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800-224-9090 or you can listen to us on iHeart. Okay, we were talking with Paul. Paul, welcome back and what year model Lincoln did you say that that was? 2000. Oh, okay.
Oh, 2000. So you have the air shocks on the back then? No, it has regular shocks on the back, but it's got the air bags.
But this is on the front is what I'm having trouble with. Oh, okay. One of them is starting to squeak. Oh, that is such a great question because that's something that I wanted to have the opportunity to mention. I can tell you that there's a lot of things out there that can squeak besides the shocks.
Now they are a possibility. But some of the things that we run into, Justin, would you say that sway bar links? Sway bar links, ball joints on those early to mid-2004s, I've changed hundreds of them. Does sway bar links normally rattle? Sway bar links rattle, going over bumps, a squeak is a lot of times associated with a dry bushing.
We were working on the back, too, when we initially talked to Paul. But yeah, we need to get it up in the air and pull on it, and you might have a dry bushing. And I looked at everything, and everything looks tight by looking at it. The car is very clean, in fact, the bottom of the car looks as good as the top, to be honest with you. A car come out of Arizona.
They last a long time over there. But I was just curious, I was told that it sounded like it was, you know, maybe the piston moving up and down into shock. So it only does it when you move it up and down. We actually got an email about a question very similar to that.
I don't know if it was your email or not. But that was one that we had planned on reading. Mason Rogers, read us that email that we just that we received having to do with a noise like that, since it sounds familiar. I like it. Uh-huh, yeah. And Paul, what I was gonna mention is just like what Justin mentioned a minute ago, the ball joint can make a terrible squeaking noise. And not even be loose. Yeah.
And be good. Bushings just can make a loud noise and not be loose. Just like a wiper blade. I compare them to a wiper blade. You may have a wiper blade that looks perfect.
You don't see any problem with it. But when it goes across the windshield, it might go blub blub blub blub or squeak squeak across there. Yeah, and do a lot of things because rubber bushings can get hard and brittle. And the ball joints can get dry. And they don't put grease fittings in them anymore.
Yeah. Well, I will tell you, Paul, what I've done, if I hear a ball joint that's making a noise and I hear it with a stethoscope and I want to make absolutely sure that that's what's doing it, I'll jack the car up a little bit. And then I'll punch a little hole, if I'm sure the ball joint's bad anyway, I'll punch a little hole in it and then I'll shoot some PB blaster down inside that socket.
And then I will let it back down. And if it's that ball joint, usually it'll eventually come back, at least isolate what you'll at least know exactly what you're dealing with. But I lean toward you having a different problem than your shock absorbers as being bad. But if you wanted to take them off and it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to change them anyway. So you wouldn't be wasting money if you did it.
But you may have a different problem. You know, it's combined with a strut. You know, it's a strut and all. So okay.
Well, I was just trying to get an idea. I mean, I can live with it, but, you know, I was just curious if there was something maybe I could do on my end that might try to correct it. Yeah.
Pull out some PB blaster, just spray a few of the bushings down, just see how it works if you're doing it on your end. Yes, sir. And then if that don't do it, you may decide to have it diagnosed.
And just because you have something diagnosed don't necessarily mean you have to have it repaired. At least you know what you're dealing with. You'll know what it is.
So you say the word. Okay. Aaron, I appreciate that. I enjoy your show and will listen to it every Saturday.
Hey, Paul, we enjoy you calling in. Thank you. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye bye.
Okay. The number to call, 800-224-9090. Let's go ahead and jump right on over to John. And John, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Hey, good morning. Good morning, John.
I just got a quick question for you. I've got a 2016 Chevy Silverado, and the transmission went out on it. And I had a local transmission shop tell me that they're having a lot of problems like that in some of the newer trucks because of the fuel economy. You said that the fuel, when they changed the way they changed the eight cylinder down to four cylinder to save on fuel economy, it messes up the torque converter.
Now, are you familiar with this or what is your opinion on this? I'm very familiar with the transmission troubles in those. That's a 6L... What is it? 6L80, I think. Yeah, 6L80 transmission. And I just replaced one the other day.
And yes, the torque converters are very well known for when you're at a cruise, at a steady when it goes into when the torque converter locks up, it feels like you're running over rumble strips. Is that what you were actually? Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know. I'll tell you, I didn't know that it had anything to do with the displacement on demand because the displacement on demand has its own set of problems, the AFM, active fuel management. But I know that those those transmissions have their own set of problems having nothing to do with the AFM. There's quite a few of them being replaced.
And you're having a local a local place to it? Yeah. They already did it. Okay. My question is, am I going to have an issue if I buy a brand new in like a 2022 or has this been resolved? You know, I can't say it's been resolved.
I wouldn't know. But I would think that General Motors has probably tried to resolve it because you're talking about five years, six years difference. But I had one 2017 that was doing the exact same thing last week. And we had to put a transmission in it. And we you know, when you put a transmission in one of those things, it has to be programmed.
And you know, we were able to do that, of course. But yeah, those things are I don't I don't know that it has anything to do with the AFM. It could contribute to it some way. But the active fuel management that you're talking about. But I will tell you that the transmissions in those things, they're fairly well known for having the torque converter issues, regardless of anything else, regardless of the AFM or what size wheels are on it or anything else. So transmission is problematic regardless. And John, one of the best things that you can do to prevent problems and this is not only on this car, but other ones is have that transmission fluid exchange, keep it clean, not necessarily having to replace the filter, but there's a piece of equipment that hooks to it and gets all of the old fluid and puts new fluid back in.
And and that is one of the main things that you could do to make transmissions last a long time. But that filter that's in the transmission is really just a strainer. It's not like an oil filter on your car. It's just, I mean, all it does is siphon out big chunks if there's any in there.
Hopefully you don't have any of that. Fluid does stop. Once fluid gets up to a certain temperature, it starts losing some of its viscosity and don't lubricate as well. And so then you start getting wear particles and those wear particles act like sandpaper and boom, it's downhill from there. So just keeping, but I think I think on some of the later model vehicles, those that keep the transmission fluid changed on a regular basis.
And sometimes it can be anywhere from if you tow something around 30,000 miles, if you don't do towing, then it might be 40 or 50 or even 60. But have a schedule to change the fluid. And that's probably the better thing that you can do. And you probably already do that. If you have big wheels and tires on it, it changes the, you know, that puts a lot more load on everything. So that moves your service interval.
If you want your stuff to last, you know, keep, keep up with the, uh, uh, keep up with your maintenance. Yeah. I think I may have waited too long. I don't know.
70 to 80,000 is when I got my first one done a little bit, but that's not terrible. Yeah. Not, not awful. Thank you for the call though. Hey, we appreciate it.
Thank you, sir. And the time clocks or the fuel gauge on the, we're running out and we need to pull over. I'm Eric Clements here with automotive expert, Justin Courtney. Our show producer is Mason Rogers and we're having a great time, but we do need to pull over, fill up the tank.
When we return, we'll be broke because we filled it up. Thank you to all of you that tuned in and special. Thank you to all of you that called in route with us on the CNC auto show. And we do want to welcome you back to the CNC auto show.
I'm Aaron Clements here with co-host Justin Courtney, and we're here to give you information on ways to make your car safe, dependable, and to make it last longer for less money and less hassle. Justin, we had a great hour and we enjoy talking even afterwards. Like we were, uh, we were talking about cars even during the break and, uh, and then the next thing you know, time slips up on us and, and, uh, we run back in here and ready to go again. And so we are, uh, we're sitting on go for answering those questions. We also been talking about some famous cars, cars, had a lot of fun doing that.
Yeah. We've talked and we've got a whole list of cars that we can talk about. Hopefully we'll get to some more of them, but we have John waiting, but just before we do that, I want to go ahead and lay the next tech tip quiz on the table so that any callers that call in, we'll have that opportunity to do that.
And of course they will have the opportunity to win the tech tip quiz prize package, which includes the coffee mug, tech tip quiz 2.0. All right, here it goes. Now I did not tell Justin, we didn't want to know it that, uh, but here it is.
What was going to be the time machine and the movie back to the future and how did drugs cause it to be something different? If you know the answer, you can give us call 8 7 0 6 8 6 35 800 or 800 2 2 4 9 0 9 0. And we have had, we have, uh, John, he's been on here for a while. He has John, you had a question for us at the CNC auto show.
And what is it? I do have a question and my car is white by the way. Um, but the question is, well, if you get any mileage at all in the car, you're liable to have the driver's seat. I see a lot of vehicles with driver's seat, the fabric or the leather is worn out and the foam rubber is deteriorating.
So what do we do about that? Is that a DIY thing or a body shop or a... That's a great, great question to John, because I will mention something that, uh, that I felt strongly about and hated to mention to a customer, but we had a customer one time and he drove a lot of miles. He was a salesman and he would go all over the Southeast, just a ton of miles in his car. And he would get out and he could barely walk his, uh, his back was hurting him so bad. And then talking to him, he went to a chiropractor and did this and did that. And I knew a lot of what was wrong with his back. It was, it was that car seat cause I would get in it and my back would twist. And I knew riding in that for hours and hours had to tear his back up. So I finally told him, uh, his name was Chuck.
I said, Chuck, man, I'm going to mention something that's going to help you a lot. You need to take this car to the poster shop and let them redo the seats. In fact, they can build them up even better than, yes, they can make it firmer if you want it. You can tell them, listen, I don't want firmer foam in here.
Yeah. Now in this area, now of course every area has an upholstery shop that, that has the great reputation and this area it's Redmond's upholstery and they just do a beautiful job blocks away. Yeah, and they can put as much foam as you want in there, make it stiffer, make it softer, whatever you want to do.
But you're right when it wears on one side and flattens out on one side and not the other, you're sitting there with your back twisted. So um, and you may even have another option. Um, if you know, I don't know how quick or how expensive, I know Redmond's does do a good job. They've done stuff for me before. Um, but you could even go, depending on what kind of car it is, you could maybe find another car, go to, uh, salvage, uh, it might, might be a different color or maybe not, uh, might be able to find the same color, maybe one that's not beat up so bad.
Yeah. But many times a corner salvage yard, I've been sitting there with the door, right with the window busted or a thing down some places that when, uh, some high end salvage yards, they label and store things and they'll take them out. So it's worth checking and it's worth doing things like going to, uh, places like marketplace and Craigslist, stuff like that. But, uh, you may end up, it may end up being your best bet. Just an upholstery shop. I just have it fixed and they'll do a good job. Do what now?
Because you are, um, now this is just throwing wild numbers out. You're talking into two 50 range, $250 range, but it is so worth it. If you do very much driving, it'll make your back feel so much better.
Well worth whatever it is. Like Aaron said, he, they can build it up in such a way, say, look, I want a little more support in my middle back and they'll cut the foam in such a way to make it fit. And it kind of depends on how the price depends on if you have to put any new covering over the foam or not. And there's a lot of things, but yeah, they always get, I would always, when you getting anything done, I'd always ask for a quote myself to protect the person too.
Cause you don't want it. We, we get people that come into the shop and they say, uh, I want you to put a water pump on my car. They don't ask how much or anything. And in their mind, a water pump is 150 bucks.
They may have already decided, but then what a water pump really is, is a huge amount more. So you don't want to do it just, I mean, sometimes people that do it, uh, the price shop, which is fine, but other, but many times when people's getting a price, they just want to know if they want to invest that amount in something. So yes, definitely get a price and they would give you a quote on that. Well thank you very much. I really enjoy your show. Oh, that's a great question. Yeah, yeah, it is. And we see that a lot here.
Yeah, we do. We're doing what we do. Thank you, John. Thank you. All right.
Okay. Number to call, 800-224-9090. Let's go over and visit with another John, another John, John, welcome to the CNC auto show.
And what can we help with? Good morning, gentlemen. My question is about brake fluid exchanges. I've had mine done. So my question is now this whole system has a new fluid in there. Now over the miles that I'm driving is the fluid that's in the lines, particularly in the back lines, the longest ones, is that new fluid just static moving back and forth? Or as I actuate the brakes, does the master cylinder circulate the fluid from the reservoir throughout the line as we'll just say in a circular motion? It just kind of moves back and forth.
A little bit will kind of transfer, but just through being that it's touching each other. But that's why we flush it, John, because it's not circulating. And that was a good move that you did that because what happens is because the fluid is not moving, right at the wheels is where it normally builds up because that's where you have the heat and that brake fluid tends to get sticky and gunky and then that can cause the calipers to stick and then that can cause stuff to when you like when brakes are put on it to push back up into a valve assembly build up. And it can also build up gunky stuff in the valve assembly itself. So doing a brake fluid exchange from time to time is a excellent thing to prevent problems later on. The way we do it, the way when we do a brake fluid exchange, we do it the way you explained your like your longer ones in the back, the way we do a brake fluid exchange is we start with the one furthest away from the master cylinder, which would be the right rear in this country. It would be the right rear.
And you do that one until your fluid's clean, then you go to the other one and then you work your way back closer to the master cylinder and get your nice clean once you got nice clean fluid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's good. Very good.
Very good. You did that because it just sits there. You've got the shock systems with the pump and everything, it'll circulate between the pump and the master cylinder, but not all the way back to the calipers. Yeah. It's just kind of sitting there.
Some gets exchanged through the valve assembly, but it's not a huge amount. Great question though. I love that. Okay.
Good stuff. Let's go over to, oh, wait a second. Are we okay for that or? Hey, I tell you what, why don't we get Bobby up here and we'll get him on stage.
We'll get him up ready. Yeah. And then I... Bobby, welcome to the CNC Auto Show. Wait, you have a question about the cars. Is that correct?
Cars and movies? Yes, that's correct. Okay. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. And we're going to put you on hold and we're going to be right back very shortly. So hold on. We got you. This is Sarah's O'Reilly Auto Parts story.
Being cross country with two young children is ambitious, to say the least. Then our check engine light came on. We pulled into O'Reilly Auto Parts and they tested it, turned out it was a faulty sensor. They referred us to a great mechanic just down the street and we were back on the road in no time. O, O, O, O'Reilly Auto Parts.
Now see, that was pretty quick. I'm Aaron Clements here with co-host Justin Courtney. We're back on the road.
We're talking about famous cars, answering automotive questions. You give us a call, join in, 800-224-9090. And we had talked to Bobby very shortly, just before we went to a break. Just didn't get him on the line. Yeah, we did. We wanted to make sure Bobby didn't go anywhere. We didn't want to lose him. We got hold of him now. Yeah, we got him.
I'm still here. All right. Well, you may have had a question about cars and movies or a comment about cars and movies. Yeah, I have a comment.
One of my favorite cars and one that I personally own was featured in a movie called Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone in the 1970 Oldsmobile 442. Oh, wow. Now, you know, I don't remember that one. It was at the end, they got it out of a museum or something. Uh-huh. Yeah.
It was in a time capsule in a cave, and they had to go bust it out. And you had one, or you still have one? Yeah, I have one myself, yeah.
Still do. There's quite a few movies that that car's been featured in. One of them was called The Hitcher in the 2007 movie. And the day they moved, there was another one, it was a 1968 model. And yours is a 442? Yeah, they were 442s. What year's yours?
Mine's a 70. So that would have been the W30 package, is that correct? No, mine doesn't have the W30 package, but the one in Demolition Man did. And now, is it true that the 442 stood for four-speed, four-barrel dual exhaust? Is that true?
That's true on the first of the original ones. Okay. Like everything else, you know, they changed the carburetion systems on them. I didn't know if that was that. When an automatic transmission come out, it didn't really fit no more.
Sure. It finally changed things, you know. Yeah, those are great cars. Big motors, just paired in rubber, like I don't know what, those big 455s. Also there's another movie coming out called Sweet Girl.
It's coming out on Netflix in August the 20th. It also features an Oldsmobile 442 in it. Well, great. Wow. Yeah, that's good stuff. Thank you for that. Okay.
We love those old cars. Yeah, we do. We're going to talk about some of them here, hopefully, if we get some time to get them in. Okay. I'll be listening. Thank you for that. Hey, Bobby, thank you very much for the call.
And the number to call, 800-224-9090. Let's do squeeze one in. I'm going to squeeze one in that you have a lot of interest in. Oh, yeah. My favorite. Two-lane blacktop.
Two-lane blacktop. For those of you who are watching on the live stream, this is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. This is the commemorative DVD I bought. I don't want to say what I paid for it. I've loaned that to friends, and they give it back, oh, it's the greatest movie. I loved it.
Thank you so much. And I've loaned it to other people, and they say, eh, I don't get it. Because they're not car people. Now, who played in that movie? This movie is kind of a weird one. It has Dennis Wilson, he's the drummer from the Beach Boys, James Taylor, the musician James Taylor, who's actually still with us.
Dennis Wilson passed away in the early 80s, but James Taylor's still around. And I think it was the only movie either one of them was ever in. And these two guys drive around in a 55 Chevy that's all hopped up, got a 454 Corvette engine in it.
It was made in 1970, when the 454 first came out. And so they bought one and built this car for the movie. And in the movie, they drive around a street race for money. And they end up racing across the United States with Warren Oates, who is a famous actor. If you watch the movie, you'll recognize him. He's driving a 1970 GTO. And there's no names in the movie, none of the characters have any names, it's just the mechanic, the driver, the girl. I mean, that's it.
Oh, wow. But it's the sound effects, a real V8 speed shift and four speed tire burn. And it's a great movie.
I loved it. And incidentally, for those of you who may have seen American Graffiti, which was a couple of years later, I want to say 73 ish was when that came out. Harrison Ford's character drove a black 55 Chevy. It's the same car. Oh, wow. Yep. They painted it black, of course, because Harrison Ford's character was driving a 55 Chevy. Well, it's the same car. Uh-huh.
Yeah. And they used it for that movie. It's great. It's a great movie. I'm sure it might bring back some memories. Somebody may have saw it in the drive-in back in the 70s. It's a great movie. But sometimes it's still on TV.
It'll be on AMC or something late at night, and you can still catch it on TV. Well, that's a great story. Justin, we appreciate that, all the great information about Tulane Blacktop.
Tulane Blacktop. It's a great movie. It's kind of different. You ready to go to Jim? Let's do it. Let's see what Jim's got to say. All right. Let's go over to Jim.
Hello, Jim. Welcome to the CNC Auto Show, and what can we help you with? I got another car that's not really my cup of tea, as it's not a domestically produced one. But I thought it had a lot of neat stuff back when it was displayed, and that was one of the 007 cars, the Aston Martin DB5 with the guns in the front and the ejection seat. I even had a little Corgi toy, I think, that mirrored that, and that happened to a lot of cars back in those days.
They come out in Corgi or Matchbox. That was Her Majesty's Secret Service, wasn't it? Was that?
I think. And I went to look to see when it came out, because there was a bunch of cars, and this one says it was on the movie Goldfinger, Thunderball, but elsewhere it says it was on other movies as well. Goldfinger.
That's what I was thinking. That's a great car. The DB5. There's been a lot of good cars on James Bond movies. Oh, yeah.
But they tend to be British cars, but rightfully so, I would think. Yeah. Yeah.
That's a great car. DB5. And I might even have a wrong answer for your tech tip quiz if I hear it again. Well, Jim, we might have to put you on hold first. Yeah. Just for a very short period of time, but we are looking forward to those lights for the whole time. We are really looking forward to getting the... And we'll put you on stage when we get back. Yeah. Just when we return, you're going to be right up there on stage.
That way you can sit down for a few minutes just before you get up there. All right. Here we go.
Yeah. All right. We are back.
And thank you for waiting. I'm here with automotive expert Justin Courtney, and we are back on the road ready to answer automotive questions, get answers to tech tip quiz, talk about famous cars. We just got a lot going on. A lot going on. And we're ready.
It's open mic. Anything goes. Let's go over to Jim. We're about to put him on stage. Yeah. Oh, Jim, am I supposed to put you on stage?
I think that's the next step. Wow. Well, hold still. Be still, Jim. Jim, you are on stage. Everyone's looking at you and wanting you to answer the tech tip quiz.
I'm a read the question, uh, one more time, just so we'll all be on the same page. And what was going to be the time machine in the movie back to the future and how did drugs cause it to be something different and Jim, what is the answer to today's tech tip quiz? Well, I don't remember the details of the show, but I remember the car that was involved in it and it was the non-corrosive DeLorean, uh, coupe, I think it was a stainless steel finish or some alloy that wouldn't corrode. Therefore, I don't think it was even a painted car, but the John DeLorean was not a good business manager as he was a designer and his company was in trouble. And he was arrested for trafficking in cocaine, but was actually a quitter of those charges due to entrapment by the FBI, things like that are still happening today in Michigan, but potentially, but, uh, that, uh, drug involvement for him, it caused him to lose his, his company ultimately in part of the problem, lost his wife and lost his, uh, land even up there in New Jersey, which I think is a Trump golf course now. So drugs got involved because he was in business trouble. He was entrapped by the FBI and that was what happened to the DeLorean production problem. And how did that lead to what the, um, I mean, what was going to be used as the time machine that was actually used as the time machine? Well, I mean, what was, was going to be used, the one he accepted was used.
How did drugs lead to something different? Well, see, that's the part I may have the wrong, I may end up giving you the wrong answer because I don't know this story behind, I guess where you're headed now, but I know the story behind the DeLorean very well. In fact, that was the one they used. That was the time machine. But what were they going to use? What was it going to be used? I got that out of context.
There was going to be something besides the DeLorean. It's funny how drugs are actually involved with both, but, but yeah, all right. But we got to send it to the stage for another lucky winner. How about that? Yeah. All right. Jim, you were all over it though. You were very close.
Good shot. Good. Hey, um, Jim, hold on. Um, Mason's got something for you.
Oh, Jim, I appreciate it. You guys want to look up another neat car story. Go look up with a story behind the 1968 Mercury Park Lane Broam 4-door that was used on Hawaii 5-0 and one of three cars, apparently you remember it was a beautiful car, but what this man says he did to, uh, find that car and get it the 1968 version of the three cars that were shown in Hawaii 5-0.
I forgot about the cars. Yeah. I remember watching that one.
That would be a lot of fun to look at. McCarran, I think was the guy. Yep. It's out there.
The detective's name. Yeah. Great. Thank you very much. Jim, thank you. All right. Bye-bye.
All right. And, uh, I do want to mention one that I used to really enjoy looking at and it was famous car and it was a black 1972 Ferrari 365 GT4 Daytona. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was Sonny Crockett's car. Now, of course it was commonly known as the Ferrari Daytona Spider in early, and those were the ones that were used in the early seasons before the testa Rossa. But most people that know about the Miami Vice show knows that the Ferrari on the show was a replica. Yeah. It was a Corvette.
Exactly. It was built on a Corvette chassis, C3 chassis. Which made it probably fairly reliable because it's just a Corvette. You know, I drove, um, well, it wasn't that far, but I drove a couple hours cause I back many years ago, uh, because I wanted to see that car in a car show. So I went there and I did see the, uh, car of that one, that one that, uh, now of course they may have had several and that one was on, uh, one that they traveled around with, but it was the Miami Vice, uh, vehicle. I think they made, there are several actual Ferrari Daytonas that are still in existence, the actual ones, but the spiders, the convertible ones, the Ferrari Daytona spider, I could be wrong on this. I'd have to, I have my iPad here. It'd take me a minute to do, but I think there's only six or eight of those left in existence.
The spider. Wow. There's a few of the coupes still run more than six or eight. There may be 20 or 30, but there's still not a lot of those, but that's why they used a kit car in the show because they couldn't afford to buy one.
Well, you know, on the, um, on, on, on that show, that was, uh, that was, I guess some of the very first shows that they, they did with Miami Vice. Ready to go to the cost? That's it.
Yeah. Let's go over to there's John, John, welcome to the CNC auto show. And what can we help with? I've got a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 that has only 90,000 miles on it. Uh, I bought the vehicle and the ABS light and the brake light is on and it stays on.
I have to place, uh, pads, rotors all the way around, drums in the rear, uh, wheel cylinders, uh, even put a new master cylinder on it. Okay. Um, I put the scanner up to it and the scanner reads that everything was normal. Which lights are on? Which lights are on you say?
The ABS light and the brake light. Okay. So it's an oh one, right? Yes sir.
2001. Okay. Now what kind of a scanner are you using? Done.
Use the Macco professional grade. Okay. It is. It is a good one.
Okay. Now when you, when you checked it, did you go into the, you actually, obviously you made sure you went into the ABS sub menu and because those Dodge trucks came back global. Those Dodge trucks are really, really well known for, you remember the, uh, Aaron, there's a, uh, speed sensor in the rear differential. It's on top.
Yep. The, the, the Rams, the Dakotas, the Durangos, all of them had this, that speed sensor would act funny and it would throw a brake light, ABS light, and also, but you're not code, but it typically will code for it. Um, I'm not going to say it always codes for it, but it could just be a speed irrationality that may be working, but it's not working in conjunction with the front ones. So it may not code for it. Uh, it's kind of weird how some of those ABS sensors work. They can be working, but not working right. So it won't code for it. So ideally what I like to do is I'd look, I'd drive it, I drive the car with maybe a helper to help you, somebody else in the car with you so they can watch the scanner.
So you're not trying to drive in to watch the scanner, which would be dangerous. Um, and watch those wheel speeds because I have a feeling one or two things, you've got a wheel speed sensor that is working, but it's not working as in, in conjunction with the others. Or another thing that'll cause both of those things to happen is the float in the brake master cylinder.
That's what I was going to mention. Also run into that sometime it'll stick. Even though it's got plenty of fluid in it, the float will stick and you have a brake light, ABS light and no codes. So that's something that my brake pedal, my brake pedal is a little spongy, but it took forever and a day for me to get a pedal back when I was reading the brakes, my chain brakes, but it's still kind of spongy, kind of lower than what it should be. Do you have, do you have drums in the back? I do.
Have you got, make sure those rear drums are adjusted properly because that'll help get your pedal back. They're adjusted correctly. Okay.
Yep. They're adjusted correctly. Um, cause I, I did have them too tight for a second and I'll loosen them back up a little bit where I can actually spin them again.
I have a hunch you've got, I have a hunch you, uh, uh, I'd hate to have, I hate to have you throwing darts at it. Um, that valve assembly could cause a low pedal if you don't have any air in there, but that valve assembly and you got to figure if your pedal spongy, if the master cylinder is good and you're not leaking any fluid externally, really the only other thing besides the master cylinder that can cause the pedal to go down would be the valve assembly. And so could, uh, that's a possibility, but like Justin mentioned, we kind of hate to tell you a lot of stuff and I'd like to drive the, you know, or, or not necessarily me, but I'd be happy to do it. Uh, if you bring it into us, um, or anyone that you trust to get it, have that scanner hooked up to a while it's being driven and watch those wheel speeds and make sure that everything is, uh, make sure that everything is driving. If I let the vehicle sit for a couple of days and I go to drive it, the rear wheels lock up as soon as I took the brake pedal. Yeah. Something's cause the anti-lock brakes. Yeah, yeah, something's, something's your ABS is once that light comes on, you don't have any ABS.
So you have regular brakes. Of course. We've got to step up. We've got to pull over for a minute. Um, is that the only question you had for us? That was it. Okay. Thank you very much. And, uh, if you need any help with that, uh, you know, let us know and, or get it to somebody who you, you has to get that scanner back on it and drive it. And we appreciate the call, John. Okay.
