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Chassis John tribute, Poor Tracker seatbelts, horn relay diagnostics
The boys start the show with a tribute to a lost friend & show participant "Chassis John," then Chris talks about his "poor Tracker seat belt." Ray recounts how he tested and diagnosed a bad horn relay, which leads into car battery replacement intervals. A caller offers up some advice to Chris on how to best eliminate that annoying mouse odor in his car. We end the show with another classic Chassis John clip, check our social media feed to see the pictures. On Instagram: @real_motormouthradio and on You Tube: https://youtu.be/2NREDOZuDy0
- Duration:
- 59m
- Broadcast on:
- 04 Aug 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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Go ride on Highway 24 to Garden City, $2 all day parking includes Pit Pass! Sunday! I think the game's sleeping. Well, I guess you just have to go wake him up now, won't you? Yeah, wake up, it's Sunday afternoon, Chris is thinking furtively over there, the GIMP has been woken up, the GLIMP has been woken up, the GLAMP, the TRAMP, everybody. You've tuned in to Motormouth Radio Long Island's only automotive talk show and Kitchy Fest with your host, Ray Guarino and Chris Witzer. Chris, I'm glad to see you guys out of that trunk in the corner, how's everything? I'm just wondering which Quinn Tarantino movie that was from Pulp Fiction. Yes. What's Pulp Fiction? Okay. No, it's wonderful. Yeah, absolutely. A little bit of the GIMP for you. Very nice, very nice. Broadcasting live here from the entertainment capital of the world, Garden City, Long Island, and the Nutmeg State, the final standing Nutmeg State, where we had a small hurricane, not a hurricane. A typhoon, not a typhoon. Tornado? Tornado. There you go. Okay, wow. A Torino. A Torino. A Gran Torino, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, no food. What was that last night? Yeah, it wasn't down by me, but it was up north. Oh, wow. The town's up north, and not far. Like, literally, I would say maybe a mile, a mile and a half away, trees down, power outages. The whole big McGilla, people can't get out of their driveways. It's just, it's panned the morning, I might tell you, not far from me. So, I'm just very glad that all I do is pick up some sticks in the yard, throw them away, call it a day. Cars are good, garage is good. Good. So, we're cool here, but yeah, it was a little touch and go there. Weather-wise, yesterday, but now we're okay. No, just at the, you'll bail out the, bail out the back of my explorer and we're good. Yeah, we did, we had torrential rain. You know? Mm-hmm. That's, we just had a lot of torrential rain and some thunder and stuff, and that was, we got past it. So, that's good. Right, and of course, you know, you don't have to worry about any trees falling around your house because obviously you're a Italian. You do not like any sort of greenery whatsoever. Take it out. Take it all out. Take all of the greenery out. We don't need that. Make it a cement. That one is the cement. Yeah. It was a cement on the ground. It was a cement. It's not the good grow. This is the green I want right here. It's the key. It's the cutest. It's the salamoleans. You've got to get rid of that in order to get the cement. Oh, yeah, sure do. You've got to get rid of a lot of it. You're right. You shell it out like crazy. So, so listen, today, you know, we always try to keep our show up beating well, but we also try to be reverent at the same time. And, you know, this is. This is dedication. Yes, this is. It's a sad day in motor mouth history for our family. Yeah, it's two years we lost Chassis John today. Oh, yes. So, you know, I was going through. I went in the few seconds of time I had in between things I was doing. I went through a couple of little clips. And I think what I'll do is I'll play our outro today. I had John do an outro on playing in traffic that they used to always do your outro. And I got a pretty funny one from him. We'll use that as the outro today. But I also, in fact, want to play. I just want to play a little clip. It's a minute, a minute. Well, if it has anything to do with Chassis John, it either has something to do with welding or gyro sandwiches. You know, kind of both. And you're involved in it too. Oh, I'm sorry. So, you know what? Let me just play this for a minute and so when we can bow our heads in reverence to Chassis John. And remember the great man that he was and what a funny character that he was. He certainly was. That was love at the Memorial. I does. Let's go. Queer up, play John. But you're my inspiration because my Chrysler has been mess with as well. There has been, there are things that I don't know what mechanic has worked on this car. But what butcher I should say worked on this car previously. But it's nothing compared to the heartache that you go through from some of the sort of stories I hear you tell. But I still, I'll start unwrapping wires in my car and I'm like grumbling. And then I think to myself, this is a lot better than what John is doing. This is a lot. You know, then the torture that man is putting himself away. Well, you see, there's the difference. You will try to work with the existing, you know, let's say components are wiring from the factory from way back when. Whereas I'm the kind of guy that cuts it out and puts it in the garbage pail because there's new stuff that can be bought. In other words, originality doesn't exist in my lexicon. Other than the fact of the way the body actually looks. There's the originality that I don't mess with stock. Stock thinks in my world. Chris, if you want to follow a good advice from John, just follow, just watch what he eats for lunch. Because this guy eats good. He does. He eats New York in Florida. I tell you, he eats good. Yeah, there you go. So that was. Yeah. And to think that we used to get that every week and more, it was just, it's heartbreaking. It really is. So we remember Chassis John in, in all fondness in the best way we can. And you know what I miss watching, watching playing in traffic on Thursdays. What I always missed about Chassis John is he was. I always say he was the marketer of the group because you always saw his car behind him. Right. Right. And you always saw it in different stages of repair. Right. He never stayed stagnant. No, that's because he had his laptop was out in the garage. Right. And that's where he worked. The thing is, mostly what you were seeing wasn't his car, by the way. You were seeing this Camaro that he was building for a fellow up here. Right. It was Mario. A first gen Camaro in there as well. Yeah. Yeah. That was the big, that was the big build that went on for a couple of years. And then he brought his car in after that. So you're right. Yeah. We did used to see the stuff that he had behind. So a lot of times I wasn't really interested in what he was saying. I was more interested in what was over his shoulder. That's honest. John, just get out of the way, John. I just want to see what you're working on. I always like to, come on, come on, screaming, be eating a, you know, a, a, a, a marino's Italian ice. I'll do that too, but I do it off, off air. I do it off the camera. So. Yeah. It's one of those things. And I always wanted to, um, to take that further and bring my laptop and, and my equipment. Right. It's my garage as well. The, my problem is I don't have a hard line running in for internet. Yeah. I had the wireless, but it is so, it is so painfully weak. Yeah. That, that it just, it won't, I could barely get a, a radio signal, meaning like a internet stream. What about repeater? You know, a repeater that repeat the signal. That's with the repeater. Oh, okay. This whole house is, is like a, a wireless. Yeah. A wireless spun. It's, it's really, it's terrible. Oh, geez. I went and spent a couple hundred bucks on, on, I got repeaters all over the house. Wow. I mean, I'm looking at it now. I'm literally like 12 feet from one. And you got one bar. Yeah. Yes. Maybe you should turn it on. There's a, there's a button there. Oh, that's what you have to do. So we're talking about that. So yeah, I, I, I totally, I would love to bring the hardware into the garage. So you can see all the pool toys and whatever I pile on top of the cars. Right. That's all I'm doing with them now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But other than changing, you know, pulling painted parts out of my tracker. Right. And finding, oh, speed of which. Uh oh. I got to tell you something else. Really, really, really strange story. Okay. I got in the car. I, I told you I was so proud of myself that I was able to extract the, the rodent condo out of the back corner of the car. Yeah. Oh, happy, sprayed it with Lysol. It's sparkling clean back there now. I give the car on a hot day and I go to hit the key and I go barnyard. Again. I still smell it. Oh, wow. I'm like, oh, don't tell me there's another nest in this thing. Yeah. It's like now I'm going to burn it. I'm going, my neighbors must think I'm completely nuts because I'm going around the car smelling things. Yeah. Oh, I was smelling the panel. Right. I got, I'm in the, I get in the passenger seat. I'm smelling the dad. It's like, I mean, I get in the back. I'm smelling everything. I'm like, my neighbors must think I'm literally, I've lost my mind. So I get, the only place I smell it is in the driver's seat. Oh, wow. It's the only place. I'm like, what is this? This is making me crazy. I grab a hold of the seat belt and I roll the seat belt out and I smell it. Oh. It stinks. They went into the tractor. Ray, I had, at that point I had no clue. I'm like, I'm ripping this thing apart. I'd say roll the seat forward. I popped the two plastic rocker panels off the, off the bottoms of both doors on that side. And then I take that centerpiece, that plastic piece off. I expect to find another nest in there. It stinks down there. And you know what it was? But it must have done sissy on my seat belt because the whole seat belt stunk, but nothing else. Well, I was going to say this. See, I would look at the top because when it retracts, it retracts. Well, no, sometimes just to pivot up on top. You're right. Okay. Depends on the car. Yeah. Look where the retractor is and you'll find. Wow. Yeah. You just can't catch a break. Yeah. You just can't catch a break with this thing. No. This thing is like, it's just, and not mind you, I've owned this thing for like two years. Yeah. I've never had a mouse in the garage, like there's the Chrysler doesn't smell. It's parked right next to it. Either the mice are going, yes, stay away from the big green thing. We're not, nothing good to come from that. Right. They end up in the little, little Chinese car. I don't know. Yeah. Who knows? Well, maybe the lady was on something when she sold it, you know, get rid of this thing. I don't know whether I bought this thing with the, with the barnyard in it. I have no clue. So, so I was able to pull the seat belt. Just pulled it as far as it can go. And what I do is I kind of like, kind of like twisted it and bolted it to where it was. And I started scrubbing the heck out of it with, with, with bathroom cleaner. Anything. Yeah. Babies shampoo and pine salt. I just went, oh, sure, sure, sure. Not a blaming. It's scrubbing the heck out of this thing. So it's finally clean and it's all put, put back together again. And hopefully a happier smelling days are, are, get to know. Well, I'll say this. Have you got mice or hot rats? Hey, you know, Rob did do something good today. He played like a nice block of Frank Zappa in the 10 o'clock hour. If you want to go back on the show, you listen to his podcast. You can hear some stuff that was not commercial, Frank Zappa, which is my favorite. And I know Vince is too. I kind of chimed in on the, uh, Aerosmith, um, block. I'm thinking, usually when Rob plays more than three songs from the same artist, someone died. Yeah. Right. It's usually how Rob works. I know. I know. If I, if I hear three, if I hear three Van Morrison songs in a row, I'm going right for Wikipedia. I'm going, is he dead? No. So if you want to tell us your thoughts, give us a call 516-572-7440. Yes. Social media, motor, mouth, radio, where, uh, motor, mouth, radio on X. It's real underscore motor, mouth, radio on Instagram. Motor, mouth, radio on, Fucher, Brute, the Facebook, and of course on YouTube, you would look for real at, at real underscore motor, mouth, video and you can find our videos, like from this show. And if you feel like doing something with your thumbs, you can text us at 203-670-4127. That's always a good way to get ahold of us. So, uh, I don't know if I covered it last week. I don't remember. It's like a two week old story now. And I really. I don't know if I know who you are. I haven't really, uh, elaborated on it. I haven't, I haven't more work to do and I haven't done it. But I did cross a milestone in my Pontiac where now I do have air conditioning that works. No way. Yes. A good friend, Bill Carberry lent me the tool that I needed. Brian kept telling me he was going to send them tool up to you, but there were three dies. I didn't want to have them, you know, that was going to be expensive. I don't want to have to. The die. Oh, to, uh, extract the system once was put together? No, no, no, no. No, no, no. I had to, I posted this. You should have seen the post, didn't you? I'm looking right now. Well, I didn't do just this day. I did it last week. There was, um, on the pressure lines, you have to put the metal end, the hose goes into a metal end and then a die clamps them down and makes like it's, it's called a, um, double die. Um, uh, it's a bead lock die and where it does, it crimps the metal onto the hose so that it can't come apart and that's, that's what I had done. So let me go to the phones. We got to call. I'm looking at it now. I'm also looking at, at, uh, at Kevin's GTO. It looks great. Yeah. Let's go. The phones will say, hi, caller. You're out with the motor mouths. Hey, it's pizza. Ron. How's it going? What's up, Ron? Pizza. Right. Good. Hey, wait, wait. Last week you ran across a guy with, uh, a Studebaker Daytona. Yes. He said it was made of parts with unimpaneum. Well, yeah, pretty much. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. You want sitting up in a, um, junkyard up here. I noticed it the other day, just walking around. It's either a 64 or a 65. Got all the trim, the bumper is everything. Yeah. This was a 65. And the reason I said that is because this car was totally intact and I said to him, you're lucky because if you needed this trim, that trim, this piece over here, you'd never find it. And I do believe that's the case. But if he's, if he's looking for parts, it's, I don't, can I say the name of the place? Yeah. Why not? Okay. So it's, it's Rubicon recycling in Rome, New York and it's a clean car. I mean, if somebody wanted a project, it's a good project car, but it's, but it's got the, it's what you were talking about. Very good. Very good. Very cool. Yeah. Pass it on to your body there. And, um, yeah, trip up the central New York. I wouldn't, I wouldn't doddle around because, you know, they don't keep cars long there. They'll, they'll squish it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Very good. But look into that run. Thanks for the tip. I really appreciate that. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Rob. Yeah. Okay. Bye. Bye. Very good. There we go. I'm on the job there. Nice. People helping people. Well, you all those cars are a bit of an oddball and you know, I want to ask you, cause what I, and I think I'm very wrong on this, but when I saw the car rolling in, I thought it was a rambler. Right. Cause it kind of has that look, but I said, no, to Studebaker. And then I wondered like, wow, a rambler and Studebaker ever associated any way, which way shape or form. And I told this guy this and he says, oh, I don't know. I said, you know what? My call host will know. I said, cause he knows that stuff where the answer to your question was almost. Okay. How was, how did that happen? How was that? Well, back in the early 50s, Hudson and Nash, right. Joint forces. And that's, of course, very instills came in with them later. Yes, exactly. And they did for a street, right? Okay. Good. Good. Yeah. They were great. I know very good. Would stop the whole thing. Never got a chance to see them live. Right. And they created AMC. So what they were going to do was they were going to bring in Studebaker and Packard to make like a big form to compete against GM Ford and Chrysler. Okay. Well, that deal fell through. And what they ended up with was two separate companies. So there was AMC, which was Hudson and Nash. And then there was basically Studebaker Packard. And that was around 1954, '55. And then if history, if we all know our history, Studebaker Packard, well Packard passed away in '58 and Studebaker didn't last any longer until around '66. Okay. And then AMC obviously went with, was it George Romney? George Romney? Yeah, George Romney. Show us a bit. Mitt Romney? What? No, it was a father of... Oh, really? Yes. So that's where the Rambla thing comes in from AMC. Right. Okay. All right. Actually, they took some of the Hudson styling cues that they were going to make a '58 Hudson out of it. And they made the Rambla out of that. That's right. They really... AMC was... I'm fascinated with the company because they did everything on a shoestrap. This car had some cool styling cues. I mean, it looks very pedestrian. It's just like a... It looks like a box nova, you know, for people who don't know. Each and itself you say, eh, but if you look at it, the trim was really cool. The lighting was cool. And he showed me some. He says, the directional lever was a metal stalk, but then, you know, most directional levers have a little plastic piece at the end, a little ferrule. Right. This had something that was shaped like an almond and it was white. And he said, that's white bone. Oh, really? And he said, the original steering wheel is made out of the same material. And I don't know if he said he had the steering wheel or not. I said, wow, that thing must be worth a fortune. That's, you know... To chose that neat one. Yeah, sure. But looking at the car, because I'm looking at it now on real love to score motormouth radio on Instagram, I'm looking at it right now. And yeah, it has the deluxe Daytona trim on it because there's a broadband of, what would you say? Oh, maloom, Lucas, it is. We were debating with what was aluminum, what was stainless, what was pot metal and... I tell you, I'd just like to say pin because it's going on. I think a lot of it was stainless, believe it or not. Probably was, but it runs from the front of the car all the way to the back of the car. Right. And yeah, just to find those pieces, it would be, it would be crazy. But the Daytona was the upscale model for the car. So now I have to say to guys, like, you know, Stan from the Corvette Society and Tony from the Corvette Society, who I was talking to, and where I talk to my buddy Bobby from the Olds Club and all these guys, and I tell him, you want to know about that stuff? Ask Chris. Guys, he was your, he was your do it yourself on the spot impromptu, non-rehearsed test and Chris passed it as with flying calls as I would because that's just what he does. So yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So anyway, I got the, made the crimps on the lines, which were very easy to do. I was looking at them before, before you switched over to Studebakers. Yes, I was looking at them on, on real underscore motor mouth radio with Kevin's GTO and go goes to show you if you have the right tool and you use it correctly, you can get a professional result. Looks good. So yeah. And then I went over to this call also shop guy used to work for bill and he evacuated the system because you have to do that, suck it down. And then he charged it and it's working. The problem I have now is my hoses under the dash or I'll go in for cock, I'll go in the wrong way. And I know why I, it was my fault when I first put them in, they had a, a plastic box that has the vent ports coming off of it. And you would buy one if you had a car that had not, did not have AC from the factory because then it would only feed the, the defrosted ducts and then whatever ducts you had installed under the dash. But I had gotten a upper register where the heating controls are that had a vent in it from a GTO that had AC. So I wanted a hose to go up there, actually his two hoses had to go up there. And then I was still playing around, deciding to put the eyeballs in the dash, which I hadn't done yet. So they sold a second piece that had more hoses coming off of it to accommodate all of those. I had that one in first, then I took it out, put the first one back, but still even with that one with the less hoses, all you see is black hoses under the dash to try, I don't know how I'm going to sort this out. It's going to be not, I think what I'm just going to say, say, you know what, I'm getting cold air out of places. I never had it before, I'm going to be happy and done until I can slowly maybe, you know, some redirect these things. It'll just be the dash getting cold, but you know, it goes to show you the way you should do things is not the way I did it. Decide what you want to do from the beginning when the car is apart, and do it when the car is apart when you have access to everything, not when you have to go back in. So you know, me bad, what can I tell you? But the first half, which events are functioning? They're all functioning, but they're not all functioning correctly. Like when I put the dash vent on, one of the frost events spits cold air out, you know, so all right, so I keep the windshield cold, what the heck, you know, and when I put it to the froster, the other one doesn't sense. So yeah, it's like I said, it's a little weird. What else is weird is this light flashing. Let's go back to the phones. Let's go back to the phones and say hi, caller, you are on with the motor mouse. Oh, right. Hello, Chris. Hello, John. Sir John, how are you, sir? I'm doing well. But right, you were reminded me when you said, yeah, I should have done it when it was all apart. One of my favorite things is I'm lazy. I like to do it right the first time. Yeah. Very good. Yeah. It's true. It's true. It's one of those things, John. I do the same thing. I put things back together like almost in stages. When I did the carpet on the Chrysler, I had the seat out at least three or four times. Seat out, carpet in, and then ran it all and realized, oh, the home was not thick enough, took the seat out, pulled the carpet out, refoamed, insulated the bottom, put everything back together. So I work with Ray hand in hand in that way as well. I don't plan very well. What is it, you cut once and cussed twice. Yeah. I got you. But, you know, to go back to, you know, what my dad told me, tell him his money. Yeah. You sure? Sometimes it's cheaper to pay the price upfront for whatever you need, why you got it apart. That's right. You know, and I'm a big fan of modifying, like there's a site on YouTube that Kevin and I watch called Maple Motors, they're down in Tennessee, and they move a lot of muscle cars. I mean, anything from Chevelle's to, you know, all the more cars and vets and the whole thing and these cars are previously owned, you know, and they move them out fast. So the guy who does the video, he does his impromptu thing with the viewers, all right, let's take bets or the direction is going to work, the heat is going to work, but the big one is will the horn work? And I tell you, eight or nine out of ten times the horn does not work on these cars. Yeah, those old horn rings were very brittle as they aged. Yeah, but these are cars with new steering wheels and, you know, and new columns, even you see an I did a column. So it was funny, the horn in my car, my Pontiac worked. But when I changed, it just so happened, I did two things at the same time, which now all bets are off. I had, I was going to put my new steering wheel on. So I removed it. But at the same time, I wanted to change the upper column bearing, which also encompasses the directional switch, which is what I wanted to change because it wouldn't cancel in one side goes down a column. So I did all that. And now my, and of course, the horn wires and the horn didn't work. I'm like, oh, so I picked coming up that and I went to cruise and I said, well, I joined the maple motor staff, look, nothing on the horn. So it was bugging me. And I looked at it a couple times and then forgot about it. Every time I drive the car, I'd be, oh, damn, I, well, the other day, I said, that's it. I said, I'm going to play with this. So verified the horn didn't work. So I went out to the relay, which you say he, you know, that thing lasts forever. And I hooked up my, I disconnected the wires and hooked up my test. I verified I had 12 volts coming in. In my car comes in from the voltage regulator feed. So okay, had 12 volts. Now there's only two more terminals on the regulator. One is from the column, from the horn button, which is a ground. It grounds the relay to make the horns go off because it's already positive present. And the other one is the wire that actually goes to the horns. So I said, okay, I'll check the horns last. Let me check my feed, which I suspected would be bad because I didn't have a horn and I had one before. So I took my test light and I reversed it. So I put the grounded end of the test light on the plug and I put the positive part in the positive, the pointy part in the positive battery cable. And then when I pushed the button, if I had ground, the light would light. Light would light up. And it did. It was like, and it lit, lit, lit. I was like, wow, I said it works. I said, the wiring is right. I said, it's that fricking relay. It's the relay that was bad of all, and it just went bad all by itself without me doing anything. Again, I never suspected it. Why? Because I didn't touch it. It wasn't in play. So got a relay this week, but it's kind of low in the, it's by the hinge, by the hood hinge. And I said, you know what? I've played with this thing too much. I said, I'm moving it. So I literally moved it up right next to the wiper motor because there was enough room in the harness, drilled two new holes, put two zip screws in, now I'll never have to touch it again. You'll never have to touch it again. Never. Guaranteed. You really didn't need to replace the signal switch because, you know, we're getting to an H now. You can drive for 20 miles with signals on. I know. I know. And I don't hear it. Mine doesn't go. I don't hear it clicking either. I don't hear it. I don't hear it. You know, I don't hear it audibly. You want something scary. I bought the vet list here, and I was driving, I got on the highway, and I signaled to pull into the highway, and I didn't turn the signal light off, but oh my God, the alarm that went off. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Holy crap. Yeah. What's going on? And I looked down at it, and yeah, I see the signal lights on. Chevy's on the dashboard, and I'm like, they should have that in every clock. You know, drive behind people and go, yeah, at some point they're going to make a left. Right, since the 90s, my Impala has that. If the directional is left on for three minutes, which is a long time, three minutes, it starts a chime, and then the chime starts getting louder, and I had to do it just to see that it worked. Guys, we're saying that. And damn, it does. And in the beginning, you just say, what's that weird chime noise? Is it in radio? You know, but as it gets louder, it's like you're alarm clock, and you're like, oh, you know, then it's like, okay, what happened? Is it a bomb? You know, there's still nothing to tell you that the directionals are our flesh. I don't know if that had told me that it was on, but oh my God. Yeah. I don't know because it's a convertible that they have it at an extra loud volume to hear it. Right. Wow. Yeah. That's funny. I don't know if other manufacturers did it. I know Chevy did, because like I said, my Impala will do that all. Everybody should. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, whatever. I'm sorry, but go out on the web and look up outdoor wireless extenders. Outdoor wireless extenders. You sure he's not going to get some weird sight that only, uh, dull should go to? I don't know. Yeah. That's possible. But if you do right for it in front of it, um, you should be safe. All right. Good. So if I see something. Yeah. I made them a project with my son many years ago on the web, uh, back in its infancy and he, he had a project on snakes and I looked up bones. You looked up. Who? They came back. Wait, wait, wait. What was it? Do you look? I'm covering the screen up. What was it? Yeah. You looked up. I missed that word. He was doing a thing on stake. Got that. Well, what constrictives? Boas. Yeah. I did a search for Boas. Oh. Big gym. Slade. Well, let's break this way, John. What did I was at work and I searched for all the goods right now. That'll look at it. What did you look at? Chris. I looked at Dick's Sporting Goods. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. You get all the rackets and then, uh, don't want to do that. No, no, no. All right. Well, with that, listen, it's the bottom of the hour. We need to take a break and we really need to right now. I got it. Chris, look up now. Outdoor Wi-Fi extenders. Yeah. I will. Well, wireless in the garage. You're going to. And I'll, I'll make sure not to just type in extenders. Right. Good idea. Thanks, John. Thanks, John. Hey, guys. All right. So long. All right. Very good. 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You could text us two, oh, three, six, seven, zero, four, one, two, seven. And also when we get back from the break, I want to talk about the magic that can happen when you simply change a car battery. But right now we have the motormouth radio on a group of the hour and this is a long way to sit back. If you've driven your family crazy, trying to find the right parking spot in the parking lot to park the car. This is something that my wife had asked me to actually say, do you have certain parameters for parking the vehicle safely and securely? Do you favor certain parking lot locations like all the way at the end? Do you pull into a spot and then evaluate where you are in relation to the other cars in the lot? Do you judge the distance of the car and you decide if you to quickly evaluate if there is sufficient room to open old doors? Are you aware of the individuals riding with you in the car and how versed they are in parking lot door, dink, etiquette? Yes, that's very important. Or is there one family member in your vehicle that likes to open the door with their foot giving no hair at all to the vehicle next to them or your door? So if that person is instructed to leave the vehicle last because they have no clue, since you have to get out, monitor their door opening capabilities to make sure they don't hit the car next to them and you don't get sued. So if you have extraordinarily high standards as to where you park your car in any given make up parking lot, then you are part of the motor mouth radio on a group of the hour. Very nice. Back. Good. Take a breath now. All right. Stick with us while we take a little promo here, I spend a little money on pacing bills and do some stuff. Exactly. Back with more motor mouth radio with Ray and Chris on 90.3 WHPC, get out of the surfboard. We'll be back with answers to your car questions. Give us a call at 516-572-7440. I should have said the motor mouth thing. This show on 90.3 WHPC is brought to you by CarStar Celebrity Chase Collision. With two locations in Liberty and Oceanside who remind you that New York State Law says you always have the right to choose which shop will fix your car. CarStar Celebrity Chase Collision offers a full range of services, 24-hour towing between Manswalker Manhattan, shuttle service, and it can help you with a rental car arrangement if needed. The repairs include the CarStar Lifetime Nationwide Warranty, ensuring that the experts at Celebrity Chase Collision are always on your side. More information is available at 516-593-0920 or online at celebritychasecollision.com. You're listening to the motor mouth. I wanted to know if you have to fix my car. Quite frankly, there are better things to do with your time. I'm going to answer this question intelligently and I said, "What's the time in your life where you spend a lot more time on your car?" Thank you both of you. I appreciate it so much. It was a great opportunity and it was really a pleasure to talk with you guys. No problem. Now you have time to change your email address and phone numbers. First thing I'm going to do is say if the company hadn't already done it. There are answers, sometimes correct ones and we may have them. Motor mouth radio, 90.3 FM, W, H, P, C. Motor mouth. Hey you. Get over here. Every Sunday, 12 to 1, you are going to tune in to hear the motor mouths, my friends Ray Guarino and Chris Switzer, 90.3 FM, W, H, P, C. You might learn something. And of course, of course, we get taken out by the wise words of Chassis John. He was right. You might learn something. You might learn to listen to a gardening show next week, but at least you learn something. You may learn something from someone's fear gardening show that may replace us. Very, very true. You never know. No. No, you don't. You never know. How could you know? Right. Yeah. So you want to tell us about a battery I see. Yeah. Just last week, I swapped out the battery on the Mazda and I do it usually every four to five years, whether it needs it or not. Right. Cars still starting, batteries five years old, just change it. I always feel that batteries in newer cars, and yeah, I can still say 10 year old cars in newer cars, have a lot more responsibility than they did in the old days where all they did was, you know, keep the lights on and start the car. But I found that I had a problem with the clock, with the old battery. The clock would be like seven minutes slow, then it was like eight minutes, then it was like 15 minutes slow, and it was always not keeping accurate time, and I'm thinking I've got to swap the clock out of this thing. It's just going to be incredible because it's so incorporated into the dash that I just left alone. Well, when I swapped the battery out last week, reset the clock. It's been keeping perfect time since the battery was swapped out. And I'm like, so did the battery, did an average regular car battery affect the running of a digital clock. And I'd say yes. That's interesting. Yeah. That's an oddball one I haven't heard before. Yeah. Totally out of left field. I didn't expect one. I didn't expect the cause and effect. Right. Didn't expect it at all. I just wanted to swap out the battery because I just wanted to keep the car reliable. That's really it. Here's a little side benefit that, oh, and mind you, talk about batteries for one second. I always thought my mother-in-law had the oldest battery. She went the longest duration between battery changes. She had a battery for nine years. Wow. Yeah. She kept it for nine years. And the car that she used on a regular basis, that record in my world has been beaten by my cousin, Pat, who just changed the battery and the engine after 11 years. You know, I may have been close to that or beaten them to back in the day. And again, I think the key here is older cars. Right. Because like I told you, back in the 70s into the 80s, my good friend, Gerard, he worked at a tire shop and they used to sell a lot of batteries. And what they did is they always had two special piles. One pile were the tires of the cars they took off that were still good enough to use and can be resold and the batteries, because guys will come in. I got a 36 month battery, I mean the 35th month, I needed to change it. And those are the ones that I would get put in my car and drive for another five, six years. Let's go to the phones and go to the phone and say, Hi, Colo, you're on with the motor mouths. Gentlemen. Happy madness. What's going on, Bob? How are you? Robert. Oh, you guys are really kicking at the night, man. Christian, not Robert. Oh, it's Christian. Oh, it's Christian. Oh, Bob, do you sound like Christian? Usually, Bob, usually it's a raid that knows the voice about me. Got us both. Yeah. Do you sound like Christian? Yeah. What's happening? What's up? A couple of things say, is this cars and coffee with Rob Leonard playing Aerosmith? You never know what's going to happen. Yeah, Rob is like, Rob is like the undertaker. I expected to tell me one of them died. Let me tell you something, that set for Aerosmith was pretty decent. So I got an Aerosmith car story for you. Oh. All right. All right. So, I'm on the canal, I'm working a restaurant. Sticks comes in. Staff asked me, you know, Sticks, yeah, I know Sticks. And they came in and after they eating, I had the cars all lined up. They'd take care of them. I said, hey, you guys are playing tomorrow night over to Kyle Sim. And yeah, I said, well, oh, you're with Aerosmith. The guy goes, you know, when I go, no, you guys have been sold out for weeks. And they were. Yeah. Guy goes, here's my phone number. He goes, call me, give him a call over at the old, we got a holiday and a hamster over there. Oh, yeah. Okay. And he gives me two seats and two backstage passes. And the car part is I needed to put a radio in the car because the radio had fizzled out of the Camaro, had a 69 Camaro. So we're able to get the radio in the car, play Aerosmith on the way over to Nestle Colosseum and then we're backstage and Steven Tyler, as I'm watching six, Steven Tyler comes up from behind me. I didn't add any notice at the time and he puts his elbow on my shoulder. And for an entire six songs, he's leaning on me. Wow. That's a two story. So we take the car Aerosmith and the, that's my car. Yeah, you can so in Bill Withers too, you got a Bill Withers moment there with Steven Tyler. So, you know, you know, lean on me, it's, you know, he was leaving on you just to stay awake. I'm sure. Wow. That's good, Bob. That's, that's pretty cool. Good story. My friend, Mike, help me put the radio in. I had a problem with the ground enough for some reason, but he was pretty decent with the audio. Yeah. I had a, I had a solution for this, the smell of the urine under the cap or the, um, seat belt, a row, a road and one poop and pee in the same place. They poop in one place and they pee in another. So underneath that cap was, was rat urine, use a 409 form carpet cleaner, spray it in there and get it out a lot. And that will take the urine smell right out. Good. That's funny, Bob, because that's actually what I did use. I used a lot of carpet spot cleaner that I had on hand. I was grabbing anything to do it, but that was a primary, uh, so I'm glad I was in the right direction. Thank you for bringing that up for a nine carpet cleaner. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the light came with the purple lettering. It's only like, yeah, yeah, that's, that works great. And another quote from Pulp Fiction, zeb is dead. That's, uh, yeah, that's, uh, that's, you know, that's what I led off with last week. Yeah. It's dead. You know, it's, yeah. It was zed. Who's, who's zed? Zed's dead, baby. Yeah. Oh, what is this? Motorcycle. It's not a motorcycle. Oh, what is it? It's a chopper. Chopper, baby. Oh, who's chopper is this? Zed's. Who is that? No, Zed's dead, baby. I could have just played the original. It would have sounded a lot better, but what the heck? Like a can of tuna. Yeah. Exactly. Thanks, Bob. Great week. All right. Thanks, Bob. Excellent. Very good. Very good. So, tomorrow I have the, uh, the fun. I'm going to a fellow's man cave garage and I am installing an ignition system in a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner. Oh, wow. That is apparently pristine and beautiful. It's a 383 four speed car and, uh, yeah, I'm going to swap the distributor, the box, the balusters, just roll it out. I'm going to do that in the morning. And then I'm going to try and slide over to the shop. And disassemble the 442 because we got go ahead from the owner to pull the heads and send them out. We're going to send them to the guy by my house, the machine shop, and have them gone through. Uh, and then, you know, we'll start the putting back together process. So a lot of car stuff going on in the, uh, in the immediate future. Very, very cool. I've actually just been using the Chrysler. That's all I've been doing. I'm going to realize that, that my family does not want to bother with the car. So I'm like, okay, no, you should take it out. You should. Yeah. Yeah. It's still taking it out more and more. It's driving it around. But, but just to back up, I wanted to finish on that battery story. That was the stuff like they had this pile of batteries and, you know, they, and back, that's when you had like the freedom batteries and the delcos with the red, white and blue batteries and the die hards. And I remember drawing, tell me there was a one guy, like I said, an old Italian guy came in and it was like, it was like almost to the month the battery was, that's what it said. So he wanted a new one and he did this every like three years. And I swear, I probably got eight to 10 years out of those batteries, you know, and about my Mazda, when I had my Mazda three, I, at one point before I sold a car and I had it for 14 years, 15 years, I said, Tim, I need a battery again and I was how to use an interstate. So I had a little trouble with interstates and I thought I was blaming the battery, but I, I went back in my book, I keep my records in, not the world's most dangerous notebook. Well, no, no, that's, that's for this show. Not the records I played, the records for the car, the, the stuff. And I look back and I actually highlighted every time I changed the battery and I always bought five year batteries and would you know, when I looked at the dates, everyone was five years till within a month that the batteries failed. It was like clockwork. Wow. And that's in a car that was used daily. So never really sat for protracted periods. Wasn't really stressed or strained, wasn't overloaded or anything. And, and those five year batteries, I got five years, like every signal time. And it was funny because in the old days with older cars, you always got the clue. You always got the warning. You'd hear the car go, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, and you knew that when you heard that, like years would perk right up, go up, do new battery. Right. Cars don't do that anymore. It works. It works. It works. And then it doesn't. I know. See if the phones work. And we can say, Hi, call it around the motor mouths. Hey, how you doing, Ray? How you doing? Christmas Steve. What's up, Steve? How are you? Oh, great, great, great. How you doing? Yeah. I just heard that you'd taken a couple of heads over the machine shop. I just want to give a shout out to Calvin Motors. Okay. So I think you should, I don't know, give him a shout out. I just got my heads back from them. Okay. I did a great job. Jimmy's really professional. And the thing is, believe it or not, those machine shops are becoming few and far between, you know. So it's great to have them local. Okay. And I just want to say, thanks, you gave me the tip of them because I didn't know where to take it. I said, where's there a machine shop today? They're all gone. Right. You know, and you gave it a tip to go to Calvin Motors and they were fantastic. I'll tell you what happened when it came time to decide this now. I spoke with Mike, the boss, and I said, listen, you know, Bobby from the old club gave me a couple of guys that are out east, guys Christian knows. And I told Mike, you know, we'd set his heads for his survell out to lab, which is an older machine shop that's been around a long time. I said, and there's Colvin. I said, so, you know, I left it up to him. I said, just tell me what you want to do and I'll, you know, I'll just do whatever you want me to do. So Mike had said, hey, I think maybe we should use Colvin. And I said, you know what? That's what I would have recommended because they're close, they're local. I can walk them in. I can pick them up. And the price was pretty good, you know, Jimmy's going to work with me. He's good that way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was very satisfied. And fantastic. It's an old school. What a part store. And you know what? He got the gaskets. He got me the bolts. He got me everything. I needed to do the job, you know, and it went off without a hitch. You know, those guys were great. I'll tell you another story about that since you brought it up. I brought that, if you look up the horn relay for my car, it shows a relay with like one spade turbo and two studs and nuts, like that's not the horn relay for my car. I got two plugs under the bottom, one has two wires, one has one. So I went to Colvin and I told him I brought the relay in with me because I need one of these. Yeah. It was a good idea. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. And I said, you're going to pull up a picture that's wrong. He goes, how did it what? I'm like, look, I've gone through this already. And he says, yeah, it's got it's got a stud. It's got two studs. I said, that's the wrong picture. I said, this is the relay right here. This came out of my car. What kind of car? I told him the car. So he said, I told him I said, some are along the line, somebody just input the wrong picture in the database. And now everybody's got that picture because they share databases. So what he did is he was let me give this to Dwayne. Dwayne is the owner of the parts store and he was in the back. He was, let me give this to him. And he came back out with a standard motor box and he was at DH 142, I think, he goes, yeah, Dwayne knew what it was, sure enough, there was the one in the box. I'm like, right, because he's an old school guy. He remembers. So the databases that I have gotten, I want to use the word corrupted, but not maliciously maybe just by people inputting the wrong pictures or the wrong. And now they now, if someone were to give you that part and said, hey, this is what the book said and better hard knows about it, you're going to go home and say, well, how do I put this in my car? You know, what was my car? Yeah. That wasn't right. Yeah. It's so funny. Because the way things are nowadays, cars aren't supposed to last 50 years. No, no, no. Not at all. So, you know, it's funny how we've gotten as far as we've we've come with, with, with being as precise with part swaps as we, as we are, because they weren't supposed to last this long. Yeah. And back in the day, you know, you look forward to going into the parts store today. When I pull into an auto zone parking lot, the number one, I get a knock my stomach. Yeah. Now I'm going to, now I'm going to have a mono, a mono with this guy. Yeah. You know what I mean? You're going to go in there. You can't understand his accent. Well, let's not get into that, but, you know, and you, you just, you can't communicate with them. When you walk into Calvin, okay, ah, you get that feeling, you know, that secure feeling like these guys are going to help me, you know, and, you know, you're walking there and it has that greasy smell. It has a guard cat to catch rats. Right. That's right. It's fantastic. Yeah. You know, as soon as I walked in there, I said, ah, I'm, I'm, I'm back in the 70s. Here it is. Right. You know, right. And from that, that's it. You know, Joe, Calvin mode it. Absolutely. Oh, I'm sorry. Steve, we had to let Steve go. We had another call. We wrote the motor mouths. Hey, it's Pat and Connecticut. How are you? Hey, Pat. I'm Steve. I'm sorry. I, I thought I was putting Pat in queue and I actually disconnected Steve. Steve, I apologize for that. That wasn't intentional. How are you Pat? Well, you, you can hang up on me like you normally do anyway. Oh, you will. Don't worry. Yeah, we'll get there. Yeah. What's up, Pat? Hey. Uh, Holly, electronic fuel injection terminator, uh, been having issues with that on a 67 Corvette big block. You didn't get rid of that thing yet. Jesus. It's been what weeks? I guess. Yeah. I, you know, we can, we can sell it for, you know, best offer. Yeah. That's no problem. So at any rate, we think, we think it's heat related. Okay. Essentially you go for a ride for 10 minutes, you get out of the car, you go inside, you get your milk, eggs and butter. You come out and it starts and it'll start, but it won't keep running. Okay. Called Holly a couple of times. Okay. Two guys, two different, two different theories, two different answers. So at any rate, yes, yesterday, yesterday I was working with a guy and he said, man, the brain, by the way, is mounted in the engine compartment on the passenger side next to the battery. Oh, yours is separate. It's hotter than a firecracker. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Hotter than a firecracker. He actually sprayed it with free on after we came back from our ride. There you go. And it started every time. So reposition it, move it somewhere else. Going, going in the engine, going in the passenger compartment. Didn't know if anybody else had that same kind of problem. No, you know, a lot of people do that. Like race cars, they'll put the MSD box and the coil inside the passenger compartment and run the wires through the firewall. So it's very common, it is very common in that world, Pat. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Anyway, I wanted to share that. We're going to remote mount it to the passenger compartment. I'll come back to you next week. Hopefully you have enough room, enough, enough cabling to do that. The cable long enough. That's the big thing. Now, the thing to do is you can call it how you ask if it has a cable extender. Here we go. We're at extenders again, right? Yes. The extender show. You got both of you guys should get together and get a pair of extenders and you both be happy. We'll all be smiling. Yeah. We're still talking about fuel injection, right? I think so. Yeah. I forgot. You let us know. I don't know. You know, call it dictates the show. We don't know. Yeah. All right, guys. Have a good day. See you. Thanks, Pat. Bye bye. All right. Good delights. I'm glad I'm glad that you found that out. And you know what? Yeah. And especially that's great. If that's why the guy sold the car, cutching. You know what? That would be a perfect ending to the story. Pat should call the guy back and say, hey, remember that load you sold me that was a wooden drive after you took it to town? Yeah. I got to tell you now. The problem solved. Really? What was it? Click. Yeah. Oh, I forgot. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. When I spoke to Pat earlier this week and he had mentioned it, I was like, oh, that's totally, that can totally be the case. Yeah. Yeah. And you don't need heat and technology, you mad, go together. No. Especially especially something like that. And that's why for years, I haven't done it yet. And I have two chalk outlines on my, on my fender wells in my Pontiac that are oval-shaped, about six, eight inches long. That's when the mouse died. They say, yeah, right. That's the chalk outline. They said, what are those? And I said, you know what? I was, I'm still thinking about putting vents in there to vent engine heat. I read an article in a magazine, a guy had a tempest, a Pontiac tempest with a three, nine in it, an early tempest. And he was having a smaller one? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And he was having high under, you know, high engine heat temperature was giving him ignition problems. Why not fuel problems? Right. Deal with my friend right now. Bob has a second gen commander. He's having a high heat fuel problems, low hood, big engine. So what this guy did is he did it scientifically. He took threads like they do with wind tunnel testing and taped pieces of thread in all these different places under the hood and put a couple of webcams in there and went for a drive. And he saw how the thread would, would, would flow. Oh, the air flow. Yeah. So he got using the thread to, to like show the flow of the air. Yes. And he determined that if he vented his fender wells, he could extract that, that, that. That's why trans ends have those scoops on the side. That's the extract engine heat. People throw us for brake cooling, but it's not. It was actually extract engine heat. So he did that. He did this. This is exactly. I didn't, I didn't make this up. I saw it in the magazine, he, but what he did is what I want to do. He bought what's called a dimple dye punch and it's a round punch. And what you'll, you'll look it up after extended and you'll see it's a, it's a round punch, instead of a green leaf punch will make a perfect circular hole. And then you could put, you know, for, for cabling or whatever, or rectangular or whichever punch you have. But the dimple dye punch, as it makes that hole, it doesn't cut it cleanly. It rolls the top edge of it over. Oh, cool. So now you have a smooth rolled transition, which is really nice. But the problem is, you know, you can buy a dimple dye punch in a specific size, like 40 bucks. So then you get a set of four of them for like, you know, a hundred and something or a set of it. So I could, you know, I never could commit to which one I want to buy. So. So you're going to punch a hole in the inside of the fender well. You're not going to. On top. Like the body. No, no inside, right inside. Like four holes. Okay. So you know what? Let's, let's end here. I want to play this clip from chassis, John, as we end, then we'll come back and we'll end the show. Let me do this right here. Let's play this from a, this is a play in traffic, but John, what do we always say? What do you always say that Chris always says that now? Don't even take a follow on us home, unless you've got funny bones with you. Funny, funny, nice, cold milk. There we go. Or I'll take Reese's peanut butter cups. That's good. And since Easter just passed, if you still have a chocolate bunny, I got a white chocolate bunny solid though, not a halo that you know, it was got to be solid. It's a little cookie. This just kind of went into Easter. So I'll fade this down here and play our music here. And let us get out of here. So Kim can come in and do Thunder Road, best of Springsteen. Kim, what do you say that John said that he said you always said to me about people out in the parking lot? Don't follow us home unless you have an extender be your dimple punch. Exactly. And remember our French assy John today as we do. So all right, we're back next week. Monomouthe Radio, Raguarino, Chris Switzer, over and out on 90.3 WHPC. See you. See you bye. Thank you both for listening.