In this episode of Drive Radio, our experts dive into the technicalities of ignition timing for classic Chevrolets, debunking common myths and offering practical advice. We explore listener messages, tackle questions, and dissect the curious case of the 1964 Bel Air with its distinct engine demands. Additionally, our hosts walk us through the fine details of towing experiences, sharing anecdotes that highlight the challenges and solutions involved in the process.
SPEAKER 12 :
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 13 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. Because Chevy didn’t make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn’t come out until 62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb until 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 19 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
And we’re back. Drive Radio KLZ 560 Hour 2. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive over in Aurora. And I’ve got a bunch of messages. I’ll try to get these answered as quickly as I can on the text line. And somebody sent me a 6.6 Duramax 50K filtration kit. Yeah, sure it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
$50,000. Well, transmission fluid’s lifetime, too.
SPEAKER 1 :
$500.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can put this on, and you can have your 50,000-mile oil change system. They’re supposedly backing this up with oil analysis and so on. Yeah, no offense. I wouldn’t waste my money on that. Don’t know the company. Wouldn’t spend the money on it. I think this is one of those kits where it uses toilet paper for the filtration.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m pretty sure. Oh, great. I never was a big fan of those, so more power to you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, if you get scented toilet paper and you put it in there, your oil doesn’t smell as bad.
SPEAKER 04 :
It smells good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly, when you drain it. That’s true. Do you use two-ply or one-ply? That’s the question, you know? Two rolls of one ply or one roll of two ply? There you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Folks, just stick to what’s on the truck and you’ll be just fine. I think so. You just change it at your normal. Do what you’re supposed to and you’ll be good. Mark in Denver, you’re next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hello, gentlemen. This is going to take a while. My experience with the towel. So anyway, let’s start with the truck, the 2018 towel. Okay. So I hook up the trailer, which I bought three years ago and I’ve used two times. And I’m selling that trailer, by the way. Either that or I’m going to get divorced. She said, get it out of here. Okay, why is that? Because it just was a very unpleasant experience. Ah, okay. I’ll begin, yeah, just, you know, newbies out there in Wyoming going to Jackson Hole for a Porsche show. And, you know, 60 mile an hour winds. But let’s just start with this truck. So I store my trailer out east. And I pick it up and I hook it up, no problem. I look at my oil pressure, and I’m using 020 factory recommended. The oil pressure drops down to like 15 pounds when I’m putting a load on the engine. I’m going, this isn’t right. So I called my mechanic, and he consults with an oil guy, and he said, let’s try 040 instead of 020. Voila, fixed the problem.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because I maintained 40 pounds… and when I’d put a load on it, it would go up to 60. That’s normal. And it would rarely drop below 40, but that really super lightweight oil wouldn’t give me any kind of oil pressure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, then I heard that there’s a bulletin out that GM wants you to put a different oil in the bigger engines. Is that correct? On the 6.2s, yeah. Well, I did it on my 5.3, and it worked. and I’m only using mobile one, which is the best you can get.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yep. And, and that was on, I don’t think it was on the earlier one, six twos or, you know, on the earlier engines. I don’t know what that bulletin covers, but yeah, there’s definitely that. And then that’s fairly recent to probably over the past year or so that they’ve, you know, they’ve changed that oil viscosity on those.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Why, why,
SPEAKER 12 :
Why not mandate 040 anyway?
SPEAKER 04 :
Originally, my feeling on that, Mark, is that was all back at that time. You look at the EPA, who was in charge, what they were mandating on CAFE ratings and so on. In my opinion, a lot of that was to try to meet a higher CAFE rating. I think they knew full well they needed to run 040, and they were in other parts of the world, by the way, but they weren’t here because of that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Okay. Thank you for explaining that, because I thought, why is this working now? And I didn’t… I dumped that oil with just one tow, an empty trailer. Story two, Porsche, rear engine. I get a tape measure out, measure my front tire versus my rear, and my front’s sitting up two inches higher than my rear. I’m struggling to keep the thing stable driving. I move the car forward about three feet. And by moving the car forward three feet, I changed the center of balance with that engine in the rear more towards the center over the axles. Okay. Another thing learned. Rear engine, you know, all that weight in the back is going to cause the front end to get light.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, that’s exactly right because on that car on a trailer, you need to move it as far forward as you can or put it on backwards.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don’t have that skill set. It was hard enough to load it with my wife. That was it.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, because you’re right. I mean, we want as much on the tongue as we can, typically speaking. I mean, you want that ratio to be correctly, but always err on the side of having more tongue weight than less when you’re towing. So, yeah, in the case of that car, if you can’t get it far enough forward, I would back it on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
For sure. Yep. And I know that’s not always easy to do, Mark, but, yeah, that would be the way to do that. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
60 mile an hour winds is averaging 4.9 miles per gallon. Wow. All right. But the normal amount was 12. I got 12.13, which I’m fine with.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah, you’re telling something. It’s a truck. It’s doing a job. That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, that’s all that matters. As long as you get where you need to go, that’s all that matters.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it’s just newbie experience on trailering.
SPEAKER 04 :
So what kind of trailer is it that you’re going to be getting rid of?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, this trailer is really, really nice, as you would expect. Anything you own is. 18-foot double ramp to the bottom trailer, which means it has a threshold plate and a bottom plate that goes to the street. It also is fully finished inside with rubberized bottom and finished wall panels.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 12 :
It has steps that pull out on the side and – You know, all the above.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
With a box on the front. Very nice. Here’s what else I did wrong. I wanted to leave the car in the trailer. So I had, I’m not going to mention the trailer coming, install stabilizer jacks for the rear. That’d be nice. It’ll be back out, help better. Yeah. Well, when I disconnected the trailer, it popped off the ball and the stabilizer platforms in the back collapsed. Huh. Yeah, they just, they just, it was like there’s like scissor, you know, scissor jack style in the back.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
They just basically folded underneath each other.
SPEAKER 07 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 12 :
Huh. I said, what did I do wrong here now?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I chucked the wheels. I put the stabilizer jacks down. And all I wanted to do is back, take my car downtown for dinner with my wife and leave the car in the trailer. And all of a sudden, that all broke. Huh.
SPEAKER 07 :
So do you have any ideas what I did wrong there? The only thing I can think is it must have rolled or something to twist those jacks out of there. Is that what happened?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it did not. I checked those straps about every 300 miles, and they were rock-hard tight. And I also had blocks behind the tires, all four. Wow. So there was no movement of that car whatsoever inside the trailer.
SPEAKER 07 :
Maybe they had it, well, I mean, the jacks would have had to have been blocked or welded or whatever onto the frame rail, I would imagine, but if the jacks broke, yeah, I mean, and it’s not like that car weighs 10,000 pounds, so it’s, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, it’s 3,000, but I’m asking, what did I do wrong there?
SPEAKER 07 :
I have no idea. Yeah, I don’t know why those jacks would have folded, because it should be able to, you should be able to pull in and out with those jacks down, and as long as the trailer doesn’t move, you should be just fine with that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Plus, I blocked the wheels with blocks on the trailer, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, uh-huh.
SPEAKER 12 :
So they just collapsed. They shouldn’t have collapsed like that. No, uh-uh, no. Sure shouldn’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. Yeah, because you figure it’s only, what, 1,500 pounds on each of the jacks, or probably more with the trailer, but not much. Right. I mean, that’s, yeah. Movement would be the only thing that I could think of that would cause those to collapse. you know, have an issue or just faulty jacks.
SPEAKER 12 :
With the trailer and the car inside, the measured tongue weight was 750. That’s okay, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you’re fine with that. Yeah, there’s no issues there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it must have been a trailer gods didn’t like me that day because it’s going to be sold one way or the other.
SPEAKER 04 :
Trailers can be really strange at times.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
As you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I always have people looking for those, so send me the info on that and I’ll see if I can help you, Mark.
SPEAKER 12 :
I would love to do that because they’re really getting a good deal. I mean, it’s been used two times in three years, and I know one thing is that new trailers are not cheap. No, they’re not.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, they’re not. Yeah, again, like I say, I’ve always got folks looking, so send me that and let me know. I’ll see what I can do for you.
SPEAKER 12 :
Especially as well-equipped as this one is.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, no, absolutely. I’ll throw some straps in. and I’ve got a Kurt Rebellion trailer hitch that’s got that hydraulic buffer in it. That goes with the package, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice, nice. Yeah, send me all that.
SPEAKER 12 :
How do I send that to you, John?
SPEAKER 04 :
Just email it. I get so many text messages, Mark, that gets lost in the shuffle. Just send me an email.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, I won’t do that. I’ll put my Porsche right next to the trailer.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, perfect. You’re a good man. Awesome. Thanks, Mark. All right, well, thank you guys for listening. No, you’re very welcome. Appreciate you, and I’ll see what I can do to help you out. Jerry, Nels, you guys hang tight. We have one line open, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, question of the day, driving pet peeves. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive in Aurora. Jerry and Greeley, you’re next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, I’ve got a funny pet peeve. I frequently drive Highway 34 between I-25 and Greeley late at night. And there’s a number of crossovers between the eastbound and westbound lanes that are not for emergency vehicles only. They’re for anybody to use. They’re not the ones with the big reflectors and the signs, and they’re designed so people can cross over from one direction of the highway to the other without going to an actual intersection. And over the years, I’ve found that most people don’t even know what those are really for, that it’s legal to use them in that way. And Well, so coming home late at night, I frequently see law enforcement officers parked in the middle of those things with all their lights out doing speed enforcement. And, I mean, don’t get me wrong. I love our law enforcement. You know, back the blue. God bless them. We need more of them. But I’m thinking they don’t even realize that that’s dangerous. You know, maybe they don’t even know the rules of the road.
SPEAKER 04 :
Jerry, speed traps in general, and I’ve talked about this plenty, and I, too, back the blue, have family members that are law enforcement and so on. I am 100 percent behind that. In fact, most of the police officers I know personally hate speed traps. speed traps and hate doing it, they’re mandated to go do so typically by some higher up that evidently wants revenue collection or somebody’s been calling in complaining about speed or something. But Friday, yesterday, for example, heading down here to the station, noontime-ish, roughly, there is two Wheat Ridge cops that are basically patrolling Highway 58 and I-70, and I’m thinking… there’s not another single crime being committed inside of the city of Wheat Ridge that you’ve got to have two cops out here running speed enforcement on Highway 58 and I-70 at noon. I mean, Jerry, no offense, there’s not that many speeders that time of day where it’s that big of a deal. And to your point, I just look at that and think, you guys have nothing better to do?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah. And in this particular scenario, like I said, those crossovers, that’s, That’s perfectly legal for somebody to slow down, put on their turn signals, and cross over between east and west or west and east at any time, you know, day or night. But the police will just park right in the middle of them. You know, it’s really the same as parking in the middle of the regular lane of traffic with the lights off.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re exactly right. I don’t like the fact that they sit there with lights off. I think that’s a law, by the way, that needs to be changed. I think if they’re going to sit there, they need to have lights on. It used to be a law that they had to have lights on so that you knew there was somebody there and so on. Something happened. I don’t know when, since maybe somebody out there listening can inform us. But at some point in time, Jerry, that rule or that law changed.
SPEAKER 22 :
Can I ask about snow tires? Oh, absolutely. What’s your opinion overall about studded snow tires or studded, you know, all season tires?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I mean, studded snow tires. I mean, here in Colorado, they probably, I mean, for me personally, and I drive 60 miles, you know, a day commuting to Colorado. I haven’t really seen a need for them. I mean, there are those, there’s those days that are icy and things like that. The studs seem to definitely help in that situation, but it’s just so rare, but you being further up North and stuff like that and on rural roads like that, you know, there could be more of a need for it for sure. You know, you get your daily melt and then freeze overnight, get a lot of black ice, stuff like that. It’s definitely going to help on that. You know, the regular snow tires to paying attention, you know, it’s, They work well, too. So it’s probably a personal preference, I would tend to think, on that.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, I saw a chart years ago where somebody had done a study on stopping distances And nothing worked better on ice than the studs by far. I mean, huge, huge advantage.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure, big difference. The biggest problem is when you’re on a dry pavement, they’re wearing those studs out, and then eventually they get down to nubs and they don’t do any good.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. And then they actually decrease stop and distances on dry pavement.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, I just thought I’d ask overall what you thought. Many years ago, I had inherited an 84 AMC Eagle that had studded snows on it, and yeah, boy, they worked great on ice. I mean, it was excellent, but it was noisy, and you could tell that it didn’t help at all. It was detrimental on dry pavement. Right, exactly, yeah, and…
SPEAKER 07 :
you know, and it kind of tears up the driveway and stuff like that too. But, you know, if you were in Dallas and there was an ice storm, yes, I would say by all means put those on. But, you know, for the most part, what I drive through and things like that, it’s usually plowed. There’s less, you know, there’s less chance of like a pure ice type thing to where, you know, it’s that slippery. Not that it doesn’t happen. It’s just, yeah, the studs would definitely help in that situation. But, For the most part, you know, 99% of the driving that, you know, I do or, you know, our customers do and stuff like that, probably not a necessity for sure.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. Well, thank you, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. Thank you. As always, Jerry, great questions. I appreciate it very, very much. Nels, you are next. Go ahead, Nels.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, I’ll let you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Are you there, Nels? Yeah, I’m here. There we go, Nels.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I’ve got an answer to the question of the day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let’s hear it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Driving farm equipment down the road, it’s really aggravating when people don’t understand what a slow-moving vehicle sign means.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Yeah. No, they don’t. Really quick, Nels, I’ve got to add something to what you’re saying. Now, I’ve got to add something to what you’re saying. The other thing that’s frustrating, I saw this last night, a stoplight not far from my house where everything was dark. I don’t know what happened. Something happened. Power was on everywhere, but the light was dead. Nels, I cannot tell you how many people just ran right through that thing like it wasn’t there, it didn’t exist, and that’s supposed to be a four-way stop when the light’s out. Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, exactly. People don’t understand the rules of the road, but especially with the slow-moving vehicle thing, when I’m driving— When I’m driving in a slow-moving vehicle, people pass me. They just either come up and pass right away, or they just sit there and don’t ever pass you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. I think in a lot of cases, Nels, there needs to be a lot more driver education. Let’s just say that across the board. Saw it last night. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, well, I’ve got to run here.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you’re good. Nels, thank you very much. Thanks for waiting and being patient with us. Let’s do this. We’ve got a car review coming up here in a moment on a new Toyota, by the way. Great car, by the way. This is a car that I actually thoroughly enjoyed. Richard drove it as well. We’ll talk about that, come back right after that. Myself, Ken Rackley, Toon Tech Automotive, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. All right, moving on to our next car, which, again, this is a car that we both drove as well. I got a little bit of time in it as well. This, again, is the 2025 Toyota Crown, and this is a Signia edition, which, Richard, all in all, and I talked about this on air even previously to even doing this formal review, honestly, enjoyed this car. I like it.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is that, and so we’ve driven the Crown in the past. It’s more of, I guess, a sedan style that we’ve driven. This is more of kind of a compact, again, a crossover SUV.
SPEAKER 04 :
I shouldn’t say hatchback. It’s got a rear door like an SUV would have.
SPEAKER 09 :
It does, right? And so this, folks, for those of you looking, this is kind of in line with some of the other models as far as like a Highlander.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and what I would say along those lines, Richard, is think RAV4 only larger and shorter to the ground.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s a fair way of saying it.
SPEAKER 04 :
So those of you that are liking that RAV4 platform but maybe don’t like, you’ve got to step into it rather than, you know, step up into it, I should say, rather than just stepping into it. The crown is going to be interior room, I think, a little larger maybe. I didn’t look at the actual – I’m just going off of memory. I’m not looking at actual dimensions, Richard, but I would say a little larger than RAV4. only you’re not stepping up, you’re stepping in. And maybe that’s a better way for me to say it. In other words, it’s more car-ish than it is SUV-ish.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, Dad, it’s funny you say that because you’re 1,000% correct. It is longer than the RAV4, but it also sits lower. So you’re stepping into rather than up or even lower. And so that’s definitely something to consider. It’s all new for 2025. It is hybrid only, Dad. I do want to And this is kind of replacing the Toyota Venza. If folks know what that is, that’s kind of what this car is replacing. And again, Dad, it actually has a lot more in common with its Lexus. counterparts in that sense than it does with its Toyota counterparts. And what we mean by that, folks, really nice apportionments on the inside, Dad. Really beautiful features. A lot of great standard features, such as heated and ventilated front seats. I think heated steering wheel. So lots of stuff that you would find standard in Lexus. not necessarily in Toyota.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And really quick, you know, comparing the two, you know, it to a RAV4, for example, full leather on the crown, you’re not going to get full leather on the RAV4. Your point of the luxuriousness of the crown over the RAV4. So if you’re looking at a car that’s pretty luxurious, I’ve got a lady actually I’ve been talking to on Drive Radio, Richard, that’s in this market looking at cars. And these are some of the things we talk about, you know, constantly on radio. But This is more in line of what she would want versus a RAV4 because she wants that more luxuriousness but wants that roughly same size.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly, Dad. And you’re also, again, as we talked about, you’re getting a lot of the other standard, a lot of feature standard that you’re not going to get on the RAV4 as well. So definitely something to consider, Dad. And again, we mentioned the hybrid powertrain. We’ve talked about that many times on Toyota. It’s one of our favorite hybrid powertrains out there, maybe our most favorite, in all honesty, and definitely something that we recommend for folks, especially if you’re not ready to dive into that all-electric. So if you want to learn more about this, again, Dad, this is new for 2025, the Toyota Crown. head to your local Toyota dealer, test drive it, and when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 04 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Kyle, all the way in Dallas. Kyle, how are you today?
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, I’m doing okay. You have the weather that I’m looking forward to getting here sometime. All right. It’s too hot here.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you guys have definitely warmer weather than us, no doubt about it. Not a bad thing. I’m comfortable here today. Yeah, it’s nice today. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I miss those fall days. I lived in Denver for a long time. I miss those cool fall days. Hey, I have an older Mercury that has the Ford 4.6 V8 on it. And I took the intake air control valve off of it, looked at it, cleaned it a little bit, but I think that probably it just needs to be replaced. So when you replace those valves, do they need to be calibrated with an analyzer, or will the ECM do it over on-off cycles?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it should relearn on its own. What year is this, Mercury? It’s a 2001. Okay, like a Grand Marquis or something. Yes. Yeah, yeah. So it should learn on its own. It might be good to – do you have a scanner or anything along those lines or – no no okay might be good just to disconnect the battery uh for you know a couple minutes and when you put that on and you know i would say try it first just put it on and just see what it does more than likely it’ll relearn just as fast either way so if you reset the battery basically it’s starting everything from you know it hasn’t learned how to do anything so it’s going to have to relearn everything so Maybe just put it on and see. It just has to relearn on the calibration. It’ll relearn itself, though.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Is it a good idea to also clean the mass airflow sensor, you know, at the same time? Can’t hurt, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
What kind of codes or what kind of issues are we having?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, not having any codes, I do something called preventive maintenance, and I just try to get ahead of any problems I could have. Preventative?
SPEAKER 07 :
What? Preventative? Weird. Yeah, I mean, if you’re not having any problems with that valve, I don’t know that I would replace it. I mean, if you’re not having any idle surge or, you know, anything along those lines or setting any codes, I don’t think I would replace it. I would… You can… Yeah, I don’t even know that I would clean that one because it uses a duty cycle on that one. Oh, I see. Yeah, so I would stick with what you have because if it’s a Motocraft unit, it might be hard to find another Motocraft unit to replace that with.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I’ve looked online, and I think about the best one I could get would probably be a good standard to replace it with.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I don’t know that unless you’re having a problem, I would not replace that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. But cleaning the mass airflow sensor sure can’t hurt, you bet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Yeah. And another question I had, if you don’t mind, is that car is using oil in between oil changes, probably using about a half a quart, and it calls for 5W20, which is kind of a thin oil. So would going up to a 5W30 help remedy that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Might not remedy. It might help. It might not. You know, that engine was kind of designed to run on the 520.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, the cam phasers and stuff, it wants the 520. I don’t know, Kyle, if I would do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and does it have a ton of miles on it or –
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s got 134. It’s a good older car, easy to work on. It’s one of the reasons why I keep it around.
SPEAKER 04 :
And on that vehicle, that’s not a ton of miles. So, no, I would stay with the 520.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I would stick with the 520.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you want to do anything, add the BGMOA to it or something like that if you want to.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Oh, okay. What will the MOA do?
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s more of a stabilizer for the oil that’s there now, adds some protection, and will add some lubricity to some things that the regular oil is not doing.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, makes it lubricate better, basically.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, good way to say it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Yeah, no, those are good solid engines and those things. That’s what police cruisers and highway patrol cars used to be.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. No, it was a good engine. No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
And as long as it wasn’t a police cruiser before you got it, you should be in good shape for a long time.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no. So, you know, as long as you’re talking, the question of the day is pet peeves, and here’s something that’s kind of generic that might be a pet peeve for everybody. And it kind of ties into what happened here a few days ago. We had a really tragic incident. I live in the north side of Dallas, and we had a really tragic incident here. We had a road rage killing here. What happened is there was a highway where a guy was tailgating another guy, and he brake-checked him. And I guess it escalated from there, and they got off the highway, and they pulled into a high school parking lot. And one incident led to another. The guy rolled down his window, and the other guy got out of his car screaming and yelling at him and punched him in the face. Well, what happened after that is the one guy in the car had a pistol and unloaded two rounds at him, killing him. You know, I just think that those are situations that we could all experience at one time or another, and I think it’s one of those things that we have to learn to be proactive rather than reactive. I mean, everybody has a plan on how to get you and your family out of a burning house. Well, I think you kind of need to have a plan to get away from somebody that’s driving like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
We talked about that, Kyle, on Ready Radio a couple of Fridays ago on that very subject that you’re covering. And, yes, when you’re driving, you need to have a plan as to if something like that were to happen, as things start to escalate, what’s your plan? Do you know where the closest police station is? Should you call 911, let them know what’s happening, call an officer out as quickly as possible, things like that. I mean, yes, you need to have an exit strategy, absolutely. That’s the last thing you want happening is what you just described. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think a lot of it is just having a mental plan. You’re going to react in a way that you’re going to let the guy by. You’re not going to try to retaliate. You’re not going to get hacked off.
SPEAKER 04 :
Just leave him be. I mean, if somebody’s acting that rude, abrupt, whatever, I mean, best thing to do is just let him by and not worry about it. I know our natural reaction, Kyle, is to sort of fight instead of flight, but really we should be flighting.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Let their day be bad.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. That’s right. Just let it go. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the sad fact is, is now we have two lives.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
That have now just taken totally opposite, you know, just totally different paths.
SPEAKER 04 :
They’re ruined. They’re ruined. Two families’ lives, and by the way, that extends out into the extended family, but two families’ lives ruined now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. In the course of 10 minutes, two lives were just on totally different paths. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Totally dumb, Kyle. Totally dumb.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. Well, I appreciate your help, guys.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, Kyle, thank you. Good reminder, by the way. Yeah, if you find yourself in those situations, that is the time to get as far away from them as you possibly can. Chris and Centennial, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, Dan and John. Hey, Chris.
SPEAKER 04 :
How are you doing? Chris, good hearing from you. Speaking of Porsches, huh?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, speaking of Porsches and speaking of pulling a Porsche, I just got back from the Black Hills.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 11 :
Pulling my Porsche with my new mini diesel.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I used a U-Haul travel trailer, you know, a car hauler.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, uh-huh.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I got 17 to 18 miles per gallon with a headwind to and from.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good deal. That’s awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
The truck, you know, the truck’s amazing. It works quite well.
SPEAKER 07 :
So what did you end up getting truck-wise?
SPEAKER 11 :
a Silverado 1500 Mini Max.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and I’ve seen it. Nice truck, Chris. Nice truck. It was over at Roy’s. Roy did a bunch of stuff to it as well. Nice truck, Chris. Good job.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, actually, I’m bringing it back on Wednesday or Tuesday. You’ll have it completely ceramic coated.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nice. Good job. Best thing ever. I had somebody send me a Facebook message yesterday, Jim did, asking me, hey, you know, is that ceramic coating worth it? And so I went through the whole explanation of, yes, if it’s done professionally. No, if you’re just buying the bottle yourself from any of the suppliers out there, not one and the same. You can’t even buy the same product that, you know, Roy at ProTech has. is getting as you know chris and but i am a big believer in it it not only makes the the vehicle easier to take care of down the road it’s just that extra layer of protection it gives you but man it makes it washing and everything so much easier only way to go yep yeah no i can’t wait and and they are going to ppf my front plate oh that’s awesome nice
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. I’m getting closer to an oil change. Can I use MOA in a diesel?
SPEAKER 04 :
You can, sure.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they have the diesel.
SPEAKER 04 :
They make a product just for that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, so they have a diesel EPR and a diesel MOA.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
So the BG does.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, BG does, yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, because the first oil change is on Chevy. They get to do it for free.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, and then I did happen to burn a half a quart of oil going up. I haven’t checked it. I just got back last night. And I’m assuming I use probably another half a quart of oil. Pulling, pulling the Porsche.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah. So what was that like? 1600 mile round trip or something? Maybe?
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, no, no, it’s 370 one way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
So 700 miles.
SPEAKER 07 :
So that might be a little excessive if it went through a court in 700 miles.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, yeah, because it was working hard, though.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I was just going to say, you’re towing, doing other things with it, and you only have, what’s your total mileage right now? $3,300. Yeah, and you’re still technically in the break-in end of things as well. So, yeah, I wouldn’t get too concerned at this point. You’re at that point, though, where I would get a change here fairly quickly with what you just did.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Good to know. Good to know. And the guy who was selling his trailer, I was looking into that and found him quite expensive, but I don’t know what he’s asking for that trailer.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I’ll find out, and I’ve got your info and his. I can get you guys connected and kind of figure things out. I will also say, Chris, that depending upon how often you use one, what you just did is not a bad way of doing it because you’re not having to own it, care for it, dink with it, license it, all of that. Yeah, store it. If you’re only doing stuff once or twice a year, what you just did is not a bad way of doing it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. No, those car haulers, they travel nicely.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, they do. Yeah, actually, you know what? You can knock U-Haul in all sorts of ways, but I will say they’ve got their trailers, they have got them dialed in as far as how they tow. You rarely see one going down the road that’s not straight.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right. Exactly.
SPEAKER 04 :
They do. In fact, buying an old one, if you ever get a chance to, they’re not bad trailers at all.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, yeah. Because, yeah, I’d only do it a couple times a year maybe.
SPEAKER 04 :
For what you’re doing, just rent one and don’t worry about it. It’s not worth owning for a couple times a year.
SPEAKER 11 :
I was going to say, yeah. It really is. It was an experimental pull, and it worked quite well.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s good, yeah. And especially, yeah, because a big trailer like that, definitely if you’re only using it a couple times a year, that’s a big investment for not a lot of use, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right, and one of my pet peeves is people that are getting off the highway and it’s a continual lane on the right, and they stop and look for the traffic coming. Won’t merge.
SPEAKER 07 :
No.
SPEAKER 11 :
Merge. Keep going.
SPEAKER 07 :
You had a lane. Exactly. Yep, for sure. All right, guys. Well, thanks, Chris. Appreciate it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Good talking to you. As always, appreciate you. All right, let’s do this. We’ll take a break. We’ll come right back. Mike, hang tight. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 04 :
And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. Myself, Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, Larry Unger, answering phones today. Mike, you are next. We’ve got lines open, by the way, but go ahead, Mike.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, John. Another great show, great subjects. I thought I’d call with unusual pet peeves. Everybody’s hit all the obvious ones. I get it. One of mine that is not as obvious is that you have two left turn lanes, two right turn lanes, and the person in the left lane drifts over into your lane. Okay, that’s an illegal turn, people. Left lane to left lane, right lane to right lane.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is a rocket science.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can’t cross over.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can’t cross over, and I’m stunned and amazed. The other one that I find unusual is folks that seem to want to swing out to the right to turn left because they think they have a crew cab truck with a 28-foot trailer on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, frankly, you guys know these things turn, the turn radiuses on these trucks these days are stunning.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Yeah, you don’t have a gooseneck on there, so, you know.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I mean, you know, don’t swing out with your RAV4 into my lane because you think you need it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I need it in the next space, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the latest one that I find incredibly humorous is the new sticker on the back. I’m a student driver. Yeah. So give me a break. So I pull up and I go… No, you’re not a student driver.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, thank you. I mean, again, my cohort, Andy, had to point that out to me. And once he did, I started paying a lot more attention to it, Mike. And it’s like, yeah, you’re using this sticker for other reasons, not because you’re a student driver.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you know, let me be really negative. You’re being disingenuous. You’re lying. You’re not a student driver. What you are is somebody that doesn’t understand what’s going on. So you pin a sticker on and say, oops, please forgive me because I’m a moron. So, hey, that’s my sense of humor, guys. You know it, John. I just have little or no. I don’t suffer fools very well, particularly when it comes to driving. And they hide stuff like that in books. And you can Google up the laws of Colorado. You can read like you do the driver’s license bureau. They disguise stuff like that and things you should already know. Anyway, great show, fellas. Sorry to vent.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you’re fine, Mike. I can’t disagree with you at all. You’re spot on. All right, take care. Appreciate you. No, thank you, Mike. Appreciate it. No, again, and this is on the serious side. I know we talk a lot, and a lot of you have texted in everything from people that can’t merge to you name it. I get it. There’s a lot of conversation along these lines and a lot of driving pet peeves. Seriously, though. because we live in such a day and age where there is a lot, and I mean a lot of people, that frankly, I don’t know how else to say it. I’ll just be point blank blunt. They don’t know how to drive. They really don’t. It’s amazing to me they can even get from A to B. I watch some of them and how they drive. It’s like, I don’t know how you make it from A to B. If it wasn’t for everybody around you, Watching what you’re doing, you wouldn’t. So point being is you’ve got to be so aware of what’s going on around you at all times that literally you almost have to have your head on like an owl. You’ve got to be almost, you know, 360. I know owls can’t go 360, but they darn near do. I mean, literally head on a swivel looking all the way around at all times. I mean, you need to do it. know what’s going on in front of you, next to you, in back of you, literally all around you. Is there somebody coming up behind you super fast? If that’s the case, do you need to move over and get out of the way so that you’re not in the way of them having a collision course with someone else? Is there a motorcycle lane splitting, which is illegal in Colorado, but they’re still doing it. I don’t think motorcycle riders even understand the law. It’s lane filtering. It’s not lane splitting. And yet there’s a ton of motorcycles out there that are splitting lanes, and that’s totally illegal.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think they just do it because, you know… Because they feel they can. I don’t disagree with you. Maybe they know it’s illegal, but they do it anyway. I’m not going to get caught, so I’m just going to do it. We used to do this in the other state. I didn’t get run over then. Ken, I can’t disagree with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think you’re probably right.
SPEAKER 07 :
But, I mean, and are they going to get in trouble for it? No. I mean, I don’t see a lot of people getting pulled over. We have a group of dirt bike rider and ATV riders that ride up and down Colfax on a weekly basis. Okay. Doing wheelies, stuff like that. I mean, right out in front of the shop. I mean, we know when they’re coming because we can hear them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because you can hear them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly. And, you know, and I don’t know if… You know, if the cops were to come up on them, I mean, they’re going to scatter and run and probably get away, too. So that’s probably why they do it, just because they feel like they can. No, I agree with you. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree with you. And, again, people are talking about the student driver thing as well. I just got a couple of text messages in on that. And, yeah, I think there’s a lot of people that abuse those. To Mike’s point, they’re being disingenuous on— putting those things on, they think somehow or another it’s going to save them from either getting pulled over or whatever the case may be. And reality is they’re not student drivers. They’re just doing that for other reasons. But, yeah, no, you really have to be paying attention. Back to the whole motorcycle thing. They are splitting lanes. They’re not supposed to. You’ve got to be watching. especially those of you guys that are driving trucks with mirrors and so on. Man, you really got to be careful because if you scoot over just a teeny bit, they’re going to hit you. Yeah, right. Exactly. They come that close, and frankly, those guys are knuckleheads. I don’t know how else to say it. They’re not good motorcycle riders. And they’re like, when I used to criticize and still do, all of the guys that roll coal, they spew that smoke out of their diesel truck and so on. The rolling coal guys, I’ve always talked about how bad they are for our industry. And for those of us that are enthusiasts, those guys screw it up for the rest of us. The guys that split lanes on motorcycles are the same way. They’re screwing it up for all the good, solid, legitimate riders that are out there that are doing it the way they’re supposed to. Those knuckleheads mess it up for everybody. And I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. these lane splitters if you guys don’t police yourselves enough and get these knuckleheads to stop doing it what we’ve got on the books right now for lane filtering is going to go away sure you’re going to see them take that completely away you won’t go to lane splitting like a lot of people want them to do you’re going to go backwards because the lane splitters are screwing it up for the lane filtering guys yeah and just so you all know lane filtering is traffic has to be 15 miles an hour or less They can then filter in between cars. They call it filtering, not splitting, because they’d be very careful. And if traffic comes to a complete stop, yes, they can continue to move forward in between cars. By the way, that doesn’t mean that at an intersection they’re allowed to move to the front of the line. That’s not lane filtering either. This is for highway use and different things along those lines. And it’s rush hour traffic, speeds way down. Yes, they can go in between cars and filter, quote-unquote, between the cars. This does not mean that a motorcycle at a stoplight can split the lane and move to the front of the line. That’s not what that law means.
SPEAKER 07 :
My understanding was if the motorcycle is three cars back, they could… go to exactly the front. They could go all the way up to the crosswalk or whatever at the stoplight.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t think at a stoplight they can.
SPEAKER 07 :
I thought that’s what I had read.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’ll double-check that. Here at the top of the hour, guys, we’ll check that. If somebody knows, let me know. I thought it applied only to moving traffic on highways. I didn’t think you could filter at a stoplight, but I’ll double-check that. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was my understanding.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I’m not a writer.
SPEAKER 07 :
I might have heard what I wanted to hear.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t read these all day long, but I’ll find out. We’ll come back and I’ll let you guys know for sure what that means. We’ve got another hour coming your way. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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