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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alsome shutting down there in the windows down volunteers say.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good afternoon, Welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm Dane Donovan trying to fix my mic. I'm Dane
Donovan taking all of your car questions. Number to call
five one three seven.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fifty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It is a.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It is a just an absolutely perfect day to be outside.
Now I'm lying, Uh, it's miserable.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's hot.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's been long. Uh it's been a long week and
it's been really hot and uh, but all morning. My
wife and I got up about about five thirty this
morning and we were raising money for the Peyton's Lemonade Stand.
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For those of you who don't know, don't know what
it is. My wife prepared something for me. I got
to read it, but I'll talk about it a little bit.
But you know, our youngest son had was diagnosed with
cancer at two and a half and he's doing well,
he's in remission. But Peyton started this lemonade stand to
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raise money for children who are in financial hardship or
you know, children at children's that are at children's hospital
or whatnot, and for presents and things like that. It's
just a it's a it's just great. It's a great thing.
We've been doing it for about five years now. And
all of my locations on the twenty ninth of this month, right,
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so it's twenty six, So on Tuesday, all of us
will all of my shops will have a pet Peyton's
lemonade stand where you can come to again the Blue
Ash location, the Ridge location, my newer location, auto Form
you can come by.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The lemonade's free. But we just accept donations.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know, I don't you know, and you know it's
it's you know, it's it's a great cause. And again,
you know, some people give a dollar, some people give
ten twenty. I mean I had had a young a
lady this afternoon that you know, she she came by.
My boys were at the end of the street and
waving her down, and she came by and gave fifty bucks.
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And uh, and again it's it's for a great cause.
So we were doing that, and uh, it was, like
I said, busy week. So and it's hot, and I
know all of you out there you're probably feeling it too.
So again then imber to call five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That number got five one three.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Fifty five hundred. Listen taking all of your car question.
Phone lines are wide open. Love to hear from you,
So we're gonna go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We've got Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yes, good afternoon. How are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm hot and recovering from the lemonade stand, but doing well.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, it's a sizzling day. I'm My question is kind
of maybe maybe you don't get it all the time,
but I have a car, uh an eighties car that's
a foreign car that I want to restore. Okay, where
do I don't even know where to start? Is there
somebody that does that?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I mean there are Can I ask you?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What's the year? Making model? You said eighties?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But yeah, absolutely you may laughter. What this says that
I'm wanted to restore? It's an eighty five miles RX.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Seven Okay, no, okay, hmm all right, it's.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
You know, it's worth sentimental than anything. Although I have
to say, this is the most incredible car I've ever griven.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So it has the rotary engine in it.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yes, it's okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That was uh, that was a that was a different
there's there's I'm almost certain I think Maza was the
only one that did the rotary engine, right.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, correct, Okay, I wasn't a big years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I'm sorry I said I wasn't a big fan of
those things. When they came back out with them, they were,
Oh they were they were kind of a challenge to
work on. But uh, I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The concept I get, but it was.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
They were just kind of hard to We had we
had a customer that always had one that every winner
is getting towed to us because it wouldn't start and
we'd have to flood it with transmission fluid to get
it going. And so it it's a different engine concept.
But I mean, how long have you had it?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Actually, I've had it since it was a year old,
So I had it since eighty six. Oh wow, okay,
And you know, so it's it's sitting in a garage
right now. Kind of looks like one of those cars
that people find, uh, you know after sitting for so
long and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Dusty a barn fine.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, barn fine, Yeah, that's right, my own barn. Fine.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah. So well, okay, has it been in a garage
since eighty six or did you.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Know it went in the garage And I guess the
early two thousands, probably two thousand and two. And then
I just you know, I got another car and I
didn't drive it, and now I want to, you know,
get it back out on the road. And you know,
I mean, I think it's very Mentally, I figured, okay,
something probably needs to be the gears, maybe in the differential,
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the called the it's a manual transmission. I don't know
if there was anything to be done there and in
it's definitely an engine and paint. But you know, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna'm sitting I'm old to do
anything right to myself.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I get it. Well, I don't know anybody off
the top of my head that would probably you're gonna
have to do a Google search and you're gonna have
to try to find somebody who's I mean, if you
want to restore something like that, it's not really something
that you would want to take to just a normal
repair shop in today's standards. You would need to find
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somebody who specializes in that. You know, I have a customer,
I mean, I should say he brings parts to me.
But I've got a gentleman that works down the street
for me at auto Form.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's got to restoes Porsches.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I'm telling you what I mean, he does a
phenomenal job spends I mean, these guys are putting, you know,
one hundred thousand dollars into restoring a vehicle.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It could get that now on.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You know, I'm not saying that that's you know, what
would happen with your car, but I mean, you've got
to find somebody who specializes in it. I had a
neighbor of mine who his kids and my kids, you know,
go to school together or whatnot. But he restored a
I can't He's going to probably be mad at me.
But early sixties or seventies Volkswagen restored it down to
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the frame, right, But he did it himself. But you know,
you just you're gonna have to find somebody you can
do it. It's all about time and how much money
you want to invest in it. I mean, it's it's good.
I mean, does it does it still run and drive?
I mean, can you still get it out of the
garage or no? It's been sitting for that while.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well, I guess the answer is no. I mean I haven't.
I haven't tried.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Okay, so you haven't driven it since the early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Probably, you know, maybe the late two thousands, you know,
maybe like two thousand ten or something.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Maybe, Okay, so it's been about fifteen years. Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, I had a guy, a friend of mine. He
uh we hooked up a you know, a chain to
it and pulled it down the road until it started.
Eventually it started.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But yeah, yeah, I think I don't think that there's
anything wrong with rus doring it. I think I mean,
I wouldn't try to get it started again. I mean
with the gas and all the yeah, gaskets and everything
like that, you're probably gonna need to replace the tires.
But uh, you're gonna need to find somebody who specializes
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in it. And it might not be anybody in this city.
It could be somebody, you know, half a you know,
it could be you know, I don't know, the middle
of Montana. Somebody who somebody who knows about somebody who
knows everything about that vehicle. But the problem is again one,
it's it's getting the vehicle there too. It's how much
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money you want to put into it? And then number
two and then and then trying to find the parts
for it. That's gonna be the other challenge. Now, I
I'm sure that they're out there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You just got to.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Try to find them. That's that's kind of the difficult part.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, And I mean, I don't know what what it
requires in terms of the U, the French order, the transmission.
I found engine story and you know, and they aren't
they aren't that expensive on a relative basis, but uh,
you know, and you can just abat on this thing.
You know, this is one, you know, since it's one
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of the older ones, you just got raised the hood.
Get two people and just take it, you know, grab it,
grab one of the engine and pull it out. It's
pretty pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah. Yeah, And I guarantee you there's somebody that specializes,
and I guarantee you there's somebody that can get parts
for it. You're just gonna have to do, like I said,
a Google search, and you're just gonna have to just
you're gonna do some investigating and try to dive in
and try to figure out who can do it and
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who's the best. I mean, there's a guy that you know,
I follow on social media that all he focuses on
is diesels. I have a diesel truck and like that's
all he does is diesel, So I like follow him
and like I said, he's in Montana and all right,
maybe U Tah or something.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I can't remember. It's out there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But you know, you just got to find that that
niche person that wants to work on these cars.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Again, there's a lot of people with the that love.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The old Volkswagen bugs and the Eurovan, the vans and
and and stuff like that. You just gotta find somebody
that knows everything about it. And I've got a couple
of guys that work for me and they know everything
about those vans and the bugs. Right, I don't know
anything about it because they were they were extinct when
I was born. You just gotta find somebody to do
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a searge. I mean, there's again. The thing is if
you're gonna if you're gonna dive into it, dive into it,
but understand that it's gonna be like an open checkbook.
You're gonna have to it can be costly. Even if
they get it fixed. When you're driving it, things are
gonna fail and you're gonna have to get it back there.
So just know it's gonna be an investment. Like you said,
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it has sentimental value.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
If you want to get it back up and run,
and you find the right person. And again it might
not even be anywhere near here, it could be halfway
across the country. But find somebody who knows everything about
that vehicle. That's what they specialize. And there's a lot
of people out there that do that. Like I said,
guy down the street, that's all he knows about is Porsche.
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That's all he knows about. He doesn't know about anything else.
And but.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's the that's how I would approach it.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
And so really it's it's it's gonna be Google and
social media and locate somebody who does that stuff and uh,
you know, negotiate it from them.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's what you're gonna have to do,
because again, you're not gonna be able to take that
thing to you know, Jim Bobs or Donovan's and somebody's
gonna be able to restore it. I mean, there's not
enough as far as the repair shops go, they're not
gonna have enough knowledge. You need to find a specialty shop.
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You need to find somebody who niche. That's their niche.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
If you were if you really want to do it,
because again, parts are gonna be scarce, and you got
to find somebody who wants to do it. Right. It's
it's not one of those guys, it's like, oh God,
I gotta go to work. It's somebody who enjoys restoring.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
These vehicles, right, their passion.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's absolutely, it's their passion.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And uh, but with passion costs, so just keep that,
it's always.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
A trade off.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yep. Absolutely, And you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I want to go to Jim Bob's.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I know that's that's I know that's that's horrible. But
you know, you know, you don't want to just take
it to anybody. You got to take it to somebody
who specialized in it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And I'm going to use this analogy and I've used
it plenty of times on the show, but you know,
if you've got a knee problem, you just don't go
to your your dentist, right, you go to somebody who's
a knee specialist. You need to go to somebody who
is you know, a specialist in that particular vehicle because again,
their heart and they know everything about that vehicle. You know,
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in today's cars and standards, I mean, everything's pretty pretty general,
right if you've got a camera or a civic or
a truck, a no will change pretty standard, right, But
if you want something specific, like on your mos to,
you got to find somebody that knows what, knows what
they're doing, and again passionate about what they're doing too.
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That's that's the more important thing, is somebody who enjoys
working on these cars very good, very good.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Well, it's uh, you know, there would be a better
answer to that, but I can't imagine what it would be.
Or I wasn't expecting anything any better. Uh, you know,
I was hoping that you had the you know, what
is the little genie issue, you rob?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, genie in a bottle?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Actually I want the genie to excuse me.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I I just you know, I have friends that can
restore you know, Fords or BMW's, but as far as
that masta and and don't get me wrong, I mean,
Mas is a great vehicle, but I don't have anybody
that can restore him. I just don't know anybody. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
I mean, I I've watched. I haven't seen one on
the road in years.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh, I haven't seen one in the road on the
road either.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I had a friend that I had a friend in
uh in high school. He spent two years restoring at
fifty five Chevy and about uh he got it out
on the road and about a month later he dropped
over the edge of the road and hit a telephone
pull and ripped the top off.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Jeh, I hate to hear that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
So, yeah, that's that's a tough day. Yeah, what listen.
I I certainly appreciated so much. I have my marching waters.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
All right, thank you, call me back, all right, I
want to hear about it. He's gone, so all right again.
The number to call five one, three, fifty five hundred
coming up. We have Dave, Obie and John. You're listening
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Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The number to call five one three seven nine fifty
five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center,
taking your car questions again every Saturday from one to two.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And uh, I'm going to try to I'm getting tired.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I got up about Danny got up at three fifteen,
so he put me back to my place. But I
I got a but at five fifteen, my wife and
I had all this stuff to do, so I was
just been running all day long and then and now
I'm like start, I hit a wall, and now I'm
starting to get tired. So I'm gonna gonna try to
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stay upbeat as best I can.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Happens when you get old.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You know, these these things happen, So all right, let's
uh uh so let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We've got Dave, Hey, Dave, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Dan?
Speaker 8 (17:39):
I got a AC line that I've ripped and I
can't find it nowhere, both wondering can I replace it?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Or what?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
You know?
Speaker 8 (17:49):
To ninety one miles to six twenty six anything from
eighty eight to ninety two I fit on there. It
gets from the condenser to the receiver dryer and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I ain't been able to.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Find it, and I ain't been able to repair it,
or saying I can and I can't. I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Really, Yeah, what what happened to the AC? Did the
the aluminum part break or where it's or the rubber
part or yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
I was taking out the drier because the driver got
a hole in it, and then I was loosening up
that nut and it started getting hard to turn, and
I wasn't watching while it was getting hard to turn.
I just forced it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Some time.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
I looked I had to rip the aluminum line, but
you know, unscrewing it, it was spraysing in there or something.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, I mean you said it says here at nine
it's a ninety one miles is sixty six right, two
misses back to back, alright, seven and a six two six.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
You know, I can't find it nowhere. I've been looking
for a month for the yeah, the line, and I
was wondering if I could, if somebody made them or I.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Mean, there's gosh, I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, I don't know of a company. Off the top
of my head, I don't know. I can't think of
any way that makes them. I'm sure that there is
somebody out there. I just don't know of one. Have
you maybe tried to use market just to see if
there's anything out there used?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Use me like junk yards. Yeah, they're crushing all the cars.
I can't I can't even find the car.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay, Well, there's a well, there's a website that I use.
It'll search every junk yard in the country.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Wow. It's called called the cooler Pipe number three. The
exact name for it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Cooler pipe number three. Yeah. Well, here's what I here's
what I tell you to do. Try this website that
I use. It's it's car c R car dash part
dot com. Car dash part dot com. Okay, and you
put in your ear making model or put in your
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VEN number. I'd recommend the VEN number. Okay, okay, and
you're it'll it'll search every again junkyard that has out
of it. What I would tell you to do if
it was me, don't search. You're not gonna be able
to search this. You know, this website with that particular
line that you need. Okay. What I would recommend is
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you search, like when you go in there to search
what you're looking for, just type in engine.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Just do engine.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
If reason being is obviously if they have a vehicle,
if they have the engine, most likely they potentially could
have the ACE line.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You're not gonna be able to find that exact AC hose.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But if search, you know, you know, search air conditioning
or AC compressor or search engine and hopefully you might
find somebody. But I mean, with it being a ninety one,
that's gonna be difficult. Now, there are people that are
out there that will make those lines, but unfortunately I'm
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and I'm so sorry, I don't know anybody locally or here.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That could make it. But somebody could manufacture it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Somebody could make it, but it's you know, it's trying
to It's kind of a needle in a haystack, you know.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Ohio Hydraulics, And.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I was gonna, I was, I was gonna recommend them,
but I'm like, well they they're typically hydraulic lines, are
not doing a C line.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
So yeah, in this line, here's all aluminum. There ain't
no rubberended at all.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Okay, all right, that's the one thing about Uh well,
that gentleman that called about the RX and you know
that's the thing. You know, it's so hard to find
these parts on these vehicles. I mean, I'm having a
hard time finding parts on vehicles that are five years old,
So I can't imagine what it's like on a vehicle
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that's a ninety one. You know.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yeah, you actually gotta find it in the junk yard of.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Most Yeah, and I mean, I, like I said, I'm
sure there's somebody that's out there that might have you know,
hate to say it, but you could try eBay. But
car Dash Part dot Com. I use them every single day.
I was on there yesterday looking for an engine for
a ford Ford Edge and they had yeah, I mean
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they had one, but that car's look I mean it's
they're out there. It's it's just you're gonna have to
dig and dig and try to find one.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Okay. I really appreciate your time, bank day.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thank you, appreciate you have a great day. All right again,
taking your phone calls and recall five one, three fifty
five hundred.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Coming up, we have Opi and John. You're listening to
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Auto entire Center right here in Cincinnati. A lot has
changed since then, but our commitment to honest auto repair hasn't.
We believe in making sure your vehicle gets everything it
needs and nothing it doesn't. Because as a family owned
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The best way to wake up in the morning A
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Speaker 2 (23:53):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Again, the number to call five one, three, seven nine
fifty five hundred. Again am Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
and Tire Center. Again here every Saturday from one to
two taking your car questions. And again, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
And again if if if you don't want to call
the show, if you need to call me at the shop,
that's perfectly fine. You can always call and just ask
for me. Just say hey, I have a question for
Dane and love to you know, take care of you
all right, patiently wait and we have Opie. Hey, welcome
to the car show. How can I help sir?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
How are we doing today?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You know I've been yon That's why I keep saying,
excuse me, I keep yawning. And I got up early,
and I'm you know what early.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I slept in until five thirty this morning. I'm only
get up at three, That's what Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Danny said, he got up at three fifteen. I'm like,
I guess I shouldn't complain.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Then, yeah, I get up at three o'clock every day.
So my third morning, hell that was yeah, I was, yeah,
I slept in So that first got that first guy
that called with that Mazda, that eighty five Mazda that
you've got, Yeah, gave up at euro Classics in Moraine, Ohio.
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He specializes in European and Asian vehicles. Okay, And I
mean he works on and he worked. I mean he'll
work on anything. And he is the he is the
best around when it comes to those cars. I mean
here from everything from an old change to a full
of history restoration. The guy is the greatest when it
comes to those cars. And he knows him inside and out.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
What now, what's what's what's the name of the what
is it?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Euro Classics?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
All right, I'm gonna look it up. I want to,
I want to. I want to meet this guy.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah, euro Classics.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
And he's in Moraine. He's on Dixie Drive Dull and
he sponsors a lot of our stuff down the horse
Fire Farm. Speaking horse Fire Farm, we got our cars
and coffee coming up next Saturday, first Saturday the month,
Anoon Cargi Coffee. We raised money for charity and everybody
bring a car out and come out and have a
good time and hang out and meet some people and
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see cars there you go. So and then one other thing,
I'm and I know you had you talking about the
problem getting parts. I had a brake line blow on
my truck, and well, whoever had this thing before monkey
with it, and they used this It almost looks like
(26:28):
bronze fuel line, not copper, and it ain't brass. It's
kind of a combination of the two. And when they
routed it, the one that goes to the right front break,
they laid it up against the steering column and they
used quarter inch instead of three sixteenths and it's evidently
thicker wall is when I went to do it, and
(26:48):
I put peace quarter ench line in there, and of
course it wouldn't steal, and so I replaced it butt.
It took me three days three days to get a
free sixteenth by seven sixteenths and one and one other thing. Everybody,
everybody's got a truck with a trailer hatch on it,
(27:11):
Go look at your trailer hitch. If this got paint
flaking off of it and scally rust, take the screwdriver
or a chipping hammer and go to the bottom of
that thing and poke the bottom of it. I just
put a new hitch on my neighbor's truck two weeks ago.
(27:32):
Truck was five years old. The hitch was completely rusted out.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yep, I know, so.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I know how you are about then the maintenance and
all it is is, you know, you walk around your
car and I always I always parking my truck where
I got to walk up on the passenger side before
I get in the driver's side, and I look at
the tires and make sure there ain't nothing leaking or
whatever before I get in the truck.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yep, it's self awareness.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
You always walk up. You always walk up on the
driver's side. That right we retire may be flat and
you don't know it to you fall out of the driveway. Yeah,
just a little tip, little tip, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yep, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I'm gonna look up this I'm gonna look up this
shop because I mean I'm looking at it right now.
I mean it. I mean he does. He does quite
a bit of stuff. How long have you ever used
them before?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I don't drive for in cars?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
The only reason I know him is because, like I said,
dun Horse Tire Farm. He sposters. He sponsors our car show.
He also sponsors our Toys for tot event. Okay, and
then and and the other opie that owns the farm
he's had him do some stuff. He's got MG and
they had a couple of Porsches and and some other
(28:56):
stuff and he's had him work on cars and he's
done day for a years. The guy is the guy
is hands down the best. Now I'm pretty sure he's
not very cheap, but he is the best.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah. Yeah, if if you're the best, you're not the cheapest, right,
you know what I mean. I mean you can't be.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You can't be.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
You can't be the best of what you do in
the cheapest because that that that those those two just
that you can't Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Have that that guy. I take that mas up there
and and and they will take care of that thing.
And I mean it would when he when it rolls
out the door.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Okay, like you know, like I was telling that gentleman
though too. You know sometimes people have you know, they
they don't understand what it costs to restore a vehicle nowadays.
You know, it's just it's expensive. I mean you have
to go on you have to go into bill hot.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Rods for thirty years, and you know you bring you
bring a carcass and a butt and and Sai role
boxes full of parts and I build you a car.
I mean, I know how that is.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Uh, I just but you ain't done.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
If you ain't done nothing on if you ain't doing
nothing on the first Saturday in August. I forget what
today is, but the first Saturday in August, horse Power Farm,
Middletown and come up to our cars and coffee. It's
going to be a big time and we raise money
for the Matt Havercamp Foundation with Bye Cop dogs and
policemen and.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Vest Form matthew.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
To and a local Wounded Warrior chapter.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay, all right, let me, all right, let's say, hey,
let me, let me. I'm gonna put this in my phone.
What is it again?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Horsepower Farm, Middletown, because there's also a Horsepower Farm in
Columbus which is kar Condos.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
You don't want to go there, No, I.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Don't want to do that. Middletown in Ohio. All right,
And it.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Comes up on the Facebook with Mike keep Mike keeps
the Facebook page updated all the.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Events that we have.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
So if you just put that in in the Facebook
there it's horse Power Farm, Middletown, Ohio, Middletown, and it'll
come up.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Okay, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I pulled it up. Okay too, all right, we'll be
I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
It, all right, you have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Uh, thank you you too.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Horsepower Farm. I'm gonna look that up. So all right
again taking your phone calls and I'm gonna call five
one three again. I'm gonna try to wake up. Just
that's what happens when you get old. You know, you
just have to tick a nap. So all right, let's
go back to the phones with John. Hey, John, welcome
to the car show. How can I help old?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Please, don't even go down that path.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh man, I'll tell you what I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I just I I raised four.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
I know what you're doing talking about. But you haven't
even started to feel old it. Believe me anyway. Reason
for the call. I got a twenty fifteen accurate MDX.
I've called you about this vehicle before. It's got one
hundred twenty eight thousand miles on it. I have no
real service history on it. I know it got consistent
oil changes. Other than that, I don't know what else
(32:21):
has been done to it. The timing belt is supposed
to be done one hundred thousand miles. I don't know
or whatever. I don't know if that had been done. Okay,
So what my question is, is it possible to tell the
condition of the timing belt by viewing it by removing
a cover or something without actually going through the procedure
(32:42):
the total change.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Sure? So two things, two things I can offer you.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
So one, I can't do it here in the studio,
but if you call me on Monday with your ven
number or your license plate, I can check your carfax
report and see if it's been done. That's you can pay.
You can go on car facts and you can pay
to do it. You can just tell me, I'll stop you.
(33:08):
I did that and didn't know. And I.
Speaker 9 (33:13):
Bought it from a dealer, and the dealer, you know,
the the original owner. I'm the second owner of it,
so it had you know, it's it's a really really
good shape. But he never took it back to the
dealer for any work, okay. And I did do the
you know, I did do carfax to see if there
was any record at all being done in any shop,
you know, one like you or all Merger, somebody like that,
(33:33):
and there was no record. So I don't know. But
the maintenance minder doesn't indicate that it needs to be done.
You know, the maintenance minder said, everything's fine, but okay,
the second part of my question is if there's a way,
is there a way to look at it and make
that determination.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, so two things. Yeah, so I'm going to go back.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, if you can't find on the carfax report, yeah,
it probably needs to be done. However, I have seen
vehicles that have come in a two hundred thousand miles
on them and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Still have the original timing belt. Really oh absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah. Now I wouldn't recommend you go two hundred thousand
miles because the belt breaks, it ruins the engine. However,
I mean I've seen cars go you know, more than
two hundred thousand miles on the original timing belt. But yes,
if you remove the upper timing cover, which you can
do yourself. It's a ten millimeter bolt. There's probably about
four of them. If you can remove the upper timing cover,
(34:27):
and again you might have to it's not necessarily easy,
but yes, you can remove it. And what I would
tell you to do is look at the belt itself
and look to see if there's any cracking in the belt. Now,
what I would tell you is you've got the smooth
part of the timing belt, and then you've got the
ribbed part of the belt. The smooth part of the
(34:48):
belt probably won't show any cracking. If it does show cracking,
yes you need to do it now. On the ribbed
side of it. You're gonna see the way the belt's made.
There's gonna be you know, there's gonna it's gonna look
like cracking. But I mean it's gonna look like that
after you replace it, after five thousand miles, it's still
gonna have like little cracks in it. So what I
(35:10):
would tell you do is if you remove that upper cover,
the one that's closest to the radiator, that's the one
you're gonna be able to get to the easiest. If
you remove that cover and you see cracking in the
smooth side of the belt, yes it's it's time. It's
time to do it now. Now it's not an emergency.
You don't need to like do it tomorrow, but yes,
(35:31):
it's time. Right. I mean, I've seen belts come in
like freyed. Half of it is gone, it's all frayed,
and I mean I've seen it. But again, smooth side,
if it's if it has a ton of cracking in it,
or any cracking in it, it's probably time don't focus
on the rib side of it, because again, brand new,
they look like they've got cracks in the ribs.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's the smooth side that you need to be concerned about.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But like I said, I mean, I mean, I've seen
them go over two hundred thousand miles on their original belt.
But I don't recommend anybody do that because again, if
the belt breaks for a and here's the deal, ninety
nine percent of the time when these belts break, it's
not because the belt broke. It's because some other component
(36:16):
locked up, and it's usually one of the tensioners. You
either have, you have what's called either the water pump
locks up or what's called the tensional rollers. So you've
got two rollers that are in there. You've got a
hydraulic tension that it keeps tension on the belt. You've
got two rollers in a water pump. Nine out of
ten times, if a belt breaks, it's not because the
(36:37):
belt broke unless another component failed, and it's usually the
tension of rollers or water pump. What I will tell
you too, if you know you look at it, it
does look like the belt's rich or I'm sorry, the
smooth side of the.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Belt is cracked.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Make sure you do when you pull that cover off,
whether you do it or you have somebody else do it,
make sure that you do everything that's behind those that cover.
So there's two two cam seals and a crank seal.
Do not buy those seals aftermarket. You buy them from
the dealer, okay, and then you replace you get what's
(37:15):
called a timing a timing belt kit, which comes with
a new timing belt, both tensional rollers, the high hydraulic tensioner,
and the water pump.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You do all of it.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Don't just slap a belt on it, because again, you
could put a brand new belt on it today and
if one of those tensional rollers fails in five thousand miles,
you just ruin your engine.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
So do everything that's background.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Again, both cam seals, crank seal, get those from the dealer.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
And then timing belt kits.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I recommend like Continental or Asian or Ason or Asian.
Asian Continental is who i'd recommend if if you're gonna
do a timing belt kit, because if you buy it all,
if you buy it all individually, it's very expensive. But
if you buy a timing belt kit, do that, and
then again buy dealer seals. Replace the seals, because again,
(38:08):
if you do the whole job and five months five
you know, five months or five thousand miles or whatever,
that seal starts leaking, you're doing it all over again,
you know. And so it's not much more in parts,
you know, maybe a couple hundred dollars more in.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Parts, but you do it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
You do it there, you do it, You do it once,
and then you don't have to worry about it for
another one hundred and five thousand miles.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
Well, at this particular point in my life journey, you
would be doing it. I wouldn't be doing it. So
all right, Well that's that's really good information, and I
certainly do do appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
No, I just was.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
Concerned that, you know, without any any history, because the
car is great. You know, we're really pleased with it,
but I, you know, without any any knowledge of other
things that have been done. I was just concerned. Yeah,
before I jump off, I was kinda perhaps give you
a little bit of another tidbet of information. You were
talking about oil changes. Yeah, do you know why the
(39:05):
oil period was extended? So they were enticing people to
come in and buy new cars by giving them free
oil changes. And then when basically sales picked back up,
they were losing money because they were giving away free
oil changes too. So to compensate for the loss of
money from the free oil changes, they just extended the
period of time between the changes. And that's why it's
(39:30):
it's what it is today. Plus it degrades the car
and they can sell you a new car and all
of that that's associated with it.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, I bought it.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I would absolutely agree with that.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I noticed the change back in eight when we had
the financial crisis and you know, you had the cash
for clunkers and all that.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
That's when I noticed the change.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
But yes, I would say certainly every year it gets
worse and worse. And now I got customers coming in
and going, oh, it still has ten percent.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I don't have a change.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
And it's like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
You want to help out. It's like, I'm not trying
to sell you an old change. I'm just trying to
keep your car out on the road longer. But everybody's like, oh, no,
you're just trying to sell me an oil change. I'm like, no,
I mean you need one. You don't have any oil
on your dipstick. I mean so.
Speaker 9 (40:20):
Oil is the life blood of your car, and the
change is the cheapest way. Oh my gosh. Ye all right,
well that's that's always take care.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Care Oh man.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
That that that John just you know, struck a chord
with me because that's absolutely something that we have to
talk about, and I try to talk about it and
I can't. Again, I don't want to repeat myself. But
at the same time, for those who maybe not normally
tuned in, that's the most important thing. And again, the
life blood of your vehicle, it's the cheapest and easiest thing.
(40:55):
You want to get the most life out of your car.
Change the oil. That is the you want to get
two hundred three hundred thousand miles out of your car.
Make sure it has it's full of oil, and make
sure you change it regularly.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
That's it. That's all you have to do.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
So all right again, taking your phone calls and I'm
gonna call five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Taking your car questions, so love to hear from you.
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Speaker 2 (41:51):
Taking your phone calls.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
I messed up, hey, taking your phone calls, and I'm
gonna call five one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Let's go back to the phone. We have Luke and
Luke welcome to the car show. How can help.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Kill my son?
Speaker 7 (42:06):
He just got a he Butter's first car two thousand
and seven hundred, Civic key eggs and everything works fine. Hey,
c compression was locked up. I got the relay. I
thought that relay went out, and I put the relay
in it, and then I put in that magnetic. That
(42:27):
mag uh mag I'm having a brain part. He was
a few seven and a half am fused for a uh.
But either way, the belt spin and I'm seeing the
belt spin. I've looked at the alternator and another pulley,
but it's just sliding around the compressor point. That compressed
(42:48):
point is locked up. And then I went as far
as to pull that pull and I'm getting twelve volts
to the compressor. And so I mean, if I'm getting
twelve bolts of that compression and that just means that
compressure is locked up on that.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yes, correct, Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
I put more AC compressors on Hondas than any other
vehicle on the road.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
And that's kind of what I was calling about, was
just to get a little bit of affirmation that that's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, if you're if you're getting yeah, if you're getting
twelve OL's, you're getting power to the compressor. It needs
a compressor. It's locked up that they they are known
for that, okay.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
And then the last thing here, it has one hundred
and twenty eight thousand miles. He just bought a couple
of weeks ago. What should I do? I think I
should do. Haven't you got duel changed? He went and
got a city play a touchscreen in there. As far
as maintenance, is there any anything I should be looking
out for, should be doing to try to help him
(43:47):
get to that two hundred thousand mark.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Specific just make sure that the oil is full and
that he changes it regularly, and then maybe doing a
tune up, maybe checking the spark Bucks to see if
you need to tune up. But again, the Hondas do
have when they get a little bit older, they do
tend to use a little bit of oil. Now I
have a Honda Civic myself. Mine's older, but just making
(44:12):
sure get you know, just having him the awareness of like, hey,
while you're filling up your gas, check your oil.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Just make sure it's full.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
You want to get two hundred thousand miles at it,
make sure it's got plenty of oil in it, and
you change it regularly. So I'm so sorry, I gotta go.
I appreciate it. I'll be back next Saturday to answer
all of your car questions. Thank you so much, everybody,
have a great weekend, Stay cool again. You're listening to
Daane Donovan. I'm fifty five KRSD talk station and
Alsome shutting down there in the windows down volunteers say.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good afternoon, Welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm Dane Donovan trying to fix my mic. I'm Dane
Donovan taking all of your car questions. Number to call
five one three seven.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fifty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That number again, five one three seven fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
It is a.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It is a just an absolutely perfect day to be outside.
Now I'm lying, Uh, it's miserable.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's hot.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's been long. Uh it's been a long week and
it's been really hot and uh, but all morning. My
wife and I got up about about five thirty this
morning and we were raising money for the Peyton's Lemonade Stand.
(01:13):
For those of you who don't know, don't know what
it is. My wife prepared something for me. I got
to read it, but I'll talk about it a little bit.
But you know, our youngest son had was diagnosed with
cancer at two and a half and he's doing well,
he's in remission. But Peyton started this lemonade stand to
(01:34):
raise money for children who are in financial hardship or
you know, children at children's that are at children's hospital
or whatnot, and for presents and things like that. It's
just a it's a it's just great. It's a great thing.
We've been doing it for about five years now. And
all of my locations on the twenty ninth of this month, right,
(01:57):
so it's twenty six, So on Tuesday, all of us
will all of my shops will have a pet Peyton's
lemonade stand where you can come to again the Blue
Ash location, the Ridge location, my newer location, auto Form
you can come by.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The lemonade's free. But we just accept donations.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know, I don't you know, and you know it's
it's you know, it's it's a great cause. And again,
you know, some people give a dollar, some people give
ten twenty. I mean I had had a young a
lady this afternoon that you know, she she came by.
My boys were at the end of the street and
waving her down, and she came by and gave fifty bucks.
(02:44):
And uh, and again it's it's for a great cause.
So we were doing that, and uh, it was, like
I said, busy week. So and it's hot, and I
know all of you out there you're probably feeling it too.
So again then imber to call five, one, three, seven, four, nine,
fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
That number got five one three.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Fifty five hundred. Listen taking all of your car question.
Phone lines are wide open. Love to hear from you,
So we're gonna go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We've got Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to the car show.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
How can I help?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yes, good afternoon. How are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I'm hot and recovering from the lemonade stand, but doing well.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, it's a sizzling day. I'm My question is kind
of maybe maybe you don't get it all the time,
but I have a car, uh an eighties car that's
a foreign car that I want to restore. Okay, where
do I don't even know where to start? Is there
somebody that does that?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I mean there are Can I ask you?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
What's the year? Making model? You said eighties?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But yeah, absolutely you may laughter. What this says that
I'm wanted to restore? It's an eighty five miles RX.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Seven Okay, no, okay, hmm all right, it's.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
You know, it's worth sentimental than anything. Although I have
to say, this is the most incredible car I've ever griven.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So it has the rotary engine in it.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yes, it's okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That was uh, that was a that was a different
there's there's I'm almost certain I think Maza was the
only one that did the rotary engine, right.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, correct, Okay, I wasn't a big years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I'm sorry I said I wasn't a big fan of
those things. When they came back out with them, they were,
Oh they were they were kind of a challenge to
work on. But uh, I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The concept I get, but it was.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
They were just kind of hard to We had we
had a customer that always had one that every winner
is getting towed to us because it wouldn't start and
we'd have to flood it with transmission fluid to get
it going. And so it it's a different engine concept.
But I mean, how long have you had it?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Actually, I've had it since it was a year old,
So I had it since eighty six. Oh wow, okay,
And you know, so it's it's sitting in a garage
right now. Kind of looks like one of those cars
that people find, uh, you know after sitting for so
long and.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Dusty a barn fine.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah, barn fine, Yeah, that's right, my own barn. Fine.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah. So well, okay, has it been in a garage
since eighty six or did you.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Know it went in the garage And I guess the
early two thousands, probably two thousand and two. And then
I just you know, I got another car and I
didn't drive it, and now I want to, you know,
get it back out on the road. And you know,
I mean, I think it's very Mentally, I figured, okay,
something probably needs to be the gears, maybe in the differential,
(05:58):
the called the it's a manual transmission. I don't know
if there was anything to be done there and in
it's definitely an engine and paint. But you know, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna'm sitting I'm old to do
anything right to myself.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I get it. Well, I don't know anybody off
the top of my head that would probably you're gonna
have to do a Google search and you're gonna have
to try to find somebody who's I mean, if you
want to restore something like that, it's not really something
that you would want to take to just a normal
repair shop in today's standards. You would need to find
(06:33):
somebody who specializes in that. You know, I have a customer,
I mean, I should say he brings parts to me.
But I've got a gentleman that works down the street
for me at auto Form.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's got to restoes Porsches.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And I'm telling you what I mean, he does a
phenomenal job spends I mean, these guys are putting, you know,
one hundred thousand dollars into restoring a vehicle.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It could get that now on.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You know, I'm not saying that that's you know, what
would happen with your car, but I mean, you've got
to find somebody who specializes in it. I had a
neighbor of mine who his kids and my kids, you know,
go to school together or whatnot. But he restored a
I can't He's going to probably be mad at me.
But early sixties or seventies Volkswagen restored it down to
(07:24):
the frame, right, But he did it himself. But you know,
you just you're gonna have to find somebody you can
do it. It's all about time and how much money
you want to invest in it. I mean, it's it's good.
I mean, does it does it still run and drive?
I mean, can you still get it out of the
garage or no? It's been sitting for that while.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Well, I guess the answer is no. I mean I haven't.
I haven't tried.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Okay, so you haven't driven it since the early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Probably, you know, maybe the late two thousands, you know,
maybe like two thousand ten or something.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Maybe, Okay, so it's been about fifteen years. Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah, I had a guy, a friend of mine. He
uh we hooked up a you know, a chain to
it and pulled it down the road until it started.
Eventually it started.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But yeah, yeah, I think I don't think that there's
anything wrong with rus doring it. I think I mean,
I wouldn't try to get it started again. I mean
with the gas and all the yeah, gaskets and everything
like that, you're probably gonna need to replace the tires.
But uh, you're gonna need to find somebody who specializes
(08:37):
in it. And it might not be anybody in this city.
It could be somebody, you know, half a you know,
it could be you know, I don't know, the middle
of Montana. Somebody who somebody who knows about somebody who
knows everything about that vehicle. But the problem is again one,
it's it's getting the vehicle there too. It's how much
(08:59):
money you want to put into it? And then number
two and then and then trying to find the parts
for it. That's gonna be the other challenge. Now, I
I'm sure that they're out there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You just got to.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Try to find them. That's that's kind of the difficult part.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Yeah, And I mean, I don't know what what it
requires in terms of the U, the French order, the transmission.
I found engine story and you know, and they aren't
they aren't that expensive on a relative basis, but uh,
you know, and you can just abat on this thing.
You know, this is one, you know, since it's one
(09:40):
of the older ones, you just got raised the hood.
Get two people and just take it, you know, grab it,
grab one of the engine and pull it out. It's
pretty pretty simple.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah. Yeah, And I guarantee you there's somebody that specializes,
and I guarantee you there's somebody that can get parts
for it. You're just gonna have to do, like I said,
a Google search, and you're just gonna have to just
you're gonna do some investigating and try to dive in
and try to figure out who can do it and
(10:12):
who's the best. I mean, there's a guy that you know,
I follow on social media that all he focuses on
is diesels. I have a diesel truck and like that's
all he does is diesel, So I like follow him
and like I said, he's in Montana and all right,
maybe U Tah or something.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I can't remember. It's out there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But you know, you just got to find that that
niche person that wants to work on these cars.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Again, there's a lot of people with the that love.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
The old Volkswagen bugs and the Eurovan, the vans and
and and stuff like that. You just gotta find somebody
that knows everything about it. And I've got a couple
of guys that work for me and they know everything
about those vans and the bugs. Right, I don't know
anything about it because they were they were extinct when
I was born. You just gotta find somebody to do
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a searge. I mean, there's again. The thing is if
you're gonna if you're gonna dive into it, dive into it,
but understand that it's gonna be like an open checkbook.
You're gonna have to it can be costly. Even if
they get it fixed. When you're driving it, things are
gonna fail and you're gonna have to get it back there.
So just know it's gonna be an investment. Like you said,
(11:28):
it has sentimental value.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
If you want to get it back up and run,
and you find the right person. And again it might
not even be anywhere near here, it could be halfway
across the country. But find somebody who knows everything about
that vehicle. That's what they specialize. And there's a lot
of people out there that do that. Like I said,
guy down the street, that's all he knows about is Porsche.
(11:51):
That's all he knows about. He doesn't know about anything else.
And but.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's the that's how I would approach it.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
And so really it's it's it's gonna be Google and
social media and locate somebody who does that stuff and uh,
you know, negotiate it from them.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, I mean, that's that's what you're gonna have to do,
because again, you're not gonna be able to take that
thing to you know, Jim Bobs or Donovan's and somebody's
gonna be able to restore it. I mean, there's not
enough as far as the repair shops go, they're not
gonna have enough knowledge. You need to find a specialty shop.
(12:31):
You need to find somebody who niche. That's their niche.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
If you were if you really want to do it,
because again, parts are gonna be scarce, and you got
to find somebody who wants to do it. Right. It's
it's not one of those guys, it's like, oh God,
I gotta go to work. It's somebody who enjoys restoring.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
These vehicles, right, their passion.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It's absolutely, it's their passion.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And uh, but with passion costs, so just keep that,
it's always.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
A trade off.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yep. Absolutely, And you're breaking my heart.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I want to go to Jim Bob's.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I know that's that's I know that's that's horrible. But
you know, you know, you don't want to just take
it to anybody. You got to take it to somebody
who specialized in it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And I'm going to use this analogy and I've used
it plenty of times on the show, but you know,
if you've got a knee problem, you just don't go
to your your dentist, right, you go to somebody who's
a knee specialist. You need to go to somebody who
is you know, a specialist in that particular vehicle because again,
their heart and they know everything about that vehicle. You know,
(13:45):
in today's cars and standards, I mean, everything's pretty pretty general,
right if you've got a camera or a civic or
a truck, a no will change pretty standard, right, But
if you want something specific, like on your mos to,
you got to find somebody that knows what, knows what
they're doing, and again passionate about what they're doing too.
(14:07):
That's that's the more important thing, is somebody who enjoys
working on these cars very good, very good.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Well, it's uh, you know, there would be a better
answer to that, but I can't imagine what it would be.
Or I wasn't expecting anything any better. Uh, you know,
I was hoping that you had the you know, what
is the little genie issue, you rob?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, yeah, genie in a bottle?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Actually I want the genie to excuse me.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I I just you know, I have friends that can
restore you know, Fords or BMW's, but as far as
that masta and and don't get me wrong, I mean,
Mas is a great vehicle, but I don't have anybody
that can restore him. I just don't know anybody. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
I mean, I I've watched. I haven't seen one on
the road in years.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh, I haven't seen one in the road on the
road either.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
I had a friend that I had a friend in
uh in high school. He spent two years restoring at
fifty five Chevy and about uh he got it out
on the road and about a month later he dropped
over the edge of the road and hit a telephone
pull and ripped the top off.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Jeh, I hate to hear that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
So, yeah, that's that's a tough day. Yeah, what listen.
I I certainly appreciated so much. I have my marching waters.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
All right, thank you, call me back, all right, I
want to hear about it. He's gone, so all right again.
The number to call five one, three, fifty five hundred
coming up. We have Dave, Obie and John. You're listening
to the car show on fifty five krc D talk station.
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Monday morning at five on fifty five krc D talk station.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The number to call five one three seven nine fifty
five hundred. I'm Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto entire Center,
taking your car questions again every Saturday from one to two.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And uh, I'm going to try to I'm getting tired.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I got up about Danny got up at three fifteen,
so he put me back to my place. But I
I got a but at five fifteen, my wife and
I had all this stuff to do, so I was
just been running all day long and then and now
I'm like start, I hit a wall, and now I'm
starting to get tired. So I'm gonna gonna try to
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stay upbeat as best I can.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Happens when you get old.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You know, these these things happen, So all right, let's
uh uh so let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We've got Dave, Hey, Dave, welcome to the car show.
How can I help?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Dan?
Speaker 8 (17:39):
I got a AC line that I've ripped and I
can't find it nowhere, both wondering can I replace it?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Or what?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
You know?
Speaker 8 (17:49):
To ninety one miles to six twenty six anything from
eighty eight to ninety two I fit on there. It
gets from the condenser to the receiver dryer and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I ain't been able to.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Find it, and I ain't been able to repair it,
or saying I can and I can't. I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Really, Yeah, what what happened to the AC? Did the
the aluminum part break or where it's or the rubber
part or yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
I was taking out the drier because the driver got
a hole in it, and then I was loosening up
that nut and it started getting hard to turn, and
I wasn't watching while it was getting hard to turn.
I just forced it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Some time.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
I looked I had to rip the aluminum line, but
you know, unscrewing it, it was spraysing in there or something.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, I mean you said it says here at nine
it's a ninety one miles is sixty six right, two
misses back to back, alright, seven and a six two six.
Speaker 8 (18:51):
You know, I can't find it nowhere. I've been looking
for a month for the yeah, the line, and I
was wondering if I could, if somebody made them or I.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Mean, there's gosh, I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, I don't know of a company. Off the top
of my head, I don't know. I can't think of
any way that makes them. I'm sure that there is
somebody out there. I just don't know of one. Have
you maybe tried to use market just to see if
there's anything out there used?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Use me like junk yards. Yeah, they're crushing all the cars.
I can't I can't even find the car.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay, Well, there's a well, there's a website that I use.
It'll search every junk yard in the country.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
Wow. It's called called the cooler Pipe number three. The
exact name for it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Cooler pipe number three. Yeah. Well, here's what I here's
what I tell you to do. Try this website that
I use. It's it's car c R car dash part
dot com. Car dash part dot com. Okay, and you
put in your ear making model or put in your
(20:15):
VEN number. I'd recommend the VEN number. Okay, okay, and
you're it'll it'll search every again junkyard that has out
of it. What I would tell you to do if
it was me, don't search. You're not gonna be able
to search this. You know, this website with that particular
line that you need. Okay. What I would recommend is
(20:37):
you search, like when you go in there to search
what you're looking for, just type in engine.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Just do engine.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
If reason being is obviously if they have a vehicle,
if they have the engine, most likely they potentially could
have the ACE line.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
You're not gonna be able to find that exact AC hose.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But if search, you know, you know, search air conditioning
or AC compressor or search engine and hopefully you might
find somebody. But I mean, with it being a ninety one,
that's gonna be difficult. Now, there are people that are
out there that will make those lines, but unfortunately I'm
(21:18):
and I'm so sorry, I don't know anybody locally or here.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That could make it. But somebody could manufacture it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Somebody could make it, but it's you know, it's trying
to It's kind of a needle in a haystack, you know.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Ohio Hydraulics, And.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I was gonna, I was, I was gonna recommend them,
but I'm like, well they they're typically hydraulic lines, are
not doing a C line.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
So yeah, in this line, here's all aluminum. There ain't
no rubberended at all.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Okay, all right, that's the one thing about Uh well,
that gentleman that called about the RX and you know
that's the thing. You know, it's so hard to find
these parts on these vehicles. I mean, I'm having a
hard time finding parts on vehicles that are five years old,
So I can't imagine what it's like on a vehicle
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that's a ninety one. You know.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yeah, you actually gotta find it in the junk yard of.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Most Yeah, and I mean, I, like I said, I'm
sure there's somebody that's out there that might have you know,
hate to say it, but you could try eBay. But
car Dash Part dot Com. I use them every single day.
I was on there yesterday looking for an engine for
a ford Ford Edge and they had yeah, I mean
(22:42):
they had one, but that car's look I mean it's
they're out there. It's it's just you're gonna have to
dig and dig and try to find one.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Okay. I really appreciate your time, bank day.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thank you, appreciate you have a great day. All right again,
taking your phone calls and recall five one, three fifty
five hundred.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Coming up, we have Opi and John. You're listening to
the car show on fifty five KRC the talk station.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
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Auto entire Center right here in Cincinnati. A lot has
changed since then, but our commitment to honest auto repair hasn't.
We believe in making sure your vehicle gets everything it
needs and nothing it doesn't. Because as a family owned
business with our name on the wall, integrity matters. From
nineteen fifty eight to today, Donovan's Auto entire Center is
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to keep this city moving.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
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Speaker 6 (23:40):
The best way to wake up in the morning A
hot cup of coffee and Brian Thomas Monday morning at
five on fifty five krc D Talkstation.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Again, the number to call five one, three, seven nine
fifty five hundred. Again am Dane Donovan from Donovan's Auto
and Tire Center. Again here every Saturday from one to
two taking your car questions. And again, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Taking your car questions.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
And again if if if you don't want to call
the show, if you need to call me at the shop,
that's perfectly fine. You can always call and just ask
for me. Just say hey, I have a question for
Dane and love to you know, take care of you
all right, patiently wait and we have Opie. Hey, welcome
to the car show. How can I help sir?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
How are we doing today?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
You know I've been yon That's why I keep saying,
excuse me, I keep yawning. And I got up early,
and I'm you know what early.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I slept in until five thirty this morning. I'm only
get up at three, That's what Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Danny said, he got up at three fifteen. I'm like,
I guess I shouldn't complain.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Then, yeah, I get up at three o'clock every day.
So my third morning, hell that was yeah, I was, yeah,
I slept in So that first got that first guy
that called with that Mazda, that eighty five Mazda that
you've got, Yeah, gave up at euro Classics in Moraine, Ohio.
(25:11):
He specializes in European and Asian vehicles. Okay, And I
mean he works on and he worked. I mean he'll
work on anything. And he is the he is the
best around when it comes to those cars. I mean
here from everything from an old change to a full
of history restoration. The guy is the greatest when it
comes to those cars. And he knows him inside and out.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
What now, what's what's what's the name of the what
is it?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Euro Classics?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
All right, I'm gonna look it up. I want to,
I want to. I want to meet this guy.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah, euro Classics.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
And he's in Moraine. He's on Dixie Drive Dull and
he sponsors a lot of our stuff down the horse
Fire Farm. Speaking horse Fire Farm, we got our cars
and coffee coming up next Saturday, first Saturday the month,
Anoon Cargi Coffee. We raised money for charity and everybody
bring a car out and come out and have a
good time and hang out and meet some people and
(26:08):
see cars there you go. So and then one other thing,
I'm and I know you had you talking about the
problem getting parts. I had a brake line blow on
my truck, and well, whoever had this thing before monkey
with it, and they used this It almost looks like
(26:28):
bronze fuel line, not copper, and it ain't brass. It's
kind of a combination of the two. And when they
routed it, the one that goes to the right front break,
they laid it up against the steering column and they
used quarter inch instead of three sixteenths and it's evidently
thicker wall is when I went to do it, and
(26:48):
I put peace quarter ench line in there, and of
course it wouldn't steal, and so I replaced it butt.
It took me three days three days to get a
free sixteenth by seven sixteenths and one and one other thing. Everybody,
everybody's got a truck with a trailer hatch on it,
(27:11):
Go look at your trailer hitch. If this got paint
flaking off of it and scally rust, take the screwdriver
or a chipping hammer and go to the bottom of
that thing and poke the bottom of it. I just
put a new hitch on my neighbor's truck two weeks ago.
(27:32):
Truck was five years old. The hitch was completely rusted out.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yep, I know, so.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
I know how you are about then the maintenance and
all it is is, you know, you walk around your
car and I always I always parking my truck where
I got to walk up on the passenger side before
I get in the driver's side, and I look at
the tires and make sure there ain't nothing leaking or
whatever before I get in the truck.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yep, it's self awareness.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
You always walk up. You always walk up on the
driver's side. That right we retire may be flat and
you don't know it to you fall out of the driveway. Yeah,
just a little tip, little tip, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yep, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I'm gonna look up this I'm gonna look up this
shop because I mean I'm looking at it right now.
I mean it. I mean he does. He does quite
a bit of stuff. How long have you ever used
them before?
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I don't drive for in cars?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
The only reason I know him is because, like I said,
dun Horse Tire Farm. He sposters. He sponsors our car show.
He also sponsors our Toys for tot event. Okay, and
then and and the other opie that owns the farm
he's had him do some stuff. He's got MG and
they had a couple of Porsches and and some other
(28:56):
stuff and he's had him work on cars and he's
done day for a years. The guy is the guy
is hands down the best. Now I'm pretty sure he's
not very cheap, but he is the best.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah. Yeah, if if you're the best, you're not the cheapest, right,
you know what I mean. I mean you can't be.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You can't be.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
You can't be the best of what you do in
the cheapest because that that that those those two just
that you can't Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Have that that guy. I take that mas up there
and and and they will take care of that thing.
And I mean it would when he when it rolls
out the door.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Okay, like you know, like I was telling that gentleman
though too. You know sometimes people have you know, they
they don't understand what it costs to restore a vehicle nowadays.
You know, it's just it's expensive. I mean you have
to go on you have to go into bill hot.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Rods for thirty years, and you know you bring you
bring a carcass and a butt and and Sai role
boxes full of parts and I build you a car.
I mean, I know how that is.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Uh, I just but you ain't done.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
If you ain't done nothing on if you ain't doing
nothing on the first Saturday in August. I forget what
today is, but the first Saturday in August, horse Power Farm,
Middletown and come up to our cars and coffee. It's
going to be a big time and we raise money
for the Matt Havercamp Foundation with Bye Cop dogs and
policemen and.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Vest Form matthew.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
To and a local Wounded Warrior chapter.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Okay, all right, let me, all right, let's say, hey,
let me, let me. I'm gonna put this in my phone.
What is it again?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Horsepower Farm, Middletown, because there's also a Horsepower Farm in
Columbus which is kar Condos.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
You don't want to go there, No, I.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Don't want to do that. Middletown in Ohio. All right,
And it.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Comes up on the Facebook with Mike keep Mike keeps
the Facebook page updated all the.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Events that we have.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
So if you just put that in in the Facebook
there it's horse Power Farm, Middletown, Ohio, Middletown, and it'll
come up.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Okay, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I pulled it up. Okay too, all right, we'll be
I appreciate.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
It, all right, you have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Uh, thank you you too.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Horsepower Farm. I'm gonna look that up. So all right
again taking your phone calls and I'm gonna call five
one three again. I'm gonna try to wake up. Just
that's what happens when you get old. You know, you
just have to tick a nap. So all right, let's
go back to the phones with John. Hey, John, welcome
to the car show. How can I help old?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Please, don't even go down that path.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Oh man, I'll tell you what I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
I just I I raised four.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
I know what you're doing talking about. But you haven't
even started to feel old it. Believe me anyway. Reason
for the call. I got a twenty fifteen accurate MDX.
I've called you about this vehicle before. It's got one
hundred twenty eight thousand miles on it. I have no
real service history on it. I know it got consistent
oil changes. Other than that, I don't know what else
(32:21):
has been done to it. The timing belt is supposed
to be done one hundred thousand miles. I don't know
or whatever. I don't know if that had been done. Okay,
So what my question is, is it possible to tell the
condition of the timing belt by viewing it by removing
a cover or something without actually going through the procedure
(32:42):
the total change.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Sure? So two things, two things I can offer you.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
So one, I can't do it here in the studio,
but if you call me on Monday with your ven
number or your license plate, I can check your carfax
report and see if it's been done. That's you can pay.
You can go on car facts and you can pay
to do it. You can just tell me, I'll stop you.
(33:08):
I did that and didn't know. And I.
Speaker 9 (33:13):
Bought it from a dealer, and the dealer, you know,
the the original owner. I'm the second owner of it,
so it had you know, it's it's a really really
good shape. But he never took it back to the
dealer for any work, okay. And I did do the
you know, I did do carfax to see if there
was any record at all being done in any shop,
you know, one like you or all Merger, somebody like that,
(33:33):
and there was no record. So I don't know. But
the maintenance minder doesn't indicate that it needs to be done.
You know, the maintenance minder said, everything's fine, but okay,
the second part of my question is if there's a way,
is there a way to look at it and make
that determination.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, so two things. Yeah, so I'm going to go back.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah, if you can't find on the carfax report, yeah,
it probably needs to be done. However, I have seen
vehicles that have come in a two hundred thousand miles
on them and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Still have the original timing belt. Really oh absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Yeah. Now I wouldn't recommend you go two hundred thousand
miles because the belt breaks, it ruins the engine. However,
I mean I've seen cars go you know, more than
two hundred thousand miles on the original timing belt. But yes,
if you remove the upper timing cover, which you can
do yourself. It's a ten millimeter bolt. There's probably about
four of them. If you can remove the upper timing cover,
(34:27):
and again you might have to it's not necessarily easy,
but yes, you can remove it. And what I would
tell you to do is look at the belt itself
and look to see if there's any cracking in the belt. Now,
what I would tell you is you've got the smooth
part of the timing belt, and then you've got the
ribbed part of the belt. The smooth part of the
(34:48):
belt probably won't show any cracking. If it does show cracking,
yes you need to do it now. On the ribbed
side of it. You're gonna see the way the belt's made.
There's gonna be you know, there's gonna it's gonna look
like cracking. But I mean it's gonna look like that
after you replace it, after five thousand miles, it's still
gonna have like little cracks in it. So what I
(35:10):
would tell you do is if you remove that upper cover,
the one that's closest to the radiator, that's the one
you're gonna be able to get to the easiest. If
you remove that cover and you see cracking in the
smooth side of the belt, yes it's it's time. It's
time to do it now. Now it's not an emergency.
You don't need to like do it tomorrow, but yes,
(35:31):
it's time. Right. I mean, I've seen belts come in
like freyed. Half of it is gone, it's all frayed,
and I mean I've seen it. But again, smooth side,
if it's if it has a ton of cracking in it,
or any cracking in it, it's probably time don't focus
on the rib side of it, because again, brand new,
they look like they've got cracks in the ribs.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
It's the smooth side that you need to be concerned about.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
But like I said, I mean, I mean, I've seen
them go over two hundred thousand miles on their original belt.
But I don't recommend anybody do that because again, if
the belt breaks for a and here's the deal, ninety
nine percent of the time when these belts break, it's
not because the belt broke. It's because some other component
(36:16):
locked up, and it's usually one of the tensioners. You
either have, you have what's called either the water pump
locks up or what's called the tensional rollers. So you've
got two rollers that are in there. You've got a
hydraulic tension that it keeps tension on the belt. You've
got two rollers in a water pump. Nine out of
ten times, if a belt breaks, it's not because the
(36:37):
belt broke unless another component failed, and it's usually the
tension of rollers or water pump. What I will tell
you too, if you know you look at it, it
does look like the belt's rich or I'm sorry, the
smooth side of the.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Belt is cracked.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Make sure you do when you pull that cover off,
whether you do it or you have somebody else do it,
make sure that you do everything that's behind those that cover.
So there's two two cam seals and a crank seal.
Do not buy those seals aftermarket. You buy them from
the dealer, okay, and then you replace you get what's
(37:15):
called a timing a timing belt kit, which comes with
a new timing belt, both tensional rollers, the high hydraulic tensioner,
and the water pump.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You do all of it.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Don't just slap a belt on it, because again, you
could put a brand new belt on it today and
if one of those tensional rollers fails in five thousand miles,
you just ruin your engine.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
So do everything that's background.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Again, both cam seals, crank seal, get those from the dealer.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
And then timing belt kits.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I recommend like Continental or Asian or Ason or Asian.
Asian Continental is who i'd recommend if if you're gonna
do a timing belt kit, because if you buy it all,
if you buy it all individually, it's very expensive. But
if you buy a timing belt kit, do that, and
then again buy dealer seals. Replace the seals, because again,
(38:08):
if you do the whole job and five months five
you know, five months or five thousand miles or whatever,
that seal starts leaking, you're doing it all over again,
you know. And so it's not much more in parts,
you know, maybe a couple hundred dollars more in.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Parts, but you do it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
You do it there, you do it, You do it once,
and then you don't have to worry about it for
another one hundred and five thousand miles.
Speaker 9 (38:32):
Well, at this particular point in my life journey, you
would be doing it. I wouldn't be doing it. So
all right, Well that's that's really good information, and I
certainly do do appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
No, I just was.
Speaker 9 (38:44):
Concerned that, you know, without any any history, because the
car is great. You know, we're really pleased with it,
but I, you know, without any any knowledge of other
things that have been done. I was just concerned. Yeah,
before I jump off, I was kinda perhaps give you
a little bit of another tidbet of information. You were
talking about oil changes. Yeah, do you know why the
(39:05):
oil period was extended? So they were enticing people to
come in and buy new cars by giving them free
oil changes. And then when basically sales picked back up,
they were losing money because they were giving away free
oil changes too. So to compensate for the loss of
money from the free oil changes, they just extended the
period of time between the changes. And that's why it's
(39:30):
it's what it is today. Plus it degrades the car
and they can sell you a new car and all
of that that's associated with it.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, I bought it.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I would absolutely agree with that.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I noticed the change back in eight when we had
the financial crisis and you know, you had the cash
for clunkers and all that.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
That's when I noticed the change.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
But yes, I would say certainly every year it gets
worse and worse. And now I got customers coming in
and going, oh, it still has ten percent.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I don't have a change.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
And it's like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
You want to help out. It's like, I'm not trying
to sell you an old change. I'm just trying to
keep your car out on the road longer. But everybody's like, oh, no,
you're just trying to sell me an oil change. I'm like, no,
I mean you need one. You don't have any oil
on your dipstick. I mean so.
Speaker 9 (40:20):
Oil is the life blood of your car, and the
change is the cheapest way. Oh my gosh. Ye all right,
well that's that's always take care.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Care Oh man.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
That that that John just you know, struck a chord
with me because that's absolutely something that we have to
talk about, and I try to talk about it and
I can't. Again, I don't want to repeat myself. But
at the same time, for those who maybe not normally
tuned in, that's the most important thing. And again, the
life blood of your vehicle, it's the cheapest and easiest thing.
(40:55):
You want to get the most life out of your car.
Change the oil. That is the you want to get
two hundred three hundred thousand miles out of your car.
Make sure it has it's full of oil, and make
sure you change it regularly.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
That's it. That's all you have to do.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
So all right again, taking your phone calls and I'm
gonna call five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
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Speaker 2 (41:51):
Taking your phone calls.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
I messed up, hey, taking your phone calls, and I'm
gonna call five one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Let's go back to the phone. We have Luke and
Luke welcome to the car show. How can help.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Kill my son?
Speaker 7 (42:06):
He just got a he Butter's first car two thousand
and seven hundred, Civic key eggs and everything works fine. Hey,
c compression was locked up. I got the relay. I
thought that relay went out, and I put the relay
in it, and then I put in that magnetic. That
(42:27):
mag uh mag I'm having a brain part. He was
a few seven and a half am fused for a uh.
But either way, the belt spin and I'm seeing the
belt spin. I've looked at the alternator and another pulley,
but it's just sliding around the compressor point. That compressed
(42:48):
point is locked up. And then I went as far
as to pull that pull and I'm getting twelve volts
to the compressor. And so I mean, if I'm getting
twelve bolts of that compression and that just means that
compressure is locked up on that.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yes, correct, Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
I put more AC compressors on Hondas than any other
vehicle on the road.
Speaker 7 (43:09):
And that's kind of what I was calling about, was
just to get a little bit of affirmation that that's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (43:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, if you're if you're getting yeah, if you're getting
twelve OL's, you're getting power to the compressor. It needs
a compressor. It's locked up that they they are known
for that, okay.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
And then the last thing here, it has one hundred
and twenty eight thousand miles. He just bought a couple
of weeks ago. What should I do? I think I
should do. Haven't you got duel changed? He went and
got a city play a touchscreen in there. As far
as maintenance, is there any anything I should be looking
out for, should be doing to try to help him
(43:47):
get to that two hundred thousand mark.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Specific just make sure that the oil is full and
that he changes it regularly, and then maybe doing a
tune up, maybe checking the spark Bucks to see if
you need to tune up. But again, the Hondas do
have when they get a little bit older, they do
tend to use a little bit of oil. Now I
have a Honda Civic myself. Mine's older, but just making
(44:12):
sure get you know, just having him the awareness of like, hey,
while you're filling up your gas, check your oil.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Just make sure it's full.
Speaker 3 (44:21):
You want to get two hundred thousand miles at it,
make sure it's got plenty of oil in it, and
you change it regularly. So I'm so sorry, I gotta go.
I appreciate it. I'll be back next Saturday to answer
all of your car questions. Thank you so much, everybody,
have a great weekend, Stay cool again. You're listening to
Daane Donovan. I'm fifty five KRSD talk station and
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