needs to, to do that. And then there’s the part that the oil controls to make those cams move. And those have are a wear item on some vehicles too. But yeah, for the most part, it’s, It’s definitely a good system, and they were able to actually eliminate EGR valves because they can leave the cam open just a little bit on the exhaust side and different systems, of course. But, yeah, it’s a good thing for sure.
SPEAKER 08 :
So I guess because of the manufacturers recommending a certain weight of oil, like a 020 or something like that, you should stick with that because that also has an effect on the cam timing or the valve timing. Is that right? Correct, yeah. Ah, so if you vary from that, then you risk varying your timing and messing things up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because it’s opening according to the engineer’s specifications, and if the oil’s a little thicker, maybe it doesn’t flow fast enough, things like that, and can cause problems along those lines for sure. And there’s some of the manufacturers that even will set a code for improper weight of oil. because it’s actually able to sense that. And it’s sensing it through probably flow or pressure. I don’t know how they determine that, but yeah, it’s some type of flow or pressure or something.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, I see. Okay. All right. Well, everybody else is giving their version of, you know, the worst thing they’ve seen. Mine is I used to drive all over New Mexico on business years ago. I did in Albuquerque, and I used to drive Highway 550 between Albuquerque and Farmington quite a bit. And it’s a road that, you know, it’s pretty isolated out there, and they have some long hills before you crest the hill, and they have – it’s two lanes, and they have the stripe – in the middle of the road to, you know, to indicate that, you know, this is, you’re not supposed to, it’s a no-passing stripe. And then you crest the hill, the stripe goes away, and that way, if it’s clear, you can pass. Well, I was making that drive one time, as I had, you know, many times before, and I saw some guys coming up behind me in a car, and rather than, I was on one of these hills, and rather than wait until they could crest the hill, they decided that they were in too big of a hurry and rather than even passing on the opposite lane of highway, they went to the opposite shoulder and did about 70 miles an hour to get around me. And the worst part of that was it was a blind hill, and about every 50 yards or so there was a group of rural mailboxes. So if anybody had been, if a mail carrier had been there, if someone had been there parked checking their mail, it would have been a disaster. I have never seen anything like that before or since these guys decided that they needed to get around me, and they drove full speed on the opposite shoulder. Wow.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s amazing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. So, but, well, good program as always, and I appreciate your help.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, thank you. No, appreciate you, Kyle, very much. Yeah, and by the way, really quick before we go to bright, on the viscosity topic, and part of where some of the lower viscosity oils have come into play is because of some of what we just got done talking to Kyle about. Now, I’m not talking all the way down to zero, but where you’re seeing like a 520, 530, a lot of that came into play because of variable valve timing, cylinder deactivation like GM has, the ports on these particular devices are very very small intricate if you would and again they’re controlling those within a nanosecond and not exaggerating when i say that they literally can control things that quickly and in doing so need really good clean oil to perform the things necessary in fact a lot of the general motors cylinder deactivation complaints that are out there you read them on the forums and so on i’ll just be straight up honest wrong oil not changed often enough if guys will change oil like they should and use the proper oil, honestly, that system will last indefinitely. I mean, it really doesn’t go as bad as a lot of the forums of guys out there claim it does. And not to say there’s never any issues with it, but the reality is you just don’t have that many problems with it if you do the things I just mentioned. The problem is a lot of guys do. because they don’t run the right oil. It’s too thick. They run it too long. They don’t use the right filter. I mean, I can go down the list of things they do. And then, yes, they have problems and want to do the cylinder deactivation kit, which is a complete camshaft lifter change, which, frankly, is not needed if you do the things I just said correctly. But they don’t. And they blame GM for all their problems. Well, the problem is you didn’t do the necessary maintenance on the front side, and now you want to blame GM for your problem. Sorry, but that’s, in my opinion, exactly what happens. Sort of like the Corvette fires, whereby there’s been a recall on some Corvettes because of fires from where they fill the tank, and that one strictly comes from knuckleheads overfilling the gas tank. If they would just fill to the first click, and be done with it, you would have never had a fire at all. And because knuckleheads fill up cars and overfill it, and then that runs down into the hot intake of the engine itself, and then it creates a fire. Well, yeah, because you overfilled it in the first place, dodo head. Now you want to blame GM for that. Anyways, I’m getting off on a different topic here. But, you know, consumer… stupidity never ceases to amaze me. I was talking to somebody last night about this. If you take warning labels off of things and let natural selection do its thing, we’d probably have a smarter world that we would live in today, but we use warning labels.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, there’s warning labels. That’s funny because if you read some of these things, it’s like Anybody should know that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, don’t use hair dryer and bathtub.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, yeah, you know, it’s like, so people have done that and sued about it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Maybe you should if you were thinking about it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 16 :
We wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, sorry, I didn’t mean that. No, I know. It’s just, you know, the warning labels that you read. Don’t curl hair.
SPEAKER 16 :
Don’t use curling iron in bathtub.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, right. Don’t take this bag and put it over your head and cinch it tight. It’s like, duh. Oh, my word. I mean, but they have to put that on there because they’ve been sued for whatever.
SPEAKER 16 :
This is not gum. Don’t eat this. I have the packing material. Anyway, we’ll come right back. Don’t go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 16 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Tim in Monument, you are next. Go ahead, Tim.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, John, I wanted to see if you had any insight on this 6.2 liter recall. I’ve had it completed on a 2023 Escalade. No problems. It’s less than 4% that they’re finding. That’s right. But the big thing is they’ve gone from a 0.20… to a 040 on the oil. And you have to do that in order to keep the warranty, which is now 10 years, 150,000. That’s right. Yeah. Why the 0W40?
SPEAKER 16 :
Because I think what they realized early on is the 20 wasn’t heavy enough for that particular engine. And so they realized they need a thicker oil, especially when the engine heats up. They want that thicker oil, that 40 weight oil at that point versus the 20 weight. I think what they learned is the 20 is just not heavy enough.
SPEAKER 14 :
I see.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. And a lot of that still comes back down to the whole CAFE rating and the things we’ve been talking about through the show, Tim. And, yeah, and I think, you know, in that case, 040 is what they’re going to, and I think you’d be fine with that. The other thing that’s happening, too, and I just read this yesterday, if everybody’s got a 6-2, they’re going to combine lawsuits. The judge just ruled yesterday they’re going to allow the attorneys that have gone after GM for – that particular recall and some of the problems people are having there’s been multiple lawsuits that the judge is now going to wrap all into one so it’s going to cost gm a boatload of money and anybody that’s either has a 6-2 or has had one will probably have some money coming back to them yeah they uh they were using uh 0w40 in some of their engines the uh v escalate v the
SPEAKER 14 :
650 horse.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
So it’s not like they haven’t. No.
SPEAKER 16 :
The biggest thing with the 040 is finding it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that’s true. It’s a super oil. That’s right.
SPEAKER 16 :
The biggest issue is finding, and it’s costly.
SPEAKER 03 :
Does the Euro class 040, does it meet the specs?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, once again, it starts to be the Dexos stuff, so there’s not a lot of Dexos 040 is the problem. I’m going to say I’ve never seen it. That’s the problem. That’s why it’s hard to find.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Mobile has got it. Mobile 1.
SPEAKER 16 :
Tim, I may be wrong in saying this. I’m not sure anybody else does.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that may be the case.
SPEAKER 16 :
On Dexos, I think that’s it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, okay. And Mobile One, I mean, it’s recommended for the longest time. Yeah, no, you’d be fine with that.
SPEAKER 16 :
But again, it is not easy to find. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, well, you have a good weekend. You do the same.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, great, great phone call, great question, Tim. Thank you for that, by the way. Appreciate it. Denver, or sorry, David in Denver, you’re next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, once again, I called toward the end of the show. All right. Stupid driver’s story. Yesterday I was in King Soopers. I walk out right beside this lady. We’re parked right next to each other. She proceeds to put her cart right behind mine and then takes out one item at a time over to the other side of the car into the backseat. I should have done a play-by-play. Okay, there’s the egg, so let’s take that around the other side. I’ve got it in reverse. The engine’s going. She doesn’t even, just oblivious. And I just, I was getting mad at first, and I just thought, this is funny, you know. It’s just hilarious. So I didn’t say anything, but, you know, and then at least she put the cart back, and I give her credit for that. But, yeah, the car had to stop, you know, and let her go across there. And then I waited for the other car, and then she gets back in her car, and then, oh, look at the receipts. And it’s just, you know, her world. Yeah, and no one else matters. You know, my story means nothing. Uh-huh. But anyway, yeah. And I just want to give a shout out to Ken. This is David with the 09 Cadillac. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and I’d love to keep, I’ll take it to you. You never know what happens. I’ll keep, happens to be European. So, you know, I guess Geno’s can maybe handle some of that. I appreciate that, David. Anyway, I just want to let you know, things may change. I may have bought myself a problem or who knows. I mean, I’ll keep it throughout the winter and And, uh, maybe get back to you. And, um, like I said, I’ll, I’ll bring you up lunch. I’ll bring you a pizza or something. Cause you’ve been great. And this is like I say, unsolicited. I I’m a customer. I’m using your, uh, uh, patronizing your sponsors. And then that’s the way this all works. And you just, I’ve had nothing but good luck. So, uh, take it to Ken’s. He’s been terrific. And, uh, Just everybody so far. And I just wanted to let people know that. Appreciate that. Thank you so much. And it’s Toon Tech. And, you know, who is this? My brother-in-law? No, this is a listener who is just… Using the sponsors and nothing but good luck so far. And I just wanted to say that. And thank you so much, Ken. And I’ll bring you lunch sometime.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thank you. Do appreciate that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, thanks.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right.
SPEAKER 16 :
David, thank you. I appreciate that. Great. And guys, really, I’m serious. And I know Ken would agree with me here. Great listeners. You guys are fantastic, and we continue to look for new people that can be a part of what we do here. I know I don’t say this probably near enough. If you are a business and you enjoy what we do here and you would like to be a part of what we do here, it’s not costly. I can just tell you straight up, it’ll be the cheapest thing. amount of advertising or the least expensive. Let me say it that way. I don’t mean cheap because it’s high value, but it’s the least amount of money you’ll spend advertising in probably anything you could do. And do we give results? Yes, we do. Ken is living proof of that. So are all of our other partners that we have. So if you’re somebody out there with a business that’s solid, we do all the The checks and balances on that, I want good, solid business owners to be a part of what we do. I want it to be people that if I wanted to use you, I could, and I feel comfortable doing that. And by the way, everybody we’ve got that we’ve teamed up with, I feel that way. And in most cases, do use them for something here or there. Or I’ve known them for, like in Ken’s case, 25 plus years. So reality is these are good, solid people that we do business with, I do business with, that I feel strongly that I can recommend to to all of you otherwise it wouldn’t be a part of what we do and if you’re a business that feels like you fit what we do here and you’d like to be a part of it and you don’t have to be automotive related as we have attorneys and doctors and all sorts of other folks that are related to the show and and help us put this thing on you don’t have to be an automotive business to be a part of what we do here if you just want exposure and you feel that we give a good value to the listeners and you want to be a part of that well then by all means reach out and We’ll sit down, have a chat, and I am about as least pressure there is. If you want to do something with us, great. If you don’t, great. I mean, at the end of the day, there is no high pressure. I love having new people join us, but the reality is this show goes on with or without you, and I’m not saying that egotistically, but if you want to join us, great. If you don’t, that’s fine, too. That’s why there’s no pressure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, if you want to be a part of what we do, great, because we we look for, you know, partners all the time. And I know, again, I said in a moment ago, but I don’t mention that enough. I think sometimes people think that, well, there’s no room for anybody else. So there’s always room for more people. We can we can do that. In fact, even the the extra mile, the hour you’re going to hear here from three to four. I don’t have any we’re not doing anything sponsorship wise or anything for that hour. That’ll be something that probably I look for. individual sponsors for individual weeks as we move forward so if that’s something else you’re interested in doing by all means reach out to me and again our advertising and what we do here i think i’m pretty confident in saying this probably the cheapest you’ll find on any radio station anywhere locally reaches a lot of people you know that’s yeah and i don’t charge probably near enough money for doing it but i don’t need to because we make it work for what we do and i just enjoy doing it and helping everybody out that’s a part of it right exactly I mean that sincerely. Ken, give folks your phone number and where you’re at one more time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, we’re at Aurora, I-225 in Colfax area, just a little bit east, and phone number 303-364-3391.
SPEAKER 16 :
Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Larry Unger answering phones today. Thank you all for listening, by the way. We’ll be back. There’ll be a last show of the year next week because after that, we’re getting into Christmas and the holidays. So next Saturday will be our last show of 2025. So be sure to tune in then. Don’t forget, Drive Radio, the extra mile will be on from 3 to 4 p.m. today. Talk about buying a new car by the end of the year because they’re the best deals you’ll find. I give you lots of tips and tricks on how to make that happen as well. But guys, have a fantastic weekend. We’ll see you next week. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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