John Rush and Ken Rackley talk about getting your vehicles, garages, and even pole barns ready for Colorado’s winter — from sealing drafts and treating gasoline to storing summer cars and pulling out snowblowers.
The Question of the Day focuses on driving pet peeves, lighting up the phone and text lines with listener calls about everything from overusing hazard lights in rainstorms to tailgaters, truckers blocking the passing lane, high beams left on, texting at stoplights, and left-lane campers doing 55 in a 75.
Eric kicks off caller questions with a detailed diagnostic discussion about his 1999 Toyota Sienna going into
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And it is Drive Radio KLZ 560. Thank you all for listening. We appreciate it. Had a great first hour with our other program, Fix It Radio. If you guys listen to a replay, we do a lot of around the house stuff today. We got to talking about water flow and shut off and things like that. So it’s always interesting on Fix It Radio that show always goes different directions that I’m always amazed at. We always have a lot of fun. So if you’re Listening to Drive Radio and you want to learn some things around the house, be sure to tune in to that as well from 9 to 10 right before our program here on Saturdays. If this is a replay you’re listening to, again, Fix It Radio is 9 to 10 on Saturday mornings. And it also plays again on Tuesdays from 2 to 3 in the afternoon. So you can always catch it then if you didn’t get a chance to catch it on Saturday. A Saturday morning. Ken Rackley with me today from Tune Tech. Always good to be here. Always a joy having you, Ken.
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You know, it’s been a while. I’ve had a busy summer. You had a few things going on. Yeah, right.
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Exactly.
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That’s all right.
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Go out and have fun. Nothing wrong with that. That’s right. The weather permits, I’m doing it. And today is… It’s not as cold as it looks, but it’s a little gray day. And you can even see some pollution and things. We’ve got an air inversion going on right now. So you’ll notice it’s a little bit different outside. Not super cold. So some of you may be out doing a few things or getting… Getting things ready for winter, you know, I know for me that’s exactly what I’m doing and spending the last several weekends just getting things dialed in, everything from, you know, getting things positioned, getting things put away, treating gasoline. I mean, all the different things as we start to head down that path into the fall, winter months, Ken, you just sort of start doing it.
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Well, right. Exactly. Yeah. It’s easier to do it now since it’s not snowing and blowing and, and things and, and you have to do it. It’s better to just to do it now. Correct.
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And for some of you, this is something to think about too, is, you know, what are you going to store through the winter? Is it, you know, is it a lawnmower? Are you going to drag the snowblower out and get it ready to go now? And you’re getting ready to put the lawnmower away. Some of you will still be cutting the grass maybe a couple of more times. Again, are, are you, you know, Are you going to put what away through the winter months? Some of you that have classic cars or that car that you only drive during the summer months. Maybe it’s not a classic, but it’s a car you only drive in the summer months. Are you going to be putting that away? And if so, are you getting prepped to do so? Are you still thinking you’re going to drive that for another month or so, which you might be able to. Sure.
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Could be driving it into January. Who knows? It just depends on the year.
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Larry and I were talking about that during – fix it radio but but again for those of you where you just know you’ve got certain things so for example with me and this is more fix it radio than it is you know drive radio but i went through and did i’ve got a big metal pole barn and you know it’s kind of where i work on my stuff and different things and you know pole barns ken knows this ken knows this you know they they require some maintenance at different times and they develop you know air leaks and you know different things along those lines and so i’ve spent a better part of the Summer this year, just sealing up some of those things, trying to keep things as warm as I can, keep the heat bill in the wintertime down because I do heat mine because I don’t like working in the cold.
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What? I’m spoiled.
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My heat’s directed right at me, so I can’t keep it in the building.
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I’m like you. I like working in the warmth.
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I don’t like being cold. But on the same token, trying to figure out ways we can seal some of those things up. For some of you, that might be even things you’re looking at doing. Whether it’s in your own garage, whether you’ve got a little shop, whatever the case may be, just doing some of those things and getting things prepped for winter, that’s all kind of part of what we do so you’ve got a more enjoyable winter.
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Right. Keep the leaves out of the downspouts, all that stuff. But they haven’t fallen off yet at our house. No, ours either. Ours either.
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Getting close, but yeah, not quite yet. But again, for those of you that have questions, anything regarding… Yes, cars, whatever. If you’ve got a question, we’re here to answer it. 303-477-5600. Okay, I haven’t done this one for a while. Question of the day. And I don’t normally, because I normally like to do more positive things, but there’s every now and again I’ve got to throw this topic out to you guys. And that is, what are your driving pet peeves? So when you see somebody do something, what’s the one thing, or two or three, but what’s the one main thing where you just think, oh, man, would you stop doing that? Why are you driving that way? And you tell me what that is, 303-477-5600. I have a few, and I’ll rattle some off depending upon what some of you say, but I think any more. And I’ve talked about this, and this is from some of what we’ve got going on with our immigration system. I’ll just say it that way. I get totally perturbed at those drivers that feel like they need to use their hazards every single time something minor comes up.
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Oh, a rainstorm.
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A rainstorm the other day.
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Not even a storm, just rain falling.
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Yeah. The other day, my wife and I, we were kind of in rush hour traffic. It wasn’t super bad. Traffic was kind of slowing down, and there’s a big semi-truck to our right that all of a sudden throws its hazards on. I’m thinking, you have brake lights for that. Yeah, you don’t need to have hazard. And again, I can tell you where that driver has come from, because I know what other countries do in regards to hazards. And literally, they I think they can wear a hazard button out. And I’m not exaggerating in my car. I have to sometimes look for it because it gets used so rarely because right now you’re in the United States of America. Little tip for all of you that maybe have come here from another country. We only use hazards when there’s a true hazard. So you aren’t able to keep up with traffic because you’ve got a flat tire or a tire’s going low. You’re stopped on the side of the road. I was following a truck yesterday on my way home going west on I-70, and I think the guy initially thought that I was mad at him for going too slow, but that wasn’t the case. I got up next to him and rolled my window down, and he had a utility truck, and one of the doors had popped open, and there was a caulking gun. There was literally, I could see sitting on the door that one more bump and that thing was going to come off and probably go through somebody’s windshield or cause a flat or cause other problems. So I was motioning to him that, hey, you’re back. It’s hard to do when you’re driving to motion all of this, but hey, your back door is open. And I think at first he thought I was motioning him to get over because he was going slow. No, I was trying to tell him that. His back door had popped open. He was going to start losing stuff out the back, which could actually cause lots of other problems when people are doing 65, 70 miles an hour. He happened to be in the HOV lane. Anyways, I did notice that he must have noticed what I had said. because he only went about another eighth of a mile and i saw the hazards come on point being okay this is this is a time where yes you do put the hazards on yeah and he pulls over to the shoulder and i could see him starting to get out and figuring out check things out what this knucklehead in this truck was trying to tell him that’s an example of when you do use your hazards just to be in the rain or the snow and use hazards
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No. Right, exactly.
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And here’s my fear. We’re already getting to the point with so many out-of-area drivers here that in some cases, like hazards, they’re getting used so much that you really don’t even know anymore what’s going on with that person. Don’t even pay attention to them. Yeah, it gets overused.
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Yeah, mm-hmm.
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And that’s my fear. So, yeah, that is one of my bigger driving pet peeves is people that overuse hazards, and typically they’re people that haven’t grown up here, and they’re typically coming from out of country. And in other countries, they use their hazards a ton. I don’t know why. I don’t know where that comes from. Just a culture thing, I guess. But in this culture, we only use them when there’s a real true hazard.
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Yeah.
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And rain isn’t one of those. No, right.
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Rain and snow is not.
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Rain, traffic jams. Yeah. Those are normalities. Those are not hazards. Those are just the things that we do when we drive, and you don’t need to run your hazards in those particular situations. But that’s my question of the day. What are some of your driving pet peeves? I’ll throw the first one out that I’m sure a lot of people are going to say, so we’ll get this one out of the way, period. talking on the cell phone not hands-free but talking on it when it’s up against somebody’s ear distracted i can just tell you that those people are not paying attention when they’re on the phone or those that are texting and driving so the phone use in cars is a huge pet peeve of mine as well because they’re not driving properly they’re dangerous actually at that point in time right in fact i’m one of those where it’s like yeah i’m staying completely away from you right You are going to cause an accident, so I am not going to be that person. I’m getting away from you.
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Yeah. Yeah. All right.
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Well, hello again.
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Hello, Eric.
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Hey, so Pet P, improperly secured loads in trucks.
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Mm-hmm.
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Well, any vehicle. I mean, you’ll see somebody driving down the road with nylon cord holding something on the roof. Right. Yeah. Yeah. About a month ago, I was heading south through Parker, you know, heading on down to work. And a commercial work vehicle, road work vehicle, started up from the traffic light. Dropped one of the heavy duty road sign prep pods right in my path. I drug it several feet before I could get off the road. And ended up that they had to replace the shield for my gas tank. Thankfully, that’s the only damage. No suspension damage or anything like that. With as many miles as I clock, either going from the ranchette or going down from Aurora to get to work. I see it every week, every week. Somebody’s dragging something, somebody’s tailgate’s down, somebody’s roll-up door in a commercial truck is up. And you can just see that the loads are not properly secured. And it just amazes me we don’t have more accidents from that.
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I think you’re right. I can’t disagree with that at all.
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Yeah, lots of videos on things falling off vehicles.
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Oh, and in some cases, as you know, Eric, I mean, you can cause, you know, severe harm, damage, death even in some cases, depending upon what’s fallen off of that, you know, vehicle. I mean, we saw that on I-70 where that load of pipe, you know, wasn’t secured correctly. Guy went around the corner too fast coming into construction there around that wheat ridge mark. And, you know, somebody died because of that. So, yeah, Eric, it can happen.
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That’s right. Absolutely. Yeah. So getting to my question about the 1999 Toyota Sienna was heading south on 25 when all of a sudden it went into limp mode, got it off the road, got it towed. And they you know, the shop says, you know that they’re seeing low flow rate on the fuel pump. Now, My thought is that about two months ago when I had Extreme Auto work on the van, they said that the catalytic converter was the original and about to collapse in on itself. I’m wondering if possibly that’s what’s causing this, not the fuel pump itself, because they were wanting to drop the fuel tank and replace. the fuel pump and i’m like let me think about this first i’m wondering if that catalytic collapsed in on itself and the airflow sensor caused the computer to send the thing into limp mode to save it and it’s a you said a 97 sienna 90 99 99 okay um yeah i’m trying to think they don’t really have a limp mode that i know of but not saying it doesn’t i just um
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Yeah, it would be interesting to see what… I mean, catalytic converters, unless there’s a misfire, I would say that they’re not typically going to just fail, like, right then and there. Was it making rattling noises or anything like that from the, you know, when it was running, idling, or did you ever hear any rattling noises?
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No, but I was… smelling more exhaust fumes up in the vehicle than in the past.
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Okay. No hissing noises or anything like that under acceleration?
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No.
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Okay.
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No, the van was running beautifully, and then right about the Greenland exit, it just all of a sudden cut out, and I had enough power to get off that Greenland exit and sit there until I got towed.
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Yeah. Go on. Yeah, kind of hard to say. I mean, they have similar symptoms. Restricted exhaust and low fuel pressure have similar symptoms. And, yeah, it’s just hard to say. The only thing would be a vacuum gauge on the manifold and rev it up and see what’s what. And, you know, if we have… still building vacuum then we’re not a restricted exhaust if we’re oh yeah if the oxygen sensors are super lean that would be a uh you know a sign that the fuel pressure is low so okay yeah no i’m just trying to you know it’s not worth it to leave it at the shop and have them do it and i’m a handy person so sure
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thinking about tackling all that myself. I mean, you’re talking a van that blue book values, you know, only, you know, maybe at most five to 800. Right. Exactly. Several thousand. Yeah, exactly.
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And yeah, I mean, other than, you know, getting in and, you know, making sure that that’s the issue. I mean, with being that age and there’s probably a number of miles on it, it’s, you know, it could very well be a fuel pump for sure.
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Yeah, this one isn’t quite at $300,000, but it’s well over $200,000. Yeah, yeah. So it’s definitely needing its maintenance. My wife is saying turn it into the junkyard. I’m like, I don’t have the cash to buy the big pickup. I need to replace it. Right, right, exactly.
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Yeah, well, and two, like, you know, sensor failure, stuff like that. Yeah, you just kind of have to definitely more diagnostic there just to verify that. But, you know, pressure gauge on the fuel system, things like that, probably they did. All right.
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Yeah, I’ll borrow or rent a pressure gauge and recheck a lot of that and see what’s going on. Yeah, no, I just was wondering if that was a possibility. I know newer vehicles, you know, you get too many. error codes and the computer will put it into limp mode. And, you know, I didn’t know if the old 99s would be that sophisticated.
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Yeah, I don’t remember that as being something on those. Yeah, that was later, you know, probably early 2000s before any of the manufacturers really started doing that as far as I can, as far as I know. I think that’s right.
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Yeah. Sounds right.
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Oh, my gosh.
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All right, well, at least I’ve got a little bit of an idea on what to look for again and retrace maybe what the shop has done.
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Sure, yep. See what their test results were and go from there, yeah, for sure.
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Like everything else, it’ll just go on the list until I can get to it.
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I have a lot of those.
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Yep, exactly. Well, between the mold down at the branchette and the… rodent damage at ranchette and then up here trying to get this ready to sell it in aurora the the pickup truck and now the sienna are are probably on about fifth page right always something yep exactly yep yeah all right well appreciate it thank you no good stuff no appreciate you very much let’s go to john john go ahead hey john uh hey ken how you doing today good john how about yourself
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Good. I’m not plowing snow, which is usually what I call.
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Right. True.
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Pet peeves. The first one gets me nuts. The guy that tailgates you to the point where you can’t even see his tires on the road, you glide out of the passing lane after you pass the person, and then he slows down because he doesn’t want to be in the lead.
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Right.
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That guy gets me nuts.
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Yeah.
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Because he wants you to get the speeding ticket, hopefully.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then the other thing is, and I’m going to probably annoy half the people listening to you, tractor-trailer drivers who don’t know their equipment, yet they will block the passing lane for four or five miles because they can only go one mile an hour faster than the guy that they’re trying to pass. And they’ll just, on a two-lane interstate, I-80 is the worst for it. They’ll just block that passing lane for four or five miles. And the other one that gets me is the guy that they’re trying to pass All he’d have to do is lift for about two seconds, and that truck would go by him. But he refuses. It’s like their manhood is being challenged. And that’s the one that makes me crazy because, you know, you look and you’ll see those eight or nine cars piled up behind him just wanting to go by, and he’s going to block that lane because he had no consideration. And so those are my two worst pet peeves, John. The other one is, like you, the flashers.
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Mm-hmm.
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Really? Yeah, that makes me nuts, too, because put your lights on if it’s raining, like you’re supposed to. I believe most states have that law now, wipers on, lights on. Most newer cars, the lights come on automatically when you turn the wipers on.
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If you have all your settings correct, yes, they do. That is correct.
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Yep. And so just turn your lights on. What’s the big deal? But the flashers, then you don’t know if
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Yeah, you don’t know if they’re having an issue or if the car is having an issue or if they’re seeing something in front of them. Yeah, you just don’t know.
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Right. It’ll be like a couple weeks ago last week, Tuesday morning, the fog was really bad. So instead of just driving the posted 55 speed limit that the state set, they’re going to do 75, but they think the flashers will make them invulnerable to having a wreck.
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Right.
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But those are my pet peeves, John. You and Ken have a great rest of your day.
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We will. We will, John, as always. Appreciate you calling. Again, question of the day, driving pet peeves. Any other question you’ve got, by the way, we’re here to answer. You name it, we’re here. Ken Rackley, Toontech Automotive. And we’ll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Yeah.
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And we are Backdrive Radio, KLZ 560. All right, Charlie gave us his answer to the question of the day, and that is people that haul mattresses on the roof with just a little twine in their arm hanging out the window hanging onto that thing.
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On a Camry or a Malibu or something like that.
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Like you’re going to hang onto that mattress at 60 miles an hour.
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Yeah, right. It’s already folded in half at 40. Yeah, exactly.
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No, that’s a good one, Charlie.
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So, yes.
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Soren, you’ve got one for us. Go ahead, Soren.
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Okay, my biggest driving pet peeve is people who pass trucks on the left when turning left.
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No, that’s not very wise.
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When turning right.
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Yep. Yep.
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And then the people who don’t use turn signals but will use their hazards.
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Oh, yeah. We already talked about that one. Don’t get me started. Too many of those now.
SPEAKER 08 :
And then there’s also the people who sit in the left lane… And do 55 when the speed limit’s 75.
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Yeah, I see that on a regular basis, too. Yeah, I do, too, Soren.
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The left lane police, I call them.
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Yeah. You’re not going faster than me.
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And that’s another one where I’m still trying to figure out, Soren, is it always left lane police? Or are these, again, people from other cultures that don’t understand what the left lane really is?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think, seriously, I think people are not taught that in, I don’t think it’s even in a driver’s manual or anything. I mean, I just think they’re not taught that.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re just not aware that that’s what it is.
SPEAKER 03 :
They just think it’s a lane. Yeah, exactly. It’s just where they belong. It’s where they feel like being. You could be right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, people just sit in there and do 55 and… They won’t get over when you come up behind them or anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. No, I see it all the time. You know, Soren, how many miles I put on a week. No, I see it constantly.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and it’s a little bit like I got a lot more in tune with that when I was in Nashville a couple months ago.
SPEAKER 04 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 08 :
I got pulled over for doing 80 in the left lane, but I wasn’t passing anybody. So the police officer pulled me over and said, hey, get out of it. You’re going too slow, even though the speed limit was 65. Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
No ticket.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that’s good. I’m surprised they did that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Well, I don’t think I fit the bill for somebody who is driving a 25 F-350 Lariat. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, and it’s one of those things. It’s an educational pullover, which they could have written a ticket, and it’s illegal here too, but I don’t ever see anybody get pulled over for it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, the funniest thing is that you just pulled me over and like, you know, do this. You didn’t ask for registration. You just asked for my driver’s license.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But it was pretty crazy because it was a pickup registered in Georgia, and I had a Colorado license. We were in Tennessee.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s amazing. I wish they’d do that here at times. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, my uncle said, you know, you can’t get perturbed by other people’s driving.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, you just have to learn to live with it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Otherwise, you’re going to drive yourself crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 08 :
Drive yourself crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. Take a deep breath and say, I’m going to get there either way. That’s all you can do. Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sometimes you wish you could just put out some wings and get flying.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, that’d be nice. Absolutely. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Idiots driving.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
There’s a lot of them.
SPEAKER 04 :
There are.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Good stuff, Soren. Appreciate you very much. Nope, you have a good rest of your day. Thanks for all you do. Gent, you’re next. Go ahead. Or Gent. Gent. I’m sorry. Gent.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s okay. So the pet peeves, two of them, People that are driving with their brights on.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I see a lot of that, too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And I think, like you said, I’m just going to say it the way I’ve seen it. Immigrant population doing that when I pulled up next to them stating they have their brights on. Some of them just smile.
SPEAKER 04 :
They have no idea what you’re saying. Sorry, they don’t. And again, I’m not trying to be rude, Jim, but they just don’t know. The other thing, too, that I’ve noticed, and this is my cohort during the week, Andy Pate noticed this. I didn’t think about this until he mentioned it, but he’s right because I’ve really been paying attention since he has said so. There’s a lot of these student driver stickers that a lot of transplants put on, and I think they do that thinking people won’t pay as much attention to them or will give them more room or won’t get pulled over or whatever the case may be. In other words, they stick a student driving sticker on thinking they’re going to avoid other issues, and they’re not student drivers is my point. And I didn’t realize that until he said it, and then I started paying more attention, and they’re not young student drivers most of the time driving these cars with student driver stickers. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I’ve seen those, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
There’s a lot of them, and they fit your description, by the way, Gent, as to what you’re talking about on, you know, hazards and brights and so on. Yeah. Yeah. Frankly, I think sometimes, Gent, they don’t even know their vehicle and how it even operates fully. In other words, what makes those brights come on, for example?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and if they don’t have the brights on, they’re driving all night with their…
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I see that a lot. This time of year it will get worse, especially coming out of DIA on I-70 West because a lot of folks come in, they want to go skiing or they’re traveling or whatever, and they leave the rental car place, dash lights are on, they can see a little bit, so they think they’re good to go and there are no lights on. Right. That’s true. Yep, see it all the time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Another one would be these people that need to stop two, three, four, five cars back. so that they can text. Uh-huh. Leave a gap in front of them. I see that one as well. You could fill that gap with three or four cars.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and you know what? And frankly, you know, by the way, this is true even when they’re going down I-25 or I-70 in rush hour traffic. My other complaint is, and these people think that, I don’t know whether they think they’re being more safe. I don’t know what they think. But really, Gent, they’re rude. Because what they’re doing by leaving all those big gaps is adding to the traffic jam and delay that’s already out there. So all they’re doing is slowing everybody else up that’s behind them. They think that they’re being safe, but really what they’re doing is causing a lot of other problems for a lot of other people, meaning they’re very rude and inconsiderate. They are. I don’t know how else to say it, but they are. They’re inconsiderate. These are inconsiderate drivers. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 09 :
But that’s all I’ve got.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re a good one. Those are good ones. I appreciate it. Thank you, Gent. And reality is there’s a lot of drivers out there that aren’t thinking about the other drivers around them, frankly don’t care. they’re going from a to b as long as they get there they really don’t care at the end of the day who else they affect when they’re driving and that’s not how i was taught to drive and how i was raised initially you need to be thinking not only about yourself but the people that are around you and you need to be trying to keep traffic moving as well as you can because you don’t want to be a part of the problem you want to be a part of the solution and and and we go and i think you know so many people look at that differently and This isn’t necessarily a pet peeve, but I’ve got to mention this because it fits in right now. And some of you that might be working for the State of Colorado Department of Transportation, CDOT, please hear me on this. Why? I know you’re doing some work on 225, and you’re doing some night work. But why are you shutting lanes down at 6 o’clock at night during the middle of rush hour traffic? I get it’s not the middle, but rush hour traffic runs from about 3 o’clock now to almost 7. Why are you shutting lanes down at, you know, 535, 45, 6 o’clock at night in rush hour traffic trying to shove everybody over into one or two lanes when it’s a four lane highway and there’s still rush hour traffic at 6 p.m.? Why are you doing that? I don’t get it. Now, maybe there’s signals crossed with your subs that are out running around doing traffic control and so on, but I’ve seen it now three times going down 225. I’ve been affected by it once going northbound. I’ve seen it happen twice on the southbound side, and literally you’re jamming cars up for miles. All because you guys won’t wait to put traffic barriers up until 7 o’clock when rush hour is actually over. I don’t know who’s in charge of CDOT. Evidently somebody that has no idea what’s going on. Sorry, they don’t. And I’ll say that all day long. Our head of CDOT in Colorado, frankly, has no clue what’s going on. That’s a whole conversation I can talk about during the week. But reality is our head of CDOT in Colorado, that was a token job she acquired by our governor through a friend of a friend situation and very, very underqualified to be the CDOT director in Colorado. And it shows by some of the things that I just mentioned, by the way, anybody with half a brain knows you don’t shut down traffic lanes during rush hour traffic unnecessarily. now if you got a big pothole and you’re trying to fix that to avoid other issues and so on okay that i understand but you’re just shutting things down because you’ve got night work starting uh i don’t care that’s getting dark you can shut you got lights you can you can shut those lanes down at you know eight o’clock at night for for example you don’t have to start shutting things down at six o’clock in the evening during rush hour traffic And Ken would know this because it’s right in his neck of the woods there where a lot of this stuff is going on. And for those of you that don’t know, what they’re doing is they’re fixing a lot of the seams. It’s simply a seam issue. They’re fixing seams on bridges whereby there’s been some settling of the roadway and there’s big dips there. So they’re going in and fixing some of these areas so there’s not as big of a transition into some of these bridges and overpasses along the I-225 thoroughfare on the east side of town. And that’s simply all they’re doing. And and frankly, again, they could be shutting down, you know, a lane or two, not half the highway. In some cases, they’re shutting it all the way down to one lane to do this work. And frankly, again, these are people I’m sorry. These are people that have no idea what they’re doing because that’s not how you would do it. And you’ve got other ways to flow traffic through and still make things work. But we don’t have leadership here. in the Colorado Department of Transportation, and my fear is that even some of the old-timers that have been there forever have been frustrated and left, meaning we don’t have anybody there that really knows what they’re doing. I used to do interviews with CDOT on a regular basis, and that ended when our leadership change was made, and it really shows. I used to get a lot of good answers out of CDOT on what they’re doing and what projects they’ve got going on and how things are going to work and so on, and I’ve gotten none of that in the past, I don’t know, six, seven years now because the leadership change has happened. And again, the gal we’ve got running CDOT right now is 100% clueless. So I’ll leave it at that. We’ll take a break. We’ll come back. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, when I opened up the show, I told you I would talk a little bit about social media, and I do this from time to time, and I feel like I probably should do this a little bit more often than I do because there’s a lot of people on social media that, quote-unquote, are experts that give their opinion, thoughts, whatever, on certain things. And by the way, there’s some good folks out there, and I think there’s some folks that really do well at explaining things, and even though they’re making a boatload of money, and I mean that sincerely, they’re making a boatload of money off of social media and i’m not exaggerating when i say this and some of you probably know this but maybe some of you don’t in some cases the shops that are on social media or some of the individuals that are on social media talking about certain things quite frankly they’re probably making far more money off social media than they are the shop itself and i’m not exaggerating If you get enough followers, for example, you get up into that 500,000 and some of these guys will have a million followers plus. If you get to a million followers, you’re probably making several million dollars a year off social media. And some of you are thinking, well, how in the world do you do that? Likes, views, shares, and so on. that’s how because they’re rewarded for having all of those viewers followers and so on and so keep in mind this full-time job these guys are putting content out you know one two three times a day depending upon what it is and they’ve probably even hired somebody in some cases it’s a family member you know son something along those lines that’s doing all the social media and literally becomes the social media head i guess you could say and believe me there’s more than just one person in that department doing what they’re doing but they’re making as much off social media as they are sure you know, the shop itself. Now, is that wrong? No. Hey, I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not ever going to take anything away from anybody where they go out and set out to make money. But what you have to remember is… You know, everybody’s got an angle when it comes to a particular thing they’re going to talk about on social media. In some cases, it’s strictly educational. In some cases, there might be more there than you’re realizing. In other words, is there a certain brand of something that they’re promoting, and what are they tying into that particular video? Because remember, not only can they make money off of the video itself, but if there’s a particular product that they now start to push, they make money on that as well. not directly because they’re not stocking and selling it. Well, in some cases they are. But in a lot of cases, they’re just getting the commission off of those devices being sold, those products being sold through them. And nothing wrong with that. Again, I’m not criticizing anything along those lines. But remember all of what I just said when you start looking at some videos. For example… Several of you sent me a video of the shop up in Utah. I don’t want to name names, but there’s a big shop up in Utah that’s gotten famous over the years. And one of the big faux pas that they had was talking about how long you should get your engine run and warm up and so on. And that was something I went over last summer. And I’ll just say it straight up, not a big fan of this particular facility. That’s just me personally. Now, some others might be, but I’m not because there’s a lot of misinformation that comes out of this particular shop. The engine warm-up was one of those, by the way. The video of late that, frankly, I just think that this is a sales pitch, is they’re criticizing General Motors and the size of an oil filter on a Duramax V8 diesel engine. Ken and I were talking about this before coming on air. And, yes, in fact, it’s the same size oil filter that you find in other applications that – General Motors has. The 6.6 gas engine, for example, it’s the same filter that fits a 6.6 gas engine that fits a 6.6 Duramax. And no, the filter is not the same size as what you might find on the Cummins or Powerstroke counterparts. It’s smaller. Now, General Motors, I did some reading on this. General Motors will say, well, we want you to use that smaller filter, even though you could upgrade and put a bigger filter on it. We’re using the smaller filter, a 30-micron filter, has the ability to still filter everything in the oil like it should be. They want more air coming around the filter and the oil cooler to do some cooling of the oil itself rather than having the larger filter that some other applications might use. And General Motors’ thought is we’re still going to get all the oil filtering that we need to have happen. And as Ken and I were talking coming into the show, unless you’ve got an engine coming apart, there’s not a lot of filtering going on, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, your filter is staying clean. I mean, you know, it’s there to filter out the small stuff. And as long as it’s not getting restricted by people, you know. Going too long on oil changes and so on. Getting contamination in the engine, it’s doing its job. Really not a problem. Right. It’s not going into bypass. Everything is working just fine as it would. Correct. A bigger filter would be just less. I mean, it’s not a big deal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Not a big deal. And, you know, again, this particular video, by the way, ends with, oh, if you want to increase the filter capacity on your engine, buy this. Well, that to me just negated all of what was said in the filter presentation anyways, because at that point, all you’re trying to do is sell me something. And I’ll go as far as to say this as well. Even back on older engines, back in the day, small block Chevys, Fords and so on, there were always these remote oil kits the guys would put in. Occasionally you’d see one come in and it was this apparatus where you’d run lines from, you’d put an adapter onto the oil filter, the spot on the block where the oil filter would go, you’d put an adapter there, you’d run hoses up to this dual filter thing and they’d run these gigantic oil filters on the side and they’d be mounted on the fender and then it would go back into the engine and I’ll just tell you straight up, folks, did any of those things ever work? Most of them, frankly, leaked oil and were more of a problem than they ever actually cured, in my opinion. The old PF35s, that was the AC Delco part number for Chevy small blocks. It was a good enough filter. There was no reason to add anything else to it. You didn’t need a second one of those. Chevy has the best, you know, Chevy small blocks have one of the best oiling systems of all engines made. And if you don’t know why, go look it up and you’ll understand why. But yes, the distributor in the back, oil pump in the back, you know, the pickups there. Anyways, long story short, Chevrolet did a really good job of designing an oil system on that particular engine and, frankly, why they had the longevity that they had. But the reality is that double filtration system back in the day didn’t do anything to lengthen the life of a small block Chevy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. If you’re pumping that much garbage through the engine, it’s trash anyway.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. And back then, the biggest thing that harmed most engines was the fact that we didn’t have overdrive transmissions. You’re running the RPM up much higher than you are today, and we didn’t have fuel injection. So you had a lot more cylinder wash on engines with carburetors than we do today. So when fuel injection and overdrive transmissions came along, engine life was extended substantially. Correct. Doubled the life overnight. Right, exactly. And I’m not exaggerating. You could take a standard small block carbureted engine from 1986, which was the last year for carburetion on Chevrolet trucks, and the average life of an engine was probably about 150K. And that was maybe even pushing it. Taken care of. If it was taken care of very well. Most of them, some didn’t go 100K if they weren’t taken care of. Now, you went to 87 where they had 700R4 overdrive transmissions that weren’t great, but they were still overdrive transmissions and throttle body injection. Not even the new stuff we have today, but just throttle body injection. And that engine now went 300K.
SPEAKER 03 :
Less oil consumption during everything like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Overnight, you literally increased the engine life, and nothing else on that engine really substantially changed from 86 to 87 other than those two things. Now, I get it. There was overdrive transmissions even in 86 on the carbureted engines, but they still didn’t get the life that they got when they added fuel injection. So point being— When you’ve got the engine all dialed in and everything is working like it’s supposed to and the factory’s got all of their clearances and everything done and handled, and I get it, some will have problems at different times. And by the way, every manufacturer can go through those. No one’s immune from that, Toyota included. For all you Toyota fanboys out there, Toyota has issues as well. Occasionally somebody will have an issue with whatever, and that could have even been the supplier they bought whatever from. Sure. the piston the ring yeah the cams yeah exactly the lifters the the bearings i mean whatever i mean all of those are coming from different suppliers and they might have had a problem with a particular supplier but point being when an engine is done correctly and all the clearances are set and everything’s working like it’s supposed to you’re not going to get a ton of wear that you really need to worry about filtering out And no, you don’t need upgraded filtration systems on these. Not in my opinion. You don’t need upgraded filtration systems on the majority of these engines. There might be the one off where you’re doing something very unique and you might want to add some extra filtration depending upon the application. But that’s the rarity, not the norm. Right. So my point with this is you’re going to go to social media and see all sorts of opinions on what I just said. And the reality is most of these guys are trying to sell something. That’s really all it boils down to. They’re going to try to sell you an additional product to what you have right now, and you always have to look at, okay, what is the real gist of this particular post? What am I watching and why? And is this really something that I need to worry about, or is somebody trying to sell me something?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Did I explain that well enough?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it’s like… Yeah, I’ve had no issues with any of my vehicles that, you know, that haven’t been modified. A friend of mine bought the same truck I did, and he’s like, he was towing a lot with it, towing heavy, heavy stuff with it, and used it on a commercial type basis. And, you know, he’s like, well, I’m putting this, you know, different torque converter in it, and this is on an Allison. And, you know, and he had nothing but problems after trying to, somebody’s telling them this is going to make it better and more reliable.
SPEAKER 04 :
As somebody that literally for three decades ran aftermarket performance shops, because we did all sorts of diesel upgrades, performance upgrades on gas engines. We did suspension upgrades, wheel tire, all that kind of stuff, and did regular repair work as well, much like what Ken does. So we kind of did it all. And I will tell you that, and I used to tell my customers this, anytime you take something from stock – And you modify it any way, shape, or form. Number one, you’re taking that customer base that the factory designed to be a mile wide and you’re getting it down to an inch. Right. Because you’re designing it for you and you alone. Right. And in doing so, you’re not going to have probably the same longevity and or reliability from what you had prior because they don’t pay those engineers millions of dollars a year to design junk. Right. Now, some of you would argue with me on that, but trust me, at the end of the day, typically speaking, that factory setup, longevity-wise, is better than the majority of what you’re going to do in the aftermarket. There are a few exceptions to that. Maybe throughout the show I can get into some of those, but rarely is that the case. Generally speaking, the add-on stuff isn’t any better than what you had from the factory. And I’ll stand behind that probably until I go to the grave because I lived it basically for three decades beyond. I’m still living it to this day.
SPEAKER 03 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
well and like cold air intakes you know it’s it’s like i see some of these cold air intakes taking air right off the radiator where it was in the fender well which isn’t doing you any good at the end of the day gail banks actually talks about that he’s got a video that he puts out talking about the very same thing that ken just talked about so we’ll go through a few more of those things again uh pet peeve or driving pet peeves is our question of the day we’ll be right back drive radio klz 560.
SPEAKER 11 :
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